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GILBERTS 'What Youny Peopfe think' Teenagers Fleeing Cities To Escape Gangs Iv EUGENE eilMRBT 9 By EUGENE GILBERT CllUrt Ytufli RtMirch The flight to suburbia, the post-war phenomenon that has caught ihe attention of sociologists and Ihe satirical scorn of novelists, shows no signs of di- minishing and if teen-agers have their way when their turn to raise a family, this wholesale migration to the outlying districts of our large cities will continue at an accelerated pace. More than four out of every 10 city-dwelling teen-agers we Interviewed in a nation-wide survey said they wanted out as soon as possible. And of these, 84 percent chose the suburbs, while only 6 percent wanted (o live in a small town. The rest preferred country living. The girls lead the stampede.

Among city-bred bobby-soxers, 52 percent said (hey wanted to live elsewhere. And of these, a whopping 87 percent prefer-' red the suburbs to all other locals. Teen-agers in small towns and. on farms were more contented with their lot. At least the boys were.

Only 24 percent wanted to live elsewhere. The girls, however, were considerably more restless, with 42 percent iii favor of shaking the hometown dust from their first pair of high heels. Would FlM Where did they want to go? Suburbia again, by a wide margin: 67 percent of the migration-minded country boys and 91 percent of the girls. If this pattern holds true, the suburbs may be in for a tremendous influx of population from two directions: those moving out from the cities and those moving in from the coun- 'try. precincts.

Why are the suburbs so popular with the younger set? For about the same reasons that they are popular with parents: fresh air, a chance to have a home and garden, an escape from juvenile delinquency and gang warfare, room to raise a family, proximity to the city's advantages but relief from Us congestion, better schools, less traffic, congenial neighbors, and in general a slower pace of living. Among all the reasons cited, the fear of juvenile delinquency led the list by a wide margain, particularly among boys and girls interviewed. "The city is getting-to be i terrible place to live," com- 'plalned Phyllis Maxstein' of Bayside, a rather quiet rest-'-' dential section of New York City. Stephen Weiss of Hyatt sville, a surburb of Washington, said he thought many families moved to suburbs "to relieves themselves and their children of the stench of the city." To Susan French, 19, of Evansfon, 111., the suburbs "provide a more wholesome life." Smw Still City Fifteen-year-old Dick Ayer said his family moved to MerchantviUe, N. to "get away from gang wars and live in a decent neighborhood.

Ellen Kalb, 15, of Flushing, another residential section of New York City, said she wanted out "because of juvenile delinquency arxi racial differences." Despite the barrage of criticism thrown up by both urban and rural teen-agers who wanted no part of it, the city still had its admirers and defenders. 'The city offers intellectual stimulation and considerable sophistication," instiled 19-year- old Frederick Lido of Los-Angeles. "Why does everybody want to be a hick?" jibed Barry Warner of Portland, Ore. Even suburbia had its share of 'the' disenchanted. Jo Ann BETWEEN US Neighbors BY MRS.

BETSY HEMENWAY "We used to debate and the question of a mimmisg pool way back when I went to Chehalis high school," Mrs. Bob Hartley, our neighbor, told me. "That was; In- the early 40s." Before our Jay was born! Think of all the children who have missed a pool through (he years. This- 'summer of 1958 seems as if it were especially made to welcome a new pool But there were many other sum- men when parents and children have wished for a good, safe swimming place. OF COURSE, they always had the river.

Forty lo thirty yean ago when our neighbors, the Ed Roberlses, finished supper and the late chores, they would take their youngsters down to where the old Claqualo school used to sland, diagonally across the river from the present Playquato dance hall. Lots of people came in 'those days. There was a wide, deep swimming "hole" in (he Chehalis river. The grassy level above was a picnic ground with several tables. Another Mrs.

Ed Roberts, Matlie Green Roberts, longtime Centralia resident, (but not related to our neighbors), lo Claquafo school and has fond memories of "ice cream socials' 1 there. "IF HAZEL Brown, Mrs. George Sears now, hadn't pulled me out I would have, drowned in Ihe Chehalis. There were sudden drop-off holes in Ihe river and I stepped into one. I remember how soothingly Hazel talked to me afraid I'd panic, no doubt.

I'll get you out' she said, 'but don't grab me. Kick hard. Don't pull me She got me out all righl." Oar nearby Mrs. Roberts also has a bad memory that haj turned funny with Ihe years. Her Delbert, learning lo swim at about three years of age, found himself struggling in wa- Uer over his head.

A woman pulled him out. "Delbert was so mad at her," Mrs. Roberts recalls. "He didn't realize how near he was to drowning." THE RIVER has changed through tha years, as rivers will. The "hole" and the beach have disappeared.

Trees and. Canadian thistle have grown on the entrance bank where once I barefeet trod a path. Alexander Park hu for long time taken the place of Claquato picnic and swimming ipot. But rivers are dangerous and I increasingly dirty a population "pows. TM Ohio firm of my childhood fronted on a river and we children loved our hole." But our rriolh- er picturing all the accidents that might happen or disease we might get, was really relieved when pool was built only a.

few miles away, so "that she. could get us away from the. river without spoiling our fun." 'REUBEN Baybarz of the county health department, tetli county health department, tells me lhat the Chehalis river had a and a half times the "ideal." The Newaukum river, on the. other hand, shows real pollution, ils bacteria count is 170 timej normal. Alexander park Is such a pleasant place (hat we shall probably continue going there occasionally, and taking a dip in the Chehalis river.

But it's the pool our family enjoys the most now. During these last hot weeks I've driven the children into town for swimming 1 more than ever before. They had two weeks of free lessons. Recently I've gone in with them afternoons and evenings. WHEN I'M at home I overhear long conversations between Jay and jeannie about what they have done and what they are going lo do at the pool.

Jeannie learned to "dead man's float" in class and now she can kick her feet, so Jay, who can really swim a litlle and who is beginning to dive, has much to tell her. Alice was too small for the lessons. Her progress with me has been slight so far. But Jeannie never Keeps ahead of her in anything very long. "THE CHILDREN have needed that pool so badly," our neighbor Mrs.

Roberts says. "It makes me heartsick to see stories of children drowning. It doesn't need to be. All youngsters should iearn to swim early. Now they can." Mrs.

Roberts feels lhat since all of us in the surrounding country are benefiting from the pool as much as those in Chehalis, we should help in building Ihe pool into an all- weather recreation spot, tht has talked lo many of her friends 'and relatives who live.cutside the city and most of them agree with her that the pool ought lo be covered ai soon is possible, and our taxes should help with the test. Another fellow points out that Chehalis gels our admission money and benefits from drawing us into town. But I tend lo agree wilh Mrs. Roberts. Chehalis shouM be congratulated for its pool and helped with its roofl Whally 'of Hastings-on-Hudson, a pleasant commuter town in 'New York's Westchester County', said she wished she were back in the big city.

"New York," she sighed, "is the greatest. Everything is there." Similarly, Jack Julier, 17, of Kirkwood, Ohio, said he preferred Ihe cily because "it's easier and tt's closer to the business world." In (he course of this survey, we were surprised to learn that the glitter of the big city lights r.o longer holds a fascination for counlry boys and girls. Only 5 percent of the rural boys and .3 percent of Ihe girls dissatisfied with country living would trade places with the city slicker. The only worry about keeping them down on the farm these days will be after they've seen suburbia, not Pares or any other big city. The main reason for this seemed to be that to teen-agers in rural areas the suburbs offered an acceptable compromise between country and city! As one teen-ager put it, "in the suburbs you are close to the city, but'not too close." SJwutd Suburgli Shirt Beverly Germack of Clean, N.

said that in "a suburb of a large city you can enjoy a more country style of living' away from (he noise of the cily but within easy traveling distance of ils The growing controversy over whether suburbanites who'work In Ihe cily should pay city faxes left teen-agers pretty much divided. Approximately 43 percent (51 percent of the boys and 47 per. cent of the girls) thought il was only fair thai suburban families contribute to the welfare of Ihe city in which they earn their livelihoods. In a typical answer, Warren Blakely of San Bernardino, argued that suburbanites "generally are the direct beneficiaries of services performed by the city and so they should pay the costs." "They enjoy the advantages of the cily and should help pay for them," chimed in Eileen Healy of Chicasaw, Ala. The anti-lax camp argued that not only are city taxes on suburbanites unfair but grossly unconstitutional.

"It's taxation without representation," cried 19-year-old Fred Schollz of Colwick, N. J. "If they don't live in the city; why should Ihey be forced to support il?" ask'ed Arlene Smernoff of Bridgeport, Conn. Jacqueline Thompson of Peekskill, N. advanced the thesis that suburbanites working in the city actually aid city finances because "their businesses pay taxes and they themselves bring in a lot of spending power." Judy Egor of Valley Slream, N.

dismissed the whole con- with a frequently voiced complaint from both city and country dwellers: "There are just too many taxes." Question! Asktd Why do you think people are moving to the suburbs? What type of community do you live in: large city? suburb of a cily? small town? county? If you live in a large city, would you rather live elsewhere? If you do not live in a large cily would you rather live elsewhere? Do you think people who live in the suburbs but work in (he city "should be required to pay city (axes? With their Invention, steam- 7 (hips did not Immediately replace sailing rivalry between 'steam and sail lasted nearly 100 years. Sailing ships had one big advantage over A steam engine needs big and, at first, a very bulky fuel --coal. Steamships could not make long passages without carrying so much fuel that there was i for the carrying oi freight. 6 EncyclopMtt BrtUnntct The Doily Chronicle, Soturday, August 2, 1958 7 POLE SETTER--Kight on target, a helicopter lowers a telephone into place in dense Sequoia National Forest in California. The 'copter was pressed into service lo set up a four-mile telephone line over the rough terrain.

Hidden by the dense brush, a construction secures the pole with a hook ind anchors il in pla'ce. The LIBRARY SHELF These Are Annotations of Books Just Placed on Shelves of Public Libraries in the Twin Cities The THE HAHD BLUE SKY, by Shirley Ann Grau. A novel about a small, wind-swept island off the Louisiana coast which caplures the mood and rhythm-of life of (he people who have for generations hung on to this narrow.strip of land on the edge of a malignant swamp. The islanders whom Jliss Grau makes so vividly alive, are an engaging, inbred primitive lot. Almost without defense against the insistent sun and seasonal storms, given, like the climate, to sudden violence, they are incapable of reaching beyond the hard blue sky that binds them.

Only Annie, young and burgeoning, lets her need of a man carry her beyond the confines of the-island world. The Isle aux Chiens summer cf which Miss Grau writes is an eventful one: the pilot of a sailboat from the mainland is marooned on the island and lingers on through the hot, emp- ply days, and tension mounts when one of the island boys, a crazy kid, fails to return from a fishing trip through the treacherous bayous. Moving toward an inevitable'climax as the oppressive heat culminates in an end of summer storm, Miss Grau evokes In a series of wonderfully human scenes the whole vibrant fabric of existence on a segment of the lower coast. THE ENEMY CAMP, by Jerome Weidman. Because of the strong influence of Aunt Tessie, who regarded all Gentiles as "shkulzim," and Zisha, who advised him to "Do what your heart tells you, not your religion," young George Hurst developed an ambivalent attitude toward the non-Jewish world.

His early years were further complicated by his best friend Danny Schoor and Iheir playmate Dora Dienst, both of whom used his loyalty for their own shoddy purposes. Still not completely free of his past George married Mar Sherrod, a Philadelphia Main Liner, much against the wishes of both Another New Daily Chronicle Feature! WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE THINK ARE THE TOP RECORDS -WEEK RATING 2 LAST THIS WEEKS WEEK WEEK AGO 2 7 4 18 16 5 3 1 25 27 9 15 6 10 13 1 4 2 12 8 6 5 17 I I 10 9 7 14 15 1 2 3 4. 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 8 13 17 19 19 18 12 16 19 11 20 20 SONG AND RECORDING STAR GIRLS BOYS YoketyYok Tht CwnJeri 1 1 Splith Sploih Bobby Darin 2 3 Patrieia Prodo 3 2 Hard Headed Woman Elvis Presley 5 4 hen Kolin Twiru 4 7 Jimmle Rodgeri 7 5 Al) I Hove To Do It Dream Ererly 6 9 Purple People Eater Sheb Wootey 9 8 Poor Little Fool Rieky Nelion 8 11 Rebel Router a Hdy 6 One Summer Night Dandleen 10 13 Enchanted dlqnd Feur Lodl 14 Left Right Out of Your Potti Page 12 15 Endlesi Sleep Jody 16 12 Do You Wanna Dance lobby Freeman 21 10 Jennie Ue an Arnie 13 9 '9 Mon Four Prepj 17 16 A Certain Smile Johnny Mothii 18 18 Got A Match Thi 20 17 Return To Own Martin 'l9 21 families, and lived the happy but slightly uneasy life of a successful young executive in a mixed marriage and community until his childhood friends reappeared in somewhat unsavory circumstances and he at last found Ihe courage to break wilh them an ddiscovered lhat "the camp" exists only in the minds of those who are convinced it does. The' book has excellent characterization and a skillfully presented Iheme. SCIENCE AND HUMAN VALUES, by J.

Bronowski. This is a book about science and man and how both -can learn to live together in this frightening age of nuclear fusion, ballistics, and ouler space. Dr. Bronowski challenges the judgments'and opinions of the past and shows us the impact of science on elhics and human values as well as on our -physical environment. ''What science has to teach us," he writes, "is not its techniques but its spirit Independence and originality, dissent and freedom -and tolerance: such are the first needs of science; and thesecare the values which, of itself, it demands and forms." "The values by which we ara to survive," Dr.

Bronowski concludes, "are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends, are seen in fearful sharpness of outline." THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by John Kennelh Galbrailh In this book a literate and versatile economist closely scrutinizes current ideas and altitudes in economics. He shows that they, were worked out for a world far different Irom our own. This was a world of bleak poverty and one in which, except a favored few, any other condition was um'maginaMe. Professor Galbraith shows how imperfectly and reuluclanlly the ideas ap- propriale to this.world have be modified for application to the very different world The Affluent Society in which we live. The consequences are greal.

We are committed by obsolescent thought to a tense and humorless pursuit of goods and to a fantastic and potentially dangerous effort to manufacture wants as rapidly ai we make goods. We are impelled to invest too much in 'things and not enough in people. We threaten the stability and integrity of our society what the author calls the social balance by producing loo much of some things and not enough of others. We are less happy than we might be and we pardize our safety. This book makes no effort avoid controversy.

The author notes that it will strike "an uncouth note in the world of positive thinking." A reader has described it as a "practical effort in the ripping open of stuffed shirts." This is a carefully reasoned economic treatise in which the language is kept simple even though Ihe problems are not. (Today's bwV innotitioni provided by librarian) Read The Chronicle Classifieds! COMING UP FAST; Few Pfg9y Newest, fastest highest-frying US fighler. Has less weight, morestrik. mg power than any operational fighter plane. Protest Removal SHELTON The Mason coun-, ty commissioners this week voled lo protest Ihe moving of the Slate I Patrol Academy from Shellon to I Toledo.

The new move is planned be- cause state law says the academy must be at least 25 miles from Ihe capitol. Shelton is about 22 miles from Olympia. The movement of the academy would mean a loss of about $40. News Briefs Of Southwest Washington 000 a year in payrolls to the city. The commission feels Ihe move is not justified because the facilities are already here and r.ew facilities would have lo be built at Toledo at extra tax expense.

The commissioners moved lo have letters of protest sent to the governor and state legislators. Car Hits Homes OLYMPIA Two houses were damaged, one of them extensively, when a runaway car crashed them in Ihe 2500 block on Capitol Way early H'ednertay. The car was being towed by a jeep, driven by Charles R. Holmes, when il broke loose. It tore through the carport at the borne of Roy J.

Hall, continued across the lawn through a fence and crashed into the side of a house owned by W. H. Heserote. Found Dead in Car ABERDEEN Herman Jones, a 41-year-old Tacoma man was found- dead Wednesday afternoon in his car near the end of the Ocean avenue approach at Westport. The body apparently had lain in the automobile for two days before being discovered by Joe Dorland and Elvis Peterson, county road workmen, according to Grays Harbor county Coroner Dr.

E. B. Riley. Cause of death remains undetermined pending completion of a laboratory report on specimens of blood, jaid Dr. Riley.

Newspapers had been plastered to the windshield and side windows of the death car and Ihe body was found lying in a face- down position on an air mattress. No apparent evidence of a violent death, was reported. Two Hurt in Crash OLYMPIA An Olympia woman and an Ephrala man are being treated, in St. Peter hospital for Injuries received early' Thursday in an automobile accident in Turn- water. Alice M.

Kurd was driving a car which struck a utility pole near the intersection of Capitol Boulevard and Cusler Way, Bruce Eslick of Ephrata was an pas senger. Mrs. Kurd sustained bruises and received chest injuries. Both are in satisfactory condilion, according lo hospital attendants. Projects Approved ABERDEEN Pacing of West Wishkah street from Division lo Thornton street, and installation of mercury vapor lights on East Market Street from to Ihe Norlh Aberdeen bridge have been approved by the city council.

Tne asphaltic concrete will be feet wide and two inches thick. Total cost will run a little over The mercury light system will cost about ROM and will be paid from the second and third ward shares of construction reconstruction funds and from the new street light fund. Bicycles Barred VANCOUVER Signs starting, Bicycle riding on bridge prohib-' ited, walk on sidewalk," have been posted at both ends of the Interstate bridge, Vancouver Traffic Capt. Harry 0. Wood said Thursday.

The signs were put in place after Ihe Vancouver Traffic Bureau asked that Ihe signs and additional guard rails at each end of (he bridge be constructed, following a fatal bicycle accident at Ihe Vancouver end of the bridge early last month. Find Man's Torso RAYMOND The unidentified lorso of a man apparently in the sea for about six months, was discovered in the surf at the northerly lip of Williapa Harbor Wednesday night. Mrs. Fred Roberts and Cynthia Duran of Tacoma notified the Coast Guard of the find about 5 p.m. Cosst Guard officials in turn called in Herman Felber, Pacific county sheriff, for further investigation of the case.

Clothing on the torso, virtually the only clues as to identity consisted of dark brown whipcord pants and a size 8 shoe. The shoe is of the brogan type that laces clear to the toe. Crickets Invade UONV1EW Ungview is be- mg invaded by Mormon crickets which resemble grasshoppers without wings and average one inch in length. Cowlitz County Extension Agent I. Richard Adlard said the crickets are voracious eaters and are presently eating their way north from points near Northeast Wash ingtoa Way.

The crickets ire cov- erinj an eighlh of a a day, Adlard said. The adult crickets will be emerging for the next 15 days, marking the height ol their invasion. Shrubs and grass will (heir targets, said. Sent to Monroe KELSO Two men have been sentenced to 15-year terms in the state reformatory at Monroe afler entering guilty picas before Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Ralph Armstrong. Bruce F.

Oxford. 25. Kelso, pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny. He was returned Cowlitz County June 29 from Prinevilte, to answer that he took six truck ires and four truck signal lights Jelonging to E. E.

Beasley ol Longvfcw lhat were 'alued at $75. Theodore S. Trombley, 26, Lonj Beach, also pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny. He was returned by the sheriff's from Albany, to answer a charge thai he took a router and pair of binoculars from George's Cabinet Shop, Longview. on July 24.

Police Join Union OLYMPIA Members of the Olympia police department have voled to join other city hall em- ployes in the Amrican Federation of Slate, County and Municipal employes local izfio. Mayor Amanda Smith said that some time ago cily commissioners had informed all cily hall employes they are free to become union members if they wish. Man Disappears VAKCOUVER The a county sheriff's office is investigating the disappearance Tuesday of a Washougal insurance salesman, Ralph Jantier, 27. His automobile was found at FisHer's Landing, between Camas and Vancouver on Ihe Columbia River, Wednesday. Sheriff Clarence McKay said It did not appear there was any foul play involved, or that Jantr- er jumped into ihe, river.

McKay said Ihe registration ol the automobile was on the floor of Ihe unlocked car and lhal Jantzer's glasses were hooked over a door handle. In the back seal were port-for lios, a filing cabinet and-other articles pertaining to the man's insurance business. The sheriff said it was believed Janlzer' had at-least $500 and some checks wilh him at the time. His wife had earlier told polict he was missing. Saving Effected VANCOUVER Vancouver'! new city manager, Bob Clute, Wednesday announced consolida- ion of part of the facilities of the water department with central offices at the cily hall, Ihuj filling Iwo vacancies and resulting in a saving of at least 59,000.

In addition, the consolidation of Ine engineering staff of the wa- ler department with those at the city hall, will result in closer supervision of the two depart- meiils, which, among other will mean lhat there will be fewer instances of a streel being built, then lorn up for utilities Clute said. He said Ihe consolidation currently will bring the engineering staff, electrical slaff and financial staff to the cily hall for central operations. Improving Highways TEMNO-Several stretches of Thurston county roads in the Te- mno area are gelling hard surfaces of ihe blacktop variety The loop norlh inlo the north of Offut Lake is getting an oil mat into Ada's Place, past Bronson's and out again, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. The Violet Prairie road lhat connects wilh the Tilley Road is also getting half a mile of treat- Tcnmo toward Deep alee is now getting its hard surface', the Doolutle Construclion Co having (he federal-county project under state direction. The bed was watered down Monday, and the hot material put on Tuesday with another layer due By arrangement with, the city some 858 feet are being laid info town at a cost of $400.

This piece TMfTM rom comer in front or Ine Harry Penny place lo the city limits beyond the Scalier Creek bridge. This will bring (he road into conformity with county road beyond. Determined Mayor JOHNSON' CJTV. 111. lAPt Johnston City's Mayor K.

Neil Thurmond plans to ticket another Chicago and Eastern Illinois train for exceeding the town's lo m.p.h. speed limit for trains. "We'll just go out and get another train." he said after i charges against a C4-EI conductor under 35-year-old ordinance were dismissed. Attorneys argued lhat the power to limit train speeds Is ex- ciuiii'riy vesM in the lllinoil Commerce Commission..