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SEXUAL CRIPPLERS
A University of Washington psychology professor says many
heart patients become sexual cripples largely because uptight
doctors and nurses seldom discuss the situation. Dr. Nathaniel
Wagner reported that some patients think they are impotent after
a heart attack, some wives hold unnecessary fears of detrimental
effects of sexual activity upon their husbands, and many
husbands bear enormous fears of failing as lovers. “The return to
sex activity appears to produce very little stress”, stated Dr.
Wagner. “We might equate it with a brisk walk downtown or
climbing two flights of stairs.”
CHILD’S SEX PREDICTABLE
Coital patterns designed to produce a child of a particular sex
were successful in achieving that goal about 85% of the time in
tests reported by Dr. Landrum B. Shettles of Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center. There were 41 tests over a 12 year
period; of 22 attempts to conceive a male child, 19 were
successful; of 19 attempts to conceive a female child, 16 were
successful. In general, the easier the conditions for conception the
greater the chances of a male child, and the more difficult the
circumstances, the greater the incidence of females. Since fresh
egg and sperm enhance the possibilities for males, insemination as
close to ovulation as possible will tend to yield a boy, while
insemination 48 hours or more before the estimated ovulation
favors yielding a girl, Dr. Shettles reports.
SACRED RIGHTS WILL CHANGE
Leaders of the future will decree that no parents will have the
right “to burden society with a malformed or a mentally
incompetent child”, the retiring president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science predicts. Unlimited
access to state-regulated abortion facilities will eliminate the fetus
with “uncontrollable defects such as mongolism and sex
deviation”, he said. Acknowledging that the established social and
ethical concepts will be challenged, Dr. H. Bentley Glass
predicted that the future would be a “far more regulated society
of man... It will be inevitably forced upon us... The once sacred
rights of man must change in many ways.”
ILLEGITIMACY: MYTHS CAUSES AND CURES
The above is the title of an article by Phillips Cutright, Ph.D.,
in Family Planning Perspectives, published by national Planned
Parenthood.
Item: “Many clinics which do give birth control to the
unmarried usually will not publicize this fact, and thus fail to
legitimize the service as ‘right and proper. Some clinics insist that
unmarried girls undergo extensive counseling with a social
worker, on the presumption that their sexual activity is
pathological. The public is thus kept assured that the local health
department or hospital is not condoning promiscuity, and the
community’s unmarried women believe that the service does not
exist or, that to get service, they will have to go through
degrading and humiliating procedures. They, therefore, continue
to get pregnant and to have illegal abortions or illegitimate
children.”
MDs LACK SEX KNOWLEDGE
Most participating physicians greatly need more knowledge of
sexual matters, according to Dr. Ira B. Pauly, of the department
of psychiatry, University of Oregon Medical School, and Steven
Doldstein, Ph.D., of the University of Vermont. They base this
conclusion on replies to a questionaire sent to all active members
of the Oregon Medical Association. Os the 937 respondents, 65%
graduated from medical school between 1940 and 1960. The
graduates since 1960 appeared to feel more adequate in their
understanding of normal sexual behavior than the older
physicians. Specialists in obstetrics and gynecology were more apt
to rate themselves as having adequate knowledge than were
psychiatrists, surgeons, internists or general practitioners. If the
high proportion of nonrespondents indicates a silent admission of
inadequacy in sexual knowledge, then only about one in every
three physicians feels he can deal with a patient’s sexual
problems....
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MOTHER OF TEN SUES
A mother of ten children has filed suit in Federal Court in New
York to compel Fordham Hospital to give her a sterilization
operation. The thirty-eight year old woman requested the
procedure at this municipal hospital after the birth of her tenth
child and was refused. She claims that she and her husband are
forced to rely on birth control methods which are less reliable
than sterilization and which can constitute a danger to her health.
The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the
constitutionality of anticontraceptive laws that make it a crime to
distribute birth control materials to unmarried persons.
Twenty-six states have such laws on the books. Georgia is not
among them, I am glad to state. The Court agreed to hear an
appeal by the state of Massachusetts from a lower court decision
that struck down the state’s 92 year old anticontraceptive law,
which was designed to punish “crimes against chastity, morality,
decency and good order”.
SMALL FAMILY URGED
A task force of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. has
recommended that the church advise newlyweds to limit their
families to two children. The proposal will be presented to the
111th General Assembly meeting in Virginia in June of this year.
HIGH DEATH RISK
Unmarried pregnant Blacks in Georgia run the highest risk of
dying from non-hospital abortions, regardless of their age,
reported Dr. Roger Rocat of HEW s Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta. On the basis of deaths per 10,000 live births in Georgia,
Black teenagers are nine time more likely to die from
non-hospital abortions than white teenagers.
WOMEN’D RATHER SWITCH
Women practicing birth control change their contraceptive
technique much more frequently than most physicians realize, a
Swedish physician told the Symposia on Actual Problems in
Fertility held under the auspices of the International Fertility
Association. Dr. Erik Odeblad, Professor of Medical Physics at the
University of Umea, said that a nine-year pilot study of 39
volunteer women indicated that a woman spontaneously switches
to other techniques than the one initially prescribed, at an
average rate of almost once a year.
EAGER FOR MORE
One out of every ten children is reportedly born out of
wedlock in the Soviet Union, yet there is no such thing as an
“illegitimate” child. Soviet law guarantees every child a legal
father, no matter the circumstances of his birth. The government
is eager for its citizens to have more children and boost the
country’s sagging birthrate. Contraceptives are not sold in the
Soviet Union. Abortions are readily available, however.
EARTH DAY
Earth Day is Thursday April 22nd and Augusta Planned
Parenthood urges you to join their Association. You will have the
rewarding knowledge that you are doing something to improve
the quality of life for everyone. Associate $3. Contributing $lO.
Send your money order or check to Augusta Planned Parenthood,
P.O. Box 3293, Augusta 30904. Be sure to include your own
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Changed By Caldwell
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Comptroller General Johnnie
L. Caldwell announced today
that Georgia has become the
first state in the nation to do
“away with automobile and
homeowners insurance
price-setting for all companies
by a Rating Bureau.”
“I promised the people of
Georgia during my campaign
that I would seek to modify
the authority of the Rating
Bureau to create more
competition and hopefully
lower prices.” Caldwell went
on to say that with this action,
Georgia’s Open Competition
Law will have a better
opportunity to work “like the
legislators who passed it
envisioned it would.”
The new policy by the
Insurance Services Office
(ISO), which is composed
from the various rating
bureaus operating in the
states, will apply initially only
to private passenger non-fleet
auto insurance and
homeowners insurance.
“In the past,” Caldwell
noted, “the Bureau has
supplied statistics to
companies, has established
insurance rates, and has filed
these rates which all its
members used. Thus, we have
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public. This is not true
competition.”
The Bureau will only supply
facts to companies now, but
will not recommend or file
rates.
Georgia is the first state in
the nation to go on this
system with the possibility of
several other states following
suit.
Caldwell observed that “this
rate setting procedure that the
Bureau used in the past
created a bad image of price
fixing for the insurance
industry. I am very pleased
that it has been eliminated.”
“The people will benefit
from this action because it will
hopefully create a greater
price diversity among
companies, and the companies
will benefit because it forces
them to become responsive to
the public’s needs.”
Caldwell went on to say
that “the industry should be
given credit for this step. It is
just one step out of a number
of progressive moves to make
the Georgia insurance Industry
more service-oriented. ”
Comptroller General
Johnnie Caldwell also serves as
Georgia’s Insurance
Commissioner.
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at the student where he is.
And another thing is that the wasted man power - man power
which this country needs - in the Black community has not even
begun to be tapped. I think that the Black college has to do this. I
think also that its been proven in our history that where there
is a minority group, when it gets itself together, it begins to make
the kind of contribution, not only to itself as a group, but to the
whole country. There is music, for instance, that the Black has
got that nobody has got. There is art that he has got; there is
literature that will not be unearthed, will not be dug out
anywhere else but at the Black college.
News-Review: How do you think that Paine College fits into the
Augusta community?
Dr. Pitts: Well, I’ve been away from Paine College for twenty
years or more, but I think it’s as much a part of the community
as any other institution and more important to the community
than most other institutions. And I mean it just as I say, that it’s
more important to this community than most other institutions.
If this community is going to move forward economically, then
the people whom Paine College prepares, who live in Augusta or
who may come back to Augusta, will be a part of that. A man,
who moves into this community from the campus and starts
earning ten thousand dollars, is going to put more money in the
bank, is going to buy more cars, is going to buy more T.V.s, is
going to buy more liquor; you know, he’s going to do all of these
things which are a part of the economics of the community.
But more importantly, if the College fulfills its role, he’s going
to be a change-agent and the history of Paine College students is
that of change-agents. They have not been folk who do a lot of
talking - they do some and they’d better -- but they are the
people who really become a part of this community in terms of
recognizing that two groups, the Whites and the Blacks, can live
together, can work together; this has been the history of the
College all of these years. And one of the things I remember
about Paine College is that in its early days Bishop Holsey paid
students fifty cents a day to go to that school. Even then there
were White and Black people working together. And as a result of
that I think that you can look into the businesses, the educational
institutional, the social agencies, the Federal agencies here and see
where Paine has made its imprint and where people who are
productive are in those spots.
News-Review: Since you have been away from Paine for a
number of years, how do you think the students have changed
and is the change for the better or worse?
Dr. Pitts: Well, I don’t think that they changed as much as we live
in a different kind of world. You see, when I was a student at
Paine nobody had a T.V. If anybody had told me that I would fly
like I fly—-the whole business of transportation and
communications, the kind of stimuli, the kind of influences that
young people have today, make me say that there isn’t that
much change. I used to kiss girls behind the chapel door, but now
the students kiss them on the lawn; it’s still a kiss. 1 don’t think
that there is as much change as a manifestation of the overt act,
and young people are as idealistic now as they were before. So I
think that there is a good change in that students are more ready
to question and ask for answers. I think there is a small group of
students who have accepted some changes that I am concerned
about and that is that they can spend more time and energy on
what they call “black awarness”. I am concerned that young
Black people talking about we ought to be helping the “brother”.
The “bush”does not make any difference to me. But if you’ve got a
“bush” and you are talking about helping the brother and
nobody is going to Headstart to volunteer, nobody is working in
the ghetto, then I’m concerned about these kind of what I call
“rhetoriticians”. You know they are glad to stand up and talk
about it, but when it comes actually to get out and help the
“brother”- now that kind of change, and it isn’t just at Paine
College, it’s at most colleges I know, that kind of change disturbs
me. And I think the College has this job because, 1 think, these
are great people and we’ve got to find away to lead them into
action. I challenge Paine College students and any other Black
students. There is enough work to be done that if he is really
concerned about the “brother,”and with desegregation coming into
Augusta - then he ought to be sitting down with five or six of
these kids and teaching them how to conjugate a verb; and
Malcolm X can go along with the conjugation. He won’t get a
grade for Malcolm X, but he can get one for conjugating a verb.
I’d like to see Paine College students get involved in the
community enough that no Black student(s) in any desegregated
school in the public schools will have any difficulty in finding a
tutor, that the Boy Scout troops in this community where Paine
College men who are concerned about the Brother ought to be
working with him. I like the change; I have some reservations
about some of the manifestations, but I like the change.
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