MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
TUESDAY. MAY 14, liii
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The Three U'-Part li
Step-Up in Educational Requirements Hamper Teen-Agers in Hunt for Jobs
Editor's nott: On of the
nation'! proudest resources
-its youth-is being waited.
Whyt Because in today's
world of automation jobs
require not only greater
skills but a higher educa
tion. Our wasted youngsters
lack both qualifications.
The following article tells
how and why on million of
our youths are unschooled,
unskilled and unemployed.
By PAUL C. TULLIER
Senior Editor.
World Book Year Book
The step-up in educational
requirements is fanning out
into the labor unions. Most
have tightened their standards
for apprentices; candi dates
must nearly always have a
high school diploma. Nor is
that all. Apprenticeships them
selves are growing scarce. In
1950, there were 231,000 ap
prentices in programs regis
tered with the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor. But there were
only -166,000 in 1960 - a drop
of nearly one-third. Here,
again, the unemployed drop
out is caught in a vise. Not
only is he unqualified for a
trade union apprenticeship,
but the apprenticeship system
itself seems in danger of
shriveling up.
Oddly enough,' child-labor
laws often seem to hinder
rather than help the million
odd youngsters who haunt our
back streets today. The age at
which youths may start work
is regulated by state law. So
are the hours per day and per
week, and the type of work
they may do. But the regula
tions vary from state to state,
and the state laws themselves
are usually superseded by fed
eral laws when a company is
involved in interstate com
merce. Rather than get snarl
ed in red tape, firms bypass
the young and hire older
workers.
A Number, of Causes
, Youth unemployment, then.
Is rooted in a number of
causes. But the chief culprits
are . the dropouts themselves.
Who are they, and what
makes them tick?
Experts shy clear of any
cut-and-dried definition of a
dropout. Each, they point out.
is an individual; no two are
like. Girls as well as boys
quit before graduation. Some
are like auburn-haired Doris,
17-year-old who lives in
tenement on Chicago's south
side. The block on which she
resides is lined with cheap
taverns. Drunks often "sleep
it off" in the vestibule of her
building. Neighborhood mor
als are low. Two of Doris' sis
ters ran away from home. "My
mother always watched me
like a hawk," complains Doris
bitterly. "I guess she thought
I'd turn bad, too. Every time
she heard I had a date she'd
kick up a storm. I even had
to wait until I got outside the
house to put on make-up. I
quit school to get a job - and
to get away from her."
Doris, who quit school to
escape home life, is an under
privileged product of a big
city slum. But many dropouts
come from much more fortu
nate environments. Jim, a
spoiled, handsome 16-year-old,
is from a better-class suburb
in New Orleans, where his
father is a highly respected
minister. His mother is a
prominent social worker. "All
my crowd had 'jalopies' ex
cept me," says Jim, who is an
only child. "I felt left out.
When my father said the only
way I could get one was to
earn it, I decided to do just
that. I quit school and took
a temporary, part-time job. I
was 16. What could he do?"
Afoul of Law I
A few dropouts are like Al.
who ran afoul of the law at
an early age. Al's father died
when he was three, and his
mother took a job with the
Internal Revenue Service in
Atlanta to support him. "My
mother was away most of the
time. I sues I got mixed up
with a bad crowd, and all that
jazz. Anyway," he adds, "one
day a bunch of us were play
ing a game called 'chicken'
and someone dared me to
snatch a purse. Just for kicks,
I did. I got nabbed."
The corners of his mouth
turned down and he wrinkled
his forehead. "When my moth
er found out, she flipped.
You're tarred for life,' she
says. 'That police record'U
follow you around like a
curse.' I figured, well, what
the heck, if I can't win be
cause of one mistake, what's
the use of even trying any
more? What's the good of an
education? So," he says, de
fiantly, "I quit school as soon
as I could."
Explanations are as varied
as the faces of the teen-
Ten Accidents Are Investigated by Medford Police
Medford city police investi
gated a total of ten vehicle
accidents in the city Friday
and Saturday, according to re
ports. Two slight injuries
were reported, officers said,
and six citations were issued.
There were no accidents re
ported Sunday.
Suzanne Massong, 15, of
1751 Easy St., was treated as
an out-patient at Sacred Heart
hospital for injuries she re
ceived in a collision about 1:53
p.m. Saturday at Main st. and
Crater Lake ave. She was a
passenger in a car driven by
William David Steele, 19, of
route 4, box 372A. Driver of
the other car involved, Isabell
Mae Fischer, 48, of 53 Sum
mit ave., was cited by police
for failure to yield the right
of way.
Ronald Eugene Colley, 21,
of 202 Stark St., was cited
for violation of basic rule aft
er the car which he was driv
ing collided with a vehicle
operated by Ronald Felix
Spielbusch, 18, of 1365 Sweet
St., about 12:46 a.m. Saturday
at Fourth and Front sts., ac
cording to police.
Vehicles operated by Ethel
Mabel Gomer, 52, of 2436
Nieto Way, and Lurliana Kay
Bright, 16, of 625 Franquette
St., collided about 12:58 p.m.
Saturday at Niantic and Alice
sts., police reports show.
Inez Alice Wood, 74, of 571
Pierce rd., was cited by police
for failure to yield the right
of way after the car which
she was driving collided with
a vehicle operated by John
Albert Hall, 40, of 3070 Lone
Pine rd., about 2:27 p.m. Sat
urday at Fourth and Holly sts.
George Taylor Gilman, 42,
Encinilas, Calif., was cited
for following too close after
his car collided with a vehicle
driven by Gary Eldon Bran
son, 15, of 18 Washington st.,
about 3:55 p.m. Saturday at
Eighth st. and Riverside ave.,
according to police.
No citations were issued in
a two-car collision about 5:33
p.m. Saturday at Fourth and
Bartlett sts., police said.
Drivers involved were Susan
Marie Thrapp, 17, Phoenix,
and Dale Arlin Barnard, 20,
of 1375 Orchard Home dr.
Alone Missing From .
Local Service Station
The proprietor of a gasoline
station at Eighth and Grape
sts. has reported to Medford
city police the theft of about
$135 in cash from his prem
ises some time Thursday or
Friday.
Investigating officers said
there were no signs of forcible
entry. The cash was discover
ed missing from a metal filing
cabinet when the station was
opened Friday morning.
Kris Leigh Nottingham, 16,
of 1124 Dakota ave., was cited
for violation of basic rule,
after the car which he was
driving struck a car registered
to Dorothy Foulon, which was
parked in front of her resi
dence at 19 Mistletoe St., ac
cording to police reports. The
incident occurred about 10:17
p.m. Saturday.
Daniel Duarte, 7, of 807
Summit ave., was slightly in
jured about 5:04 p.m. Friday,
police said, when the bicycle
he was riding struck a parked
car registered to iaurett
Louise Seitz, 2512 Walden st.
The accident occurred in front
of 833 West Jackson st. The
boy did not require first aid,
according to officers.
Vehicles operated by Wal
ter Eugene Clayton, 33, of
1209 Fortune dr., and Harold
Vernon Stockoff, 29, of 721
Bennett St., collided about
9:21 a.m. Friday at Tenth st.
and Central ave., police re
ported. No citations were is
sued. Charles Frank Gordon, 76,
of 915 South Holly St. w
cited for failure to yield the
right of way after the car
which he was driving collided
with a vehicle operated by
Halbert Sylvanus Devel, 72,
of 900 Siskiyou dr., about
12:55 p.m. Friday at Tenth
st. and Central ave., according
to police records.
agers. They come from small
families that set little store
on education - where the par
ents themselves are barely
able to read. Or they come
from large, low-income fami
lies who want them to go to
work as soon as possible to
brine in money. Thousands
come from broken homes. The
youngsters themselves often
give different excuses: "I
wanted to get married"; "I
wanted to Join the army"; "I
was ashamed of my grades.
There is no set of rules to ex
plain them.
In Two Groups
But, generally, say most ex
perts, the dropouts can be
split up into two groups.
Group One taKes in Deiow
average students who can't
seem to get the hang of read
ing. The words make no sense.
Yet reading is the heart of
modern education, the funda
mental skill. Arithmetic, too,
is extremely important, but
it adds up to zero for some
youngsters. Simple sums
throw them fur a loop.-This
"slow learner" group, accord
ing to Eli E. Cohen, executive
secretary of the National Com
mittee on Employment oi
Youth, Includes 15 to 20 per
cent of the entire U.S. school
population - which in 1961-
1962 totaled about 3 million.
They form the bulk of- the
dropouts.
Group Two is made up of
youngsters whose learning
ability is normal, or even
better-than-average. A study
made by the U.S. Bureau of
Labor shows that 70 per cent
of the group could finish high
school if they wanted to.. Be
tween 6 and 13 per cent of
them are bright enough to do
college work. i
- These then are our dropouts
- youngsters who tailed high
school because they couldn t
do the work, or youth who
could have done the work but
wouldn't. They are the cruelly
mixed-up teen-agers with fam
ily, school, or social problems
who didn't finish school-and
for whom we can't produce
jobs.
Next: Probing for answers
to the Jobless youth s plight,
Reprinted from The 1963
World Book Year Book.
Copyright 1963 by Field En
terprise Educational
Corporation. .
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