Philadelphia Schools
Teach Sex Education
• UP* Special Report)
By LEE LINDER
PHILADELPHIA {JP> — The
teacher spoke about the human
body and told how babies are born.
Some of the junior high school
pupils reddened, a bit embarrassed
as they avoided the sly glances
of their classmates. Others snick
ered. Most, however, took the sub
ject seriously and listened in
tently.
Sex education is an important
part of the curriculum of Phila
delphia’s junior and senior pub
lic high schools
What sex is taught to children
13 and older in segregated classes?
Either all boys with a male teach
er, or all girls with a female
teacher.
The Philadelphia Board of Edu
cation has been teaching about
“marriage problems and social hy
giene” — a more high-sounding
description of sex — for more than
25 years.
Teachers don't preach, they de
scribe. They don’t moralize or
condemn. They don’t advise or
suggest. They tell children who
want personal answers to personal
questions — which teachers can’t
handle under state school laws —
to see their parents, clergymen
or doctors.
“We try to develop an attitude
so youngsters will make up their
own mind,” says Benjamin Stack
owski, d.rector of the division of
P vsical and health education.
Dorothy McQueen, Stackowski’s
assistant, says full discussion of
marriage problems formerly was
confined to the senior high classes
— with pupils generally 17 and 18
— “but we have found this age
level is too late.”
The health education course, last
revised in 1950, is being reviewed
so younger boys and girls can be
reached.
Philadelphia public school pu
pils get hygiene once a week, for
45 minutes. Sex is only part of the
course. They also are taught about
foods, diet, first aid, exercise, com
munity health.
Flan Expansion for
Sheldon-,Jackson
At a meeting of the Sheldon
Jackson Junior College Advisory
Committee and Administration
during the week of September 25
plans were discussed for expand
ing the facilities so more students
could be accepted. Motions were
passed requesting certain aids from
the Board of National Missions of
the United Presbyterian Church
which operates the college, to fa
cilitate these additions.
In the plan would be a new ad
ministration building which would
include some classrooms and the
remodeling of the space now used
by administration for student
rooms. The Advisory Committee
also requested the administration
to survey the city of Sitka for ac
ceptable families who would be
willing to room students. Dr. Harry
Stearns, Chairman of the Division
ot Education of the Board was
present and expressed his satis
faction with the work being done
and his faith in the future of the
college.
I vi a ashcaev Congratulates
New Chief of Britain
MOSCOW (.Tt — Premier Khrush
chev sent a message of congratu
lations to Lord Home on his ap
pointment as Britain’s Prime Min
ister. Khrushchev said he believed
British-Soviet contacts will be suc
cessfully continued.
Recalling that Home, as foreign
secretary, was in Moscow last Aug
ust for the signing of the limited
nuclear test ban treaty, Khrush
chev said:
“We remember with pleasure
our recent meetings and useful
conversations with you in Mos
cow, and believe that personal
contacts and ties between the
statesmen of Great Britain and
the Soviet Union will be success
fully continued.”
ANCHORAGE SOLDIER KILLED
ADEL, Ga. W — A 24-year-old
Army sergeant — home on leave
from Anchorage, Alaska, to visit
his seriously ill father — decided
to repair the corn combine on his
father’s farm.
Sgt. Harmon Elliott Crosby Jr.
had the last bolt ready to put in
Saturday when the hydraulic lift
slipped from under the combine.
The machine fell, crushing him to
death. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Crosby of Adel.
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Alaska Program
•JUNEAU — The State Cham
ber of Commerce adopted • an 8
point resolution Saturday, includ
ing a plea for active support for
the construction of Rampart Dam
and the objectives of Yukon Power
for America, Inc.
Other sections of the resolution,
adopted unanimously at the Cham
ber’s 1963 meeting, placed the
Chamber on record as backing:
1. Access roads from Southeast
ern Alaska to the continental
hi way system.
2. Immediate up-grading and
year-around maintenance of t
Haines cut-off.
3. Paving the Alaska highwa
4. Removing hazards to navi i
I fion from Whitcstone and Serg
, Narrows on the Southeast
H;gh-- iy System route.
5. Vigorous action to insure suc
tv >■ of the Alaska Centennial Cel
ebration in 1967.
? Adoption of the concept of
multiple use of water.
7. Seaward extension by the
United States of jurisdiction for
fisheries purposes to 12 miles meas
ured from adequate base lines.
E. A.-sertion of ownership by the
Unite i States pursuant to the Ge
neva Convention of the crab re
sources of the continental shelf.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (fP> —
President Sukarno gave Indone
sians a 20-minute lecture today on
proper driving habits.
Speaking at a dedication cere
mony for a new four lane, eleven
mile superhighway on the out
skirts of Jakarta, financed with an
$8 million U.S. loan, he declared:
“I am mad at our own drivers.
Indonesian drivers do not know
discipline. In particular, they drive
their trucks as they like. Why not
have discipline and self-respect
and know what is good and bad-?”
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fairbanks Land Office
516 Second Avenue
Fairbanks, Alaska
July 8, 1963
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that JOHN M.
VALENTINE, Russian Mission, Alaska,
together with his witnesses, Charlie
Kozwnikoff and Anisum Belkoff, both
of Russian Mission, Alaska, has filed
Application to Purchase for his Home
site Settlement Claim, Fairbanks Serial
Number 028297. for lands described as:
U. S. Survey No. 3644, situated on the 1
right bank of the Yukon River in the
village of Russian Mission, Alaska,
containing 1.23 acres.
During the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter any person,
corporation, or association having or
asserting any adverse interest in or
claim to the tract of land or any part
thereof may file in the Fairbanks Land
Office, under oath an adverse claim set
ting forth the nature and extent there
of: and such adverse claimant shall, j
within 60 days after the filing of such j
adverse claim, begin action to quiet title
in a court of competent jurisdiction in {
Alaska, and thereafter patent shall be
issued in conformity with the final de
cree of the court.
ROBERT F. HILTON
Chief, Lands Section
Pub.: Sept. 23, 30; Oct. 7, 14. 21, 28; Nov.
4. 11, 18, 1963.
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