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Show urn WHOLE h&sJEl V CANMED POTATOES COISCO MIL C.J C2Mr 2a &kJt SPflAY STRIPS, CREAM ,1; t.M 0 peshrPeotu out ooua bokse tes UNSUCEP DIMMER ROLLS I ZZ3 X OCX EN Urry Shamays, Former Am. Fork Reslderifs Fesfcrcd in L A. Tiinas Mr. and Mrs. Larry Shumway. formerly of American Fork and their family were recently featured fea-tured In the Los Angeles Times newspaper in California. Because they and their families are well known in American and area, the Citizen thought the article would be of interest here. Two sprawling, aging mansions in the San Grabrlel Valley are strongholds symbolizing both the last the first chance for two dozen doz-en teenage boys. The boys have been in so much trouble they are getting their last chance for correction before other and tougher institutions take over. At the same time they are getting get-ting the first chance to live in a loving family with a "Mom" and "Dad" who really care. That Mom and Dad are barely older than they matters not at all to the kids, who consistently respond re-spond to the environment created creat-ed by the home parents of the San Gabriel Valley's two largest lar-gest Ettle Lee Homes for Boys in Baldwin and Azusa. And the fact that the family the young couples have assumed assum-ed is unconventional, to say the least, matters not at all to them. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Shumway are home parents at the Ettie Lee Home at Baldwin Park, where they live and bring up their child- I J, Jeri Anne, three and Mark, one and one-half. Larry and Terry are both from American Fork. Larry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Shumway Shum-way and Terry's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Dean Archibald all of A.F. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Gerber are home parents in the Valy's other major home, at Ajsa. Their children are Julie, three and one-half and Carey, 16 months. There Is another, smaller home for younger boys on Big Dalton Road which is now serving serv-ing as a sort of training ground for beginning home parents. ' Miss Ettie Lee, who founded these and 18 other homes for boys in trouble is a retired Los Angeles school teacher who decided de-cided independently long ago to provide homes for boys who needed need-ed them. She saw in her early life the importance of her own family with its 12 children, and she saw in her early career what lack of a good home can do to children, especially boys. Family Fam-ily life, mother and father, meals together, a sense of belonging and exposure to spiritual life are the foundations of all the Ettie Lee Homes, and the success in re habilitation has been almost 100 per cent. Boys come in their early teens and stay until about age 18, or when there are other homes for them and education for them to provide for themselves. About 12 live in home, all of them sent by agencies or law enforcement people peo-ple and none acquainted with family fam-ily life People tend to ask theShum-ways theShum-ways and the Gerbers how they can stand it. , Twelve adolescent boys in their care, all boys who have long histories his-tories of serious trouble with the law. All those meals. All that responsibility. Those enormous houses. Bringing up tiny children child-ren in such an environment! And the Shumways and the Gerbers, Ger-bers, all still in their early 20' s proclaim loudly and exuberantly that theirs is the best of all possible lives. " I know r ve learned more from these boys than they' 11 ever learn from us," said Larry Shumway, a thoughtful young recent graduate grad-uate of Brlgham Young University. Univer-sity. Gerber said the same thing in slightly different words. A Southern South-ern Californian, he put in a few years with the California Youth Authority before taking over the Azusa home. Both young couples say they wanted more than anything to make homes for home'ess boys and found the Ettle Lee Homes answer tc their prayers. Neither knewREALLYknew-what knewREALLYknew-what they were getting into and confess to some periods of doubt and discouragement early in the game. "The thing these kids need," said Gerber, "is love and at tention. That's at the very root of their behavior. That's what you must really know and feel if you're going to help them at alL "You can't get anywhere with punishment. That's all they've bad all their lives." "To love them Is the most important thing," said Shumway, and his wife responded with: "The hardest thin for me to accept is the lack of love in these boys' lives. It Just rips me apart to hear them tell of the rejection they've known. It's so hard to accept that that's how its been for thrm all their lives." The real point in the boys' new lives is to give them the things that will change them, and it's clear to everyone concerned that punishment has nJ. uianged them only made them more miserable. "When you really listen to them and really care, you find out that what these kids are doing is begging for help. They don't n-sed any more of the treatment that made them so angry and hurt," said Gerber. So the two young men, armed whh ideals, stronp family backgrounds back-grounds and supportive wives, have set about changing lives and in so doing have placed their own families into unique, challenging situations. Their privacy is almost nonexistent. non-existent. Their little children are growing up hearing words and seeing behavior considered undesirable un-desirable by most of civilization, interruptions aie endless, demands incessant, conflict occasional oc-casional and noise ever-present. "I think, perhaps, most women wom-en would rather be doing something some-thing else," observed Neil Howard, How-ard, executive director of the Ettie Lee Homes and a former home parent. "These people must settle for human rewards, because lots of others aren't there." His experience, like those of the young couples, however, turned turn-ed out to be total involvement in service and a system that was far ahead of its time when it began in 1950. "In the day-to-day living you don't see the rewards," said Jan Gerber, who has beei in the Azusa home for more than a year. "I've Just seen that with Ron's patience and long suffering, he's been able to accomplish what he wants. Suddently it comes you find a boy has accepted you and a new image of himself. The boys are not very dependent depend-ent on her, she said ("except to try to get me to get around Ron,") and much of her work is in providing the enormous quantities of food that are consumed. con-sumed. "It's mostly to try to teach them how -to love," said Terry Shumway of her role. She shrugs off the marketing and cooking as not too important. "The only thing that really hurts me Is to know how these boys have been rejected, whenw? find them so wonderful. I can hardly stand that," she said. Ettie Lee, Howard, the Shumways, Shum-ways, and Gerbers and most other home parents are members of the LDS Church (Mormon) although no religion is pressed onto the boys. Three Scenic-Airports Scenic-Airports Open in Utah The second in a series of three Utah recreational airports in scenic areas opened recently with dedication services involving involv-ing state and local officials. The airport, located one mile east of Manila, opens air travel into the scenic Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. The strip was officially named the Daggett County Airport. Bob V. Walker, StateAeronau-tics StateAeronau-tics director, stated the construction con-struction of this 5300 foot paved field was due to a growing demand de-mand for air accessibility into scenic regions. "There are more private pilots in Utah and other western states than ever before, but they need airports in the same way that campers need campgrounds," he said. This year the State Aeronautics Aeronau-tics Division built airports at Bullfrog Basin on Lake Powell; at Manila near Flaming Gorge; and next month will dedicate the Escalante airport in the beautiful beau-tiful red-rock country of southern Utah. Speaking at the Manila ceremonies cere-monies was Milton L. Weilen-mann, Weilen-mann, director of the Department Depart-ment of Development Services. 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