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o o o Special New York Schools Seen Helpful To Disturbed Children Editor's note: In the oast -vear tfew York City public schools lave been terrorized by a wave of juvenile delinquency that included .andalism and attacks on students ind teachers alike. In March, hr ied authorities suspended the most langerons. the most incorrigible of :he trouble-makers, and the Board f Education set up special schools For them so-called "700" schools rhere they would get strict super vision and special care. This is the first of three dis patches in which a reporter who took a first-hand look at the "J00" schools tells what they are like and what they are accomplishing. By PATRICIA McCORMACK United Press International New York (UPI) Take 360 of the worst students in the nation's largest school sys tem, boys and girls so disturb ed that no school or teacher can reach them. Place them in emergency schools, set up on a crash basis because the law says you must at least try to edu cate children, even if they cannot possibly fit into nor mal school situations. Add seasoned teachers, so cial workers, psychologists, psychiatrists. Put only eight to ten children in one class. Mix in large doses of indi vidual attention, trust and spe cial care. And then give the kids a chance to succeed. Common Occurences New York City's Board of Education did this last March with 300 boys and 60 girls sus pended from their regular schools as the wildest and most dangerous denizens of a "blackboard jungle" where vandalism, attacks on teach ers, sex assaults and even murder of fellow students was a frighteningly common oc currence. The Board set up three schools for them, two for 150 boys each and one for the 60 girls. Since, for more than eight years the City had been maintaining so-called "600" schools for problem children, the new schools were given the number "700." They'll probably receive another, less coldly official title in a short while. Part of the Answer Have the "700 schools" been successful? The fact that the Board plans to open one and possibly two more in the fall offers part of the answer. But, beside that, here is the com ment of William A. Hamm, associate superintendent in charge: "We think, roughly, that 60 per cent of the children, pos- Sleepy-Time Pals Baby cuddles up to these soft 'n sleepy dolls takes the loneliness out of bedtime Thrifty, easy to sew, fun! Use men's size 12 socks, scraps for clothes, straw yarn for hair. Pattern 7004: directions for two sock dolls, clothes. Send THIRTY-FIVE cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 Ocents for each pattern for first first-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O, Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. Send TWENTY-FIVE cents more for a copy of our Alice Brooks Needlecraf t Catalogue. 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Parents and guardians of the pupils report "improved conduct" at home. And truancy, which had raged through the group in epidemic proportions at their old schools, is down to a mini mum. New York City's "700" schools have apparently scor ed a hit with the youngsters they were set Up to help. (Next: A penny and a kiss.) MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, July 21, 1958 t Lung X-Rays Reveal People Who Look Older Than Years By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York IUPD A new avenue to an understanding of why and how human beings grow old along with all other living things has been opened because one scientist gave serious atten tion to what most scientists would consid- ios smith er an old wive's tale. A common idea but a most unscientific idea is that you can pick out people who look younger or older than they are actually in years. The scientists would say you might with a very few people but you couldn't do it with consistent accuracy with a Urge number. But the one scientist has proved that you can. Furth ermore, he has proved it goes for the insides of people as well as their outsides. Exam ining x-rays of lungs (without having seen their owners) he picked out the people who, on the outside, looked young er or older than they were. Hopes for Further Research The scientist, Dr. F. A. Nash, communicated his dis covery to the American Geria tric society with the idea of stimulating as many scientists as possible into following up its leads. All sorts of things are involved in the rates at which people age. Ancestors for instance. Peo ple live longer whose ances tors had long lives, generally speaking. Occupation is an other. Farmers (again gener ally speaking) have longer lives than miners. You could go right on through a long list. Now there is a way of checking off the items on the list one by Nash suggested. Take people who are proved to look younger or older than their years, both on the in side and outside. Then inves tigate their ancestry, their oo cupations, their ways of liv ing, and everything else about them which might explain why they've aged less rapidly or more rapidly than the av erage person. To show wtiat he meant, Nash described his own inves tigation of the possibility that people who consistently sleep eight hours or more every night age less rapidly than people who as consistently cut d3wn on their sleep. In this case he found no signifi cant differences. Nash is operatmg a mass x-ray survey in London. The people who report to get their lungs x-rayed, first give their names and ages to a clerk. In his experiment Nash station ed two observers in far cor ners of the room, where they could see the people but could not hear them give their ages. Nor could the observers communicate with "one anoth er. Their task was "guess the age of each person, state whether in their opinion, that person looked younger or old er than he was, and, if so, by how many years. 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