Show Know your schools First aid for physical fitness By Rowan C. Stutz FIRST AID FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS Since the thought was first expressed by the ancient one of the basic objectives of education has been the development of a sound mind and a sound Is America doing as well as it should in the latter half of this cardinal rule 7 Research indicates we are IF OUR NATION is to fulfill Its destiny we must reaffirm the value of physical We must each become physically fit And we must see to it that every student attains and maintains a proper level of fitness commensurate with his With the cooperation of 19 educational and medical the President's Council on Youth Fitness has developed and recommended to us a basic fitness program IT IS A minimum a bare beginning It stresses three L Identify the physically underdeveloped pupil and work with him to improve his physical Provide a minimum of 15 minutes of vigorous activity every day for all Use valid fitness tests to determine pupils' physical abilities and to evaluate their HERE IN DUCHESNE County there are many indications that the physical fitness of even our active farm youth is not what it ought to There is considerable evidence that our youth are getting Today human the labor of the human is rapidly being engineered out of the working Even the requirements for vigorous activity on the farm have greatly been reduced by powered tractors and other mechanized devices ACCORDING to Selective Service Director Lewis B Her-shey a shocking 73 rc of the young men called up for draft in 1959 were rejected and most of the rejects were for physical reasons In light of this rather critical situation and as a result of the emphasis given this program nationally and by the Utah State Department of Public Instruction the Duchesne County School District is engaged in an evaluation and re-organization of it's physical education THE THREE POINT pro- The dates of June 2 and mark the opening of Utah's general fishing and deer hunting seasons for respectively gram suggested by the President's Council on Youth Fitness will become the basis for the new Every school will do at least much and in many instances this basic program will be The special winter white- i fishing season continues through j 15 on portions of the Lo- II Blacksmith's Fork and Du- I chesne I |