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Fair and Cool; Pleasant on Tuesday ixon vening elegraph Serving the Heart of Rock River Valley lot More Than a Century Drugs, Mental Ills Related; Page 9 Dial 284-2222 119th Year Number 105 DIXON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1970 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS REPORTER REFLECTIONS the efficiency of the administration of an institution like Dixon State School is to be judged by the money which is saved, decision to release 1.300 residents from DSS was a declared David Edelson, superintendent. The population of DSS has been reduced from 4,800 to 3,500 and the 1,300 who left were those residents worked for us without pay in dietary, laundry and housekeeping, sometimes bO to 60 hours a week and 5, 6 and 7 days a the superintendent reported. Edelson spoke at a luncheon held in connection with the open house. He said he did not want to talk about the state budget which, as it now stands, lops $2 million off what DSS was appropriated for salaries during the present fiscal year. The residents who were discharged were the least mentally retarded and those who, with help in some cases, are able to make it outside the institution.

As jbey left DSS, employes were hired to take over the jobs they did, because the residents who remained are the more severely handicapped individuals who are not capable of working. Edelson said it was a human decision to discharge the 1,300 residents If they could work for us, he commented, they could work for someone else, only we degraded them because we did not pay them fcr working, and people outside the institution would. could have argued the work the residents did for us without pay had a therapeutic value for them, and maybe it did; but the point of it is we did not consider it The DSS executive said if working residents had been part of a therapeutic program their activities would have been planned in work-learning situations and professional staff peo- a pie have directed these programs. truth is we had work which was not being done and we had no salary appropriations to hire more people to do this work so we put residents to Edelson related. ought to bring them back, a premium is to be set on saving the superintendent reiterated.

here have about 2,100 the institutional executive reported, while efficiency management people talk about cutting that number, I must tell you that, according to minimum standards set by the American Association for Mental Deficiency (AAMD), we should have 3,756 Edelson said DSS has 86 clothing services aides; the AAMD says we should have 106 and the budget says the number should be reduced to 42. have 140 housekeepers which we could get rid of if no one has any concern about the quality of resident care we give or whether our residents live in a home-like Edelson declared. The bugdet calls for the number to be reduced to 77. Edelson said it is a choice, can fire some of the workers we have hired, try to get some of our ex-residents back again and can save the state money. we do the DSS superintendent asserted, and the people of this state will have sacrificed a sense of dignity and decency in our care of the mentally Edelson said it is a choice, about the budget cuts which came from all over the state and which were heard in Springfield, and say legislative compromises with the governor will get the cuts restored.

R. H. N. News in Brief lllllllllllllllllll Ill WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration maintains that new air raids against North Vietnam, like the attacks by U.S. ground forces into Cambodia, are not an escalation on the war in Southeast Asia.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew called the weekend flights in a statement made Sunday. Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been called into session to determine the wishes on a proposed face-to-face meting with the President. Campus newspapers across the country are calling for a nationwide student strike to protest American military actions in Cambodia and the recent bombing of North Vietnam. SAIGON officials say American and South Vietnamese troops will soon launch new' offensives into Cambodia to smash more North Vietnamese and Viet Cong base camps.

WASHINGTON (AP) The defeat of veteran liberal Sen. Ralph Yarborough in the Texas Democratic primary is considered a boost for Republican hopes to gain a majority in the Senate. Top GOP leaders in the state feel their candidate will have less trouble beating the primary conservative they would have had with Yarborough. WASHINGTON (AP) The government is considering proposals to triple the iron content of enriched bread in an effort to combat anemia produced in women and many children, particularly among the poor. SAN JUAN, P.R.

(AP) The U.S. Coast Guard kept up its search today for 21 passengers and one crew member missing from a jetliner that ditched in the Caribbean Saturday during a driving rainstorm. WASHINGTON (UPI) The Defense Department said today that U.S. forces made air strikes at three points in North Vietnam in the past several days but that no more were planned. PARIS said today the resumption of the U.S.

bombing of North Vietnam the peace talks. A spokesman refused to say whether the Hanoi delegation would attend this 66th session. Allies Continue Cambodian Thrust By WALTER WHITEHEAD SAIGON commanders threw 5,000 more men into the twopronged Cambodia campaign during the weekend and said today more cross- border drives were in the planning stages. Nearly 2,000 guerrilla soldiers were reported dead in the current thrusts so far. A total of 30,000 Americans and 22.000 South are inside Cambodia, half of them in the Beak 35 miles west of Saigon, the other half in the Fishhook 67 miles north of the capital.

The extra 5,000 troops, all government soldiers, were thrown into the Beak during the weekend as two massive armored columns overran the village of Ba Thu, believed to be a Viet Cong training center. Allied officials said more such cross-border incursions were planned, perhaps three more, into areas specified by President Nixon last Thursday as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese sanctuaries posing a threat to the safety of U.S. troops in South Vietnam. The deepest U.S. penetration so far into Cambodia has been 20 miles with the establishment of a patrol base in the Fishhook.

Government troops went 35 miles into the Beak, reaching the city of Svay Ricng, and now are sweeping back toward Saigon, hunting for caches. President Nixon had said the allies planned to stay six to eight weeks in Cambodia or until the Communist base areas and headquarters were wiped out, thereby taking away the springboard for attacks into Vietnam. Field reports said the allies have killed 1,952 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese while capturing 41 trucks, 220 tons of rice, 10 tons of medical -supplies and hundreds of tons of weapons, including 3,000 rifles. It was British Diplomat Taken in Uganda KAMPALA, Uganda (UPI)The government of Uganda appealed today for clues in the kidnaping of a British diplomat whose job involved him with thousands of Asians seeking permission to emigrate from East Africa to Britain. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent a personal message to President Milton Obote, expressing concern at Brian kidnaping.

Obote assured Wilson Uganda was sparing no effort to find the diplomat. Wilson sent Ralph Beaton, a British security expert, to Kampala Sunday to help in the search. The government issued an appeal for information, asking anyone who had seen Lea since 2 p.m. Saturday to contact police, district commissioners or local tribal chiefs. The government said Lea disappeared shortly after making a telephone appointment to meet two Asians and discuss travel documents to permit them to emigrate to Britain.

locked car was found in a parking lot outside his office. British High Commissioner Richard M. Slater and wife, Jeanne, both received anonymous telephone calls saying Lea had been kidnaped. No ransom was demanded or threat made. In recent years, newly independent East African nations have put into effect an Africanization policy, forcing out of most businesses and jobs the thousands of Asians who had always made up East shopkeeper and merchant class.

Uganda has nearly 40,000 Asians. The Asians, although of British citizenship, cannot easily move to Britain because immigration quotas restrict their number to a few thousand a year. Asians demonstrated last month in Kampala over the British immigration restrictions. Although the theory that Asians may have seized Lea was the most prevalent, officials did not completely discount the possibility Lea might have been kidnaped by opponents of President Obote, who recently escaped an assassination attempt. 60,000 Hike for Hunger CHICAGO (AP) Some 60,000 persons raised an estimated quarter of a million dollars by walking or running 30 miles in the Chicago area to help feed the hungry.

Six separate for took in suburban areas and the sixth in DeKalb. All were sponsored by organizations connected with the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation. described as just a scratch on the surface. American losses in the Fishhook were put at 13 dead and 46 wounded, with South Vietnamese casualties in both operations estimated at 151 dead and 560 wounded. The allies have taken 359 prisoners.

There were these other developments; Hanoi radio said American planes bombed the two southernmost provinces of North Vietnam for the second successive day Sunday, killing many civilians, including 20 children. It said its antiaircraft crews brought down two of the planes. The U.S. command had no comment. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese shelled 56 allied targets in the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m.

today. Government spokesmen said a total of 23 civilians were killed in the shellings and a terrorist bombing. American losses were termed light. The South Vietnamese Foreign Ministry announced government troops would observe a 24-hour cease-fire May 19 for Buddha's Birthday. fighting was reported around the refugee camp at Hiep Due, 340 miles northeast of Saigon in the Que Son Valley, where North Vietnamese troops were in control of several hamlets.

Spokesmen said 219 Communist troops seven Americans and 12 South Vietnamese had been killed. Cong and North Vietnamese troops shelled 77 Allied targets in the 24 hours ending Sunday morning, the most overnight barrages since April 1. One American was killed and 23 were reported wounder. The allied offensives into Cambodia began to hear fruit during the weekend after meeting little resistance in the opening days of the thrusts. One U.S.

unit in the Fishhook reported finding several log cabin-type buildings used as a guerrilla rest area. Still, there was no sign of the Communist headquarters for the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, the highly mobile command post President Nixon said was the prime goal of the offensive in the Fishhook. Helicopter riding American paratroopers cut off national Highway 7 between Memot and Snoul in the Fishhook Sunday in an attempt to keep any remaining Viet Cong or North Vietnamese from using the road to escape by truck with supplies. 1 Prof DSS Open House Speaker Dr. Gunnar Dybwad, acting dean, School of Social Sciences, University, principal speaker at the luncheon in connection with the Dixon State School open house Sunday.

Shown above. Dr. Dybwad is speaking while, from the left, Mayor George Lindquist and David Edelson, superintendent, DSS, listen intently. Dean Blasts Lax Mental Health Care See It Inside Editorials Page 4 Society 6 Local Page 8 TV Guide Page 10 Two Hospitalized Following Accident Frank Barker and Daniel B. Smith, both of Rochelle, were injured in an accident Sunday on U.S.

Alt. 30, four and a half miles northwest of Rochelle. (For further details see page 8.) By ROBERT H. NELLIS Managing Editor Charging state flaunts its irresponsibility when funds flow to build concrete highways and pompous buildings and when these are considered more important than Dr. Gunnar Dybwad started his address, which he concluded by saying it had not an entertaining after-dinner The Brandeis University acting dean alleged we see here at Dixon State School is a result of years of neglect, as a Qf indolence and incompetence in Dr.

Dybwad complained State School could be a human as well as a humane service The professor said what is needed to make it so is more, not less, money appropriated so residents can be better housed and receive better care. He argued for the acceptance of general rights for the mentally retarded which have been promulgated by the World Health Organization. These include, he said, rights as others with special rights to receive special education, care, training and guardians needed to develop his potential. he have the right to economic security and a decent standard of living. be live with his family, if possible, and it institutionalized, he he placed as near his home as possible.

he be protected from exploitation. should his rights be modified because of his handicap the procedure carry legal safeguaids against abuse and that He have right of appeal of any judgments. that his rights he granted him out of a recognition of his humanity, not out of a sense of Dr. Dybwad explained, want to make it clear I am not talking about present public officials when I criticize the way DSS has been treated; this neglect is a bipartisan responsibility extending over many Apparently referring to the to Gov. Ogilvie who recommended cutbacks in numbers of employes at DSS, Dr.

Dybwad retortea. is so expensive as neglect and even the efficiency boys should be able to understand people ask, should everybody pay so much to care for a he noted. I say. that is like saying a hospital will care first for those who are well except for having colds, because that takes in most persons, and then the hospital can take care of the seriously Dr. Dybwad replied.

He s.ud other people wonder when spending to take care of the mentally retarded is going to stop, they go on approving of spending in other areas. stop queried Dr. Dybwad. Finally the social sciences dean was n.ikily critical of service, civic and church groups who provide some voluntary services to the institution. He did not fault them with what they do, hut what they do not do.

niceties you bring, we he remarked, you turn your had: on the real problems we have; the stench in the back ward; profoundly re- tardeds running around naked. you do is a cheap way to avoid recognizing the great need residents here have for more and better trained em- ployes to care for he charged. Some Truckers Are Back On Job: Others Still Balk By United Press International Teamsters Union truck drivers in Cleveland have voted to end their month-long wildcat walkout. But drivers in St. Louis voted to continue their strike and union members at Milwaukee, have denounced a proposed national trucking settlement as a Three-hundred angry Teamsters stalled five cars at San Francisco International Airport Sunday, blocking traffic for half an hour.

Police pushed the ears from access lanes and arrested three persons in a brief melee in which rocks were thrown. The number of persons out of work as a result of wildcat strikes by Teamsters Union truck drivers rose to 600,000 Sunday with the announcement in Detroit that the automobile industry had laid off a total 90,000 workers. Some of the 450.000 national union drivers are dissatisfied with the terms of an agreement reached a month ago in Washington, D.C., between union negotiators and the trucking industry. About 40,000 drivers were on strike in Chicago, w'here the Teamsters local negotiates separately from the national union. The vote by Teamsters Local 407 in Cleveland Sunday was 951-378 to return to work.

Union officials asked for a meeting today with members of the Ohio, Cleveland and Akron trucking associations to discuss a return to work. In St. Louis, Local 600 voted in favor of continuing their has halted all trucking operations since April the trucking industry refused to drop multimillion dollar lawsuits against the union. National Guard Fires on Students KENT, Ohio (UPI) student was reported shot and killed and seven others were wounded today in a battle between Ohio National Guardsmen and nearly 3.000 rioting students at Kent State University. The wounded students were unconscious and covered with blood.

One was shot in the leg. Two others were shot in the abdomen. The shooting broke out after students rallied on the commons the center of the campus in defiance of an order rot to assemble. The students fled before a rush of tear gas hut regrouped again on the commons and then confronted about 300 Guardsmen 0.1 a practice football field adjacent to the commons. The students pelted the Guardsmen with rocks and threw hack tear gas canisters.

The Guardsmen were armed with Ml semiautomatic weapons. Campus Demonstrations Protest Cambodian Involvement By United Press International Authorities arrested rampaging students the early today near Kent State University in Ohio, capping a weekend of student disorders largely aimed at American involvement in Cambodia. Two Kent State students were wounded by National bayonets. A 21-year old girl suffered a chest wound, a young man facial and hand cuts. Eleven Eastern college newspaper editors Sunday called for a nationwide student strike not the but the entire to protest the Southeast Asia action.

The meeLng was held at Columb.a University. Columbia President Andrew Cordier gave his support to a moratorium today at the New York City school. Stanford University authorities, lacing a student strike today, considered closing the troubled campus to outsiders. Five hundred National Guardsmen, reinforced by deputies and a police helicopter, battled Kent State students through Sunday night and into the morning. The guardsmen, armed with rifles and fixed bayonets, dispersed 2,000 demonstrators Sunday evening with tear gas.

Later about 1,000 students smashed windows and set fires in the campus area. Some fires were reported in underground heating and maintenance tunnels and troops were sent to the library where some protesters took refuge. Other guardsmen remained near the rubble of the Army ROTC Building, burned to the ground Saturday. Kent State has about 20,000 students. The editors meeting at Columbia said they do not They said, however, action is necessary to meet a posed by President Nixon's decision to send American GIs into Cambodia.

Schools represented besides Columbia were Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence and Rutgers. Dartmouth, Haverford. Brown, Princeton end Harvard representatives endorsed the 600-word statement. must cease business as usual in order to protest escalation of the the editors said. Eight hundred Stanford students met Sunday to discuss demands and strike tactics.

Many of the students spent Sunday afternoon silk-screening T-shirts imprinted with the woixl or a clenched fist. Stanford President Kenneth Pitzer said the closing of the school to all was being considered. Students and police battled with rocks and clubs during the past week..