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Show HE EIGHT PAGE Attorneys' Secretarial Office Opens Rehabilitation Nursing Home Elderly Held Emotionally III - The head of a nursing home organization aid October 6 the typical nursing home WASHINGTON (UPI) step toward guaranteeing the freedom of the press underpinnning our constitutional liberties. It allows reporters in Illinois to perform their tasks without undue over-zealo- us better-informe- slander cases. Decree Would Hit At Offshore Oil Charter Ship Merger helpers like the young who participate in the peace corps and ac- Justice has NEW ORLEANS (ACCN) tion. I really wonder if we need to appropriate all this dough, Reuss said. Callihan replied that he did not mean to give the impression the elderly he was referring to were in nursing homes solely because of their mental needs. Former LEAA Head Would - The WASHINGTON (UPI) former head of the Law En- Assistance Wash., ! Ad- ministration (LEAA) suggested October 6 that the agency dispense no new funds through its block grant program until it has established goals and standards. Charles H. Rogivin, who served as administrator of LEAA from March 25, 1969 until June 1, 1970, said there has been a significant failure by LEAA to define its objectives. for publicly are not closing any a PHS spokesman. said hospitals, The administration, over the We Nader Blames at Pepperdine Corporations For School Fix - WASHINGTON (UPI) Ralph Nader charged September SO that the financial crisis facing the nations public schools is the fault of giant corporations, which flout or evade property tax laws," usually with the blessings of local and state governments. The consumer crusader said schools all over the could rake in billions of country dollars in added revenue if property taxes which supply the major local source of school money were levied as heavily on industry as on money-starve- d individuals. As it is now, Nader told a Senate subcommittee on equal educational opportunity, corporations are given enormous lax breaks and often do not even pay their reduced tax tails. The pattern continues across the country," he said. The largest and wealthiest corporations flout or evade the property tax laws, victimizing the public schools. . . The stales themselves have been at least silent partners in much of the systematic undertaxation, the magnitude of which has been barely suggested. Weak local property tax administration, and a lack of ef- and unique, if more controversial, is the more hospital protesting what he said were administration plans to close, the hospital. innovative, fective checks and appeals procedures for the small taxpayer, isolates abuses from public scrutiny SKA Training Home for juveniles. In this treatment program, the whole family, rather than the individual, receives treatment. The delinquents entire family comes to the institution for two or more weeks, or staff officers go to the family at its residence for supervision and guidance. This is experimental at this point, but it appears to be working well. and pressure and lets them flourish. Not only have state legislatures tacitly approved undertaxation of industry, Nader said, but in many instances they have also granted explicit favors to large powerful interests to lure industry into their stales and keep it there. He said many states have built subsidies for the powerful into the property tax system, such as for limber interests in Maine, mineral miners in Montana, coal producers in Kentucky and Tennessee, giant farmers in California, steel firms in Indiana and laconite processors in Minnesota. The slates are vying to offer favorable tax climates that will hold old industry and lure new industry in, Nader said. But a tax climate which suits business is not always the one which can provide these progressive Despite measures, drug abuse and juvenile delinquency are on the increase in Sweden, but not at as'high a rate as in the U.S., Bississo observed. UN Body Holds Meeting On Drug Smuggling - GENEVA (UPI) The United Nations commission on narcotics is conducting three weeks of closed-dotalks, scheduled to end October 15, on tougher action against or smugglers concealing drugs in anything from bongo drums to church altar candles. Strong pressure for greater international efforts came aat the start of the session from John E. Inger-sol- l, head of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics. Despite more drug seizures and arrests of traffickers, Ingersoll said, the United States and other countries have a worsening narcotics problem because too little is being done to stop illicit production and manufacture. Freeze Grants forcement - The pubWASHINGTON (UPI) lic health service has announced it has fired the director of its Seattle, This local, community-base- d sort of program seems to work very well," he said. Another apparently effective program in Sweden is the cooperation of trade unions in the rehabilitation of both juvenile delinquents and adult criminals through vocational training. The average load of a probation officer in Sweden generally does not exceed two cases. There are 24,000 probationers and 12,000 probation officers. In most institutions, spirutal welfare committees are Even -- Reuss-D-Wis- - established. There have been no riots in Swedish prisons for years, Dr. Bississo pointed out. an-titu- rst seemingly hardened society in which they are no longer productive members and with which they can no longer communicate freely and regularly. ., said Rep. Henry S. he wasnt against spending money to help the elderly but thought the job could easily be done by volunteer Over Coast Hospital University, reported on the impressions he gained on a three-mont- h study tour of 11 European nations. In Sweden, for example, the emphasis on juvenile delinquency is treatment of a social maladjustment, a disease to be cured, rather than considering it first and foremost a criminal act to be punished, he said. Dr. Bississo reported that in the Scandinavian countries and most European countries there is a heavy involvement of local authorities in rehabilitation of delinquents instead of complete reliance on state or federal agencies. involved. Ogilvie commented: This bill takes a small, but vital, The filed in of Department suffers more from U.S. District Court here a proposed patient sociological and psychological ills consent judgment which would than from physical infirmities. conclude its suit against the merger Patrick Callihan, president of the of the two largest firms which National Council of Health Care charter vessels for offshore oil and Services said the federal governgas drilling along the Gulf Coast. ment should recognize this and The department filed a civil appropriate necessary funds and suit on January 16, 1968, outline basic social requirements for against Tidewater Marine Service that type of care. Inc., of New Orleans, and Twenty Members of the House governGrand Marine Service Inc., of ment operations subcommittee Morgan City, Louisiana. The suit before whom Callihan testified claimed the proposed merger of the challenged him, however. They two companies would violate the suggested that if thats all the Clayton Act by eliminating comelderly are suffering from, they petition between the firms and inshouldnt be in nursing homes in the creasing concentration in the infirst place. dustry. The merger was carried out Callihan, president of the Lansing, after the suit was filed. Mich. based Provincial House, Inc., The proposed consent judgment a chain of seven extended care requires Tidewater to divest itself nursing homes, said most nursing within three years of at least eight of homes cannot afford to provide the the 24 supply and utility boats obsocial help the elderly need and we tained through the merger. Purneed real deep social help. chasers must be approved by the He said, my own experience Department of Justice. leads me to believe that the typical It also prohibits Tidewater for a nursing home patient is suffering from period of five years from socially induced emotional acquiring any firm which operates problems complicated by a minor five or more supply or utility boats medical condition. off the Gulf Coast, and from The medical diagnosis for most acquiring any supply or utility boats elderly patients is generally not a from any company operating in the complicated one, with many people Gulf of Mexico, without the prior suffering from those mild diseases approval of the Attorney General. that are indigenous to the aging process. He said they suffer most from the d feeling of rejection of a deep-seate- and sociology ... policemen anxious to take advantage of their hard work. But it is more then a declaration of fair play for newsmen. It also d assures a public, for it allows reporters to seek the truth wherever it is to be found, without the fear that their sources of information will be cut off by unnecessary disclosure. The measure also provides a newsman the right of appeal from a court order to divulge sources, and automatically protects the sources during the long appeal process. The privilege does not apply in libel or. Health Service In Flap proaches to curbing juvenile delinquency are being applied in the Scandinavian countries, a U.S. criminologist said here recently. Some of these new methods could be applied to good effect in this country, Dr. Saadi Bississo asserted in a luncheon address to faculty and students of the University of Southern Californias Delinquency Control Institute. Dr. Bississo, a professor of law privilege 'on communications between reporters and their sources, and requires law enforcement agencies seeking disclosure of the names to apply for a formal order in circuit court. Before the court can order a reporter to divulge the names of his soirees, the judge must And that all other available sources of information have been exhausted and is essential to the disclosure protection of the public interest harassment from WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1971 LOS ANGELES (ACCN) Some of the worlds most innovative ap- SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (ACCN) -Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie has approved legislation protecting the confidentiality of newsmens sources of information. HB 1756 confers a limited Mrs. James E. Churchtown has opened an office providing secretarial services for attorneys. The office is under the name of. Attorneys Secretarial Service and is located at 421 Felt Building. Mrs. Churchtown has worked as a legal secretary in Los Angeles, Portland and more recently in Salt Lake City with the law firm of White, Arnovitz & Smith. Her experience includes preparation of bankruptcy schedules and secretarial work for the general practice of law in the area of domestic relations, corporate, probate and collection fields. The office is equipped for dictation by telephone and a telephone answering service for attorneys and is staffed with an assistant, Mrs. Gary D. (Kathleen) Riley. Mrs. Churchtown and her husband make their home in Cottonwood Heights. They have four grown children. She is a member of the Salt Lake Chapter of the Legal Secretaries Association. RECORD Scandinavia Praised on Youth Illinois Bill Gives Newsmen Limited Silence Mn. J. E. (Jane Ml) Churchtown DAILY U.N. spokesmen said resumption of opium production in Iran has not given rise to any problem although ways will have to be worked out to prevent illicit productibn in Turkey when that country prohibits poppy cultivation next year. They said the major problem area remains the Far East, especially Laos, Thailand and Burma, with huge quantities of drugs taken out to sea in trawlers to be collected by small fishing boats and then taken to clandestine narcotics factories on isolated shores. the public services, including education, that the people need. What the businesses wont pay falls upon the individual taxpayer. And as brewing taxpayer revolts across the country show, individuals have borne about as great a lax load as they can. Viet Taxpayer Suit Challenges Thieu Election The validity of (UPI) President Nguyen Van Thieus SAIGON landslide victory in the October 3 South Vietnamese election was formally challenged October 6 by four taxpayers who filed a suit in the South Vietnamese Supreme Court. The court must decide by October 25 whether the election was valid and legal. Thieu received 94.3 per n eleccent of the vote in a tion. In a formal petition, the four asked the court to consider the unlawful and unconstitutional nature of the October 3 election and to annul the results. one-ma- objections of some Democratic Congressmen, plans to phase out government operation of eight PHS hospitals serving merchant seamen, coast guardsmen and their families in Seattle, Baltimore, New Orleans, Staten Island, N.Y.; San Francisco, Norfold, Va., Boston and Galveston, Tex. The administration considers the hospitals, with a total capacity of 2,484 beds to be outmoded and underused, and it suggested in Congressional testimony March 5 that their operation be turned over to adjacent cities, medical schools or local groups. The dismissal of Dr. Williard P. Johnson was disclosed by Dr. Vernon E. Wilson, chief of HEWs health services and mental health administration. Wilsons office said Johnson has been relieved of ad- ministrative responsibility as director of the Seattle hospital pending reassignment to another post in the PHS. The reason is that his involvement in the letter of September 20 calling for meetings to protest closing of the hospitals was considered to be inappropriate for a senior program official of the service. Rep. Paul G. Rogers, called the dismissal Gestapoism and a heavy-hande- d attempt to muzzle the voice of opposition. A PHS spokesman said the letter prompting Johnsons ouster was addressed Dear Friend of the PHS and was signed by Hospital and Johnson representatives of six patient groups. As you have probably heard already, the Nixon administration, apparently with the cooperation of the University of Washington, is attempting to shut Seattles PHS the letter began. But hospital, there are many of us who are determined to keep the hospital open. The letter called for a public rally to formally establish a coalition to defend the hospital. D-Fl- a., Court Limits Death Row Stay To Ten Days - federal magistrate has ruled convicts in Massachusetts may not be kept on death row for more than 10 days prior to their scheduled execution. This, in effect, abolishes death row in Massachsuetts, a state high court source said of the landmark decision. Federal officials said the ruling by U.S. Magistrate Willie Davis could have repercussions in every state where prisoners sentenced to death are segregated from other inmates. Davis ruling was approved October 4 by U.S. District Judge Francis J. W. Ford Jr. and released October 6. Davis cited cases of men confined seven to 10 years on death row. It does not seem possible that the legislature intended these men to be confined for that period of time with the very strict visitation limitations imposed by the statute, he said. The ruling, requested by death row inmate Peter J. Ladetto, also permits persons confined to death row to have access to the news media. There are 15 other convicts facing the death sentence at Walpole Stale Prison and they joined Ladetto in the class action suit. Walpole is the only state institution with a death row. The state has not executed any prisoner since BOSTON (UPI) A 1947. Davis based his ruling on access to the news media on the 14th amendment. To permit inmates in general population at Walpole to have access to the news media and to deny this right to persons confined on death row is a denial of equal protection of the laws, he said. |