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SEGREGATION PROTESTED - Pickets fornia Boycott Committee, call for boycotts
march in front of a store in Santa Monica, and urged better campaigns to obtain "equal
Calif,, to protest southern segregation, services at Woolworth and Kress stores in
Picketers, members of the Southern Cali- the South." (UP1 Telephoto)
Psychological Needs of State
Youth Not Met, Report Shows
(Editor's note: This is the
first in a series of articles
on the recently released re
port of the Governor's Com
mittee on Children and
Youth. The articles are
written by Ann Sullivan,
long-time reporter in Oregon.)
By ANN SULLIVAN
Psychological needs of many
Oreaon children and youth are
just not being met either by
their own homes or the other
institutions which contribute
to family life education.
So relates the Governor's
Committee on Children and
Youth which has culminated
two years of work in a report
for Oregon.
Evidence which brings the
committee to make such a
flat statement as above in
clude: 1. The venereal disease rate
Non-Fat Solids
Said to Improve
Taste of Milk
Chicago, (Science Service)
-Milk will taste better as the
result of the addition of
"solids not fat" (SNF). A test
for such solids could become
a basis for milk buying, re
placing the traditional but
terfat test.
Taste tests conducted at the
University of Arizona and
supported by the American
Dairy Association are report
ed by D. H. Jacobsen, research
director for the dairy associa
tion here.
In milk with a 3.5 per cent
butterfat content, milk con
taining 9.5 per cent SNF was
preferred by 60 per cent of
those making the test, com
pared with 40 per cent who
preferred milk with 8.5 per
cent SNF, the amount found
in "regular" milk.
In another test, 3.5 per cent
milk containing 8.5 per cent
SNF was preferred by 47 per
cent, while milk with only
two per cent butterfat but
containing 10 per cent SNF
was preferred by 53 per cent
of the persons trying it. The
total solids were 12 per cent
in both cases, and therefore
preference for high solids con
tent does not necessarily
Clean fat content.
Work is still being done
on perfecting a satisfactory
test for SNF. One such test
involves the use of plastic
beads of different density,
dropped in a milk sample.
The richer the milk in solids,
the fewer beads drop to the
bottom.
Tiny Tube Makes
Big Telescopes
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) A pint-sized electronic
tube has been developed by
Westinghouse Electric Corp
oration that may make big
telescopes out of little ones,
enabling astronomers to get
pictures of the heavens never
before obtainable.
Called an Astracon, the
light-amplifying tube is said
to be so sensitive that it makes
visible to the eye every indi
vidual elementary particle of
light that triggers its ultra
sensitive input. It can in
crease the effective size, or
light - gathering ability, of
even the largest telescopes
many times over.
The tube." which is also ex
pected to find application in
other fields of research such
as nuclear physics, was de
scribed here to 40 teen-age
winners of the 19th annual
Science Talent Search, admin
istered by Science Service, by
Dr. J. W. Coltman of the West
inghouse research laborator
ies, Pittsburgh, Pa.
among teenagers has increas
ed greatly.
Figures supplied by the
Oregon state board of health
show an incidence in 1950 of
40.3 cases of gonorrhea in all
ages per 100,000 population,
and 48.6 for the 15-19 age
group. While the all-age in
cidence per 100,000 popula
tion increased to 53.1 in 1958,
the teenage figures was a
startling 171 - a 350 per cent
increase against about 33 per
cent for all ages.
Rale of Birth
2. The rate of births to
mothers not married to the
fathers of their .children in
creased in Oregon from 18.5
per 1,000 Jive births in 1950
to 28.8 per 1,000 in 1957 for
women of all ages; against
this is set an increase of 50
per cent for girls under 20
and 52 per cent for the 20-30
age group.
(The committee noted that
it knew almost nothing about
the abortion rate, especially
among the teenagers in Ore
gon, and nothing about the
amount of contraceptive in
formation commonly shared
among teenagers, or anything
definite about the relationship
between teenage pregnancies
and shotgun marriages.)
3. There is an increase in
the rate of teenage marriages.
Between 1950 and 1958 these
marriages in Oregon increas
ed by one-third. The propor
tion of teenage brides increas
ed from about 38 per cent of
all brides in 1950 to 43 per
cent in 1957.
4. There is an increase in
the birth rate for teenage
mothers. From 1950 to 1957
the crude birth rates dropped
from 23.7 to 21.8 per 1,000
Within the same period, births
to girls in the 15-19 age group
increased from 92.9 per 1,000
to 116.4, a percentage gain of
25.3.
Reproduce Themselves
The committee notes that
good families tend to repro
duce themselves as children
from them are married and
in turn establish their own
homes.
"Unfortunately," the report
adds, "the same may be said
of 'bad' families. They tend
to reproduce themselves in
successive generations."
The report points out that
the "goodness" or "badness"
of families to some extent are
produced or influenced by the
total culture of the nation or
the community and to some
extent by economic factors.
"But ultimately good and
bad families result from what
the individuals in them have
learned about family relation
ships from life in their own
families in childhood. In a
sense, even that hard-to-define
thing called personality,
which influences so strongly
the marital relations upon
which the family is founded,
is developed through learn
ing." Recommendations Made
The committee makes these
recommendations, which in
the report carry considerable
amplification and explanation:
1. A carefuly planned re
search program should be set
up, testing, among other
things, social and psychologi
cal causes for the phenomena,
the weight of the drive for
conformity among young peo
ple, evaluation of teenage
marriages (good or bad), etc.
2. More family counseling
services throughout the state.
There is almost total lack
in Oregon of family counsel
ing agencies where families
with difficulties could turn
for help. There is no or
ganized non - sectarian family
agency except in the Portland
area.
There is only limited un
organized service, totally in
adequate because it lacks com
munity backing and support.
Children are directly affected
by the tensions and turmoils
of their parents. Many of
them are deprived of one or
both parents by separation or
divorce, and the juvenile
courts and other agencies
"pick up the pieces" at great
cost.
School Counseling
3. School counseling serv
ices under profess ionally
trained personnel should be
provided throughout the state.
Classroom teachers in Oregon
are unable to get help in deal
ing with behavior problems
because "counselors" are eith
er poorly trained or non-existent.
4. It is recommended that
institutions of higher educa
tion provide more adequate
teacher training programs in
relation to family life and sex
education.
5. It is recommended that
more parent education pro
grams be provided throughout
the state with respect to fam
ily life, child rearing and sex.
6. It is recommended that
regional and local conferences
and workshops promote more
understanding and acceptance
of the basic tenets reflected
by this report on the part of
communities and school ad
ministrations. 7. It is recommended that
communities be led to recog
nize the need for better law
enforce m e n t, especially in
connection with the rising rate
of VD among teenagers.
Electronic Ovens
Found Second Best
Wooster, Ohio (Science
Service) - Note to husbands
whose wives are pestering
them for new, electronic
stove: It came in second best
in cooking contest with con
ventional ovens here.
Studies by Miss Nancy
Marshall at the Ohio Agri
cultural Experiment Station
show that electronically roast
ed beef is lower in appear
ance, tenderness, juiciness
and flavor than comparable
cuts cooked in conventional
ovens.
Roasts cooked electronical
ly looked dry and were full
of holes. Portions of the
roasts became so hard 'they
were unpalatable. Only 40
per cent of the original
weight was "acceptable meat"
after electronic cooking. By
comparison, standard ovens
turned out 65 per cent ac
ceptable meat.
However, electronic ovens
won in speed. They cooked
four times faster, averaging
10.7 minutes per pound of
meat, while the older method
took 45.4 minutes.
Meter Standard
May Be Light Line
Washington - (Science Serv-ice)-A
non-destructable stand
ard for the international me
ter has been proposed and is
expected to be accepted by
the International Conference
on Weights and Measures
when it meets in Paris in Octo
ber. The new standard will de
fine the meter in terms of the
orange-red spectral line of
light emitted from excited
atoms of kryptom 86 (isotope
with atomic weight 86). The
meter will be 1,650,763.73
times the wavelengths of this
line.
The suggestion that the me
ter be based on a wavelength
of light is more than 100 years
old. Problems delaying its
adoption have included find
ing the most suitable isotope
of a usable element and sepa
rating a large enough quan
tity of this isotope for practi
cal use.
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