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The State from Columbia, South Carolina • 52

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Columbia, South Carolina
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6-D THE STATE Columbia, S. Asked To Leave West Irian Wyn Sargent, the American writer-photographer who recently married a West Irian tribal chief, explains in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday that she has been asked to leave the jungle area, because Indonesian authorities felt her activities were "detrimental to the development of the area." The widow from Huntington Beach, said she married the tribal chief "to bring three savage warring tribes to live together in peace and harmony. "She is trying to extend her visa to finish her work. (AP Wirephoto) Headhunter's U.S. Wife Ordered Out JAKARTA (UPI) A female American anthropologist, who made an unsuccessful attempt at marriage with the chief of a West Irianese headhunting tribe, has been ordered to pack her bags and get out of Indonesia no later than Satur day, a government source said Wednesday.

Mrs. Wyn Sargent, 46, allegedly married Chief Obahorok so she could study the sexual habits of the tribe. However, a highly placed government source said Mrs. Sargent had been asked to leave the island because she refused to consum mate her marriage to the tribal chieftain. Authorities summoned Mrs.

Sargent Wednesday for a onehour talk, during which the order was handed to her. The government source said Mrs. Sargent aroused Chief Obahorok's anger by repeatedly denying him his marital rights. He asked authorities to have her "evicted" from West Irian, the source said. Immigration office spokes man Subiyakto, told newsmen the authorities had decided not to extend Miss Sargent's visa which expired Feb.

4, "for technical reason only." The only ground for not extending her visa, he said, was that Mrs. Sargent, had conducted research Indonesian Territory without license from the proper authorities--in this case the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. On leaving the immigration office, Mrs. Sargent promised newsmen "to tell you all that has happened." $228 Million Desegregation Funds Include School Plans WASHINGTON (UPI) The government's $228 million spending this year to help communities solve their desegregation problems will include subsidizing children's television programs, dropout counseling and planning student transfers between city and suburbs, it was learned Wednesday The U.S. Office of Education plans to publish rules next week outlining how it intends to spend money authorized by the Emergency School Aid Act of 1972.

UPI obtained a copy of the rules Wednesday. Potentially the most controversial project detailed in the $41 million package disclosed Wednesday was an $11.4 million planning fund for desegregation of a metropolitan Prosecutor: Kerner Lied To Hide Part CHICAGO (UPI)-A government prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that U.S. Appeals Court Judge Otto Kerner lied to them to conceal his part in a "sophisticated" racetrack stock bribery scheme. "He lied to the grand jury and he lied to you during this trial," Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner said during a final review of prosecution charges against the former Illinois governor.

The jury of seven women and five men, all of them from middle or lower income families, appeared to listen closely as Skinner explained a series of stock transactions in which Kerner and his, codefendant, Theodore J. Isaacs, profited by almost $300,000. "We're dealing with sophisticated defendants," he told the fury. "The scheme that is to rIved in this bribery plan is sophuaticated." Thursday, February 15, 1973 Ex-Addict Advises Parents To React To Child's Problem By KRATE KASICKAS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK An ex-heroin addict who supported her habit as a prostitute advises parents to react immediately to a child's drug problem. "At the very first sign that something's wrong, parents should seek professional help for their children; there's no time to feel guilty or worry what the neighbors will think, says Barbara Quinn, who grew up from a teen-age gang leader to a community affairs worker in New York.

Mrs. Quinn works with the Addiction Services Agency of New York recruiting addicts off the streets, making speeches and developing programs to fight the drug problem. She recently won an Emmy from the New York Television Academy for a cable television serise she moderated called "Drug Line." The program, aimed at parents as well as the young, used junkies, pimps and prostitutes to talk a about the drug scene in New York. "You have to nip the problem in the bud. I don't think kids are even ready to smoke marijuana.

The young can't handle if that's not available they'll soon be trying something else," said Mrs. Quinn. She noted several physical symptoms that should make parents suspicious that their children might be taking drugs. "A very withdrawn child who suddenly be comes talkative, starts offering to help house when he's never lifted a finger before, might be taking pills they call 'uppers" Mrs. Quinn said.

'If he sleepy and irritable most of the time, starts letting himself go physicially, 'downers' might be the cause." Parents should try to talk to their children about the drug scene. "But if there's never been any real communication between them, no kid is going to admit he's on drugs. And that's why professional help is the only answer." As for her own experiences: "I just didn't wake up one morning and become a dope fiend," said Mrs. Quinn, now 31, and married to her second husband a jazz musician. She has a 14-year-old son.

"My insanity started when I was 7 with the lying and the stealing and snowballed until it was out of control." vivacious, slender woman with dark eyes and hair, she talks easily now about a past that included several arrests, lesbian affairs, a hapless teenage marriage, and years of prostitution. Her name was "Cooky" as a teen gang leader in Yonkers, in the suburbs of New York City. Her first arrest came at 14 for a sexual attack on another girl. Her drug habit started with cough syrup: "I was drinking five and six bottles a day. And then I tried heroin and I was hooked." There wasn't enough money in purse-snatching and shoplifting to support her habit, so she moved in with a junkie in Harlem and began "hustling." She was 19 years old.

Cooky was soon making $200 a night, wining and dining at the Plaza, but she preferred the quick "tricks" so she could hurry "back to her drugs. "I even thought of tatooing an on my wedding finger to show the world I was married to heroin. I wanted to die a junkie." She spent 90 days in the Women's House of Detention what she calls the most degrading experience of her life but was back on the streets again. Throughout the years when was broke and desperate, she would return home, but always managed to conceal her life style from her parents. She finally admitted all and begged them for help.

Soon she was enrolled in a program of drug rehabilitation run by Synanon, a self-help organization, and began a climb back to canity. Con Congratulations DUTCH SQUARE. NORTH ULTRA-VISION Theatre Dutch Square Shopping Center DUTCH SQUARE. SOUTH Ultra- Vision ULTRA -VISION Theatre Theatres Dutch Square Shopping Center Featuring Year Round Heating And Air Conditioning Comfort by. MIDLAND ARNE AIR CONDITIONING COMPANY 901 Marlboro did CALL 254-0391 MANE COMFORT CORPS Wirtz: Fund Cuts 'Misplaced Concern' WASHINGTON (UPI) Former Labor Secretary W.

Willard Wirtz Wednesday condemned as "misplaced human concern" President Nixon's proposed cutbacks in funds for training the unemployed, unskilled, handicapped and young. "What he (Nixon) is really saying is that we shouldn't as a matter of policy, and choice, move ahead the areas of social concern," Wirtz said. Wirtz, who served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson when many present manpower programs were begun, testified at House-Senate Joint Economic Committee hearings on the Nixon budget and economic plans.

Wirtz said it was wrong to cut back programs for the unemployed, the handicapped and teen-agers while failing to exercise economy elsewhere in government. He said Nixon's proposal to provide revenue sharing funds for manpower would leave manpower programs 15 per cent short of the funds originally proposed for the current fiscal year. The chairman of the National Urban Coalition, Sol M. Linowitz, agreed with Wirtz and said he could not understand why the military budget was not being cut now that the war in Vietnam is over. Linowitz also asked why funds to aid North Vietnam would have to come out of planned expenditures, as budget director Roy Ask has said.

a tragic, final irony it would be if we could somehow find funds to reconstruct cities we have bombed half a world away, yet declared ourselves powerless to rebuild our own," Linowitz said. BARBARA QUINN Drug Counselor Lady Bird Park To Memorialize LBJ WASHINGTON (UPI) A 150-acre park on the Potomac River named after Lady Bird Johnson has been proposed as the site of memorial to the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. The proposed memorial would consist of a grove of trees and possibly an abstract or bas-relief sculpture. The idea, originated by Laurance S.

Rockefeller, would probably require approval of National Capital Parks and Congress before it could become a reality. CONGRATULATIONS DUTCH SQUARE TWIN THEATRES HARDWARE RUFF 1649 Main 254-8108 Richland Mall 782-3215 "COVERING COLUMBIA'S HARDWARE NEEDS FOR OVER 62 YEARS' DUTCH SQUARE. NORTH We Proud are -VISION Theatre to Dutch Square Shopping Center 798-1110 have been Selected General Contractor For Columbia's DUTCH SQUARE. SOUTH New Theatres ULTRA-VISION Theatre Dutch Square Shopping Center McCRORY SUMWALT CONSTRUCTION CO. 2632 Millwood Avenue Columbia, S.C.

area involving more than one school district. The money can be used to plan an "integrated education which the government defined as a high school or cluster of high schools located at a common site within a metropolitan area regularly enrolling at least 5,000 students. The rules say the money also could be used to plan "interdistrict transfers" of students, but that at least two-thirds of the school boards in the area must approve a grant application for this purpose. Other projects in the $41 million package included: million to improve reading among minority group and other children and other special projects in desegregating school districts. million to help children who have been "denied equal educational opportunity because of language barriers and cultural differences," specifically Negroes, American Indians, Spanish speaking children, Portuguese, Orientals, Alaskans and Hawaiian natives.

The secretary of Health, Education and Welfare could deter mine other qualifying minorities such as Frenchspeaking children in states bordering Canada. million for public or nonprofit agencies to develop "integrated children's television programs" offering bilingual or supplemental instruction In reading, math, art and other courses, dropout counseling and instruction in "reduction of interracial or interethnic tension and conflict." million for project evaluation. HEW's Office of Education already has awarded $13 million to about 100 yetunnamed school districts and nonprofit organizations, effective Feb. 7, for improving the academic achievement of students in schools desegregating voluntarily or under court order. The $13 million is part of the $228 million to be spent this year on desegregation aid.

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