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53rd year Medford Price 10 cents Tribune 2ni SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Police Question Central Point Boys Two Central Point youths, 12 and 14 years old, were questioned Wednesday by Central Point police about recent destruction to school property. Police Chief Wallace Bowen reported. The two youths, released to their parents pending an ap pearance in, juvenile court, are accused of causing about S100 damage to equipment at Central Point Junior High school. Bowen reported that they emptied five first aid boxes and three CTC fire extinguish ers. In addition they turned over a 50 gallon drum of fuel oil. cracked a glass pane in a door, and damaged some meter box covers. The boys had to climb a 14 ifoot fence to reach the equip ment they damaged, Bowen said. The contents of the first aid kits were found in the bedroom of one of the boys, according to police. ilS2s? a, y.r... K3r . 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These and similar acts of wanton destruction are every day occurences in big city public housing developments. They have shocked many citi zensincluding well-behaved tenants of the developments themselves and have created a widespread impression that public housing, projects are breeding grounds for juvenile delinquency. Impression Unfair Officials of the U.S. Pub lic Housing Administration (PHA) assert that this impres sion is unfair. They make these points: Vandalism is a problem confined mainly to big cities like New York and Chicago. It has caused little trouble in smaller communities. Even in big cities, the cost of vandalism is small compared to normal mainte nance expense. 'In Chicago, for example, only ' two per cent of the annual mainte nance budget for public hous ing units goes to repair dam age caused by vandals. Police studies show that crime and juvenile delinquen cy rates are generally lower in public housing projects than in nearby unredeemed slums. "Although many new homes that the PHA. helps pay for are damaged by wanton van dalism," said Public Housing Commissioner Charles E. Slusser, "such incidents are greatly outweighed by the beneficial effects that public housing brings to a commu nity."' . One Givet Black Ey Slusser pointed out "that "it takes only one vandal to break a dozen windows" and give a black eye to a housing project in which scores of families may be living peaceably. PHA studies indicate a close correlation between the size of a public housing unit and the amount of trouble caused by the tenants. In so-called "high rise" (multi - story) apartment houses, it is diffi cult to instill any sense of maintenance responsibility in tenants. The whole place is too much like a big," imper sonal institution. Because of the problems they create, high rise build ings are shunned except in the big cities, where land costs make them a necessity. Elsewhere, local housing au thorities have won PHA ap proval for one and two-story nouses with individual lawns and back yards. In Colton, Calif., for exam ple, detached singles and du plexes were built. . More novel is the project in Cedartown, Ga., where there are duplex and four unit houses on scattered sites and the tenants perform their own maintenance. "You can't tell those houses from any other home in the communi ty," a PHA official said., Utopia Not Expected Although these and other measures are expected to help, PHA officials do not contend they will lead to Utopia. "You can't take people out of one-room hovels without running water,vput them in Macmillan Proposes August 12 Meeting London (UPD Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan today proposed a special summit meeting of the UN Security Council on the Middle East Aug.s 12. Macmillan said that as far as Britain is concerned the meeting could take place in New York, Geneva, "or any other place generally agree able." Macmillan made the pro posal in a new letter to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev. He announced it to the House of Commons. look: On Page 10 Section 1 KRUGGEL'S TEXACO a modern apartment, and ex pect them to change their way of life overnight," said one official. Because of income ceilings which restrict public housing occupancy to the lowest-income groups, the projects draw a large share of "prob lem families" those broken by divorce, desertion, alcohol ism or other tragedy. The 1,800,000 persons now living in federally-subsidized public housing projects in 44 states and territories have an average family income of $2,000 a year. In an effort to offset the high incidence of crime, dis ease and demoralization that is inevitable in any commu nity where poverty is the sole common denominator, Public Housing officials have lately sought to open some of their units to families which are a little better off financially than the lowest . income bracket. 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