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Aired Too Late To Be Factor

Hm regrettable part of the disclosure of Sen. Thopiat F. Eaglelons past illnesses is that once again the putdic hu not had information it needed diout a top politickl candidate as soon as it should have.

Sen. Ea^eton. Democratic nominee for vice president, revealed at a press conference Tuesday tiiat he had been hospitalized three times between IWO and 1M6 for *nervous exhaustion and fatigue. He said he underwent psychiatric treatment, in-

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Care Reported

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH - Another investigatkHi of conditions insidd one of the states mental institutions has turned up instances of ill care and abuse of severely retarded yoimg patients.

State Rep. Howard Twiggs of Wake, who made the disclosure, said investigations by the SBI and FBI at OBerry Hospital at Goldsboro could well provide the basis for criminal prosectdion.

It is my own belief, and the thinking of people who

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know the situidion, that the standard of care at OBerry is the poorest of any facility in North Carolina, he declared.

Beating of patients, over dosage of tranquilizers, and infestation of roaches are among complaints brought to his attention by parents of inmates at the hospital for mentally retarded youngstm, Twiggs said.

Twiggs said the investigations, which he had a hand in initiating, were completed about six weeks ago. Finding! were turned ova* to Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan.

Hie attorney generals offlce said the report had been wrapped up and delivered to Gov. Bob Scott.

No PsMle Report

The governors office said a summary of the fndings has been shared with Dr. Lennox Baker, secretary of human resources, and I^. Eugene Hargrove, mental health commissioner. The con fidential nature of an SBI investigation does not permit making the report public, a qmkesman in ttie governors ofHce said.

Twiggs discussed care for the mentally ill on a news conference interview over WUNC-TV educational television.

A public aroused by revelations of poor treatment for the moitally ill will demand corrective action from the 1973 General Assembly, said Twiggs. Mental health care will be the number (me issue for the session, he forecast.

Twiggs, a Raleigh attorney, will have a role as legislative committee chairman for the N.C. Mental Health Association and also as a fourth-term House member (subject to the fall general election).

If the legislature shirks its

responsibility, the battleground is likely to shift to the fedoral courts.

Court Action Possibility

Detailed minimum standards for mental health care already have been spelled out for the state of Alabama as the result of a court suit, Twiggs reminded. It could happen here, he added, unless the legislature acts voluntarily..

"The North Carolina system does not even approach the minimum standards of care set out in the Alabama cas, he said.

Shortcomings in the states mental hospitals system have been pointed up in a series of recent investigations. The mental health association conducted its own study uliich severely criticized the quality of patient care. Staff dismissals at Qierry Hospital at Goldsboro followed an SBI probe there.

In spite of mounting criticism, improvment has been slow in coming, Twiggs said.

Conditions Called 'Deplorable'

He described as deplorable the conditions in mental hospitals. The general level of care has improved very little since a series of newspaper articles in 1968 laid out the many problems in the system, he asserted.

Twiggs said the state mental health department has estimated it would take $141 million in the next biennium to bring North Carolina up to the standards promulgated by the court in the Alabama case. His own view is that it could be done with $50960 million in new money.

Theres nothing to prevent a private citizen from bringing a comparable suit in this state at any time, Twiggs noted. As far as the moital health association is concerned, he continued, his advice would be to wait and see what the *73 session will do. He implied the route to court will follow if the legislature falls short.

Changes other than increased appropriations must come in order to reform the system, he said. Were top-heavy with administrative staff, he explained. The em{riiasis must be placed on treating patients and not on administrators sitting around a table in Raleigh.

While, the administrative budget rose 400 per cent in the past four years, expenditures for direct patient care increased only 30 per cent over the same period, he said.

Twiggs observed that a study commission created by the 1971 legislature to investigate the mental health department will be ready to report to the next session.

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duding electric shock therapy for depression, on two of the occaisions.

Sen. Eagleton appeared at a press conference with Sen. Gorge McGovern to give details of his ho^talization. Sen. McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee, declared that he was not fully aware of Sen. Eagletons medical history prior to choosing him as vice presidential nominee.

The press conference was hdd after a long

Sivate conference between the two senators, which Uowed recent rumors and inquires about Sen. Eagletons health.

Sen. Eagleton said he had dedded previously to make the medical history pudic on his own initiative^ It was decided, he said, the risk of havif^ to divulge these things was a risk we would have to face.

Well, it is a matter of record that, while Sen. Eagleton was hospitalized three times, he has also been able to function well in highly demanding public positions. Still, he has allowed the Democrat^ic National Convention to go thro^h the process of choosing him as vice presidential nominee without mentioning the previous problems.

It is possible that if the delegates had known they would have gone on with the nomination. It is also possible that Sen. McGovern, as he says, would have still chosen Sen. Eagleton as his running mate if he had known his full medical history. At this point, however, all this is conjecture. The delegates and Sen. McGovern did not have the full story on Sen. Eagleton, nor did the public. It illustrates once again that candidates for high public office, such as the vice presidency, should immediately make a full disclosure of anything in their personal lives which could possibly affect their performance in office.

Border Belt's Opening

Augurs Weil For East

Hopefully the record $80.68 opening day average on the Border Belt bodes well for tobacco prices in this area.

The Border market opened with the average $6.32 cents higher than last years opening.

Growers in our area have produced a good crop this year and it appears the Eastern Belt markets are headed for record openings next month.

Johnson Feels

Out Of Place

By JOHN KILGO Republican Party maverick Jimmy Johnson of Concord, who ran unsuccessfully against Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate Primary, will not be actively supporting Helms or gubernatorial nominee Jim Holriiouser in the fall election.

As a matter of fact, reports are making the Tar Heel political circuit that Johnson will support Nick Galifianakis for the Senate and Skipper Bowles for Governor and soon change his registration to the Dem<x:ratic Party.

J(^nson isnt ready to go that far, at least he wasnt in an interview with me, but he does say candidly:

The fathers of the North Carolina Republican Party have made it clear that they do not want me. (Jim) Holshouser had been to (3oncord four or five times and didnt even call me. He doesnt want me in a lO^cre feld with him and thats all right. I guess Im more of an Independent now than anything else.

Will Johnson support Jesse Helms in the Senate race?

If Helms comes to Cabarrus Ck>unty, I will introduce him around, Johnson said. But if Galifanakis comes here, Ill introdjijce him around also. Johnson believes the North Carolina Republican Party is about to package a conservative philosophy that Tar H$$l voters wont buy in Nbvahber.

The Democrats tried I. Beverly Lake and lost, Johnson said. In 1964 we tried in-our-heart-we-know-

hes-right (^Idwater and got clobbered. Wallace lost here in 1968 and the only reason he won here this time was because the people were voting against Terry Sanford. And now the Republicans are running Jesse Helms, who is the most conservative candidate to ever come down the road.

Surprisingly, Johnson believes that defeated gubernatorial candidate Jim Gardner is a moderate compared to nominee Holshouser.

Gardner was a sincere candidate this time, Johnson said, and if he had not had the legacy of the 1968 campaign to live down, hed have won.

Johnson says Tar Heel Democrats have been smart to move to the moderate vie>vpoint.

Skipper Bowles is a dynamic individual, Johnson says. He knocked heads with the internal part of his party and won. Pat Taylor ran a traditional campaign and lost.

Theres no doubt in my mind but that Galifianakis is in tune with the average North Carolina voter. (Jesse) Helms isnt going to get the labor vote, the Negro vote, the young vote, or the intellectual vote. I even think some big business people will look at some of his statements and turn away from his candidacy.

In his race for the Senate, Johnson wa^ snubbed by many GOP regulars. He considered it a slap in the face and says he owes no more obligation to the Party.

Johnson says most of his

Heard It All

Before

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)Remarks 1 > 'I that a doctor gets tired of hear-I ing:

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Q I dont know that theres anything especially wrong with me. I just have a tired, rundown feeling.

I came to see you because I heard my daughter moition

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By JJ. KILPATRICK

For Heather, Age Two

Dear Heather:

What, two already? How did you manage to grow so old so soon? It seems only yesterday as a matter of fact, it was only yesterday that you vocabulary began with more milk and ended with bye-bye. And now you are talking like Bella Abzug. The next thing we know, you will be registering to vote. Two, eh? It is an elegant age.

Until this moment, according to custom in these matters, we had been calculating your maturity in months 17 months, or 19 months, or whatever which is a pretty silly way of going at it, especially for people like your grandfather who have trouble remembering how many months are in a year and cant subtract 12 from 19 without sober

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Weakens Family

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(The Wilson Times)

There is important legislation in the Congress which does not :ncem the election or carry political implications related to the ::ampaigns. Such a bill is U.S. Senate 3617 passed on Tuesday, June 20, the Comprdiensive Headstart, Child Development and Family Services Act of 1972.

The bill will probably go to a conference committee and then be reported out to the House. The House may act in July, which is about gone, or August.

This bill is similar to the bill vetoed last year by President Nixon because of its fscal irresptmsibility, administrative unworkatxlity and family-weakening imi^cations of the system it envisions.

Although this measure has been written about before, it should be continually written about until the implications and long-range effects are realized.

The bill is advotised as a welfare bUl to enable pocnr mothers to work. The bills objective is to put the opening wedge in a drive to [dace every child frcxn birth to first grade in a state-controlled environment and to remove the child as much as possible from the influence of his family. The Nil is a giant step forward in putting even m<xre p<ditical and econ(xnic power in the hands of the federal government.

The major thrust of all totalitarian activity in the 20th century has been the attack on the family, an eff(t to break the link between child and parent, to assert the paramount interest of the state above the interest of the family unit, and to shape the child to patterns dictated by social oi^neers and experts.

You are beginning, in this bill, to see the pattern unfolding. The initial approach is much milder than pursued in overly totalitarian nations but the ultimate direction is transparently the same.

Child development as described by the congressional backers means the provisions by a government agency, outside the family, for a childs mental, emotional and physical needs.

Parentswho cannot,^ be considered trustworthyare described in the legislati(m as any pa*son who has day-to-day parental resp(xisibility for any child.

The day care program ministers to a child from six months to six years of age. There are 8,000 hours to teach him values, fears, *beliefs and behaviors. The literature on child development abounds with ideas of the need to inculcat attitudes and values.

The question is: whose values and whose beliefs?

thought. Now, when we ask, how old is Heather, you cry two! and give us a V-for-victory sign, just like, if your McGovern-loving mother will forgive the words. Nixon saluting the hippies.

Two is the beginning of whole years for you, and perhaps the beginning of something else: Memory. We were wondering about it the other afternoon. You were climbing in and out of the blue plastic wading pool, stomping at the water to make it go splash, and catching the diamond drops in your hands. You were trotting about the yard, down to the rail fence and back, and you were discovering sun and shadow. You were as naked as a Botticelli cherub and as light as the summer breeze.

Will you remember? Will you remember how it was when you came on weekends here to White Walnut Hill, or to your Grandfather Stones farm a few miles away? Will you remember the great oaks, the dark mountains, the green meadows rolling toward the sky: Will you remember when first you chased a firefly: Maybe not. It is a marvelous thing to be two, but remembering may have to wait.

But this much is clear, my naked friend: Two is a great time for talking, and talking is what you do best. You are your fathers own child; and we know where he got the trait. You know, because we wrote them down on a tablet, a whole long list of lovely words: Arm, balloon, baby, ball, bath, bear, bed, beer, bird, bicycle, bib, brush, book, boot, boy, box, boat, bug, bunny, button, buckle, blue, and boom-boom, which is what the drum says.

You know: Cat, catch, cow, cookie, chair, cracker, cup, cheese, clothes, circle, candy, car, card, chicken, cheek, and of course you know Cyrano, your collie. You know: Did, doll, dog, down, donkey, door, do, dnun, duck, David, daddy,

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your name during a telephone conversation. Lets dont beat around the bush. Is she pregnant?

Is this bill your fee, or am I also endowing a hospital with it?

Just give me something thatll make me feel good. Thats all I ask.

Im worn out with taking all these tests. Whatever happened to the doctors who could tell what was wrong with you simply by having you stick out your tongue and say 'ahh-h-h-h?

Ive never really been sick before in my life. Thats what kind of has me worried now. Every doctor seems to be a specialist these days. Doc. What do you specialize inthe left side, the right side, inside or outside?

That sure was an interesting copy of the National Geogra^i-ic magazine I read in your office waiting room, Doc. It was published in 1912, the same year I was bom.

No, I dont want to make an appointment with you. Put your secretary on the phone. I want to make a date with her.

I dont think the medicine in these red capsules is doing me any good. I have a psychological aversion to red i things. Do you have any in< blue, pink or green capsules? Those colors dont depress me.

Why do you want me to strip? Im too old and fat to look interesting to a doctor your age.

I know it isnt exactly cricket to ask you for medical advice while were here playing golf, Doc, but frankly, youre so busy its the only place where I feel I can get your full attention.

Instead of paying your bill, Doc, why dont I just buy your wife the Taj Mahal and give it to her for CJiristmas?

Quotes

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. Nicolo Machia velli.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost.

Confidence thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacre<e88 of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve ever word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Strength For Today Business Said Fearful Of Debt

OUR LONGING FOR ETERNITY

Man has been called a creature who takes care of his dead. The animals pay no attoition to the carcasses of the other members of the herd or flock. But man looks after his dead.

It is also a proven fact that men in past ages built stone tombs for those who had died, while they continued to live in mud huts. What does this all mean? One thing it quite obviously means is that man stands in pro^imd awe of death. He fean it, but he also has revorence for it. It is not only something incomprehensible to him but

something he regards as sublime. It is not sublime in itself but in what it leads to.

And as it was for ancient man, so it is for us. We have a quite awesome regard for what lies beyond in the dim reach of what we call eternity. Where we came from we do not know. But what we do know is that we will go on to a realm which from the beginning man has believed has eternal significance.

The Bible expresses it in the statement that if the earthly house of this tabernacle be (lissolved we have a building of (^, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

By Earl Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) -American businessmoi still have a hangovo* from the days of the great depression and are reluctant to borrow the funds needed to finance their growth and help Unp United States remain competitive.

Very tx*oadly, thats the contention of some financial analysts, including The Boston Consulting Group, one of several money management frms with a common parent in the Boston Company, a multibillion-dollar opo*ation.

Fearing a li(piidity crisis.

in which money cannot b borrowed and lenders demand repayment of loans, these businessmen remain fearful of debt and thus must endure slow growth or even loss of markets.

In the United States, notes BCG, the amount of debt to stockholder equity rarely exceeds 50 per cent, although it contends that consideraUe higher ratios are safe if money managers are wise.

In Japan, 1^ contrast, the average corporate borrower uses debt equaf to five times or more of the stated equity. As a'^result, while their profit margins might be lower, they grow two or three times faster than their American

counterparts and threaten to take their markets.

But what about relatively high interest rates? In a report on Risk and Economic Growth, BCG states: A high interest rate by no means chides off growth anymore than a low interest rate accelerates growth.

The rate of intorest in itsdf is relatively unimportant, it is claimed, and it can hardly be ignored that the lowest interest rates within memcxy occurred during the 1930s. More important, BCG contends, is whether the after* tax return exceeds the interest cost.

BCG believes a repetition

o( the 1930s, though possible, is highly unlikely. And at any rate, it feels that wise managers can protect themselves fr(xn disaster.

One method, ironically, is to avoid taking the lowest interest rate offered. Such a loan might turn out to have the harshest limitations and be the first called; a slightly higher rate might enable a company to remain liquid despite a long crisis.

The company that b<MT0ws wisely may have lower profits but it may be able to undersell its n<Hlebt competitor. Thus, the initially high coat company can erode its competitors basic cotj advantage, says BCG.