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.
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