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CD 0 o o O o O o o 00 o o o ( ; li friGHT mtetoto (cmsoom O" i ' Now that blackberries are ripening beside every road and in every sunny meadow, it is time to revive the pleasant old custom of treating family and friends to Blackberry Pie. i The children will love to help with picking the berries, and this "modern recipe will prove an easy guide to a pie of flavorful old-fashioned goodness. Quick-cooking tapioca thickens the berry juice to perfection, keeping it pretty and clear. Fresh Blackberry Pie 2 tablespoons quick-cooking 4 cups fresh blackberries tapioca Pastry for two-crust 1 cup sugar 9-inch pie 14 teaspoon salt ' 2 tablespoons butter Combine tapioca, sugar, salt, and berries; let stand 15 minutes, or while preparing pastry. Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of the pastry, rolled 18 inch thick. Roll remaining pastry 18 inch thick and cut into 12 inch strips. Fill pie shell with berry mixture and dot with butter. Adjust pastry etrips in lattice across top of pie. Flute rim with fingers. Bake in hot oven (425 F.) 45 minutes, or until syrup boils with heavy bubbles that do not burst. Note: desired, 1 tablespoon lemon juice may be added when com bining berry-tapioca mixture. , Parents Growing Says Institute for Kew York (U.R) Parents grow tougher On their children as juvenile crime goes higher. The head of the Youth Re search Institute of New York says that teen-agers who never have had a run-in with the law have a new gripe these days. They complain they suffer every time a juvenile crime is re ported in their community, be cause parents get stricter. "Every time I put on lipstick, my mother says I'm headed for delinquency," a 14 - year - old Topeka, Kas., girl told the In stitute. "I wish they wouldn't play up Juvenile delinquency so much," said a teen-aged boy in Augusta, Me. "My pop hits the ceiling when he reads one of those headlines." The head of the Institute, Les ter Rand, said his interviewers talk with about 30,000 teen agers each year to determine their thinking on various prob lems. One Stop Service Station-Type Pier Is Couples Idea Oakland, Calif. (U.R) An enterprising Oakland couple has an idea that may well revolu tionize the local sea produce in dustry a one-stop super-service station for West Coast commer cial fishing fleets. Mr. and Mrs. George Evans, recently took a 10-year lease on a battered wharf on the Oakland Estuary. They transformed the sagging pier into a sort of sea going supermarket where fisher men will be able to obtain a O variety of needs, from canned goods to a new boat. There the tired sailors also will be able to shave, shower and, in the best general store tradition, catch up on all the latest news. Several entirely new struc tures have been built by Evans in anticipation of his mariner customer's desires. Among these are a huge weighing platform to .judge the day's catch, and an ice-house to furnish that all-imr portant preservative to salmon and albacore that are still a long way from the cannery. Time-iaver The pier, which the farsighted husband - and - wife team also plans to use as a storage quar ters for winter - bound boats, is now prepared to accept and care for between 25 and 30 fish jng vessels. One advantage of an opera tion such as theirs, the Evanses feel, is that crewmen will be able to save a full day or two of valuable fishing time by doing all of their "shopping" in one place instead of moving from mooring to mooring. This fac tor, plus the added attraction of waters many coastal fishermen have never ventured into before, may help to make their "dream" : profitable reality. Local citizens agree that if this project meets its fullest po tential, San Francisco's Fisher man's Wharf may find itself contending -with a good deal of competition. Mechanic-storekeeper Evans already has his first maintenance (Contract in hand, and hopes that Jt will prove to be only one of many such agreements with working fishermen from all over jane Coast. GJ mail tribune ri ;m "I "Tougher" Research Rand said that parents, in trying to keep their children outside the widening circle of delinquency, are becoming in creasingly "hard" on the young sters, and the teenagers feel their elders are going to ex tremes. "I used to stay up until mid night on Saturday nights," a 16-year- old San Francisco girl said. "But with all this delin quency talk, I have to do lots of hollering to stay out until 11:30. wow, my mother wants me to make it 11. How ridiculous can you get?" A 17-year-old boy in Miami, Fla. told Rand, "I had the family chariot all lined up for the school dance when a couple of teen-agers stole a car and ran over a cop. You would think I did it. I ended up riding the bus and had a lot of explaining to do to my girl friends too." Rand said parents seem to be tightening the controls in sev eral ways by insisting on earlier curfew for the children, by screening their friends more carefully, keeping a more thor rough check on the youngsters' daily activities, cutting their al lowances and putting new curbs on dating.. "But many of the youngsters resent this," said Rand. "They feel they are ma ture enough to take care of themselves." "Blue jeans now are taboo for us," a 16-year-old Cleveland, O., girl said. "Our mothers won't let us wear them at all because they make us look too tough." The new discipline has not revived spanking. Rand said parents seem to feel that teen agers are too old for such pun ishment and that the withholding of privileges is a stronger weapon. Article Traces Housing Efforts Chicago (U.R) The story or World War II housing construc tion for war workers and what has happened to the huge proj ects since is told in the Journal of Housing, monthly magazine of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Of ficials. The article traces the two-fold effort to provide homes for the thousands of families that mi grated to man the war plants and then, once the war was over to return to the normal housing market. Originally, there were almost a million units built for war housing. By the end of this year there will be only about 130, 000 left to be disposed of, the Journal said. New towns which sprung up on raw land furnished the most spectacular events of the war housing program. Among these was Vanport City, Ore., a town of 10,000 temporary units for 40,000 persons, built in a year m& 11 days. This town was demolished by the flood of 1948. and unused temporary war housing build ings were rushed to the area to shelter flood victims. Another "new town" was Wil low Run, near Detroit, Mich., built to house more than 20,000 war workers. At the war's end it became home for returning veterans. By 1946, 1,200 mar ried students of the University of Michigan were living there and more were coming in at the rate of about 50 families a month. Sunday, August 21, 195S San Francisco Hospital Gives Psychiatric Help San Francisco (U.R) A unique municipal undertaking headed by the youngest medical graduate in University of South em Californias history gives new hope to scores of mental pa tients who otherwise would be lost, The institution is San Francis co County Hospital's psychiatric ward. Its director is 29-year-old Dr. David Wilson, who received his M.D. from USC in 1947, the same year he became eligible to vote, "We don't turn anybody away if he has a chance in 90 days. That is how Wilson describes the entrance requirements for the West's pioneer municipal mental institution now in its fifth year of operation As for the 90 days, that is the period fixed by city ordinance in which a so-called "select group" of patients are treated with the aim of subsequently re turning them to society. Wilson admits he often wishes he could stretch the time factor Nonetheless, he proudly reports he and his staff have met with success in "over 80 per cent" of their cases. Began In 1950 The psychiatric ward came into being in 1950 after commun ity agencies had agitated for a charter amendment to provide city funds for treatment of men tal patients. Before that time, all mentally sick persons who could not af ford private hospitalization had to depend on overcrowded state facilities. Actually, San Francisco Coun ty Hospital acts as a receiving center for from 4,500 to 5,000 mental patients annually. The bulk of these are committed to state institutions because they cannot be treated under the strict statutory provisions gov erning the psychiatric ward. The ward does not handle senile patients (whom it consid ers victims of a form of old age rather than psychosis), children or alcoholics, who are referred to another agency of the city health department which deals exclusively in alcoholism. Must Be Resident The ward will take any other mentally ill patient provided he New Practical Clothes Made Flameproof and By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) It's harder for a girl to live dangerously now, since the latest laboratory announcements promise flame proof dresses, crashproof rain coats and stretchproof sweaters. Well, the raincoats really aren't completely crashproof, but they do light up like neon signs as soon as the sun goes down. This protects the wearer from speeding automobiles, er rant bicycle rider and near sighted pedestrians. These three developments were previewed separately here recently, in unique gatherings planned to accent the highly practical side of women's fash ions. A live model stood calmly in a Ceil Chapman cocktail dress at one gathering while a man held a lighted match to the edge of her skirt. The dress was made of nylon net, which of it self has properties that resist burning. But this particular nylon net had been treated by a new process, Worlderized, so that the stiffened finish was as flameproof as the nylon con tent. "It also is water repellant, crush resistant and has been treated for shrinkage control," the man with the lighted match said. A small section of the girl's skirt melted quietly under the heat, but stopped as soon as the match was moved. The stretchproof, fuzzproof ...solid Immaculate... at tractive . . . com fortable. Conven ient location . . . moderate rates. S. W. Ilth at STARK is a San Francisco resident who is "medically indigent" and vol untarily submits to treatment. The term medically indigent does not denote pauperism, WiL son explains it: "A patient can have a certain amount of money and still be in digent by our standards if he cannot afford to take three months' hospital treatment There are a lot of people in that situation, especially breadwin ners." Wilson $ays most of the pa tients in the "select group" suf fer from one of the following mental disorders: schizophrenia (sDlit personality); depressionism, characterized by extreme gloom with or without suicidal tender cles; middle life mental diseases (involving both sexes); neuro syphilitic diseases brought on by advanced stages of syphilis, and severe neurotic cases, when a person is not mentally ill but too nervous to be stable. The select group, which aver ages 30 persons at any one time, has progressed so well that only six persons have been committed from it in the past six months. Policemen Now Earn $1,000 More Per Year Chicago (U.R) Policemen's pay in the United States has in creased to a point where they now earn about $1,000 more per year than they did five years ago. According to the International City Managers' Association, year ly salaries for new patrolmen range in average from $3,350 in cities between 10,000 and 25,000 to $3,900 in cities of more than 500,000. In 1950, the average entrance salary was $2,520 in the smaller population bracket and $3,077 in the larger. Maximum salaries for patrol men now average from $3,700 in cities of 10,000 to 25,000 and $4, 692 in cities of more than 500,- 000. Cities also have continued the trend toward reducing the work week. In 1954, 132 cities of more than 10,000 population cut the work week, 57 of them to 40 hours. Stretchproof sweaters were introduced at a lunch in which guests were in vited to pull skeins of the spec ially treated yarn to their heart's content. The process Tycora can be used on various synthetic fiber yarns, the developers ex plained, so that sweaters will keep the same shape throughout repeated washings and also will retain their smooth surface, with no rubbing or "pilling" of fuzzy ends. The preview audience for the new light-reflecting outdoor gar ments rode around Aqueduct race tract in cars at night. Models wearing various "reflec torized" clothing were spotted around the track, glowing safely in the darkness while the cars whizzed by. Various manufacturers will use the new light-reflecting yarn this fall in everything from children's snow suits to ladies' raincoats, usually interwoven with regular yarns. Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Mrs. Larry Sykes has no trouble get ting her husband and two small sons to meals on . time. Mrs Sykes has an old World War I bugle and when it's time to eat she gives out with "chow call, Small individual omelets are a good idea for a brunch party, The Gas Appliance Manufactur ers association suggests you fold in tiny broiled mushrooms, spread with hot hollandaise sauce, and serve with hot toasted muffins and coffee. comfort! , re.; ::5 Juvenile Offenses Drop As Youths Given Summer Jobs Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Too much time, plus too few jobs, multiplied by too many young sters who want something to do. That's the modern summer vaca tion formula that leads to a sad answer a big jump in juvenile delinquency. In cities of almost every size the answer has been proving out with disheartening regularity an equation that somehow in re cent years has succeeded in turning "kid stuff" and "skylark ing" into crime. But another answer has been found. And surprisingly enough it's in Berkeley where the prob lem is particularly difficult be cause of the thousands of Uni versity of California students who have the pick of summer time jobs. Called "Work-reation," the Berkeley program is aimed at helping the 14-to-17-year-old boy, the "lost generation" of the summer months. The handiwork of a few inter ested townspeople, "Work-reation" has attracted the attention of the state of California and hundreds of organizations throughout the country. "It's the kids who have out grown their paper routes but who still are too young for fac tory or skilled jobs who need help," Mrs. Marjorie Walker ex plained. Juvenile Offenses Drop Mrs. Walker is manager of the Berkeley office of the State De partment of Employment and a major organizer of the program. "Work-reation is organized work and organized recreation, with the whole town behind it," she explained. The teenagers are hired to work in and improve the city's parks and schools on a four-hour work, two-hour-play basis. The city pays them $3.20 a day. In return, it gets not only a lessened delinquency rate, but first class work on many needed projects on municipal lands. Mrs. Walker said that of some 45 boys employed last summer, a check with police showed 26 of them had a record of 35 juve nile offenses before working with the program. "During the five-week work-and-play session," she said, "only one boy was picked up and that was for a very minor offense. "Parents tell us the boys who used to hang around the streets until 12 or one o'clock at night go to bed by 10 p.m. when they are working with us," she said. To set up the program, a group of interested citizens meets about five times a year. Because there are hundreds of applicants for the limited number of jobs, the committee sits two - and-a-half days screening the boys. We divide the city into Q SADDLES o UJ O Q in UJ a o in Q Q to All White Buck All White Elk Pearl & Tan CO UJ mJ Q Q in UJ Q Q to O Q V) o saiaavs thirds," Mrs. Walker said, "and take a third of the boys from each section. Because we want to give work experience to all the youngsters, we give as many jobs to the sons of wealthy par ents as we do to those from mid dle or low-income families." The city puts up $3,000 a year to employ 30 boys for the five week period, with the board of education adding another $1,500 to hire an additional 15 young sters. "All the work done by the boys is of top or number one va riety," said Harold D. Givens, Berkeley park superintendedent. "It eventually would have to be done by the park department men themselves. "The boys worked well and followed orders. . . The experi ment has proved valuable not only to the youngsters but to the city as well." So successful, in fact, has the program proved, that the ad joining city of Oakland is plan ning to put 150 boys to work this summer on the same work play basis. A bill has been submitted to the California legislature calling for $500,000'to establish a state wide version of "Work-reation." And Mrs. Walker has hundreds of letters from organizations and agencies all over the country in terested in the program. "It's a wonderful program," she said. "The only sad thing is that we have to turn away so many of the boys who want to work because of limited funds." Greeting Cards Not Just Paper, Report Discloses Boston (U.R) There's a lot more to a greeting card- these days than a cheery or sympath etic verse. For example, one firm (Rust Craft) plans to use on its cards this year: I, 500,000 wedding rings, min iature water and whiskey bottles and similar trinkets. 100,000 plastic baseballs. 84,000 sets of artificial teeth. 330,000 metal coil springs. 30,000 chips of Wood. II, 000 simulated pearl neck laces. 2,500,000 rubber cubes. ' And 1,250,000 yards of colored ribbon. Spillovers from cooking and baking are often unavoidable, but they should be removed as soon as the gas range has cooled, advises the Gas Appliance Manu facturers Association. When stains do not respond to soapy hot water, use a small quantity of ammonia, wring out the cloth and then apply to the trouble spots. SADDLES o SADDLES o SADDLES FECIAL PURCHft BacEt to By purchasing these wonderful saddles in large numbers, Johnston & Stewart are able to bring you the VALUE OF THE YEAR in the most wanted of ALL school shoes. SHOP NOW! V.J TPS. THE CORNER SHOE Central at Main saiaavs saiaavs saiaavs Credit Buying Cause of More Newlywed Homes Chicago (U.R) More newly weds own their own homes than ever before in the history of the country, due to credit buying, according to Richard Nelson, a real estate research man. Nelson said: "Homes are becoming directly competitive with apartments in view of the low down payments and long period of amortization which makes it possible for a young couple with very little liquid savings to buy a house on their own," he said. Figures show that between 10 and 20 per cent of the newlyweds plan on their own homes in pre ference to renting, Nelson said. Brownies will do less crumb ing if you let them cool before cutting into squares. if"'" SUEDE Vil M Flannel Sanforized pi f Regular 49c Yd. Special k w'tn- Beautiful assortment of colors III ? 36 in. width. Beautiful assortment of colors ff, a red, brown, pink and black. Suitable for - 11 J W s boy's shirts, jumper dresses, skirts and play M t- Kpr clothes. AAiri4'.T.i:f?ny?ra, Sixth and Central School Saddles At a Sensational LOW PRICE . This effer Is limited since we cannot repeat this purchase. Come in now while stocks art complete. STORE Medford Grange Lake Creek Grans The annual picnic of the Lake O Creek Grange will be held at the home of Loyd George Sun day, Aug. 28. People of the Lake Creek community are invited. Each family must bring food and its own service. At the last Grange meeting, Faye George, educational com mittee chairman, reported on the "Drama Behind th Crop Forecast," and Murray Bartling, fire insurance agent, reported that new insurance blanks are now available. The next Grange meeting is scheduled for Sept. 8, 8:30 p.m. To give scatter rugs extra body and make them lie flat, try adding a small amount of liquid starch in the final rinse water during laundry. Bedford's Bargain Corner o SADDLES O r- m in D D () mm U U m O O m 00 a m 91 a D m in smaavs o o
