Show IN THESE THiSE UNITED STATES Youth Council Coundi Sets Pace In Develop oNY ng NY Town By E. E L. L KIRKPATRICK Feature A town with a past can live In the present and look to the future say young people of Richfield Springs upstate New York center with 1200 population population tion This is the consensus of the towns town's Youth council started more than three years ago from a panel discussion on Young Peoples People's Pres Pres- Present Present Present ent Day Problems Some of the charter members as aswell aswell aswell well as their followers were out-of- out school young people On the present membership list are the names of ofa ofa ofa a beautician bookkeeper clerk farmer housewife laboratory tech tech- technician technician technician machinist secretary school custodian telephone operator stenographer sten sten- stenographer stenographer and typesetter so ev everybody everybody gets in and pitches or helps play the field Each works where he fits and is most needed Stage Annual Program Chief activity is I Am an American Ameri Ameri- can Day program staged annually under the councils council's direction Use is made of school band and chorus American Legion church groups town board and boys' boys and girls' girls clubs dubs Highlights of this years year's pro pro- program program program gram were demonstrations by Cub Boy and Girl Scouts remarks by a anew anew anew new voter and an address by one of the towns town's ministers This youth group tackles other things as the months come and go They dig a bit into the annals of f history for indication of what's happened to Richfield Springs which in the Gay Nineties was New NewYork NewYork NewYork York States State's most popular spa be be- because because because cause of the healing powers of its sulphur spring waters Then we had hotels filled with visitors liv liv- livery livery livery ery stables of fine horses and all kinds of carriages that outshone most cars in today's modern ga ga- garages garages ga- ga garages rages an timer old-timer recalls Varied Projects So the group asks what can we do about what's left with us They consider how to clean and make use of deserted hotels and other buildings explore the needs and possibilities of local industries such as cannery and dairy Outstanding project is a fo forum fo- fo forum forum rum to study the creation of good citizenship to world affairs This reaches youth and adults who meet weekly during the winter to formulate ques ques- questions questions and work out unbiased an an- answers answers answers to them Under direction of the council sponsor and the high school social science teacher it has quickened initiative developed new view view- viewpoints viewpoints viewpoints points broadened horizons and brought needed operation co-operation in def def- definite definite definite community projects One of these was a community carnival I Ia which was a financial success and anda a concrete demonstration of how how folks can and will work together Another was the realization of 1000 through contributions and a community community community dance for Christmas boxes and gifts to hometown men and women in the service List Accomplishments To prove prove that other communities ties can do udo as well as ours Youth Council members explain that in their farming section of cash cropping crop crop- cropping cropping ping dairying and poultry raising a dairy manufacturing plant two fishing tackle factories and a sports sportswear sportswear sportswear wear mill have been established asa as asa asa a result partially of their interest and agitation As war clouds lift the council proposes to improve facilities for tourists at nearby lake which offers boating fishing and swimming in summer and skating in winter While we are planning for things ahead we are doing more real liv liv- living living living ing in the present with due respect to the past for cornerstones to build on say Richfield Springs young I people |