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. I
The board, he said, is toid '
to hire a lop pathologist for a
state medical examiner, but j
the salary difference between ''
what is offered and what the:
similar position would draw I
in other states is $10,000. I
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