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Show GUV, Inc. Comments Of Vandalism By Teen-Agers The barrage of rotten eggs hurled hurl-ed through the windows of a Central Cen-tral Utah high school the other evening, and the subsequent confession con-fession of the teen-age perpetrators, perpetra-tors, reveals once again that par ents and teachers are losing some . degree of control over the adolescents adoles-cents in their charge. Some time ago, I was in conversation con-versation with the owner of a 14-year-old boy who was a student in one of Utah Valley's junior high schools. From information she had received re-ceived from her son, the mother was quite concerned about the organized or-ganized gangs of teen-age boys in the school her boy attended, j According to her son's admissions, admis-sions, several gangs were fully or-I or-I ganized and the members sworn j to mutual secrecy and defense; in the event of a gang-member being be-ing "caught" in any act of delinquency delin-quency or misconduct. From what the mother said, the chief activity of one particular gang was the destruction of school property. Her son. not a gang member, was wetness to some of Juvenile delinquency will become more acute. Too frequently parents have no idea of where their children are in the evening nor of what they are doing. The problem of the broken home, and of parents engaged in shift-work aggravates the problem prob-lem greatly. Greater Utah Valley, Inc., pleads for stricter controls, and for greater great-er concern of parents, educators, and civic leaders, toward the present pres-ent trend of the gang movement among our youthful citizens. the acts of destruction. When asked ask-ed the names of the guilty students, stu-dents, he said that the gang would "beat him to death" if he divulged their names. Utah Valley has been remarkably remark-ably free from the teen-age terrorism ter-rorism suffered by the large cities of the United States; and it is the fervent hope of all who live in the Inland Empire, that this happy condition will continue to prevail. Parents,, teachers, and law-enforcement law-enforcement officers must be ever on the alert. The juvenile gangs of San Francisco and Chicago had humble beginnings. As our population popula-tion becomes more dense and cosmopolitan, cos-mopolitan, problems of organized |