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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
Teen Center Facing Extinction

up and the third one start in here"
he says. pointing out that the house
has been a family center
He reports one group of teen-age
girls. now married and moved away.
organized a "Sub-Deb" club when
they were council house regulars.
Now scattered and in the midst of
bringing up families. they still meet
TO carry on the friendship begun at
the house
Younger cousins and sisters OF
the Sub-Debs most of them still
living in the Southwest neighbour
hood, formed their own "Sub-Teen-
erS' club at the center a year ago
ito try to keep the girls together"
as they started moving away. At
their weekly meetings in one OF the
council house rooms, the girls plan
parties or projects. gossip and chip
in money from their treasury tdues
are 10 cents a week to finish of
the occasion with refreshments of
cokeS and cookies.
Many of the other neighborhood
teen-agers drop in every evening
for an hour or more on an informal
basis to shoot a game of pool or
some baskets in the gym.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
The New Frontiers

Like most OF today'S youth.
you must at times have felt that
you missed something exciting
and important because you were
born in the Goth century. at a
time when almost all frontier
areas of this country had dlSap-
peared and with them the adven-
ture formerly enjoyed by many
a young man and woman. of hew-
ing their destiny dependent on
no power on earth but their own
will and ability. Today there is
hardly a spot on this globe which
has not been discovered and map
ped For most people. life, while
doubtless more comfortable. lacks
the spice of discovery and adven-
ture so dear to young spirits.
Yet it is precisely i'm this re-
spect that your good fortune
manifeSts itself most dramatic
ally. for you carry i'm your own
minds pOtentialities for adventure
and discovery not shared by most
of your contemporaries. You have
as many opportunities for exciting
living as people born a hundred
or more years ago; different in
kind. perhaps, but opportunities
not one wit less exciting and re-
warding than those which van
ished at the turn of this century.
Capable and ambitious young
people could once fashion their
lives by their own efforts in wild
and unmapped areas of the physi-
cal world you can be pioneers to-
day in the wild and unmapped
world of science. In the short
span of three centres. since man
first learned to think and expert
mcnt scientifically. enormous adj
vances have been made But
enough remains to be discovered
and unmapped to guarantee ex-
citment and adventure to more
young scientists and engineers
than we are likely to have for
many years to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
By ADM. H. G. RlCKOVER

AS look at the bright faces OF
the young men and women whose
achievement We have come here
to honor. 1 am impressed with
the thought: How fortunate are
these young people! Fortunate.
in that God has blessed YOU with
an endowment which is priceless.
What has been given all OF you--
the 40 winners. as well as the 200
runners UPS the most lasting.
the most perSistently satisfying.
the most all-around useful OF
natural endowments really
good mind.
L trust that you will not let
yourselves be proud OF this gift.
1t reflects no particular credit on
you. Nor is il a guarantee OF sue
cess in life. Rather does It re-
semble a vein of precious metal
imbedded in rOck-valuable only
when il has been minded intel
ligently and labcriOusly. But with
it. an unusual opportunity is
granted you to develop yourselves
into successful human beings in
a field of activity where success
must always be rare and difficult.
You are here tonight because
you have already taken the first
step towards making use of your
good fortune. You have given
that good mind of yours what 1t
most needs-exercise in meeting
an intellectual challenge. In do
ing this you have shown your
selves worthy of the endowment
with which you have been blessed.
You have demonstrated that you
can marshall the ambition and
stick to itiveneSs which good
mind demands You have taken
the first step towards success in
your chosen fields. but only the
first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17

Redeyelopment plans for South
west Washington are slowly closing
the doors of a neighborhood teen
center.
AS families leave Southwest for
other parts of town to make way
for the huge rebuilding project.
membership in the Juanita Kauf-
man Nye Council House is being
scattered and activities in the old
red brick center slowed down.
Membership has dwindled from
its peak of 500 to $50 neishborhood
residents from TO 18 years of age
Teen enrolment in the l4-18 age
group is down to so
Since the council house moved
into its present quarters at the cor !
ner of Eighth and F streets S.W..
in 1913. its library. gymnasium and
muIti-purpose game room and audi
tOrium have been a center for neigh
borhood teen activities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17

The United States Civil Service
Commission opens its big annual
recruitment drive for teen-agers
this week
If you're a senior and plan to be
job-hunting come June. the drive
may benefit you.
At stake are thousands of jobs as
typists or stenographerS in the
Washington area.
Pay scales range from $57 to $50
a week
Squads of csc examiners will
fan out over the area this week to
conduct examinations for prospec-
tive job candidates. according to
Samuel Wolk, chairman of CSCS
competitive examination section.
Tests will be held right in the
classroom. using familiar type
writer's and material. Anacostia
High School will open the test series
OH Wednesday
StenographerS will take a three
part examination: Shorthand. typ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
Closing Indefinite

The council house was started in
1905 as a gathering place for Jewish
children in Southwest. Miss
Juanlta Kaufman began the work
with 20 children in one room over
a store on Az street S.W under the
sponsorship of the Washington Sec
ton of the National Council OF
Jewish Women.
Since this small beginning So
years ago. the house has served
children of all ages and creeds. ex-
banding its services and facilities
as the program grew. Now it either
will have to close its doors for good
or move.
That's my big job at the mo-
ment." Mr. Leach says. I'm trying
to convince the board OF directors
to continue the house. either some
where else or perhaps in the new
Southwest.
AS far as plans go now. however,
the council house will continue its
programs for the families still left
in the neighborhood until the fall
at least. Mr.. Leach estimates. or
as long as it can.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
Active Center

1t has been a place to play pool
play cards. dance TO the music of
luke box or to hold club meeting
For the teeners who want special
activities. the house provides vol
ley ball league. basketball teams
for the younger set or instruction
III subjects from cooking and sew
ing to music appreciation or Ger
amicS
The house sponsors the local
troops of the Brownies and Girl
Scouts and has sent basketball
teams TO the District Recreation
Department league. Ping pong Ia
bles are available every evening ex-
ccpt Friday. when they are taken
down to make way for the weekly
teen dance
Best of all. the council house has
provided a place for teeners to
meet each other. to just sit around
and talk, either to each other or
to the council house staff members
for special advice 1t has been a
center where any kind of activity
could be organized-a hike or
picnic in the summer or neigh
borhOod project in the months
when the outdoors isn't SO inviting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17

When you reap the fruits Of your
own intellectual labor you will
experience the satisfaction of
having proved yourselves good
cultivators of the talents given
you by Providence. Over and
above all this, you will know that
yours is a kind OF pioneering
which yields not alone personal
gain and satisfaction. but it also
contributes significantly TO the
economic and hence the political
strength and security OF our
country This you will find the
greatest reward of all.
You Young people have the
ability to grow into empire build
ers Of the intellectual realm. l
hope that you will be inspired to
adventurous search beyond pres
ent boundaries. I hope that you
will not let yourselves be detected
from pursuing this aim by &C
cepting positions having less in
trinsic Importance but greater
material rewards. hope that
you will firmly withstand the
constant pressure by the advO-
Gates Of the greatest of modern
falIacies-that material possess
sions are the mark of the sue
ccssful man.
Mans acquisitive traits are not
what make him great. Nor can
true greatness be measured in
dollars and cents. What money
value can you assign a book on
which the author has labored for
years and which may inspire you
to actions having incalculable
effects? Is II worth only its price
of three or five dollars? How
would you value the piece of
paper on which Einstein Scrib-
bled the simple equation which in
its ultimate effects may preserve
the freedom of the West by pro-
viding it with nuclear power to
replace coal and oil? Is the pay
you receive to be the only meas
ure of the value of your job? No!
Nothing material can ever give
the intelligent man or woman
such deep satisfaction as success
full solution of an intellectual
problem that challenges the mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
'Sub-Debs' Organize

James Leach C'Mr. Jim" 70 the
youngsters at the center) has been
director of the council house for the
last 10 years.
I've seen two generations grow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
Adventure Ahead

1 recommend that you make
your life an adventure of the
mind. This will at times be hard.
but always deeply rewarding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-17
The Talented Mind
An Opportunity
And an Obligation

speech at the WeSthqnouSe
science Admiral G. Rickouer ct
OF TEEN
all talented teen-a9er not
onIv he the Westinghouse dinner
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31
To the friends of the Library

To the friends of the Library
Associations:
"A group Of Library Officials,
Librarians, and A. ". Hagen
Greater Palmer CD Director.
went to Anchorage last Monday
and selected books for Palmer
1000 books, and 500 for Wasilla,
and 500 for Glenallen. They are
excellent books, in first class con-
ditionS, and priced at only 8 cents
per book. They were made avail
able thru civil Defense. Bob
KLEIN made two trips to Anchor
age to transport the books. Mrs.
Martin Olson arranged for the
hauling of the Books for Wasilla.
The Library Association is a
non-profit institution operated on
memberships and fines of over
due books. We are coming to you
now asking financial backing in
paying for these books. We I'M
derstand that Glenallen has made
arrangements to take care of
theirs, Tt is hoped that your do
nations will be sufficient to take
care of the costs for this trading
area, palmer and Wasilla). How
ever the Matanuska Valley Direc-
tor Of Civil Defense is responsible
for all the area There are num-
erous ways that the Library
Board could use extra funds,
should there be any, it will be
used for much needed equipment.
Mrs. Martin Olson will receive
donations for the Wasilla area
and any member of the Palmer
Board will receive for Palmer.
Send your donations for $1.OO to
$1,000 to either Libraries, or the
members listed below.
Palmer Library Board
Haleen Engel, President
7. A. Meyer, Vice-President
Dorothy Laughlin, Secretary
Dorothy Briggs, Treasurer
lola Sims, Trustee
Edna Wehking, Trustee
Dona Niemann, Trustee
Sincerely
7. A. Moyer, V.P. Library Board
Sincerely
A. Y. Hagen, Area CD Director
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31
S. BENEFITS LOST
|IF APPLICATIONS
ARE FILED LATE

Some persons VINO are eligible
for social security insurance
benefits may lose payments for
one or more months i'm 1856 if
they do not apply for their bene-
fits before the end of January
1857, Mr.. James G. Browne, dis
trict manager of the Juneau So
cial security office, said today.
Retired workers, their depen-
dents, or survivors whose earn
ings were $1,000 or less in 1856
can get benefits for some months
in the year. However, benefits
can not be paid retroactively for
more than IL months before the
month in which an application is
made.
Anyone who was eligible for
benefits in 1856 should make an
application before the end of Jan
uary 1857 if in any month of 1856
he neither earned wages of $50
or more nor rendered substantial
services in self-employment. He
can be paid benefits for those
months regardless of his total
earnings in the year.
a person may have earnings up
to $1,000 a year and get social
security payments for every
month in the year, Mr.. Browne
declared. IF he earns over $1,000
in a year, benefits are withheld
one month for every $50 or frac-
ton of $50 in excess of $1,000.
However, payments are not with
held for any month in which the
beneficiary neither earns wages
of more than $50 nor renders sub
stantial services in self-employ-
ment
After you reach n, benefits are
payable to you no matter how
much you earn from then on. But
earnings for the entire taxable
year in which you reach Y must
be counted in determining wheth-
er payments can be made for
months IN that year before your
72nd birthday.
For the reasons explained
above persons eligible for social
security benefits in 1856, but who
have not yet made an applica-
ton, are urged by Mr.. Browne to
get in touch with the Juneau So
cial security office without delay.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31

The Department of the Army
has released $127, 500 for construc-
ton of National Guard arrnory
at Kodiak, it was announced 70
day by United States Army, Al
aska.
The sum is 75% Of the estinat-
ed cost of the armory. The terri
tory must provide the final 700.
The arlnory is planned to handle
an Army National Guard unit AT
Kodiak of 1873 men.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31

Tax news isn't oil bad news! If people of Palmer
hove the idea they are being tuxed to death, they
might consider the following figures taken from q
tax assessment sheet from HunboIt County in North
ern California; The lowest mill levy listed in the county
is nearly 81 mills for the city of Ferndoe not much
Iorger than Poner The highest was in Fortuna where
it stands at close to IS mills with assessment values
set or considerably over the SOY rote schedule If
local city tax protesting residents still wish to argue
the point by stating the California cities have some
thing to show for their tax money, we ask them TO
consider the fact that city improvements come after
tuxes have been colIected-not before
The assessment sheet referred to may be seen
hanging in the office Of local Tax Assessor William
Wukeund
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31
Blue and Gold Dinner
For Cub Scouts

The Blue and Gold dinner-pro-
gram for all area cub scouts, their
parents and geusts will be held
At the high school cafeteria, Sum
day. February 10 at 1890 pm.
according to cub scout master
Jack Maze. Advancement and
other achievement awards will be
presented to the cubs during the
program.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31

a publication of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
gives this definition of O tuxpoyer: "A person who
isn't required to pass Civil Service exam to work for
the government.
It's more than good pun. Look at il this way:
A person With two dependents who earns $50 week
must work almost five weeks to meet his tax bill If
eight weeks Most of of course, thut the
tax rutes mount speedily incomes rise, SO, the
amount of time has to work for the govern
nent rises uso
One can readily see that in this manner, we are
all government Workers-und more than most of US
reuize This situation became very clear to US when
tried to ease Uncle Sons bite into our profit the
pest year.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31

Taxes again! In our previous issue some Of you
might have read the Letter to the Editor signed by
Ben Hitchcock Of Caribou Creek
.IAr Hitchcock sounds bit opprehensive about
our increasing school appropriations and that tax
increase is not justified ct time when AIoskons ore
already overlooked
Hitchcocks statement that the Territorial SCHOOL,
Boord and local school districts asking for more
money mainly on grounds Of emergency due to
increased school enrollnnents does not give true
picture of the situation as far as we concerned.
Z SDnaabtlessly, portion OF the additional money
requested by the educators to be used outlined
by Hitchcock.
However, from what we have read and learned
about the situation, primary purpose OF the request
for additional money is to bring teachers salaries in
Alaska to the level of stuteside Standards
Focts and figures released by the Territorial
School Board reveal our teachers salaries ore too
rneuger to entioe educators from the stdtes
af seems to US if the or Of the territorial oppro
FRICTION is sufficient then more money should be
appropriated to muntoin our teaching stofts COM
porobe to those stoteside. We are all for it!
Mr. HIitchcock's solution to our school dilemma,
does not please Us either Our reason IS there ore
too many people living in rural unorgonized school
districts These people do not pay school district, nor
of the better educational facilities offered by schools
within district and city boundaries, where people are
more highly tuxed
It's true the rural students do pay small tuition
fee but is small compared TO the amount paid by
residents within organized districts by tax assess
Fnents.
Under Hiitchcock's plan, city dweIers would carry
the tax load. We don't like it!
The Territorial School Boord needs more money
for better educotion Write your congressman today.
We cont clifford cheap education
The frontiersman., 1957-01-31

The Mormon Church LIDS church, owns pro-
fic and extensively voried list of enterprises ranches,
cool mine, sugar company ultra modern department
store an insurance company and bank, to men,
ton just few
They differ however, from most business opera
lions which are carried by essentially non-profit
enterprises that declare immunity from federal taxes.
From experience received during our several years
residence in Utah. and the many foctuol stories we
hove read at various times the Mormon church insists
on poynQ full Federal to>es on all profits from their
business operations Legally they could in Some IN
stances claim tax exemption, but they don't Alaska
could use many Of these spirited people with such
principles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-20

caressed by time, are fasci-
mating. Age, worn with dig
nifty and charm, is q delight.
I don't mean to give the
impression that fear can be
conquered at one gulp, for
ever. 1t never can. Everyone
who is sensitive to life is
afraid. The danger in fear
is that it can make itself at
home in our minds and sit
there. breeding nightmares,
doubts. terror. pain and sus-
picion. 1t must be met when
ever it occurs and beaten, II
only for the moment.
There are two reactions to
fear: A woman can be Q
stole and endure 1t. or she
can have faith in herself,
faith in the future, faith in
the love Of those she loves.
In the process Of stoicisrm,
everything dies. In faith,
everything is is bright and
moving.
From: "A Woman Doctor Looks ,
Love and Life, CopyriEht 1855. 1876
BY Marion billiard. Published
Doubleday 4 Co.. Inc.
Sundoy: With regular physieoI
examinations. Q woman need net
isor the thFeot Of cancer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-20
A WOMAN DOCTOR
looks AT
LOVE AND LIFE
Chapter H.
Women's Fears
BY DR.. Morton HHliord

Doctors have known for long time that fear is
medical problem It causes in the beginning variety of
physical disturbances ranging from regulary beating
heart to Indigestion researchers think that
long period Of time the stress Of fear lead to heart
trouble and possibly addition the
1t causes in the human body fear sranges personality,
murders logic, humor and the ability to love.
All human beings suffer from the blight OF fear-fear
Of failure fear of appearing fool fear Of high places
Of darkness These all acquired Fears humans
with only two fears the fear loud noise the
of sudden release Of support Women share these
with men, but they have fear peculiar to the-fear
their bodies and those changes which nature
within them They distrust the processes Of
female evolution This is the fear with which to DEAL
One of the aspects of this sense of shame
that often accompanies mensruation Painful menstrual
ton, more often than not is symptom that passed
from mother to daughter like family heirloom.
found that II am treating mother for painful menstrual
ticn inevitably will be treating the daughter we'll The
daughter has assumed that all menstruaton is painful
and she becomes fearful her turn This tension
increases the spastciy Of the muscles Of the uerus
ergo the youngster also has painful mensruation for
the next 80 years Once pattern is laid down. 1t is
very dncu to break through I've noticed my SORROW
how many times pain perfected by repetition you
practice enough work up dandy pattern of
headaches. It's just like playing the piano.
We are teaching children about menstruation and
sex much better than did the past the relief
Of the medical profession Most mothers realize how i'm
portant it is that young girls accept menstruaton as
natural function of the female body The teen-ager should
get feeling Of achievement from the Of mentruaton
rather than one Of shame and fear.
Fear OF having baby is another legacy providing the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-20
Widow, Daughter
Shore in Tribby
$1,67o, 500 Estute

Charles Z. Tribby, Washing
ton real estate man and Q bust
nessman here for many years
left an estate valued at 81, &c.
500.
Mr.. Tribby died on Septem-
Der Z at his home, 4419 Argyle
terrace NV. He was ~. A
petition for probate of his will
was filed in the Register OF
Wills office in the u. s. District
Court for the District Of Co.
lumbia.
Under terms Of the viii, the
estate is to be shared by his
widow. Mrs. Margaret M. Trib.
by. and daughter, Miss Mar
garet A. Tribby. both Of the
Argyle terrace address.
The petition for probate Of
the will was filed by Attorney
Daniel d. ODonoghue.
Mr.. Tribby. at one time, wa.
in the jewelry business at SIS
Fifteenth street NV. and al
GIT Seventh street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-20

Monday: Two girls have bad luck
with men. One despoirs; the other is
hopeful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-20
FEATURE Rcz
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Child MoIodies and Wonder DRUGS
By DR.. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN

Dear DIR. SteincrOhn: /
have q 2-year-old boy VINO
has had . terrible eczema for
over . year. It's awful to
stand by and watch him
scratch and scratch without
any seeming relief. MY doc
tor has tried many remedies
and has, so far, been unable
to find its cause. He said to
me ut our last visit that IL
things aren't better within q
week, he Is going to try out
cOrtisOne treatment.
l am glad that he keeps
trying. The fact that he
doesn't throw up his hands
and say, 1--WE done every
thing l can do" gives us all
courage. / have been wonder
ing II you have heard Of any
cases In which such young
infants were given cOrtisOne
for eczema. Sincerely yours,
Mrs. M. G.
There's q recent report from
Basel. Switzerland. in the An.
mails Of Pediatrics by DR.. H
Klingenfuss on the effects Of
cortisone in eczema. In q small
group Of about 80 patients
(ranging in age from 3 months
to 3 years. he used cortisone
or cortisone ointment. He en-
phasized that this treatment
was first used by American doc
tors and described in 1851. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-20

Monday: Aspirin 3 the srthritie's
old stondby.