The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 77, No. 203, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 16, 1979 Page: 10 of 36
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IOA THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Mentally Retarded Rights In Dispute
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TULSA, Okla (AP) — Evangelist
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on some of his duties at Oral Roberts
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ministry
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Roberts. founder and only president
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RAM HO MIRAGE. Calif (AP) —
The fuel crunch has caused former
President Gerald Ford to cut back on
travel, but Secret Service agents are
easing his way to a full gas tank, a
Ford spokesman says
"He obviously doesn't have a
normal situation." Ford spokesman
Bob Barrett said Tuesday of the for-
mer Republican president. “We have
just cut back our trips to Los Angeles
The one time that we took a trip down
there (since the gas crisis), the in-
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to make arrangements for gas ahead
of time
"We've dropped two trips to Los
Angeles that he was going to make.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ring Lardner
Jr says Sinclair Lewis and F Scott
Fitzgerald were among the first alco-
holics he remembers meeting as a
boy, but he's met quite a few writers
with the disease since
His father — a famed journalist and
short story writer — was an alcoholic,
and Lardner himself. a successful
screenwriter and novelist, also battled
the disease
"(Teation is often very frustrating,
and people often seek some sort of re-
spite from that frustration," Lardner
said Tuesday at a news conference to
announce a book entitled "Having
Been There." The book contains 18
short stones about alcoholism and its
effects
Lardner wrote the foreward, and
Allan Luks, director of the New York
City affiliate of the National Council
on Alcoholism, collected the stories
from 513 submitted by writers around
the country.
Lardner, who wrote the screenplay
for M-A-S-H, said an examination of
an almanac's list of 187 of this cen-
tury's writers led him to conclude
that at least 62 had "drinking prob-
lem." or one in three This compares
with one in 10 in the general popula-
tion. he said
In addition, he said of the eight
Americans who won Nobel Prizes for
Literature, Lewis, Eugene O'Neill and
William Faulkner were alcoholics,
and Hemingway and John Steinbeck
were heavy dependents of spirits.
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and asked his father how to spell for the Mentally Retarded wants to people know Ive represented this Chicago says several attempts have
sin e e ma e several signs build community on the special education been made to build group homes for
I expected a labor insurrection at The association bought a vacant lot board and that I have a daughter in the retarded in Illinois since federal
he workshop (where Robbie works) in one of McHenry's best neighbor NewYork who has a learning disabil- funds became available in 1976 All
the next day, the elder Fierce said hoods to build a one-story brick group ity They didn't want to hear the other have failed because of local opposi-
It hasnt happened yet But I think home for 11 moderately retarded side" lion
Robbie is ready to stand up for his adults. ’ Robert Lambourn, executive „
rights. , The federal Department of Housing director of the association for the re- . He says typical Objections to group
But the extent of Robbie's rights. and Urban Development said it was a tarded. says he asked to speak at the homes are fears that retarded people
and of others like him. is in dispute perfect site because it was close to meeting but “they said no thanks are "perverted people They (pros-
- especially when it concerns his transportation, shopping. recreation They just didn't want to consider pective neighbors) have these false
McHENRY. Ill (AP) — Robbie functioning in society as much as he and houses of worship HUD would what we had to say " impressions about retarded people
Pierce was born nearly 23 years ago can despite his mental handicap lend money to build the group home At the zoning board hearing on the The neighbors are afraid their chil-
with mongolism, but he learned a Must Robbie live forever with his and give rent subsidies to help repay variance request Mrs AlVary was the dren will be molested "
lesson one winter’s day that not parents or be a ward in a government the loan only neighbor to’speak for the group
everyone in town can accept — that he institution'’ Must he always be kept But local and state zoning laws home Casmir Ziolkowski of HUD in Wash-
has rights apart from the community at large'’ make no mention of such projects, so "One thing I tried to say is that all ington says attempts to build group
The lesson came as he and his fa- The National Association For Re the city zoning board was asked for a these people (neighbors) have un- homes "have been generally un
ther Bill Pierce rode in an old tarded itzens says those questions special use permit to build the home founded fears," she said "One neigh- successful all over the country Most
we put them off indefinitely pickup truck along an icy road to a aPPlyto Robbie and to 165,000 other in the single-family area Notices of bor said it was inappropriate to build of the time, impossible to get
rescheduled the meetings, he said neighboring town On the outskirts, retardedpepie ying inlarseinstitu- the request were mailed to area rest- such a home in a grade school neigh zoning Where the zoning is OK.
Secret Service agents buv gas in men were picketing a small plant Dons or with relatives but who could dents borhood My God, these retarded peo- there * still a great deal of opposition
Rancho Mirage. Barrett said’, because "They’re on strike," Pierce told his function.inamore openenvironment: Neighbors met at the town library ple aren’t monsters I tried to tell The biggest problem is, the stigma
"it’s not so bad up here" in the Palm son "That means they’re protesting pi-tsthevatest.batteinathecivi and hired a lawyer to block them that the group home would re- hat mentaHy handicapped people un-
springs area their working conditions and pay and rights r toget the retarded inte- struction Sixty-seven people signed a ally enhance the children’s expert- fairly carry
Harrell said Ford needs gasoline won't work until things are improved ratedintothe.com munit « living petition opposing the group home ence.
only for his chauffeured 1978 Lincoln All Americans have a right to demand more ™ \ saxs Max Ad I ll never feel the same about my "But this is a neighborhood with
continental which Mrs Ford also betterment" ' n of the association So far, the neighbors again, said Kathy Alvary. big homes and trees and a country
uses nc, asinnallu ... ... . retarded are losing one resident who welcomed the group club nearbv The people feel there’s
At first Robbie looked puzzled, then Robbie is one of 109 moderately re- home no place here for antina they see as
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Lee he smiled and laughed That night at tarded adults in the county who are Mrs. Alvary says she was not in- different - not retarded. handicapped
Marinshotldselrdreatopariw home in rural McHenry u 5 eligible to ,Te into a "group home" vited to the meeting to organize op- or even old people
vers "expenses m Mididie Tn«*a gathered some card board and sticks that the MeHenry County Association position to the group home These David Mack of the HUD office in
Marvins landmark property rights
trial, her attorney says
Marvin Mitchelson, who estimates
the fees total $500,000, told Superior
Court on Tuesday that Marvin never
tried to settle the case out of court
and thus was responsible for the liti-
gation
Miss Marvin was awarded $104,000
for "rehabilitation purposes" but the
court rejected her claim that the cou-
ple had an implied contract to share
assets Mitchelson said he had ar-
ranged with Miss Marvin to receive
part of her award, but felt the explicit
mention of rehabilitation meant the
money was not for him
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