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eilBCRrS" What Young People Think" Even In Spring, A Suppose it came down to this: You have a chance to improve your grades but you always had heard the brainy students were least popular with the opposite sex. Would you forego the opportun ity? If your're a teen-aged boy, chances are you would; but if you are a girl, you probably would dig into the books. This was one of the surprising discoveries we made in questioning more than 1.200 teen-agers across the country about the relationship between popularity and grades. Surprising because it seems to upset a popular notion that girls are more concerned than boys about being popular with the op posite sex, that boys place more emphasis than girls on being popu lar with their own sex. Our survey indicates the reverse is true. When we asked simply whether getting superior grades was more important than being well liked generally 58 per cent of the boys answered yes and 60 per cent of the girls answered no. But when we phrased the ques tion in a slightly different man ner, aiming it specifically at popu larity with the opposite sex, the attitudes of the boys and girls were reversed. We asked: "If you thought that showing ex cellence in school work was hurt' ing your popularity with the op posite sex, would you try less for good grades? Girls Nearly Unanimous To this Question 81 per cent of the boys, compared with only 4 per cent of the girls, said they would. Conversely, 94 per cent of the girls and only 11 per cent of the boys said they wouldn't forego heir academic excellence even at the expense of losing their popularity. Moreover, the girls seemed more Girl $ Fancy Turns To Grades! The prettier the girls; the harder it is to concentrate! probable course of action; only 2 per cent of the girls compared with 8 per cent of the boys said they didn't know for sure what they would do. Obviously teen - agers consider popularity important, but not as important perhaps as some might believe. For instance, 81 per cent felt they would get better grades if they tried harder, but only 60 per cent said they would try harder if they thought better grades would make them more popular. In the matter of general popular ity. Fam Dermit, 18, of Whittier, Calif,, summed up the feeling of most of the girls. "Good grades are lonely companions," she said "if you don't have friends." ' Kenneth Ray Goosey, 14, of Louisville, Ky., spoke for the ma jority of the boys: You are positive than the boys on their in school to learn, not to make friends." But when it came to popularity with the opposite sex, the over whelming majority of the girls about 19 out of 20 felt as did Car ol Hiller, 17, of Lincoln, Neb. "If you're going to be well liked" she said "you'll be well liked no mat ter what your grades are." To confirm this reversal of popu lar belief, we asked the students to specify whether they would rather be a good student, a good athlete, popular with their own sex, popu lar with the opposite sex, or an especially dutiful son or daughter. Top Ambition: Grades : Only 6 per cent of the girls com pared with 15 per cent of the boys gave popularity with the opposite sex as their first choice. In fact, the same number of boys selected popularity with girls as selected success in athletics. On the other hand, 24 per cent of the girls compared with only 8 per cent of the boys felt it most de sirable to be popular with their own sex. Though one girl, 16-year-old Carol Taylor of Ridgewood, N.J., gave a somewhat devious reason: "I would rather be popular with girls because you can meet boys through girls, but if only the boys like you the girls will hate you. The multiple choice also showed 36 per cent of the boys and 32 per cent of the girls would rather be exceptionally good students, and that 18 per cent of the girls and 14 per cent of the boys felt being a dutiful son or daughter was most important. Questions Asked Do you think getting superior grades is more important than be ing well liked? If you thought that showing ex cellence in school work was hurt ing your popularity with the oppo site sex would you try less for good grades? If you could make the choice, which of these would you rather be considered; an exceptionally good student, an exceptionally good athlete, an unusually popular per son with friends of your own sex, an unusually popular person with friends of the opposite sex, an ex ceptionally dutiful son or daughter. Do you think you would get bet ter grades if you tried harder? Would you try harder if you thought better grades would make you more popular? Among the 18 per cent of the girls (and 13 per cent of the bovs) who refused to select any of the categories was 16-year-old Lynne rriedman of New York. She told why in these words of moderation: "I wouldn't want to be unusual ly popular with either sex," she said, "Just well liked by both, an average student and a good dauglv ter." Mineral Club Hears Visitors To Turkey Mrs. Ella Hutchins told an In teresting story of her visit with her son, Larry Hutchins, and his family in lsman, Turkey, at the recent meeting of the Umpqua Mineral Club, reports Mary Weik um, correspondent. Other features of the program included a talk by Vorn Whitten burg on the March birthstone, the aquamarine. He discussed types most valuable for color and per fection and showed specimens. Fa ceted stones on display were cut by Milo Godfrey. Theo Bond displayed a group of volcanic bombs and wood casts caused by the flow of lava. Classes for exhibitors and judges of mineral shows will be held at the Crater Park Museum, Central l'oint, April 28 and 29, it was re ported. These are sponsored by the Northwest Federation. Helen Rice will be 'he instructor. Classes will start at 8:30 Saturday morning. The next meeting will be Thurs day, April 12, at St. George's Episcopal Parish Hall and will be gin with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. Each member is asked to bring his own table service. Dr. H. E. Church will talk on his re cent trip to the eastern part of the United States, and Mr. McGee will speak of diamonds and dia mond cutting. Diamond is the April birthstone. Anyone interested is in vited to attend. Thur., April 12, 1962 The News-Revievr, Roseburj, Or. 5 Visitors In Drain Participate In Family Reunion Recently By JO CARDIE Louise Goe, who is taking nurs- Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shaw ande? ni " sacrea neari mos. tmai, lias ueeu paueni Si uie PATRONIZE NEWS-REVIEW ADVERTISERS three children of Orleans. Calif. visited last week In Drain at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keen- ey. Tuesday evening the group at tended a family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Pe tersen at Camp Creek. The Rev. and Mrs. Warren Cornelius of lie Minnville joined them. Mrs. Keen- ey, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Petersen and Mrs. Cornelius are sisters, and this is the first time they have been together for a number of years. Vacationers Return Mr. and Mrs. Don Davis recent ly vacationed in California, going as far as San Jose and returning by way of Gold Beach to visit rela tives. Mrs. Robert Ward left for Okla homa after receiving word her un cle, James Landor, was seriously hurt in a fall from a windmill. Bob Whipple of Drain and Eu gene Miller of Arcada, Calif., are visiting this week at the home of Bob s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Whipple. Both boys attend Willam ette University. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Johnson and Skip were weekend visitors with Johnson s aunt, Emma Peter sen, in Portland, and a nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Gray, in Vancouver. While there Mr. and Mrs. Johnson bowled in the All-Coast Tournament. hospital. She is reported improving. Debra and Jo Ann Faulkner of Portland visited for two weeks re cently at the home of their grand mother, sirs. A. M. oogan. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Turemtn of Portland and Steven McBride of Vale were houseguests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Carlile. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haldeman and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cox visited Sun day with Haldeman's mother and sister, Mrs. Susan Haldeman and Alice, in Portland. Lee Ferguson of Mountain Home. Idaho, transacted business in this area while visiting at the noma of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keeney. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Evans of Rig gins, Idaho, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norval Evans for a week recently. The two couples went to the coast for fishing and agate hunting. Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCorraack of Monmouth visited last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Me Cormack. Ray McCormack attends Oregon College of Education, and Mrs. McCormack teaches school at Independence. Houseguests this week at the Richard Clearman home are his sisters, Esther Knudtzon of Wenat chee, Wash., and Delia Livingston of Palo Alto, Calif. PROUD PAPA Princeton (left), comforts his mate. Lady, after she gave birth to twin tiger cubs recently at the Portland Zoo. American Newspaper Publishers Open Annual Convention April 23 NEW YORK (AP) At noon on Feb. 16, 1887, at Powers' Hotel in Rochester, N. Y., William H. Brearly of the Detroit Evening News opened a meeting of 45 oth er daily newspaper publishers and managers with these words: "We have a little plan to sug gest That was the beginning of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the influential daily newspaper trade association that holds its 75th anniversary conven tion here April 23-26. From its modest start, the ANPA has grown until today it has more than 845 daily newpaper memoers in the United States and Canada. Its membership repre sents more than 50 per cent of the total U. S. daily newspaper circulation, and 94.8 per cent of total Sunday circulation. The association's by laws say: "The objects of this association are the protection of the members from irresponsible customers; the gathering and disseminating among its member of news of value to them; and the rendering to each other of such other assistance as may be within their power." Apropos of the simile "as up-to-date as today's newspaper." a highlight of the convention will be a demonstration of how the news paper business may use the com munications satellites in the future. A news story will be transmit ted at 1.000 words a minute from MMOVIi P RU8Tand STAINS iron BATHTUBS SINKS bottoms of COFftlt POTS t3 fer.TIUF100RS.lIAlS J- inmniuKDf - T ALUMINUM ? STOMI WINDOWS a sending station to a full-size model of the communications sat ellite "Telstar" suspended over the stage. The copy then will be relayed to a receiving station, all located in the hotel's grand ball room. The domonstration will accom pany a speech by E. J. McNcely, president of the American Tele phone and Telegraph Co., on "new developments in communication." Telstar is the experimental com munications satellite developed by AT & T. Scheduled to be launched in late spring from Cape Canaver al, it is 34'A inches in diameter and is designed to provide 600 voice channels or equivalent for worldwide communication. Also on the program is an ad dress by Edward W. Barrett, dean of the Columbia University Grad uate School of Journalism. His sub ject, "The Next Generation in Journalism." The ANPA serves as a clearing house of information for answers to publishing problems. 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