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December 18, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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e (Continued from page one.) interpersonal relationships and drug use and abuse; one-to-one sessions for youths as well as their parents; counseling of foster children, and referral work utilizing the community's various other counseling resources. Those resources include Thurston-Mason Mental Health, Thurston and Mason Alcoholism Recovery Council (TAMARC), the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), the MYS COUNSELORS Kathleen Ktessen (left) and Gerri Fink prepare to show a film on alcoholism to a group of teenage girls. The 40 and 8-Journal Christmas Fund was swelled by more than $500 in contributions during the past week, bringing the total at press time Wednesday to $971.50. The annual project provides Christmas baskets for needy families in Mason County. The Journal collects contributions to the fund and the CBers, $25; Washington State Nurses Association, District 14, $25 ; anonymous, $50; Seattle-First National Bank, $25; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Luhrn, $5; anonymous, $25; anonymous, $5; anonymous, $25; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bridger, $10; Bert V. Hoard, $5; Herbert Cromer, $5; Iris Van Ackeren and family in memory of Clyde and Elizabeth Wells, $10; Juvenile Probation Office, public schools and churches. An obvious wealth of alternatives for that troubled youth seeking somewhere to turn, right? It may appear so, but more than one person close to the issue nevertheless bemoans a lack of community attention to such counseling needs. "'Three to five kids in every classroom in this community have problems meriting some kind of counseling service," says Irvin McArthur, financial and social services administrator of SheRon's DSHS. "And that's a conservative estimate." McArthur fears these kids are not always getting the counseling help they really need. "'Through no fault of their own," he said, "school counselors often don't counsel at all. They are forced by the system to deal with behavior, not problems. They're treating the symptoms and not the causes." McArthur emphasizes he is not being harsh on the school counselors, who he says have the same overall competence and good intentions as have their noneducation counterparts. But he fears their setting is not always sufficiently conducive to the sort of free and open exchange necessary. The same problem is seen by Rick Bilock, alcoholism cooramator at the Washington Corrections Center and co-founder of the Mason Youth Service. "Schools," he said, "often deal only with specific behavior problems related to school - and they don't get at the causes. "This message is very clear to the school counselors," he added, by the state's possibly obtuse method of calculation, and both McArthur and DSHS counselor Polly Isely regard that as short-handed. ''We're extremely overworked," said lsely, "'and, to make matters worse, agencies such as ours traditionally are regarded as the last resort." Isely explained that often the people who approach them for help already have reached the crisis stage; they don't come in when counseling might show more positive results - in the early stages. Most counselors agree on one point: Regardless of the adequacy of the community's counseling resources, better coordination of that which is available can only help. "The problem," said psychologist Jones, "is we have all these little pockets of resources and very little coordination." "We have to get together to start working things out," added McArthur. "We may only agree to disagree, but at least then we could make the adaptations necessary to get going in a positive direction." As the newcomer in this area, the still-infant Mason Youth Service has moved into the center of the debate. Some fear it may not make it at all; it hasn't the security of a tax base and must rely on the availability of various grants and the willingness of the community to donate time and money. But its potential for satisfying one deficiency - the need for a place where kids will feel they can take their problems freely and without coercion - is not disputed. "Being able to communicate "'but the way things are set up to someone who hasn't got there isn't much they can do, anything over their heads is very about it." important to these kids," says Shelton High School counseloz Barbara Martin identifies the same problem but feels it is one shared by all counseling services associated with an institution of some sort. This sort of "no-fault" Bilock. "If they learn to identify the place 0VlYS) as somewhere they can go freely, then it can serve many of their needs." Barbara Martin puts it this way: ''The more approaches we have in the community the 40 and 8 han~s the packing and Mrs. Merrill W. McKimttey, $25; criticism also has been leveled at ~ution O~i~the baskets. The Les Fiei~ Auto Parl~, $~50~lr~n the services provided by the 40 and 8 is also conducting a separate lund-raising effort and is asking for donations of staple food. These donations can be brought to the 40 and 8 Club on Cota Street. Contributions can be brought to the Journal office at Third and Cota or mailed to Post Office Box 430. Donations which have been received since last week were from Nimrod Club, $25; Pete Kosmonek, $10; Christmastown and Rita McArthur, $15; Clifford Wivell, $10; Shelton Kiwanis Tuesday Noon Club, $25; J. B. Ladies Afternoon Pinochle Club, $16.50; anonymous, $10; anonymous, $5; Mason County Salon No. 508, 8 and 40, $20; Mrs. Martha Witsiers, $5; Home Gas Company of Hoodsport, $15; Harold and Mildred, $30; anonymous, $5; Selma Buffington, $5; Dorcas Smith, $5; Lola Stroud, $10, A. W. and Ann Frank, $10. Guilty plea is given to prescription forgery James K. Denoyer, Olympia, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery of a prescription when he appeared in Mason County Superior Court before Judge Frank Baker Friday morning. He was accused of forging the name of Dr. Mark Trucksess to a prescription October 6. Judge Baker ordered a pre-sentence reported prepared on Denoyer before he is sentenced on the charge. He was also ordered to remain at Seven Gables in Olympia where he has been staying. Jon Brownfield, 17, Shelton, appeared in Mason County Superior Court for identification on a charge of taking a motor vehicle without permission of the owner. He is accused of taking a vehicle belonging to William Jackstad October 24. Shelton attorney Gerald Whitcomb was appointed by Judge Baker to represent Brownfield. A plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf by the court and trial was ordered within 90 days. Brownfield had previously been remanded to superior court from Mason County Juvenile Court. Juvenile Probation Office. Geared to handle first and almost exclusively those kids whose delinquent activities have left them no choice but to submit to counseling, the probation counselors' services have taken on an authoritative complexion in the eyes of many of the kids. "Yeah, it's true," admits Gary Wood, probation director for Mason County's juvenile court. "There's always a certain distance that remains between an authoritative service and the kid needing the counseling. And at the present time alternatives simply are not available to the non-offender needing counseling." Shelton's DSHS also has its problems. Its caseworkers currently number officially 5.69, greater number of people we will reach." The proof remains in the doing, though, and the MYS staff Deadlines to be early next week Deadlines for the Journal will be one day earlier the next two weeks because of the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Deadline for society news will be 10 a.m. Monday, for general news and sports items, 5 p.m. Monday; correspondent's columns, noon Monday;classified advertising, 2 p.m. Monday and display advertising noon Monday. The Journal will be printed Tuesday and delivered in the mail Wednesday. Reasonable rates for Fords, Torinos, Mavericks, Pintos and Trucks. Visitors using the family =r? I itself is the first to admit h must earn a place of respect in the minds of both the young people and the community leaders to whom they must look for monetary and volunteer support. But with its 1975 operating budget of $32,000 seeing a twofold increase for the coming year, MYS has several programs in the mill. Springtime offerings include a wilderness survival program, a motorcycle safety and maintenance course and another course for ten-speed bicycles. Even before this latter course has begun, Georgia is anticipating next summer's bike trip; she expects it will roll along quite smoothly without relying again on suntan lotion in lieu of axle grease. Squeaky wheels notwithstanding, the organization's biggest concern remains not so much with the kids as with the parents. "I've been trying to reach the parents and I just can't do it," said director Nelson. "You can't help the kids unless you help the parents, so when the kids go back home they will have something to work with." Her motives are simple: "Even if we keep only one kid out of juvenile probation I think it's worth it," said Nelson, "-just keeping one kid from going the wrong way." To all of our friends and customers. 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