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12-C Saturday, May 6, '72 DETROIT FREE PRESS ll.1.,..J,,Lll.l.lrrl v-" i The Back Page IT i I i 1 't I If i A 3 A parakeet is the lone pet resident of one Fargo school, where he makes The Dark, Tortured Path Leading to Suicide his home in the kindergarten room. THE NIGHT TERROR strikes again, this time at 3 a.m., welling out of sleeplessness and the constant hunger that turns to nausea at the sight of food. The other side of the bed is empty Zoo? School A FARGO, N.D. (UPD The fish, the gerbils, guinea pigs and boa constrictors in Fargo are among the best educated in the country. They go to school right alongside students at the city's elementary schools.

Iggie, an Iguana, finds a student's head the most comfortable place to sit out a lecture. The guinea pigs at Madison School spend their time checking out the floor in the sixth-grade classroom. The kindergarten at Roosevelt School has the only snake In the district. The children call it Sam, even though a more accurate name would be Samantha. All grade schools but three have some kind of wildlife handy tor observation, education or diversion from the usual classroom routine.

IK fix 'A' ,4 fee I ft or it had been for 3 months and a bottle of tranquilizers is on the nightstand. Tonight, the bottle is frightening, a stark invita-! tion to erase the terror once and for all. The sleepless sleeper gropes for the telephone instead, hoping that the fuzzy voice that will answer in a few seconds will forgive once again and hear the terror out. Tomorrow there will be exhaustion to wrestle with, and that i baffling resurgence of restlessness arid boredom. Concentration i is Impossible: work slides by undone, dabbed at, glossed over.

I No one is noticing yet. Tears come, startling and embarrassing, -at the wrong moments, and going to pieces would seem pos- sible except for the thick, heavy pain that binds up everything and resists all efforts to dissolve it. FOR MOST OF US, such depression is rare and short-lived. We ride it out, like a cold, and when it goes away it leaves us 1 wondering how we ever suffered with it, or why. For some people, depression is fatal, driving them to take a final 10-story step out a window, bubble their lives away on a bathroom floor, or swallow the whole bottle of tranquilizers in search of permanent tranquility.

Anything to make the pain stop. i They can't cite any national studies, but psychiatrists In De- troit, Chicago and Los Angeles say depression has reached epidemic proportions, Increasing In practically all age groups. "We used to think of it as a disease of old age, but now we're seeing it in the middle-aged and young people too," says Dr. Harold Visotsky, chairman of the department of psychiatry at i Northwestern University Medical School. Except for those cases which end in suicide, the extent of 1 depression is hard to measure in the general population because many times it is hidden from the people who suffer from it as well as those who are supposed to be able to help them.

i A patient might complain of insomnia, lethargy, constipation, weight loss, or simply talk about chest soreness or muscle aches. "Usually, depression passes," says Dr. Robert E. Litman, of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles. "It's best to hang in there with it and experience it rather than to flee from it," he believes.

Escape mechanisms can be lethal: speed, heroin, sleeping pills or risk-taking and thrill-seeking. THE' DEPRESSION goes on and on, or if a person starts talking about suicide or giving away prized possessions, fami- lie's and friends should take warning that suicide is a possibility, cautions Dr. Bruce Danto, psychiatrist at the Suicide Prevention Center, Detroit Psychiatric Institute. If a depressed person suddenly gets better, it's also a warn-Ing sign. The lift in spirits may be a consequence of having made a difficult decision: to kill oneself.

In Los Angeles, Dr. Litman finds the suicide rate for women under 20 has increased five times, from about 5 women a year to 25. He doesn't know why. In Wayne County, suicide attempts among children 11 to 14- now number at least 50 a year, Dr. Danto reports.

Only a few years ago, the number was negligible. He can't explain the increase, but his guess is that the dissolution of families has something to do with it. "The road to suicide Is through depression, nearly always," Dr. Litman says. Some psychiatrists believe that this is the "Age of Depres-.

sion" as opposed to the "Age of Anxiety" of a generation ago. They cite the Vietnam war, automation, urban problems, and a I host of other sources of stress. But the prime causes of depression seem to lie in the per-i sonal world of those who suffer from jt. A spouse dies. A job goes badly.

How long the depression lasts and how far it goes depends on the strength of the person, the steps he takes and i wSam, a boa more at home ill txL Photos by Colburn Hv'tdston The Fargo Forum or 4( trying to storm the front door and former paparazzi "king," Ivan Krutschenko, and another photographer sneaked in the kitchen door. Miss Taylor ducked under a table to avoid the cameras and Onassis let fly with a glass of champagne. Outside, waiters battled photographers but did not gain the upper hand until police arrived. With order restored, the actress and shipping magnate continued to sip red wine and champagne until the first light of dawn. Then they left the restaurant separately.

Fischer Accepts Bobby Fischer, the a 1-lenger for the World Chess Championship, agreed Friday to play the World Champion, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, in Reykjavik, Iceland. A sharply worded statement issued in Fischer's behalf by Iggie the Iguana perches on the head of a fifth grader during a sociology class. The animal has been in the classroom several years. faces I I y'jffiijttiyfam constrictor, would be being called Samantha. III was one of an album of 12, all dealing with drugs, sex and violence.

The record is subtitled "'Recorded Lies on the Streets of the Vatican." Lyrics of the title song include the line, "The Pope smokes dope, God gave him the grass." An Apple spokesman said the recording has been offered to 300 American radio stations and that 298 rejected it immediately on grounds of a taste. The other two were still considering their attitude. teftf tea Liz and Art Rome Photographers suck: witn mm unui me pain Battle his representative made it clear that the United States grandmaster was irritated by the way in which the Icelandic bid had been issued. The statement, which was issued by Paul Marshall, a New York City lawyer, said that Fischer had agreed to the match with Spassky "in spite of the continued attempts by the Russian government to defend a title by chicanery instead of skill." The statement charged that Fischer's only knowledge of the Icelandic bid was gathered from reports in newspapers and that he had never been personally contacted by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). "While Mr.

Fischer expressed admiration for both the people and the country of Iceland," the statement said, "he noted, that the lack of technical facilities there made televised coverage very difficult and severely hampered films or tape recording of the event." Carson Sues Insider Television personality Johnny Carson and Joanna Holland filed a $23 million libel suit in federal court in Chicago Friday against the publisher and six distributors of the National Insider. The suit claims the Insider, a weekly tabloid, published a front page story April 9 titled "NBC Pays for Carson's Love 1 Life," which was "malicious, false and wholly without an element of truth." The article said "the move of the Carson to' Holly- i wood was made just so Johnny can be near Miss Holland" and said Miss Holland "is the names 1 Liz Taylor ducked under a table while her escort, Aristotle Onassis, threw champagne at photographers when the couple was discovered dining out in Rome. "And that wasn't the half of it," said Rino (Speedy Gonzales) Barillari, one of Rome's most aggressive "paparazzi," or freelance photographers. "Champagne! Scotch! Blows! Pow! Bang! James Bond!" Barillari shouted in describing the jet-set dinner date that 'turned into a full-scale brawl between police, waiters and 27 photographers. Witnesses said Miss Taylor and Onassis, without spouses Richard Burton and Jackie but with unnamed friends, went out for a late dinner, at the luxurious ostaria Dell Orso.

Paparazzi quickly congregated but were, barred by waiters from entering. Barillari staged a diversion, by the patience of those wno will passes. QUESTION My daughter Is 20 and she and her girl friend are talking about renting an apartment to live by themselves. Do you think it is right for young people to leave home? F. P.

ANSWER She still may be a little young but there comes a time when mothers must cut the apron strings and let their children launch out on their own. your daughter is approaching the age when it is normal to feel the flush of independence. There are few things more pitiful than a girl in her 20s held so tightly by "HOt 6HE 00E5NT GET 8HE'S NEVER HAP LA Qfflb (tffiOEffi) her parents that she can make no social contacts. I can well sympathize with you as a parent, and it speaks well for you that you want to keep your daughter at home, but the stream of life runs the other direction. Remember, when your daughter realizes her independence, she is still your daughter.

And if you take the right attitude toward this new development in your daughter's life, she will love and respect you even more. You will have more time to give to your church, and to serve those in need. IM THE LAST" WORIX A LA3T WORP." The Name Game Its UP I Photos Elizabeth Taylor leaves luxurious Hostaria Dell'Orsn In Rome (above) shortly before Aristotle Onassis (right) strides briskly from the same restaurant after their dinner was interrupted by Italian newsmen. woman who broke up his marriage," the suit alleged. Attorney Paul Levy said Miss Holland is "just a longtime friend of Carson's," is a native of New York and has always lived in New York.

One of the distributors named as defendants is the Ludington News Co. of Detroit. Record Rejected A London record firm is con- BARBRA STREISAND The singer-actress is being sued for $9,519.41 by her for-mer hairdresser, Frederick Glaser of Chicago. In a suit filed in the New York Supreme Court, Glaser claimed he did Miss Streisand's hair 'between July 1, 1966, and July 29, 1969, and that the money he is seek-ing represents unpaid fees as well as travel, hotel and food expenses incurred during trips necessary to keep up with her professional travels. sidering whether to release a song called "The Pope Smokes Dope," by John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono.

The record already-has been rejected the United States, the com-, pany, which "made the record said. Electric and Musical Industrial has a contract with Apple, which made the Lennon record, for distribution in Europe. A spokesman said the song CHET ATKINS The guitarist will re- ceive the National Human Relations Award Tuesday from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for his work in furthering the careers of other musicians and for his own music. The award, which last yea was presented to comedian Bob Hope, will be given to Atkins by Johnny Cash..