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Federal Guidelines Never Issued; Leaves Law Suit

By WILLIAM STOCKTON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal guidelines that might have prevented sterlization of two young Alabama girls were never issued last year, a former government doctor has told a Senate subcommittee. The guidelines, developed in 1971 by the Office of Economic Opportunity, apparently were bottled up in the White House “because it was an election year," Dr. Warren Herns of Denver told a Senate labor and public welfare subcommittee Tuesday. Herns, a former official of OEO's family planning division, appeared before the subcommittee with Lonnie and Minnie Relf. The black couple are parents of Minnie, 14, and Mary Alice, 12, who were sterlized last month by a Montgomery, Ala., family planning center. Attempts to obtain White House comment on Hern’s testimony were unsuccessful Tuesday night. Relf has filed a SI-million lawsuit against the Montgomery Community Action Agency and the OEO, alleging the tubal ligation sterlizations were performed without informed parental consent. Herns turned over to the Indy Airport Considers Customs Set-Up Facilities INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—The Indianapolis Airport Authority recentlyconsidered a proposal to spend $8,250 for a feasibility study regarding construction of a U.S. Customs facility at Weir Cook Municipal Airport. A customs facility would be the airport's first step in gaining international status. Daniel C. Orcutt, executive director of the airport authority, said Tuesday that foreign airline officials have indicated support of a plant to establish Weir Cook as an international terminal.

committee a copy of the guidelines for sterlizations by family planning clinics funded by OEO. He said the guidelines were approved by his OEO superiors early in 1971 and approved by the Office of Management and Budget shortly before the end of the year. But in February 1972, after 25,000 copies of the guidelines had been printed. Herns said, “1 was . . . informed that the issuance of the guidelines would be postponed.” Two days later, he said he was ordered to turn over to his superiors 200 advance copies intended for the news media. They were counted and put into a safe, but he said he managed to retain a copy. “I was told by another employe that this action was being taken at the order of the White

House,” he said. Several superiors told him election year considerations were responsible for the delay, he said. Howard Phillips, former OEO director who also testified, said he could not confirm the charge that the guidelines were held up last year because of the coming election. When the Relfs were on the stand, under gentle but insistent questioning from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy they said they didn’t know their daughters were to undergo surgery and that they didn’t know irreversible sterilization was involved. Herns said he resigned on June 2, 1972, “in protest of the suppression" of the guidelines. He said he could offer no ex-

planation why OEO in 1971 lifted a ban on sterilizations performed by OEO-funded clinics but then a year later didn’t release the guidelines that would have regulated these sterilizations. He said the guidelines stressed that sterilization had to be voluntary. “No patient

who couldn’t give meaningful, informed, written consent could be sterilized,” he said. Caspar W. Weinberger, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, has ordered that guidelines for the sterilization of minors by government-sup-ported agencies be drawn up by his department by July 19.

Famous World War II Sub Retired To Museum

CHICAGO (AP) — The Silversides, a veteran World War II submarine credited with sinking 29 Japanese ships and damaging 15 more, will retire to a museum instead of a scrap heap.

Jr. College Kids Show Up Older Counterparts

French Set To Test Nuclear Blast

By PA UL TREUTHA RDT Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) — The start of the controversial French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific was considered imminent yesterday as government ban on flights and shipping in the test zone went into effect. The first blast, expected to be of a one-megaton weapon, could come as soon as Friday. There was speculation that there might be as many as six explosions, combining next year’s test program with this year’s. Defying a World Court injunction, widespread foreign protests that fallout from the tests will endanger human life and plans by a New Zealand navy frigate and a group of private protest yachts to invade the test area, the French government made clear it would not cancel the tests. It considers them necessary for development of the nuclear strike force that the late President Charles de Gaulle sponsored to enhance France's

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KENTFIELD Calif. (AP) - Scott Lundholm, an 8-year-old interested in marine biology, never dreamed he would be studying the subject in college this summer. But he is one of 80 children enrolled in “College for Kids,” a program initiated by the College of Marin here to lure gifted 5-to 12-year-olds from vacation play to classrooms. Troy Fotchman likes to read and says the speed-reading and media-exploration class is her favorite. “She’s 12, and she’s done in two weeks what some of my college students work on all semester,” says instructor Jay Stryker. Bret Harsham celebrated his fifth birthday last month as he progressed through fifth and sixth grade readings and

moved to the seventh grade level. Jesse Harsham, Bret’s mother and community coordinator for the program, said the program originally was paid for by the children’s parents with matching funds from the college which is located north of San Francisco Bay. Public funds are being sought now. she said. “This was a very necessary program because so many school districts have no outlet for gifted children," said Mrs. Harsham. Laura Walker, 12, has spent a great deal of her time in the electronics laboratory. A bandana around her head to keep the curls out of the way, she intently works with the tiny parts of a voltage tester.

Workshop At IU To Benefit Indiana’s Retarded Children

During the past school year, Indiana University’s Developmental Training Center provided an educational experience for 1,581 students and 480 professional people who received some kind of inservice training at the center. In addition, nearly 200 other professionals attended workshops at the center. The immediate and ultimate beneficiaries of this training and educational experience are retarded children in Indiana. Through the center’s residential and consultation programs, those whom the federal government calls developmentally disabled children are being prepared to live and attend school within their own community. The center’s program is being expanded this summer with a new experimental project which, in addition to helping meet the needs of the children, provides broad training for students and inservice professionals. Henry J. Schroeder, director of the center and associate professor of education at I.U., described the summer program in an interview: “What we are attempting to do is tie the children and trainees together for the purpose of developing programs for the children. We also have departed from past procedures in that we take an inter-disciplinary approach in determining the child’s needs and how students can be trained to meet them. “That is, adaptive physical education, recreation, education, psychological services, social work services, and cottage life planning are all handled in a manner so that each student can see how other disciplines relate to his own and how they all relate to the child.” What Schroeder considers an equally important aspect of the summer program is a workshop for 18 professionals who come, for the most part, from the same areas as the children. This is being held in cooperation with the Special Education Division of the l.U. School of Education and Indiana Department of Public Instruction. These psychologists, school social workers, and classroom teachers are working as a team with the thought of going back to the schools and communities and developing an inter-disciplinary approach to problems of the retarded children. While the two groups--trainees and in-service professionals—work with the children to increase their com-

petence in their particular discipline, in no sense are the children being put in the role of guinea pigs, Schroeder said. The child’s needs are of primary consideration, he declared. “Our particular thought,” Schroeder said, “is that the child needs to be in his home environment and that includes his school. In some cases, the school or the home is not equipped to handle the developmentally disabled child. We see our particular role as assisting the school and the family in dealing with the child and his or her own special problems.” Schroeder believes that institutionalization of such children will, over the years, decrease. He thinks c6mmunity agencies will play an increasingly important role in dealing with the child’s problems. He sees one of the center’s objectives as training people to work with these children and also to provide in-service training for those professionals who are already in a position to help the children. He emphasizes the importance of the inter-disciplinary approach in which people with different professional skills work together. The Developmental Training Center serves the entire state. Any child in need of the center’s services can be referred to the center. No request for help is turned dow n, Schroeder said. Parents are expected to contribute on the basis of ability to pay. Last year, the center worked with 96 children, 24 of whom were admitted to the residential program. This program provides a family atmosphere with students serving as house parents in center cottages. Generally the center works with ambulatory, high-func-

Hendricks County 4-H Fair Is Sponsoring A COUNTRY WESTERN SHOW with KITTY WELLS and JOHNNY WRIGHT Friday, July 20, 1973 in the New Air-Conditioned Community Building at the Danville 4-H Fairgrounds Shows at 7:00 and 9:00 P.M. Tickets by phone 839-4485 Advance *2.00 At The Door *2.50

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COVINGTON Ind. (AP) Thomas A. Wiseman, 26, Rt. 1, Otwell, was fatally injured Tuesday when the tractor mower he was driving overturned near Interstate 74 at the Indiana 136 overpass just east of here in Fountain County. Wiseman died about two nours later in St. Elizabeth Hospital at nearby Danville, 111. State police said Wiseman was mowing grass when the tractor struck a large piece of concrete on a steep bank at the side of the highway and overturned.

The Combined Great Lakes Naval Association has launched a Save Our Silversides campaign aimed at restoring the rusty sub as a museum piece. The U.S. Navy turned the sub over Tuesday to the association, a nonprofit organization, in dockside ceremonies. On hand for the ceremonies was the Silversides’ first wartime skipper. Retired Rear Adm. Creed Caldwell Burlingame, 68, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., commanded the vessel when it sailed out of San Francisco Bay on its maiden voyage in 1941. Burlingame called the Silversides a “symbol of American integrity” and said it was fitting she should “rest her weary bones here in Chicago, where she spent the better part of her life.” The association hopes to restore the sub to its World War II prime — which will cost an estimated $300,000 — and donate it to a marine museum, research center and youth training facility planned for the shore of Lake Michigan. The submarine, named after a small minnow used for bait in the Caribbean, won a Presidential Unit Citation and 12 battle stars during the war. It was probably most famous for the actions of Thomas Moore, a pharmacist’s mate. With a scalpel in one hand and a medical textbook in the other, Moore performed an appendectomy on a fellow crewman while the sub was submerged not far from Tokyo.

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