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Show $ Its a time for understanding , discipline , friendships , and The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Sept. 11, 1970 CURIOSITY! And Moving Right Along Draftees Win Delay Authority The Recruiting Command CC has been given authority by the Army to grant excess leave for periods greater than GO days to draftees who are involved in court action challenging the legality of their induction. In a message, the Army said the authority may not be further t delegated. The change will appear later in a revision of AR 630-5- . Wac Seeks Entry in All-Ma- le Suppose You Suspect Your Child. Gym The pentagons Officers Athletic Association is under siege. Armed with the spirit of the womens liberation movement, a Women's Army Corps officer is challenging the restricted memliership policy of the club. Fellow officers say the Wac will fight a membership rejection by the athletic center, which until now has permitted a skinny dipping swimming policy. Drag abuse? Children dont abuse drugs. . . . . .they abuse themselves with All-Ma- le Intelligence School Slated for Huachuca The Intelligence School at Fort Holabird, Maryland, is still headed for Fort Huachuca, Arizona and the move is not too popular with many Army officials. There has been a suggestion to move the school to Fort Lewis, Washington instead. Year Holiday Dates Set Yule-Ne- w Youngsters and the Drug Scene . ' drugs. And until parents understand why children take drugs, there will continue to lie a drug prob- lem, psychiatrists say. It will require an awareness by parents of the emotional needs of their children, along with some on recognizing the danger signs. When teen-agebegin using drugs regularly, there is usually a marked change in liehavior. Think of them as signal flags. rs Year holiday runs from The .next official Christmas-Ne- w 0700 hours 'on December 19 to 1700 hours of January 3, acCommanders may okay an cording to Army Circular 612-1earlier leave departure time for those using commercial transportation to leave the duty station at 1700 hours on December 18. For those using commercial transportation, the circular states a return to home station by 2400 hours, January 3 will Call for help. It takes a willing ear to hear a child's plea for help. Children seldom speak directly, especially to their parents. They'll mask an appeal to protect themselves. Hie simplest form goes something like this: CHILD: Hey, guess what? Cindy says sites smoking pot! translation: Ive started smoking, and I like it, but Im frightened because I dont know why I like it. Help ine! The parent who doesn't really A child might: Change his style of dress. When children start on dnigs, they often acquire a new sense of identity which will lie reflected in what they wear. Change his social pattern. This could mean suddenly dropping old friends in favor of a new crowd. It could also mean suddenly finding new forms of activities with his old friends. Change his personality. A child who has been outgoing may withdraw; the loner may suddenly blossom. comprehend will say: ' Stay away from Cindy. You cant see her anymore! . . .then wonder why the child turns resentful. Another way children seek to attract the attention of their parents is to antagonize. BirRecently, a mingham girl, who felt unloved, told her parents she was going to visit girl friend. She gave her parents the friends name, address and telephone numlier and made a point of saying she'd lie home by 6 p.m. high school, the chances are alxiut one in five that hes smoked marijuana at least once. who have Of the tried marijuana, 75 percent will quite after the first or second 2. teen-ager- NO DEALERS PLEASE be permitted. U.S. Gives Up Panama Site SOME ONE OF A KIND, SOMESTILL IN CRATES. BIG SAYINGS ON rtL MAYTAG The U.S. is giving up its use of a 19,000 acre military training area in Panama, die State Department said. The training site at Rio Hato, some 50 miles west of Panama City, has been used by U.S. forces under a 1955 treaty provision slated to expire at the end of this month. State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskey said The area is no longer essential to our requirements" and thus Washington sought no extension of the treaty privilege. What training is required for U.S. forces will be conducted elsewhere he said. The U.S. paid no rent for the training ground. McCloskey said he did not know what Panama intends to do with the site now. DEPENDABILITY UP TO 50 The family separation allowance is not taxable. This is the decision made by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).. The $30. a month payment made to servicemen separated from their families is the same as sulwistence and commutation of quarters allowance is therefore excluded from gross income for tax purposes. Educational Loans for Army Dependents Hie future of educational loans for Army dependents Is looking up. Hie recommendations of an Adjutant Generals Office (TACO) study group have lieen approved liy DA. Recommended was the establishment of a it corporation that would borrow money from commercial sources and use it to grant long-terloans to Army dependent children. Such loans would lie granted to those who desire them for educational or vocational training at accredited institutions lieyond high school level. They would lie interest-fre- e to children whose adjusted family income is less than $15, (XX) per year. An estimated 500 Army dependent children graduating from high school each year would Ixmefit from these TAGO-controlle- d, non-prof- m Three days later, he can vail the police narcotics bureau, and give his identification number. A chemist will tell him whether or not the substance is an illegal or dangerous drug. What the parent does with the information is his own business. using drugsi Some parents from sheer call the polic. This acanger tion can break the final link between pa rent. and child. Other parents launch into a tirade about the danger of drugs. exA Marijuana smokers They're horrified by the wend unusual an perience appretite for drug. They dont stop to think sweets and starches. Users call about alcohol and aspirin are this a food freak." drugs, too. Most children know more oliviously, Tranquilizers, will make a person sleepy and alxiut drugs than their parents, and scare tactics based cm half-trutlethargic. generally will be ignored. like heroin and Opiates Remember that children who will cause eye morphine use drugs are experimenting in to contract. pupils much that same way that today's Drugs containing atropine parents experimented with alco(a heart stimulant) may cuase hol when they were the pupiles to dilate. A user freIf a child is beyond the experiquently begins wearing sungmentation stage, it usually lasses indoors. means that he is seeking somethOne of the latest drug fads ining outside himself; that drugs volves a capsule that can lie have opened a gate; that he has without a prescription a problem. and from which youngsters have Find out what the problem is. learned to extract atropine. Just listen; really listen. LSD type drugs produce a alive There isn't a teen-age- r sense of disemliodiinent. A user who hasn't experienced feeling? may liegin talking almut feeling uf emptiness, loneliness, confua "oneness with love, nature, sion and worthlessness. Iiad the universe or God. A He is filled with profound trip oil LSD is unmistakable questions. the user is locked in a personal is an acting-ou- t Drug-takinnightmare and displays panic. A heavy dose of Ampheta- behavior just like disrespect for mines shows itself in a great property, accident proneness and burst uf activity, total loss of delinquency. and inability to sleep. lt means the child already has ParenN may also find some a problem too big for him. Too often, the parent will drug paraphernalia, cigaret Tou're ruining me! papers, hypodermic syringes and scream: needles, a bent spoon, unusual The childs sense of guilt, and tobacco-smokin- g devices, and in- his feeling of rejection, can lie cense burners to mask mari- unendurable. juanas distinctive odor. Youngsters want their parents But for those who find to be fair, and to hear them out pills or weeds in before pronouncing judgments their children's possession, theres now a way to determine But if a child become! truly hixiked" on dnigs, the problem exactly what they are at no risk to the parents or their children. is usually lieyond the parents Two mouths ago, Detroit po- ability to handle it alone. lice began an Analysis AnonyCounseling is needed. It could mous Program. lie a family friend, school adA parent who finds a suspiviser, a minister of family doctor cious drug can take it to the not necessarily a psychiatrist. precinct station. Very often, the child just There, he will get an iden- wants, and needs, an understandtification iiiiinlier. ing adult he can talk to. (AFPS) Nobody asks for his name or (Reprinted courtesy The Detroit News) any other information. Marijuana will leave a disalmost like sage tinctive odor on a person's clothing for several hours. 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'Cover Up Charges Dropped Tlie Army has dismissed court-marticharges against three officers who had been accused of covering up the alleged massacre of civilians at My Lai, Vietnam, in 1968. Exonerated were Brig. Cen. George II. Young Jr., Col. Ncls A. Parson and Maj. Rilicrt F . Mcknight. 1st The Army said Lt. Gen. Jonathan O. Seaman, CG of the "liased officers three the upon the dismissed charges against Army, his equation that the charges were unsupported liy the evidence. The three officers were aiming 13 who were charged with dereliction of duty and other charges in a field investigation of the alleged My Lai massacre. i. But what's a parent to do when he's convinced his child is for: MILES SELECTIONS WILL Family Separation Allowance s If your child has gone lieyond this point smoking regularly or moving up to other drugs there are physical signs to look COLLECT CALLS ACCEPTED Military Voting Rights Upheld by High Court In a recent decision written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals living on Federal installations, such as military posts, may vote in state and local elections where they are stationed. She went to the friends house and waited by the phone until midnight, desperately hoping her parents would show some sign of concern for her safety. They didnt They waited until she came home then scolded her. Its this tvpe of home situation that often pushes children into experimenting with drugs, according to doctors. What are the chances that your child has experimented with illegal drugs? 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