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iri Neurotics Anonymous: Help in Fight Against Fear Earl Bute's They Tell Me What was he afraid of? "It isn't even definable, hardly," he said. "If you've ever been afraid in your life horribly afraid then you know what I was going through. Healthy fear and unhealthy fear are identical, only in healthy fear you can spot the object you're afraid of." Three of the 10 members of the group have admitted to similar fears, he said. The fears were especially bad for Jerry. "I'm an outside salesman," he said.

"That kind of cuts when you can't drive a car." Jerry was self-employed. "It all but (Continued on 5, Column 2) erwise I don't know how I could have made it. I was being treated by a physician for my phobia and was being counseled by the San Bernardino Family Service Agency." Fear of being in a crowd is common among neurotics, he said. There was less fear when his family was along, but it was still present. On the freeway, fear could strike at any time.

"I was afraid of being locked up on the freeway," he said. "I've gotten off the freeway as fast as I would when the panic struck. I'd get to the next exit as fast as I could and get off it." and placed cards on bulletin boards in supermarkets and laundromats. A meeting place was located, and eventually a small group of 10 members was formed last June 10. AA provided a sponsor, a man named Louie.

He is an "arrested alcoholic," and a 12-year member of AA, Jerry said. "He helps us over our rough times and shows us how to make our program work," Jerry added. The group meets every Tuesday night at St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Eti-wanda and Acacia in Rialto. Jerry is the chairman.

Jerry is the father of five children. "My wife stood by me," he said. "Oth The organization was founded four years ago by Grover Boydston, himself a neurotic. It is based on Alcoholics Anonymous and uses the AA's 12 steps, changing them slightly to meet the needs of the neurotic. NA is based in Washington, D.C.

"I was desperate," said Jerry. "Let's say I had hit bottom, and I was willing to do anything to get better. As a matter of fact, I didn't write Washington. I telephoned them. I was too impatient to write.

"At the time I called Washington I was thinking it might be better for me to see what's doing in the other world." Jerry ran a small ad in a newspaper, By LEONARD METZ Sun-Telegram Staff Writer Jerry was 24 years old when the fears first struck him. "I started being nervous in church," he said. "I started getting nervous driving a car. "I became panicky. I developed a fear of traveling out of town.

Fear of traveling on the freeway. Fear of going into Los Angeles. Of going into a supermarket or a large store." The panic had persisted for 10 years when Jerry read a magazine article about a new organization called "Neurotics Anonymous." Ballard Set to Disregard Water Bill Collection Bar in the law, but I don't think the court has been given the whole story. There are 87 families involved that's what I'm thinking about. To begin with that's our water, not Golconda's.

I've got a right to turn the valve that will assure the people they'll keep getting water." He said he will continue to collect the payments and would be "tickled to death" to turn the payments over to the court or to the Public Utilities Com- iContinued on 5, Column 1) if i bmmm rotate Sailor's Car Located A little of this and a little of that: It didn't take readers of this department long to solve two problems for Clyde H. Mitchell, manager of the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce. One problem was where Charleston N. Haynes, a sailor now in the Vietnam sector, parked his automobile in San Bernardino on Jan. 9 when he took off from Norton Air Force Base en route to Viet-nam.

Haynes had written to the chamber explaining he had lost the address of the parking lot and asked assistance in locating it so he could pay his storage bill. He gave the address of the parking lot as 2307 as he recalled it, but this is in a residential district. We related Haynes' dilemma in this column Sunday. And early yesterday, Mitchell was informed that Haynes left his car in the ABC Parking lot at 2nd and F. Streets.

His slip for his car (which he lost) bore the address of the parking lot operator, Paul M. Dobbel, 3272 St. And perhaps it is well that Haynes lost the address, for his car has a flat tire. Now it will be fixed. Mitchell's second problem was that of finding the address of Mrs.

Jimmy Angel, widow of a noted flier. Her address was asked by Dale M. Titler of Gulfport, an author, who wanted to contact her to confirm the facts of one of Angel's 1937 flights in Venezuela, South America. Early yesterday, Wayne Wilbanks, of 5371 Dogwood San Bernardino, called to tell me John T. Sanders, of 648 North-park San Bernardino, is a nephew of Mrs.

Angel, who, incidentally, resides in Santa Barbara, not San Bernardino. As I've often told you before, my readers know everything. IPfflllll PIT pfh! Cily of America's new regional office to be built soon at 3rd and Streets, adding a new perspective to the city skyline. In WITH THE NEW This is an artist's concept of Bank By MARY SANCHKZ Sun-Telegram Staff Writer San Bernardino Mayor Al C. Ballard yesterday said he will ignore a federal court order enjoining him from collecting water payments from customers of Golconda Utilities Co.

The injunction, filed in the United States District Court's southern district in San Diego, is the third to be served in the past two weeks to assure that customers continue paying the private film for service to some 87 homes in southeast San Bernardino. Two other injunctions enjoined the City Water Department from turning off tlie water supply it has been providing the firm for almost two years, and ordered a citizen's trustee committee, formed to collect the company's bills, to turn all money over to Golconda. What started the complex dispute was Golconda's non-payment of some $1,800 in water bills to the city. The city, which began supplying the firm with water when its shallow wells went dry, has not received any payment since last November, and notified Golconda's manager W. Paul Payne that service would be discontinued on March 15.

Concerned over where they would get water, a group of Golconda's customers met with Ballard who urged them to pay their current bills directly to the city so that city water would be kept flowing to their homes. After an injunction was served on the committee, the group paid Golconda all money that had been collected and dissolved. But Ballard, who said. "I'm not afraid of being thrown in jail," appointed himself as bill collector and issued a letter to Golconda's customers asking them to mail water payments to him. The mayor said yesterday, "I believe Construction to Begin May 1 Site Cleared for New Bank Offices i fiJWf At 4 .1" I like the idea of Walter Zimmerman, a life time resident of Bloomington and a former member of the district school board, in creating two $100 scholarships in the name of himself and Mrs.

Zimmerman. The scholarships will be awarded a boy and girl graduate of Bloomington High School the awards to be based on the scholastic achievements and need of the students. The scholarship fund which the Zimmermans have set up will be administered by the trustees of the San Bernardino County Museum Association. And, as you know, the museum is located in Bloomington. But there's more to our scholarship story.

The Zimmermans will required that the winning students must not only be graduates of Bloomington High School, but also of Walter Zimmerman Elementary School, which was named in his honor and in recognition of his services to the Bloomington school district. Now what's all this? I am advised there'll be some strangely unique events for Southern California in April. One will be a sort of preliminary for the famous Frog Jumping Con- (Continued on 5, Column 1) Tuesday. March 26. 1968 B-l Arson Caused Lord's Chapel Mystery Fire By MIKE MURPHY Sun-Telegram Staff Writer The latest in a series of mysterious mortuary fires caused extensive damage yesterday to the chapel of Lord's Funeral Home, 1356 N.

Mt. Vernon but total destruction was prevented by a boarder who reported the blaze. It was the first mortuary blaze in the Mt. Vernon Avenue area since last April 17, when a fire set by arsonists gutted Tillie's Mortuary at 551 N. Mt.

Vernon causing $100,000 damage. Ironically, Frank Tillie had been using Lord's facilities for services in recent months. Police Det. Larry Graham said the blaze, which started about 1:30 a.m., was deliberately set. Evidence of arson was found in the chapel, Graham said.

He would not elaborate. Donald Long, a boarder who rents an upstairs apartment in the chapel building, said he heard a noise "which sounded like an earthquake" and went downstairs to investigate. Long found the chapel ablaze and called the fire department. The blaze was extinguished but not before major fire, heat and water damage was inflicted on the chapel. A spokesman for Lord's said the interior would have to be redecorated and the windows, some of which were either blown out or broken by the arsonists, would need replacing.

The spokesman added that it would take about two weeks for repairs and that arrangements were being made to shift any pending services to cither mortuaries in San Bernardino. It was the sixth mortuary fire blamed on arsonists in the past 18 months. Three of the fire-bombing incidents occurred at Mark B. Shaw's Kremer Chapel, located at 1446 N. Mt.

Vernon Ave. One occurred at the former Stephens and Bobbitt Chapel, 1156 N. St. Tillie's fire was the worst of the six blazes. The interior of the funeral home was saturated with a combustible liquid before ignition.

Tillie, who operated the mortuary with his father since 1935, told officers at the time of that fire that he was the target of threatening phone calls. By JOE BAKER Sun-Telegram Business Editor Clearing of a site for a new $2 million regional office for Bank of America is under way at Court and streets, San Bernardino. Demolition of a building on the corner formerly occupied by a restaurant, and a row of offices on Court Street, was completed yesterday. An adjoining building on Street, housing a barber shop and shoe repair shop, will remain standing, pending the outcome of a condemnation suit awaiting trial in San Bernardino County Superior Court. A San Bernardino Redevelopment Agency spokesman said the condemnation suit will not necessarily delay construction of the bank building, since the disputed parcel is located on the parking lot portion of the project.

Construction of a two story office building that will house the bank's 4th Street branch and regional offices now located at 5th Street and Arrowhead Avenue is expected to begin about May Although the bank has six months from the starting date in which to complete the project, construction industry sources estimate that it probably will be completed in about 90 days. The building, designed by Paul R. Williams and Associates, will contain more than 50,000 square feet. The main entrance will be on Street, with parking space on the north and east. Bank executives at San Francisco are expected to go over final designs for interior facilities and to finalize financing arrangements in the next few days.

project is being handled for the bank by Continental Services Co. of Los Angeles, a bank subsidiary, which will pay the redevelopment agency for 54,600 square feet of land on Street between Court and 3rd streets. The transaction has been in escrow for about a year. About 80 per cent of the land is in the Meadowbrook Project area and the remainder in the Central City Project area. i.

Today's the Day Says DMV, for '68 Registration Today is "pink sticker" day throughout San Bernardino County and if motorists don't have them on their license plates they may be subject to a fine and registration fee penalties. Vern Orr, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, (DMV) said all but "those few who have had particularly tangled registration problems" should have their 1968 registration sticker by now. Orr recommended active enforcement by police agencies to assure against failure to have proper registration. Orr stated that pre registration of more than a million vehicles during December 19G7 enabled the DMV to clean up files a month earlier than usual. Among the last to receive pink stickers and registration cards were those who waited until the Feb.

5 deadline to mail in their renewal forms and payments. Orr said all those who still don't have a registration sticker should at least have a receipt for 1908 fees or a letter from the department. Sun-Telesram photo Kos Hajnt's' SHORT SURIFT Alarm clock: A start watch. Streets to make way for a new regional office for Bank of America in San Bernardino. OUT WITH THE OLD Loader and truck clear the rubble of old buildings at Court and SPECIAL OPENING PRICES DRAINS CLOGGED? DISSOLVE GREASE, PAPER, CLOTH, at HOME or INDUSTRY With DOZ'R A POSITIVE DRAIN OPENER Inland Paper Supply Co.

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Many of these professional people, speaking privately and in open meetings, told of the thousands of deaths abortions have caused. Said one unidentified doctor: "We are here to save lives; yet, the abortion laws only serve to make our job that much tougher. California is one of four states and the District of Columbia which now have laws allowing hospital abortions with the approval of medical committees. But literature published by the ARAL contends: "Organized law, organized medicine and various state governments have not provided facilities where women needing and wanting proper abortion care can obtain it." The literature states that laws in California as well as the other states serve only a select few women. The Society for Humane Abortion, another San Francisco-based organization, "believes that every woman seek- on B-5, Column 1) By DAVID L.

OTIS Sun-Telegram Staff Writer Last in a Series On April 18, a rally is scheduled at the State Capitol Building in Sacramento to protest the new Therapeutic Abortion Act. Sponsored by the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws (ARAL), the rally will feature a San Francisco attorney and author who will speak on the topic, "The Law Is Made by Men Women Are Fools to Fall For It." The ARAL, based Id San Francisco, advocates elective abortions leaving the decision to have or not have the abortion up to the woman. The organization wants the present six month old law, which permits abortions if the physical or mental health of the mother is threatened or in cases of rape or incest, repealed. Although many physicians throughout the state would like to see more liberalized laws, few believe the legislature will act again in the near future. "Inevitably we will have more lenient laws, but society is a long way from adopting them," said Dr.

Philip M. Savage, a San Bernardino obstetrician. "There is a big change going on in our society today; yet, our laws are well behind it." Dr. Savage said that for the first time in his medical career, more unmarried women are coming to his office for initial pregnancy diagnoses than married women. "Thousands of women are going to Mexico every year for abortions which are often performed by unethical and unqualified persons," said Dr.

Savage. "Death and permanent physical damage are not uncommon." Many doctors, unlike Dr. Savage, refuse to comment on the state's abortion laws. The word "abortion," to many, evokes a highly emotional response. The San Bernardino County Medical Society has not taken a stand on the issue, according to Clark J.

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