THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST) - 18,: 1951.
Mayor Milion A. Gibbons confers in City Hall with members of the Tuckahoe, N.Y., Police Associates, helping them iron out their difficulties. From these monthly meetings come a code of conduct and behaviour adhered to by youngsters in village,
THE MAN WHO MADE THE COP BOY'S BEST FRIEND
to discuss their problema,
In the evenings, Mayor Gibbons still supervises instruction in boxing, wrestling, basketball and other gym sports for youngsters. There's dancing, also, and a corps of majorettes rated among the best.
It all started in the autumn of 1930. Six boys had been charged with rifling a penny vending machine. When their case came up, the children's court judge asked Patrolman Gibbons to "keep an eye" on the youngsters.
The policeman' did more, Im dhe cellar of his home he installed as much athletic equipment as he could afford and invited the bays and their friends. to drop around and enjoy themselves,
Within a year the group had grown too large for its quarters, but the problem cf juvenile delinquency had begun to solve itself.
THIS POSED PICTURE shows a familiar some that has been elim- inated in Tuckahoe, where youngsters police their own behaviour.
TEN
TEN YEARS without one case of juvenile delinquency is the amazing record of Tuckahoe, New York. And it's all credited to the untir- nigeltants of one man, Mayor Mikon A. Gibbons
Just 20 years ago Gibbons, a patrolman, organised the Poifce As- sociates, daddy of America's entire Police Athletic League "(PAL) pro- gramme. And recently, when: Gibbons retired after 28 years on the
force, a grateful community elected him its mayor.
Immediately, the doors to City Hall opened to the village's chil- dren. Once a mouth, boys of all ages meet their friend and counsel
TEN YEARS AGO Patrolman Milt Gibbons was a cop on the beat. but already tots and teen-agers looked upon him as a friend.
A FORMER BOXER and wrestler, Mayor Gibbons dodges a tremendous, haymaker thrown with more enthusiasm than alm by 12-year-old John Celestion. The boy is also' a" member of the Junior Patrolmen, who' aid policemen