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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958
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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.
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Republicans Plan
Roundup August 18
A Republican roundup, at
which state and local candi
dates will be guests, is sched
uled Monday, Aug. 18, at
Hawthorne park. James M.
Ragland is general chairman
of the picnic sponsored by
Jackson County Republican
Central committee, Jackson
County Republican Women's
club and Young Republican
club.
Those attending may bring
their own dinner or tickets
may be purchased and dinner
will be provided by sponsor
ing organizations.'
Mrs. Frank Bash is arrang
ing an entertainment pro
gram, and will be in charge
of decorations, Mrs. H. W.
Morrow, food; Hal Gardner,
tables; Ray Johnson, public
address system; Manville Heis
el, tickets, and Mrs. Murray
Gardiner, publicity.
Special features are being
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Vandalism Problem in Housing
Said Not Necessarily Juveniles
By EDWARD COWAN
United Press International
Washington (UPD A rock
crashes through a window
pane and fragments of glass
shower the sidewalk.
A janitor finds water gush
ing from an outside fauce that
has, been knocked loose from
its stem.
A tenant is forced to climb
the stairs to her fifth floor
apartment because vandals
have broken off the buttons
on a self-service elevator.
. 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
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New York, Geneva, "or any
other place generally agree
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Premier Nikita S. Khrush
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KRUGGEL'S
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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
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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
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little better off financially
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