Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1959)
f ' ; v. , Observer, La Grande, Ore., Mon., June 8, 1959 page 3 Effect Of Crime Dramatizations On Youth Concerns Authorities Editor's Nate: Charlene O'Dell is a senior at the Uni versity of Oregon, majoring in journalism. Miss O'Dell's home town is McMinnville. This an tide is a summariiation of her senior thesis. By CHARLENE O'DELL J University of Oregon The wild gunplay of the West erns, the brawl in which the fron tier saloon is taken apart board by board, the sinister atmosphere of a crime drama all of these have now become a real-and vivid part of the dally, lives of Am erica's youth. Many of today's children unlike their elders have never known a world without movies and television. Today directly or indirectly these forms of entertainment inescapably touch every child, and no amount of par ental care can prevent this. How do these forms of enter tainment influence and shape the attitudes of children and what ideas do they instill in their de veloping minds? Authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about whether or not there is a direct link betwen crimes com mitted by juveniles and crimes portrayed in motion pictures and on TV screens. Just because it cannot be proven that crime stories are invariably a basic cause of juvenile delin quency and always produce fears and frustrations, it does not follow that they are relatively harmless to children. The most dangerous effect of television and movies is the subtle distortion of human values they produce. What Am erica's youth get out of horror and violence programs is the idea that kindness, sympathy and re gard for human suffering ore all weaknesses and that cunning and shrewdness are the attributes that count. Many of these shocker shows stimulate unhealthy sexual attitudes and lead children to look on cruelty and violence .as o normal way of life. What the movies and TV need at present is a rollback of sadism. The child who gradually absorbs more und more crime and violence tends to become callous toward hu man nature. To him, suffering and blood-shed are all a part of daily living. It is then that children begin to confuse violence with strength, sadism with sex, low necklines with feminity, racial prejudice with patriotism and crime for heroism. It's the bad things that TV and the movies do that unfortunately command most attention. The ma jority of the programs and movies planned for children have to do with crime andor violence. Un trained views may miss this pro portion because they don't realize that crime is crime and violence is violence even in the patriotic Evelyn Oveson Garners Top Honors In 4-H Competition Over 150 4-H club members from Grant, Umatilla, Wallowa, Baker and Union counties are par ticipating in the 51st annual East ern Oregon Livestock Show: at Union. . - j 1 Thursday morning, June 4, 0 4-H livestock judging contest was held with Evelyn Oveson, Wal lowa, winning top honors. Frances Peterson Route 2, La Grande, placed second and Jay Potter, Union was third. Terry Bowman, Route 2, Li Grande, won top honors In the 4-H Horse Judging contest and Sharon Waldrop placed second. .Norman Waldrop, La Grande, won third place in this event. ; , '' ,: - Jim Thompson, Route 2, La Grande exhibited the ' Grand Champion Market steer. Keith .iumprirey, Unipn exhibited the Grand Champion Market lamb and Danny Paige, Route 2, La Grande showed the Grand Cliamp in Market hog. . The champion Hereford female was, shown" by Frances Peterson, Route 2, La Grande. Lshetta Car ter, La Grande exhibited the re serve champion Hereford female. .Patricia Kuhl, John Day,-exhibited 'tin.- champion Shorthorn female, and pennis Courtwright, Route 2. La Grande had the champion Angus female Alan Hill, Cove,' showed the Champion Jersey female, and Tommy Scverns, Summerville ex hibited the reserve champion. Barbara Sherwood, Route 2, La Grande, won top honors with her Guernsey cow and Joseph LaVer durc, Tclocasct was reserve champion. - ' In the Holstcin division, Ron nie Langford, Union had the champion and Nancy Hooden pyl, . La Grande was reserve champion:' John La Verdure, Tclo casct, ' exhibited the champion Milkinir Shorthorn female heifer and Jerry Obendorf, Alicel show ed the reserve champion. Tom Weir, Route 1, La Grande won top honors with his Brown Swiss producing cow and Steven Fcnn La Grande had the reserve champ ion. In the Ayrshire division, Jim Willett. Wallowa, exhibited both tne champion and reserve champ ions. In the 4-H Sheep Division, Em my Ann Duncan, Baker, exhibited the champion Suffolk aged ewe and Ronald Long, Summerville, was reserve champion. The champion Hampshire . ewe was shown by Jim Willett, Wallowa and Steven Wolfe, Wallowa was reserve champion. Gail Court right, Route 2, La Grande,, had the champion Columbia ewe and Dennis Courtricht was reserve champion. Carolvn Oveson, Wallowa, ex hibited the champion Southdown ewe and Janet Oveson, Wallowa was reserve 'champion. Patricia Kuhl. Jolin Dav. showed the champion and reserve champion Cheviot ewes. In the 4-H Horse division, Mary Margaret Morris, John Day, won championship honors in the Seni or horse showmanship contest. Janice Roberts, Pendleton was re serve champion. In-the -Junior horse showmanship fontest, Paul ctte Rice, Pendleton was champ ion and Mary Lynn Bcrryman Route 1, La Grande was reserve champion. Dorcas Kilpatrick. John Dav. was champion in the Intermediate horse showmanship and Linda Yates, Summerville was reserve champion. Injured Man Saved In Fire KINGS VALLEY, Ore. IUPD A Monroe woman threw a blouse over her head and dashed into a flaming house to save an injured man here Saturday. r Mrs. Alene Brittain, about 40. told officers she was attracted to the fire from a neighbor's house where she was visiting. She look ed in the window and saw Gene Woods. 45, lying on the floor. She pulled her blouse over her head and went in to pull the man to safety. I IH Woods was reported in, critical condition at a Corvallis hospital. Cause of the fire was not im mediately determined. . setting of a Western locale or in the science-fiction setting of inter planetary space. If a person is looking for a realistically-televised act of violence, his chances of finding.one are statistically great er if M looks for it on a children's program. Even Walt Disney has resorted to the violence of West ern drama in his Frontier Land series. What has happened to Donald Duck and all his gang of fantasy favorites? Many people do not realize fully what immense potentialities both television and the movies have. That seems to hold true for some of the producers and, in the ascend ing line of power, the sponsors and advertising agencies as well. In the motion picture industry, Hollywood makes many films to entertain adults and late teen agers, few for . children. Pro ducers think of their adult audi ences even when filming tradition al children's classics. Of course, motion picture men may say that the cartoons are for the kiddies. But what about the cartoons? The majority of them are concern ed with getting laughs from Tom the cat as he undergoes a variety of tortures or humiliation. They're all the same. In view of this evidence, Holly wood is shirking a definite re sponsibility. Not only is Hollywood closing its eyes to ethics, but the theatre 'owners as well are shirk ing a regulative responsibility. Even if a movie is unsuitable, children are seldom refused ad mittance to it. The millions of kids who go to Saturday movies are a good source of income. The greatest obstacle to the fu ture of good TV and movies lies in the present-day cult of violence. We -now need producers as much interested in character building as they are in shows that can be cheaply produced. If these indus tries would look to their own code of ethics and would adhere to their standards,, the children of today would be more likely to mature with healthy, normal, attitudes about life and reality. DAILY SERVICE NOW ...on the . "Shasta Daiilight" ANN LANDERS ' ' ' ' Answers Your Problems toSANMCISCO Streamliner now leaves EVERY MORNING on one of the most scenic trips in America : The Shasta Daylight is now running on a daily schedule, and it will proVide daily service for the summer season through September 14. - ' ' 1 Leave your car and cares behind and ride relaxed on the Shasta Daylight. See spectacular Mt. Shasta (14,161 ft) , forests, lakes and streams of the Cas cade region from the deep-down comfort of your Chair Car seat . . . Coffee Shop to visit for a snack or meal . . refreshments in the sky-wide-and-hand- ' some Dome Lounge Car. Low fares, no cares just a good time, on the Shasta Daylight! , . BARGAIN FARES EVERY DAY From Portland to San Francisco , f 3440 P!1!WIP '19 ONE WAY RESERVED SEAT INCLUDED TAX EXTRA Fine trains connect with the Shasta Daylight at Portland. outhern Pacific L: S your local ral agent or writ B. S. Quayla, Mgr. Pan. Traffic Public Relations Dept., 622 Pacific Bldg., Port- land 4, Oro. ..-i. .... . . , , , ...... -, Dear Ann: My-wife drinks. Not just a couple at a party, or a high, ball before dinner she must hr.ve liquor every day. Our children (three boys) ac cept 'hor drinking matter-of-fact-ly. A nal of our ll-ycar-old son asked why his mother acted "so loud." He said openly, "She's drunk." , . I've tried to get to the bottom of her problem but it's no use. She says liquor, gives her temp orary freedom from her worries. When 1 ask "What worries," she can't tell me. She says, "Liquoi make me happy. Let me drink if f want to." I've egged her to get profes sional help but she has no faith in doctors. When I suggested A. A. she said "It's not dignified." AIRLINER SETS RECORD LOS ANGELES (UPI) An American Airlines Boeing 707 jet airliner flew here from Washing ton, D.C., in four hours 36 min utes Sunday night to set a new record for the westbound run. The plane, christined before its flight by Mrs. Richard M. Nixon at Friendship International Air port in Washington, broke- by 10 minutes a record claimed only hours earlier by Trans World Air lines. - I know you can't solve this prob lem, but perhaps you can say something to help me understand it better. Just John. Your wife needs outside help, and plenty of it. If she refuses, y.iu've got to keep trying to per suade her. ' A.A. does a magnificent job. Too bad it's not "dignified enough for your wife. Perhaps its more dignitied to appear slopped to the eyeballs before hor children and their friends? People who think liquor makes them happy don't know what hap piness It, or where to look for it One thing is certain ifs not at the bottom of that bottle. Happiness is security; It's the ability to face daily tensions, dis- appointments and failure. Every living human has something to put up with. Happiness isn't a state of euphoria, complete free. dom from anxiety or 'unlimited financial resources. It's the ability to take It on the chin without buckling. Ifs accepting life's bum breaks with out getting bitter or reaching for the bottle or the pill box. Hap piness is being able to think through your problems, not pre tending they don't exist by flee ing into a state of fantasy. Your wife needs to grow up, It's not what happens to us In this life but how we take it, that counts. Dear Ann Landers: My mother- in-law is driving me nuts. Every day she phones and says' "Have iinn! her baby. You'll be sorrv later if you don't." Wn've neen married six years .111,4 wn have three. As far as I'm concerned three is enough. My husband says its up to me. ties perfectly satisfied either way. She keeps teling me how "won derful" a large family is. I came from a family of two children and I don't feel I missed anything, My husband has three sisters anil four brothers and they all fight like cats and dogs. Three of them don't speak to each other, and two don't speak to their mother. 1 don't want to be rude, dui my temner-strine is short. .Any'sug- ktSllons? Full House. Dear Full: The size of tne family is nobody's business ex- eepr the two people directly re sponsible, namely the j mother and father. Ask your husband to tell his mother to stop boring you. She may mean well, but she's off base. insist on convenient single-handle faucet . . .when you bV 4 a new home -...when you remodel DON'S PLUMBING SERVICE 214 Elm Ph. WO 3-2424 PAINT UP & n w- For the finest in Paint Selections and for the LARGEST Wallpaper Stock Zolatone Headquarters Painiing Accessories ' La Grande Paini & Glass 114 Depot WO 3-5121 m I ff I f 1 I I I w I III 1 II II I l I (I till II r, .'. If II iW I I I III I II II II II II i rh t i ri f i . JiIilM 1 y T, V 'H x If -jt FROM JUNE 10 FOR 100 DAYS" 'l. 3 1 '.it I'.' .1.:.- '' - -- ii-i XMIO 10 IXf lbe ..show of your lifetime! You'll see niJ IV I I acres' of thrilling exhibits... you'll beenter tained by the top stars in show business ... you'll forever remember this vast spread of entertainment. Invite your friends and relatives to have the time of their lives at America's BIG event ' for '59! '''!:' : v'" ', ADVENTURELAND . . : ride nearly a mile of miniature railroad through a comnlefelv recreated Frontier Village, Sawmill Boom Town and In dian Village, where natives live in the manner of their ancestors. I INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR ! v. . . thousands of products on display from 23 nations,,. fash-, ion displays . . . free films in the International Theatre. , Gay way . . .'rides, shows, games for the fun-minded . . . the na tion's largest ferris wheel . . . Kiddieland. International Garden of Tomorrow V.'V a brillWnt floral festival of blooms and shrub's rom the world over ... an authentic Jap anese teahouse ... a 22-foot can die . . . the striking Hall of Re ligious History. . (' . . ATOMIC ENERGY EXHIBIT... newest and largest Atomic Energy Commission exhibit ... a working model of an atomic power plant. , NATIVE WILDLIFE. ..Oregon Fish and Game exhibit shows live fish and animals of the state's vast woods and waters in their natural habitats . . . sea lions will perform for visitors. I! ' .. .1 . ' n1 "I f " CAMEO HOME OF IDEAS . . . a fascinating collection of new ideas in living , . . home features of the future. . WATER WONDERS ... the 7,000 seat Acjua Center offers a scries of Water spectacles,including ' the National Outboard Championships, August 20-23. . ' - ' - I n v FOREST PRODUCTS PAVILION I ...a bold architectural wonder, displaying the latest developments in the Northwest's mighty lum . bcr Industry. ' 1' ACRES OF THRILLING ATTRACTIONS ! I Helicopter Hides . . . Horticultural Hall . . . Railroad Exhibit . . . foreign Kestaurants. RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOWI -t 1 1 .v. On Main Stane! EXPOSITION ARENA ' the ICE-CAPADES World-famed Skating Spectacle " JUNE 11-24 Mollnuu 2:30 p.m. Frldayt and Sahlrdayl ' 1 :30 p.m. Sundays . ' Evtnlngn :1S p.m. Monday thru Saturday 5:30 p.m. Sunday! . Prion Malincoi, $2.50 and $1.00j evnlnoi, $3.50, $2.50, $1.50.' Country America (Evarly trolhari, Parlln Huiky, Homar Jalhre) Juna 26-July 5 Roy Rogers Show ' July 10-16 . Harry Belafonte July 23-25 ' Art Linkletter's House Party July 26-30 ' ' ' Water Follies , August 1-14 r . .i o ' '. " : Takarazuka Ballet ; August 24-29 , .f.V". ;.. The Oregon Story v. 1 (Can of 700, muiic by Mtndilh Wlllfari) " ., September 3-17 ' t ' lot Cantannlal Exposition Shows, 811 S. W. Broadway, Portland PIEASE SEND MEi , . , , ;- Sal.l l2",f.. 10 E"Plon Groundi, (a $10.00 (Villi id. ,,( a. many than) as yaw with) . ,,. I adoio (Check) (Money Order) for $ kNamt ' ' ' ' Box Soon for "ICE CAPADES" $3.50 Rwrved Stall (or "ICE CAPADES" -gl $2.50 Box Seali for "ICE CAPADES" Matlnt , $2.50 ... .- ,( . Gonoral Admillion "ICE CAPADES'' $1.50 Drive out Hiahwav 99 Wm i it.. c. position parking area. Ride the Rocket Express from the parking area to the Exposition, n0 0OTS ! - t 'm' . w, ivb ,nrnuL i unci , - i - Thatrlr nttm. f ft t. fl i, .j t.. Mtut ' I ..... u Evantng L4 mannoe irnygy, gaiuiaaf, wiwiimmj , .t , . -m ; T . T ?T .I!" ' I631 (or above Hcktli, Addroil. Data dtilr.d for "ICE CAPADES" Ticket-