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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
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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.
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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.
We are moving to Sacramento, California
and will miss all of you very much.
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