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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.... For the Finest in CARPETS • TILE • LINOLEUM • VINYLS 3 Custom Made Draperies and B edspr [ R.A. 1120 Pine St. Phone 724-2182 SAND BAR PLAZA ® 200 BLOCK OF SAND BAR FERRY ROAD THRIF-TEE SUPER MARKET "Stfi JOHNSON'S LAUNDERMAT O NEWLY OPENED - ALL MODERN EQUIPMENT J'4 ; . *5 BLACKMON'S BARBER SHOP HAIRCUTS - HAIRSTYLES-BLOW-OUTS Og J,'. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Congratulations to the NEWS-REVIEW from North Augusta Broadcasting Corporation WTHB 1550 on your AM dial WZZW 103. on your FM dial FROM THE PILL BOX by Father David C. Streett I I A MR. MERCHANT A f WE PUBLISH A 5,000 PAPERS. A I NATIONAL I J SURVEYS SAY IT I WILL BE »’ READ BY OVER ’ 20,000 READERS. ■ YOU COULD I A HAVE A REACHED ’ THESE * A20.000 READERS! IN THIS I | SPACE. | |HRegister p H And H Vote H| 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 address so your membership card can be sent to you IjR min ? ■ GIRL GUIDE -- Gina Lollobrigida takes Flip Wilson on a tour of an imaginary art gallery when she guest stars on “The Flip Wilson Show” Thursday, May 6 (7:30 - 8:30 p.m. NYT; in color), on the NBC Television Network. ■ Registerg ■ And H ■ VoteJ| Insurance Rating Method Changed By Caldwell ATLANTA (PRN) - 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 had a great uniformity of FOR Rely on Your PHARMACIST! tWJ / \ \ wt PtUVI --"I” prices being offered to the 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. News-Re view - April 22, 197A1HBB" Dr. Pitts Cont’d from Page 1 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. THE NEWS - REVIEW 930 GWINNETT ST. 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