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CALIFORNIA

PROBLEM

TACKLES JUVENILE

Plan To Reduce Lawlessness

San Francisco, May 9. California is determined to make a serious effort to curb its juvenile delin- quency problem.

con-

Sponsored and encouraged by County. was particularly MI Goodwin J. Knight, ceraed with the 12-17 nge Cinvernor of California.

mote goup.

than 4,000 adult and Juvenile

"youth leaders" have drawn up "Limits must be wel beyondi

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programme which, which errant children will they hope, will reduce the in

permitted to

be

mul

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(ft.

creasing tendency towards law.glared. "They must be told those Jesscess among the state's teen-

And then Oger:

PROGRAMME

The programme provales for

[. The developinest Kreater employment oppo Duties for young people

must be enforred

1.

those limits Communi- adopted

which have ank-hostering and dinaires should do so at once.

curfow

"Parents must be made It Estouder the financial responsi finity for then children's vanda- ism Pathire to take a slither view of youth's short-comings that violate the law, gives kids the atlitiate that adults are providing an alibi for their mis- Evonicuet

M The establishment. the public schools, of a "des Tanqueswry detection" segvie do LEDORAMASI symptoms of delin- QUINTROD phi the valler stages when a eune is posible

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He emphasised that his own polsservafts led him to believe Endel juvenile delinquency as in- of Tereasing

Peite Cust local police, probation and arru

with mencased i

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Juvendent

Erelaties to remove puters from prisons.

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laws dealing Tents aral of laws regulating

The sale of 1 to mors

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YANIN ago. he said, he Sad to consider a case of A TO JOIN JUVenile assinalt.

The teenagers

"Now." he said. "I have had Governor's conference admitted at least 50 such cases, beatings and kickings. Jar the last three most

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to juvenile drinking errasing and is one of the majes Crausts of lawlesstress E2 there.

age agrono

The inobligation ul Juvenile police officers on a! PARAMiNg DISTEN To etarb Kauk | Delavities before they have

chorv develop into violent! manifestations

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years ago. he continued, he heard une attemptedt cuse every three months,

rape

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"So this year," he statel. 1 have heard 15 such cases.

youthful Six years ago, cases of rub- frustration such as titings and bery by Juveniles were few and far between, he declared, but "NOW, I have had 18 juvenile robbers before me during The last three months."-China Mall Special.

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A greater co-operation Lamong community agencies for the improvement of family relations.

More recognition, and anforcement, of anti-loster - Ing laws, curfew laws, and the possibility bo

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responsibility

parental Anancial for teenage vandalisin.

The conference gave consider- able attention to the opinions of deelagers themselves CUNCET- ang the best methods of reducing juvenile delinquency.

Pete Finnogati, 17-yeur-oki President of the San Francisco Youth Association, described what he considered the "model approach" to the problem.

NOT MUCH CHANCE

"Most of us," he said. "came to the conclusion that the cause of delinquency lies in the home. Teenagers admit they must have authority and discipline and we agree that education for home and family life is needed."

Saying that he did not think that there was much chance of

needed providing the parents authority and discipline in the gista resident or station-Average home, he suggested thal

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a most welcome handbook for ornitholo

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All

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QUIRES in such fields be given in the schouls.

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a short account is given

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voice,

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Mr Justice

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of 42 species and many ueful drawings in the text. The writer of this would have greatly from

review benefited

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years ago.

SECURITY

BENEFITS RETAINED

Wellington May 9. Even now,

A bill giving effect to the on referring to it, some agreement for reciprocity In species socini security made between

40 unfamiling

on which notes were the governments of the United made at the time hayaKingdom and New Zealand has almost all proved easily been introduced in the House of Identifiable, D. W. S. Representatives.

(Extract from "The Ibis” official ergan of the British Ornithologists" Union, British Mussum).

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The Minister of Social Securi- |4y, Mr Eyre, said the general pfurpose of the agreement Was that persons emigrating from one country to the other would be taken into the social security

scheme of the receiving country, SAME CONDITIONS They would be paid benefits by the receiving country under the same laws and conditions applicable to the residents of that country.

The agreement covered ago, superannuation, widows, orphans, invalida, sickness and unemploy mont benents,

Reciprocity in family' benefis had boon in forde between the two countries since 1949.—Chiná Mall Special..

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Str John Harding, Governor-General of strife-tom land of Cyprus, is encuried by the Vienr General of Maronites (Minority Community in Cyprus) during a visit to an ancient church in the island's capital-Express Photo.

HUNGARY

REMOVING BARRIERS

Vicuna, May 9. Tho Hungariun Foreign Ministry has informed the Aus- trian diplomatie

in mission

on Budapest that all barriers

frontier the Austro-Hungarian will be removed by the end of this month, the Austrian press agency APA reported tonight.

Simplon Tunnel 50 Years Old Next Month

Brigue, Switzerland, May 9.

The Simplon tunnel, the longest mainline railway tunnel in the world and a vital link between porthern and southern Europe, celebrates its 50th anniversary on June 1.

Special celebrations are planned on both the. Swiss and Italian sides and visits will be made by leading personalities of both countries.

The Italian President, Drly mat in the heart of the moun- Giovanni Gronchi, will go total six and a half years later, Switzerland, the Swiss President, they were less than 8 inches out un rezards direction and there Dr Markhus Feldmann, to Daly was only about 91⁄2 inches dif-

ference in height.

on

The

digging of presented enormous

the tunerel dimenities of bad

Tiro first pick-oxe blow for

construction of the 12

tunnel miles

struck was

on the Swiss but the great obstacle August 1, 1808,

rock, found when the great St side of the mountain. This was Gotthard tunnel was excavated almost non-

1880. was

existent.

followed by the start of work on in the Italian side on August 18 of the game year.

A total of 67 men lost their live during the digging of the tunnel, which took seven anal a half years to complete and cost 78,000,000 Swiss francs

Enormous Difficultios

Among the greatest problems were the numerous sublaranenu springs encountered ઘર the great heat of the rock as the excavators neared the heart of the mountain.

It Was only thanks to Brandt's insistence that amall subsidiary ventilation tunnel be bullt parallel with the main tunnel so that fresh air could be The main driving power be-pumped in that the men were

able to work at all. hind the project was a German engineer, Alfred Brandi, who was born in Hambling in 1840 and invented the rotary drill for piercing granite, which bears his name today.

Bandt did not live to see the tunnel completed. He died while

in working

Live tunael in November 1899, less than two after work hod years

been started. But his plans were follaved meticulously through out the years that followed.

Even so, for a distance of hott a mile acar the centre of the tunnel,

the Swiss

skle renature on the $4 degrees Centigrade (129.2

degrees Fahrenheit)

while on the Italian side it rose to 46 degrees Centigrade (114.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

But thanks to the ventilation system as well as the spraying of the rock with cold water, the work went on in shifts.

Subterranean Reservoir

At one point, workers digging from the Ralian side experienced sudden and unaccountablo

drop in the temperature.

Two converging tunnels were started. The northera one, from the Swiss side, began about 1% miles freen this small Alpine at an attitude town of Brigue, of about 2,300 feet and trea southern tunnel, from the Halian cide, at an altitude of 1,850 feet, The

sald agency

barbed just over halt a mile from Isolle. wire

be and "ming fields will dismanticd од ardus of tho

of Brandt'a Hungarian Interior Ministry. | plans can be judged by the fact

thai`when the two tunnels Opal-

Reuter.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

--AND TEAR IT APART AS THOUGH IT WERE PAPER!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

I SURE ENJOYED

MY PICNIC ---I BET

WEIGHT AND FORTUNE

YOU ARE THE NEAT TYPE WHO

BUSHMILLE

1 GAINED FIVE

POUNDS

CITY PARK

JOHNNY HAZARD

SO THAT'S THE TRANSFER GÜRANICICI PLANE COMES IN LOW, WITH TRAILING CABLE WHOOK ON THE END......... SHAOS THE WASHUNEW AND AWAY GOES THE BAS WITH THE SECRET MATI PAPERS /

KEEPS THINGS TIDY

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| OPERATION,-, WITH A GOOD EPGR ON | RECOVERING "THE PAPERS AND SAVING,

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By Frank Robbins

JOHNNY'S THOUGHTS ARE SUDDENLY BROKEN BY

THE PRONE OF AN APPROACHING PLÁNEŽĪ

The

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TALK

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A little later, they came upon a zone of key cold water-bearing 99ck which eventually opened on to on onormous subterranean

reservolt,

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Hot and cold springs were constantly bursting through the walls and ceilings on to the diggers and halting tho work. More than

20,390,000 gallons of water, a day but to be pumped out of the galleries. in all, 1.810,000 cubic yards of rock were dug out of the moun- tota

aport

On February 24, 1905, the two funnds were only a few yards and preparations were made for celebrations to mark the removal of the last. rock barrier between them.

The final charges of gin powder were laid, and ex ploded. But instood of the traditional handshakes and chors, the two teams were met by streams of scalding water from a hot spring.

Once again all work had to be. temporarily suspendal

Four-man Guard

The union of the tunnels was finally accomplished attr 2,400 days of work, during which the пустите daily advanco was about 27. feet 2 inches.

The Simplon tunnel is today. guarded by four men, who patrol its whole length every four hours,

One day, these men were on

to duty patrol when

Kheir amazement they met an elderly

man riding through the tunnel on

a bicycle from Italy to Switzerland. When he woe brought out into the daylight, it was found that he was a former member

Pope's Swiss Guard, who had boon pensioned off and who was cycling to Basie by what he considered to be the quickest route.

of tho

The first rains, which . ran through the Simplon Hunnel,' in June, 1900, were steam driven, but by October of that your the whole route to Iselle had been electrified in common with the rest of the Swiss Federal rail- way network.

Today

an average of between 40 and 60 trains pass through the kunniel Lovery

In clay.

1954, 937,000 passengers were carried through it, and 1,200,000 tons of merchandise. An average of 12,000 motor vehiclce go through each year ce the special cure.

treins.

Coaching Route

From Belgue to Domodossol the journey today take about 30 minutes compared, with 10 hour by couch, beken tho tunnel was oponad 50: yowen DIJO,

50th silversary of.

| 401K with the 15011-

of the old filmpion The motoc road over the Simplon route-marked, focate by