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) Free Press-News & Farmer, Tues., April 4, 1967
Dr. Spille Tells Rotarians
Os Clayton's Suicide Rate
Dr. Donald Spille, Execu
tive Director of the Atlanta
Mental Health Association
addressed the Forest Park
Rotary Club in the Civic
Room of the Citizens Bank
of Clayton County on
Wednesday, March 22.
As the Executive Director
for the Metropolitan Area,
Dr. Spille has coordinated
five counties’ activities in
the area of Mental Health
Programming. He termed his
main interest as being that
of establishing a broad
community program that is
either very aware of mental
health or very aware of the
mental unhealth; which is
inclusive of a better under
standing and a consequent
better treatment of mental
problems; and the promo
tion of better mental health
on the community level as
opposed to state levels.
Dr. Spllle’s proposed pro
gram Includes concern with
school children, family
problems, the solution of
which may give better fam
ily solidarity, disturbed peo
ple who without counsel or
proper treatment may oth
erwise end up a jail case;
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current absenteeism levels
of which 50% are attributed
to psychotic disorders; (Dr.
Spille said at this point that
80% of problems on the job
actually are stemming from
causes outside of the job);
the 65% job dismissal rate
which are due to personal
problems rather than due to
lack of job skills; present
conditions of state facilities
which are severely over
crowded.
Dr. Spille stated that there
were presently some 12,000
patients at Milledgeville,
while some 7000 patients are
on furlough. He had statis
tics to support the fact that
50% of these patients at
Milledgeville would not be
there If there were home
based services for them at
home!
Dr. Spille said that most
of our behavior problems are
first seen in the classroom
and that this is the first
signal for help. This distress
signal usually Is carried first
to the clergy so he feels that
the more the local level
mental health service pro
gram can help the local
clergy the better for all. He
also stated that the Atlanta
Metropolitan Program has
an excellent pastoral pro
gram, an avenue of approach
which is being largely over
looked in many areas.
Dr. Spille said that many
disturbed people can be
helped in a general hospital
and cited the post-partum
depressive and the bum
victim as prime examples.
However, he also said that
the general hospital as a
rule Is not treating the total
patient in many cases for
the simple reason that the
absence of mental health is
often unrecognized at the
time. Dr. Spille feels that
there exists the definite
need to treat the patient
with total concern; and he
said that he did not wish to
infer that a psychiatrist is
necessarily needed in all
mental health cases, nor did
he wish to convery the
thought psychiatrists are for
“crazy people”, a viewpoint
which is peculiar only in
that we don’t fundamentally
understand the issues in
volved.
Dr. Spille seemed to be in
terested in the needs of our
youth, problems as they are
seen in children under the
age of twelve, and he made
a plea for the salvage of the
children at Alto. He said
simply that the potential to
care for ourselves and oth
ers is there — but is of no
effect if no one is to pursue
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FIRST PLACE WINNERS in Mountain View sth Grade
4-H Chib were (left to right) first row: Paul Smith, Dog
Care and Training; Mark Jones, Wildlife; Connie Harmon,
Home Furnishings and Art. Second row: Selena Ashmore,
Foods and Nutrition; Terry McLarty, Woodworking; Deb
bie Howell, Apron.
4-H Members Compete
During March, 4-H Club
members in Clayton County
are busy giving demonstra
tions in their projects, hop
ing to be a first place winner
in their club. If a 4-H mem
ber wins first place in his
project, he represents his
club at the County Meet
that will be held at the Lee
Street School in April. The
girls Meet will be held on
April 1 and boys on April 8.
The first place county win
ner in each project will rep
resent Clayton County 4-H
Clubs at District Meet to be
held at Rock Eagle in June.
471 MILLION BROILERS
Georgia poultrymen pro
duced enough broilers in
1966 to provide every Geor
gian a chicken dinner every
day for ten months, accord
ing to W. Perry Joiner, poul
try scientist with the Co
operative Extension Service.
This amounted to 471 million
broilers, he added.
You must practice care
with your recently pur
chased shrubs, according to
Extension Horticulturist
Gerald E. Smith. In trans
porting balled and burlapped
plants, the shrubs should be
carried with the hands
underneath the ball of
earth. Never carry the plants
by their stems because this
is likely to break away the
soil from the roots.
it.
Dr. Spille closed his talk
with the statement that the
SUICIDE RATE OF CLAY
TON COUNTY IS THE
HIGHEST OF ANY COUNTY
IN GEORGIA—a fact that is
self evident of the need to
do something about it!!
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I Officers Are Elected By
League of Women Voters
The election of officers
and selection of a local
study item were the results
of the annual meeting of
the Clayton County League
of Women Voters held on
Thursday, March 30th, 1967
in the Community Room of
the Citizens Bank of Clayton
County.
"Election Procedures —
Study the election code and
evaluate its application in
Clayton County” was se
lected as the first local study
item for the Clayton County
League.
During the compiling of
Information for the League
booklet, “Know Clayton
County”, recently published,
various fields of possible
study were suggested. These
suggestions resulted in four
specific study items being
presented for membership
consideration as a study
item on the local level.
Members felt that in
studying Georgia Election
Code, they would become
better informed and in turn
more able to perform a pub
lic service for Clayton Coun
ty-
The slate of officers
elected are: President, Mrs.
Eddie Paul; First Vice-Pres
ident, Mrs. Arthur Huie;
Secretary, Mrs. Gene Ray;
2nd Vic e-President, Mrs.
Marvin Knowles and Treas
urer, Mrs. Clinton Wood.
The directors who will serve
for two years are: Mrs. N. M.
Gullion, Mrs. E. M. Holber
ton, Mrs. D. C. Davis, Mrs.
Norman Lynberg, Mrs. M. R.
Sutton and Mrs. Ana jo
Vaughn. Directors who are
appointed for one year are:
Mrs. G. W. Merriman, Mrs.
Tom Neal, Mrs. Henry Rlv-
Clayton Finance Co.
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MARION WHALEY
Telephone 366-4787
1151 Main St. Forest Park
era, and Mrs. Guy Puckett.
The nominating commit
tee for the 1967-1969 period
consists of Mrs. S. E. Helm,
Chairman; Mrs. Guy Puck
ett and Mrs. Norris Tyree.
The next unit meetings
will be held April sth 9 am.
at Weyman’s Restaurant on
Hwy. 54. The evening unit
meeting will be April 6th at
8 pm. is the Community
Room of the Citizens Bank
of Clayton County. »
All women of voting age
who are Interested In good
government are invited to
attend the unit meetings.
The League of Women Vot- 7
ers is a non-partisan organ
ization dedicated to better
government.
WHY PRUNE?
The purpose of pruning
young, non-bearing fruit
trees is primarily to shape
the trees, according to C. D.
Spivey, Extension horticul
turist at the University of
Georgia. The trees should
be shaped so the main scaf
fold branches will be well
distributed up and down and
around the trunk, he added.