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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1948
Page
7
The Tuascaloess News wraps its series on Bruce Meopital focusing on his mental health treatment and conditions. The concluding report cites ongoing care, institutional oversight, and public interest in patient welfare.
The saying an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies to preventive psychiatry. Only about 1 of every 100 dollars for mental disorders goes to prevention, yet states save about 3009 dollars per person prevented from becoming mentally ill. Alabama currently spends nothing on preventive psychiatry beyond physical causes of mental illness.
Dr. Gill, state health officer, notes Bryce hospital cases stem from unhappy home conditions. He cites lack of preventive psychiatry personnel, saying a wartime psychiatrist left the state and federal funds cannot replace him yet. Alabama Medical School groups discuss clinic facilities and training in preventive psychiatry with Dr. Kay and Dr. Kracke guiding efforts.
A lighthearted column recalls a Southern grandpa who valued a stick pin as a family fortune only to learn it was colored glass. It then contrasts Susie's tale with the famed Black Prince's Ruby rumor, revealing the stone is a spinel and noting its royal setting beside the Cullinan diamond.
The piece argues Alabama needs a dedicated state psychiatric hospital to relieve Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, noting Jefferson County has the most Bryce patients. It cites staff shortages and overreliance on sedatives, emphasizes lack of interest in public psychiatry, and urges citizens to support individual patient treatment and better resources to prevent institutionalization.
Cambridge firemen praise their chaplain Rev. Thomas J. Tierney as the department’s top helper. In 16 years he has answered 531 alarms and shared in the Cocoa nut Grove disaster memories, recounting a sobering scene of a young man from his parish who died alongside his new bride.
Plan to grow enough corn to supply 75 percent of poultry feed needs for 1948 49. It requires one bushel of corn per hen per year. The Burmese name for Rangoon Yan-Gon means end of war.
Tokyo newspaper readers are asked if Japanese are inherently barbarous as Yomiuri decries a national character flaw. It argues wartime cruelties reflect a collective mental disease and notes daily life shows a lack of personal responsibility despite polite etiquette.
A Houston report noted a man found dead in a railroad car. Investigators corrected it to say the man was found dead drunk in a railroad car. The note ends with a separate tip: oysters soaked in carbonated water for five minutes are easier to shuck.
Montgomery visit to Hastings Maxwell Field Veterans Hospital and Kilby Prises includes a stop at Troy to view State Teachers College and Baptist Orphanage. Club bought a school flag and a point needle for the record player. Officers: Floree Jacobs president J T Cullifer vice president Juanita McKinney secretary Lester Woodham treasurer.
The Swiss Federal Council freed assets of German citizens resident in Switzerland who were not in Germany between February 16, 1945, and January 1, 1943. Assets of Germans in other countries were also freed if owners could not be deported to Germany.
AP reports Joan Hitt led a 14-7 victory for the University of Alabama team over Hartel University at the Mobile Country Club as the season began yesterday in Mobile.
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