The Deck, a center in Robinson, Illinois, started with
a drive for funds. Half the rent now comes from an
industry, and operating expenses are paid by juke box
and snack bar revenue.

Business men and service clubs donated equipment to
“The Cardinal Attick Club’? in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The YMCA provides the room and a snack bar pays most
of the expenses.

Slender budgets are often stretched by enthusiastic volun-
teers. Teens and adults have built furniture, painted walls
and waxed floors for their own centers. The contents of
attics and basements have furnished many rooms.

In one town, the mayor painted the basement floor of
a club, as a surprise to the youth committee. Another
youth group asked meter readers of a utility company
to spot unused furniture in homes, and followed. up
with requests for donations.

Fixing Responsibility

Its survey completed, the Youth Recreation Committee
reports its findings to the War Recreation Committee.
Teen-age recreation is thus integrated with the whole com-
munity program.

On the basis of its survey, community resources are put at

_the disposal of the Youth Committee. On the basis of these
resources the program is mapped and specific agencies are
asked to take responsibility for specific projects.

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The Youth Recreation Committee of Bend, Oregon,
assigned a baseball program to the Elks Club, junior base-
ball to the American Legion, softball to the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, and named a woman to take charge of a
program for girls. Private interests were induced to
build a commercial skating rink and boxing pavilion.
The Kiwanis Club raised money to build a swimming
pool in the Deschutes River which flows oeeear the
center of town.