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Show I 2 B DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1977 Physical ills may cause mental problems in elderly By Mary Lubhen Deseret News medical writer An elderly person who seems to be a psychiatric case may actually have a physical condition causing his problems, a University of Washington geriatric psychiatrist said Wednesday. Dr. Murray A. Raskind, Seattle, told a University of Utah Medical Center Psychiatry Grand Rounds session that 30 percent of patients there had medical conditions, usually treatable, that were causing their problems. V Some of the problems found included anemia, congestive heart disease and lung diseases such as bronchitis, Dr. Raskind said. High calcium levels can cause symptoms of depression, Dr. Raskind said. He said high calcium can be caused by metastatic cancer, but even if the cancer cannot be treated, improving the calcium level can help the patient's mental state. He said the study found few patients with thyroid conditions, but it is important to think of this also." Dr. Raskind said a high incidence of 11 of 216 had positive tests for patients syphillis. He said many patients had mental problems caused by medical or psychiatric drugs they had been prescribed. Low potassium can cause symptoms of depression, he said. The condition can result when patients are given diuretics but do not take a potassium supplement. He said some patients are prescribed oral anti-diabet- later reduce their drugs - or insulin, then food intake and develop symptoms of confusion. Elderly patients can also develop digitalis toxicity when they are given too high a dose of the drug for heart problems, he said. Symptoms can be depression and cognitive problems. Psychiatric drugs can also cause problems, he said. A lot of times psychiatric medication is used either in the wrong situation, for too long or in too high a he said. Stopping the concentration, medication often results in behavior improvement. wants to be stop in new Alaska flight U.S. petition . S.L. doesn't seek Ritter ouster i A petition filed by the Justice Department against U.S. District Court Chief Judge Willis W. Ritter Wednesday does not mean the department is seeking a de facto impeachment of the judge, says Assistant U.S. Atty. Brent Ward. t The federal petition, filed by U.S. Atty. Ramon ; Child in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Denver, ! seeks to have Ritter removed from all federal cases. . One to be filed by Utah Atty. Gen. Robert Hansen will ask for a similar ruling to be applied to the state. , In questioning by the Deseret News, Ward said the action by the Justice Department does not , represent an attempt for a de facto impeachment " because it only seeks a juggling of Ritters case load and his removal from federal cases. Doesnt the petition open the way for Ritter's V complete removal from all cases, because others could file similar petitions in unrelated cases? Ward . was asked. ' Ward said some of the complaints raised by the ; i Justice Department could be cited by other litigants. These charges include allegations that Judge Ritter i poorly brought the judiciary into disrepute, managed his court calendar and attacked judges of the appeals court If J udge Ritter is removed from all federal cases, r . some legal experts believe others could claim this is " Unarguable evidence of a general bias by the judge. A constitutional contacted by the Deseret ' ; News in Washington, lawyer D.C., said the power to impeach : belongs to Congress and the petition will fail because ! of this. ; CAP continues r search all-o- ut j Maximum search efforts continued today in the search for a light plane missing since Friday and carrying seven young Texans. I - . About 0 airplanes, with additional searchers on the ground, are searching the route between I Farmington, N.M., where the plane made a fuel stop, and Price, with efforts concentrating in eastern Utah. The Federal Aviation Administration has opened up some restricted air space to the searchers, Sgt. Caroline Blessing, Utah Civil Air Patrol, said. One restricted area on the possible route is the military pocket range near Green River. T I Sgt. Blessing said aircraft and volunteers from - Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado are participating in the search. T I The seven passengers in the plane were on a - flight from Houston to Salt Lake City, where they Z planned to attend the general conference of The Saints. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y 1 30-4- jOontinued from B-- l ' In the analytical method pupils are first taught whole words, then are taught to analyze the words, Jearning the sounds last. In the synthetic approach we teach the child that I in the language are sounds, that sounds put together ' In the right order make words and that words put together make sentences and so on, Lebo said. There is absolutely no question that the synthetic system works best, he said. Lebo had these comments on reading instruction: Principals must know how to teach reading, must teach it in their schools and be the academic ' leader, not just the logistics administrator. Teachers should not be trained to teach in colleges. The actual training to deliver instruction in the classroom should take place in the classroom and not under the direction of a master teacher just for a quarter or a semester. . If teacher organizations, such as the National Education Association and the unions, want to be educationally productive they will have to establish a system of teacher quality assurance and conduct training. Every teacher in the school system must be ' language arts competent, must have a knowledge of how the child learns to read and write and spell and ; must have exemplary reading and language skills. ' To be certain that reading is taught effectively we must have superbly trained and effective teachers, concentrate money and elfoit in the primary grades, identify what things work and what dont work and use programs that work. Elsewhere, teachers attended dozens of section and subject matter meetings covering nearly all aspects of the school curriculum. They also browsed through hundreds of displays in the Salt Palace exhbition area, often stopping to purchase a publication or other materials to be used m their classrooms. ' They heard reports from association leaders Mrs. Kaye C. Chatterton, president, and Dr. Daryl J. in ?n afternoon McCarty, executive secretary general session. Tonight in the Salt Palace Arena (7 p m.) teachers and their guests will hear the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus in concert. Dr. Andrew Holt, president emeritus of the University of Tennessee, will speak to the public said Mrs. Chatterton. Friday's schedule is filled with more specialty sessions and meetings of affiliated groups. The convention will conclude with the traditional Grand Festival Concert in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. z ; j- if an elderly woman does not keep house as , well as she used to, the family may step in and hire a housekeeper, depriving her of any social role. It is often very helpful to let them take as much of their function as they possibly can, keep them as active as possible. Nursing home patients, he said, may use erratic behavior to get attention, if they feel ignored. Other psychiatric disorders often seen in the elderly are depression and paranoid psychosis. Dr. Raskind said. He said elderly patients are less likely to see a psychiatrist, sometimes because of cost, because community mental health centers are geared for younger clients or because psychiatry is less acceptable to their generation. Some drugs used for high blood pressure can as also cause depression, Dr. Raskind said. Of those patients who do need psychiatric treatment. Dr. Raskind said, the biggest category is those with cognitive trouble with their memory, dysfunction with verbal and mathematical symbols or orienting themselves in space and time. It is now thought that not all of these cases are due to clogged arteries. Dr. Raskind said. Other causes may be a slow virus or an autoimmune response. "A lot of drugs are touted, Dr. Raskind said, but when you do a controlled study none seem to work very well. He said, however, behavioral treatment can sometimes help. For instance, he said. Mrs. Wallace Mrs. Woodbury Prof. Beamson Mrs. Ririe 4 women honored for service Four Utahns received Distinguished Women Awards Wednesday night during opening ceremonies of the fifth annual womens conference at the University of Utah. Dorothy Beamson, Shirley Ririe, Glenn Walker Wallace and Joan Woodbury were presented platters honoring them for their contributions to the advancement of women in the arts, as artist, patron or educator. Following the awards, the several hundred conference participants in the U. of U. Union Ballroom viewed a performance by dancer Vinie Burrows, who performed Sister, Sister, a program she called her salute to women of all ages, races, classes and beliefs. This years conference, with the theme Woman Art 77, focuses on creative expression in all forms, including the visual arts, literature and the performing arts. The conference theme is unlike those of years past, most of which were centered around political and social issues affecting women. Prof. Beamson is a ceramist and assistant one-wom- Three killed pmfpssnr of art at the U. of U. She has been honored as Artist of the Year by the American Association of University Women and studied for a year in Finland under a Fulbright-IIay- s Fellowship. Mrs. Ririe and Mrs. Woodbury aie founders and directors of the dance company, a nationally known ensemble of modem dancers which has traveled throughout America under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts. Mrs. Wallace is a patron of the arts in Utah and has been associated with Ballet West and the Utah Symphony. She organized the Civic Music Association in 1930 and was instrumental in bringing Maestro Maurice Abravanel to Utah as conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra. The conference continues through Saturday at the U. of U. with workshops, speeches, poetry readings and artistic performances. actress Ellen Tonight Academy Award-winnin- g Burstyn will speak in the Union Ballroom. The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. and is scheduled to include film clips from her movies plus a discussion and dialouge with the audience. Ririe-Woodbu- road toll now 272 Three more Utahns were dead today as the result of traffic accidents around the state, boosting the 20 more than all of last highway death toll to 272 year. The victims included an elderly pedestrian and two Salt Lake area young men killed in separate collisions in Summit County. KILLED: Pablo Perez, 86, 230 W. 2nd South. Eddie A. Susaeta, 20, 20 W. 61st South, Murray. James Mulliner, 19, 174 K St. Salt Lake police said Perez, who had been in the U.S. only a year from his native Spain, was crossing 2nd South near 3rd West when he was struck by a car Wednesday afternoon. The impact flipped the victim onto the hood of the auto and he then fell to the street. Officer S.R. Hinckley said the car was driven by Roily Hurrington, 51, 69 Chicago St., and was traveling west on 2nd South. Perez was not in a crosswalk when he was struck, the officer said. The victim was dead on arrival at LDS Hospital. Susaeta was killed about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when the auto in which he was a passenger crashed near Wasatch, into the rear of a stalled car on Summit County. Highway Patrol investigators said a car driven by Richard G. Cousino, 60, Tucson, Ariz., was stopped in a westbound lane about four miles from the g border when the rar carrying Susaeta collided with it. Troopers said the auto with Susaeta was driven by Steven W. Farrell, 20, Murray. Another youth, Jeff Jensen, 21, Murray, also was a passenger in the Farrell car. Farrell, Jensen and Cousino were all taken to McKay-De- e Hospital in Ogden in serious condition. Mulliner, also the victim of a crash in Summit County, was a passenger in a car involved in a head-o- n collision with a pickup truck last Saturday. He died Tuesday in Holy Cross Hospital of the crash injuries. Utah-Wyomin- Investigators said Mulliner was r.ding in a small D. Hickey, 19, 567 F St., when the auto collided with a pickup truck driven by Grant McFarlane, 47, Park City, on a gravel road near Gorgoza. Hickey escaped with minor injuries, but another h passenger, Marty Holding, 19, East, was more seriously hurt and is in fair condition in Holy Cross Hospital. McFarlane and his two sons, Jeffrey, 12, and Michael, 13, suffered only minor injuries and wrere not hospitalized car driven by Michael 5903-14t- The Utah Agencies will send a representative to Portland, Ore., next week to ask that increased air service between Anchorage, Alaska, and the West Coast include Salt Lake City. The group of Utah civic and business leaders which discusses air service in the state voted Wednesday to send David L. Wilkinson, assistant state attorney general for air matters, to the Civil Aeronautics Board hearing in Portland. Wilkinson said he had been advised that a representative of Northwest Energy Coip., 315 E. 2nd South, also plans to testify at the hearing. Northwest is planning to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Alaskas North Slope through Canada to the lower 48 states. Wilkinson said he will ask the CAB to consider the increased demand for Lake City air service Anchorage-Sa- lt resulting from Northwests project. He said two of the six airlines proposing to Coast service are increase Alaska-Wes- t including Salt Lake City stops. Representatives of the two airlines, Hughes Airwest and Western Airlines, attended the Wednesday Utah Agencies meeting in the Alta Club, 100 E. South Temple. They urged that the group Coast intervene in the Alaska-Wecase without expressing preference between their two proposals. The Hughes Airwest proposed flight would leave Salt Lake City at 10: 15 a.m. and arrive in Anchorage at 12:35 p.m. Alaska time, with a half-hostop in Portland. Robert Hayes, spokesman for the airline, said approval of service to Anchorage would mean that Salt Lake City would have nonstop service to Portland which Hughes Airwest recently discontinued. Hayes said the flights would be on 0 Boeing planes. st 727-20- Western Airlines proposal for vice to Anchorage involves a stop in San Francisco. Although Westerns original plan involved a switch to a DC-1- 0 in San Francisco, Kenry deButts, vice president for regulatory matters, told the Deseret News that the carrier now 0 for plans to use a single Boeing the entire flight. That flight would leave Salt Lake City at 8:30 a.m. and arrive in Anchorage at 11 :57 a.m. Both airlines include return flights in their applications: Hughes Airwests would leave Anchorage at 1 : 15 p.m. and arrive in Salt Lake City at 9:32 p.m., and Westerns would leave Anchorage ser- 727-20- Centers no Rx, Hansen says Utahs Community Correction Centers are doing well, but they cannot solve the problems at Utah State Prison, Atty. Gen. Robert B. Hansen said today after touring the three centers. Atty. Gen. Hansen said he was impressed with operations at the centers but they couldnt serve needs of maximum security risk inmates. The centers deal only with minimum security inmates. Charles W. Akerlow, a member of the Utah Board of Corrections, and Kenneth V. Shulsen, director, Community Correction Centers, accompanied Atty. Gen. Hansen on the tour Wednesday afternoon. The attorney general said center director, Robert Devine, A1 Garcia and Tamara Holden, were knowledgeable, helpful and obviously dedicated. He said, however, that expanded prison facilities, or possibly a new, separate facility for incorrigible prisoners are needed. at 1 p.m. and arrive in Salt Lake City Other airlines seeking authority between Alaska and the West Coast include Continental (Hughes Airwests principal competitor for service be- tween Anchorage and Portland), Alaska Airlines, Wien Air Alaska and Northwest. Flying Tiger Lines is seeking authority to transport cargo. In other action, the Utah Agencies: Heard a report by Mayor Ted Wilson, chairman of the group, about a meeting with Frontier Airlines President A1 Feldman on the proposed Salt Louis nonstop flight. Lake City-S- t. Wilson said Feldman did not believe sufficient demand exists to justify the flight, but the Frontier official said he will review any information, including the survey of local businessmen by the group, which was submitted. Was advised that Sky West, St. George, has applied for federal certification which would make it eligible for loans and subsidies. If certification is granted. Sky West officials advised the group they will buy three pressurized, Metroliners for use between Salt Lake City, Cedar City and Las Vegas. Elected B.Z. Kastler, president of Mountain Fuel Supply Co., as a member of the groups executive committee. Decided to write Robert Crandall, president of American Airlines, to determine if that carrier is planning to restore its recently canceled fourth daily flight to Chicago. 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