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Threat of Suicide Declared To Be Cry for Help' To Relatives By DELOS SMITH Uniied Press Science Editor Kew York 'U.R; A world au thority on why people kill them selves knows one thing for sure "preventable suicides do qc cur." "They occur," continued I.R.C. Batchelor, "because either the doctor or the relatives or both feel sure that, knowing the pa tient to have been a decent and trustworthy person, a suicidal attempt was not to be expected. "But suicide is no respector of persons. Almost any nervous or mental illness, at any age, may lead to a suicide attempt," And, he added, "at least one-third of those who attempt suicide have threatened suicide." 'Cries For Help Threats of suicide not only should be a warning to doctors and relatives; these threats may be "cries for help." The threat ener needs treatment to solve the buried troubles inside his mind. The usual forerunners of sui cide are depressions and insom- 4-H Club News Hees. Creek Club The Reese Creek Renegades met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nelsen on April 12. Record books were checked by our leader, Cliff Moore. He also read us an article on fly control from the Hoard's Dairymen. At our next meeting, April 26, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Duncan, a test will be given on previous articles read at meet ings. Janet Johnston, Reporter. ria. All depressions even those for which there are obvious rea sons "carry a suicide risk." "Particularly dangerous are those who blame themselves, who express feelings of intense shame and guilt and failure, and who say that their continued ex istence would be burdensome for those they love," he said. Promises Not Enough The physician who discharges a would-be suicide from observa tion as soon as he has recovered physically, is guilty of "malprac tic," Batchelor asserted. "Sometimes the patient is ask ed first to promise that he will not attempt suicide again. This promise, if given, is usually val ueless. It may reassure the doc tor but it does nothing to safe guard the patient, who" can no more control his self-destructive impulses than the sufferer from an acute appendicitis his pain." Batchelor is deputy physician- superintendent of the Royal Ed inburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous disorders. He was lec turing general practitioners in the British Medical Journal. Hope Vanishing for Finding Lost Youth Goldendale, Wash. (U.R) Hope had almost vanished today of ever finding 20-year-old Hank Baker of The Dalles alive. The youth has been lost for five days in the bleak snow-swept hills around Simcoe peak after a Sat urday plane crash. The last of the cattlemen's line cabins where Baker might have holed up were serached yes terday. Leaders of the dogged search have called a meeting to discuss whether or not to continue the operation. The air force helicop ter participating in the search was grounded again yesterday by low clouds. Barn Explosion Puzzles Officials Lumberton, N. C. (U.R) Puz zled police and firemen called to an explosives expert today to try to solve the mystery of the vanishing barn. Fire Chief Ed J. Glover said the 20-foot square tobacco barn, located just inside the city lim its, "simply disappeared in a sort of explosion" Wednesday night, but a preliminary investigation indicated there had been no ex plosion. There was some speculation that the barn might have been the victim of a freak tornado which hit the earth in only one place, but the U.S. Weather Bu reau at Raleigh discounted that possibility. The bureau said no severe storms had been reported in the state and that atmospheric con ditions in the Lumberton area were not right for a tornado. Authorities said they did not believe the barn could have been destroyed by an explosive such as dynamite because all of the destruction was in one direction, upward and to the north. NIGHTMARE Mrs. Douglas Bennett bites her finger to hold back flood of tears as passerby, D. B. Trefethen (right), check pulse of her unconscious son, Terry. 6, who was struck by auto when he dashed into Seattle-st. Terry was taken to hospital with nead injuries. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday New Hampshire Land Rises 1,800 Feet Worcester, Mass. (U.R) Land at the Canadian border in New Hampshire has risen 1,800 feet during the last 20,000 years. Prof. Richard J. Lougee of Clark University's Graduate School of Geography adds that, farther north, in the Hudson Bay area, the land has risen nearly 3,000 feet in the same period. He said the rise in land is due to the flexing of the earth's crust after being relieved of the great weight of the ice sheets that covered it during the ice ages. Thursday' April 14, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVElf Glenn Klein Slated As Club Speaker Glenn Klien, Jackson county agent for 4-H club activities, will speak at the April meeting of the Rogue River Jersey Cattle club Sunday, April 17, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Moore near Eagle Point. Klein, who spent the year of 1951-52 in New Zealand working and studying under the Interna tional Farm Youth Exchange program, will describe some of his experiences there in rela tion to New Zealand's important dairy industry and will show colored slides. The April session of the club was postponed one week as the regular meeting date fell on Easter. It will be preceded by the customary potluck luncheon at noon, and those who attend are asked to bring food and their own table service. Both meeting and luncheon are open to any one interested. Final plans for the annual Junior Dairy show, to be held in Gold Hill in May under club sponsorship, will be completed during the business session. Pres ident D. W. Mongold, Eagle Point, will occupy the chair. The Moore residence is locat ed on Ball road, which intersects Crater Lake highway at the Dix Welding shop north of Eagle Point. " Cause Discovered for Low Water Reading Farmer City. HI. (U.R) Po lice Chief O. W. Reinke did a double-take when he got around to reading his light meter here. The chief, whose various duties include reading city light end water meters, couldn't understand his low kilowatt hours, and a check revealed the reason the mechanism was run ning backward. A new meter was installed and proceeded to run in reverse. Investigation disclosed that the line was shorted at a nearby used car lot. MUSIC CONFERENCE Eugene (U.R); Some 5000 mu sic teachers and pupils from five states convened here yesterday in the northwest division of the music educators' national conference. The complete collection of the manuscript works of Charles E. Ives, noted American compose have been given by his widow to Yale University. Nationalist Agents Get Death Sentences Tokyo (U.R) Peiping radio said today a Chinese Communist court had imposed death sen tences on 26 persons it called "American-backed Chinese Na tionalist agents" on charges of spying and plotting to blow up various buildings. The broadcast said the Canton municipal court which sentenc ed them commuted the death sentence for 17 of the defend ants. Peiping radio claimed the de fendant confessed high explo sives in their possession were "made by U. S. espionage organ izations, which also passed onto them instruction on demolition methods." LANE INOCULATIONS I Eugene (U.R) The Lane coun- i ty health department estimates that 8,500 school children in the j county will receive v free vac- j cinations with the newly-approved Salk polio vaccine. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport KELVIN ATOR 18Cu. Ft. holds 630 lbs. 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