November 21, 1962
Juarez youth paraded Tuesday in huge and impressive showing of the Mexican government’s physical fitness program in schools.
Some 15,000 students from the city’s 52 private, state and federal supported schools, took part in a 2 1/2 hours sports parade in observance of the 52nd anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. Similar parades were staged throughout Mexico as the country paid homage to its fallen revolutionary heroes.
Taking part in the parade were student sports units from the 3rd and 19th Federal School Zones, and 21 units from the 4th and 20th State School Districts.
Thousands of residents, enjoying the national holiday, thronged the line of march from Borunda Park to the municipal Palace and applauded all the smartly-dressed students and their sports contingents.
From the balcony of the Municipal Palace, Mayor Felix Alfonso Lugo, and Gen. Raynaldo Hijar Molina, Juarez military commander, reviewing the parade and applauded the marching school units.
However, attracting the attention of the crowd were the units from Escuela Secundaria y Preparatoria.
As part of their physical education program, students are trained in the art of self-defense.
A group dressed in dark sweat shirts and trousers with the word “commandos” stenciled on their shirts, gave realistic exhibitions of hand-to-hand combat.
Light gymnastics and calisthenics were performed along the route.
A fencing team halted occasionally to give the parade viewers a fencing exhibition.
Included in the group from the Juarez Technological School was a mixed team of ju-jitsu performers who gave exhibition on judo tricks. The boy and girl students were dressed in the regular Japanese kimono used in this sport.
Students from elementary schools, dressed on their respective school colors, staged rhythmical movements with dumbbells as they marched side by side.
Some formed human pyramids and others exercised on horizontal bars carried aboard a huge trailer.
The final unit in the parade 2was a float from the Juarez garrison, showing Mexican soldiers in field combat, and a rifle-squad from the 1st Infantry Battalion under the command of Maj. Noe Garcia Segura.
After the parade, Mayor Lugo was host at a luncheon to a group of Juarez Veterans of the Revolution. The day’s festivities ended with a literary musical program at the Teatro Seguro Social.
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