2 MAIL TRIBUNf, Medford, Oregon. Wednesday, August 27, 1958
Hong Kong Chinese Meet
Problems of Teenagers
Br CLAIRE COX
New York-WDA Chinese
social worker says Americans
should fight juvenile delin
quency with togetherness -Oriental
style.
Miss Dorothy Lee, assistant
director in charge of youth
activities of the Hong Kong
s o c i a 1 welfare department,
disputes a widely held Ameri
can theory that slums in
themselves are crime breed
ing grounds.
She has issued an open in
vitation for American social
workers to go to Hong Kong
and see for themselves that
they are wrong.
Hong Kong, she said, is one
of the most crowded and
poorly housed cities in thei
world-and yet It can boast
"no juvenile delinquents
here."
Chinese families manage to
stick together , and maintain
discipline through the worst
of adversities, Miss Lee told
United Press International.
Answer Simplt
Why? For Miss Lee, the an
swer is simple.
"Because of close family
ties," she said. "Families live
ss units. It is a tradition of
the Chinese to have the fam
ily together, to give the chil
dren security, a feeling of
piety, a respect for their el
ders." Miss Lee, a Chinese edu
cated in London; concluded
after a tour of the U. S. that
social workers should be
much more concerned about
breakdowns of families than
about plumbing as a cause of
juvenile delinquency.
Hone Kong is a British
crown colony with a residen-
Specialist Advises
Pets for Children
Champaign, IU-lUPD-Mary's
parents had the right idea
when they gave her a little
lamb, says Mrs. Millicent
Martin.
Mrs. Martin, a child devel
opment specialist at the Uni
versity of Illinois, suggests
that other parents would be
wise to let their children have
pets, whether it's a kitten or
a turtle.
Animals help children ma
ture and enrich their experi
ences, Mrs. Martin said.
The child's ; age usually
should determine what kind
of pet to get, she said.
Figs and Win
Enjoy a "figs and wine dip"
for dessert. Combine equal
parts California Port wine
and honey. Serve in individu
al small containers; surround
with fresh figs. Dip figs in the
wine-honey as you eat them.
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Main and Bartlett Streets
tial area of only 15 square
miles. Yet it houses more than
2,500,000 persons, 700,000 of
them refugees from Commun
ist China.
Whole families camp in
Ieantos, on rooftops and shan
ties on hills or sleep huddled
on tenement stair landings.
Jobs are scarce. At least 60,
000 Hong Kong children do
not go to school because their
families are too poor.
And yet. Miss Lee is able
to say, "There is no sign of
juvenile delinquency in Hong
Kong at all."
Youth at Home
While packs of truants have
terrorized New York City
streets with crimes ranging
from theft to rape and mur
der, underprivileged young
sters of Hong Kong have
stayed close to their families
or have started to learn to be
wage earners, v
Miss Lee said her depart
ment diverts children from
possible thoughts of thievery
by trying to help them make
intelligent use of their hands
in turning out brooms, cane
chairs and other articles so
they can contribute to their
families' larders.
"There is much the West
could learn from the East, as
far as techniques are concern
ed," she said. "We are still
down at our basic problems,
while Americans have gone
away from the basic problems
by specializing in things such
as psychiatric care.
"Our problems are food,
shelter and work. Yours are
more specialized. You have
gadgets that have eliminated
house work. The house is be
coming a machine, rather
than a home.
"You may have lost a lot
of the atmosphere of the
home of the past. There must
be progress, but there can be
too much of machines. Then
the personal touch is lost.
Quotes From
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
London-Symphony conductor Sir John Barbirolli. on the
death of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams: . ,
"H was one of the most complete men that I have ever
known. He loved work, he loved food, he loved drink and he
loved good company and his fellow musicians."
Buffalo, N.Y.-New York City Mayor Robert F. Waaner.
on why he would not allow his
the Democratic senatorial nomination:
"I searched my soul and I
could do, morally, was for me
and one-half years I have yet lo
Stockholm-Printer Ernst Ahlberg, on how the people of
Greensboro, N.C., helped him after his daughter lost her arm
when she was struck by a whirling airplane propeller:
"They all did Iheir utmost
don't know what we would have been up against if we had
not received all this support."
Ivybridge, England-The father of British naval officer
Michael Coles, on his son's efforts to get out of the navy to
marry American teacher Joan Collins of Cambridge, Mass.:
"I'm all in favor of Ihe marriage. Of course, my boy has
been in the navy since he left school. He's been trained for
no other profession and I don't know wha he'll do when
he leaves."
New York-Horror comic artist Robert Wood, on turning
himself in for the killing of Mrs. Violette "Phillips in their
hotel room:
"I killed a woman who was giving me m bad lime."
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Dinner Honors
Totman Family;
Jacksonville-Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Totman and their daugh
ters, Cynthia and Kari, will
leave Friday for Forest
Grove, Ore., where the family
will reside. Mr. Totman, who
has been teaching science in
Jacksonville High school, will
enroll in Pacific university
there for courses in optom
etry. -
The Totmans were honor
ed at a farewell dinner given
Thursday night in the yard
of the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Offord Jr., Old Stage
road. The potluck dinner fol
lowed swimming.
. Present were the honored
guests and Mr. and Mrs. Don
ald Wendt, Mr. and Mrs. Wen
dell Matheny, Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Kamberg, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Matheny, Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Swanson, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Maroni, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Guidry and the
Offords with their children,
Lynn, Gene and Steve.
Missionaries
Guests in Valley
Leaving Friday
Dr. and Mrs. Marlow
Schaffner, who spent the past
five years in Africa as mis
sionaries for the Seventh Day
Adventist church, were guests
last week of Mr. and Mrs. For
rest Biggers, 2871 Georgia
street.
Sunday night a group, of
friends, including former
classmates of the Schaffners
at Columbia academy, Battle
ground, Wash., gathered 'at
the Biggers home to see pic
tures taken by the visitors in
Belgium, other Eu ropean
countries and in Africa. They
recently attended the world's
fair in Brussels.
Dr. Schaffner will take ad
ditional studies in surgery
this fall and winter in Los
Angeles, and later the family
will return to Africa. The
couple has four children, Ron
nie, Rita, Ricky and Roberta.
the News
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Bureau Head Outlines
Proxy Adoption Hazards
Washington-More than half
of the children adopted in
other countries and brought
to the United States in recent
months were adopted by
proxy, Mrs. Katherine B. Oet
tinger, Chief of the Children's
Bureau, reported today.
"This means that these
young children never even
saw their adoptive parents
until after the proceedings
had been completed-and . in
far too many cases, there have
been tragic consequences for
the children," she said.
The proxy adoptions are
handled by stand-ins who
then arrange the transporta
tion of the children to the
United States.
A total of 1,061 adoptions
was completed abroad during
the period from September
11, 1957, to June 30, 1958,
Mrs. Oettinger said. Most of
Good Nutritiori
Family Function
Says Scientist
Washington -fljPD- One fam
ily function is to teach good
nutrition, and mother should
be the chief instructor.
Dr. Margaret Mead, famous
author and anthropologist, in
an address before a national
food conference, declared that
"the family is the crucial in
stitution in a people's nutri
tional well being."
While cognizant of the im
portance of the farmers, fish
ermen, stockmen and retail
ers who bring food into the
home, Dr. Mead said that un
less "families function prop
erly" children will never
learn "how and what, when
and how much to eat. This
learning is as essential as is
learning to walk and talk . . .
Whole peoples, said Dr
Mead, are able to thrive on a
basic diet such as rice, bread
or yams for three and some
times four meals a day. These
diets have been worked out
unconsciously by trial and er
ror over the centuries.
Therefore, it is those who
frequently change their whole
style of eating that are the
noorest fed. And the safe
guarding of styles of eating is
the duty of the family.
Mother must be "nutrition
ally literate," said Dr. Mead.
She is bombarded with heav
ily-pressurized advertising on
"what to buy, how to cook it,
how to serve it," and "how
to persuade her family to eat
it," added Dr. Mead.
The demands made on
mothers today are greater in
the field of nutrition than
ever before. While our com
plex economy provides a
plentiful amount of food and
the work of the homemaker
is less physically exacting
than in the past, she must
plan and. choose, Qhoose and
plan."
Dr. Mead also made an ap
peal to parents in this land of
plenty to teach their children,
as they sit at the dining table,
that "Americans are respon
sible to their brothers and sis
ters throughout the world."
"Unless this principle is
taught along with the good
rich food we feed them, moth
ers and fathers will have fail
ed in their mission to nourish
them spiritually as. well as
physically," she said.
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the proxy adoptions during
this period occurred in Greece
and Korea.
Mrs. Oettinger said that re
ports continually reaching the
Children's Bureau from State
welfare agencies underline
the hazards in proxy adop
tions. The states have reported
wide variations in the dan
gers of this method of adop-
tion, ranging from the ques-i
tionable status of the adopted
child's inheritance rights to
whether these, adoptions con
form to the laws of the states
in which the adoptive par
ents live.
There is some reason to be
lieve also, Mrs. Oettinger said,
that the whole adoptive proc
ess has sometimes been mis
represented to the natural
parents of the children in the
countries of their origin,
For example, a woman in
Greece does not know where
her child was taken. She has
reported that she was prom
ised, if she would release the
child in Greek courts, she
would receive $50 monthly
pension and could eventually
rejoin her child in the United
States after the child had se
cured an education here. She
has asked for help in locat
ing the child.
"We cannot estimate the
damage to the child when
these adoptions do not turn
out well," Mrs. Oettinger
said. "We have heard of one
foreign-born child adopted by
proxy by parents who could
not cope either with the lan
guage problem he presented,
or with his need for atten
tion. They actually locked
him out of the house. This
child has since been removed
from the home.
"One couple adopted a Jap
anese-American boy by proxy
and decided they did not
want him. They 'gave, him
away' to another couple with
out any clarification of his
legal status. This boy is suf
fering now from severe emo
tional trauma.
"We know also of cases
where proxy adoptions were
accomplished by couples who
earlier had applied to licensed
child-placing agencies for ' a
child and had been refused
because their home life was
too unstable
"However well-intentioned
the individuals and agencies
who are bringing these chil
dren into the country in this
way, we in the Children's Bu
reau cannot help but feel that
the protections we have built
around the adoption proce
dure for American children
should be equally applied to
children who are fo become
American citizens Dy tnis
method," Mrs. Oettinger con
cluded. "Especially when lo
cal, state and national agen
cies, both public and voluir
tary, stand ready to give
adoption services."
Information reaching the
Bureau is corroborated by
findings of a study of proxy
adoptions which was jointly
sponsored by. the Child Wel
fare League of America and
international Social Service,
and released last month.
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Vice-President
Conducts Session
Mrs. Donald Prior, vice
president, presided for a meet
ing of the Welcome Wagon
club held Thursday at Girls
Community club. Mrs. Walter
Haring, Mrs. John Richardson
and Mrs. Harold Ames were
hostesses for the social hour
which followed.
The previous meeting, heid
at Rogue Valley Country
club, was attended by 24
women.
Mrs. John C. Sellers pre
sented the program for the
evening which was a talk on
"The Art of Seasoning With
Spices and Herbs." Mrs. Sell
ers gave a brief background
on colorful history of spices,
their present day uses, point
ers on selecting spices and
herbs and suggestions on how
best to use them. She also
mentioned the various forms
of individual spices, recent de
velopments in the field Of
food seasoning and concluded
her talk by presenting each
woman with several pamph
lets on seasonings and teas
given by the Hawthorn Mar
ket.
All women who have lived
in Medford for two years or
less are welcome and invited
to attend the Meetings and
join the club.
Phoenix School
Busses fo Start
Operating Sept. 1
Phoenix School busses in
the Phoenix district will start
operating on the first day of
school, Sept. 11, E. R.' James,
superintendent of schools, has
announced.
The same schedules and
routes as last year will be
followed, he said.
Children in the first three
grades are to report to the
primary unit of the elemen
tary school, and those enter
ing grades four through eight
are to' report to the grade
school building. Parents
first grade children are re
minded to bring evidence of
the child's birthday, and
health certificate, James said
New Students
New Phoenix High school
students are asked to register
at the high school office the
first week in September. The
office will be open between
and 9 p.m. Tuesday for those
students who are working
during the day, James said
Former high school stu
dents and those entering high
school from the ninth, grade
need not appear until Sept. 11
since they registered last
spring. High school students
will report to the high school
gymnasium at 9 a.m. the
opening day.
School fees amounting to
S12 will be payable upon reg
istration. Students wishing a
school yearbook may reserve
a copy by paying an addition
al $4 at time of registration
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3653 South Pacific highway,
is one of 1,613 privately-
owned travel trailer and mo
bile home parks listed in a
new Mobile1 Homes Manufac
turers association travel and
vacation trailer park guide,
according to Fred J. Troxel.
In addition to the private
parks the guide lists 649 na
tional and state parks, monu
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parking areas in Alaska,
Mexico and Canada.
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Strangs Return .
From Trip South
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L.
Strang have returned to their
home, 540 Pennsylvania ave
nue, after spending two
weeks in California. The
Strangs first visited in Po
mona with their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs
William C. Strang and their
ihree children, Billie, Bonnie
Kay and Gregory. They made
trips to Marineland and the
Wayfarer's chapel, and spent
a day at Disneyland.
In Glendale Mr. and Mrs.
Strang spent some time with
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kent
ner, former Medford resi
dents. Mr. Strang and Mr.
Kentner were members of the
same Medford High school
graduating class in 1908.
The couple also visited
Frank Jacobs, Los Angeles, a
cousin of Mr. Strang. Return
ing north, they spent some
time in San Francisco and
attended a band concert in
Golden Gate park.
Beatniks Said Not
Representative
Delaware, Ohio-IBPD-College
student leaders agree that the
Beat Generation is neither a
growing movement in this
country nor representative of
current student thinking.
Delegates to the United
States National Student Asso
ciation considered the mental
makeup of the Beat Genera
tion at a 10-day policy-forming
conference here.
The movement was describ
ed as "a new name for an old
feeling used by a few as a way
of life," by S. John Byington,
a Ferris Institute of Michigan
student.
"The desire to get away
from it all is occasionally felt
by most during one's life," he
said, "yet it is completely suc
cumbed to by Only a few."
Half the students who ex
pressed an opinion said the
movement was a product of
our society and would end in
a few years. Others tsaid it
would always recur in some
form and under a different
name.
UCLA student Ed Baum
called the attitude "imma
ture" and a result of an "in
ability to try to help solve
some of the pressing problems
faced by America today.
"The Beatniks sound like
immature cry-babies," said
Kentuckian Tony Banet from
Bellarmine College. "All they
seem to do is gripe."
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Luncheon Honors
Miss Gay Jepson;
Central Point-Mrs. Harry
Tonn was hostess last 'Thurs
day for a" luncheon which
honored Miss Gay Jepson,
Medford. Miss Jepson is the
fiancee of Mrs. Tonn's son,
Harvey, and the wedding is
set for September 12 at First
Presbyterian church in Med
ford. The luncheon was given at
the Tonn home, 130 Cedar
street, and guests were family
members. They included Miss
Jepson's mother, Mrs. Dale
Davis, Mrs. Dean Wilson,
Elaine Wilson, Mrs. O. T.
Wilson, Mrs. Richard Dunn,
Mrs. Anna Tonn, all Central
Point; Mrs. E. E. Meyer, Lake
Creek, Mrs. Steve Wilson,
Mrs. Larry Wilson and daugh
ter, Barbara, White City, and
Mrs. Lewis Dusenberry, Trail.
Visitors Honored -Saturday
Night
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Keener,
702 South Modoc avenue, en
tertained Saturday night in
honor of visitors who were
their neighbors when the two
families lived in Macedonia,
Iowa. Honored were Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Plummer, their
sons, Paul and Phillip, and
daughter, Nancy. Another
son, Bernard Plummer, makes
his home here with his uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
George Osier, 719 Palm street,
and the three were also pres
ent. .Additional guests were Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Keener and
Tonya, 217 Portland avenue.
Mr. Keener served his
guests vegetables and fruits
from his own garden and, to
prove that Oregon can grow
it too, the golden sweet corn
for which Iowa is famous.
Since it was ihe birthday
anniversary of Bernard Plum
mer, Mrs. Keener served a
birthday cake in his honor.
It had been eight years
since the families had been
together. The Keeners lived
in Macedonia for 20 years be
fore coming to Medford.
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Mounted Dancers
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The mounted square dance
team of Medford Trail Riders
attended a horse show in Rese
ll 1 1 .rf lnct Ci.nrJ-i.t .immJ
performance for the audi
ence. On September 7 the group
plans a play day at the posse
grounds. All riders are in
vited to attend and enter the
games.
Ray Bernard is chairman
of the play day and anyone
wishing further information
may call him at NOrmandy
4-1246.
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