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12 A WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Crime, Delinquency Council Asks Strengthened Programs The Oregon Council on Crime and Delinquency has called tor stre n g t h e n i n g school programs lor the early identification and treatment ol children with behavior problems. The recommendation was included in a report by the Council recently as another step in its program for the prevention of juvenile delin quency. William J. Moshofsky. chairman of the 24 -member citizen action group, said "the .early identification and timely ;hclp of children while their behavior disorders are small lean prevent later, more severe .and costly problems. Failure -to act can result in school !dropouts, Juvenile delin quency and eventually adults :who are marginal in their "ability to support themselves, properly rear their children, -or make positive contributions to society." .Do Adequately Serve J Moshofsky pointed out the -varied curriculum, diversified Iprojjram and skilled teachers "in Oregon's schools do ade quately serve the needs of the "great majority of children. However, he stressed that -there is a small significant :pprcentage of children who have difficulty in the school setting, who bring to school ifnmlly and personal problems ; which block or seriously intcr- fpre with learning, who are lunable !o "get along" with jollier children and teachers, "and whose behavior is disturb ing in the classroom and re tards the teacher's efforts to -serve the total classroom. ' I Pointing to the demonstra ted relationship between ad justment in school and juve nile delinquency, the Oregon Council on Crime and Delin quency reported that: Able to Identify -Teachers in Ihe early ele mentary grades are able to identify the 3 to 10 per cent of their pupils whose problem behavior, if not dealt with, may lead to serious anti-social behavior patterns. -Elementary schools need to do much more than they are now doing to provide ade quate and early help to chil dren with problem behaviors and to their teachers and par ents. -Most classroom teachers (with 25 or more children to teach, discipline, protect and train) need the help of special personnel trained in the be havior sciences to deal with children with problem be havior. -Special personnel quail ficd by training and exper ience to perform complex casework and referral services are now In short supply. The Council recommended: 1. That school administra tors, school boards, the state department of education and others accelerate programs to strengthen the ability of ele mentary schools, not only to identify but to deal more ef fectively with the problem be haviors of young children. 2. That consideration be given to the passage of legis lation to make state funds available on a matching form ula to local school districts to employ special personnel trained in the behavior sciences to work with these children and their teachers and parents. 3. School systems should employ only persons qualified to meet professional stand ards, such as those set by the American Psychological asso ciation for school psycholo gists and the National Council of Social Work Education for social workers who work within the school system. 4. To insure that special personnel are available, funds for intensive in-service train ing programs and scholarships will be needed. A program, no matter how well intention ed and conceived, is doomed I if qualified staff is not avail able. Encourage Development 5. That the state depart ment of education in cooper ation with local school dis tricts take leadership in en couraging the development of community resources for chil dren with problem behaviors and their families such as child guidance centers, men tal health clinics and family Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. counselling services. School personnel alone cannot be ex pected to cope with the in creasingly complex situations which cause problem be haviors in young children, the Council noted. Dr. Paul Wright, chairman of the sub committee on schools, said "we have pro grams to assist the handicap ped child. We put a great deal of effort into identifying the exceptional child. Now let's help the troubled child." Luminous Dial Watch Users Get Health Warning New York - OIPD - Men: If you are the proud possessor of a pocket watch with luminous dials, beware. The New York City Health Department believes that such dials, when the watch is worn near the waist, expose the wearer to excessive radiation and possible genetic damage to the reproductive organs. Acting on a study by the of fice of radiation control, Ihe city has amended its adminis trative code to ban the sale of such watches here. It was believed to be the first such prohibition enacted in this country. The ban does not cover ra dium dial wrist watches, and it was suggested to owners of radium dialed pocket watches If they did not want to dis pose of them, that they have the face and hands replaced. Hanson Blatz, director of the Office of Radiation Con trol, said that watches exam ined by the Board of Health gave off 75 units of radiation a year, 150 times more than the amount considered per missible and safe. Wrist watches are consider ed safe because the face and hands are smaller, and be cause the radium-treated sur faces are shielded from the body by the mechanism of the watch. Thp pocket watch, it was said, is usually worn near the waist, with the face turned Inward. No cases of actual physical damage lo pocket watch wear ers have been reported, hut it was believed that constant exposurp to a pocket watch with radium dial over a pe riod of years could be delet erious Blatz said luminous dials contain a radioactive sub stance which emits alpha par ticles and highly pene'raling gamma rays. W mm i f '' ' ' - 'j I " ' 9 --iiMmmm g'- !-. - - . . ' A .... . z. i INDEBTED Scamn Per Svahlin, 20, of Uppsala, Sweden, who owes his life to the unbelievable navigation of Capt. Alfred Johanscn, master of the vessel on which he serves, is pictured during a sightseeing tour of San Francisco. Svah lin had fallen overboard from the 557-foot tanker Horn Cru sader as it steamed through fog 20 miles off the coast of San ta Barbara, Calif. He was discovered missing and the captain reversed and retraced his course for BVz miles, made a course change of seven degrees and brought the ship to a halt 30 yards from the seaman. Svahlin was back on duty 20 hours after he was pulled from the water. (UPI) New Life for Handicapped Opened by Research Center Br GERALD S. SNYDER Albertson, N.Y. -WPli- In a modern electronics plant on suburban Long Island a middle-aged polio victim leaned forward In his wheelchair, his body hunched over work bench. More than 50 yards away In another building a group of doctors and medical research ers were receiving details about the man's heart, pulse, breathing, blood pressure and skin temperature. 'As part of a pioneering re search team for the Human Resources foundation here, they got their information from a tiny telemetering de vice tucked in the man's shirt pocket which short-waved the data to a set of Instruments before them. The man was one of the lame, blind, deaf, palsied arth ritic and mentally retarded workers from the foundation's parent organization, the world famous Abilities, Inc., which is marking its 10th anniver sary. Out To Prove Together, (he "unemploy able" employees of the two groups are out to prove that the disabled can be gainfully employed in all industries and "the more disabled a person is, the more successful he ac tually can become." Ray Leizer, 44, whose hands were blown off in a mine field in Israel, hit the point home. He plays the organ at founda tion functions. "We are trying lo prove," he said, "that you can't tell what a disabled person is capa ble of doing on the basis of his disability. "Take me, for example," he said. "An organ player needs five fingers, wrist rota tion and lots of dexterity. That would let me out. But I wasn't satisfied. So a couple of years ago I decided to see if I could play the organ." Hands of Steel And with that, Leizer using tender hands of steel, played an aria from Tosca and a fugue of Bach. "Playing the organ," Leizer said, "involves hitting the right notes in the right se quence at the right time. Whether you hit them with your toes, your head, your el bow or a few other portions of the anatomy doesn't make any difference. As long as you get the results." Ever since Abilities was founded in a grimy garage 10 years ago, it has been getting results. Today it is a com pany employing more than 400 severely disabled workers. All Handicapped The president, Hank Vis cardi, was born with no legs. And all the others are handi capped in one way or another. Even though the company succeeded (it grossed some S3 million last year alone), it was only half way along to its goal. Leaders of industry, who came to see the experi ment in operation and were amazed at what they saw, still had questions. How could the mentally re tarded possibly fit into a nor mal industrial operation? What would happen if they hired a man with a cardiac condition? Why are the handi capped good workers? And so on. To answer these questions, the Human Resources Foun dation was established. The government became in terested and came through with grants. Big business, oth er foundations and private agencies joined in and last year a $1 million research center was dedicated. S.iecial Rampi ( In it were special gyms and ramps for those who could not walk. Curtains replaced doors. Showers, locker rooms and steam rooms were all specially designed. Blind bowlers could "see" when their pins went down on the center's two-lane alley. They merely had to feel a plate with raised buttons in the pattern of the pins. When a pin fell, the corresponding button on the platt dropped. But even though the foun dation served as a kind of playground for the handicap ped, its research projects were what kept its spirit ablaze. Hank Viscardi became alarm ed at the problem of the men tally retarded. Twenty mentally retarded young people were brought in to work in the plant. They were taught to do difficult operations in electronic as sembly and have done re markably well at it, Viscardi said. "We like io think of our selves," Viscardi said, "as providing an education in the triumph of the human spirit." i-ys 1... . . totma STIFF SENTENCE Edinburgh, Scotland - HJPP -Bill Hutlon, 39, was found guilty Tuesday of neglecting his family and spending all his money on gambling and drink. The judge ordered him to hand his wife his pay en velope unopened every week for the next two years or go to jail for six months. Fabulous display of the world's most famous Diamonds including replicas of The HOPE Diamond & TIFFANY Diamond fo help celebrate E. Medford 701 E. Jackson St. 773-7315 Broken, Used Toys Sought by SOC Mugs Ashland - Broken or used toys are needed by the Mugs, an off-campus social group at Southern Oregon college, for their annual toy drive which began today and will con clude Drc. 7. Members of Ihe Mugs will contact Ashland residents (or the sixth year in succession for such toys, which will be repaired and distributed to needy children hy Hie mem bers of the Ashland fire de partment. Toys, or name cnnlrihutions may be deposited at the Elk's Barber Shop or Pioneer Shop ping Center in Ashland for pick up. The Britt Student center is the gathering point on the SOC campus. BUDGET DEFICITS ARE 'TRADITIONAL' NOW One Ihing certain to happen when President Kennedy .delivers his major State of the Union, Economic, Budget and -Tax Reduction messages in January is an outburst of shock led surprise In Congress and throughout the land over the budget deficit to be projected for the fiscal year 1964 and the uptrend In the public debt. 1 For the deficit to be projected for fiscal 19B4 the year beginning July 1963 will run Into many billions. With a ;broad lax reduction figured in, it could be enormous, and of -course the national debt is going to zoom. ' Considering the hlslbry of budgets In this entire genera tion, though, the only surprising thing will be the "shocked surprise." Budget deficits have become traditional in our land, surpluses have become the rarity. : At the close of fiscal 1961-the year Kennedy Inherited ;a record-sized budget from the GOP the deficit was $3 8 -billion, the national debt was $2B9.2 billion. - At the close of fiscal 1962 the first full year Kennedy 1 was in charge the deficit wn $6.3 billion, the national ; debt was $295.8 billion. For fiscal 1963, io end next July 1, the estimate now is ' a deficit ol $7.8 billion and the debt at this date U $302.2 : billion. - For liical 1964 the "planned deficit" with lax cuts ' could top Ihe peak peacetime delicit ol $12.4 billion chalked up by the Eisenhower administration in 1959. : All this follows a history Just as dismal from an orthodox -financial viewpoint. In the It) budget years of 1030s we had nine deficits, ;nnly one picayune surplus, and that was at the start of the ;ieeacle, - In the 10 budget years of the 1940s we had eight deficits. nly two surpluses, and Just one of the surpluses was sub stantial. In the 10 budget years of the 1950s we had seven de . luits. only three surpluses and none of the surpluses was Mgnifir.'nt ; In the first four years of the lOHOs we have had three rilm1. only one minor surplus achieved by Eisenhower in 'his last year nf office, and a fourth deficit is on the way in the fifth year. Tliis is the record In booms and depressions, in hot war, .rolcl war and peace, under Republicans and Democrats. You .may be dismayed, you may worry about where this will lead ;iis, but "shocked surprise" at another deficit year hardly .seems warranted. ; The purpose of this report is not lo mourn or moan, JhoiiBh. The purpose is to ask, "Why deficit on top nf deficit?" '. The deficits of the 1930s are easy to explain. Those were 'years nf catastrophic depression, nf the birth of the New Deal, the start of a spiral of spending on social and welfare -measures. : The deficits nf the 1940s also are easy In explain. Those ;u ere years of global war and In rase you have forgotten, the deficit In 1943 came to a monumenlal $57 4 billioir in .1941 lo $51 4 billion; in 1945 In $53 9 billion ! nut now explain tne deficits of the 11150s years of the greatest prosperity in our nation of all time'' Paychecks soared, profits jumped and, although we spent hundreds of .billions at home and abroad, we earned trillions which were taxed at very high rates. How explain Ihe deficits to far In the 1960i yean ' which have been relatively prosperous by all reaionable yardsticks? The business recession of 1960 wai exceedingly mild, the recovery since early 1962 hat carried ut to new income peakt, tax ratet are ttill very high. How explain the deficits, then? The only explanation comes back again (o the heart of all economic debates these days our sluggish rate of growth since the mid 1950s If we were growing fast enough, we would be or. linn the profits and paychecks to produce the taxes to rover our rising spending. We are not growing fast enough. j!.U4W41 It is this central point which is impelling Kennedy to HECKLED BY SIGN YOUR CAR rtfjjk ; and the vKSt Editor's note: Following It the ninth in a teriet of 12 articlei dealing with Ore gon motor vehicle laws. Questions regarding state motor vehicle lawt may be submitted to the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles, Traffic Safely Division, Salem. THE BASIC RULE Mr. B was cited by a police officer for driving 45 miles an hour in a 30 - mile - per - hour speed zone. He entered a plea of "not guilty" to the charge, even though he subsequently admitted he was driving 45 miles an hour. areas. Even so, many people -even some who think they do do not fully understand the state's speed law. The basio rule charges a driver with the responsibility for keeping his vehicle under control at all times, with due j regard for traffic conditions, surface and width of the high way, intersection hazards, and any other conditions which might affect safe operation. Reasonable and Prudent The essence of the law Is that each driver is to operate at a speed that is reasonable and prudent in view of exist ing conditions. It is entirely possible to violate the basic rule even though a driver He won his case in court be- , may not be exceeding a desig- causc he was able to prove that at the time of the citation, in the area in which he was driving, and with due regard lo the above average traffic and road conditions at that time. 45 miles an hour was not a violation of Oregon's basic rule. Oregon's speed law has two major parts. The foundation is the basic rule whirh has been in effect since I Jin 1 . The sec ond part, added in 1941, pro vides designated or recom mended top speeds for certain v if . i 1 ..4 . I ' V Bar, . , . f niwr i e "f "51 nated or posted speed, just as it is possible to go in excess of a designated speed and not be guilty of violating the state's speed law. Designated speeds are guides to help drivers deter mine a reasonable and pru dent speed for certain areas when conditions are normal. Three principal designated speeds are stated in the law: 20 miles per hour in school and business zones: 25 miles per hour in residential zones; and 55 miles per hour in other locations. Signs may he posted in these zones as a reminder to drivers, but these designated speeds apply whether or not they are posted. In addition lo the speeds established by statute, other designated speeds can be set hy the Slate Speed Control Hoard and the Highway Com mission. They become effec tive when signs are posted, such as the 70 mph on free ways of the slate. No Absolute Limits t Designated speeds are not absolute or maximum limits, but to exceed them is prima facie evidence of violation of the basic rule. This means it is evidence which, standing alone, is sufficient to establish a fact. It ceases to be suf ficient when rebutted or im paired by contrary evidence. In this case, evidence of the existing conditions must be introduced to show the ele ment of potential danger in the alleged speed. The only maximum speed limit for passenger cars in Oregon is 25 miles per hour on ocean beaches. Certain other types of vehicles, how ever, such as school buses, trucks, and buses do have to comply with maximum limits specifically established for tlicni by l.tw. (Next i Chemical Teitt of Drivers!. Forage tests provide the j L; -Labor Leader Walter Reuther of Pr ask thai spending increases be limited and to risk swelling 1 1 ml is shown m San Francisco on a stopover en route home the deficits in I0ti3 and 1904 by asking for tax cuts lo spur from .Lqun where he spent III days at the invitation of our .our growth. labor grouos lo coordinate the Japanese and .Vnrru-.in labor most occurate method of dc- ; With spending increases restrained and with tin' economy movements Reuther is holding a sign reading -Co Home termuung hay quality. The stimulated inlo a new upswing, we should be able to rev erse Waller Reuther", thrown into his car bv ("ouununist hecklers tests give an 'analysts' whirh 'ihe red ink trend. 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