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,GHT MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, October 9, 1957 Group Psychotherapy New Idea In Treatment of Homosexuals Delos Smub By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York W A new scien tific idea for dealing with per sons who are"social outcasts" because tneV are homosexuals is that they can be helped to ward normali ty and men tal health through group That is a t echnique whereby a group of per sons with similar if not identi cal emotional disturbances, dis cuss their mutual problems with a psychiatrist serving as mod-erator-to keep the discussion on the target. The idea is that of Dr. Samuel B. Hadden, associate professor of phychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia. Phychiatrists re gard homsexuality an an illness and homesexuals as sick people. But psychiatry has been able to do very little to help them. Other branches of medical sci ence gave up on them long ago. Idea Now Publicized Hadden presented his idea at an unpublicized medical meet ing some time ago. But now it is being publicized by the Medical Society of the state of Pennsyl vania in its technical journal which means it is reaching the entire profession. In experimental group psycho therapy for homesexuals, Had den said he had been struck by "the speed with which the group breaks down the rationalizations of its component members." This was "beneficial," he added. 'It becomes quite apparent that the smug rationalizations are a faulty protection against the in tense anxiety which exists about their abnormality," he continued. "In such groups, discussion of the particularly brutal crimes committed by homosexuals, the high suicide rate, the loneliness and the ostracism that these in dividuals must eventually face are brought to the fore. . .and they seek to change to a normal pattern of behavior." He advocated a "research pro j e c t" whereby large numbers of homosexuals would be put into phychotherapy groups by the compulsion of courts which had convicted them of social of fenses. But this would not be "at the taxpayers' expense. I believe that homosexual offend ers should be held responsible for the maintenance of such a re search project. I feel that they should carry the full burden of cost for treatment disigned to reintegrate them into the main stream of society as self-respect ed and respected citizens." Alcoholics, he recalled, had helped much toward understand ing and solving the problem of alcoholism through "the psych iatric circles," of homosexuality. One particular example he cited was the notion that the homosex ual male was necessarily ef feminate. "In my treatment experience with them I have had Marine sergeants, professional football players, world champion boxers, steeplechase riders, and those whose appearance and public be havior might well be the envy of almost any man," he said. EAST EVANS CREEK - MEADOWS Visitors At Stingley Home By NELLIE BERGMAN East Evans Creek-Meadows Recent visitors at the Emery Stingley home were his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde' Mercer of Crescent City, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mercer of Gold Hill and their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Fuchs of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Mutt Holts and family left for Portland recently for a visit with his family. Members of the Meadows church are doing some work on the church building in their spare time. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Bishop have announced the arrival of a baby boy, born on Truman's birthday, Sept. 24. The baby is the first grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bishop. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Beers spent Sunday, Sept. 29, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sanderson at Sam's valley. Sun day was Mrs. Sanderson's birthday. A new family, by the name of Fry, has moved into the house on the Day ranch. Recent visitors at the Lloyd Beers home were Beers' cousins, Mr. and Mrs. George Rodman of Wapats, Wash., Mrs. Edith Moore of Portland, Ore. and Jim Owens of Toppenish, Wash. Frank Garner, who lives in California is visiting at the home of Mr. Charles Nelson. Garner formerly lived in the Meadows. Grading cf the Meadows road was much needed, but "hunters find it very slick after the rain. Carl Bergman is much im proved after spending several days in a hospital in Medford. ' - . Ml h ? A PRETTY DOGGY Prize poodle Lucky shows off his National Dog Week present which is a matching sweater set like those worn by his escort, Pat Kloth, in San Francisco. The sweaters are appropriately dubbed "hug-me-tight." Sympathy is extended to the Byron Coulter family of the Meadows upon the death of his brother. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yocom were last Sunday afternoon visi tors at the Lloyd Beers home. Fight Alibis New Haven, Conn. (ffl Po lice checking, an early-morning holdup cleared two men sleep ing nearby in, cars. One explain ed that he was staying away from home for the night because he had a fight with his wife; the other said he fought with his mother-in-law. Sweefland Suggests Surplus for Housing Milwaukie, Ore. ilP) State Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Mil- waukie) has suggested that $10 million to $20 million be ad vanced out of Oregon's surplus "to expand low-price home con struction." Sweetland said he would ask the special session of the Legis lature convening Oct. 28 to ap prove advancing the funds under the state's existing veteran's home loan program. He said Oregon needed an im mediate program to stimulate business, particularly in lumber and home construction fields. Doc Quigg's Thoughts for Indian Summer Query: Wonder what the head- By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York HPI Acrid thoughts, designed for use in smoky Indian summer weather: There's a creative man in our office who is worried over the perversities of human nature. Educational TV Sent To College Students Corvallis (VP) History, chemistry and education was taught via television to 966 col lege students Monday as KOAC TV, Oregon's first educational television station, went on the air here. Students in 22 classrooms at Oregon State College, Univers it;r of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon College of Education at Monmouth took part in an ex perimental inter-campus instruc tion program. Willamette Uni versity at Salem, within the viewing area, also is using the courses-by-television. The inter-campus hook-up was financed by a $200,000 grant frorn the Fund for Advancement of Education of the Ford Foun dation, and is the only one of its kind in the nation. Bible Popular Springfield, Mass. OP) The Bible is the most popular book among light-fingered readers at the city library; Library director John A. Humphry said only one quarted of one per cent of the 1,300,000 books circulated by the library are stolen, but Bi bles disappear most often. Re ligious and educational periodi cals rank second. More than a year ago, he deliber ately set out to invent a job. He decided to base it on a pun. He dreamed up a pun, fitted it to a situation by a megaton of brain work, and produced a thing that goes like this: "Did you hear about the cow that swallowed a bottle of blue ink and then imitated a song title? (pause) Mood Indigo." Well, he began telling it around the office. Each person he told it to would rit his teeth and stalk off unsmiling. The author decided he was a failure. However, during the twelve months, the story of the thirsty cow seems . to have circled around the town and come home to roost. People in the same office that spurned it are hearing it now on the outside and coming in and telling it to the author with howls of laughter. Our man is bitter. Once, some years ago, there was a porter who worked in a building whose front door af forded a commanding view of Park ave. When tourists would stop to stare uptown at the gran deur, he would say: "Go ahead and gaze. This is the gaziest street in the world." It must be reported that the place is rapidly becoming not-so-gazy, unless the gaze is one of astonishment. Park ave. is beginning to look like the inside of a bathroom. Brittleness is re placing the fine masonry that once gave the street its rich air of gentility. The diginfied buildings, one by one, are coming down and the new face of the avenue is bright metal strips, glazed and gleaming finishings and glass, glass, glass. The august look is being replaced by the scrubbed look, glinty and aseptic. 1951 NASH Custom Ambassador 4 Door A one owner car recently the engine had a ring and valve job Hydra- P g matie a low priced luxury car JHr J LEA MOTORS 5th at Bartlett Phone SP 2.6185 line writers and news writers have against the noun "raise," meaning a fattening of the pay check? They use such phrases as "wage increase," "salary hike," "pay raise." For decades one of the definitions of raise in the Webster's New Interna tional (unabridged) Dictionary has been: "Specifically, an in crease in pay." The Webster's New World and the American College dictionaries agree. So does the public. A raise is a raise. Now is the time for all World War II veterans to shed a quiet tear for the passing of a friend. The last Congress passed a bill for financial help to short-haul and feeder airlines' to acquire newer and more economical equipment thus eventually al lowing the last of the DC3 trans port planes to be retired from service. The DC3 has not been manufactured since 1945. This is the two-engine airplane known to the Army as the C47, to the Navy as the R4D, and to countless affectionate pilots as "Old Betsy." This was merely one of the best machines ever made by man. It often took off with double the prescribed max imum load and if, at the end of the runway, tt wasnt flying the pilot merely lifted the wheels and Betsy flapped her wings and went upstairs. So long, honey, you were the greatest. Cf place n wmi A AWesfinohonsc OO-YEAI MOfECTlON KHO0, Allowance for your old Water Hearer by "Reddy Kilowatt" on a New Westinghousa quick recovery electric water heater. Trowbridge & Flynn ELECTRIC CO. 214 W. Main Ph. 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