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R (YOUTH CONFERENCE
Role in Fighting Criine Continued From Page 1 Daniel K. Hedges of 3452 Pipi
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pected, were sandwiched in Cap- Lane, of
By HOWARD SPERGEL c o m m u n i t i e s throughout. tl, itol meeting rooms and in con- R ock Lane the 1963 governor the American Legion Boys State, co
Post Staff Correspondent the state. E ference rooms in nearby office told the other teen agers:
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AUSTIN Col Homer Garri- Astronaut See told the confer - B buildings during the seminars. You are here to fight the plt
The teen a g e r s discussed most disorganized, perhaps the Jo.
son Jr, director of the Depart -'1 ence delegates Saturday night: wior methods of kee in potential most tragic kind of crime — on
ment of Public Safety, said Sat -! EDUCATION IS a major key h dropouts in school; ways of juvenile delinquency." tor
urday he believes Texas t e e n to our space effort and our fu- teek making the public more aware Hedges said later he believed het
agers can do more than adults ture as a nation —and your pro- b of making teen age crime and delin- the conference, if nothing else, ch:
I to halt the spread of juvenile g ram to prevent school drop- E
delinquency and the increasingl outs can be an important con- {od of providingl and that the young people have an 2
tribution to this." i; I ed
number of school dropouts. facilities to provide more con- interest in public affairs.
Most of the delegates' day was ch:
Garrison and Texas -born As- spent: in seminars where Texas t for structive leisure -time activities Carr said the youth confer- the
tron Elliot M. See Jr w e r e law enforcement officers, educa - for potential trouble- makers. ence has been the fulfillment of
among those speaking to 1,140 tors, Texas Employment C o m -11r eek T ALSO di ways one of his campaign promises. 1
teen agers, including 87 f r o m He started a concrete program act
g mission officials and community1 of setting up teen age emplo -
Harris and Galveston Counties, service agency directors t o 1 d F ment agencies with the help of last spring after he became in- tor
in the packed House of Repre- what teen agers can do to fight school officials and the Texas creasingly concerned that 43 per de
sentatives for the opening ses- delinquency and d r o p o u t s in c Employment Commission. cent of all arrests for murder, Pc
sion of Atty Gen W a g g o n e r their own communities. c A s u m m a r y of conclusions robbery, aggravated assault and ell
Carr's first' annual youth con- Overflow audiences, about 200 I drawn from the seminar d i s- burglary in the state in 1962 in- Rt
ference. cussions will be given Sunday volved youths younger than 18 to
more delegates than were ex-
THE YOUNG leaders w e r e See YOUTH on Page 4 lher morning. years of age.
invited to help create the first "Crime is riding roughshod "YOU HAVE within your pow- to
state -wide organization in t h e , ek over the state," Garrison told er the ability to stem this tide hl
nation run by teen agers to com- TODAY'S PRAYER her the teen agers. He said an av- of turbulence," he told the teen!
bat juvenile delinquency, drop- Father in heaven, teach erage of more than 26 major agers. P]
outs and teen age unemploy us to be a better Christian crimes were committed in Texas Carr said before the confe- W
ment. 1 today. Teach us to live with every hour from January to
ence started that the attorney sE
The teen agers, most of them the mysteries in life that I June of 1963.. general's program, which began cc
dressed in casual sports clothes cannot understand. Teach r '" Garrison said there w e r e last April with an Austin pilot
and leaning back' informally in us always to wait upon Thy A 1 21, 000 juvenile offenses commit- Project, will not end when the 1 tc
the House's h e a v i 1 y- padded will for our lives. Let us Ited during the first six months of teen agers go home at 11 AM v
leather chairs, also heard Carr, teach others of Thy wonder- a Ithis year. Sunday. c]
and Bernard M. Suttler, an FBI ful love, in Christ's name. r p eriod, he "We intend to keep a close A , DURING THAT watch on tine progress that all T
inspector, describe the impor- FLO DUNN ' said, youths were involved in 13
tance of starting teen -led youth Lake Jackson per cent of the auto thefts; more these teen agers are making in a
- programs in rural and urban
than 15 per cent of the burglaries their local communities," he r
. and more than 9 per cent of the said. "We're counting on them
robberies in the state. t o show us the way." j ,
w ' Garrison told the teen agers -
ic'that they must not turn their
' ! backs on other teen agers w
are tentia trouble makers. '
po 1
'Too often we see the tur '
of heads . Th
o head e attitude
As long as he doesn't bother.
11' me, why should I stick my neck
out ?' Garrison said.
k Garrison said, after his speech p
that he believed teen agers carry a
more influence with other teen
agers than do law officers. la
r "WITH THE RIGHT kind of IN
' leadership, they can eep other 0
r teen agers from getting i n t o e_
trouble," he said. "If that Q
doesn't work, I don't know what s;
A!:will because the crime rate is
rising." n
LIER Saturday morning, ti
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1
Bryan Boys
Will Attend .
Youth Meet
Two Bryan- College Station
youths have been designated to
attend Attorney General Wag-
goner Carr's youth conferen ,
in Austin Aug. 17 -18.
Michael Allan Kraft, 308 Col-
lege View and John David Bad -
gett, 208 Pershing, are the se-
lectees. Kraft is sponsored by
the Bryan - College Station Ro-
tary Club and Badgett by the
Bryan - College Station Ex-
change Club.
The conference is a new ap-
proach for combating youth
crime in Texas and to let the
youth of the state themselves
help in solving the problem.
The 1963 Youth Conference
program will concentrate on six
major areas — law enforcement,
public awareness, community
service, sparetime and recrea-
tion, employment to combat
"dropout" and school adminis-
tration and the delinquent.