Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-08
Three Fairgrounds Being
Onerated for White and
Two for Colored
Children
CJIJRS AVAILABLE
FOR THE CHILDREN
Field Sports Offered For
Young Business Men and
Also for Older Boys; Local
Organizations Back Move
ment and WPA Is Lending
Aid
~ MISS CLAUDIA HUNTER


recreation program worthy u
This community seems to be gettlng
underway. What is going on In Hen
dorson this wear? What of the past
history of recreation for the youth OF
henderson Jon a communlty-wloe
scaleq How does Henderson's recrea-
ton program compare with that OF
other places in North Carolina? WnaC
Is needed 10 provide an even greater
program for the coming year?
What is going on in Henderson a'
the present time?
l. Three Fairgrounds are beng ope-
rated for white children and two lor
Negroes under WPA, with Mrs. w. y.
PAYNE as director and the Federation
for Children as the governing board,
C. F. Tankersley, Jr., being the 1885,
chairman of the recreation committee
of the Federation. These five centers
are at the Kings Daughters Park'
North Henderson Parish House
grounds. and Horner's Grove for white
children, and on the Negro Shllph Bap-
fist church grounds and Harris Grove
for Negro children. If you have not
visited these Fairgrounds, will you not
do so?
At the Kings Daughters Park you
will find Miss Carrie Draper ana
sometimes Mrs. Robert Perry anu
sometimes Hubert Lewis to help her.
In the mornings the attendance is
usually small, twenty or thirty chill
dren, mostly boys. In the afternoons
when the weather is fair one hundred
is not an unusual number OF chill
dren to be found there.
Credit To Miss Draper
Miss Draper has been a perfect WIZ
ard in making things out OF almost
nothing. With some cast off LUMBER
given to her, government and town
labor, and the five-cent fee the chill
dren pay for a swim, she mas hao
swings and other equipment for use
of the children built, and also an at
tractve shed adjoining the dressing
room erected for children and aoults
to take shelter in during showers. II
you want to see a pool clean enough
to meet your requirements for your
chids swimming place, take look
at this one. The water given free OF
charge by the city is always drawn
of three times a week and sometimes
oftener; and then under Miss Diapers
PERSONAL supervision the pool pasln'
boardwalk and dressing room 1loor
are scrubbed with a disinfectant. II
there is a cleaner pool for children
in North Carolina we do not know
Where it is. Next year Mayor Powell
hopes to enlarge the pool greatly ana
also clear away underground over the
entire eight acres of the park site.
Tor older boys and girls at the King S
pauahters' Park there are three
horseshoe courts, a tennis court, a
Volley ball court, and fair diamond
Tor soft ball.
Work at North Henderson
AT North Henderson Mrs. Payne has
very faithful and untiring worker
In Mrs. Ross, and for three hours,
i've days in the week, Miss Mary Full
ier Beasley, whose services are con-
triouted by the county at the request
VI the federation, makes fine con-
eflbution to this playground through
ner attractive personality and mel
TWO years of training in playground
WORK received at the Woman's Col
iege of the University of North caro-
ma Thirty-five to fifty children
pay mere On the parish house grounos
every morning and a smaller number
"ealn in the afternoons.
HOrner's Grove Project
AL Horner's Grove, which is kindly
tent the WPA by Thomas and William
iilofher, Mrs. Oakley is doing a good
ioo with Miss Beasley assisting three
noufs day. AS many as six OF
bbisht games may be seen going on
"ere' The number is smaller here
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