European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday november 19,1988 Nuffy Novelty has health officials certifiably upset los  \ mental health officials arc angry Over a Novelty gift called Curti Fialty null a sack of peanuts wrapped in a Liny straitjacket. The Ilam which Sells for s19.95 and comes with patient history Amk no fitment pacts. Was assailed this week by the los Angeles county menial health advisory Board and a Capri Sint lives of the National Allian Cifor inc mentally 111. We re shocked and aghast to learn about  paler Mcd Croll. Who chairs inc county s menial health advisory Board. In s not a  s a travesty and an unfortunate attack on peo ple who Are mentally  Donald j. Richardson immediate past presi Dent of the National Alliance for the mentally 111, called inc Novelty a slur that reinforces harmful stereotypes. The item created by Manhattan Beach Adver Tising executive Tom Binnion and Jon Reader an Art director at a los Angeles and firm was defended by its inventors. We never intended to belittle people who Are seriously mentally  Binnion said. I anything we hoped o focus attention on them by focusing attention on inc insanity in us an around us in All our  stress afflicted vets confront painful memories of copters fort Lewis Wash. A Vietnam War Veter ans Are climbing Back aboard military helicopters Loco front their painful memories As part of a program treating them for Post Traum at stress syndrome. All Vietnam veterans seem to have at least several vivid memories involving helicopters said or. Ray mond Scurfield director of the american Lake veterans administration Hospital s Post traumatic stress Clinie. Ten veterans at a Lime undergo an intense 11-Wcckprogram, including rides aboard a Huey helicopter used in the Vietnam War. About 350 vets have been through the program since it was established three years ago with the cooperation of inc Washington stale National guard and i now has an 18-month waiting list Scurfield said. Post traumatic stress syndrome is marked by intrusive imagery rage depression grief and feelings of isolation he said. Helicopter therapy was proposed by eke Faleafine a licensed nurse practitioner at inc clinic who noticed that Many veterans reacted strongly to helicopter sounds Dur ing therapy sessions and spoke often of Rucys. She suggested giving them a Chance to relive that experience partly to overcome their fear of choppers but a Solo help bring to the surface Many of the memories and feelings they had been trying desperately to suppress. A lot of feel i nos came up. A lot of memories comeback she said. They remember a lot of friends they Tost hut they also remember How Strong and together they  thursday a chopper made four flights at fort Lewis carry lie veterans and Clinie staff members Inmane vers like those most commonly used in the War. In one Man Euver used to drop off troops inc helicopter banked at a 35-Dcgrce Angle swept toward a grass Landing one on inc base and touched Down briefly before racing away a few feet above nearby Trees. Some veterans held hands during inc flight Man hugged one another when in was Over and one was near tears saying the last Lime he Lew in it Hucy was when he was flown from an ambush scene where is of his 35 comrades had died helicopters were a sign of death said Veteran Jerr Carlson. And you know they re part of life today Carlson said he enrolled in the program Afler finding himself pointing a gun at his head after nearly two decades of recurring drug abuse. The treatment had helped him slay off drugs and reduced his anger level he said. I be got a lot of friends Loday who have known me since before Vietnam family members he said. They can Sec a big difference and they Tell me about it Loren Johnson another Veteran looked dazed an drawn after his helicopter ride but said it had helped. This Lime he said i realized the ship coming in was t carrying any wounded or dead wobbles still Tilting at windmills of capitalism Portland Ore. A they were hobos Drifting from town to town work ing Odd jobs Tor Long hours and Low pay before they decided to form a Union whose goal was to abolish capitalism. Thai will probably never happen but after 83 years the Industrial workers of the world or wobbles continue to till at windmills. And they recently won Victory of sorts Here when employees of a state peace group voted to organize in Union. Since the Continental Congress of the working class in i9q5, a lion the Union was founded. Wobbles have de voted themselves to creating one big Union Fornall workers. Despite past government crackdowns and a Lack of Public sympathy that has relegated the Union to the status of Salabor movement curiosity. Wobbles continue to espouse the Virtues of direct action such As work stoppages and boy coils.  Union s National membership is 900 to 1,000, a far cry from the 100,000members it boasted around world War i. But almost double the 500 members Iliad in 1987, said Brian Myers office manager of the Union s Chicago head quarters and editor of the iwo newspaper the Industrial worker. We like to say the iwo is an organization that has always been Small but whose influence has far exceeded its wobble Billy Don Robinson Center shows Solidarity with fellow workers left tonight member Mcalpin Elizabeth Bertuccio Tom Balzowski and Charlie Rogers. Numbers said Myers who is inc iwo Sonly paid staffer. The wobbles have organized Small pockets of oilfield workers loggers printers shipbuilders and grocery clerks in locals from Toronto to san  iwo efforts have focused on the anti nuclear movement and the Union s goal is to organize canvassers nationwide said Billy Don Robinson of Portland an iwo activist in the. Pacific Northwest. An Apt metaphor for the Wobb tics re cent revival is the discovery of some ofic ashes of Joe Hill one of the iwas most famous  ashes were found earlier this year in the Naii Onai archives and were to returned Over to the Union in a ceremony Friday in Washington . Most of Hill s ashes were distributed to iwo locals and scattered on May Day 1916, but some were seized in a raid on the Union s Chicago Headquarters in 1917 and eventually found their Way into the archives. Hill immortalized the wobbles Insong and poetry before he was executed in 1915.the Day before he was shot i Utah on a charge of murdering a grocery owner. Hill told colleagues Don i waste any Lime in mourning.  later Hill s life and death inspired the popular Union song thai begins i dreamed 1 saw Joe Hill last night Oliveas you or  a puffy Western fans May keep of me with t Poze Phoenix Ariz. A drinkers in country West Ern bars pour their alcohol Down faster to wailing lonesome self pitying music and patrons lend to St Pup the action when the music picks up the Pace re searchers says. And despite Laws to the contrary bartenders continue to serve patrons they believe id be drunk James Schaefer of the. University of Minnesota told the american anthropological association meeting Here. The findings came from a 10-year study by Schaef Crand a team of other anthropologists of a bar in Missou la mont., a lumber and paper milling town. In was supplemented by a study of about 2,000 groups of one to nine people in 65 similar saloons in the Minneapolis area Over  three years. -. Schaffer even wrote a country Western song on the subject beginning Joe. Don t play thai slow country music i drink More and think son and sins f she along. No doubt about in Schaefer said thursday. Country and Western can be a prescription for Trou ble among people with Little self control one reason he said is the lyrics sad songs about lost love personal Freedom truck driving and the so lace  songs and lyrics of Hank Williams Jimmy Rodgers Jerry acc Lewis Johnny Cash Merle hag Gard Jerry. Jeff Walker Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were particularly powerful drinking induce ments Schaffer. Found."."". Their songs celebrate heavy drinking by making he roes out of drunkards he added. In contrast he said Rock v Roll singers Don t glorify anything or anyone and their music does t seem 10 have the same effect. -.  Bui in inc country Western bars slower music Wen with faster drinking Schaefer said. Hard drinkers prefer listening to slower paced wailing lonesome self pitying music generally during slow times in inc bar they seemed to prefer bold Macho Strong cat base music when the action scene in inc bar picks  and they use the music As a mood selection do voice picking Oul three or four songs on a Jukebox he said explaining that the music maintains the normative flow of emotions and the rhythm of activity the team s Survey of 89 bartenders and waitresses found the bar staffs in most places were perceptive but they kept serving drinks anyway even though they believed 60 percent of their patrons were drunk he said. And he reached some conclusions drinkers need to learn How to drink smarter he said. Bar owners need to Leam that having a Clear alcohol policy leads to belter professional service. Licensing authorities need to hold bars More accountable. "1 Don i i hint this warrants a surgeon general warning or  he added. But people should be aware that they arc More Likely to lose heir control and self restraint in a country and Western bar than. Anywhere