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Clinic for Rehabilitation of Alcoholics Now Operating; Problem Gets New Approach Br Marguerite Wittwer Wrirht StaK Writer. The Sttma The state cUnfe- for rehabifita tioo of alcoholics in Portland is coming out. ol the experimental stage and is prepared to accept for treatment any problem dri ris ers who are Oregon citizens and volunteer, for aid. Walden u. Sampson, director of research ol the educational advisory com mittee to the Oregon liquor com mission, so advised The States man this week. The clinic long favored by Portland civic authorities like Judge Walter L. Tooze and Judge J. J. Qnillen, already has 4 con sulUtions and 73 "actual cases on record. Of these, between 50 and 60 per cent are "'making pro gress," Sampson said, explain ing that treatment and cure of an alcoholic is a long-term prob lem. Surreys Underway Currently, the research office is making area and population surveys to determine pertinent points for clinical expansion to ward achieving the end , of full state service. It is improbable, Sampson said, that a branch clinic wmjld be established in Salem "right away" because patients could commute to Portland or be served by field workers or the local Alcoholics Anonymous, an imivnrtant therapeutic resource The clinic was established by joint resolution of the 1947 legis lator unnn recommendation of the educational advisory com mittee, appointed in 1943 by the late Gov. Earl SnelL Reason for the clinic: The Ore gon liquor law seeks to promote temperance and to protect the safety, welfare, health, peace and morals or the people, ine Duagei for this bienium is $115,000. to be provided by the state liquor com mission from money it collects. Tread Shows Chance ' Establishment of the clinic shows the trend away from the long-deplored moralistic attitude toward Alcoholism. In tne itn century the mentally ill were re garded as moral offenders; in the 19th century victims of venereal diseases were looked upon as criminals: today the drunkard is often still regarded as a clown or a moral weakling or a crim inal, rather than a sick person who needs medical and psychia tric attention. In Salem, or instance, the po lice program for alcoholics is to lock the inebriate in jail until he sobers up, regardless of how often he repeats his performance. Lo cal hospitals do not admit alco holics except under a doctor's orders. The state hospital admits chronic cases if they are court committed but the eolicv is to keep non-mental patients out unless they volunteer for a 30 to 60-day treatment period and agree to pay whatever percentage, of maintenance costs they can af ford. A A Effective Weapon, The local Alcoholics Anonymous group t phone 5234, P. O. Box 724) is probably one of the most effective weapons against alcohol ism, one of the AA members said. From 30 to 50 men and women from all walks of life regularly attend the meetings and social activities of the group here,' be said, and many of them "go permanently dry." Nationally, A A has 60,000 members-bound by their common allergy, their spirit of comradeship, mutual need and helpfulness. The AA program is simple: one-time alcoholics en courage each other to stay sober by following the 12 points, of re form and retribution. The driv ing force of AA, according to the man interviewed, is spiritual; no drunkard can solve his prob lem alone he must believe in hi dependence on God.- what ever his individual definition of Hieher Beinc mar be. Alcoholism is a public problem, this man believes, and the state should certainly undertake to re habilitate the men to whom it sells liquor. He thinks it is shame that liquor is accepted and approved by society, but believes that adverse public opinion would prevent excessive drinking more than would prohibition. Problem Eeeecaixed The idea that problem-drink ing is a public, health problem and a municipal respoasibilitv like tuberculosis and poliomyelitis is gaining hold throughout the country. Alcoholism costs U. S. industry about $1,000,000,000 year tn lost time and inefficiency. Time magazine estimates, and cit ies with a population of 10,000 to 100,000 usually have 727 alcohol ics, per 100,000. The Virginia legis lature this year ' appropriated $200,000 for treatment, rehabilita tion and research on akololism for two years. Some authorities, like Hygenia magazine, recommended that the alcohol industry should pay. (through taxation) the bill for prevention of alcoholism and rehabilitation of its victim. In Oregon, the man who buys the liquor ultimately pays the bill for the rehabilitation of chronic drinkers . . . and their number totals 35.967 estimated male al coholics and 8,423. women, based on 1940 census figures. These sick persons are usually of two types. Symptomatic drinkers drink be cause there is an : underlying Expert, Reliable Can 7523 - 423 Court St KA0(O) Drinik Tank9 This is where Salem's drunks sleep holds ahsat -St Inmates and la by the police, may speed a seed part ef their tlase here . . . waiting te be released se they eaa start drinking again. The state clinic for the rehabilitation of aJeehelfes may eventually make the manlclpal "drank tank" an obsolete festare. disease like schizophrenia; they cannot be cured by "going on the wagon." Alcoholics by addiction or character disorder include a large class, about whom much re search is necessary and the Portland clinic plans to do ex tensive work of that kind. Rehabilitation Gains What percentage of alcoholics can be rehabilitated is uncertain because the whole movement is comparatively recent, but it is a fact that incidence of rehabilita tion is rising annually per haps as much as 60 per cent, Sampson said. Alcoholics are usually treated by the conditioned reflex method which requires hospitalization and builds up intolerance for alcohol, by psychotherapy (utilized by the Portland clime) and by group psychotherapy as practiced by AA. The Hahnemann hospital in Port land will cooperate with the clinic and take alcoholics on doctor's ad visement. Plans are underway to utilize the city prison farm. Re ferral sources include police magistrate courts, social case workers, H employment services, vocational, rehabilitation service. churches, I schools and family agencies, f JoneS Tells of Meager British Food Ration People of western Europe must spend from 80 to 85 per cent or what they- earn for their food, Ron ald E. Jones, etaie president of the Oregon Farmers union who re cently returned from an agricul tural economic conference in Im rope, told, members of the Salem Kiwams club Tuesday at the Mar ion hotel.! ;? England, trying to get out of the economic : situation it is in, con trols buying, Jones said. "We were glad to get put of England and into France where we could buy what we wanted, at high prices." No unwillingness to work on the part of the residents of Europe was encountered by Jones or members of his party which included rep resentatives of the four major farm organizations in the United States. UNION TO BACK TRUMAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 10-UPV-Max Zaritsky, head 'of the AFL Hatters union, announced after a call on President Truman today that his organisation "is going to support President Truman and the democratic platform." It Is estimated that rats da an average-of $63,000,000 damage on U. S. farms every year. h I I ( M It j t f i S I H f t i I May Be Superseded hy Clinic It off. The large, dank reset In re. nipped with ene toilet, a sink Lightning Plays Of Mountein-Climbers; Two Die CRANBROOK, B. C, Aug. 10 -(CP)- Two California mountaineers tonight told of a lightning bolt that fluttered through their hair, sparked their fingertips and killed two companions, in a small cave on perilous Bugaboo spire, an 11,500-foot peak in the Purcell range north of here. f I'll never forget that horrible our; little party," said Ann "Crick - et" Strong, 18, of Berkeley. She and John Mack in ley are .recovering in hospital here from temporary paralysis ' lightning ' burns and shock. Becaa Scaling Slapea Mackinley, 21 - year - old San Francisco architecture student. Miss Strong, Bob Becker, 22, of Los Angeles and Rudolf Pundt, 30, of Berkeley, began scaling the icy and tricky slopes last Wednesday. They were experienced climbers and well-equipped. "But a storm flashed suddenly and we made for a little cave,' said Miss Strong. "Then the lightning struck close to us. There -was a flash and I saw Becker and Pundt outlined against the ridge. Then it was all over. "When I regained consciousness I saw Pundt writhing with pain. Before Mackinley or I could help. his; body toppled over the cliff drop of 1,000 feet." Ughteinc Danced Mackinley said he couldn't move. "I was temporarily paralyzed and the lightning danced on the slopes and pullefl at me. I saw Pundt dis appear over the edge. "Cricket" said she saw Becker moving his arms and shoulders but his body was paralyzed from the waist down. She and Mackinley tied him securely to a rock and started down the sheer mountain side. Mackinley said "Cricket" ap peared delirious and on the way down she stumbled among rocks for 300 feet "I was sure she was broken to pieces but when I reach ed her she Just had a forehead gash, fortunately." Reached Base Camp The two shaken survivors reach ed; their base camp four hours la ter and told of the mountain-top tragedy to the 16 other climbers, all members of the San Francisco Sierra club. Snow and hail stopped them cold, and it wasnt until Sat urday before a rescue squad start ed up the mountain for Becker. They found him in exactly the same position in which he, had been left. Apparently he had died shortly after the lightning struck. Temblod Dews Side "They cut the rope holding him to the rock but couldnt hold on to his body," said Miss Strang, "and he too, tumbled down the side." The tragedy broke up the Call- distributed Br 1 i U ' the base cat ef ike city kail and a skewer. Alcoholics, if feand Tag with Party feeling when the lightning hit Killed -(:- ' .4 -J 9 7 V CKANBXOOK. B. C Aav 16 KadeJpb. Fmrndt (above), Berke ley. Calif, and Robert Becker. Los Gates, Calif, were killed when strnck by lik4aug while h addled ia a eave on Baca bee Spire. British Celambia moaut taln. Two companions. Ann 8troB. IS, Berkeley and Ian MaeKlnlay, San Francisco, were lnjnred. (AP Wlrephete to The Statesman.) fomia group and most members have returned home, Mackinley said. The party came to this Koo tonay range at the end of July. The two deaths were the first this year to hit oHmhlng expedi tions la British Columbia moun tains. "It's ao experience I won't for get for a long, long time," said Miss Strong. I -i BSSSSSBSSSSBSSVUS J3Uk??Jk KME OC zllcd. izsvcr excelled Gideon Ctols Coapanf . State Fair List Of Livestock Entries Long More new exhibitors than ever before are included in the final listings of livestock exhibitors at Oregon's state fair in Salem Sep tember 6 to 12. The complete list or dairy, beef and dual pur pose came exhibitors includes: Milking Short hems ; Dwight Smith and Son, Bozeman, Mont.; Harry Wicks, Roger Dundee. uien s. Macy, all of McMinnville Veltie .Biles, C. Norman CaiL Gold Hill; Chris Jorgenson. Jef- rerson; W. M. Merritt, . Harrah. Wash.; Bert Gillett, Beaver Creek; Paul MuIIer, Tangent; George Lewis. Med ford; Merwin Duncan, Ironside: M. A. Jones and Son, Camas Valley; Bose Brothers, Albany; Helen Boyd, Edgar P. Denning and Ralph Cake, all of Portland. Red Toll Joe Lewis. C. E. Lewis, Aumsville; W. J. Gleason, R. F. Sphoon, Turner, and Theron Atkinson, CreswelL Hereford - Herbert Chandler, Baker; Ralph L. Cook, Med ford; Pat Mann Hopper, Adams; C. E. ITuttle. Prairie City; McKenzie Hereford Ranch. Coburg: R. A. 'Ward, Halsey; J. L. Jacobs and lion, fnnevine, ana jerry jewis. Turner. , Shorthorns Millard R. Eak in. Grass Valley. Aberdeen An Charles T. Ryan. Anderson. Calif.; D. E. Richards, Prairie City. Ayrshires Cecil Wheeler end Sons, Creswell; Rivermoor Ayr shire Farm, Rainier, Wash.; Meadbwland Dairy, Portland. Brown Swiss Otto Baumann, Ash ford. Wash.; Albert Meier and Son, Beaverton. Helstelns Arthur Ireland and Son. Forest Grove: Lindow Brothers, Portland; S. B.. Hall, Troutdale: Benter Farms, Cres well; Grimes Brothers, Harris bure: Walter M. Brog. Salem. Jerseys Lewis Miller, Grants Pass; Shelby and Ross, Albany; L. A. Lorenzen, Ronald Flnnicum, Dayton; Mr. and Mrs Lloyd For ster. Tangent; E. ! Mcllvenna, Ralph W. Grooe. Dayton; Gay- moor Farms. Canby;; Charles H- Wivell Dairies, She! ton. Wash.; Fairmead Farms. Vancouver, B d; Goodwin Stock Farms, Fraser .Valley. B. C. Gaernseys Frank E. Meier, L. L. Rumgay, Oregon City; G. Selander and Son, Corvallis; Vernon E. Boeckman, Richard Breckman, Sherwood; Dell Loon- ey, Jefferson; Alfred J. Owens, Brooks; H. C. Struve. Woodbum; William Frith, St. Paul; w. a Davis. Shedd: Poepping Broth ers, ML Angel; G. A. McCulloch, Rv J. Hobson, Amity; John spen cer, liresnam, ana j. w. dww and Sons. Junction City. The complete list or sneep. wine and goat exhibitors in cludes: Sheep Ted McKy, . Clarence Simon, John W. HUi, Eugene; McCabil Brothers, William Rid- dell and Sons, Kenneth McRae, Russell Alsip, James RiddeU. an of Monmouth; Ahrens Brothers, Ksrl B. Wipper and Sons, M. O. Pearson, Gath Brothers, all of Turner; J. L. Banick. Brooks; f. H. Brown, Sublimity; Schmidt and Schmidt. Everett Wells, Bea vercreek; Glen R. Hawkins, Shedd; Lulle W. Matzen, Sher wood: Harms Brothers, Canby; Angus Leffler, Scio; Marcus Vet- ter, Henry Davenport, auvwwn, E. J. Handley, McMinnvUle; Rollin Knight, Robert Kouns, Albany; Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd For ster, Tangent, and Claude Steus- loff, Salem. Swine Bert Dtnnim, S4i- gene; Lyle McKoniey ana nons, Shedd; Wayne Goods, Robert Beutler, Norman McDonald, Ar thur Franke, Marvin Cage, Fran cis M. CHern, L. S. Berry, aH of Salem; Wendell Willard and Son, Ronald Flnnicum, Harold THE PIKE ICECBEAIl 20 Flavor Packed for Picnics Phone 6S23 103 So, Liberty ISO Nov Gov. Warren Scores in Grunion Hunt s N' MALIBOU BEACH, CsllL, Ag It Nina Warren preadly displays three frmnUe eamht by her fa ther. Gov. Earl Warren ef Califernla, shortly after midnight st Mallbea Beaeh.'CsUf. Left te Hckl are: Dorothy Warren. Mrs. Warren. Ylrtinla and Nina Warren, the geverner and their' besU. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyons. (Ar Wirepheto te The 8Utesmaa.) I Lee Thomas, Dayton; Lawrence Thomas, H. A. Barnes and Sons, George F. Kraus. Alfred J. Zie- unski, A. A. Nafziger, Silverton; Henry Wiemus, Boise, Ida.; Ore gon State college, Corvallis; F. L. Zielinski. St Paul; Earl Drury. Fall Creek; Leonard Forster, Tangent; Beverly Bartlett, Ti gard; Donna Gay Kenyon, Junc tion City; Chester Hugnson, jr.. Rex Vollstedt, Albany; C. E. Spencer, Gresham; Austin F. Flegel. Sherwood; John Haase and Son. Cornelius:: A. Jv Horn ecker, HiUsboro; Elmer Stangel, wiisonville; Holmes Brothers, Halsey; C. E. Lewis. Aumsville: Roland D. Rogers, Independence; Harms Brothers, Canby: Eleanor Corning, Richland; Harold Schmidt, Newberg; H. G. An drew, Sandy, and Rollin Knight, Linn county. Geata J. F. Meier and Son, Boring; Esther Oman, Manning; Anna Sandman, Beatrice Cob lentz. Robert Casebeer, Jessie Boyd. H. E. Fuller, Leonard Ken nedy, au of Portland; George Bingham, C F. Calkins, Milwau- kie; Theron Atkinson, Creswell; Chet Nelson, E. D. Roseman, Sa lem, and Cecil Springer, Harlan. The final list of draft horses to be exhibited includes the fol lowing exhibitors: I Percherens Florence Koehn, Harper Bones, Turner; Meadow land Dairy, Portland; Carl Man tie, Earl Miller, Salem, and R, H. Schnack, Molalla. . Clydeaasiea Roy McCay, Eu i Soo Tho Now Revere Ware feuRE COOKER 0- HERE newest thin In pressure "-' cookers! In leaaunf atala ((. lass steel with the beavj cop U par bottom that made Revere 7art famous. Emsj fash y, rWe7 ti; u gmtf 9 king. Come la and sea this httttr pressure cookac; let oa take your ordag for aaxij delivery. ' Moderatelr Priced Also Ask to See Our r Coanpleta line, of Raroro ; - - . . ' l ccozmiG . 0TEHSILS W Feature th FtR FECTION Line of Kero sene Stove and RANG- ES. They are' Ideal for year around use. Tho Clatasman. Salem. Oregon. A gene; John W.IilL Eugene. English Shires Frank Kel logg, i Salem. . i - Judging of sil open livestock classes will begin promptly at 9 o'clock Labor day morning. 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