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Show pnr 4 raovo. ctah county. otah SUNDAY HERALD rHjL, H SUNDAY. MARCH 17. 1946 OUlNirV i IlUinuu Judge Sends Problem Parents To Classes Instead of -Jails Br MARIANNE; PACIINER NEA SUff Correspondent DEARBORN, Mich., March 17 "Ninty day in Jail or go to school and learn how to be a decent parent:" That is the sentence sen-tence Judge George T. Martin has imposed on scores of parents haled into his Dearborn" courtroom. court-room. The . School for Delinquent Parents, it's called. Oner evening jfevcry two weeks the tall doors bf the musty old Dearborn Municipal Mu-nicipal Courthouse swing open to fedmit a sorry parade of chastened chasten-ed men and women, come to learn their duties as the heads of families. They are the parents who, with overstuffed wartime pay envelopes, envel-opes, toured the beer taverns and the dance halls while their ( offspring off-spring went unfed and oincared for at home. They are the gredy ones who piled up overtime at nigm ai me expense 01 ciourv (wv might have.Deen speni wnn xneir sons and daughters. They MttT the-L drunks, the brawlers, the financially finan-cially irresponsible whose victims are their own. neglected, and . abused children. parents Choose Classes ' On the theory that juvenile de linquency can nearly always be traced to ffamily difficulties and that jailing and fining a parent ran often work more hardship than correction, Judge Martin -.started his school a year,and:t vhalf ago. Parents " charged:tYrtb neglect, non-suppori, arunKen ness, assault and battery, dis turbancc of the peace, etc. are told upon conviction for a first offense they can either attend "classes as a condition of probation, proba-tion, or accept the usual fine "or jail sentence. Most of them choose the classes. Today records show that no parent who has completed the course has ever been brought back into court on similar charges and the City of Dearborn has the best record of juvenile protection in the county. Classes are held In the Judge's own courtroom and last about an hour. The first half-hour is devoted de-voted to talk on some phase of home and family living by an expert in the field. The second Practical probfems are discussed in Dearborn's "School for Delinquent Parents." Addressing the class, held. In Judge Martin's court room, Is Elizabeth Irwin of the University of Michigan Extension ' Service. v fife it: ; half is used for questions and general discussion. Subjects include general family health, specific child health, family fam-ily " finances, family recreation, home economics, dietetics, housekeeping, house-keeping, child phychology, Child guidance, care of the sick and problems of youth. The aim is to eliminate as much as possible the trial-and-error casualties of child-raising. Talks Are Practical Talks are practical and pointed up tvith pertinent anecdotes. The speaker I heard did not just say it is important that a child be loved and made to feci wanted, but went on to tell of actual problems arising because a child felt unwanted. She advised her listeners to help children think for themselves, to avoid humili ating children by scolding them in front of their friends, and to talk things over instead of de manding arbitrary obedience. Children should be encouraged to bring their friends home, she said. They should be given a certain amount of privacy. When things go wrong, careful listening and quiet observation will often lead a parent to the root of the trouble. "Students" number 50 to 75 a session. Sometimes one parent attends, at-tends, sometimes both. Not all are court cases. Some "border-liners" "border-liners" have been advised to attend at-tend rather than have a warrant -Jssued against them. Others are interested outsiders. F There are no offenders whose dichlldren ran around naked and hungry in an empty house while they themselves were out hitting the night-spots. One had taken an eight-year-old along to the beer-gardens, beer-gardens, feeding him a midnight snack of hard-boiled egges and potato chips for supper. A mother who never could get Judge George T. Martin solves delinquency cases brought to his rourt by sentencing parents to attend classes in which their problems are discussed. the daughter to give up school for the job. Now the mother is a "regular" at the judge's classes. The relationship between juvenile ju-venile delinquency and high wages first gave Judge Martin his idea. As a school board member a few years back, he discovered through research that crime among minors had reached a peak in fabulous 1929,. dropped off dur ing the depression, started up again in 1940 and had gone on to a new high during the war years. This was in direct ratio to money-making money-making opportunities open to parents. Most parents. Judge Martin feels, are willing to learn and their faults are those of ignor ance, not wilful misconduct. Future Telegrams Travel by Radio "Telegrams between major cities will travel by radio beam instead of by wire within the next few years," Mr. K. Evens, local manager of the Western Union Telegraph company states. "By using radio relays instead of the present trunk pole lines, the company will replace thousands of poles and hundreds of thou sands of miles ol wire. "This system will improve the quality, dependability and speed of telegraph service provided to the public. It will reduce interruptions inter-ruptions resulting from storms, falling trees and electrical disturbances. dis-turbances. Also the cost of the program over a period of seven years will be loss than would have been required for maintenance mainten-ance and reconstruction of pole lines to be replaced Armless Man' y Uses.Head To Make Fortune Br JOHN FRASCA tnlted Press Staff Correspondent FQRT WORTH, Tex. (U.R) This Is the success story of a man who was born without arms. Aaron Smith of Fort Worth did not let his disability keep him lrom happiness, nor from becoming becom-ing a successful magazine publisher. Smith, who recently celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, will admit no handicaps. Having no hands to use. Smith has used his head. He has been in the publishing business "Tor many years, first getting out newspapers and now three nationally-known trade magazines. Among the magazines mag-azines is the Southern Florist, which in 26 years he has developed develop-ed from a local 20-page pamphlet into a widely-circulated 64-page weekly. "How much in life I've missed, I don't know," he said. "Not much I think, and the compensations have been many." Mother Helped Him Smith credits his mother with helping him adjust himself to his armless future. . He remembers most a remark she made when he was still a child. Scorning pity offered by a neighbor, she said: "A man never goes places by using his hands. Fortunes "are made by heads." As a child in Cass county, East Texas, he was urged by his mother moth-er to participate in sports with the boys of the neighborhood. He played town ball and croquet. He manipulated the croquet mallet with his right foot as well as the others handled it with their hands. A dozen simple devices around the home help him to live normally. norm-ally. Special latches on the doors make doors easy to open he pushes them up with his knee. A special holder on his telephone snaps the old-fashioned ear phone into place beside his ear as he talks into the mouthpiece. He dials iising a pencil between his teeth. Writes With Toes The most amusing incident, he recalls in connection with his armlessness, was the time he and Judge Corey of Dallas startled the people of Dallas during a downtown motoring trip. 'The judge, who had lost both arms in an accident, was driving a specially-equipped car. The people were goggle-eyed, he said, when they saw a car roiling through the streets with no hands on the steering wheel. To handicapped veterans he says: "Study your qualifications, mental and physical, and see how you can best adapt yourself to circumstances. Then adapt circumstances cir-cumstances to yourself." County Rank High In Turkeys The State of Utah is rich In turkeys ranking sixth in volume in the United States. Utah county has about ' one tenth of those grown in the. state of Utah, around 200,000 in the 1945 crop year just closing. The value of the 1945 crop in the state amounted to more than $12,500,000 which places $1,250,000 revenue from turkeys in Utah county. Which is one tenth of the total agricultural income in the same district. This is big business any way you want to look at it. This enviable position one of the top counties in a nationally important turkey state did not come about by mere chance. The big advancement in turkey production pro-duction has taken place during the past ten years. Previous to that time turkeys were more or less a farm yard hobby. Even dur ing this farm-yard flock period some Utah county families were dealing in turkeys in a big way and when the expansion period started Utah county was ready to Turkey growing expansion started when it became known that turkeys offer the greatest possibilities of any branch of the poultry business because (1) They are the heaviest and largest of all domestic fowl; (2) Poults gain almost twice as much weight as chickens, on the same feed; (3) Poults will weigh three times as much as- chickens at the end of the growing' season; (4) Turkeys have for years brought the highest high-est price per pound of all domestic domes-tic fowl. One of the first processing plants in the state was built at American Fork. We now have two plants in the county which not only handle our own birds but thousands. , of birds from out side of the county. Despite post war problems, turkeys will continue to play an important' part in Utah county's agriculture. They fit into our small farm setups where there is a surplus of labor. The new developments de-velopments viserating. half ing and cutting, quick-freezing, canning, can-ning, and selling of cooked turkeys tur-keys will always be money makers for the efficient operator and in Utah county we have many of the most experienced growers in the state. Potato Chip Plant Growing j Central Utah's largest Dotato' chip industry was started a little over eight years aga with an! original investment of $100 and! one used Ford coupe. j At that time Rhodes Jeppcsen.i after a prolonged illness which I kept him from following his' school profession, purchased the1 potato chip equipment owned by Mrs. Fannie Evans at 243 East Sixth North street, Ppvo. The-capacity The-capacity of the little factory was two or three hundred pounds of potatoes- per day. Had Mr. Jeppesen known anything any-thing about the industry the problems prob-lems he faced would have been much easier solved, but he had never seen a potato chip made.' let alone made one himself. His' errors Were many and extercive. ; and he says of that period: "If it had not been for my many friends and the folks who bought my chips despite the fact that they knew the quality was not up to par, the business never could have survived." The business was moved to the farming area of Lake View where it has grown to an industry that insures the livelihood of 10 to 15 Utah county citizens through its payroll. The plant now has a capacity of Situation in Spain Reviewed MILES FRANCS i0 SO WOW " WSBBasaBBBBHBHBBHBBWBaSH i ; SeaaiardsffoNiFraiK f I cress berser to borHt I I A?avte Tautens Zaragera n-.itina Twe bombs explode t. Tit ieaaNiesqiKwe wirboatceHteiHes. ... SPAIN sifi- U.S. expected to distribute dis-tribute rbeasaads er copies of tri-pover decloratio to Spoa-isb Spoa-isb citizens. Madrid (1VEA Telepkot0) Map shows latest developments In Spain following trl-power note urging country to end Franco regime. Suggested proposal to bring Issue before UNO was under consideration, according to Secy, of State James F. Byrnes. in contrast to its former capacity of 300 pounds per day. Thousands of sacks of Utah county potatoes are used at the plant annually. The manufacture of French-fried dod corn has been added to the 600 pounds of potatoes per hour operations of the plant. Mr. Jeppesen is not yet satis-lied. satis-lied. He looks forward to increasing increas-ing production- - and employing more people, and to the time when materials are available to improve the quality' of his products. Harvard University lost 578 of its alumni in World War II as compared with 371 in World War I. tOfl BRAND FINE FRUITS & VEGETABLES There are no better LOOK FOR SPRINGKIST UTAH TRAIL - TINY TEDDY SPRING PACK "The first step in the program her son up in the morning to go ment cf v hat 'is known as 'The 10 scnooi saia sne wasn 1 doss in;New York-Washington-Pittsburgh her own home. Investigation re-Itrianglc.' This triangle will pro-vealed pro-vealed she wasn't much concern-1 vicic two-way radio beam corned corn-ed with the hours ho had krpt miunication between those cities the night before, and that hcrjand will permit the removal of current boy-friend was more im- some 2500 milfs of pole lines. The portant to her than her child, second step will be extension of One mother was convicted of forging her own birth certificate so that her 15-year-old daughter might obtain a summer job in a war plant. She later persuaded the system late in 1946 to Colum bus, Cincinnati, Chicago, Toledo ,nd Cleveland. "Each of these super-high frequency fre-quency beams will be used to FISHERY FOR CAMPUS NORMAN. Okla. (U.R) Fishin' may become a popular campus pastime' at the University of Ok lahoma after the building of the fishery experiment station which is slated to bo constructed this year. Plans include a laboratory building and experimental ponds which will cover approximately 10 acres and cost between $20,000 and $25,000. according to Dr. A. O. Weesc, professor of zoology, who has been working on the project MAYOR WORKS FREE NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT Never has the demand for food been more urgentl Grow a Garden for health, pleasure and economy. SHOP NOW WHILE STOCKS ARE COMPLETE Flower Seeds Pasture and Range Grasses Rose Dushcs Onion Sets Commercial Fertilizers Birds-and Pet Supplies Vegetable Seeds Shrubs and Bulbs Seed Potatoes Garden Cultivators Farm Machinery and Repairs Fruit and Shade Trees LET US HELP YOU SELECT Varieties That Are Adaptable To This Locality Our Seeds Are High in Germination and Purity The Very Best Obtainable! Demand Only The Best Mail Orders Filled Promptly Now is the Time to Plant New Lawns and Reseed Old Lawns White Dutch Clover and Kentucky Blue Grass is the. best Mixture. Avoid cheap mixtures containing, pasture grass and high weed content. We will mix according to 3'our specification, using only high test seed bf proven quality. One pound of seed will plant 200 square feet. Use Peet Moss on heavy soil. Carpenter Seed Company 76 North University "Our Seeds Grow" Provo, Utah Phone 192, SHARONVILLE. O. 'U.R Mayor Frank A. Pence makes only $450 annually as the head of Sharonville but doesn't keep a crnt. Peru-? gives $300 of his salary to tl-.f village and the rest to Sharonville church just because he wants "to do something for the community instead of taking from if." provide circuits for all available telegraph traffic as well as for other purposes. Because these radio waves do not follow the earth's curvature, relay towers located on hills and mountains as lor as fifty miles apart must catch the waves to bend them along the Furface of the earth. The towers will be from 60 to 120 feet in height. "On each relay tower are two ppirs of circular reflectors, one pair aimed at the next tower in each direction. Incoming waves are caught, by an antenna, located in what looks like a tin can in the center of a reflector. The waves then pass to an automatic transmitter on the other side of the tower and ore sent to the next tower. A Seeks Vice Probe 1 i Ac 4 :'. , In an efforf to smoke out the nation's lords of commercialized vice, Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida is sponsoring a bill to permit the Federal Security Administration Ad-ministration to expand the anti-vice anti-vice program it has been carrying carry-ing out sincre 1941 in collaboration collabora-tion with states and municipalities. munici-palities. r . JEjJLJL P. HANSEN TURKEY J PROCESS ING PLANT Turkey processing is fast becoming one of Utah County's leading industries. Last year this plant proc-essed proc-essed 4,450,000 pounds of turkeys amounting to $1,750,-000.00. $1,750,-000.00. One hundred people were employed with a payroll pay-roll of $150,000.00. Turkeys processed through our modern plant, which has all of the latest automatic picking equipment, and waxing process, brought prem-ium prem-ium prices at all markets throughout the country.' Growers will be paid as birds are loaded! "UTAH GOLDEN BRONZE Trade Name " CECIL P. 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