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6 B THURSDAY. MAY 16, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON The Three U's-Part IV Guidance in Job Selection of Importance in Helping Children Major Editor's 0 o I : Dull tyed and disenchanted, a million youths it without ob In th. United Stales today. "Social dvnsmlt.." ciiei on aulho- illy. "A tim. bomb wa muit all iaka a hand in defining.' ayi another. Here, in thii concluding article, are a few tepi that are being taken to help rehabilitate tnem a uie tut eillieni, By PAUL C. TULLIER Senior Editor, World Book Year Book School counseling and guid ance services are now trying to keep a finger on the pulses of faltering students, prima rilv. counselors help young- sters choose a vocation and work out the high school pro gram that will best prepare them for It. iney give mem pointers on where to look for a job ana now to appiy lor u. The trouble is that a gap exists between the ideal ratio of guidance personnel to stu dents. The national average now stands at slightly less than one to 600. But the Ideal ia considered one to 300. The can is being narrowed, how ever, largely through funds made available to the state guidance systems via the Na tional Defense Education aci of 19S8. More than 7,000 new counselors have been added since the NDEA was passed Many schools are switching counselors Into the lower grades as well as In the usual 11th and 12th grades. Too many students quit in the 10th grade, before tht coun selors can reach them. Programs Spilling Over These are not merely hold ing actions limited to just the nine-month academic term. Many pupils decide during va cation that they will drop out of school. To plug this loop hole, . school dropout pro grams are spilling over Into the summer months. In St. Louis, Mo., a city youth commission, ' several civic groups, and the Missouri Employment Service , have pooled their knowledge and efforts to obtain summer jobs for selected high school stu dents, who, teachers suspect, won't return. The kids get jobs; the jobs raise ambitions; the ambitions send them back to school, eager to carry on The trade schools are tak Systems Overhauled In answer to such criticisms, many trade schools are over hauling their systems mid clearing out the deadwood Wood High School in Indian apolis, Ind., for example, pi oneered in setting up courses in barbcring, dry cleaning, beauty shop work, and auto body cleaning; jobs that are realistically geared to the community's job openings, Other schools are now follow- inn suit "But we are badly mistaken if we think the schools can solve this problem by them selves," says Edwin H. Fried- rich, director of curriculum services for the public schools in New Orleans. "It's a time bomb we all have to take hand in defusing - business men, union leaders, church leaders, state commissions, federal agencies, parents, teachers, social workers. Such views are getting the green light in many places. More and more, unions are facing the fact that an ap prenticeship is one of the few bridges by which teen-agers can cross the gulf separating school from work. The com munications Workers of Amer ica is one such pace setter. It works hand-in-glove with the Bell system, for example, in recruiting and training tele phone operators and equip ment workers to replace the normal loss among Bell s 781,- 000 employees. Par Teachers' Salaries The unions in Rockiana County, New York, are also blazing a trail. They not only help the county s youngsters master a trade by supplying qualified teachers, but, in the case of the electricians' union, they actually pay the teach ers' salaries. The local car penters' union automatically accepts as apprentices the graduates of the training pro gram It sponsors and dras tically reduces their initiation fees from $125 to $20. Thanks partly to this program, only 20 per cent of Rockland coun ty's students quit high school before graduation - much less than the nation's average Other unions around the coun try are reading the message loud and clear. Industry Is taking a second, harder look at the role it, too, must play in youth employ ment. Companies like Sperry Rand, Thlokol, Hercules Fow- Ing a new, more down-to-earth look at the courses they offer defi and dolCns more are now ana me way iney icacn urem. encouraging high schools to jnis is an area uiai imi oncn Mj up prevocational courses. and outside the school system. "It exists in a kind of fairy land that hasn't much relation to the real world of work," says Mrs. Mary Conway Koh ler. Mrs. Kohler, a retired Judge from the San Francisco Juvenile Court, recently com pleted an 18-month study of youth employment for the Taconic Foundation of New York City. "Frequently," she says, "there is no relationship between the skills the trade schools teach, and the actual requirements for job entry." I There, boys learn the basics of welding and machine shop practice, electronics, and metalwork that usually leads to their employment. Other companies, such as Socony Mobil Oil Co., Johnson & Johnson, and Dan River Mills offer adult classes In educa tion that enable their plant employees to,, progress from elementary to college levels. Many firms extend these serv ices to the wives and children of their employees. ' i Opportunity Knocks Twice And what about those million-odd unemployed young sters who have already quit school? They are no longer being shrugged off. In cities from coast to coast they are being offered a second chance. Mil lions of dollars are being spent to convert them from useless minuses into social pluses. Dozens of cities have adopted work-study programs. Detroit, Mich., for example, sponsors a split-shift job up grading program for 16-to-xo year-olds. Mornings, they at tend informal classes with special teachers. Afternoons, they work In community-subsidized jobs. With valuable work experience under their belts, they can be helped to find permanent, full - time jobs. In Chicago, an experiment called the Double EE pro gram is under way. The Es stand for Education and Em ployment. Spurred by Super intendent of Schools Benja min C. Willis, Carson Pirie Scott & Company, a large de partment store, agreed to hire "unemployable" drop outs provided they went back to school part time. Selection was made by school guidance people. Two private class rooms were set up near the store and staffed with four full-time teachers. A $30,000 grant from the Ford Founda tion helped the project along, Fifty-nine youngsters who had quit school were invited to join the program. Two days a week, the students attended classes where they were taught retailing - as well as civics, business English, mathematics, and typing. Sub jects were fully accredited and could be applied toward high school diplomas. Three days a week, they worked in the store as sales clerks, cleri cal workers, or at other jobs. Each was paid $1 an hour to start. Each was befriended and guided by one of the store's junior executives. Of the original 59 who began work, 30 became full-time em ployees at Carson Pirie Scott while others are employed elsewhere, and some have re turned to full-time school at tendance. Two Pilot Programs Things are stirring on the federal level, too. President John F. Kennedy, "particu larly disturbed over the seri ous plight of our unemployed youths," presented Congress in 1962 with a program for retraining them. This Youth Employment Opportun 1 1 i e s Act consists of two pilot pro grams. The first one lines out an on-the-job training project In government and private Industry for youths between 16 and 21. The second part calls for a Youth Conserva tion Corps similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) of She 1930s. Other wheels are beginning to turn at the federal level. The United States Employ- TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS THRU THE YEARS The R. A. Holmes Agency, sold to Lowell A. Iverson, has been merged with MEDFORD IN SURANCE AGENCY, "The Insurance Center" at 25 West Main Street. Mr. Iverson is associated with Mr. Insurance-Fred R. Brennan In the enlarged agency, Mr. Brennan will lend every assistance to . Mr. Iverson in bringing your coverage up to date, and packaging coverages for you in the most economical manner. Mr. Iverson and Mr. Brennan will spend your premium dollar as if it was their own. We urge you to give every support to Medford Insurance Agency, as we are personally assisting them to make your acquaintance. It Is our desire to have you continue with this Agency. Why not visit them at their modern new office with customer parking available. We urge you to do this. .-, ' " .The R. A. Holmes Agency, ment Service Is making plans to play a bigger role in wip ing out teen-age unemploy ment. Its counseling and aptitude-test services are reach ing out to include the drop outs. But, says USES Direc tor William U- Norwood, "I'm not at all satisfied with what we are able o d" for h young people. Our percentage of placement isn't high enough." Such reservations are com mon among the people who have worked with these un schooled, unskilled, unem ployed youngsters. "A terri ble waste," one of them called it. "Social dynamite," was the phrase used to describe them by Dr. James P. Conant, a former president of Harvard University. Strong words? Perhaps they are. But remem ber those used by Thomas Jefferson: "If a nation ex pects to be Ignorant and free," he said, "ft expects what never was and never will be." Reprinted from the 1963 World Book Year Book. Copy right 19E3 by Field Enter- prises Educational Corpora tion. Bids Invited for Bridge Construction Invitation for bids for con struction of the West Fork of Cow Creek project, con sisting of a 215-foot reinforced concrete girder bridge, and approach grading are now be ing accepted by the bureau of public ' roads, 302 Mohawk building, 222 SW Morrison st., Portland. ' Bids will be accepted until 2 p.m. May 24. The bridge construction will be across Cow Creek approxi mately 200 feet below the confluence of West Fork of Cow creek and Cow creek. Prospective bidders can reach the project area from Riddle via BLM Cow creek access road or from Glendale via Cow creek and West Fork creek roads. It Is suggested that individ uals unfamiliar with the road system from Glendale contact the Medford district BLM of fice for more detailed instruc- t i o n s. BPR representative Avery Maloney, box 132, tele phone 874-2406, Riddle, also is available to assist bidders viewing the project. Plans and specifications may be examined by prospec tive bidders at BLM Medford district office, 1133 South Riv erside ave., Medford, or at the BPR office in Riddle. Easy-Sew Trio 10-20 Dennis the Menace j 1U j I'LL BCT THAT&pe WDNT COMi VHTlBO again; woiirsx knots; v Race Riots Recall Incidents of 1919 BY LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Time blurs the memory of those years just after the armistice when the United States awkwardly was adjust ing to an unknown new world filled with unimaginable ter rors at home and abroad. But the year 1919 can be pinpoint ed as one of shameless U. S. civil disorder. This disorder consisted of race riots between whites and Negroes in several cities in cluding Washington, D. C. There was race trouble in 1919 in Tulsa, Okla., Chicago and Detroit and elsewhere although names of other cities do not pop to mind. - There would be no point in dredging up these 1919 sor rows for consideration al most 50 years later but for a single disquieting fact. It is that the 1919 race riots seemed to trigger each other. There seemed to be a se quence in the disorders as though unstable racial ele ments In one community reading of riotous murder elsewhere were Inspired to engage for some of their own. Riots Spread Thus, the 1919 shame leaped from city to city, hitting the biggest cities mostly, although the Tulsa outburst demon strated that smaller cities also were tinder dry for trou ble. The fact that, the 1919 riots seemed to trigger each other invites sober considera tion of today in the light of yesterday. Psychologists are aware that some persons are more suggestible than others. A spectacular suicide may be followed by a rash of similar suicides because the first sui cide suggested something to persons who witnessed or read of it. So, a race riot here may suggest one there and so on in a chain-of-suggestion calamity that could touch many communities in the Uni ted States. Men and women of good will and, more especially, the forces of law and order should be more than usually alert just now. Racial violence in Birming ham, Ala., may trigger some thing elsewhere. In the light of events of 1919 that would be the expected pattern. Against such triggering there are several factors. 1 New Factors These include the public and private awareness of im pending trouble and the de sire to avert it. There is the Negroes' new political signif icance and the eagerness of politicians to please them. Another factor is the infatua tion of U. S. statesmen with the idea of presenting to Afri cans an image pleasing to the tribesmen newly ennobled as citizens of a free and inde pendent if not self - sufficient nations. None of these factors exist ed in 1919. There were other factors that did not exist in 1919. There was not under way in 1919 any effort by the Federal government to im pose racial integration on states. Neither were Negroes north and south in 1919 or ganized behind aggressive and sometimes belligerent leaders. Nor was the Negro In 1919 a political prize greatly cherished by one of the major political parties. These factors all bear today on the race sit uation in the United States and they do not bear always on the side of peace and rea son. Perhaps Americans are be coming accustomed to living with the threat of race riot in the streets. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N. Y.) a Negro, predicted last week that Washington, D. C, would experience "one of the worst race riots in the history of America" unless inter and intraracial relations in the capital improved. That is shocking language. Yet the people of the United States seemed to take it in stride. Preferences Shown For Sunglass Types Mew York - IUPD - While sunglasses come in all shapes and sizes, studies made by the National Notion association point to sectional preferences. The South and Southwest prefer the pixies or small sun glasses; the Far West, the very large glasses; California prefers the black and other dark-hued frames; in the state of Washington there is an overwhelming preference for white frames. College Alumni Chapter Formed At Roseburg Event Ashland -More than 90 members of the newly-formed Southern Oregon college alumni chapter for the Rose burg area heard Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC president, de scribe the growth of the col lege and contributions made to that growth by its gradu ates at a recent meeting In Roseburg. Hugh G. Simpson, director of information, traced the his tory of the alumni in the Rose burg area from a chapter formed in 1941 which dis solved in the early 50s, to the present reorganization, and Dr. Loy Prickett, head of the business department, de scribed Itie new four-year bus iness degree at the college. Dr. E. C. McGIU, assistant to the president in academic, affairs, enumerated the new courses and degree offerings for the present and those pro jected for the future, y Expresses Thanks Dale Truax, SOC alumni se c r e t a r y, expressed h i s thanks to the members of the group for their coopera'tion in the formation of the chapter and In particular to Mr. and Mrs. John Foust, committee chairman for Jhe event,' who was unable to attend. Truax also Introduced the incoming secretary, Jeff Lee, 'a senior student from the Henley dis trict, south of Klamath Falls, and next year's SOC student body president, Jim Long, Klamath Falls. Master of ceremonies, Har old Winfield, a 1962 graduate, presided at the business meet ing at which Bob Colley, Mel rose administrator, was elect ed president of the chapter; Mrs. Marlene Winfield, vice president, and Ben Smith, a Josephine Junior High school staff member, corresponding secretary. Jim Schrum, Ben son elementary, Glenn Frakes, Hucrest elementary, Dave Stratton, Melrose elementary, and Colley were appointed to the planning committee for the next meeting. Entertainment was provid ed by a group from Roseburg Special Swim Classes Slated , The Medford YMCA, pre paring for the summer season in which local families will be going to various lakes and streams, is conducting special swim classes to "drown proof" everyone, Ben Jensen phy sical director, announced this week. The classes for children are held every day after school and the classes for adults, mornings and evenings. Special instructions are of fered mothers and pre-school children in water safety in and around lakes, streams and swimming pools. The program has been 'di vided into seven phases for the various age groups. They arc tadpole class for the beginner, flounder, to swim 25 yards, minnow, to swim 60 yards, tread water and do simple dives; fish class, 100 yards, front and back crawl strokes and spring board dive; flying fish, side strokes, breast stroke, perfec tion of crawl; shark class to learn jack knife dive, half twist and back dive, swim one fourth mile, and learn ele mentary rescue and life sav ing strokes. A new club has been estab lished called the Dolphin, which will - include competi tive swimmers doing the crawl, butterfly, breast strokes and back crawl. The smart 'n' sporty pull over looks great with shorts, pedal pushers or other sep arates. Sew this trio easily in denim, poplin, homespun. Printed Pattern 9081; Misses' sizes 10, 12. 14, 16, 18, 20. 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