Los Angeles, California, has operated park programs for
youth for many years. The city’s fifty-one playgrounds
are now lighted for evening games the year round. Exten-
sive sports programs are conducted in housing projects.

New Haven, Connecticut, attracted over 3,000 youngsters
to a series of Park Booster Clubs. Each club offers a super-
vised physical fitness program that includes obstacle courses,
baseball, track, touch football, dodgeball, flashball, folk
dancing, and individual sports such as horseshoes and foot-
ball throws.

In Omaha, Nebraska, a centrally located building serves as
a sports center. New park programs were developed and
swimming pools which had been closed for years are now
open.

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, labor unions cooperate with the
city recreation department in organizing baseball, softball,
bowling, and other leagues. Under the banner of the union
recreation council, 30 teams played a regular schedule
during the summer of 1943.

A number of cities have given sports the green light.
Golf courses and horseshoe and volleyball courts are open
nightly in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The Riverside, California, YWCA swimming pool is used
by groups of young people from the city playgrounds, and
the Junior Army Corps put on a water pageant there.

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