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16 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, August 9, 1966 Alcoholic Families Seen mtadtce Key Probiem For Youths By CHARLENE ARMSTRONG HAMILTON (CP) -- "I wouldn't steal or beat anyone up when I'm sober. But when I'm drunk I don't give a damn who sees me or what I do. "I'm the only person in the world." Less than a week after our conversation, the Hamilton youth who said this was kilied when the car he had stolen crashed. , Many -- probably most -- members of middle-class soci- ety would just dismiss him as a young punk, a kid who drank deliberately and was out looking for trouble. But he did have a reason for drinking--to forget, to escape from a life which had given him a large share of bad breaks. In this way, he was typical of many so-called problem youngsters from poor family backgrounds, Their drinking, which may start in the early teen years, is often an escape from a way of life which most Canadians would find intoler- able. A man who works closely with these troubled, rebellious young people in their own sur- roundings is Rev. Alan Mat- thews, executive director of Youth Anonymous. He says about half the young people he knows are from alcoholic families. The rest are from homes where there are other bad habits, such as poor spending or earning patterns, infidelity or jealousy. BLAMES INSECURITY Says Mr. Matthews: "Many of these kids started day one with insecurity. . . . The moth- ers were unsure of the fath- ers, of their love or even of where they were. Maybe when the baby was born, the mother had a mental break- down and spent some time in an Ontario Hospital. "These kids suck people in, conning them, using them, taking in everything they can They suck on a pop bottle or a beer bottle. They can't learn to give because they've never received anything so have nothing to give anyone else." Although most of these teen-agers drink at least oc- casionally, drinking is not usually their main problem. Drugs, sex, gambling, fight- ing and theft are other means of these young people of ex- pressing themselves or get- ting attention because, for some, attention even from the police is better than none at A young Irish minister who is a jail chaplain and works with teen-agers in Hamilton's downtown area believes the problem of these youngsters is one of alienation, of being cut off from normal social rela- tionships. NEED TO BE ACCEPTED Rev. W. McMillin Carson, youth director of Wesley Com- munity Centre, says they have several characteristics -- a sense of apathy, total frustra- tion, no self-discipline, a mis- trust of people, poor intra- personal relationships, a tend- ency to follow their instincts. The minister and social worker believes that all teen- agers need to feel recognized and wanted. If these needs cannot be met in socially ac- ceptable ways, such as suc- cess at school of love at home, the teen-ager will look somewhere else -- maybe to liquor. He can drink with the other guys and be accepted. "Maybe then he'll steal a car, just for fun. In five years, when he's really in trouble, we'll be saying that if he could only stay off the booze he'd be all right. But his problem is something deeper than booze. . . . If none of these kids drank, they'd' still get into trouble. Many of them have personality defects and drink- ing is just one way to escape Sg a tedious, monotonous ife BOOSTS EGO In talking about why they drink, some of the older teen- agers admit that "to feel big" is a major reason. This coin- cides with Mr. Matthews's ex- planation: "It gives thesr kids a feeling of bravado, that they can beat the world, even though it's a false bra- vado."' Shocking tragedies as a di- rect result of teen-age drink- ing, resulting in public outcry, are relatively rare, says Po- lice Chief Kenneth Skerrett of the neighboring community of Burlington. Hidden but just as tragic are the innumerable, heart- breaking events known only to friends and family: the car accidents, the pregnant high school girls; the gradually worsening marks of a once- top student; the beginnings of an alcoholic. What can be done? No one pretends to have the answer. "The parents set the exam- ple but it's the teen-agers we have to reach first," says Kenneth Bennett, educa- , tion director of the Hamilton branch of the Alcoholism and Drug' Addiction Research Foundation. "And how do we do that ef- fectively? All we can do is give them the facts." Coach Bob Allen Paces Pepsi's Win PETERBOR 0 UGH (CP) -- Playing coach Bob Allen scored |four goals Monday night to lead Peterborough to a 10-7 victory over Toronto Maple Leafs in the opening game of their Ontario Lacrosse Association Senior A YOUTH MINISTER R. C. Clark, 29, Social Credit member for Olds- Mdch ho Didsbury; has-been named minister of the newly-form- ed youth portfolio in the Al- berta government. --CP Photo semi-final series. The series resumes in Toronto Wednesday. Jim Gouldie, Roy Wood, Jack |Armour, John Davis, Bill Ar- jmour and Ken Ruttan scored ithe other Peterborough goals. Brian Kee gan and Jonn |Roberts each scored twice for |Toronto with Paul Henderson, |Brian Warnock and Ron McNeil 'getting the others. Law To Protect Car Buyer Only First Step In Sask. By JIM NEAVES SASKATOON (CP) Con- sumer legislation intended to protect the public in buying new and used automobiles became effective in Saskatchewan July 1 but it is only a step toward what some dealers hope will be more stringent regulations W. T. A. Flavelle of Saska- toon, president of the Saskat- chewan Motor Dealers Associa- tion, said regulations under the Motor Dealers' Act passed at the 1966 session of the legisla- ture are broad but the associa- tion would like to have more regulations included The act requires the bonding and licensing of all new and used car dealers and their sale men and call. for such dealers to maintain a satisfactory place of business, keep certain rec- ords, and use a form of sale contract approved by the pro- vincial registrar of companies "In future the associati would like to see regu! cluded providing that hicles are properly certifie to safety before sale by a prop- erly qualified mechanic,' Mr Flavelle said. He said it was hoped the act would increase public confi- dence in dealers "We've had an influx of car dealers during the las years whd operated for a few months and then left the prov ince. In the past such dealers didn't need a licence and they certainly didn't help the image of the industry." , LICENCES ARE FREE used fe W Some 900 dealers, about 400 of! s-'show the -jaccurate »- thic whom belong to the Saskat- chewan Motor Dealers' Associa- tion, and an estimated 1,500 salesmen are expected to obtain licences under the act. Each dealer must submit with| his application a bond of $10,000 if he has five salesmen or more - $5,000 if he has fewer then lve The bond will provide protec- tion in the event of a_ bank- ruptcy or failure on the part of the dealer to carry out a con- tract. There is no charge for li- cences for the dealer or individ- ual salesmen. When vehicles are acquired| a dealer, a record must name and address of the person selling the vehicle, the date obtained and the price paid or, in the case of a trade- in, the allowance made. When a vehicle is sold, the record must show the name and jaddress of the purchaser, an description of the ve- the sale price, terms of payment, whether ~@ trade-in was accepted and a description of it, and the name of the sales-| | man | by l le The province may refuse to| grant a licence and any licence| may be suspended or cancelled by the registrar if the dealer or| salesman is found guilty of mis- representation, fraud or dishon- esty or otherwise demonstrates incompetence or untrustworthi- ness The dealer or salesman is allowed to appeal any such sus- pension or+cancellation of his licence. jeyed blonde with a slight re- By THE CANADIAN PRESS Christine van der Mark knows her native Alberta well. It was natural, there- fore, for her.to choose that province as the setting for her latest book, a story of two farm families during the early 1930s, hard years on the Prairies. | Honey in the Rock (Mc- Cleland and Stewart) re- volves around two families, the Leniuks and the Zwicks, in a community dominated by a strict and narrow relig- ion. It has love and hate, pathos and tragedy, and makes excellent reading. The Rock is the dry, wind- swept prairie land; the Honey the people who are its vict- ims, who have courage, warmth and kindness. Honey 'Hard Years On Prairies Setting For Alta. Novelist in the Rock is the name of an old evangelical hymn, be- loved in the community church, Born in Calgary, Miss van der Mark, now the wife of an economist, lives in Ottawa where she writes and teaches. The idea of the Arctic Ocean as a_ mediterranean sea, the centre of a world community, may surprise Ca- nadians. Yet this is the theme of many of the papers con- tributed to The Arctic Front- ier (University of Toronto Press). The book is about the North as a frontier and about Canada's relations with the world beyond that frontier. Edited by R. St. J. Macdon- ald, University of Toronto, The Arctic Frontier compiles By CYNTHIA LOWRY NEW YORK (AP) -- Acting has often been described as an| incurable virus. That's a cliche} because it is so often true, and} a clinical case history is that of Dina Merrill. Miss Merrill, as most motion picture and television viewers know, is an attractive, blue-| jsemblance to Grace Kelly. As lis also well-known, Miss Mer- |rill, whose maiden name was Nedenia Hutton, has _ never starved in a Greenwich Village walk-up or taken on part-time jobs in a department store for rent money. Yet, without financial need, | she has pursued a professional| career with the same fervor} and unflagging desire that! moves all the great ones. This) summer Miss Merrill is com- muting from a summer house in Easthampton, Long Island, to mid-town Manhattan--a long hot trip--twice a week for her |Shakespeare study class. "I always study when I'm not working," she explained. "Go- ing to class is the way a per- former keeps his skills sharp." This passion for acting ap- peared when she was in her early teens and, despite her family's hope that she would "grow out of it," she never did. WEALTHY FAMILY Dina's father was the late E. F, (Ned) Hutton, a member of the socially and financially eminent clan that includes Bar- bara Hutton, a cousin. Her mother, now Mrs. Herbert May, was the daughter of Post, the cereals king, and is one of the richest women in the world. Dina Merrill's stage name was' a composite of the family nickname for Nedenia and the first name of a brother-in-law. She is an extremely well-| organized woman who manages to combine successfully several different lives. She is the mother of three teen-age children and, by next fall, all three will be away at prep school. She has an active social life in New York. She is busy with a real involvement in a number of charities, several connected with the theatre. And she is also able to pick up at a few hour's notice for TV or screen assignments in Holly- wood or, in this jet age, almost anywhere in the world. Her 19-year-old marriage to Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. Musical Talent In Abundance STRATFORD (CP) -- The abundance of talent at the Stratford Festival Orchestra's workshop has music director Oscar Shumsky brimming with delight. "We have the best chamber orchestra we have ever had." Mr. Shumsky arrived from New York after a month of preparation for the festival in which he will conduct, play and instruct. Wednesday was the first re- hearsal for the players from several Canadian and United States centres. One of them is Norman Nel- son, concertmaster with the Vancouver Symphony Orches- tra. Shumsky describes Mr. Nelson as a_ temperamental Irishman and a fine violinist. "We have let the barriers down. There is no reason that the- orchestra workshop should be patriotic. Music has no par-} ticular country. It will be good for Canadian musicians for this to be so." At the request of some of the workshop participants, em- phasis will be given to the} works of Mozart. Mr. Shumsky picked the quintets for the chamber music concerts Satur- day mornings beginning July Wilson's Actress Attends Classes To Keep 'Her Skills Sharp' | white cottage on the shores | way. William |, | people from the West Coast wound up about a year ago with| a friendly but legal separation. | The couple still spend holidays | with their children. | REJECTS 'TIES Miss Merrill is unusual in the performing world in another She is not interested in| tying herself down to a long- | \running Broadway show and) would never accept a continuing | aah in a television series. "I would absolutely hate it if} I were stuck playing one part | for five years in television," she said. A performer in a hit series! "can make a bundle," she con-| cedes, but Dina did not go 'into acting for bundles. One of her favorite roles turned up a few years ago when--she still thinks} somebody made a mistake--she| |was cast as an Indian woman | in a historical drama. "T) painted my skin, wore brown} contact lenses, a black gig and| could not be recognized. Tt was | marvellous fun.' The impact of television was| demonstrated on an occasion | lwhen she had an eight-minute | seene in a Playhouse 90 adapta-| tion of The Time of Your Life. | | Immediately afterwards she re- contributions of 10 eminent geographers and _ historians. They were assembled in col- laboration by the Canadian Institute of International Af- fairs and the Arctic Institute of North America. The uprooting of Japanese during the Second World War was not a glorious chapter in Canada's history. Out of that period comes a Canadian novel that tells of their hard- ships, written around a cou- ple who during two world wars faced discrimination, distrust and intolerance in the Fraser Valley. Strength for the Bridge (McClelland and Stewart), by Jessie L, Beattie, is written in the first person. It neither preaches nor admonishes; the facts describe what it was like to come to Canada from another country and live the life of an alien in a hostile environment. The story ends happily in a | of Lake Ontario in 1951 with restrictions against the de- ported Japanese being lifted one by one. Freedom finally had arrived for an oppressed | | people. Born in Blair, Ont., in 1896, and educated at Galt Col- legiate Institute, Miss Beattie has suffered from ill health since her "youth but this has | not affected her literary out- put. This is her ninth book | since 1935. Brewer Shares | Cleveland Lead CLEVELAND (AP) -- Gay Brewer finished with three- under-par 68 Friday to tie Bob Goalby for the halfway lead in the $100,000 Cleveland open golf | tournament with a 36-hole score of 135. It looked like a three-way tie for the lead when Phil Rodgers also came in with a 68, but the LaJolla, Calif., golfer was dis- qualified for failing to sign his score card. The 35-year-old Goalby shot al | 67 Friday morning with the help| lof an eagle and assumed the ceived three good motion picture|early lead. offers. "Most of these guest star | things come up quickly," she said. 'I've been called on notice | as short as three days. I get a| script, instructions on what Ij should bring--like hair pieces} jand wardrobe--and fly off for} 10 days. "s But Brewer rallied for a share of the lead. He and Goalby were seven under for the 36 holes as the field of 144 pros seeking the $20,000 first prize continued its assault on par. 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