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BLOT, SAYS SEN. HENNINCS Alarming Teen Delinquency Rise Noted WASHINGTON (UP)-Prostitu-tion, venereal disease, drug addic tion and drinking are increasing alarmingly among American teen agers, a Senate Judiciary subcom mittee report showed today. Chairman Thomas C. Hennings ID-Mo.) called tor a "partnership" between Congress and state and local authorities "to Ho something about this blot on the American scene." The subcommittee said more than one million youths between 10 and 17 will be brought before the courts in 1965 if the present upward trend in juvenile delin quency continues. This compares with an estimated 530,000 juvenile court cases this year. FOUR-YEAR STUDY The subcommittee issued a spe cial 250-page report last night on the results of nearly four years BUSINESS MIRROR Demand for Technicians for Electronic Brains Rocketing By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK ifl-Latest entry in the brains derby to be run in the coming commencement weeks is the mechanical brains industry's search for tomorrow's specialists. Industrial scouts seek to lure the graduate into numerous fields from engineering to salesman ship. Emphasis first was put on the technical skills. Later numer ous organizations began recruit ing for strictly white collar jobs. Fast-growing use of electronic computers and punched card Moore House Not Wanted For Museum ROSEBURG Ml The Roscburg Planning Commission does not want to turn the federally owned Lillie Moore property here into an historical museum. In a letter addressed to the City Council Monday, commission president Lyle Glenn said the site in question is of "far greater value to the future growth and development of the city if it be used for business or commercial purposes." The old house, which was willed to the government by Miss Moore, descendant of early-day settlers here, is located in the business section. Glenn said the site is located where traffic and parking are constant problems and where land values are "out of proportion to the use of land for non-production purposes." Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore) has introduced a bill in Congress which would turn the house over to the city for museum purposes. The bill also provides for a $50,000 appropriation for develop ment of an historical museum. Glenn's letter asked that the council oppose, establishment of the museum on'the site. - ' Miss Moore had expressed a desire lo have her -home used as a museum, and the Douglas County Historical Society has been laying plans toward that end lor the past lour years. Yardmasters Given Raises CHICAGO (UP) The nation's railroads signed new agreements with the Railroad Yardmasters of America yesterday providing wage Increases and an escalator clause for possible rises in the cost of living. The National Mediation Board announced the signing of the agreement after several months of negotiations. Milton G. Schock, yardmasters president, who led talks for the union, said that over a three year period yardmasters will get wage adjustments totaling $87 a month with no increase in the present Work week schedule. No Pay Boost For Fair Chief The state agriculture director's salary will remain at $9,500 a year under the salary increase bill 'ap proved Monday by the Joint Ways and Means Committee The committee couldn't increase It wilhout making the new direc tor. Rep. Robert Stewart D. of Keating, ineligible for the office which he will take over as soon a.-i the Legislature adjourns. The Constitution forbids the Legislature to grant a salary in crease for any office which will be assumed by a legislator. Steward is chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit tee, and saw to it that the salary wasn't increased. Britain Accuses Romania Aide of Recruiting Spies LONDON OP The British gov ernment Tuesday accused a Ro manian diplomat of trying to re cruit spies in Britain and gave him a week to get out of the country. The Foreign Office said the di plomat is Eut'n Perianu. an at tache at the Romanian legation since August. 1951. Perianu was accused of "put ling pressure on persons who are of Romanian origin or who have relatives in Romania in attempts lo recruit them as spies." FIDLER'S SWAN SONG DES MOINES, Iowa (UP) Harry Fidler was back in jail to day. 'livine; proof that 1 thieves always return to the scene of their crimes and i" life is just a vicious circle. Fidler. free just two days from servins three years for shoplifting in Hill's Depart ment Store, went back to the same i(ire Saturday and was arrested 4or shoplifting. equipment today is posing a new problem: Where to find the spe cialist to run the machines of to morrow? The number in this new field at the supervisory level alone has grown from 10,000 in 1347 to 35, 000 today.. The National Machine Accountants Assn. says that at the present growth rate more than 60,000 will be needed by 1960. But since the annual rate of new installations of mechanical brains is also' growing, industry may need far more than 60,000 tech nicians to feed data in and out of the computers. . Because of the mushrooming de mand for trained personnel, the association is sponsoring courses In machine accounting, program ing, integrated data processing and related subjects in scores of cities. Machine accounting Is studied in such educational institutions as New York University, the Univer sity of Chicago, University of Min nesota and Rochester Business In stitute. In St. Paul and San Diego there are vocational school courses in handling the giant brains. The Machine Accountants' local group in Los Angeles conducts in the public school system night classes jn key punching as part of the city's adult training pro gram. I he group also works with the Veterans Administration to set up key punch classes lor par aplegics. Coe Resigns Envoy Post WASHINGTON (fl - President Eisenhowei yesterday accepted the resignation of Robert D. Coe as ambassador to Denmark. The White House said Coe asked to be relieved of the assignment "for personal reasons," and that he did not go into detail. The effective date of .Coe'i Resig nation will be fixed upon qualifi cation of a successor. of nationwide hearings. It criticized theories that lack of recreation and slum housing con ditions are among chief causes of the nation's increasing" delinquen cy rate. While good recreation planning is a "potentially potent agent in preventing crime and delinquen cy," it said, the average delin quent is "considerably more so cialized" than his non-delinquent contemporaries, s "It is partly through his group interests and activities that he gets into trouble in (he first place, the report said. "The "fighting gangs" are a product of the "need to belong," it added. CITES HOUSING PROJECTS The committee said some of the worst centers of delinquency are in modern housing projects. It concluded more than new housing is needed lo reduce delinquency. It estimated that about 200.000 teenagers contract venereal dis ease each year. Sexual maladjust-" ment and veneral disease are closely related to other problems of youth, it said. The report suggested a general re-examination of the process by which young people are educated in these matters It also reported testimony that vouths 13 to 18 are involved in several towns on the Mexican border in prostitution, drunken ness, sale of narcotics and pornog raphy, and perversion. It listed Tijuana, Juarez, Laredo and Nogales among these towns where "all forms of vice flourish openly." RACOON WON'T LET COUPLE INTO BEDROOM PITTSBURGH UV-Mr. and Mrs William Adams can't get into their bedroom because their pet racoon Niccy is so mean. Adams said Nicey was a fine pet until the mating season last February. "We noticed about then that Nicey started to get mean,"' he said. Last weekend Nicey gave birth to some baby racoons in a dresser drawer in the Adams' bedroom. She spat and raged at Mr. and Mrs. Adams until they left the bedroom. "We decided lo sleep in the liv ing room, Adams said. Asked how his wife plans getting rid of the babies, he replied: "She isn't. She's going to keep them all." NOTHING VENTURED! WASHINGTON (UP) - I advance, asked a Seminole weath-, Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuei., May 7, J87 (Sec. 1, Page Smith- er prophet for his secret, accord- sonian Institution scientists, tired ing to a report issued today. "Moon of wondering how Florida's Semi-i tell me," the Seminole said, and nole Indians have predicted hur- the scientists went back to won ricanes as much as a month inldering. AN ALARMING DREAM surrounded by smoke and flamei.1 HIPSTON ON STOUR, England : But there was no fire. 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