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The Augusta News-Review - December 8, 1977
Accredited
Gracewood 1 of 3
language agencies
Gracewood State School
and Hospital is one of only
three mental retardation
hospitals in the country to
have its speech and language
service accredited by the
American Speech and Hearing
Association (ASHA).
Jean F. Kemaghan, director
of the speech and language
clinic, said “Gracewood
qualified for accreditation after
ASHA visited the hospital and
reviewed our clinical practices,
physical equipment, records
and reports, treatment
procedures, administration,
professional interrelationships,
and supervision. There will be
an annual review to be sure
services are kept to stringent
national standards.”
Almost 90 per cent of
Gracewood’s 1,142 residents
have speech problems. About
15 per cent have hearing
problems. A staff of eight
speech pathologists, an
audiologist, a sign-language
technician, an aural
rehabilitation technician and a
consulting audiologist screen
all residents for speech and
hearing problems.
If possible, hearing problems
are corrected medically or
surgically or improved through
the use of a hearing aid. Speech
therapy is based on screeing for
the ability to form and utter
words and syllables distinctly,
the ability to express thoughts
through language, and the rate,
rhythm and quality of speech.
“The clinic also teaches
lip-reading, sign language and
other communication skills,”
said Ms. Kemaghan. “We try to
use the total communications
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approach, which is a
combination of speech and sign
instruction. We screen older
residents every three years.
Those under ten are screened
every year.
“We also provide speech and
hearing assistance and
evaluation for outpatients in
the 37 counties Gracewood
serves. Appointments are made
for people needing assistance
to come to the center for
testing. We have 400 residents
and out-patients now receiving
scheduled treatment.”
New law restricts
vet reimbursements
Veterans who are used to
being reimbursed for travel
expenses to and from Veterans
Administration (VA) medical
facilities are finding that recent
law changes may have
restricted reimbursements in
certain cases.
According to Augusta VA
Hospital Director Eugene E.
Speer Jr., the law now requires
that VA obtain an annual
income statement from
veterans seeking
reimbursement for travel to
obtain treatment for
nonservice-connected ailments.
VA has waived this
requirement for claimants 65
years or older or those
receiving disability
compensation.
Still eligible for full
cost-of-travel reimbursement
are veterans who have been
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observers speculate that such a
characterization may depend
on whether the various ethnic
minorities can form political
coalitions.
“If there is increased unity,
there will be sizeable political
and economic clout,” says
George Singh. “If that fails to
develop, majority status could
mean very little. Even in
Oakland, where Third World
people already make up about
one-half of the population, we
have very little economic
clout.”
Troy Duster, a University of
California sociologist who
specializes in urban issues,
agrees. “A coalition will be
important, but it may be
awarded compensation for
service-connected disabilities,
said Speer.
Those who do not have a
service-connected disability
may be reimbursed for no
more than the actual cost of
travel if VA determines that
they are unable to afford the
mode of transportation needed
in their special circumstances.
“One whose medical
condition would permit him to
travel by public transportation,
for example, might be
expected to pay for his own
travel,” Speer said, “while a
person with the same income
might be reimbursed if special
travel arrangements - such as
an ambulance - were
required.”
Ability to pay is judged on
thybasis of income in relation
to the number of members in
the family and the type of
transportation needed. The
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difficult,” he says. “If it
becomes a matter of minorities
competing for a finite number
of resources, the Chicanos and
the Blacks, for instance, may
fight.”
(According to the Dymally
report, Mexican-Americans
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diverse minority population
with 4,239,000 residents. They
are followed by Blacks,
1,645,000; Japanese, Puerto
Ricans and Portuguese,
350,000 each; Chinese and
Fillipinos, 300,000 each; and
American Indians, 239,000.)
Duster describes as a “major
problem” the question of
“what will happen to social
services if the majority Third
World population is
predominantly poor,” as
minority groups traditionally
have been. “As soon as the
constituency that needs
services finds itself unable to
handle the bureaucracy, the
services immediately
deteriorate,” he saus. “That's
been the history of the cities.”
travel by public transportation
to as high as SI 1,999 for a
veteran with more than six
members in his family who
requires transportation by
ambulance.
Director Speer noted that
his VA Hospital “spent
5314,207 on patient travel
reimbursement last year.
“The more we spend on
travel, the less we have to
spend on patient care,” said
Speer. “We must control our
travel spending to maintain and
increase the quality of our
primary mission - delivering
medical care.”
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Hornsby leads
in enrollment
Again this year Hornsby
Elementary School has won
the award for having had the
largest percentage of students
enrolled in the
Augusta-Richmond County
Public Library’s Summer
Reading Program.
Each summer the Georgia
State Department of Education
and the public libraries sponsor
a reading club, to promote
reading for pleasure during
school vacation. A special
theme is selected every year,
the 1977 one taking advantage
of the national CB craze, with
NAACP
banquet
The Jefferson County
Branch NAACP will celebrate
its Annual Banquet, December
16, at the Louisville High
School Cafeteria, Louisville,
Ga., at 8 pan. Speaker will be
Rev. Julius C. Hope, NAACP
State President from Macon,
Ga.
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Reader.”
The Friends of the Augusta
Library annually present to the
Richmond County public
school having had the largest
percentage of its students
enrolled in the summer
program a plaque and a book
for the school library.
At the P-TA meeting at
Hornsby School on Sunday
afternoon, the 1977 awards
were presented. Mrs. Peter
Philippoff, chief of Children’s
Services, explained the summer
reading program and presented
to Mrs. Corrie Eason, the
school librarian, a copy of
“Roots” for the school library.
“Roots” was selected because
Alex Haley’s daughter had
attended Hornsby Elementary
School for three years, a
spokesperson said.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Tyson,
assistant director of the
Augusta-Richmond County
Public Library, talked about
the Friends of the Augusta
Library and presented to
Principal James L. Starks the
plaque, which will hang in the
Hornsby School’s library until
the 1978 winner is determined.
$435,000
grant approved
Approval of a $435,000
grant to help create immediate
jobs for the unemployed in
Sumter, South Carolina, was
announced recently by Robert
T. Hall, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Economic
Development.
Morris College of Sumter
applied for the grant from the
Economic Development
Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
The funds will be used to
help construct a
library-auditorium building for
music and art studies. The
grant was approved under an
amendment to the Public
Works and Economic
Development Act which
provides funds for construction
AC students in co-op
Three Augusta College
students have been selected to
participate in a co-operative
education program with the
Internal Revenue Service, it
was announced today by the
AC Office of Career Planning
and Placement.
Two of the students,
Richard Athey, a business
administration major, and
Lester Jones, who is majoring
in political science, have
already started on the program
as revenue officers. Jones is
working in the Augusta IRS
office and Athey is training in
Macon. Cynthia Walker, also a
business administration major,
plans to begin her co-op
Woman loses $lO2
A local woman lost $lO2
during a conversation last week
with two men who supposedly
wanted to rent a room in her
house.
Ms. Carrie Lou Boyd, 57, of
813 Seventh St., told
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$35,000
to UNCF
While a sell-out crowd
looked on in the stands and
millions of viewers watched on
their homescreens, the
National Football League
Charities, Inc. presented a
$35,000 check to the United
Negro College Fund on Nov.
27.
The presentation took place
between halves of the
Washington Redskins-Dallas
Cowboys game at Robert F.
Kennedy Stadium in
Washington, D.C. It was
televised nationally by
CBS-TV.
Jack Kemp, a former
Buffalo Bills quarterback star
in the NFL for many years,
who is a member of die NFL
Charities board of directors
and a U.S. Congressman from
New York State, made the
presentation.
Norman Francis, President
of Xavier University in New
Orleans, accepted the check.
Dr. Francis said he was
accepting “gratefully on behalf
of the 41 member institutions
of the UNCF and its 50,000
students, most of whom would
not go to college without
outside help.”
of needed public improvements
in areas of high unemploy
ment.
Local officials anticipate
that 60 jobs will be created by
the construction project. Work
is due to begin within 90 days
and be completed in one year.
The new structure will
provide space for an
85,000-volume library and a
600-seat auditorium. The
facility is expected to improve
the educational opportunities
for persons of lower income
and minority groups and help
to stimulate long-range
economic growth in the area.
Morris College will provide
$1,215,000 from other sources
to complete the $1,650,000
total cost of the project.
training winter quarter as an
agent in Augusta.
The IRS began the program
in 1966 and today engages over
800 students annually. Those
involved in the coop receive
training and work assignments
which supplement their
studies, teach them a
marketable skill, and grant
them eligibility for a position
with the IRS upon successful
completion of the program.
Coop students alternate
quarters of full-time study on
campus with periods of
full-time employment. During
employment quarters, they
receive a regular salary.
investigating officers two
unknown men came to her
residence wanting to rent a
room.
The men told Ms. Boyd they
first wanted to go out for a
beer and asked her to keep
their money for them.
Giving her what appeared to
be a large cash roll in a white
kerchief, Ms. Boyd said one of
the men told her to wrap her
money around it.
Ms. Boyd said the man
showed her how to conceal the
money. He gave her the
handkerchief back and left,
saying they would return soon.
Later when she checked the
“money” Ms. Boyd said she
found only folded newspaper.
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