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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-
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.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
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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.
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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.
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