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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE- THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1960 The Family Cuncii Editor Note: The Family Cuuncll consists of a Judge, a psychia trist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each article Is a summary of an actual caae history. The Council repurts on problems Uiat have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Karen S. She's giving up her Hie in a losing battle. Ada G. I want to see what love can do for a detarded child. - Karen S. My sister and brother-in-law have a daugh ter who is 7 and, almost from the time she was born, they realized she was retarded. But instead of giving her up or placing her in an institution, they have made hermits and wrecks of themselves trying to care for this child and make her happy. Naturally they won't go anywhere without Jeanne and when they all cone to family parties, poor Jeanne is bewildered and the other chil dren are torn between curio sity and fear. So Ada stays home, except when she can leave the child with her hus band, which isn't often. I can't understand why she is sacrificing everything for this child who is so frail she may not even live to grow up. And even if she docs grow up, she can never hope for a nor mal life. We're heartbroken over what this Is doing to Ada. ' Ada G. Only someone who loves Jeanne and has watched her improve in ways that are hardly visible can understand why her father and I will never give up hope. Karen only sees what we do for Jeanne. She doesn't realize what that sweet child docs for us. Shortly after Jeanne was born we knew there was "somelhing wrong. But our Space Capsules On Display at National Museum . Washington (Science Serv ice - Space capsules have joined the other historic Space Age "relics" now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air museum, The capsules, used last May 28, in the nation's first suc cessful rocket launching and recovery of animal life from outer space were presented to the Museum by the Army. , They are the cradles that carried monkeys Able and Baker on a 1,500-mile Jupiter rocket flight, during which the animals experienced nine minutes of weightlessness and nearly 40 g's, or 40 times the normal force of gravity, with-1 out harm. Able, who later died from causes not induced by the history-making flight, is preserved and mounted in the Air Museum display in the original cradle In which the made her flight. Baker still is alive and well. 2,000 Space Miles The flight of the monkeys covered 2,000 "space miles" at a maximum altitude of about 300 miles, with a peak velocity of 10,000 miles per hour. During the flight, the monkeys resled In special contoured fiberglass beds in a seinisupine position during tile launch phase, In much the same physical position the Project Mercury astronauts will assume In their flights and orbits. Philip S. Hopkins, director of the National Air Museum, commenting on this latest ad dition to the Museum's rap idly growing space Flight Col lection, observed that "This historic accession, forerunner of manned space flight, is an example of history repeating Itself. In 1783, before man's first ascent Into the air In free flight in a Montgolfier balloon, a duck, a sheep, and a rooslcr were sent aloft for experiment. Similarly today. before the first astronaut ac complishes human space flight, the monkeys Able and Baker have safely preceded him. We consider this a truly significant specimen In the history of flight." doctor explained wj couldn't be sure about how badly she was retarded until she was older and could be tested. Somehow I had faith that our baby wasn't too far below I normal and that I could do more than any institution to help her develop. I was right The tests show her to be a borderline case, not a moron by any means. She's simply slow, but she can learn many tilings. It's true that Jeanne is our Number One project. But there's no one else, certainly no institution, to give our daughter the patient encour agement and affection she needs. The Council: By "institu tion" we assume these sisters refer to a custodial, residen tial training school for retard ed children, the sort of place that's the "away" in the ex pression, "put her away." But that type of refuge is old- fashioned and used ideally only for completely unrespon sive and virtually hopeless cases. The institutions that have superseded it aie the home, the special class, the special school, the special camp, all working together. So far, so good, we'd say to Ada. But why such isolation, both for you and your daugh ter? If, as you say, she is only slightly below normal, (she ought to qualify for admission to a special class in a public school. The social factor in Jeanne's development has been largely neglected and it's a vital lest of her readi ness to leave her mother's side Depending upon the degree of retardation, there arc now many alternatives to the for mer horrors of banishment to an asylum or hiding "In the attic, tven when a boarding school is required for levels of teaching the home cannot provide, there are frequent returns to family living which keep the child belonging to the stream of the here and now. We understand Ada's cau tion in exposing Jeanne to other children. Youngsters can be cruel to the deviant, unless briefed in advance. That's why it's high time Joanne joined a group of simi lar children, either in a school or camp, to have her first so cializing experiences in a set ting where her own Inadequa cies will not stand out. Correction, Aunt Karen. The mentally retarded can and do grow up to make Rood adjustments to life. With relative or an organization keeping a watchful eye on them, they fill many useful positions in commerce and in dustry. And occasionally those sagging I.Q.'s have been known to rise, too, thanks to skilled training. To end her own and her child's aloneness and also to get expert help on what's best to do next, Ada has recourses. There's a llvewirc organiza tion The National Association for Retarded Children at 386 Park Avenue South, New York 10, with booklets and advice on tap. And the Gov ernment Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C., offers a pamphlet, "The R ct a r d e ri Child Goes to School," for 15 cents. (Copyright 1960, Genora) Features Corp.) Chess Game Being Played by Radio Chrlstchurch, New Zealand -il'Fll-Amcricnns. Russians and New Zcalanders are playing chess with each other bv ra dio in Antarctica across thou sands of miles of ice and snow. Men stationed at New Zea land's Scott Base in McMtirdo Sound arc competing with Russians at the Soviet station of Lazarev Queen Maud Land nearly 3.000 miles away. Play ers at American Sound are competing with men at the main Russian base of Mirny on the Queen Mary coast in East Antarctica. Svencldt Evlccv, a Russian scientist at an American base on Ross Island, relays moves to the Russian stations. When Russian moves are received, he makes changes on master chess boards. Oregon Medicine Said Monetarily Undernourished Portland - (11HI - Dr. Forrest Rieke, vice president of the Oregon State Board of Health, declared Wednesday that pub lic and preventive medicine in Oregon is monetarily "chroni cally undernourished." Speaking before the open ing session of the I!)(i0 Health O f f ic c r s' Conference, Dr. Rieke said that as a result of lack of financial support the same physicians and the same communities who expect and receive excellent private med ical and hospital services ac cept without apparent objec tion health services which are , inadequate in quality and amount. Expenditures Differ He said that dot:ar expendi tures for patients per day in regular hospitals is about S3!) while the average expenditure at slate mental hospitals in chiding services of the medi cal staff Is $4.24 per day. Dr. Rieke salrt the state board has tried to hire a psy-' chiatrist for four years at a : top salary of $15,001) annu-; ally. But the state board is : told there is not enough I money to pay a decent salary. 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