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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1969 Lobby for Social Legislation Businessmen Are Urged to Man, Mind, Medicine Need Revision, '' New Study Explains Commission Composes Oilmen Exploring Continental Shelf Highway Policy The State Road Commission Oilmen are exploring large of Utah is of five composed areas of the U.S. continental The education of future docare who residents of members, shelf, searching for petroleum tors at most medical schools in and are appointed by the to meet Utah, increasing demand, Oil the United States urgently needs Governor with the advice and Facts reports. revision to give greater attention consent of the Senate on a part-tim- e to psychological The American Petroleum Inand racial basis for a term of six years stitute aspects of illness and health. publication says that with no more than three mem- studies have ' This is the central theme of a indicated petroleum bers belonging to any one poli- resources high-levexist off the may report, Man, Mind tical party. One commissioner and Medicine: The Doctors Edu- selected from each of the follow-is northern section of the U.S. west cation, by Dr. Oliver Cope, ing districts: District No. 1 coast and that a search for oil Professor of Surgery at Harvard gas is under way off the Box Elder, Cache, and coast. In addition, Oil Atlantic Medical School, which is being comprising Davis, Morgan, Rich and Weber Facts notes that, extensive geopublished by Lippincott. No. 2 comprisDistrict Counties; tests are scheduled in Dr. Cope says that America logical Salt Lake, Tooele and Utah the southern of the Gulf of needs not only more doctors, but ing part No. 3 comMexico. more doctors with a deeper Counties; District prising Carbon, Daggett, DuThe hunt for petroleum offunderstanding of human beings. chesne, Emery, Grand, San Juan, The Cope report grows out of Summit, Uintah and Wasatch shore, if successful, could add the deliberations of a group of Counties; District No. 4 compris- several states to the roster of eminent .medical scholars, be- ing Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Juab, oil producers, according to Oil havioral scientists, and laymen Kane, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Facts. meeting in Swampscott, Massa- Sevier, Washington and Wayne Competition is keen, among chusetts in late 1966. one commissioner companies bidding for federal Counties, and is Medical education is at fault. selected from the State at offshore leases. So far, U.S. oil It is outmoded and needs over- large. Any one of the five mem- firms have invested more than $7 billion in offshore oil exploraDr. Cope , declares, bers can serve as chairman. hauling, of reluctance the many The State Road Commission tion and development Oil Facts citing medical faculty members to is charged with enforcing the points out it may require 12 to stress more than the basic provisions of law relating to 15 years to recover money insciences such as phsyiology, bio- State highways, supervising and vested in offshore work. chemistry, etc., and their failure controlling the State Department to take account of modem know- of Highways and exercising conHamilton, Chairman, Salt Lake ledge in .psychology, sociology trol' over the location, establish- City; Ross Plant, Richmond, and other fields of human be- ment, changing, construction and District No. R. LaVaun Cox, havior that often have direct maintenance of State highways Salt Lake 1; District No. 2; City, relevance to the treatment of as provided by law. Francis Feltch, Vernal, District sick persons. The members of the State No. 3; and Clem Church, Elaborating his viewpoint, Dr. Road Commission are: Weston E. District No. 4. Cope writes, No matter what the relationship is between the emotional and the physical, both have to be considered if the patient is to be helped. . . . Present medical education too often fails to give doctors the 4-- H insight and confidence they need to handle both aspects. . David Rockefeller, president others,1 Mr. Rockefeller said: of the Chase Manhattan Bank, But even these, outstanding has urged the nations business- as they are, do not quite fill the men to lobby as energetically function I have in mind. What is for constructive social legis- needed in my view, lation as they have worked in is an additionally, which can organization the past for tax, tariff and other mobilize the reand bills directly affecting their sources of theopinions business combusinesses. munity behind workable apAddressing the 37th annual proaches to urban problems, and conference of the Financial Ex- then persuade the new Adminisecutives Institute, Mr. Rocke- tration and Congress to do the feller proposed a permanent things that must be done. The Business Committee for Social influence and ideas of businessProgress as a policy - making men are needed now as never body to unify and coordinate and we should not be the otherwise isolated efforts of before, reluctant to use them. the business community to imTo these objecprove racial conditions and ex- tives accomplish the organizasuccessfully, tend opportunity among all tion must reflect specificquite segments of society. Such a of the view of the ally group, he said, should make business point and must it community, explicit efforts to shape social be to prepared bring political in such fields as legislation to to accomplish bear pressure housing, education and employ- its objectives. Organizations like ment. the National Urban Coalition are As Mr. Rockefeller outlined it, to take political stands prepared the Committee would draw upon but they represent such a broad the research of existing business of opinion that meanorganizations, such as the Com- spectrumconsensus is often diffimittee for Economic Develop- ingful On cult. the other hand, strictly ment and the National Industrial - oriented organizations, business Conference Board, in mapping its legislative proposals. In addi- such as the ones to which I have referred, are reluctant to press tion, he said, the Business Com- for political action, especially mittee could perform a valuable long-terservice by establishing when it relates to programs in the closest possible contact with the racial and urban fields. Thus, without an organizaacademics and intellectuals tion having the characteristics that creative minority of adof the one I have suggested, I vanced thinkers who do so much to mold the views the public will fear that a business program hold on social problems years aimed at helping to solve the hence. problems of urban America will This liaison, Mr. Rockefeller never get off the drawing board. said, would help to moderate Business will continue to occupy role in the public the traditional antagonism be- a me-tothe role of a laggard tween businessmen and intellec- mind tuals. It would also help busi- giant which moves into belated ness to identify looming racial action on social problems only problems before they reach such after incessant prodding from proportions that they can be politicians 'or special interest remedied only by expensive and groups. often inefficient crash programs. He suggested that much of the nations current racial Michael J. Berry, son of Mr. tensions might have been fore- and Mrs. Ronald E. Soffe of RFD stalled had the businessmen of 1, Sandy, participated in a U.S. 20 years ago heeded the voices Air Force Reserve Officers Train of sociologists concerned with ZSorps training encampment at the lot of the Negro in America. Hamilton AFB, Calif. The cadets While acknowledging the fine became familiar with the life work of organizations such as and activities on an air base and the Urban Coalition,' the Na- the courses on survival training, tional Alliance of Businessmen, aircraft and air crew indoctrinathe U.S. Chamber of Commerce, tion. the National Association of He is a graduate of Jordan Manufacturers, the Committee High School and a member of for Economic Development and the University of Utah ROTC. : m o, - - el all cant Jhy babies, be born healthy like butme? today in Someday they might be, America more than 250,000 babies are bom with birth defects every year. When you give to the March of Dimes, you fight birth defects. support more than 10f) birth defects treatment centers. You help support brilliant medical scientific investigators. You help support a massive health education program aimed at getting the best possible medical care for every You help . Pan-guitc- h, . . 4 Carbon County Girls Win Congress Trips to Many medical schools now recognize the need to meet these challenges, the Cope report indicates, as evidenced by the fact that a group of 40 people, mainly from academic medicine, devoted two weeks in October, 1966, to discussing the issues. This meeting, the Swampscott Study on Behavorial Science in Medicine, included some 10 participants from the fields of law, government, the behavioral and natural sciences and philanthropy. The Study, supported by grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York- and the Commonwealth Fund, was organized by Dr. Cope, Dr. Douglas Bond, Professor of Psychiatry at Western Reserve Medical School, and Jerrold Zacharias, Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The three served as Surveying present tninking in the field, Dr. Cope says, Psychosomatic disease is the term now generally accepted to mean this special causative relation of disturbed mind to physical disorder. Although all physicians may agree with the definition of psychosomatic disease, many lesitate to acknowledge its in recognizable clinical entities. Dr. Cope points out that mental and emotional, factors are especially likely to figure in illnesses such as heart trouble, strokes, headaches, digestive disorders and many other ailments. Stressing the role of the brain as the regulating mechanism for the entire body, he writes, Because the brain runs pretty much everything, it would be amazing if the mind when disturbed did not result in bodily changes and bodily troubles. He finds that laymen are frequently more ready to recognize such factors than some - n. mother-to-be- Page Five ex-sten- - Carbon County has fostered love at first sight and I named youths who take the indoor and her Indie. the outdoor life in stride. This Miss Jensen, whose home is is proved by the fact that four in Price, has been active in 1968 state award winners in horse club work and rodeos. reside in Carbon County. Two young women who won their honors by staying in the house are: Susan Spencer, 18, tops in the dress revue category and Linnore Potter, also 18, in 4-- H the bread project Susan Wilson, 18, and Bonnie Jensen, 19, let the wide-ope-n spaces lead them to fame in the entomology and horse programs, respectively. The girls will find a busy round of luncheons, banquets, parties, concerts, sightseeing tours and other activities awaiting them in Chicago, where the sponsors of their programs are sending them on an trip to the 47th National Congress, Dec. They will stay at the Conrad Hilton Hotel with the other Utah dele4-- H 1-- gates. Miss Mils Wilson f 5. Mist Pottir Min Sponcar After a few years, she says, Wilson, whose trip is Indie and I had a whole stack sponsored by Hercules Incorporated, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wilson, of Helper. She credits 4-experience with helping her to become a better citizen and thinks everyone should join Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc. is footing the bill for Miss Spencers trip. A freshman at the College of Eastern Utah, she is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Orson Spencer, of Price. Having a doctor for a father was no handicap in the dress program when the problem of matching a biased front and a vertical back in plaid came up. He did it with a surgical eye, 4-- she said. Miss Jensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Therald Jensen, will be seeing Chicago, thanks to. Merck & Co., Inc. She says she has been horsing around for 10 years, since a palomino filly was born in our pasture. It was of trophies. She entered the College of Eastern Utah this fall. Miss Potter, a nine-yea- r is the daughter of Mr. and Sirs. Noah Potter Jr., also of Price. Standard Brands Incorporated, sponsor of the breads program, is donating her trip to the congress. Her award in the program means that she selected, prepared and served an amazing variety of breads and grain products; learned the scientific principles relating to the products; shared her skills and information with others through demonstrations, exhibits and community meals, i Now a junior leader in the local Club, she aids younger members in their baking attempts. All winners were selected by the Cooperative Extension Service of Utah State University. 4-H- 4-- H |