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CADILLAC '63 ''o2" eonv. coupe;
Cabot gray finish, black top;
s;sssai s;saipypssdI' pypsIa. including power steer
Capitol Cadillac-O Co.
1223 22nd st. NV. ST. $4,000
CADILLAC '55 ''62" convertible;
beautifuI pastel blue finish; equipped
with all extras including power
Steering and power brakes. etc.;
only S4.6e6: sec warranty.
Suburban Cadillac-Old
BRADLEY SHOPPING CENTER
BETHESDA. ND. OIL. 6-7700
CADILLAC "a '60' special Fleet
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I225 22nd st. NV. ST. $4,000
CADILLAC 1854 custom series go"
special: has everything including
power steering, power brakes. elec-
tric windows and seats. IN addition
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low mileage, spotless interior and
exterior. Terms or trade: S3,605.
AL ~ NM
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FORD '54 custom VS. Fordor: over
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5000. I'm the Heart Of Bethesda. "
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CHEVROLET 1884 station wagon: /.
and h.. maroon and ivory finish,
matching interior, very low mile
age. tires Ike new; price. S1,595.
Kenyol1-Peck Chevrolet
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CADILLAC 1858 H62" sedan: attrac-
tive 2-tone finish with Wv. tires,
fully equipped including power
steering and power brakes, show
low mileage, terms or trade. S4,ip5
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Capitol Cadillac OldS Co.
1929 22nd st. NV ST $4,000
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FORD 1858 Custom 'S' Tudor; r
and h.; turn signals; $o95.
TRIANGLE tFORDl MOTORS
3010 r. ]. AVE. NE DE. 2-6302
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CHEVR0LET 80 Bel Air 4-dr.:
tires. etc. outstanding cond.; IT,
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yAGuHR 1854 sK-1oO modified;
price No dealers Call between s.
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Akers Olds-Cadillac

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power steering ana power brakes,
very low mileage. IN showroom
condition, Terms or trade: ss.e95.
AkerS OldS-C Cadillac
FairlinRton Shopping Center
Alex. Va: Jv. 3-035n
OLDs So "qS" hardtop, +. and N
HYDRA. drive, power steering ORIG
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$500 Wisconsin Ave, EN-. 2-I02O
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steering nsT .n snd power brakes. To-day
Capitol Cadillac-Olds Co.
1879 end st. NV, ST. $4,000
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doors: Q TO choose from: both
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FORD 1888 Fordof; heater. defrost-
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then $4,000 miles. No, 500. Price.
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|. WHEELER. INC,

GAkdssF wasaISS9TaaN pEalsk
460Q Wisconsin Ave. EN-. 2-1020
c9RYSLER 80 windsor De luxe A.
dber: has. auto. trans. r. and h..
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AkerS OldS-Cadillac

CADILLAC 1855 "62" DeViiie coupe;
smart 2-tone finish. Wv. tires: /:
fully equipped with r, and h..
brakes, elec. windows and seat,
tinted glass, autronic eye, etc.. like
new inside and out-showroom
condition, terms or trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
MENTAL FACILITIES CALLED
MOST DESPERATE HEALTH NEED

Facilities for care of emotional illnesses is called
todays desperate health need in article appear
in the August issue Of Hospitals magazine publication
of the American Hospital Association.
The article by Dr. Lee G. Sewall tells Of the need for
psychatrc units general hospitals Dr. Sewa calls the
hospital administrator the key to pilot establishment
of a psychiatrc ward and suggests ways it be done
Striking benefits to the hospital and to the
community when psychiatrc unit is developed" writes
Sewa He lists II advantages of establishing psychat
facilities and discusses objections sometimes raised
According to DR. Sewal there about 1890 general
hospitals in the United States and only $50 have psychatrc
units.
That means that 81 per cent of the general hospitals
the total health needs of the communities
served" he says This No / health problem of the
ing that it does not exist
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hospital. however, has never
found itself in a position to &c
ahead with any new addition:
since the report was submitted
A number of civic organiza-
tons have taken an interest in
the problem in the past two
years, but so far their efforts
have not produced any results
/ Ernest N. Hudgins, substitute
trial justice of Fairfax County
who presides at the sanity hear
ings in his county, brought the
matter to the attention Of the
Board of County Supervisors
about six months ago. He said
the area needed some place tc
put mental patients and alco-
holes with the DTS. He tolc
of one occasion when an UNI
comfortable 12-year-old girl hac
to be committed to a menta
institution.
Il couldn't see a 12-year-olc
go to Jail" said Judge Hudgins
1--WE just ignored standard pro.
cedure and sent her to Stauntor
right away after she was COM
United"
Temporary Aid Voted
The Fairfax supervisors las
Wednesday, on motion of Mrs
Anne wilkins. asked Arlington
Hospital to provide temporary
detention facilities for menta,
patients.
Mrs. Wilkins was designated
by the supervisors, at the timt
Mr.. Hudgins submitted his re.
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inadequately protected home.
Often, because of the difficulties
disqualification is deferred and
the patients ultimate recovery
hindered. Many of these patients
could accept local disqualification
in their own hospital while they
resist travel. separation and ad-
mission to the insane asylum OF
the unfamiliar hospital"
In the report he noted that the
United States Public Health
Service recommends that a gen.
eral hospital allocate 10 per cent
Of its beds to mental cases-2C
per cent of these for violent
cases. He suggested a 20-beo
psychiatric unit for any future
addition at Alexandria Hospital
stating that anything short Of
the above recommendations is
only half a job which will leao
to further Illustrations anc
patchwork Improvements later
According to DR.. Young. a 20-bec
unit could be handled by two
nurses and three aides during
daytime hours. and one each al
night.
AS a result of DR.. Young's re.
port. the hospital consulting firm
of Neergard, Agnew e. Craig il
March, 1858, suggested establish.
ment Of a 10 to Is bed PSYCHE
atric unit in any future addition
at Alexandria Hospital and rec.
commended further consideration
of how 1t should be financed. The
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there should be facilities specifl-
cally designed for this purpose, -"
said Mr.. Anderson. There Is a
great need for some sort Of
mental facility in Nothern Vir-
GINA. Naturally, since I am in
terested in Arlington Hospital,
I would be glad to have such a
facility either for the county or
for the Northern Virginia re-
gion located in Arlington Hos
pital.
"On the other hand, if such a
regional facility could be estab-
lished at Alexandria Hospital or
elsewhere in the area that would
be a fine thing. l want to be
frank in stating. however, that
I regard-and the staff and
medical society agree with this
our greatest need at Arlington
Hospital at the moment to be a
contagious disease ward"
Since administrators of both
Arlington and Alexandria Hos
pital appear ready to welcome
establishment of a psychiatric
ward, it seems unimportant
whether one is located at Alex
andria. Arlington-or perhaps at
the proposed new Fairfax County
hospital,
The real problem is how to
finance such a facility. There is
an unoccupied clinic building be-
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.Whut Can Be Done

The question remains what
nearby Virginia can do to offer
victims of mental disease the
treatment they deserve.
/ Alexandria City Sergt. Mo-
riarty believes the situation
might be improved if the State
gave blanket permission for To-
cal SergeantS or sheriffs to trans
port mental patients to institu-
tons Immediately without wait
ing for State ambulances.
He comedies this would not
solve the problem of what to do
with mentally i'll people before
they are committed, and agrees
with most other officials in the
area that a psychiatric hospital
ward offers the best solution.
Charles M. Golf, new admin
istrator at Alexandria Hospital,
feels care of the mentally i'll
patient should be part of the
medical facilities offered in a
community.
| Hospitals located within the
community should cooperate in
every respect to assist in this
obligation Of the city," said Mr.,
Golf. Alexandria Hospital will
be only too happy to participate
in providing adequate facilities
for the diagnosis and treatment
of the mental patients. However
the physical structure of the
hospital at this time does not
lend itself to the establishment
of a psychiatric department. Any
program Of expansion should
necessarily include a study of
the community need, and ways
of meeting this need. in relation
to this type of patient"
! Mr.. Anderson, administrator
at Arlington, has similar senti-
ments.
ITO take care Of mental cases
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7 Virginia Groups Push
For MentoI-Core Wards

Mrs. Wilma Phillips. a board
member, is chairman Of a field
study committee that is drafting
a report on the number Of men
tai cases in the Alexandria area
that need hospital care each
year. Questionnaires are being
sent out to all Washington area
psychiatristS next week by the
Alexandria group to see how
much use they might make Of q
psychiatric ward If one is estab-
liShed in Northern Virginia.
The League Of Women Voters
has been working closely with the
Alexandria Mental Hygiene So
ciety. Lack Of short-term psy-
chiatric care facilities has been
put on the Alexandria leagues
agenda for discussion at meet
ings beginning this fall.
The Alexandria Medical Soci-
ETY. has a committee on mental
commitments.
The Northern Virginia Re-
giOnal Planning and Economic
Development Commission dis
cussed mental patients plight
last spring and has referred the
problem to its Committee on
Hospitals for further study.
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At least seven organizations
have taken an interest in the
lack of facilities to care for men,
tai patients in the Virginia sub
urban area.
The Alexandria Junior WOm-
ans Club was one Of the first to
become interested in the prob
lem. Two years ago it brought
some individual cases to public
attention. and several public
meetings were held to discuss
what could be done.
The Foundation for Commu-
nifty Aid to Mental Patients, in
corporated IL months ago. has
as part of its program the es-
tablishment of pSychiatric wards
in general hospitals. The presi-
dent. Miss Freida Reicher. a
sculptress. has been collecting
statistics about mental commit
,mentS.
The Mental Hygiene Society
of Northern Virginia has dis
cussed the problem at several
meetings.
The Alexandria Mental Hy-
giene Society, a chapter Of the
Northern Virginia group, now is
making a study of the situation.
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hind Alexandra Hospital. but
even that would require a LOT
of money for remodeling.
Halliburton funds might bt
tapped for additions at either
Notwithstanding a psychiatrit
ward. Matching funds still mus
be raised in the locality. The
State has its hands full improv.
ing existing mental hospitals
and has no plans to help finance
psychiatric wards at general hos
pitfalls for treating patients be,
fore they are committed to State
institutions. Since patients are
by law a State responsibility
once they are committed, thu
State might see fit to pay fol
their care in a psychiatric ware
while awaiting transportation K
a mental hospital-but money
for initial construction is some.
thing the State prefers to leave
up to the localities.
When officials of the variou!
Jurisdictions approach the prob.
lem jointly, the financial prob.
lens and other difficulties may
never be solved. They have done
it on other occasions-for the
juvenile detention home about
to be built, the home for the
aged near Manassas, and the
Alexandria Fairfax sewer system
now under construction. Why
not again for the sake of the
mentally sick?
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What Hos Been Done

There have been efforts to do
something about the lack Of pSy-
chiatric facilities in the nearby
Virginia area, but so far little
progress has been made.
Dr.. William H. Young, director
Of the Alexandria Mental Hy-
giene Clinic which offers out
patient care for people with emo
tional problems, recognized the
need for a psychiatric ward In
Northern Virginia three years
ago. He submitted a report to a
firm surveying Alexandria Hos
pitfalls future needs stating:
Il am especially concerned
about the lack Of temporary hos
pital facilities where a disturbed
patient can be kept with safety
and comfort overnight or fo1
short periods.
Thus. patients must occasion
ally be detained in jail or kept
under anxious observation in an
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port. to serve on q regional COM
mittee TO study the mental
patient detention problem. Mrs,
| Wilkins said the committee never
was organized. and declared that
she was unaware Arlington Hos
Ipital had no place to put mental
Ipatients until The Star discussed
the problem with her last week.
Alexandria Civil and Police
Court Judge James r. Duncan
On several occasions has tried
to arouse community interest in
the lack of facilities for mental
patients. He presided at the
sanity commission held in the
back of the ambulance.
| The Alexandria Hospital
Board OF Directors four months
ago decided to try a temporary
solution. DR.. Joseph Barrett
State commissioner of mental
health, was invited to come in
spect the hospitals basement
room and see if it could be APP
proved for detention of mental
patients until they can be trans
ferred to State institutions
This would allow deputies from
the city sergeant's or sheriff
office to stand guard over a
patient kept in the room.
DR.. Barrett told The Star last
week that he planned to make
the inspection trip as soon as
possible, but said he didn't think
too much of the idea because il
sounded like the basement room
would be just another Jail cell
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Mental Care
is Vote Issue

Improving care Of mental pa
Itients has been a favorite issue
Iof Northern Virginia politicians
for at least a decade.
But their efforts have been
directed at State mental hos
pitfalls, and little thought has
been given to care of the men
tally sick before they get to the
lasylums.
Undeniably the lawmakers
from Northern Virginia have
done much to raise standards at
State mental hospitals.
mot Treatment"
State Senator Charles R. Fen
wick of Arlington three years
ago showed slides of conditions
at State mental hospitals to the
State Hospital Board. He COM
mented: This is not treatment
it is merely confinement"
George Damn. former mem
Der of the House of Delegates
from Arlington, told the North
ern Virginia Mental Hygiene So
ciety in 1853 that Virginia
should appropriate $3.50 a day
per patient for its mental hos
pitfalls, 100000 for more and
better clinics and SIS million
for additional new hospital build
iings."
"TO0 Little Too Late"
! Omer L. Hirst, member Of the
House of Delegates from Fairfax
County, earlier this year called
the States approach to care of
mental patients too little and
too late
And so the comments have
poured forth from practically
every Office seeker-successful
and otherwise-for many years.
! Senator Fenwick acknowl-
edged that little, If anything,
had been done to take care of
mental patients, locally, before
commitment to State institu-
tons.
! Something Needed"
Certainly something is need
ed" he said. Il have talked to
DR.. Barrett CDR. Joseph Barrett.
State commissioner of mental
Ihealth) a number of times
about this problem. But the
States attention is focused on
improving existing facilities"
i He said he believed the local
hospitals eventually would have
to provide a ward for mental
cases. and suggested that the
program should be financed
Iregionally.
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Why the Problem

Why the Problem
There are several reasons for
these backwoods conditions in
an urban area which has a pop
ulation approaching half a
million.
The biggest problem is dis
lance. Virginia has mental in
stitutions, but none is close
enough to the nearby area to
offer quick service when a mental
patient needs 1t.
Western State Hospital at
Staunton is 154 miles away. Cen
trail State for Negroes at Peters
burg is a 131-mile trip. 1t is
1856 miles to Southeastern State
at Williamsburg. The Colony for
Ifeebleminded near Lynchburg is
1853 miles distant, and the South
western State Hospital at Marion
is 344 miles down into the far
corner of the State.
Sometimes the problem is what
to do with disturbed person
until a sanity commission can
meet. If the person does not
seem dangerous to himself or
others, the sheriff or city SER
geant tries to leave him at home
until the commission is con-
vened. In many cases families
make arrangements to take the
patient to an institution as soon
as the commitment is made.
Not Always FOreseen
! Insanity isn't always foreseen.
When a warrant is issued for a
sanity hearing, it becomes the
duty of the sheriff or city SER
geant to bring the person before
a commission. Occasionally that
necessitates brief stay in jail
while a judge and two doctors
are rounded up to preside. When
the commitment is made. the pa
tent becomes the responsibility
of the sheriff or city sergeant.
They usually have no choice but
to put the person in jail If trans
portation to a mental institution
hasn't been arranged before
hand.
The jail officials say this is a
distasteful responsibility. They
are supposed to maintain Gus
tody until an ambulance or car
is sent from the State institu-
ton. If transportation is not
available right away the sheriff
or sergeant can obtain emergency
permission to transport the pa
tient-but they say the author
ity isn't always easy to get as
long as the ambulance can come
within five days.
Virginia has reasonably up-to-
date laws that allow admission
to the State institution without
formal commitments. Two ply
sicians can certify that a pa
tent needs admission for OBJ
seryation. A resident may enter
any of the institutions volun-
tarily for treatment. But the
patients must have their own
transportation to use either
procedure.
AS stated before, neither Ar
lington nor Alexandria Hospital
has a psychiatric ward. The two
voluntary hospitals have had
their hands full in recent years
trying TO keep up with the areas
tremendous population growth
and ever-increasing demands for
the more common. types OF hos
pital care-maternity wards. sur
gical beds and the like.
There is a psychiatrlc ward
Just across the Potomac River at
District General Hospital, but it
is for District residents only
under a nine-year-old directive
of the District Commissioners.
Changing the directive to admit
Virginia residents wouldn't help
much, according to officials at
District General. because the
psychiatric ward already keeps
pretty we'll filled with patients.
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PATIENT OR PRISONER?
Virginia Areas Forced
To Jail Mentally III.

buttons. In the seven years he has
been at Arlington Hospital, he
recalls at least a half-dozen &C.
casions when mental patients
have broken out and disrupted
hospital routine. Police had to
capture them.
There is another reason why
psychiatrists believe some kind
of short-term mental-care ia
cility should be available in this
area. Some disorders Of the mind
need only brief treatment-pref-
erably close to home where fam
lily can visit the patient. The
number of insanity commit
ments to State institutions might
actually be reduced If the nearby
area had a psychiatric ward.
According to DR.. Overholser
only about one-fourth of the
people treated at the psychiatric
ward at District General Hos
pital go on to st. Elizabeths.
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THE BRIGHT SWORD. BY

he Dn1OhI SWOhD. BY
Eleanor Perenyi. (Rinehart;
$3.50.)
AS maintained by the au-
thor, a native Washingtonian.
"The Bright Sword" is an his
torical novel, not a "fictional-
lied biography" AS such 1t
ranks above many books sent
this way by publishers who
Jump at any chance to label
period fiction historical.
Resisting what surely must
have been a great temptation
to glamorize the unglamorous
life of Civil War Gen. Hood
since the potential is always
there in tales Of that era
Baroness Perenyi stuck to the
facts, right down to the actual
conversations as authentic
documents claim they were
Spokeu. 1lle reSulJ is some
what Of a fast-moving docu-
mentary.
Sam Hood was a courageous
man, but he did not---nor even
pretend to--believe in the
causes the South espoused,
slavery included. Yet he
fought for it. Nor did he,
after taking up the sword be
cause this pillaging by the
Yankees has made me mad"
have the men and equipment
to fight a winning battle.
Hoods two problems, the au-
thor believes, exemplified the
Southern scene-the former
ranking in Importance with
the latter. They account for
the loss Of the war. Few OF