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-THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1970J
Jamaicans-The Beautiful People
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Nearly every day one can road news stories about the
"Beautiful People." those elegant sophisticates that
gather overyvvhere-quite often on ihe Caribbean island of
Jamaica
Yet Jamaica, whose motto is "Out of Many. One Peo
ple." happens io be the permanent home of another kind
of beautiful people the Jamaicans themselves. Their
physical beauty, locally taken for granted, evolved from a
coming together of emigrants from all parts of the world.
First the original Arawak Indians were displaced by the
Spanish, followed by the English and Africans. After
slavery was abolished, a Lebanese, East Indian, Chinese
and Jewish influx began.
Much later, with the discovery of Jamaica as a place to
regain one's health and peace of mind, or a place of grow
ing industrial worth, a different k-ind of emigration began,
and is still going on Canadians, U. S. citizens, Germans,
French and South Americans.
Thus, although a majority of Jamaicans reflect some
measure of their African heritage, the endless variations
range from blond to black, from blue-eyed to brown, from
tiny, delicate bone structure to powerful, rangy and tall.
Travelers pausing on a mountain road to buy a hatful of
mangoes or a bag of "pepper shrimp" may be surprised to
find the saleswoman an exotic combination of almond
eyes, golden brown skin and a tiny, 96-pound frame; she
could be a mixture of Chinese, Scotch, Negro and East
Indian-and who knows'-perhaps even a bit of Lebanese.
Truly. Jamaica's motto could easily be "Out of One
Nation, Many Beautiful People."
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HEALTH AND SCIENCE SHORTS
An article written for phar
macists advises that dandruff
needs "continuous control."
Habitual use of "a pleasant
shampoo containing the
proven-effective sulfur and
other medications" is suggested
as the way to achieve this
control.
A number of effective dand
ruff shampoos which control
sulfur can be used as a "regu
lar" shampoo after the condi
tion clears. One of these,
pHisoDan, also contains an
antibacterial agent that helps
to prevent bacterial infection
of the scalp.
When used routinely, the
antibacterial skin cleanser,
pHisoHex, has been found to
control perspiration odor by
markedly reducing the bacter
ial count on the skin. It pro
tects skin against these bacteria
between washings.
Drafts, dampness or wet feet
will not give you a cold! How
ever, prolonged exposure to
"FROM ASHES TO THE SPACE AGE"
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(Top) The St. Francis Hotel stands above the rubble and ruins
left in the wake of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco
earthquake and fire.
(Above) An artist's model of the modern St. Francis as it will
appear when its new $42 million tower is completed.
From early California's tur
bulent gold rush days, through
the catastrophic 1906 earth
quake and fire to one of the
most modern hostelries in the
world, San Francisco's majestic
§t. Francis Hotel stands as a
monument to the vibrant city
and its people.
A lodging place for gold
barons, the original St. Francis
Hotel was known as "the"
fashionable house in 1849 San
Francisco. Despite rumors of a
questionable casino in the base
ment and thieves and murder
ers in the halls, the 3-story
wood and pasteboard structure
was the best early San Fran
cisco had to offer until it was
destroyed by fire in 1853. Pre
ceding its destruction, how
ever, the hotel established itself
in historical annals by being
the site of the poll for the first
California election.
The city was without a St.
Francis for more than a half a
century until the "new" hotel
was built in 1904 on the west
side of historic Union Square,
where the present hotel stands.
The 1906 earthquake, with it*
following conflagration, gutted
the St. Francis, leaving the
basic structure sound but ;
chilling, dampness or overheat
ing lower body resistance, and
the ability to fight off infec
tion, including common cold
virus.
Once a cold strikes, rest helps
the body to build up resistance
against complications. Aspirin
helps headache and achiness.
Gargling cases a sore throat.
Sprays or drops containing
Neo-Synephrine are often re
commended for relief of nasal
congestion and postnasal drip.
Teenagers with acne are mare
. likely to seek medical help in
fall and winter than in summer.
An explanation offered by a
New York dermatologist is that
"the ultraviolet rays of summer
sun, in moderation, provide a
beneficial peeling and drying
action on oily, blemished skin.
These rays also have a bacterio
static effect."
The physician advises that
this peeling and drying can be
simulated through the use of a
medicated cream, such as
pHisoAc.
uninhabitable.
Before it was reopened in
1907, one of the most drama
tic stories in hotel history un
folded across the street in Un
ion Square where the hastily
constructed, 110-room St.
Francis Annex provided essen
tially the only lodging for the
thousands of tourists who
flocked to view the ruins. Al
though it had only a short life,
the "Little St. Francis" was an
integral part of history sur
rounding the earthquake after
math.
Since it's reopening in 1907,
the St. Francis has become the
traditional lodging place of
visiting royalty, dignitaries and
celebrities, and its registry
reads like an historical "Who's
Who" with names like
Mac Arthur, Eisenhower, Wil
son, Hoover, Nixon and Pompi
dou. It was in the St. Francis
that the United Nations was
born.
William G. Quinn, vice presi
dent-general manager of the St.
Francis, said, "Although rich in
history, the hotel is as con
temporary as any in the world,
with such features as its new
$42 million tower due for com
pletion in late 1971."
Anonymous Black Media if Student TeHs Aspect Drug Story
* i i i I I L. rru.i .k A .ill T
. By MARK PINSKY
McNeil is quite candid in
his analysis of why mOst
psychiatrists are more interest
ed in treating users of mari
juanna, hashlish and LSD
users than heroin addicts and
alcoholics.
"Most psychiatrists Uke
patients who keep appoint
ments, get well soon and say
thank you.' " Addicts and
alcoholics don't usually fall
into that category and, he
adds, usually take three times
the effort for little or no de
monstrable and lasting pro
gress.
And while McNeil has
gotten only "halfway through
"Black Rage," he has read
much of Arthur Jensen's
work on the heritability of
non-intelligence among black
children. Beyond that, he
tends to think that the answer
to some of Durham's problems
of high rates of narcotics use,
illegitimacy, AFDC (welfare,
Aid for Families with Depen
dent Children) lies with the
expansion of "family plan
ning" (i.e. birth control facili
ties in the ghetto, rather than
"social engineering" programs.
An Aside
An area black medical stu
dent, who preferred to remain
anoynmous, pointed out a
different aspect to the drug
problem in Durham.
"Not three blbcks from that
Durham County Community
Mental Health) Center is the
place whore for thirty years
heroin has been openly sold
and distributed in the black
community. It's gotten so bad
lately that the city has asked
that it be declared a 'public
nuisance' and has actually
said why it is a nuisance. They
didn't request that the city
police or the SBI actually do
anything about the people who
bring the stuff in every week.
To them, all that dealing out
in the open is just a'nuisance."
Community Center
Dr. John Girages, the com
posed and friendly Director of
the Durham County Communi
ty Mental Health Center, is
concerned with the image of
his facility. He explains that in
recent months administrative
duties have kept him from
doing substantial case work. At
present, his staff consists of
five psychiatrists, each of
whom spends one full day a
week at the Center, two social
workers, several nurses, one
psychologist, a parttime pas
toral psychologist and two
secretaries. All are white. Most
of the psychiatrists come
from Duke on a "consultant"
basis. With a staff and facili
ties Dr. Girages readily admits
to be inadequate to the needs
of the County, he is concerned
that County residents get the
idea that the Center is "only
for the poor" or "only for
the black." He would like peo
ple to see it rather as a Center
for all of the county.
However, when questioned
on the special problems of
mental health care for black
people, or "black psychiatry"
as it is called by some, Dr.
Giragos claimed not to have
heard of, let alone to have
read such recent, best-selling
"classics" in the field as "Black
Rage", by black psychiatrists
Grier and Cobbs, "The
Wretched of the Earth" and
"Black Faces, White Masks"
by the late Dr. Frantz Fanon,
or even the less popular "Mark
of Oppression," by Kardiner
and Ovesy or more recent
"Black Suicide" by Hendin.
Beyond that, he said he was
unaware of the quantity or
proximity of herion traffic
down the streets from where
he was sitting. No special ef
forts at advertising the Center's
existence in the nearby black
community were being made,
he stated, other than sending
out PR releases and having
stories written in the local
papers, despite the general mis
trust by black people of white
psychiatrist treatment noted
by Dr. Giragos during the in
terview.
As the discussion got more
pointed, Dr. Giragos suggested
visiting Dr. Jackson, whom he
described as "fanatical on this
black/white business," but
warned that she was "totally
unobjective."
Response
Dr. Jackson has her own
rather blunt reaction to Drs.
McNeil and Giragos.
"Very often, Individuals
harboring negataviatic attitudes
toward blacks fail to verbalize
their real feelings. They tend
to conceptualize legitimate ef
forts designed to reduce racial
prejudice and discrimination as
illegitimate ones in order to
help maintain the status quo -
a status quo which must be
changed if further inroads in
reducing racial discrimination
are to occur. Too often, per
sons in decision-making capaci
ties - administrators especially
- send up 'red herrings' to
try to avoid the critical issues
at hand. When confronted with
individuals beiring legitimate
concerns and demands, such
persons yell 'Communist,*
'fanatics,' 'leftists', 'radicals,'
'campus bums,' and so on.
This labeling is quite inappro
priate, for the issue is still at
hand."
At this point, Dr. Jackson
loses her customary smile.
"Perhaps since 'finances'
have no success in effecting
changes through mere verbali
zation, it may well be that,
unfortunately, harquebusiers
(Webster's: "one who carries a
1400 cent, large mouth rifle)
may yet bo needed catalysts in
producing fundamental
changes in certain modes of
behavior. In any case, no in
dividual who is prejudiced
toward and/ or discriminating
toward blacks can function
effectively as a mental health
professional in treating blacks.
Above all, no individual who,
in 1970, persists in open use
of the term 'Nigra' and who
believes that Jensen was 'right'
in asserting that blacks are
innately inferior intellectually
can provide any diagnosis or
any treatment for any black."
"The major issue is still that
of full-time employment of
black professionals at the Dur
ham County Community
Mental Health Center and else
where. Qualified persons have
been available and are yet
available."
Employment
Employment practices both
at the Durham County Center
and in the Durham Cotinty
Unit of Umstead Hospital, as
Dr. Jackson notes, have been
of particular concern to the
Black Professionals Group. A 1
Kirk, a burly but soft spoken
black man with a master's
degree is psychology, was di
rector of the Job Information
Unit of Operation Break
through (a local anti-poverty
organization) before leaving
Durham for a Ph.D. program
at Michigan State University.
Working closely with Dr. Jack
son, Kirk attempted to place a
number of black professionals
at the County Center and to
begin extensive training pro
grams for black youths to be
come "para-professionals."
The black first person was
referred to the Center for a
secretarial position in the fall
of 1968. She was hired, but a
short time later complained
of having to do equal work
for unequal pay and of being
subjected to hostility and un
friendliness by her co-workers.
As a result she left the Center
and went to work for the UNC
School of Public Health in
Chapel Hill.
A black social worker, who
was trained and experienced
in psychiatric work, came
down from Conneticut to in
terview for a job at the Center.
She claimed that during her
interview, Dr. Diragos said
there were no openings, dis
couraged her future prospects
and suggested she look else
where for a job. She was later
hired by Duke, where she is
still working.
Most recently, a black
psychiatric nurse (RN) with
over five years experience on
psychiatric wards went down
to the Center and was hired.
Within a short time, however,
she too left, charging that the
staff and other employees
made working conditions so
unpleasant that she has to
leave. She was subsequently
hired by North Carolina
Memorial Hospital, where she
is still working.
Together with Dr. Jackson,
A 1 Capeheart, Director of New
Careers (another Durham pro
gram) worked up a program
for funding by the federal
government. The program was
to train poverty-level adults to
be given on-the-job training at
the Center in order to become
"para-profeasionala," in many
phaaes of health work. Theore
tically, thos would have eaaed
the problem of communica
tion and trust between black
and poverty-level patients and
white middle-class doctors
with everything else in order,
Dr. Giragos refused to add his
signature, thus killing federal
funding possibilities.
Durham Unit
There are no blacK"psychia
trists in Durham County.
There are no black psychia
trists assigned on a full time
basis to John Umstead Hospi
tal. There are three black
psychiatric nurses at Umstead
(but only one, Mrs. Barbara
Hayes, sees patients) and two
black social workers (neither
or whom are assigned to the
Durham County Unit). There
are naturally a number of
black attendants.
According to Mrs. Hayes,
acceptance of the few black
professionals by whites at
Umstead has been grudging
and slow.
"I don't think Umstead is
'ready,' even today, she says,
for a black person to he&d one
of its nursing units - regard
less of her qualifications and
experience."
Duke's Role
Listed in a pamphlet en*
titled "A Guide For The
Patient and Family," (pub
lished by Umstead Hospital)
as "an additional mental
health service" for Durham
County residents, besides the
Center and the Child Guidance
Clinic is the "Department of
Psychiatry, Duke University
Medical Center."
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What is not noted there is
that in order to be admitted
as a psychiatric patient to
Duke it is necessary to put
down a $950 deposit. And
that only entities one to see a
resident or Intern. To see a
psychiatrist the deposit is
$1250. There are, however,
several "exceptions" to that
regulation.
State law requires that any
hospital admit individuals ex
hibiting active suicidal or
homocidal tendencies. In addi
tion, indigent psychiatric pa
tients are sometimes admitted
to Duke Hospital if their par
ticular illness comes under the
purview of a research grant
held by a doctor on the hospi
tal or university staff. If the
grant runs out or is cancelled,
they may be forced to leave
the hospital or be transferred
to Umstead.
Recommendations
The Black Professionals
Group has a number of speci
fic requests to make of the
Durham County Community
Mental Health Center, The
Durham County Unit of John
B. Umstead Hospital and the
Department of Psychiatry of
Duke University Medical Cen
ter.
Employment
a. That the three facilities,
singly or jointly, make an ef
fort to hire at least one black
psychiatrist to serve Durham
County.
b. That the three facilities
all take vigorous, affirmative
action to increase the number
of full time, black, professional
mental health care workers.
c. That the Durham County
Community Mental Health
Center make an urgent and im
mediate step in this connec
tion.
Facilities
a. That before one more
"switchboard" or "drug action
center" is opened for the bene
fit of wayward pot heads or
bad acid trips, the three facili
ties, singly or jointly, take
steps to establish a heroin
addiction treatment center.
b. That Duke begin accept
ing at least some indigent cases
for in-patient, psychiatric
treatment.
c. That the Durham County
Community Mental Health
Center begin immediately to
advertise its existence and faci
lities throughout the black
community and media.
Education
a. That lacking a resident
black psychiatrist, the three
facilities, singly or jointly, ob
tain the services of black psy
chiatric personnel to speak at
and perticipate in seminars for
the educational benefit of
white psychiatric personnel.
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versity and Medical Center
continue to me poor black
people for guinea pigs and
human teaching exhibits, it
begin to compensate them on
a level with all other such
teaching personnel.
20 Persons Perish
In Calcutta Floods
CALCUTTA Twenty
persons drowned during _ the
past three days in flood-stricken
Calcutta, where 30,000 have
been forced to leave their
homes, police reported.
The floods brought all trans
portation to a halt and closed
most factories and offices.
Monsoon rains also have
flooded eastern India's Bihar
and Orissa states, where 50 per
sons drowned in three boat dis
asters since Friday.
SAN JUAN, P.R.
Scientists at Arecido Observato
ry plan to heat the sky over
Puerto Rico with radio beams in
order to study the earth's iono
sphere through the use of radar
techniques. They said heat
changes the thickness and
strength of the ionosphere, a
belt of electrically charged par
tides beginning 50 miles above
the earth's surface.