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FROM THE PILL BOX I Father David C. Streett | AUGUSTA AREA. PLANNED | PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION! A TEENAGE GIRL CLINIC is held twice each month at the Richmond County Health Department on the 2nd and 4th Monday afternoons of each month from 3:30 to 6:00, staffed by Dr. Virginia McNamarra. Appointments should be made ahead of time by calling 722-0440. All personal information is kept confidential. First, birth control methods are explained. Then, Dr. McNamarra gives a thorough physical examination. Finally, after consultation is complete a birth control method best fitting that individual is chosen by the teenager. This is all paid for previously by taxes. EMOTIONAL UPHEAVAL lures young girls into pregnancy, according to a report by Dr. Robert A. Kinch, to the 6th World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. One hundred fifty unmarried girls were questioned and the following conclusions drawn: Sexual relations were apparently carried on to make up for feeling of emptiness, loneliness and inadequacy. The youngest mothers more often come from homes broken up before they were ten years of age. Those below sixteen had the least satisfactory parental relationships. The pregnant schoolgirls generally felt isolated and had few friends. Most started dating before they were fourteen and had intercourse before age sixteen. They were not promiscuous. The majority had intercourse with only one boy; only one had relations with more than two. Few of the girls used contraceptives as they were “difficult to obtain”. POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH A noted Indian gynecologist has developed a reversible female sterilization operation which could provide the key to the fight against overpopulation. At a meeting in Los Angeles, Dr. V.N. Shirodkar described the fifteen minute surgical procedure which take? place under local anesthesia. Flaplike layers of skin are pulled over the cervix of the uterus and are stitched together, forming a shield. If a woman thus sterilized chooses to have a child later on, a physician can simply undo the stitches or open up a hole in the shield in order to allow sperm to enter the uterus. Dr. Shirodkar emphasized that much research is planned before the method can be fully endorsed as effective. DROP IN MORTALITY Deaths from abortions have’declined sharply in California since the state liberalized abortion laws there three years ago. A university of California Medical School professor, Dr. Gray Stewart, told 3000 physicians attending the American Academy of General Practice convention that statewide, the death rate dropped from 8 per 100,000 in 1967 to 3 per 100,000 last year. He credited the reduction in deaths to the decrease in illegal abortions. CHILD BEATERS BREED CHILD BEATERS “Twenty-eight per cent of the people who beat their children have themselves been beaten... We have to do something about the battered child, because he is going to beat somebody when he grows up.” These shocking remarks were made by Dr. Edward F. Lenoski at a conference at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Who are the victims? Seventy-five per cent of the children are under four years of age; twenty-five per cent are under one; boys are beaten more often than girls; there are more beatings at holiday time. People who do the beating represent a cross-section of society; rarely are they under twenty or over forty. Men do more beating than women, but women kill their children more often. AFRICAN POPULATION CONFERENCE The International Planned Parenthood Federation has accepted the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to cooperate in the preparations for the 1971 African Population Conference. It will be the first of its kind to take place in Africa. TWO TO ONE For every birth in America, Detroit makes two more motor vehicles, according to U.S. Department of Transportation calculations. DOT Secretary John Volpe said that the population growth rate is 6,000 persons daily, while motor vehicles are increasing at a rate of 12,000 per day. California leads the nation with 12 million of the nearly 109 million vehicles expected to be registered by the end of 1970. PTA ASKS REPEAL The Chicago Region PTA has adopted a resolution calling for total repeal of the Illinois abortion law. The resolution calls abortion “the private moral and medical responsibility of the pregnant woman and her physician.” SAND BAR PLAZA f 200 BLOCK OF SAND BAR FERRY ROAD - THRIF-TEE SUPER MARKET ' GROCERIES - MEATS - BEVERAGES JOHNSON'S LAUNDERMAT NEWLY OPENED - ALL MODERN EQUIPMENT H BLACKMON'S BARBER SHOP HAIRCUTS - HAIRSTYLES- BLQyV-OUTS IE AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Phone 793-2058 L Open 7 days per week 11 A.M. til 10 P.M. LIL CHICK I 7s now in Augusta I AT MILLEDGEVILLE & WHEELESS ROADS | MENU I 4 Pcssl.oo 2 12 Pcss3.oo 2 16 Pcs .$4.00 2 20 Pcs .$5.00 2 All Orders Served With Potato Cakes & Rolls J ****BRING THIS AD IN FOR 10% DISCOUNT**** • Other Locations Savannah * Waynesboro * Hinesville ♦ j Fort Gordon Has Grave Drug Abuse Problem By PFC Tom Humphrey Fort Gordon is no exception to the drug abuse problem which has plagued the Army and American society as a whole in recent years. As in most places, the number of persons charged with drug abuse has soared to several times the number of four or five years ago. According to the Provost Marshal’s office, 139 soldiers stationed at Fort Gordon were arrested and charged with some form of drug abuse during the first two quarters of fiscal year 1971. Seventy-two of these soldiers were charged with use, possession or sale of marijuana. Os the remaining 67, a majority were charged in connection with “dangerous drugs,” usually prescription drugs obtained or used illegally and colloquially referred to as “pep Pills”, “uppers” and “downers.” The remaining arrest involved narcotics -heroin, opium, cocaine and other “hard drugs.*’ These figures include both the arrests made by military authorities and those made by civilian law enforcement agencies. Many of the arrests in the latter category were made by officers under the late WHO HAS ABORTIONS? A study of the first 1000 women who came for assistance to the Clergy Counseling Service Center in Los Angeles since its opening in June, reveals the following facts: 50% were twenty-one or younger; 54% came in at eleven weeks and below; 75% had twelve or more years of education; 57% were single, 23% married, 20% divorced, separated or widowed; 24% were Roman Catholic; 67% were Caucasian. A study of 1205 women seen by the Clergy Consultation Service on Problem Pregnancies in Chicago provides us with these figures: 7.6% were seventeen or younger, 56.4% were eighteen to twenty-five, 29% were twenty-six to thirty-nine years of age; 62% were single, 29% were married; 30% were Roman Catholic; 89.4% were Caucasian. BOOKLET DISTRIBUTED The biggest Roman Catholic university in the world is distributing to its freshmen a booklet on sex - complete with birth control advice. It was written by a group of professors, priests and students of Louvain University in Belgium. The authors said the number of pregnancies was rising among the unmarried college students. They insisted that the use of birth control means should have been taught much earlier, in school or at home. PROBLEM BABIES Compared with the offspring of more mature mothers, children born to teenage mothers are more likely to be underweight and shorter, to have infantile behavior problems and acting out difficulties, and also to have lower IQs and reading deficiencies. These sequelae of teen-age births were reported to the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Houston by Dr. Wallace C. Opel of Johns Hopkins. His findings were based on a ten year follow-up of 172 children born to eighty-six mothers who gave birth under age eighteen and eighty-six mothers who delivered at age eighteen and older. Mothers under eighteen are less likely to remain with their children, less likely to rear their children in families rated by social workers as healthy, likely to have more children during a six to eight year period following the birth of the study child, less likely to be anxious, and more likely to believe that their children should be given more freedom to act independently. Dr. Opel recommended that young people be educated about the risks to children conceived during adolescence “so that some such pregnancies may be prevented either through abstinence from sexual relationships or through the use of contraceptive measures...” TECHNIQUES STUDIED Seven Indian Obstetricians, most of them already involved in family planning activities, visited Europe last summer to study abortion techniques and the altered social situation brought about by recent changes in legislation. The visit was requested by the Family Planning Association of India in anticipation of amendments in the abortion law there. It was arranged by the International Planned Parenthood Federation Medical Department which was able to include four American doctors in the tour of England and Yugoslavia. In England the doctors observed three consultants at work who use different abortion techniques. Subsequently round-table discussions were held with them and their staffs. Also discussed was the use of prostaglandin (a male harmone) in inducing abortion by bringing on menstruation. Richmond County Sheriff E.R. Atkins. The Sheriff said drug-related offenses have increased “well over 100 percent” among both soldiers and civilians since he became sheriff in late 1967. Atkins said the sheriffs department has recently purchased new equipment for identifying drugs and has stepped up its campaign to apprehend drug abusers particularly “pushers.” Like their civilian counterparts, military police in recent years have also stepped up their campaign against those who use drugs illegally. In addition to cooperating with civilian authorities in investigations involving drug abuse or traffic among military personnel, military authorities employ dogs trained to sniff out marijuana, searchers and inspections in an effort to control drug abuse. The soldier arrested on a drug charge may face a double dose of punishment. At Fort Gordon, as at many CONUS military bases, the individual soldier arrested on drug abuse charges by civilian authorities usually faces trial in civilian courts. In Georgia, that can mean up to five years in jail and a $2,000 fine for the first offense. And, if the soldier’s commanding officer feels that the individual’s use of drugs Bo's Bait & Tackle 2011 Savannah Rd. All kind of baits & tackles Soft drinks & Beer Open 7 days a week 5 a.m. until Your Patronage Appreciated Small wonder: can be seen at COLMAN VOLKSWAGEN INC. or'neJ s erv ' ce 2415 Milledgeville Rd Phone 738-2561 bar him from properly performing his duties, he may take other action, up to and including an undesirable discharge for the individual. When arrested by military authorities, disciplinary action is left to the discrimination of the individual’s commanding officer. Col. James R. Burkhard, special assistant to the Deputy Commanding Officer at Fort Gordon, administers the post’s drug abuse program. Plans are now being considered to broaden the program including setting up special facilities for handling soldiers using drugs. Details were not available on the plans, however. “The military faces a very grave problem in drug abuse,” said Col. Burkhart, a burly man with over thirty years Army service. “It’s a problem across the board. The situation at Gordon is no better, no worse than anywhere else. A major need is for people to take cognizance of the facts and realize that we have a problem of some magnitude.” In striking contrast to the number of Fort Gordon personnel arrested on drug abuse charges, Col. Burkhart says that, as far as he has been able to determine, only 16 Fort Gordon soldiers have taken advantage of the Army’s new drug amnesty program. These men signed a statement admitting they are taking drugs and in return are not prosecuted and receive counseling and treatment for their problem. Burkhart expects the number of soldiers taking advantage of the amnesty program to increase when new facilities currently being planned for treatment on drugs are put into operation. In addition to the drug amnesty program and law enforcement, the Army’s other major approach to the drug abuse problem under AR 600-32 is “an aggressive preventive program” through education. This comes in the form of films, pamphlets, discussions and information presented in command information periods. “It’s to judge the effectiveness of these information programs, but I believe we can safely say they are beneficial,” says Col. Burkhart. He adds, however, that there is a continuing need to try and improve the drug information program. The question of why soldiers, or anyone else, becomes a drug abuser has long been a topic of considerable scientific and sociological debate. “It’s difficult to say” what leads an individual to drug abuse, says Col. Burkhart. “Experimentation, pressure WANTED!!! Middle Aged Man Dependable Willing to Work. 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PHONE 798-8944 Fast Pick-Up, and Delivery based on 900 interviews with servicemen stationed overseas, indicated that many men may turn to drug abuse out of frustration at the lack of understanding for their problems on the part of the senior NCOs and officers, and endorsed a suggestion that the career man “be more of a social psychologist and in some cases ask the man a few questions about the situation and his reasoning. The sergeant should not be so inflexible as to polarize the situation.” Both Burkhart and Sheriff Atkins feel that some soldiers arrested for drug abuse here picked up that habit in Vietnam, though it is hard to NEWS-REVIEW, May 27,1971 • determine just how many. Drugs are cheap and plentiful in the Orient,” says Col. Burkhart, “On the battlefields, particularly in a war such as the one we are now engaged in, there are often long periods of tension combined with boredom. This, along with the easy access to drugs can lead young men into drug abuse. And of course some of these men bring their habit back home-both to military and civilian life.” “It’s bad to see anyone involved in drug abuse, but to me it’s an especially sad thing to see a young man who’s served his country in war and picked up the drug habit there. But it’s still the law. I feel that drug use, especially the hard stuff like heroin, ruins young people and puts them in the gutter. It’s morally and physically bad,” said the late Sheriff Atkins. EALY'S TEXACO SERVICE Tires, Tubes, Batteries, Accessories, Brake Repair Road Service 2625 Deansbridge Rd. Ph. 798-9195 Page 5