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By CARL HENN DO YOU KNOW what your children are worrying about? Maybe you—like most adults— recall your childhood as a gay, happy time without a worry In the world. But a Purdue University psychologist has discovered that children stew and fret about all sorts of problems. Even dancing. Prof H. H. Remmers, Purdue, and Prof, Robert H. Bauernfeind, Carleton College, Minn,, surveyed more than 5000 children in ‘elementary . grades 4 through 8 across the United States. Shrewd questions revealed kids are troubled by aches and itches, bad grades, lack of friends, selfconsciousness, pimples, finances and scores of other problems. Their difficulties ranged from being too fat or too thin, through a dislike of arithmetic and geography, to a plaintive concern be-

“Sometimes I wish I was dead,” said 16 per cent of the youngsters. & » . - SEVENTEEN per cent admitted: “I get mad too much,”| and 16 per cent were troubled because, “I do things I shouldn't do.” »

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picked on them, made fun of them, didn’t help them or didn’t like them.

There were 9 per cent. who

said—hold your hats: work is too easy.” Evidently, the future is portant to children. Thirty-nine per cent revealed:

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for “at least one good friend,” only 2 per cent thought, “nobody likes me.”

8 o o PERHAPS nervousness is the

‘reason for 35 per cent saying: “I

bite my fingernails too much.” Thirteen per cent were frank in stating: “I worry too much.” At home, 24 per cent wished the family had more money, and 29 per cent longed for a room of ‘their own, Divided into upper and lower economic brackets, it. was not surprising P find that substantially fewer children of higherIncome families needed more money or their own room. ‘ But the answers to a total of 223 questions . in the survey proved money isn't everything. The upper-bracket children bad almost as many problems as those in, less fortunate circumstances. And money can have drawbacks, as proved by 13 per lcent of the wealthier half, who {said they didn’t like to take muisic lessons. Only 11 per cent of the lower bracket held the same lopinion. There were more children (21 per cent) in the upper half who

(wished their daddies were home,

more often, against 19 per cent lof those with lower incomes who

Seventeen per cent were definite “I'd like to know what I'm going wished likewise.

in saying: “I don’t like school.” But only 5 per cent said they| didn’t like teachers, and less than|

5 per eent believed teachers| Although 13 per cent longed more frequent in rural than in problem,

to be when I grow up.” And 29 per cent said: “I'd like to learn how to dance.”

o ” ” | KIDS who confessed to being afraid of animals were 215 times

Evansville Firm Gets Big Rifle Order

Times Washington Burean

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8— The time after the first of the year,”|

Production will start “some

Evansville, Ind, plant of Inter-/Paul F. Schreiber, works mannational Harvester Co, today got 28° of the Harvester plant, sald

2 “multimillion-dollar order” for American M-1 Garands, which

the Western Allies.

in Evansville today.

The plant, which turns freezers, milk coolers and cotton

ne IL D8 Ae, Standard. rifle. for.all picker drums, is being. tooled for) {manufacture of the rifles.

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(aging and shipping ‘all will be done ‘at the Evansville plant, where 108,000 square feet in the main building will be devoted to making Garands. Production of the rifle was discontinued at the end of World War II because a largg supply

[was on hand. The rifles now used the State Highway Department The Army order—for ah un-| An estimated 1500 employees In Korea are M-1s rebuilt by the 12 years'and was a member of

disclosed number of the semi- will be needed at peak production, | AT™Y Ordnance Corps.

automatic 30-caliber Garands—

apparently settled a dispute with mate how many of the 1500 would as undergone Britain over adoption of the Brit- be present employees of the plant. ments, ish 28-caliber rifle as standard|He expected some would be abequipment for Gen. Eisenhower's solved as production of refrigera{tion machinery declines because A few days ago, Winston|,¢ materials shortages.

NATO forces.

Churchill admitted only 20 of the| British rifles were on hand and quantity production could not be! started before 1954. Only about 100,000 could be produced in that year, the British Prime Minister added. Today’s order was the first placed by the Army for Garands gince World War II,

Mr. Schreiber would not esti-|

90% of Parts Ninety per cent of the Garand’s parts — except barrels — will be turned out at the Evansville plant. Forgings and some completed castings will be furnished by about 40 outside manufacturers,

Army officials said the Garand “many refineincluding a gunsight which enables the stldier to aim quickly and fire rapidly.

Oversight

TAMPA, Fla, Dec. 8— Police arrested Roosevelt McQueen, 32-year-old post office employee, on a mail theft charge yesterday when he attempted to exchange a dress which did not fit his wife. A department store employee recognized the shipping tag on the

but assembly, proof firing, pack-

garment and called in authorities.

|urban areas, And all were afraid | of the dentist (13 per cent) more] [than of. the doctor (7 per cent). Profs. Remmers and Bauernfeind are offering their “Junior Inventory” of children’s prob{lems to teachers, counselors and school administrators, as a help| in meeting obvious needs. | For instance, they remarked! a large percentage of young ones showed a strong desire to do better work in school; almost a quarter wanted ‘to learn to read better, and nearly a third said: “I'd

like to find some good books to:

read.” Results showed “problems that result in drop-outs and other school difficulties at the high s¢hool level already are emerg-| ing at the fourth grade. FElementary schools should act now to recognize and solve these simple problems. The complicated problems that may develop later may not be so easily solvable.” The . psychologists warned against misinterpreting the results of a survey. They said. ONE: Some children may mijsunderstand the question, and answer incorrectly. TWO: * A child may fail to mark —— or refuse to mark — a {problem that is serious. THREE: The Inventory does not measure the intensity. of the

Former City Man, 49, Dies in Evansville Times State Service i { EVANSVILLE, Dec. 8—Thom-! as E. Spong, a construction engineer and former Indianapolis resident, died in his home here

today. He was 49. ror ME. SPODK. formerly was with

/the Scottish Rite and Shrine here. | He was a graduate of Shortridge! High Schoo Indianapolis. The wife, Beatrice, and a, daughter, Karen, survive, Services will be at 2 p. m. to-| morrow at Lowe & Son Funeral Home, Evansville, with burial here. :

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