The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas (2024)

December 10, 1965

Publication:

The Wichita Beaconi

Location:

Wichita, Kansas

Issue Date:

Friday, December 10, 1965

Page:

36

Extracted Article Text (OCR)

is as A y-r 4V -mvsv jkiw ti wvw jv Atf ft' r'f 'Sfflr 1 'iv1 ft jr4 'UL V- 3- THE WICHITA BEACON Friday December 10 1968 Pag 12C But the Bad Ones Arc Horrid Christmas ffoimi WUh Each Iflajor Purchase at II Tf- IELICT YOUR Mil CUT INla I 5 FROM OUR CHRISTMAS Till that the chief cause was hom*o-! sickness now GOES THE WAlt? Pick a PHILCO Portable Pricas Start at S9993 By LOUM CASREI8 Of United Prria lnternntinnal WASHINGTON (LTD Job Gorpa Instillation ara aome-what like Ilia Utile girl In the Mother Gooie rhyme When they are good they are good when they are bad they are honid Pick a PHILCO COLOR SET Prices Start at S35993 Fourth in a series of articlea on the national war against poverty --i Pick a PHILCO STEREO Pricae Start at 314995 not All misconduct charges against Job corpsmen turn out to be exaggerated On Nov 12 several dozen trainee! from a camp at Kalamazoo Mich were involved in a brawl with police after attending a dance in the city The youths were accused of rampaging through the downtown section smashing windows and looting shops In Arizona four Job corpsmen from a camp near Flagstaff were sentenced to prison for railing a young Indian girl Negro and whit youths were involved in a fight at Tongue Point Ore and police had to break up a gun-aiid-knife battle among rnrollees at Lewiston Calif Dropouts also have been a problem The dropout rate at all Job Corps installations averaged 23 per cent during the first months OEO concluded AT CAMP PARKA Calif which la operated by IJiton In-duatrifs reporter Tom Brown found 2000 youths receiving rale" vocational instruction la electronics automobile repair and other fields electronics classrooms are crammed with the latest equipment'1 anys Brown auto workshops would do most commercial establishments proud Instructors almost uniformly a to be professionals who know their fields and can teach competently" ltraull: among the trainees la high and the dropout rate is well below the national average" Up Te 16 Mentha Te Pay If yen desire terms as little as $200 Dawn delivers Ne Payment Til MARCH ef New Year THE JOB CORPS was let up last year to prepare poor youth for Job It enrolls boys and gtrla ago 16 to XI for period up to two year Some are aent to small rural camps located in national parka or foreala which are reminiscent of the Civilian ConacrvnUon Corps (COC) campa of the 1930's VWI house In which they were assured simps and classroom would eventually be located The camp got a Jolt of bad publicity when amen of its corpsmcn were arrested for a hom*osexual assault on a 17-year-old hoy Hie Mid West Educational Foundation Inc which oi 1 I Jp rrts" "sfir S'- l-ZP-i TWO BIG LOCATIONS Mr South 1611 Hillside Mr T'S North 2629 Breadway Others go to big urban training crates the camp finally brought centers jin Dr James Hrynncr a Cin- Orgiinal plans called for the cinnail school superintendent to Job Corps to reach a trrnglhtraighten things out Accorded 40000 by last Juno SO and ing to reporter Jim Carr AAiuiik a tu a Bi la it Lu Jh fiM VI liifi '-F it OPEN DAILY 9 TO SUNDAY I TO 6 100000 by next June SO But Dr Hrynner has done a firsl- haa been slower getting under way than the Office of Economic Opportunity (OFO) antid-ited About 1 pated' About 16000 youths are now enrolled at 72 centers A COMPUTER STUDY shows that the typical job corpsman is 17H years old has the equivalent of a fifth grade education cornea from a family of six living in overcrowded substandard housing and has been out of school and out of work for a year when he signed up Chances are 50-50 that he has a record of Juvenile crime The Job Corps has taken on the herculean task of maintaining discipline among such youngsters instilling in them enough hope and incentive to keep going when they become homesick overcoming their basic educational deficiencies and teaching them a marketable skill Some of its Installations have failed rather conspicuously GAMP BRECKINRIDGE KY has been an embarrassment to rale Job camp is now a beehive of activity" Carr says "there are about 400 corpsmen In training with an additional 9 arriving each week Vocational training is being given in six fields automotive service building trades food service aiqilianco repair refrigeration and heating Everything I saw was neat and clean the staff seems competent and the trainees to whom I talked were enthusiastic about their opportunity to prepare for skilled occupations" ANOTHER INSTALLATION which seems to have settled down after an unhappy start Is the Women's Center at St Petersburg Fla located in an old resort hotel in the middle of town it became a bone of contention among some residents of the city last summer There were vague but widely circulated rumors of moral laxity among the girls UPI Correspondent a 1 Jackson says that St Petersburg police have never found any factual support for the rumors center is located in the heart of an area of hotels apartments and rooming houses apartments and rooming nouses the OEO ever since it opened 1 by South- last June Operated era nuwois University under a glO-million contract it was supposed to provide vocational tiie tot trainees urtved they to eiderly white tour- found barrack and mesa hnSd residents" acilitJes far from adequate and training program virtually non- girl at the cents latent Some were put to work Nemo The hotel taken ter are Negro The hotel taken renovating buildings or mowing lawns Others Just loafed Tjt Aug 20 a riot broke out at Breckinridge It had racial overtones but apparently was triggered primarily by general disoontw and a racket operated by some of the trainees Thirteen persons were hospitalized and about 150 youths left over by the Job Corps is no air conditioned and the girls were forced to keep their windows open so that whatever noise they made by playing radios or Just talking was disturbing to some of their elderly neighbors" The center now has more than 250 girls being trained for employment as beauty operators dental technicians practical nurses business machine operators or sales clerks and is operating smoothly Jackson CAMP ATTERBURY 2ND also got of! to a bad start Instead of beginning vocational training the tot arrivals were put to work emptying ware- SAVE New General Electric TOTE-BAG HAIR DRYER Model HDX $1695 Value! Saturday Only 99 30 for the busy co-ed teenager or any girl on the go bouffant bonnet fits over the biggest rollers top lets her check her hair without disturbing the set has 72 air Jets to spread drying warmth evenly through hair heat selections plus for summertime use quiet motor dries hair quickly and evenly Power Head LANTERN With 6 Volt Winchester Battery and Flasher Powerful beam to 2000 fed A quality import light The perfect gift for the sportsman boating motoring farm use etc Compares with 1495 Values! Let America's favorite Bourbon deliveryourseason's greetings-Good Health Good Luck More Wealth That's the message your friends will find on the colorful gift-wrap of Old Crow Good wishes (j on the outside good whiskey on the inside Two gifts in one OLD CROW Famous Smooth Mellow THERE IS A STORE NEAR YOU VIC CLARK 1716 West Douglas pZAL 722 North Mala STEEL-LEWIS 2202-64 Douglas PLEASANT VALLEY 1516 29th No PLAZA HARDWARE JsUi in AUGUSTA KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROOF DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY THE FAMOUS OLD CROW DISTILLERY CO FRANKFORT ic.

About The Wichita Beacon Archive

Pages Available:

574,434

Years Available:

1879-1980