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By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
So you think you may have ven
ereal disease. What do you do, who
can you turn to, where will you go,
what will you do. WHAT WILL
YOU DO?
The answer is not a TV jingle for
travelers checks, but the Brazos
County Health Department, which
diagnoses and treats VD. The best
part is, the service is both free and
confidential.
Unlike travelers checks or the
American Express card, you can t
leave home without VD if you have
it. And the only way to lose it is by
treatment and medical care. That is
available at three separate one-hour
VD clinics at the Brazos County
Health Department.
Approximately 45 persons a week
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go to the clinic, where the entire
procedure from doctor to inves
tigator takes less than 30 minutes.
The Brazos County Health De
partment, which operates the VD
clinics, is funded mostly by city and
county taxes. It is staffed by one doc
tor, three registered nurses, an in
vestigator, two secretaries and sev
eral lab workers.
Although the clinic treats about 15
people a session. Dr. George R.
Mcllhaney believes the clinic is
treating only a small portion of the
people infected with VD in Brazos
County.
“Our population seems pretty
stable,” Mcllhaney said in reference
to the number of patients treated. ‘T
think we re seeing only the tip of the
iceberg here. Most people are still
not coming in for a million difierent
reasons.
“Some think their problem is gone
because the obvious signs are gone,
such as a sore or discomfort, but
that’s when the disease gets worse.
Others are too embarrassed and
ashamed because of the stigma at
tached to VD. ’
The workers at the VD clinic face
many problems that they cannot
overcome, such as embarrassment,
patients telling lies about their sex
ual partners names, and the prob
lem of return cases. Because there is
no charge for treatment, there are a
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‘old
number of what Mcllhaney calls
regulars.”
The relaxed, helpful attitude ot
the clinic may account for many re
turnees, but it also makes it easier for
the person going for the first time
who is truly concerned about his or
her health.
Upon entering the clinic, a person
fills out a card with his name, age,
race, and address. The card also asks
whether he has been to the clinic
before and how many times, why he
came in and who, if anyone, referred
him to the clinic. He returns the card
and is given a number to insure
anonymity and waits to be called in
the outer office.
Once he is called in, he goes to the
doctor who first asks why the patient
came in and finds out if there are any
obvious signs of VD such as a rash,
chancre or sore of some kind.
“We get a pretty standard re
sponse when people come in. That
is, most people know they have VD
when they come in,” Mcllhaney
said. “Most people come in here in
side of a week after they think they
have contracted VD.
“I spend very little time with the
patient, actually. I check the males
and our (female) nurses check the
females for obvious signs and if there
are none, I send them on to the
nurses for some tests.”
After talking with the doctor, the
patient goes to the nurses who take a
blood sample. If the test shows a pos
itive reading, the person is given
penicillin pills and sent on to the in
vestigator, who tries to find out who
the patient’s contact was so that he
may get in touch with him or her.
“Everyone who has a positive
reading is supposed to come back for
a recheck to make sure the medicine
worked and they are cured,” said
nurse Betty Strength. “Some people
don’t come back because they feel
fine. A lot of these people that don’t
come back could still have VD and
are spreading it because they have
been in so many times that the
penicillin has no efiect on the VD.
This is where the investigator
jail,” said Margaret Pi Won L
just refuse to come in untiltl,
warrant out for their arJl
brings ‘em in.”
But getting the names ofc,
is not always easy. Mostp
unwilling to give us the The
actually don t know.
“We’ve had guys give ^[jyde
lots as addresses for girls ” SS] Vrizoi
Mills. “You wouldn’t believejioon,
cuses we’ve heard. People ising
here and think we don’t kn In '
we’re dealing with. But all th ihowe
have been here at least lOujVfark
“Girls will come in hereof th e
they’ve been raped or someth Jlmrir
guys have told us that they rouple
from lifting heavy objects. 0,fll
had guys say they just picked J
enters the picture. Once someone . . ,
has come into the clinic and named a girl in a bar and don’t evenknoiM""^
contact, the investigator either goes or got it when they wereinHi^H
to the contact’s house or calls him or Dallas. They are so rebel
and tells him he may have VD. The
contact is asked to come to the clinic
for a checkup.
Most people do not know that it is
against the law to knowledgably
spread a communicable disease. The
investigator can ask the police to ar
rest pick up a known VD carrier who
refuses to come to the clinic. The
police can pick up the infected per
son and quarentine him or her in jail
until the Health Department can
treat the patient.
“We’ve had a few people put in
Supreme Court
to hear appeal
in military case
United Press International
WASHINGTON — In 1974, Frank Huff and several Marine Corps
buddies at an air station in Iwakuni, Japan, decided to circulate a
petition to protest U.S. involvement in South Korea.
Standing outside the base’s main gate. Huff, then 20, and several
other Marines, gathered signatures on a letter to then Sen. J. William
Fulbright protesting U.S. support for the Seoul government.
They were arrested for unauthorized distribution of petitions. Huff
was court-martialed and sentenced to 60 days at hard labor, forfeit of
half his pay, and demotion to the lowest enlisted rank.
Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the government’s ap
peal from lower court rulings holding unconstitutional Navy and
Marine Corps regulations requiring all petitions to be cleared in
advance by the commanding officer.
The high court also will review a case involving an Air Force officer
who distributed a petition protesting military hair-length standards.
Huff, who was discharged and works as a repairman, said he was
excited.
“All I was trying to do was to get the most out of the civil rights that
I did have” in the Marines, he said.
David Addlestone, lawyer for the National Veterans Law Center,
said the court’s action indicated it “is interested in giving a narrow
interpretation to the (1951) statute.”
“The Supreme Court has erased First Amendment rights for serv
icemen, Addlestone said, noting that in the last eight years the court
has sided with the government in every case challenging such mili
tary rules.
The government took the case to the Supreme Court when three
lower courts held unconstitutional prior approval rules and found
they violated a 1951 law ensuring military personnel unrestricted
communication with their congressmen.
The District Court barred military officials from enforcing the
rules noting that the ‘very system of prior restraints” for distribution
of materials on-base during off hours “is unconstitutionally restrictive
of First Amendment freedoms.” An appeals court agreed and held
the prior approval requirement invalid under the 1951 law
The government argues that the right to review petitions in ad-
""" essentia! to the discipline, readiness, and
and to the nation s security.
tell the truth.
The most discouraging ||jl
seeing the same people ovj
over. We think that a person■
be allowed to come here oil
many times and then havetopj
many people come in herean*
even care because they kno»!
can come back whenever thevl
to. They’re not embarrassed |
According to Mcllhaney, J
the people being treated arel
but more white student-age J
are coming in recently.
“The reason that we are prJ
nantly treating blacks couldiJ
most other people may be go*
their regular physician orjustJ
being treated, he said.
“I don’t treat very manycail
VD in my private practice. Tlel
see it, VD is a fact of life andweiB
can’t wipe it out. Theonlytlii|
can do here at the clinic is treat!
try and educate people about!
they will tell others andnotbfj
themselves.
“There has been an increase^
education at the Bryan and(
Station schools and forthelkl
there was a decrease in thee
of patients we treated in theH
age group last year.
“A lot of people we treatj
very well educated so when*
them they have syphilis
mean much,” Strength saidj
when we tell them they haia
blood it really scares them ani|
get it taken care of.
Once an infected contact hai
identified, his or her nameiss^^^
Austin where all contacts naiX-—
kept in order to aid other healB
partments around the state, fl
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Cullen Davis testified Tuesi
estranged wife, Priscilla,
derstood the contractual M
agreement she signed and,
time, said she didn’t care ho*
money Davis had.
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Davis said he and his secf|
Fern Frost, explained the!
ment to the then-Mrs. Will)®I
motel room. He said shea®!
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