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Pai{i >-THE CHAKLtyn fc. >*00! n .w;;. .h Ji, i»ii Mre. Pattereon Hosts Druid Hill Chib Meet The Druid Hills Flower and Garden Club held its monthly -4. — HIWiU^^{ at tlHi IHWHI Of MW. Rebecca Patterson, 1817 Rus sell Street. The president, Mrs. Eva Vliley presided. The chaplain, Mrs. Dora McGill was in charge ol devotion. The club members made final plans for their flower show and tea which is to be held at the home of Mrs. Inez EUisin June. Three certified judges will be named at a later date for the flower show. After all business had been finalized, the meeting was presided over by the program committee. This committee presented Mr. James H. Ellis who gave a very informative program for growing and im proving lawns. A q^tion and answer period follow^. The following members were present. Mesdames: Delia Simmons, Hattie McCree, Sophease Blackmon, Minnie Connor, Edna Gaston, Dora McGill, Roberta Lyles, Queen Ellis, Sadie English, Maggie John son, Emma Wade, Inez Ellis, and Eva Wiley. A delightful jepass was ser ved by the hostess and her husband, Norma Patterson. The April meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Emma Wade. Mr. and Mrs. Godwin A- dams and son Bryan have returned to the city after a two weeks vacation in South A- merica. T^y visited Trini dad, Tobago - the home of Mr. Adams and Venezuela. This was Mrs. Adams first vi^it to her husband’s home where she met and enjoyed her in-laws and is equally impressed with the life styles in Tabago. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zellie Wiley. ~ Mrs. Eva Wiley, Mrs. Car- nell Halley and Mrs. Alice Adams were in Atlanta for the exciting games Between the four top schools. In spite of the scores, the Mean Greens are stll champs in their book. CIK Center Sets Fashion Show For Afnil 1 The Thrift Shop’s Steering Committee of Christ The King Center on 425 East 17th Street is having a spring fashion show, themed “Fashionable Fools,” on Friday, April 1, at 8 p.m. The Rt^rrator for the occasioiywill be “Flo” Ses- somsjjfN. Michael’s Episco pal Church. The show which will follow an attic sale at 6 p.m. from their Thrift Shop on Davidson Street, will feature summer and spring fashions for all ' ages. I The show will feature Eas ter fashions, formal wear for the Junior and Senior prom, fashions for summer vacation, a segment of the disco scene with dancing by young people dressing for the occasion in long dresses, jumpsuits, and many other disco attires. The fashion segment will close with sleepwear. There will also be entertain ment featuring young people from the center area portray ing such characters as Mae West, Totie Fields, and Phillis Diller. Guitarist and singer Ada- laide Brooks from Holy Com forter Episcopal Church will render music and song, along with Tommorrow's Future, a local group made up of people' from Christ The King Center. Tickets for this affair are one dollar for adults and fifty cwls for children. Proceeds wHI go to the ministry of Christ The King Center. .S ,'X. " v ‘ ■i'v/ , -.A ‘ . SIX JEWELED MEMBERS Alpha Alpha Chapter of Alpha Pi Chi jeweled six new members at a recent ceremony held at the home of Mrs. Hallie Zanders, 1012 Westbrook Dr. They are left to right Vermelle Murphy, Carrie Kirkpatrick, Francella Ma son, Jessie McCombs and Julie Doby. Gerald- dine Brandon is not shown. Mrs. Virginia Stepteau served as president of the chapter. TTc ugh Health By Otto McClarrin Special To The Post A recent report on a 30-year study at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has con firmed what medical authori- tips havp hf«»n mying fnr Emotions Caheer? Infant Mortality Rate Rising Special To The Post CHAPEL HIlX-The infant mortality and teenage preg nancy rate is higher in the Southeast than elsewhere in the United States. To combat the problem, the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Wel fare is starting the “Improved Pregnancy Outcome Pro gram,” said Dr. Vince L. Hutchins, associate bureau di rector. Thirteen states with high infant mortality and teenage pregnancy rates, health man power shortages and large numbers of people at risk, were selected to participate in the program. North Carolina and seven other Southeastern states were chosen and notifi cation of funding should be received within a few weeks. Hutchins described the need for the purpose of the program Tuesday (March 22) at the Regional Conference on Ma ternal and Child Health, Fa mily Planning and Crippled Children’s Services in Chapel Hill. The conference was spon- _ sored by the depturtmesit jM m aternal and child health lad the offlee of conftnuing eduea- tion. School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal of the “Improved Pregnancy Outcome Pro gram,” he said, is to improve maternal care and pregnancy outcome in states which great ly contribute to the incidence of infant mortaUty and teen age pregnancy in an effort to reduce these problems. North Carolina has the four th highest infant mortality •rate, according to Hutchins, following the District of Co lumbia, Alabama and MiaMs- sippi. “There is considerable va riation among states In infant mortality rates,” Hutchins said. “For example, in 1978 it ranged from 22.3 per 1,000 live births in Mississippi to 12.9 in HjiiraH “FoA infants aged 1-11 months, the mortality rate is isolated areas is 45 percent higher for whites and 136 percent higher for non-whites than in greater metropolitan areas. And in 18 of the 26 largest cities, the infant mor tality rate was above the national rate from 1968-70:” The infant mortality-rate for white infants is half what it is for non-white infants, Hutch ins added. High infant mortality is us- usally associated with teenage pregnancy, and in 1973, North Carolina ranked ninth in the nation in the number of births to teenage girls. “In 1975,” Hutchins said, "there were nearly 600,000 births in the U.S. to women 19 years of age and under. Over 12,000 of these births were to girls less than 15 years of age. The only increase in fertiUty rates was for girls aged 10-14 years, which ad risen 8 per cent from the previous year.” centuries: human emotions can be a factor in the develop ment of cancer. This means that loneliness and estrangement from fami ly may one day be listed with cigarette smoking and envi ronmental chemicals as caus es of cancer. A task force of the American Psychological Association re ported late last year that cancer often occurs in persons who repress unpleasant child hood experiences. It based its conclusion on an accumula tion of studies in recent de cades like the one done at Johns Hopkins. One of the most recent studies of cancer was done by. the late Dr. David Kissen at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. It involved ISO lung center patients. Dr. Kissen found that most of the patients had difficulty expressing their emotions. At the University of Roches ter Medical Center in New York, Dr. William Greene, a psychiatrist, studied more than 100 men and women with leukemia and lymphona, two forms of cancer. In all but a few cases, the victims had experienced loss of a loved one before developing cancer. The researchers at Johns Hopkins, headed by Dr. Caro line Bedell Thomas, inter viewed and tested entering medical sh^dents_betweeD 1948 and 1964 in what is described as one of the most extensive studies of psychosomatic di sease ever undertaken. The researchers lowed 1.337 medical through their careers' dents and doctors, an surviving now range from 30 to 60. In the Hopkins study. A team of cardiologists un- jr the direction of Dr. Michel ilirowskpat Sinai Hospital in Itimore has developed a ice that could turn out to be aiorjireakthrough the doctorsliave died'lhusIK t]te~ lives oT tne mot»i 134 have fallen ill, including' listed in the illness catego! who committed suicide. Thi causes of deaths were specified in the published re suits . The illnesses include 43 with cancer, 20 with high blood pressure, 14 with heart at tacks and 38 with mental illness. The physicians who deve loped cancer had personality characteristics and family histories similar to those who became mentally ill or com mitted suicide. They were low-keyed, quiet, emotional selfontained and lonely, as children they were not close to thejr parents Dr. Thomas said the lack of closeness to family is “a strik ing and unexpect^ finding,” in the study. Nearly a third of the physi cians who committed suicide, or suffered cancer and mental illness. Indicated that their fathers were not steady, com panionable, understanding or warm, while less than 10 percent of all the students in the study had such fathers. Only 116 of the 1,337 students studied were women. At a recent meeting at New York Medical College, Dr. Jay Lefer, of the college’s depart ment of psychiatry, said, “In a sense cancer is a toal psycho- biological process. People just don’t get a malignancy. It is a consequence of a total bio graphy • a total organismic situation. CUT HEART DEATHS „ of all heart disease s - the victims of mas- art fluttering, termed n death " unit, an automatic defi- works something icemaker. is about and is implanted beneath the chest waU. Hook- ed to the heart by a catheter.^* the device will detect sudd«V^\ ventricular fibrillaUon - a wl^ Iv vibrating movement of tti^ heart from beating normally. ^ detected the wild movement, the new device w ill restore the normal heart beat within 50 seconds, rapidly enough to save the patient s life. Some 300.000 people-30 to 40 percent of all heart disease deaths in the country - died in 1975 in the USA alone from sudden coronary malfunction. E^ter Sale! A. Girls Wedge Sandal in Easv-Care Vinyl with Knemed-Vamp- Sizes 8-3 — Reg S5 97 Save S2 07 B. Girls Giecian Sandal with Macrame Vamp Rope Wedge Sizes 8’. -4 Reg $7 97 Save $2.31 PhCMGood thru Saturday W Open Evanings i 5348 Independence Blvd.^ 5933 South Blvd. 4525 North Tryon St. -Get to know Giant 6 Ft. Easter kBunny! 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