Berkeley, California, keeps a high school pool open daily
throughout the summer, conducts twilight and Sunday
baseball games, and offers skate days, swimming meets,
tennis tournaments, and organized hikes.

' In Salt Lake City, Utah, where youth clubs are active,
inter-club competition is scheduled in baseball, softball,
basketball, and other sports.

Outdoor Fun

With gasoline rationing making distant camps less acces-
sible, the city day camp came into its own. More than
4,500 boys and girls from Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia, took
part in a regular camp program which ran from after break-
fast to late afternoon. Counselors taught wood lore and
nature studies, and, in general, followed the schedule of any
good summer camp. Campers paid from 50 cents to $2 a
week, and stayed from 4 days to 8 weeks.

Eight stay-at-home camps in Camden, New Jersey, offered
_arts and crafts, dramatics, music, dancing, nature study,
games, and hikes. Most programs lasted 5 to 8 weeks, and
some continued over week ends. Fees ran from 25 to 75
cents a week. ,

All boys in Fort Worth,
Texas, were offered swim- .

ming instruction in a public
pool. Ten miles outside the
city, a fishing camp was estab-
lished, providing, among other
things, a worthy destination
for hikes. ;

Housing projects in Seneca,
Illinois, ran picnics, marsh-
mallow roasts and hikes for
their teen-age tenants.

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an
old granary was converted
into a youth hostel, for use by
hostel pass holders. Another

 

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