Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Drug education Students at Swansea Middle School listen attentively to drug lecture. Summer camp to be held for emotionally disturbed The Division of Community Mental Health Services will be con ducting a theraputic summer camp for emotionally disturbed chil dren this summer. Camp Logan is a seven-week program serving approximatel) 50 children from 7 to 14 years old from South Carolina. The definite dates for the camp have not been set, but it will probably begir the second week in June and conclude the first or second week in August. The camp will employ approximately 20 college students both male and female to serve as counselors for the camp. The onl3 prerequisites are that a person be willing to work hard and be interested in working with children. The camp is not hiring counselors for their skills in teaching specific sports, crafts, or other abilities but rather those who they feel can establish a meaningful relationship with children. The counselors job is to be with a group of kids 24 hours a day an< not to spen' his time teaching. The children in tn camp may be termed mildly or moderatly disturbed and are typi. ly just children who are having trouble getting along in school, at home, or with the law. They come from mental health centers in South Carolina and from all socio economic levels and races. The pay will vary according to the educational level of the coun selor but will average around $600. Counselors get room and boar free and one full 24 hour period off per week. For more information call the Department of Mental Healti at 256-9911. Land buyers to get help from federal Recent federal legislation to pitdpoet eotpirt protect land buyers should help teprhsrssgigasl bring about "a safer time for theorlaegemnt buyer and a more fruitful Hwvr orsraie h period for the honest ati idnwt rcdr developer," Columbia attorney aditrrtto rbes James W. Morris said.anheclsfrapoamt Morris made the statement in euaetepbi otepr an article on the Interstate Land ps n cp fteat Sales Full Disclosure Act appearing in the latest issue of Es oO e the "South Carolina Law Review" published by the USC College of Law. a In his article Morris notesI , interstate land sales have grown at a phenomenal rate during the past two decades. Giicc Some purchasers, he said, have Cag con acquired property in swamps, deserts, jungles and on the sides of cliffs by mail or telephone. w ~ t The federal act, according to(Lmt Morris, will help protect the land consumer by requiring many developers to file a dis closure statement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and fur nthe purchaser'sasigninghaasale program BY GRACIE PEARMAN "It's(also) a self-education program for ourselves," John Owen, co-chairman of the com mittee of drug education, said concerning the Drug Education Program, a service of the Stu dent Education Pharmaceutical Association (SAPHA). The ser vice was set, up for drug educa tion, veneral disease awareness and poison prevention. The program, which began in fall of 1968, was designed as a public service project to be pre sented in junior and senior high schools in the Columbia area. The idea is to offer the true facts concerning drugs in an objective manner and as Owen said, "to help make more infor mation available to students on drug abuse". Programs soon were pre sented not only to schools, but to PTA's and church and civic groups. "The program varies with what the student knows, or what we feel they know, or what their response is," Owen said. Approximately 75 programs Brice D NO1l\ WINNERS 4 Your che put on ye or coke. Buffet served 11:00 A~ S P.M. spreads were given by th the end of the 1968-69 school year, proving the young service a success. News of the service spread by "word of mouth" and students now have been as far north as Virginia. During the following year 175 programs were given to 15,000 people and $200 was alloted by the University for travel expenses. Owen said the South Carolina Law Enforce ment Agency funds the Drug Education Program about $18,000. The past semester saw. 75 programs given to a total audience of 6,500 people. The 1970-71 school year found ten of the 45 active junior and senior lecurers holding state Constable cmmmissions, allowing them to legally carry control drugs. This ended the necessity of a faculty member accompanying each group. Last Saturday John Owen, Brice Deal, and Denny Eargle presented a program on drug abuse to seventh and eight grade students at Swansea Mid dle School. Their lecture was broken down into a three-part procedure: central nervous sys - 4 t r. I'I al answers a child's questio IORE WAIT quick self-service 2IRCLE RES IS NOW OFFERING A BUFFET Ice of 1 meat & all the vegetables ye ur plate, with hot rolls & butter, coff M.-2:30 P.M.$ - 8P.M.e 7 am- 9pm M--F 9 am-9 pm Sat. 12 pi-9 pm Sunday it~C,\N .. JOHN OWEN ...'self-education.' tem depressants (morphine, heroin, sleeping pills and glue), central nervous system stimul ants (cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine), and hal lucinogens (LSD, mescaline, DMT, marijuana, etc.), with each student presenting one portion of the lecture. The team also used three white rats, injecting them each with one drug from each categ ory, to help demonstrate the drugs' effects. ING .TURN 50~ IWn