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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1960
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE THINK
EDITORIAL
Teeners Yearn
For New Culture
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Many like art . .
. . and many like opera
Cyndie Stocker, IB, of Claremont, instrument.
HAL BOYLE
THE STORY OF A PROJECT-4
’-TA to income-producing work and often
enough for him.
If you bring up this question at
Ask him why, and he’ll probably
It never occurred to me.
wouldn't think of doing such a
WHAT
Sen. Joseph Clark
SAYS ABOUT KENNEDY
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Stevenson Finds Facts
Hard To Face This Year
1,122 Engineers Say They
Can’t Keep Detail Checks
Pocket Hunting
Is Good Thing
Why Some Think Youth
Are In Another World
The average husband may have
been a green-eyed suitor during
courtship, but after marriage he
tends to take his wife for granted
When she objects to this, he tells
her in wondering surprise, "Why
shouldn't we take each other for
granted? Didn't I stand up before
the preacher man with you and
make all them big vows? Didn't
LETTERS
WELCOMED
This is the last in a four-part series on the nation’s super*
highway building program.
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MOST USE LIBRARIES
How many of them have library
cards’ A whopping 89 per cent —
and 60 per cent use them often,
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to know everything about him—
from the callous on the sole of
It is highly doubtful—not if she
really loved him. He wouldn't think of secretly go-
>ry evening except Saturday and on Sunday morning by
DINTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
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"I have been married 20 years,
and never went through my hus reply:
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bound to declare in ringing tones: inner ie and aer way of thinking.
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Entered as second class mail at the post office at Denton, Texas.
Jan. 13, 1921, according to Act of Congress, March 3. 1872.
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON fAP»-Adlai E.
Stevenson, who entranced millions
with his eloquence in the presi-
The Record-Chronicle wel-
comes letters from readers on
anv subject in good taste.
Letters must be signed and
the writer's address given. We
reserve the right to edit let-
ters when necessary.
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more careful attention to the kids.
What this school of writers seems to ignore is that
only a society with labor saving machinery or institu-
tions (such as slavery) had the leisure to allow many
of its members to be teachers, musicians, painters,
writers and the like.
In economically primitive societies, only a handful of
the elite have any time for cultural pursuits or even
education, and the rest try to grub out a living for
all with their hands.
The saving of human labor is the means by which
we acquire both leisure and the wealth that allows
us to progress in the non-material lines.
But even today, anyone who wants to live by the
sweat of his brow, toiling from morning to night to ac-
complish the simple requirements of survival, may
do so. Maybe some of our authors should try it.
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"Anyway. it would take a day
to paw through all the junk she
carries. The only thing I can't see
is how a girl her size and weight
can pack around all that trash
without breaking her back.”
But a woman, no matter how
much her husband loves her,
never quite loses her all-envelop-
ing curiosity about him She wants
dential campaigns of 1962 and
1956, is not the completely for-
gotten man of 1960.
But although he is still diligent
with his sentences, he is hardly
more than a minor voice on the
outer fringes of the campaign.
The Democrats, after twice
making him their presidential
choice, this year swept him into
the backwater of history along
with all the other also-rans when
they brushed him aside none too
gently for Sen. John F. Kennedy
Now he is doing what he said
he would do although, when he
said it, what he thought he might
be doing was running for presi-
dent.
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you make all them big vows,
too?"
That settles the matter for him.
The donning of the marital har-
ness ends his doubt of her. Now
and then he is startled into won-
der by some feminine whim she
demonstrates, but ho decides phil-
THE RESULTS admittedly close, two polls (one of
them scientifically done) at NTSC this week indicate
an edge of preference among students for Vice Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon in the coming election.
Perhaps as much as anything the results indicate
what many of the professional politicians have been
saying—persons of collegiate age are becoming more
conservative in their political views. When former
Gov. Allan Shivers was in Denton, for example, he
reported that in his many Texas visits he had noticed
greater interest than ever in conservative ideas by
the younger people. And Bobby Kennedy, the Demo-
cratic nominee’s busy younger brother, has confided
that he is surprised at the conservative feeling among
young Texans, especially those of college age. Says
Kennedy: "They are living in another world."
Whatever world they are living in, we believe it is
a better world when there are signs of a rebirth of
conservatism in the political arena.
thing!”
When you hear a woman make
a flat statement like that, you can
figure, in must cases, that she
ought to go right home and wash
her mouth out with soap, her hus-
band doesn't have any pockets or
she never cared enough about
him to look through his pockets.
One of the big differences be-
tween husbands and wives is their
curiosity about each other.
time. Maybe he just doesn't know any women. But
it is evident to anyone who does that time once spent
in washing stuff now is spent on everything from poli-
tics and P
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“I think the Senate will pass a minimum wage in-
crease if we can get Sonny Boy back from the cricks
and hollers long enough to report it out of his com-
mittee.” (Pittsburgh Press, May 11, 1960).
‘osophically that all women are
like that. His basic curiosity about
his wife is satisfied when she de-
cides to spend her life with him.
The fact he has her love is
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By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) - Did there
ever live a wife who didn't enjoy
looking through her husband's
pockets?
ing through the handbag she car-
ries in order to find clues to her
I It she has anything on her mind,
* she’ll tell me—and not just once,
either "
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came painful for people who might
admire his sentence structure but
Last June, still thinking he wish for more force and less
band's pockets once. Why,
Riley Cross, President and Publisher
Roy Appleton Jr., Vice President and General Manager
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his foot to the dandruff in his
thinning scalp.
Since a husband's grunts aren't
very communicative, she likes to
go through his pockets. "I had to
empty them so I could send your
suit to the cleaner," she explains
carefully.
It isn't—after the first few years
—that she mistrusts him and ex-
pects to find a love note proving
he has a secret girl friend. It’s
just that the contents of his pock-
ets tell her things about him she
wants to know.
What about this invitation to] a
friend's party next Tuesday? He
had forgotten to tell her. They'd
have missed It—if she hadn’t de-
cided to send his suit to the
cleaners.
Why is he carrying these anti-
acid tablets? Is he afraid he's get-
ting an ulcer and doesn't want to
admit it? She’ll insist he go to the
doctor for a checkup.
A wife is a natural detective.
The pockets of her husband tell
her 101 little things about him
that Sherlock Holmes couldn't
guest because she looks with the
careful eyes of love.
The time for a husband to wor-
ry is when his wife quits going
through his pockets. It might well
mean she had lost her curiosity
about him—and that's th* worst
sign of all.
For a woman who isn't curiout
about a man can hardly be in
love with him.
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gentility.
Still, Kennedy as a phrase-mak-
er isn’t in the same league with
Stevenson who even at ’his late
date, and despite his minor role,
is fastidious about his adjectives.
ROUGHER
But Stevenson, despite the prim
impression he made, was rougher
on President Eisenhower than
Kennedy is on Nixon.
To a man like Stevenson, who
hovers over the English language
like a nursemaid tucking a baby
in bed, it may be sometimes dis-
tressing to see Kennedy, who bub-
bles out words like a gun, running
ahead in the polls against Nixon.
This was something Stevenson
never could do against Eisen-
_______ __
f Bertram D. Tallamy, the bu-
reau's chief administrator, put the
i viewpoint in focus last May when
he testified before a congressional
subcommittee.
"The bureau and the states act
as coordinating agencies. That is
required by federal law. The state
initiates projects and presents
them to the bureau for considera-
tion. After review, if the bureau
concurs, there is a complete meet-
ing of the minds as to exactly
what is to be accomplished and
how The state has responsibility
for construction.” Tallamy said.
The bureau does have a pro-
jects examination division which
is supposed to act as a sort of
roving police inspection force.
There are 27 people on its staff.
With Congress’ permission, the bu-
reau hopes to expand the division
to 40.
To questions about the adequacy
of its supervision, the bureau says
other federal agencies are also in
the act—the General Accounting
Office, the Department of Justice,
and Congress.
From the time the General Ac-
counting Office actually audits a
state's highway program until re-
ports to Congress, about two years
elapse.
The Department of Justice usu-
ally acts only when requested to
do so by the bureau or upon for-
mal complaint.
Congress began scanning the
highway programs last year
through the House Roads sub-
committee headed by Rep. John
Blatnick D-Minn. It has held two
major hearings.
While there is a tendency in
Congress to blame the bureau for
the ills besetting the highway pro-
grams. it must be noted that Con-
gress set up the ground rules, es-
tablished the state-federal regula-
tionships. and gave to the state*
the responsibility for actual road
building.
If any charge can be leveled
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out rating for it. he said: "I will
serve my country and my party
whenever called upon."
PLEASANT THINGS
He has been called upon—to
stump for Kennedy. He has been
pursuing that ta-k gracefully with
many fine and pleasant things to
say about the man who beat him
and many unpleasant things to
say about Vice President Richard
M Nixon.
Self-conscious Stevenson used to
exasperate newsmen with his
fidgety fussing over sentences and
phrases and his endless writing
and rewriting of his speeches on
plane hops between stops.
The result used to be that hows-
r .w often not hM (Dsechw Ute-
The Complaint Makers
There's a school of writers today that produces
books deploring our machine civilization and our at-
tachment to material possessions. The latest such
book is Vance Packard’s "The Waste Makers.”
Nobody can quarrel with an outright appeal to elim-
inate waste in our private lives, in industry and in gov-
ernment. Waste is expensive and morally bad, too.
But none of the writers of this ilk seems really wor-
ried too much about waste. It turns out that what
most of them seem to dislike is machines. Packard,
for example, objects to washing machines, driers and
dishwashers because they deprive the housewife of
time-filling tasks.
We can't guess where Packard ever got the idea that
voman’s need is to have something to do with her
inspect each job in his district
once a month. The inspection may
last a day, and in that day he is
supposed to check grades, take
samples of iaterials, consult the
state's project engineer on special
problems, and generally see that
the federal government is getting
its money’s worth.
The federal engineers have to
rely heavily on the state’s project
supervisors and hope the con-
tractor is living up to his agree-
ment.
Breakup of a million-dollar high-
way at Lordsburg, N.M., indicates
that federal engineers can’t al-
ways tell whether a highway is
well built just by looking.
While the federal government is
withholding payment of $200,000
on the Lordsburg project, the fact
remains that federal engineers
gave preliminary approval to the
work.
The Bureau of Public Roads did
spot the developing land scandals
in Massachusetts where selected
rights-of-way properties, so the re-
port goes, were overpriced. When
the need developed for an investi-
gation, the bureau gave the job to
a consulting firm. Critics com-
plained that the federal govern-
ment shouldn’t farm out its in-
vestigative chores.
The bureau takes the position
that the states have their own in-
spectors and engineers, and for
the federal government to set up
a more extensive supervisory sys-
tem would be a duplication of ef-
fort.
The bureau says it does not feel
obligated to question state records
as a rule, that it assumes these
records are accurate and submit-
ted in good faith.
By BEM PRICE
AP Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)-The U.S.
Bureau of Public Roads has an
annual budget of $29.5 million and
employes 1,122 engineers, includ-
ing 150 bridge engineers.
With this engineer force, the
bureau is supposed to exercise
supervision over the greatest
state-federal road building pro-
gram in history.
Over the past four years the
states and the federal government
have spent 110 billion on highways
and authorized the expenditure of
another 810 billion.
Since mid-1956 over 40,000 road
contracts have been executed and
10,000 are currently in force.
When the bureau was charged
only with the supervision of the
regular primary, secondary and
urban road programs, its 1,122-
man engineer force seemed ade-
quate. This is the program to
which the states and the federal
government contribute on a 50-50
basis.
But in 1956 Congress set up a
huge new program to build 41,000
miles of superhighways over a 20-
year period and told the bureau
to supervise this program, too,
without an increase in engineers.
Under this program the federal
government pays 90 per cent of
the cost.
Bureau engineers have to ap-
prove the design, plans and speci-
fications for roads in both pro-
grams. Further, they are expect-
ed to conduct on-the-spot inspec-
tions to see that all is going ac-
cording to contract.
In the past four years the en-
gineers have inspected over 135,-
000 miles of highways and 2,900
bridges.
This is a back-breaking chore
for such a limited force of en-
gineers.
At best, a federal engineer can
gi
against bureau operations, it
would be the exhibition of certain
bureaucratic tendencies.
Though the bureau disclaims
responsibility, it was a participant
in one of Washington prize
muddles. *
After the superhighway pro-
gram began, the question arose
whether certain defense items,
such as missiles, could pass be*
neath route interchanges and
bridges.
For years the bureau had ad-
hered to a 14-foot vertical clear-
ance standard, with Department
of Defense approval.
When the bureau wrote the De*
fense Department for a later opin-
ion, the Pentagon kicked the
question around for two years and
then Mid it needed 17 feet.
After consideration by the De-
partment of Commerce, the bu-
reau's boss, this defense require*
ment was arbitrarily reduced to
16 feet.
Meanwhile the bureau had ap-
proved construction of 800 bridges
at the 14-foot clearance figure. To
raise these 800 bridges to meet the
16-foot standard, the bureau es-
timates would cost $176 million.
As missile technology advances,
missiles are becoming smaller
and it is now hoped that 14 feet
will be adequate.
When the bureau was asked
why it hadn’t taken action uni*
laterally to raise ve.tical clear-
ances. it replied that such a de-
cision would not have been ap-
propriate, that this wss Defense
Department business and not its
own.
which meant newspapers and the
public got them late—and even
then had to watch every word he
spoke to check any last-minute
changes.
LITTLE TIME
Kennedy, like Nixon, talks off
th cuff. Stevenson was a literary
dancing master. Kennedy gives
the impression of a young man
who hardly has time to say hello.
Kennedy, like Nixon, harps on
the same theme day after day
with small variations until cover-
ing both men sometimes develops
a painful monotony.
Listening to Stevenson often be-
Calif., "ever so much more than
the movies of the same shows.”
THEATER TOO EXPENSIVE
As to "Little Theater” perform-
ances. 74 per cent of the young
people said there was one in their
city, but 71 per cent of the boys
and 50 per cent of the girls said
they never attend any of the per-
formances.
They explained the plays usual-
ly were on week nights and, be-
sides, the tickets were too expen-
sive.
Of all the art forms, ballet at-
tracted the smallest teen-age aud-
ience. But again, the 16 per cent
of the boys and 45 per cent of the
girls who had attended generally
were enthusiastic.
"Very impressive and beauti-
ful.” commented Betty F. Chalk-
ley. 17, of Richmond, Va.
Of the 82 per cent of the young-
sters who said there was an art
gallery or museum in their vicin-
ity (and all of them knew wheth-
er there was or was not), 51 per
cent said they visit them some-
times, 23 per cent seldom went
and 20 per cent never did.
"On quite a few Sundays when
there's a good exhibit,” said Bet-
ty B. Best, 17, of Richmond, "my
aunt and I go.”
Betty’s answer was significant.
Time and again the young people
indicated that if more adults
showed interest, more teen - agers
would take an interest in culture.
One of the most revealing re-
sults of the survey was the per-
centage of teen-agers who under-
take cultural advancement on
their own.
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By EUGENE GILBERT
Gilbert Youth Research Co.
Don’t let the blue jeans and
sneakers fool you. Our young pro-
pl* do have a yen for culture.
This is the conclusion we drew
after questioning 965 representa-
tive high school students. And
it is apparent even though only 2
per cent attend the symphony re-
gularly and only 6 per cent al-
ways go to the art museums.
Their reasons for not pursuing
the cultural arts more enthusias-
tically, however, were revealing:
and Mom and Dad might do well
to take heed.
Betty Chalkley, 17, of Richmond,
Va., Mid she never had attended
a symphony but "would love to.”
The trouble is, she Mid, "I can
never get anyone to go with.”
Only a handful of the youngsters
questioned felt like Thomas Kapp,
17, of Miami Beach, Fla. — "I
hate classical music."
Boys appeared less interested
in concerts than girls. Of the 52
per cent who said they never at-
tended. 63 per cent were boys and
41 per cent girls.
Attendance at road company
productions of Broadway shows
revealed the same teen-age atti-
tude: enthusiasm - among those
a desire to see them among those
myself, a friend.” But all of them
who hadn't. Only 24 per cent of
the boys and 38 per cent of the
girls had seen a road show.
"I enjoy them very much." Mid
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outside of school work; only 6
per cent never.
"I enjoy reading more than any-
thing else," said Judy Chesus, 17,
of St. Louis.
And what about lectures — out-
side of school? Forty - one per
cent of the youngsters had attend-
ed them and their reasons for go-
ing were well summed - up by
Sandra Spath, 17, of St. Louis:
"To learn something I knew
nothing about," she explained.
As a result of their own de-
sires, 50 per cent of the young-
sters had done some sketching or
painting. Only 87 per cent never
had (13 per cent did not say.) And
42 per cent, outside of school, had
written some poetry.
What did they do with the paint-
ing or poem?
"Stuck it in my drawer,” said
Anne Lansberg, 15. of Webster
Groves, Mo., who did a painting.
"Threw it away, it was terri*
ble," Mid Jamara Warhurst, 17,
of Claremont, who also tried her
hand at painting.
Margaret E. Gates, 17, of Clare*
mont has written many poems,
she Mid, "to Venus, Satan, God,
who had seen them, and at least
myself, a friend." But all of them
are "kept carefully hidden.”
Among the other avocations of
our teen-agers, 7 per cent take
dancing lessons, 39 per cent play
chess, 31 per cent collect classi-
cal records, 34 per cent listen to
the opera on television, and 23 per
cent are studying some musical
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