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licm jirrHiafa-ir;t Medford Tribune 3 r- $ Y V. 'A I Section Two MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1955 Pages 1-6 OPENING BIG CRACKS in pavement, earthquake at Mindanao, Philippines,, poses problem for truck trying to negotiate street in Ozamis City. At least 20Q persons were killed, 1,500 injured by temblor which shook area for nearly eight hours. Note damaged building at left. (International) Mental Health Study Seen Step In Treatment of Mind Diseases Editor's Not: As chairman of the House Commerce Committee. Rep. J. Percy Priest (D-Tenn.) will play a leading role in the enactment of health legislation In the present Con gress. His committee recently ap proved a resolution calline for an oterall three year study of mental illnesses. In the following dispatch. Priest discusses the need It such a study. Br JAMES F. DONOVAN Washington (U.PJ Rep. J. Percy Priest (D-Tenn.) believes that a thorough congressional study of mental health could lead to "real progress" in the treatment of diseases . of the mind. Seated in his picture-lined of fice shortly before leaving for his native Tennessee for the Eas ter recess, the 55-year old for mer newspaperman put it this way: "We have reached a point in the field of mental health where there is a possibility of real progress. But there is a great danger of the various research projects going off in ail direc tions. "The governors of the various states are extremely interested in the problem, and they have given a high priority to its solu tion. More and more attention is being given to mental health in state health programs. "I am afraid that unless we have a study and coordinate the programs of the states and fed eral government, this enthus iasm will wane. And the great est effort in this field must be made by the states and not the federal government." Priest is sponsor of a resolu tion calling for a three-year mental health group. The group Bills in Legislature Salem (U.R) Rep. John Hare (R-Hillsboro), disclaiming faith in the "80-day wonders" who presented the House with a tax program last week, has lost an attempt to recall from the Sen ate a bill for an increased per sonal income tax. By a standing vote the House overwhelmed Hare's move -to bring back for reconsideration the bill he said was presented too hastily and without giving members enough time to study it. Hare charged that Rep. Loran Stewart (R-Cottage Grove), had indulged in wishful thinking in presenting the income tax bill as a solution to the state's financial problems and added that ' Stew art was "presumptuous" in at tempting to second-guess the Joint Ways and Means Commit tee on the amount of money that would finally be needed. Stewart fought Hare's motion as "serving no good purpose" and told the House that the surtax provision in the income tax bill passed and sent to the Senate last week was the "safety valve" that could be adjusted to dovetail income with revenue needs when the ways and means budget bills were completed. Members of the house tax committee, including those who had opposed the income tax bill, voted against Hare's motion to recall the bill. Rep. C. Allen Tom (R-Rufus) said it would de lay a final adjournment for at least a week. Hare's motion supporting votes. received six Salem (U.R) The Senate passed a measure which would allow port authorities of cities on the Columbia river to issue revenue bonds for port improve ments without putting them to a vote at an election. The aim of Senate Bill 301, according to Sen. Lowell Steen (R-Umatilla), was to place the ports of Oregorl cities along the Columbia on a similar basis to those in Washington. - The .Senate passed a House-approved measure, house bill 125, to remove the requirements that extra wide- vehicles, like farm machinery, must be preceded and followed by flagmen. Salem (U.R) The House yes terday passed with only three dissenting votes a bill that would require gold dredging op erations to be equipped with settling basins to protect streams from silting. - Rep. C. Allen Tom (R-Rufus) told -the House that marginal gold dredging operations were silting streams at the expense of fish life and farm irrigation and that dredging left lands worth less and removed them from the tax rolls. ' would be selected by the U.S. surgeon general upon the rec ommendation of the National Advisory Mental Health Coun cil. Progress Being Made The group would be author ized to spend 81,250,000 and to investigate "all aspects of the re sources, methods and practices for diagnosing, treating, caring for and rehabilitating the men tally ill." It would be directed to make annual reports and a final re port, embodying its recommen dations, to Congress, the sur geon general, and the governors of the 48 states. Priest said that "tremendous progress" has been made since Congress passed his national mental health act in 1946. But he said mental health still re mains the No. 1 health problem of the nation. He noted that 9,000,000 Amer icans, six per cent of the popu lation, have serious mental dis orders; that 750,000 mentally ill Americans are hospitalized; that 47 per cent of the nation's hospi tal beds are occupied by mental patients and that one out of every -12 Americans born today will spend some time in a mental hospital. ...'.. 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