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Gives Ex-Cons i Chance Blond Bucks Motlwr Named Hearf Of I 960 Drive By WARD CANNEL NEA Staff Correspondent ROME (NEA) Now, this is the story of an Irish priest named John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, and how his memory once failed him. But it will explain in part why child psychologists from Harvard University are now combing this country of Roman ruins, Renaissance decay and modern poverty. It may also be useful to American parents, teachers, college admissions officers and policemen, men. Msgr. Carroll said, was beaten.

The Nazis were holding the north. The Allies were driving from the south. And the country was without a civil government. Vatican Servicc was working in the Vatican service, and everywhere I went I found orphaned or abandoned and living in the streets, in museums, in cars. It was terrifying.

was a whole generation forced into the wilderness, pushed to be delinquents from In his education Msgr. Carroll had read of American Boys Towns, a tradition started by William George in 1897 in New York and carried on by Father Flanagan in Nebraska. was, I system of communities for underprivileged boys who largely governed themselves and thus learned the values of being responsible, productive members of society. I decided to try it in Italy. Something had to be he said.

The plan took eight months to become reality in a bombed-out villa. Then another Town was opened, an danother, until today when there are nine with a total registration of 2,400 boys. seemed to be working quite Msgr. Carroll said. I felt there was much more I could learn from the American system I had only half-remembered in 1944.

So I made a trip to the U. And what he found was disbelief in the American Boys Towns. Certainly the premise had once been self-government for the boys. But it really work- WASHINGTON (NEA) -Worried about the next decade? Relax. The statisticians and economists have taken out their charts, looked at their mathematical formulas, consulted with the Census Bureau, and come up with this cheering news: So many young couples will be getting married and having babies in the that the factories, stores, beauty parlors and filling stations, auto, home, vacuum cleaner and toy salesmen; doctors, lawyers and almost everyone else will be busy just keeping up with the business.

Some 4.000 assorted economists and statisticians met here recently to try out some of their ideas and predictions on each other. These are not the views of all 4,000. Frankly no two men seen agree precisely on anything. Rather this is a sort of concensus of representative economists, reached by men who have been studying ahead. Specifically by 1970: 1970 Population The U.S.

will have a population of between 203 million and 220 million. Employment will be up around 81 million to 82 million. Unemployment will be about 3,400.000. The average work week will be only 37 hours. The Gross National Product the total production of goods and services will be up about 50 per cent to $723 billion.

New homes will be built at an average rate of one and a third million a year all during the compared with only a million predicted for 1960. New Homes Or in dollars, new homes will be built at the rate of almost $25 billion a year, compared with $16 billion expected for 1960. The average home will be a little bigger, and more expensive. still be recessions in the around every four years or so. But be mild, more on the order of the 1957-58 a little more severe.

But expect any big boom- busts like that of 1929 and the early Creeping inflation will continue. Even if successive administrations attempt more and more controls, these stop it. Social security will continue to expand. So will company pension plans also unemployment compensation programs. A growing surplus of unskilled labor looms for the There will be more labor unrest and labor in part to the flooding of younger people into the labor market as a result of the baby boom that started two decades ago.

At present, about 900.000 men and women enter the labor force every year. The average will hit close to 1,300,000 a year in the first half of the around 1,500.000 a year between 1965 and 1970. There will be a growing shortage of industrial managers. White collar workers will gradually greatly outnumber blue collar men. New Trend The trend will be for fewer people to be thrown out of work during recessions.

Farm income will continue to move downward. The migration from the farms to the cities will continue. The rate of migration will increase in the There will be a major shift of workers out of manufacturing and mining into the services and professions. Foreign competition will continue to grow as some key competing countries continue to modernize their factories at a faster rate than American companies. New products will be developed during the at an even faster rate than in the decade just past.

The reason: a whopping increase in industrial research in the next 10 years. MSGR. CARROLL and his charges: a child from emotional disturbance and got. creative, independent human Mrs. Anna Mae Hock, of New Britain, is reunited with her baby, Jonna Mae, following heart surgery on the mother to correct a faulty heart valve.

On Leave Lambertville Bids For New Hope Shops Writer Eyes As although a All President Gives Address wards, from Formal Dinner Dance Planned Washington Square Antique Shop, on Mechanics New Hope, estimated that the Blue Law will cost him $3,500 in business this year. have been definitely affected by Sunday he said, there are other factors as well. The steel made business Uusual- ly we have a great rush of business from Sept. 15 to Christmas, but it was not nearly as great in Another Mechanic St. merchant, Toni Tonis, owner of a apparel shop of the same name, is flooding the state legislature with reprints of an advertisement she ran in a New Hope newspa- paper saying shop get The ad refers to the recent action opening the way for Sunday liquor sales in hotels while banning retail business.

New Hope, Bucks world famous sight-seeing and shopping village, may lose its unique shops to Lambertville, N. across the Delaware River, where you can shop on Sunday and there is no four per cent sales tax. A woman who owns commercial property on both sides of the river, Mrs. Julie Dyer, of Lambertville, today invited her New Hope tenants and other New Hope businessmen to pull up stakes and move into a block on Lambert Lane, Lambertville, which she is renovating. Lambert Lane faces the Delaware River.

The Edge Restaurant is on the street and a kosher-type restaurant and sandwich shop, art gallery, antique shop and a men's clothing store are expected to open there, she said. Discounts Damage A telephone survey of New Hope this morning found no immediate takers, but revealed that Pennsylvania's Blue Law banning Sunday sales is seriously affecting business. However, New burgess, Dr. John Flood, discounted the blue damage. am of the opinion that most of the Sunday shoppers who come to New Hope do little more than see the sights and window the burgess said.

New Hope has many shops selling antiques, novelties, and fancy clothing. These shops now close Sundays. Late last year the New Hope Businessmens Association went to Federal District Court and got an injunction against enforcement of the Blue Laws. The injunction was dissolved a week before Christmas when a Federal Court ruled that the blue law is constitutional. Antique Dealers Among those feeling the pinch are antique dealers in New Hope and the vicinity.

They report that women usually browse through their stores in groups on weekdays, then return Sundays with husbands to buy antiques they have spotted. Leonard Welter, owner of the By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) While everyone else was watching the President deliver his State of the Union Message to Congress, I was watching the presidential candidates. There at least five known or suspected presidential hopefuls in the House chamber during the speech. Nobody knows how many others were secretly picturing themselves in place at the rostrum. Doorkeeper Announces Nrxon First to check in was Vice President Richard M.

Nixon, the leading Republican contender. As head of the visiting Senate delegation, he got his title mentioned orally loudly, that is by House doorkeeper William M. Fishbait Miller. Miller announced the entrance of each group of dignitaries in the style and accent of a Mississippi station master calling trains. he bawled, vice prezadunt and mem- bahs of the Thus heralded, senators from both the South and North filed in two-by-two, like members of a wedding party or animals entering the ark.

Up front was Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson another of the hopeful five. Johnson also got special mention by Nixon, who. in a softer voice than Miller's, appointed his possible future rival to the committee which escorted the President into the chamber. Nobody individually mentioned Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey but he made up for this by arriving conspicuously late and making a solo entrance. Sen. John F. Kennedy Mass.

distinguished himself by sitting apart from senators in the rear row. Airman Second Class Daniel W. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald R.

Devol, 11 Wisteria Lane, Levittown, will arrive home this week to spend a 30- day furlough before departing for Hawaii in February. A graduate of Pennsbury High School, Smith joined the service in 1957 and has been stationed at Williams AFB, Arizona, for the past two years. Andalusia PTA Slates Open House The Andalusia PTA will hold its annual open house at the school on Monday, Jan. 18, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The regular meeting will follow in the school cafeteria.

At the meeting, a brief film depicting the public school system from earlier days to the present called will be shown. A spokesman for the group said that a membership drive is still in progress and those who wish to belong can enroll at the open house. 4 Morrisville Men Initiated By Knights Of Columbus Four Morrisville residents were initiated into Knights of Workers Council of Levittown at ceremonies in Church of the Immaculate Conception, Levittown, last night. The initiates were William Parkinson, Thomas Kiernan, William Cain and John Gnida. The four new members plus ten others will be candidates for a second degree which will be awarded at a meeting of Morrisville Council in Holy Trinity Church, Morrisville, 8 p.m.

Monday. The Morrisville Council of the Knights is also planning its third annual dinner-dance. The affair is planned for Jan. 23 in the Washington Crossing Inn, Washington Crossing. John Corr is chairman of the event.

nXsj -1 StHmP Falls School Board Sets Special Session The regular meeting of the Pennsbury Joint School Board will be held Monday, 8:30 in the Charles H. Boehm High School. At 8 o'clock, there will be a special meeting of the Falls Township School board. The Lower Makefield Township and the Yardley Borough School boards will hold their regular meetings at p.m. Ail meetings will be held at the Charles H.

Boehm High School. Contract Awarded For Route 132 Highway HARRISBURG state Highways Department today awarded a contract to James D. Morrissey, Philadelphia, to build a four-lane divided concrete highway on Traffic Route 132 between Warminster Neshaminy, Bucks County. area and the money raised at the dance will be used at the home. Mrs.

Baekes, chairman of the dance, is president of the junior board; Mrs. Culp is the co-chairman of the dance and vice president of the board, and Mrs. Palmer is in charge of decorations and door prizes. (Courier- Times Staff Photo) Members of the Junior Board of the Florence Crittendon Home, Trenton, (from left), Mrs. Thomas M.

Backes, Mrs. Thomas C. Culp, and Mrs. Henry Palmer plan for a formal benefit dinner dance to be held at the Washington Crossing Inn Feb. 6.

The Florence Crittendon Home gives assistance to unmarried mothers in this.