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THE COVINGTON NEWS — THURSDA’', NOVEMBER 4, 1976
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Customers on waiting list
will get gas service first
Covington City Council member*
reaffirmed their policy* of con
tinuing to extend ga* service on a
first come, first served basis, to
customers on the present gas
waiting list at their Monday night
meeting. Councilman Luke Savage
voted against the motion.
The action came after Warren
Jones and Benny Lindsey,
representing the Board of Realtors,
met with the council to discuss the
natural gas situation and request
natural gas service immediately for
three new houses which are
completed and have no heat at the
present time. The men considered
“no gas” to be an emergency
situation.
Councilman Savage then made a
motion that since the gas
moritorium has been lifted, if a
customer has the money for the gas
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lar Company, came to the meeting
to invite the commissioners to the
Caterpillar plant to inspect all
types of heavy equipment. The
commissioners held a brief discuss
ion on the operation of the county
landfill. The meeting adjourned at
12:30 p.m.
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service line footage and deposit, to
install a gas meter immediately.
The motion died for lack of a
second.
The council approved for payment
as general assessment from the
Northeast Gas Section of the Geor
gia Municipal Association in the
amount of $2,443.50, based on
4,887 gas meters at 50 cents each,
to finance opposition to rate in
creases from Trnascontinental Gas
Line Corporation. The motion
passed with Savage opposed.
Minutes of the last council
meeting and the Oct. 19, Planning
Commission were approved as
read, anti purchase orders for the
fire and meter reading departments
were approved in the amount of
$2,159.05.
A business license fee for a go-cart
track was tabled until more in-
Local food store robbed
(Lovington polite say they have no
leads in Monday night’s armed
robbery at the Big Star Food Store
on Usher Street. The store was
robbed of about $122 by a lone
gunman, who pulled a blue steel
revolver on a store clerk shortly
before midnight, police said.
According to Investigator Tim
Bruce, the suspect, described as a
black male, 18-20 years of age,
entered the store, picked up an
item off a shelf and took it to a
check-out counter. As counter clerk
formation is obtained and a site for
this business is established.
Monday night's meeting, one of
the shortest in history held by the
city governing body, adjourned at
8:05 p.m.
Get receipts
for castoffs
When contributing clothing or
household items to organizations
like Good will or the Salvation
Army, ask for a receipt. Accord
ing to the Georgia CPA Sociewty,
they won't mind a bit, and when
documented such contributions
can bring tax deductions. Docu
mentation should include a des
cription of the items, estimated
value of each, method of estimat
ing the value, and the date of
the contribution.
Carl Harris was ringing up the
item, Bruce said the suspect pulled
out a pistol, cocked the hammer,
and told Harris to remain still and
he wouldn't get hurt.
After taking the $122 from a cash
register, the bandit fled the store on
foot.
City police were on the scene
quickly after being notified of the
robbery, but the suspect had
already disappeared. Police were
assisted in their investigation by
sheriff's investigator Morris Jones.
Lee Cohen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cohen of
Covington, was the recipient of the coveted Eagle
Scout Award Monday night at a special Court of
Honor held by Troop 222 at the Scout Hut in
Academy Springs Park. Left to right are: Scout
master Tom Rowland, Mr. and Mrs. Cohen, Eagle
Looking to the future — Are we
willing to pay the price?
Dr. James B. Craig was the
second psychiatrist in Savannah.
“The first stayed one day and
left,” says Dr. Craig who is
superintendent at the Department
of Human Resources Regional
Hospital at Savannah. “And I
wasn't exactly received with open
arms. Another doctor told me,
‘When I mention your name to
my patients, they throw up their
hands in horror.' Every one knew
a psychiatrist only treated crazy
people."
That was 1946. In spite of the
reception, Dr, James "B. Craig
decided to stay. He was the first
medical director of the city’s
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Eagle Scout Lee Cohen
child guidance clinic. He opened
a psychiatric ward in St. Joseph's
Hospital and the nuns called it
St. James Infirmary. In the years
he spent at Savannah Dr. Craig
also opened an outpatient treat
ment clinic at the hospital.
In 1960 he went to Central
State Hospital in Milledgeville to
develop a psychiatric residency
program, and two years later he
became superintendent.
Dr. Craig has pioneered in
public and private mental health
care in-Georgia. But for him it is
the future that counts.
“Everybody knows that the
cheapest way to run a hospital is
Lee Cohen, Robert O. Arnold, who made the
presentation and also presented Lee’s dad the
Eagle Award in 1948, and former Scoutmaster
John Strauss. An Eagle pin and Scout tie clasp
were presented to Lee’s mother and dad by the
troop.
to just pile people in,” he says.
“But if your goal is to make
people well, you've got to do
something besides warehousing. I
think that we have all the basics
for a fine mental health program.
What we have to do is continue
to develop the services we already
have.”
In Georgia in 1975 over
100,000 persons received mental
health services in either hospitals
or community based mental
health centers. Over 60 percent of
the services were delivered in
community programs.
“The future of mental health is
in our communities,” says Bob
Branning, Director of Mental
Health Services for the Georgia
Regional Hospital at Rome. “We
must treat mental illness like a
physical illness. If you have a
bad cold or virus you go to see
your doctor. If the condition
becomes serious, you go to the<
hospital. Emotional problems
aren’t really so different. If a.'
community center can't treat you,
you go to the hospital. But
hospitalization is going to be a?
short term process. The follow-up?
work will be done back in the';
community.”
Dr. John Gates, superintendent
of the Central Georgia Regional
Hospital at Milledgeville, agrees.
“The question is whether commu- •
nities are willing to pay the price ;
for quality mectal health care
close to home.
"People can see physical pain,”,
he says. “If someone is bleeding,
you do whatever is necessary to
stop it. But mental anquish is
often hidden.
“If your next door neighbor is’,
depressed because his wife has i
left him or his son is a drug *
addict, are you willing to spend
the money in treatment and
support that he will need?”
The superintendents agree that
most people can be treated in
community settings in the future....
Psychiatric hospitals will be used .
for highly specialized purposes j
and patients will stay for varying ‘
lengths of time. Some hospitalized •
patients will be hospitalized for <
an acute illness, released, and ;
never returned to the hospital }
again. Others, whom Dr. Don
Miles, superintendent at Georgia
Mental Health Institute calls
marginal people, will be in and
out of hospitals all their lives.
These people will need support
services that a community can
offer such as supportive living in
group homes, jobs, a sheltered
environment.
“Lives can be broken in a
variety of ways,” says Dr. Gates.
“Itr order to be truly effective we
must offer citizens a full range of !
services from basic family !
counseling to intensive inpatient !
therapy. ,
“We have come a long way ■
since the days of the Georgia ■
lunatic asylum. How far we go
depends on the price each of us ;
is willing to pay.”
In the Middle Ages, peacock
was hailed as “food for the
brave.”
