Conference Studies Fitness Of U S Youth
At the Naval Academy in Annapolis the President's Conference on Fitness of American Youth weighs if youth is at risk from gadgetry and how to counter it. Nixon cites limited school gyms and play areas while urging community level action and a national fitness council to spur a public movement. Hoover and Hershey express cautious optimism about progress and potential broad impact.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Eisenhower
Nixon
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Ford Frick
Fitness Tests Spark Alarm On American Youth
Dr Hans Kraus and Dr Sonja Weber at Columbia report over half of American children fail a basic fitness test while 80 percent of Italian, Austrian, and Swiss youth pass. Kraus blames gadgety progress and sedentary life, urging renewed physical education to counter decline. Senator James Duff and President Eisenhower discussed the findings after Philadelphia promoter John B. Kelly circulated them.
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Annapolis
New York University
Naval Academy Today
Hans Kraus
John B. Kelly
Philadelphia
Grace Kelly
James Duff
R-Pa
Sen. Duff
Eisenhower
Kraus
Sonja Weber
Columbia University
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Boycott Accusations Withdrawn in Montgomery
In Montgomery Alabama Rev A J Fields a 25 year old Baptist minister who led charges of misconduct against leaders of the Negro bus boycott withdrew his claims after saying he had no evidence. He apologized to a Negro mass meeting for statements made in anger and passion and was removed from his pulpit by vote of about 400 with abstentions.
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Montgomery
Ala
A. J. Fields
Field
Martin Luther King Jr
Bell St. Baptist Church
Atiow
Fields
Amphitheater Budget Hearing Set at Wetmore School
The Amphi Board schedules a public budget hearing tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the Wetmore School multi purpose room to discuss the proposed 1 138 625 total for the 1956 57 school year. Taxpayers across the district are urged to attend as the third of five hearings before the July 11 budget adoption.
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Wetmore
Amphitheater
L. M. Prince
Helen Keeling
Radio Announcer Dies In Sailboat Accident
Abilene Texas Wayne D Thomas age 23 staff announcer for KRBC drowned in a sailboat accident on Lake Phantom nine miles north of Abilene. He was sailing with his father when he apparently fell overboard.
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Abilene, Tex
Wayne D. Thomas
KRBC
Abilene
Thomas
Lake Phantom
Here
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