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Show f J Page Four FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1962 , ' THE SALT LAKE TIMES What Factors Promote, Impede Adjustment to Urban Living? Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of articles dealing with plans to set up a "4-H- " type program for urban areas. The study is being financed by the Ford Foundation. The University of Delaware is studying the assimilation of recent migrants to Wilmington, to determine the factors that promote or impede adjustment to city living. Many urban-extensio- n activi-ties on the soqial aspects of urbanization are reminiscent of agricultural extension. As the home-demonstrati- on agent helped farmers' families raise their living standards, ur-ban agents are working with urban families particularly the low-inco- racial minorities flooding into deteriorating city neighborhoods that have been largely abandoned by middle-clas- s white residents. In a . steel-makin- g community in the Calumet, Indiana, region, Purdue University has set up a staff of family-servic- e agents that provides technical assistance on housing, budgeting, and home-makin- g services. The Univer-sity's program in one low-inco- me apartment project includes establishment of a play program for pre-scho- ol children, a sewing class for mothers, and in-servi- ce training for parents. In Pittsburgh, four universities are cooperating with ACTION-Housin- g, Inc. in a program cen-tering on the revitalization of older neighborhoods. Prior to the grants, a "self-hel- p renewal" project was conducted in a built-u- p, predominantly Negro, neigh-borhood of low- - and middle-incom- e families. University re-searchers conducted field sur-veys in cooperation with local residents. Leadership training courses and teen-ag- e block clubs were established. Volunteer teachers were trained to assist in homemaking instruction. A program for yard and garden care was set up. With the grant, this program will be extended to other neighborhoods in Pitts-burgh and Allegheny County. In general, the urban-extensio- n programs reflect the close interrelations between the phys-ical, governmental and social aspects of urban problems. Rutgers' new Urban Studies Center is conducting surveys on all aspects of community life in Bayonne, Newark, New Bruns-wick, and Trenton. The University of Wisconsin's urban-extensio- n center in the Fox Valley, a region marked by rapid industrialization and com-plex governmental jurisdictions, is working with neighborhood associations and with individual families on their economic prob-lems. In Milwaukee the Univer-sity's urban agents are encourag-ing research by existing agencies health, highway, public wel-fare departments, a committee on the aging population, the state association of county boards, and others. The University is also set-ting up such agencies as a bureau of economic research and a bu-reau of social research to handle unmet local research needs. The educational aspects of the programs center on graduate-leve- l training of urban special-ists and generalists. Rutgers, in addition, has established a series of fellowships to permit able per-sons from the community jour-nalists, younger executives, and civic leaders to spend a year at the University studying urban affairs and participating in its extension activties. The Ford Foundation has an-nounced the establishment of a committee to review its urban-extensio- n projects in the next two years. It is headed by James S. Pope, former executive editor of the Louisville Courier-Journ- al and the Louisville Times. The other members are former Mayor William Hartsfield of Atlanta, Mayor Arthur Naftalin of Min-neapolis, and former Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. The committee will also report to interested national, state, and local governmental and non-governmen- tal groups on the progress of the experiments. "Urban problems require more than sporadic and piecemeal solu-tions," says Henry T. Heald, pres-ident of the Foundation. "They need the sustained attention of the total community and, in par-ticular, the trained talent and methods of research and scholar-ship that are both the province and the manifest respsonsibility of the university to provide. Both by tradition and necessity, Amer-ican society is looking to its uni-versities to provide the knowl-edge, experimentation and guid-ance needed to understand a host of problems." Isn't it amazing what snow-flake- s can do when they stick to-gether? I I THE SALT LAKE TIMES "l Combintd with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal New FcarleSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah . - Entered at the postoff ice at Salt Lake Gty as second lodCpCnOCnt das matter August 23, 1923. under the act of March 8, 1879. Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM 64 1 I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication it not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 41 Number 43 School Dropout Problem Serious (Continued from Page One) Many will quit even before they finish elementary school. This problem constitutes a crisis of growing national implications in terms of unemployment, welfare costs and, according to some authorities, crime. A giant, multimillion pool of unemployable not just un-employed young people is being formed. In 1900 one out of eight jobs could be filled by unskilled labor, but today, according to Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, the unskilled rate is one out of twenty and is shrinking. Just who the typical drop-ou- t student is, cannot be deter-mined. Although some surveys show him to be of low social status, below average intelligence, an academic failure, and often retarded, a United States Department of Labor study shows that two-third- s of all drop-out- s have IQ's in the normal intelligence range, and a negligible amount come from "privileged" homes. Authorities agree generally that programs to keep children in school must contain these basic parts: Counseling More experienced counselors are needed for every grade level. Such guidance is important to every student, not just those encountering difficulty. Counselors must work with parents. Curricula Not all students are capable of taking and mastering the same courses. This does not make the educational needs of below average students any less than those of superior ones. Instead different kinds of training are needed. Work Experience Programs which combine school with actual job experience may be the best solution for students who otherwise would leave school completely. Many educators, though, believe the work experience programs, valuable as they may be, are only "nibbling at the edges" of the real drop-ou- t problem. the--l EASED GRAPEVINE Associate Justice Tom C. Clark of the United States Supreme Court will head an impressive roster of American legal minds in appearance before sessions of the Rocky Mountain Regional meeting of the American Bar Association in Salt Lake City May 31 to June 2. Donald B. Holbrook, general chairman, said that in conjunc-tion with the conference the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th District will hold court sessions in Salt Lake City May 28 and 29. The national and Utah AFL-CI- O auxiliaries have honored Mrs. Anna P. Kelsey, 1064 Wil-son Ave. for her years of service to organized labor. Mrs. Kelsey received a diamond emblem from the national- - headquarters in Washington, D.C. and a personal gift from the Utah auxiliary at a recent luncheon honoring her long association with both groups. Stanford P. Darger, secretary-manag- er of the Retail Merchants Association of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce has an-nounced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Utah Senate from District 1. Utah's pay scale for members of the state's part-tim-e boards and commissions is "grossly un-fair" according to Gov. George D. Clyde who has announced plans for legislative correction. He noted that some agencies have legislative authority to pay mem-bers of boards and commissions $25 a day while others can not pay anything. Four major school affiliated groups have disclosed that the Utah State Board of Education notified Wilburn N. Ball that he would be replaced as state super-intendent of public instruction even though they had requested that they be consulted before any such action was taken. A plea that any action be delayed had been voiced by the Profes-sional Association of the Utah State Department of Public In-struction on the day before the board acted. Vehicle registration in Utah is running 10 per cent ahead of last year, the State Tax Commis-sion has reported. In Salt Lake County the gain is close to 15 per cent, the commission report-ed this week, Plans and specifications for the new $500,000 Salt Lake County juvenile Detention Home will be formally approved by the Salt Lake County Commission on March 26. County Commissioner C. W. (Buck) Brady, in charge of the detention home, said bids would be called in April. City Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison this week said every effort is being made to have a taxpayer file a "friendly suit" in Third District Court to test the validity of a Uath statute authorizing public auditorium districts. Television sets are three di-mensional they give you height and width and debt. Later Than We Think The president of one of this country's major railroads recently made this clear, succinct and accurate statement: "The so-call- ed 'railroad problem' has been the subject of more study, but probably less action, than perhaps any other aspect of national industrial life. Since the 1930's, a dozen or so investigating committees have gone deeply into the issues that affect national transportation, some of these concentrated within the last few years. Their almost unanimous findings were in agreement that government transportation policies are seriously out of balance, certainly ed and obviously unfair in their treatment of the various carriers. While some good was eagerly looked for by the sincere first steps coming from the Transportation Act of 1958, there was really little progress made. It is hoped that Congress in 1962 will face up to the need, in the national interest, once and for all time, of clarifying the muddle in which the transportation industry is enmeshed today." Studies of such problems are obviously essential if Congress is to have the information it needs for the writing of proper and intelligent legislation. But studies which are ignored, or are filed away with little or no attendant action, are worse than none at all. They represent a waste of time, money and expert analysis, and the result is indefinite postponement of decisions which are vital to the national welfare. This has happened to the railroads, and the other commer-cial carriers, and with a vengeance. 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