The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 35, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 September 1984 — Page 12

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., September 12,1984

Energy Assistance Program to be continued by NIPSCO

Customers of public utilities (gas, water, telephone and electric) have rights protecting them from unnecessary shut-offs, deposits and billing adjustments. The Public Service Commission (PSC) has written rules that con-

Manchester

announces fall programs

Several foreign/classic films, convocations and two Artist/Lecture Series programs are all a part of Manchester College's Fall Term Values. Ideas and the Arts program. The VIA program, open to the public, began with the traditional Opening Day convocation at 9 am., Wednesday, Sept. 5. College president A. Blair Helman convened the 96th academic year of the college during his copvocation address Convocation progra ms scheduled include two Student Senior Series presentations Clay Bowman, r 4 Syracuse, and John Keller. North Manchester, will make Senior Series presentations in the fall. Bowman is a speech communication and drama ma jor and Keller is a political science and peace studies major Three foreign/classic films will also be shown in the fall The films are open without charge to the public Two Artist/Lecture Series programs. James J Lawless as Clarence Darrow and the Chester String Quartet, are scheduled September 22 and October 27. respectively Tickets for Artist. Lecture programs are available through the college ticket office Ail Manchester College Values. Ideas and the Arts programs are held in the colleges Cordier Auditorium

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trol the practices of these utilities. The rules of the PSC, however do not apply to municipal and REMC utilities. Generally, these utilities may use these rules as a guide to implement their policies. In some instances, the customer may receive a better agreement from the municipal or REMC than with the rules of the PSC. The pamphlet entitled • Utilities” explains the criteria for deposits in great detail as set out by the PSC. Deposits are not required if a person has been a utility customer in the past two years and hasn’t been shut off, is current in his/her payments and hasn’t made more than two late payments in the last year. Billing adjustment for metered services are explained for fast and slow meters. The pamphlet details the requirements for disconnections of service with the utilities. Notice requirements are explained highlighting what the notice must say Medical and financial hardship provisions are explained as alternate means of dealing with the disconnection. All customers of utilities are re-

After the November election

By J.W. ANDERSON Guest Writer Even in years when there are no improtant elections, social climbers and others refrain from discussing politics for fear they will alienate friends Election time is a poor time to discuss politics because feelings are so intense. When we are exposed to high octane rhetoric and when emotions run high, we fail to realize how many things remain the same regardless of who wins the election It is my purpose to confine myself to the general state of affairs after the election, but I can

quested to complain in writing to the utility companies if they are dissatisfied with their bills, deposits or disconnect notice. If the customer is still dissatisfied with the utility’s decision, he/she may appeal within seven days to the PSC for a “Request for Review” of the problem. The Consumer Affairs Division of the PSC will review the problem and give their decision in thirty days. The Older Adult Impact Project will give educational presentations about the law to social agencies and older adult organizations. Anyone wishing to arrange a presentation or to obtain free copies of “Utilities” should contact the Project at 115 N. William, South Bend, IN 46601. This pamphlet is produced in part with the assistance of the City of South Bend Community Development through funds made available by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, and funds provided in part through Area 11, IV and V Agencies on Aging and the United Way of St. Joseph County.

not fail to notice that Gary Hart is almost a carbon copy of Ronald Reagan. Both draw large general outlines but neglect details. The only difference in making America strong and great is the claim that one man can do it better than the other. No one disagrees in the main to what Hart and Reagan want to accomplish. When the election is over no effort will be made to reduce the huge debt. No one now in either party even talks about reducing the debt. All they talk about is increasing the debt at a slower pace Many Democrats voted for what Vice President Bush called voodoo economics. Inflation will continue. The only question is how fast it is going to continue and under what party it is apt to increase the fastest. Tax loopholes for the rich will continue. We will get tax increases although it may be called revenue enhancement. Waste in the Pentagon will continue because military contractors are more powerful than groups favoring honesty in government. The wealth of the country will continue to be controlled by a small group of persons. Financing medicare will continue to be a problem. Turmoil will in Africa, the Near EastJand in Central America. We will continue to get involved in cat fights throughout Israel and they will continue to lead us around on a leash. Relations with Russia will remain strained. Anyone signing a treaty with Russia will be accused of being soft on Communism We will continue to believe that there must be something wrong with any treaty Russia signs. Being a member of the football team or of the pom pon squad will continue to be more important than being on the honor roll. No serious efforts will be made to improve our educational system. Improving education is a slow process that yields no political rewards. Alcoholism and drug addiction will continue Homes will continue to break up. perhaps at an increased rate, as more of the children already taught to be selfgrow up and become parents. Thousands of unwed teen-age girls will become pregnant. Abortions. legal or illegal, will continue. Suing one another will continue to be the national past time. Labor and management will continue to view each other as adversaries rather than as partners. A good example in Washington is important, and it helps the country, but there is going to be no sudden or dramatic change in our ethical standards or in the general tone of society as the result of the election.

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Elkhart office opens it's doors!

After months of renovation. The Papers Incorporated will officially open its new Elkhart office at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13. Located at 229 W. Marion St., the office allows Elkhart area residents to have easy access to ‘the PAPER’ advertising and editorial services. This is the second Elkhart County office for ‘the PAPER.’ The Goshen office, located at 134 S. Main St., was opened in 1973. Business hours for the Elkhart office are 8 a m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. During these hours, the office is open to handle news releases as well as classified and display advertising inquiries. The deadline for classified and display ads is 4 p.m. on Friday. News items or releases may be phoned in at 522-4111 or dropped off at the office. Should it be impossible to drop off news items during regular office hours, a drop slot has been provided in the front door. Advertising sales manager Duane Pagel and salesman Dave Fox will work out of the Elkhart office. Both men also work out of the Goshen office and have years of experience in handling advertising for area businesses. Although they will not work out of the Elkhart office, salesmen Steve Eryman and Bruce Bultemeier also coordinate business advertising in the Elkhart and Goshen editions. . Terry Williams is in charge of home delivery for the Elkhart edition. Questions regarding circulation or distribution should be directed to her at 522-4111. Jackie Amburgey will also work out of the office on a parttime basis. She handles news items and releases for both the

Family support issues of the chronically mentally ill

By DONNA FULLER R.N., Aftercare Nurse

The original intent of the community mental health center movement was to provide services to citizens in need and to make those services available in the community rather than in large isolated institutions. Maintaining optimal community rather than in large isolated institutions. Maintaining optimal community living demands the involvement of numerous support systems — social, recreational, psychological, medical and vocational services. The provision for meeting these needs must also be made in the least restrictive manner so as to develop the highest degree of independent functioning which is the long term goal. Therefore, the high cost of institutionalization can be avoided and persons capable of some degree of independent living can stay in their own homes or in a family/foster care situation in the community. Many people receive short term psychiatric care at the Bowen Center, but this article will relate more often to those who are involved in a long term treatment program. For the chronically mentally ill arrangements must be made for continuing support to be maintained Chronic illness of any type is a tremendous psychological, social and economic burden on the energies of people living close to it. The staff must be aware of the needs of the family support systems as well as the needs of the client. The supportive and accepting family can contribute much to -the psychiatric patient’s rehabilitation. Relatives have become the real primary care agent for a large portion of the emotionally disturbed in the community. Educating these relatives to the type of behaviors they can observe is an important task. Some of these may be unpredictable behavior, lack of conversation, social withdrawal, under ac-

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NEW ELKHART OFFICE AT 229 W. MARION

Elkhart and Goshen editions. The building in which the new office is housed was purchased from the Citizens Northern Bank of Elkhart through Lee Dallas Associates of Nappanee in November 1983. Phr . s Design Associates, Elkhart, planned the renovation work. Hope Builders of Elkhart did the construction work and Eli Miller, New Paris, did the landscaping. Brief History the PAPER’ was first published in 1971 and serves readers in both Elkhart and Koscuisko counties. The first edition was published in Kosciusko County and two years later, in 1973, the publication began coverage in Elkhart County.

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tivity, excessive sleeping and socially embarrassing behavior. These people typically have severe limitations in matters of daily living such as personal relations, living arrangements, work endeavors or recreational activities. Families can be instructed in assertive training to enable them to set appropriate limits on the disturbed person’s behavior. Some clients need a highly structured program with intensive supervision such as involvement with a sheltered workshop on a daily basis while others need less structure and can come and go at will without problems. Another important issue is the education of the client and his or her family about the importance of following the prescribed regimen of maintenance drug therapy Many clients never fully, or even partially, comprehend the nature and the seriousness of their illness, nor do they appreciate the need to take medication Others may experience uncomfortable side effects which can be very disturbing. Again, education is the key. Client and family should be informed of possible side effects and when and how to report them to the doctor for prompt treatment. The clinical staff can reassure about the side effects and can give hope for benefit. All of these are important in order to increase compliance on the part of the client. Only with long term support and follow-up can the rate of relapse and rehospitalization be appreciably decreased. The

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Today, the combined circulation for the Elkhart and Goshen editions is 52,832. The Koscuisko County edition has a circulation of 24,344. ‘the PAPER’ is a publication of The Papers Incorporated, which has its main offices in Milford, Ind. In addition to three editions of ‘the PAPER,’ the company publishes The Mail-Journal, a weekly subscription paper which is circulated in northern Koscuisko County. Commercial printing is also handled at the main offices. Arch and Della Baumgartner are the owners and publishers of The Papers Incorporated. Ron Baumgartner is the firm’s president and general manager.

Aftercare Program at the Bowen Center is one program designed especially for that purpose where clients attend once a week for approximately a five hour day. Individual needs are realistically assessed and a treatment program established. Basic living skills and social skills are developed along with offering routine medication evaluation by a staff psychiatrist. Here again the family plays an important/ role in encouraging the client to attend this program regularly, or to keep regular outpatient appointments for medication review. ' Our task at the Bowen Center is that of helping clients and their families deal with what seems hopeless; of instilling hope in the face of a guarded or uncertain prognosis; and of providing supportive care that attempts to rehabilitate and simultaneously arrest the progress of the disease.

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A breakthrough

A five-year survival rate for most cancer could reach 90 percent by the year 2000, Dr. William F. Feller, a cancer specialist, told a congressional panel recently

North Central Indiana delegates to Older Hoosiers Assembly

Governor Robert D. Orr will be one of the featured speakers when nine delegates and one alternate from north central Indiana attend the Fifth Biennial Older Hoosiers Assembly September 17,18 and 19. “The Older Hoosiers Assembly is an organization of 100 delegates and 33 alternates from every region of the state who meet every other year before the long session of the Indiana General Assembly to produce a legislative program responsive to the needs of senior citizens,’’ according to Jean Merritt, executive director of the Indiana Department of Aging and Community Services, the state agency which sponsors the assembly. Delegates from the Area 2 Agency on Aging are: Joseph Doran, South Bend; Lee Eve, Goshen; Mae Fisher, Plymouth; Loretta Franz, South Bend; Mrs. James Heaton, Winona Lake; Ivy Kennedy, Elkhart; Andrew Kuzmitz, South Bend; Chauncey Neimier, South Bend, and Ray Zellers, LaPorte. The alternate is Robert File. The Older Hoosiers Assembly

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meets in the chamber and committee rooms of the Indiana House of Representatives. Delegates and alternates — all of whom are 60 years of age or older — debate and vote on proposals submitted from area legislative seminars and other interested agencies, organizations and individuals. Sessions are conducted under the rules of the Indiana House of Representatives. Proposals which survive the committee process are sent to the entire Older Hoosiers Assembly for floor debate. They are then rated according to importance, after which they are drafted into bill form and submitted to the governor and the Indiana General Assembly for consideration. Governor Orr asserts, “Indiana was the second state in the nation to sponsor an assembly for older citizens. I look upon this program as an excellent opportunity for older Hoosiers to express common concerns and to draft proposed remedies. Proposals from the Older Hoosier Assembly always receive my full attention.”