Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1947 — Page 10

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Survey Shows Pers pel Shortage Is Tragic; Funds Would Aid. Tréatment of Patients

By PAUL R. LEACH, Times Special Wri "WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Tragic shortages of personitel and overcrowding characterize most state mental hospitals in the country, The U. 8, public health service says so, Appropriation requests for $5,675,000 now are before congress for niding states, colleges and institutions to improve treatment and handling of mental patients. The appropriations are being sought for the first time under a national mental health, act passed by congress last year asked. Another $175,000is included Dr. Robert H. Felix, chief of the in the budget to pay for dembnmental hygiene division of the strations and clinics by the public health service, said today “Our find- health service in helping improve

ings show the basic problems are state institutions. | overcrowding, shortage of persontiel,| The $3 million matching fund for insufficient treatment. facilities, and state program development is indecrepit buildings. [tended to be allocated on the basis | Must Inform Public {of a state's population, its financial!

“The first step in improving con- need, and extent of the mental ditions in mental hospitals' must be health problem in the state. an formed public, This, it is ex-| Under a formula being worked | pected, will be followed by strong out, a poorer state might “get a public support of an adequate hos- [fares grant than a wealthier one.! pital program.” Se ——————————— Doctors in and out of the service say the funds asked of congress are low compared to the great need. Of the new money now being considered by congress, $2 million would be earmarked for training. This would be allocated to public or nonprofit schools for teaching in psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychiatric social work and psychiatric nursing. Some of the money also could be granted to promising students to help with their tuition. Teacher Shortage

Dr. Dale Cameron, assistant to Dr. Felix said “Shortage of teachers to train personnel is the real bottleneck. We cannot improve staffs untii we have more teachers.” Another sum of $3 million is be- J ing sought for grants to the states WwW a s appointed to help them develop adequate men- Pr. Dingman medical director tal health programs. This would of both Continental Assurance and have to be matched, the states add- Continental Casualty companies. ing 50 cents for every federal dol- Four years later he was named vice lar. president of the company and in For research in mental treatment 1938 was elected to the board of and diagnosis. $500.000 -is being directors.

Life Underwriters |

To Meet Thursday |

Dr. Harry W. Dingman, vice pres- | {ident and medical director of the Continental Assurance Co., will address a meeting of the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters Thursday. A graduate of the University of : Toronto medical school, Dr. Ding-! man served in Si- : beria as a captain : in the medical corps in world war IL In 1921 he

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By Irene Lonnen Ernhart

Tal S h : " “" : : lent Searc Lov Has 1 ) F Musical Contest . pn tat Silas Oe town one Gay. Cassie aceldcntany. Witess| She'd almost forgotten that she'd |body, but her heart had been Features Program rors humm, » back Emirs ooHe | promised Mr. Drummond to come crushed too, Good food, rest and he haul : | Parker. Js inal event ¥hen she Lele | m. back to ‘work. Just now her mind Medicine Were healing her body, 4 i; ome. ? start A “Teen Canteen” in the schon | APTEI | thought of Leni the way she used!mind, STEEr Was Realy lenis armory semi-monthly, starting + CHAPTER 21 « 110 be, She watched them, envious of today at 3 p. m, | "MAMA -—TIve got wonderful pei with flowers in her vivid|their gayety and companionship A special feature of the program news!” Cassie tried to sound hap-'hair, the way her full lower lip| As they looked at each other, smile will be a musical talent contest. , eager, as she should feel because Used to stick out when she was Ng and nodding their heads gaily ess si Leai was coming home. {being stubborn about something |! A particularly clever turn of the he QUES Stugent cosmo apon- | News?" 2 8 ud {The sultry look that used to come Music or a eatchy modulaiton, y y o WS?" Mama sald. .' into her eyes when she didn't get| # on program for the student body, with “Leni's coming home, Mama. ' Ker own WAY. - IT was as though Parke ht Donald Fields, president, in charge, Lent’ ing back! {The "night. she'd NL r soug Student speakers were Florence § coming. Dass! : ® night shed. nearly sloped in Leni the companionship he | Mitchell LaMar Peters d Jo | “Leni!" Mama's face lit up, and with Lon Cavendish—that scanty didn't desire fv hi gh Bnmars son gnd Jo {then faded eyes brimmed. |pink bathing suit she'd bought, and | : om his wife. Cassie se m : Cassie gave Mama a quick hug Mama quarreling with her about ji, { an’ feel jealous—not exactly, It Miss Minyon Washington, a re- and flew out. “I must find Sid and Leni saying, “I never have anything Was more of a hurt sense of being | cent graduate of Indiana univey- Papa” (Dice! But I will. Wait and see.!shut out.

LIONS DINNER — The newly formed Lions club of Irvington | will hold a charter night dinner at 7 p. m, Wednesday in the Englewood Christian church. In charge [left to right) are Dr. C, C. Cook, chairman ticket committee: W. E. Lucas, president; Harold E. Vir. den, secretary, and Carl Schaffner, charter night committee chair man. : '

Frenzied Filipinos Clamor To Touch 'Miracle' Coffin |

MANILA, Feb. 24 (U. P).—Belief in a8 “miracle” today sent thousands of Filipinos scrambling almost in frenzy through a village cemetery at Binan, 30 miles south of Manila. ' The body of: beautiful young Filomena Almarina, exhumed in perfect condition nine years after she had been buried, was the goal of the pilgrimage. { It was so excellently preserved — ———— that many Filipinos believed a she died of a “broken heart” bemiracle was responsible. cause her father ‘broke up a love To obtain miraculous help for | themselves, the Philippine Press re- affair. ported, pilgrims rubbed handker-, She told her

lover before she

chiefs over the glass covered coffin died, so the story goes, that he]

should not marry any other girl Claim Ailments Cured {because she was ‘coming back.” Some ate grass growing around; The young man did marry. He is the vault in which the coffin had being quoted as stating that he frebeen ‘placed in 1938. They claimed quently has been awakened by what their ailments were cured. Others he thought to be Filomena's cries. crawled into the vault, taking peb-! One Manila doctor offered the bles, chunks of mud and Soncrete | opinign that the girl's body prob—anyihing they could pry loose. ably had become mummified by the Filomena Almarina died Aug. 16,!sun’s heat on the vault and the lack 1938. The story being told is that of humidity in the thick coffin.

on display in a chapel.

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sity, is teaching in the Crispus| Sid came running, at her call. Just wait and see if I don'tWhave course, Sid didn't return to | Attucks = commercial department His basket was full of onions ana Just everything I want some day. [ihe military academy, Instead. | this semester during the leave-of- carrots and fresh ciisp lettuce, “A fur coat, and nylon stockings he went to the country school a

absence of Harry Pettrie. Miss from Papa's garden, and pretty dresses, and good shoes few w . “Sid, Leni's coming home from and. a decent place to live. An a nile! Sqwn the he rel

New York!" apartment! Yes—I'll have an apart- w mi “Leni! Oh .goshi' When? How ment of my own with pretty lamps Te ne Rt the front gate ig ong will she stay? 1s it for good?" and nice rugs!” |" “October p. Cassie lowered her voice. “She's no..." | Oot ber fame. 8 Sinny Slorious ill, Sid, and she'll probably itay a! LENI came home the following OC¢'OPer, with the trees at the farm

long time. We'll have to take good Monday. Cassie was horrified, but 3 Fos of ler, hig the sky a gay | ‘care of her." ie, the air tangy and|

| A she tried not to show her emotions exhilirating. Cassie didn't have “IT'LL be just like it used to be, as she, together with Parker, helped much time to enjoy it’ though, won't it, Cassie?” Sid's dark face Leni from the train to the car, working in town every day, glowed with excitement as he went| Lenl's face, paper white, had a 8H : tearing into the house. somehow a withered look. Her FARKER brought Len! a kitteh | After they were in bed that hands, once so beautiful, lay like from a pet shop in town, coal black | night Parker FRetonea her job a limp bundle of bones hung to- with long silky fur and blue eves. again, Cassie had moved their twin gether with a thin parchment skin wp . 9 beds in front of the south win- Her hair, unkempt and lifeless, was yore bile eyes were =» Mogh Init dows of their bedroom, Moonlight drawn back into an untidy knot i think,” he said laughing i lit the room. Her eyes were very big—and no! pon smiled “You shouldn't The curtains were pulled back so longer bright but dull with hope- alwavs bringing me presents that the faint cool breete of the lessness and suffering. ker!" she exclaimed ) : evening could sweep out the heat! Mama wept when she saw her, “Why not—if they make you | of the day. and Cassie thought, with a terrible happy?” Parker replied. He hie: “I'm sorry that I was so—ugly plunging of ‘her heart, that Leni a piece of paper to a sirin and acting this afternoon, about your was going to die. began playing with the kitten [taking your job back,” Parker said. gs. 8 8 And Cassie got up and left the “I don’t know why I lash out’ at, BUT it wasn't long at all until room suddenly She was reme you that way. You woh't need to she was looking better, and was bering when Parker used to a keep the job long. I'm going to able to sit* up for afew hours’, . presents—the silly oy HELICOPTER USE find something myself, and the next every aay. : baubles—bracelets, brooches, and | A job I get, I'm going to keep. I. Cassie would come home from flowers. It- had been a lon long | WASHINGTON—Among new uses promise you, No matter how I work evenings to find her in an time sino he had taken th i ne for helicopters now under trial are hate Jt.” armchair before the fireplace in to ov ‘0 Teas Br en the Wroubie fighting forest fires, counting cattle * x = the living room, with ‘Parker drum- She Yan be jealol { 3 of a range, sowing seed and stock- | “IT'S all right, Parker.” She was ming out her favorite songs on the Lori! Jeajous of voit ing mountain streams with fishisleepy with exhaustion and the! piano, : {from hatcheries. {heat and excitement of the day.] Leni had been ill not only in

Trenton, N. J.. did her practice teaching at the school last seme ster.

Mrs. Amphalis Johnson has been | elected president of the A Cappella Choir Parents’ club at Crispus Attucks. Norman Merrifield 1s sponsor.

Washington Pupils Hear Talk on Nursing

Miss Ann Dugan. today discussed the nursing profession with Washington high school girls in a vocational information convocation. At 10 a. m. tomorrow Miss Margaret McConnell will tell the girls the future of students of com-' mercial subjects. The Boosters club will sponsor a pep session in the boys' gymnasium ; at 10 a. m. Wednesday to stimulate | support for the school's basketball team in the coming sectional tournament. Patricia Miller is chairman.

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