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Show i Scene 76 JUVENILE MAGISTRATE Dell Smith "(its in court in the district court room In Franklin county for a mock trial CLASSIFIEDS FEATURES PAUL HARVEY WEEKS TV GUIDE -- THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1976 -- -- grade school student! as part of the law enforcement program. for the benefit of the CHILDREN ARE gives a tour of the Jail facilities in the behind bars. Even then some of them don't sense the area and have a chance to see Just what it feels like to be seriousness of the occasion. 1 Law Enforcement The Teaching Way -- i By Robert 8. Merrill Im scared of the pigs. All they do is be mean and shoot people! This was the statement made by Doug Beutler, a second grader at Weston, Beutlers class" were so Ruth Ann Camp told her class that a police officer from Preston would be coming to talk to the class. Many members of young Gertsch Millard, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare initiated a program to counteract the strange ideas youngsters get from Idaho, when his teacher, i i afraid of wnpoliceinan coming to speak to them, that they hid under their desks in fright when the law officer did come. Under the direction of Jay R. McKenzie and Liicile watching too many police shows on TV and to help youngsters stay away from crime, before they get into it. We have been spending much time, effort and money trying to help after they get into trouble with the law, said Jay McKenzie, but we havent had any programs that deal with youngsters, in their teen-age- rs formative years,, about the law and the benefits that come from not breaking it. The idea for the program came from former Sixth District Juvenile Court Judge Kelly Pearce. Last year, after a grant was approved by the State Law Enforcement Planning Commission, McKenzie and Luc-il- e Millard developed ' a f' coloring booklet entitled TOMMY LEARNS A LESSON for use with second-grader- s in the schools. The following is an excerpt from the preface of the booklet. With the alarming increase in the number of youthful offenders appearing-befor- e the Courts, we bdieve it to be imperitive that young people become more familiar with the law and the detrimental effects that violations of the law may have upon their future lives. The last five years in the Sixth District Juvenile Court the number of juvenile offenders Out came before the court, on such charges as murder, forgery and bur- glary, has more than doubled. .The age of the offenders has increasingly gone down, said McKenzie. He continued with more startling facts about crime and youth in this area. In Franklin County alone last year their were FRANKLIN COUNTY Deputy Sheriff Bert Galley conducts a group of students on a tour of the Franklin county jail. 200 juveniles referred to Judge Dell Smith-- 19 for burglary, 21 for grand and petit larceny, 14 runaways, four for truency, 15 for malicious destruction of property, two for forgery, four for criminal assault and seven for drug violations. For comparison. . there were 73 juveniles referred to the Sixth District Juvenile Judge. The offenses were for petit larceny and liquor violations. The program developed by in 1972 McKenzie and Millard was initiated this year in the second grade at Weston and briefly introduced in the Preston schools. 'We hope to expand the program to all (Oneida, four counties i THE COLORING book was created by members of the staff of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare in the Preston area. (Draw picture of w'person who would bo sod if yoo did anything wrong. 1 f i 19 'i ! ) Before the THIS IS WIIAT one boy drew after the course. of the police. course he said that he was afraid Franklin, Caribou and Bear Lake) within our jurisdiction next year. We also hope to expand the program to include other age groups of youngsters,' said McKenzie. The part of the crime prevention program that really brings it home to the youth is a visit to the classroom by a law officer and touring the county jail and court facilities by the class, according to McKen- zie. After Sheriffs Officer Bert Gailey visited Ruth Ann Camps second grade class she had her students draw a picture of the person they felt would be sad if they did anything wrong. Doug Beutler, who was so afraid of policemen before the visit, drew a picture of a |