Young People Variously Described as Pampered, Self-indulgent, Sincere
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On Youth Meeting
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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
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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."
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'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)
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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.'
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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.
Neither SAG nor AMPP
officials would discuss details
of the negotiations, but it was
believed the talks today would
be aimed at solving the key
issue of sharing money from
the sale of movies to tele
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(Underworld -Hoodlums' Grip
(Q)n Economy Said Growing
Washington -fllPD- The Sen
ate Rackets Committee warn
ed today that a "criminal syn
dicate" of underworld hood
lums has strengthened its
grip on the U. S. economy.
Its findings were unani
mous, but the committee split
4-4 along strict party lines
over proposed establishment
of a national crime commis
sion to help combat the grow
ing menace.
. 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."
Also, they said, the commis
sion might distribute "unveri
fied data consisting of rumor
and gossip" and "injure in
nocent persons."
There was no dissent on the
committee's finding that the
"growing power of the Ameri
can underworld," as evidenced
by the 1957 crime convention
at Apalachin, N. Y., poses a
"national problem."
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