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Show M 16 A The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, September 25, 19G0 Our Young Ones Are Growing Tall . Winter Try least six feet The survey in 1335 IhJicaTed that men and women with some college training were taller and lighter- - than those with only elementary average- - --eai tall and women 64i Before the turn of the century average heights were 674 inches for men and 52 4 Inches for women. The report contains results of several studies of heights - and weights of US. adults dm, ing the last 100 years They include results of a nationwide study In 1950 of 160,000 college freshmen, made by the American College Health Assn.; heights and weights of 9,000 families interviewed in the department's 1955 nationwide ment in the economic condition food consumption survey, and of most of the people. yearly records of college frei.ii Comparisons of college men at Smith, Vassar, Amwomen with their mothers and herst and Yale dating back to 1860. college men with their fathers show that the younger genDepartment scientists be- eration in recent years has lieve the changes are due to about an inch taller a combination of many fac- averaged than the older group. tors. Sons weighed from five to These Include advances in 10 pounds more than their medical care and sanitation, fathers, and daughters avertwo to five pounds heav-- ' Improved knowledge of nutri aged icr than theirinjothers. tion and the abundance of Heights of rollege men and food, and the steady improveMen inches inches. It would be wrong, immoral, and. impractical,'jjreller told the final session of the Air Force annual three-daAssn.'s convention here. IF WE GET definite information' that Russia will strike us. tomorrow, it is my opinion that even under those conditions we must never strike first, " he said. aiffigt ira 1 IIC PlllWfe the first manned space flight nuclear tests to perfect mod certain that Russia does not by an American. Chairman era deterrent weapons, but attack, is to maintain a miliOverton Brooks ) never' should tary force so strong that it of the said America House Space Committee said and never will strike the first can absorb the first blow and strike back." blow." Friday. THIS WOULD represent an advance of about a month over other recent estimates that the first relatively short-- r a n g e space flight will be tried in January or February. It also would indicate slippages in the program had been overcome". There have been recurring reports the Russians may be preparing to send into orbit their pioneer spacemen, perhaps while Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev is at .the United Nations meeting in New York. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 24 The man who "in (UPI) vented'' the hydrogen bomb sjid . Saturday the United States never must be first to use it ' even if there should be sure evidence that Russia is Hr AinitUd Pim pn the verge of attacking. WASHINGTON. Sept 24 DR. EDWARD TeUer, famed The seven U.S. astronauts are nuclear physicist called "fa- confident one of them in De- - ther' of the urgent- By 1915, the percentage had risen to 10 pe cent In 1956 anJLt957 more than 30 per cent of the freshmen classes at both schools measured at now -- Poisefor rent of the young me entering Amherst and Yale stood six feet or more-- . Sept. 24 Young men and (UPD women In the United States now average about two inches taller than those of 60 years ago,iccordng to in Agriculture Department repoit They also are heat ler. WASHINGTON', (D-La.- . Immigration apparently has had considerable fifed on the average height of people in the United States at different periods. U.S. soldiers in World seem to average slighty more than the general average. women War J wete (1917-19- 1 some- what shorter than soldiers of Average weight of college the Civ il War in the lSSO's. women has risen from 118 to TRIOR TO 186. the largest 127 pounds, an increase of four of immigrants to proportion pounds per inch of added j the United States were Ger height. The men's average man and Irish, w ho were weight has increased from 135 tali. After 1SS0 theie to about 157 pounds, represent-a was sharp increase in the ing a gain of about seven of Italian and Ruspounds for an inch of added proportion sian immigrants, who on the height average, were considerably In 1883, only about 4 per shorter. reia-tivel- 1 1 " of school dis- tricts across the land, the race for t h e presidency between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy has become a topic for classroom debate, homework assignments special projects. Americas quadrennial political circus is more than Just an election campaign. II to history, civics and economica. A NUMBER of nonpartisan booklets and pamphlets have been distributed to teachers and students this fall, designed to bring the campaign into the classroom. All of them stress that the student ran participate most actively by helping to get out the vote an urgent task in view of the fact that foar years ago only 60 per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls in the presidential election. A HANDBOOK for teachers and students prepared bv the School Study Metropolitan Council, a research affiliate of to in action It democracy Teachers College, Columbia and it to the lassitude of the University, suggests these acAmerican voter. tivities as being suited to the campaign and election: To help get out the vote (and to increase registration in those states and localities where there is still time) the DISCOUNT students can enter appropriate own inm won, tin. m floats in a school homecoming lira parade or between halves of a CHAMPION football game. $1600 HI THE LEAFLET would include such information about the local candidates as their party affiliation, the office they seek, their education and where previous experience, they stand on local issues, etc. A pamphlet distributed by the National Education Assn, suggests students can do volunteer work with such nonpartisan organizations as the League of Women Voters. Those students who want to take sides and that means virtually all of them can volunteer their services at local party headquarters. In rarrying out these vol-nntc- of assignments, course, the students themselves are learning. They are learning about registration, how to mark a ballot, how to participate actively in JUICER In t wnwh PHONI COlllCT, IXMI01 Wr. Im Wlmhnigl wiU vault Right now, apace agency authorities dont know which one It wiU be. And they wont know- - until some weeks before the first a rare, self motivating subject of great importance which try. tains its - interest for weeks The decision . probably will before and after the election." be made by R. R. Gilruth, director of Project Mercury. STARR SUGGESTS that asGILRUTH MOULD art on sembly programs can be ar- the basis of recommendations which in representa- submitted by various ranged groups tives of.the two major parties which have been working with submit and present their views the astronauts in their nearly to questioning by a panel of 18 months of rigorous training students. for the great test. At Brooklyn Technical High The seven men forming this School there is a poll squad" countrys astronaut team are which takes the political pulse seaspned pilots drawn from the of the student body before Navy, the Air Force and the election. The school results are Marines. then compared to the actual They are; results, a project which always Navy Lt. Malcolm S. Card gets the school actively-Involvepenter of Garden Grove, Calif.; in the election. Navy Lt. Qndr. Walter M. STARR RAY'S it Is during a Srhirra Jr, Hackensack, N.J.; Lt Cmdr. Alan B. Sheppresidential election campaign Navy ard East Derry. NH.; Air Jr, that the history teacher has Force Capt. Donald K. Slavton, his best opportunity to make Air Force Capt. the American electoral col- Sparta, I.Wise; Grissom. Mitchell. Virgil lege" come to life although Ind.; Marine Lt. Col. John if most students call it the elecGlenn Jr, New Concord. Ohio, trical college." In three presi- and Air Force Capt. LcRoy dential elections, the candidates Okla. who received the most popular Cooper, Shawnee, Jackson votes lost the election. THE FIRST astronaut to to John Quincy Adams in 1824. penetrate space will ride in a Tilden to Haes in 1S76 and special capsule perched atop Cleveland to Harrison in 1SS8. a Redstone ballistic missile. debate on A classroom The capsule will not go into whether the electoral college orbit but is Intended to shoot should be retained, altered or to an altitude of about 120 abolished. Starr says, always miles before dropping Into the raises the blood pressure and Atlantic to be recovered about gets the students personally 200 miles downrange from the involved. So. for that matter, launching pad at Cape Canavdoes an open discussion tl eral. Fla. campaign issues and the qualifications of the candidates. And there is no better way . i. ... mwj , , politics. But tt is in the classroom itself that the most good is ran send student accomplished. The Writing in a recent issue of speakers to meetings of the NEA Journal, Isidore Starr. PTA and other rlvie Technical Brooklyn High School social science teacher, They can organize and pro- said, "to the teacher, the elecvide a baby sitting service, or a tion is a wonderful tool. It is to learn.- - IT AT TNI PAIR In Ceewewfel RrnHwn Ot car pool, for voters. They can canvass voters in areas where the voting has been relatively light in previous elections, and urge them to cast their ballots and show them voting procedure. , Students also could prepare and distribute a leaflet Whos Who tn the Coming Local The youth of today are the voters of tomorrow, and teachers have found they respond to the excitement of election-yea- r politics. The impact will be particularly heavy this year because of Ihe scheduled debates by the candidates on nationwide television. "wild is love" at-th- country's astronauts into space first. THIS IS NOT easy," he and he accused the gev eminent of "not talking a cal culated risk but a miscalculated risk" In keeping its ban on atomic testing. It could mean the nation would hot be ready to meet an attack, he said. It may mean annihilation of ourao- may mean, our lives. 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