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Young People Variously Described as Pampered, Self-indulgent, Sincere ackgj round Facts On Youth Meeting Washington OIPB Back ground facts on the White House conference on children and youth: What it is: The largest meet ing ever held to assess the needs and problems of Ameri ca's young people. When: Began Sunday night with an address by President Eisenhower; will continue through next Friday. Who's here: 7,000 delegates from every state and territory and 54 foreign countries. Where they're meeting: In 85 separate buildings in the Washington but not in the White House itself. What they'Jl do: Listen to 230 major speeches; split up each afternoon into 160 sepa rate work groups to discuss specific youth problems. V-What it cost: $1,100,000 in general overhead, contributed one-third by the federal gov ernment and two-thirds by private organizations and foundations, plus about $2 million in travel costs and liv ing expenses paid by the dele gates themselves. National Inventory What will come of it: A na tional inventory of w h a America; is doing-and failing to do - to "prepare today' children for tomorrow': world." Specific recommenda tions-on unmet needs will add up to a blueprint for public and private action during the next decade. Five previous White House youth confer ences since 1909 have been credited with stimulating ma jor progress toward recogni tion and solution of youth problems. Oklahoma Bombings Possibly Linked To Strike in Portland -Lawton, Okla. -(UPD- Army authorities today probed for tiny pieces of , a giant heli copter in an effort to deter mine whether the aircraft ex ploded before or after - it crashed, killing all five crew members. The Army airmen died just five miles short of their base at Fort Sill, near here. They were returning from Oklaho ma City, where the helicopter had taken demolition experts to investigate three bombings possibly linked with the news paper strike in Portland, Ore. Police did not believe sabotage was involved. Bombs Rip Homes The crash occurred only hours after bombs had ripped homes of three Oklahoma Publishing Company produc-j tion employees who had re-i cently returned to Oklahoma City from temporary jobs on the Portland Oregonian and Oregon Journal. The Portland papers have been publishing despite a " strike, sometimes marred by violence, since November. . All days off were cancelled for Oklahoma City police officers in an effort to make quick arrests in the bombings. Guards Posted Oklahoma City authorities said bombs apparently had been planted in the basement of Alvin Wind's home, in Bill R. Martin's garage and in a car parked beside the home of Mrs. Walter Sherry Jr. - Guards were stationed Sun day around their homes and protection ' was given seven other newspaper employees who had been to Portland Fires were reported last week end at homes of two of the seven. No one. was hurt in the blasts, but the homes were severely damaged. Polaris Missile Tesf Fizzles Los Angeles LTt " The Pol aris missile - the Navy's un derseas 1500-mile hydrogen warhead weapon - fizzled on its first . ignition test off Southern California's San Clemente Island. But Sunday's failure sig naled the start of an intensive test program that some ob servers are optimistically pre dicting will put the Polaris on fleet duty by the end of the year. II was tne first underwater test of the two-stage missile with propellant in it. The solid-fueled missile. - whenever it, Joins the opera tional fleet - will team with new - nuclear ' submarines to form an underwater team that can roam and fire from al most two-thirds of the world's area. The number of smallpox cases in the Americas is now only one-fourth of the number 10 years ago. Only about 10 per cent of the blind persons in the United States were born sightless. Conference on Children, Youth At White House You can own this smile when you save with us Today, 24 million Americans save for their future needs and wants at Insured Savings and Loan Associations like ours, where their "money is safe and earns excellent 'returns. You, too, can enjoy the peace 'of mind you get with an insured sav ings account. Open an account with us today... and add to it regularly! Washington -GOT- America': young people were described today as pampered, self-indulgent, materialistic, uncom mitted, milling about without a sense of direction and lack ing in high ideals. Before the same gathering, the same young people also were described as sincere, in telligent, unhypocritical, am bitious for achievement and hungry for firm and forth right parental guidance. xnese widely varying ap praisals of the younger gener ation emerged from the first round of speeches before the White House conference on children and youth. Some 7,000 delegates from an parts oi tne nation are attending the week-long con ference, which opened Sunday night with an address by President Eisenhower. Defends Modern Youth ine resident lined . up squarely with the defenders of modern youth. He acknowl ed concern about juvenile de linquency which "has increas ed each year for the past 10 years." But he warned against p e s s l mistic generalizations which "attribute to the many the failures of the few." "I have an unshakable faith in the overwhelming majority of fine, earnest, high-spirited youngsters who comprise this rising generation of Ameri cans," Eisenhower said. his optimistic view was seconded by one of the na tion's foremost social scien tists when the conference split up today , into five separate and concurrent "theme assem blies." . . - Dr. Talcott Parsons, profes sor of sociology at Harvard university, said today's young people are "understandably hesitant and uncertain" about some aspects of life. But on the whole, he added, they are 'active, eager and ambitious and are undertaking very great efforts to secure train ing for worthwhile achievement." I would think it very dif ficult indeed to prove that any previous American gen eration has had higher ideals," he said. College President Critical Dr. Abram L. Sacher, presi dent of Brandeis university, was considerably less san guine. He said the outstand ing characteristics of modern youth are "lack of concern, and lack of commitment to larger issues that exceed pure- individual pains and satis faction." A Protestant leader agreed that young peaple are suffer ing from "inadequate objectives." Youth today is milling around in the confusion of a hectic world of change with out a sense of direction," said the Rev. Dr. Etoswell P. Barnes, U.S. executive secre tary for the World Council of Churches. But he said the "cyncism and nihilism" which beset young people "are not their creation." "They are the enemies which we of the older gener ations have inadvertently in vited into our culture to fill the vacuum resulting from our own lack of clearly de fined ideals." llflf I I ?&3 lilt iS.t ji Jj lip 'DOLPHIN LEAPS A -"Dolphin", launch and training vehicle for the U. S. Navy's Lockheed Polaris fleet ballistic missile, leaps from the water, left, in an underwater test launch. The inert missile contains half its weight in water ballast, which is discharged upward to kill the vehicle's momentum, right- After de-ballasting, the missile is buoyant, can not sink back to the launching submarine. These tests are being made prior to the Dolphin's installation in the first fleet ballistic missile submarine, where it "will be used as a training aid prior to - scheduling the firing of live Polaris missiles. (UPI Telephoto) CURRENT DIVIDEND PER ANNUM Investment Made By the Earns From the First 10th FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. off Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager Assistantship Given Ashland Teacher Central Point-Miss Barbara Bateman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bateman, 2130 Taylor rd., and granddaugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Coss, 855 East Ninth St., Medford, has been awarded a research assistantship at the University of Illinois Institute for Re search in Exceptional Chil dren. - The assistantship, which covers full tuition and living expenses, will be for the next academic year. She will com plete work for the doctor of philosophy degree in special education. For the past two years Miss Bateman has been special edu cation assistant in the Ash land public schools. She had previously taught mentally retarded children at the Son oma State hospital in Califor nia and blind children at the Washington State School for Blind. Miss Bateman holds a bach elor of science degree in psy chology from the University of Washington and her mas ter's degree in special educa tion from San Francisco State college. She, has completed doctoral course work at the University of Illinois. - i One out of every seven medical bills on which health insurance pays benefits amounts to $500 or more. Polaris Missile Submarines To Be Speeded Up Washington-(UPD-The Navy today announced a $52 mil lion speed-up in its Polaris missile submarine program. It said funds will be switch ed from other sources to put extra crews at work on seven Polaris-firing submarines so they can be put into operation ahead of schedule. "This speed-up of the Po laris weapons systems," " the Navy said, "has been under consideration for some time. Based on Successes "The decision was based on recent successes of the missile test program. Nine of the last 10 Polaris test -vehicles have been flown successfully and have met all test objectives." A spokesman said the money was being taken from "vari ous sources." He did not ident ify these, but said no other program will be cancelled. The spokesman could not say how much construction time would be saved by the speed,-up. The seven subma rines previously were sched uled for commissioning on dates ranging from Sept. 30 this year to March, 1962. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D- Wash.), a leading congresion- al proponent of the Polaris, hailed the speed-up as help ing "close the missile gap making missile-carrying sub marines available sooner in this critical period." President Eisenhower's bud get for the fiscal yearstarting July 1 sought funds for three Polaris subs. Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief of naval oper ations, has said the Navy wants Congress to authorize six more, bringing the total fleet to 18.' Medford Tribune Regional Edition Page2A Stock List Favors Narrow Price Trend In Early Trading New York (UPD The stock market favored a generally narrow price trend in the early trading today. The electronics, last week's group feature, met some mild support during the first hour that brought gains of 2 or more in International Business Machines and Motorola and more than a point in General Time and Beckman. Steels were dull with U. S Steel and Bethlehem off frac tionally, and Republic up less than a half. Youngstown was Goldfine Enters Innocent Plea Boston (UPD- Textile tycoon Bernard Goldfine, gift-giving crony of former Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, plead ed innocent today to charges he evaded more than three quarters of a million dollars in federal taxes. Miss Mildred Paperman, secretary and business part ner of tne millionaire indus trialist, pleaded innocent to charges of more than $25,000 personal tax evasion and a third indictment charging both with evading more than $340,000 in corporate taxes. Goldfine was freed in S5,- 000 bail without surety. Miss Paperman was releas ed in $1,000 bail, also without surety. unchanged. Autos also were narrowly mixed with Ford and Chrysler easier, General Motors unchanged and Ameri can firm. Marquardt Aircraft fell more than a point in its de partment and Kaiser Alumi num more than a point in the metals. Coming-Glass added more than 1. Air of Optimism , In Actors' Strike Hollywood t- (UPD Special negotiating teams meet in an air of optimism today to settle the 3-week-old actors' strike against major motion picture studios. Represe nt a 1 1 v e s of the Screen Actors Guild and the Association of Motion Picture Producers reported "definite progress" after their third consecutive meeting Saturday, A joint announcement said key issues would be consid ered by a special subcommit tee formed today. A meeting of the full negotiating teams will follow in a day or two, said the announcement. 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The committee, in another report on its investigation of infiltration of management and labor by racketeers, ac c u s e d Teamster President James R. Hoffa again of "gross abuses" of union power and an "unconscionable be trayal" of union' members. ' The new attack on Hoffa said he gained power with the help of "racketeers and hood lums" and, despite a promised clean-up' drive, has shown ho inclination to move against a variety of thieves, robbers, burglars, arsonists, white slavers, extortionists. dope peddlers, and even mur derers who are holding office in teamster affiliates." The suggested crime com mission would have served as a federal clearing house for nation-wide data on crime. Unable to agree on the pro posal, the committee voted in stead to recommend immedi ate study by an "appropriate" congressional committee on how to best cope with the problem of syndicated crime. The committee split over the proposed crime commis sion had more than the usual partisan overtones. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D Mass.) a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomi nation, spearheaded the drive for its adoption. He drew sup port from the other three committee Democrats Chair man John L. McClellan (Ark.) and Sens. Frank Church (Ida ho) and Sam J. Ervin Jr. (N.C.). All four Republicans -Sens. Karl E. Mundt (S.D.), Barry Goldwater (Ariz.), Carl T. Curtis (Neb.) and Homer E. Capehart (Ind.) - were op posed. Kennedy said the proposed commission would "gather in formation on the top crimi nal leaders in the country, keep a close surveillance on their activities, and dissemin ate their information to local and state law enforcement agencies." The Republicans opposed the commission as a costly and unnecessary accessory to such existing facilities as the FBI. . They said its data on crime might fall into 'ttie hands of criminals themselves in areas where they are in league with "venal or corrupt officials." 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