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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 17, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Them pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92 no. 167 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening july 17, 1970 Price to cents or. Herman Snow known As the father of the a open door policy in the treatment of mental health patients addressing the thursday morning session of the two Day seminar and meeting at the it. Pleasant mental health Institute. Learning to Trust major problem in open door policy by Sandy Williams learning to Trust on the part of patient and staff is the major problem encountered when initiating an open door policy in mental health institutions according to or. Herman Snow. Or. Snow featured speaker at the afternoon session of the conference yesterday at the it. Pleasant mental health Institute is known As the father of the open door policy. He is currently director of the Hudson River state Hospital in new York state. Or. Snow also stated that each Hospital has specific local problems therefore a 100% open door policy is not possible in All hospitals. Too the open door policy is not a new idea although 100% open institutions Are still relatively few in the United states. As Early As 1876 the american psychiatric association discussed the possibility of open door but the following years produced overcrowded hospitals and primarily a in fear of the unknown More rather than fewer locked doors were used. In the Early 1900 a a Small 300 patient Hospital in Scotland became the first 100% open door Hospital. The real impetus toward the movement however came As a byproduct of world War ii. German bombing of a nearby anti aircraft installation destroyed parts of a suburban London mental Hospital accidentally leaving not Only open doors but open Walls in places. Six years later when funds were available to renovate the Hospital it was obvious that a Hospital for the mentally ill could be operated without the conventional bars and locks. Later six superintendents of mental institutions from the . Were sent to observe the London system or. Snow was a member of the investigating team. The resulting report to the commission of new York state mental hospitals changed the policy of the state and gave or. Snow the inspiration and Freedom to Experiment. Within two years in 1958, the St. Lawrence state Hospital of which Snow was then superintendent became the first to open door mental Hospital in the nation. Too the open door policy As defined by or. Snow is a Freedom of patients to move about a Ward to Ward Ward to grounds. The philosophy of cambodian units again take i room phenom penh up a cambodian units have recaptured the Mountaintop town of Kir irom from guerrilla soldiers who were reported today to have withdrawn after setting fire to several buildings including ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk s former vacation Retreat. A military spokesman said the five government battalions three of them made up of tribesmen trained by us. Green berets in Vietnam had suffered a fairly heavy losses in the six Day Battle that ended thursday afternoon. No communist casualties were Given. Terse verse by a. C. Cordon overweight most really Aughter be renamed a sins of the the method As stated by Snow in the film presented to the afternoon audience is a recognition of human dignity and the ability to accept responsibility for himself the patient and when or. Snow began the St. Lawrence program the patients were suspicious the attendants fearful. The Community nearest the Hospital was concerned and somewhat apprehensive. In practice within a few months the method had produced patients who were relaxed and More comfortable attendants freed from mental custodial duties to socialize with patients As part of the therapy and a Community which was a enthusiastic providing Volunteer services considering the Hospital their or. Snow claims no theft fires accidents or injuries occurred As a result of the program and while a sex problems had been an area of concern before initiation of the program these fears also proved groundless. The first five years of the program resulted in three illegitimate births As opposed to seven in the five a locked door years preceding the new program. Too patience particularly on the part of the Community is a major Factor in the Success of the open door policy says Snow. Shoplifting by patients is one of the problems he cited but he also questioned if the rate of incidence is nearly As great As that of the outside population. No system is perfect says Snow and although the Public expects a Model Hospital to produce perfect results patients Are people and mistakes will be made. According to or. Snow the benefits from an open door program will More than balance the defects. The open door which Means patient Access to All doors for eight twelve hours per Day in most cases results in greater staff efficiency and better care. The time spent each Day Locking and unlocking states Snow equals about seven hours a time which can be better spent in therapy for the patients. Too the patients free to socialize with each other and to receive More visitors More frequently become conscious of personal Hygiene and appearance which is another step in therapy according to Snow. Voluntary admission jumped from 26%sentenced for Bank robbery Des Moines up a a Des Moines Man convicted of master minding a $48,000 robbery of the Decatur county state Bank in Leon thursday was sentenced to 40 years in prison by . District judge Roy Stephenson. Stephenson also handed Down a 25-year prison sentences to each of two Young Iowa Brothers who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the same april 9 armed robbery. The Brothers 20-year-old Wesley Thomas Mcclish of Shenandoah and 18-year-old John Mcclish of Des Moines were charged with the actual execution of the Leon robbery. Stephenson ordered future investigation of the record of Wesley Mcclish and asked him to return in three months for a final sentence. Arteries carry blood from the heart to the tissues. To 60% at the St. Lawrence Hospital As a people with problems lost their fear of help equated with locks and bars. At the same time the Hospital population decreased sharply As patients improved enough to leave the Hospital at least on an outpatient basis. The St. Lawrence Hospital patients represented the full Range of age and illness and or. Snow is convinced the open door policy can and does help any patient. However he said the open door is not a cure All but a reinforcement of the processes of every mental health Institute. Tile last step to recovery return to family and Community is further reinforced. States Snow because the open door policy a lessens the Impact of returning to basically the open door policy is one of humanizing the treatment of the mentally ill and India dualism responsibility and human dignity were key words repeated by All the speakers of the morning panel open to the Public yesterday. Too or. Walter Fox superintendent at Mhz and president of the Asj Socia tion of medical superintendents of mental hospitals welcomed the guests at the 9 30 morning session and introduced each of the speakers. Mrs. Evelyne Villines representing governor Ray who could not attend was the first speaker. Mrs. Villines handicapped As a result of childhood polio has been Active in promoting employment of the handicapped. She has recently been appointed by governor Ray As a member of the state advisory Council for vocational education and has received nationwide recognition for her work in related Fields. After extending a Welcome to the a great state of Iowa to the visiting dignitaries mrs. Villines remarks primarily concerned the role of outsiders in the Success of rehabilitation of the physically and mentally handicapped. A properly placed a person with a Handicap can play a key role in any Community a stated mrs. Villines but while the physically handicapped Are now generally accepted As employable she feels the attitude of the Community of outsiders have not kept up with the Progress in mental health programs. Too often she says former mental patients who must be returned to Hospital District official to visit rotary the it. Pleasant rotary club will be Host at its meeting on july 21 to Fred e. Mora in Jefferson publisher who is District governor of rotary District 600 for the current year. The District includes 51 clubs throughout the South half of Iowa. The governor will visit the club president Virgil Hileman and with committee chairmen at the presbyterian Church from 4 to 5 30 . Following the clubs weekly dinner at the Harlan House Morain will speak briefly about rotary International s program for the year and local club objectives. Past District governor and mrs. Ralph Taylor will Host a reception for governor and mrs. Morain at their Home at 401 West Monroe Street. Rotarians and their wives Are cordially invited to attend. Morain recently returned from attending rotary a International Assembly for the 314 incoming District governors at Lake Placid. . Are a product of the rejection they encountered too or. George Phillips of Crownsville md., emphasized the reciprocal relationship of family patient Hospital Community and he feels that too often the Chain is broken at the Community level. Nothing Concrete can be accomplished if Nega Tive feeling in the Community destroys the process. Understanding is i the key to Success says Phillips and he credits the Advent of Tranquill izing drugs in the 1950 s As the major breakthrough in patient recovery. Or. Phillips has received High honors and recognition for his work with disturbed adolescents at Crownsville state Hospital where he is superintendent. A a target area approach of Small group individual problem emphasis is one of Crownsville answers to the individual humanization theory of patient recovery. Too or. James Folsom of the . Hospital Tuscaloosa Alabama was introduced As a a master teachers by or. Fox who also reminded the audience of Folsom a two years 1960-62 on the staff at Mhz. \ or. Folsom emphasized simplicity As the key to Success in mental health and claims a a people to people human involvement approach As the Only real therapy regardless of diagnosis More effective than drugs. He initiated a program he Calls a reality orientation at Mhz during his tenure Here. Used primarily in geriatric wards the program consists of relearning such simple factors As the Date year address and even the names of the elderly persons who have become confused and lost touch with reality. Or. Folsom 1 said he could not accept the fact that senility was equivalent to the end of living. His work begun in it. Pleasant and continued in Alabama where he is Hospital director. Has been recognized by the Alabama commission for mental health by the granting of funds in 1969, for continuing work in Quot reality too or. Snow was the fourth speaker of the morning session. He spoke briefly on the open door policy then but he emphasized the Community health programs for which continued on Page 3 the 314 districts include 14,100 clubs in More than 140 countries j membership in the worldwide ser-1 vice organization now totals Over 600,000 business and professional and hostesses for gop fair Booth Donald e. Young and William smart co chairmen for the Republican Booth at the Henry county fair announce the appointment of the following As hosts and hostesses in the Booth on the following evenings tuesday supervisor and mrs. Wilbur safer county auditor Ruth Ogg mrs. Kay Rogers and or. Frank v. Coles. Wednesday supervisor and mrs. Clark Burns county recorder Helen Virden sheriff and mrs. Van Crawford and Donald e. Young. Thursday representative and mrs. Charles Strothman or. And mrs. William r. Smith and William smart. Friday county clerk Harold Davis or. And mrs. Carroll Crane and attorney and mrs. Gary Wie gel. Saturday supervisor and mrs. Lester Meeker attorney and mrs. Donald e. Garton and senator Harlan Foster. Miss Edna Michener president of the Henry county Federated Republican women is appointing a committee of their members to serve As hostesses in the afternoons at the to school for Gletty Perez its Back to school already for miss Gletty Perez 1970 ass student at it. Pleasant High school who left on june 29 destined for her Homeland of Uruguay. Before leaving the ., Gletty enjoyed a bus tour with other ass students through the states of Illinois Tennessee Wisconsin Ohio and Pennsylvania. She left new York thursday night and expected to arrive in Uruguay today just in time to begin school and enjoy the fun of the Winter season. Her address is Gletty Maria Perez Marset Neueder 334, Artigas stabbed one fatally in botel room Chicago up a one Young woman from California attending a japanese american convention at one of Chicago a Best hotels was stabbed to death and another was critically wounded by a Man who entered their room police said Early today. The victims were found by a third Young woman sharing the room at the Palmer House hotel. Police said a some correspondence was found in the room but there was a nothing to indicate it was a ritual too both of the victims suffered slashed throats. The nude body of Evelyn Okubo 18, Stockton calif., was found in the room but there seventh floor room by Patti Iwa Taki 18, los Angeles. Miss Okubo s hands were tied behind her Back. Miss Iwataki also found Ranko Carol Yamada 18, Stockton on a bed. Her Throat also was slashed and her hands tied behind her Back. Miss Iwataki ran screaming from the bloody room. Too miss Yamada was rushed to Henrotin Hospital where doctors performed emergency surgery. A Hospital spokesman said she was in critical condition but it appeared she would live. The victims were attending the 21st biennial convention of the japanese american citizens league which began tuesday and was to end saturday. Today a program was cancelled. Too in Stockton mrs. Doris Yamada described her daughter and Evelyn Okubo As Good a Church goers who had a a hummed together for a Long they went to the Chicago convention because they a wanted to see America a mrs. Yamada said. The Cycle of terror began when miss Okubo left the thursday night party to get a radio from her room. When she failed to return in half an hour. Miss Yamada went looking for her. Before miss Iwataki came looking too miss Yamada had apparently managed to Knock Over the receiver of a Telephone. A Telephone operator reported she heard a heavy breathing Over the line. Deputy chief of detective William Murphy said the room was soaked with blood. Audit shows Mill Cost per patient up total Cost Down Lloyd r. Smith auditor of state released today in compliance with chapter la of the code of Iowa an audit report on the mental health Institute at it. Pleasant for the year ended june 30, 1969. Auditor Smith reports that the Cost per patient for the institution find body of a it former head of Argentina Buenos Aires up a the Argentine government today identified a bound and gagged body found in the basement of a Remote ranch House As that of former president Pedro Eugenio Aramburu kidnapped May 29 by terrorists who later said they executed him. A the ministry of the Interior regrets to have to announce that it has verified that the body found in the province of Buenos Aires is that of it. Gen. Pedro e. Aramburu a Interior minister Eduardo Mclaughlin said in Reading the communique from the presidential Palace. A an executive degree has ordered civil and military funeral honors commensurate to a president of the nation killed in the exercise of his duties. The body had two bullets in the heart. Aramburu Wras 67 when he was kidnapped from his Buenos Aires apartment by two men posing As army from Shafer cars it was reported to the sheriffs office Friday morning that four tires and wheels were taken from a 1964 Chevrolet and from a 1970 Chevelle parked in a lot at Shafer motors thursday night. The transmission was also removed from the Chevelle. Increased 13.47% for the year while the number of the patients de creased 19.89%. The total net operating expenses for the year decreased $191,670.68. The trend for the past seven years indicate that in 1963 there were 825 patients at a Cost per patient of $2,600.62 whereas in 1969 there were 282 patients at a Cost per patient of $6,790.62. Auditor Smith reports the following seven year comparison or. A employ Cost tents yes per patient 1963 825 447 $2,600.62 1964 653 436 3,190.74 1965 523 443 3.820.14 1966 416 435 4,75665 1967 383 375 5,371.40 1968 352 364 5,984 77 1969 282 347 6,790.63 too during the year the institution received a total of $2,814,451 from state appropriations and allocations. This was an increase of $80,-000 Over the prior year. The institutional revenues increased $137,000 last year. These revenues Are applied against the expenses and Are a substantial Factor in the total reduced expenditures for the year. The institutional revenues include care of voluntary county patients who pay for their own care. The income from this source increased $119,000 during the year of their audit Smith said. Too auditor of state Smith reports that the equipment records at the mental health Institute at it. Pleasant were found to be inadequate. Records to support a reduction of $13,134.94 in evaluation of the equipment were not available to the auditors. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 1968, a similar adjustment was made of $226,577.79, which was necessary. Auditor Smith recommended that the mental health Institute comply with chapter 218.48 of the code of Iowa and maintain an accurate and Complete record of All properties and equipment. Mayo resigns to take feb position Washington up a Robert p. Mayo today resigned As a presidential Counselor a Post held for less than three weeks to accept the presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Mayo was budget director until july i when he was moved to the White House to make room for George p. Schultz As head of the new office of management and budget.220 enrolled in second term now a Wesleyan a second summer session term is underway and 220 students Are enrolled according to statistics released by the College today. The term runs through aug. 14. Over 290 were enrolled during the first term w hich ended july to. A record 275 students took summer courses during last years second term at Wesleyan. Prince and Princess visit u. S. Capitol two accidents reported to police two accidents have been reported to City police. At 8 30 . Thursday a car driven by Dennis Henessee backed out from a stall at the dream drive in and collided with a car driven by James Albright causing some damage. At 9 30 pm. Thursday . Bos Hart going West on East Washington Street signalled to turn left onto Walnut when a car driven by Edward a. Devol collided with i from behind. Both cars were damaged. Devol was charged with failure to yield i the right of Way. Cancer the crab is the fourth sign of the Zodiac. A Ashington up a Prince Charles and Princess Anne strolled through the u. S. Capitol today on the second Day of their activity filled visit to Washington. Anne gazed appreciatively at handsome sen. Mark o. Hatfield. Charles appeared to Strain to understand the thick Southern drawl of sen. Strom Thurmond who comes from South Carolina one of the 13 original colonies. Like typical tourists the Royal pair s first Stop on their first full Day Here was the Capitol. Also on their Agenda were a visit to the smithsonian institution a cruise Down the Potomac to mount Vernon and a formal dinner dance on the White House Lawn. Speaker John w. Mccormack democratic Leader Carl Albert and Republican Leader Gerald r. Ford met them on the House Side of the Capitol. Then with Tricia Nixon and Juli and David Eisenhower they Wal through the building. Charles 21-year-old heir to the British throne Bull gently capped an evening tour by running Down the 898 Steps of the 555-foot Washington Monument with David Eisenhower at his Side. Said David Quot he a David s wife Julie and her sister Tricia Nixon joined Princess Anne in taking the elevator Down although Tricia had greeted the Prince s suggestion with approval. A we were Chicken a Julie said. Too at the Lincoln memorial Charles stood anus folded and gazed for a Long moment at the statue of the great emancipator then with David supplying historical background read the Gettysburg address and second inaugural address inscribed on the memorials Marble Walls. Outside the Prince and Princess exchanged greetings with several shirt sleeved tourists among a group of several Hundred who cheered their presence. Too Charles wearing a smart Blue suit with shirt and tie to match and beaming most of the time., appeared completely charmed with 24-year-old Tricia who displayed a touch of flirtatious Ness. Anne smiling rarely kept close to her brother. The sight seeing tour followed a four hour visit to Camp David where Charles easily bested David at skeet shooting a favorite sport went for a swim before their legion installs Dave Cornice Bob Tribby Post no. 58, the american legion met in regular session wednesday july 8, for election and installation of officers for the legion year 1970-�?T71. The following men were installed commander Dave Canuck 1st vice commander Tairel Overturf 2nd vice commander Man be i beavers adjutant John h. Wilke finance officer Virgil Hileman chaplain Arthur Hunt sgt. At arms Carleton deck installing officer was John Wilke assisted by Stace Crowl. Following the installation and meeting lunch was served by the committee in charge Roy Craig and George to save son i parents drown Cedar rapids up a a Chicago 111., couple drowned thursday in Cedar Lake Here in an attempt to Rescue thir Small son who managed to get to Shore after falling from a Rowboat. The victims were identified As Walker Lee Lefore 32, and his wife Luevinna 29. The bodies were recovered thursday evening by Cedar rapids firemen. Authorities said the family who had come to Iowa to visit friends in Waterloo had been fishing when j the child fell into the Lake located North of the downtown Cedar rapids business District. Firemen said the youth somehow get to Shore but both parents disappeared after they jumped in after him. Says guardsmen should be allowed weapons Washington up a a major general who Heads the National guard Bureau said today that Quot deadly Force should Only be used As a last emergency in Campus violence but said guardsmen should be allowed weapons to protect their lives. Maj. Gen. Winston p. Wilson chief of National guard operations in the defense department also displayed to the presidents commission on Campus unrest an array of missile and weapons issued against guardsmen at student outbreaks in Wisconsin. They included a Nail studded baseball Bat Iron Bare jagged pieces of Metal and a four Pound Rock he said was propelled at a group of troops by a powerful Home made Slingshot under questioning Wilson Agre to that special guard units should be assigned to Deal with any sniper fire that May occur in civil outbreaks on Campus or off. Dave Cornick valve trouble closes Pool one Day tile municipal swimming Pool was closed wednesday will i a a outlet to the Pool was repaired by j City workers. The Pool reopened. Thursday

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