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THE COVINGTON NEWS — TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1976
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Vote I
For I
Full Time I
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Chairman, Newton County I
Board Os Commissioners I
Elect A Full Time I
Chairman I
Roy L. Varnerl
Your Democratic Candidate I
Roy will not hire a county manager.
Roy s only profession will be chairman.
Qualifications I
• Life long citizen of Newton County • Respected community leader I
• Successful farmer and proud of it. • Understands peoples needs
• Successful Businessman • Honest, dependable, hard worker
• Experienced in equipment
maintainence. J
Roy L. Varner is for I
• Establishing a maintenance system for all existing
county roads and developing specifications for all
future paved roads.
• Developing a working relationship among all elected
county officials for the benefit of all citizens.
• Dependable ambulance service available to all citi
zens 24 hours a day.
• Working with elected officials to bring about ad
valorem tax reform through a land use tax system.
• Carrying out the policies established by the District
Commissioners. ■
Please vote for and elect I
Roy L. Varner I
Tuesday, November 2nd, 1976 I
The People Who Know Him I
Are Voting For Him! I
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Rev. Hugo Davis (c| accepts a 8500 check front Presenting the check to Rev. Davis are (1) Jim
the Piedmont CB Club to be applied toward the Owensby, president Piedmont CB Club; and Joe
purchase of a bus for the Newton County Day L. Norwood, club treasurer.
Training Center, of which Rev. Davis is director.
Mental Health Clinic
service now swifter
Persons with mental health
problems now can receive faster
service as the result of recent
changes in appointment procedure
at the Newton County Mental
Health Clinic, according to Dr.
Sharon Hollensbe, director.
Those with problems now can
make an initial appointment end
be interviewed within three or
four days by trained personnel
and emergency cases can be seen
within the hour, she said. In the
past, persons in need of coun
seling often had to wait three
weeks or longer to be seen by
one of three staff members at the
Mental Health Clinic.
In addition to Dr. Hollensbe,
jiersonnel working on new intake
cases are Paula Bicknell, coor
dinator of the clinic's child and
adelescent program, and Rev.
William Cameron, pastor of
Porterdale Presbyterian Church
and part-time counselor.
Dr. Hollensbe said the clinic
now has an active caseload of
approximately 225 persons, with
an average of eight new cases
seen weekly by clinic staff
members.
She said the clinic’s current
method of accepting new cases
helps reduce the number of
prospective clients who fail to
appear for appointments.
A typical procedure for receiving
help through the Mental Health
Clinic involves the filling out of
an application and an initial
interview by a clinician. The
interview lasts about one hour.
Dr. Hollensbe said, and involves
gathering information on the
problem and general information
about the client’s family
relationship, and medical and
social history.
At the end of the interview, the
clinic’s staff member can refer
the prospective client to another
agency that might better handle
the problem or recommend a
therapy program.
In some cases. Dr. Hollensbe
added, a client might be referred
to a psychiatrist for evaluation or
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might recieve counseling in
dividually or in a group session.
Most counseling done by the
clinic is short-term, she said,
although some come on a regular
basis for several months.
Often a telephone conversation
can help define and even solve
the problem, although Dr.
Mental Health seminar set
Concerned citizens, mental
health professionals and
humanists will converge on
November 4, at the Riviera
Hyatt House, 1630 Peachtree
Street, N.W., Atlanta, for a 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. seminar,
"Humanistic Insights: Guidelines
for Promoting Mental Health?”
The program, sponsored by the
Mental Health Association of
Metropolitan Atlanta, is funded
in part by a grant to the
Committee for the Humanities in
Georgia from the National
Endowment forth Humanities.
Major addresses will be given by
Daniel C. Noel, Ph.D., Adult
Degree Program, Goddard
College, Plainfield, Vermont:
Eugene C. Bianchi, Ph.D.,
Department of Religion, Emory
University, Atlanta; and Waltraut
J. M. Stein, Ph.D., Department
of Psychology, West Georgia
College, Carrollton.
In addition to separate oppor
tunities for audience reactions to
each major address, the following
individuals will serve as
responsive panelists: Delores
Aldridge, Ph.D., Director of
Black Studies, Emory University;
Mary McGuire, Ph.D.; English
Department, Emory University;
Earl Brown, Ph.D., Department
of Psychology, Georgia State
University; Jean Hendricks,
Ph.D., Academic Dean, Mercer
University; Richard Levinson,
Ph.D., Department of Psychology,
Emory University; Jack R.
Mack, Ph.D., Division of the
Humanities, Oxford College;
Hollensbe said she prefers to see
a client personally.
The largest caseload at the
Mental Health Clinic is among
persons in medication main
tenance programs who must be
seen periodically by one of the
clinic’s consulting psychiatrists.
Margaret Rowley, Ph.D., History
Department Chairor, Atlanta
University.
The public is invited to join this
dialogue between academic
humanists, mental health profes
sionals and seminar participants
regarding humanistics insights and
their possible application to the
promotion of mental health.
The $1 registration fee may be
paid in advance to MHAMA, 85
Merritts Avenue, N.E., Atlanta
30308, or at the seminar if space
is available. Call MHAMA office,
872-3571, for additional informa
tion.
Porterdale
plans city
election
Porterdale will hold a city
election Dec. 8 to elect three
members of the City Council,
according to Mayor J. D.
Smallwood.
Posts 3, 4 and 5 on the council
are at stake. Qualifying begins
No. 1 at 8 a.m. and continues
until 4 p.m. on Nov. 15. The
qualifying fee for the council
races has been set at. SSO and
can be paid at the city clerk’s
office in Porterdale.
