Married in Time

One third of all first-born children in the United States from 1964 to 1966 were conceived illegitimately, the Department of Health. Education. and Welfare reported yesterday.

The report. based on a sampling of one out of every 1000 first births in these years, found a connection between income and pregnancy at the time of marriage.

More than 37 per cent of women in families with incomes under $3000 a year were pregnant when married. In families with incomes over $10,000 a year only eight per cent of the women were pregnant before marriage.

Born in Law

According to the survey, shotgun marriages gave many babies legitimacy by the time of birth. One out of every seven first births was illegitimate during the period.

The survey also reported that the highest proprortion of births to women married less than eight months was among women with only one to three years of high-school education.

High and Latin

A meeting called by white girls at Cambridge High and Latin School yesterday morning to demand more protection in lavatories and looker rooms turned into a shouting match between whites and blacks as most of the high school's more than 2200 students out classes to congregate in the auditorium.

The call for increased protection was prompted by incidents Monday in which three white girls were allegedly attacked by a group of black girls, some of whom were described as "trespassers" by Raymond G. D'Arey '26, Cambridge Latin principal.

Today there will be a school colloquium in which D'Arey said teachers will try to establish a "dialogue" between the white and the black students in their classes. Later in the day the school's faculty will meet to discuss the colloquium.

D'Arey stressed that all the violence this week had been restrieted to girls and that black and white boys "seemed to get along." He admitted that there may have been an "undercurrent" of racial animesity since the beginning of the school year.

Grass Gets Greener

The House Committee on Crime recommended in a report released this week that the maximum jail sentence for firstifense marijuana possession be reduced to a one-week jail sentence and a required drug-abuse course.

The 120-page report also released findings of a three-year study by the National Institute of Mental Health which concluded that marijuana does not necessarily lead to heroin addiction but that it is a dangerous drug and may cause damage in chronic users.

The Committee concluded that present stiff penalties threaten respect for the law and should be reduced.

The Senate has already passed an Administration bill recommending that the present two-to-ten year penalties for marijuana possession be reduced to a maximum one-year jail sentence and that the crime be considered a misdemeanor rather than a felony.