The Times Standard from Eureka, California • Page 1

Wednesday July 5, 1972 Eureka, California Established 1854 36 Pages Vol. CXIX-No. 189-fr Change in Mental Health Care Treatment QUANG TRI Lead, elements of South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines knifed into Quang Tri City today. Page 5. TANAKA Japanese Liberal-Democratic party chooses Kakuei Tanaka as successor to retiring Premier Eisaku 1.

BLAZE Thirty mentally ill patients died in a British hospital fire today. Page 8. PREMIER French Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas resigned today from his cabinet post. Page 5. Nation Today CHESS The Russians today broke off their talks with representatives of American chess challanger Bobby Fischer.

Page 1. CONVENTION Hubert H. Humphrey's chief campaign.strategist claims George S. McGovern's steamroller to a first ballot has been stopped as Miami Beach girls for the first of two possibly explosive political conventions. Page 1.

SKYJACK A man surrendered to police in Buffalo, N. this morning after attempting to hijack a jetliner following the stabbing of two persons, including his estraged wife. Page 1. California Today WILD Conservationists ask for their day in court for north coast wild rivers bills. Page 1.

SMOG Clean legislation' for Southern California advances in State Senate. Page 32. North Coast Today MENTAL HEALTH A major shift in mental health care treatment was 'signalled by last week's closure of the Mendocino State Hospital in Ukiah. Page 1. HEALTH CARiE Reactions to the major shift in local mental health care treatment vary.

Page 1. Inside Today Editorial Page 1 Robert Rbscfsky 24 Redwood Country 21 Ann Landers 20 Comics 2 TV Log 25 Sporls 29 31 Classified Ads 33-35 Accent on People 13-20 Entertainment 25 Nations Weather 5 By RICHARD HARRIS Cowty Government Writer A major shift in local mental health care treatment want signalled by last week's official closure of the Mendocino State (mental) Hospital in Ukiah. The Mendocino closure -after months of legal opposilion from state employes was part of California's move away from centralized state a hospitals and towards community-based mental health care. Since last summer, according to Dr. D.

M. Bramweil, the number of Humboldt County citizens at slate mental hospitals has dropped from about 65 to 11. The 11 were shifted last week from Mendocimi to Stockton State according to the county mental health department head. Most of last year's 65 patients 'Were kept at Mendocino, he says. "The new philosophy, explains Bramwell's aid Ivan Frasier, "is to reach people where they are in the communities rather than stash them away in hospitals.

It's better for them to learn to cope with a community environment rather than a. hospital setting where they don't have to cope with anything but the hospital. Recent Statistics The shift. of local patients away from Mendocino- State Hospital, Frasier says, came last winter with the opening of Eurcka's 82-hed Beverly Manor, a private long-term care center for mental patients. Frasier's most statistics show 47 mental patients at Beverly Manor, with the remainder of the beds filled by geriatric patients.

The home anticipates eventual exclusive mental patient occupancy. The county mental health department coordinates -with other county and state social welfare agencies to provide housing, therapy, medications and other help for the ap- proximately 20 mental patients now living within the community. Sempervirens, the inpatient mental care facility at the county hospital, is used for initial. treatment of the most Critical eases, Frasier says. After initial diagnosis and treatment at Sem- pervirens, only the most extremely disturbed are referred to slate hospitals, Frasier explains.

Therapy Sessions Others are referred to any of a series of local mental health care options. These include daily and occasional therapy sessions, medical treatment and housing at one of a number of private care homes throughout the county. According to a i statistics, there are 105 mental outpatients, who receive occasional medical and therapeutic 'help from his department. The Day Care Center, run by four mental health consultants (Continued on Page 8) LITTLE CHANGE Nol much tern- pcralure change, with low clouds and fog again Inking over ontly during Thursday, but clearing as usual In the afternoon, -Pago 2. To Shift Mixed Humboldt County's mental patients have mixed reactions to last week's closure of Mendocino State Hospital and the accompanying shift to a.

locally- based mental health care approach. "I'm thrilled they've closed Mendocino," says 19-year-old Richard, now a Beverly Manor resident and patient at the county hospital's Day Care Center. Like many day care patients, Richard is a Mendocino "graduate," having spent a total of 20 months at the hospital on two separate occasions. "There were were too many restrictions at Mendocino," Richard says. "At Beverly Manor you don't have to be escorted everywhere you go -you can learn to live and handle what life has to give, rather than being isolated and protected from life." Rishard is looking for fulltime employment here and hopes to find work as a mechanic in Scotia or Rio Dell.

Strong Reactions John is another with strong reactions against the state hospital, "A horrible experience," he calls his stay at Mendocino, "I never want to go through anything like that agiiin." Like Richard, John prefers the freedom of the county-based mental health care program to the structure and supervision at the state hospitals. John lives in a family care home in the Eureka area. The care home operators are subsidized $193 per month by the state to provide John's housing. Unlike Richard and John, 27- year-old Shirley was saddened by the Mndocino closure. Although an enthusiastic supporter of day care, Shirley feels the county program suffers in comparison with Mendocino.

"At the hospital," she says, "they made the patients work -the therapy sessions forced us to confront our problems and try to solve them." The less intensive county program, Shirley fears, may encourage patients to be lazy and not work to resolve their problems. "It's hard to make mental patients work," she maintains, "they like to have everything done for them." Not Forced The county program, she continues, makes therapy available (Continued on Page 6) Chess Talks Broken By Russians REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) --The Russians broke off their talks with representatives of American chess challenger Bobby Fischer today, throwing serious doubts on the possibility Ihe Iwice world 'championship match with the USSR's Boris Spassky would ever be held. "This is a very bad development and I am now very pessimistic about the match," said Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The reason for the breakup was not immediately disclosed but representatives of Spassky, the reigning world chess champion, said they would explain later at a news conference. "The Russians said today they don't want any further talks with the Americans," Euwe said.

The talks between representatives of Fischer and Spassky started Tuesday after Spnssky Iriggcred Ihe second postpone? mcnl of Ihe scheduled 24-game scries, saying Fischer hud insulted him by not showing up for the pro-match ceremonies, He said ho would not play until FIDE punished Fischer and personally apologised. Earlier, the official Soviet Now Agency Tass crlllclzcd Fischer nntl said he and his' backers planned lo uss A computer lo try to win Spassky's tlllo. The Newspaper for Northwestern California McGovern's 'Steamroir Said Halted FOTJRTEEN-month-old Jay ton Smith is cradled in the arms of an unidentified woman following a three-hour ordeal today in which her father, 23-year-old Charles Smith of Buffalo, allegedly stab bed his former wife and a man before boarding a jetliner and demand ing a crew. (UPI Telephoto) Skyjack Try Foiled After Man Stabs 2 BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI)--A 23 -year-old man stabbed two persons including his estranged wife today, then boarded an empty airliner with his 14- month-old daughter in his arms and threatened to hijack it, police and FBI agents said.

Three hours later he surrendered and released the little girl unharmed at Ihe Buffalo International Airport in suburban Cheektowaga, N. Authorities said the infant, Jayton Smith, suffered a small cut on the nose but appeared otherwise uninjured. Her clothing was spattered with blood but authorities said it was cither from the cut or from the two stabbing victims. Her mother, Mrs. Ethyl Smith, 20, of Buffalo, was in critical condition at a hospital with multiple stab wounds.

Dennis Kceys, 22, also of Buffalo, was in fair condition. Police said Mrs. Smith's husband, Charles, left a note in his mother's homo indicating lie was contemplating suicide fol- lowing the stabbing:) and then drove to the airport with the little girl and boarded an empty American Airlines 70T 1 jetliner about 5 a.m. After hours of negotiations with police, FBI agents, thn suspect's parents and a CHARLES SMITH tcr. he walked down the ramp cradling the frightened little girl in his arms, flipped away a cigarette and handed the child to a policeman and his knife to an FBI agent.

Smith's mother threw her arms around him and sobbed. "Oh, no, no, no, not my poor baby," before police took him away in handcuffs Airlines officials wave as- tounded lie had been able to get on the plane. "He apparently came around the post office area at the airport and Ihen came out and ran up the steps while our men were working on Ihe outside of the airplane." said Byron Rogers, district sales manager for American at Buffalo. "One of the men called in lo the office and said, "A man with a baby just ran up the stairs. We don't know what's Officers said Smith went to the airport after the stabbing and boarded the empty plane with the little girl.

Police and FBI agents surrounded the craft and one FBI man shouted through a bulllhorn: "As long as you have that little girl, we don't want to take the plane up. If you free the little girl, they'll take the plane up." When there was no response, the agent asked, "Will you trade that little girl for me?" "Shut up," Smith answered from the plane. Buffalo special FBI agent Richard H. Ashe said FBI agents wore on the plane ilsclf. "I'm not going to say how many or how they got there," he said.

MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's campaign manager and chief strategist today claimed that Sen. George S. McGovern's atlempl to "steamroll" the Democratic presidential nomination has been totally stopped.

Jack Chestnut, putting Hie final touches on Humphrey's convention planning, said "part of the steamroller was puff. They were counting delegates they didn't have. "I think the attempt to steamroll the nomination has been clearly stopped. That's (sleamrolling) a two-edged sword." Humphrey was the first of the major candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination to send his campaign team into the convention city. Humphrey, resting up at his lakeside home in Wavcrly, was due Friday.

McGovern, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, and Gov. George C. Wallace, the other leading contenders for the nomination and the holders of most of the committed delegates, also were to fly in Friday and Saturday for what could become a tumultuous, and perhaps explosive, national convention.

As preparations continued for the convention opening Monday, the Miami Beach City Council was scheduled to meet on a delicate matter which, would decide whether demonstrations outside the convention are peaceful or break into violence reminiscent of the 1968 convention in Chicago. The City Council is expected to vote, once more, whether Zippies, Yippies, Hippies and other demonstrators can set up a campsite at Flamingo Park or the par three golf course, both on the beach. Last month the council voted 5-2 against giving Ihe demonstrators a sleeping area. Yippie spokesman Stew Albert, while pledging to keep the peace at the convention, said if Miami Beach refuses to set up a campsite "we'li have to take one." While two decisions critical to the convention and aspirations of the presidential candidates-the seating of the California delegation and 59 delegates committed to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley--were in the hands of a federal court of appeals, bitter verbal warfare broke out between the Humphrey and McGovern camps. A statement by national chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien, claiming that the support of all the candidates for the fundraising telethon (ABC-TV) this weekend indicated party unity, did little to dispel anticipation of a major blood-letting at the convention. O'Brien said the all-round backing for the telethon was "a sign of the basic unity of the party--a unity that will emerge from this month's Democratic National Convention and will bring us together in a common cause of the presidential campaign." But O'Brien's unity theme was undercut by a Miami Herald interview in wliich his chief delegate counter, Rick Stearnes, said McGovern would run as an independent, if deprived of Ihe Democratic nomination. Stearnes said McGovern would throw his support to Humphrey for the nomination and then run.against him "not. to win, but to punish." Later, Stearns said his remarks were taken out of context and that he meant McGovern would bolt the party only if he felt he had been deprived of the nomination "because of some disreputable act" of the convention. KAKUEI TANAKA New Prime Minister In Japan TOKYO (UPI) Kakuei Tanaka, 54.

a pro-American politician who rose from farmboy to industrial magnate, was elected prime minister of Japan today to climax a hectic campaign to select a successor to Eisaku Sato. Tanaka will officially taka office Thursday following his certification by the Diet (parliament). Under Japan's parliamentary system, delegates of the ruling party elect a party chief who automatically assumes the posl of prime minister. Tanaka was elected on the second ballot of a nationally televised special election called by the ruling Liberal Democratic party. He polled a majority of 282 votes with a total of 476 party delegates casting ballots.

Tanaka beat former Foreign Minister Takco Fukuria in a runoff made necessary because none of the original four candidates got a majority on lhe first ballot. Fukuda had 190 votes. Plea Issued on Wild Rivers Behalf SACRAMENTO (UPH Declaring (hey only want a "day In court," representatives of major conservation groups have issued a pica to Sen. Randolph Collier to bring bills lo protect California's north coast wild rivers before the powerful Semite Finance Committee. They complained Ihal Ihe committee, chaired by Collier, a Yrckn Democrat, has heard 297 bills silica the wild 1 river measures were sent lo Ihe committee March 20.

and that only nine of the bills were in the committee hopper before the environmental measures, "All we ask is a day in 'court' before the committee," David L. Ilirsch, president of the Planning and Conservation League, told newsmen Tuesday, "We're willing to tnkc our knocks before llio committee." One of the river protection propusnls Is authored by Collier. It would clamp a five-year moratorium on dam construction on the mighty Eel River and establish a "protected" waterways system for tho Smith, Trinity and Klamalh rivers. The other measure, by Son. Peter Hchr, R-Tiburon, would create a wild and scenic rivers system and includes all or parts of the Klamnth, Trinity, Smith, Eel and American rivers, Richard H.

May, chairman of the California Committee of Two Million, quoted Collier as saying he delayed hearing on the two bills because "nothing is going to happen there on the rivers in 20 years." But May said the federal govcrnmcnl already has its "eye" on the Eol River for possible dam construction or diversion to Ihn Sacramento River. And he said heavy scdl- menl and lurlildily already was polluting Ihe rivers. May said any further delay by (lie committee would kill the bills because there isn't much time remaining in the 1972 session for regular legislation. The committee secretary said Collier had delayed tho bills because of the crush of other important legislation. Other groups joining In the plea thai Collier give the bills hearing were the Sierra Club, lite League of Women Volert and Trout Unlimited..