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Evening star., 1961-05-05
'Dropouts'-Youths Who Quit School
EorIy-CoIled Big Part of Problem

mothers and children. But,
they are a separate chapter.
This is about the jobless.
We are now into the decade
of the SOS.
In these 10 years, now so
laboriously and disappoint-
ingly begun, what the Labor
Department describes as an
unparalleled 26 million new
young workers" will come in
to the job market.
If current levels continue,
rs million of these, more
than a fourth of the total
will be "dropouts." They will
not have a high school dip
Iona. Such teen-agers now
have few chances at jobs.
They will have even fewer
in the years ahead. Some of
them, in desperation, def
ance, and a sort of helpless
"the-hell- with -it-then" atti-
tude, will turn to petty theft,
and then to major crimes.
They will marry and beget
children. Some will convert
their young wives into GRIM
inals and prostitutes. 9th
ers will desert wives and ba-
bies. This is a pitiful story.
We already have several mil
lions Of "dropout casualties"
The prospect Of nearly 8 mil
lion more of them in the 10
years now begun is a morbid,
but challenging prospect.
The truth is we have, in
part at least, been educating
for a time that is past. Our
grade schools have not really
scratched the surface in look
ing to the demands of the
future - the new demands.
Somehow society must try to
reduce, by new means, the
challenging crop of dropouts.
There is another chapter
to this long story. 1t in
cludes such saddening sub
jects as the unskilled, who
are as badly off as the drop
outs for the simple reason
Evening star., 1961-05-05
Senior Citizens Warned
On Political Allies

Senior citizens should fight
for their rights but take care
with whom they ally themselves
in such a fight, a spokesman
for retired persons said last
night.
David Jeffreys, assistant to
the director of the American
Association of Retired Persons
and the National Retired
Teachers Association, said it is
important for older people to
seek legislative benefits. But. he
warned, some groups might just
use the voting support of senior
citizens solely to further their
own causes.
Speaking before the Con-
necticut Avenue Citizens Asso-
ciation. Mr.. Jeffreys outlined
the functions Of the AARP and
the Retired Teachers Associa-
ton. He said that the major
duty Of the two groups is to
provide specific services for re-
tired persons so they can stretch
retirement income.
Mr., Jeffreys acknowledged
that the two associations he
represents are registered lobby
lists with national headquar-
tiers in Washington. Operating
as non-profit organizations, the
associations are currently try
ing to obtain hearing aid dis
counts for senior citizens.
Also, he said, they are lobby
ing against proposed fair
trade" legislation which would
allow manufacturers to fix re-
tail prices. Such legislation, he
Evening star., 1961-05-05
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Though it would be un-
wise to overstate the thing,
at least some progress is be-
ing made at last toward a
general hemisphere solution
to the Castro menace.
What the United States has
long sought-and what for
the first time now seems pos
Sible-is a common front of
American Republics against
the Communist satellite Fidel
Castro has raised up in Cuba.
Two factors have suddenly
improved the prospect. One
ironically, arises from tn e
lost invasion of Cuba by anti
Castro patriots which tn e
United States Government
indirectly supported. Though
the patriots had a bloody set
back, and the United States
a heavy loss in immediate
prestige, the episode now
turns out to have its useful
side.
For several Latin American
governments which had pooh
poohed the danger to all the
hemisphere from Cuba are
having second thoughts. If
the invasion produced mill
tary defeat, it also forced
these governments to recog-
nize that the United States,
itself. was most truly con-
vinced of that danger.
The very fact that we as
Sociated ourselves with so
desperate a venture has
proved to them the actuality
of our concern.
And. for the second fac
tor. Castro himself has now
convinced all except those
who will never be convinced
not even by his own words
that imperialist communism
has been extended to this
hemisphere. This was his open
acknowledgment that Cuba
has become a Communist ma
tion and will dispense here
after with such out-moded
affairs as elections. He has
gone beyond even his Soviet
masters in brutally candid
rejection Of any claim to
democratic processes. Even
in Russia they run "elec-
tlons"-of a sort.
True. not even this has
been enough to shake those
here who continue to assert
that Castros Cuba is no
menace to this country-not
this and not all the military
intelligence and other infor-
nation available to the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of State
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
But it has been enough to
shake this h misphere's
leaders. And these include
some who up to now had
fatty refused to see any peril
to their own countries or to
Evening star., 1961-05-05

have to lay off employees so
as to meet the higher pay
roll imposed on an already
narrow margin of profit.
1t was something of a sur
prise to see the House vote
go up to 230 from the 216
affirmative votes cast on
March "a. The opposition
vote dropped from 203 to 1856.
What caused this shift?
The answer is that the ad-
ministration played its politi-
cal cards shrewdly, especially
among House members from
the South. The White House
announced the other day that
it is going to do something
to alleviate the woes of the
textile industry by providing
quotas on foreign imports.
This interests the South.
Likewise, cotton-gin employees
were exempted. This also
helped to win Southern votes.
A concession also was made
to operators of laundrieS by
exempting their workers.
Though this hurts Negro en-
ployees, the result neverthe-
less was to gain votes in the
South. The whole incident is
is being pictured as a blow
to the coalition of Repub-
licans and Southern Demo-
Gratis. Apparently the admin
Stration has the political
wherewithal to break down
the Democratic Party'S con-
Servatives in the South. The
significance of what has Just
happened is that, by throw
ing a bone here and there, a
number of votes in the House
were obtained by the admin
iStration for the minimum
wage bill.
The first of a series of in
creaSes will go into effect
within four months for at
least 2.5 million workers. The
proprietors of the business
establishments involved will
have to begin soon to make
provision for the increased
Evening star., 1961-05-05
DORIS FLEESON
Rusk Not the Fre-Euter Type

ubiquitous DR.. George Gallup
is that his post-Cuban poll
on the Presidents popularity
will show 80 per cent of the
people are for him. This is
quite a jump from the mar
rowest popular vote majority
in modern times which Mr..
Kennedy received only last
November 8 and DR.. Gallup
undertakes to say also that
it, has been rarely exceeded
even by Franklin Roosevelt.
Nor has the Cuban fiasco
received what the theater
calls good notices." In fact,
one wit has been moved to
suggest that only the writer's,
columnists and commentators
whom Mr.. Nixon has accused
OF being so heartily for Mr..
Kennedy during the cam
paign are absent without
leave from the general adula-
ton.
This comment prompted a
second wit to suggest that
the President should be very
happy. With enemies like
that, who needs friends?" he
asked.
The politicians are and will
be affected by such news.
They profess to deSpise polls
and yet scan them with only
slightly less eagerness than
horseplayers reach for racing
forms. Yet paradoxically they
will not follow Mr.. Kennedy
the more closely; they will
seek only to mend their own
local fences more carefully as
they are doing in the
watered-down legislation they
are conSenting to approve.
The President has shown.
too, a liking for polls, and
the effect on him will be
watched.
Evening star., 1961-05-05
DORIS FLEEsON
SecretoV's Low-Key Press Session
Found Revealing Little News

Secretary of State Rusk
met with reporters openly for
the first time since the Cuban
invasion fiasco and in 40
minutes managed to convey
one definite impression. 1t
was that any resemblance on
his part to the fire-eaters
who urged the Cuban course
on President Kennedy had to
be purely coincidental.
The Secretary confided the
news of his travels past and
present which are and will
be extensive but - perhaps
prudently-do not yet en-
viSage any stay in Latin
America. He also mentioned
favorably the travels other
prominent administration
figures are undertaking in
behalf of the administration.
He is benignly certain that
Vice President johnson, for
example, will have smooth
sailing in the embattled reg
ions Of Southeast Asia. The
State Department had not,
he said in answer to a ques-
ton, given any thought to
protecting him from anti
Ann erican demonstrations
such as greeted former Vice
President Nixon in Caracas.
The Secretary rejoices that
Senator Sparkman of Ala
bama, member of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, has been per-
suaded to go to Korea and
Japan where he is certain to
be helpful in community de-
velopments." The Senator's
home State has of course
figured rather prominently in
certain community develop
Evening star., 1961-05-05

ments having to do with prob
lens not wholly local in ma
ture.
The Secretary also had a
rather extensive background
to explain on Wet Nam for
which most reporters seemed
to feel the printed handout
later would suffice. Alto
gether it was about Is min
utes before the questions
could begin.
They elected little new. The
Secretary admitted to long
conversations with the
Senate subcommittee on
Latin America about what
he termed "the Cuban
episode" He admitted that
he had indeed promised that
the administration would not
react to its humiliations with
armed invasion by United
States forces.
A reporter. recently jailed
in Havana by Castro, in
quired if it were possible that
pretty soon they might get
around to naming an Assist
ant Secretary of State for
Latin America and an Am
basSador to the Organization
OF American States. The
talent search" Mr.. Rusk ex-
planned earnestly, was going
forward with all speed.
The hard news net was in
short very small, perhaps by
design. But why then the
conference? Possibly Presi-
dent Kennedy will do better
in a press conference soon.
There is news about him,
even before he speaks. Ad-
vance notices from the
Evening star., 1961-05-05
RALPH McGHL

There is nothing attractive
about the visage of unem-
ployment. 1t is especially re-
pelling and ugly when it is
the image of jobless, frus-
trated, often dangerously dis
enchanted young men-even
boys and girls-in their
teens.
We will have an increase
in juvenile crime and delin-
quency for a long time to
come unless, as we say,
something" is done about
it. The economy is one place
where something must be
done. But, where does one
start?
We, the United States, have
just completed the 18th con-
secutive quarter during which
at least one out of every
eight teen-age boys has been
unemployed. The record for
teen-age girls is about the
same.
But, the picture becomes
the more clear, and the more
disturbing, when one takes
off another layer of the De-
partment of Labor statistics.
Among the young people who
take their youth and hopes
to the market place, who is
hurt the most? The answer
is:
"The dropouts."
This is a phrase used to
describe those without a high
school diploma. Maybe they
didn't even get to high school.
Many did not. A shocking
number of youngsters in their
teens never went past the
fifth grade. (The same thing
is true of many adultsD
The job experience Of the
dropouts is described as very
severe" Many of these, a
high percentage, marry early.
If you want another chapter
in this unhappy story, go to
the courts and check on the
number Of abandoned young
Evening star., 1961-05-05
Patrick Hayes Heads
Harvard Club Here

Patrick Hayes of the Hayes
Concert Bureau has been elected
president of the Harvard Club
OF Washington. Mr.. Hayes, for
merly first vice president, sue
ceedS Ernest Schein, who has
headed the club the last two
years.
Others elected in the annual
business meeting include: John
Drier. first vice president;
Joseph B. McGrath, secretary,
and Malcolm r. Rudolph, treas
urer.
Evening star., 1961-05-05

said, would eliminate the pos
sibility Of discount prices on
goods and services which the
associations try to secure for
older citizens.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11

and Bill and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Milne, Georgia and Sara.
Mr.. and Mrs. Werner King were
Saturday evening dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bauman of
Sidney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie Johnston
and children were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Fatz-
niger and family of Bloomfield.
MI. and Mrs. Jack Carlson and
family entertained at Sunday din
ner for Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred IN
rub, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Colvert
and family of Richey, Nh. Harry
Turner, Howard and Jack of Wolf
Point, Mrs. Bessie Carlson, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Carlson, and
family, and Don Handols.
Aron King left for Bozeman
Monday morning to visit Rodger
King
MI. and Mrs. Donald Pentz,
Myron and Donna returned from
Riverside, Calf, where they visit
ed Mrs. Pentz's folks and Mr..
Pentz's son and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie Johnston
were Sidney callers Tuesday.
Don Handles was a Poplar call
er Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Winhofer
were Glendive callers Wednesday.
Joe Flack was a Richey caller Fri
day.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11
BERT DANIELSON HONORED
ON 8lst BIRTHDAY

bert OanlelSon of FairvieW was
pleasantly surprised Wednesday
evening January 4 when a pot
luck supper was brought to his
nome to help him celebrate his
Dist birthday. Those attending
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Daniel
son, Ronald, Linda and Bobby;
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Davis; Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Martin, Duane and
Marllyn; and Ray Walker.
Those who dropped in later that
evening for birthday cake and ice
cream were: Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
haftan, Hickey and Michael; Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Martin, Melody
ana Steven; Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
D~anielson, Rodney and Ramona;
Mr; and Mrs. Darold Martin; Mr..
ana Mrs. Jim Salisbury and Shari;
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Walker and
Lori; and Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Farr.
"A telephone birthday greeting
Was also received from a daughter
mrs, Herbert Him. of Billings. Mr..
Jameson was presented with a
loVely two TERED birthday cake,
a bouquet and many cards.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11
LUTHERAN BROTHERHOOD
APPOINTS BILLINGS MAN
TO HEAD GENERAL AGENCY

Appointment of Alfred I. Hede-
gaard, 425 Glee place, Billings. as
general agent fer Lutheran Broth
erhood has been announced by
Harold c. Hoel, vice president and
director of agencies for the fra
ternal life insurance society.
Mr.. Hedegaard succeeds o. B.
Haroldson. formerly of Billings.
now assistant superintendent of
agencies for Lutheran Brother
hood with headquarters at the
home office in Minneapolis.
The Hedegaard general agency
serves Montana and a portion off
northwestern North Dakota. Mem
oerS of the agency are Alvin J.
Lundstrom, Billings; Orlando ].
AlStad, Kalispell; Lincoln P. Bak-
ken, HarlOWtown; Robert c. Gun
ness, Great Falls; George A. Me
nus, Missoula; Arthur K. Slags-
void, Glendive; Arthur J. Solberg,
Havre; Ronald M. TorgeSon, Sid
ney; Ludwig Totdahl, Williston;
Oliver E. Wagnild, Wolf Point, and
Stella H. Wolhowe, Miles City.
MIR. Hedegaard was a district
representative for Lutheran Broth
erhood at Omaha, Neb., and At
lantic, Iowa, for IL years before
moving to Billings. A native of
Nicola, Iowa, he was graduated
from Underwood (Iowa) high
school and attended the UNIVERSE
ty of Omaha. He is an army vet
eran.
A member of the National As
ISOLATION of Life Underwriters, MIR.
Hedegaard has received the asso-
ciation's National Quality award
six times. For the past eight years
ne has qualified for membership
In the Lutheran Brotherhood Pres
ident's Club ON the basis of his
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11

v%erSation between your dates and
otner boys. The date can bring
you nothing but trouble SO don't
accept.
Dear Dan: My father is the
type who has to know a BOYS
entlre history before he will let
me GATE him and it's gotten so
Dad this school term, I've only
been asked out once. That date
was With a boy down the street
whom my parents have known
Tor years but it wasn't very much
fun.
is there anything you can sug-
gest that would make my father
Grange his mind about dating?
I've missed out on so much fun
this year, Dan, sometimes l feel
like leaving home. - No Dates.
Dear Nc Dates: I've often said
the parent who is too strict is no
better off than the parent who is
too lenient. Somehow or other
your father should try to reach a
happy compromise. Any parent
should have enough faith in his
or her daughter to allow them TO
accept dates on their own. Par
ems should be interested in the
girls and boys their teen-agers
date and they should even be a
Lutte curious but they shouldn't
expect a complete biography.
, & =
Dear Dan: I got a job after
school and on Saturdays a few
months ago with the understand
ing l could hold it down as long
as my grades didn't slip. 1 admit
my grades could be a little better
but they're not that bad that
should have to quit working which
is what my parents want me to do.
They said they would hold off
on adecision until we heard from
you so hurry up and please tell
us what you think. - Billy.
Dear Billy: Schooling has to
take priority over any job and
perhaps this is a case of you try
ing to do too much with your
free time. You won't have as
much spending money but per-
maps If you could confine your
working to Saturdays only that
arrangement would make every
body happy.
s. = 4
Dear Dan: Is a 13-year-old boy
too young for a shotgun? My hus-
band wants to give our son a shot
gun for his birthday next month
but I'm a little worried about such
a gift. What do you think?
Anxious Nom.
Dear Nom: After packing vari-
Gus types of guns for six years
during and after World War II as
a servlceman, I now have abSo-
Iutely no use for them and could
MT give you a fair answer, but
| say no shotgun.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11

Dear Dan: I received an ex-
penSive sweater from my aunt as
a birthday present last week but
I don't like it and won't wear it.
1 can exchange it but wouldn't
want to hurt my aunt's feelings
for the world. She knows my
exact size SO 1 can't say it's too
large or too small. Can you tell
me what to say? - Greta E.
Dear Greta: Maybe your aunt
would understand if you tell her
the truth. She knows teen-age
girls have their own tastes in
clothing and I'm sure she wouldn't
mind if you asked her if you could
exchange the sweater for some
thing else.
Dear Dan: Two boys from school
douole-dated with my girl friend
and myself last week and we end
ed up -necking in the car. Now
the boys want to date us again
but this time the boy 1 dated
wants to go win my friend and
her date wants to date me.
I'm afraid we would go park
ing again and it would just make
me feel like a piece of merchan-
disc. 1 usually don't park with
a boy but once in a while I make
an exception. Should we accept
the date or do you think there
would be trouble? - w. 1.
Dear w. l.: AS long as you're
THAT big about certain situations
and make exceptions, make one in
this case. You two girls would
be used exactly as you expect
and you car be sure you would
be the subject of a lengthy con-
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11

personal production of new bust
ness. His special insurance train
ing includes the FIG Fraternal
Insurance Counselor) course.
Mr. and Mrs. Hedegaard have
two sons, Maynard, 10, student at
Dana College, Blair, Neb., and
Kenneth, Is, and a daughter, Mar
lene, II.
Lutheran Brotherhood has more
than Ia billion dollars of insur-
ance in force and assets of 1913
million dollars. Carl F. Ganrud is
president. The society last year
oudgeted $4,000 for its benevo-
Lence program, benefiting Luther
ans of all synods.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11
Grandview Area News

Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. VOORHEES,
of Poplar spent Friday night at
the Frank Winhofer home.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Winhofer
and Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Hines
attended the wedding of Miss
Sharon Moran and Leroy Sandau
in Poplar Saturday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Hines
returned to Glendive Saturday
afternoon after spending the past
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Winhofer.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Winhofer
entertained at Sunday dinner for
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Voorhees, and
children, Mrs. Thershia Winhofer
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11
BY A aALLTGAN

tDan Halligan will be glad to answer ques.
tions submitted by teen-agers and children.
Send them 10 him in care of Box I20
Williston. N. Oak. For personal replies. en-
close a stamped self-addressed envelope.J
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-11

$3.50 BOTTLE OF SUPER AY-
SAYS DURING THE BIG WAL
TINAL VITAMINS FOR ONLY
GREEN JANUARY VITAMIN
SALE. THE SIDNEY DRUG
STORE. 5I-2tc
Evening star., 1961-06-25
ATCHISON'S ANGLE
The Guy Who Beat the Mob Is Retiring

House Judiciary Committee, then out of
the House ITSELF"
1t probably will encounter strong oppo-
sition from Congressman who don't want
the authority of their own State athletic
commissions usurped by the Government.
BONOMI PUT HIS finger on the glaring
weakness of most State commissions
political patronage.
by the time they've appointed the
water works commissioner, the sanitation
and park commissioners, the last man on
the list becomes the chairman of the ath-
letic commission" he declared. This isn't
true in every case, especially not in New
York and California, but they generally
pick somebody who has mentioned that he
likes to go to the fights"
The problem, if we may interject,
doesn't exist in Washington because our
town has few 'live" fights anymore.
The person named commissioner-if
the bill paSSeS-should have IAN intimate
knowledge of the underworld's influence in
this area of boxing" Bonomi pointed out,
"pluS certain personal characteristics, in
Guiding CUTS" He wouldn't have to have
a technical knowledge of the sport.
It occurred to us that John G., himself,
would qualify on all counts, but he con-
siders himself to be trial lawyer in all
phases of the law" He found that oper-
ating in the restricted area of monopoly
investigations was very confirming" He
expects to engage in private practice when
he returns to New York.
- -
IN HIS ROLE AS assistant counsel for
the Antitrust Subcommittee, Bonomi was
cast more or less in the role of a district
attorney during the hearings involving
such witnesses as James D. Norris, Blink
Palermo, Sonny Liston, Jack Dempsey, Joe
Louis, Gene Tunney, etc.
"It was like the role of district attor-
ney in sense" Bonomi said, "but D.A.
thinks only about getting a conviction.
The subcommittee has to think of what
to do about the overall problem and how
to prevent it from recurring. Malefactors
are put away for time and somebody
comes along to take their places. We are
interested in preventative measures"
Bonomi is convinced that the Nation
needs tough, smart and honest hombre
to keep the hoods out of boxing. What
better man could the Government get than
the guy who just scored a clean-cut deci-
sion over the mob?