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7 52r.djYear Medford United Pres. Full Leaxed Wir Price 10c Tribune United Presa Full Leased Wire 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957 Pages 1 to 10 N.Y. Going Through Period Of 'War' Against Youth Gangs By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York W This city is going through a sickening period of "war" on a segment of its youth. The segment is a lawless fringe bred in poverty, brought up in bitterness in broken and alcoholic homes, left unloved and neglected by parents. In the face of a flare-up of youth crime three persons killed and four critically in jured within a few days the police department has thrown in 600 additional men, rookies from its academy, for patrol duty. It has called on parents to awaken to duty. Juvenile offenders have killed 22 persons in New York City since, the start of the year. This is not the result of gang war fare, although New York has about 500 juvenile gangs with about 8,000 members. Of these, 110 are listed as "fighting gangs" which stir trouble. Individual Type Crime But the latest streak of beat ings, assaults, and killings seems to be of indivdual, rather than gang, origin "spontaneous, senseless attacks," in the words of Walter Arm, police deputy commissioner in charge of com munity relations. If it is true that juvenile crime reflects periods of adult tension, such as war or other un rest, or anxiety, a study of the police figures in New York City indicates a nervous period right now. The published figures on year ly arrests of youths under 16 show 3,830 for the year 1940 then a jump to 5,000-plus for STARTING FRIDAY AT CENT mi DRUG WITH EACH ROLL OF BLACK AND WHITE FILM DEVELOPED - 127, 620, 120, 116, 616 vip, YOU will get a coupon to 'PJ'. wards one 5x7 glossy en- largement FREE FILMS LEFT BY 10:00 A.M. yILL BE BACK AT 4:30 P.M. THE SAME DAY Central Drug Reliable Prescriptions Cor.Main and Central each of the war years 1943-44-45, with the last of those three showing nearly 6,000. In the postwar years of that decade the arrests ran along rather evenly at 3,500-plus, and in 1950 were 3,424 lower than they were exactly 10 years earlier despite the population increase. The Korean war started in 1950, and during the next three years the arrests were up to 4,000-plus. Then, instead of going down, they . went like this: 6.012 in 1954; 6,578 in 1955; 8,714 last year. Willie Mays, the baseball play er, used to spend a great deal of his spare time away from the ball park playing stickball with the kids in his "neighborhood. When asked why this extra ex penditure of energy on the part of a man who was already ex pending a great deal at his regu lar job, he pointed to the young sters and said simply: "They need somebody " You might be interested in contrasting this attitude of a ! man who obviously loved kids I with a paragraph in a New York I Times news story about neigh I borhood youth crime: ' "A boy who has to sleep on a j rooftop because he is afraid his father will come home drunk and beat him finds it difficult to ; resist the lure of the gang." Objt High Speed Bail-Outs ect of Convair Jest Ford Worth, Tex. IW Con vair Aircraft Corp. has an nounced it has been making tests that may lead to successful bailouts from planes traveling at speeds faster than sound. , The company disclosed it has ejected anthropmorphic dum mies having moving joints and closely resembling the human body from a nose section of Convair's supersonic B58 Hus tler bomber. - I i it t jet t.NUliNu a sensational two weeks search for sadist who tortured and raped a pretty 19 -year -old student nurse was the arrest and confes sion of 5-foot dope addict, Neal Bakkerud, 21, in San Francisco." (International) 500,000 th Phone ; Installed by PT&T 1 Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company installed its 500,- 000th telephone in Oregon Tues day, Aug. 6, just four days after its 79th birthday, according to Medford Manager J. H. Creager. In Medford, the number of telephones has increased dur ing the past ten years from 6,710 to 14,176. The occasion of the 500,000th installation was observed in Salem by presentation to Gov. 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Proponents of foreign langu age instruction from kindergar ten on up argue that today's shrinking world demands that Americans climb up from their low standing on the world lin guistic ladder. They claim early childhood is the easiest and best time to be gin; -that children themselves Spring Developed on Takilma Timber Tract Cave Junction Develop ment of a spring for fire pro tection and drinking water on the U.S. forest service Soil Con servation District demonstration timber tract near Takilma has been completed by members of the Illinois Valley Soil Conser vation district. The reservoir is located near the area where roads were built last year for the first stumpage sale in the experimental plot. Books at the Medford Public Library give you all sides of all issues. are enthusiastically receptive and that it broadens horizons for countless pursuits in later schooling and adult life. Soma Criticize Program Critics feel grade school lan guages are of doubtful value and a needless luxury in already pinched school budgets, an im position on the child and a sacri fice of other more important curricula. Both sides agree on one point: The movement to foreign lan guages in the elementary schools has had a phenomenal growth in the past five years. A survey of the modern lan guage association published by the U. S. office of Education showed that "at least" 271,617 grade school youngsters, kinder garten through grade six, were getting foreign language instruc tion in 1955. That's small compared to the 26 million enrolled in the pub lic grade schools. But the figure is more than one-third of the foreign language enrollment in high schools and fast approach ing the number taking foreign languages in college. Interest Snowballing The 1955 grade school instruc tion was going on in 1,977 schools in 357 towns in 45 states and represented a whopping 300 per , cent increase in three years. Both sides also agree on anoth er point. That is that the most critical, problem in the grade school language picture is the shortage of competent teachers teachers fluent in languages with special talent for teaching the new hearing-speaking, approach. The demand for competent teachers vhas sparked a flourish- i n g of teacher workshops. guides, manuals, tapes, records kitty. and audio-visual aids designed to help fill the gap. The District of Columbia is one area that has tried closed-circuit TV teaching of foreign languages. In Albuquerque, N. M., the school system felt it could meet the pressure for grade school Spanish in the bilingual state only to the extent of having three roving teachers among 12 of Its 67 schools. 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