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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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