16-(Sec. II) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fit, Sept. 28, '58
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New Health Menace Rising: Since 1951
Has Been Declining Among
Sport
';' . By EUGENE GILBERT
'(President of the Gilbert YMtk
Research Co.) ;
Par en la moh may be facing a
new problem: why doesn't Johnny
play baseball anymore 7
' Baseball ' remains our national
pastime, and with the World Se
ries . just around the corner,
chances are Johnny's Interest is at
jevtt pitch right now.
But chances are even better that
Johnny will gratify that interest
by glueing , himself to the tele
vision set rather than grabbing a
glove and heading out to the near
est sandlot. - " f
A new survey shows that interest
in .active sports has been declin
ing among young people since our
last sports study in 1951.
Our organization , Interviewed
1,403 boys and girls in the s-20 age
group and found that baseball is
still the favorite participating
sport, with S3 J per cent putting
it first place. But in 1961. the figure
wa 57.7 per cent
Our poll showed that swimming
Mas the number two spot on the
list f favored sports and was the
nly one to show a gain the five-
year period. Its popularity among
girls' accounted for the Increase to
an over-all rating of 13.2 per cent.
Basketball, shunted into third
place, skidded in popularity from
11.4 to I I per cent. Football wound
op in fourth place, dropping in
popularity , from. 10.1 to 7.1 per
cent. This was the only sport which
evoked comment that parental au
thority was decidedly against their
children's participation. '
Baseball Tope '
; BasebaB is most popular among
11 to 13 year old boys, swimming
among girls 17 to 10. Basketball's
Chief sealots are IT to year old
youths. Football has two populari
ty peaks one among the to 10
year olds, and the other among the
17 to 20 year old groups.
Interest in Active
Nation's Young People
Mff
Fire Damages
Negro Home
In White Area
MWh II inZM
GIRLS .3
GIRLS 22.9
BOYS 5.5
GIRLS 6-6
fear serious injuries may result
from participation in this tradi
tionally rugged game. As a 15-year-old
Iowa boy told our inter
viewer, "Dad wouldn't mind, but
Mom is scared still that I'll break
a leg or something ... so I had
to back out of training this year
even though I had Just made first
string. . .
These figures are indications of
Many mothers and some fathers a serious problem. The country as
a whole is just becoming aware of
a condition which has been devel
oping over the past few years and
which is a definite menace to the
health and social welfare of our
young citizens.
President Eisenhower recently
called a national conference on
physical fitness after being shown
some shocking figures on how
American youth stack up against
Europeans in muscular strength
and flexibility.
The statistics were compiled by
Or. Hans Kraus, associate profes
sor of physical medicine and reha
bilitation at New York University,
and Miss Ruth Prudden. director
of the Institute for Physical Fit
ness. White Plains, N. Y.
Their study showed that 59.9 per
cent of United States youngsters
failed one or more of six physical
fitness tests while only 8.7 per cent
of European youngsters failed. The
tests were simple exercises like
touching toes without bending the
knees, sit-ups, and lifting the legs
while lying flat on the back.
The six tests are known as the
Kraus-Weber tests for muscular
fitness and have been administered
to 4.264 boys and girls in the Unit
ed States and to 2,870 in Australia,
Italy and Switzerland.
A 1954 armored forces
MOBILE. Ala., Sept. 27 -Fire
Wednesday damaged the
home of a Negro who wants to
move out of the white section
where the house is located...
Patrolman H. C. Jones said a
nf, container he pulled from under
lack of muscular coordination and Bo"kef T. Gulley s house appar
muscular fitness among our young , e""y hal contained kerosene,
people. It showed that of 3.7 mil- j The flames destroyed a rear
lion men examined for military , bedroom and damaged the kitch
aervic. 1.7 million were rejected en. The other three rooms re-
Nixon Raids Adieu's Homo
State With Verbal Attack
as physically unfit
President Kenneth L. Wilson of
the U.S. Olympic Committee re
cently took cognizance of the prob
lem. "I am concerned," he said,
"over the trend of our times, when
youngsters will stay away from
the playfields and go out and get
a job in order to buy a car."
Health is not the only concern
raised by dwindling sports partici
pation. When young people do not ex
pand their energy in athletics,
ceived some smoke damage.
Gulley, 37, and his family had
left the modest house to stay with
relatives after three shotgun
charges were fired at it last night.
They left all their furniture ex
cept a television set, however.
Gulley said today he was mov
ing as quickly a he could sell
out and find another place.
Gullry, his wife, their five chil
dren and a cousin were in another
room watching television. They
were not hurt.
Gulley. who is employed as
some are bound to wind up in i night mechanic by a bus line, tola
trouble ... the age-old warning i reporters the shooting was not the ;
of idle hands and idle minds. Ju- j first incident since the family j
vnil ifeiinnnonov thriuaa in iK. moved into the house Sept. 4. He I
vacuum of inactivity
Sports also are an excellent way
for youngsters to develop a sense
of social responsibility and fair
play among their contemporaries.
The spoiled boy who takes his
ball and bat and goes home soon
said windows had been smashed
by bricks frequently and he had
received threatening t e 1 cphone
calls.
Police Capture
learns that he can't play alone. 1 CVJrk-..;11
But the boy who is a sports spec- lITI f OIIOW 111;
rather than a participant : 01 rpi .
o oinMiuii" mini
tat or
nay have to wait a long time t
learn this lesson. And. in Inter
life, the learning process is always; GRANTS PASS, Sept. 27 or A
more painful. j 14-year-old girl, sought by pelire
Are we becoming a nation nf who said she threatened officers
.nft.o.' TV,, n.vi i.u, -. will with a revolver while riding on a
... JVO.O ..... , ,
stolen nnrse. was m-iu j" --
tell.
J.. ....n il a Affifrc &hg
iiruy n't juMimc ''
Knln.l i-MlarrltiU ttftol a I
four-hour chase through brushy
hill country west of town.
The girl was captured by !her-
BONN ACCEPTS RED BID
BONN. Germany, Sept. 27 oft
The West German Parliament will
accept a Russian invitation to send ! ifr. n,.nfv Paul Shelton He ad
a delegation to Moscow. This be- j vanccd jnto a darker,ed woodshed 1
came a certainty today when the after nfT despite believing the!
Christian Democrats went against 1 jr, waj armed shp wasn t
the advice of their leader, Chan-j He Jad the girl had threatened
ceuor Konrad Adenauer, and voted i him and another deputy earlier
draft ' to accept the invitation. I with a revolver.
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Sept. 27 Iff
Vice President Nixon Invaded
Adlai Stevenson's home state to
night and tossed a hodful of verbal
brickbats at the Democratic pres
idential nominee.
In a speech prepared for de
liiorv t i ho National Guard Ar
mory, Nixon accused Stevenson of
"political quackery," said he of
fered a "defeatist and reaction
ary" program and has adopted the
policies of "Harry Truman eco
nomically and of Dean Achcson
politically.
On Civic Rights
Nixon came here from Louis
ville where he spoke on civil rights
at noon. His plans called for an
evening stop in Nashville and
speeches tomorrow in Nashville,
Cincinnati and Wheeling.
"There is no question," Nixon
Sleepless
Pickets Block
Noisy Trucks
BAYONNE, N.J.. Sept. 27 Iff I
It had gotten so noisy on the
street that a person couldn't even
hear himself snore.
So, early Wednesday, a line of
sleepless women clad in wrappers
over their nightclothes cal(pd a
halt to the snarling ' trucks that
they claimed made sleep impos
sible. They marched up and down
blocking the trucks that rumbled
in nnd from Sahastinn Lamanno's
truck terminal all night long.
"We Want Sleep," protested
thpir nlararris.
And sleep they'll get, said
Mayor G. Thomas Pidomemco,
who heard of the ruckus and came
to the scene.
"You can't keep those people up
all night." the mayor told Loman
no after hearing one truck back in
and out of the terminal.
Okay, said Lomanno. who
open the terminal Aug. 7, "rather
than a fight I'll move." He stopped
his trucks. I
And so. back to bed.
said, "hut that we face as grave
a threat to peace and freedom as
we have ever confronted in the
history nf the country. The ship of
state must be piloted through
some stormy waters in the
months and years ahead. If we
are to come through safely we
should not take the risk of putting
our fate in the hands nf a pilot
who may be a perfectly well-in-
tentinned man, who has read a
lot of hooks on how to run a ship,
but who has never had the ex
perience of guiding a great ship
through a stormy sea."
"Defeatist Leadership"
"The kind of leadership which
our opposition offers is defeatist
and reactionary," he said. "Mr,
Stevenson, like Mr. Truman, ap.
parently has little faith in the kind
of dynamic individual enterprise
that has made this nation great.
"Mr. Stevenson has again open
ly embraced Mr. Truman person
ally, politically and ideologically.
His brand of leadership, as nf
now, is virtually an unknown
quantity. It seems to have its
roots in the policies of Harry Tru
man economically and of Dean
Acheson diplomatically."
In the U.S. only 10 per cent of
the elementary schools have the
recommended minimum of S acres
for play areas.
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Ex-Sliqwgirl "
Dies in Leap
From Hotel
' nftCAGO, Sept. 27 IffBeaute
ous ' Faith Bacon, who gained
fame as one of the country's first
"strippers." died Wednesday, poverty-stricken,
after a plunge from
a hotel window.'
. She suffered a fractured skull,
a perforated lung and internal in
juries earlier today in the, plunge
from the third-story room of a
' wornan friend on the near North
Side; ' , ; . "
Miss Ruth Bishop, 40, a grocery
store cashier with whom Miss
Bacon had been staying, said the
.'former showgirl had seemed de
pressed prior to the leap.
Miss Bishop said she grabbed
Miss Bacon's skirt as she climbed
out the window, but the dancer
tore loose. ,.
The ex-stripper, still a shapely
beauty, came to Chicago from Erie,
Pa., three weeks ago to look for a
Job. She was unsuccessful.
She was separated -from her
husband, Sanford Dickinson of
Buffalo, N. Y. '
No one in Chicago could provide
her age, but it was estimated she
was between 45 and M. Doctors
at Grant Hospital where she died,
aid she appeared much younger.
She was a featured attraction at
Chicago's World's Fsir in the
early 1930s. She also had appeared
in the late Earl Carroll's Vanities
In New York.- .
: A- New York grand Jury once
fefused to indict her on indecency
charges growing out of an appear
ance before one of Carroll's audi
ences bearing only two ostritch
leathers.
She also featured bubbles and
flowers as part of her near-nude
acts.
Ernie Fast of the American
Guild of Variety Artists, who iden
tified her, said the Guild will
make funeral arrangements.
MIEY9
Remember
National letter Writing Week
October 7th to 13th
SALEM, OREGON
New Pipeline
Termed Near
For Canada
VANCOUVER. B. C., Sept. 27
Iff The Province says a second
oil pipeline from Alberta to Van
couver is Bearing the "positive
project" stage because ' of shift
ing world oil economics..
The paper did not name we.
company which might build the
line to parallel the existing $100.-;
. 000,000 one owned by Trans Moun
tain oil Pipeline Co. . : I
The existing pipeline now is op
crating at half its JOO.OOO-barrels-'
-day capacity and the paper says
the Sues Canal crisis and other
factors will shortly see volume in
creased. The Trans Mountain line
carried only 30,000 barrels In its ;
first month of operation in 195V
not enough to break even.
In Vancouver, a spokesman for!
Trans Mountain said the newt
paper report was news to him
and "came as a complete sur
prise." !
E. C. Hurd, Trans Mountain's
administration manager, told the!
Canadian Press he does not know
of any company planning a new
e l pipeline between B.C. and Al
forta and that bis company has
"no authorization for such a pro-
1 rt."
! i over, he said his company
"I'd a v other on t"P of the oil
I ; ::( V' is continuity making j
t v ' .,: and that among thir ,
t -!-'-. I h'.v.-Vft is the possibility
f a rrw loop or second pipe
i - t: e c! -ting line. , ,
. r's r ' mg new In 'the'
, -.'' 1 c '. "and we have,
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