SCHOOL AND tOtlff CMLb
Dress Conformity In School
Poses Problems For Parents
By JOHN COREY
(Education Department, ASTC)
Just paying for the clothes
?ear Is ? formidable Mkoucti
task for most parents. But this
doesn't end the dress problem.
Getting yocugsters to wear
happily the apparel yott buy for
them is sometimes not easy.
Yotag folks have their ovrti
"dresa code," and if a member
doesn't stay reasonably within
the bounds he's asking for ridi
cule or outright rejection by the
group, few youngsters feel suc
cessful without full acceptance
by their pals.
Wise parents recognize this
and consult with their sons and
daughters before buying clothes
for them. The children's ap
proval at this point can mean
less rebellion and unhappiness.
Young people are entitled to
be in on the decision. They do
wear the clothes and they alone
absorb peer ridicule if attire
deviates too far from normal.
BUt youngsters are inclined to i
take fads too far. Sometimes
they must be braked with a firm
"no
Parents must take firm stands
An fads that are obviously in
bad taste. For instance, girls
Wearing tight shorts to school or
boys letting their shirttails hang
eut. Definitely taboo also should
be ducktail haircuts and motor
cycle jackets, which I under
stand, indicate the wearers have
undergone certain "worldly" ex
periences.
For styles that have no im
proper suggestions, however,
parents are wise to bend to the
current fad. There should be no
Objection to Janie sporting
saddle shoes if they're the vouge
rather than loafers. Same for
Junior wearing blue jeans if
knitters are out.
Abo, fads vary according to
Communities. Sophisticated at
tire may be the rule in wealth/
suburban school districts. The
sane dress might be laughed at
in a farm area school.
Unacceptable in upper grades
of either school are dress trim
mings which Mama may con
sider cute, such at ribbons in
her daughter's hair or bnf,
curly locks on her hoy. Mother
must learn te quit playing "baby
doll" with her children when
they reach a certain age. Fur
ther, she should expect them to
become somewhat dirty from
school recess play.
The cost factor of children's
clothes can't be overlooked, of
course. Mother and father aren't
adviaed to strip the family eco
nomic gears just te keep Janie
and Junior in the current vogue.
One Charlotte psychologist re
ported to a newspaper columnist
that he gave this advice when
asked by parents and teens how
to halt the expensive cycle of
fadism:
"Parents must be fair but
firm. We were just like today's
teens. We wanted to be tit style.
But we weren't subjected to to
day's exploitation.
"Parents should be reason
able in making efforts to let
children buy clothing m near '
like the specific fad itetas as
possible, but they certainly
should not strain the budget to
buy $5.96 shirts when simitar
and serviceable 'W shirts are all
they can normally afford.
"The main thing is to con
vince our young people that we
understand their desires but
that they have an obligation to
understand family responsibili
ties."
(Editor's Note: Readers hav
ing questions concerning educa
tion are invited to send inquiries
to School and Your Child, Ap
palachian State Teacher* Col
lege, Boone, N. C.)
Packaged Sweet Potatoes
May Make Debut Soon
Fresh sweet potatoes may
soon make their debut in
consumer-size units. Recent tests
in Raleigh indicate thejr would
fee a big success.
Before this, because ofcfliiie
cay problem peculiar to faeet
potatoes, pre-packaging was not
feasible. A new decay prevent
ive treatment developed by the
V. S. Department of Agriculture
now makes this possible.
In Raleigh, when four super
markets offered, packaged sweet
potatoes to their customers,
sales tripled. A week before the
test, 42 bushels of bulk sweet
potatoes were sold. During the
two-week period in which sweet
potatoes treated with a preserv
ative were packaged it 1 poly
ethylene and plastic mesh bags
and in tray-packs, sales jumped
to 133 bushels a week.
Although the researthers ?
Henry Covington, North .Caro
lina State horticulturist and Lee
Kushman, U. S. Department of
Agriculture plant physiologist ?
do not say that packaging ac
counted for all of the increase.
they do believe that it gets most
of the credit.
Three types of packaging were
used: <}) ventilated poly bags
similar to those used for other
produce items; (2) plastic mesh
bigs; and (S) molded palp trays
overwrapped with shrink film.
Raleigh shoppers showed no
special preference for any of the
three packages.
Consumers said the chief rea
son they bought more of the
packaged sweet potatoes was be
cause they knew other custom
ers had not handled them. They
also believed the potatoes were
fresher. And they liked the fact
that they could make their pur
chase more quickly with the
produce already wrapped and
pnceci.
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to express our
appreciation and thanks for the
many acts of kindness shown to
us during the illness and death
of our father and husband,
Spencer Miller. ? Mrs. Spencer
Miller and family.
RECEIVES CHARTER. ? Boy Scout Troop
UO o < Blowing Rock received it* charter in
special ceremonies held on January 24 at the
Episcopal Parish House. Local and district
Scout officials who participated in the oc
casion are, left to right: Bruce Greene,
Scoutmaster; Jim Stout, District Chairman of
Watauga County; David Spainhour, Organisa
tion and Extension Chairman of Watauga
County; Rev. Ward Courtney, Troop Commit
tee Chairman; and Rev Blake Brinkerfcoff,
Instructional Representative -of Troop 110.
News Report From Washington
Washington, D. C. ? President I
John F. Kennedy has a major t
task facing him in seeking to ]
counter the influence el Gen- <
eral Charles DeCauIle in Italy
and West Germany, But this is t
what the President must do In (
Itis forthcoming trip to Europe. 1
It is dear in Washington that I
France is embarked on a course 1
to keep Great Britain and the <
United States out of Europe, so 1
that General DeGauile can be i
the dominant factor on the con- j
tinent. ?. I
This entails keeping Britain 1
oat of the European Common
Market and reducing U. S. in- <
fluence, or ?weddling" as Paris 1
has pot It. General DeGauile is 1
resohite in 1 this program and 1
nothing Is likely to change him.
As early aa last summer and
spring, it was acknowledged in
the State Department that De
Gaulle was the number one U.
S. problem in Europe.
Unfortunately for President J
Kennedy and the country, the
State Department and Secretary
of State Dean Rusk alienated
both DeGauile and Chancellor
K our ad Adenauer at tha.same j
tine. This gave DeO^fflft ht?'
opening and he seized .Wett it. ?
He wooed the aging German I
Chancellor, who was bitter i
ibout an un wise and harsh let
er Kusk had dispatched to the
Sonn Government, aAd won him
tver.
Had DeGaalle not been able
:o capture the vote ol the
itrongest continental power,
West Germany, he could not
low be successfully keeping
Britain out of the ECM, nor
:ould he so openly defy the
United States. But DeGaulle
now has his Paris-Bonn axis, 1
lust as other cruder dictators j
in the thirties arranged the
Rome-Berlin axis.
Kennedy's certain gala later
this year is that a new Chan
cellor will take over in West
Germany. That could end
Bonn's allegiance to Paris.
Meanwhile, to keep a worried
Rome in line, Kennedy will
visit that country, as well as
West Germany . Tfcei^e is WW 1 1
to be gained, especially in West
Germany, and Kennedy's trip
night be his most critical for
eign affairs mission since his
Inauguration.
there are indications on
Capitol Hill only one tax bill
Mil be forthcoming at this ses
atoh of Congress, not the two
in-one package requested by
the President Sentiment in the
House of Representatives is
very strong in favor of tax re
ductions in one bill, first, and
tax reform later.
Even House Democratic lead
ership, on balance, seems to
favor the one bill approach.
Many legislators do Mot wish to
see tax reform enacted until
next year.
In the Senate there may be
more support for the president
ial package bill but tax legisla
tion originates in the House
and therefore the attitude of the
House, Which seems a one-bill
attitude as of now, may Ac de
cisive.
There are reports e^-Vice
President Richard Nixon may
not be the dead political ddck
many have assumed. His defeat
in the gubernatorial campaign
was a heavy blow but it was
offset to an unknown extent by
such ill-advised smears as the
now-famous television program
on Which Alger Hiss waa used
to degrade Nixon.
The recent Republican ?on
gressiqptl victory in the First
District in California has sad**
ed hopes the 0. 0. P.
gaining strength again. Nixon?
may be asked to undertake a
world tour, in the tradition of |
?*"?" tdM. [.
Physician Says Diagnosis Of 1
Childhood Ulcere Increasing I
By JOHN B REMBERT, It 0.
The problem of nlcers, both i
gastric and *ut??nal, are h- t
miliar to all adults, but whan i
infants and young children are i
uid to have ao ulcer moat ad- i
ults are quite surprised The i
diagnosis of ulcer in childhood j
it becoming more common and (
with this awareness on th* part j
of the famliy physician, more i
unexplainable abdominal com- <
plaints will be properly diag
nosed. .
Ulceration of the duodenum, j
the first portion of the small ,
bowel, is mere common than ,
gastric ulceration and, in gen- j
eral, the family hiatory for |
peptic ulcers will be {JOeitive, ,
this familiar occurrence of |
ulceration being well establish- ?
ed. \
In childhood, ulceration of i
the gastric mucosa or of the i
duodenum, occurs most com- j
monly in the first year, par
ticularly from the age of 6
weeks to S months. The symp- |
toms in the youngest patients
usually are more severe ? Need
ing obstruction or peiforatitm?
and perhaps these severe symp
toms explain the greater num
ber of cases in the very young
being correctly diagnosed.
In the infants of oMer age or
past the neonatal period the
symptoms tend to be more
vague. There m*y be a reluct
ance to take feedings, abdominal ,
pains and "colic" with excessive
crying, and vomiting.
In the pre-school years, the
symptoms become more con
fusing and less acuW^rabdomi
nal complaints often to^iYig no ,
relationship to meals. The gen- j
eral feeling now apiOBg most
physicians is that recurring ab- j
dominal pain regardless rela
tionship to meals ahd abdominal
location is probably peptic
ulceration until proven other
wise by X-Ray examination. j
defeated presidential candi
dates.
Yet the odds are still against
a man who lost the gubernator
ial race in hia own state, unieas
he could win the gubernatorial
nextu^. To ft*, JM -Nix
on might have t# be convinced,
had he might have to do some
world traveling ? if the right
meetings and arrangements
could be made.
The Job's Not Done . ? ?
in 1743, ninety-seven out ot every hundred farm
families In North Carolina HAD to draw and carry
water from the well. Thanks to REA ? and the
metnbeF-ewr>ed rural electric cooperative# ? ninetv
einht out of a hundred now have electricity avail
able to "do the ]ob.
BUT, only si* out of ten farm homes actually
have running water systems ? a convenience that
moet of us consider a necessity.
? As the price of electric service falls, more
mrtjl people cdh afford t<5 add electrte bumcS Ahd
if our rural electric cooperatives ore ollowed to sur
vive, Wlot price WILL continue te foil.
tn eight years, rural electric cooperative rfites
In Nwifc Cafcflno dropped (rtw*wt 3? pfcrceAt t>et
_lH
pit* this, we still Hove a long way to go. Our co
operatives get only $453 in revenue per mile of lint
in North Carolina. Compare this to the $3,879 per
mile received by our state's privet* power com
panies.
As our cooperative* c*M imwumm, and reve
nue per mile increases, each member bears a
smaller port of his system's coSts. That's why it's
Important that cooperatives be eflowtd tt> eerve new
loads and enjoy the benefits of their investments
within their territories.
If they are allowed to do this, it will mean that
more and more rural ptbple wilt dftme to know
the conveniences that city people have had for
years. .
In the school age cMtd the
complaint moat often heard fc
that of patfi with meat! or after
meals. In the school child up to
the ace of 19
15 oa, the iy<hp
:tns follow the typical ones
for adults, chiefly that food IB
take relieves the abdominal dia
ls
Parents should he aware of
the possibility of ulceration in
infanta and young children? so
often the doctor la finally ooa
inHed by the parents who have
Felt that tkeir child is complain
IBS wiiH aociominai cramps or
romittatf to gain attention or to
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way* a possibility and with early
prevented.
K-9 Corps dog obeys walkie
talkie order* i? Virginia.
Spain calls for revision of
!>ases pact.
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Accideat Policy . . who'U
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1MN volta of picture ptwer deliver sharp, crisp picture.
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?Tinted eye-shade litter glass . . . Improves plctare con
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