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8 D THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Venereal Disease Crisis Seen Here By National PTA By PATRICIA MeCORMACK United Prs International New Yprk -(BPD- The Vmb, penicillin and the Klnsey re port figure in the newest cri Cii of concern to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. . The crisis is increases in venereal diseases, reported in piany parts of the country, on both sides of the tracks but especially among young people in the IS to 24 year age bracket. The bomb unsettled world conditions on a steady basis, giving some youngsters an excuse to "live it up" every chance at hand. Penicillin, meanwhile, re moved the deadly fear of venereal disease infection. And the Kinsey report? Well, this document report ing on sex habits of some of the people has somehow be come synonomous with what should be, with what is ac cepted and with what is right. . A sociologist, sifting facts on VD for the National Con cress, brought the bomb, pen icillin and the Kensey report Into the picture. Celia S. Deschin, of Adel- phi college. Garden City, N.Y., didn't atop there when analyzing the situation in a report in the PTA magazine. Parents, teachers and dou ble standards of morality also caught some fire from the associate professor in Adel phi's graduate school of . so cial work. Aererse Kinsey Prof. Deschin suggests, as one counter-attack, a Kensey report in reverse. : This would be a study of self- reliant, non - problem youngsters to find out what makes them tick the right way. ' The question: Way do some youngsters, exposed to' pres sures of the bomb, confidence in penicillin and Kinsey's re port, adhere to moral codes essential to a stable society? The professor believes all youngsters want to. "Contrary to popular be lief," the sociologist said, "youth in trouble are not enjoying their flouting of tra ditional standards. "In our study of youth sick with VD, interviewers were Impressed with frequent ex pressions of guilt." Prof. Deschin directed an Truck Industry Tells Phenomenal Vehicle Growfh ', New York fUPO Today's fnotorlst, if asked what is the most familiar sight in traveling today, probably would answer: The truck. There are few hours of the day or night wherein the rumble of some mammoth hauler is not heard on the major intercity highway at regular intervals; few resi dential neighborhoods where in appearance of si.iall de 1'very trucks is not part of the regular daily scene. The American Trucking as sociation, in its- recently is sued annual report, assembled some figures to show the size of the trucking industry. 700 Registered in 1904 In 1904, when teamsters still drove teams and not mul-ti-horsepowercd diesels, there were 700 private and for- hire trucks registered in the United States. In 1962, the latest year for which figures are available, there were an estimated 12 million, according to t h e fig ures of the ATA research de partment. This Included farm trucks, but not government owned trucks. The ATA sta tisticians sam there were 622,140 of these in 1961. They did not give the figure for 1962. California, that long, busy an., growing state, led the 60 states of the union in the number of registrations of private and for-hire trucks: 1,116,855, nearly 25 per cent more than the 902.181 rcg istered in Texas, the next high, and more than double the 502,659 in New York state. Growth in Revenue From a revenue standpoint, growth in the trucking indus try over the years has been almost as phenomenal as the growth in the number of ve hicles, according to the ATA report. Using as its source data from the Interstate Commerce commission, Bureau of Trans port Economics and Statis tics, the ATA report said rev enues in 1981, the latest year available, were $7,375 billion almost double what they were in 1950. historic research project for the U. S. Public Health serv ice in cooperation with the New York City department of health in 1958. The investigation, sponsor ed by the American Social Health association, involved interviews with 600 teen agers attending social hy giene clinics in New York City. The report, "Tcenagero and Venereal Disease," published in '61, has done much to fo cus attention on the social aspects of VD. Do Nothing . One thing that struck the sociologist was the sameness of response when the teen agers were asked one ques tion: What do you do in your spare time? Of the 600 inter viewed,, 509 replied, "noth ing." What can parents and teach ers do what should they do to institute effective educational and preventive campaigns? Prof Deschin's an swers: Replace ignorance with knowledge, stir community apathy into community ac tion, and encourage the co operation of private physi cians in reporting cases of VD. Clarify our own as well as the youth's attitudes toward sex. Constructive sex educa tion requires a point of vkw and sanctions for codes f behavior to which society ex pects its youth to adhere. Control Outlined "To control VD in the 60s," the sociologist said, "we need parents with courage and conviction to do some plain talking and acting. "We need parents who will speak out clearly for what ought to be and act resolute ly to reinstate discipline and control. "We need parents, teach ers and other adults who will lift the unhealthy social pres sures on youth and counter act the bombardment of sex ual stimuli. "As parents and teachers I believe we have no choice, if we would guide youth into activities that will help them grow into useful, mat' e adulthood." P.S.: Medical authorities agree that venereal diseases are not mere communicable diseases. If untreated or poor ly treated, syphilis can cause blindness, insanity, heart dis ease, paralysis and death. Gonorrhea can cause blind ness, heart trouble and ster ility in both males and females. in AIRPLANE UPENDED-A small private air- Fia., alter it was caught by high winds plane lies upside down at St. Petersburg, which swept through the area. (UP1) Generators Augment farm Power Supply - College Station, Tex. -HJTO-' Emergency generators can fill important functions when storms interrupt a farm's power supply, the Texas A and M college extension serv ice says. Extension agricultural en- -gineer W. S. Allen said a gen erally acceptable model is one driven by a farm tractor. The generator is less expen sive than other types and the farmer would have less in vested in a piece of equip ment he would use only oc casionally. 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