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'Negative Attitude' Noted Toward Mentally Retarded By ROB WOOD Associated Press Writer (AP) -Dr. William S. HALL, commissioner the South Carolina Mental Health Department, says there is a "totally negative attitude on the part of the press and the public when it comes to anything dealing with a mental patient or an ex-patient." Hall, in an article written for the department's monthly publication and later in an interview, said, "News editors, writers and television-reporters still purse a policy which directly links mental illness with a crime, or any law violation, that is committed by a patient or former patient." The commissioner said the news policy should be changed so it won't single out crime. "I believe the society columns should follow the same policy. How about a headline which read, 'Ex-Mental Patient Elected President of the Local Women's he said.

The doctor added, "Maybe it should be required that business and industrial columns make the same identification. How about this headline 'Former Mental Patient will Lead Chamber's Program for he New Hall said, "Of course I don't expect the news media to adopt such a policy, but should they follow the same old line that former mental patient must be in ah the headlines only when a crime is involved? There are many, many expatients who are now productive citizens. The mental health commissioner said at times, "We have to beg space and time to get any 1 message to the public. Yet, the news media is the only outlet for a public re educatic program, and what we are talking about is people oriented news. "Without the news media carrying the positive message as well as the we will never be able to change attitudes," he added.

doctor, asked what he meant by positive news, answered: "The positive side is the many wonderful improvements and additions to our facilities and to our treatment programs. The positive news is that thousands are being helped. That we are helping thousands build a life they can live Hall said there still exists in our society fear of the mentally ill and a prejudice caused by ignorance. He said society "wants what good mental health programs can offer. Too bad they can't accept it.

I'll be glad when we can practice 20th Century medicine and psychiatry supported by 20th Century attitudes. How. do we practice 20th Century psychiatry in a society which is still hung up on 19th Century attitudes?" The doctor said the press and the public should realize that mental institutions "are not penal institution nor are they prisons. Social workers and psychologists aren't baby-sitters, nurses and nurses aides aren't maximum security guards, and psychiatrists are not the judges over the conscience or sensitivities of society. Nor are they the conduit to funnel the community problem persons into closed confines, forever out-of-sight and henceforth out of mind." Americans' Good Sense Causes Gold Sale Flop By R.

GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The government's great gold auction was a flop in selling gold but it proved that Americans have kept their common sense, officials say. "In the U.S. Treasury gold auction, demand was less than had generally been anticipated," said a Treasury Department statement Monday -and that was an understatement in itself. Although the government was auctioning 2 million ounces of gold, it received bids on only 954,800 ounces and accepted bids for just 750,000 ounces. In addition, it appeared that most of the gold was bought by foreign banks.

The biggest bid was for about 400,000 ounces "MOMS" MABLEY in "AMAZING GRACE" United Artists Cinema 7:00 8:45 auto THEATRE -CLOSED MON. TUES. JAN. ONLY STARTS-WED. CLINT EASTWOOD HE HAS EXACTLY SEVEN MINUTES TO GET RICH QUICK! "THUNDERBOLT and LIGHTFOOT" United Artists from the Dresdner Bank of New York, a subsidiary of a major West German bank.

Two Swiss banks also were among the major bidders. The complete list of successful bidders was to be made public today. Except for bids from a few U.S. industries and banks, most bids from Americans were for a single 400-ounce bar of gold, the minimum amount being auctioned by the Treasury. The minimum bid price accepted by the government was $153 an ounce, co considerably below world market gold prices, although a few bids ranged as high as $185 an ounce.

The gold sold Monday will bring the government more than $100 million in revenue. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon expressed delight that Americans did not buy up City Log FIRE CALLS The Greenwood City Fire Department reports extinguishing a fire about 8:44 p.m. Sunday which totally destroyed a car shed 420 Piedmont Ave. No injuries were reported.

No cause for the fire was given. TRAFFIC COURT Four cases of careless driving were among 14 cases disposed of this morning in Greenwood City Traffic Court. Three cases each of disregarding a traffic signal and careless driving were also disposed of, along with one case each of no license in possession, driving on the wrong side of the road, driving under the influence and driving left of center. A hula-rious adventure! I WALT DISNEY'S IT. ROBIN CRUSOE, U.S.N.

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mack. These meetings will be couples. Public invited. MEETINGS START TONIGHT topic of a series of meetings sponExtension Service beginning tonight County Courthouse. Speaking Al Tinsley and Veronaca Carespecially beneficial for young SPECIAL SERVICE THURSDAY There will be a service at the Holy Redeemer Church Thursday night at 7:30 with the Rev.

J. W. Hester. PICKARD TO CONDUCT MISSION STUDY Dr. William M.

Pickard, chairman of the religion and philosophy department at Huntington College, will replace Dr. James Barret, who is ill, at the mission study at Main Street United Methodist Church Jan. 19-21. A missionary to the Philippines he is a also the author of "Rather Live Than Die," a study of Jonah. BAHA'I The Baha'i of Greenwood will of Margaret Freeman, 230 Beadle spiritual unity will be discussed.

formation call 229-2020 or 223-1013. FIRESIDE meet tonight at 7:30 at the home St. World harmony through All are welcome. For further in- CHORAL PROGRAM SUNDAY The 50 Voice Chorus will present its' monthly program at Morris Chapel Baptist Church Sunday at 6 p.m. PHOENIX COMOUNITY CLUB MEETS TONIGHT The Phoenix Community Club will have its' regular monthly meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Phoenix Community Center.

AARP MEETS The Tri-County Chapter of the People will meet Wednesday at Church. Probate Judge Curtis regular business meeting will BETTER BREATHING The Better Breathing Club Lung Association will meet Room at the Bankers Trust on REV. STROUD IS Church will be the speaker The Rev. John Stroud, pastor Fellowship Breakfast tomorrow Cafe. WEDNESDAY American Association of Retired 2 p.m.

at the First Presbyterian Shaw will be the guest speaker. A follow. CLUB TO MEET sponsored by the South Carolina Friday at 3:30 at the Friendship Montague Street. BREAKFAST SPEAKER of Lowell Street United Methodist at the Interdenominational at 7 a.m. at the Emerald City PHOENIX COMMUNITY CLUB TO MEET Phoenix Community Club will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Phoenix Community Center.

Guy Butler Seeks Re-Election to PSC COLUMBIA (AP)-Five of the seven members of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, the agency that sets rates for electricty and natural gas, are up for reelection this year, but as yet have no opposition for the jobs. The commissioners are elected by the South Carolina General Assembly, and all of them are former legislators. The commission has come under some sharp criticism in recent years as utility rates have climbed steadily in South Carolina. The incumbents whose fouryear terms expire in 1975 are Abney A. Smith, North Charleston; Guy Butler, Greenwood; Fred A.

Fuller Greenville; J. Lewis Moss, York; and Henry G. Yonce, Columbia. Commissioner Henry G. Stuckey, a former House member from Kingstree, was re-elected last year and Commissoner Rudolph Mitchell, also once a member of the House from Saluda County, was selected to replace the late A.D.

Amick. Anderson County Magistrate Gets 101 Warrants ANDERSON (AP)-A feud between Anderson Magistrate Jack Gerrard and the city police department took a new turn Monday when a department spokesman said 101 warrants had been drawn up against Gerrard, each charging him failing to pay a parking ticket. Gerrard had warrants against Police Ed gotten, McCown and Capt. Harrison Poore late last week, accusing them of violating state law, requiring uniform traffic tickets. The warrants against the officers had been in the custody of Anderson County Sheriff E.

E. Cooley Sunday but had not been served on the policemen this morning. Gerrard is scheduled to be tried on the traffic tickets Tuesday in Recorder's Court. Prosecutor Henry Raines said he will ask that Gerrard be fined $100 for each charge and that each charge be tried by itself. Other Deaths In The State Aiken: Lee Cauvin Barnwell: Moye Baxley; Moye Atkins Blythewood: Shelton Bookhart Brunson: Wilbur Cook Chester: Mrs.

Arthur Ferrell Conway: Mrs. Margie Smith Darlington: Mrs. Junius Kelly; B. Olin Grooms Easley: David L. Armstrong Gaffney: Mrs.

Edward B. Bonner Greenville: Mrs. Dewey Putnam: Mrs. Oliver Richardson Greer: Miss Pearl James Honea Path: Robert L. Lindsay Kingstree: C.

Maxie Brown Latta: Clyde Tarte Lexington: Mrs. Sallie Jones Loris: Mrs. Lerion Hughes; Mrs. Mary Housand; Marion Rowell Lyman: -Edward L. Cummings Marion: Mrs Kizzie Rurd The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C., Jan.

7, 1975-5 Deaths And Funerals Clyde Fricks Marion Navy Moye Baxley WARE SHOALS Clyde L. Fricks, 57, of 25 South Greenwood Ave. died at his home early Tuesday morning. He was born in Piedmont, the son of the late Mark and Hettie Knight Fricks, was a member the West Main Street Church of God, a veteran of World War II and was employed by Riegel Textile Corp. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Irene Tinsley Fricks of the home; four daughters, Mrs. Polly Cooley of Honea Path, Mrs. Vickie Vermillion of Donalds, Mrs. Nancy Fields of Anderson and Mrs. Sue Brown of Belton; two sons, Tommy Fricks Ware Shoals and Mark Fricks of the home; eight grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 4 p.m. at West Main Street Church of God with the Rev. A. L. Hartgrave and the Rev.

D. 1 B. Jarrett officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Clyde Haygood, Bennie Timmerman, Red Hudson, Bill Hughes, Ben Free and James Shaver.

Honorary escort will be the Mens' Bible Class of West Main Street Church of God. The body will be at the home, 25 South Greenwood Ave. at 3 p.m. today and will be placed in the church at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Parker-White Funeral. Home is in charge. Miss Annie Grimsley Funeral services for Miss Annie Lee Grimsley will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Eastside Baptist Church with the Rev. E.

L. Sparks and Dr. John S. Manous officiating. Burial will be in the Greenwood Memorial Gardens.

Pallbearers will be Wendell and Ronnie Brown, Donald and Cleveland Major, Charles and Glenn Kingsmore, Alvin Allison and Hoyt The body is at Harley Funeral Home and will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Wednesday. The family is at the home on 139 Watson St. and will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 until 9 this evening. COLUMBIA Marion Walter Navy 66, of 6478 Frost died Monday in Richland Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Navy was born in Marion, N. a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Navy.

He was a member of Cool Branch Baptist Church, a former of Continental Trailways and retired from Taylor Street Pharmacy. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Leola Roberts Navy; three daughters, Miss Judy. Lynn Navy of Columbia, Libby Plymale of Newport News, and Mrs. Beulah Nelson of Ninety Six; two sons, Marion W.

Navy Jr. and Kenneth Graham Navy of Columbia; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Shirley Beasley of Columbia; two stepsons, James L. and Glenn V. Hall of Columbia; three sisters, Mrs.

Annie Lunsford of Union, and Miss Pearl Navy and Mrs. Betsy Ware of Charlotte; and a brother, Robert Navy of Gastonia, N. C. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the TalbertShives Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev.

Bobby E. Coleman. John Hill McCORMICK John Henry Hill, 53, died in McCormick Monday. He was the son of the late Henry and Hettie Chamberlain Hill and a member of the Cedar Springs Baptist Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Daisy Williams and Miss Mary Hill of McCormick and Seaman Ret.

Martha Hill, U.S. Navy, Long Beach, three sons, John Henry Hill Jr. of McCormick, Leroy Hill and Robert Willie Hill of Washington, D.C.; four sisters, Mrs. Fannie Mae Talbert of McCormick, Mrs. Cora Morgan of Plum Branch, Mrs.

Lugenia Anderson of Parksville and Mrs. Gladys Lewis of Masury, Ohio; one brother, William Hill of Richmond, two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Walker Funeral Home. The family is at the home of his daughter Mrs. Daisy Williams of Rt.

2, McCormick. BARNWELL Moye 1 Milton Baxley, 56, of Rt. 2, died Monday at Barnwell County Hospital. A native of Barnwell County, he was a son of Mrs. Daisy Baxley Morris and the late Nicholas Baxley.

He was a retired dairyman. Survivors include his mother of Beaufort; wife, Mrs. Kathleen Goodman Baxley of the home, and formerly of Ninety Six; a son, James M. Baxley of Alvin, a daughter, Mrs. Joyce Carter of Charleston; three sisters, Mrs.

Mary Harley of Barnwell, Mrs. Liza Mae Serles of Columbia, Mrs. Wilma Morango of Beaufort; a brother, R. J. Baxley of Columbia; two halfbrothers, Richard Morris of Barnwell and Olin Morris of Warwick, R.I.; six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Harley Funeral Chapel with the Rev. A. M. Block officiating.

Burial will be in Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery near Ninety Six. The body is at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from 7 until 9 this evening. Spartanburg Official Is Found Dead all the gold at sharply higher prices. "It once again proves that the American people are good deal smarter than many people give them credit for," Simon said at a news conference. Of 219 valid bids received by the General Services Administration, 100 were accepted.

The successful bidders will be able to pick up their gold at the U.S. Assay Office in New York or at U.S. in Denver and San Francisco, after paying the full amount of their bids. Americans gained the right to own gold for the first time in 41 years on Dec. 31.

But the small quantity of gold actually being bought has caused the price of gold to drop from a high of $200 an ounce to as low as $169 on the London gold market in recent days. The 2 million ounces of gold offered by the Treasury represented less than 1 per cent of the total U.S. gold reserves of 278 million ounces. The unsold 1,250,000 ounces from the auction will be kept in the official reserves. Jenrette's Mother Dies LORIS, S.C.

(AP)-Mrs. Mary Jenrette Housand, the mother of Congressman-elect John Jenrette, died at Loris hospital Monday after a short illness. She was 77. Her son, a North Myrtle Beach attorney, was elected 6th District representative in November. Funeral services for Mrs.

Housand was to be this afternoon at Loris United Methodist Church. She is survived by her husband, Jenrette, four stepsons, a daughter and four stepdaughters. Archaeology Meet Opens CHARLESTON (AP)-The Society for Historic Archaelogy and the Internation Conference on Underwater Archaeology opened a joint meeting in Charleston today. hiThe, groups behavior, will cultural discuss process, Spanish colonial society in the New World, 17th Century architecture, and other topics. Principal speakers will include David L.

Clarke of Cambridge University, England, one of the world's leading historical archaeologists; Ivor Noel, chief archaeologist for colonial Williamsburg, and G.D. Van Der Heide of Belgium, an underwater archaeologist. SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP)- Authorities said Monday that R.D. "Pete" Blackmon, 41-year-old chairman of the Spartanburg County Board of Commissioners, had died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Coroner George L. Adams said the body was found in Blackmon's small suburban, home. The coroner said no note' nor message was found. Near 8 the body was a .38 caliber revolver. 00 Blackmon's body discovered by another man who resided at the same address.

The commissioner, reelected to his second term in November, had been estranged from his wife for several months. CIA Requested To Curtail Covert Operations Abroad WASHINGTON (AP) The Central Intelligence Agency, under investigation for alleged domestic spying, has been urged by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to comply promptly with a new law restricting covert operations abroad. The request was made known Monday by Sen. John Sparkman, incoming chairman of the committee. Sparkman also said that the committee probably will not move ahead with his previously announced intention to investigate allegations of CIA spying in the United States.

He said that the committee has no jurisdiction over domestic affairs and is not likely to get involved directly into an inquiry of any domestic CIA activities. In a letter to CIA Director William E. Colby dated Jan. 3 and made public Monday, Sparkman asked that Colby review CIA programs to identify any that must be justified and and and and and and nance reported to the House Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Relations. A foreign aid authorization bill signed by President Ford Dec.

30 cuts off funds for all CIA activities abroad except those "intended solely for obtaining necessary intelligence." The only exceptions can be operations the President finds important to the national security and reports to the committees. Sparkman's letter said the committee assumes that any activities banned by the new law were terminated Dec. 30 or that the required report will be submitted promptly. Meanwhile, the White House rejected criticism of the special commission President Ford established to probe allegations of domestic spying Vice President Rockefeller, Dr.A's THOUGHT FOR TODAY Happiness adds and multiplies when we divide it with others. Cile Kinard Tune in Dr.

Robert L. Alexander's 7:50 a.m. "LIVING Monday WERS through Friday DAY BY DAY" This series of inspirational talks is now in its 9th year sponsored by 8 GREENWOOD SAVINGS LOAN ASSOCIATION head of the eight-member panel, said it will "leave no stone unturned" in investigating the allegations. Several members of Congress said they were, skeptical that the commission could make an unbiased AIM To Sponsor Classes In Arts Arts in Motion (AIM) will sponsor an open house and registration for arts classes at the Greenwood Community Arts Center at 4 Oakhaven Court Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., according to Community Coordinator Geneva Jordan.

Funded through an Emergency School Aid Act grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, AIM is designed to encourage cross-cultural understanding and promote greater communication between people through participation in the arbight staff artists conduct arts activities in the schools and teach classes in music, dance, poetry, and drama at The Arts Center. All classes are free to the youth and adult populations of Greenwood. "Almost 100 people participated in fall classes at the center," Ms. Jordan says, "and we anticipate an even greater number for winter activities." Classes in dance, electronic music, creative writing, and drama will meet approximately one hour each week from Jan. 13 to March 21.

The Arts in Motion artists will be available during the open house to discuss the 1s classes with interested persons: Individuals interested in: we registering for a class but; 2 unable to attend the open house may call Ms. Jordan at 6473. she Gerrard received the tickets while parking near the courthouse. He contends he was on official business at the time. Westmoreland Is Reported To Be Improved WASHINGTON -The White House says President Ford telephoned the wife of retired Army Gen.

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