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The ( SCENe\ H E A LT H J WE SPEAK... tinWift th/ HEALTH CARE AND ITS DELIVERY... by Willis J. Walker, Jr. BETTER HEALTH CARE FOR BLACKS THROUGH MATERNAL AND INFANT CARE AND FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS This week, I am delighted to present the first of two articles prepared by Dr. Edwin S. Bronstein, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Bronstein is an Associate Professor in the Medical College of Georgia’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Today, fewer black babies are dying during the first year of life in Richmond and the surrounding 10 counties of the Maternal and Infant Care Programs of the Medical College of Georgia and the Richmond County Health Department. No black mother has died in pregnancy during 1968, 1969, and 1970, whereas many died in the years before then. In the 11 counties of the project, a black mother knows that today, her baby has a greater chance of being born alive and living than at any previous time in the history of our community. How has all this come about? Two of the major reasons are that most black women in these counties (Richmond and the 10 surrounding counties) are having their babies at the Talmadge Memorial Hospital and the University Hospital in the Maternal Infant Care Project. They are getting quality medical care for themselves and for their baby. Secondly, more black women today have access to modern methods of birth control in their community. These women are more than ever before using the newest and the best methods of birth control available through the family planning programs of the Medical College and the Health Department. Modem birth control methods such as the pill and the Loop plus quality maternal and infant health care are all part of a program of complete family planning. The goal of family planning is to help each couple space the children they plan to have so each pregnancy is a wanted one. Each family can then have the family size they desire. Spacing children and providing them with good health care leads to healthier mothers and infants with less deaths during pregnancy and the first year of life. Family planning means more than the use of birth control methods. It means premarital counseling and prenatal care. It means infertility care for those who want to get pregnant but can’t. It also means having sterilization and abortion available when they are desired by a person or a couple. It means an annual physical examination, cancer (Pap) smear, and breast examination. It means genetic counseling, which is very important, especially in a family which has a disease like Sickle Cell Anemia that runs in the family. A couple wants to know what chance their children have to get this disease and what can be done to prevent this from happening. All of these pieces fit into the complete program of family planning. Today in Georgia we are moving toward a statewide voluntary program in family planning. Governor Carter in an executive order asked for a completely voluntary program of family planning for all citizens of Georgia. Plans are now being developed to carry out this order. At the Medical College new proposals are being made to expand our family planning activities. At the present time among poor people in Richmond County, only 30% of those women who would need family planning are using the services. Our goal is to reach many more who want these family planning services. Family Planning information can be gotten at the Health Department, the Augusta Area Planned Parenthood Association, and at the Medical College. A complete program of family planning used by all the people who want these services is our objective. This achievement can only lead to further improvement in the health of each family and the saving of many more mothers and babies. BIOMEDICAL SUPPORT FOR MINORITY SCHOOL The Division of Research Resources of HEWs National Institutes of Health has announced that institutions of higher learning with pfedominantly ethnic minority student bodies will be able to participate in the first federally-supported grant program designed specifically to bolster their biomedical research and research training capability. The Minority Schools Biomedical Support (MSBS) Grant Program applications and program guidelines have been mailed to some 125 four-year colleges, universities, and health professional schools whose student enrollment is drawn mainly from ethnic minority groups. Ninety-five of these are institutions founded for blacks, eighteen are Mexican-American and Puerto Rican, one is American Indian, two are oriental, and nine are composed of Hawaiian and other racial extractions. The new program is consistent with the clear mandate expressed by the President of the United States in his Congressional message of February 22, 1971, proposing measures to “expand, opportunities for higher education” for minority groups. It also is responsive to the Senate Appropriation Committee Report of July 29, 1971, in which the General Research Support Branch of the Division of Research Resources was encouraged “to initiate a program for the development of the health sciences at predominantly black colleges.” Appropriations were set at $2 million for fiscal year ‘72. “The main thrust of the MSBS Program is to strenghten institutional capabilities and pave the way for me meaningful biomedical research activity in the black, brown, red, and other ethnic minority schools,” said Dr. Thomas G. Bowery, Director of Niffs Division of Research Resources. “At the present time, $$ WANTED $$ LADIES TO BE TRAINED IN IBM KEYPUNCH. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY, WE TRAIN. ONLY SINCERE NEED APPLY. Call 724-0249 CTI Opportunities Industrialization Center Mr. Curtis Cisrow, chairman, announced last week that Mr.' Chet Trower has been named Executive Director of the Federally Funded Program. Trower has been granted a year’s leave of absence from the Citizens and Southerns Bank where he is a loan executive. At a press conference Friday morning Trower said, ‘“Today could very well be one of the most significant in the socio-economic history of the city of Augusta. We are beginning a program designed to lift many Augustans from the abyss of unemployment and underemployment, by helping him to help himself, by instilling in him a sense of self worth. 0.1. C. is here to help the disadvantaged acquire his fair share of ownership in American Economy. 0.1.C.’s program of self help through motivation, and self-respect, coupled with basic education and skills training has worked and continues to work in each of the nearby 100 0.1. C. Centers throughtout the country. In Phila. nearly 10,000 persons have been placed in jobs since the programs inception, adding some 45 million dollars in new purchasing power. In addition some 10 million dollars in welfare expenditures have been saved. In Charlotte, N.C. 0.1. C. has been hailed as a “god send” students originally thought to be untrainable were referred to the center and an overwhelming majority of them have been made into productive individuals. The list could go on from San Diego to Senegal; from New York to Nigeria. 0.1. C. has met with unprecedented successes, success where other manpower agencies have failed. In the words of Rev. Sullivan “we train people for jobs and not diplomas.” -/• - .. . . - -- fewer than 600 blacks have a doctorate in the sciences. There are more than 250,000 science Ph.D.’s in the country. We hope to stimulate greater involvement of faculty and students so that the Nation may benefit in the future from this almost untapped resource.” Twenty-five minority institutions were surveyed during the past summer by the General Research Support Branch to determine their needs and capabilities in the biomedical research area. In October, administrators and scientists from ninety minority instutitions participated in nine area meetings at which tentative guidelines were discussed. From these nine meetings and other consultations, the framework of the Minority Schools Biomedical Support Program was developed. Awards under this program will range from approximately $30,000 to $500,000 per year for a possible five-year support period. Applicant institutions will compete for available funds at three levels of activity. Smaller awards could enable institutions to support the activities of a few faculty members involved in individual research or research training activities. At the intermediate level, the institutions could extend and expand the biomedical activities of one or more departments, such as biology, chemistry, psychology, etc. In the larger grant category, institutions could make long-range commitments for the general expansion of their overall biomedical research capabilities through the involvement of sizeable faculty groups. The MSBS Program is designed to provide institutional support for biomedical research and research training rather than support of individual categorical research projects. Funds awarded under this program may be used for a broad range of biomedically-oriented purposes including the support of faculty “release time”, biomedical research programs, salaries of research personnel including undergraduate and graduate students as research or laboratory assistants, research training programs, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate research trainees, research resources, and consortia biomedical programs. Only one MSBS award will be made to a successfully qualifying institution for the present, according to Dr. Robert J. Gibbs, Chief of the General Research Support Branch, which administers the grants. “Institutions founded for blacks constitute the major group eligible for the MSBS Program”, Dr. Gibbs noted, “but the other ethnic minority institutions have like needs and capabilities which can and will be served by the MSBS Program.” “AUGUSTA’S QUALITY DEALER" SALES -SERVICE - PARTS BANK FINANCING - AUTO INSURANCE 100% GUARANTEED USED CARS Washington Rd. Near 1-20 Phone 733-4441 All of these 0.1. C. Cities have a least one thing in common. The community they serve realized the gravity of the unemployment in their cities especially among the minorities. They decided to do something about it. 0.1. C. represented the way they could translate this conrun into action, action that gets results. 0.1. C. especially Augusta 0.1. C. is not asking for a hand-out, we don’t believe in give aways. WE WORK TO HELP OURSELVES. But we do need Cooperation-Cooperation from every member of the Augusta Community concerned with this city’s future. Cooperation from every businessman who realizes that jobs for the disadvantaged means an increased buying base for the City of general; Cooperation from every minister who has a disadvantaged person in his congregation, cooperation from the civic leaders in this city. Together, and only together I mean every segment of the Community, we can make this program a success and a very favorable reflection on a city that has recognized a problem and marshalled its resources to help solve it.” Trower is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and has attended Augusta College. He is married to the former Jacqueline Reese. The Trowers live at 1636 15th Street. They have one daughter, Keisha. CAC Meeting Postponed The Community Action Committee will not meet during the month of December, according to John M. Smith, Jr., CAC chairman. The next meeting will be held as regularly scheduled on the third Monday night in January. jL .'gaM Durham-England Mr. and Mrs. Edward Durham of Route 1 Appling, Georgia announce the wedding of their daughter, Roberta, to Mr. Rufus England of Augusta. The wedding ceremony will be held at the Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church of Appling on Sunday, December 19, at 4:30 P.M., with the Reverend M.J. Whitaker officiating. TAPPAN Cont’d from page 1 your street?” He said, “It’s in my area.” I said, “When do you cover these streets?” he said “I haven’t been on this one yet” He’s been working about five or six years. When is he going to get on these streets? They are being paid but nobody checks on the checker. The Superintendent is not doing his job and the man working under the Superintendent doesn’t have to do his because he knows that he (the Superintendent) is not coming. But when it comes to whitey, the Superintendent stays up on the hill. They’ve got trucks on the hill picking up trash everyday. But down here they pick it up every other day. And these are the things we are trying to get straightened out. Down on Gwinnett Street just below Twiggs Street, where the junk yard is, they had taken city property to run a private business on. Six or seven men used to work in those barrels every day on the sidewalk. They’d take the barrels in after five o’clock. Next morning they’d put them out. The kids walking to school had to walk in the streets. So that’s the first job I had taken care of when I got on City Council - to get that sidewalk clean. We had to take the man to court and the judge fined him a hundred dollars. But if you go down there now, you’ll find that sidewalk clean. And I go by there just to let him know that I’m still looking. Question: What is the status of the James Brown Boulevard issue? Answer: Right now, the James Brown Boulevard issue is before a committee of six. 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Ph. 722-5652 1369 15th St. suitable answer for the changing of James Brown Boulevard. Question: What do you mean by a “suitable answer”? Answer: Well, the committee was poled and they all voted “No”. Question: That is not to change it? Answer: Not to change it. But they did not report back to the confirmed. A recommendation will have to be made to the Public Works Committee and then to the City Council for final action. Question: You, as a member of the Public Safety Committee, recently made a trip to Charlotte, North Carolina to observe their new six million dollar jail facility. Is the present jail in Augusta adequate? If not, what changes need to be made. Answer: There are a lot of things wrong with it. Sleeping facilities are inadequate. There are no elevators. No bathroom facilities. You can’t take a shower or nothing. No place to eat. You’re just there, and the food is brought in from...they go out and get a balogna sandwich and bring to you. | SUBSCRIBE g TODAY P.O. BOX 953 BU AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30903 M|l Name—- ■f | Address J i City Pl I Oii< i rar (ill count v) $2.50 Our \i-iir (out of i ounlx) . . . .$3.00 A 5 • • ar- (in Count} ) $12.50 ■F . .«<an ul ot . ountx). . $15.00 News-Review December 16, 1971. Barber Shops ANTHONY’S BARBER SHOP 1229/4 - 12th St. Phone 724-9341 DAVIS BARBER SHOP 132 13 th St. COME SEE US MERRY XMAS AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS, MOTORS & MUFFLER SHOP 470 BROAD ST. Ph. 722-5994 The only bathroom is there in the cell. And it’s not closed in. It’s just an open bathroom sitting in the corner. The jail is obsolete. We need a new jail to house our people. Question: Whereas it is important to have adequate facilities for people in jail, what plans are being made to keep people out of jail? That is, in terms of jobs, job training programs and a crack down on drugs, are there any constructive programs being initiated to combat this end of the problem? Answer: Initiated by the City? Question: Yes. Answer: None. None that I know of. Question: Do you feel that the City ought to be doing something along these lines? Answer: Sure. Question: Then whose responsibility is it to initiate these programs? Answer: I feel like it’s the responsibility of the Public Relations Department of the City Council. I don’t know who heads that Department. It would be a good program to initiate. Notice Support building fund drive. Send all donations payable to the NAACP. NAACP, P.O. Box 2800, Sand Hill Branch, Central Ave. & Troupe Street, Augusta, Ga. 30904 \ I mplox nnrit YOU COULD USE THIS SPACE TO SELL MOST ANYTHING FOR Dry Cleaners STARK-EMPIRE LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING CO., tHC. 733-3611 I2M DRUID PARK AYE. SIMS’ Modern Dry Cleaners and Laundry Pick up & Delivery 1514 - 12th ST Rev. & Mrs. J.H.Sims Moving i SPENCE J | “THE MOVING KING” ! I 733-8055 Real Estate WALLACE’S REAL ESTATE 1132 GWINNETT 722-8838 BUY NOW! Start turning Rent Receipts into Equity. $2 00 down. Three bedroom 1!4 bath, brick, central air. Many to choose from. 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