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Show LOGAN IS LAYING EXTENSIVE PLANS Logan Is laying ambitious plans for Its supervised playground work the coming season, according to Mayor May-or William Howell who states that the Immense success of the movement last summer warrants an extension of the work. A, prograi.i for the activities of the coming summer lias been presented to the City Commission Commis-sion by Supervisor of PlaygroumH, Norman Hamilton, and this will no doubt be adopted. Supervise Hamilton Ham-ilton advises the Immediate appointment appoint-ment of a directing committee tn exercise ex-ercise general oversight. Furlt'U recommendations Include the establishment estab-lishment of a permanent suainacr cam for boys In Logan canyon, a similar camp for girls an.t the organisation or-ganisation of baseball teaaas wttt.ft regular playing schedule. It Is expected ex-pected that part at the city park will be laid oot for playground purposes, pur-poses, equipped with suitable M trains tr-ains and provided with an outdoor swimming pool and a field house. During last season part ot the L. P. 3. park surrounding the Cache stale tabernacle as used for the city playground. play-ground. A vigorous, educational campaign is being planned to acqua'nt al parents par-ents with the value, of the supor vised plyground movement, according ts Mayor Howell. Tho city will cooperate, cooper-ate, with the Chamber of Commcice and support the playground actlV-.tles whole heartedly. . Supervisor Hamilton has Just presented pre-sented an official report of the woik foe. last summer to the City CommU-slon. CommU-slon. This report shows that cUsses were organized for all ages from the v . kindergarten grade to tho high Hcatnil Including such activities as game', swimming, westllng, basketball, base ball and football. Tho average daily atteddnce at the playground was 157 wltHsa mlximum attendance ot 275 fi Can on trips were conducted as part . - i - ot the playground work. Tho opurl charctorlicg the summer's act'Utlcs i as follows: "The activities of the playstuiuid conststcd.ot free play, dancing, swlni . mlug, singing, football, basketball. baseball,volloyball, wrestling, f.vm nastum games, hikes and can) on trips. A playground baseball team was organized and contested with the various waid teams. Tho arranging of gamos, placing of men on the teams and all detalls were handled by the boys themselves through their captain and manager. A class was oigntzcd and the boys were given Instruction In-struction in wrestling which proved to be very popular. Some of tho most enjoyable events were the hikes arranged ar-ranged for Saturdays. Ot theso tho hike up the canyon to Spring Hollow and the fishing .trip to the Logan river west of town weio two ot the most pleasant trips of tho year. Swimming proved to me most popular pop-ular of tho playground activities, there bolng a good attendance at alt times. Special attontlon was given to tho boys and girls who were unable un-able to swim with the result that 35 girls and 53 boys learned to swim at least once across the pool. "Tho biggest events of tho year were tho canyon trips ot the playground play-ground and the members of tho Oar-den Oar-den club. Forty olgth girls spent three days at the camp of Qooige Q. Itlch where they engaged In mountain climbing, fishing, ball games, etc. Tho boys, sixty-three in number, went by auto to the forks nnd then hiked to Red Hanks, where camp was established, es-tablished, Chief among tho activities activi-ties was tho hike to Whlto Pine lake on the 'second day of tho encampment. encamp-ment. Of the thlity six boys starting on (his tilp, threo ot them reached their destination and enjoyed a swim In tho lake. Fo ithosi who did not go on the long trip to the lake, shorter short-er trips were taken to the nearby peaks. , "In order' to glvo tho people a better bet-ter knowledge of the .activities of ' fi the playground a demonstration In the form of a pageant was given by the girls of the dancing elsses. A large crowd was in attendance and a very creditable performance was presented. pre-sented. The dances were takes from the regular class work aad not gotten up especially for the demonstration, dem-onstration, The playgound work In Logan had Its conception In the minds of a few ot the wide awake public spirited men of the c(.ty. vVorking, through the Commercial club a committee, of that organisation was appointed to get the work started. The committees recommended the engagiag of a supervisor sup-ervisor and the appointment by the City Council of a permanent playground play-ground committee to direct the work. Acting upon this recommendation the council appointed the following as members ot this committee r George Cardon, chairman; Rev. Lewis, Henry Hen-ry Peterson, George R. Hill and Mrs. Otte, with Norman Hamilton as supervisor sup-ervisor and Olga Carlson as assistant supervisor. - - |