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10 A MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1161. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Am erica n Lib erty Said Threatened by Electronic Devices San Francisco - (UFD ; A builder of electronic ; compu ter! warm that the most in idious peril facing American liberty today, ta the memory , and storage computer. Bernard S. Benson told the Society of Technical Writers and Publishers,: Americans . don't realize it, but more and more information about them is being stored in some elec- tronic memory bank. Benson, president of t h e Benson-Lehner Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., predicted-the day will come when every scrap of information will be collected and , fed Into one ' giant machine. School Records Listed ; "Your, FBI record, your childhood diseases and the at titudes of your parents will be available," he said. At if that weren't enough, throw in "your school records, em ployment records, tax records, contributions to charity and even the records of your charge accounts and credit . cards." . .. : With that. Benson added . the individual's privacy will be at the 'mercy of ; who or what controls the machine. . He pointed out that while individually each record is ' helpful in maintaining health, reducing crime, getting work . and providing other reason able data, together they form an almost embarrassing inti- mate picture of each Amerl- can. ,;.., , . Bensoii ;, was- pessimistic : about the future. He said ; Americans either didn't real lie, didn't care, or both, that their hard won privacy was being stripped from- them layer by layer. Like Coming From Ood In driving home how in credibly dangerous he thought computers could be, Benson aid: ... "If I ra a k e a statement ; about someone, ' you may or may not believe It. If I write it in an article, you'll believe it more. In a book it becomes nearly sacrosanct. But if the statement comes from a com puter mama mia, its like coming from God!" The machines have to be controlled, but Benson does not have m u c h hope "be cause the average slob doesn' seem to care and it's hard to convince him mechanical effi ciency is the' great enemy of freedom."; ... n-.iytVi-. - Family Council Urban Affairs - Department Planned Washington - (DM) - Presi dent Kennedy was expected to ask Congress today to set up a new Cabinet-rank ..Depart ment of urban Affairs to over see problems of housing and transporting Americans. It was reported, the message envisions shifting the Housing and Home Finance 1 Agency into, the new department. It would try to solve the need for mass transportation sys tems in metropolitan areas. Kennedy said in his March 0 housing message to Congress he would recommend' such a department, in view of the fact that' "urban and subur ban areas- now contain the overwhelming majority of our population," , , . Trade A$todation ' ; Conference) Opens Portland - UTO - The 48th general conference of the Pa cific Northwest Trade associ ation . opened at the Multno mah Hotel today. Gov. Mark Hatfield, Secre tary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, and Gerald W. Frank are among the speakers on the two-day program. Secretary Hodges will give a luncheon address Tuesday. : Editor's Note: The ramujr Coun. cU conllita of a Judge, psycbla- trltt, three clergymen, newspaper editor, womin'i editor mid two writers. Each article la a luminary of an actual case hlitory. The Council reports on prohlema that have been dealt with by responsible .s"cies ana -counselors. Mrs. B. D. . The doctor wants him to get psychiatric help in a hospital. . . Hugh N. - I'm afraid if I go in, I'll never get out. Mrs.. B. D. - Hugh is my cousin and, since he has no one else in the East here, I'm his next-of-kin.. He's only 38 but he looks and acts as thouRh his best years are be hind, .him... In', Jhe past year he s been going downhill phys ically and emotionally. ' Six years ago his one big love affair went snafu. He buried himself in his job and withdrew from meeting people Although he visited my husband and me frequent ly, T could never get him to parties or dances He - lives alone In a residence club. ' Lately he's been treated by our doctor for a combination of symptoms such as insomnia, high blood pressure, and indi gestion. Two weeks ago' he was referred to a psychiatrist who says he's acutely depress ed and should be treated in a hospital for a couple of weks. After that, he can be helped by psychoanalysis. . But Hugh hit the ceiling at the word "hospital." He says he'll take a cruise instead and be okay. - ; : aT H r I I J Issa I IV ill,- ' I I 1 x. i i iifi -i?-s . r s KU-WAY CLEANERS for SAFE, INSURED cold: Our storage vaults are the nicest place in the world for furs to spend the warm months. They're pampered in the perfect fur climate where they're safe from moths and insured against all hazards. To send your furs away for a beneficial rest cure, call us today. Convenient Parklnf WeM at I .' Try Our ' ' . . CUSTOM LAUNDERED SHIRTS Fit Batter look Better Feal Better Hi Dm . I ItMWwm DIAL SP 2-9169 rt f f U J imp 601 E. Main St. H. D. CHRISTENSEN Hugh N.-1'm ready to agree that the root of my aches and pains may very well be the heavy blues which I can't seem to shake oil, But ra rather try another psychia trist, one who wouldn't insist 1hat I enter a hospital. Or may be I can lick this with an ocean voyage, or a month on a farm. But my cousin wants me to check into the hospital and have it over with. . And that's exactly what I'm afraid of - that it'll be over with forever, so far as my chances are of getting out are concernedl Once they get you into those places they forget about you, and let you rot. I ought to be able to be helped' on. the outside, like others. ; The psychiatrist said I need some preliminary condition ing before he can work with me, and that this can only be obtained in a hospital. He mentioned tranquilizers., and electro-shock treatment, But I'm not that sickl . I don't need the men in the white coats'. I'm not a psycho, just a sad sack. The Council! Hugh Is labor ing under some old-fashioned bugaboos about psychiatric treatment in hospitals, Gone for the most part are the "snake-pits" and 'locked wards. In fact, more and more of our general hospitals now ccept psychiatric patients on the same basis as they do sur gical .and medical cases. The oia ana enormous men tal hospital may soon be an anachronism. At any rate, no hew ones are being built. Now-' adays, a man like Hugh should be able to sign In at 'a general hospital in his vicinity. Of 180 large general institutions (over 500 beds), 90 per cent now admit patients for psychiatric treatement.' - To hearten Hugh further, the emphasis ' is upon 1 short- term therapy. The doctors are as eager to get them out, and on to outpatient care, as he is to get out himself. The us ual proceedure Includes a quick Intensive attack on the disabling phase of the Illness, and then discharge and trans fer to the case-load of a clin ic : or , private psychiatrist. The average stay is three' or four weeks. It's too bad that the general public, Hugh and Mrs D. in cluded, don't know the drastic shifts in hospital treatment of mental and emotional disabili ties. In addition to the relaxa tions mentioned above there are "day passes" for keeping a patient on his job, and "night passes" to permit him time a,t home with his family during the treatment period . The good word for- Hugh is that he can go in and out of a hospital and be treated as mat-ter-of-factly for mental illness as for colitis. Even better, mental illness is one of the most curable ailments. Poor Forest Land Management Topic Of OSC Engineer Forest management of poor ly cut-over land or poor forest land was explained Friday at a meeting of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association. Intensive . forest manage ment of approximately 11,000 acres of lands owned and managed by the school of forestry, Oregon State col lege, are now .yielding . be tween 2V4 to 3 million board feet of lumber annually, and netted approximately $30,000 after operational costs were deducted last year. , These statistics, were pre sented , by William Davies, head of the forest engineer ing department, Oregon State college.' Such management methods are now being followed by Elk Lumber company on land obtained from the California Oregon Power company in the Prospect area, . . Davies has been with OSC for 15 years, and has served as forest engineer and man ager of the school forest lands for the last two years. ; . , Largest tract , under his management is the 6,800 acre McDonald forest, and the next largest the Paul Dunn tract of about 4,000 acres, for merly part of Camp Adair near Corvallis. Other, forest lands include the Blodgett tract, 2,200 acres, and a 160 acre parcel, on Mary's peak. . Use priority of the lands includes education, research and operational.: Davies said this requires coordination of thinning, salvage and- re forestation operations with other college uses of lands. Marvin Rowley, contract logger who logs the land un der contract with the school of forestry, assisted Davies in discussing a series of slides depicting forest "conditions and logging practices. ; ' Davies explained that all production came from thin ing or salvage operations es tablished In a 10-year pro gram. At the end of this pro gram a more complete logging job will be done on the ma ture stands. He anticipates 6 million board feet of allow able annual cut- would be pos sible on a sustained yield basis. -' : '''' i - -: ''Thinning operations on 20 to 25-year-old stands is on an experimental basis, the for estry engineer said. ' It costs about $100 an acre, and would not be- economical for a pri vate: land owner, unless .tim ber stands - were in' the 35-year-range, he - added. How ever, it might be possible to absorb thinning costs in an ticipation of increased growth and yield from the remaining stand of trees "released," he pointed out. '3 ' - Both Davies and Rowley favor use of crawler tractors in thinning or salvage opera tions over horse-logging. This is contrary to some foresters' opinions. ' But they defended their stand on the basis that a trac tor with blade operated by a competent man with a con servation attitude , was more efficient and economical. 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