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Others A Better Chance5
An Augusta tailor who faced lifes problems with the
odds against him has voiced an appeal for favorable action
on the contingency appropriations in the April 5 refer
endum so that others may have better opportunities to
achieve success
For twentytwo years Charlie E Burnett 42 has fol
lowed the trade in which he was trained under Vocational
Rehabilitation services But he has never forgotten the
desperate struggles the disappointments and the tragic
accident he experienced earlier
As a youth Charlie worked in a cotton mill to help
support the familyhis visually handicapped father his
mother and their three other children He left school after
reaching the fourth grade At 17 he took a job as railroad
brakeman and lost both legs in an accident
Through friends a civic club and a Bible class arrange
ments were made for him to receive instruction in arith
metic geography and English and a manufacturer promised
him a job if he could get artificial appliances
Through the efforts of a Vocational Rehabilitation
Counselor plans were made for the young man to receive
onthejob training and financial assistance in the purchase
of two artificial limbs
Upon completion of his training Charlie was placed
with a cleaning and pressing establishment and later ac
cepted an offer from the DeLuxe Cleaners where he has
been employed for about seventeen years His earnings
have enabled him to support a family and meet the respon
sibilities of good citizenship
In discussing the April 5 referendum Burnett said I
think its a wonderful thing Everybody should be for it
A fractured hip resulting from a fall while skating at
the age of 8 left Mrs Elizabeth Turner left of Augusta
with an impaired limb Three years ago after the death
of her husband she sought the aid of Vocational Rehabili
tation so that she could support herself and two children
A high school graduate Mrs Turner was enrolled in book
keeping shorthand and typing at the Hurst Business Col
lege Upon completion of the course there was no trouble
about a job Now she is a secretary employed by Merry
Brothers Brick Tile Co and is allowed time off to take
further training in the business college
Vote V I FAVOR on April 5s
On April 5th Georgia voters will make
a decision which will have farreaching
effect upon the States progress
In a special election those who were
registered before February 1 will have an
opportunity to FAVOR or OPPOSE the
contingency appropriations passed by a
decisive majority of both branches of the
General Assembly and signed by Gov
ernor Herman Talmadge
The stake is nearly 46000000 of ad
ditional State funds for benefits and im
provements In the fields of education
health welfare roads and agriculture A
substantial portion of this sum would be
matched by Federal funds
The referendum is of vital concern to
everyone interested in public services for
adults and children with impaired bodies
and minds
Favorable action would make it possi
ble for the Vocational Rehabilitation Di
vision of the State Department of Educa
tion to restore to profitable employment
annually more than twice the number of
persons now being served
It would mean that the School for the
Deaf at Cave Spring and the School for
the Blind at Macon would be able to
reach more children who need the serv
ices of these institutions and that the for
mer school could make some needed
plant improvements
It would mean that more young men
and young women could be given voca
tional training at the North Georgia
Trade Vocational School Clarkesville
and the South Georgia Trade Voca
tional School Americus Before those
schools were established it was necessary
for the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
to send many handicapped students to
other states for the specialized types of
training they needed to become self
sustaining citizens
Favorable action on the referendum
would mean also that seven hundred ad
ditional beds at Battey Hospital Rome
could be made available for tuberculous
patients
It would make possible better service
and facilities for men and women with
mental disabilities at the Milledgeville
State Hospital
It would mean funds to carry on the
program for the benefit of children af
flicted with cerebral palsy
It will mean too that the present
meager average monthly grant to some
90000 aged and infirm people and to the
thousands of needy blind and dependent
children now on the rolls of the Welfare
Its the LawGovernor Herman Talmadge center signs the bills passed by the
General Assembly to set up the contingency appropriation and referendum
machinery The interested spectators You guessed itFrom left Dr Harmon
Caldwell Chancellor of University System Dr J G Garrison President Georgia
Education Association Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools and
Dr M D Mobley State Director of Vocational Education
Department could be increased to the
levels existing in some other states
Heres what some leaders have said
Governor Herman Talmadge People
all over Georgia are bestirring themselves
They are tired of being far down on the
list of education We hear a lot about
what our State needs in the way of de
velopment These needs depend to a
large extent on the fulfillment of the real
mission of educationthat is to equip
our young people to earn a living enjoy
a useful life and develop into responsible
citizenship Much of our problem
depends upon the adequacy of our educa
tional system An educator told me
that we are not only losing valued mem
bers of our teaching profession for higher
salaries in other States but that the cream
of our young people are also moving
away to more fertile fields of opportunity
We must provide adequate education
such as outlined in the comprehensive
program sponsored by the Georgia Edu
cation Association Last summer in my
campaign speeches I said that your pro
gram is good business for Georgia and
should be adopted at the earliest possible
time We should not be content until
every school child in Georgia has 1 a
competent teacher 2 a welldesigned
and equipped classroom 3 safe trans
portation and 4 an adequate supply of
textbooks and other instructional aids
I want to see our children in rural Geor
gia and in the urban centers have just as
good educational opportunity as is offered
in any other section of our Nation
President H L Wingate Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation Georgia has the
natural and human resources to do just
as much for her people as any other State
in this region We are making progress
Our agricultural program is steadily im
proving The total income of our people
has kept pace with that of the people in
other sections There are some things
that we have neglected and education is
one of them The Georgia Farm Bureau
is glad to join in requesting our law
makers to recognize the present school
crisis and take immediate steps to meet
it We know it will take money to
finance a state school program that is
geared to meet only the minimum needs
of our children We know that the people
of Georgia can pay the increased cost In
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Vol 5 MarchApril 1949 No
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade Sc
Vocational School
rITH 400000 of State funds the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
last year restored to productive jobs 2490 disabled persons who were
dependent upon welfare agencies relatives or friends
The Federal government matched these funds for case services and paid
all administrative expenses of the program
Case service dollars pay for medical and surgical services hospitaliza
tion artificial appliances necessary transportation and maintenance training
and supplies
The handicapped men and women rehabilitated through this Division will
earn more than 3500000 this year And being in the most productive age
groups they may be expected to go on earning a living for years to come
Many who were put on jobs ten fifteen or even twentyfive years ago are
known to be still following the vocations for which they were prepared and
not a few have made outstanding successes in their own communities
Under the General Assemblys contingency appropriation for the Mini
mum Foundation program the Vocational Rehabilitation Division is scheduled
to get 750000 a year to be matched by Federal grants
With the increased funds that would be available the Division could restore
to payrolls 6000 disabled persons next yearand every year thereafter
On the basis of last years record it may be estimated that these workers
would earn not less than 8500000 annually
Their earnings would flow into every cahnnel of trade and industry and
into public treasuries Every class or business and all levels of government
would benefit by giving increased purchasing power to a group of citizens
now dependent upon others
In a measure rehabilitants pay for their own rehabilitation through taxes
business and professional licenses and other means
It has been estimated that there are in Georgia 300000 persons between
16 and 60 who are vocationally handicapped through crippling diseases
industrial and highway accidents and other causes More than 13000 are
now on our rolls receiving or awaiting service Others are being added to the
lists every day
In their present condition these people can contribute little or nothing to
the wellbeing of the communities in which they live Until provided with the
types of services they need they will continue to be a drain upon public or
private resources They yearn for an opportunity to earn
Without more State funds Georgia will never be able to check this waste
of human and material resources
A few more dollars invested in rehabilitation now will pay rich dividends
in the future
Can Georgia afford NOT to give these citizens the chance they deserve
Check V I FAVOR ON YOUR BALLOT ON APRIL 5
COVER
The man shown on the front page is
a paralytic who has never walked He
lives with his sister and brotherin
law and baby sits while thev workRehabilitation workers from six Southeastern States and
Puerto Rico will hold a fiveday conference at Edgewater
Park Miss beginning May 9 under the joint sponsorship of
the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and the National Re
habilitation Association
The first two days will be given over to consideration of
physical restoration and the last two days to consideration of
rehabilitation of the blind said Dr H B Cummings of At
lanta Regional Representative OVR
Wednesday May 11 has been designated NRA Day
Representatives of state vocational rehabilitation agencies
commissions for the blind Veterans Administration and pri
vate agencies interested in the welfare of disabled persons are
expected to attend the sessions on this date
The tentative program for the NRA meeting has been an
nounced by J I Rankin of Jackson program chairman
Dr Henry H Kessler of Newark N J noted orthopedic
surgeon and consultant to OVR will be the principal speaker at
the annual dinner During World War II Dr Kessler served
for two years as a Navy surgeon in the South Pacific and
afterwards was in charge of the amputation center of the
Mare Island Naval Hospital He introduced into the United
States a type of amputation which permits the muscles in a
stump to activate an artificial limb
W F Bond Mississippi Commissioner of Public Welfare
will be master of ceremonies at the dinner
At the morning sessions of the NRA conference addresses
will be delivered by Michael J Shortley of Washington Direc
tor Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Paul S Barrett of At
lanta State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation and Presi
dent of NRA and E B Whitten of Washington Executive
Secretary of NRA
The afternoon session will be devoted to discussions of
rehabilitation problems and affairs of the association
During the fiveday period every phase of rehabilitation
will be discussed
Last years conference was held in Atlanta
The National Rehabilitation Association comprises profes
sional workers and lay people interested in services for the
Nations handicapped citizens
Century of Progress
A century of progress in medicine will be the keynote of
addresses and exhibits at the centennial celebration of the
Medical Association of Georgia in Savannah May 10 to 13
Dr Edgar Greene association president has announced
Appropriate certificates and gold lapel buttons will be pre
sented to about seventyfive members who have served the
profession for fifty years or longer
Since its organization in Macon in March 1849 the asso
ciation has played a conspicuous part in advancing public
health services and raising the standards of the profession
Through the years it has carried on the humanitarian efforts
started in Georgia in Colonial times Among the noted mem
bers was Dr Crawford Long the first to use anesthesia in
surgery
The state association was encouraged by the Georgia
Medical Society of Savannah which was founded in 1804 and
is said to be the first medical society organized in the United
States
The Vocational Rehabilitation Division has fl
invitation to exhibit at the convention a photogr
of examples of physical restoration services rende
the division
Conference SpeakerMichael J Shortley
Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
s
From Journal of the Maine Medical Association
In the United States there are five times as many civilian
amputations annually as were performed in the combined
armed forces of World War II
The American Federation of the Physically Handicapped
has estimated that there are approximately seventyfive thou
sand new amputation cases in the country every year
According to Dr Henry H Kessler there are four major
objectives in the rehabilitation of the amputee They are
1 social living 2 the ability to take care of himself
3 the problem of transportation and 4 the problem of
employment with all its ramifications
The cooperative relationship between the Vocational Re
habilitation Department and the surgeons has proved to be
highly satisfactory A teamwork approach between surgeon
otherapist occupational therapist prothesismaker and
national rehabilitation counselor will be a long step for
n the conservation of the working usefulness of the
being with an amputationStates Progress
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fact the parents of the boys and girls
want to pay for better education for their
children
President J Gorman Garrison Georgia
Education Association By the Gov
ernors approval of the act of the General
Assembly establishing a Minimum Foun
dation Program of Education for Georgia
a most significant step has been taken to
ward the further development of educa
tion in this state This is the most far
reaching and progressive piece of legisla
tion ever written into the statutes of Geor
gia and when adequately financed it will
revolutionize the educational social and
economic status of our people The
General Assembly has acted with excep
tional statesmanship Surely the elec
torate will on April 5 by a substantial ma
jority express Georgias desire for equal
and adequate opportunity in education
for the people of our great State
State Commander Earle Cocke Jr The
American Legion It can be conserva
tively said that of the seventytwo thou
sand children who entered Georgia
schools for the first time this year two
out of every three are children of vet
erans We have a very real and personal
stake in the educational program of this
State A large majority of our rural
tiny tots board school buses each morning
20 of which have been declared un
safe ride to school buildings 19 of
which are too obsolete for repair sit
in overcrowded poorly heated dark and
unattractive school rooms The Amer
ican Legion has unanimously recorded its
approval of all the essential features con
tained in this referendum The question
of how they shall be financed is left to the
wisdom of the Legislature itself I hope
that our sixty thousand Legionnaires or
ganized in 290 local Posts will continue to
rally to support these proposals and urge
them to cooperate with all of the other
progressive groups in Georgiathe or
ganized farmers union labor parents and
teacherswhich are consecrated to Geor
gias future and roll up a decisive ma
jority by marking their ballots I FAVOR
so that April 5 will prove a victorious
event in Georgias honored history
Chancellor Harmon Caldwell of Uni
versity System of Georgia The Uni
versity Systems part of the socalled ex
pansion program is 2500000 We hope
to hold our own if the people vote favor
ably on April 5
Heres how the contingency appropriations will be distributed
18 Million Dollars for Public Schools including Vocational Rehabilita
tion services Vocational Education Rural and School Libraries
School for Deaf and Academy for the Blind
22 Million Dollars to counties for School Buildings
22 Million Dollars for University System
1 Million Dollars for Teachers Retirement Fund
12 Million Dollars for Highways
4 Million Dollars for Post and FarmtoMarket Roads
112 Million Dollars for Welfare Benefits and Crippled Children
1 Vi Million Dollars for Tuberculosis Hospital
1 Million Dollars for Milledgeville State Hospital
900 Thousand Dollars for Public Health
160 Thousand Dollars for School for Deaf improvements
75 Thousand Dollars for Cerebral Palsy program
250 Thousand Dollars for Forestry
175 Thousand Dollars for North Georgia Trade Vocational School
improvements
175 Thousand Dollars for South Georgia Trade Vocational School
improvements
250 Thousand Dollars for Farmers Markets
Michael J Shortley Director of the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Fed
eral Security Agency and Major General
Lewis B Hershey Director of Selective
Service have drawn up a formal agree
ment of cooperation designed to facilitate
the provisions of civilian vocational re
habilitation services for exservice men
and women who were disabled in and
from service after July 25 1947 and are
therefore ineligible for vocational rehabili
tation under the Veterans Administration
it has been announced in Washington
To avoid a misunderstanding which
might result in a disabled veteran passing
up schooling and training under the GI
Bill of Rights it is emphasized that vet
erans disabled or not who enlisted and
reenlisted between October 5 1945 and
October 6 1946 under the Volunteer Re
cruitment Act are eligible for schooling
and training under the GI Bill For this
Bill is not the law which expiring on
s
July 25 1947 ended vocational rehabili
tation services for veterans who incurred
serviceconnected disabilities after that
date
Our agreement with the Selective Serv
ice System said Director Shortley
should result in rehabilitation into self
supporting employment for many young
men and some young women
This agreement will be of particular
value to those young men who are
selected for military service under the
Selective Service Act of 1948 and subse
quently incur disabilities while in service
While the various branches of the armed
forces will restore them to reasonably
good physical condition before discharg
ing them they do not have the benefit of
any special legislation for vocational re
habilitation They will need guidance and
training particularly This we can furnish
to their benefit and that of the Nation
through the State rehabilitation agenciesTwo modern vending stands were added
recently to the chain of twentyeight oper
ated under the Vocational Rehabilitation
Divisions services for the blind
The new locations are in the Scripto
Manufacturing Companys plant in At
lanta and the DeKalb County Building
Decatur
Similar stands are operated in other in
dustries public buildings and institutions
All managers are blind persons who were
carefully selected and trained in this
specialized field of retail merchandising
Their original stocks of soft drinks
packaged foods candies cigarettes and
tobacco are supplied through the Georgia
Cooperative Services for the Blind a non
profit organization of outstanding Georgia
citizens
Experience has shown that refreshment
periods and services for employees pro
mote efficiency increase production re
duce accidents and improve the morale of
workers in industry and trade Every es
tablishment employing one hundred or
more persons is regarded as a potential
location for the profitable operation of a
modern vending stand

Another step in providing training and
employment facilities for handicapped
citizens was taken when the 1949 General
Assembly passed a measure to activate
the Georgia Factory for the Blind author
ized under an act of 1937 t carries an
appropriation of 200000 and 25000
a year for two years The factory will be
operated under the Welfare Department
and a Board of Managers
Members of the Board appointed by
Governor Talmadge are Representative
Vaughn Terrell sightless member of the
Floyd County delegation who spear
headed the legislative program Paul S
Barrett State Director of Vocational Re
habilitation Ralph Primm Rome hosiery
manufacturer Dr Lee Williams Cordele
physician Roy Sewell Bremen garment
manufacturer Wallace Haggard Amer
icus basket manufacturer Charles Bag
gafdly Roberta crate and box manufac
turer and Representative J C Cowart of
Morgan County
Representative Terrell was cjiosen tem
porary chairman of the Board and later
appointed superintendent of the factory
He resigned as a member of the House
Mr Barrett is vicechairman of the Board
I look upon the state factory as an
additional facility for providing training
employment and production experience
necessary for the eventual employment of
James V Carmichael left President and C Fields General Manager Scripto
Manufacturing Co Atlanta watch with keen interest as Oselka Stanfield blind
vending stand operator serves customers during refreshment period in the plant
The stand is located in a department where most of the employees are Negro
women Stanfield is an experienced operator and is rapidly building up his
sales volume
the blind in private industry said Super
intendent Terrell It also will provide em
ployment for the needy blind who are not
suited for jobs in industry
It will be our policy to work in abso
lute cooperation with the Vocational Re
habilitation Division which is doing a
good job and which with this added
facility will be able to do a better job in
the future
Several sites for the factory have been
suggested and a final decision will be
made soon it was stated The new plant
will produce brooms mops and mat
tresses and eventually other articles for
which there is a market
In an editorial under the caption A
Better Chance for the Blind the Atlanta
Constitution said in part
Georgia has a good reason to be proud
of its record of restoring handicapped per
sons to productive enterprises which make
them selfsupporting and selfrespecting
members of society
In the past six months this State has
ranked fourth in the nation in the number
of rehabilitations
Yesterday March 3 steps were
taken to better that record when Gov
ernor Talmadge administered oaths to a
sevenman Board of Managers to super
vise the establishment of facilities to train
the blind in basketmaking garment
making and other useful arts
In many respects the blind present the
most difficult rehabilitation problem Few
have had any previous working experi
ence Many have only limited education
and more often than not they have led
sheltered lives which give a sense of
insecurity
The training factory is designed to
overcome all these problems and teach
the blind to earn a living and take a nearly
normal place in community life
Selection of a Board of Managers
struck a happy note
Representative Terrell aptly expressed
the purpose of the facility when appear
ing before the Senate to thank members
of that body for favorable action he de
clared We dont want a handout All
we want is a chance
The new facility will make that chance
available to a great many more of Geor
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Atlanta 3 Ga
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Canteen service in the new DeKalb County Building Decatur is supplied by this modern vending stand operated by Jim Hurst under
the supervision of the Vocational Rehabilitation Divisions services for the blind Hurst formerly operated a similar stand in a Way
cross industry The new building houses the Welfare Police and Water Departmentsand jail on the top floor See story on page 7
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Vol 5
MayJune 1949
No 2
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon
406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Wins Essay Contest
N essay composed and typed by a student who has only ten percent vision
in one eye was awarded top honors in the statewide contest sponsored na
tionally by The Presidents Committee on National Employ the Physically Handi
capped Week
The winner James H Alverson Jr 18 was a Senior at the Georgia Acad
emy for the Blind Macon He is the son of Mr and Mrs James H Alverson
of 671 Francis Place N W Atlanta
His essay answering the challenge Why Not Hire the Handicapped has
been sent to Washington for entry in the national contest for cash prizes amount
ing to 2000 and free round trips to Washington D C
Three other contestants in Georgia will receive Certificates of Merit signed
by the President of the United States They are Anne Potts Center High School
Gabbettville Mary Joyce Alexander Beach Cuyler High School Savannah and
John Cooper Athens High School Athens
The manuscripts were graded by a committee composed of Lambdin Kay
Secretary Associated Industries of Georgia Harris H Clark Assistant Veterans
Employment Representative and R L Cousins Director Division of Negro
Education State Department of Education They were scored by each judge
under a system of points previously agreed upon and the winners selected on
the composite grades
After the awards were made it developed that young Alverson had been
awarded a radio as first prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Womens
Club of Macon on Safety for the Blind and placed second in the Sixth Dis
trict Georgia High School Association contest with a paper on North American
Alliance
In early childhood James lost one eye and never has had normal vision in the
other At the Academy for the Blind he was trained as a piano technician and
had a little shop established at his home before graduating His teacher Mrs
Hamp Riley is proud of his record in school and his success in essay competi
tions
The contest was open to students in the 11th and 12th grades in public and
private high schools About fifty schools were represented in the competition in
Georgia
National winners will be announced during NEPH Week October 2 through 8
The prizes will be First 1000 Second 400 Third 300 Fourth 200 and
Fifth 100 The prizes it has been announced were made available by members
of the Presidents Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week including the International Association of Machinists The Disabled Ameri
can Veterans will pay the expenses of the National winners to Washington and
return
The National Judges will include Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Secretary of Labor
Maurice J Tobin and the U S Commissioner of Education
First second third and fourth place parchment awards will be given in each
state
Americus
South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
The Cover
Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of
Schools left greets James H Alverson
Jr Georgia winner in the NEPH Essay
Contest and Mrs Hamp Riley teacher at
the Georgia Academy for the BlindBy James H Alverson Jr
Winning Essay in NEPH Contest
iID you know that since Pearl Har
bor was attacked in 1941 five Ameri
can citizens have become disabled to
every disabled soldier Did you also
know that we have 1500000 men and
women in our civilian population who
have some disability Strange to say this
tremendous number increases every year
at the rate of about 200000 because of
illness accidents and congenital causes
To help these people the Federal gov
ernment and the states have joined hands
in a combined and organized effort to
restore the handicapped to the highest
possible level through counseling train
ing physical aid economic and place
ment services This leadership has been
possible through private industries the
cooperation of private enterprises and
the help from the Federal and state
governments Such great industries as the
Ford Motor Company General Motors
Corporation Western Electric Company
and the major aircrafts have for many
years employed substantial numbers of
men and women with physical impair
ments that cover all types of disabilities
including blindness
Countless other firms and small busi
nesses have also aided in the experiment
by testing the employment opportunities
for the disabilities The United States
Civil Service Commission by a job
analysis study has established 3500 dif
ferent positions which can be adequately
filled by disabled persons This has re
sulted in bringing handicapped workers
with many types of impairments into
Federal service including industrial com
mercial professional and clerical posi
tions scattered throughout the United
States Rehabilitation has itself played an
important part in rolling up a reasonable
and favorable record as to production
absenteeism labor turnover accident
proneness and has also proved that these
workers did not have to have as much
workmens compensation
When American security was threat
ened by foreign aggressors physical
handicapped men and women were called
upon to fill the gaps in the nations war
manpower supply Trained for a specific
job they took their places in shipyards
aircraft plants munition plants stores
and offices and thus kept armaments
moving to the fighting fronts Physically
handicapped men and women manned
the lathes drill presses and the welding
torches that made the machines without
which we could not have won so speedy
a victory Their achievements in a wide
range of vocations won the admiration
and gratitude of the nations leaders If
these handicapped people could meet the
terrific job of war production I ask you
Mr Employer Why cannot some of
these handicapped persons also do the
vast job of peace production
In the years since the war thousands
of handicapped persons have been placed
in suitable employment and are selfsup
porting independent tax paying citizens
instead of wards of the state During
the fiscal year ending June 30 1944
Georgia led all other states except Cali
fornia by rehabilitating 27771 persons
The average weekly wages of these work
ers were 3419 or 4925740 for the
year The average cost of training these
persons amounted to only 19898 In a
JAMES H ALVERSON JR
single year they earned more than eleven
times the cost of their rehabilitation
ABILITY IS WHAT COUNTS
HIRE THE HANDICAPPED BE
CAUSE IT IS GOOD BUSINESS
These are some of the slogans which
apply to the employment field War pro
duction work and recent industrial sur
veys show that handicapped workers
when selectively placed performed their
tasks as well if not better than able
bodied workers
Acceptance of the handicapped by em
ployers will be means of bringing op
portunities for economic independence
and full participation in our democratic
life to citizens who despite their physi
cal handicaps are willing and able to
perform a wide variety of essential tasks
You have read many times that em
ployers no longer look upon the handi
capped man as a liability That is true
They have found out that the efficiency
and dependability of the handicapped
worker is equal to and in many cases
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Picking winners in Essay Contest
Lambdin Kay Secretary Asso
ciated Industries of Georgia left
R L Cousins Director Division of
Negro Education State Depart
ment of Education center and
Harris H Clark Assistant Vete
rans Employment Representative
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At Edgewater Park Conferenceleft to right Paul S Barrett of Atlanta State Director o
Rehabhtaton and President of the National Rehabilitation Association E B Whitten of WashfnLton
Executive Secretary NRA Miehael J Shortley of Washington Director Office of Vocational Rehabflitr
ton Glen Calmes of Jacksonvi le Regional Conference Chairman and Travis McCharen of Jackson S
State Drector of Vocatonal Rehabltation Mr Whitten holds a replica of the NRA seal
1
rFARLY three hundred representa
tives of rehabilitation agencies from
six Southeastern states and Puerto Rico
attended the fiveday joint conference
sponsored by the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation and the National Rehabili
tation Association at Edgewater Park
Miss May 913
Two days were devoted to discussions
of Physical Restoration in Vocational
Rehabilitation two days to problems re
lating to the rehabilitation of the blind
and one day to the regional conference
of NRA
One highlight of the meeting was the
address of Dr Henry H Kessler of
Newark N J President of the Na
tional Council on Rehabilitation and a
noted orthopedic surgeon He spoke at
the annual banquet of NRA His address
was broadcast through the courtesy of
Station WGCM Gulfport Miss Excerpts
from it appear elsewhere in this issue
of the NEWS
Here are some excerpts from other
addresses
Michael J Shortley of Washing
ton Director Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
I was much pleased last year when
our StateFederal system of vocational
rehabilitation for civilians rehabilitated
an alltime record number of disabled
men and women into selfsustaining and
suitable employment That figure was
slightly above 53000 So you can imag
ine with what pride I am able to fore
cast that we probably will exceed that
figure during the current fiscal year by
25 percent and that we will set a new
alltime record of 65000 rehabilita
tions
All of us know that the social values
of rehabilitation are greater than the
economic value Nobody would dispute
that it is better both for the individual
and the community to have him a happy
busy familysupporting and community
helping individual than to have him a
helpless cripple unable to support or
care for himself or others and dependent
upon others for sustenance and even the
daily demands of living We know that
rehabilitation helps to stabilize homes
and families and preserves opportunity
for children These contributions are
above evaluation
In the economic field however there
is a dollarandcents value on our work
Last years 53000 rehabilitants increased
their annual earning rate by about 69
000000 over the 17000000 annual
rate of earnings at the time they applied
for services And that prerehabilitation
work generally was unsuitable or unsafe
for the individual or for his fellow work
ers About threefourths were unem
ployed when surveyed for rehabilitation
About onethird had never been able to
work Yet in the first year after rehabili
tation this group not counting farmers
or family workers will have earned
86000000 and will have paid 5000
000 in Federal income taxes alone
In the first five years after expanded
legislative authority was given in the
form of the BardenLaFollette amend
ments to the National Rehabilitation Act
of 1920 the States rehabilitated 220
000 disabled men and women into success
ful employment Thats more than dur
ing the twentythree preceding years
under limited authority And we estimate
that those 220000 men and women have
increased their earnings by almost a
Billion Dollars They have paid about
75000000 in Federal income taxes
alone
Further our studies indicate most
positively that the average rehabilitant
if he is employed only 85 percent of his
work expectancy will pay in Federal in
come taxes alone at least 10 for every
dollar Uncle Sam spends on his rehabili
tation His contributions to his commu
nity county and State must be as great
Andhe is a tax producer rather than
a tax consumer If he remained depend
ent it would cost just about as much
every yearto support him as it costs
just onceto rehabilitate him
In view of these facts and figures I
am convinced that the question we face
is not how many disabled men and wom
Continued on Page 5Rehabilitations Nothing Yields Richer Return5
By Dr Henry H Kessler
Excerpts from address at OVRNRA Conference
AR like Janus has two faces
When the shooting subsides and
the people of the world begin to recon
struct the shattered pattern of their nor
mal lives war frequently reveals itself
to be a catalyst for constructive social
action
One of the effects of the last war has
been greatly increased attention to the
problems of the handicapped We
learned considerably to our surprise
and much to our horror that about half
of our young men presumably the
healthiest segment of our population
were physically or mentally unfit for the
rigors of combat We learned that many
of the young men whom we pronounced
fit for combat broke down Then we
began to thinkwhat about the rest
the aged and the children
Traditionally the problems of the
physically handicapped have been
shrouded in a fog of apathy and ig
norance Occasionally brief flashes of
sympathy broke through the fog but
for the most part these efforts lacked the
purposefulness and cohesion which is the
most vital element in the care of the
handicapped It took a national emer
gency to fully illuminate this dark cor
ner of our social conscious
Now the concept of rehabilitation as
an integral part of total medical care
begins to emerge Where formerly re
habilitation had been used to define
everything from corrective punishment
to the total reconstruction of wartorn
countries we now understand that re
habilitation is the restoration of the
handicapped to the fullest physical
mental social vocational and economic
usefulness of which they are capable
What does this mean It means that
upwards of two million persons in the
United States are handicapped so severely
by mental or physical disabilities that
they can not without rehabilitation meet
the ordinary social and vocational de
mands of daily living It means that with
rehabilitation most of these persons can
be brought to the point where they are
productive selfsufficient units of society
When we practice rehabilitation we are
investing in the tremendous capacities of
our people and nothing yields a richer
return
Rehabilitation has many phases Prop
erly it begins with the admission of the
patient to the hospital and continues
through definitive treatment convalescent
care training vocational guidance and
placement It utilizes the services of the
physician psychologist teacher social
worker vocational counselor rehabilita
tion officer and many other persons
Every scientific advance is a new weapon
every professional person who interests
himself in rehabilitation is a new soldier
in the march on disability
But rehabilitation as a concept is
greater than the sum of its parts Reha
bilitation provides the unification which
fits all these persons and services into a
meaningful pattern like chips in a mo
saic
The handicapped among us are de
manding the best we have to offer We
must try continuously increasingly and
with every means at our disposal to
meet that challenge and that opportu
nity

Dr Kessler is a noted orthopedic sur
geon and president of the National Coun
cil on Rehabilitation During World War
II he served for two years as a Navy sur
geon in the South Pacific and later was
in charge of the amputation center at
Mare Island Naval Hospital He was ap
pointed by the President of the United
States as official delegate to the Interna
tional Congress of Industrial Accidents
in Budapest in 1928 Geneva in 1931
Brussels in 1935 and Frankfort in 1938
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en we can afford to rehabilitate but
rather how many we can afford NOT
to rehabilitate
E B Whitten Executive Secre
tary NRA
Vocational Rehabilitation has made
tremendous progress during the last six
years Public acceptance of the idea is
general when it is understood Great
impetus has been given by army navy
and Veterans Administration rehabilita
tion programs State agencies are rehabili
tating an increasing number of the civil
ian disabled Many difficulties however
stand in the way of a completely adequate
program of Vocational Rehabilitation
Probably the greatest problem is the
unequal diffusion of services and facili
ties throughout the country In one state
adequate medical rehabilitation facilities
may exist In others such facilities may be
meager Some states have fairly adequate
appropriations for Vocational Rehabili
tation purposes In other states appro
priations are most meager In many sec
tions of the country it is almost impos
sible to find facilities for the rehabilita
tion of a paraplegic a bilateral amputee
or a victim of cerebral palsy In other
states where such facilities may exist a
lack of funds prevents their comprehen
sive use
Without discounting the great prog
ress we have made we must admit that
we have inadequate funds and facilities
for the rehabilitation of many classes
of the severely disabled The function of
the National Rehabilitation Association
is to mobilize all the forces interested
in the rehabilitation of handicapped per
sons to the end that both facilities and
funds shall be available to enable every
handicapped individual to make maxi
mum use of his abilities
Paul S Barrett of Atlanta
President NRA
All of us are cognizant of the sub
stantial progress made on all fronts in
the field of rehabilitation in the past
ten or twelve years The scope of the
services of the Vocational Rehabilitation
program was broadened by passage of
the BardenLaFollette amendments This
legislation represented a new point of
view a new philosophy in dealing with
the problems of disabled persons
Appropriations both Federal and
State have climbed rather steadily
throughout the years Through inserv
ice training institutes and conferences we
have kept our personnel abreast of de
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Regional Conference OfficersFront Row J I Rankin left Jackson Miss
Vicechairman A L Davis center Atlanta Chairman P D Bush Gainesville
Ga retiring Secretarytreasurer Back row left to right O F Wise Mont
gomery Ala P G Shearer Columbia S C W C Walters Knoxville Tenn
Ralph Hood Orlando Fla and Glen Calmes Jacksonville Fla Executive Board
members
Quotes from Conference
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velopments in techniques of casework
Records show that the authorizations for
new types of services the increased funds
for case services and the inservice train
ing conferences have been translated into
more cases closed rehabilitated
Dr David Wade of Austin
Texas Medical Consultant Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division
Employers are becoming more coop
erative in the employment of persons who
have had mental and emotional disorders
The individual who has had an emo
tional disorder has a tendency to take
care of his job because it means a live
lihood and a method by which he may
stay well In many cases employment
actually is a therapeutic method in it
self Many people with emotional illnesses
need to achieve some success When they
are offered training by rehabilitation
agencies in some job in which they may
become proficient the failure complex
often is dispelled
A great deal of progress has been
made in the past six years in the rehabili
tation of the mentally ill First the re
habilitation agencies had to train their
staffs then they had to gain public ap
proval from the training agencies and
potential employers and finally to or
ganize the case referral sources
Dr Thomas B McKneely of
Washington Chief Medical Officer
OVR
There seems to have sprung up the
idea that there should be something dif
ferent about the physical restoration
services of Vocational Rehabilitation
that distinguishes it from medical care
We are perhaps also more aware of pos
sible repercussions as we dip into border
line conditions since the medical pro
fession is becoming more conscious of
the possibility of national health insur
ance I feel that we should reexamine
our concepts on this subject
We may take for example two
groups of persons Each group may have
some disabling conditionsharelip her
nia cataracts or diabetes The first group
has sufficient money to purchase their
own hospital care and medical treat
ment The second group is without funds
and are clients of vocational rehabili
tation agencies
There is not any difference in the
medical services the two groups receive
The only difference is in the purpose for
which it is given With the second group
rehabilitation agency clientsthe pur
pose is to make them employable Gen
eral medical care would include care for
those with acute conditions and individu
als who cannot be vocationally rehabili
tated
Dr Robert L Bennett of Atlanta
Professor of Physical Medicine Emory
University said 90 percent of the patients
disabled by neuromuscular diseases could
be made independent in whole or in part
and thus be able to earn a living
He described physical medicine as
the branch of medicine that uses certain
properties such as heat exercise water
massage in the treatment of diseases
This specialized branch of medicine he
said had its beginning during the first
world war In the early days it was handi
capped by overemphasis on the use of
electrical gadgets and then came into its
own during the second world war as a
rehabilitation measure The specialist in
physical medicine he said is particularly
interested in diseases that affect the func
tional capacity of an individual
Water he said is an excellent me
dium for carrying out exercises not be
cause of any magical powers of the water
but because the buoyancy of the water
permits certain exercises that would be
impossible on a table
In training individuals to overcome
the obstacles that they must face in a
normal environment we use three basic
lines of therapy The first is physical the
rapy where special muscle reeducation
is carried out The second is occupational
therapy where the correct use of arts and
crafts augments the basic exercise process
and the third is recreational therapy
Dr Bennett said recreational therapy
is of no particular value unless the patient
participates in the activity Competitive
game he said reawakens the patients
spirit of sportsmanship They are of par
ticular importance because they help the
patient to overcome the selfconsciousness
of his handicap and the necessity of wear
ing braces or crutches
REGIONAL OFFICERS
A L Davis of Atlanta Assistant
State Director of Vocational Rehabilita
tion was elected Southeastern Regional
Chairman of the National Rehabilitation
Association at the Edgewater Park con
ference He succeeds Glen Calmes of
Jacksonville Fla
Other officers named were Vicechair
man J I Rankin lackson Miss Sec
retaryTreasurer R B Bagley Montgom
ery Ala Executive Board Glen
Calmes P G Shearer Columbia S C
O F Wise Montgomery Ala Ralph
Hood Orlando Fla C J Collins Green
ville S C W C Walters Knoxville
Tenn and Paul S Barrett Atlanta
The conference selected Gatlinburg
Tenn for the 1950 meetingWhy Not Hire
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greater than that of the socalled normal
worker
Here is something I want to empha
size We do not ask nor do we handi
capped people want industry to employ
any of us in the spirit of sympathy I
might say we resent an offer of sympathy
or pity If a man with one arm can do
a job as well as a man with two arms
then industry should employ him
We people of Georgia recall a certain
eminent man who made history for our
nationFranklin D Roosevelt A victim
of polio he could not walk His friends
never mentioned his disability News
paper photographers never pictured him
in a way that called attention to his
affliction and men of the press never
mentioned his handicap This man did
not ask for pity The people of the
United States called upon him to admin
ister their affairsnot one time but four
times They did not ask for his leader
ship because they were sorry for him
or because they pitied him but because
they regarded him as best man for the
job He did that job splendidly and gen
erations to come will honor him for the
work he did
Helen Keller is another excellent ex
ample of a physically handicapped per
son who became employable through
training At her home in Alabama she
started out in life in darkness without
the aid of hearing or speech Just imag
ine yourself Mr Employer placed in a
world of total darkness without being
able to carry on a conversation or lis
ten to a conversation of others Would
you Mr Employer want people to leave
you as a hopeless case or would you
want them to take an interest in you
and demonstrate to the world what you
could accomplish if only given a chance
Fortunately Helen Keller had parents
and friends who were very interested in
her future They gave her the best train
ing possible the essential factor for any
handicapped individual She had deter
mination a very necessary quality She
knew that if she worked hard enough
and long enough that a great accom
plishment would be the result of her
work If any handicapped person is given
the opportunity and permitted to demon
strate to the world after receiving his
training that he can be a productive
worker he should be hired Then he will
never be a ward to society
What do you think would have hap
pened to Helen Keller if she had not
been given the training and opportunity
to work Very likely she would not have
Outdoors StandHeres a new type of vending stand for blind operators Inset
Designed by the Vocational Rehabilitation Divisions services for the blind it
was set up on a vacant lot in the business section of Commerce through the
cooperation of the Lions Club Jessie Mae Gillespie the operator is shown
serving Dr James L Hope President of the Commerce Lions Club and Dr Paul
T Scroggins Chairman of the clubs blind committee and Mayor of Commerce
TestsTo improve the quality of psychological testing services vocational re
habilitation clients receive from the Division two conferences were held recently
in Georgia with lectures on testing methods Above is a scene from one of the
sessions Left to rightDr Travis Osborne Director Testing and Guidance
Section Veterans Service University of Georgia Athens Dr S G DMichael
Psychological Consultant Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Washington Dr
S C Webb Department of Psychology Emory University and A P Jarrell
Assistant Director Vocational Rehabilitation Division
obtained the fame which she has gained
Like many thousands of handicapped
people today she would have been left
in idleness on the shelf of unemploy
ment thus becoming a drain upon the
national economy Others can gain re
nown if only given the chance and so
I ask you Mr Employer Why Not
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lenge for YOU and AmericaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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In industry commerce service trades and professions it has been
demonstrated over and over again that handicapped workers do make
good
Properly trained and placed they canand domeet requirements
in production attendance and safety In numerous instances their work
records excel those of nonhandicapped employees
Shown here are just a few Georgia workers who are making good
after receiving services under the Vocational Rehabilitation program
Upper left Florence Louise Fulghum has been employed for four
years as film technician in Thomas photo studio Dublin after being
trained in the same establishment Stricken by infantile paralysis at
the age of 2 she now walks with little difficulty She took a commercial
course in high school and upon graduation started her technical training
Upper aenterFor more than a year Harry Smith 22 a native of
Wnghtsville has been working as jewelry engraver and repairer with
A A Friedman Augusta the establishment in which he was trained
At 14 Harry sustained a broken arm in an accident which left him with
a stiff elbow He was treated at Scottish Rite Hospital and later under
the Crippled Childrens Division DPW at University Hospital He
graduated from high school and was working in a refreshment stand when
accepted for training by Vocational Rehabilitation
Upper rightGladys Burke is only 4 ft 4 in in height but she
looks forward to a successful business career She is shown at her desk
in an Augusta accountants office After graduating from Waynesboro
High School she was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in a commer
cial course at Hurst Business College and started working last January
LeftWillie C Hester 43 wears an artificial foot see insert but
he has no trouble straddling the pit while working on big bus motors
in the Service Coach Lines garage in Dublin Hester had an impairment
of the right foot which he believes resulted from an accident in 1914
In spite of the disability he had farmed worked for the State Highwav
Patrol and a fuse plant in Macon But his condition grew steadily worse
His job was in jeopardy when he applied for assistance He was provided
with medical treatment and later with surgery and the artificial appliance
making it possible for him to carry on
It pays to hire the handicapped
NATIONAL EMPLOY THE PHYSICALLY
HANDICAPPED WEEK OCTOBER 28OKc GcovcjvoocoxoyvoX
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Vol 5 AugustSeptember 1949 No 3
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome 4t5 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah 2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade k
Vocational School
Handicapped Georgia civilians who were restored to productive enter
prises during the fiscal year ended June 30 through Vocational Rehabi
litation services this year will earn more than 4400000
Records show that 3075 disabled men and women were placed in jobs
after receiving some service such as physical restoration training and
guidance This was the largest number rehabilitated during any twelvemonth
period since the program started twentyeight years ago
Only four statesCalifornia Michigan Illinois and New Yorkexceed
Georgias record in this respect On the basis of the number of rehabilitations
per 100000 population Georgia was second only to the compact state of
Delaware
Of those rehabilitated 2245 were wholly or partly dependent upon welfare
agencies families or friends when accepted for service Nearly half had one or
more dependents and more than half had less than an eighth grade
education
They had almost every type of disability which could be considered a
vocational handicap More than 150 were blind
In the process of rehabilitation many were provided with medical and
surgical services Some required artificial appliances Others were given
vocational training in schools colleges and industries and some received both
physical restoration services and training
Now they are working on farms in factories stores offices and profes
sions A substantial majority1831were in the age groups from 21 to 48
the most productive period of life
During the previous year 2490 were rehabilitated Most of them too
were in the high productive age brackets Their earnings were placed at
3522272 a year
So it goes year after yearsocial and economic liabilities turned into
assets tax consumers aided in becoming taxpayers
It stands to reason that these and other workers like them have many
years of work expectancy and in time will repay to the State and Federal Gov
ernments through taxes the funds invested in their rehabilitation
It isnt the disability but what they have left that counts
It pays to hire the handicapped
Attractive Ernestine Roberson of Rt 1
Cadwell was stricken with infantile paralysis
at the age of 14 Through the Crippled Chil
drens Division of the Welfare Department
she received treatment and long leg braces
She was reared on a farm and is the oldest of
six children Because of her condition
Ernestine was compelled to lose several years
from high school She was anxious to learn
a trade and become selfsupporting She
liked to fix hair and seemed to have a knack
for this type of work So she selected beauty
culture as her vocational objective On the
cover Ernestine is shown in training at
Allenes Beauty Shop operated by Mrs
Allene Tindol Dublin Reports indicate she
is making splendid progress With ambition
personality and training she should be suc
cessful in her chosen vocationWinning Their Fight
See opposite page
ON THE opposite page appears pictures
of some severely disabled men and
women who are battling to overcome the
crippling effects of paralysis
Its a long slow climb up the hill from
uselessness and dependency to selfsustain
ing employment but those shown here are
well on the way
Sanford Fincher 27 of DeKalb County
fell out of a tree in 1937 and injured his
spine to such an extent that he was para
lyzed from the waist downward to his lower
extremities He has been confined to a
wheel chair since soon after the accident
He became interested in radios and with
the help of books and friends learned how
to make simple repairs During the war
Sanford earned some money repairing sets
but when new radios came back on the
market his business fell off
An application was made to the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division for assistance
Treatment was provided and the young
mans general health and physical condition
improved It was also found upon examina
tion by an orthopedist that the client could
be made more comfortable and work longer
hours with a back brace which was provided
Then it was decided to undertake training
in watch repairing He was supplied with
tools and the services of a tutor A room at
his home was equipped as a little shop Now
the young man has practically mastered the
trade and is getting some jobs which are
giving him valuable experience under the
supervision of the tutor
Then theres Mrs Helen Wood Bates
of Atlanta who was paralyzed as the result
of an accidental gunshot wound in January
1948 Vocational Rehabilitation plans were
inaugurated in April 48 At that time she
was almost helpless Braces crutches and a
corset of special design were provided At
the end of two months treatment she was
able to roll over on a mat and fit her braces
When the picture was made Mrs Bates
was still wearing her appliances but with
the aid of a wheel chair was able to carry
on her household duties She looks forward
to returning to her former employment as a
receptionist
Floyd Hudlow 50 of Scottdale had been
confined to bed for more than six months
when referred to the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division As the result of an infection
he was unable to walk could not feed him
self or even pull the bed sheets over his body
It required about eight months treat
ment before the patient could walk and use
his arms The Division supplied braces
provided some hospitalization and physio
therapy treatments It also secured the co
Golden Cross Hospital fund and Emory
University Hospital for several weeks hos
pitalization services
Hudlow had worked in the same textile
mill for thirty years and naturally was
anxious to return to the same type of em
ployment While still wearing braces he re
turned to the mill and was assigned to a job
which did not require the use of his fingers
Six months later he discarded the braces
and was earning nearly twice as much as he
did on his first job after returning to the mill
The specialist who attended him said
There is no doubt that the intervention of
Vocational Rehabilitation and Emory saved
this man his ability to work
Mrs Gladys Kelly of Atlanta had com
plete paralysis from the waist downward as
the result of a spinal cord injury Records
indicate she had splendid medical care at the
time of her injury and remained in the hos
pital for six months before applying to the
Division for assistance She had worked as
a telephone operator
In outlining treatment a program he
thought might enable her to walk the spe
cialist said The success of this type of pro
cedure usually depends on the drive and de
sire to walk again on the patients part
In about six months she had developed
her arms and shoulder muscles to such an
extent that she could get around on braces
and crutches At the time the picture was
made she was learning to walk up and down
short steps
With the aid of a Vocational Rehabilita
tion Counselor Mrs Kelly has developed a
modest greeting card and magazine subscrip
tion business conducted mainly by telephone
from her home She is considering opening
a gift shop
Recently the specialist said Patient is
now able to stand and walk fairly well and
is quite capable of carrying out her full
household duties Improvement is continu
ing and complete and effective locomotion is
foreseen
Mrs Janie Runnelle Carbaugh of At
lanta and her husband Lloyd were in an
automobile accident while visiting in Seattle
Wash Both suffered severe injuries and
were hospitalized for several months
Mrs Carbaugh sustained a spinal injury
and a fractured skull She was completely
paralyzed on the right side and could neither
sit nor stand She remained in the Seattle
hospital for a year Her husband was less
seriously injured but was unable to work
during the year
Last January through the aid of friends
in the Capitol View Baptist Church re
turned to Atlanta in a chartered plane and
she was taken to a hospital in an ambulance
Three months later the aid of Vocational
Rehabilitation was sought
gins Career
Emory C Odum 18 a native of Metcalf
holds a clerical position with the Atlanta of
fice of a national insurance company and
looks forward to a successful career in busi
ness despite a disability dating back to
infancy
Due to the condition of the bones in his
neck it was almost impossible for him to
turn his head more than a few degrees in
either direction He was reared on a farm
but his physical condition made it inadvis
able for him to plan a future in agriculture
He was given a series of tests which indi
cated an aptitude for clerical work Through
the Vocational Rehabilitation Division he
was aided in a business course at Southern
Business School and then placed with the
insurance company
operation of other agencies including the
NATIONAL EMPLOY THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
She has been provided with back and leg
braces and numerous devices for exercising
her hands and arms Friends in the church
provided a hospitaltype bed radio and
other equipment for her comfort and enter
tainment J M Spinks an equipment de
signer supplied a set of bars with pulleys
and belts to enable her to elevate herself in
bed and reach articles on her bedside table
Rehabilitation plans call for spinal surgery
and additional treatment to advance her on
the road to recovery Meanwhile Lloyd had
recuperated to such an extent that he is able
to work parttime and help nurse his courag
eous little wife
These are just a few of the seriously dis
abled men and women receiving the services
of Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion
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By LILLIE MOSELEY
Reprint from Columbus Enquirer
Homebound persons under the supervision
of the Vocational Rehabilitation service are
proving a source of supply to the gift shop
at the Roosevelt Memorial near Warm
Springs
Ted R Owens counselor of the Columbus
office of the service cited several cases here
where patients confined to wheel chairs or
to beds are finding profitable employment
as well as moralebuilding recreation in
weaving pine needle mats and manufactur
ing other souvenir items for the shop
One of the shutins Miss Eloise Ussery
412 Broadway a young woman crippled at
an early age enjoys her work for the gift
shop as well as other odd tasks which keep
her busy and offer some remuneration She
exhibits a personality characterized by cheer
fulness and a vivid interest in many activities
Unable to walk and without full use of her
hands Miss Ussery supplies the gift shop
regularly with sets of the pine needle and
raffia mats which she weaves in sets of eight
for sale to tourists and souvenirseekers at
the famed Little White House
Etches Aluminum Trays
Other work at which Miss Ussery is em
ployed includes etching of aluminum trays
Perhaps the most busily occupied of dis
abled persons here who sell their wares at
the Roosevelt Memorial is R N Jones 2914
Seventeenth avenue who makes a wide
variety of articles in addition to those sought
by the gift shop A swift worker Mr Jones
makes quantities of the pine needle mats for
which the material comes from the area
near the Little White House
The mats in such wide demand are made
of pine needles bound into strands with
raffia of a different shade then rolled
strand upon strand until a mat tray or
basket is formed When the finished product
is shaped it is set with a coat of shellac
Miss Ussery reported that a matched set
takes about four days for her to complete
Mrs Jones mats suitable for hot dishes
and many other uses in the home vary in
shape and in design
Colorful Potholders
Mr Jones also makes colorful woven pot
holders of heavy cloth and leather belts and
billfolds for which he finds a market in sev
eral places
A third person unable to work regularly
at an outside job receives a regular income
from the aluminum ashtrays which he etches
with a replica of the Little White House and
sells in large numbers at the gift shop
Miss Fannie Mae McCullohs crafts in
structor here is employed by the Voca
tional Rehabilitation service to teach the
various occupations to homebound persons
and visits each patient regularly until they
become proficient in the craft to which they
are best adapted
In Great Demand
Services of such persons here were sought
by managers of the gift shop when the Me
morial was opened to the public some
months ago and the pine needle articles par
ticularly are in great demand there Mr
Owens reported
He also said that it was during the ad
ministration of the late President Roosevelt
himself crippled by infantile paralysis that
such rehabilitation for disabled persons
made progress
The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation
service seeks to train and secure employ
ment in another field for persons who be
come physically unable to continue in the
work for which they originally were fitted
Those who are able to work are thus trained
for sedentary work or some task to which
they are physically equipped
Homebound persons are furnished with
crafts instruction and are assisted in finding
a market for their wares for which they
receive some remuneration and which pro
vides them with pleasant occupations
Governor Herman Talmadge has named
Paul S Barrett State Director of Vocational
Rehabilitation State Chairman for the 1949
observance of National Employ The Physi
cally Handicapped Week October 28
The appointment was made following a
request from Vice Admiral Ross T Mc
Intire Chairman The Presidents Committee
on National Employ The Physically Handi
capped Week for a state organization to con
duct the annual employment effort in this
state
Several years ago Congress passed a reso
lution designating the first week in October
each year as NEPH Week and requesting the
President to issue suitable proclamations
The purpose is to focus the attention of
responsible community leaders on the desir
ability of using the developed abilities of
handicapped persons
Chairman Barrett has appointed a state
committee to plan and develop the program
in Georgia Representatives of public and
private agencies civic groups and other lead
ers will be urgd to organize programs in each
community with a view to carrying out the
purposes of NEPH Week
First TB Clinic
Fiftysix men and women who had recov
ered from tuberculosis attended at TB Re
habilitation Clinic in Savannah on June 27
29 to find out whether they needed any serv
ices offered by sponsoring agencies
The clinic was sponsored by the Chatham
Savannah Health Department and the Divi
sion of Vocational Rehabilitation with the
cooperation of the State Health Department
All persons with inactive tuberculosis in the
Savannah area were invited
This was the first of a series of such
clinics planned by the agencies in Georgia
Legion Schoolmasters
In the July issue of The Georgia Legion
naire Department Commander George
Hearn says
An eventful feature of the Department
Convention at Augusta was a significant
meeting occurring on the Friday morning
immediately prior to the opening of the for
mal Legion sessions An important new
landmark took permanent shape on the
Georgia horizon of our organization At
that time a group of representative leaders
long faithful in the forefront of every youth
program sponsored by the Legion welded
themselves together in a permanent and pow
erful force The efforts in Americanism
work school oratorical and essay contests
Boys State Junior Baseball G I educa
tion and a variety of similar projects gained
a new and valuable Legion affiliate and a
welcome addition to the Legion family was
born
This group perfected a permanent state
wide organization known as the Legion
Schoolmasters Association It is composed
of those who belong simultaneously to both
their local Legion Posts and to the Georgia
Education Association Each element will
gain strength from the other The Legion
will be enriched by affording an appeal to a
type of membership who otherwise might
not be attracted to our ranks The educators
gain a new powerful and militant ally in the
cause of improving our schools and advanc
ing the cause of a sound school system
The movement was initiated and vigor
ously pushed last year by my predecessor
Immediate Past Commander Erie Cocke Jr
Its leading spirit was a former fellowtowns
man of mine James J Segars whose ardent
service for the Legion dates to his discharge
from the valiant fighting in North Africa
where his gallant record as a combat officer
in General Pattons tank corps forms a
bright page in American military history
I deem it a piece of good fortune to fall
heir to such a worthwhile Legion institution
Segars is a Vocational Rehabilitation
Counselor in an Atlanta areaUpper LeftThree trainees at Griffin School of Barter
ing Atlanta At 16 Owensby Scott left Sardis lost a
leg as the result of a sawmill accident He had a mother
and three brothers dependent upon him In chair
Zimmie Lee Sutton Davisboro who has a deformity of
the spine and right Curtis Binns Atlanta who has a
congenital deformity of the right leg
Upper RightPatients at Battey State Hospital being
trained in tailoring by Grant Anderson
Lower LeftRuth Cosby Atlanta has recovered suffi
ciently from tuberculosis to go in training at Miltons
Barber School Atlanta
BelowScene in dressmaking class at Battey under in
struction of Willena Carter extreme right
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Georgia Department of Education
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Atlanta 3 Ga
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Homebound Persons Employ Time ProfitablyR N Jones left Columbus was Naval Stores Manager at Homerville
before being stricken by paralysis at the age of 53 He was trained to make pine needle mats colorful potholders leather belts
and billfolds by Miss Fannie Mae McCulIohs crafts teacher at Waverly Hall The pine needles are obtained from the Roose
velt Memorial Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation provided training services and materials He has a special apparatus
over his bed which enables him to pull up and occasionally get in a wheel chair but most of the time he works in bed Eloise
Ussery right Columbus had arthritis at the age of 4 causing deformity of hands knees and elbows She has spent most of
her 28 years in a wheel chair but managed to finish the tenth grade in Columbus schools She had never done any work
until after receiving training in handicrafts by Miss McCulIohs She makes mats trays and bun baskets which are distributed
through the Roosevelt Memorial and is learning to make aluminum sandwich trays with the use of an electric tool
See story on page 6
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Here are some scenes in the Georgia State Factory for the
Blind near Bainbridge
Top LeftA section of the Garnett machine which
processes cotton felt for mattresses
Top RightSighted women stitching ticking
LeftFay Butler of Clye and DeWitt Carter of Bruns
wick rolling mattress edges
Lower LeftFred Henson of Rome tufting a mattress
BelowScene in the broom factory
Other pictures on page 6
Blind Work In State Factory
The Army Air Base near Bainbridge long
dormant after the war is wide awake
and buzzing with activity again
Its turning out products of peace instead
of implements of war
Gone is the wartime atmosphere of swarm
ing planes uniformed men guards and guns
New industrial machines fill buildings
once occupied by equipment and tools to
keep the planes flying
Civilians now work and live and play
where soldiers trained for combat
The old facility came to life last June
when it was accepted as the site for the
Georgia State Factory for the Blind an in
stitution made possible by an Act of the
1949 General Assembly
With modern machinery sightless men
and women are making mattresses brooms
and mops In time it is expected other
lines will be added
The products are designed and manufac
tured to compete in open markets to sell
without charity appeals
Vaughn Terrell sightless superintendent
reports that through September 30 gross
sales amounted to more than 17500 At
that time they had nearly 8000 worth of
finished products in the warehouse and orders
for about 3000 worth of products to be
filled he said
At present the factory provides employ
ment and training opportunities for about
thirty persons placed there through Voca
tional Rehabilitation services Others will
be added to the working force when needed
to keep production in line with sales
To the casual observer there is little indi
cation that nearly all of the men and women
in the plant work in darkness
Some never have seen daylight Others
lost their sight after having had some job
experience on farms in factories or offices
But all have developed some skills a keen
sense of touch and direction that enabled
them to carry on like the more fortunate
workers in industry
They perform delicate manual operations
tend powerdriven machines and move from
one department to another with the confi
dence of sighted persons And they seem
to appreciate the pretty patterns of mattress
ticking and the bright colors on broom han
dles Their products theyll tell you are
the best made
The factory operates on a work schedule
like any other industry Griff Eastin blind
foreman in the mattress plant keeps time
starts and stops operations with such orders
as lets go rest period quitting time
In the mattress plant they make both in
nerspring and felt types in standard sizes
One building houses machinery for pro
cessing the cotton felt filling and tapeedg
ing the mattresses The Garnett machine
as it is called resembles a huge printing
NametheMattress Contest
Vaughn Terrell superintendent of Georgia State Factory for
the Blind is proud of the mattresses produced in the Bainbridge
plant
He believes that a good product should have a good name
one easy to remember and descriptive of the advantages of the
article
So he has announced an offer of twentyeight prizes in a wide
open contest for THE MOST APPROPRIATE NAME FOR THE
BEST INNERSPRING MATTRESS manufactured at the new
factory
The prizes
FirstAn innerspring mattress
SecondA felt mattress
Thirdone dozen brooms
Next 25One broom each
The judges will be the Board of Managers
The contest will close at midnight November 30 1949
All entries will become the property of the factory and none
will be returned
Suggested names should be sent to
The Georgia State Factory for the Blind
Box 291 Bainbridge Georgia
press Cotton felt fed into it moves over
conveyors and rollers and comes out in
smooth wide strips neatly folded for fitting
around the steel springs
In another building the ticking is cut by
hand and sewn on machines The rolledg
ing is done by hand When the mattress is
ready for tufting it is clamped in a big
frame while two workers using a big needle
put in the tufts
The broom and mop plant is some distance
from the mattress factory With power
driven machinery workers turn out about
ten different types of brooms and a standard
type mops The line includes brooms for use
in homes hotels and warehouses The broom
handles are painted by a dipping process
Some of the workers board in Bainbridge
Others have quarters in the Zachary Taylor
housing project near the plant They make
their own arrangements about transportation
between their homes and the factory
The institution is operated under the State
Department of Welfare and a Board of
Managers appointed by the Governor
The bill for the establishment of a plant
of this type was passed by the Legislature in
1937 but no appropriation was made at that
time for the acquisition of a site or the pur
chase of equipment and materials
During the 1949 session Vaughn Terrell
then a Representative from Floyd County
took the lead in passing the necessary legisla
tion to make the dream come true
The factory was opened officially on June
27 In an address on that occasion Gov
ernor Herman Talmadge said The utiliza
tion of the productive ability of the blind by
the establishment of this institution the
President Truman presented checks to five
teenage winners of the essay contest spon
sored by the Presidents Committee on Na
tional Employ the Handicapped Week at the
White House August 30
The first prize of 1000 donated by the
International Association of Machinists was
awarded to John R Shankey 6810 Thomas
Blvd Pittsburgh Pa
Other prizes offered by the Disabled
American Veterans were given to Mary
Ellen Edmonds 4130 East Fourth St Tuc
son Ariz 400 Howard Kight 1532 Lewis
St Charleston W Va and Betty Ann Far
rell 40 Laban St Providence R I 250
each in a tie for third place and Eugenie
Van Drooge Melwood Lane Westport
Conn 100
The Committee Chairman Vice Admiral
Ross T Mclntire announced the contest
winners
The contest was open to high school stu
dents The subject of the essays was Why
NOT Hire the Handicapped
Georgias competitor in the national event
was James H Alverson Jr of Atlanta a
senior at the Georgia Academy for the
Blind
Georgia State Factory for the Blind is the
greatest forward step towards making blind
people economically independent happy and
giving them an opportunity to lead a normal
life However it means more it is but the
beginning of a progressive move to enrich
this great State with greater industry and
increasing productionMabilitatioriiVews
Vol 5 SeptemberOctober 1949 No 4
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C k S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
While final figures on job placements during National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week October 28 are not yet available re
ports from all sections of Georgia reveal a gratifying and encouraging response
to the annual appeal on behalf of the nations disabled citizens
In a proclamation Governor Herman Talmadge called upon organiza
tions and individuals to carry forward the worthy purpose and economic
fiStow Ge 3 S maximum emPloyment to our physically handicapped
Mayors of cities and towns responded to the State committees request
tor similar proclamations and the appointment of local committees to carrv
out the program in their communities
Representatives of three State agenciesVocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion Georgia State Employment Service and Veterans Service Department
worked with local committees in the undertaking
Newspapers radio and television stations and motion picture theatres
ottered their facilities in focusing attention upon the objectives of the Week
Civic clubs invited NEPH Week Speakers to appear on their programs
ru Inanrfdituri1Uuder the caption Making Productive Workers of the
Physically Disabled the Atlanta Journal said in part Little short of miracu
lous is what is being done in Georgia to restore the producing and earning
power of physically handicapped persons In the last fiscal year 3 075 dis
abled civilians most of whom had been dependent on families or friends or
welfare agencies were placed in jobs where their annual earnings will be
equivalent to a payroll of 4400000 In only four other statesNew York
Illinois Michigan and Californiais that record surpassed and in few others
is it approached
nnThis issomething for Georgians to be proud of as they join in the
1949 national observance of Employ the Physically Handicapped Week
Georgia s aid to the physically handicapped is centered in the Vocational Re
habilitation Division of the State Department of Educationa very lone name
tor an altogether practical and humanhearted service
In the process of rehabilitation says Paul S Barrett director of the
division many are provided with medical and surgical services some with
artificial appliances others with vocational training in schools colleges and
industries All are given wise and sympathetic guidance
The great majority of the disabled men and women thus helped make
good in the factories stores offices and professions which employ them Thev
T lhent alert eager to prove their efficiencyIt is well that a week
uv Set aTpart t0 emPhasize the values and the blessings of vocational
rehabilitation In economics alone it repays many times over the Federal and
state funds allotted to its support while its moral returns are rich beyond all
measure
Similar editorial expressions appeared in other papers
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These three practical nurses who have
recovered from tuberculosis were trained
through Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices and are employed in the same insti
tutionthe ChathamSavannah Tubercu
losis Sanatorium Lefttoright they are
Mrs Mary Sanders Mrs Agnes Davis
and Mrs Felecia Nelson Three Negro
nurses who had the same type of service
also are employed there
Remember the Christmas Seal Sale
sponsored by the National Tuberculosis
Association begins November 21Tuberculosis Control High Points
By H C Schenck MD
Director Division of Tuberculosis Control
Georgia Department of Public Health
BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
The three high points in Tuberculosis
Control are 1 Case Finding 2 Isola
tion and Treatment 3 Rehabilitation
The person having tuberculosis not diag
nosed that is undiscovered constitutes a
hazard to himself to his family and to the
public He is losing the opportunity of hay
ing treatment and if he has the disease in
infectious stage he unknowingly endangers
other people including his loved ones
Although more than 3000 new cases are
diagnosed each year through the more than
300000 Xray examinations done annually
by physicians and local health departments
assisted by the State Health Department
this important phase needs to be more highly
developed
In many counties community wide surveys
have been and are being done where every
body is offered a free chest Xray and blood
test
Industrial surveys take the services into
industry and give each employee the same
opportunity
Schools and colleges have similar services
Regularly scheduled Xray clinics are in
operation in most of the counties to provide
followup service for known cases and their
contacts and for people with suspicious
symptoms
The ever growing discovery of new cases
justifies the estimate of there being ten active
cases for each annual death10000 cases
in the State
Fulton County for example had 189 re
ported deaths from tuberculosis last year
which means that Atlanta and Fulton County
must have 1890 active cases
Isolation and Treatment
The basic treatment in tuberculosis is rest
in bed and this means that each active case
must have a place in which he can rest
whether in a bed in a State hospital or in a
hospital in his community or in his home
As the State provides at the present time
beds for only about 1400 patients the rest
of the 10000 patients can have this basic
treatment of rest only in their homes which
is very satisfactory in many cases or in
places provided by the county or city gov
ernments
Facilities for care of patients and the
establishment of precautionary preventive
measures have been very greatly increased
above what were in effect a few years ago
when the entire tuberculosis problem was
twice as bad as it is today and when there
were less than 600 sanatorium beds in the
State
Special treatment when indicated is be
ing provided in greatly increased amounts
in State and local institutions and by prac
ticing physicians
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation in its broader aspects be
gins at the time the diagnosis is made and
involves 1 Getting patient to accept the
diagnosis and conditions brought about by
his illness 2 Readjustment of the patients
family to an understanding and an acceptance
of the new conditions 3 Making known
to the patient and family of the availability
of the services of various agencies
Vocational Rehabilitation
There are some patients who will not need
Vocational Rehabilitation services 1
Those who are under or above employment
age brackets 2 Those who can return to
former employment without assistance This
group includes professional workers tech
nicians office workers housewives and
domestics
There are some who will need only guid
ance and counseling in order to resume
their places in business This may involve
reassuring the patient of his ability to carry
on in his former occupation and erasing
any prejudice from the mind of the employer
about the ability of the patient to resume his
job and assuring the other employees of
their own safety
HELP STAMP OUT TB
Many others need all of the services
offered by Vocational Rehabilitationguid
ance counseling physical restoration train
ing and placement For instance a farm
hand or day laborer who cannot safely re
turn to his former job might be enabled to
make a comfortable living in a less hazard
ous occupation possibly in some form of
shop work
If it were found that he had some other
physical disability such as hernia Vocational
Rehabilitation could provide the necessary
surgical services before placing the former
patient in training for his new vocation
Then upon completion of training Voca
tional Rehabilitation would assist in finding
a suitable job
The responsibility for referring tubercu
lous patients for Rehabilitation Services rests
with the physician the sanatorium the social
worker and the public health nurse In order
to insure a successful Rehabilitation Pro
gram the referring of these patients at the
earliest possible moment is vitally important
Progress has been made Educational pro
grams have been responsible for the gains
that have been made Such programs must
be kept up in order that a thoroughly
awakened public will provide finally every
facility needed to bring tuberculosis under
complete control and to a more rapid end
Homemaking Department at Battey State Hospital Rome Shown are Virginia Moon
Mallie Naglich Dora Cochran and Jane Dover being given instruction by Miss AshworthRehabilitation Progress and Outlook
By G Lyle Belsley Commissioner for Special Services Federal Security Agency Washington D C
Excerpts from address at Vocational Rehabilitation Division Staff Conference
OCess is nnt cimnlp il
The rehabilitation process is not simple
It is a composite and a complex thing and
therefore not too readily understood by the
laymanor for that matter by some mem
bers of the several professions allied with us
in this work
The services of many agenciespublic
and privateare apt to be called into play
in a single difficult case We gain strength
and success by bringing together these pro
fessional resources for the solution of in
dividual cases But our strength lies in the
tact that through association with rehabili
tation cases the doctors the social workers
the vocational instructors the employment
service officialsall representing professions
in their own rightthereupon become our
allies and our spokesmen
Let us see to it that our relations with
these other groups are the best Let us
bring to them a sense of unity in working
tor the greatest wellbeing of disabled people
ihe rehabilitation counselor has the con
tinuing and culminating relation with the
handicapped client to be sure but he is also
one of a teamthe leader perhaps but not
the master
Having voiced this principle of teamwork
among many services it is especially appro
priate that I say something about the agency
ot the Federal government which has re
sponsibility for coordinating and integrating
relations with the states in virtually all of
the fields of service inherent to rehabilitation
namely the Federal Security Agency It
has as one of its constituents the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation from which comes
stimulation and assistance in the actual op
eration of the States rehabilitation programs
It contains also the Public Health Service
which is in close cooperation with the medi
cal profession at every level of Government
Our medical consultants in the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation come from the
Public Health Service
The Office of Education which renders
such valuable assistance to schools of all
kinds throughout the country is also a ma
jor unit of the Federal Security Agency It
supervises grantsinaid for vocational train
ing with which we are familiar
And through the Public Assistance Bureau
Lthe Scia Security Administrationan
other Federal Security Agency constituent
the Federal Governments advice and help to
the states m the administration of essential
welfare programs is made available on a
most effective basis
For the present although it may be
changed quite soonthe United States Em
ployment Service is in the Federal Security
Agency It has been recommended by the
President that this service only one of the
functions of which is to serve the handi
capped properly belongs in the Department
ot Labor But through long association with
our brethren in the Employment Service we
are sure that we can and will maintain the
same cordial and effective cooperative work
ing agreementswhen and if that transfer
is made
In my opinion it is impossible to over
emphasize the value of these Federal Se
curity Agency family relationships Its a
hopeful thing to have your rehabilitation
expert your medical expert your social
welfare worker and your educator all within
the same familyall under the same Fed
eral roof You can attain a degree of co
operation and effective services because of
this fact that could never be achieved in a
meeting of strangers
Let us hope that we can always have these
close and warm professional and adminis
trative relationships at the Federal level in
order to inspire and strengthen the similar
working arrangements on the State level
even though the members of the State fam
ily are by tradition close neighbors rather
than dwellers under one roof
With all these Federal resources within
the Federal Security Agency and with the
devoted effort of the men and women on the
State firing line we have been able to estab
lish an enviable record of success in the re
habilitation of handicapped people
Still that record falls short of the actual
need Taking counsel togetherboth within
the federal family and within the family of
the Stateswe have developed legislative
proposals which we hope and expect will be
effective in filling the present unmet needs
We have as our goal in Washington and
I am sure you have it also in Georgia and
each of the States the full meeting of the
needs of the handicapped who must have
rehabilitation services in order to discharge
the normal functions of life
As stated by Federal Security Adminis
trator Oscar R Ewing that goal is as fol
lows To rehabilitate the 250000 men and
women who become disabled through illness
or injury every year so that they can be
restored to the most nearly normal life and
work of which they are individually capable
To meet that goal many improvements
additions primarilyare needed
First and foremost in the opinion of those
whose lives are dedicated to the work of vo
cational rehabilitation is the need for more
rehabilitation centers I have in mind such
centers as the one operated by the State of
Virginia with Federal assistance at Fishers
ville Virginia
In this center many therapies counsel and
guidance services and a wide variety of
training can beand are beingprovided to
apowlng group of the most severely dis
abled men and women imaginable
In addition to rehabilitation centers there
is great need for more trained rehabilitation
workers We need more research to provide
the methods and techniques necessary to
solve the variety of different problems re
lated to disablement
We need extended authority to establish
new and more adequate programs of service
particularly for the severely disabled Basic
of course to meeting all these needs is suffi
cient money from Federal and State
sources and from the outpouring of volun
tary contributions
Needed services include greater help than
is now available in getting handicapped peo
ple started in suitable business enterprises
Expanded programs for the homebound and
sheltered workshops for those so severely
disabled that they cannot compete in the
normal labor marketall these are needed
here is strong need too for increased ad
justment services for the blind Additional
public funds will surely be required if all
these developments are to be realized
Expenditures for rehabilitation would be
well worthwhile if they merely typified our
American concern for people disadvantaged
through no fault of their own To my mind
the social values of rehabilitation outweigh
all others but it is highly significant to the
general public that the expansion of our ef
fort for the handicapped is a profitable
investment
For every Federal dollar spent in this
program ten are returned in the form of
increased tax dollars Over and above this
we gam increased national income This has
been estimated in excess of 900000000 for
rehabihtants of the first five years under our
TTJen JsIation the BardenLaFollette
Act of 1943
When the disabled person is rehabilitated
he becomes a producer and taxpayer He
becomes a man who can hold his head high
and his family together because he can fill a
useful place in the world of work
But while our StateFederal system of vo
cation rehabilitation for civilians still has
large unmet needs its established record
also reveals many gains in which we can take
pride
In the first five years under the strength
1943 nnrfUMZation which be8an in
1943 220000 disabled men and women have
been brought to successful rehabilitation
selfsustaining work in the proper occupa
tion and place That is a greater total than
was possible under limited authority during
the preceding twentythree years
And yet we are doing only onefifth of
the job that needs to be done and the se
verely disabled are the ones who suffer most
by this deficiency
Wenreo however improving In the fiscal
fnJ94u e established a new record of
53000 rehabihtants and for 1949 the num
ber should exceed 60000 The Georgia
share of these numbers is significant
The transfer indicated has been made
Future Returns Not Expenses Count
RV R P TUDACUTTT T CVL A
By B E Thrasher Jr State Auditor
Excerpts from address at Vocational Rehabilitation Division Staff
We should be proud of the fact that we
have one agency the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division in the State Government of
Ueorgia that ranks near the top among other
states in service
The Vocational Rehabilitation services in
Ueorgia are an outstanding example of what
can be expected in future returns for the
present expenditure of tax funds
When I first became connected with the
State Auditors office in 1927 this work
was carried on by the Industrial Rehabilita
tion Division of the Department of Educa
tion and expended only 33000 for the year
Conference Savannah
in attempting to rehabilitate some of the
unfortunate citizens in Georgia so that they
could earn a living in spite of their handi
caps
The number of persons who were given
limited assistance was about 200 a vear in
those daysI
Today with the expenditure of 1250000
a year of State and Federal funds 3075 dis
abled men and women were placed on jobs
this past year after receiving the benefits of
services such as physical restoration train
ing and guidance
This is a fair example of what I mean
when I say that it is not the amount of
expenditures of tax money today that counts
but the future returns in benefits received
from the expenditure of tax money
For the expenditure of this State and
Federal money disabled men and women
have been placed in positions where they
can earn approximately 4000000 a year
This rate of earning power will continue
year after year
Suppose their earning capacity on this
basis continued only for ten years This
would be a return of 40000000 in earning
power on the 1250000 investmenta very
nice investment
Over the period of years the program has
been in effect there have been more than
20000 disabled men and women rehabili
tated to the extent that they earn a living
and become independent rather than de
pendent on the government or their families
Even if these 20000 persons can earn
only an average of 1000 a year because of
this service this means a 20000000 a year
return from the investment
This annual return goes on from year to
year Multiply the 20000000 by ten or
twenty years and you see the result
This applies to practically every other
service that the State is rendering on behalf
of the people of the State
If 200 is the investment each year which
is twice the amount that is being expended
today on the education of a school child
for twelve years of education or an invest
ment of 2400 for the entire twelve years
of schooling this will enable that school
child when he becomes of age to increase
his earning capacity by the sum of 25 a
month for the remaining forty years of life
and you would have a return of 12000 for
the investment of the 2400
To say that an education will only in
crease the earning capacity of a person only
25 a month is ridiculously low however I
use that figure to show how very little bene
fits can be received from an education to
more than five times offset the cost
Is education a good investment I think
it is
You have the same situation in good roads
for the State
When you ride on a good road you pay
taxes on an average of onehalf cent a mile
for the privilege of riding on the road or
about 150 on a trip from Atlanta to Sa
vannah
Do you remember the time before good
roads
It would take you two days to drive from
Atlanta to Savannah On this trip you
would buy meals spend the night at a hotel
at a halfway point use onehalf again as
much gasoline put the car in the shop to be
practically reassembled from driving over
the rough roads and other items that would
cost too numerous to mention
Add up if you please the cost of the
extra days time the cost of the meals and
hotel the cost of repairs to car the cost of
extra gasoline
I believe you can safely say that by the
investment of the 150 you now make in
taxes for the trip you will save not less than
ten to fifteen dollars
Do good roads mean anything on that
basis I would say they do
Again I repeat that it is not so much the
amount of money that is expended today to
give you these services as it is the future
return from the investment of the money
On the Job TrainingDelos Killebrew seated of Cochran who had arthritis of
limbs is shown receiving instruction in watchmaking from J R Wilson in the A A
Friedman jewelry establishment in Macon
Institutional TrainingBelow Roger J Chambers Blairsville right who had
osteomyelitis at the age of 12 and now wears a builtup shoe receives a diploma in watch
repair at the North Georgia Trade and Vocational School Clarkesville from A P Jarrell
Assistant State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation In the background are J R Hamp
ton Counselor C C Clegg school director and Otis Dyer District supervisor
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
Buy Christmas Seals
In Factory for the BlindGeorge Ash below of
Bainbridge is shown sizing broom corn in the broom fac
tory RightWorker winding mops See story on page 3
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LeftThese two handicapped workers have
made good as employees of the Perm Waller
Lumber Company Savannah Thomas G
Wilder extreme left lost his right leg as
the result of a railroad maintenance car
wreck in 1926 Vocational Rehabilitation
assisted him in securing an artificial limb
John Shearouse yard foreman for the mill
has been without a right arm since birth
BelowMrs Ouida Graybill of Dublin
follows a nursing career in spite of defective
hearing She says her disability followed a
shock from lightning She wears a hearing
aid supplied through Vocational Rehabilita
tion services
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LeftJ A Howerton of Columbus is vigorous and happy in useful work
after winning his fight with tuberculosis Formerly a house painter he now
sharpens and repairs lawn mowers fixes bicycles in a little shop at his home
Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him in the purchase of tools and equipmentGeorgia Vocational Rehabilitation workers
played an important part in the annual joint
conference of the National Rehabilitation
Association and the States Council on Vo
cational Rehabilitation in San Antonio
Texas on November 610
The National Rehabilitation Association
comprises some twelve thousand professional
workers and others interested in the nations
disabled citizens The States Council is com
posed of eightyseven directors of general
rehabilitation agencies and agencies for the
blind It is the official advisory body to the
Federal Security Agencys Office of Voca
tional Rehabilitation on policies and proced
ures in the rehabilitation of disabled men and
women
State Director Paul S Barrett Association
President presided at general sessions and
the annual banquet His annual report
showed substantial progress had been made
during the year in the associations program
in the interest of the nations handicapped
citizens
A L Davis assistant director in charge
of field services was named membership
chairman for 194950
A P Jarrell assistant director in charge
of technical services was a member of the
program committee for the San Antonio
meeting
Dr Thomas P Goodwyn of Atlanta the
Divisions medical consultant gave an illus
trated lecture on Orthopedic Treatment of
Severely Handicapped Individuals using
pictures and material from Georgia case
records
More than four hundred delegates repre
senting both public and volunteer agencies
Convention HighspotMeritorious Service Award being presented to John
Kratz right rear Associate Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
by Claud M Andrews Florida Vocational Rehabilitation Director Others
shown are left Paul S Barrett Georgia State Director of Vocational
Rehabilitation and President of NRA G Lyle Belsley Commissioner of
Special Services FSA and Dr L B Harmon Utah Director of Vocational
Rehabilitation and Presidentelect of the Association
in the fortyeight states Puerto Rico and
Hawaii attended the convention
In addition to the general sessions sec
tional conferences were held for discussion
of technical rehabilitation problems in con
nection with specific types of disabilities
such as sight hearing and speech defects
Speakers and discussion leaders included
noted specialists in physical and mental dis
abilities as well as representatives of rehabili

tation agencies
A highspot of the meeting was the presen
tation of the NRA annual awards for meri
torious service in the field of rehabilitation
This years awards went to John Kratz of
Washington associate director Office of Vo
cational Rehabilitation a pioneer in the
service who is well known to Georgia
workers and to Dr John J Lee of Detroit
professor of special education at Wayne
University a former state director of Voca
tional Rehabilitation and president of the
National Society for Crippled Children and
Adults
At the closing session of NRA the presi
dentelect Dr L B Harmon of Salt Lake
City Utah State Director of Vocational
Rehabilitation was installed as president and
J J Brown of Austin Texas State Director
of Vocational Rehabilitation was name1
presidentelect
The NRA meetings were preceded by ses
sions of the States Council J Hank Smith
of Nashville Tenn was elected council
chairman He is Tennessee State Director of
Vocational Rehabilitation and succeeds P G
Sherer of Columbia S C
Our big aim during next year Mr
Smith said will be to further the progress
of vocational rehabilitation toward attain
ment of our national goal of 250000 rehabili
tations a year We will work closely with
the Federal Agency and with all states to
bring the best and most economical service
to our disabled people and thus to restore
them to selfsupporting status
State director J J Brown convention host
and his associates labored unceasingly in
providing for the convenience and entertain
ment of their guests
Overseas Delegates Welcomed M J
Shortley left director Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation greets Manuel Hernandez
center Puerto Rico Director of Vocational
Rehabilitation and M O Ekern Hawaii Di
rector of Vocational RehabilitationAckabilitatiotvjVews
Vol 5 NovemberDecember 1949 No 5
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phoue 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
What Others Say
Through their editorial and news columns Georgia newspapers always
have given support and cooperation to our Vocational Rehabilitation
program They have shown a clear understanding of its objectives and pride
in its accomplishments in behalf of the states handicapped citizens In con
nection with the recent National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week
observance they ran true to form
In this column and elsewhere in this issue of the News we are reprinting
excerpts from just a few editorials which appeared in the press during NEPH
Week
The Augusta Herald It has been found from actual experience that
because a man is blind because he has lost a limb or has suffered other
physically disabling handicaps is no reason for him to be looked upon as use
less in a mechanized and modernized world
If we look back through history and evaluate the accomplishments of the
physically handicapped we will see that they as a group have contributed
more per capita to the elevation of civilization than any other class of
individuals
They have done this in spite of the attitude of a public that marks them
down as useless before they have been given a chance to prove their worth
These individuals who have contributed so much to the common good
have succeeded in doing so in spite of the dual handicap of being crippled
and of having an indifferent public brand them as of no account
They have not had a way offered them as most of the physically perfect
have had They have had to make a way of their own and travel through the
thorns of pains and the bitterness of tears
In recent years the Federal Government and the state governments
through vocational schools for the handicapped and through placement services
has brought many of these citizens into the useful life they have longed to live
These efforts are not enough More of the warmblooded friendly type
of mantoman cooperation is needed to perfect the setup which has had such
a good start
The public needs to realize that the most accomplished artisans are those
who take inordinate pride in their work and there is no person who takes more
pride in the product of his mind than the handicapped man There is no greater
loyalty to the man or firm who gives him a chance than that which comes from
the heart of one who is handicapped
We should not fool ourselves Nine times out of ten we are not only
benefitting the handicapped person whom we hire we are benefitting ourselves
far more
When a handicapped man or woman declares that he or she can do a
certain task the chances are that they excel at it These folks dont tell you
they can do something unless they know they can do it
The most perfect flowers this writer has ever seen come from the brush
of an artist were painted by a painter who had only the rudiments of hands
and arms
There is nothing these people cannot do and there is nothing they will
not do to help you if you are the one to give them a chance to take care of
themselves
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Thank you Augusta Herald
Christmas card and tree light sales bring
extra profits to operators of vending stands
for the blind Taking advantage of oppor
tunities for the sale of seasonal merchan
dise is part of the training received by the
men and women placed in these business
enterprises R E Lee visually handi
capped employee in the State Office Build
ing stand is shown selling greeting cards
to Mrs Sylvia Thomas Intangible Tax
Division employee4
By Robert Ramspeck Vice Chairman Presidents Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week
Executive Vice President Air Transport Association of America and Former Member of Congress Fifth Georgia District
Excerpts from Address Before National Rehabilitation Association
ROBERT RAMSPECK
It is still too early to predict with positive
certainty the specific results of the recent ob
servance NEPH Week but the information
and educational program of members of the
Presidents Committee and the many other
groups the past two years has certainly paid
off in public opinion
At the Committees request the American
Institute of Public Opinion conducted a sur
vey They found out that 66 percent of the
public thought handicapped workers were
better than the nonhandicapped and 22
percent classed them as equally as good
Only 7 percent considered them poorer work
ers and 3 percent had no views On the
question as to whether the public would have
any objections to hiring a qualified disabled
person 88 percent said they would have no
objection
These figures should provide a tre
mendous spiritual lift for they prove as
conclusively as polls can prove anything
that the general public is sold on the thesis
that its good business to hire the handi
capped If it is good business to hire these
men and women then it must be equally
good business and good common sense for
you to make possible this employment with
necessary rehabilitation
The fact that 88 percent of our population
believe that handicapped workers as either
equal or superior to the nonhandicapped is
good news to all of us It proves that proper
education and information provide the neces
sary indoctrination so necessary in a democ
racy before the formation of considered
opinions And the fact that such a large
percentage of Americans would themselves
be willing to employ handicapped workers is
additional good news to those of us who are
striving to increase and multiply employ
ment opportunities for the handicapped
I mention this survey because it is one
of the many acts of assistance to the experts
in the field of employment and rehabilitation
which were made possible by the Presidents
Committee backed by the power and prestige
as well as the personal interest of the Presi
dent himself
The sole criteria of our activities is whether
they help the handicapped to help themselves
Along with this we know that when we help
the employment service or the vocational
rehabilitation agencies or the Veterans Ad
ministration we are helping the handicapped
The sole purpose of our efforts is to
create a climate in which employers will
accept the handicapped for their abilities
and for the knowledge and skills which they
possess I am sure that is also the purpose
of your Association
I believe we can say without fear of con
tradiction that there exists today a vastly
improved attitude on the part of employers
particularly with regard to certain types of
disabilities We have generally broken down
the bars for amputees and those with ortho
pedic disabilities
However preemployment examinations
are today revealing the existence of disabili
ties which were long believed to be of minor
occupational significance It is my opinion
that we still have a great deal of education
to accomplish in areas such as the probable
effect of minor physical disabilities or chronic
illness on employment
While not traditionally regarded as handi
capped too many job applicants are still re
jected for jobs by an unrealistic and rigid
medical examination Great progress has
been made on this score but the need for
more realistic physical standards is still
apparent
During the past few years NEPH Week
activities have brought into bold relief a
large number of physically handicapped per
sons hitherto believed to be unfeasible or
impossible of assimilation into the labor
force These men and women need real
assistance in assisting them for useful occu
pations
The experience of the United Mine Work
ers Health Welfare and Retirement Fund
further reveals the existence of a great many
severely handicapped persons who can profit
from the services of Vocational Rehabilita
tion May I recommend to you in your fu
ture plans that you give increasing emphasis
to preparing these severely handicapped per
sons in order that they might take their
appropriate place in our social and economic
life
The advances of recent years in the tech
niques of selective placement have indicated
without question that a great many persons
with minor as well as severe types of disabili
ties can take their proper place in business
and industry without the necessity of exten
sive and costly rehabilitation service
These men and women need only voca
tional counsel or a helping hand in clearing
the way for them to take a place on indus
trys pay roll To neglect the seriously handi
capped who have no opportunity and little
present capacity for useful employment and
to put emphasis on those who need only a
helping hand to my way of thinking is not
sound governmental practice
The Presidents Committee stands ready
to do everything in its power to help you in
clearing the way for useful and remunerative
occupations to those you fit or otherwise
prepare for gainful employment
the statistics with which we work
sometimes seem to me to be cautiously con
servative with regard to those people who
could be employed after rehabilitation And
by employment I mean sheltered employ
ment if that is all that many of them can
participate in
We must continue to have the vision and
the courage to continually raise our sights
and to help those who need help most
Rehabilitation A Basic Right
By J H Bond of Dallas
Regional Representative Federal Security Agency
Excerpts of Address before National Rehabilitation Association
In spite of the inspiring advances which
have resulted through the application of
science and technology the unequal burdens
resulting from physical or mental impair
ments continue to deprive the disabled of the
full benefits of society
Not only do the handicapped face the tre
mendous problems of personal and social
adjustment which stem from being handi
capped they have in a very large part been
restricted in securing medical diagnosis and
care education vocational training and jobs
through which they can adjust themselves
to an economy based more and more on in
come from a pay check
We sustain nearly a hundred thousand
accidents a year in industry alone You know
better than I do that even with the increasing
annual expenditures for rehabilitation we
have not yet even touched more than a frac
tion of the problem
A right is not a sterile and abstract idea
Unless it can be implemented it is meaning
less The right of the handicapped to re
habilitation is basic to the exercise of a whole
gamut of other rights such as useful em
ployment personal development and the en
joyment of the esteem to which these rights
and many others entitle us
The structure of industry today is such
that it lends itself more than ever to the
effective employment of people having dis
abilities The great range of occupations
the rapidly improving conditions of all types
of employment and the subdivision of work
in modern industry all open new and greater
opportunities for the selective placement of
physically handicapped
It is a conclusively established fact demon
strated over a period of years that every
dollar invested in rehabilitation is returned
to our economy thirtyfold Good business
then is aiso an aspect of our brand of reha
bilitation and the fact that there is no in
vestment which yields such immediate and
rich return is only further proof that in our
society the best possible business is an in
vestment in the peopleX

To Georgias Disabled Citizens
And to the Staff Members of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and
Cooperating Agencies who have served them so faithfully unselfishly and
well I extend heartiest greetings and wishes for Godspeed in this great and
noble enterprise of practical benevolence as befits the spirit of fellowship
and everlasting brotherhood which is the glorious symbol of our blessed
Christmas season
M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Christmas
1949
ia
Paul S Barrett State Director of Voca
tional Rehabilitation
Dr M D Collins State Superintendent
of Schools
C W Bell Waycross Vocational Re
habilitation Counselor
Dr G Frank Jones Augusta District
Medical Consultant
Dr O F Keen Macon District Medical
Consultant
Dr Wade R Bedingfield Augusta
Dr Walter Brown Savannah
Dr W O Bedingfield Savannah
Dr D L Burns Valdosta
Dr J K Burns Gainesville
Dr James L Campbell Valdosta
Dr Arthur W DeLoach Waycross
Association
Dr R B Gottschalk Savannah
Dr W G Hamm Atlanta
Dr J P Hitchcock Augusta
Dr G H Lang Savannah
Dr A G Little Valdosta
Dr B H Minchew Waycross
Dr James W Pilcher Louisville
Dr C E Rushin Atlanta
Dr W B Schaefer Toccoa
Dr H A Seaman Waycross
Dr Leo Smith Waycross
Dr Sam W Talmadge Athens
Dr D B Terry Homerville
Dr Russell Thomas Americus
Dr Peter B Wright Augusta
J P Lucas Atlanta
Business Grows
Blind operators of thirtytwo vending
stands in Georgia public buildings institu
tions and industries last year sold more than
267000 worth of soft drinks confections
packaged foods and tobacco products the
annual audit revealed
Four years ago there were only fifteen
stands in operation and the gross volume of
sales amounted to only 75079
During the four year period the sales
volume per stand has increased from 5005
to 8347 and the gross profits from 1367
to 1945 per stand
The purpose of the vending stand program
is to provide employment for blind persons
who can be taught business enterprise man
agement and merchandising methods
In developing the program the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division has the aid of the
Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind
Inc a nonprofit organization which finances
the purchase of initial stocks for the stand
operators Present officers and directors are
President Clarence E Elsas Atlanta Vice
President Ben Gordon Atlanta Hughes
Spalding Atlanta Norman Elsas Atlanta
Frank Neely Atlanta Wiley Moore Atlanta
George Craft Atlanta Allen Albert Atlanta
Elliott Dunwoody Macon Kirk Sutlive Sa
vannah and Ed Davidson Columbus
Most of the stands are located in post
offices court houses and hospitals Any in
dustrial plant which employs two hundred
or more persons is a potential location for
one of these small business enterprises
Two Honored
The Griffin Daily News will receive a
National Citation from the American Le
gion in recognition of outstanding contribu
tions to the program for employment of
handicapped Veterans it was announced
recently
Quimby Melton Sr publisher and Quimby
Melton Jr editor of the paper will accept
the award at a dinner sponsored by the
American Legion Department of Georgia on
December 19 The special citation is given
by authority of the National Executive
Committee
Publisher Meltons interest in Georgias
disabled citizens has not been confined to
Veterans alone He has employed several
handicapped civilians and given strong sup
port to the Vocational Rehabilitation pro
gram through the editorial and news columns
of his progressive daily paper
It also has been announced that U S
Senator Walter F George will receive the
Distinguished Service Award of the Ameri
can Legion Department of Georgia on De
cember 15 in recognition of his outstanding
services during his twentythree years in the
Senate
Through the years Senator George has
been a stanch friend of Vocational Rehabili
tation services and vocational education and
merits the honors bestowed upon him
NRA BroadcastTaking part in an
informal discussion of vocational re
habilitation at the San Antonio con
ference were from left G Lyle
Belsley Commissioner of Special Ser
vices Federal Security Agency M J
Shortley Director Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation and Hank Smith Ten
nessee Director of Vocational Rehabil
itation and new chairman of the States
CouncilHere are some more excerpts from edi
torials which appeared in Georgia news
papers during NEPH Week
Atlanta Constitution Georgia too fre
quently way down on the list of states in
the enumeration of various accomplishments
has a record in one field of which we should
all be proud
Last year on a per capita basis only rich
progressive Delaware did a better job of
rehabilitating the physically handicapped
than Georgia Our total of 3075 disabled
citizens restored to productive activity was
exceeded only by California Michigan Illi
nois and New York all with considerably
higher populations
Georgias good record is due largely to the
splendid and continuing efforts of the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division of the State
Department of Education But it has had
as it must havethe close cooperation of
the business leaders of the State
The 3000 physically handicapped Geor
gians rehabilitated last year have been turned
in most instances from economic liabilities
into producing assets More than 2200 of
them previously were dependent upon their
families or various welfare agencies Now all
are selfsupporting earning an aggregate of
nearly 4500000 annually
Rehabilitation of the physically handi
capped is a good investment for the Gov
ernment
Hiring them is a good idea for business
Properly trained a physically handicapped
person is capable not only of doing a job
equally as well but more often than not he
makes a more stable employee
More and more employers are learning by
experience the truth underlying the slogan
It Pays to Hire the Handicapped
Columbus Ledger It is old stuff that
the average disabled person works harder
more loyally and more dependably than his
opposite number who has all his faculties
Hiring the handicapped should not be
considered a civic responsibility or a charit
able gesture Most employers have found it
is good business Others are urged to con
sider it on that basis just now as the labor
market opens up during the autumn rush
The pool of available disabled persons
including veterans is large and now is the
time to help them become selfsustaining
When they earn they spend pay taxes build
up their own security and propel themselves
along in a cycle of activity that is good
for all
Cobb County Times Purpose of the
NEPH week is to enlist public support for
a continuous program aimed at maximum
employment and full use of the capacities
and skills of physically handicapped workers
The point is that the average handicapped
person does not want sympathy or charity
What he wants is a chance to prove that
he can deliver the goods if given a job that
fits his skills
Everyone of us knows persons with physi
cal handicaps who are delivering the goods
in a way that puts to shame some workers
whose limbs and senses are unimpaired
BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
Many handicapped young women are finding beauty culture a profitable
vocation Here Carrie Lyde who recovered from tuberculosis is shown in
training at Madam Freemans Beauty School in Savannah
HELP STAMP OUT TB
Three practical nurses who recovered from tuberculosis and were trained
through Vocational Rehabilitation services are now employed at the Chat
hamSavannah Tuberculosis Sanatorium They are from left Julia Collier
Pinkie Turner and Janie VerdreeDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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to complete my college education but lthrenue
ing me unable to do the type of work I had TnieTnToing I
was about to give up and drop out of scnool
I heard about the rehabilitation program ana how i
had helped others with haridcaps I applied for aid ana
since I have been recieving it I am able to uo a more efi
tive work and my health has Uen oetter
The advantages of the Vocational Rehabilitation pr
ram in Georgia are many and I want you to Know that I am
most appreciative of what it has none for me
Sincerely
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Artistic Beauty Wins Over
It takes more than physical disability to
stop a person determined to get ahead
A beautiful 28yearold Columbus career
woman is proof of that She became an
artist despite a hand that has been nearly
useless since infancy She also models
fashions in one of Columbus largest depart
ment stores
She is Miss Augusta Stephenson 825
Second Avenue who became physically
handicapped before she was a year old when
she crawled to the family hearth upset a
kettle and doused herself with boiling water
Her life hung in the balance for weeks
Doctors expected that if she lived her
right hand would come unjoined at the
wrist She survived but the fingers of her
right hand were certain doctors said to
remain halfclosed for life
It was 25 years later in November 1946
that an operation was performed which
gave me much greater use of my fingers
she said
The Vocational Rehabilitation division of
the State Department of Education directed
here by T R Owens provided the operation
They also gave her 20 weeks of training in
art school
Miss Stephenson overcame the extreme
sensitiveness a young girl feels about any
physical blemish Combined with her own
singleminded determinationand hard work
the operation and art training enabled her
to achieve her lifelong ambition to be an
artist
Today she works as a display artist and
stylist She also models clothes in fashion
shows
BY WILLIAM ROWE
In Columbus LedgerEnquirer
The Vocational Rehabilitation division
allotted to her case 273 for a plastic surgery
to remove scar tissue that bound her fingers
closed New skin was grafted onto her right
arm wrist and fingers The doctors could
have given her straight fingers that would
have been forever stiff and useless
Instead they left the fingers slightly bent
and she has learned to use them with
dexterity
Along with training for the art field she
wanted to enter she also was furnished with
supplies equipment and encouragement That
was all she needed Although it was hard
for her to do as well as girls who were not
handicapped she did better
My mother taught me to sew with my
bent fingers when I was nine years old and
I began making my own dresses she re
called Since then I have been keenly in
terested in tailoring and designing clothes
Born in Phenix City Ala she has lived
all her life there and in Columbus except for
a few years on a farm 15 miles from Colum
bus in Harris county where she attended
Mountain Hill high school After studying
dressmaking and tailoring at the Occupa
tional school she worked at a Fort Benning
tailor shop a hosierymaking mill and was
in charge of the vest department in a plant
that tailored mens suits
But the thing she wanted most was to be
an artist She sought aid from the Voca
tional Rehabilitation division in August
1946 and the operation on her hand fol
lowed in November in Atlanta After taking
the cast off her arm five weeks later she
took a job as sales clerk in the department
store where she now works
I was a clerk during the day and I went
to art school here at night That took up
most of my time but I thought I was going
in the right direction
The art training finally opened the way
for her to enter the stores display depart
ment Now she is in the work she loves
most using her oncelame fingers to sketch
fashions and display ideas working with
such display props as moose heads rubber
apples and oranges shocks of corn Hallo
ween pumpkinseverything that goes into
window displays or ties in fashions with the
seasons
Its like being backstage in a theater
she said enthusiastically Its utterly fasci
nating Theres never a dull moment in this
business Its a lot of fun to try to make
things interesting for shoppers
Athletic and selfreliant Miss Stephenson
believes that you get along better if you
dont worry and that if you keep busy you
cant worry
She likes ballroom dancing and listening
to semiclassical music She plays on the
stores girls basketball team and Ive just
started another hobbystamp collecting
that gives me about a dozen hobbies I like
to be doing something Its the best way to
keep cheerful
Not content with what she has accom
plished despite her handicap she is de
termined to go further in her field
Theres one thing Ive got a singletrack
mind aboutdetermination Its the only
way I know to accomplish the things you
want to achieve
Iiss Augusta Stephenson shown left Decorating golden chair center Dressing Model and right Sketching Mannikins Eyebrow LineAcKabilitatiorvAfews
Vol 5 JanuaryFebruary 1950 No 6
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department o Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 154 5
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany 213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
Inspiring Letters
Theres a constant source of inspiration in the letters we receive from men
and women who have been helped over lifes hurdles by Vocational Re
habilitation services
They come from civilians in all walks of life from members of all religious
faiths and both races from successful business and professional people who
still remember those who aided them in time of need from students in schools
and colleges from trainees in shops and industries from clerks and stenog
raphers and from workers in stores and factories
Some are neatly typed on good quality stationery others laboriously writ
ten on cheap paper
Each tells a different story in different words stories of crippling diseases
deformities and accidents stories of courage and fortitude of hopes and am
bitions of uphill fights to reach or regain their goalseconomic independence
But through all of them runs the same golden tread of gratitude Theres a
rather familiar pattern
Without your help I never would have been able to earn a living
Words cannot express my appreciation
The expressions of these Georgia folks couldnt be more sincere if they
had been aided by private charities instead of public funds under a democratic
government
They tug at the heart and make us happy that we have the privilege of
helping to bring this service to those who need it
In this issue of the NEWS we are reproducing with permission of the
clients just a few of the letters and excerpts from letters we have received
Some of them you will notice are from workers who are still following
the vocations in which they were trained years ago
We want you to get a more intimate insight into the lives the problems
and the attitudes of these men and women
We want you to share the inspiration with us

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Hardman Hall
Athens Georgia
Dear Mr Nolan
Just a line to let you hear from me I realize that
I should have written you sooner but at the time being
time seems to catch up with me too often
I have taken my office and am doing fine so for I
would like to say that my tralnlngtaken at the Athens
Business College under the Rehabilitation Is and will
be a great aset to me In My work
My leg seems to be doing fine and I believe that
It will continue to Improve I wish to thank you and
the Vocational Rehabilitation for the snlendld aid you
have given me In so many various wiys and In your fine moral
support
truly
Lost his leg in gunshot accident
elected County Tax Receiver and given
special training before taking office

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The Meigs Watchmaker Story on Page 3LeftErnest Alloway 31 right of Rome
has no legs but he looks forward to a successful
career as an auto parts mechanic He is shown
in training with Harry Salmson coowner of
Harrys Auto Parts Company The bench was
designed and built to enable him to work in a
sitting position Alloways legs were crushed
under a tree while cutting timber in Floyd
County They were amputated in an emergency
operation Vocational Rehabilitation provided
plastic surgery to make the stumps less liable
to injury and clear up some ulcers Alloway
now uses a wheel chair and may in time be
able to wear artificial limbs
Center at rightHarold Coile 19 wears a
realistic artificial eye and is the highlyregarded
secretary to Bryant Smith left of the Athens
Tire Rubber Company Athens He lost an
eye in an air rifle accident in 1936 However
he graduated with honors at Colbert High
School Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him
with a business course and he was soon placed
in his present position
BelowThese two sisters Misses Ruby and
Lessie White members of a Bulloch County
farm family had congenital harelips left
Through Vocational Rehabilitation services
they were provided with the necessary surgery
to correct the disabilities They manage a farm
and take part in community activities

The young man at the watchmakers
bench turned a radiant face
You dont know how happy I am
he exclaimed
With a note of triumph in his voice
he continued I made 25 last week
I am 29 years old and this is the first
money I ever earned in my life No
longer will I be dependent upon rela
tives
Thomas Edgar Golden was report
ing to Vocational Rehabilitation Coun
selor F E Wynn on his first weeks
operations as proprietor of a watch re
pair shop in one corner of the J L
Carter Company store at Meigs in
Thomas County
That was last September Now his
weekly earnings range up to about 40
and doubtless will increase as he be
comes better known in the community
Edgar Goldens story is one of the
most inspiring in the annals of Geor
gias Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices
An orphan at 9 through the death
of both parents in one year Edgar
lived with an older brother Russell
Golden and attended school at Och
lochnee until he reached the seventh
grade Then he was stricken with an
illness which left his spine impaired
and his legs useless
For more than thirteen years the
helpless youth had to be carried about
the house and neighborhood in the
arms of his brother or friends
Russell Golden was willing to do
everything he could to help his disabled
brother But his means were limited
and he had a family of his own to
support
Medical services for Edgar were be
yond reachor so it seemed
To acquaintances the boy seemed
doomed to spend the rest of his life
as an invalid
In 1945 the case was called to the
attention of Vocational Rehabilitation
by the Department of Welfare
At 25 Edgar weighed only 85
pounds was 5 ft 2 in in height and
could not stand without assistance Ar
rangements were made by the Coun
selor who at that time was E W
Able to have the crippled youth ex
amined by specialists
An orthopedist recommended a
spinal graft An opthalmologist dis
covered Edgar had defective vision
20 percent loss of sight in one eye
in addition to other disabilities
Edgar was sent to a hospital for the
spine operation After surgery he was
fitted with special braces extending
from armpits to feet and provided with
crutches and glasses
These pictures show Robert Edgar Golden soon after he was referred to Vocational
Rehabilitation for assistance
It was months before he could take
a step even with braces and crutches
Meanwhile there had been numerous
discussions between Counselor and
client about vocational preferences and
trade training
As an invalid Edgar had learned to
knit just to pass away the dreary hours
he had to spend in a chair or bed He
also liked to tinker with clocks and
watches A test indicated he had un
usual aptitude for delicate mechanical
operations such as required in repair
ing watches
In the spring of 1948 Edgar was
strong enough to walk with the aid of
crutches and to transport himself in a
wheel chair So he was enrolled in the
watch repair class at the North Georgia
Trade Vocational School near
Clarkesville
It took real courage for this boy
who had been reared in a level section
of the state to stick out twelve months
in the mountains of north Georgia
says Counselor Wynn
All during his training period he
kept up his contagious smile and co
operated with instructors school offi
cials and Counselors Finally his de
termination won out and he received
a certificate in watch repair
But there remained other hurdles
to be cleared before the young man
could be selfsupporting in the trade he
had learned under difficult conditions
No openings could be found for
him in Thomasville Some employers
seemed to think he couldnt do the
work required in their shops Others
felt there would be added responsibili
ties for his transportation to and from
the shop
It was a discouraging situation But
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors
and their clients are accustomed to
facing obstacles and overcoming
them
It seemed evident Edgar could find
employment only in a shop of his own
Butwhere
His sister Mrs Roy A Long lives
a few miles from Meigs An investiga
tion showed there was no watch re
pair shop in that community and that
there was enough potential business
in the area to make one a profitable
venture
Through J L Pilcher arrangements
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Vol 5 MarchApril 1950 No 7
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAniar 1545
Gaftiesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Ilardinan Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross100 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Amerieus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
By Oscar R Ewing Federal Security Administrator
Excerpts from address before National Conference on Workmens Compensation
and Vocational Rehabilitation
luring the first 23 years of its operation this program Vocational Rehabili
tation was able to rehabilitate only some 210000 men and womenput
them back on their feet so they once more could earn their own living and con
tribute to the productive capacity of the nation During the past six years alone
since the program was extended under the BardenLaFollette Act of 1943
we have been able to rehabilitate well over 280000 And during the past year
we hit a record high of nearly 60000 rehabilitations
This means in a nutshell that we have done a third more work in prac
tically a quarter of the time
Inis 15Very substantial accomplishment But it does not yet even begin
to fall the bill We are still meeting only a part of the need There is a backlog
of at least a million and a half to 2 million seriously crippled and handicapped
persons to whom these services should be made available And every year
another quarter million or thereabouts join the ranks of these men and women
to themVe mCt dlsasterwho have every need for our services and every right
Of course as in almost every public service the problem is primarily money
the work we do is sharply limited by the amount of Federal and State funds
that are made available And generous as Congress and the States have been
we still have only one dollar for every five we could effectively put to work
hven so we are constantly developing our techniques and stepping up the
effectiveness of our rehabilitation services More and more basic medical and
surgical care requires the services of skilled specialists In many cases it is vital
that the patient be hospitalized so that he may get all the modern methods of
diagnosis and treatment a wellorganized hospital can offer
Beyond this the primary physical restoration of the patient is often a long
hard pull involving difficult techniques of physical therapy Some form of
psychiatric treatment is often necessary The fitting of braces and other artificial
appliancesand teaching the patient how to adjust himself to their usealso
requires painstaking attention
In addition the specific training to equip a person for a job he is capable
of handling demands highly specialized service And so do the counselling and
guidance needed to enable him to pick the right jobthe job best suited to his
capacities Finallyand of key importancecomes the hardplugging effor
often necessary to enable him to get and hold that job
l abilitation program covers a much wider area of need than that
presented by the field of industrial accidents This conference is dealing with a
She0ioehmThanCritlC 3nd PItant Problem Ad yet accidents and injuries
r Pt eitkr WJlly r partially covered by workmens compensa
tionrepresent only around 5 percent of the total problem of disability
waom nnHfntSi0f 3l1 kindsincluding those in the home or on the high
way or in public placesrepresent only around 10 percent of the problem
Jre rehrMVlmmg Ty f the Cases we deal withr ould deal S
and oh I CaUSed by 1 frm f serious chronic disease r by mental
diseaS imPairments that in large measure have their roots in aX chronic
This vast area of chronic illness and disability is what presses so relentlessly
on our program of rehabilitation These chronic disability cases are not
f nfChalege1t ou Programand no less a responsibilitythan the vic
tims of industrial accidents or injuries For without ignoring humanitarian con
siderations our main objective is to restore to disabled workers some measure
of productive capacity to prevent their becoming a burden on the productive
capacity of others And it makes no difference to our national economyo lo
the economy of a particular business or industrywhether a worker is disabled
by a heart attack or by crushing his hand in a machine disabled
We are making the most of all existing facilities including those of the manv
voluntary agencies in this field But we do not have a tenth of the properiv
equipped properly staffed rehabilitation centers we desperately Jed We
need them in both big and small industrial communities And we need to take
care of the accidents and chronic illnesses that happen on the farm
We are particularly concerned to promote a more rapid expansionof our
hospitals In spite of the progress since Federal help was authorized we stil
need hospitals badlyparticularly in the many areas where they are eithe
pitifully inadequate or completely nonexistent yWINS OUT
Personable Howard Pierce at 22 is
the proud proprietor of a thriving
grocery business in an attractive white
building adjoining his home at 1600
Moreland Ave SE Atlanta
Those who know his story think
hes lucky to be alive
Four years ago while riding a motor
scooter Howard sustained a com
pound fracture of the skull when struck
by an automobile
When he recovered from the emer
gency operation his right leg and arm
were partially paralyzed he could bare
ly walk and had other disabilities
The Vocational Rehabilitation Di
vision sent him to specialists who rec
ommended physiotherapy an arm
brace and an artificial plate in the
skull
The recommended treatments were
provided and a few months later How
ard was hospitalized for surgery
In time his leg regained enough
strength to enable him to walk better
The arm brace was removed While
recovering he learned to write with his
left hand But he has not yet regained
full use of his right hand
Howard had worked in a grocery
store after school and during vacations
At the time of the accident he was
employed by an Atlanta interior dec
orating establishment Some thought
was given to returning to the same type
of employment but it was deemed ad
visable for him to be close to his home
In the summer of 1947 Howard
fixed up a little roadside stand in front
of the house where he lives with his
widowed mother He worked long hours
and on holidays He made friends in
the neighborhood Sales increased
Some of the profits were reinvested in
the business but he managed to put
aside a little surplus cash
It wasnt long before he had to plan
larger quarters A neighbor who owned
the property where the Pierces lived
offered to sell for a small down pay
ment and the balance in monthly in
stallments Howard had saved enough
money to make the first payment
An uncle who operated a saw mill of
fered to furnish the lumber for a new
store building Two older brothers
helped with the construction work Vo
cational Rehabilitation supplied some
of the needed equipment
Howard now earns enough to live
comfortably His mother relieves him
in the store when it is necessary for him
to be away And hes enthusiastic over
the grocery business
Howard Pierce left smiles as he serves a customer
Essay Contest
Georgia high school students have
shown keen interest in the 1950 essay
contest sponsored by the Presidents
Committee on National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week This
years theme in the national competi
tion for 2000 in cash prizes is Hire
the Handicapped Its Good Busi
ness
After screening by high school Eng
lish teachers more than one hundred
essays were submitted to the Georgia
Committee through March 31 Four
will be selected for entry in the National
competition before June 1 State win
ners will receive Certificates of Merit
signed for the President National
prizes will range from 100 to 1000
In a recent letter to Counselor Wynn
he said Allow me to take this oppor
tunity to express to you and to the
others in Vocational Rehabilitation my
great appreciation for all that you have
done for me Without the operation
the care and guidance the training and
the equipment you furnished me I
never would have been able to earn
my own living
Continued from Page 3
were made for rentfree space in the
Carter Company store Tools and
equipment were ordered The Longs
agreed to help pay for a work bench
take Edgar in their home as a boarder
and transport him to and from the
shop
Soon thereafter the young man was
in business for himself It was a great
moment in his life when he repaired
his first watch for a fee and received
a few dollars for his services
WARNING
From two sources in Georgia we
have received reports recently of
a man claiming to be a representa
tive of the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division soliciting subscrip
tions to magazines which were not
delivered and in one instance
cashing a forged check
THEY ARE NOT REPRESENTA
TIVES OF THIS DIVISION
Managers and employees of vend
ing stands operated by the GEOR
GIA COOPERATIVE SERVICES
FOR THE BLIND are authorized
subscription agents
If approached by anyone else claim
ing to be connected with the Divi
sion and requesting payment for
subscriptions or other purposes
please call the nearest VOCA
TIONAL REHABILITATION OF
FICE listed on page 4 immedi
ately so that an investigation may
be made and appropriate action
taken
Paul S Barrett State Director
Vocational Rehabilitation Division
State Department of EducationAlfred Mullins right shown with T D Wakefield left Chief Underwriting
Division Veterans Administration Regional Office Marietta
Restored By Heart Surgery
A year ago heart specialists told
25yearold Alfred Mullins that he had
lived long past the average life ex
pectancy of persons afflicted with the
congenital heart condition which pro
duces blue babies
But the miracle of modern surgery
made it possible for him to lead a rather
normal happy existence and trans
formed his outlook on life
Before the operation Alfred always
had to avoid any activity that might
tax his heart As a child he couldnt
take part in some games others en
joyed
In spite of the handicap he gradu
ated from Pickens County High School
in 1941
Vocational Rehabilitation agencies
were not authorized at that time to
provide surgical or medical services
for persons with vocational handicaps
The type of surgery known as the
Blalock operation indicated in such
cases had not been developed
He could be offered only training
for a vocation which would not jeop
ardize his health and safety
Alfreds personality school record
aptitudes and interests pointed to a
business course He was enrolled in an
Atlanta business college made a cred
itable record and upon completion of
the course was placed in a clerical
position with an Atlanta Electrical con
tractor
Two years later he left this job to
return to his parents farm near Jasper
because he was needed to help at
home
In 1948 he was employed by the
Veterans Administration regional of
fice at Marietta His heart condition
grew worse and in 1948 he was com
pelled to give up this position Mean
while he had married and had a lit
tle daughter
The Vocational Rehabilitation Di
vision again extended a helping hand
Congress having passed the Barden
LaFollette bill in 1943 it was now
possible to provide surgery and hos
pitalization to correct physical handi
caps
The Blalock operation was being
performed successfully by an Atlanta
surgeon
Alfred was sent to a specialist for
examination Surgery was recom
mended even though it meant an in
creased risk at this patients age
In September last year he was ad
mitted to the hospital and remained
there for several weeks after the opera
tion
Most of the discoloration of the face
soon disappeared
I have never seen such a trans
formation in mental attitude said
Counselor J J Segars He was the
happiest person I have seen in some
time and was looking forward to a
future that would hold a normal life
for himself and family
Early in January this year Alfred
was back on a clerical job at the Vet
erans Administration and soon after
wards had a permanent U S Civil
Service rating
Vice Admiral Ross T Mclntire
Chairman of the Presidents Committee
on National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week will be the prin
cipal speaker at the annual dinner of
rehabilitation workers at the South
eastern Regional Conference spon
sored by the National Rehabilitation
Association and the Office of Voca
tional Rehabilitation at the Robert
Richter Hotel Miami Beach May 1
to 5 His subject Employing the Dis
abledA Community Responsibility
Admiral Mclntire was personal
physician to President Franklin D
Roosevelt He served as wartime Sur
geon General of the Navy and is a di
rector of the American Red Cross
National Blood program
Other conference speakers include
George L Googe of Atlanta Vice
President International Printing Press
men and Assistants Union of North
America G Lyle Belsley of Washing
ton Commissioner of Special Services
Federal Security Agency Dr Donald
E Super of New York Teachers Col
lege Columbia University Dr Mel
vene D Hardee of Tallahassee Coor
dinator of Counseling and Guidance
Florida State University Dr L B
Harmon of Salt Lake City President
National Rehabilitation Association
and Utah Director of Vocational Re
habilitation Dr Josephine J Buch
anan of Fisherville Va Director of
Medical Services Woodrow Wilson
Rehabilitation Center Dr H B Cum
mings of Atlanta Regional Repre
sentative Office of Vocational Reha
bilitation Paul S Barrett of Atlanta
former President National Rehabilita
tion Association and Georgia Director
of Vocational Rehabilitation and E B
Whitten of Washington Executive
Director National Rehabilitation As
sociation
The conference will be attended by
professional rehabilitation workers
from the six Southeastern states and
Puerto Rico Discussions during the
first two days will deal mainly with
counseling and guidance The final two
days sessions will be devoted to prob
lems in rehabilitating the blindReggie Flannel lost a leg as the result of an accident
while riding a motorcycle on the highway between
Statesboro and Savannah He had to hire help to make
his crop that year His outlook was rather dismal until
Vocational Rehabilitation came to his assistance in the
purchase of an artificial limb He soon learned to use
the appliance in driving a tractor and carrying on other
farm operations
Julia Evans right below lost her sight and had about
given up hopes of ever earning a living again when
Vocational Rehabilitation came to her aid An operation
partially restored her sight She was assisted in estab
lishing a small store near her home in Savannah and
is happy to feel that she is no longer dependent upon
others
Eddie Foster a hunchback was referred to Vocational
Rehabilitation by the Crippled Childrens Division of
the Department of Public Welfare He was placed in
training in an America shoe rebuilding establishment
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Vocational training enabled Lewis C Brack
en top left to become a skilled motor me
chanic despite the loss of his right forearm
Trained at the North Georgia Trade and Voca
tional School Clarkesville he is employed in
the motorcycle repair shop of ServiCycle Dis
tributors Atlanta He lost his arm as the result
of burns when 6 months of age
LeftPlastic surgery erased the scars from
Mrs Jack Ansleys face She was injured in an
automobile crash while riding with her husband
They operate a store at Brooklet
BelowAt 26 tool sharpener Fred A Brack
ett of Blue Ridge faced the loss of his job be
cause pains from the scars on his face back
arms and legs intensified by heat grease and
dust made it almost impossible for him to work
He was burned in a butane gas explosion in a
tourist cabin while on a trip with his widowed
mother Mrs Vera Brackett Some of the
keloids as they are called were raised half an
inch After a series of operations and xray
treatments he returned to his old job with the
Tennessee Copper Company The pictures
show him before surgery after surgery and at
work in the shopHire the Handicapped If s Good Business
By Joyce Johnson of Rome
First Prize in Georgia NEIH Essay Contest
t was noon one warm day in June Mr
Hammond and Mr Jeffery were walk
ing down Main Street The conversation was
naturally about their respective businesses
Mr Hammond owned the largest and best
florish shop in town and Mr Jeffery was the
general manager of a department store in a
nearby village
Their jovial mood was shaken a bit as
they passed a blind man sitting in the sun
trying to sell pencils and razor blades As
they passed him Mr Hammond said Thats
a pity
Yes replied Mr Jeffery when he could
have a good job
A good job exclaimed Mr Hammond
where
Almost anywhere answered Mr Jeffery
The handicapped sometimes make the best
workers
You will have to prove that to me was
Mr Hammonds reply How could a deaf
person be a good worker
All right said Mr Jeffery during the
war factories employed deaf persons and
were glad to have them Ask any employer
who has a deaf or hard of hearing person
working for him and he will tell you that
they are absent from work less than the
ablebodied They make production as well
or sometimes better than their physically fit
coworkers This figure will probably as
tonish you as it did me but there are 1260
jobs requiring no hearing at all Many of
these are now being opened to the hard of
hearing Does this convince you that the
deaf can work
Yes answered Mr Hammond I be
lieve that they can work but you havent
mentioned the real problemtheir disability
to communicate with their employer and the
other workers
Well replied Mr Jeffery slowly you
know there can never be an answer to that
problem as far as we know but he said
with more force their ability to concentrate
in spite of the outside noises and interrup
tions make up for that
All right said Mr Hammond you
have shown me that I could employ a deaf
person without any trouble but it isnt as
easy with other handicaps Take tubercu
losis for instance
1 am afraid answered Mr Jeffery that
too many people have a misconception of
the effects of tuberculosis It limits personal
ability to a certain extent but destroys no
skill originality or characteristics a person
may have The tuberculous really do good
work because they are careful They realize
what carelessness might cost them After
they have had treatment they can do any
work for which they are educated and which
has been approved by their physician
Would you tell me a few asked Mr
Hammond
Of course replied Mr Jeffery A per
son with tuberculosis could be a newspaper
reporter a clerk a radio operator a stenog
rapher a telephone operator and many
others You would be able to employ some
tuberculous person in your florist shop as a
clerk
Jeffery you have convinced me in both
these cases said Mr Hammond Now let
us talk about the one we have just seenthe
blind man I promise you I will not be so
easily persuaded in this matter because to
me it seems most serious
Yes answered Mr Jeffery I agree with
you I also think that it is the most serious
therefore it needs the most attention A
blind person needs encouragement more
than anything else They can work though
it is hard The sense of touch is made
stronger with the loss of sight A fine ex
ample of what a blind person can do is seen
in Vaughn Terrell He was a successful law
yer in Rome Georgia for many years He
recently started a factory at Bainbridge
Georgia called the Georgia State Factory
for the Blind Nearly all workers are blind
but their work is not inferior They make
some of the best innerspring and felt mat
tresses and brooms that are made anywhere
This is a living working memorial of what
the blind can do
I have almost come to the conclusion
that there is much the handicapped can do
said Mr Hammond
There is one handicap that I can think
of no way to overcome That is crippleness
remarked Mr Jeffery
Now replied Mr Hammond it is my
turn to show you something Being crippled
can hardly be called a handicap any longer
Modern surgery and artificial limbs have
practically defeated crippleness Does that
solve your problem
Yes answered Mr Jeffery now I am
sure that it is good business to hire the han
dicapped
The two men entered the cafe where they
were going to eat lunch As they entered
they saw Mr Bond seated at a table alone
Lets join Mr Bond said Mr Jeffery
They walked over to Mr Bonds table to
join him and sat down While they were
waiting to be served they resumed their con
versation including Mr Bond this time Now
all three agreed that the handicapped could
work
But why can the handicapped work so
much better now than in earlier years
What happened Have people become more
ambitious than they used to be asked Mr
Hammond
Maybe I can help you replied Mr
Bond Vocational Rehabilitation is the
cause for the change in people It is an or
ganization serving everywhere in the United
States and many other places Anyone who
comes to the organization receives medical
examination individual guidance and coun
sel They also receive artificial limbs and
hearing aids if needed It then sees that the
person is placed on a job for which he is
best suited
You really told us a lot we didnt know
said Mr Jeffery
Yes added Mr Hammond I am going
to employ some of the handicapped at my
florist shop the first chance I have
Good I am going to employ several at
my store as soon as I can said Mr Jeffery
That is the way I would like to hear more
people talk said Mr Bond as he patted his
artificial right leg Now let us enjoy this
delicious lunchOKc GeovcjvoiVoooxotvoX
AcKabllitatiorv Vews
The Winners
Vol 5
MayJune 1950
No 8
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus Soutli Georgia Trade 4
Vocational School
MabLlttatiQiY Mws
Two students from Rome high schools car
ried off honors in the statewide essay contest
sponsored by the Presidents Committee on
National Employ the Physically Handi
capped Week
Joyce Johnson 17 a junior was awarded
first place and R H Foss III 16 also a
junior placed fourth in the State competi
tion Her essay has been sent to Washington
for entry in the National contest for 2000
in cash prizes
She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J V
Johnson of 406 East First Street He is the
son of Mr and Mrs R H Foss Jr of
Lindale
In the cover picture they are shown with
standing left to right J B Maddox Prin
cipal Girls High Miss Elizabeth Watkins
Senior English teacher Girls High Mrs
Frank Shropshire Senior English teacher Boys High and H Q Tucker Prin
cipal Boys High
The other two successful contestants were Gail Rogers Monroe second and
Eleanor Ogburn of Savannah third All four received certificates of merit signed
for the President
More than one hundred essays on the assigned subject Hire the Handicapped
Its Good Business were submitted to the judges after screening by teachers on
the local level The judges were representatives of the Veterans Administration
the State Department of Education and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
The National awards will be announced before the annual observance of
National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week in October
n his report on the National Rehabilitation Association conference at San
Antonio last fall Lionel Burgess Supervisor of Case Services Maryland
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation paid a high tribute to Dr Thomas P
Goodwyn of Atlanta Chief Medical Consultant Georgia Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation who spoke on Orthopedic Treatment of Severely Handi
capped Individuals
Mr Burgess said In my opinion Dr Goodwyn made the most inspiring
address of the convention The simplicity sincerity and devotion of the man to
the rehabilitation of persons with orthopedic disabilities obvious in his presen
tation was most impressive
He showed many pictures of patients showing their conditions before and
after operation As he showed the pictures he discussed the impairments the
operation the results of operation and potential employment of the person
afterwards
The warmth of his personal interest in each person as a person aside from
his surgical skill was proof positive of his devotion to the cause of Vocational
Rehabilitation
Anyone listening to him must have felt his pulse beat a little faster and the
desire to work a little harder in the interest of the disabledHandicapped workers produce a wide
range of useful and artistic articles for sale
at the Roosevelt Memorial gift shop near
Warm Springs
Making souvenirs from pine needles na
tive woods leather and aluminum provides
profitable employment and moralebuilding
recreation for homebound workers trained
through Vocational Rehabilitation services
Pictured on this page are three seriously
disabled persons who are helping to supply
the growing demand for articles associated
with President Roosevelts Georgia home
Mr and Mrs R L Watts make pine
needle articles and leather goods She spe
cializes in baskets trays and mats Both are
proud of their work and seem happy to have
something to do
They met while attending the Alabama
school for the deaf at Talladega married
and reared a family Until a short time ago
they lived on a farm in Georgia Past 60
they moved to Columbus to make their home
with a son
Accustomed to an active outdoor life
they became tired of idleness and confine
ment in an apartment Being unable to
communicate with outsiders they remained
at home most of the time Most of all it
seems they wanted something to occupy
their time and yield enough return to give
them a feeling of independence
They heard about Vocational Rehabilita
tion services and called at the Columbus
office The upshot of their visit was that
they were trained in handicrafts by Miss
Fannie Mae McCulIohs of Waverly Hall
and soon were at work weaving pine needles
and lacing leather goods
Now they live in a duplex at 4223 Meritas
Drive Theres a connecting door between
their home and the residence of Mr and
Mrs W J Strickland who listen for callers
who may knock at the Watts door
Mrs Strickland says the Watts often work
until midnight turning out gift articles And
they have a backyard vegetable garden
which they seem to enjoy tending
Sightless since he was 9 as the result of
an accident Ernest Anderson operates a
woodworking shop at his home Greenville
Rt 4 With power equipment and hand
tools he turns out artistic candleholders
vases gavels and other articles
While he has been in business only a few
months he has filled orders not only from
the Roosevelt Memorial but the Magic Hill
Gift Shop and the Kilgore Gift Shop as well
Anderson was trained by J Leonard Wil
liams of Chipley Vocational Rehabilita
tion also provided the tools and equipment
for his shop Hes an amateur musician but
had never worked until tutored in wood
carving
Mr and Mrs R L Watts of Columbus
By Lola Bobbins of Sylvania
Senior Georgia Teachers College
n my seventh birthday I lay in Telfair
Hospital in Savannah with one chance
in a thousand to recover
On the afternoon of October 27 1937 1
had found myself unable to walk I had
been rushed to the hospital the next morn
ing I remained there for a month hanging
between life and death
1 was suffering from a tiny nail scratch
on my right leg which I had received in
scrambling over a board fence to escape
from a hungry cow
The doctors at that time said they had
never seen a case such as mine 1 had an
unidentifiable infection in the blood stream
At one time they debated whether my leg
should be amputated but thanks to my
mothers faith in God she would not per
mit it
Some said I could never walk again I
was dismissed on November 29 in hope that
the atmosphere of my country home and
family would bring about improvement In
structions were given to the effect that if I
didnt show immediate improvement I
should be returned to the hospital for fur
ther study and experimentation
Being home with my family had a won
derful psychological effect on my recovery
I soon showed signs of improvement Pray
ers were beginning to be answered all at
once for I was able to hobble up to the
platform to take part in my Sunday School
Christmas program on Christmas Eve
I did walk again With my mothers help
and through the mercy of God I was spared
almost certain death or the fate of being an
invalid The only aftereffect I have noticed
is attacks of rheumatism
That experience has always been my in
centive to be somebody The thought
Why was I spared when 999 others died
often raced through my mind I decided that
truly 1 was spared for a purpose and I set
forth about finding it
After graduating from Sylvania High
School in 1947 with highest honors I came
to Georgia Teachers College through the
help of a Regents Scholarship a loan a job
as library assistant and the aid of the Geor
gia Vocational Rehabilitation Division I
decided the day I arrived that I was going
to disappoint no one and make my family
proud of me
During my freshman year I began to de
spair of the idea of making a name for my
self at college so I concentrated on taking a
small part in organizations my work in the
library and my studies
As journalism and newspaper work has
always fascinated me I took two journalism
courses and worked on the college weekly
The GeorgeAnne during my sophomore
and junior years I have served as editor
during my senior year
I was able to complete my education in
three years by attending summer school two
years and by often taking four courses
On June 5 1950 I will receive my BS
degree in Education with a major in English
and a Minor in Library Science 1 have been
chosen from Georgia Teachers College to
receive an assistantship to Appalachian
State Teachers College in Boone North
Carolina for the entire summer session 1
plan to work on a Masters Degree in Library
Science there
Upon being asked the question Why did
you choose school teaching as your life
career 1 invariably answer In what other
profession could I possibly satisfy my inter
ests in social work journalism library sci
ence English speech and theater guidance
and writing
My hobbies vary from sports to book col
lecting In my spare time when inspiration
is present I write poetry and work on ideas
for short stories and plays
My greatest ambition has always been
and I am afraid will always be to be a
writer When my poem Rippling Waters
was accepted for publication in the National
College Poetry Anthology the letter stating
that my name was to appear in the 1950 pub
lication of Whos Who Among Students in
American Universities and Colleges lay un
opened on my study table
I still maintain I live for a purpose I
will not know whether teaching is that pur
pose until I have taught but I believe it is
Though my family was unable to send me
to college by their own means its members
have seen to it that I remained to the finish
I have received one lucky break after an
other I am beginning to believe my oppor
tunities are unlimited for some time to come
I have to thank for my good fortune God
in heaven my parents and family the
thoughtfulness of the ones who loaned me
money and provided work for me my own
initiative and the confidence that Georgia
Teachers College has placed in me I am
most grateful however to the Georgia Vo
cational Rehabilitation Division for sending
a representative to my high school to seek
out the physically handicapped and talk to
them about the possibilities of a higher edu
cation and to point the way financially to
attaining that end
Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an oppor
tunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital
If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a
representative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever
NameAddress
Business r
Remarks
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Gas Thank You Mr Bennett
Five hundred Talking Book machines
for the blind have been distributed in Geor
gia since the Vocational Rehabilitation Di
vision accepted responsibility for this service
on February 21 1949 in cooperation with
the Library of Congress
The Division has enough machines in
stock to fill a limited number of applica
tions The Kriegshaber Library for the
Blind is the distributing agency for records
But applications for machines and records
may be made through the Division 126 State
Office Building Atlanta
The record library embraces all fields of
literature including fiction poetry science
and Biblical subjects
Many letters are received from blind per
sons and members of their families express
ing appreciation of this service
Here are some excerpts from just a few
letters received recently
My talking book machine is a perfect joy
and I do want to thank you for sending it
to meMartha Roberts 1809 Forsyth St
Macon
I wish to express to you and your depart
ment my great appreciation for my new
talking book machine It is most satisfac
tory and I am mighty proud of it I think
the Government should know how we feel
about this new machineHugh Ratcliffe
Lakeland
It was a great help to me and words are
inadequate to express my thanksHelen
C Gilmer 201 East York St Savannah
This is to advise that the machine Mrs
Lawhon has is in good condition and it is
the main pleasure of her life If all your
machines were enjoyed as much as hers then
you people are really doing a fine work
Alvis Pritchard Riverside Mills Augusta
Im writing you just a few lines to let you
know Im still enjoying the talking book
machine Im enjoying it to the highest
Thank you for loaning it to meAnnie
Raines Talbotton
I have added respect for those associated
in a professional way with the services
which are helping the blind You are doing
a noble and Christian workBirney Mil
ler 2867 Lookout Place NE Atlanta
R E Anderson right of Lithonia lost
his legs in an accident several years ago
Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him in
the purchase of artificial limbs Consoli
dated Quarries for which he worked
placed him in a suitable jobtool crib
man He makes a comfortable living for
his wife and two children and owns hisr
home
The current issue of the Journal of Reha
bilitation official publication of the National
Rehabilitation Association carries an article
written by a Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabililion staff member on the coopera
tive program at Atlantas Federal Prison
The following letter commenting upon
the article was received from James V
Bennett of Washington Director Bureau of
Prisons Department of Justice
I have just read your very interesting
article in the recent issue of the Journal of
Rehabilitation on Prison Inmates as
Clients It gives me the opportunity to ex
press to you as well as to the entire Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division my apprecia
tion for your cooperation and the assistance
given to the men in Atlanta who needed this
specialized service This pattern of coopera
tion between your state agency and our in
stitutions has been of considerable help in
extending similar services to many of our
inmates in our other institutions
I was therefore very pleased to see the
program so well publicized in a national pro
fessional journal I hope it will serve as a
stimulus and incentive for the development
of similar cooperative programs in other
states and state institutions
Hubert E Smith
Life Meinber
The first blind person in Georgia and
possibly in the United States to be enrolled
for a 100 life membership in the National
Rehabilitation Association is Augustas 53
yearold Hubert E Smith founder and pres
ident of Ways and Means for the Blind Inc
a nonprofit organization dedicated to assist
ing sightless men and women
The National Rehabilitation Association
comprises professional workers and others
interested in services to handicapped people
It has a membership of upward of 20000
At 16 Hubert Smith lost his sight from
an accidental gunshot wound He attended
the School for the Blind at Cedar Springs
S C for a short time Through the South
Carolina Association for the Blind he re
ceived the inspiration to devote his life to
services to the sightless
He moved to Augusta with only a few
dollars and started a mattress plant for the
purpose of providing employment and train
ing opportunities for blind persons
His business expanded into a national dis
tributing agency for fabrics and ticking
Seventeen years ago he established Ways
and Means through which funds are ad
vanced to the blind for the purchase of
homes Recently he has established other
foundations through which gifts are made
to blind persons
About a year ago Mr Smith received the
annual award from the Lions Club in Geor
gia as the outstanding blind person in the
State
He is assisted in his work by Mrs Smith
who also is blind They have two sons
The 1950 NRA membership campaign in
Georgia will close September 1UB
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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Opening ceremony at the new vending stand for the blind in Augustas City Hall In the center Miss Katie Franklin an
Augusta business woman who lost her sight a few years ago and has been established in a business of her own Others in the
JenUngseknd Miss PoctlosL VCatinal Rehabilitation Strict Supervisor Councilman C S Zwsome Maor
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JAN 27 1956
Disabled Brothers Pin Hopes On
Minimum Foundation Program
Story on Page 2JUMUUH
Financing the Minimum Foundation Program for
Education will mean among other things more
funds for services to Georgias disabled civilians
It will enable the Vocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion to aid a large proportion of the seriously
handicapped persons like the two brothers shown
on the front page
Both of these teenagers are unable to walk To
restore them to economic selfsufficiency may re
quire prolonged treatment at a rehabilitation cen
ter where therapy nursing care training and
lodging can be provided under one roof
Lack of funds at times compels Vocational Re
habilitation Counselors to defer services to the
seriously disabled and assist someone else whose
impairments can be corrected at less cost
One of these boys left uses a motor scooter
in delivering newspapers The horizontal bar
rigged on the front porch of his home enables him
to climb from the vehicle to his roller His mother
holds the roller There are two other children in
the familyan attractive girl and younger boy
ft ft ft
LeftAn artificial leg provided through Vocational
Rehabilitation services enables M C Ward holding
hen of Stone Mountain to earn a living as poultry
man and farmer He tends a flock of several hundred
hens and sells eggs and broilers He is shown with
Counselor J J Segars
ft ft ft
Lower LeftCerebral palsy is no longer a vocational
handicap to June Blackstone who operates a neigh
borhood store in Augusta Before receiving Voca
tional Rehabilitation assistance he had never held a
job and was dependent upon members of his family
He is proud of his little business and doesnt seem to
mind the long hours
National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week Oct 17 Hire
the Handicapped Its Good BusinessFoundation Program is aGood Business3
By Hon Roy V Harris of Augusta
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
Excerpts from an address at the annual conference of the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation at Savannah
THE GREATEST PROBLEM we have in Georgia is the
job of increasing the productivity the earning power
and the per capita income of our own people
The fact that our people in Georgia are able to earn for
every man woman and child in Georgia only 971 while
the people of the states of this nation outside of the South
east and the Southwest are earning for themselves from
1500 to 1800 is no consolation to the person who says
that it is great to be a Georgian and that Georgia is the
empire state of the South
Georgia ought to be not only the empire state of the
South but one of the leading states of the nation
The reason this is not true and the reason our people are
not able to earn for themselves as much money as the
people of the states outside of the South is the fact that we
have not prepared ourselves to engage in the highly com
petitive fields of modern day living
It is a very strange fact that the earning power of the
people of every state and the actual per capita income of
people of every state is in direct proportion to the amount
of money the people of each state spend on the education
and the training of their people
We cannot expect to have the same school
facilities the same class of teachers or to give
to our children the same type of education
and training with 8880 per pupil as these
other states can do with 200 and more
Now I know that other factors enter into
the question of raising the per capita income
of the people of the State yet you and I
know that it cannot be done without an edu
cated people and a people trained in the
skills necessary to increase their productivity
It is on this basis that I have been trying
to sell the Minimum Foundation Program
for Education to the people of Georgia I
say to you that it is a good business proposi
tion for Georgia I say to you that it will
pay dividends to the people of this State
There is no investment that you and I can
make which will pay us more in dollars and
cents than making this investment in the
education and the training of the people of
this State
Some people look upon the Minimum
Foundation program as being the school
teachers salary bill It is true that this bill
establishes a minimum salary for a school
teacher with professional college degree of
200 per month Certainly no one can com
plain of this salary Most bus drivers in this
State earn more money than this and the
average educational level of bus drivers is
the 8th grade
But the Minimum Foundation Program is
more than a school teachers salary bill In
the first place it lays down a formula for dis
tributing State money among the various
counties and individual school districts in
the State on an equitable basis It also an
ticipates eventually the payment by the
State to each county 300 each year for each
school teacher to be used in the maintenance
of the buildings and equipment It looks to
the eventual grant by the State of 200 an
nually for each school teacher to be used in
the construction of new buildings and in the
purchase of new equipment
It also provides for an additional appro
priation by the State to the various local
units for transportation The transportation
problem is becoming greater and it has been
sapping needed funds from the school sys
tems for many years
In addition to that the program calls for
an expanded system of vocational education
in Georgia and certainly we must devote
more of our time to the training of the
youth of our State in the skills necessary to
enable them to increase their earning power
and the productivity of our people as a
whole
Eighty percent of all the children who en
ter the first grade in our school system get
lost before they reach the eleventh This
80 percent affords a great opportunity for
the people of Georgia
If we could manage to interest this eighty
percent in entering a vocational school or in
taking vocational courses which would en
able them to make a better living for them
selves and their families it would contribute
not only to their own situation but it would
increase the productivity of the entire people
And the Minimum Foundation Program
does not overlook the handicapped people
of our State At the present time the
state appropriation for Vocational Re
habilitation in Georgia is only 475000
This program would increase this amount
to 750000 a year and when matched by
Roy Harris Dr M D Collins
the Federal government this would mean
a total outlay of 1500000 a year in
Georgia
During this last year the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division rehabilitated 2859
handicapped men and women of working
age Most of these handicapped people
had been dependent upon others for their
support
The records of the Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation indicate that these
2859 people are earning this year ap
proximately 4000000 and it may be
expected that they will continue to earn
accordingly in the years to come
On July 1 you had 10000 cases on your
rolls awaiting services Every day the
ranks of the disabled are being increased
through accidents on the highways in
factories in homes and by disease
If you can be enabled to rehabilitate
4500 persons a year instead of 2859 the
Vocational Rehabilitation Division alone
will add from five to eight million dollars
a year to the annual payrolls of the State
and make a substantial contribution to
this problem of increasing the earning
power of the people of Georgia
In addition to rendering a humanitarian
service to the handicapped themselves
you will also make a great contribution
to the solution of our problem of low in
comes in this State
Now some people say that with our low
per capita income we cannot afford to spend
the money to give this opportunity to our
own children I say to you that we cant
Continued on Page 5SKc 6coyqIoVoooiCotveCV
ekabilitatioti cws
Vol5
JulyAugust 1950
No 9
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome15 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
Education in Georgia has made tremendous strides in the past two decades
Every citizen in every community has had a share in the progress
We are proud of their achievements
But today we stand at the crossroads
If we are to continue to go forward we must be willing to increase our invest
ment in the future of our children and in the future of our state
The Minimum Foundation Program for Education has been accepted by the
General Assembly as a plan for solving our pressing problems
Its a good plan honestly conceived and capable of meeting our present needs
But it cannot be put into operation until the funds are provided
It is imperative that the program be financed by the Legislature at its Janu
ary session
There are basic reasons for its enactment such as the relationship between
education and the economic wellbeing of our state the growth in population and
school enrollment and the loss to school systems of able and experienced teachers
who go into other occupations for better salaries
But there are other reasons
One is the crisis in school building affecting both races and nearly every com
munity We have been brought face to face with this serious problem by the
recent decisions of the Supreme Court
Another reason is the clear threat to local autonomy if action is delayed
If we do not finance the Minimum Foundation program with its carefully
provided safeguards for local autonomy in our school systems we invite the danger
of creating such chaos that drastic remedies may have to be applied
Although I head the State Department of Education I do not believe in
centralized control of our public schools I do not believe that plans for educa
tion can be completed in Atlanta and thrust upon superintendents principals
teachers parents and children in our local communities
The need for early action has been intensified by recent developments in the
far Pacific
Before long we may face another war manpower shortage
Georgia education forces may be called upon again to train workers for jobs
in war industries and for the production and conservation of foods and other
essentials
That would put added burdens and responsibilities upon all vocational train
ing programs throughout the State
The Vocational Rehabilitation Division has made a magnificent showing with
the funds it has available for services to the States handicapped citizens
In recent years about 3000 disabled men and women annually have been
restored to economic and social usefulness through this service But theres a
backlog of 10000 or more cases on the waiting list New cases are being
added every day
While the Division has fee schedules for medical and surgical services and
per diem rates for hospitalization costs for these services are rising along with
the cost of foods and other essentials
Nevertheless it still costs less to rehabilitate a disabled person and put him
on a payroll than it does to support him in idleness through public or private
agencies
I am confident the people of Georgia will back the financing of the Minimum
Foundation Program if we the friends of education give them the facts about
the problem and the plan
The decision to be made by the Legislature in January will affect the lives
of all Georgia citizens for years to come
M D CollinsRestored by Heart Surgery
For years William D Bray 25 had been a steady and popular employee of the Pepperell
Mills at Lindale
As a bobbin machine operator he had earned enough to meet the normal expenses of his
family comprising his wife and two boys
Then about two years ago he began to notice recurrent pains in the chest At times he
was compelled to miss a days work or leave the job before quitting time
Mrs Emily Gibson health nurse at the mill became suspicious that Brays condition
might be due to some heart ailment So she asked Counselor D Donaldson of Rome to
look into the case
After interviewing the Brays Counselor Donaldson suggested that the husband have a
medical examination which would be provided by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
The heart specialists diagnosis was coarctation of the
aortaa narrowing of the main artery leading into the right
ventricle of the heart He said Brays life expectancy with
out operative correction is very limited
It was agreed that it would be inadvisable for Bray to try
to continue to work in the mill His life would be in jeopardy
in any active occupation
Counselor Donaldson explained that Vocational Rehabili
tation services could pay for the necessary surgery and hos
pitalization But there still remained the problem of house
rent food and clothing for the family until the husband and
father could return to the mill after the operation
The mill management agreed to forego the rent on the
little cottage The Welfare Department the Red Cross and
other agencies in the community promised to help with
funds for food and clothing
In February 1949 Bray entered an Atlanta hospital for
the hazardous heart operation About six weeks later he
was sitting up and soon thereafter returned to Lindale to
recuperate fully before going back to work
Mrs Bray recalls vividly the Christmas her husband was
off the job It appeared she says that there would be very
little Santa Claus for the children But representatives of
the organizations which had helped during Brays illness
and other friends in the community saw to it that the little
family was not forgotten
It was the biggest and I believe the happiest Christmas
we ever had she recalls There were gifts for everyone
with toys and candies for the children
Ill never forget them she says
When fully recovered Bray returned to the mill Now
hes on the job every working day and looks forward to a
normal life expectancy
Without Vocational Rehabilitation help I guess I
wouldnt be here Bray says
This case is a striking example of how Vocational Re
habilitation Counselors enlist the cooperation of other agen
cies and individuals in furnishing the types of aid which can
not be provided under the joint StateFederal program
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TopWilliam D Bray at work in textile mill Lower pictureMr and
Mrs Bray shown with their two boysRoy Carlton left and James
David
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afford to continue to earn an average of
971 a year while we see the people of the
rest of the nation earning from 1500 to
1800 a year
We cannot expect to increase our earning
power and the productivity of our people
until we have first made an investment in a
better education and a better system for the
training of the youth of this State
If we are to be able to make our greatest
contribution to the efforts of any war then
we must first see to it that our people are
trained and educated to make that contri
bution
Some people say that we have made great
progress in our school system They say that
we are making progress fast enough Yes
we are making progress and we have made
progress But it isnt good enough
This is truly a time for action and a time
when the people of Georgia ought to make
up their minds to do something for them
selves
Now it is going to take a lot of money to
finance this program The only way we
can raise the additional sixtyfive million
dollars is for the people of Georgia to make
up their minds that they are willing to pay
the bill
We will have this program only when the
people of Georgia make up their minds that
they are willing to pay their part of the costs
and cease and desist from trying to shove the
responsibility on the other fellow
I hope and believe that the people of
Georgia are now ready to shoulder this re
sponsibility When they do they will never
regret the fact that they did And I want
to say to you in the words of Dr Collins
Education does not cost It paysm
Vocational Rehabilitation workers have a
maxim that rehabilitation of the disabled is
a community responsibility
The idea back of this bit of philosophy is
that the whole community benefits from the
restoration of a handicapped person to self
supporting selfrespecting citizen
It means too that there are times when
legal restrictions or lack of funds make it
impossible for Vocational Rehabilitation
workers to provide all the services needed by
a handicapped individual to gain economic
independence In such cases the Rehabilita
tion Counselor seeks and often gets the co
operation of other agencies
The question of what services may be
available to Vocational Rehabilitation work
ers through other agencies was explored at
one session of the Divisions staff confer
ence at Savannah October 712
Among the speakers were Dr Joseph C
Massee Chairman of the Vocational Com
mittee Georgia Heart Association Miss
Anna Kothe Executive Secretary Georgia
Chapter of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis Miss Elizabeth Brown De
partment of Public Welfare Carl Fox
Executive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis
Association Dr Guy V Rice State Depart
ment of Health and Ernest C Herron
President Georgia Association for the Deaf
Another session was devoted to discus
sions of placement of the handicapped with
speakers representing Management Labor
U S Civil Service and Vocational Rehabili
tation
Among those on this panel were H C
Morrison Personnel Director Union Bag
Co A B Reddick Personnel Manager
H W Lay Co Inc Ralph Buchanan Di
rector of Industrial Relations Southern
States Iron and Roofing Co James Dorn
Acting Director University Hospital E C
Bowen District Manager Southern Bell
Telephone Co and J B Temple represent
ing the Georgia Hotel Association
Organized labors viewpoint on the place
ment was presented by J B Pate President
of the Georgia Federation of Labor AFL
and John Ramsey Public Relations Repre
sentative Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions
The viewpoint of the U S Civil Service
was presented by O E Myers Regional Di
rector and that of Vocational Rehabilitation
services by H B Cummings Regional Rep
resentative Office of Vocational Rehabili
tation
Another session was devoted to the prob
lems of the seriously disabled Among those
taking part in the discussions were Corbett
Reedy Virginia Director of Vocational Re
habilitation W R Young Director of Re
habilitation Florida Council for the Blind
W R Youngman Marketing Representative
Florida Council for the Blind Miss Fannie
Mae McCullohs tutor of the homebound
and Dr Joe Moore of Georgia Tech
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W R Young and W R Youngman representing Floridas Council for the
Blind speak on home industries for the blind and marketing home industries
products
Corbett Reedy center Virginia Director of Vocational Rehabilitation
welcomed by Georgia group From leftA P Jarrell H B Cummings
Corbett Reedy A L Davis and Paul S Barrett
AboveC T Hearn A B Reddick
and A R Colcord
RightDr Guy V Rice Miss Anna
Kothe and Carl Fox
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RightHeres another example of serious disabilities
which may be checked or reduced only by prolonged
treatment and abovetheaverage case costs This
40yearold man a victim of arthritis cant raise his
head above the level shown in the picture without
sitting down And then his right leg is drawn up
close to his body With the aid of a short stick he
can hobble to the front of his little store from his
sleeping quarters in the rear of the building And
he can manage somehow to dress himself But doc
tors indicate he will be completely helpless before
long unless some miracle of modern medicine
checks the progress of the disease The additional
funds set up for Vocational Rehabilitation under the
Minimum Foundation Program would enable the Di
vision to accept more cases involving serious dis
abilities
ft ft ft
Right CenterA heart condition prevents Queenie
Johnson of Augusta from following any occupation
which requires strenuous effort Without training
she was trying to make a living with a needle when
referred to the Vocational Rehabilitation Division by
the Welfare Department Training and a machine
provided by the Division enables her to carry on as
a seamstress She is building up a satisfactory pa
tronage in her neighborhood
ft ft ft
Lower RightDespite a deformity of both knees
Crawford Barlow of Americus can work in a shoe
repair shop Through Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices he received the needed training He had only a
third grade education
National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week Oct 17 Hire
the Handicapped Its Good Business
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week Oct 17
Hire the Handicapped Its Good Business
Savannahs Mayor Olin F Fulmer pauses for refreshments at the vending stand operated
by W T Limerick right on the ground floor of the City Hall This unit is one of
nearly forty such stands operated by blind persons in public buildings industries and
institutions in Georgia
MFP Means More Opportunities
For The Seriously Disabled
Story on Page 2Financing the Minimum
Foundation Program for Edu
cation will open the door of
opportunity to a larger number
of seriously handicapped civil
ians like 26yearold Warren
M McGee on front cover and
at left who was stricken by
polio two years ago at his farm
home Canon Rt 2
Warren still has to wear long
braces and use a wheel chair
but he can drive a car which
he equipped with hand con
trols after seeing one while at
Warm Springs
Through Vocational Reha
bilitation services he was sent
to the Woodrow Wilson Re
habilitation Center at Fishers
ville Va where he could
receive treatment and training Hes taking a course in watch repair
Shown with him is his fouryearold boy Tommie
Another courageous paralytic is William C Stewart 41 lower
left who walks in a squatting position He still has the use of his
feet and can drive a car equipped with standard controls In two
pictures he is shown getting out of his car and climbing the steps to
the watch repair class at Macons Vocational school Below he is
shown with his instructor Hugh Hoyt who says Stewart is always
waiting at the classroom door when school opens
And below is Kinney E Young who has a deformed spine and
is learning the upholstery trade under W T Poarch at Fricks Furni
ture Co RomeFoundation Program aGeor
By J Gorham Garrison
Former President Georgia Education Association
ore than twenty years ago a
Governor of Georgia used as
one of his slogans in a speechmaking
tour of the state Equal educational
opportunity for all the children of
all the people Much progress has
been made toward the attainment of
that ideal But certainly no informed
person would claim that we have
reached the goal
During the past quarter of a cen
tury educational advantages at all
levels have been so improved that we
have just cause to be proud A record
expenditure of public funds has been
made on our schools and colleges each
year And yet there are thousands of
Georgia children who do not have
adequately trained teachers comfort
able buildings sufficient equipment
uptodate sanitary facilities and safe
transportation
The ideal equal opportunity will
probably never be attained For as
we lift those who are now on the
lower levels to higher peaks the more
ambitious and already well developed
groups and areas will continue to im
prove themselves and their children by
local self effort investment and
achievement This is inevitable and
probably as it should be In social
and natural development it is difficult
to escape or evade the principle the
survival of the fittest
But our great social and civic re
sponsibility today is for the State to
provide and maintain certain mini
mum standards of educational advan
tage and opportunity for every person
in the state regardless of race color
or creed Then from that minimum
and universal standard of physical fa
cilities and instructional services let
each individual and group grow to the
maximum of ultimate attainment to
which each may have capacity As
each individual or group progresses in
the search for light the desire should
ever be for more light That seems
to have been the guiding principle of
our people in the onward march of
education in Georgia especially dur
ing the past decade
The most significant advance in the
educational progress in Georgia in re
cent years was the enactment into law
of the Minimum Foundation Program
of Education by the General Assem
bly with the approval of Governor
Talmadge on February 25 1949
When adequately financed this piece
of legislation will provide those min
imum standards so desirable for the
education of all the people of a demo
cratic society and state
The conservation of our natural re
sources of course is an important
problem So is the expansion of in
dustry and the improvement of agri
cultural enterprise We must give at
tention to the establishment of a sound
economy to highway development to
the prevention of crime and to the
eradication of disease But by far the
greatest problem confronting us today
is the development of our youthcul
tural moral and spiritual The answer
to that problem is the Minimum Foun
dation Program of Education and all
Georgians should see to it that the
General Assembly makes ample pro
vision to adequately finance that pro
gram
With the Foundation Program prop
erly financed and activated we should
soon realize at least the minimum of
equal opportunity for every child
These minima as set forth in the title
and preamble of the act are
1 To equalize educational oppor
tunity
2 To fix a minimum public school
term
3 To provide for minimum salaries
of teachers
4 To provide for local supplements
of teachers salaries
5 To provide for current expenses
capital outlay and transportation
costs
6 To establish and maintain public
libraries
7 To provide for the education of
adults and preschool children
8 To determine local ability for the
support of schools and to stimulate
the exercise of that ability
9 To provide textbooks and instruc
tional materials
10 To encourage and expand voca
tional education
11 To give better support of voca
tional rehabilitation
12 To strengthen the schools for
the deaf and the blind
13 To provide specialized instruc
tion for exceptional children
14 To make possible the further
training and improvement of teachers
15 To give greater financial support
to the University System
That is the Minimum Foundation
Program of Education What a mag
nificent program With that program
in effect Georgia will go forward To
the members of the General Assembly
there are millions of voices crying
from the wilderness as it were Go
Forward With the Minimum Foun
dation Program adequately financed
by the help of the living God we shall
go forward May all citizens give en
couragement and support to the task
ahead of us
Essay Contest
The 1951 essay contest sponsored
by the Presidents Committee on Na
tional Employ the Physically Handi
capped Week will close December 15
and awards will be announced about
February 15 1951
All 11th and 12th grade high school
students have been invited to compete
for the four prizes aggregating 2000
The assigned subject is Equal Op
portunity in Employment for the
Physically Handicapped
In Georgia the contest is under the
supervision of Paul S Barrett State
Director of Vocational Rehabilitation
and Chairman of the State Committee
on National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week
One essay in each state will be en
tered in the national competition
In Redbook
The November issue of Redbook
magazine which goes on newsstands
October 27 carries an inspiring article
on the rehabilitation of Tom Red
Johnson of East Point who lost his
sight while working in the shops of
the Delta Air Lines and received pre
vocational training at the North Geor
gia Trade and Vocational School at
Clarkesville
Under the caption In the Valley
of the Shadow of Goodness and
Mercy the story tells how Johnson
with the aid of his friends and Voca
tional Rehabilitation services was able
to overcome his handicap and go back
to his old job at DeltatHc GeovqoJVocXoAo
AcKabilitatiorv Mws
Vol 5 SeptemberOctober 1950 No 10
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany213 Royal Bldg
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
An Immediate Necessity
By DR O C ADERHOLD
President University of Georgia
The full activation of the Minimum Foun
dation Program for Education is an imme
diate necessity This is true for all phases
of the educational programpublic elemen
tary and secondary the University System
and the teacher retirement system
What is this Minimum Foundation Pro
gram that so many people have talked
about It is a program which has as its
purposes the providing of adequate educa
tional opportunities for all the people of the
state It is a program conceived and formu
lated by the people It is a program which
will guarantee John Mary Susie and Jim
the type of educational opportunities which
they so richly deserve
Boys and girls of Georgia are born with
and possess when they enter school eyes
that shine with eagerness to learn Unfor
tunately too many of these shining eyes soon
become dull The lamps of knowledge and
understanding will always flicker and dim
when they are not fed the proper fuel Drab
surroundings two pupils to the seat built
for one a classroom with cold wind and
sand blowing through it a classroom in
which an owl would be hard pressed to see
A teacher who has been to school little
more than the pupils and no materials with which to workthese do not serve as satisfac
tory media for the best development of growing minds No wonder some children dont
like schoolwhy should they They dont like school any more under those circumstances
than you do to drive a new car on a road that is 12 inches deep in mud
Sure many boys and girls go through poor schools and still make a great contribution
to society but many more that could do not Financing the Minimum Foundation Program
will be the greatest stride Georgians have ever taken toward improving their educational
opportunities The people of Georgia cannot afford to delay its full activation longer
Ask yourself the questions listed below If your answer to them is No then you should
fight against financing the program If your answer to them is Yes then you should fight
for the full activation of this program at once
1 Should every boy and girl have proper and adequate material with which to work
2 Should classrooms be attractive
3 Should classrooms be properly heated
4 Should classrooms b well lighted
5 Should classrooms be properly ventilated
6 Should the public schools pay salaries large enough to employ well qualified teachers
7 Should Georgia youth who attend college reside in dormitories which are not firetraps
8 Should Georgia attempt to retain its best public school and college teachers
9 Should the University System offer higher educational opportunities to Georgia youth
who can profitably engage in advanced studies
10 Should Georgia attempt to rehabilitate more of its citizens who are physically han
dicapped
11 Should transportation be furnished to Georgia boys and girls who do not live within
walking distance of schools
12 Should the University System provide for research programs which will find better
and more profitable ways of producing farm crops livestock teaching boys and
girls doing business preventing physical and mental illness etc
13 Should the University System interpret the results of research findings to the people
of the state
14 Should a limit be placed upon the number of boys and girls that a teacher should
attempt to teachThe resonant voice of Frank Burgess 23yearold announcer
at station WGAA is familiar to radio fans in the Cedartown
area but few among those who listen to his daily broadcasts
know the story back of his fouryear fight to overcome physical
handicaps which would have doomed less courageous persons
to invalidism and dependency
Burgess lower limbs are partially paralyzed as the result of
an accident which nearly took his life He is able to stand un
assisted and take a few steps but still uses his crutches to walk
distances Since completing radio training he has married and
has one child
In 1944 Burgess a native of Rock Spring Ga quit the ninth
grade at Chattanoogas Central High School to join the wartime
Navy While awaiting orders he took a job driving an ambu
lance for a Chattanooga funeral establishment In a wreck on
the McMinnvilleMonteagle highway he sustained fractures of
two vertebrae in the neck compound fractures of the skull and
other injuries
Medical reports show he was unconscious for ten days in a
Chattanooga hospital His life hung by a thread Upon regain
ing consciousness he had complete numbness below the waist
and was unable to move the lower limbs and left hand
A year later Burgess heard a radio broadcast describing
Vocational Rehabilitation services and wrote to Counselor D
Donaldson at Rome He was interviewed by the Counselor
Medical reports relating to his injuries were assembled together
with other information about the case Arrangements also were
made for new medical examinations
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Specialists recommended physiotherapy to improve the condition of Burgess legs and
arms He was sent to Atlanta and placed in a boarding home near Emory Then fol
lowed a series of daily treatments extending over a period of several months The
treatments included exercise on a bicycletype contraption
Franks courage attitude personality and perseverance won the admiration of
doctors and nurses As his legs became stronger he started walking the three
A blocks from his home to the hospital to get the benefit of the additional
exercise and activity
Before the treatments had been completed he had made up his mind
to become a radio announcer There was some question about his
educational qualifications for such a career He met this problem
by agreeing to return to school Arrangements were made for
Jgf him to take a summer course at Darlington while getting
onthejob training at Station WROM Rome A report
from the Counselor at that time said He is using all
available means to improve himself in this field
His speech is clear his diction better than aver
age but far from professional at this time He
expects to take all the English courses he can
get at Darlington
In the fall of 1948 Burgess completed his train
ing at the Rome station and joined its staff
He remained there until offered the connec
tion with the Cedartown station
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This map shows the distribution by coun
ties of more than 10000 handicapped men
and women who are awaiting the services
of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
Currently the Division is rehabilitating
about 3000 persons annually So it will
take more than three years to reach those
on the waiting list unless more funds are
made available by the State and Federal
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The Christmas cards reproduced
on this page were designed by
Georgias famed silhouette artist
George W Hitt of Toccoa who has
spent thirty of his thirtyseven years
in a wheel chair or bed
For more than twenty years his
skill with tiny scissors and black paper
his artistic talent and fertile imagina
tion have been mainstays in his cour
ageous struggle for economic inde
pendence
His silhouettes have been used for
greeting cards place cards magazine
illustrations and other purposes
During World War II he was a
member of the public relations staff
of the LeTourneau Company of Geor
gia Now hes supplementing his in
come by writing feature stories and
news reports for several daily news
papers in Georgia and South Carolina
The extraordinary thing about
Georges cutouts is that they are pro
duced by one who is capable of using
only his fingers the wrists being drawn
completely out of joint It is an in
spiring and fascinating sight to watch
him manipulate the little scissors on a
piece of black paper in portraying the
life action and woodland scenes
George received his first profes
sional instruction in art under Mrs
W L Murrow through Vocational
Rehabilitation services His interest in
cutting silhouettes grew out of his
association with the late Joseph Cran
ston Jones of Augusta while they
were patients at the Scottish Rite Hos
pital in Decatur Joe Jones also be
came a client of this Division and won
wide recognition with his art
George has described his associa
tion with Joe Jones in these words
We became great friends I have lain
on my bed many times and watched
him as he cut out his little black pic
tures Of course I was too young he
was about 10 to realize what it meant
to have such a talent yet I knew there
must be something significant about it
from the way visitors would crowd
around his bed to watch him work I
became so interested in his work that
on one occasion I asked him to cut me
one of his little pictures but about
that time I was transferred to another
ward I never got the picture and was
soon afterward dismissed and sent
home
But I never forgot the wonderful
silhouettes my friend Joe Jones used
to cut out while we were in the hos
pital Somehow they fascinated me
though it never occurred to me that I
could emulate them in any way
It was not until December 1929
that I tried my skill as a silhouette
artist I had been looking at some
Christmas cards and happened to
notice a silhouette on one of them
Taking my small nail scissors I tried
to duplicate this silhouette Imagine
my surprise and delight when 1 found
it wasnt so hard at least not to me
This discovery of some talent in my
makeup made me very happy and
inspired by my family and friends 1
tried to develop it
Georges physical handicap grew
out of an ailment diagnosed at the
time as inflammatory rheumatism in
wrist and knee joints when he was
about seven years of age
His adjustable bed of which he is
very proud was sent him by the late
President RooseveltJohnnie Parker Rt 1 Jefferson had an impaired foot resulting
from nerve damage following a gunshot wound Through Vocational
Rehabilitation services he was provided with an operation braces
and training in barbering Hes employed in a Macon shop

Samuel A Barnes 24 has an impaired left hand and a speech
defect growing out of paralysis His employment opportunities were
restricted to rather simple manual tasks So he was given onthejob
training in janitorial work in the Bankers Insurance Company crew
in Macon and now has a steady job Building Superintendent Earl
Hartley says Sammie is a competent and faithful employee

Bertha M Emery of Augusta had an abovetheknee amputation
which handicapped her in domestic service She was trained as a
seamstress and provided with a sewing machine She has built up
a satisfactory patronage among her neighbors in Augusta
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Deafness is no longer a vocational handicap to eighteenyearold James Hattrick at left who was trained in auto
mechanics in the AllenHudson Motor Co shop in Savannah
A pair of new artificial limbs enabled Raymond Kell center to keep his job as a motor mechanic in Harrys Auto Parts
Company Rome He had lost his legs twelve years before in a railroad accident and the pair he bought with compensation
funds had worn out when the Vocational Rehabilitation Division was called on for aid
Savannahs James Morgan Jr lost his sight ten years ago He is shown at right learning to operate a clothes
hanger machine under the instruction of Mrs Inez Vinson Steele at the North Georgia Trade Vocational School Clarkes
ville
Minimum Foundation Program
means more help for HandicapActivating the Minimum Foundation
Program for Education will provide
aid for a larger number of Georgias
seriously handicapped civilians like
Mrs Larrie Christian of Athens
shown on the cover and at left Four
years ago she was completely para
lyzed from the waist down Two
operations treatment and braces
have made it possible for her to per
form limited household duties and
with further treatment she eventu
ally may be able to walk Before
stricken she was employed in a hos
iery mill She has a husband and
one child Mr Christian built the
walker and parallel bars she is shown
using for exercises
Miss Frances Giles lower left of Macon was trained in floral designing after recovering from tuberculosis She received
preliminary training at Battey Hospital Later she was sent to the Colorado School of Floral Design and given onthejob
training in the Jackson Florist Shop She now owns an interest in the business Shown with her is B C Jackson
Twentyoneyearold William J Patten lower center of Clayton has defective hearing vision and speech After train
ing at North Georgia Trade and Vocational School he was employed in the dairy For fourteen years J H Carithers lower
right who has but one leg has been a tool sharpener at the Georgia Granite Co Elberton Vocational Rehabilitation pro
vided the artificial limb He is the father of four children
Stand Together for MFPE
By Kankakee Anderson
President Georgia Education Association
The Minimum Foundation Program for
Education is the first plan ever developed in
Georgia to meet the essential needs of all
public schools at all levels and in all phases
of education
The plan was worked out by professional
groups and Legislators who understood the
problemsand how to meet them
It was adopted by the last General As
sembly and embodied in our laws Since that
time it has been subjected to reviews and
discussions in public prints before civic
groups and district GEA meetings It has
received unanimous endorsement Only a
few minor changes in some administrative
provisions have been suggested
Now we must take the next step get the
money to put it in operation Were like the
man who has a blueprint for a new home
and faces the problem of how to finance it
We realize that MFPE cannot be activated
without a revision of the states tax struc
ture so as to provide the additional revenue
Tax revision to carry out the program is
the No 1 measure to be considered by the
General Assembly at the January session
Its the most important task undertaken
by a Georgia Legislature since the beginning
of this century Every person in the state
has a stake in the decision The economic
and social future of the state will be shaped
by the action of this Legislature
The friends of public schools were united
in supporting enactment of the MFPE law
They must stand together now in urging
passage of measures to finance it
There may be some wholl say Of
course Im for the Foundation program
but I dont like the way they propose to
finance it
We cant be for MFPE unless were will
ing to back the tax revision measures We
cant have one without the other
The only way we the friends of public
schools can make sure of getting the Mini
mum Foundation program under way is to
support whatever tax measures this admin
istration brings out Otherwise we would be
jeopardizing the whole program and court
ing disaster in our school system
We must continue to build up sentiment
for the program by showing the public that
it is absolutely necessary if we are to con
tinue our progress in education if we are to
have better schools and better economic con
ditions in Georgia
In this connection Im reminded of two
families I knew years agobefore we had
our compulsory school law One old man
didnt believe in education He wouldnt let
any of his five children go to school The
children grew up in ignorance and poverty
They were always the first to go on relief
during depressions and the last to come off
relief in good times
The other man believed in education He
struggled to educate his five children Now
not one of those children is earning less than
4000 a year Theyre contributing some
thing to the community instead of being a
drain on the taxpayers like the other family
Investments in education always pay big
dividends If we are to raise the economic
level of our people we must give them the
knowledge and skills to earn more than
enough to meet just the bare necessities
of life
Only two states spent less for education
on per pupil basis than Georgia spent in
194748 Georgias investment was 10385
per pupil 7558 less than the national
average and 15305 less than the top state
New York
The Minimum Foundation Program sets
up 5000000 per year for school buildings
Obviously that amount wont meet the tre
mendous immediate needs for new buildings
Speaker Fred Hand has proposed a Public
School Housing Authority Act under which
the schools would be permitted to enter into
contracts with the Authority for the erection
of buildings and pay off the indebtedness
from Foundation funds Through this
Authority we could finance a construction
program that would help local school sys
tems meet the pressing building emergency
Friends of education should support this
forward looking measure which ties in with
the objectives of the Minimum Foundation
Program
Kankakee Anderson
Essay Contest
Reports from Washington indicate that
high school students in thirtyfive states the
District of Columbia Hawaii Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Isles have entered the 1951
essay contest sponsored by the Presidents
Committee on National Employ the Physi
cally Handicapped Week
It also has been announced that the time
for submitting entries in the state competi
tions has been extended from December 15
to February 1 1951 to better meet schedules
set up by principals and teachers in some
states
The assigned subject is Equal Oppor
tunities in Employment for the Physically
Handicapped Basic information for use in
the preparation of essay may be obtained
from the state and local offices of the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division Cash prizes
aggregating 2000 will be distributed among
the successful national contestants
The Problem and the Cause
One and a half to two million persons of
working age in the United States are disabled
to the extent of needing Vocational Rehabili
tation services to enter or return to remun
erative employment An additional 250000
become disabled each year The figures ex
clude persons with temporary or transitory
ailments such as colds pneumonia appendi
citis and tonsilitis
Chronic diseases and congenital conditions
account for 90 percent of the disabilities in
this group who need rehabilitation services
occupational accidents in industry agricul
ture personal service and selfemployment
cause 5 percent and highway home and
other accidents account for the balanceOKc GeovqjoVocoiCo acCV
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MFPE Goals
Vol 5 NovemberDecember 1950 No 11
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
HERE IS a brief summary of the goals set up under the Minimum Founda
tion Program for Educationand how the plan will operate when fully
financed
1 To guarantee to the children in every section of the State a minimum foun
dation program of education
2 To distribute state funds in such manner as to require local systems to pay
their just and fair share of the total cost taking into account the tax
paying ability of each system Thus it prevents counties from shirking their
share of the expense in operating schools
3 To provide the necessary state administrative supervision to guarantee that
state funds will be wisely spent without handicapping local initiative or
control where these are directed toward better educational opportunities
Where the citizens of county school systems insist upon support for small
unaccredited schools with relatively low pupilteacher ratios adjustments
can be made in the administration of the law so that the extra expenses
will be borne by the county taxpayers rather than by the taxpayers of the
entire state
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Rome415 West
Phone 8438
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Thomasville 309 Unchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
This new law spells out in black and white a simple plan of operation which
involves three steps
1 Calculate the cost of providing services and facilities needed for a mini
mum foundation program for children in all parts of the state without
reference to the sources of funds
2 Calculate the total sum of funds which all county and independent sys
tems must provide as their part of the total cost Each system is required
to supply its percent of this total sum as determined by an economic index
of taxpaying ability
3 Appropriate from state funds that portion of the total cost which is neces
sary to make up the difference between what is needed and what the local
systems can provide
Georgias handicapped citizens will share the benefits of this expanded pro
gram for education Under the plan the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
would receive additional state funds which when matched by Federal grants
would make it possible to rehabilitate about 4500 persons annually instead of
about 3000 who now are being restored to productive jobs
Help Fight TB
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For fortythree years the Christmas Seal
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against tuberculosis waged by the 3000 vol
untary associations affiliated with the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association
In Georgia the activity is carried on
through the state association and 157 local
TB committees Sales this year are showing
a slight increase over the returns a year ago
The Seal appears in a new dress each year
but its spirit is always the samethe spirit
of crusaders against a deadly foeBy Bob Howren
Rome NewsTribune Staff Writer
Melvin Owens clerk of Floyd Superior
Court peered over the top of a stack
of summonses he was signing and figured
that the government has made a sizable
profit on him since he first began to make a
living for himself and his family
My business training cost the govern
ment through the Vocational Rehabilitation
Division about 300since I first started to
work in 1943 Ive paid more than 3000
in federal and state income tax he said
Apply a little simple arithmetic and you
find a profit of 2700 the federal and state
governments have made on a single indi
vidualMelvin D Owens
Quite a sizable return but the return
pales to insignificance when you think of the
social implications of rehabilitating some
50000 persons like Melvin Owens every year
Just to make a long story short said
Melvin the help I got from the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation meant the differ
ence between dependence and independence
for me
Badly crippled by arthritis since 1936
Melvin spent the last half of his junior and
the first half of his senior high school years
in an Atlanta hospital
I was never on my feet long at a time
he remembers I had a couch in the base
ment of the school and I would lie down
between classes Even after I went to work
I spent several hours a day lying down
When he was graduated from high school
at Cave Spring his home town government
funds administered through the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation of the Georgia De
partment of Education sent him to the Car
roll Lynn School of Business and trained him
for a career
Melvins first job was in the rel estate
office of S D Jowers in Rome where he
worked for three years Eventually he de
cided the time was ripe to go into business
for himself Accordingly he opened up an
office of his own
I dont know exactly what kind of office
youd call it he confessed I did a little
of everythingreal estate general bookkeep
ing insurance I made a pretty good living
at it
Naturally a man in the sort of work Mel
vin was doing meets a great many people
Melvin Owens
and makes a host of friends And when a
man knows a sufficient number of people he
often runs for public office
In 1948 Melvin Owens did just thathe
entered the race for clerk of superior court
and was elected
But that isnt the end of the story
Heres my pride and joy he said as he
reached for a photograph on his desk It
was a picture of a healthy smiling young
ster four years old
Names Collie Melvin explained Hes
named after my brother who was killed in
the crash of a transport plane in the last
war
Mrs Owens is the former Miss Jewel
Dake of Alexis Ala
Thats the story of one man who fourteen
years ago was numbered among the 250000
persons who each year become disabled
through injury illness or congenital causes
Its the story of a man for whom selfsupport
became a major problem in itself But its
also the story of a man who now supports
a wife and child and who has paid in the
last seven years 3000 in state and federal
income tax
I want you to tell people how vocational
rehabilitation works insisted Melvin It
wont do anybody any good for you to write
about me unless you tell them how they can
do the same thing
The statefederal system of vocational re
habilitation arose out of a problem of na
tional significancethe problem of disability
Disability of the type that is dealt with by
the rehabilitation system means in almost
every case a waste of productive energy
through unemployment dependency on the
family depriving or limiting the opportuni
ties for the children or parents of the dis
abled and dependency on public charity
which results in a constant drain on public
funds
To deal with the problem of disability
Congress set up a program of grantsinaid
by which the federal government and the
various state governments work hand in hand
to make selfsupporting citizens of the
physically disabledAttractive Betty Tuck recently was promoted to principal
secretary in the Boy Scouts of America office in Athens
Theres no visible indication that she had a back impairment
which required three operations following infantile paralysis
when she was 11 For eight months she was a patient at
Warm Springs Her training was made possible through
Vocational Rehabilitation services
At 32 Fred Miller a deaf mute of Haddock is a
cabinet makerand a good one according to his
supervisors and associates Hes employed by the
Art Furniture Manufacturing Co Macon where he
was placed after receiving training in a cabinet shop
through Vocational Rehabilitation services
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Worker
Joseph J Zipperer operates a neighborhood store in Savannah
He was guided into this business following an operation
for hernia which had incapacitated him for more strenuous
occupations

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Travelers from around the globe are fascinated by Susie Cochran
top left who lends Southern atmosphere to the Atlanta Airport
Restaurant The restaurant management wanted someone who could
operate an oldfashioned spinning wheel card and weave Susie
had recovered from TB and had the personality for just such a job
Through Vocational Rehabilitation she was trained by Mrs Carol
Montoya
Chessie Hester center has an impaired left leg as the result of
polio at the age of 7 She was trained in beauty culture in an
Atlanta school and now operates her own shop in Elberton
Cosby Winfry 21 lost his leg in a mowing machine accident
twelve years ago An artificial limb supplied by Vocational Re
habilitation plus onthejob training qualified him for work as a
mechanics helper Hes employed by the BowdenLaBoor shop in
Athens
Henry G Burton right lost both his legsone in a gunshot acci
dent the other through amputation following a disease For thirty
years he had taught school then retired But after getting an
artificial limb he decided to go back to the school room He teaches
at Halls Chapel in Elbert Countya oneroom school with pupils
in all elementary grades
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Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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Bound to a wheel chair by arthritis Thurman A
Vaughn 42 left of Atlanta has regained economic
independence through the development of his artistic
talents Vocational Rehabilitation services made it
possible for him to receive training in commercial
art He is shown working in his backyard studio
Through contacts with merchants in the neighbor
hood he receives orders for show cards and signs
He has developed an interest in painting birds and
has been able to sell quite a few pictures

Twentythree year old Alton Dominy left center
a deaf mute of Macon was given onthejob training
in automobile body and fender work and placed in
Reids Auto Body Shop in Macon

At 25 C L Satterfield lower left is the proud
proprietor of a successful watch repair and jewelry
business located in the Dalton Drug Company
Dalton It represents quite an achievement for a
young man who several years ago nearly lost his
life in an airplane crash while trying to get in
enough flying time to qualify for a pilots license
Both legs were broken He still wears a brace and
uses a crutch At the North Georgia Trade Voca
tional School he made an outstanding record

Having recovered from tuberculosis after seven
months at Battey State Hospital Hugh Dorsey
Davis below a former textile mill worker was
trained in radio repair through a correspondence
course Vocational Rehabilitation also assisted him
in getting tools and equipment He operates a shop
at 431 N Thomas Street Athens
I
Education Program Dream Conies True
Georgias 1951 General Assembly made
the MFPE dream a reality
First it enacted sweeping tax revision
measures to produce the 38000000 addi
tional revenue needed to finance the Mini
mum Foundation program in full
Then it passed an appropriation bill pro
viding 93899380 for education including
the University System And it enacted the
School Building Authority bill to finance the
construction of buildings needed to more
nearly equalize educational opportunities in
all sections of the state
Dr M D Collins State Superintendent
of Schools lauded the members of the Sen
ate and House who worked long hours shap
ing the legislation and ironing out the little
differences that arose
Although the session lasted only forty
days this General Assembly passed more
constructive legislation than any previous
Legislature he said
It was the first General Assembly that
ever financed the education program in full
As an improved program of financial
support is developed it is essential that re
sponsibility for organization and administra
tion be maintained at the local level and
that the state exercise its control by estab
lishing safeguards necessary to assure ade
quacy economy and efficiency It is neither
essential nor desirable that the state take
over the control of education as the basis for
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION considers 195152 budget Front row
left to rightH W Blount of Waynesboro First District Dr M D
Collins State Superintendent of Schools Chairman George P Whitman
Jr of College Park Fifth District Mrs Julius Y Talmadge of Athens
Tenth District Herschel Lovett of Dublin Sixth District Back Row
L E Sweat of Blackshear Eighth District J D Rogers Jr of Blakely
Second District Glenn Milner of Rome Seventh District Irwin Kimzey
of Clarkesville Ninth District Clarke W Duncan of Buena Vista Third
District and James S Peters of Manchester Fourth District
providing additional funds for the support
of our schools
We stand on the threshold of the greatest
era of development in Georgia public school
history and we must do the utmost to get a
dollars worth of education for every tax
dollar spent
The total appropriation for the socalled
common school program in the regular and
contingent budgets for the first year is 81
649380 This includes 500000 for the
School for the Deaf at Cave Spring 250000
for the School for the Blind at Macon and
125000 for the two state trade schools
The appropriation for the University Sys
tems regular and contingent budgets the
first year is 12550000
The contingent budgets are based on the
anticipated revenue from the new tax meas
ures
Plans are being made by school officials
to activate the Minimum Foundation pro
gram with the beginning of the new fiscal
year July 1
Under the expanded program the Division
of Vocational Rehabilitation will receive a
substantial increase in funds for services to
the states handicapped men and women
LEADERS CONFERLeft Senator W
Roscoe Coleman of Hephzibah Chairman
of the Appropriations Committee and
right Representative Herschel Lovett
of Dublin Chairman of the House Appro
priations Committee talk over provisions
of the appropriation bill M
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Vol 5 JanuaryFebruary 1951 No 12
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickAndrews Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
1COR NEARLY thirty years Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation program
JL operated under legislation passed by the General Assembly as acceptance
acts to the provisions of the Federal law
From a small beginning it has developed into a vital service to men and
women with impaired bodies and minds With upward of 3000 successful
rehabilitations annually it is recognized as one of the outstanding programs in
the nation Records show that through June 30 1950 nearly 25000 handicapped
Georgians had been restored to profitable employment
For several years it has been felt that Georgia needed a state plan for
Vocational Rehabilitation
At the recent session of the General Assembly a bill was passed without a
dissenting vote to recognize the existing system of Vocational Rehabilitation
of the physically or mentally impaired including the blind citizens of Georgia
The new law establishes the Vocational Rehabilitation Division under the
supervision of the State Board of Education the State Superintendent of Schools
and the State Director
It authorizes as a state function all of the services now provided under the
joint StateFederal program such as physical restoration training guidance and
placement And it authorizes the Division to utilize funds made available from
appropriations by Congress by gifts or grants from private sources or by appro
priations of the General Assembly for the purpose of establishing and operating
rehabilitation centers and work shops
The act is patterned along the lines of those adopted by some other states
which have made notable progress in the field of vocational rehabilitation It also
contains some provisions which represent new steps in the direction of better
services for handicapped men and women
Among those sponsoring the measure in the Legislature were Senators W O
Strickland of Buchanan Steve Cocke of Dawson H J Holloway of Ellaville
W Roscoe Coleman of Hephzibah R F Duncan of Lawrenceville and J J
Drinkard of Lincolnton and in the House Representatives Herschel Lovett of
Dublin Lloyd Stewart of Hollywood S S Owens of Tifton John Lewis of
Sparta and J Ebb Duncan of Carrollton
Governor Herman Talmadge said he was happy to sign this bill
Georgia took another step forward when the General Assembly passed the
Vocational Rehabilitation bill he said pcu me
We are proud of the record Georgia has made in helping handicapped men
and women and we want to carry on the good work
Governor Herman Talmadge seated
signs the Vocational Rehabilitation
bill while Paul S Barrett left State
Director and Dr M D Collins State
Superintendent of Schools beam their
approvalBy Miss Mary E Switzer
Excerpts from address before Congress on
Industrial Health in Atlanta
Atlanta is a logical place for a compre
hensive rehabilitation center If such a cen
ter could be established and operated here
it would serve a population of at least seven
and onehalf million people in Georgia
South Carolina and Florida
The Georgia Division of Vocational Re
habilitation has done a remarkably fine job
over the years even without a rehabilitation
center With one I am certain that they
could serve many more severely disabled
peopleand much more effectively and it
is likely that a comprehensive rehabilitation
facility at Atlanta in the near future would
serve seven or eight states
The need for such a center is clear We
have thousands of severely disabled men
and womenwhite and Negroin this Na
tion and the South has done a better job
than most sections in finding them and serv
ing them But too many of those who really
need the services of a fullfledged center are
denied access to the help that would put them
back on their feetphysically and vocation
ally This denial results from three primary
causes 1 Inadequate facilitiescenters
particularly 2 lack of trained personnel to
provide services both in and out of centers
and 3 inadequate financial support across
the whole country

One type is the public rehabilitation
center with comprehensive therapy inte
grated with comprehensive vocational train
ingunder one roof and providing for a
gradual shifting of emphasis from the phy
sical medicine phase to the functional train
ing phase and finally to the vocational train
ing phaseas the condition of the client
patient permits Such a facility is operated
by the Virginia Division of Vocational Re
habilitation at Fishersville the Woodrow
Wilson Rehabilitation Center That is closely
integrated operationally and physically
with the State and county school systems
Through close operational alliance with the
hospitals of the Statethough remote from
the hospitalsthis center gets clients for
whom definitive medical services have been
provided
In the long pull it is proving very effec
tive Physical medicine psychiatric and
psychological services are provided as
needed and the convalescent and restorative
stages are accelerated at the same time that
vocational training it being conducted
Woodrow Wilson is the only center of that
type that I know about It is operated by
the Virginia rehabilitation agencyand the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has been
paying slightly above 50 percent of the
operating costs including the purchase of
equipment
The ideal situation of course would be to
have the hospital as the entrance through
Miss Mary E Switzer center Director of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation confers with H B Cummings left Regional Rep
resentative and Paul S Barrett State Director on Georgias rehabili
tation program Miss Switzer served as Assistant to the Administrator
of the Federal Security Agency from 1939 until appointed to her
present post last November
which the patient goesas a clientinto the
rehabilitation center with the center itself
as the meat in the sandwich and the voca
tional training facility as the other piece of
bread If they could be put together closely
as a sandwichthat would be perfect We
could have expert medical care of all types
at all stages we could have the long pull
restorative services and at the proper times
could effect a gradual transition from med
ical to vocational services These are the
true components of a comprehensive rehabili
tation center It is good for them to be to
gether ideal for them to be under one roof
but physical proximity is not indispensable
If the problems of transportation of crippled
people back and forth and between the hos
pital and the physical medicine facility and
the vocational training facility which must
provide a variety of vocational coursesif
that can be satisfactorily solvedthen you
could conduct a fine rehabilitation program
from start to finish in institutions that might
be widely separated However you lose a
lot when theyre wide apart You lose time
and you lose moneyand maybe one of the
most important things you lose is the psycho
logical effect of the patient who as he wheels
his way from one place to another down a
long corridor feels that he is really getting
somewhere under his own power
There are many ways in which you can
finance a center It can be a combination of
public and private funds it can be either
The money can be partly Federal partly
state and partly county partly municipal
and partly privateat least in theory
We have the basic authority to acquire
and operate a center upon the request of two
or more States The money for such an
operation would have to come from the
Federal and State appropriations for those
States If the States can come up with a
sound plan and their share of the necessary
money I feel certain that we could get the
funds for our share That probably would
work out to be about 50 percent

Under our present law we can support
private or public rehabilitation centers only
by sharing the costs of the case services
rendered to rehabilitation clients The Fed
eral Government as you know pays half
the cost of such services The States how
ever select the facilities to which their clients
are sent and a definite flow of clients is
essential to the success of such an operation
It is significant however that most of the
centers now in existence are not being used
to capacity despite the great need for even
more facilities of those types The reason is
clear its the cost plus the fact that the State
Federal program of vocational rehabilitation
is not adequately financed Were doing
wonders with what we have but we could
do much more with just a little more finan
cial support
As most of you know a bill was passed by
the U S Senate last year to provide for
more rehabilitation centers but that was not
acted upon in the House Were working
now for a revision of that bill and we expect
that it will be introduced again before too
long If passed that will be of some help
but it isnt the entire answer its just a start
A Committee of the States Vocational Re
habilitation Council has given a lot of study
to the various aspects of rehabilitation cen
ters and has presented a most comprehensive
report
The big answer is up to the community
the medical profession the rehabilitation
people the educators business peopleall
of us And if the manpower situation grows
tighter it may be up to those responsible for
national defenseChanged Life
By BOB HOWREN
Rome NewsTribune Staff Writer
Everybody looks forward to Christmas
some people more than othersand pretty
Helen Barron will probably greet the Yule
tide this year with a great deal more enthusi
asm than most She has spent the last two
Christmases in bed
Helen Virginia Barron was not quite 17
years old on a Sunday in February 1949
when she was rushed to Erlanger Hospital in
Chattanooga after a motorcycle wreck in
Chickamauga Park Whenshe finally came
home to her parents Mr and Mrs Hudon
Barron at 505 Perkins St in Rome it was
not the happiest of homecomings Helen
was badly crippledfor life they thought
My leg wouldnt straighten out Helen
said It was very hard for me to walk
A 17yearold girl just isnt made to sit
around idly unable to do anything and the
months of helplessness that followed Helens
accident arent pleasant for her to remem
ber She had always been accustomed to a
great deal of activity but it looked then as
if those days were gone and might as well be
forgotten
I didnt know anything about the voca
tional rehabilitation program Helen says
I didnt even know there was such a thing
Wanted a Job
Six months after the tragic Sunday motor
cycle ride however she went one day to the
office of the Division of Vocational Rehabil
itation She wanted a job She would take
almost anything if it would give her some
thing to do something to keep her busy
some activity that would take her mind off
her misfortune She didnt expect as much
as she received
What would you like to do they asked
her How about learning shorthand and
typing
Shorthand and typing would have been
all right of course but there was something
elsesomething that had been her lifelong
ambition Why not ask It was worth a try
You name it said Mr Donaldson
Id like to be a beautician
And thats how it came about that Helen
Barron today is an apprentice beautician at
the Second Avenue Beauty Shop
I love it she smiles better than any
thing Ive ever done
A physical handicap did not stop this attractive girl from becoming
a beautician Helen Virginia Barron is shown as she works on a
customer at the Second Avenue Beauty Shop in Rome
Leg Straightened
Helen wanted a job She didnt expect
anything else from the people who got her
a job the job she wanted But the voca
tional rehabilitation people went her one
better
They sent her to Crawford Long hospital
in Atlanta where operations by a bone
specialist straightened her leg
I was in a cast for oh I dont know
how long she said in a voice that left no
doubt that it was too long Then they had
me to wear a brace When I took that off
I went to work here Ive been here for
about fourteen weeks now The rehabilita
tion people have done more for me than
anybody in the world besides my mother
and dad
At this point the conversation was inter
rupted by a phone call for Helen She came
back beaming
My boy friend was her brief remark
She didnt say who the boy friend was
but whoever he is one thing is certain
hes got a plucky girl friendInfantile paralysis left George Morton
right 36 of Athens with an impaired
leg Through Vocational Rehabilitation
services he was given onthejob training
in tailoring and placed in an Athens
cleaning establishment where he can
earn his own living
Alfred Grier lower right of Dawson
lost his right leg as the result of a
tropical disease He was provided with an
artificial limb assisted in starting a cafe
and now operates a thriving business
BelowVirgil Tigg of Marietta father
of two boys had been bedridden for
seven years with paralysis growing out
of an accident while working at the Bell
bomber plant His legs and back were
crushed under a huge earthmover blade
Specialists say that with special treat
ment and braces he will be able to walk
again Then he will be trained as a shoe
rebuilder and placed in a suitable job
Virgil Tigg is one of the many seriously
handicapped civilians who may be as
sisted in becoming selfsupporting
through an expanded Vocational Re
habilitation program
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5l lndustral ardent several years ago operates a grocery and refreshment business His trade
comes mainly from employees in nearby industrial plants Vocational Rehabilitation and the Georgia Cooperative
Services for the Blind Inc made it possible for him to establish the little business Georgia cooperative
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RightAttractive Syble Echols of Danielsville Rt
3 is secretary to Madison County Court Clerk al
though her hearing is impaired She finished high
school and was assisted by Vocational Rehabilita
tion in a secretarial course
Its quite a transition from farming to caning chairs and
repairing furniture But fiftysevenyearold Roy H Jones
left of 235 Simpson Street NW Atlanta made it
after a fall from a tobacco barn roof left him paralyzed
from the waist down He was trained by a tutor provided
through Vocational Rehabilitation services When the
weather is mild he enjoys working on the front porch at
his home In a little more than a year Mr Jones has
built up a business that keeps him occupied all dayand
makes him selfsupporting
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And its a far call from practicing law to raising broilers
Mack Upshaw left center 34 of Smyrna Rt 2 has had
defective vision since he was about six years of age In
spite of the handicap he succeeded in completing a course
in law and engaged in the practice of his profession until
failing eyesight forced him to give it up His acreage pro
vided a suitable location for a poultry project With ma
terial from glider shipping cases a long brooder house
was constructed Mr Upshaw did much of the work on
the building Arrangements were made with a Marietta
feed dealer to supply the chicks and feed and market the
broilers Early in March Mr Upshaw had about 6000
chickens just about ready for the pickup truck He is
shown with Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor W H
Fargason left and R E Brannon right feed dealer
representativeA new day has dawned for Georgias dis
abled men and women
Under the Minimum Foundation Program
for Education the Vocational Rehabilitation
Division receives a substantial increase in
state funds for services to those with voca
tional handicaps
The budget for the fiscal year 195152
carries 900000 for this phase of education
A similar sum is expected from Federal
sources
With the increased appropriations the
Division will be able to restore to productive
jobs more than 5000 handicapped persons
annually It will be possible also to accept
and serve a larger number of persons who
require prolonged treatment and training
Lack of funds at times has compelled
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors to de
fer services needed by severely disabled per
sons and provide aid to others whose
impairments could be corrected or reduced
at less cost
In many instances the only way seriously
handicapped men and women can be made
employable is to send them to a rehabilita
tion center where therapy hospitalization
nursing care and training can be provided
under one roof
Many persons paralyzed from the waist
down have strong arms and shoulders and
bright minds Some never may be able to
walk again without crutches But to one who
has spent years in a bed or wheel chair the
compromise with crutches comes as a bless
ing And there are many jobs which can be
filled acceptably by a welltrained worker
who cannot walk or stand
In recent years medical science has made
remarkable advances in the treatment of
persons with paralysis Unfortunately there
are only a few medical centers which offer
all the services needed in such cases
Vocational Rehabilitation client boarding plane for New York Medical
Center He is Louis Williford 22 of Gibson paralyzed after an
automobile accident
There are of course limitations on the
number of patients that may be accepted at
one time at rehabilitation centers and hos
pitals with physical medicine departments
Vocational Rehabilitation clients who need
this type of treatment are being sent to the
physical medicine department at Emory Uni
versity Hospital the Woodrow Wilson Re
habilitation Center at Fishersville Va and
the Institute of Physical Medicine and Re
habilitation at the New York University
Bellevue Medical Center
Applications for admission of clients are
made only after a careful study of the case
and examination by specialists in the field of
the disability Then the medical records are
sent to the institution for review and final
decision in the case
Clients accepted by the New York center
are brought to Atlanta in a car or ambulance
and put on a fast plane A few hours later
they are met at the Newark airport by an
attendant and taken to the center
One of those sent to New York recently is
Louis Williford 22 of Gibson paralyzed
from the hips down as the result of an auto
mobile accident in 1947 He received assist
ance through the Crippled Childrens Divi
sion until last year He has good use of his
hands and had learned to make a number
of articles such as pocketbooks and tiny
wagons His only work experience had been
on a farm and in a sawmill
Another client now in New York is John
Richard Marable 35 of Watkinsville Rt 1
He has been bedridden with paralysis for
thirteen years as the result of a fall from a
tree on his fathers farm Tests have shown
that he has an unusual aptitude for delicate
work with tools While confined to bed he
learned some fundamentals of woodcarving
and plaster of paris moulding Lying on his
bed he worked with his tools and materials
on a little table His workmanship on some
articles has been highly praised by his
Counselor
It is planned to enroll both of these young
men for vocational training after they return
from the medical center They seem inter
ested in learning to repair watches
In these cases as in some others involving
serious disabilities it will require abovethe
average expenditures to enable them to be
come useful selfsupporting citizens but
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Vol 6 MarchApril 1951 No 1
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
Schools Move Forward
N THE past two months the State Board of Education and the State Depart
L ment of Education have worked out most of the policies and procedures for
the operation of our public school system under the Minimum Foundation pro
gram It has been a stupendous task
When the General Assembly activated the MFPE the sole objective was to
provide more and better educational opportunities for children in all sections of
Georgia And it is our purpose to carry out the spirit as well as the letter
of the law
Good schools must be made better Weak and inefficient schools especially
on the high school level must be consolidated in order to provide the best type
of schooling that can be had for the money
Overhead expenses at state and local levels must be kept at a minimum There
must be state administrative supervision to guarantee that public funds will be
spent wisely But it will be done without handicapping local initiative or control
where these are directed toward better educational opportunities for our children
The new salary schedule for teachers ranges from 2400 base pay for be
ginning teachers with professional certificates and four years of college training
to 3300 for those with five years professional training after nine years ex
perience
The minimum school day for all teachers will be eight hours with at least
five and a half hours of classroom instruction exclusive of recess and lunch
periods Credit for summer school work will be allowed teachers in upgrading
their certificates for the 1951 fall term
The program of study will be expanded to include the 12th grade During
the transition from eleven to twelve years the 11th grade average daily attendance
records will be used as the basis for teacher allotment for the 12th grade
Steps have been taken also to improve our transportation system for school
children Through the Department of Education the State will furnish advisory
services to local systems in developing economical safe and coordinated methods
of bus transportation The Minimum National Standards for School Buses with
directional lights will be the minimum standards in Georgia
All bus drivers will be employed by local school boards under written con
tracts beginning with the 195152 school year The State will provide additional
funds to assist with the cost of transportation and make financial adjustments
within the year in situations resulting from consolidations and reorganizations
The projected budget carries an increase of about 30000000 of State funds
for our schools In this connection it should be kept in mind that 99 percent
of the total state appropriation for public schools is allotted by the State Depart
ment of Education to the counties and cities That means that only 1 percent is
required for administration supervision and other expenses at the state level
Next year the people of Georgia will invest more money in education than
ever before and I am confident that school people will do their utmost to exceed
the wishes and expectations of those who are making such a magnificent contri
bution to the welfare of our children and the future of our State
M D Collins
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Heres a reproduction of a poster
printed in colors to help promote the
National defense effort With able
bodied men being drawn into the
armed forces industry must look to
handicapped men and women to fill the
gaps in the manpower supply Prop
erly trained disabled workers can
keep up with production schedulesSeverely disabled since birth twentyfive
yearold Harold A Nutt of Unadilla Rt 1
is self supporting for the first time in his life
For nearly a year he has operated a coun
try store and filling station in a farm com
munity near his home His earnings have
increased steadily from a few dollars to 65
a week in March
This Dooly county farm boy faced
obstacles which might have doomed him to
a life of dependency upon welfare organiza
tions or private charities
Cerebral palsy left him with impaired legs
and hands partial paralysis of the face and
a speech defect He also had curvature of
the spine and mass protrusion of the teeth
A sharecroppers son in a family of four
children Harold was denied the advantages
enjoyed by many other children Because of
his physical condition he didnt get beyond
the third grade in school He couldnt do
farm work There were no other types of
jobs in the communityand none that he
could fill in nearby towns
But he did have a desire to do something
and the knack of making friends
Over a span of months his case was re
ported to Vocational Rehabilitation by sev
eral interested citizens including a school
superintendent a justice of the peace a min
ister a Superior Court judge and others
Meanwhile Counselor B R B Davis of
the Americus office had interviewed the
young man members of the Nutt family and
others who were familiar with the case
Medical examinations indicated that noth
ing could be done to reduce Harolds physical
disabilities To improve his appearance it
was recommended that his protruding teeth
be extracted and dentures provided This
was done through Vocational Rehabilitation
Harold Nutt left believes in service with a smile
The counselor and client discussed the idea
of undertaking to set up a small business
enterprise which would give the disabled
young man something to do and possibly
yield a small profit Before the project was
undertaken a survey was made to find a suit
able location and estimate the volume of
trade that might be attracted to the store
The study indicated that a little store in the
community might yield a profit of 10 to 15
a week for the operator after a few months
Through interested individuals in the com
munity arrangements were made to con
struct a store building out of material from
an old structure The counters were designed
for selfservice so that Harold wouldnt have
to do too much reaching and lifting in wait
ing on his customers
Also through the interest in citizens an
electric gasoline pump was installed in front
of the store The Division provided a bev
erage cooler
Then Harold was trained in merchandising
methodsthe types and quantity of stock to
carry how to display his merchandise to best
advantage the prices to charge and how to
keep simple records
The store was ready by February 2 1950
and Harold started in business By Septem
ber of that year reports showed his average
profits were about 40 a week which was
rather surprising to the counselor and some
citizens in the community A few weeks
later he was earning about 55 a week
Meanwhile his stock of merchandise had
been increased substantially out of the earn
ings of the business
Harold enjoys his work and has gained
the reputation of being a good business
man People in the community go out of
their way to trade with him Their attitude
toward him was expressed by one elderly
woman who said Harolds a good boy and
were glad hes doing all right
Leaders in Atlantas 1950 National
Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week observance receive Awards of
Merit from Mayor William B Harts
field right From leftHarry Bin
ford Jr Benjamin R Hendrix Elmer
L Barfield Jr Chairman Leland
Dean and Mayor Hartsfield The cer
tificates presented in a ceremony at
City Hall were designed by an artist
who is an inmate of the Federal
PrisonEd Whittington vending stand operator enjoys serving nurses patients and visitors at the Floyd Hospital in Rome
Railroad Man Makes Comeback
By Bob Ho wren
Rome NewsTribune Staff Writer
Few men are fortunate enough to bask in
the smiles of pretty nurses for nine hours out
of every twentyfour And all the nurses
smile at Ed Whittington the friendly man
behind the candy counter in the main corri
dor of Floyd Hospital
Ed has a smile and a cheerful greeting for
all the passersby and customers at his neat
stand in a nook halfway down the corridor
The nurses kid him about having his picture
taken and he returns their remarks with a
wisecrack that sends them grinning on their
way
Cigarettes candy chewing gum nuts
cigars smoking tobacco and even rubbing
alcohol are his stockintrade Business is
pretty good he says These nurses are
good customers Of course the visitors and
patients buy a good bit too
Ed Whittington is one of more than 40
operators of similar stands in towns all over
Georgia set up by the Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation of the Georgia Depart
ment of Education for the blind or partially
blind
Before he became almost blind four years
ago he was a railroad man and when a
doctor told him Whittington the jigs up
you might as well forget about working
it was quite a blow What was he going
to do
Then five weeks ago when his application
for a stand was accepted by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation he felt like a man
with a brandnew hold on life He isnt hesi
tant about voicing his gratitude to the or
ganization that gave him his boost either
You know he said his face suddenly
serious I dont know what I would have
done without this job Noweven if I should
go totally blindI could still run this stand
I know by touch where everything is Its
the greatest thing that ever happened to me
Ed likes to keep busy and the excess en
ergy that isnt used up in his nine hours a
day in his snack stand goes into making up a
little fourpage pamphlet he distributes every
week It serves to advertise his business as
well as to spread a little of his overflowing
good cheer
Dust this weeks issue informs the unen
lightened is mud with the juice squeezed
out and a bachelor for the benefit of un
learned is a selfish callous undeserving
man who has cheated some worthy woman
out of a divorce
The future looks considerably brighter now
for Ed Whittington than it did four years
ago because he has regained his selfsuffi
ciency People are what he enjoys He likes
peoplealmost every kind of peopleand
people like him His business fits him like a
shell fits an egg because he can talk to his
customers
Hes one of many who have been snatched
from the ranks of the socially dependent
and who have been set on their feet as self
reliant selfsupporting citizens of the state
Ed Whittington is just one example of what
has been done by the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division to aid the physically handi
cappedake Good
Infantile paralysis left Pinkie Lou Ware 29 right
without the use of her lower limbs Through Voca
tional Rehabilitation services she was provided with
training and some equipment to set up a beauty
shop at 616 East Forsyth Street Americus She is
shown dressing the hair of a male customer To
reach her shop Pinkie Lou crawls up a flight of
stairs after leaving her wheel chair on the side
walk But she has strong arms and doesnt seem to
mind the effort it takes to get to work Shes proud
of her shop and the patronage she has built up in
the community
Fiftyyearold Pleas Fagin of Reynolds has a con
genital deformity of the legs but he too is no
longer dependent upon welfare agencies relatives or
private charities He was trained in shoe rebuilding
assisted in obtaining equipment and guided in set
ting up his shop Pleas rides from his home to shop
and elsewhere about the communityin a little
wagon drawn by a faithful goat

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At LeftPlastic surgery provided through Voca
tional Rehabilitation corrected this mans harelip
He is Charlie Cornelius 35 of Macon a truck driver
for the KinnettOdum Ice Co
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Two Trainees in One ShopThe two young men shown below selected vocations which will enable
them to help others vocationally handicappedTheyre learning how to make braces At left Calvin
Hambrick 21 who has defective hearing and atright Curtis Newman 24 defective speech Train
ing was provided at the Central Brace Co Macon
TOP LEFTWatson Flemings arm was mangled in a feed mill
Two operations restored it to usefulness although he has three
fingers missing The Hartwell man is a salesman for the Maret
Grain Co
ABOVEAttractive Blanche Deslauriers looks forward to a suc
cessful career as receptionist and aide in a Savannah dentists office
although she had a serious hip impairment An operation and
business college course prepared Mrs Deslauriers for her new
vocation
LEFTA bone infection left George C Willis Jr with an im
paired left leg Before finishing Lanier High School he had decided
to become a pharmacist Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him atl
the University of Georgia For nearly two years he has been
employed in a Macon drug store
BELOWEver since he was 2 Herbert Bennett has had defective
vision from a lye infection He was trained in motor mechanics
at the North Georgia Trade and Vocational School Clarkesville
and placed in an Athens shop
Bedridden Walter Adkins of Columbus
was 25 before he earned his first dollar
Walter makes leather billfolds coin purses
and other articles which he sells through the
Fort Benning post exchange a hobby shop
and other outlets in Columbus
He is one of the growing group of home
bound workers in that area who were taught
handicrafts by Miss Fannie Mae McCullohs
a tutor whose services were provided through
the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Some
of these workers sell their products through
the Warm Springs Foundation gift shop
For years it appeared Walter never would
be able to do any kind of work He was just
14 when stricken by rheumatoid arthritis
When the dread disease had run its course
the joints of his hips knees and ankles were
so stiff he couldnt sit upright in bed At that
time some doctors said nothing could be done
to improve his physical condition
So it was a great day in Walters life when
he sold his first billfold It seemed to make
him forget for the moment all that he had
missed as a teenage boy the suffering and
hardships he had experienced It gave him
renewed hopes selfconfidence and a deter
mination to keep working A year later his
average weekly earnings were 15
Measured by todays standard wage scales
Walters 15 may be regarded as a mere pit
tance But it does make him feel that he is
no longer wholly dependent upon others It
gives him something to hold his interest and
occupy his time And it does help to meet
the family budget
Walter lives in a simple cottage with his
father Leslie Adkins and a sister Mrs Allen
Thedford Ever since he was stricken with
the crippling disease he has been dependent
upon his father and sister for food shelter
and nursing and even little personal needs
The story of Walters rehabilitation really
begins in 1945 In the spring of that year a
Columbus doctor who had examined Walter
reported that in his opinion the boys physi
cal condition could be improved by treatment
The disease had left Walter with fairly good
use of his arms and hands Vocational Re
habilitation Counselor Ted Owens believed
the boy could be taught handicrafts if able to
sit upright in bed He had in mind the Voca
tional Rehabilitation slogan Its not the
disability but whats left that counts Wal
ter had his hands and arms
So preliminary plans for hospitalization
were made But before they could be carried
out the Adkins family moved to another
state Counselor Owens sent the case records
to the Vocational Rehabilitation Division in
the state to which his client had moved
In lanuary of last year Counselor Owens
learned that the family had moved back to
Columbus In the intervening five years
there had been no improvement in the condi
tion of Walters hips knees and ankles His
hands and arms had become weaker from dis
use He weighed only 100 pounds
It was found that both the father and sister
had jobshe at Fort Benning and she at a
bakery Before going to work they would fix
Walters lunch and leave it within reach on a
table
New rehabilitation plans were worked out
The father and sister agreed to have someone
Walter Adkins works in bed
remain in the home during the day An ortho
pedic surgeon who had become interested in
the case offered to do the surgery on the hips
at no cost to the Division Arrangements
were made for hospitalization also without
cost to the Division The tutors services were
engaged
The operation improved the condition of
Walters hips Meanwhile an officer of a
Columbus bank had donated a hospital bed
table which can be adjusted to give proper
support to Walters back and gives him a
place to work with leather and tools A light
was rigged over the bed and an outlet installed
for electric current for tools
The tutor visited the Adkins home regu
larly over a period of eight weeks Walters
progress in handcraft was rather slow at first
because of the weakened condition of his
hands and arms But he regained his strength
after a few weeks
He followed a regular work schedule start
ing at 8 am and continuing until noon He
rested after lunch and then resumed work
through the afternoon and often in the eve
nings His interest in his work grew with his
progress in converting scraps of leather into
attractive salable articles
Several organizations and individuals as
sisted in Walters first efforts to sell his pro
ducts Among them were the Bus Drivers
Auxiliary and Radio Station WRBL The
radio station featured his story and work on
the Grabbag program several Saturdays in
succession Mr Adkins sold quite a few ar
ticles to the men stationed at the Army post
Walter gets leather through an agency at
a nominal price thus giving him almost 100
percent profit on his merchandise
Palsy Study Grant
A grant of 10000 to continue a nation
wide educational program for specialists in
the field of cerebral palsy has been made by
Alpha Chi Omega womens fraternity to the
National Society for Crippled Children and
Adults Chicago the Easter Seal Agency
The grant was voted at the fraternitys 28th
annual convention in Roanoke Virginia and
will make possible advanced study in the care
and treatment of cerebral palsied children by
specially selected physicians therapists and
educators during the next two years
It brings to 35000 the total grants made
by Alpha Chi Omega to the National Society
for training on the national level In addition
55000 has been given for scholarships and
training on the local level
Thus far scholarship winners have been
selected from 36 states Hawaii Canada and
Denmark according to the announcement by
Lawrence J Linck executive director of the
National Society Since the beginning of the
project 54 physicians therapists and educa
tors have received special training as a result
of the Alpha Chi Omega grants
Recipients are chosen by a committee made
up of members of the National Society execu
tive committee and a representative of the
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Vol 6
MayJune 1951
No 2
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
Stale Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Ajgusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 61793668
Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus South Georgia Trade
Vocational School
T ts too early at this writing to quote figures but on the basis of available rec
ords it appears Georgia will be among the top states of the nation in the
number of handicapped civilians restored to productive jobs during the fiscal
year ending June 30
Reports from the Georgia Divisions local offices indicate that more than
2900 cases have been closed rehabilitated this year This will mean a gain of
100 or more over the number rehabilitated last year and approach the states
alltime record of 3075 in 194849
For years Georgia has ranked along with California New York Illinois and
Michigan in meritorious service in this phase of education From preliminary
reports it seems certain it will continue to hold its position in this group of states
What does it mean It means that nearly 3000 men and women of working
age have made the transition from dependency to selfsufficiency It means that
they are no longer drains upon state and local welfare resources family budgets
and private charities It means that they are helping to increase the productivity
of Georgias industry agriculture and commerce and adding millions to the
purchasing power of our people
Numbers do not tell the whole story Among those rehabilitated this year
were many men and women who had been seriously disabled for years men and
women who had little hopes of ever being able to work again They received the
best medical surgical and hospital services available in Georgia or elsewhere
together with whatever type of training they needed to qualify for a suitable job
It takes longer and it costs more to rehabilitate a person who has a serious
handicap than it does to serve some other types of cases But we are dealing
with human lives and when theres a good chance of making them employable
we cant very well count the cost With the increased appropriations set up under
the Minimum Foundation program for 195152 the Division will be in position
to serve a larger proportion of seriously handicapped persons

Canteen service for employees at
the huge National Gypsum Co plant
near Savannah is provided by Gadson
Floyd 29 who lost his vision ten
years ago
Through the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division and the Georgia Coopera
tive Services for the Blind Inc a neat
white building was erected near the
main entrance to the plant Fixtures
and equipment were installed and the
shelves and counters stocked with
canned and packaged foods tobacco
products and soft drinks
Like other blind persons who oper
ate vending stands under this pro
gram Floyd was trained in small busi
ness enterprise management before
being placed in charge of this unit
The little business has been a success
since the day it was started Floyd
is not only earning a living but hes
providing a service to plant employees
Inset showed the exterior of the
buildingTOP LEFTTwentythreeyearold R G Paul who has a spinal impairment from
infantile paralysis learns to repair electrical equipment He is shown in a Savannah
shop working on a variable speed unit used in the paper industry
ABOVEOne of the most succesful vending stands in the state serves patients
and staff members at the Marine Hospital in Savannah It is operated by Worth
Barney who has had defective vision since birth
LEFT ABOVEGrady Stokes 35 wears an artificial limb but he is able to carry on as a dental laboratory tech
nician He was trained in Macon and placed in an Atlanta laboratory
Another successful vending stand above is operated by James D Drexler in Savannahs main postoffice A city
fireman for many years he lost his sight in 1943 from a gas fumes accidentTOP LEFTSurgery and training made it possible for John Haynie to overcome a vocational handicap caused by
a leg impairment He was trained as a barber and placed in an Athens shop
TOP RIGHTCalvin B Doster of Atlanta also had a leg impairment He was assisted by Vocational Rehabilita
tion in establishing a carburetor repair shop and is making good in the business
LEFT ABOVECharles Hansford 21 left had a speech impairment Trained in auto body and fender repair
ing hes now in business with his father in Savannah and is shown training Roland Cannon 17 who is hard of
hearing Cannon wears a hearing aid
RIGHT ABOVEMiss Ida Monson has sight in only one eye Trained in clerical work she is parts stock clerk
with the George Schwartz Generator Service Co Savannah She is shown with Mr SchwartzTOP RIGHTWill May lost his leg in a work train
accident in 1919 Twentyfour years later a higher
amputation of the stump became necessary as the
result of an automobile wreck Through Vocational
Rehabilitation services he was provided with an arti
ficial limb and is shown working as a carpenter
in a Savannah municipal crew
Major Jones lost his left leg below the knee from
an accidental gunshot wound Vocational Rehabilita
tion assisted him with an artificial appliance and
in establishing a neighborhood store in Savannah

RIGHT BELOWArthritis left Roberta Evans of
Hogansville with an impaired leg She was able
to resume her work as a laundress after receiv
ing treatment and a brace
Charles Moore 57 lower left and Willie Frances
64 are familiar figures and friendly competitors
with their peanut roasting machines on Savannahs
West Broad Street An auto machanic Moore lost
his sight in 1932 and had to find a new means of
earning a living Frances lost his sight in 1948 but
a cataract operation restored some vision
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Miss Frances Carter left below is a popular member of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association clerical staff in
Atlanta She was trained at Rome Vocational while a patient at Battey State Hospital Shown with her is Carl
Fox Executive Director of the Association Twentythreeyearold Earl R Parker right below is employed as an
upholsterer and furniture repairer in a Savannah shop After recovering from epilepsy he was trained at the South
Georgia Trade and Vocational School Americus
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ors at training conference saw am
putees demonstrate use of modern
types of artificial appliances
Scene at left illustrates exercise
prescribed for proper conditioning
of stump In background Dr R
L Bennett Director Department
of Physical Medicine Warm
Springs and Emory University
Hospital At right Miss Beatrice
Vlahos Emory
Lower panel shows some types of artificial legs in use These aboveknee protheses are attached to the trunk by
pelvic bands left and shoulder straps right Walking up and down stairs is no longer a problem for the man in
the center picture At extreme right and in background of center picture Dr Donald A Covalt Clinical Director
New York UniversityBellevue Medical Center
Governor Lands Work for Handicapped
Excerpts from Address
By Governor Herman Talmadge
At Rehabilitation Staff Conference
Georgia is now providing 900000 a
year for vocational rehabilitation
work in this State the largest sum ever
furnished for this purpose
This sum represents an increase of 125
percent over the amount the Division was
receiving at the beginning of the present
administration
During the fiscal year which ended June
30 1951 this Division rehabilitated 2982
handicapped men and women the second
largest number rehabilitated during any
year in its history
The men and women rehabilitated during
this period will earn more than 4500000
the first year in employment They are now
contributing to the support of themselves
their families their communities and their
State They are helping to repay through
their taxes for their own rehabilitation And
we can expect them to go ahead and earn
their livelihood for years to come
When the 900000 furnished by the
State is matched by Federal funds the Divi
sion will have for its rehabilitation work re
sources comparable to any state in the Na
tion This money will enable the Division
to rehabilitate a larger number of persons
this year and next year and to do a better
job for those with serious disabilities which
require prolonged treatment hospitalization
and training Federal officials tell me that
Georgia now has one of the most far
reaching and effective vocational rehabilita
tion programs in the Nation
We are proud of the record made in
this program and I feel that congratulations
are due Paul Barrett and his staff for the
excellent job they have done
The only accurate yardstick of progress
for any state is to measure the accomplish
ments of today with conditions which have
existed in the past I ask you to go back
with me to the early part of 1949 when the
present administration first assumed office
A dark cloud of financial uncertainty hov
ered over every schoolhouse and college
throughout Georgia There was even talk
that schools in many counties would not
even open their doors The common schools
and University System of this State were
receiving only 47000000 per year for their
entire operations This amount was far in
adequate Our educational system and insti
tutions of higher learning were literally fall
ing apart Buildings were deteriorating
There were crowded classrooms and teach
ers were leaving in droves for better pay in
neighboring states and other more remuner
ative jobs
This administration stepped into the
breach and provided the emergency funds
necessary to tide over the schools and
colleges
A candid camera shot of Governor Herman Talmadge right and
Vocational Rehabilitation Director Paul S Barrett
I have often stated and repeat now that
my greatest ambition as your Governor is
to serve so that when the final history of
this State is recorded my administration
shall be set down as the one which did the
most for the cause of educating our people
We are happy to announce here that the
Minimum Foundation Program for our
schools is no longer a goal It is a reality
The State Board of Education has adopted
a 75000000 budget which when added
to the appropriations for common school
plants University System operations Uni
versity System building fund and teachers
retirement system will aggregate a total of
nearly 100000000 This is more than
twice the amount appropriated for all edu
cational purposes during the last fiscal year
of the immediately preceding administration
Many have asked What will this great
new educational program do for the schools
of Georgia and how will it benefit our school
boys and girls
It will provide better pay for our teach
ers it is making possible new buildings for
our common schools and University Sys
tem better bus service better curricula bet
ter teaching aids statewide rural library
service expanded homemaking and voca
tional education and numerous other serv
ices which were heretofore unavailable or
inadequate
I am sure that you are all interested in
how the new State School Building authority
will work It was created at the last session
of the General Assembly at the request of
the administration It will make possible the
immediate construction of new school build
ings and repairs to existing structures for
our county city and independent systems to
be paid for out of current income on a long
term basis
You will be interested to know that Geor
gia pioneered in the creation of these author
ities and that many other states have sent
people here and have made inquiries by
mail studying this unique method of financ
ing so that they too might immediately
take care of their most urgent classroom
needs
The authority arrangement of financing
is not a new experiment for our State It is
already working well today
For many years practically nothing had
been done in the way of providing new
buildings for colleges in our University Sys
tem nor to even make necessary repairs to
existing buildings In the January 1949
session of the General Assembly the ad
ministration sponsored creation of the Uni
versity System Building Authority for the
purpose of providing needed new buildings
for units throughout the entire University
System This program has made possible
the erection of mens dormitories womens
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No 3
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
Stale Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome415 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
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Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
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SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
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BrunswickWay Bldg
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Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
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Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
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MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
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Columbus411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
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NEPH Call Issued
October 7 to 13 is National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week
Every citizen can volunteer for service with his Community Committee
His position his business or professional contacts can further the objectives
of this great program for physically handicapped men and women
If he knows employers he can be a salesman for the handicapped worker
If he is an employer he can hire handicapped workers
A call for action on this front was made by President Truman in a letter to
Vice Admiral Ross T Mclntire USN Retd Chairman of the Presidents Com
mittee on NEPH Week
The President said
For the third time in thirtyfour years the life of this Nation is threatened
by an aggressor As our country makes the greatest defense effort any nation
has been forced to attempt the problem of manpower becomes basic Man
power shortages already felt in some quarters will become increasingly acute
as we speed our defense effort
In our Nations physically handicapped lies a vast reservoir of relatively
untapped skills These skills properly utilized constitute a mighty bulwark
against the present threat of manpower shortages They must not be overlooked
in our preparedness program Qualified handicapped workers not now employed
should be employed Those not trained should be trained screened for maxi
mum usefulness and given the opportunity to contribute their skills and abilities
The Congress has designated the first week in each October as National
Employ the Physically Handicapped Week a time in which to call special atten
tion to the need for increased employment of the handicapped The need has
never been more urgent
As President of the United States I call upon every American to provide
greater opportunities for the employment and rehabilitation of the physically
handicapped not just during the observance of National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week but during fiftytwo weeks of the year I earnestly ask that
all informational and educational means be utilized to obtain the widest possible
public understanding of this national program
The manpower challenge that we face can be met It must be met if we
are to survive as a Nation and preserve the peace of the world
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Governor Herman Talmadge speaking
at banquet in Savannah sponsored by
the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
staff It was the Governors thirty
eighth birthday anniversary So he
was surprised with a beautiful cake
Shown with him is Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools who
was master of ceremoniesIll
By John A Kratz Associate Director
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Excerpts from address at Savannah
The National program of vocational re
habilitation of disabled persons is one of
the earliest of service programs to our peo
ple undertaken as a joint StateFederal
responsibility It was
developed initially as
a part of or rather
an adjunct to the
vocational education
program made nec
essary by the tech
nical demands of
our industrial mo
bilization as stimu
lated by World
War I
On the eve of the
Second World War
ten million unemployed Americans formed a
vast pool of manpower ready and able for
the most part to fill our defense needs But
even with this great reserve the manpower
needs of war production and of our armed
forces could not be fully met Women not
normally in the labor force retired workers
and many handicapped persons were es
sential
Of the handicapped group more than
200000 were channelled into war produc
tion and supporting activities through voca
tional rehabilitation Many others with dis
abilities requiring little or no help entered
the labor force through their own efforts
A high percentage of the handicapped work
ers are still employed in the production of
goods and services that reflect the living
standard and strength of our country To
day fortunately there are no large num
bers of unemployed in the United States
Charles E Wilson the Director of De
fense Mobilization translates our manpower
needs into simple terms that cannot be mis
understood He estimates that three to four
million more workers must be added to our
labor force If we are to achieve our goals
we must concentrate on building up our
forces for production right now There is
no time to lose
In his second quarterly report to the
President issued luly 1 1951 he said
With the stepping up of defense activity
there was a general tightening in the labor
market Unemployment dropped to a new
postwar low and the labor force expanded
more rapidly than in recent years Unfilled
requests for workers pending with public
employment services have risen There was
no evidence however of a general man
power shortage
Individuals making up the working force
live in thousands of communities and work
in thousands of occupations Even if we
do not approach a situation of national la
bor scarcity shortages which bottleneck the
defense program can develop in individual
localities and in particular occupations
Such local and occupational shortages have
already appeared and reports indicate they
increased during the past quarter
The Federal Government States and
communities employers and workers or
ganizations can help in keeping shortages to
a minimum
Tightening of the labor market has ap
peared already with defense production still
far below its peak During the rest of this
year two million persons need to be added
to defense production and during 1952 an
other two and a half million will be needed
The additions are those required both in
munitions industries and in the basic indus
tries which support munitions production
such as mining agriculture transportation
and steel
A large proportion of the needed work
ers will be transferred automatically on their
jobs as the output of plants is redirected
from civilian to defense uses Normal growth
of the labor force resulting mainly from
population increase and the post war up
trend in the employment of women should
provide a net inflow of close to one million
a year The net requirement of extra work
ers will be short one to one and a half
million
Our additional requirements for workers
can be met But to meet them we will have
to make fuller use of those groups in the
population where the greatest opportunity
for recruitment exists These groups are
women retired persons and other older
workers handicapped persons and minority
groups which are not being fully utilized
and parttime workers
As defense output emerges generally
from the toolingup stage occupational
shortages will appear among production
workers such as skilled machine operators
in other industries
Mr Wilsons report indicates various
measures which should be undertaken to
meet these problems He says location of
contracts and new plants should be made in
areas where labor is available Surveys of
manpower problems in various areas can be
the basis on which a community can organ
ize an action program covering utilization of
its present labor supply redirection of ab
senteeism and turnover and recruitment for
additional workers
Handicapped workers he states are a
source of labor if employers lower physical
requirements that are needlessly high This
supply can be increased by enlarging rehabili
tation services including training and finally
he points out that to assist this he has re
cently established a Task Force on Mobil
ization for the Handicapped
I have quoted at length from the recent
report of the Director of Defense Mobiliza
tion in order to set before you some of the
urgent and basic problems which confront
us in mobilization for defense and to indi
cate the part that vocational rehabilitation
can and should play in meeting them
Finding the workers needed by Americas
industries is not a simple matter of recruit
ing It is a problem that demands recogni
tion of all our human resources and a skillful
utilization of the limited manpower which
our population affords
Shifting personnel to critical production
from less essential activities is only a partial
answer The pirating of personnel by one
defense industry from another or by one
important geographic area from another is
no answer at all The solution lies in a full
scale mobilization of existing and potential
production talent
One of the several factors which led to
the enactment of the 1943 Amendments to
the Vocational Rehabilitation Act was the
impact of mobilization needs prior to and
during World War II Expansion of the
scope of rehabilitation services provided
under P L 113 for which Federal and
matching State funds may be expended and
the liberalization of Federal financial par
ticipation in the service make it possible for
the program to assist many thousand of
handicapped persons in becoming productive
workers Many of these persons may be
channelled into essential and critical occupa
tions while others may take their places in
supporting activities
We must meet the challenge presented by
the mobilization program currently in effect
We must also make plans now to assist in
meeting the problems which will accelerate
and increase in future months
One of our State directors recently stated
that the conservation of human resources
like that of our natural resources is a com
munity responsibility It is only through the
mobilization and coordination of the efforts
of voluntary and public agencies and the
integration and expansion of their services
that the community can discharge its re
sponsibility to the handicapped The com
munity with all of its services and resources
thus becomes a rehabilitation center
The community responsibility for the
conservation of our human resources cannot
be overemphasized Of all our programs of
health and welfare rehabilitation is most
clearly cooperative No one person no one
facility no one Act can accomplish rehabili
tation All required resources must be
brought to bear upon the program This
includes our FederalState program private
organizations voluntary associations the
medical and hospital professions and our
great institutes and medical centers coop
erating with local clinics Again labor
unions and business and industry need to be
open minded and creative in their willingness
to employ their share of the handicapped
In all of these efforts the rehabilitation
service in the community must play a cen
tral role and provide the initiative If the
rehabilitation program is to assume an im
portant role in defense mobilization it
seems fairly obvious that two types of
planning are equally important I refer of
course to longrange as well as shortrange
planning If a potential force of handicapped
persons is to be recruited for defense activi
ties a large proportion of the severely dis
abled will have to be prepared to take a
place in essential and supporting employ
ment Such persons for the most part
require extensive or longterm services to be
properly and adequately fitted for employ
ment Money and trained staff are essential
Development of staff and adequate appro
priations for carrying on the work are there
fore essential Furthermore promotion of
new facilities for rehabilitating the disabled
and expansion of existent facilities are fun
damental requirements Therefore if we
move with assurance on such a broad front
of expanded services for the handicapped
we may expect to reach our goal in due
course Much yet must be done to accom
plish our objective
Every year in August the professional staff
of Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation Di
vision holds a fiveday training conference
in Savannah
The purpose is to keep abreast of develop
ments in all phases of rehabilitation and
learn new techniques in restoring handi
capped men and women to useful employ
ment
This years sessions were devoted largely
to problems involved in serving seriously
disabled persons the paraplegic the cerebral
palsied the epileptic the arthritic the tuber
culous the blind the deaf amputees and
those with serious heart ailments
More than twenty specialists in medicine
surgery and psychiatry lectured on the ad
vances made in their fields in the treatment
of handicapping diseases and conditions
Among them were Dr Donald A Covalt
Clinical Director New York University
Bellevue Medical Center Dr James F Gar
rett Chief PsychoSocial and Vocational
Services at the same institution Dr R L
Bennett Director Department of Physical
Medicine Warm Springs and Emory Uni
versity Hospital Dr Harriet Gillette Medi
cal Director Childrens Rehabilitation Cen
ter Atlanta Dr T P Goodwyn Medical
Consultant Vocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion Dr J H Semans Atlanta Dr William
G Hamm Atlanta Dr A H Center Sa
vannah Dr T P Waring Savannah
Dr J K Quattlebaum Savannah Dr
O F Keen Macon Dr David James
Emory University Dr C E Rushin At
lanta Dr J S Atwater Atlanta Dr Bruce
Logue Atlanta Dr William S Boyd Au
gusta Dr C C Aven Atlanta Dr Edgar F
PLANNING AMPUTEE DEMONSTRATIONLeft to right H R
Thranhardt Consultant to Armed Forces Veterans Administration
Dr T P Goodwyn Medical Consultant Vocational Rehabilitation
Division Dr Donald Covalt Clinical Director New York University
Bellevue Medical Center Dr R L Bennett Director Department of
Physical Medicine Warm Springs and Emory University Hospital
Greene Atlanta Dr Lester Brown Atlanta
Dr R E Greenblatt Augusta Dr Mason
Baird Atlanta and Dr H C Schenck Di
rector TB Control State Health Department
Representatives of Federal State and vol
untary agencies discussed interagency rela
tionships guidance and training Among
them were John A Kratz Associate Direc
tor Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Washington H B Cummings Regional
EXCHANGING VIEWSLeft to right Dr James F Garrett Chief
PsychoSocial and Vocational Services New York UniversityBellevue
Medical Center Dr Harriet Gillette Medical Director Childrens
Rehabilitation Center Atlanta and E B Porter Assistant Chief
Guidance Training arid Placement OVR Washington
Representative Office of Vocational Re
habilitation E B Porter Assistant Chief
Guidance Training and Placement OVR
Washington M I Tynan Chief of Services
for the Blind OVR Washington Edwin L
Swain Director State Merit System R D
Pulliam Personnel Director State Depart
ment of Education Frank Delamar Direc
tor State Employees Retirement System
Miss Helen Carr Supervisor Crippled Chil
drens Division State Health Department
L Y Bryant Registrar Southern Technical
Institute Linwood Beck Executive Director
Georgia Heart Association Carl Fox Ex
ecutive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis As
sociation H R Thranhardt Consultant to
Armed Forces Veterans Administration C
H Hollingsworth Director Georgia School
for the Deaf and Dr M D Collins State
Superintendent of Schools
Representatives of organized labor spoke
on the placement of handicapped workers
from the viewpoint of unions They were
A G Kennedy Vice President Georgia
Federation of Labor and M T Elder of
Birmingham Regional Community Service
Representative of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations
The annual dinner was attended by about
250 guests including members of the State
Board of Education and many Savannah and
Chatham County officials The speakers
were Governor Talmadge and Dr Donald
Covalt Excerpts from the Governors ad
dress appear elsewhere in this issue of the
News Dr Collins was master of ceremoniesContinued from page 3
dormitories libraries science and library
buildings classroom and administration
buildings demonstration school buildings
and architectural buildings and many others
aggregating 39 new structures costing a
grand total of 18915000

I am proud of the expanded health serv
ices which have been instituted during my
administration We realize their importance
to the happiness and welfare of our people
The mass health surveys and the new fully
equipped healthmobile which we have re
cently placed in operation to augment these
surveys have done much to stamp out the
ravages of disease in Georgia
Many of you no doubt will recall when
the National Congress passed the HillBur
ton Hospital Act in 1946 the administration
then in office in Georgia did not see fit nor
deem it expedient to take advantage of its
provisions Soon after the present admin
istration was inaugurated we provided the
funds not only to catch up the slack which
had accumulated in this program but also
to carry it out year by year on a current
basis
Thus far in this administration we have
already completed have under construction
or have approved for construction a grand
total of 49 hospital projects scattered all
over Georgia with 21 10 hospital beds cost
ing 2710437706 Likewise we have com
pleted let contracts or approved a total of
41 health center projects or auxiliary health
center projects in many towns and cities in
the State costing a total of 297006462
These hospital and health centers represent
a joint FederalStateLocal cost of over
30000000 But that is only the beginning
my friends This great program under the
present Federal law has three more years
to run
Tentative plans for the fiscal year which
is just beginning call for the construction of
14 more needed hospitals with 490 beds at
a total estimated cost of 5993850 Proj
ects deferred last year due to curtailment of
Federal funds will be included in this years
program I consider the fact that my admin
istration has taken full advantage of this
cooperative hospital and health center con
struction effortits most outstanding and
constructive accomplishment for the people
The campaign platform which 1 offered
the people of Georgia last summer included
a specific promise that the long unfulfilled
dream for a general hospital and health
center at the University of Georgia Medical
School in Augusta would become a reality
nd that the school would be expanded so
that we could graduate more doctors and
nurses for practice in the rural counties of
the State
I am glad to be able to report to you that
we are well on our way toward making this
dream a reality Plans are nearly completed
Less than two years ago Charles VanDiviere Jr of Brunswick
second from left was paralyzed from neck down as the result of an
automobile accident Now he can stand without crutches and walks
with the aid of canes He and his parents Mr and Mrs C L Van
Diviere were visitors at the Savannah conference with Dr Donald
Covalt right
for this great institution and we hope to
let it to contract sometime this year Priori
ties for materials have already been secured
by the State Legal Department from the
National Production Authority due to the
hospitals location in close proximity to
the HBomb plant near Augusta Comple
tion of this medical center will not only
provide better training facilities for the stu
dents at the medical school but will also
give us a place where we can provide ade
quate specialized care and treatment for
Georgias indigent sick

Georgia is a great State It is the State
we all love In it there are some 183 thou
sand people who have passed the age of
sixtyfive years This number is growing
daily with increased longevity Our older
citizens have been responsible for building
the Georgia we enjoy today Many of them
now lack any measure of human security
It has been the policy of this administra
tion to take full advantage of Federal funds
available under the oldage aid to the blind
and aid to dependent children assistance
programs
1 have always believed that with the Fed
eral Government putting up approximately
seventy percent of the money we should
make as much effort as possible to get our
share for the needy people of Georgia My
administration has doubled the outlay for
these programs from 20000000 per year
during the preceding administration to 40
000000 per year at the present time We
have been able to extend these benefits from
108000 needy Georgians to a total now of
153000 While doing all of this we have
been able to decrease the required county
participation from five percent to four per
cent During this fiscal year we will see
the realization in Georgia of a 50000000
program to provide comfort and sustenance
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Our preparedness program demands the
maximum mobilization of our countrys re
sources physical material and spiritual
As our search for skilled hands intensifies
let us not look upon the physically handi
capped as the blind the deaf or the lame but
as mechanics machinists and carpenters as
competent skilled workers who constitute an
indispensable element in our defense pro
gram
The handicapped have proved that their abil
ities outweigh their disabilities To fail to
put them to work on jobs for which they are
qualified is a waste that this Nation cannot
afford
Charles E Wilson Director
Office of Defense Mobilization
HIRE THE HANDICAPPEDJtakabllMloiv Mws
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Less than a year ago thirtynine year old Theodore Thomas of Murray
ville Rt 1 narrowly escaped death when crushed beneath logs which had
rolled from a truck
A medical examination showed that two vertebrae were fractured and
several ribs broken and pulled from the spine He became paralyzed from
the waist down
Today Theodore Thomas is well on the comeback road thanks to his
rugged constitution modern medical techniques and the services of Voca
tional Rehabilitation He walks with the aid of braces and crutches and
supervises a big broiler project on his little farm in Lumpkin County
On that fateful day last December Thomas had loaded some logs on a
truck He recalls pulling a chain over the logs to make them secure on the
truck body Then suddenly the logs started rolling toward him Realizing
the danger he tried to dive under the truck but was trapped by the logs
He was taken to a Gainesville hospital for emergency treatment and later
removed to an Atlanta hospital for an operation For some time it was
thought the injured man would not live
In April his condition had shown enough improvement to justify plans
for physical and vocational rehabilitation Arrangements were made by the
Vocational Rehabilitation Division for the patient to enter the Institute of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York Because of his physical
condition passage was booked on a nonstop plane from Atlanta to Newark
At the institute he received physical therapy and was fitted with special
braces
Meanwhile Thomas neighbors decided they would do something to help
their stricken friend They knew Mrs Thomas was an industrious woman
They were sure she could raise broilers if she had adequate facilities So
they arranged for all the necessary material to be delivered to Thomas farm
On an appointed day about twentyfive
men with tools met for a houserais
ing The sound of the hammer and
saw rang through the hills as they
worked on the building When they had
finished the Thomas family had a mod
ern poultry house 130 by 28 feet in size
13 ready for the first flock of baby chicks
H When the patient returned from New
York Mrs Thomas was tending about
5000 healthy young chickens He was
in business
Mr and Mrs Thomas and their 15
year old daughter live in a neat white
house situated about 75 fest from a
highway He has rigged parallel rails
from the front porch to the edge of the
property to make it easier for him to
walk to the highway He also uses them
in taking the exercises required to
strengthen his muscles
Thomas has been a farmer truck
driver and mechanic He expects to
continue with the poultry project but
has some plans for opening a filling
station and store at a suitable location
near his home Certainly he has no
idea of being an invalid the rest of his
life just because his back was broken
and he has paralysis
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Career Woman Tells Story
See front page picture
THIS is the inspiring story of a
handicapped girl who took ad
vantage of the training opportu
nity offered by Vocational Rehabil
itation services twenty years ago
and went on to a successful career
in a profession she loves
Her experience and philosophy
were revealed when she accepted
an invitation to appear on a
WAGATV program during Na
tional Employ the Physically Han
dicapped Week in October
Heres Mrs Claudia Snead Fea
gins own story as told in a letter to
the Vocational Rehabilitation Di
vision
First of all let me say I have
a deep feeling for the physically
handicapped A normal person
would not understand when I say
I am glad I was born with my af
fliction instead of having it occur
during my life
I have not had to go through
the mental adjustment many people
face I have never had to learn
new ways for I have had to cope
with an affliction and have known
my limitations since infancy
Even when I was a tot some
higher power kept saying Look
up and smile That was my first
step God is love I learned that
early in life So I loved and was
loved freely
Any resentment or selfpity must
be removed before a handicapped
or afflicted person can take the
road called success Somehow I
believe that God loves us a little
more because we bear our cross
bravely
Just when I was at the age to
decide how I would earn a living my brother
inlaw heard about the Rehabilitation pro
gram He sent Mr Reuben Braswell to see
me After a thorough discussion Mr Bras
well found I liked nursing Then he told me
about the open field for medical technicians
He took me to several Atlanta laboratories
I had never heard of such a wonderful
thing Here was a future an opportunity
and encouragement
I had been in hospitals often trying to
have my spinal curvature corrected I ad
mired the personnel of hospitals But now
I was to see germs growing on culture me
dia see what my own blood looked like see
chemical reactions and the sterilization of
equipment God reached down and gave me
a double portion of enthusiasm and deter
mination
I was placed in a laboratory owned by
Dr Jack Cowan and operated by Dr E L
Graydon Dr Graydon took special time to
teach me the required amount of chemistry
I had not completed in high school He drew
mental pictures of his future in a large suite
and mine in the laboratory field He built up
my confidence so that I would tackle any
thing I also learned Xray and some physio
therapy
I look back upon my first days there
remembering how Dr Graydon would show
me a test tube and say This is a Folin Wu
sugar tube this is a special tube for NPN
a urinometer for taking specific gravity
I was living in a new world talking a new
language
Mrs Claudia Feagin demonstrates the technique of measuring a patient for Xray
The patient is Miss Betty Shaw a secretary
Mr Braswell was a regular caller boost
ing my confidence Once I was so enthusi
astic I almost made a technician of Mr
Braswell He did learn to focus a micro
scope
1 loved the laboratory so much that I
would remain there long after working hours
looking into the microscope and cleaning
up I had books to study and notes to get
all under Dr Graydons supervision
Then came the day when I married But
even a happy marriage did not interrupt my
work I was employed by Dr Cowan for
five years Then we moved to Louisiana
where a little boy was born
When the boy was two years old he lost
his father I got a job as technician in a
large clinic It was a nice laboratory I had
the happiness of equipping it for the doctors
and for once I thought I was the luckiest
girl on earth
While working in Louisiana I became
interested in parasitology and wanting to
take care of my son well I inquired about
a special course at some university Col
Craig was connected with a Louisiana uni
versity I did not as they say beat around
the bush I just contacted him and he re
ferred me to two companies located in South
America where I could work in the hospital
laboratory and also study tropical diseases
My application was accepted by both
Standard Oil and a fruit company United
I selected the fruit company In August of
1940 I went to Venezuela by freighter from
New Orleans and I was the only girl aboard
For once in my life I was the belle of the
ball It was a wonderful trip
The hospital was a short distance from
shore There were two American nurses one
American doctor and sixty natives employed
in the hospital I got some firsthand experi
ence while thereand also a good case of
tropical fever
I brought back to the United States
enough knowledge to enable me to work in
one of our government hospitals We had
five departments where we rotated monthly
Then one day I realized that our Vet
erans Hospital was filling to capacity and
help was needed badly So I went to Hos
pital 48 where I was able to do parasitology
and some bacteriology I was married again
and worked until 1948
My son then 12 wanted to see some of
the United States so I found a position on
the coast of Oregon We were there for
three months
My husbands leg had been broken in an
accident and we started back to Atlanta On
the way we were in a highway accident and
I got out of the hospital with 20 of the
600 I had saved I had a back injury that
required a brace
My husbands leg made no progress at
knitting Six months had passed when a
friend who worked for the Rehabilitation
Division told me that since my husbands leg
was still in a cast he might be eligible for
rehabilitation services 1 contacted Mr A M
Bowen And here I would like to express
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AcKabilitatioiVcAfews
Vol 6
SeptOct 1951
No 4
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Hardman Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
BainbridgeMartin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
GEORGIAS daily and weekly press as usual gave liberal support to the annual
observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week October
713 through their editorial and news columns
Editor Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution struck the keynote in this excerpt
from his front page column
It is curious that a nation which has so many great examples of accomplishment
by the handicapped in our communities and in our national life should have allowed
the seemingly inexhaustible supply of labor to make it so difficult for a handicapped
person to find work Despite intelligence loyalty skills and a burning desire to work
many have been passed over for some oafish lunkhead whose chief recommendation
was that his handicapa slow braincould not be seen
Rehabilitation techniques are very far advanced They enable the very seriously
handicapped to do thousands of jobs and do them well They are at work in radio
television and precision instrument shops to mention but a few places where their
gifts have been recognized
Many of those who need jobswho are at work studying and learning to take
jobsare men who have suffered some handicap in warwars past and wars present
They dont want to live on pensions or relief They want to work And they deserve
it having earned it
From the Atlanta Journal There is a large reservoir of potential workers who
could make a tremendously important contribution to the defense program if their
talents were only utilized They are the nations physically handicapped It is esti
mated that there are between 1500000 and 2000000 persons of working age who
are substantially disabled and in need of vocational rehabilitation services A quarter
of a million persons become disabled annually as a result of accidents disease and
other causes If these persons are rehabilitated they will swell the urgently needed
labor force substantially The cost of rehabilitation is virtually negligible especially
in the light of the fact that for every dollar spent to enable a handicapped person to
undertake a vocation the Federal Government receives a tenfold return in federal
taxes alone
Savannah Evening Press Physically handicapped workers have a definite part to
play in the countrys defense program and the fullest use should be made of them
Not only will such a course aid them in becoming selfsupporting and useful citizens
but their services are needed by their country Great strides have been made in recent
years in fitting physically handicapped persons to take their places in society and
prevent them from becoming a burden to their family and community Georgia has
always taken a lead in this work through the Vocational Rehabilitation program of
the State Department of Education
Quimby Melton Jr in Griffin Daily News Through experience those who have
employed the socalled handicapped have learned that is good business for there are
very few who if placed in the right spots cannot perform their jobs as well or better
than the unhandicapped Griffin and Spalding County employers long have been
leaders in the move to hire the handicapped and place them in the right spots in
industry and business where they have the dignity of earning their own way and per
forming well tasks of importance to their fellow citizens
LaGrange Daily News This is National Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week It is not an appeal to charity but a cold sober fact These people have proven
that they can be just as good and many times superior to the unhandicapped on the
job so its a paying proposition all the way round to hire the handicapped
Waycross JournalHerald It is a matter of fact that a great many handicapped
persons are willing and capable workers when placed in suitable jobs It goes without
saying that this nation cannot afford to waste its manpower resources We must uti
lize our labor force to the utmost to keep pace with those totalitarian powers who
have an almost inexhaustible reserve of slave labor
W C Rucker in Columbus LedgerEnquirer The skills and energies of many
of these persons are available in industry and business and they can be put to work
in defense production As the rearmament program is accelerated it will be harder
and harder to fill jobs unless advantage is taken of the large supply of labor in the
physically handicapped group
West End Times Those of us who come in contact with handicapped persons
will find them wonderfully cheerful and inspiringly courageous We will find that
they do not wish to be pampered or to be given special consideration for their handi
caps They simply want to be treated as normal human beings and to be allowed
to live lives as normal as possible We can learn much from these socalled handi
capped people and also we can gain from them a new respect for the human race
as we see these brave men and women surmount their handicaps and stand out as
shining examples of faith hope and couragesiness in
AT 4 Merlin Loftin was stricken by a
crippling disease which has bound him
to a wheel chair or bed for thirtythree years
He lives with his mother Mrs Cela Lof
tin and a younger brother Render on a
farm near Roopville
They say a school principal once refused
to enroll the crippled child in the first grade
because he thought Merlin might be injured
in play with other boys
But later when Merlin graduated from high
school with a high B average another prin
cipal said Though seriously handicapped
he has a bright mind
Yes Merlin does have a bright mind He
also has courage persistence and useful fin
gers With these assetsand the aid of Vo
cational Rehabilitation services he has
achieved a measure of economic independ
ence far beyond the expectations of those
who thought he was a hopeless cripple
Over a span of years the Carroll County
boy has developed three small but growing
business enterprises under the guidance of
Vocational Rehabilitation counselors Hes a
tax consultant salesman and cattleman
A correspondence course in accounting
gave him the foundation for his income tax
work Last spring about 100 taxpayers
sought his assistanceand paid feesfor
making out their returns to the Federal and
State governments The young consultant
keeps up with changes in tax laws and regu
lations through books and tax service bu
reaus
At other times during the year Merlin de
votes his time and talents to merchandising
His first experience in this field came through
the sale of Christmas and greeting cards to
neighbors But this too is a seasonal busi
ness with peaks and dips on the graph So it
was decided to expand into other fields of
merchandising
Cattle sales were being held rather regu
larly throughout West Georgia Cattlemen
were getting good prices for their animals
They had money to spend for the things they
needed or wanted The best place to get
some of their business was at the sales barns
and lots
So plans were worked out for Merlin to
take his wares to the cattlemen instead of
waiting for customers to come to him First
arrangements were made for a new wheel
chair with a bicycletype seat so that he
could sit comfortably in a reclining position
and be close to the display tables Next he
was provided with two folding tables which
could be transported in a car A beach um
brella also was provided to shelter him from
the suns rays and occasional showers
Through a nearby wholesale establishment
arrangements were made for the initial stock
of merchandise and some training in stock
selection display and pricing The transpor
tation problem was solved by the younger
brother and neighbors offering the use of
their cars in taking Merlin to and from the
cattle sales
Now hes a familiar figure at cattle sales
throughout that section of the state On his
display tables may be found shirts under
wear sox ties razor blades shoe polish
soaps shaving cream and novelties And
they seem to be just the items the cattlemen
want
In this atmosphere it was quite natural
for Merlin to become interested in cattle
raising With his mothers acres and his
brothers help there was no reason why he
should not make a start with a calf or two
He didand now he has a good grade Here
ford bull a cow and two heifers He hopes
eventually to build up a herd of purebreds
Merlin uses a typewriter in making out
income tax returns and carrying on the cor
respondence incident to his business
In spite of his severe physical handicap
he seems to maintain a happy outlook on life
and enjoy his workContinued from page 3
my appreciation for the kindness sympathy
and help he gave us
It was only a few days before Mr Bowen
had my husband in Georgia Baptist Hospital
and one of Atlantas best bone specialists
operated on the leg Progress was immedi
ate Soon my husbands leg was out of the
cast and in a brace
During all this time I had a good position
waiting for me but was unable to work be
cause of the injury to my spine Mr Bowen
arranged for my brace He visited our home
frequently and was a great inspiration to
my husband
Today I am happily employed in a fine
private laboratory I work for two of At
lantas most prominent physicians Dr A
Park McGinty and Dr Purcell Roberts The
laboratory is on the front of the building
From the window I can see a large church
and the people who come to worship
The doctors seem to appreciate my inter
est in the work and encourage me in every
thing I want to do
I have indeed had a rich good life As 1
look back over the years I can appreciate
Blind operators of forty Georgia vending
stands in public buildings and industries last
year sold more than 341000 worth of mer
chandise mostly packaged foods soft drinks
and tobacco products according to the an
nual audit The operators earned an average
of 1500 for the years work
The vending stand program is conducted
jointly by the Vocational Rehabilitation Di
visions services for the blind and the Geor
gia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc
a nonprofit organization set up to finance
the initial merchandise stocks for the blind
merchants
Since the beginning of the program sev
eral years ago there has been a heartening
increase in the number of persons who have
become selfsupporting through these enter
prises and in the annual earnings of the
operators
A feature of the 1951 observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week in Atlanta was the presentation of a meritorious service award certificate to
Gordon Foods Inc an Atlanta industry which has found that its good business to
hire the handicapped Currently the firm employs about fifteen handicapped work
ers At the leftFrances Braswell a blind box assembler CenterJeanette Elrod
a deaf packer working on an assembly line Top rightLewis Thornton president
Atlanta Chapter American Federation of the Physically Handicapped presenting the
certificate to W D Gordon vicepresident of the food company Looking on are left
toright J Scott Brown vicepresident Charles Rolleston sales production manager
and J T Hammond sales manager
Officers of the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc meet with Vocational
Rehabilitation vending stand program staff members to review years activities
Front row from leftClarence E Elsas president of the cooperative organization
Ben Gordon vicepresident and treasurer and Director Norman Elsas Back row
from leftLeon Hall assistant supervisor of business enterprises in North Georgia
Lee Jones assistant supervisor in South Georgia Glenn Boggs state supervisor
Vocational Rehabilitation Business Enterprises and J D Paulk operations super
visor of the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Other directors are Hughes
Spalding Atlanta George Craft Atlanta Allen Albert Atlanta Frank Neely At
lanta Kirk Sutlive Savannah and Elliott Dunwoody Macon
more fully the good work done by Georgias
Vocational Rehabilitation Division
To the handicapped I say Keep courage
and confidence God is especially good to us
Take advantage of the opportunities offered
by the Rehabilitation Division Regardless
of the nature of your handicap there is
always some job you can do better than a
normal person Look up and smilelife is
worth while
Essay Contest
Employ the Handicapped for National
Security is the theme of the fourth annual
National Employ the Physically Handi
capped Essay contest for high school stu
dents sponsored by the Presidents Com
mitteeSelfemployment in small business en
terprises often is the answer to the job
problem of seriously disabled persons
The pictures on this page show two
men from different environments who
have made good with retail stores
One was a fiftynine year old share
cropper on a cotton farm the other a
former college student who at 40 had
never worked because of illness Both
had the same crippling diseasearthritis
In both cases Vocational Rehabilitation
Counselors were successful in getting
community assistance for services and
materials which could not be supplied
with public funds
Walter Rosser top right was reared
on a farm between Luthersville and
Grantville Thirteen years ago he was
stricken with arthritis Deserted by his
family he was dependent upon the mea
ger means of distant relatives when re
ferred to Vocational Rehabilitation
There were no jobs in this rural com
munity for a chairbound man But there
were people who would help Rosser if
something practicable could be worked
out
Counselor Marvin Starr enlisted the
aid of Rossers former landlord in erect
ing a store building with living quarters
in the rear near the intersection of five
roads The landlord agreed to charge no
rent the first year and to let Walter oc
cupy it as long as he needed it Equip
ment and training in merchandising were
provided by Vocational Rehabilitation
The business now has been in operation
for more than a year and the proprietor
is paying a small rental The store and
living quarters are kept neat and clean
Rosser does his own cooking and clean
ing Neighbors bring him stove wood
when he needs it and a friend comes
once or twice a week to shave him
Rosser says he lives by himselfand
likes it And he has a modest but grow
ing bank account
John Paul Johnson lower right was
a freshman in college twenty years ago
when arthritis changed the course of his
life The disease left him disabled from
the waist down His legs are so badly
drawn that he has to have a little box on
the step of his chair for a foot rest
He is rather talented in drawing He
wanted to follow art but had to give up
this ambition for something that would
yield a quicker return For a while he
earned some money tutoring students in
typing and selling Christmas cards
Johns aged mother with whom he
lives owned the home in Covington
Counselor Sanders interested them in sell
ing part of the lot to get some funds with
which to build a store A hardware mer
chant agreed to supply roofing and nails
on credit A banker agreed to make a
small loan A contractor agreed to put
up the building at reduced prices and
wait for his money Vocational Reha
bilitation provided merchandise training
and equipment A bottling establishment
donated the first supply of soft drinks
A Welfare Director sent a heating stove
The rear of the store building is con
nected to the residence by a ramp so that
John can roll his chair from home to
business
The store was opened in May 1949 A
year later the crippled proprietor had
earned enough to support himself pay
the hardware merchant the banker the
contractor increase his stock of mer
chandise and pay some old debts
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Another link is forged in the chain of vending stands for the blind operated under the supervision of Vocational
Rehabilitation Division and Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc This one is in the Columbus Postoffice
and is managed by J C Wallace Shown at the counter is Acting Postmaster Alfred I Young
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An Atlanta man who has only five percent
vision operates a woodworking shop and
builds the modern kitchen cabinets which
go into many new homes in this area
He is 42yearold Robert E Lee whose
sight began deteriorating nine years ago after
he had worked for years in the circulation
departments of Atlanta newspapers
Bob as he is known to friends has a
wellequipped shop in the basement of his
home at 971 Carter drive In spite of his
limited vision he operates powerdriven saws
and lathes and is skilled in the use of hand
tools He was assisted by the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division in getting training
tools and equipment
Bobs work is done entirely on contract
with builders Recent reports indicated that
he had enough contracts to keep him busy
for six months
At top right he is shown putting the fit
tings on a cabinet The center picture shows
him operating a power saw Griffin H Eastin
Blind Placement Agent of the Vocational
Division stands by
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For three years Isom Lee lower left was
unable to work on his seventy acres near
Felton because of ulcerated stomach At 37
he had a wife and four children ranging in
age from 7 to 13 dependent upon him He
faced a rather bleak future
Last spring he was referred to the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division He was as
sisted with an operation and treatment which
corrected the disability But it was thought
inadvisable for him to attempt to resume
general farming So he decided to specialize
in poultry With little help he cut timber and
constructed a modern poultry house Two
lines of water troughs extending the full
length of the house connect with a bold
spring to furnish a fresh water supply at all
times without labor
When this picture was made Mr and Mrs
Lee had 3000 young broilers growing for
market
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Twentynineyearold J D Free of Talmo
is a double amputee employed as a meat
cutter in the McEver packing house He
lost his legs as the result of an accident while
gathering stove wood with a tractor on a
nearby farm The artificial limbs were pro
vided through Vocational Rehabilitation aidYear of Progress in Rehabilitation
By MISS MARY E SWITZER Director
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
ineteen fiftyone will always be a signi
I ficant year for me in rehabilitation
After a lifelong interest in work to recog
nize the potentialities of our socalled handi
capped citizens I was called upon to take
responsibility for the Federal Governments
share in this basic program I did this at a
tme when the possibilities for the severely
disabled are greater than ever before and
our countrys need for every citizens talent
and work is underlined by the defense pro
gram and the United States place in world
affairs
It is gratifying therefore to report that
more than 66000 men and women were
rehabilitated into useful work this year by
our StateFederal programthe high mark
of the 31year history of public vocational
rehabilitation This achievement is the prod
uct of splendid cooperation not only be
tween the State and Federal agencies but as
well between our public rehabilitation ser
vices and the many professional and volun
tary groups which contribute so greatly to
the common effort It is an achievement in
which we who serve Americas handicapped
citizens can share a measure of real pride
This new record is exciting not only as
evidence of service to our people but as
evidence of what can be accomplished To
me however it also emphasizes acutely the
inadequacy of our coverage in relation to
our countrys needs I cannot help but com
pare this figure of 66000 with the 2 million
unserved handicapped men and women
throughout the land who are in need of
rehabilitation
Day by day I see the needs for rehabili
tation grow The accelerated economic acti
vity necessary to sustain defense production
shows these needs to be greater now than
ever before With funds that fall far short
of meeting even the present needs for re
habilitation we face the continuing obliga
tion to stretch our resources to the very
maximum With what we have available we
must prepare still more handicapped Ameri
cans to take their places in our countrys
economic life To do this will require a
quickening of community cooperation and an
imaginative approach to our old problems
already perceptible in this year of 1951
Another significant development in our
program this year is the increase in State
appropriations to provide more funds for
this program The most outstanding gain by
any State was made by the State of Georgia
Appropriations made by the States for 1952
total 12416985 which is an increase of
six and a half percent over State appropria
tions for the current year This amounts to
eight cents per capita Total Federal ap
propriations increased only 5 percent
Georgias 900000 appropriation for 1952
represents a gain of 631 percent over 1951
and amounts to twentysix cents per capita
The people of Georgia may take a justifi
able pride in this investment which attests
their recognition of the importance of re
habilitation in the State programs for ed
ucation health and welfare
Since State appropriationsmatched of
course by Federal dollarsare used in the
main to pay for services this increase in the
Georgia program is definite evidence of the
importance of the comprehensive rehabili
tation services which cannot be provided
at least to the severely disabled without re
sources It is proof that Georgia is in the
vanguard of those seeking to make progress
in restoring the paraplegic the arthritic the
double amputee and other victims of our
great crippling diseases to the fullest pos
sible usefulness
The entire StateFederal programlike
every organization and individual in the land
is feeling the pinch of inflationary pres
sures As price levels rise so do the costs of
operating our program We must pay more
for medical care hospitalization mainten
ance transportation vocational training and
the other services which our program pur
chases for the handicapped people we serve
In most States these increased costs of
operation will absorb the increases in funds
made available by the larger appropriations
In our efforts to maintain the highest pos
sible efficiency in the rehabilitation of the
handicapped it is well to bear in mind that
overall figures of the number of persons
rehabilitated do not tell the whole story
Consider for example the rehabilitation of
the severely disabled In this area we meet
our greatest individual challenges and
achieve our most spectacular victories over
disablement
I shall always feel identified with this
development in the Georgia program and
applaud the leadership that sends some of
its disabled citizens to the best centers in
the country for the most comprehensive re
habilitation that modern medicine can pro
vide
During the fiscal year that ended June 30
the StateFederal program for vocational
rehabilitation purchased medical psychiatric
or surgical services for 22000 disabled per
sons More than 14000 were furnished with
hospital or convalescent home care This is
a creditable record But the average cost
for the Nation as a whole for medical and
surgical services was only 10175 and for
hospitalization only 15078 These figures
reflect the relatively small percentage of
severely disabled being served
Naturally the costs of serving the severely
disabled are higherin meeting their needs
for physical restoration we buy more re
habilitation for fewer people Nevertheless
from the economic as well as from the
humanitarian standpoint there is justification
in rehabilitating still more people in this
category
We have long recognized the need for
more rehabilitation centers where a variety
of specialized medical and vocational ser
vices can be provided to speed the rehabili
tation of the severely disabled We also re
cognize the need for more adjustment centers
wherein the blind can be better prepared to
meet the requirements of daily living as a
prerequisite to vocational training and em
ployment The relatively few rehabilitation
centers serving the severely disabled and
adjustment centers for the blind have firmly
established the necessity of such facilities to
our program Their daily accomplishments
are giving new emphasis to the need for
expansion
The StateFederal program for vocational
rehabilitation is even now doing an excel
lent job in making use of the rehabilitation
centers and adjustment centers presently in
operation The services of these centers are
being furnished to severely disabled and
blind persons without hindrance by State
lines Even so the shortage of these centers
is imposing hardships upon the disabled and
their families because of extensive travel
often required and expense upon rehabili
MISS SWITZER
tation agencies for transportation and
maintenance away from home
The answer of course lies in the develop
ment of new centers in areas which are now
without them It is hoped that future legis
lation will provide for Federal participation
in the establishment of these centers and
also in sheltered workshops for the employ
ment of severely handicapped persons who
are unable to work on a competitive basis
I am glad to report that new centers are
being developed now on the basis of local
resources and existing need A good example
of this is the establishment by Oklahoma
A M College in cooperation with the
State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
and our Federal office of the Okmulgee Re
habilitation Center at Okmulgee Oklahoma
This center provides a much needed facility
in a region which heretofore has been remote
from specialized services of this nature Next
year it is our hope that we may be able to
report the establishment of other centers of
this type
The past year is notable too for the im
portant new obligation assumed by the
StateFederal program for vocational re
habilitation because of the amendments to
the Social Security Act This far reaching
legislation broadens public assistance to
include the permanently and totally dis
abled In passing this legislation the Con
gress wisely recognized that some of the
individuals added to public assistance rolls
in this category could be returned to self
support through rehabilitation
The term permanently and totally dis
abled must be accepted with caution if not
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cKabilitatioa Afews
Vol 6 NovemberDecember 1951 No 5
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
A YeaivRound Job
The recent observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week in Georgia brought new evidence of the growing interest among civic
leaders in the restoration of disabled men and women to productive jobs
More than 850 persons in 90 cities and towns worked on local NEPH Week
committees They represented every phase of community life industry labor
civic and religious groups Veterans fraternal bodies womens clubs and public
and volunteer agencies
Reports from Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service offices show
that more than 500 persons were placed in jobs during the week and immediately
thereafter
To all who had a part in this worthy undertaking goes the thanks of State
Chairman Paul S Barrett and the State committee
Finding jobs for even welltrained persons who have or have had some
physical impairment is a neverending problem Moreover in every city town
and county there are disabled people who need and could profit by Vocational
Rehabilitation services And others are becoming disabled daily through disease
accidents and other causes
So it should be kept in mind that one week of concentrated effort on behalf
of the handicapped is not enough to meet the needs There are opportunities for
service by local NEPH committees in every community every week in the year
In some few places the committees have been organized on a permanent basis
Its an idea that deserves consideration in all cities and towns
These committees could be a potent influence not only in helping to find jobs
for handicapped workers but in breaking down the prejudice some employers hold
against hiring those who have some physical disability They also could render
a direct service to their handicapped acquaintances who need assistance by
referring them to the nearest Vocational Rehabilitation office
Under our StateFederal system of rehabilitation local communities are called
upon only in rare instances to provide financial assistance to clients Such co
operation is sought only when the client requires some service which cannot be
provided with public funds And the expenditures for services usually go to
local doctors hospitals and training agancies
Every handicapped person put on a payroll adds to the productive capacity
and wealth of the community the state and the nation
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This is a reproduction of the
Christmas Seal adopted for the
1951 sale to help carry on the work
of tuberculosis associations na
tional state and local Without
one bit of red tape Christmas Seal
contributions go right into work
that stops the TB germ before it
gets too close to you and your
folks say the sponsorsTeamWork Required in TB Cases
By H C SCHENCK MD Director
Division of Tuberculosis Control Georgia
Department of Public Health
Excerpts from address before
Vocational Rehabilitation Conference
Restoration to health and ability to sup
port himself and family is an end that each
tuberculosis patient of normal mentality
must devoutly hope for
The unfortunate thing is that compara
tively few patients realize or are made to
undertsand when informed that they have
tuberculosis what difficulties they are likely
to encounter on the road to this goal Many
find out only by experience that the long
painful and arduous successful effort to re
cover was wasted because the old jobs they
went back to were such as to break them
down to a point where the disease was re
activated forcing them to undergo further
long curing processes perhaps not as suc
cessful as the first and quite possibly leaving
them with increased physical handicaps
Tuberculosis is a crippling disease The
extent of the crippling in any individual de
pends variously on many factors The degree
of crippling in a stiffened joint a crooked
spine or shortened leg is apparent at once
But the degree of physical handicap which
is a result of pulmonary tuberculosis is far
from being so easy to see or to discover
The change that a recovered tuberculosis
patient must make in the amount of physical
effort he may employ in order that he may
keep well constitutes a handicap The very
fact that certain physical activity limits are
regarded by physicians as being imposed on
every person who has or has had clinically
manifest tuberculosis justifies the conclusion
that some degree of handicap always results
from the disease
A person with arrested or inactive disease
must avoid excessive fatigue that is fatigue
from which he cannot recover quickly if he
is to avoid a relapse The crux of the prob
lem of rehabilitation of such a person is to
have his entire range of physical and mental
activities so arranged that he will not be
subjected to undue fatigue or to any of the
factors which might lead to a relapse
In this respect what applies to work also
applies to recreation A person may be safely
vocationally occupied but recreationally
unduly fatiguing himself The concept that
a person cannot get well nor stay well except
by altering his living regime is one that
should be instilled into every person who has
or has had tuberculosis This is the very
foundation of rehabilitation This necessity
should be painstakingly drilled into each
patient from the very time the diagnosis
medical diagnosis if you please is made
It is clearly apparent that if a patient is
occupied in unsuitable work either the pa
tient will suffer or the job will be poorly
performed Often the work requirement is
such that the undue fatigue it brings about
causes harm to the worker and ineffective
work simultaneously Misfits of this kind
and consequent injury to patient and in
ability to perform properly the work at
tempted are so common that it is reiterated
that the question of what the patient is doing
and ultimately is to do should be a matter
of concern from the very time the diagnosis
of tuberculosis is made
A matter which ought to be considered in
every case is whether he may go back safe
ly to his business in the same capacity as
when he left it or whether there is a way
to continue the work that he knows about
in his old business under different and modi
fied conditions
All through his curing period if he has
had the medical guidance he should have
had his physician evaluated his exercise or
work tolerance from time to time Each time
that graduated exercise was increased it
should have been done only after it was
prescribed by the physician in the light of
what he knew about the patients disease
condition at the time and of the kind of
activities the patient was performing and the
length of time he had been carrying on such
activities and of the result of such activity
This evaluation is what might be called
MEDICAL APPRAISAL OF WORK TOL
ERANCE It means the process by which
the physician renders his opinion concerning
the work tolerance and physical handicaps
of the individual under consideration It
differs from MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS a
term relating to the determination of the
kind of disease the patient has or has had
together with complicating diseases and
physical and mental defects
To bring about the consummation of an
altered and well ordered and safe living ar
rangement for the patient requires the co
operation and understanding of the patient
the physician and nurse public health
physicians nurses tuberculosis case workers
and educators vocational rehabilitation
consultants welfare agencies and the public
as a whole
The reason for mentioning the latter is
pain Without fhe full backing of the public
means to successfully rehabilitate these
people would be lacking For one thing
owing to lack of sufficient facilities of the
kind it is utterly impossible for the very
great majority of tuberculosis patients to
have all of their treatment and care provided
for in the existent tuberculosis sanatoria
This means that a large part of the rehabili
tation of tuberculosis patients must be
brought about in the communities in which
they liveactually in the majority of in
stances in the home
Every practicing physician then to whom
these patients must look for guidance should
accept the responsibility of making repeated
appraisal of the physical activity exercise
tolerance of such patients whether sick or
convalescent and acquaint himself with the
methods and criteria for making such ex
ercise and work tolerance estimations Act
ually in order to make the decision at any
time the physician must know the exact
clinical status of the case If the patient is
in the hospital or sanatorium this is compara
tively easy because of certain patient records
that are maintained
This information is easy to obtain on
patients in the sanatorium but it has been
shown that not a fourth of the sick and con
valescent tuberculosis patients can have the
benefit or privilege of being in a sanatorium
at any one time It then in the vast ma
Turn to page 6
Here is a scene at the Albany TB rehabilitation clinic sponsored by the
Dougherty County Health Department the State Department of Health
and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division early in November Center C B
Shroyer Rehabilitation Consultant TB Control Division Mrs Rena Harris
TB Case Worker and at left an arrested TB patient being interviewedMrs Eunice Rainey of Ashburn is one of many Georgians assisted by
Vocational Rehabilitation services in business careers after recovering
from tuberculosis For about a year she has operated a gift shop done
dress designing and made alterations on suits for two retail merchants
Her gift shop stock includes articles made by homebound and elderly
workers and sold on a commission basis At lower left she is shown
using her power machine and at right punching eyelets in belts
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Continued from page 5
jority 75 to 80 of the cases is nec
essary to devise a method of making these
vital records available to the family or clinic
physician to whom the patient must look
for guidance and to whom those must look
for work tolerance information who furnish
the means and the instruction for occupa
tional or vocational therapy and VOCA
TIONAL REHABILITATION
It should not be too difficult to do this In
most places the local health department
nurse would give to the patient forms for
keeping simple records and instruct the
patient or members of the family how they
are to be kept and the methods of taking
temperature and making pulse and respira
tion counts etc The same nurse may assist
as the doctor wishes in securing certain
laboratory examinations and in obtaining
specimens for such examinations
Since rehabilitation physical and voca
tional is the aim in every case and as such
record keeping is essential in the progress
toward rehabilitation it should be put into
practice in every case in every community
at an early date Cooperation of patient and
family or clinic physician public health
nurse and tuberculosis case worker local
welfare agencies and other local official and
unofficial agencies is absolutely necessary
The first four would provide the required
information and the others would make
it possible for the patient to cooperate It
must not be forgotten that the majority of
patients in their homes and in the community
need assistances of varying kinds and amount
and to determine the extent to which they
exist another kind of appraisal is needed
A CASE APPRAISAL consists in gather
ing and summarizing all of the pertinent in
formation there is to be gotten concerning
what the patient will require in order that he
may arrive to the greatest degree of recovery
and to the safest and most gainful occupa
tion A tuberculosis case worker must learn
from the physician and nurse what are the
treatment rest and work or exercise tol
erances of the patient and to what degree
precautionary and isolation measures may be
necessary to prevent spread of infection He
must learn by investigation whether the
resources of the patient and family are suf
ficient to support the group properly during
treatment and rehabilitation of the patient
and if they are not sufficient to endeavor to
form with the community and the various
agencies and concerned individuals in it a
plan to overcome the deficiency
The matter of possible need for vocational
adjustment or change must be considered
and it is important to know the physical
requirements of his present occupation so
that the information may be passed on to
the vocational rehabilitation counselor who
should be brought into the general picture
of rehabilitation of tuberculosis cases just
as soon as the physician and patient agree to
it
TUBERCULOSIS CASE WORK is ex
tremely important in that it can furnish much
of the information that those who might
better provide the things necessary to patient
rehabilitation in all that the words imply
will need to know
Here it may be stated that the Georgia
Department of Public Health through its
Division of Tuberculosis Control is em
ploying six tuberculosis case workers for
ultimate assignment to the six health regions
of the State to work with local health de
partments in furthering more effective tuber
culosis case appraisal and thereby bring
home to the local communities of the State
a better appreciation of the tuberculosis
problems as they exist and of the responsi
bility they must assume if their citizens are
to be properly cared for treated and pro
tected
It is not the purpose to enter in any detail
of work of the Vocational Rehabilitation of
the patient That is to be properly left to the
representatives of the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation It is not a function of the
physician It is definitely that of the espe
cially trained people who are engaged in
such work They make the aptitude tests to
determine best the type of occupation and
training in which the patient may most likely
succeed It is a different sort of appraisal
than that of the medical
The kind of training and the job itself in
cluding its location are matters for the voca
tional rehabilitation counselor to work out
with the patient always of course keeping
the work and exercise load within the limits
fixed by the physician
The counselor knows the requirements of
the job the availability and locality of the
jobs and how to arrange for job placement
He knows how and where vocational train
ing if needed can be obtained He can be
helpful in counseling when vocational ther
apy is employed by the physician who may
wish to give his patient the advantage of
substituting it for occupational therapy which
usually does not give the patient anything he
can use for making his living laterjress
Continued from page 3
with skepticism Today we are rehabilitating
severely disabled men and women who just
a few years ago would have been given up
as hopeless Or in the language of the law
as permanently and totally disabled Every
passing year sees new triumphs of rehabili
tation over disability the hopeless disabili
ties of today will be the successes of
tomorrow
Throughout the country rehabilitation and
public welfare agencies have joined forces to
combine rehabilitation medical and social
work competencies for the common purpose
of freeing from dependency the permanently
and totally disabled Every successful re
habilitation in this category means one less
person supported by the public assistance
one more worker in our labor force and one
more promise of still greater successes to
come A significant increase in referrals from
welfare agencies is reflected in our reports
With the rising proportion of older persons
in the general population we have been em
phasizing the rehabilitation of older men
and women with physical impairments Of
the 66000 persons rehabilitated during the
last fiscal year about one fourth were 45
years of age or older However nearly 40
percent of the population 15 years of age
and over fall into this age group and about
64 percent of the disabled persons within the
usual age brackets of employment 14 to
64 are 45 years of age or older
Today it is inevitable that rehabilitation
is considered in terms of manpower The
StateFederal program for vocational re
habilitation is making continuing contribu
tions of talent and skill to the Nations man
power resources The men and women
rehabilitated during a single 12 month period
add more than 100 million hours to
Americas annual productive capacity
The response of our StateFederal pro
gram to meet countrywide needs for specific
critical skills has been prompt and whole
hearted The Office of Vocational Rehabili
tation has advised State and Territorial reha
bilitation services ofthe areas and the
occupations in which critical shortages exist
Substantial numbers of the handicapped men
and women being served by the program are
now being channelled into critical occupa
tions and essential activities
Nearly one fifth of the disabled men and
women being trained for employment under
the rehabilitation program in ten States re
cently surveyed are being trained in occupa
tions listed as critical Ten percent of the
persons rehabilitated in these States during
the last three months of the fiscal year were
actually employed in critical occupations
and 28 percent were working in activities
essential to the defense effort These figures
convey some idea of the close relationship
between rehabilitation and defense man
power They show what can be done through
the existing facilities of the StateFederal
program and what will be done to a much
greater extent as expansion of the program
becomes possible By concentrating our ef
forts on meeting some of the most critical
defense needs we further break down pre
judice of those desperately in need of scarce
skilled workmen
Several other developments of the year
are suggestive of the lines of progress for
the future The Public Health Service
especially through the National Institutes of
Healthrecognizes the important role of
rehabilitation in its heart and cancer pro
grams in the possibilities inherent in the
New Institutes of Arthritis and Rheumatism
For several years George B Baker 48 of Cedartown was unable to work
regularly because of ulcerated stomach He had been a carpenter and waiter
and had held other jobs in industry Through Vocational Rehabilitation
he was provided with medical and surgical services training in photography
and some equipment He was trained in a Cedartown studio Now Baker
is able to earn a living through portrait and commercial photography
and Neurological Diseases and Blindness
and of course in the National Institute of
Mental Health Through research grants and
opportunities for training in the fellowship
program rehabilitation will be enriched by
new knowledge and more expert and sorely
needed personnel
The Office of Defense Mobilization the
highest policy level of our national govern
ment in defense planning recognized the im
portance of rehabilitation when the director
established the Task Force on the rehabili
tation of the handicapped under Dr Theo
dore G Klumpps chairmanship The report
will have significant influence for the future
of our work
Internationally too rehabilitation made
history In two important meetings in Stock
holm this summer the significance of reha
bilitation as a force for international peace
and understanding was underlined
Rehabilitation is a broad social problem
In fact it is a philosophy of life Restoring
the handicapped to happy and useful lives
is a challenge to society to the Nation to the
States which form vital element of the part
nership for public vocational rehabilitation
and to the individual communities them
selves Today rehabilitation is reaching out
into all elements of the community for the
cooperation that spells success The Official
governmental agencies are expanding their
partnership to embrace the employers the
labor organizations the civic associations
the media of public information and other
segments of the general public We have long
considered the medical profession and co
operating voluntary associations as members
of the team
Our job is not only to help the handi
capped to help themselves It is as well to
help communities to help themselves Be
cause our programvocational rehabili
tationaffords a way to reduce the burdens
of public aid to the needy to increase tax
revenues and to raise the productivity of
State and Nation
Nowhere in the country is there a better
example of community organization for total
rehabilitation than in your neighboring State
to the north Tennessees Operation Knox
ville is setting the pace for the whole
country in marshalling all available resources
to relieve the handicapped of dependency
and channel them into productive and self
supporting work Here the community itself
is becoming a rehabilitation center just
as it already is a manufacturing agricultural
and mining center Relief rolls are down pro
duction and employment are up And the
same methods that work in Knoxville will
work in your city and mine
Manpower for defense is an important
need of the hour But in the long range
view rehabilitation is a sound public invest
ment in economic and social strength Earn
ings of the men and women rehabilitated
last year were raised from 18 million before
services to them began to an estimated 100
million other than family and farm earnings
after their rehabilitation had been completed
These men and women will repay in income
taxes the entire Federal expenditure on their
rehabilitation within four years
Finallyand perhaps most importantis
the handicapped persons therapeutic value
to us The spiritual and physical victory
necessary to complete rehabilitation neces
sitates true power and strength The courage
and wisdom gained from this process will
be more profoundly effective than any tools
used to assist the process In this wartime
generation we have had supreme examples
of victory over individual disaster This in
dividual victory is an international therapeu
tic weapon and a force for peace and security
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Heres a new merchandising idea
for blind operators of vending
stands developed by J D Paulk
Operations Supervisor Georgia Co
operative Services for the Blind
Inc the nonprofit organization
which works with the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division in the vend
ing stand program
Its a wooden rack suitable for
displaying Christmas and greeting
cards and other small items It
may be placed on the counter or on
the tables in booths The cards or
other articles are held in place
by a wooden bar on which is
mounted a picture of the operator
and a sales message The idea has
helped to boost Christmas card sales
at vending stands this season Dem
onstrating the use of the display
rack is Luther Phillips who oper
ates the stand in the State Office
Building in AtlantaKabllltatloiv Mws
LeftJohn Richard Marable of Farm
ington Rt 1 recently returned to his
home walking for the first time in more
than 13 years Through Vocational Re
habilitation services he had spent several
months at a New York rehabilitation
center receiving treatment for paralysis
resulting from a fall from a tree For
years he was bedridden and dependent
upon his family for even the little per
sonal services At the center he received
surgery for ulcers caused by bed sores
physical therapy and training in the use
of crutches While bedridden he develop
ed some skill in handicrafts Now he will
be sent to the Woodrow Wilson center at
Fisherville Va for more therapy and
training in watch repair The picture at
extreme left shows John with members
of his family and friends as he boarded
a plane for New York and top right
as he appeared upon his return to the
Atlanta airport
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Left centerInfantile paralysis left
Mrs Christine Keen at 3 years of age
with an impaired limb She received treat
ment at the Scottish Rite Hospital in
Decatur Ambitious to teach school she
was assisted by Vocational Rehabilitation
in college training She is now a class
room teacher at Oak Grove School in
Treutlen County
fr it it
Right centerIts a far call from flag
ing on a railroad to operating a wood
working shop But Hiram L Beaver 40
of 1020 Longley Avenue NW Atlanta
made it after recovering from tubercu
losis He had been hospitalized at the
Rocky Glenn Sanitarium in Ohio Voca
tional Rehabilitation assisted him with
tools and equipment for his shop in the
rear of his residence He repairs furni
ture and makes cabinets One of his
specialties is stands for table model TV
sets
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At bottomA victim of cerebral palsy
Lott Johnson is the proud proprietor of
an attractive little lunch room in Alma
The business is housed in an old street
car which has been remodelled The kit
chen is in a separate building Lotts good
service and close attention to business
have enabled him to build up a nice pa
tronage Vocational Rehabilitation as
sisted him in getting the equipmentAt leftMiss Ethel Clements of Tifton as she appeared before
receiving surgery and treatment In the center as she appeared
after discarding the braces she was compelled to wear for a long
time Above she is shown with some of the character dolls and
toys she designs and makes for sale to tourists and others and
through mails She has built up a national business through artis
try skill with needle and machine and good merchandising prac
tices With her is Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor M R Little
of Waycross
See front page picture
iss Ida Belle Williams of Douglas
formerly a member of the Tifton
High School faculty writes a weekly col
umn Jokeseria in the Douglas Enterprise
Recently she dedicated her column to Miss
Ethel Clements of near Tifton and to the
March of Dimes The column was reprinted
in part in the Tifton Gazette
Here are some excerpts from the column
What comes down my trail today I am
listening to 33351 voicessome from the
dead some from the livingcalling you
and me to colorscalling us to keep step
with the March of Dimes These voices
come from every state in the union from
bleak cold shores of the North to the sunny
land of the South from mountains to
plains from the hills of the East to the ocean
of the West These voices come from all
ages religions and races from the highest
stations in life to the lowest The dreaded
disease is no respector of persons The loud
est chorus swells from New York with 4
234 cases of polio in 1950 and the lowest
tones down in Nevada with 13 Georgia had
478 cases that year
All these voices blend in a grave chorus
to which no one can afford to turn a deaf
ear Today as I walk down my trail under
a clear blue sky I breathe a pledge to ex
press my own gratitude for freedom by
keeping step in the March of Dimes
Among the voices that I hear today is
the voice of lovely Ethel Clements of Tif
ton Polio totally paralyzed her when she
was three months old but later doctors skill
caused the child to gain the use of parts of
her body
I can hear Ethel praising the Lord for
the Vocational Rehabilitation of Atlanta and
for the Warm Springs Foundation because
she can walk now after going on her knees
for 35 years During the time that she could
not walk Ethel stood on her knees and
spaded the earth in preparation for planting
flowers Like Brownings Pippa she went
about singing songs of courage in the little
community of Brighton where she was born
To the sick to the disconsolate to the sor
rowful this crippled girl brought cheer
During these critical times she was al
ways courageous always hoping that some
day she could walk Instead of complaining
about her hardships she ingeniously de
vised methods of entertaining herself and
others Frequently at parties this young
woman was the life of the crowd A natural
raconteur she charmed guests with her
stories
Mighty events turn on a straw and
Ethels life turned on a rag doll She became
noted as a designer of an unusual rag doll
and orders came so fast that she appealed to
the Vocational Rehabilitation of Atlanta for
help in buying an electric machine The agent
not only gave her the machine but sent her
to an Atlanta surgeon who by an operation
enabled Ethel to take her first steps at the
age of 36 Later at Warm Springs another
operation improved her walking
Still working on her hobby the designing
of rag dolls Ethel radiates cheer and grati
tude
In appreciation of her fortitude which
is an inspiration to me and others I dedi
cate this column to Ethel Clements and the
March of Dimes
Besides the 33351 voices of 1950 there
are others of the past and present pleading
with you and me Dont fail us Give us a
chance The drums are beating Tramp
tramp comes from East West North South
Step in line and help conquer the enemyOKc OcorcioOocoXovc
AcKabilitatiorv Vews
Vol 6 JanuaryFebruary 1952 No 6
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
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Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
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Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
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Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
aTask Force Reports
NO NATIONAL manpower program can be considered complete until practical
plans for the use of handicapped workers drawn on a much broader scale
than at present have been drafted adopted and placed in operation says the report
of the Task Force on the Handicapped to the Manpower Committee Office of
Defense Mobilization
The Task Force with Dr Theodore G Klump of New York President of
WinthropStearns Inc as Chairman comprises outstanding leaders in industry
medicine and other fields Among the members is Dr M D Mobley Executive
Secretary American Vocational Association and former Director of Vocational
Education in Georgia
The report says Our present supply of skilled workers can be stretched only so
far to meet current needs There already are evidences of local shortages of engineers
draftsmen machinists toolanddie makers skilled metalworking machine operators
chemists and a number of other occupations
In the semiskilled unskilled and service occupations which every community
must have and which promptly feel the effects when workers leave to take defense
jobs the handicapped workers offer a tremendous pool of local labor available in a
relatively short period of time
The report discusses such subjects as the prevalence of disability the number of
potential workers among the disabled the impact of disability on American popula
tion the changing concept of disability the major organizations and agencies in
volved in services for the handicapped and the use of existing local facilities for
rehabilitation
Then it points out In the past we have found that when handicapped persons
are properly prepared and selectively placed they become valuable employees capable
of working as regularly as productively and as safely as the ablebodied
It points to some of the obstacles to a wider use of handicapped workers and
says Until there is a revision of hiring policies by many firms in this country
regarding physical qualifications of the aDplicants the employment of the handicapped
will never become widely accepted and practiced The problem principally revolves
around the larger firms which routinely require physical examinations prior to
employment and which frequently establish fixed and rigid standards which all em
ployees must meet
The use of physical examinations prior to employment is a desirable procedure
so far as the health of the individual worker is concerned and is not in itself to be
discouraged in any way But the use of the examination in such a way as to
constitute an automatic bar to employment of handicapped workers can and frequently
does nullify all the previous time energy and funds expended in preparing the
handicapped individual for a return to productive living
In this connection the Task Force recommends that industrial commercial and other
firms examine their personnel hiring policies and practices with particular attention
to the physical standards required for employment and take any steps which may
be necessary to insure that handicapped applicants are permitted to compete with
the ablebodied on the basis of their ability to perform the job in question and that
no person is excluded from the opportunity for employment solely on the basis of the
existence of a physical impairment
From the information presently available it says the defense program will
play a prominent part in our national life for the next few years
It asks How would expanded rehabilitation and employment of the disabled
affect us financially Can we afford it
The answer The Task Force feels that the question really is whether we can
afford to ignore it The costs we already are paying for disability are of such serious
proportions that they can affect our local state and national financial strength if
they keep mounting Thousands of persons are now on public assistance rolls because
they are disabled the expense to locar state and national treasuries run into millions
Many of these people will choose rehabilitation and return to work rather than
continuing to exist at public expenseprovided the opportunity is given them Tests
surveys show that the taxes alone paid by rehabilitated persons would more than pay
for rehabilitation costs
Another recommendation That in each community and particularly those in
which there is a labor shortage or in which there is reason to believe that a shortage
may develop immediately organize a local program for locating rehabilitating and
employing the disabled citizens of the community and that the community organi
zation be composed of industrial commercial health labor civic welfare and other
leaders that the total resources of the community be marshalled into a joint enter
prise aimed at bringing every possible handicapped person into activity and productive
workLeftCrippled by infantile paraly
sis when 17 months of age M K
Hutto is now manager of a successful
shoe repair shop in Douglas After
completing his training arranged
through Vocational Rehabilitation
services Hutto worked under J R
McNeil Jr the owner until the latter
decided to open another shop in Way
cross Then he was left in charge of
the Douglas business

RightH R Dingier who has an
impaired foot which requires a built
up shoe operates a neighborhood store
in Cedartown He gained training and
experience while working in another
store in the same community and
when opportunity came for him to go
in business for himself he was as
sisted in getting established by Voca
tional Rehabilitation services
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Lower LeftThree years ago B P
Hesterlees left arm was mangled when
caught in grist mill machinery He
was idle for three months while under
going surgery and hospitalization
with the aid of Vocational Rehabilita
tion At 55 the Carroll County miller
is back on the job and looks forward
to many years of activity
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Lower RightAlthough blind and
with little formal education Radford
Carter is somewhat of an electrical
genius The Fairburn man was given
training in carburetor repair in an
East Point Shop Recently the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division assisted
him in setting up a general repair
shop He has developed the skill to
repair a wide range of electrical and
mechanical equipment and articles
such as radios refrigerators and sew
ing machines Vocational Rehabilita
tion provided him with tools and equip
ment to carry on his work
LeftAlthough crippled by arthri
tis Howard Cochran 43 has operated
a general mercantile store across the
road from the farm home of his father
Jim Cochran near Baldwin for about
fifteen years He acquired the busi
ness after managing it for awhile for
the owner Howard says he learned the
alphabet under his mothers tutoring
then learned to read by spelling out
the words in comic supplements of
newspapers He taught himself simple
mathematics and accounting Voca
tional Rehabilitation assisted him with
treatment and a wheel chair His
favorite pastimes he says are read
ing and listening to radio
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RightTiftons C M Luke earns a
good living as a mechanic at the Kin
non Tractor Co despite the loss of a
leg through an infection Through
Vocational Rehabilitation services he
was provided with onthejob training
and assisted in the purchase of an
artificial limb Luke feels he is now
equipped to compete with other
mechanics
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Lower leftEight years ago Henry
Powell 19 of Stone Mountain lost an
eye in an accident while chopping
stove wood Through Vocational Re
habilitation services he is being pro
vided onthejob training as a dental
technician in the Southern Arts Den
tal Laboratories in Decatur Reports
indicate he is making an outstanding
record The young man wears an arti
ficial eye
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Lower rightArthritis left Li
thonias Roy A Clarke 24 with dis
abilities of the knees and back Voca
tional Rehabilitation services made it
possible for him to receive treatment
at Emory University clinic resulting
in considerable improvement in his
condition Now hes being given on
thejob training in clock and watch
repair at Mosleys Clock Shop in Deca
tur
Leslie B Mosley Right who has
a congenital deformity of the lower
limbs operates a sawfiling and tool
sharpening business in a little shop
near his home in Millen He never at
tended school but learned to read and
write through tutoring by members of
his family Vocational Rehabilitation
provided onthejob training tools and
equipment The city donated the build
ing A supply merchant provided ma
terial for repairs and the Vocational
Agriculture teacher arranged for mov
ing the building to its present loca
tion Mosley takes pride in being able
to earn his living for the first time
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A cerebral hemorrhage left Ed Wal
ton center paralyzed on the left
side The 49yearold Monroe County
laborer and his family were depen
dent upon Welfare assistance Through
Vocational Rehabilitation services he
was sent to a New York rehabilitation
center for treatment He is now able to
stand and walk again and plans are
being made to place him in employ
ment
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Twentysixyearold Grace Paradise
lower right had a spinal deformity
and infantile paralysis Despite this
disability she finished high school and
was assisted by Vocational Rehabili
tation in a college education She holds
a MA Degree from Atlanta Univer
sity and teaches in Washington County
Schools
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Augustas Carrie Johnson below
was disabled by a goiter Five younger
sisters and a brother were dependent
upon her Through Vocational Rehabi
litation services surgery was provided
making it possible for her to resume
her duties and responsibilities
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For eight months twentytwo year
old James E Tanner who was strick
en by infantile paralysis in 1941 has
been City Clerk of Alma He was pre
pared for a business career through a
correspondence course provided by
Vocational Rehabilitation Earlier he
had been treated at Warm Springs
and Aidmore His batterydriven wheel
chair was bought by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Young Tanner is happy
in his job and popular in the com
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nity agencies and individuals to put handicapped per
sons on the Comeback Road For instance 50year
old Thomas R Barber left of near Watkinsville had
been a successful dairyman and farmer until stomach
ulcers made an operation necessary Then he suffered
a cerebral hemorrhage which resulted in paralysis on
one side He had little use of his right hand and
dragged his leg in walking There were two dependents
his wife and an 11yearold boy The Vocational Re
habilitation Counselor suggested a poultry project for
egg production Barber adopted the suggestion man
aged to buy fifty baby chicks raised all and kept accu
rate records It looked like a sound venture but a
larger chicken house was needed A saw mill owner
donated scrap lumber Neighbors and the boy did most
of the work on the house A loan to buy 200 pullets
was arranged through FHA The County Agent gave
instructions in feeding sanitation and culling A local
grocer assisted with training in marketing The Wel
fare Department provided aid until the sale of eggs
and culled birds produced funds for the family budget
Meanwhile the Barbers planted a garden and grain
patch to help with the food and feed bills After two
years they had built up a flock of 500 layers bought a
cow and were living up to their former standards
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Roystons Mrs Lonnie Alewine left in center panel
was handicapped by a hip impairment which made one
leg shorter than the other see inset An operation
corrected the disability so she could resume her house
hold duties
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Amputee Horace A Gunter 26 right in center panel
of Tifton formerly a farmer gets onthejob training
in upholstery at the Tifton Mattress Co Shown with
him is O M Clements trainer
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Attractive Mildred Brock lower left works as a sec
retary in the office of the Dean of the Graduate School
University of Georgia at Athens A graduate of Winder
High School she was assisted in a commercial course
after a chest operation
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Romance recently slipped into the ranks of operators
of vending stands for the blind The former Jessie Mae
Gillespie below who has the stand in Clarke County
Courthouse is now Mrs Billy Finch Her husband
also visually handicapped works in a Winder industry
Before going to Athens she operated an outdoor stand
in Commerce
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Boyd Thomas Jr proudly displays his
products and tools At top left he
holds a teapotshaped salt and pepper
rack Above he is shown before his
cedar dresser At top right he dis
plays his motordriven vehicle in front
of the little cabinet shop At left he
uses a cutoff saw On the low work
bench may be seen a bird box book
ends and other articles At right he
looks at a treasure from his cedar
chest
For years Franklin County folks looked
upon Boyd Thomas Jr as a helpless home
bound cripple
Since birth Junior as he is known to
family and friends had been afflicted with
spastic paralysis His legs were undeveloped
One arm dangled uselessly He could crawl
about the home but had to be carried out
doors He had difficulty in speaking And he
didnt go to school
Juniors parents worked outside the home
Being unable to play like other teenage
children he amused himself in daytime by
making things with any old material and
tools he could find
In June 1951 the County Welfare Director
requested Vocational Rehabilitation Coun
selor Hampton to interview the boy to
determine what if anything could be done
to aid him in becoming at least partially
selfsupporting
It was found that at 21 Junior had de
veloped marked skill in cabinet making
Among samples of his craftsmanship were a
vanity dresser and cedar chest complete with
locks and fittings
I did it with a handsaw and hammer
he explained Then added When I had
whooping cough and couldnt sleep I got up
in the middle of the night and worked
Boyd Thomas Sr said his son worked on
the dresser for about two years
The dresser may be used by other mem
bers of the family But the cedar chest is
Juniors personal possession It holds his
clothes and a collection of trinklets
There was no doubt about the young mans
aptitude and interest in woodworking His
brown eyes sparkled as he talked about the
possibility of getting some good tools and
learning more about the trade
When Carnesville citizens found out that
something might be done to improve Juniors
lot in life they were ready to lend a hand
Through individuals and the Welfare Depart
ment arrangements were made for a work
shop to be built on a lot adjoining the family
home site Labor and material were donated
There would be no rent on the lot
While the building was being erected
Junior was carried to a local woodworking
shop for a test of his ability to learn how to
use power tools and machines It was found
that he not only had no fear of power equip
ment but was eager to use it
His physical condition and lack of formal
education made it impracticable to send
him to a vocational school where some
knowledge of academic subjects would be
required So a cabinet maker was engaged
to tutor him in the use of power tools and
the finer points of the trade
Through Vocational Rehabilitation ser
vices the necessary equipment for Juniors
Cabinet Shop as it became known was
bought and installed The bench was elevated
only about 18 inches above the floor so he
could work in a sitting posture
Although the shop was only a short dis
tance from home Junior wanted some means
of transportation He didnt like the idea of
depending upon others to get from home to
shop Somehow he managed to get an old
garden tractor to which he rigged a flat
trailer Soon he became a familiar figure
chugging around town on his powerdriven
vehicle
Ingenuity imagination and skill are re
vealed in his products
Attractive bird boxes in a variety of de
signs and sizes are made out of old apple
crates They sell at from 3 to 5
There are bookends in the form of a
dogs head and shoulders on one side and the
hind quarters and tail on the other
A holder for salt and pepper containers
is shaped like the silhouette of a teapot It
can be hung on the kitchen wall
Other popular articles are his wall decora
tions in the form of card suitsspades
hearts diamonds and clubs with little
shelves for ornaments
And there are all sorts of corner pieces
and whatnots
Most of the material for Juniors products
is donated by nearby furniture manufac
turers from leftover stock
Where do you get your designs he
was asked
Oh I see em in mail order books and
other places he said with a bright smile
The spasticity in Juniors left arm makes
it necessary for him to hold it between his
legs while doing most jobs However he has
found one use for his left hand In boring
holes with a brace and bit he clamps his
left hand on top of the brace and holds it
steady with his chin
As a sideline to cabinet making he stocked
an assortment of candies soft drinks and
packaged foods for sale to visitors But this
activity has been discontinued temporarily
because its likely the shop may be moved to
another location
The Thomas family recently moved to a
residence some distance from the shop Mrs
Thomas works in a mill in another com
munity Some consideration is being given
to locating nearer her place of employment
and getting a site for the cabinet shop off a
highway where more patrons would be at
tracted by Juniors display of productsKo GeorqoVoccoMa
Aekabilitation Vews
Vol 6
MarchApril 1952
No 7
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
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Phone 5J48
Records show that a substantial number of applicants for civilian vocational
rehabilitation services have been disabled since childhood
After years of suffering they reach maturity unprepared to earn their way in
a competitive world They face lives of dependency upon welfare organizations
relatives or charity
Rehabilitating these men and women requires
the expenditure of public funds for one or more
services physical restoration training ap
pliances maintenance tools and equipment
Vocational rehabilitation workers are con
scious of the loss in human resources when
crippled children are left to grow up before re
ceiving medical or surgical services and speci
alized training But under the law they arent
permitted to provide any assistance until the
child reaches the legal working age16
To them every crippled child is a potential
vocational rehabilitation client
So we of the Vocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion always try to encourage support and co
operate with agencies and organizations interes
ted in the welfare of crippled children the Crip
pled Childrens Division of the State Department
of Public Health the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and others
Again this spring Georgia citizens are being urged to buy Easter Seals to help
provide needed services to crippled children The Georgia Society is sponsoring
the sale in this State
The Society is developing a program to find crippled children to offer proper
medical therapeutic and educational services and to help them realize and de
velop their full individual abilities
It proposes to stimulate and assist in the development of community treatment
training centers over the State
Seven Georgia communities have made a beginning in establishing this type
of community service Atlanta Athens Augusta Douglas Macon Savannah
and Thomasville
Every dollar contributed through the purchase of Easter Seals in an investment
in the happiness and future independence of a crippled child
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Future laundry and dry cleaning
establishment operators Center
Asa Lee Allen of Athens an am
putee and Jackie Roy of Talla
poosa who has paralysis of the left
arm are students at the North
Georgia Trade Vocational School
Clarkesville They are shown re
ceiving instruction from G W El
rodAfter being confined to a wheel chair for more than seven years Harold Drummon of Canton is on his feet again Para
lyzed from his waist down as the result of a fall from a mule Harold wouldnt agree to leave home for treatment or
training until about a year ago Meanwhile he had been provided with a back brace through the Crippled Childrens Serv
ice At Emory University Clinic he was given treatment and later provided with new braces shoes and aluminum
crutches By following a program of physical therapy Harold has been able to discard his wheel chair and walk with
the aid of crutches He is enrolled in the watch repair class at North Georgia Trade Vocational School at Clarkes
ville and is popular with the student body
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Strangers entering Phillip Kellys radio
shop in Norman Park may be surprised to
find the owner swinging between parallel
bars
Daily exercise isnt just a pastime for the
tall broadshouldered 29year old man Its
part of his routine to rebuild muscles weak
ened by paralysis and years of inactivity
From the time he was 16 until ten months
ago young Kelly had been confined to his
bed or wheel chair as the result of paralysis
in both limbs caused by an accidental gun
shot wound in the spine Specialists who ex
amined him in 1943 offered little encourage
ment that he ever could walk again
For about two years he sold insurance
from a wheel chair to help relieve the finan
cial burden on an older brother who was
supporting him and their mother Meanwhile
he was taking a correspondence course in
radio repair with a view to increasing his in
come and getting established in a business of
his own
About a year ago Phillip again was con
fined to his bed because of scalds on his body
caused by sitting in a wheel chair It was
suggested that his condition might be im
proved by treatment at a rehabilitation cen
ter He agreed to go anywhere and do any
thing that might help him
He was brought to Atlanta for examina
tion by specialists It was recommended that
he be sent to a rehabilitation center in New
York After three and a half months treat
ment there he returned home able to stand
with the aid of braces and crutches
Reports indicate that his condition con
tinues to improve and that he is happy with
his progress Some consideration is being
given to the idea of enrolling him for ad
vanced training in radio and television repair
Its ability not disability that countsDefense Plant
It was a long hard fight against odds
but Macons William C Stewart 43
finally reached his goal a skilled trade
and permanent employment status Hes
a Junior Aircraft Timekeeping Instrument
Repairer at Warner Robins His foreman
reports Mr Stewart is one of the de
partments most cooperative diligent and
efficient employees
Although seriously crippled as the re
sult of polio at the age of 14 Stewart
completed a nine months watch repair
course at the Macon Vocational School
without an hours absence from class His
back muscles were so seriously impaired
he has been unable to stand since the at
tack in 1923 He drives to a parking lot
adjoining the building where he works
and crawls to his shop
In 1946 Stewart was advised to enter
vocational school but he felt the need of
an immediate income and declined the
offer He was placed as a dispatcher with
a cab company where he worked for two
years His employment was terminated
when ownership of the company changed
It was then that he agreed to enroll at the
trade school
Carl Darley 1014
taken the first big successful step toward
overcoming a double handicapthe effects
of an attack of polio in his left foot suffered
when he was a child and the loss of his left
hand above the wrist Mr Darley said
recently that the biggest handicap he had to
overcome was the loss of the hand and now
just two short months after receiving his
artificial limb Mr Darley says I dont see
how I ever got along without it Mr Darley
lost his hand 13 years ago when a shotgun
he was carrying accidentally discharged as
he was going out the door of his house to
kill a snake
Last December Mr Darley after being
urged by some Albany business men to con
tact R Watt Jr of the Georgia Vocational
Rehabilitation Agency for advice began to
construct a building on the back edge of
his lot
The building 12 feet wide and 28 feet
long today serves as the workshop where
Mr Darley engages in his newlyfound oc
cupation as a cabinet maker And today he
By Art Magee
A Ibany Herald Staff Writer
Whitney Ave has beams with pride as he surveys his first bit of
production since acquiring the artificial limb
This bit of production is a watchmakers
desk equipped with a cabinet and a half a
dozen drawers six by 12 inches The desk
which is 40 inches high 18 inches wide and
72 inches long was constructed of pine lum
ber and plyboard and was completed in
approximately 20 labor hours The desk is
of walnut finish
Mr Darley said that the desk was manu
factured for a disabled watchmaker of Ash
burn with tools supplied by the Vocational
Rehabilitation Agency He said that prior to
entering his new profession he had made a
few whatnots and doodads but nothing
more But today he looks hopefully to a
bright future in the field of cabinet making
He said that most of his work will be done
on order
Mr Darley is 42 years old He is married
and the father of a married daughter and a
13yearold son And he points with pride
to the fact that he is a very proud grand
fatherFor nineteen years William Jewell
right of Crawford Rt 1 hobbled
on a crutch his right leg fixed in
the position shown in the top in
set About all I could do was chop
a little stove wood he recalls
Surgery and hospitalization pro
vided through Vocational Rehabili
tation services restored the leg to
usefulness lower inset Jewells
disability resulted from burns sus
tained when some boys poured
some gasoline on him and struck
a match to it He now works as
a farm hand His employer G A
Burroughs says hes one of the
best tractor drivers in the Craw
ford community
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Vocational Rehabilitation rarely
accepts for service a person over
60 because of limited work expec
tancy But in the case of John H
Moreland left in center panel
an exception was made to the gen
eral rule For fiftytwo years John
has been the janitor at the elemen
tary school in Madison At 73 he
was stricken with a hernia It was
so large he not only couldnt work
but couldnt get to the job says
Counselor Nathan Nolan An op
eration corrected the disability
After a few weeks absence John
was back on the job Incidentally
he paid part of the surgery and
hospital fees out of funds given him
by the citizens of Madison on the
fiftieth anniversary of his employ
ment in the school system
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Despite a spinal curvature Anna
L Canady 21 center in panel
won honors in high school and col
lege Now she teaches in Millen
schools Vocational Rehabilitation
assisted her through four years of
college
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Another teacher who was aided
through college is Elizabeth L
Carter of Keysville whose leg was
amputated as the result of a knee
infection following a fall when she
was a child She wears a realistic
artificial limb Gough Elementary
School Principal Wilbert Davis says
she is one of the best teachers in
his school
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Employment in domestic service no
longer is a problem for Catherine
Sims 49 bottom panel since hav
ing her congenital harelip corrected
through Vocational Rehabilitation
The pictures show her before and
after the operation She lives in
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Brunswicks B E Parker left is
happy to be working again after
six years of dependency while un
dergoing a series of operations on
his legs An amputee Parker ped
dles fruit fish vegetables poultry
and eggs from a truck equipped
with an ice box He follows a regu
lar schedule in calling on customers
in Blackshear Nahunta and other
communities in that area Its the
same kind of business he had before
his left leg was broken by an au
tomobile in 1944 And he likes it
Two years after the accident the
fractured leg had not healed It was
then that he applied for Vocational
Rehabilitation services Arrange
ments were made for an operation
and after a few months another be
came necessary Then he fractured
his right leg For a while he was in
double leg casts and a wheel chair
An infection developed in his ailing
left leg and he agreed to have the
limb amputated While Parker was
unable to work his wife and mother
had seasonal jobs peeling shrimp
picking crabs and sewing
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An impaired right hand didnt keep
Eloise Lowery left in center panel
from making a creditable record in
sewing and dress designing at
SmithHughes Vocational School in
Atlanta The Augusta girl is shown
with a display of her products
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Young Edward Christian right in
center panel had an impediment in
speech but he finished the 12th
grade in Danielsville schools and a
business college course He is shown
on his job as stock clerk in an
Athens department store
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J D Logan 40 lower left had
infantile paralysis before he was a
year old Through Vocational Re
habilitation services he was aided
in establishing a retail business
near Soperton
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Another polio victim is attractive
Virginia Dekle who was stricken at
5 but finished Glynn Academy and
a business college course Now
shes a competent secretary on the
staff at Perrys Business School
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ADMIRAL ROSS T McINTIRE MC
USN Retd Chairman of the Presi
dents Committee on National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week spoke to
about fifty members of the State and local
NEPH Week committees at a luncheon at
the Henry Grady Hotel on April 21
Appointed to head the committee when
it was established by President Truman in
1947 Admiral Mclntire has been a leading
spokesman for great opportunities for Amer
icas men and women handicapped by dis
ease accident or congenital defects
The Atlanta meeting highlighted his days
schedule which included conferences with
Governor Herman Talmadge NEPH Week
Executive Committeemen and Red Cross
Blood Bank officials and an appearance on
a television newscast at station WSBTV
Admiral Mclntire stopped in Atlanta on a
swing from Washington to California in the
interest of this years observance of NEPH
Week October 511 As personal physician
to the late President Franklin D Roosevelt
Admiral Mclntire visited Atlanta frequently
on trips to Warm Springs
The luncheon was arranged by Paul S
Barrett State Director of Vocational Reha
bilitation and State Chairman of the Gov
ernors Committee on NEPH Week Dr
M D Collins State Superintendent of
Schools presented the speaker
Admiral Mclntire reported on the prog
ress made in employing handicapped work
ers since the Presidents Committee was or
ganized five years ago He said that some
2150000 such workers had been placed in
jobs but that the task is far from completed
He emphasized the importance of perma
nent local committees to work throughout
the year building a community atmosphere
in which handicapped men and women who
are properly trained may get a fair chance
in competition for jobs The task of the
National state and local committees he said
is mainly one of educating employers in
employment policies which do not discrimi
nate against applicants simply because they
may have physical handicaps
Community organizations have been
helping a great deal in that respect he said
On this point the Atlanta Journal quoted
Admiral Mclntire Handicapped persons
are qualified to do many jobs Surveys show
that absenteeism among handicapped em
ployees is almost unheard of They want to
keep their jobs and take an abovetheaver
age interest in them
Employers in hiring these persons per
form a civic duty by providing gainful em
ployment for themtaking them off relief
rolls and making them selfsupporting
He said jobs should not be given to handi
capped persons out of sympathy
This is an injustice to them Give the
handicapped man or woman a job because
its good business he said
The Atlanta Constitution quoted him on
Georgias program as follows
Georgia is doing one of the best jobs of
any state in the nation in employing handi
capped people and solving the problem of
helping injured individuals regain their self
respect and become worthwhile taxpaying
citizens
This state is approaching the problem in
a commonsense manner and is easing its
own economic problem by taking these han
dicapped persons off the rolls of the state
supported and putting them in useful ca
pacities
At the State Capitol Admiral Mclntire and
Governor Talmadge talked navy for a
few moments as usually happens when two
Navy men or exNavy men get together
The Governor served as a Lieutenant Com
mander with the South Pacific fleet during
the Second World War They talked about
mutual friends in the service familiar ships
and some of the Naval operations
Admiral Mclntire expressed his admira
tion of the progress of Governor Talmadges
administration particularly in relation to
education and vocational rehabilitation Then
he said in effect
What you have done for education makes
some of your critics appear stupid
Admiral Ross T Mclntire
Admiral Mclntires duties during the war
included supervision and direction of the
rapid and vast increase in medical person
nel the building of many new Naval hos
pitals the expansion of several facilities both
in this country and overseas and the main
tenance of considerable research which gave
American sailors and marines the best pos
sible medical attention and battlefield care
He left Atlanta for Oklahoma City where
a similar meeting with NEPH Week commit
teemen was to be held
T B Problems Reviewed
A panel discussion of the report of the
Joint Committee on Tuberculosis highspots
the program for the 39th annual meeting of
the Georgia Tuberculosis Association in Ma
con June 57
This session is expected to bring to light
some of the problems relating to tuberculosis
control and the rehabilitation of tubercular
patients
The topics scheduled for discussion are
TB Hospitals in GeorgiaDr C A Hen
derson Commissioner of Health Savannah
and Dr Rufus Payne Superintendent of Bat
tey Hospital
Welfare and TB in GeorgiaMiss Fannie
B Shaw Executive Secretary South Central
Georgia TB Association and Alan Kemper
Director Georgia Public Health Department
Rehabilitation and TB in GeorgiaDr
Sam E Patton Macon and Paul S Barrett
State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation
TB Case FindingDr John H Venable
Commissioner of Health Griffin and Dr
T F Sellers Director State Public Health
Department
Dr John I Goodlad of Emory Univer
sity is scheduled to serve as moderator
Another feature will be a school adminis
trators health conference on pertinent prob
lems in the school health program The prin
cipal speaker at this session will be Miss
Vivian V Drenckhann director of Health
Education National TB Association
Those scheduled to take part in a panel
discussion of this topic are Miss Elizabeth
Donovan Instructional Consultant Teacher
Education Service State Department of Edu
cation Dr Frank Hughes Cook County
School Superintendent and President of the
Georgia Education Association Grant Hus
bands Mental Health Coordinator State
Public Health Department Mrs Annie L
Keyes Instructional Supervisor Griffin Miss
Florida Moore Professor of Home Econom
ics University of Georgia George Sten
house Public Information Executive State
Public Health Department Zeb Vance Di
rector Health and Physical Education Mer
cer University Dr John H Venable Health
Commissioner Griffin and Newton C
Hodgson Consultant in Curriculum Atlanta
Area Teacher Education Service
One session will be devoted to nursing
problems with Miss Marguerite Spilman Ex
ecutive Secretary Atlanta Tuberculosis As
sociation presiding The speakers will be
Dr H C Schenck Director TB Control
State Public Health Department and Dr
C C Aven President Atlanta TB Asso
ciationdKo GcovqvoJVoooovo
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Vol 6
MayJune 1952
No 8
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
New Administrator
Another forward step in meeting the educational needs of physically handi
capped Georgians was taken recently when the State Board of Education
placed the Georgia Academy for the Blind and the Georgia School for the Deaf
under the general supervision of Paul S Barrett State Director of Vocational
Rehabilitation
At both institutions the programs of instruction cover the usual academic
subjects taught in other public schools together with some vocational courses
The vocational courses give students basic training in a wide range of skills
and opportunities to discover aptitudes and vocational preferences
Upon graduation they may be assisted by the Vocational Rehabilitation
Division in further specialized training in technical schools colleges or business
establishments and then guided into employment
While there has been close cooperation between the schools and the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division in recent years this change in administrative policy
will bring about better correlation of the programs
Mr Barrett has served as Director of Vocational Rehabilitation for sixteen
years He is recognized throughout the country as an outstanding administrator
in his field He also has served as president of the National Rehabilitation Asso
ciation and as chairman of the legislative committee of the association
The Academy for the Blind located in Macon this year celebrated its centen
nial as a State school See story elsewhere in this issue The School for the
Deaf at Cave Spring has been operated as a State institution since 1848
Students at both schools have won coveted honors in competition with chil
dren who had normal sight or hearing The Cave Spring school has many firsts
to its credit It was the first state for the deaf school regularly accredited by the
States authorized high school accrediting authority and the first school of its
kind to qualify for and receive Federal funds under all provisions of the Smith
Hughes and GeorgeDean Acts The first chartered Future Farmers of America
chapter exclusively for deaf boys was organized there
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COVER
Admiral Ross T Mclntire MC
USN Retd Chairman of the
Presidents Committee on National
Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week calls on Governor Herman
Talmadge at the State Capitol
Shown from left to right are Ad
miral Mclntire Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of School and
Governor TalmadgeMrs N K Graham top right
wears two artificial limbs She
manages her household in Black
shear helps her husband in a retail
store and enjoys a normal life Her
deformed limbs were amputated
when she was 14 With her in the
picture is her attractive little
daughter
fr
Fiftyeightyearold Claud Aldridge
is shown on the job as custodian at
Surrency school after recuperating
from a bilateral hernia operation
fr
Another double amputee who leads
a normal life is Silas Garner 44
below cash register and adding
machine mechanic employed by
John G Kitchell Inc Savannah
He says he has no trouble lifting
cash registers from floor to work
bench
A farmer and saw mill worker Gadis White center above 40 lost his left arm in 1947 through an infection Now he
drives a truck for Branco Dry Cleaners Nahunta tends a gardenand fishes for recreation Willie Ben Johnson worked in
a pulp mill until he lost his arm in a hunting accident in 1940 Hes employed by a grist mill in PattersonCentennial Celebrated at Academy
rlTH the 1952 commencement exercises
on May 28 the Georgia Academy for
the Blind at Macon rounded out a century
of service as a State school for visually han
dicapped children
An overflow crowd heard Governor Her
man Talmadge review the accomplishments
of his administration in the fields of educa
tion health and welfare in the conservation
and development of forest and other agricul
tural resources and in fostering commercial
and industrial enterprises in the state
The Governor said he took pride in the
advances in education under the Minimum
Foundation Program He called attention to
the expansion of Vocational Rehabilitation
services and the improvement in facilities
at the Academy and the School for the Deaf
at Cave Spring for physically handicapped
children He commended the State Board of
Education Dr M D Collins State Super
intendent of Schools and Paul S Barrett
State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation
on the accomplishments in this phase of
education
We have not been unmindful of the needs
of the blind children of Georgia as well as
of our blind people all over the State and
have provided them with more funds for
their activities each year than they have ever
received before in the history of the State
Governor Talmadge said
It is imperative he said that we recog
nize the magnitude of the problem of educat
ing and training the blind in our state and
that we develop a program as soon as pos
sible that will be the greatest solution pos
sible to these problems
The Governor announced the approval of
plans for the construction of new buildings
on the campus of the school for blind Negro
children
He outlined briefly the history of the Fac
tory for the Blind at Bainbridge and said it
is the most productive per individual and
believed to be the most economically sound
workshop for the blind in the country The
factory provides training and employment
opportunities for about one hundred adults
in the production of mattresses brooms and
mops
The 4741449 net profit earned by the
Georgia Factory for the Blind for the fiscal
year ended June 30 1951 is an achievement
unequaled by any shop for the blind he
said and added We are in seventh place
in overall payments to blind workers our
average pay per employee was higher
The Governor told the graduates that
Georgia and the South offer vast opportu
nities for young men and women who have
ambition courage and training and the hon
esty to compete in this age
The Governor was presented by Dr Col
lins F G Nelms Superintendent of the
Academy presided as master of ceremonies
The Governors address was preceded by
a program of vocal and instrumental music
the salutatory and the valedictory The salu
tatory was by Robert Pharis of Columbus
The valedictorian was Faris Smith of Gib
son Eloise Hall of Bainbridge sang Come
to the Fair The glee club rendered two
numbers and Robert Pharis and Rebecca
Smith played a piano duet The musical pro
gram was under the direction of Frank S
Pursley and Mrs W L Norman
The diplomas were presented by Dr Col
lins Several students received music certifi
cates and honor awards Mrs Hamp Riley
of Butler school principal has been on the
faculty for thirtytwo years She made these
Graduating ClassLeft to right Rachel Ann Satterwhite Chipley Farris Rebecca
Smith Gibson Jonathan David Bell Lindale Martha Pauline Moore Shiloh Hazel
Ruth Carter Porterdale Hazel Montrellar Dutton Lilburn Robert Wilson Pharis
Columbus Mary Lucile Carter Valdosta James Robert Baxter Carrollton June
Eloise Hall Bainbridge and the class sponsor Mrs Hamp Riley Butler school
principal
awards The invocation was offered by Rev
J L Hillis pastor of the Cherokee Heights
Methodist Church Rev Harry Moore
Academy field representative pronounced
the benediction
About forty visitors were entertained at
an informal dinner with the student body
and faculty In addition to the Governor
Dr Collins and Mr Barrett the guest list
included George P Whitman Jr of College
Park Chairman of the State Board of Edu
cation L E Sweat of Blackshear Eighth
District member of the State Board of Edu
cation and Mrs Sweat Dr Mark Smith of
Macon Superintendent of Macon and Bibb
County Schools Carlton Mobley of Macon
Mayor Lewis Wilson A H S Weaver for
mer Bibb County Representative in the Gen
eral Assembly John B Harris Jr Repre
sentativeelect Andrew W McKenna Rep
resentativeelect W W West Solicitor Gen
eral of the Macon Circuit Reginald Trice
former Legislator Kenneth Carswell Bibb
County Commissioner and District Gover
nor of the Lions Clubs J W Denson Coun
ty Commissionerelect C R Rader of Ma
con Judge Earl Butler of Macon Hugh
Couch of Atlanta and Vaughn Terrell of
Bainbridge Superintendent of the Factory
for the Blind
It was said that this was the first com
mencement at the Academy ever attended
by a Governor of the State
The centennial baccalaureate service also
attended by a large group of Macon citizens
parents of the graduates and state officials
was held Sunday May 25 Dr Collins
preached the baccalaureate sermon
Earlier commencement activities included
the JuniorSenior prom Field Day exercises
Senior Banquet Senior Music Recital and
Senior Class Night The Elementary School
exercises were held May 27
The Academy is fully accredited as to
both the elementary and high school grades
Children who are eligible for admission
through loss of vision may enroll at the age
of six and remain through the Senior year
The program of instruction covers the
usual academic subjects taught in public
schools for sighted children together with
vocational courses such as handicraft typing
and dictaphone operation woodwork piano
tuning chaircaning and basketweaving
Courses also are offered in musicvoice
piano pipe organ theory harmony and
choral singing
The Glee Club has appeared before civic
groups and on radio throughout Georgia
and elsewhere Students have demonstrated
their ability to compete with sighted children
in district and Statewide contests For the
past two years they have won the State Lit
erary Trophy in Class C
The bill incorporating the Academy was
passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov
ernor Howell Cobb on January 19 1852
after the school had operated for about a
year as a private charity enterprise
The present main building on Vineville
Avenue was erected in 1906 The school for
Negroes is located on another site in Macon
Recently a tract of some thirty acres was
acquired as a new location for the new Negro
school
The school on Vineville Avenue has an
enrollment of about one hundred students
The school for Negroes has a current enroll
ment of about sixty children
Over the span of a century thousands of
children have been educated at the Academy
Many have reached high places in the life
of the State By their successes they have
demonstrated that while blindness is a handi
cap it may be overcome through proper
education and trainingIt took 44040 of Vocational Re
habilitation funds to provide sur
gery and hospitalization for 48
yearold Gus Harris who was dis
abled by a heel ulcer from cast
pressure on a leg broken in an au
tomobile accident When referred
to the Division by Morgan Countys
Welfare Department the dairy
worker had been certified for as
sistance on the Aid to Dependent
Children program While Gus was
in the hospital and convalescing
the Harris family received 769
from ADC funds
Gus welfare grant was for 63
a month says Counselor Nathan
Nolan These payments probably
would have continued until his
youngest child passed the age of
16 unless someone had helped him
secure proper medical care By
that time he would have drawn
8899 on the basis of current al
lotment 27 for the first child and
18 for each additional child The
two agencies working together put
a disabled worker back on the job
kept a family intact and saved an
estimated 7690 in public funds
Gus welfare grant was withdrawn
last February
At right he is shown milking
one of the twenty cows in the herd
he tends The top inset shows the
ulcerated heel The other shows
his leg at one stage in the skin
grafting operation
ft ft ft
Roger Lee Stinson 49 wears two
artificial legs but he can handle his
end of a crosscut saw and do other
jobs on the Georgia Creosoting
Companys yards in Brunswick He
lost one leg in 1931 and the other
ten years later
ft ft ft
Fortyeightyearold J D Colton
of Brunswick lost his left leg as
the result of an automobile accident
in 1937 He too was aided by Vo
cational Rehabilitation in getting
an artificial limb and is employed
by Glynn County
ft ft ft
For 15 years Fred Odister 36 at
right in lower panel has been em
ployed in various jobs by the Har
mony Blue Granite Co Elberton
About a year ago he developed a
hip impairment which required
hospitalization and surgery through
Vocational Rehabilitation services
Now he is assigned to janitorial
duties and helping truck driversDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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Shown here are the Vocational Rehabilitation trainees enrolled at South Georgia Trade Vocational School Americus
Front row left to right Rufus Ledden Graham Durham Wayne Foster Billy Wentworth Danny Mahany and Edward
E Taylor Second row Amos Eason Herbert Galbreath Charles Clark Marie Titshaw Donelle Lindsey John Woods
and Jimmy Wells Third row John Lane Clarence Stubbs Billy Moncrief Benny Baird Robert Youngblood William
Smith and Sidney Carter Three students not shown are Lonnie Devereaux Elbert Webb Grady Thornhill
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ABILITY COUNTS

IFor thirty years before he lost his sight Paul L Hinds
of 1279 McLendon St Atlanta right in top panel was
a successful salesman He still is The only difference
is in method and product As the representative of to
bacco products jobbers he covered a territory calling
on customers facetoface Loss of vision compelled
him to change his line and methods So he made a con
nection with an Atlanta silver plating house set up an
office in his home and started soliciting orders over the
phone In five years he has built up a profitable business
Now he has an assistant Kent O Fuller who is a dis
abled Veteran They keep complete records on calls and
orders Mrs Hinds uses a car in picking up silverware
for delivery to the plating works
it
Elbertons Mrs Jimmy Gallasso left in center panel
wears a modern suction socket artificial limb With this
appliance she is no longer handicapped in carrying on
her household duties For about twelve years she wore
an old type limb but it was found that the straps were
causing some kidney trouble She had two amputations
on the right leg as the result of an infection following
a fracture when she was 6 years of age
fr fr
J A Curl and his wife operate a farm near Blackshear
For five years he was disabled by a stricture of the
esophagus Records indicate that he was unable to eat
any solid food during that period Surgery provided
through Vocational Rehabilitation corrected the condi
tion Mrs Curl had varicose veins which were corrected
with surgery

Early B Boss 44 below operates a store adjoining
his home near Lawrenceville after having been unable
to work for fourteen years as the result of arthritis
For nine years he couldnt walk Treatment and training
were provided through Vocational Rehabilitation ser
vices The local unit of Veterans of Foreign Wars con
tributed toward the store buildingState Scores New Record
Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation ser
vices reached an alltime high last year
During the fiscal year ended June 30
3194 vocationally handicapped men and
women of working age were restored to
suitable jobs This figure represents a gain
of 212 over the previous years rehabilita
tions and an increase of 119 over the num
ber rehabilitated in fiscal 1949
Records show that 2178 of those re
habilitated last year were dependent upon
welfare agencies family or friends at the
time they made application for assistance
2378 had never worked or had unsubstan
tial parttime work records 1136 had two
or more dependents and 2155 had less than
a ninth grade education
In the group were 1657 men and 1537
women There were 2225 white persons and
969 Negroesabout the same ratio as in
the general population
The major causes of their disabilities
were disease 1982 accidents 856 congeni
tal impairments 352 and military or naval
service 4 The impairments embraced al
most every category that would constitute
a vocational handicap
Some of the major classifications were
orthopedic 335 amputations 290 defective
vision 231 blindness 173 deaf and hard of
hearing 146 arrested tuberculosis 102 ulcers
and varicose veins 100 cardiac 55 speech
32 polio 23 and spastic paralysis 18
In the process of rehabilitation all re
ceived general medical examinations to de
termine the extent of the disability and to
uncover any hidden disabilities 2040 re
ceived necessary medical or surgical services
1855 received hospitalization and those
needing them were supplied with artificial
limbs braces special shoes and hearing
aids Vocational training in schools shops
or through tutors or correspondence was
provided for those who required such ser
vices
During the year the Division accepted for
service a larger number of seriously handi
capped persons than ever before In this
group were many paraplegics who were sent
to noted rehabilitation centers for the most
modern type of medical treatment and train
ing
It is too early to make any comparisons
with other states but from preliminary in
formation available it is expected that Geor
gia again will rank near the top among
states in the total number of rehabilitations
during the year
Georgia citizens who received the benefit
of this service are employed on farms in
factories stores offices service enterprises
and public agencies Final figures on their
total estimated earnings during the first year
3200
3000
2800
2600
2400
2200
2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200 S
GEORGIA
15 YEARS OF PROGRESS
IN VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Number of cases 277l
CLOSED
REHABILITATED
Georgias vending stand program for the
blind last fiscal year shattered past records
in operators earnings merchandise sales
and number of units open
Reports for the year ended June 30 show
the total net earnings were approximately
71500 an increase of about 21000 over
the previous years business
The stands operated jointly by the Vo
cational Rehabilitation Division and the
after rehabilitation are not yet available
However it is known that they will reach
many millions of dollars and add substan
tially to the purchasing power in commun
ties throughout the state
Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind
Inc a nonprofit organization provide em
ployment for fortynine blind people In
dividual earnings range from 75 to 350
a month depending upon the experience of
the operator and the location of the stand
Total merchandise sales last year aggre
gated 400000 an increase of about 60000
over the previous years record Most of the
volume came from sales of soft drinks con
fections packaged foods and tobacco prod
ucts
The program was started five years ago
with one unit Now there are fortyfive in
operation seven new stands having been
opened last year They are located in public
buildings institutions and industriesOKc GoorcioVoooiCoivowV
Rehabilitation Aiws
Vol 6 JULYAUGUST 1952 No 9
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 1545
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
ABILITY COUNTS
For Employers
r employer What is your
attitude toward the employ
ment of physically impaired
workers
Do you believe every job in
your office store or factory
should be filled by someone with
out a physical disability
Do you measure applicants
qualifications by what they cant
do rather than by what they can
do
If you have rigid personnel
policies which automatically re
ject applicants who walk with a limp wear artificial appliances or have some
other physical impairment you are overlooking a rich source of productive
manpower
We invite your attention to the nictures stories and case records in this issue
of Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News
Records show that more physically impaired workers are employed in Ameri
can industry today than ever before
Experience proves that when properly trained and matched to jobs suited
to their limited activities they perform as well or better both from a productive
and safety standpoint than unimpaired workers in the same types of jobs
Doctors in industry are becoming increasingly aware that only three factors
need consideration in the placement of new workers 1 ability to do the job
2 safety off the job as related to their handicaps and 3 health of the
prospective employee for his own protection and that of others
Ready Willing and Able is the slogan adopted for this years observance
of National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week in October
Ready means applicants for jobs have had physical restoration services
surgery or treatmentif necessary to correct or reduce the disability It means
they have had vocational training if this service was needed to qualify them
for jobs
Willing means they have the right attitude toward the job They dont ex
pect special concessions because of any remaining physical impairment
Able means that the impairment which kept these men and women out
of jobs is no longer a vocational handicap It means they can measure up to
the job requirements and keep pace with production schedules
It has been observed that there are some physically sound people who have
the ability but not the willingness to work
If you Mr Employer have a vacancy in your organization get in touch with
the nearest Vocational Rehabilitation Office Se the office directory on this
page Our Counselors may be able to recommend someone who will fill the
bill
The front page shows the pictures of just a few rehabilitated workers who
have made good on various types of jobs
jram
Community Planning for the Handicapped is the theme adopted for the
annual conference of the National Rehabilitation Association October 1923
in Louisville Ky
Here is an outline of the professional programs
October 21 22 23Forenoons General sessions on Philosophy Principles
and Techniques of Community Planning for the Rehabilitation of the Handi
capped Each session will have a keynote address followed by a free wheeling
panel 5
October 21 Afternoon Section meetings on Personal Adjustment of the
Visually Handicapped Vocational Adjustment Aspects in Multiple Sclerosis
Rehabilitation of the Cardiac Mental Health and Epilepsy Evaluation of Re
habilitation of the Tuberculous Progress in Rehabilitation of Amputees
October 22Afternoon Section meetings on Professional Problems of Re
habilitation Counselor Current Trends in Legislation for the HandicappedICarly in June the case record of the 30
thousandth person rehabilitated under
Georgias program for handicapped civilians
was marked closedemployed
It took 31 years to reach that mark but
before the fiscal year ended on June 30
some 335 others had been added to the roll
of rehabilitants
How the Georgia program has grown is
illustrated by the fact that in 1921 the first
year of operation after the passage of the
National Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation
law 5 persons were restored to productive
jobs while last year 3194 were rehabilitated
Every year during the past decade the num
ber of rehabilitations has exceeded 2000 as
shown on the chart appearing elsewhere in
this issue of the Georgia Vocational Re
habilitation News
Among the closed case reports received
at the State Office on the day the record
passed the 30000mark was that of Newton
H Bartlett 33 formerly of Carroll County
now the owner of a little watch repair shop
at 398 Techwood Dr N E Atlanta He had
been in business for about a year but in line
with the policies of Vocational Rehabilita
tion the case was not closed until his
Counselor T G Loudermilk felt sure that
no further services would be needed
Five years ago Newton Bartlett a truck
driver living in a rural area was stricken
with arthritis His hips legs and neck were
so seriously impaired he was unable to
dress himself He was wholly dependent
upon others
When the disease had run its course it
was suggested that he come to Atlanta for
clinical treatment Through Vocational
Rehabilitation services arrangements were
made for physical therapy for a period of
six months and for needed surgery
Meanwhile tests were given to determine
his vocational choices and aptitudes It was
found that he had the necessary skill to
undertake the delicate work of watch re
pairing He was enrolled in the Atlanta
Watchmakers Trade School
For a while relatives accepted the re
sponsibility of transporting him from his
lodging place to the school and hospital
Then Mrs Bartlett decided to move to At
lanta and secure employment so that she
could maintain a home for her husband and
daughter
Bartlett made an outstanding record at
trade school In a progress report C E
Breeden the Director said He is very
honest reliable and a conscientious worker
His progress and work have met the stand
ards of the school
TopNewton H Bartlett at work in his watch repair shop in Atlanta
Lower panelAt home with Mrs Bartlett
Upon completion of the course he was
assisted by Vocational Rehabilitation in get
ting the necessary tools and shop fixtures
and in securing a suitable location for a
business His bench was made by students
at the North Georgia Trade and Vocational
School at Clarkesville
J B Hodges proprietor of the Techwood
Radio and Television shop at the same ad
dress on Techwood Drive says Bartlett is
one of the best watch repairers he has ever
seen
I have observed him from day to day
I would say he can do anything with any
kind of time piece And hes always in a
good humor and patient and courteous in
his dealings with customers he said
Bartlett asks for no aid in traveling be
tween his shop and home at 958 State St
N W but he still has to use crutches at
times and needs some assistance in putting
on his socks and lacing his shoes
He is deeply appreciative of the help given
him in regaining his economic independenceWin Honors in College
Top panel left to rightTwo officers of next years Student Council Peggy
Hale of Atlanta formerly of Thomaston Secretary and Clayton Doss of Rome
president Charles Chambers of Rossville rings bell to call classes
Second panelMembers of Student Council Twins Malcolm and Maurice Doss
brothers of Clayton Doss John Arrington of Shellman and Richard Brooks of
Clarkesville
Third panelEdward Patrick of Covington and Nellie Rogers of Rome members
of Alpha Honor Society Becky Stuckey of Columbus soloist in choir and Council
member and James Mariow of Winder who tied with another as the best allround
student was a member of the Council and served on the newspaper staff
Bottom panelGeraldine Smyth of Wildwood served on editorial staff William
A Tomlin competed in oratorical contest and Nona Gaines of Blytheville Ark
member of Council Ann Woods of Trion voted the wittiest girl
Twentynine physically impaired youth
enrolled at Young Harris College under a
distinctive scholarship plan last year made
outstanding records President Charles R
Clegg reports
Heres a summary of their achievements
All had averages of 60 or above in aca
demic subjects 6 were on the Deans list with
scholastic averages of 90 4 were on the
Honor Roll with scholastic averages of 85
6 were members of the Student Council 2
were members of the Supreme Court 5 were
members of the choirone a soloist 3 made
the Schubert Music Club 2 made the Dorcas
Club for outstanding achievements in all
phases of campus life 5 made the Spat Club
the mens leadership club of 13 members 2
qualified for the oratorical contest with six
speakers 5 served on the newspaper staff of
13 members 1 tied with another student as
the best allround student on the campus 2
were elected officers President and Secre
taryof the Student Council for next year
Our experience with rehabilitation stu
dents during the past two years shows that
their academic averages have been better
than that of the student body as a whole
President Clegg said
We have insisted that as little attention
as possible be paid to their physical dis
abilities They are encouraged to take part
in all activities on an equal basis with other
students Their presence on the campus is
an inspiration to all of us
Their outstanding accomplishments re
flect the thorough methods of Vocational
Rehabilitation Counselors in selecting them
for scholarships
Dean Robert T Andress said he had ex
perienced no problems in discipline with the
rehabilitation students
Twentyeight in the group were sponsored
by the Georgia Division of Vocational Re
habilitation
The unique scholarship plan grew out of
an endowment provided by Mr and Mrs
Scott B Appleby of Washington D C in
honor of their son Mr J Scott Appleby
who lost a hand in an accident in his boy
hood days Mr Scott B Appleby is Chair
man of the Board of Trustees of Young
Harris
The Appleby endowment produces an in
come of 5000 annually The original idea
was to provide 10 full scholarships for
physically impaired boys and girls who
otherwise coudnt enter college
President Clegg suggested to Mr Appleby
that the Divisions of Vocational Rehabilita
tion select and sponsor the students thus
making it possible for thirty instead of ten
to take advantage of the scholarships All
students are required to do some work to
help defray expenses They work in the
dining hall library or in other jobs for
which they may be suitedHere are some scenes in the
home of the Metropolitan As
sociation for the Colored Blind
at 293 Sunset Avenue N W
where an encouraging start has
been made in the development
of an adjustment center for
blind Negroes
Organized about eight years
ago the associations first quar
ters were in the basement of a
church at Courtland and Hous
ton streets With Community
Chest funds and private dona
tions the association later em
ployed a director and rented
quarters on St Mary street Not
long ago the property on
Sunset Avenue was bought and
it is reported is now nearly clear
of debt The Lions Club recently
gave the association a station
wagon for use in transporting
trainees between their homes
and the center
The present teaching program
covers such subjects as selfcare
travel and the fundamentals of
Braille handicraft chaircaning
rug making and home economics
The Vocational Rehabilitation
Division pays training fees for
a limited number of clients while
facilities are being developed If
the association can get funds to
remodel one building to provide
larger quarters and better train
ing facilities a larger number
of trainees could be enrolled
through the Divisions services
It is understood an effort is be
ing made to get the needed funds
through an Atlanta foundation
The top panel shows a class in
Braille From left to right they
are Helen Adams Hester An
derson Director P J Wood
Annie L Williams Bennie Price
and Douglas Hymes Through
the training received at the cen
ter Hester Anderson is able to
carry on her own household
duties Bennie Price worked on
a farm until he lost his sight
He probably will be placed in an
industry Douglas Hymes had
been homebound for seven years
following a saw mill accident
He was taught to travel unaided
given some vocational training
and placed on a job in a defense
plant
Center panel shows Hester
Anderson left and Mrs Es
telle Benn instructor in a home
economics class
Bottom panel shows Director
Wood left interviewing George
Bagwell
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Atlanta 3 Ga
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Miss Madeline Shuler trainer on the staff of the Georgia
Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc shows Robert W
Pharis how to organize merchandise stock and identify
items m the new Little Store on Young Harris campus
Kobert recently graduated with honors at the Georgia
Academy for the Blind at Macon enrolled in college on a
scholarship and helps to pay his way by working in the
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SEPTOCT 1952
No 10
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Problems of Aged Handicapped
CCTV eeping Older People Fit for Participation is the title of an article on
J which Miss Mary E Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Re
habilitation and Dr Howard A Rusk Chairman of the Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation New York UniversityBellevue Medical Center
collaborated in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science January 1952 issue
Here are some excerpts from the section on Vocational Rehabilitation
The FederalState Vocational Rehabilitation program is giving increased atten
tion to the aged handicapped person who could remain in or reenter the labor
force if provided coordinated service directed to his particular problem
Except for the program for Veterans with serviceconnected disabilities this is
the only public program of vocational rehabilitation This program serves all
segments of the population including the aged who are handicapped
Vast expansion of this program is needed however if we are to meet ade
quately the needs of the hundreds of thousands of disabled aged persons who are
with us today and who tomorrow will be with us in even greater numbers
There is urgent need for rehabilitation centers to provide coordinated restora
tive services for workshops for building work tolerance and providing useful
and productive employment for those who are not able to enter the competitive
labor market and for research to develop and test new techniques and methods
It is estimated that about ten percent of the current labor force at all age levels
has significant physical impairments that must be taken into consideration in
job placement
Using selective placement techniques in which the physical capacities of the
individual are matched against the physical demands of the job these less severely
handicapped individuals do not present great placement problems
The older person with a chronic disability however has two strikes against
him when he seeks employmenthis age and his disability
The experience of the FederalState Vocational Rehabilitation program has
shown that even disabled persons in the older age groups can become independent
wage earners if they are given proper services
In 1949 its agencies gave services to 12469 persons aged 4564 and 931
persons over 65 Prior to rehabilitation twothirds of this group were unem
ployed after their rehabilitation the average weekly earnings of the 4564 group
were about 35 and of the over65 group about 28
Although the great industrial concerns have thousands of jobs which older
persons can successfully perform we must remember that big business actually
hires only a fraction of American workers About 70 to 75 percent of the nations
workers are employed in the 99 percent of the industrial plants in the nation
which have fewer than 500 employees
It is to small industry commerce and the service trades that the great ma
jority of older workers must turn if they expect to be successful in finding new
jobs in competitive industry
The cover on this issue is a reproduction
of the poster designed for the 1952 National
Employ the Physically Handicapped pro
gram The poster depicts a qualified worker
in front of a lathe waiting for the signal
to go to work It was painted by David Boyd
of Leonia N J A free lance artist Boyd
was discharged as an Army captain after
four years of service in World War IItv ehabilitation is the watchword for
j the Welfare Departments new Aid
to the Permanently and Totally Disabled
Program Judge Alan Kemper Director of
the State Department of Public Welfare
said recently
We are working hand in glove with the
Georgia State Department of Education Di
vision of Vocational Rehabilitation and hope
to restore many people to usefulness and
productivity
Aid to the Permanently and Totally Dis
abled is the name of the new assistance pro
gram initiated by the State Department of
Public Welfare July 1 1952 It is jointly
financed by federal state and county funds
in the same ratio as Old Age Assistance and
Aid to the Blind
This program is designed to give money
assistance to persons who are diagnosed by
medical authority as being permanently and
totally disabled and who are unable to en
gage in any useful employment and who do
not have sufficient resources to meet their
basic needs and whose relatives are unable
to care for them Judge Kemper continued
Each and every applicant for this assist
ance program is screened very carefully for
the possibility of restoration of lost capaci
ties or retraining Assistance may be given
during the period of treatment by Vocational
Rehabilitation until the disabled person be
comes able to resume his place in the com
munitys economy
Through September 26 the Department
of Public Welfare has received 4914 appli
cations from disabled persons in the state of
Georgia Judge Kemper pointed out Of
this group 979 have been approved by the
State Department as eligible to receive as
sistance
Judge Kemper stressed that the program
is a very restrictive one and only those per
sons who are found to be permanently and
totally disabled by a thorough medical ex
amination and who are without resources
will be given assistance The maximum
amount a person can receive under the pro
gram is 55 a month and the average pay
ment is 35
Aid to the Permanently and Totally Dis
abled is administered by the local county
departments of public welfare in the same
manner that the Old Age Assistance Aid to
the Blind and Aid to Dependent Children is
administered Applications for this program
must be made to the local county depart
ments of public welfare Judge Kemper
stated that he did not expect the program to
exceed 8000 permanently and totally dis
abled persons in the state during the first
year of operation
AboveRehabilitation and Welfare leaders plan program for Per
manently and Totally Disabled Georgians Left to rightHarold
Parker Director of the Welfare Departments Division of Social Ad
ministration Dr M B Copeloff State Consultant Physician Dr
Paul S Barrett State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation and Mrs
Sophie Rucker Medical Social Work Supervisor They are shown
viewing a chart of 15 years of progress in Vocational Rehabilitation
at recent Savannah conference
AbovePersonnel managers discuss employment policies for handi
capped in industry at Savannah conference Left to rightBen P
Robinson Lockheed Aircraft Corp Marietta Carl McPherson Robins
Air Force Base Warner Robins and Frank Emerick Southern States
Iron Roofing Co Savannah See stories on pages 4 and 5
DR KESSLER HONORED
Dr Henry H Kessler orthopedic surgeon
and medical director of the Kessler Institute
for Rehabilitation at West Orange N J
will receive the first Physicians Award of
the Presidents Committee on Employment
of the Physically Handicapped The an
nouncement was made recently by President
Truman at the Presidents Committee meet
ing in WashingtonAboveOne of the most popular members of the Robins Air Force
Base family is pretty Estelle Spink A property and supply clerk
she is considered a competent and cooperative worker Loss of her
right arm when a little girl has never proved to be a real handicap
to this personable young woman
Left aboveCrippled at an early age by polio Georgia I Goodwin
is a mechanic in the Machine Shop Branch at Robins Though he
walks on crutches he operates a grinder or drill press and is regarded
as a steady worker Right aboveA senior Aircraft Sheetmetal
worker Noah F Norris does his job expertly with one good hand
and the efficient use of a prosthetic device in place of his left hand
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By Carl McPherson
Personnel Director Robins Field
Excerpts from address at Rehabilitation
Staff Conference
riTH the exception of the necessary
restrictions occasioned by Civil Ser
vice regulations our problem in employing
the handicapped are very similar to those
of any other large industrial plants With
some 15000 positions on the Base varying
from common laborer to highly skilled tech
nician and from file clerk to highlevel ad
ministrator we have a multitude of different
employment and environmental situations
Among these there are really only a few
exceptions in which a person with some
handicap cannot be placed in other words
rare is the job that requires an incumbent of
physical perfection The fact is then that
the problem of placing the physically handi
capped is like any other placement problem
it is a matter of finding a man or woman
who can adequately perform the duties of
the position As in all placement problems
the various factors involved in performing
the job must be known and fitted with a per
son who possesses all of those requirements
Our experiences in recruitment have de
veloped certain guidelines which we may
call the musts of this phase of our place
ment operation known as hirethehandi
capped
First we must not merely passively accept
the program as one imposed upon us by
higher authority we must recognize our
opportunity here and take active and aggres
sive steps to insure our full participation We
must reexamine our own attitude toward
the employment of the handicapped and rid
ourselves of any old prejudices about crip
ples or other derisive terms
Second we must thoroughly sell the same
idea and attitude to all of our supervisors
and operating officials We must see to it
that our daily comments and actions and
those of all supervisors are such that pre
judice shall be dissipated and all employees
shall fully accept handicapped people both
as fellowworkers and as supervisors
Third we must assist supervisors in exam
ining every operation of each position very
closely in order that we may segregate those
purely heavylabor functions that may be
performed separately by unskilled laborers
and that may permit the use of trained handi
capped persons in the skilled operations
Fourth we must study the continuing
possibilities of separating simple repetitive
operations that may be performed success
fully by employees with certain physical
handicaps Job simplification the break
down of a complex operation into several
simple operations requiring far less skill and
physical ability is a standard device of in
dustry to achieve mass production through
the use of a minimum of scarce highpriced
specialized technicians Though costly to
install the establishment of production lines
Continued on page 6i he handicapped worker is getting the
breaks at Lockheed Aircraft Corpora
tions Georgia Division where every employee
is placed according to his or her ability and
physical limitation
Out of the approximately 11000 persons
employed at Lockheed where B29s are be
ing modified and B47 Stratojets are being
produced for the Air Force some 750 have
some sort of handicap Fourteen of these
have one leg five one arm 10 are para
plegics 39 have heart ailments 169 impaired
vision and 141 hypertension
How are these handicapped persons fitted
into the business of building airplanes Lock
heed does it through its system of physical
limitation indexing Every handicapped
worker is classed according to his physical
limitation This limitation is marked on his
badge and he is given work accordingly
Some 33 handicaps are indexed and defined
For instance a class one handicapped em
ployee is not permitted to operate or work
around hazardous machinery a class two
employee is not permitted to work on jobs
requiring heavy lifting and others are given
jobs where no standing or walking is re
quired
We place a handicapped person where
he can earn a maximum amount of money
in his skill but where his handicap wont be
a hazard to either himself or other em
ployees said Ben Robinson personnel rep
resentative who handles the handicapped em
ployee program
We also make sure the job doesnt aggra
vate the employees physical condition he
added
Robinson said a plan is now underway
whereby the job openings will be screened
by the handicapped employee representatives
office before the job requests are sent to the
Lockheed employment office
Under this plan the handicapped worker
will actually get the first chance at a new
job opening Robinson said
It is also a Lockheed policy to give certain
seniority rights to some major handicaps
Plans are also underway for Lockheed to
submit a list of job openings to Vocational
Rehabilitation agencies at intervals so that
handicapped persons may apply directly for
jobs which they are suited The rehabilita
tion agencies also submit to Lockheed lists
of handicapped persons seeking employment
Lockheed will give a handicapped person
every chance to fit into its program and in
many cases give him a better break than
normal persons
As Lockheed increases its employment
figure and more repetitive job operations are
created additional openings for the handi
capped will be available Robinson said
AboveSam Dupree deaf mute of Atlanta is considered one of
the best employees in the sheet metal section at Lockheeds Georgia
Division plant Here he is shown forming a part for a B47 sixjet
bomber Handicapped persons are placed where they can earn a
maximum amount of money in their skill but where the handicap wont
be a hazard to either them or other employees
Above leftThe work area of James C Padgett of Cartersville
was fitted to his confinement in a wheel chair at Lockheeds Inspec
tion Records Department where he is a clerk Padgett received a
spinal injury in an automobile accident in 1941 He is completely
adapted to his job He drives his car to work
Right aboveRaymond Kell a precision grinder had onthejob
training after a train accident which resulted in the loss of both legs
I was an athlete before the accident and thought I had lost every
thing in life when I lost my legs but now I couldnt be happier
he says Kell drives a 115mile round trip to and from his home in
Rome each work dayYouth Conquers Handicaps
Reprint from Atlanta Journal
By Mrs J L Rowland
CHICKAMAUGA GaThe oneroom
watchmakers shop which has been opened
at the Shields Cross Roads on Highway 27
near Chickamauga is stocked with all of the
necessary tools of the watchmakers craft
except a chair at the work bench
The only chair in this shop is always occu
pied by the proprietor Bert Wallace 20
yearold son of Mr and Mrs E L Wallace
who is the watchmaker and repairman of
the shop
The chair leaves when Bert leaves for it
is the only means he has of getting around
At the age of 14 he was a husky broad
shouldered youth getting ready to enter the
Gordon Lee High School at nearby Chicka
mauga He loved sports and would doubt
less have been a star athlete if fate had not
decreed otherwise
Early one morning in August 1946 Bert
took his rifle and went to the nearby Chicka
mauga Creek to shoot squirrels In some
way his gun went off and the bullet struck
him in the spine paralyzing him below the
hips
For four years following the accident he
was a total invalid and it required two peo
ple to wait on him Today Bert is a business
man He drives his car goes to the movies
and ball games and is able to shift for
himself
His mother says he comes home some
nights past midnight parks his car and gets
into his room without waking any of the
family
After four years of being a helpless in
valid the change in Bert has left his family
somewhat awed To add to his misfortune
when he was sitting at his fathers filling
station some time after being paralyzed a
car came too close to his chair and struck
with such force that it broke his leg This
necessitated several weeks of treatment in
the Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga and
then to add to his trouble pressure sores
began to appear on his body Doctors said
that nothing could be done to heal the sores
and he became very uncomfortable
In the beginning someone suggested braces
and exercise but little was then known about
paraplegia and he spent most of his time in
bed or sitting in his wheel chair
Late in 1950 the Georgia Vocational Re
habilitation Center became interested in
Berts case County Agent Walter Hearn
Bert Wallace
and District Supervisor Donaldson advised
Berts parents to send him to the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation Technical School and
Rehabilitation Center at Fisherville Va The
state agency paid Berts fees and his father
paid for his room and board
With 49 other young men and women
crippled by disease and accidents Bert en
tered the technical division of the institute
and there he learned the watchmaker and
repair trade
But the change in Bert mostly took place
in the gymnasium and therapy rooms at
Woodrow Wilson The boy was immediately
sent to Richmond for plastic surgery which
healed the pressure sores In the gymnasium
and therapy rooms he developed the large
shoulder muscles and arm muscles he needed
to compensate for loss of the use of his limbs
He learned to manipulate a wheel chair
to make it a reasonable substitute for
walking
He was taught how to organize his bed
room how to operate a business how to
drive a car how to have fun again to bowl
and play basketball
When Bert returned home 20 months
later he advised his parents to build a ramp
up to the entrance of his bedroom and stand
back Then his father built the white cement
building which houses his new business
The authorities stocked it with tools and
Bert says that he is going to add jewelry to
his stock and hopes to have this addition by
Christmas
His parents were so confident of Berts
ability to shift for himself that they made
him a present of a car last year The car is
equipped with an automatic gear system and
Bert operates the accelerator and brake
pedals with his hands His mother said that
the car had probably done more than any
thing else to take the kinks out of Bert
Six years later after going through numer
ous operations and inestimable amount of
grief Bert is now on his own and is a busi
ness man
At Warner Robins
Continued from page 4
is proceeding wherever work loads warrant
and these production lines offer increasing
opportunities for placement of the handi
capped
Fifth we must constantly examine en
vironmental conditions to determine whether
it is feasible to remove or improve factors
that might be harmful to employees with
certain types of handicaps
Sixth at each step of this process of job
analysis we must examine and reexamine
physical requirements in terms of actual
physical efforts and hazards required by the
duties of the position
Finally in the selection process the physi
cal condition of handicapped persons being
considered for appointment or reassignment
must be appraised solely in relation to the
essential physical requirement of the job
Particular attention must be given to the
degree to which handicapped applicants or
employees have compensated for their im
pairments by the development of special
skills or methods by the sharpening of un
impaired senses or by the use of prosthetic
devices
That we are successful in the program is
illustrated by the following figures 108
percent of our male work population are
handicapped people as are 38 percent of
female workers This means that one out
of every nine men on the base is handi
capped
Is there a job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business Do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere
If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a repre
sentative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever
NameAddress
Business
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaAfter being confined to a wheel
chair for several years as the result
of paralysis from a gunshot wound
Atlantas John Mitchell right is
on his feet again though he has
to walk with the aid of crutches
He is one of a number of para
plegics who have been sent by the
Vocational Rehabilitation Division
to Emory Hospital New York Uni
versity Rehabilitation Center and
Tuskegee Rehabilitation Center for
special treatment A tile setter by
trade Mitchell probably will have
to change his vocation His condi
tion has improved to such an extent
that he soon will be ready for train
ing At top he is shown before and
after receiving treatment
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Another Atlanta man who re
ceived similar services is Herbert
Hoover Marshall who was para
lyzed from the waist down from an
accidental gunshot wound while
standing on a street corner talking
to friends In the center picture he
is shown boarding a plane for New
York At right he is shown after
receiving treatment but still wear
ing braces and using crutches He
had worked as a furniture refin
isher and truck driver Now he is
enrolled in a tailoring school and
upon completion of the course will
be placed in a suitable job
ft ft ft
Plastic surgery provided through
Vocational Rehabilitation services
corrected John Lanes harelip In
the pictures below he is shown be
fore and after surgery Lane is a
laborer on St Simon Island near
Brunswick
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Georgia Department of Education
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Atlanta 3 Ga
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Just about the best warehouseman I
have says a top Robins Air Force Base
Official about William E Chambers Jr
shown at left This member of the Robins
force performs a difficult twohanded
job without part of his right arm Cham
bers also gets the best of his handicap
outside the Base for he is an avid fisher
man and hunter as well as an amateur
photographerSee story on Page 4t

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Attractive Lyndal Sims of Winder Rt 2 left below was disabled
by a foot deformity She was assisted with training at the Athens
Business College and is now employed as a cashier in a furniture store
For about ten years after losing
his legs in a railroad accident
Hamilton L Sharpe of Toombs
County crawled on knees fitted
with pads
Once or twice during this period
he tried unsuccessfully to wear ar
tificial appliances He says he
couldnt learn to walk up or down
steps at home or in factories
Through Vocational Rehabilita
tion services Mr Sharpe attended
the amputee clinic at Emory after
surgery on his stumps There he
was taught how to use artificial
limbs and care for his stumps
He is shown at left with Miss
Beatrice Vlahos therapist taking
his first steps on his new legs The
other picture shows him as he is
today Mr Sharpe says he now has
no trouble walking but still feels
he is on top of a ten story build
ing after being so close to the
ground for many years
He has worked as a farmer
caulker and welder in ship yards
He expects to get a job in a defense
plant after a refresher course in
welding or some other trade
An attack of infantile paralysis
left J D Nunnally Jr of Winder
center below with a useless left
leg at 8 months of age After com
pleting high school he was assisted
in special training at the Athens
Business College Now 22 he is
employed by the Athens Concrete
Products Co
Attractive Katie A Murphy of
Austell also had polio She too
was assisted with a business course
and now is happily and profitably
employed in a large manufacturing
establishment in Atlanta
Pretty Miss Beats Handicap
By CONSTANCE PILKINTON
Reprint from Columbus LedgerEnquirer
slim attractive young woman pirou
etted around the room twirling her
full skirt and said
How do you like it I made it myself
pattern and all
Nothing to that you think Except that
Betty Staude has no fingers
BETTY WAS born without fingers and
with only one thumb Today after 12 opera
tions she has the equivalent of the first
joint where most people have fingers
Its not really a handicap when you know
what Betty can do This 25year old house
wife has been making most of her own
clothes since she was in the seventh grade in
Charlotte N C She keeps house has had
all kinds of jobs and likes sports espec
ially bowling
But she found out that no one wanted to
give her the job she wanted mostthat of
photographers assistant
I WANTED to do something creative
1 thought photography would be best suited
to my talents says Betty
This week as the nation is observing Na
tional Employ the Handicapped Week Betty
is beginning training as a photographers as
sistant in the Gough Studio 2314 Wynnton
Rd She got her opportunity through the
Vocational Rehabilitation division of the
State Department of Education when all
other efforts she made to get a job failed
While some people might think that Betty
Staude is handicapped she doesnt think
so and she certainly isnt asking for any
special attention
What gets me are those people who think
that because theres something wrong with
you physically there is something wrong
mentally too she said
I GOT tired of people who took a look
at my hands and began acting as if I had
the mind of a 10yearold child
It happened all too often she said when
she had a selling job in a department store
There was one phrase I heard over and
over I still hear some variation of it at least
once a week Its usually in a pitying tone
that someone says
Lack of fingers is no longer a handicap for Betty Staude of Co
lumbus left shown on the job in photo studio
What a lovely face you have to be crip
pled like that
IT USED to make Betty mad she said but
now she doesnt think about it much
When she sought help from the Vocational
Rehabilitation division in getting photo
graphic training appitude tests showed that
she had already selected her best field She
scored highest in the artistic division lowest
in the business and selling field I hate office
work she admitted
She is enthusiastic about this fresh oppor
tunity and for learning how to develop print
and retouch pictures She also hopes to learn
all about cameras but past experience she
said is limited to a Brownie
AS FOR getting a job later Betty is not
worried This is something I always wanted
and I believe Ill do all right said Betty
Besides employers know from experience
that physically handicapped men and women
are perfectly capable of doing excellent work
in many jobs
At Fort Benning for instance the assistant
chief of civilian personnel reported that
about 50 physically handicapped persons are
presently employed on the post
H A RINISLAND pointed out that many
people unable to move about actively are
capable of doing office work
The efficiency of production standards is
not lowered in any way when we hire handi
capped persons he said In fact it seems
that most handicapped people do better work
than if they werent handicapped
Editors NoteThis article appeared dur
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Vol 6
NOVDEC 1952
No 11
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
The Job Ahead
At the beginning of the present fiscal year on July 1 there were 7786 per
sons listed on the Divisions roll of active cases
They had been interviewed by Counselors examined by physicians found
eligible for services and were on the road to rehabilitation into employment
On the same date some 5000 other applicants were being investigated before
acceptance for services
These figures give a pretty good idea of the size of the problem confronting
Vocational Rehabilitation workers in the months ahead
By the end of the fiscal year on June 30 upward of 4000 or more of those
now on the rolls will be at work in suitable jobs
But others will take their places on the Divisions rolls
What kinds of impairments bar these men and women from employment
To throw more light on this question we made an analysis of the 7786 cases
by disabilities
It was found that almost every type of physical or mental impairment that
would constitute a vocational handicap was represented in the records of these
cases
The largest group944had impairments of the lower extremitieships
legs feet and ankles Twentynine of them were paralyzed from the waist down
The next largest group 459 were blind in both eyes It was found that 345
others were blind in one eye and 450 had other visual defects
The third largest group was made up of persons recovering from pulmonary
tuberculosis There were 404 cases of this type on the rolls
Some other types of disabilities were
Amputation or congenital absence of lower extremities 393 hernia 355 back
or spine deformity or impairment 315 mental diseases 306 impairments of
upper extremities 304 hard of hearing 207 heart ailments 192 amputation or
congenital absence of upper extremities 162 multiple impairments of upper and
lower extremities 156 neck and head impairments 112 deaf 95 epilepsy 94
speech defects 92 arthritis 86 facial disfigurements 53 diabetes 39 chest de
formity or injury 16 multiple amputation of upper and lower extremities 14
and dwarf 7
It was found that some 2361 had conditions arising from diseases other than
those listed in the major categories
Help Fight TB
Cover
The 1952 Christinas Seal central design
in the TB poster reproduced on the cover
was painted by artist Tom Darling of Am
ityville Long Island N Y Mr Darling ex
plained that he simply drew the double
barred cross emblem of the 3000 tubercu
losis associations sponsoring the seal sale
then added a secondary motifthe lighted
candle in its oldfashioned candle holder
to stress that this symbol has meant light
and hope to the millions afflicted with tu
berculosis
Buy Christmas SealsImprovements At Blind School
The Building Authority for the Academy
for the Blind and the School for the
Deaf meeting in Macon recently approved
improvement projects for the white blind
school estimated to cost 196814
This is another step in the program under
taken earlier in the year to modernize the
schools at Macon and Cave Spring which
serve the educational and vocational needs
of Georgias handicapped children
The new projects were authorized after an
inspection of buildings and equipment at the
school for white blind children A new
school for Negroes is being constructed on
a new tract of land just east of Macon And
an extensive building program for the white
and Negro schools for the deaf at Cave
Spring is under way
Some of the improvements to be made to
the main building at the Academy in Macon
include painting interior and exterior re
finishing or recovering floors replacing worn
out window sills and sashes new gutters and
down spouts repairs to stairways and out
Building authority plans improvements at Georgia Academy for the
Blind Front row from left Denmark Grover Jr Macon Andrew W
McKenna Macon J Douglas Carlisle Macon Mrs Ellamae League
Macon architect and Paul S Barrett Vocational Rehabilitation Director
Back rowF G Nelms Superintendent of the Academy W M Weaver
Jr Macon authority Secretary Robert L Scoggins Rome Vicechair
man and H Grady McSpadden Rome Chairman One member of the
Authority John Harris Jr was absent when this picture was made
side steps installing new lighting facilities
installing additional bathroom facilities re
modeling the old gymnasium into a library
room installing modern laundry equipment
and providing some new equipment for the
kitchen home economics department com
merce department woodworking shop music
department physical science laboratory and
playgrounds
Poultry raising is recognized as a suitable
vocation for blind persons especially those
reared in rural communities But there are
no facilities for teaching poultry raising at
the school Under the schedule adopted by
the building authority four brooder houses
will be built and equipped to fill this gap in
the instruction program
The authority also authorized the con
struction of residence for the Superintendent
At present the Superintendent and his family
occupy an apartment in the main building
Other authorized items were rearrange
ment of the Superintendents office to provide
office space for the school principal pur
chase of a new bus for the white school en
largement of parking space in front of the
main building additional furniture for child
rens dormitories and additional classroom
desks
The accompanying map shows the dis
tribution by counties of the 3194 men
and women rehabilitated into employ
ment last year It will be noted that resi
dents of every county except Chattahoo
chee were assisted by Vocational Reha
bilitation in regaining their economic
independence The previous year 3 per
sons in Chattahoochee were rehabilitatedChristinas Seal Sale Goal Set
Help Fight TB
A 275000 goal has been
set for the 1952 Christ
mas Seal Sale to help fi
nance the crusade against
tuberculosis
Carl Fox of Atlanta
Executive Secretary of
the Georgia Tuberculosis
Association the sponsor
ing agency in this state
says this years goal is
20000 more than the amount received last
year
A special effort is being made to have
the seals used by the purchasers he said
Buy
Christmas Seals
The use of seals on letters cards and
Christmas packages has a great educational
value Thousands of people would be disap
pointed if they did not receive seals each
year he said
Last year about 95 of all the funds
raised through seal sales were collected
through the mails Mr Fox said it is hoped
that this year or next 100 of the funds
will be raised through mail sales
The establishment of a rehabilitation cen
ter in Georgia for tuberculosis cases is one
of the objectives of the Georgia TB Associa
tion and the public health authorities he
said One problem yet to be solved is that
of finding a suitable location for such a cen
ter
Tuberculosis is our Number One health
problem in Georgia Mr Fox said It will
continue as such for many years unless some
drug is developed which will sure the disease
There are many drugs which aid in the treat
ment but none has been found which could
be considered a cureall
The Vocational Rehabilitation Division
cooperates with health agencies in aiding per
sons with arrested tuberculosis to return
to suitable jobs
There are now about 400 TB cases on the
Divisions rolls and upward of 100 are re
habilitated annually
Life With Broilers
Although he has only ten percent vision
in the better eye R B Moon 54 of Snell
ville Rt 1 is well on the way to success
raising broilers for market
His transition from general farming to
poultry raising was made possible through
the cooperative efforts of Vocational Re
habilitation forces and community agencies
When Mr Moon lost his sight from an in
fection following an operation for cateracts
the broiler project offered a means by which
he could earn a living without leaving his
little farm home
The question of funds for materials for
the brooder house was solved by a loan from
the Federal Security Administration The
County Agent Roy Garrett the Vocational
Agriculture teacher R D Head and the
principal of Snellville High School W C
Britt assisted in planning the building and
given Mr Moon guidance in growing broil
ers
The construction work was done by Mr
Moons friends and neighbors with his as
sistance Vocational Rehabilitation furnished
the needed equipment
The modern cement block house accom
modates 5000 chickens Mr Moon lost only
156 chicks out of the first flockan ex
tremely good record in the broiler business
He is happy in his new vocation and grate
ful to those who aided in getting a fresh
start in life
R B Moon and Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor W H Fargason
right inspect a 9weeks old broiler BelowA general view of Mr
Moons modern broiler house
Shown here are two Winder bar
bers who received training through
Vocational Rehabilitation services
John H Osborne 34 was pro
vided with surgery to straighten
his left leg which was drawn at the
knee With a builtup shoe he has
no trouble standing Hes employed
at Camps shop serving white pa
trons
Claude Gray 42 right had
been crippled by arthritis for about
twenty years After training he
was able to work until about two
years ago Surgery helped to im
prove his condition and he is back
on the job in his own shop
With an artificial limb Oscar
Glover of Savannah shown in two
pictures below has no trouble in
shoveling coal operating a con
veyor or doing other jobs on the
Savannah Coal Wood yards
where he has been employed since
1919 except for a short time after
he lost his leg about ten years ago
Roosevelt Brown 17 of Hephzibah Rt 1 below in wheel chair is paralyzed from his waist down as the result
of a gunshot wound in the spine After receiving some services from the Crippled Childrens Division of the Welfare
Department he was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation He is shown with his father just before leaving for New
York for treatment at the N Y Medical Center
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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Blind since birth William T Limerick 26 operates the new vending stand in the U S Engineers Building in
Savannah under the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc Bill as he is known to friends received pre
vocational training at the North Georgia Trade Vocational School Clarkesville He operated a stand in the Sa
vannah City Hall until the new stand was opened recently

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An Atlanta fireman for 9 years
Albert Trotzier 53 left above lost
his leg under a falling scaffold He
learned motor repairs in the Atlanta
Outboard Marine shop 192 Broad
St SW Vocational Rehabilitation
aided him in obtaining the necessary
tools for a permanent job in the
shop
Cloyce Thompson of Colbert
above suffered a weak leg from a
childhood accident and received
treatment and surgery through the
Crippled Childrens Division of the
Department of Public Health
Through Vocational Rehabilitation
services he was aided in a business
course at an Athens school He had
an outstanding scholastic record
While in school he worked parttime
for an Athens wholesale seafood firm
He has been employed in the office
of the same firm for more than a
year and has had several promotions
For years before he lost his sight J M McDuffie 36 of Macon left in
center panel was an automobile mechanic Now he is building up a business
of his own as carburetor and distributor rebuilder in a little shop at 626 Shi
Place His eyes were injured by shattered glass while working on a car Voca
tional Rehabilitation aided him with equipment and readjustment guidance
Deaf since birth Hubert L Rainey 37 right in center panel is regarded
as a competent stock clerk at The W H Gossard Companys Atlanta branch
He knows his job and performs it well says J M Harding credit manager
Rainey attended the Tennesese School for the Deaf at Knoxville
Before being referred to the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Mrs Dorothy
M Bryant of Comer left had undergone extensive surgery for mastoid
She was left with a marked loss of hearing She was assisted with a secretarial
course and hearing aid On completion of the training she was placed as
stenographer at the University Press in Athens where she has been employed
since August 1952Makin
in Garment Industry
Physically handicapped women are
competing successfully with their un
impaired sisters in Georgias fast
growing garment industry
The deaf the hardofhearing the
homebound and those with other dis
abilities are operating power machines
and filling other types of jobs in fac
tories in metropolitan centers and
small towns
In some plants the job requirements
include good use of hands normal eye
sight and the ability to follow instruc
tions either oral or written
In other plants the machines are
controlled by pedals or levers which
require the operator to have good use
of the lower limbs in addition to man
ual skill and fair intelligence
Those employing the homebound
arrange for the delivery of cut gar
ments to the workers home and the
collection of the finished products
Georgia plants are making a wide
range of garments from overalls and
work clothes to highquality nation
allyadvertised suits coats and dresses
The Keystone Manufacturing Co in
Atlanta employs two young deaf
women in the Marietta street plant and
has about fiftyfive homebound work
ers on the payrolls
General Manager I H Shaw says
he is well pleased with the production
records of these employees On the
day the pictures on this page were
made Gloria Wagnon was making
baby diaper covers known as Cutie
Panti
The Fitzgerald plant of the Monarch
Manufacturing Co employs two deaf
girls After a few weeks breakin
training Patsy Ruth Baker and Frances
Jane Cox were able to make produc
tion
Manager A F Nelson said he had
some experience with physically im
paired workers before going to Fitz
gerald The services of the two Geor
gia girls he said have been entirely
satisfactory In fact he is enthusiastic
over the idea of giving such workers
employment opportunities
The floorwoman he said experi
ences little trouble in communicating
instructions to the girls And the girls
being unable to hear are not distracted
by noises which sometimes draw the
attention of other employees
Some of the women employed in
garment factories have had training in
vocational schools Others are allowed
a period for breakin training or em
ployed under a learners certificate
Hearing and speech impediments no longer bar Gloria Wagnon left from
profitable employment After breakin training the Greensboro girl makes pro
duction on a power machine in an Atlanta garment and auto seat cover plant
Standing by her is Mrs Cora Johnson floorwoman at Keystone Manufacturing Co
A widow Mrs Georgia Bridges right sews garments in her home for the same
manufacturer although she wears an artificial limb She also keeps house for a
working daughter and grandchild
Deaf since early childhood Patsy Ruth Baker 20 left of Tifton Rt 5
graduated from the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring in 1951 Her
production is betterthanaverage at the Monarch Manufacturing Companys Fitz
gerald plant Shown with her is A F Nelson plant manager Frances Jane Cox
right 19 of Ocilla Rt 1 has a similar disability She also graduated at Cave
Spring in 51 and after a few weeks training has been able to meet production
standards Shown with her is Mrs Ruth Jordan floorwomanDKc 6corcioVoccotc
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Vol 6
JANFEB 1953
No 12
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Buy Easter Seals
Georgias 1953 Easter Seal campaign to
aid crippled children will begin March
9 and extend through Easter Sunday April
5 under general chairmanship of Fred J
Turner of Atlanta President of Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company
The campaign sponsored annually by
the Georgia Society for Crippled Children
is part of the nationwide effort of the Na
tional Society for Crippled Children and
Adults and its affiliated chapters in 48 states
Hawaii and Alaska
This years seal sale is geared to provide
funds for treatment and education of 100000
handicapped children in Georgia Mr Turner
points out that only a comparative few are
now receiving aid in the necessarily limited
facilities of existing public and private
agencies
There is absolutely no duplication with
Easter Seal funds We are simply trying to
reach out and broaden the base so that more
of our crippled children may be fitted for
useful happy and selfsufficient futures Mr
Turner said
How and where are they treated In centers established throughout the state
and through cooperation of local community leaders Eight centers are already
in operation More will be set up as more funds are available
Teachers from public schools keep crippled children abreast of their studies
Doctors and therapists give needed treatments Parents are taught to understand
fully the problems of their handicapped children and to continue the treatments
at home
Anyone can refer a crippled child to the Easter Seal Society for help It seeks
out children who need care not given by other agencies public or private A state
survey is being made to locate these crippled children and determine their needs
As we have pointed out before every crippled child is a potential vocational
rehabilitation client If their disabilities are corrected before they are 16 they
may not need the services of this Division in later life
Increased Easter Seal money will help do the job

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Heres a scene in the watch repair
class at North Georgia Trade Vo
cational School Clarkesville See
the pretty coeds the first girls to
be enrolled there In the wheel
chairs from left to right Richard
Marable Watkinsville Joe Marlow
Baxley Helen Wood Atlanta and
Jerry Bruce HempLfltf

For nearly a year James Wigley was bedridden with paralysis resulting from an automobile accident that nearly
took his life Until that fateful day in November 1950 he had worked as a doffer in an Aragon textile mill and pro
vided for his wife and several children Through Vocational Rehabilitation services Wigley was sent to a New York
rehabilitation center for treatment and returned home able to stand with the aid of braces and crutches Now he is
enrolled in the shoe repair class at North Georgia Trade and Vocational School Clarkesville Upon completion of the
course he will be assisted in establishing his own business in Aragon The center picture shows him standing in a
speciallydesigned walker attached to a track on the buffing machine At right he is shown running a stitcher with a
lever attachment operated by pressure from the body
Paralyzed since infancy Roy Meeks 21 of Bremen Rt 1 learns to meet the problems of daily living through
treatment and training at an Atlanta physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic At left he is shown struggling to
through the Crippled Childrens Division of the Department of HealthTop left
At 31 Vaugh Allen who has an
arm and leg impairment resulting
from a disease has reached a goal
which long seemed beyond his ca
pabilities With training and equip
ment provided through Vocational
Rehabilitation services he operates
a shoe repair and leather craft shop
in Demorest Despite the lack of
early educational opportunities Al
len managed to complete the shoe
repair course at the North Georgia
Trade Vocational School Clarkes
ville Then he was guided into the
little business enterprise
Allen has developed unusual skill
in leather craft With scrap leather
he fashioned a handbag which he
sold for enough money to pay for
material for two bags The pro
ceeds from the sale of the two bags
went into the purchase of a used
car for transportation between his
home and shop He also makes belts
dog collars and other leather arti
cles
An automobile accident in 1951
left Leonard Burdette of Fayette
ville paralyzed from the waist
down He received treatment at
Fayetteville and Atlanta hospitals
and was sent to a New York re
habilitation center through Voca
tional Rehabilitation services Now
he is in the shoe repair class at
North Georgia Trade Vocational
School Here he is shown standing
in a walker designed for the use
of paralyzed students Stitching
machines usually are operated with
pedals This machine is equipped
with a metal bar extending from
the pedal to a point near the base
of the plantform A crossbar at
the head of this device makes it
possible for the student to operate
the machine with pressure from his
body
Attactive Gladys J Bruce of
Hemp is one of two young women
now enrolled in the watch repair
class at Clarkesville Stricken by
polio in infancy she is still con
fined to a wheel chair Jerry as
she is called by friends had earlier
training in weaving but prefers
working with watches to anything
else she has ever attempted
A high amputation of his leg following a disease makes it impracticable
for Robert Huddleston left above of Ben Hill to wear an artificial limb
Benchwork was indicated as a vocational objective He is shown here receiving
on the job training in carburetor distributor and generator repair With him
is F M Kutscher proprietor of Carburetor Distributor Rebuilders 3731
Campbellton RoadOne of the most attractive vend
ing stands for the blind in the state
opened recently in the new Hughes
Spalding Pavilion at Grady Hos
pital in Atlanta Plans and specifi
cations for it were included in the
designs for the building It has
tiled walls and counter and a handy
storeroom The operator shown
serving a nurse is Oselka Stanfiejd
who formerly operated the unit in
the Scripto Manufacturing Co
plant
Shown at right are three trainees
under the Vocational Rehabilitation
program enrolled at the Atlanta
Tailoring School Disabled by polio
at 3 Louise Watson inset 26
graduated from Booker Washing
ton High School Atlanta Although
she has an impairment of the right
arm and leg Louise keeps up with
her work in designing cutting and
power machine operation Shown in
the wheel chair is Herbert H
Marshall who was paralyzed from
the waist down as the result of an
accidental gunshot wound Before
entering training he was sent to
a New York rehabilitation center
for treatment Twentyyearold Joe
Dye right of Atlanta was en
rolled for training after being dis
charged from Battey State Hos
pital The instructor standing is
Harvey Johnson
Seven of the first ten blind per
sons placed in vending stands under
the Vocational RehabilitationGeor
gia Cooperative Services for the
Blind program inaugurated in 1945
are still working in these retail
outlets
One operator died Two of the
first ten units were set up on a
temporary basisone at an army
installation and the other for
training purposesand have been
closed The operators were trans
ferred to other stands
This record offers another bit of
evidence that handicapped persons
properly trained and placed are
dependable workersDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
129 State Office Building
Atlanta 3 Ga
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Athens Ga
Another vending stand has been added to the chain operated by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the
Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc This unit is on the ground floor between the post office swing
rooms in the Federal Annex Atlanta It provides canteen service to about 1500 employees Operators are Her
man Nesbitt Mableton left and Tom Taylor Atlanta Shown at the coffee urn is Leon Hall assistant supervisor
of operations of the vending stand program
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Referred to Vocational Rehabilita
tion by Rossville High School faculty
members Bobby Green a victim of
congenital spastic paralysis was
guided into a successful career as flor
ist and greenhouse operator At 25
he is the proud proprietor of the mod
ern florist shop shown above He was
provided with onthejob training in
nearby establishments Rev L W
Blackwell a local minister who was
interested in a florist shop venture in
Rossville abandoned the idea when he
heard Bobby was considering entering
the same field and cooperated with
Rehabilitation Counselors in assisting
the young man At left above Bobby
is shown arranging his Easter display
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After recovering from tuberculosis
Vernon Smith 39 left center was
assisted by Vocational Rehabilitation
in launching a broiler project on his
farm near Ringgold Starting in 1951
with one brooder house he now has
two modern houses capable of accom
modating 7500 chicks He has accumu
lated enough capital to enable him
to buy feed and chicks to best advan
tage
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Paralyzed from his waist down as
the result of an automobile accident
in 1950 Vincent Bagwell 21 was as
sisted by Vocational Rehabilitation in
treatment at a New York rehabilita
tion center and training at the Wood
row Wilson Center at Fisherville Va
He is now employed as watch repairer
by Bonds Jewelry Store in Calhoun
Before the accident Vincent attended
Gordon County schools
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In spite of a spinal deformity twentyfouryearold Kinney Young left
completed onthejob training in the upholstery trade at Fricks Furniture Co
Rome and is employed in the same shop His training was made possible through
Vocational Rehabilitation services
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Hire the Handicapped
Its Good BusinessWins Georgia Essay Contest
Eighteenyearold Alice Hatton of 961
Linam Ave SE Atlanta a Senior at
Hoke Smith High School has been awarded
first place in the Georgia essay contest
sponsored by the State Committee of the
Presidents Committee on the Employment
of the Handicapped
Her essay on The Physically Handi
cappedA National Asset has been sent
to Washington for entry in the National
competition for 2000 in cash prizes
After the award was made it was learned
that Alice has a heart ailment which may
make her eligible for Vocational Rehabili
tation services This fact accounts in part
at least for her interest in the subject
Alice has made an outstanding record
at Hoke Smith High
All As said her English teacher Char
lie L S Bird
No said AliceI did get one B
At any rate her average is reported as
well above 94
When asked about her plans for the fu
ture Alice replied I hope to be a mis
sionary
Her essay was the first choice of the
judges after evaluating scores of entries from
11th and 12th grade students in high schools
throughout the state
It is impossible in the limited space
available to reprint the entire essay But
we do want to quote a few paragraphs
Our physically handicapped do not want
to be classified as liabilities They desire
to be great national assets But this can
be only accomplished with the help of all
Essay contest winner Alice Hatton left above reviews her script with her
teacher Charlie L S Bird at Hoke Smith High School Atlanta
normal citizens By helping the handicapped
normal citizens show their appreciation to
God for physical fitness
We can help the handicapped by trying
to establish a Spirit of equality Our duty
is to react to them understandingly but
without sentiment or morbid curiosity
Employers can play a major part in the
rehabilitation of handicapped people by
employing them whenever possible If we
are to cultivate these assets we must have
organized effort
We can only make our liabilities into
assets with everyones help Because of
their talents and personality traits the handi
capped can advance and we can profit May
we be truly inspired to use one of our
greatest assetsthe physically handicapped
Other successful contestants were Sec
ondJune Brasher a student at Jordan
Vocational High School Columbus Third
Eddie Thomas Jr Oconee High School
Dublin FourthPhyllis Borochoff Rome
Senior High School Rome All will receive
appropriate certificates signed for the
President
Egyptian Visitor
Ali Abdelghaffer of Cairo Egypt Direc
tor of the Rehabilitation Office in the Min
istry of Social Affairs recently spent two
weeks in Georgia under a United Nations
Fellowship studying the States Vocational
Rehabilitation program
Egypts services for handicapped persons
was inaugurated less than three years ago
While in Georgia he had an opportunity
to get an insight into administrative pro
cedures and methods of providing services
to the disabled through utilization of com
munity facilities such as schools rehabilita
tion centers sheltered work shops pros
thetic appliance shops and employment
agencies
He visited several local offices of the
Division the North Georgia Trade Voca
tional School at Clarkesville Battey State
Hospital and other institutions He said
he was amazed at the scope and extent of
vocational rehabilitation services in Geor
gia
Mr Abdelghaffer expected to spend about
three months in the United States and then
go to Canada and Scandinavian countries
before returning to his post in Cairo
Ali Abdelghaffar Director of Rehabilitation in Egypts Ministry of Social
Affairs left gets an insight into Georgias administrative methods in rehabilita
tion through a conference with John S Prickett Jr Assistant Director in charge
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Vol 7 MARCHAPRIL 1953 No 1
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
For High Schools
As the high school commencement season approaches we want to remind
superintendents principals and teachers to review their Senior class rolls
with a view to referring to Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors all students
who have physical impairments which may be vocational handicaps
If after medical examinations the students are found eligible for services
they will be offered scholarships for professional or technical training in the
colleges of their choice They will not have to meet the economic need test
to qualify for college training We want to put them on the road to useful
lives despite their disabilities
It should be remembered that all vocational handicaps are not visible
There are some such as heart conditions which can be determined only by
medical examinations by specialists in the field of the disability And frequently
these hidden disabilities are more serious than those which may be seen such
as impairments of limbs or eyes
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors always welcome opportunities to
interview high school Seniors who may be potential clients of this Division
They will arrange for medical examinations usually by qualified physicians in
the local community give aptitude tests counsel and guidance in the selection
of suitable vocational objectives and assist with enrollment in the appropriate
educational institution
Currently there are more than 200 students including 18 blind who are
enrolled in colleges under scholarships provided through Vocational Rehabili
tation services As a rule they are maintaining high scholastic records and
taking part in student activities
Many of Georgias most prominent citizens were helped in the beginning
by Vocational Rehabilitation services You will find them in the professions
in business in industry and other fields They are making a substantial con
tribution to the progress and prosperity of the state
We want to aid all handicapped young persons seeking college careers
School administrators and faculty members can help them and us by
communicating with the nearest Vocational Rehabilitation office A directory
of local offices appears on this page
hobilitalioi Vews
Attractive Ann Guscio of 2367
Westminster Way N E Atlanta
center impaired by polio learns
of Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices through Principal S E Goble
of DeKalb Countys Druid Hills
High School left and Vocational
Rehabilitation Counselor J J Se
gars Ann graduates this year and
probably will go on to a college
career She is popular with faculty
members and student body and has
made an outstanding recordVocational Rehabilitation Counselors in
the Southeast in recent years have held what
is termed the annual caseoftheyear con
test in which they submit for evaluation
by a committee of judges the records of
cases best illustrating rehabilitation tech
niques
Every year each state in the region enters
two case history reportsone on a sighted
rehabilitant and another on a blind person
From these entries the best two cases in
the Southeast are selected at the annual
conference and the Counselors who served
them are awarded appropriate articles
The idea is to present the best examples
of the use of counseling skills community
facilities and rehabilitation resources The
cases selected for awards in the states and
region are not necessarily those involving
the most seriously handicapped persons
The Georgia Counselors whose cases were
selected this year for entry in the regional
competition were T G Loudermilk of At
lanta and W L Flanagan of Macon
Counselor Loudermilks report covered
the services provided for Isom Lee of Fel
ton a farmer who was disabled for three
years by an ulcerated stomach aided in
getting necessary surgery and guided into
a successful broiler business Counselor
Flanagans report covered the assistance
provided for Miss Audrey Moye of Ham
ilton a graduate of the Georgia Academy
for the Blind now employed as typist with
Federated Mutual Insurance Agency At
lanta The individuals were not identified
until the awards were announced
At the suggestion of Counselor Nathan
Nolan of Athens Chairman of the Geor
gia committee two prominent Athens busi
nessmen John Stiles hotel chain operator
and Lewis P Chick blind attorney and
head of Chick Piano Co donated appro
priately inscribed plaques to be presented
to the two Georgia Counselors
The presentation ceremonies were held
April 6 following a luncheon at the Geor
gian Hotel in Athens At the request of
the donors of the plaques H B Cummings
Regional Representative Office of Voca
tional Rehabilitation made the presentation
Mr Lee the subject of Counselor Louder
milks report attended the ceremonies and
expressed profound gratitude to Vocational
Rehabilitation for the assistance given him
During the threeyear illness Mr Lee
sold all of his farm equipment cattle and
workstock to support his wife and four
children and meet doctors bills He says
he had given up hopes of ever getting well
and back to work when the Vocational
Rehabilitation Counselor called
After the medical examination and diag
nosis Mr Lee entered an Atlanta hospital
for surgery In a few weeks time he was
free of pain and able to go where he
pleased It was recommended that he avoid
Top Presentation of plaques to
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors
in the Georgia Caseoftheyear con
test From leftCounselor W L
Flanagan Lewis P Chick Athens business leader H B Cummings Regional
Representative Office of Vocational Rehabilitation John Stiles prominent hotel
operator and Counselor T G Loudermilk Lower panelMiss Audrey Moye at
typewriter with her supervisor Miss Dorothy Robertson and right Isom Lee
Felton poultry man
the heavy work in general farm operations
so he decided to undertake a broiler project
When the plans for this project were
worked out local agencies a merchant and
a saw mill operator offered to cooperate
in the undertaking With the aid of two
brothersinlaw timber for the brooder
house was cut on the farm and sawed at
the mill The house was built on a hill
side so that fresh water could be piped
from a spring
Mr Lee was successful in raising and
marketing one flock of broilers When the
second flock of 4000 chickens was about
ten days old a high wind blew hot coals
from the heater to dry shavings and in
a few minutes the building was in flames
He lost all the baby chicks the brooder
house and a barn
The agencies and individuals who had
been interested in helping Mr Lee again
came to his assistance In a few weeks
another and larger house was ready for a
Continued on page 6Happy To Pay Income
Luther Phillips left blind operator of the State Office Building
vending stand is happy to make his income tax reports with the
aid of Miss Madeline Shuler trainer for the Cooperative Services
for the Blind Inc a nonprofit organization which supervises the
vending stand program
Attractive Mildred Anderson re
cently was designated as Secretary
oftheWeek by the Carroll Lynn
School of Business Rome where she
is employed as secretary and recep
tionist She completed her training at
the school after taking a correspond
ence course while a patient at Battey
Hospital Earlier she attended Jack
sonville Teachers College for two
years
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Many blind operators of vending stands
in public buildings and industries in Georgia
last year earned enough to be subject to
Federal and State income taxes
Like the rest of us they had to make
their returns before the March 15 dead
line And not one among those who came
to the State Office building for assistance
from the Georgia Cooperative Services for
the Blind staff members in compiling their
reports was heard to complain about having
to shell out to the tax collectors As a
matter of fact they seemed happy to be
in taxable income brackets
They would rather have it that way than
to be drawing up to about 55 a month from
aidtotheblind welfare funds
In addition to the usual exemptions and
deductions blind persons are allowed a
special exemption because of blindness
Some of the vending stand operators are
supporting families and aged parents and
take pride in being able to do it
There are fortythree units employing
about fiftyone managers and assistants in
the Georgia chain of vending stands
CaseofYear
Continued from page 5
new flock of chicks Mr Lee now appears
to be firmly established in the broiler busi
ness He is no longer dependent upon oth
ers seems to be enjoying good health and
takes part in community and religious ac
tivities in that section of the state
A Commerce painter and cement worker Edward Collins is learn
ing a new vocationfurniture repairafter recovering from tuber
culosis Through Vocational Rehabilitation services he is receiving
onthejob training at Fricks Furniture Co Rome Upon completion
of the training period he expects to go in business for himself
After graduating from the Academy with opportunity for a tryout as typist in the
betterthanaverage grades Miss Moye who
has only about 20 percent vision was as
sisted in a course in stenography typing
and office machine operation Upon com
pletion of the nine months regular course
and a short refresher course she had an
insurance firm She has held the position
now for more than a year is regarded by
her supervisors and associates as a com
petent worker and seems to be headed for
a successful career in her chosen vocationAnother high school graduate re
ferred to Vocational Rehabilitation
by faculty members is Joe Ella
Armstrong now Mrs Finch kin
dergarten teacher in Atlantas E
A Ware school
Upon graduation from the David
T Howard School in 1948 she was
found eligible for vocational re
habilitation services as a dwarf be
ing at that time only 4 ft 54
in in height and weighing only 73
lbs She was assisted with tuition
and supplies at Clarke College
where she earned a BA degree in
Social Service While in college she
was on the honor roll and a mem
ber of several scholastic societies
There are ninetyfive children in
her class At right she is shown
leading a group of children in
games In the picture at left in
the center panel she is shown with
another group working with jig
saw puzzles
She is one of many teachers as
sisted through college by the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division
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a scene in the barber class at Bat
tey State Hospital Rome where
many patients learn a new trade
while recovering from TB The in
structor at left in the group is
Evander Erwin and the trainee
Roy Johnson of Statesboro
Another popular course at Battey Hospital is sewing and dress designing
The picture above represents a typical scene in the classroom The instructor
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For six years sightless Dan Hughes has been operating the vending stand in the Buchanan plant of Cluett
Peabody Co This is one of many units placed by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the Cooperative
Services for the Blind Inc in industrial plants in Georgia
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tation Counselors give a battery of
tests to members of the graduating
class at the Georgia Academy for
the Blind to determine their voca
tional aptitudes and qualifications
for advanced training At left in
top panel Counselor C H Parker
of Savannah is shown giving a
manual dexterity test to Judy
Moore of Broxton Some graduates
may qualify for college courses
Homer Blanton of Canton Rt 4
sustained serious burns on his legs
and hands in a gasoline explosion
while operating a tractor He was
given emergency treatment at a
local hospital Then Vocational Re
habilitation assisted him in start
ing a broiler project Now he is
regarded as one of the most suc
cessful poultrymen in that area
Recently he has expanded his op
erations to include beef cattle rais
ing Here he is shown with an An
gus calf
Handicapped by a congenital cleft
palate harelip and speech impedi
ment Hubbard O Bird left in cen
ter panel was assisted with plastic
surgery speech correction and on
thejob training at the American
Printing Company plant in Macon
He is now employed in the same
shop When referred to Vocational
Rehabilitation he was dependent
upon a brother for support
Clyde A Mclntosh a double ampu
tee right in center panel repairs
watches at Bonds Jewelry Store in
Calhoun His workbench faces that
of Vincent Bagwell another Voca
tional Rehabilitation client The 46
yearold watch repairer lost his
legs several years ago through an
accident The Division assisted him
in the purchase of new appliances
The barber shop at Battey Hospital
bottom panel is also a training
school for patients who want to
learn that trade Shown at left is
Dutch Sweat a trainee and at left
Curtis Coleman instructorFrom Welfare Rolls to Payrolls
Through the cooperative efforts of Voca
tional Rehabilitation workers and welfare
agencies in Georgia 421 disabled persons on
public assistance rolls were restored to pro
ductive jobs and economic selfsufficiency
during the 16months period from January
1 1952 to May 1 1953
In this group were 305 who were supported
by grants for Aid to Dependent Children 57
who were receiving Aid to the Blind grants
56 on local city or county welfare rolls and
3 who were getting assistance under the pro
gram for the totally and permanently dis
abled
For Aid to Dependent Children the State
Welfare Departments monthly grant in April
this year was 2715 per child up to 114
a month The average grant per family was
7253 Eligible blind persons receive up to
55 a month The program for the Totally
and Permanently Disabled has been in opera
tion in Georgia only since July 1 1952 The
average grant was 3978 with a maximum
of 55
On the basis of the average grants it is
estimated that the 421 rehabilitants were re
ceiving about 27253 a month in welfare
funds
Public funds invested in Vocational Re
habilitation are nonrecurring expenditures
When a disabled person is rehabilitated he
doesnt need public assistance Welfare grants
continue from monthtomonth often over
a period of years Rehabilitation and Wel
fare agencies agree its sound economy to
work together in getting disabled persons off
relief and on jobs To do so stretches the
tax dollar
Examples of the estimated cost of continu
ing ADC grants to families until the youngest
child reaches 16 years of age in comparison
with expenditures for rehabilitating the
breadwinner are shown in some typical
cases served
In 9 cases in the Atlanta area the ex
penditure of ADC funds until the youngest
child reached 16 would have amounted to
77871 The actual expenditure for re
habilitation in these cases was 492253
In six cases in the Athens area the total
estimated expenditure of ADC funds if the
breadwinner had not been rehabilitated
would have reached 52165 The actual cost
of rehabilitation services in these cases was
1750
As of May 1 393 disabled persons in
cluding 25 blind were receiving welfare
assistance to support themselves and families
while being rehabilitated Some were re
cuperating from surgery others were getting
medical treatment or training and some
were awaiting job placement
On the same date there were 155 persons
including 13 blind who had applied for
some form of welfare aid while receiving
Vocational Rehabilitation services to be
come employable
In the Atlanta metropolitan areaFulton
DeKalb and Cobb Counties63 disabled
persons who were receiving welfare assist
ance were rehabilitatedand removed from
the rollsduring the period covered by the
report They were getting 3777 a month in
public aid grants At the same time 42 per
sons were receiving welfare grants and 42
had applied for aid while being rehabilitated
In the area covered by the Savannah local
office 67 disabled persons on welfare rolls
were made selfsupporting through Voca
tional Rehabilitation 59 were receiving some
form of aid while being rehabilitated and 3
had applied for assistance until they could
return to jobs It is estimated the 67 re
habilitants were receiving 4682 a month in
welfare funds
In the Macon local office area 28 dis
abled persons who were receiving an esti
mated 1764 a month in welfare grants
were discontinued from the rolls after re
habilitation 23 were receiving welfare as
sistance and one had applied for it pending
rehabilitation
In the Augusta local office area 26 dis
abled persons who were receiving an esti
mated 1660 a month in welfare funds were
discontinued from the rolls after rehabilita
tion 22 were receiving welfare assistance
and 17 had applied for it pending rehabilita
tion
In the Columbus area 35 disabled persons
who were getting about 2106 a month in
welfare grants were removed from the rolls
after rehabilitation 16 were receiving aid
and 6 had applied for it pending their re
habilitation
In the Athens area 19 disabled persons
drawing about 1187 a month in public
assistance were removed from the rolls
after rehabilitation At the same time 34
were receiving assistance and 15 had applied
for it pending rehabilitation
In the Albany area 25 disabled persons
drawing about 1847 a month in welfare
benefits were removed from the rolls after
rehabilitation There were 17 recipients of
welfare assistance and 3 applicants for it to
help pending their return to jobs
In the Rome area 36 disabled persons
receiving about 2320 a month in welfare
benefits were rehabilitated into jobs At the
same time 18 were getting aid and 6 had
applied for it pending rehabilitation
In the Thomasville area 25 disabled per
sons drawing about 1747 a month from
welfare were removed from the rolls after
rehabilitation 16 were receiving assistance
and 2 had applied for it pending rehabilita
tion
In the Waycross area there were 22 dis
abled persons drawing about 1595 a month
from welfare who were rehabilitated into
employment Fortythree were reported as
receiving assistance and 26 reported as appli
cants for it pending rehabilitation
As a watch repairer at Friedmans in
Macon Thurston Worlery no longer
has to depend upon welfare assistance
for the support of his wife and 5 chil
dren For three years he was disabled
by an impaired left leg resulting from
a fracture Through Vocational Re
habilitation services he was provided
with surgery braces and training at
the Macon Vocational School
Similar reports were received from the
Amerlcus Bainbridge Claskesville Gaines
ville and Milledgeville areas
All together the cases removed from wel
fare rolls through rehabilitation those re
ceiving temporary aid while being rehabilita
ted and those who had applied for aid while
being rehabilitated represent an estimated
700000 a year in public assistance funds
Rehabilitating TB Patients
Vocational Rehabilitation District Super
visor J L Hise of Augusta former Counselor
at Battey Hospital spoke at the annual con
vention of the Georgia Tuberculosis As
sociation in Savannah May 8 on the re
habilitation of tuberculous patients
He listed some of the problems as 1
patients leaving the hospital before having
sufficient work tolerance 2 reluctance
of some patients to undertake to do any
thing 3 economic conditions which often
cause patients to disregard medical advice
an undertake to work too soon 4 obtain
ing adequate medical diagnoses on patients
at home 5 Suitable jobs for illiterate
persons 6 prejudice against employment
of persons with arrested TB
Rehabilitation of tuberculous patients he
said cannot be accomplished by any single
agency or individual It requires the best
thinking and the best trained personnel of
all agencies if we are to do the maximum
job he said
Some of the needs were listed as 1 more
professional workers occupational thera
pists teachers and counselors in hospitals and
social agencies 2 greater effort in re
assuring the public as to safety in associat
ing with persons having arrested TB 3
More financial help for families during
period of convalescence of breadwinner and
4 better teamwork by agencies and in
dividuals interested in the problem
Officers of the association elected at the
meeting were President George H Sumerau
Augusta Presidentelect Mrs Emilio Suarez
Cuthbert Secretary Charles E Shepard At
lanta and Treasurer A D Boylston Jr At
lanta Mr Sumerau succeeds Dr Sam Patton
of Macon Carl Fox is Executive Secretary
of the associationMabilitatioriiAWs
Vol 7
MAYJUNE 1953
No 2
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
N another page we are carrying a report based on a survey of public
assistance cases served by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division from
January 1 1952 to May 1 1953
Highlights from this report were published in newspapers and evoked
some editorial comment
Under the caption Helping Disabled is More than Economics the At
lanta Constitution said
There is a splendid example of interdepartmental cooperation and a saving to
the taxpayer in the report from the state department of education and of welfare
that in the last 16 months vocational rehabilitation has taken 421 persons off welfare
rolls and made them selfsustaining
The economic value of the program goes beyond the 337036 in welfare
funds saved annually by this switch from relief to making a living Those persons
who have learned to make their own ways are busy at profitable businesses and
trades and are paying into the state tax till instead of taking out
But even greater than the monetary consideration is the lift to the morale
of the handicapped person He has gained an independence which he lacked He
has become a selfsupporting contributing member of society
Not only this report but other evidence indicates that the vocational re
habilitation people are rendering a great service They are accomplishing what
should always be the objective whether the program be rehabilitation or welfare
the restoration to a useful selfsufficiency of those handicapped physically or
financially
In a recent issue of the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News we carried
a picture of a handicapped young man who had been trained and placed through
the services of this Division
The Floyd County Welfare Director Mrs Mary H Dodd clipped the picture
and sent it to Counselor D Donaldson with a letter saying
Yes it is Good Business when you can rehabilitate cases like the above
We thought you would like to know that our records on the man and his mother
date back to 1928 when he was a baby Posting cards show some county relief
payments every year up to 1942 or 14 years For a period of about five years an
older brother was in CCC camp or the Army and his allotment supported the
woman and K They returned to us for help in 1947 and weekly grocery orders
and drugs were provided until 1950 when our case was closed Thanks for another
job well done
Vocational Rehabilitation trainee
Thomas McGuire of Atlanta with
impaired right arm demonstrates
new method of cleaning and restor
ing leather goods in modern plant
at North Georgia Trade Voca
tional School Clarkesville Watch
ing the process are left to right
Herbert Carlton school director
Dr M D Collins State Superin
tendent of Schools and C E Mor
gan of Decatur industrial advisory
committee chairman See story on
page 6Reaches First Goal on Comeback Road1

The story of Jeanette Hulseys long and
courageous struggle to overcome the crip
pling effects of arthritis is featured in the
June 16 issue of a national picture magazine
The popular Clermont girl now a resident
of Atlanta is able to walk with the aid of
crutches after being confined to beds and
wheel chairs for about 16 of her 32 years
I walked to Hunnicutt street one block
the other day she said with a note of tri
umph in her voice
Beginning in 1937 the disease left Jean
ettes hips knees ankles feet and spine stiff
Her hands elbows and shoulders were
drawn and her vision impaired Her body
was rigid in a sitting position and she had
to be lifted from her bed to a wheel chair
It took four major surgical operations ex
tensive physiotherapy the application of
body and leg casts artificial appliances and
many long months in hospitals and nursing
homes to get her back on her feet again The
surgery restored movement to the hips and
straightened the twisted legs
Between operations she was a patient at
Stryons Nursing Home in Atlanta and made
frequent trips in an ambulance to and from
the hospital Her bed in the home was rigged
with a trapeze rings cords pulleys and
roller platforms for use in regaining the use
of her limbs
What has been accomplished by modern
surgery and treatment in this case is almost
a miracle said Vocational Rehabilitation
Counselor P D Bush of Gainesville who
has been the young womans friend and
counselor for many years
Her faith courage and determination
gives us hope and confidence that some day
she will become selfsupporting in a suitable
occupation he added
Since the fall of 1950 when the disease
became inactive Jeanette has had physical
restoration services through the Vocational
Rehabilitation program
Prior to that time it appeared there was
no hope she ever could become employable
And under the conditions the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division could not authorize
medical and surgical services
For about three years she had received as
sistance at Aidmore under the Crippled
Childrens Division now a unit of the State
Department of Public Health
Early in 1950 Harold Martin Atlanta
Constitution columnist became interested
in Jeanettes case He was instrumental in
raising funds for hospitalization and ex
perimental treatment with the new drugs
before the case was accepted by the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division And he has
continued to be helpful to her in many ways
Jeanette was among the first Georgians to
receive treatment with Cortisone at Emory
University Hospital
Early this year the doctors said it was no
longer necessary for her to remain in the
nursing home Her widowed mother Mrs
Ida Hulsey moved to Atlanta and rented
an apartment in the Techwood area so
Jeanette could have a home closer to the
hospital and continue treatments as an out
patient
The original Vocational Rehabilitation
plan called for training the young woman
as a stenotype reader However she de
veloped some new infection in her eyes
necessitating surgery and treatment Because
of limited vision it appears a new voca
tional objective will have to be established
AboveJeanette Hulsey is shown
exercising on a trapeze one of
many appliances built by her broth
er J B Barney Hulsey at right
to help the disabled girl regain the
use of her limbs At left she is
shown walking in the bedroom of
her Atlanta apartment
The magazines 3V4 page layout shows
pictures of Jeanette in typical scenes among
relatives and neighbors in Hall County and
in the nursing home and hospital
Theres a saying that rehabilitation is
a community problem requiring the in
terest and services of many individuals and
agencies Jeanettes case is a striking example
of community cooperation in giving physical
ly impaired persons the chance they need
and deserve
Correction
In a previous issue of this publica
tion it was inadvertently stated that
Isom Lee of Felton a rehabilitant
had surgery at an Atlanta hospital
Actually the operations were per
formed at Polk General Hospital
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Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaNew Training Unit Opened
A new facility for training youths in
laundry and dry cleaning skills was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies at the North
Georgia Trade Vocational School Clarkes
ville on May 27
Industrial leaders educators and students
praised Board of Education members for
their vision and enterprise in authorizing
this expansion of the schools vocational
program
The plant is a complete modern laundry
and dry cleaning establishment where stu
dents are taught the theory and practice of
fabrics maintenance Masonry trainees help
ed in the construction of the walls
This building was erected with vision
hopesand very little money said Mrs
Eileen McDargh Secretary of the Georgia
Dry Cleaning and Laundry Association
C E Morgan of Decatur former president
of the state association president of the At
lanta association and chairman of the schools
advisory committee on laundry and dry
cleaning course was enthusiastic over the
enlarged training program
James S Peters of Manchester Vice
chairman of the State Board of Education
made the dedicatory address He was pre
sented by Dr M D Collins State Super
intendent of Schools Herbert Carlton
school director was master of ceremonies
Here are some excerpts from Mr Peters
address
Recovery through a better balanced ag
ricultural program more and better farm
cash crop products and industrial expansion
along with better educational facilities has
had a decided influence upon the migration
of population from this state
With the better balanced program and
industrial development as is occurring today
in Georgia there is no reason why Georgia
girls and boys should look elsewhere for
employment
However much depends upon what we
do in making it attractive and profitable for
these men and women to stay here and
certainly it will cost much less for us to keep
them employed and enjoy with them the
fruits of their labor than it will to let them
go elsewhere
Vocational education is the number one
weapon with which to fight emigration and
to increase the wealth of our state
Trained hands and trained minds make
not only good citizens but a contented citi
zen and in making him or her contented
you increase the wealth of everybody with
whom they come in contact commercially
and otherwise
We are here to dedicate a new building
erected and equipped to train employees for
the laundry and dry cleaning business one
of the large employers of labor in this state
Yet until this building was erected and
this course of study was offered not a single
educational institution in this state under
took to train employees for this business
The same may be said of many other
lines
The amount we are spending on voca
tional education is relatively small In fact
it is a mere bagatelle compared to the needs
and the opportunities
It is impossible to give any definite figure
as to the shortage in the labor market but
we do know our inability to supply the de
mands is a great loss to the state and an even
greater loss to thousands of Georgians who
are not trained or qualified
Relatively few industries in this day and
time will train other than their own em
ployees and many even refuse to train their
own employees hence the responsibility for
training men and women in this state to fill
the vacancies falls squarely upon the
State County and City school systems and if
James S Peters
Vicechairman State Board of
Education dedicates building
the State fails in its responsibility then we
lose our citizens or lose the increased in
come
Griffin H Eastin Placement Agent for the
Blind in the Vocational Rehabilitation Di
visions Atlanta district was designated as
the Blind Man of the Year by Georgia Lions
Clubs at the recent state convention in
Macon
The 46yearold Atlantian was given this
recognition for his working in finding job
opportunities for visually handicapped per
sons He has been on the district office staff
at 305 Peachtree street N E for two years
Griff as he is known to associates spoke
at the meeting on Blindnessa Challenge
Drawing upon his own experience gave some
practical suggestions for meeting the prob
lems of blindness
If you stand with your back to the wall
the crowds will pass you by he said
Youve got to get out in the stream of
humanity keep up your contacts with old
friends make new friends and learn to do
something you can do without sight
When I lost my sight I made up my
mind to do everything possible to help my
boy get an education I made that my ob
jectiveand I worked toward it he said
For twenty years before he lost his sight
through illness in 1948 Griff was in the
parts and accessories department of an
automobile manufacturers Atlanta branch
and was Sales Manager when compelled to
give up the position
Through Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices he was sent to the Factory for the Blind
at Bainbridge and soon worked up to the
position of production foreman in the mat
tress department Later he went on the road
as salesman With a sighted driver he cover
ed the state calling on retail outlets for the
factorys products
When a placement agent was needed in
the Atlanta Vocational Rehabilitation Dis
trict office he was offered the position
Griff lives at 642 Lakewood Rd S W
with his wife and son
Other Georgians who have been similarly
honored by the Lions Clubs are Walter Mc
Donald of the Public Service Commission
Hubert Smith President of Ways and Means
for the Blind Inc Augusta Vaughn Ter
rell superintendent of the Factory for the
Blind and the late Tom Bingham
Griffin H Eastin
With Lions Club Cup
HIRE THE HANDICAPPED ITS GOOD BUSINESSMacons twenty year old Mattie
Thorpe standing at right is being
trained in beauty culture through
Vocational Rehabilitation services
after recovering from tuberculosis
at Battey Hospital She is enrolled
at the Maynard Beauty School in
Macon A job awaits her just as
soon as she completes the course
and gets a license Shown with her
is Mrs Rita Maynard who operates
the school and a chain of shops
The amputee shown in the top pan
el is Bishop Fuller 29 who lost his
leg in 1951 as the result of a gun
shot wound After being provided
with an artificial limb he was
placed in training at the West End
Shoe Shop in Macon and is assured
of a job upon completion of the
course With him is Carl Statham
proprietor of the shop
Three Seniors at the Georgia Acad
emy for the Blind Negro division
center panel take tests under Vo
cational Rehabilitation Counselors
to determine their vocational
choices and aptitudes preparatory
to further training and placement
Shown seated at desks are left to
right Parthenia Smith Lavonia
John Grace Perry and Berles Hor
ton Waycross Standing J H
Greene Athens School Principal
C R Bonner W H Fargason At
lanta and C H Parker Savannah
Tailoring is one of the popular
courses for patients at Battey State
Hospital The picture in the lower
panel shows a group of students re
ceiving instructions in designing
under the supervision of Robert
Stanley right After being dis
charged from the hospital they may
be given additional training or
placed on jobs through Vocational
Rehabilitation services

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Kor the third successive year Georgia Academy for the Blind students carried off honorsand cupsin
Class C literary contests sponsored by the Georgia Hih School Association They were awarded firrt
place in the Sixth District first in the State and first honors on points in the District And Barbara
Nobles Nicholls captured first place in the State home economics contest for Class C schools The 1953
team is shown below Left to rightfront row Ann Stephens East Point Willadean Shadrick LaFay
ette Laverne Thomas Milstead Barbara Nobles Nicholls and Dale Albritton Cordele back row Lau
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Mrs Frankie Chambers on table gets electrical
stimulation to reduce pain and increase flexibility in
stiff leg Miss Jane Hunter therapist
General conditioning exercises develop muscular
coordination in limbs Fred Rutan correction
therapist
An accidental blast from a shotgun in the
hands of her brotherinlaw shattered Mrs
Frankie Chambers right leg and seriously
injured the other limb above the knee
She was rushed to a Canton hospital for
emergency surgery and treatment including
blood transfusions
They thought I was going to die she
says
Five months later Mrs Chambers gave
birth to a baby girl now in the Scottish Rite
Hospital
For five years she thought she would never
walk again Then she was referred to Voca
tional Rehabilitation
At an Atlanta physical medicine and re
habilitation clinic Mrs Chambers wife of a
Cherokee County saw mill worker received
treatment and training in the use of an ar
tificial limb over a period of several months
While in Atlanta she gained thirty pounds
Now she is home again doing all her
housework
I couldnt do it without my appliance
she says
From left below 1 Pullups on bar strengthen arm and
shoulder muscles 2 Heavy resistance exercises with weight and
pulley apparatus develop muscles in stump 3 After training in
use of prothesis she walks for the first time without canes 4
Doing housework at home
Blind Senior Wins Honors
By Don Segraves
Reprint from Atlanta Journal
The chair rules that you are out of or
der Mr Crawford Please proceed with the
discussion on the motion The President
raps his gavel and the meeting proceeds with
sharp parliamentary precisiona common
scene among the University of Georgias
scores of clubs and organizations where
Roberts Rules of Order reign supreme
Another man rises addresses the chair
and is instantly recognized by name and
given the floor An onlooker probably would
not be aware that the man in the presidents
chair is blind
His name is John William Love a senior
in the University Law School Ask who he
is on campus and youre likely to get a va
riety of identifications Love Hes Chief
Justice of Law School Honor Court
President of Demosthenian Literary Society
and a darn good one I knew him as
the guy who helped organize Student Coun
cil President of Law School Advisory
Council The list is long and distin
guished and nobody answers That blind
boy in Law School
Perhaps the most inclusive answer was
given recently by the 1010 members of his
graduating class when they voted him Most
Outstanding Senior of 1953 in a campus
wide election
Nobody pities John His friends know
that he asks no quarter and gives none in
competition and his independent spirit and
selfassurance put strangers immediately at
ease
It wasnt always so A farm boy from
Ringgold John lost his sight at the age of
12 because of a minor head injury and its
resulting complications Several months and
a few operations later he was left with just
enough vision to distinguish fuzzy outlines
of buildings and other large objects
He continued in school at Ringgold the
next year leading his seventh grade class
with a 97 average then transferred to the
Academy for the Blind at Macon There
he learned to read Braille and developed
an amazing flair for public speaking winning
the state finals on the Academy debate team
in 1948 His success along this line influ
enced his choice of a career and he deter
mined to enter law school if he could scrape
up enough money
Dad told me hed send me to college if
he had to sell everything he had but I still
didnt know how I was going to make it
Dr O C Aderhold left president of the University of Georgia
congratulates John William Love honor student
until Vocational Rehabilitation came along
said John They told me they would finance
my tuition books and the cost of a reader if
I wanted to go to college
He worked that summer tuning pianos a
trade he learned at the Academy and has
continued to work every summer since then
1 didnt know a soul at the University
when my father drove off and left me here
that September and I did plenty of worry
ing those first few nights thinking of all the
problems Id have to face in the morning
John recalled I dont know how Id have
made it if a guy named Bill Knapp hadnt
come along and took me under his wing for
awhile He showed me where all my classes
were the day before school opened and how
to get to different places around town
John regards life for him as a continual
process of modification and adjustment but
adds I guess as long as Ive got friends like
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After recovering from polio Miss
Dorothy Ryle an experienced beauty
operator couldnt get a job in Macon
shops For about nine years she was
idle and dependent upon her parents
for support Then she heard about
Vocational Rehabilitation services
Through this Division a suitable loca
tion for a neighborhood shop was
found on Jeffersonville Road she was
assisted in the purchase of equipment
and went in business for herself last
September Reports indicate she has
all the business she can take care of
without an assistant She uses an old
fashioned wheel chair while working
and walks with crutches between the
shop and car
Bill and all the fellows in the dormitory
Ill always get along fine
His friends evidently feel the same way
When he revealed that he plans to open a
law firm in some north Georgia town fol
lowing graduation several classmates indi
cated their willingness to join him
A careful speaker himself John is acutely
conscious of other peoples voices and speech
pattern thus accounting for his ability to
recognize people whom he has met with
amazing accuracy At one time he was the
only person in Law School who could tell
the difference between a set of identical twins
who received a great deal of fun out of con
fusing their fellow students and professors
His interests are many and varied and he
has read widely from the works of Thomas
Wolfe Tolstoy Somner Wells the speeches
of Churchill and in earlier days Zane Grey
and Rafael Sabatini He has a talking ma
chine furnished by the Library of Congress
and the books are in record form
An avid sports fan he is a faithful rooter
at nearly all Georgia football and baseball
games and likes to swim and fish
Ive got just enough vision to see the run
ner round first base if I sit down close he
laughed
An incurable Southerner John sees the
South as the anthisis of the number one
economic problem of the nation
I want to live and work in my native
North Georgia hills believing this land to
be the nations number one economic oppor
tunityand my homeland he added and
the conviction in his voice belied the state
ment that he has no vision
The author of this article is a Vocational
Rehabilitation student in the Henry W
Grady School of Journalism at the Univer
sity of Georgia and Editor of the Red and
Black student newspaperEdAcKabilitatioa Vews
Vol 7
JULYAUG 1953
No 3
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens Baldwin Hall University
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Helping Others
Handicapped men and women who
receive Vocational Rehabilitation
services understand and appreciate the
needs of others with physical disabili
ties Many keep abreast of develop
ments in the field of rehabilitation and
go to the front whenever they think
their stories would be helpful to the
program in the state or nation
For example heres a copy of a
letter from Theodore Thomas a para
plegic now Tax Commissioner of
Lumpkin County to Senator Richard
B Russell in connection with Fed
eral appropriations for Rehabilitation
services
Dear Senator
I noticed in the paper today that the Senate Appropriations Committee had
recommended a figure for Vocational Rehabilitation below that which was passed in
the House I regretted to see the Senate Committee make recommendation for any less
amount than that passed by the House
Please listen to my own personal story In 1950 I was loading logs on a truck
Before the logging chain could be fastened the logs rolled off the truck and I was
crushed beneath them I was carried to a Gainesville Hospital My condition was
deemed so serious that they then carried me on to an Atlanta Hospital They found
most of my ribs crushed or damaged and my spinal cord crushed They operated on
my spine decided my case was hopeless and sent me home to die But I was de
termined not to die I had good medical care at home and began to pull through
However I was paralyzed from the waist down Even my stomach muscles were use
less and I had no control over my kidneys or bowels I was about as helpless as an
individual can be except for my determination I had spent all the money that I had
and was in dire need of help
Mr Powell Bush of the Gainesville Ga Rehabilitation Office came to see me
He talked with me and encouraged me a great deal He talked with my doctors and
studied the Xrays with them The next thing that I knew the Division of Rehabilita
tion had me in Atlanta on a plane and I was being flown to New York
In New York I was carried by ambulance to the Institute of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation There they worked with me day after day They supplied me
with a nice wheel chair purchased by Rehabilitation Soon I could sit up and propel
myself in this wheel chair I learned to control my bowels and kidneys They sup
plied me with braces for my legs and I was able to walk a little with crutches
My neighbors in Lumpkin County gathered together and built a broiler house
for me so that I could begin to raise broilers for the Gainesville Processing Plants
I was soon making my own living in this business In November 1952 my friends
asked me to run for Tax Commissioner of Lumpkin County I did so and was over
whelmingly elected Now I am serving as Tax Commissioner of Lumpkin County
and also raising broilers This is because of the services of Rehabilitation
Even now I have an acquaintance K C Fouts from Dawsonville Ga with a
severed spine paralyzed from the waist down like myself that the Rehabilitation
people have up in New York receiving the same services that I did I am sure there
are many others who need this kind of help to make themselves selfsustaining I
think you can understand why many of us and our friends and acquaintances would
like to urge you to support greater funds for Rehabilitation
Reports from Washington indicate that since the letter was written appro
priation bills carrying some increases in funds have passed both the House and
the Senate
Thankful
For about seven years Mrs Inez Layton
Green operated the vending stand for the
blind in the Valdosta postoffice
Her gratitude for the employment oppor
tunity given her in this business enterprise
was expressed in a letter to Glenn E Boggs
supervisor of the vending stand program
She said Please accept my many thanks
for the opportunity you have given me
through the erecting of the stand here and
all other benefits rehabilitation has brought
me along with my resignation effective July
3rd or earlier if it can be arranged
My work here has been made as pleasant
as possible by all those whose lot was to work
with me and all have been very nice and
understanding There really are no com
plaints but on the contrary all has been very
satisfactory My husbands work is calling
us to Columbus so I suppose that will be our
home for a while
Give my best regards to all the staff and
coworkers and may it be our lot to come
in contact with each of you thanks to all
for each effort that has made my work with
you a pleasant period Appleby Fund Aids
Young Harris College has had approximately thirty students enrolled each
quarter during the past year in its unique scholarship program for the physi
cally handicapped
These scholarships were made possible through a special grant of 100000
by Scott B Appleby and the late Mrs Appleby of Washington D C Mr
Appleby is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College The grant
was made in honor of their son J Scott Appleby
The elder Mr Appleby first became interested in Young Harris College as a
student in the late 1890s He went to Young Harris from Pendergrass Georgia
Since he has been Chairman of the Board the College has expanded its
facilities and has strengthened its academic program its accredited rating
its faculty its endowment and its physical plant
The Appleby grant is an endowed scholarship which earns 5000 per year
It was originally intended for ten full scholarships for physically handicapped
students each year but by working with the Vocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion the College is able to help approximately thirty students a year instead
Through the Appleby grant the College is able to take care of any part
of the total expenses of a student not taken care of by the Vocational Re
habilitation Division The amount assigned to each student from this fund
is determined by the actual need of the student In all cases where it is
possible the student is expected to earn a part of the amount granted by
working in the dining hall the library the offices or some place in which
he is capable of doing work
The physically handicapped students who were enrolled at Young Harris
during the year 195253 made outstanding records on the campus both in
leadership and scholarship The College works with the Counselors for
the Division in selecting students to receive scholarship aid and results show
that in many ways these students are superior to others on the campus
It is interesting to note that the president and secretary of the Student Coun
cil for 195253 were among these students The new president and vicepresi
dent for next year are also on this scholarship
program Four others were members of the
Student Council for the year
One student was president of the Dorcas
Club for the year and two others were
elected to the club Membership is for girls
only and is by invitation only Qualifications
for membership are based on scholarship
and leadership The Spat Club for the boys
is limited to thirteen members per quarter
Of this group four were rehabilitation stud
ents
Two of four student members of the Su
preme Court two of six Washington Day
Speakers two of six Champion Debaters
and two of six Miller Memorial Speakers
were also on Appleby and Rehabilitation
Scholarships
The editor of the college newspaper for
one quarter and the new editor for the Fall
Quarter were among this group One stud
ent was president of the Phi Chi Society for
one quarter another was president of Alpha
Psi home economics club for the year two
were in charge of Vespers for one quarter
each four were members of the College
Choir Six of the group had very high aver
ages in scholastic work Two of these stud
ents were voted the most popular on the
campus One was voted the best looking
Charles R Clegg President of Young
Harris College says Our experience with
physically handicapped students has shown
us that they are superior in scholarship in
dustry determination and courage We have
all benefited from having these fine young
people with us on the campus
Top of pageScott B Appleby Left
in center panelLawton Baggs of
Blackshear president of Student Coun
cil 195354 and Champion Debater
RightClayton Doss of Rome presi
dent of Student Council 195253 and
member of Spat Club Left in lower
panelMary McCall of Claxton vice
president of Student Council 195354
and chairman of Vesper Services
RightBarbara Chittenden of Bruns
wick editor of college newspaper sec
retary of college annual critic and re
ported for Literary Society
Something To Look
By Marianna K Blaum
It is almost impossible to correctly eval
uate the importance of vocational rehabili
tation particularly in the case of the tuber
culosis victim
The shock of learing that you have tuber
culosis creates a tremendous psychological
upheaval The first inclination of nearly ev
ery patient when told of the many months
and sometimes years that lie aheadmost
of which must be spent in a sanatarium
is to give up You wonder if it is worth
the trouble and time You develop a self
pity feeling that nobody ever had it so
rough as you You immediately begin to
wonder what on earth will I do with all
that time
After admission to the hospital when you
learn that a good many others have it just
as rough and in some cases a good deal
rougher you slowly begin to feel that after
all it could be worse
Still the months ahead stretch out long
and endless
This is the time when the idea of train
ing under rehabilitation sponsorship gives
the patient something tangible to look for
ward toand that something to look for
ward to is vitally important in the eventual
recovery from tuberculosis
During my curing time after I had
rather extensive thorocoplasty I began to
wonder it is was too late for me to go to
school again I had become particularly
interested in newspaper work first as ward
reporter later as news pages editor of The
Battian our hospital publication Those
ads How Do You Know You Cant Write
had always intrigued me
When the surgeon encouraged me to in
vestigate and put my spare time to use I
contacted Mr J L Hise Rehabilitation
Counselor at Battey Hospital at that time
The school I wanted to study with was not
on the approved list for the Georgia Re
habilitation Division but Mr Hise learned it
was used by the New York State Division
of Rehabilitation True to their reputation of
aiding the prospective candidate for rehabili
tation in whatever way possible the Divi
sions representatives took the necessary steps
to enroll me for training
The remaining months of my hospitaliza
tion were made vitally interesting by the
study I was doing through correspondence
Since completing the course I have been of
fered several jobs with established publi
cations
However I have been made editor of The
Battian and am remaining at Battey Hos
pital as a permanent employee in the Spe
cial Services Department One of the privi
leges of my present employment is visiting
new patients on our admission ward when
they are still a little groggy from shock It
is a distinct pleasure to be able to describe
the advantages of learning a new trade or
vocation suitable to their limitations The
hopeful Iness with which they question me
about the courses of training offered colors
and brightens their entire attitude
The present Rehabilitation Counselor
Miss Ruth Williams the commercial school
teacher Mr Robert White and Mrs Luke
Smith homemaking instructor seem indi
vidaully interested in each candidate for
training The entire program aims to give
the patients here something to look forward
tofuture financial independencethereby
making it possible for trainees to crown the
long months of curing with permanent
achievement
Mrs Marianna K Blaum
Atlantas acting Postmaster Clyde Fleming retired from office on
July 1 after many years in the postal service A few days before re
linquishing his duties he visited the vending stand for the blind in the
Federal Annex one of the most successful units in the business enter
prise chain and said goodby to the operator Tom Taylor Throughout
his term of office Mr Fleming was keenly interested in the vending
stand program and cooperated fully with the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc
He is shown at right in the picture aboveBlind Girl Becomes Housemaid
By Harmon G Perry
Reprint from Atlanta Daily World
Jo Leila Griffin seventh child of Mr and Mrs Jim Newton
became blind at birth She grew up in Colquitt Georgia under
the care and guidance of her sharecropper family totally help
less
Today after 19 years of darkness Jo Leila through the skill
of an eye specialist faith in God and a steadfast belief in her
self is gradually gaining her sight and out of this has come
a new lease on life a love for people and a deep sincere desire
to dedicate herself to service to others
This story of the transformation of a blind illiterate and
helpless country girl who had never set foot outside the county
into a sighted intelligent and potentially useful citizen began
less than a year ago
June 1952 marked the date Jo Leila came to the Metropoli
tan Atlanta Association for the Colored Blind as a member of
a new group that was to begin a period of orientation and train
ing A routine eye examination during this training period re
vealed what Jo had dreamed of and hoped for all her life that
an operation might bring her vision
P J Woods director of the Blind Association along with
Mrs Lorenzo Benns an instructor recommended the operation
and advised Jo to go through with it The State Department of
Rehabilitation agreed to finance the operation and famed eye
specialist was called on to undertake the delicate task
Three weeks after the operation Jo had
returned to her training at the association to
await the results Every one who had fol
lowed the Jo Leila story rejoiced along
with the frail softspoken Jo when it was
learned the operation was successful that she
would be able to see
Now Jo Leila was faced with the problem
of adjusting herself to a new life she had
never known before and it was here that the
interest and love of Mrs Benn for her deep
ened she wanted to help in the task of pre
paring Jo for the future
It was a big job for it meant teaching Jo
practically everything but Jos magnetic
charm and aptitude made the task easy
Jo Leilas basic training is completed but
her learning continues Still without full vi
sion but able to see objects from considera
ble distances she is employed in the home
of Mr and Mrs Lorenzo Benn at 126 Laurel
Avenue with full responsibilities of the house
while they are at work In addition she
cares for Lorenza Jr threemonthold son
of the Benn family Im very proud of Jo
Leila says Mrs Benn and I feel very close
to her
Although she continues to study Braille
once a week she hopes to eventually get a
formal education and study music
Now happy optimistic Jo Leila Griffin
lives a normal life enjoying every minute of
each day knowing that tomorrow means a
new experience For her life is really be
ginning at twenty
Jo Leila is shown at right in top pic
ture feeding Lorenzo Benn Jr With her
is Mrs Benn Vocational Rehabilitation
services also made it possible for the
blind girl to receive training at the ad
justment center
A right arm amputee Rev A B Dixon
Jr 43 of Moultrie says he lost two good
churches because he couldnt hold the Bi
ble and turn the pages The cosmetic ap
pliance provided through Vocational Re
habilitation services meets his needs and
also improves his appearance He lost his
arm above the elbow as the result of an
automobile accident The minister is doing
evangelical work in South Georgia He
learned to write with his left hand
Macons Walker Sinclair had been
a dependable employee in the shipping
department of the J W Burke Com
pany until he lost his leg in 1947 as
the result of diabetes The manage
ment agreed to reemploy Sinclair if
Vocational Rehabilitation would help
him to get an artificial appliance The
limb was fitted in June 1952 and Sin
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Dress making and beauty culture are two popular courses for women patients at Battey State Hospital Rome
At left below is a typical scene in the dress making classes with Mrs Luke Smith extreme left as instructor
At right below is a scene in the beauty shop The Instructor is Mrs Ida Davis standing
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Above New Eugene Talmadge
Memorial Gymnasium and recrea
tion center
Left1953 football squad The
team plays a full schedule with
other high schools in Northwest
Georgia and Alabama
BelowTypical scenes in recreation center Swimming bowling
and table tennis are popular activities with student bodyThe new buildings at the Georgia School
for the Deaf Cave Spring and the Georgia
Academy for the Blind Macon erected
under a 2000000 improvement program
for the schools will be formally dedicated
by Governor Herman E Talmadge with
public ceremonies in midNovember
Governor Talmadge has shown keen per
sonal interest in the improvement program
The celebration at Cave Spring is sched
uled for 200 P M on November 11
Armistice Day The Governor will speak
from a platform erected on the new athletic
field He will be presented by Representative
M G Hicks of Floyd County
Keys to the new buildings will be presented
to Superintendent A L Davis by State Board
of Education member C G Milner of
Rome Dr M D Collins State Superin
tendent of Schools will offer the invocation
Music will be furnished by the Rome and
Main High School bands
The new buildings on the campus for
white students include the Eugene Talmadge
Memorial Gymnasium print shop laundry
storage room garage athletic field house
and boiler house addition
Major improvements including new equip
ment and interior decorations have been
made on the dormitories class rooms ad
ministrative building library and vocational
and home economics departments
The improvements on the campus for
Negro students include a modern gym
nasiumauditorium and a dormitory to be
known as the Martha Freeman Building
The class rooms kitchen and dining room
and other rooms have been repainted and
new equipment installed where needed
The dedication committee is composed of
Mr Milner General Chairman Robert L
Scoggins Dean Covington Grady McSpad
den M G Hicks Battle Hall and Tom
Clemmons
The exercises at the Georgia Academy
for the Blind will be held on November 13
at the new school for Negroes Dr Mark
Smith Superintendent of Bibb County
Schools will be master of ceremonies Ar
rangements for this ceremony have not
been completed
Members of the State Board of Education
in miii
ip
View of new Georgia Academy for Negro Blind showing in
foreground the auditoriumgymnasium
the Building Authority and the Bibb County
delegation in the General Assembly will
have prominent parts on the program
The new school for Negroes is a complete
plant on a 30acre site It represents an
expenditure of more than 500000 to give
the visuallyhandicapped children adequate
facilities for academic and craft training It
replaces the old inadequate school on Madi
son Avenue in Macon
It has modern dormitories with new fur
nishings and equipment an auditoriumgym
nasium kitchen dining room class rooms
shops infirmary and other facilities
Improvements also have been made at
the school for white children off Vineville
Avenue The main building including class
rooms dormitories and Superintendents
office have been repainted and new furnish
ings and equipment installed
The old infirmary building has been con
verted into a residence A new heating sys
tem has been installed together with new
equipment for the laundry
F G Nelms is Superintendent of the
Academy for the Blind
The buildings at both schools will be open
for public inspection
The improvement programs at Cave
Spring and Macon have been made possible
by funds allocated under the Minimum
Foundation Program for Education The
work at the schools has been in progress
for more than a year
The Building Authority for the schools
is composed of H Grady McSpadden of
Rome Chairman W M Weaver Ir of
Macon and R L Scoggins of Rome
TV Programs
Over Lifes Hurdles is the title of a
series of television programs at 600 P M
on Saturdays over WAGATV portraying
services for handicapped children and
adults
The public service feature is sponsored
by the West End Kiwanis Club of Atlanta
Cooperating agencies are Vocational Re
habilitation Division of the State Department
of Education Veterans Administration State
Department of Veterans Services Crippled
Childrens Division of the State Department
of Health Georgia Society for Crippled Chil
dren and Adults Inc and the Georgia State
Employment Service
The producer is Mrs Marguerite Ewing
Schott
Cover
The cover design on this issue
shows two students at the Georgia
Academy for the Blind studying
geography with the aid of jig saw
contour maps
Is there a possible job opportunity for a qualified handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an
opportunity elsewhere If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and
mail it to us and a representative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever
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Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaCenter aboveScene in the new print shop at the Georgia School for the Deaf Under the
improvement program a new building has been erected and modern equipment including Linotype
machines presses and trimmers installed Many students elect to study printing in their vocational
courses at Cave Spring
Left aboveNew Martha Freeman Dormitory named for Aunt Martha Freeman born in
slavery on the Berry family plantation Oak Hill near Rome and a coworker with Miss Martha
Berry founder of the Berry Schools She died May 15 1951 and was buried beside the Mount Berry
Chapel
Right aboveNew gymnasium for Negro students at the Cave Spring school Work was still in
progress on this building when the picture was madeAcademy for Blind
Here are some typical scenes at
the school off Vineville Avenue
Macon since installation of modern
equipment and furnishings
Top at right Home economics
students learning to use washing
and ironing machines Miss Irene
Jung home economics and crafts
teacher is shown at extreme right
Right center Students learning
fundamentals of weaving and chair
caning
BelowScene in primary grade
now equipped with modern desks
seats and shelves Miss Catherine
Pirkle is the teacher

State Board of Education members Herschel Lovett
center of Dublin and Chairman George Whitman Jr
of Atlanta sample the hot biscuits in the new kitchen
Mrs Daisy Boone dietitian is shown at left
Children and teachers have fun together on new playground equipment The building in the background is the
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Vol 7 SEPTOCT 1953 No 4
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
MilledgevilleState Hospital
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
TopMembers of American Le
gion Post No 501 Macon hold flag
raising ceremony at new school for
Negro blind Principal Cleon Bon
ner is shown at extreme right
CenterScene in modern home
economics department
RightStudents in commerce de
partment learning to use type
writer
Courses at the school cover aca
demic subjects from primary grades
through high school with basic vo
cational training in higher grades
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AboveArchitects drawing of new Georgia School for Negro Blind
on 30acre tract just outside Macons city limits It is regarded as
the most modern and complete school of its type in the United States
At leftThe old school at 151 Madison Street abandoned when the
new school was completed
Center at right aboveStudents learning the fundamentals of chaircaning in vocational education
department of new school The teacher is Clifford Moore
Left aboveA corner in the new Braille library The library is equipped with steel shelves and other
modern types of facilities for schools
Right aboveStudents studying Braille This picture shows the modern type of desks and chairs in
stalled at the new school
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Board of Education and Building Authority mem
from leftW M Weaver Macon Authority memb
resentative Harry Moore Building Superintendent
mae Ellis League architect Back rowJack Ave
Building Authority Chairman H G McSpadden R
habilitation Services John H Wilcox Clerk of t
cation member George Whitman Jr Atlanta B
hirkesville Hoard member
bers inspect school before acceptance Front row
er Fire Marshal Harry Abel Academy Field Rep
Kitchens Contractor Raymond Briggs and Mrs Ella
ry visitor Academy Superintendent F G Nelms
ome P S Barrett State Director Vocational Re
he works Herschel Lovett Dublin Board of Edu
oard of Education Chairman and Irwin Kimzey
eKabllitotioa Mws Cedartowns John T Barrett
left is the proud proprietor of a
retail food store after being inca
pacitated for two years with a hip
injury and ulcerated stomach With
a wife and 16yearold daughter de
pendent upon him he was com
pelled to leave his job at a textile
mill Through Vocational Rehabili
tation services he was assisted
with surgery treatment and train
ing and equipment for his business
enterprise He is shown waiting on
an unidentified customer at right
A double amputee Woodrow Hol
bert 40 is shown at the left in the
center panel demonstrating his abil
ity to use artificial limbs A dairy
farm worker Holbert lost his legs
in a power saw accident in August
1952 After he recovered from the
emergency operation Vocational
Rehabilitation assisted him with
surgery to revise the stumps the
purchase of the limbs and training
in their use Now hes back at work
on the farm near Madison Im
proud of my legs and dont know
what I would do without them he
says
Gladys Dobson right in center
panel operates a beauty shop in
her home near Cummings after re
covering from a kidney ailment
Vocational Rehabilitation assisted
her with medical treatment train
ing and equipment for the little
shop
A nonmalignant growth on Jesse
Groves nose affected his breathing
and jeopardized his job as ware
houseman at Warner Robins At 53
he had been a civil service em
ployee for thirteen years Surgery
corrected the disability and he was
able to return to his job Pictures
in the lower panel show him before
and after surgeryArthritis Cases Studied
A report on 89 cases involving rheumatoid
arthritis and served by the Georgia Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division during the past
three years was made recently at the annual
conference of the National Rehabilitation
Association in Miami
It showed that 39 of those from whom re
ports were received were working either on
their former jobs or in new vocations The
other 50 were still receiving treatment or
training
Eleven of the 39 had been confined to bed
for periods ranging from six months to five
years prior to acceptance for service by
Vocational Rehabilitation and two had
spent most of the time in wheel chairs
On the basis of our experience thus far
says the report it definitely appears that
many individuals disabled because of rheu
i matoid arthritis can be helped if medical care
is not delayed too long In those cases where
much physical deformity has already de
veloped the chances of rehabilitation are
not too favorable
Of the 39 who had been successfully re
habilitated at the time the report was con
solidated 18 returned to their former jobs
and the same number were placed in new
I types of work more suitable for them Three
were at work for the first time
The occupations of those who returned
to the same jobs were listed as housewife
textile worker power company serviceman
appliance mechanic farmer clerktypist
waitress seamstress barber auditor and
laborer
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Some of the new occupations listed were
government technician motion picture op
erator photographer stand operator small
business enterprise accounting clerk sales
man laundress soldier poultryman cabinet
maker watch repairer and leather goods
manufacturer
Fourteen of the 39 rehabilitated were pro
vided with some type of surgery in addition
to medication and the results were reported
as good for 10 not helpful for 1 Three
did not report on this point
The survey indicated that persons who had
a favorable work experience at least an
Mrs Ella Mae Hill is back on her job
as seamstress in Richs alterations de
partment after a leave of absence to
get treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
at Emory University Hospital Arthritic
clinic For about a year she had been
unable to work regularly The inset shows
her with Mrs Adelaide Stewart chief
nurse and welfare director in the stores
clinic They have been wonderful to
me Mrs Hill says
Arthritis left Roy A Clarke of Lith
onia with impairments of knees and back
He too received treatment at the Arth
ritic Clinic resulting in some improve
ment in his condition He was provided
with onthejob training in clock repair at
Mosleys Clock Shop Decatur and was
employed by the trainer
average education or better and an oppor
tunity to return to their former jobs after
the disease was brought under control offer
the best prognosis so far as vocational re
habilitation is concerned
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NOVDEC 1953
No 5
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Next To Top
r eorgia ranks No 2 among the states of the nation in Vocational Rehabilita
VJ tion services for civilians on two counts 1 total number of rehabilitations
and 2 number of rehabilitations in proportion to population
A report from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Department of
Health Education and Welfare for the fiscal year which ended last June 30
shows Georgias record of 3914 rehabilitations was only 462 behind that of
New York state
Other highranking states were Illinois 3812 Pennsylvania 3711 Michi
gan 3242 and California 2905
In number of rehabilitations per 100000 population Georgias score of 111
was surpassed only by the compact little state of Delaware with 138 rehabilita
tions But the total number of rehabilitations in Delaware was only 466
As to the need it may be pointed out that the report shows Georgia had
10726 applicants for rehabilitation services awaiting investigation at the close
of the fiscal yearmore than any other state in the nation
In considering these figures lets not forget that each case represents some
man or woman disabled by disease accident or deformity citizens of Georgia
who were dependent upon others for support and needed only just one break to
become productive independent workers again
Vocational Rehabilitation services gave them that break
CHRISTMAS SEALS
Fortysix years ago the late Emily P Bissell discovered the way to touch the heartstrings
of the nation In dire need of money with which to aid tuberculosis patients she created a
Christmas Seal The success of the venture was immediate and instead of raising 30000
the first Christmas Seal Sale brought her 300000
Year after year the coming of the Christmas Seal has been a heralder of the Yuletide
Season It has also served as a harbinger of the glad tidings for thousands who suffer from
this dread disease Medical research is constantly delving into experiments which eventually
will develop a definite curative process It may be possible too that researchers will dis
cover the cause of tubercle bacilli
In the meanwhile however millions of Christmas Seals are being sold annually in order
that this work may go on
Today as in the yesteryears the sale of Christmas Seals has a definite place in the
American way of life It should have the wholehearted support of every man woman and
child in America It can do much to assuage the suffering of hundreds of thousands who
live in constant fear of the Tomorrows that may never come
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The Christmas Seal sale sponsored by the
National Tuberculosis Association and affiliate
associations was launched in Georgia in mid
November
Our cover is a pictorial reproduction of a cut
out distributed by the sponsoring agencies to
stimulate interest in the annual seal sale
The youngster shown singing the theme song
is Reid Harvey 6 son of Mr and Mrs J W D
Harvey of 2746 Dover Road NE Atlanta He
was chosen as the official seal boy because of
the striking resemblance to the little fellow on
the seal He has appeared on numerous tele
vision programs and has been heard on radio
throughout the Atlanta area Buy and use
Christmas sealsBlind Workers
Here are some scenes in the training
center and work shop for the blind a
project of the Georgia Association of
Workers for the Blind at 539 Courtland
St NE Atlanta under the supervision
of Harry DeLaney Executive Director
Workers are trained in the production
of distinctive types of waste baskets
magazine racks and flower boxes using
wooden slats and steel rods They also
make leather articles such as key cases
bill folds and coin purses Some of the
special safety attachments for the power
machines were designed by DeLaney
In the top panel George D Irvin left
is shown operating a band saw equipped
with special jigs to cut circles With him
is Harry DeLaney Irvin has been blind
about 4 years and formerly was an elec
trical worker In the center panel at left
Miss Hazel Fox of Hapeville and Mrs
Etoyle Adams of College Park are
shown making leather bill folds At the
right in the same panel Mrs Thelma
Cornwell of Hapeville is shown assem
bling waste baskets Miss Fox has been
blind for 6 years Mrs Adams 6 and Mrs
Cornwell for 5 years
At left in the lower panel A D Ken
dall of Scottdale formerly a textile mill
worker is shown operating a sanding
machine He lost his sight about two
years ago At right in the same panel
Ed Bowen of Hapeville a farmer before
losing his sight two years ago is shown
operating a cutoff saw equipped with spe
cial safety devices
Articles made in the shop are sold to
the public
Help Fight TB
Buy Christmas Seals
A crowd estimated at 1500 heard Governor Herman E Talmadge at
the dedication of the new buildings at historic Georgia School for the
Deaf Cave Spring November 11 At right Mrs M M Simmons a
former teacher interpreting the Governors speech to the deaf stu
dents and alumni Shown in the center is Representative Battle Hall
of Floyd County
Glenn C Jackson managing director of WAGATV and radio At
lanta and Mrs Marguerite Ewing Schott producer of the television
program Over Lifes Hurdles receive a citation from Governor
Herman E Talmadge for exceptional and meritorious conduct in the
performance of outstanding service for the physically handicapped
Thirteen weekly public service programs sponsored by the West End
Kiwanis Club featured aids for handicapped adults and children
Here are some excerpts from Governor
Talmadges addresses dedicating the new
buildings completed under a 2000000 im
provement program at the Georgia School
for the Deaf Cave Spring and the Georgia
Academy for the Blind Macon on Novem
ber 11 and November 13
At Cave Spring he said in part
We have provided one million dollars to
make this institution one of the outstanding
of its kind in the nation These new build
ings and other improvements we are dedi
cating today were carried out with some of
this money The remainder has been spent
on a general renovation program embracing
thirtythree major projects
We are doing everything possible for the
318 physically handicapped boys and girls at
this institution We want them to enjoy the
facilities at this school which will equip them
and train them in vocations which will make
them selfsustaining when they leave the
school
At Macon he expressed satisfaction with
the strides made by both the school for the
deaf and the academy for the blind under
the direction of Paul S Barrett State Di
rector of Vocational Rehabilitation He said
the plan to put the schools under the super
vision of Mr Barrett has proved wide
This has meant increased benefits to
Georgias deaf and blind because they not
only now are receiving academic training
but also upon graduation their cases are
taken up by the Division of Vocational Re
habilitation That department is placing them
in jobs for which they are qualified or is
providing additional training to fit them for
careers in line with their talents and apti
tudes
With reference to the new plant for Ne
gro blind he said
There is no doubt that this is the most
modern school of its kind in the nation
Mr Paul Barrett under whose direction the
plans were drawn and executed tells me
that no other state can boast such a fa
cility And I can assure you that the State
has spared no expense to give these fine
children an opportunity to be educated to
become selfsupporting citizens
We intend to see that this school is equip
ped to meet every standard of accreditation
The school for white children is fully ac
credited It is the purpose of this admini
stration to make the Georgia Academy for
the Negro Blind a school in its fullest sense
We will not be content merely with provid
ing a home
The Governor said the academy for white
children has not been neglected in the em
phasis on improving facilities for the Negro
blind He said that 196000 has been spent
on new and improved facilities at the white
division and the program being carried out
there is fully accredited and second to
noneFor eighteen months Willie Cothran
49 and totally blind center at right has
been making mops at the Atlanta plant
of American Associated Industries Dur
ing that time he hasnt missed a day or
been lateand his work is satisfactory
according to H W McNelley manager
at left and Booker T Davis foreman
He is shown combing out roofing mops
but he can do other jobs in the mop fac
tory His breakin training was provided
under the supervision of Griffin H Eas
tin Placement Agent for the Blind in the
Atlanta District Vocational Rehabilita
tion Office who also is blind
Left in center panelBeauty culture is
one of the popular courses for patients at
Battey State Hospital Shown in the pic
ture are Jeannie M Young left a
patient and Rachael E Brasmon right
instructor Upon dismissal from the hos
pitals patients may be provided with ad
ditional training or placed on jobs
through Vocational Rehabilitation serv
Right in center panelA group of am
putees learning to use new artificial legs
at an Atlanta rehabilitation center From
left Louise English of Andersonville
who lost her leg in a shot gun accident
Probell McLyn of Devereux whose leg
was amputated after being broken in a
baseball game Robert Patterson of Ma
con who lost his leg as the result of blood
poisoning and Bob James of Gray who
also lost his leg in a shot gun accident
In lower panellame Tom Isabell of
Macon was aided by Vocational Rehabili
tation services in getting a motor scooter
and trailer for use in peddling fruits and
vegetables Reports indicate he is self
supporting for the first time in years
Formerly he had been dependent upon
Public Welfare With him is his jump
boy who makes doortodoor deliveries
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A crowd estimated at 2000 including public officials educators and civic
leaders of both races heard Governor Herman E Talmadge at the dedi
cation of the new Georgia Academy for Negro Blind at Macon November
13 The student body is shown at right in the picture In the foreground
are members of the Choral Group See story on page 6

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ABILITY COUNTSTopAmputees in physical therapy
class at an Atlanta rehabilitation
clinic The treatment includes various
exercises designed to strengthen the
muscles of the stumps limbs and back
in preparation for training in the use
of artificial appliances
Commercial art is one of the many
courses for patients at Battey State
Hospital In the center picture Lithon
ias Juanita Robinson is shown doing
copper plate art work
Before losing his sight last August
John Tyler right below a native of
Macon was a precision mechanic in
the automotive industry in Atlanta
Without vision it was impossible for
him to work at his trade One of his
hobbies was photography So it was
rather natural for him to be interested
in darkroom work Through Voca
tional Rehabilitation services he was
placed in the Xray laboratory at
Emory University Hospital where he
is reported to be doing a good job
As a boy in Macon he was a neighbor
to John W Lewis Jr blind place
ment specialist in the Vocational Re
habilitation Divisions district office
He says he taught John Lewis to ride
a bicycle
At left in lower panelCasey Fouts
of Dawsonville paralyzed from the
waist down as the result of a gunshot
wound in the back returns from New
York after receiving treatment at a
rehabilitation center there Although
still confined to a wheel chair he is
enrolled in the watch repair class at
North Georgia Trade Vocational
School ClarkesvilleMerit Awards Presented
A Griffin civic club and an Atlanta indus
try have been cited by the Presidents Com
mittee on Employment of the Physically
Handicapped for outstanding service in pro
moting employment opportunities for dis
abled persons
They are the Griffin Lions Club and the
Lovable Brassiere Company of Atlanta
The civic group received the Merit Award
in recognition of the clubs services in con
nection with the establishment of workshops
for the blind The Lovable company was
cited for its longstanding policy in accept
ing for employment physically disabled and
older workers who are qualified to do spe
cific jobs in factories in Atlanta and else
where Currently the company employs 97
homebound and aged women 12 deaf per
sons and several physically impaired clerical
workers in the Atlanta plant
In connection with the Lions Club award
the Griffin News said The plant for the
white blind had been in operation for a short
time when on Dec 16 it was awarded a
contract by the Georgia Division Lockheed
Aircraft Corp Marietta to process small
aircraft parts used in making the B47 strato
jet bomber amounting to 188000
This unique project of the white blind
plant will save for reuse 60 percent or more
of thousands of different kinds of tiny parts
rivets nuts bolts fittings screws and the
likewhich would otherwise be lost in the
manufacture and assembly of todays com
plex military airplanes
The movement to locate the factory to
employ blind Negro persons in Griffin and
surrounding area began early last year and
was particularly sparked by the Griffin Li
ons Club of which Mac Mclntyre is presi
dent The club made the first cash contribu
tion to the project
Mac Mclntyre right President of the Griffin Lions Club
and Manager of the Griffin office of the Georgia State Em
ployment Service receives a Merit Award from the Presidents
Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped The
presentation was made by Marion Williamson State Director
Employment Security Agency The Lions Club won the distinc
tion for its work in locating factories for the blind in Griffin
Actual work on the plant for Negro blind
is scheduled to begin by February 1 the con
tract having been let Jan 5
The Industrial Development Commission
agreed to furnish the land and the local
Chamber of Commerce undertook the solici
tation of the 7000 asked by the State Wel
fare Board to supplement the 50000 that
would be furnished by the State This start
ed the ball rolling and in announcing the
selection of the factory Judge Alan Kemper
Frank Garson second from left founder and president of
Lovable Brassiere Company Atlanta is shown receiving an
award from the Presidents Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped on the television show Over Lifes Hurdles
WAGATV The presentation was made by James Bentley
Executive Secretary representing Governor Herman Talmadge
At left is Marion Williamson State Director Employment
Security Agency At right Mrs Marguerite Ewing Schott
producer of the TV show
State Welfare Director said in part The
finest thing about this project is that it will
take worthy people who because of their
blind handicap are now on the State Welfare
Departments sustenance lists and make
them selfsupporting They will cease being
the States responsibilities and will actually
become taxpayers
Presentation of the award was made by
Marion Williamson State Director Employ
ment Security Agency Georgia Department
of Labor representing Labor Commissioner
Ben T Huiet at a regular meeting of the
Club The nomination for the award was
made by the local National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Committee and
signed by L H Beck area supervisor State
Employment Service C E Lancaster Vo
cational Rehabilitation Counselor and Ad
miral Erskine A Seay representing the Vet
erans Service Department
Presentation of the award to Frank Gar
son founder and president of the Lovable
Brassiere Company was made at a cere
mony at the Atlanta plant in the presence of
some 800 employees Later the ceremony
was reenacted on the television program
Over Lifes Hurdles at Station WAGATV
In accepting the award Mr Garson said
his policy of employing handicapped work
ers started years ago when he hired a deaf
girl This girls service he said was satis
factory and when she brought a deaf friend
to the plant another was added to the pay
roll Employment of the homebound and
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Vol 7
JANFEBY 1954
No 6
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens 110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
In recent messages to Congress President Eisenhower recommended an expan
sion of Vocational Rehabilitation services to handicapped persons
Here are some excerpts from his State of the Union message
The program for rehabilitation of the disabled especially needs strengthen
ing Through special vocational training this program presently returns each
year some 60000 handicapped individuals to productive work Far more disabled
people can be saved each year from idleness and dependence if this program is
gradually increased
The Federal government should encourage medical research in its battle
with such mortal diseases as cancer and heart ailments and should continue to
help the states in their health and rehabilitation programs The present hospital
survey and construction act should be broadened in order to assist in the develop
ment of adequate facilities for the chronically ill and to encourage the construc
tion of diagnostic centers rehabilitation facilities and nursing homes The war
on disease also needs a better working relationship between government and
private initiative Private and nonprofit hospital and medical insurance plans are
already in the field soundly based on the experience and initiative of the people
in their various communities A limited government reinsurance service would
permit the private and nonprofit insurance companies to offer broader protection
to more of the many families which want and should have it
In a later message he made some specific recommendations The proposals
may be summarized as follows
1The HillBurton Hospital construction Act would be amended to
enable funds to be spent for the construction and equipment of rehabilitation
facilities and 10000000 would be earmarked for this purpose in 1955
2The Social Security Act would be amended to provide for waiver of
premiums for insured persons becoming permanently disabled and vocational
rehabilitation agencies would be the preferred state agencies to make medical
determination of eligibility for the waiver of premiums They would be reim
bursed from the social security trust fund for expenses in connection with making
examinations but not for expenditures in rehabilitating these disabled
3A new basis for making grants to states for Vocational Rehabilitation
services is proposed somewhat as follows a To maintain existing programs
Federal allotments would be made to the states based upon population and per
capita income with the maximum Federal share of the total expenditure being
66 percent and the minimum 33 percent b for extension and improve
ment projects not yet clearly defined the Federal government would allot to
the states on a population basis additional sums beginning with 35 million
dollars in 1955 and going up to over sixty million in 1959 The states would not
be required to match such funds in 1955 but would put up 10 percent in 1956
and a larger proportion each year thereafter up to 50 percent c An additional
amount would be appropriated each year to the Office of Vocational Rehabilita
tion to be spent without matching for special projects with unique promise of
making important contributions to the solution of rehabilitation problems to all
or several states
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Heart surgery and vocational training gave
Gainesvilles James C Townsend former tex
tile mill worker a new lease on life At 21
he was compelled to quit his job because of
repeated pulmonary hemorrhages Atlanta
specialists diagnosed his condition as mitral
valvular stenosis and aorta insufficiency
In March 1951 he was hospitalized for sur
gery on the valve of his heart The operation
has been described as grinding the valves
Heart specialists who examined Townsend re
ported that without surgery he had little life
exnectancy
Upon recovery from the operation Town
send enrolled at the North Georgia Trade
Vocational School Clarkesville in the dry
cleaning and laundry classes While there he
was president of the Rehabilitation Friendship
Club made up of Rehabilitation Division
clients
Upon completion of the course he had break
in training at a Macon dry cleaning estab
lishment He is now employed as spotter
at the Marvin Bass Laundry 2181 Peachtree
Road NW AtlantaAt School
Here are some recent scenes at the
Georgia School for the Deaf Cave
Spring where a Million Dollar im
provement program is nearing com
pletion
Topfour students in the Advanced
Department learning the fundamen
tals of woodworking
CenterA scene in the Science class
in the Advanced Department
Lower leftShoe repairing is a
popular course for boys
Lower rightA corner in the Home
Economics Class
The high school is fully accredited
Sixteen units are required for gradua
tion and the subject matter is dis
tributed according to the proper grade
levels for hearing children
Vocational training is an important
part of the program at GSD Most of
the shops have been modernized or
are in the process of being improved
in equipment and wellrounded
courses
In addition to wood working and
shoe repairing illustrated on this
page other courses for boys include
printing and agriculture Courses for
girls are beauty culture and sewing
as well as home economics
Many girls have secured Master Li
censes in Cosmetology In sewing and
home economics the girls learn how
to be good homemakers
As only a small percentage of the
students graduating from GSD have
an opportunity to continue their edu
cation the vocational courses are in
tended to give them skills which will
help them to earn a living and become
selfsupporting citizens
Merit Awards Presented
Continued from page 3
older workers started he said when a
former employee came to the plant and
asked for an opportunity to do some sew
ing at home Now he said one operation
in the manufacture of brassieres is car
ried on almost entirely by home workers
The nomination for this award was
sponsored by the Atlanta NEPH Com
mittee of which Troy Stone is Chairman
Nominations for the Presidents Com
mittee awards are approved by Paul S
Barrett State Director of Vocational Re
habilitation and Chairman of the State
NEPH Committee before being sent to
Washington for action by the national
Awards Committee
EORGIANS are a generous and friend
ly people deeply concerned in the wel
fare of their neighbors At the same time
they are practical people interested in the
economic soundness of their state
Paradoxically these two contrasting inter
ests are united in the Easter Seal cause which
offers a twofold reason for the full and
whoehearted support of all of us
In the first place Easter Seals which will
go out in the mails to some 400000 Geor
gians between March 18 and April 18 make
possible the highly skilled professional care
and treatment which restore crippled chil
dren to happy useful lives Thus they sat
isfy the humanitarian impulse to help ones
neighbor
But Easter Seals do something else They
make independent selfsustaining citizens of
these children who might otherwise grow up
to be dependent cripples They make it pos
sible for these boys and girls as adults to
make their own contribution to the economic
and social life of their communities rather
than live out their lives as the charges of
family friends or taxsupported agencies
This of course is just plain common sense
good business
It is important to all of us to know fur
thermore that Easter Seal funds do their
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work right in the communities in which they
are raised Of every dollar contributed 917
per cent remains within the state where it
originated The other 83 per cent supports
the nationwide program of education re
search and direct service of the National So
ciety of Crippled Children and Adults spon
sor of the Seal drive in 48 states and an af
filiate of your Georgia Society
How does the Georgia Society give treat
ment to the states 100000 handicapped
youngsters
Through crippled childrens Centers lo
cated in various parts of Georgiaseparated
to such a degree that no child has to travel
far from his own home town in order to re
ceive care The Centers established through
Easter Seal funds with the cooperation of
community groups are located in Athens
Augusta Atlanta Savannah Griffin Doug
las Macon and Thomasville
Volunteer Board Members of the Georgia
Society guide its affairs Edgar P Eyler Sa
vannah is president The Executive Director
is Miss Mary Webb Atlanta
Georgias Easter Seal Agency has made
great strides in the past few years Its Cen
ters have grown in number and in scope Yet
more and more of the states 100000 handi
capped children must be reached
The Easter Seal story can have no ending
But Georgians can make it a happy story for
more and more crippled children by support
ing its Easter Seal Society during the 1954
campaign
Walter Sheets left a former school
teacher now an instructor at the Junior
League School of Speech Correction At
lanta demonstrates the pharyngeal
method of speech on a recent tele
vision program Over Lifes Hurdles at
WAGATV featuring services for those
who have surgical removal of larynx
Shown with him is Ernest Hutchins of
Hapeville who quickly mastered the
new voice technique Demonstrations
also were given in esophageal speech
and in the use of various types of arti
ficial devices Mr Sheets is currently
president of the Georgia Laryngectomies
Association Inc an organization devoted
to aiding in the readjustment of those
who have lost their vocal cords
Vocational rehabilitation workers from six
Southeastern states will hold a fourday work
conference at the General Oglethorpe Hotel
Savannah starting May 3 H B Cummings
Regional Representative of the Office of Vo
cational Rehabilitation has announced
Paul S Barrett State Director of Voca
tional Rehabilitation is scheduled to preside
at the opening session Savannahs Mayor
Olin Fulmer will welcome the visitors and
Chatham County School Superintendent Bill
Early President of the National Education
Association will extend greetings
General sessions will be devoted to topics
relating to case services Sectional meetings
will be held by supervisors and counselors
working with the blind At the second days
session representatives of the lunior League
School of Speech Correction Atlanta will
give a demonstration of esophageal speech
audiological testing and methods of correct
ing speech impediments
Another feature will be a panel discussion
on services to the totally and permanently
disabled with participants from the Welfare
Departments and Vocational Rehabilitation
agencies in the various states in the region
Miss Edris Hughes of Birmingham Ala
Home Industries Specialist is on the pro
gram for a discussion of A Workable
Homebound Program
E B Porter of Washington Chief Di
vision of Program Services Office of Voca
tional Rehabilitation will lead a panel dis
cussion on Quality in Case Services Sub
jects to be covered by participants include
adequate investigations placement services
vocational diagnosis onthejob training and
counseling
J I Rankin of Jackson Miss chief of
Services for the Blind will lead a panel dis
cussion on the selection and screening of cli
ents for rehabilitation services
E B Whitten of Washington Executive
Director of the National Rehabilitation As
sociation will report on national legislation
affecting vocational rehabilitation servicesEssay Contest
The Physically Handicapped
Competent Dependable Workers is
the subject for the sixth annual na
tional essay contest sponsored by the
Presidents Committee on Employ
ment of the Physically Handicapped
The competition is open to 11th and
12th grade students in public and pri
vate high schools Parchment awards
signed by the President will be given
for the five best essays in each state
Firstprize state essays will be entered
in the national competition for five
cash prizes ranging from 1000 down
to 100
Announcement of the 1954 contest
has been sent to Georgia school super
intendents and high school principals
by Dr M D Collins State Superin
tendent of Schools and Paul S Bar
rett State Director of Vocational Re
habilitation and State Chairman of the
Presidents Committee
Entries by Georgia students should
reach Mr Barrett at the State Office
Building Atlanta by March 1 Under
the rules essays should be less than
1200 words typed double spaced on
82 by 11 white paper Students
name home and class address and
English teachers signature must be on
the stapled cover sheet only and not
on the essay itself
Announcement of winners in the
national competition will be made at
the spring meeting of the Presidents
Committee in Washington
TB Study
A followup study of more than 300
former tuberculosis patients who were
rehabilitated into employment after
their condition became arrested has
been undertaken by the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division in cooperation
with the Division of Tuberculosis
Control of the State Department of
Public Health
Some of the cases were closed re
habilitated three years ago The pur
pose of the study is to determine
among other things the types of jobs
now being held by these clients and
the progress made in employment
since placement

Twentyfiveyearold Frank James
on stretcher paralyzed from the
waist down boards a nonstop plane
for New York where he will receive
treatment at a rehabilitation cen
ter through Vocational Rehabilitation
services
He had spent some nine months in
an Atlanta hospital after sustaining
spinal injuries when trapped beneath
falling timbers while demolishing a
building
A native of Savannah Frank com
pleted the ninth grade before dropping
out of school because of financial prob
lems in his family He had worked in
Atlanta only a few months before the
disabling accident After treatment in
the center he will be guided into some
vocation to enable him to become self
supporting
Louise English of Andersonville
who lost her right leg in a shot gun
accident makes rapid progress in
learning to use an artificial limb at
an Atlanta rehabilitation clinic Ampu
tees are taught among other things
how to walk up and down stairs with
out using hand rails Here she is
shown demonstrating her skill on a
stairway
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It has been rugged at times but it was worth it said 49yearold
N H Buddy Johnson in describing his 20year battle to overcome
the crippling effects of rheumatoid arthritis
He had just opened his own watch repair shop in his home at 29
Clay Street S E Atlanta and was looking forward to earning his
own living for the first time since he was a young surveyor for the
City of Atlanta
When referred to Vocational Rehabilitation in 1950 Buddy had
been bedridden for seven years His hips spine and neck were rigid
his legs useless Fortunately he did have good use of his hands But
about all he had been able to do was to lie in bed and look at the
ceiling
He was one of the most severely disabled applicants I had ever
interviewed says Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor J J Segars
The only way Buddy could see visitors was with a mirror rigged to
the head of the bed See pictures at top of page
A group of Atlanta physicians recommended a physical rehabili
tation plan including medication with the socalled miracle drugs
physiotherapy and surgery
Operations were performed on both hips The old useless joints
were replaced with artificial joints Bilateral arthroplasty the sur
geons call it The operations restored function to the hips so that
Buddy could learn to walk with braces and crutches
Early in 1952 he had recovered sufficiently to go to the Woodrow
Wilson Rehabilitation Center Fishersville Va for additional treat
ment and vocational training
The picture at left in the center panel shows him in a walker at
his home just before leaving for Virginia The other shows him as
he is today walking with the aid of short crutches
Throughout the ordeal of pain Buddy retained his sense of humor I
Note the automobile license tag and horn attached to the walker I
Hanging on the wall of his shop is a framed motto his friend Julian I
Boehm adopted years ago Its a beautiful world
Buddy continues to exercise regularly He says he walks about
two miles every day
The picture at lower left shows him at work in his shop

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We wish to take this occasion to thank
your department for the splendid placements
of handicapped persons that you have made
in our firm said W A Sims Jr president
of Master Manufacturing Co Inc in a letter
to the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
He added We are meeting with excep
tionally good results in employing handi
capped workers These people in most
cases do better work have less absenteeism
and are more dependable than nonhandi
capped workers Since this program has
been so successful with us it is now our
policy to contact you for handicapped work
ers before employing the nonhandicapped
This Atlanta industry manufactures auto
mobile seat covers and spring cushions
Currently it employs or has in training 12
physically impaired workers
The front cover shows Leland Meeks cen
ter formerly of Nicholls who has limb im
pairments resulting from polio Standing
at left is Mr Sims At right B W Kaplan
SecretaryTreasurer Meeks a clerktypist
received training through Vocational Re
habilitation services
Shown on this page are Top leftGrady
McCord an amputee assembling seat
frames He lost his leg from an infection
Top rightMiss Corrine Dempsey power
machine operator who has leg and spine
impairments She is one of the big pro
ducers in the plant
Center panel leftMrs Thelma McCord
inspecting folding and packing She had an
eye disability Center rightMrs Ruth
Morgan power machine operator who uses
double crutches because of limb impairments
from polio I am prouder of this job than
anything Ive ever had she says
Left aboveMiss Mildred Thaxton power machine operator wears a builtup shoe She has limb impairments result
ing from a childhood accident
CenterMrs Grace Westbrook originally from Cumming a power machine operator had a back injury
RightWilson Teel wire bender and assemblyman with Mrs Eleanor Rutledge supervisor Teels receiving onthe
joh training He had an emotional disabilityKc 6corooooiCvoAo
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MarchApril 1954 No 7
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augmta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
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Good Business
By Dr M D Collins
N the past ten years nearly 29000 handicapped men and women in Georgia
have been rehabilitated through the services of our joint StateFederal
Program
Thats five times the number rehabilitated during the previous 23 years
The people represented by the figures were victims of crippling diseases
accidents and birth deformities They were unable to pay for medical care
hospitalization and other services needed to restore them to lives of usefulness
The expenditure of public funds to make them selfsufficient I think is
fully justified from a humanitarian standpoint alone But theres another side to
it the business angle
These people were vocationally handicapped Some were without work
experience education or training Others had lost their jobs because of their
disabilities and most of them were dependent upon relatives or welfare agencies
for support
Those who required special training in schools colleges or business estab
lishments received it and afterwards were guided into suitable employment
Records indicate that their average earnings the first year after rehabilitation
were four times the cost of the services they received
At the time of placement they had many years of work expectancy
Their earnings are going into trade channels and contributing to the pros
perity of the communities in which they live
Yes rehabilitation like other phases of education doesnt costit pays
It pays the individual who gets the service
It pays their employers
And it pays the community the state and the nation
Managers of all vending stands in the chain operated by the Georgia Co
operative Services for the Blind Inc are to be covered by group hospitalization
and medical care insurance George Craft president of the nonprofit organiza
tion has announced
The decision to provide this form of protection to the blind business men
was made at a meeting of the board of directors on April 8
The step was made possible by a substantial increase in sales volume during
the past nine months Premiums will be paid out of administrative funds
The board is made up of outstanding business and civic leaders who are
keenly interested in helping blind men and women establish themselves in
business enterprises
ABILITY COUNTSHIRE THE HANDICAPPEDColumbus Girl Wins Essay Contest
Attractive 17yearold Nina Davis a senior
at Columbus Baker High School captured
a thirdplace tie in the 1954 National Essay
Contest sponsored by the Presidents Com
mittee op Employment of the Physically
Handicapped Maj Gen Melvin J Maas
USMC Retd Chairman announced in
Washington on April 23
She was scheduled to go to Washington
on April 28 to receive her reward250 in
cash and expenses for the visit to the nations
capital The presentation was to be made
during the spring meeting of the Presidents
Committee
Her essay on The Physically Handi
cappedCompetent Dependable Workers
qualified for the national competition after
being awarded first place in the Georgia
contest in which high school students
throughout the state had entries Certificates
of merit were presented to four successful
contestants in the state The five national
prizes range from 1000 to 100
is the youngest of nine childrensix girls
and three boys Her father is a carpenter
Reports from Columbus indicate that she
has made an outstanding record in high
school solid A student 195253 and B A
student in 195354 She is president of the
Student Council a member of the Beta Club
and the TriHiClub She has also been a
member of the school band and glee club
Miss Davis is majoring in secretarial work
and plans to attend the University of Georgia
Off Campus Center in Columbus then go
to Troy Ala to prepare herself for work in
education
She says the inspiration for her essay came
from association with a handicapped brother
She is the first Georgia student to win a
place in the national competition
Nina Davis right and Mrs Ruth K Other successful Georgia contestants were
Atkinson English teacher
Miss Davis lives on Rt 1 Columbus with
her parents Mr and Mrs L P Davis She
Shirley Sapp Marietta High School Mariet
ta second Barbara Bishop Fulton High
School Atlanta third and Carolyn Langs
ton Southwest High School Atlanta fourth
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For leadership and resourcefulness in the
administration of rehabilitation services to
the handicapped Heber B Cummings of
Atlanta Southeastern Regional Representa
tive of the Office of Vocational Rehabilita
tion on April 9 received the Superior Serv
ice Award from the U S Department of
Health Education and Welfare
The presentation was made by Mrs Oveta
Culp Hobby Secretary at the annual honor
awards ceremony in the department auditori
um in Washington In making the award
she said With Mr Cummings leadership
the states in Region IV have surpassed
all other regions in state financial participa
tion in community acceptance of the pro
gram and in the number of persons re
habilitated
Mr Cummings has been with the Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation since 1943 but
his services in this field span 35 years of
tireless and pioneering effort His contribu
tion is especially significant as we realize
more and more the importance of bringing
handicapped men and women back into
happy useful life We wish him continued
success in this splendid work
In 1948 he received the Meritorious
Service Award from the National Rehabili
tation Association
Mr Cummings first service in the field of
rehabilitation was during World War I
when with the rank of Army Captain he
supervised the work of a group of psychologi
cal examiners in testing and classifying
soldiers
With the inauguration of the Veterans
training program he was appointed super
visor in the Southwest under the old Federal
Board for Vocational Education
Following passage of the first civilian Vo
cational Rehabilitation Act in 1920 Doc
Cummings as he is known to friends was
appointed supervisor for the Southern region
and Puerto Rico with headquarters in Dal
las He was transferred to Atlanta in 1944
His intimate knowledge of the needs of
the handicapped his keen intellect and sound
judgment have contributed in a large meas
ure in the shaping of administrative policies
of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
and in raising the standards of professional
service There are few if any professional
rehabilitation workers in the South who did
H B Cummings
not receive
leadership
inservice training under hisMore Aid to Disabled Asked
Reprint from The New York Times
Sunday January 24 1954
By Dr Howard A Rusk
D URIED deep in the 65600000000 bud
get message President Eisenhower sent
to Congress Thursday is a recommendation
that has far greater significance in human
than in dollar terms This is the recom
mendation on rehabilitation
In his State of the Union message the
President had called for a bold new attack
on the problems of rehabilitating the handi
capped Last Monday he amplified this in a
special message and called for an expansion
of the present program in which 60000 dis
abled persons a year are restored to employ
ment to a goal of 200000 by 1959
If this goal were achieved the nation
would be providing rehabilitation services for
80 per cent of the 250000 persons who be
come disabled each year
The first step toward this goal the Presi
dent proposes would be taken in 1955 with
the rehabilitation of 70000 disabled persons
an increase of 10000 over the number served
in 1953
Increase in State Aid Urged
He recommends that this be done by
Maintaining the present program of 60000
rehabilitations a year by continuation of the
Federal contribution of 23000000 a year
and expenditures of 15000000 a year by
the states In his fiveyear plan the Presi
dent proposes that the states gradually in
crease their financial participation until they
furnish 50 per cent of the funds
Providing a special Federal appropriation
of 3500000 for the next fiscal year to be
allocated to the states so that they may
increase the number of rehabilitations by
10000 The cost in the first year would be
borne entirely by the Federal Government
as many states do not have legislative ses
sions this year at which matching funds
could be appropriated
Providing a Federal grant of 1500000
for research and training with emphasis on
training to obtain sufficient trained rehabili
tation personnel in succeeding years to staff
the expanded program
Dr Howard A Rusk
Providing 10000000 in Federal funds
under the Hospital Construction and Survey
Act HillBurton Program for building and
expanding rehabilitation facilities
The economic returns of this dynamic new
approach to the rehabilitation of the dis
abled have been well documented Experi
ence shows that by removing disabled per
sons from public assistance rolls through
rehabilitation and placing them in jobs far
more money is saved than the cost of their
rehabilitation In addition each disabled
person thus restored will repay the cost of
his rehabilitation many times over in Federal
state and local taxes
The economic logic underlying the Presi
dents proposals is so overwhelming that the
humanitarian aspects of what this would
mean to the 140000 additional disabled per
sons who would be aided each year have
often been lost
Here are a few examples of what the
present program has meant in terms of
human dignity and opportunity
Three years ago a chemistry professor
in a college in South Carolina became para
lyzed as the result of a medical condition
and was told he would lead a wheelchair
existence Through the Federalstate voca
tional rehabilitation program he was sent to
a rehabilitation center fitted with braces
and crutches and taught to walk on his
paralyzed legs
A set of parallel bars was installed parallel
with the blackboard in his old classroom
and this fall he started teaching again He
drives his own specially equipped car back
and forth to the campus and has not missed a
class this term Although paralyzed in the
legs his great fund of knowledge rich ex
perience and maturity are again contributing
to the development of the nation
Georgia Textile Worker Aided
Across the line in Georgia a younger man
a textile worker with three children was
similarly disabled four years ago in an auto
mobile accident The Georgia Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a re
habilitation center and he too learned to
walk with braces and crutches
After his physical rehabilitation the Geor
gia agency gave him vocational training in
shoe repairing and set him up in a small
shop Now he is a selfsufficient taxpaying
productive worker able to care for his fami
ly and share his responsibilities as a citizen
In Pennsylvania similar services were pro
vided by the Pennsylvania Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation for a boy partly para
lyzed in both his arms and legs from polio
He is now able to care for himself and drives
his own car equipped with hand controls
to his job as an executive with the Philadel
phia Council of the Boy Scouts of America
These are the stories of but three of the
60000 persons served by the program last
year They and the additional 140000 dis
abled persons a year whom the President
hopes may be rehabilitated by 1959 are more
than numbers
They are men and women whose hopes
ambitions and aspirations have been shat
tered by physical disability but who may
now have the opportunity to live to work
and to hope again Provision of that op
portunity is a basic tenet of democratic
livingSightless Lewis Stone recently was
assigned as manager of the vending
stand in the Scripto Inc plant in At
lanta He lost one eye in an automobile
accident the other through infection
A graduate of the Georgia Academy
for the Blind in Macon he had one
year in college This stand has been
in operation for five years and is one
of the most successful in any industrial
plant in the state Like others in pub
lic buildings institutions and indus
tries it is under the supervision of the
Georgia Cooperative Services for the
Blind Inc a nonprofit organization
cooperating with the Vocational Re
habilitation Division
Shown at right in center panel is
37yearold Edward Bacon of 170
Berry Street Athens a porter em
ployed by Crows Drug Store Bacons
hearing became impaired several years
ago Through Vocational Rehabilita
tion services he was provided with a
hearing aid so that he could remain on
the job Shown with him is Dr Lamar
Dooley
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Thomas Dorsey 36 on table of
Atlanta lost his right arm and left
leg in a railway accident He is
shown here with Dr Harriet Gil
lette at a physical and vocational
evaluation clinic Formerly em
ployed as a railroad section hand
he will be fitted with artificial limbs
trained in their use and guided into
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Hospital Atlanta to provide for a larger display of merchandise and better service to patients staff
nurses and visitors This is one of three units at the hospital It emplovs three persons and is open
sixteen hours a day Show at left is John Croker manager a veteran in stand operation under the Geor
gia Cooperative Services for the Blind and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division At right is A M
Davis a new employee Fortytwo such stands are now in operation in the state They employ hftv
persons H J J
Jtakabllitatioiv MwsOver Hurdle
Paralysis of the lower limbs didnt keep these two
young Savannahians on the sidelines in lifes game It
took about three years in hospitals rehabilitation cen
ters and training establishments for them to make the
adjustment to new ways of living but they have cleared
the hurdles and are now working regularly
Fortyoneyearold Edward M Johnson seated of
20 West Fiftyfourth street is a radio and television
technician at the Cochran Radio TV Service 4107
Bull street where he received onthejob training after
returning from a rehabilitation center in New York
Shown with him are Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
G E Currie left and G L Cochran
In April 1951 Mr Johnson a salesman fell in a bath
tub and injured his back He went back to work the
next day Three months later he came home one after
noon and collapsed in the living room An examination
revealed that he was paralyzed from the waist down
At left in the center panel he is
shown ready to board a plane for
a New York rehabilitation center
David Fussell 25 is a book
keeper in the office of a prominent
Savannah physician A graduate of
Commercial High he had served a
hitch in the Army and was working
in the office of a Savannah industry
when injured in an auto accident
While driving on a wet pavement
his car struck a hole and turned
over When Mr Fussell regained
consciousness he found he couldnt
use his legs At the Veterans Hos
pital in Dublin it was found that he
was paralyzed He was removed to
a Savannah hospital and later sent
to a New York rehabilitation cen
ter for treatment and training He
now walks with the aid of crutches
and drives a car equipped with
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At leftThe latest innovation in
store management by blind persons
is the tape recorder Fred Robinson
who operates a neighborhood store
in a converted garage back of his
home at 849 Vedado Way N E
Atlanta uses this device to record
orders phoned by his patrons The
tape is played back to a sighted
delivery boy The recorder also
comes in handy in taking inventory
and making up want listsDeaf Workers Rated Tops
See front page picture
In the Family Fund Life Insurance Co
home office on Spring street Atlanta there
are three attractive young women who are
rated tops as mechanical accounting tabu
lating and recording clerks
They are like other personable capable
business women in that office or others in
Atlanta and elsewhere except that they are
deaf
This is another instance in which well
trained persons with hearing impairments are
making good in operating IBM equipment
and other modern business machines in
offices throughout the State and Nation
James E Foreman assistant secretary who
supervises the personnel of this section in the
Family Fund offices says he employed one
Mrs Bonnie Craig of Lawrencevillenearly
three years ago She had received training in
calculating machine operation through Voca
tional Rehabilitation services
Mr Foreman says he found her so alert
and competent and so congenial with the
other girls that he decided to try out another
one with similar impairments
About six months later Mrs Anne Palmer
formerly of Loganville who also had re
ceived training under Vocational Rehabilita
tion auspices was given a position as key
punch machine operator She too met the
requirements and got along pleasantly with
her associates
Then six months ago there was another
vacancy in this department So Mr Fore
man rather naturally sought a third qualified
deaf worker Mrs Myrtle Nix of East Point
got the bid And he says he hasnt been
disappointed in her
Actually Mr Foreman is really enthusias
tic over the whole thing He says the services
of these three young women are more satis
factory in every respect than that of many
other operators who have normal hearing
After adapting themselves to the key
punch machines they have no trouble keep
ing up with production schedules They are
not distracted by noises or the conversations
of their hearing associates
Mrs Craig lost her hearing at the age of
10 according to the records She received
her early education at a Florida school
Mrs Palmer attended school in Clinton
Tenn She had held temporary jobs as a
calculating machine operator before going
to her present position
Mrs Nix attended the Georgia School for
the Deaf at Cave Spring
Top at leftMrs Bonnie Craig
keeps up a ratatattat on the key
punch machine At right she is shown operating a tabulating machine while James
E Foreman assistant secretary stands by
Lower panelMrs Myrtle Nix left and Mrs Ann Palmer operating key punch
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Vol 7
MayJune 1954
No 8
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Good News For Disabled
O EPORTS from Washington indicate there will be no reduction in Federal
funds for vocational rehabilitation services to civilians during the new
fiscal year beginning July 1
The House Committee of the Whole recently overrode the Appropriations
Committee by restoring a proposed cut of 2000000 in the 23milliondollar
appropriation bill At the same time it voted to remove restrictions in the formula
for allocating funds to the states
Representative John E Forgarty of Rhode Island led the fight in the House
Committee of the Whole to maintain the appropriation at the same level as during
the present fiscal year and to remove the restrictive language according to the
Congressional Record He had strong support from other friends of rehabilita
tion in the House including members of the Georgia delegation
It was expected that the measure as finally reported by the House would
pass the Senate without change
With state appropriations to match the Federal appropriation it appears
funds will be available next year to rehabilitate about 70000 disabled men and
women through the general rehabilitation agencies There are other measures
pending in Congress to provide special assistance to other groups and agencies
By the close of the present fiscal year more than 4000 handicapped persons
will have been rehabilitated in Georgia under this joint StateFederal program
This will mean that Georgia again will be at or near the top among states
in this vital field of public service
A Deserved Honor
Elsewhere in this issue appears an announcement of an honor conferred
upon Dr Robert L Bennett by the Presidents Committee on the Employment of
the Physically Handicapped
We are confident that this recognition of Dr Bennetts long and distinguished
service to disabled children and adults will meet the full approval of members
of the medical profession in Georgia and throughout the Nation
As a matter of fact his nomination for this special award of merit sponsored
by the local and State National Employ the Physically Handicapped Committees
had the endorsement of distinguished members of the profession in distant states
as well as Vocational Rehabilitation administrators in the Southeast
As pointed out in a recent issue of Performance published by The Presidents
Committee throughout the years the contribution of the medical profession in
bettering the lot of the physically handicapped has been one of the most important
factors in the gains made For the most part physicians and surgeons have been
given little public recognition With this in mind in 1953 the Presidents Com
mittee inaugurated a Citation for Outstanding Service to be awarded to doctors
who have made notable contributions to the handicapped
This is the special citation given Dr Bennett
We congratulate him upon this new honor
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor D Donaldson of Rome was elected
Chairman of the regional National Rehabilitation Association at a meeting at
Savannah May 37
The conference was attended by about 200 representatives of public and
volunteer agencies in the six Southeastern states
The 1955 conference will be held in Biloxi MissIn a basement shop under a museum just
off the highway near Griffin 35 visually
handicapped workers are setting records for
production and accuracy in salvaging small
parts from the sweepings of an aircraft
plant
This project started about a year ago is a
branch of the Georgia Factory for the Blind
at Bainbridge working under contract with
the Lockheed Aircraft Corp Marietta
There are some forty processes in separat
ing and inspecting the thousands of different
parts that are brought from Marietta in ton
afterton lots
Hugh M Terrell plant manager says it
was not only necessary to develop methods
of operation but to design and build special
equipment to meet the needs of blind
workers
First the masses of parts are screened to
eliminate the trash Then they are screened
and screened again to separate the small
parts from the larger items And then begins
the processes of separating the steel articles
from the aluminum the bolts from the nuts
and all the other dissimilar parts
To aid workers in assorting bolts they
built a special type of work table The metal
top has two rows of square holes each 1 32
of an inch longer than the one at the left
Metal pipes extend from these holes to paper
bags on a floor board
The worker moves the bolts from leftto
right on a ledge or track When the bolts
reach the proper hole they fall into the paper
bags
Mr Terrell says there are about 9000
different parts in the material brought to the
plant He says the workers are salvaging
about 1000 lbs a week of usable parts
Thus far he says all deliveries back to
Lockheed have been graded as 100 percent
Thats better than when it comes from the
factory because there are always some de
fective parts in any shipments of such parts
All workers except one or two on the final
inspection jobs are either totally blind or
have visual defects which rate as industrial
blindness
Mr Terrell says their production record is
better than that of a group of sighted workers
who were employed on a similar poject in
the west
Top leftBarney Duncan formerlv of
Atlanta sifting steel parts RightMrs
Mildred Brandon sizing aluminum bolts
by diameter Center Panelat left
Haskel Lance formerly Cherokee County
sizing aluminum bolts by lengths Right
Exie Dooly inspecting steel parts
Lower panelleftNellie Hand sepa
rating steel parts by sizes RightInez
Spiney Dorothy Goddard and Lucile Up
church making final inspection of alu
minum parts

Tor Outstanding Service to Disabled
Dr Robert L Bennett psychiatrist of
Atlanta and Warm Springs recently was
cited by The Presidents Committee on Em
ployment of the Physically Handicapped for
outstanding service in the field of rehabili
tation
This special award to members of the
medical profession was established in 1953
To date only 15 others have received it on
the recommendation of local and state
NEPH committees and medical societies
The report upon which the award was
based says
Throughout his professional life Dr Ben
nett has made outstanding contributions to
the field of physical medicine and rehabilita
tion and has been a leader nationally and
internationally in the rehabilitation of the
disabled particularly of persons suffering
from poliomyelitis
He is recognized as a leading authority
on the rehabilitation of those having polio
myelitis and his authoritative papers on the
physical treament and rehabilitation of polio
myelitics have contributed greatly toward
the restoration of thousands of persons dis
abled by this crippling disease
His pioneering work in practice teaching
and research at the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation founded by the late Franklin D
Roosevelt has made this foundation the
mecca for all physicians interested in the
rehabilitation of the disabled
His teaching at Emory University has
been equally outstanding His organizational
leadership and keen insight have been im
portant factors in promotion of the develop
ment of his important and rapidly growing
speciality
Dr Robert L Bennett receiving citation
from Paul S Barrett State Director of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services and
State Chairman of The Presidents Com
mittee on Employment of the Physically
Handicapped
His training of medical colleagues and
ancillary workers physical therapists and
occupational therapists has been of outstand
ing quality and his wise counseling of dis
abled patients and their families has endeared
him to hundreds of our citizens
Through consultations with and lectures
before the professional staff of the Georgia
Vocational Rehabilitation Division he is
making an outstanding contribution to the
advancement of Vocational Rehabilitation of
disabled civilians
Dr Bennetts professional affiliations were
listed as Medical Director Warm Springs
Foundation Chairman Department of Phy
sical Medicine Emory University Hospital
Professor of Physical Medicine Emory Uni
versity School of Medicine Medical Di
rector Cerebral Palsy School Clinic Atlanta
Consultant and Clinical Director of Physical
Medicine Crippled Childrens Division
Georgia Department of Public Health Con
sultant Physical Medicine and Rehabilita
tion Vocational Rehabilitation Division
State Department of Education Consultant
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sur
geon General U S Army Chief Consultant
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Veter
ans Administration Area 3 Director Grad
uate School of Physical Therapy and
Occupational Therapy Georgia Warm
Springs Foundation Member Medical Ad
visory Council Gonzales Warm Springs
Foundation Gonzalezs Texas
Mrs Ida Bell Dennard formerly of Cal
houn is one of the 12 physicallyimpaired
workers employed by the Master Manu
facturing Co Atlanta in the production
of auto seat covers and spring seats
Formerly a waitress and textile mill em
ployee Mrs Dennard injured her ankles
in an auto accident in 1952 She was ad
vised against undertaking any jobs that
required walking or standing An opera
tion stabilized the joints Then she was
provided with onthejob training in
power machine operation and is able to
keep up with production schedulesThey Do
An amputee Reuben Smith 52
of 703 Simpson street N W At
lanta repairs auto radios in the
shops of a West Peachtree street
motor car dealer For years he had
been a porter in the same establish
ment Vocational Rehabilitation re
cently aided him in the purchase of
a new limb
RightRoosevelt Mathis 32 of
Pamona lost his left arm in a hunt
ing accident when 15 Through Vo
cational Rehabilitation services he
was provided with an artificial ap
pliance and taught to use it Now
employed as a mechanic in a Sun
nyside garage Mathis uses the ap
pliance in all sorts of mechanical
operations and takes pride in his
increased ability to work
Left belowFor more than forty years Robert Cargile 73 of 77 Ashby street S W Atlanta has been caddy master
at the Druid Hills Golf Club Through the years he has assigned caddies to most of the nations noted golfers as well as
to the regulars who play the Druid Hills course A year or so ago Robert developed an infection in his left leg from an
ingrowing toe nail An amputation followed He was able to provide for medical services and a limb Vocational Reha
bilitation Counselor Jerry Hastings guided him into training in the proper use of the limb at an Atlanta clinic Robert
is happy to be back on his old job Right belowTwo patients at the ChathamSavannah Tuberculosis Sanatorium learn
ing leather goods work in the recreationshop building The building was erected by volunteer workers from the labor
unions Material and furnishings were supplied by civic groups and individuals Vocational Rehabilitation assisted in
equipping the shop
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ABILITY COUNTS
Failing eyesight forced John E Langford Rt 3 LaGrange to give up his job as truck driver for tex
tile plant and carpentering on the side An examination by a specialist indicated Langford had less than
2 percent vision in one eye and 12 percent in the other after correction with glasses An operation for
cateracts restored travel vision He had a suitable location on his little farm for a poultry project
With help from a brotherinlaw he built a brooder house A contract was made with a local hatchery to
furnish baby chicks and feed Here he is shown with 3500 Write Rock broilers his first lot ready for
market Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him with surgery and equipment for his poultry house

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ABILITY COUNTS
At 50 Valdostas Connie Owens
a carpenter learned through Voca
tional Rehabilitation services that
his congenital harelip could be cor
rected with surgery He says he
never married because he thought
his children would have a similar
disability The pictures at left
show Owens before and after the
operation
For five years Ralph McWaters
left in center panel a Walton
County farmer was disabled by a
lung disease which was not con
tagious Through Vocational Re
habilitation services he was pro
vided with medical treatment to
improve his physical condition
Then he was aided in developing
a broiler project Here he is shown
cleaning the equipment in his
brooder house soon after market
ing his first flock of 8000 broilers
He has a wife and six children
James V Loveless right in center
panel is one of seven deaf work
ers employed by Gordon Foods
Inc Atlanta Here he is shown
tending a battery of ovens in the
bakery The superintendent Jack
Davis says the 19yearold baker
is energetic capable and an all
round good man on this job
At leftMrs Blanche Taylor an
other deaf worker at Gordons is
shown packaging cakes in the
bakery It takes a skillful worker
to keep up with the procession
of cakes rolling off the conveyorsDeaf Make Good In Industry
Throughout its 16year history Gordon
Foods Inc Atlanta national processors
of packaged foods has followed the policy
of giving preference to qualified handicapped
persons seeking employment
W D Gordon vice president was quoted
in a Journal of Labor feature article by
Mrs Cicero Kendrick as saying
My father E M Gordon one of the
founders of Gordon Foods Inc and Joe
Travis bakery superintendent at that time
were extremely interested in helping those
who were unable to help themselves It was
through them that Gordon Foods Inc be
gan its close cooperation with the Georgia
Rehabilitation program and the companys
policy of employing the handicapped when
possible was set up
Mr Gordon says his experience with
handicapped workers has been eminently sat
isfactory His interest in giving these men
and women the break they need goes be
yond the Gordon plant He has served on
the Atlanta Employ the Handicapped Com
mittee and was active as a member of the
West End Kiwanis Club in sponsoring the
television program Over Lifes Hurdles
on WAGATV last fall
Among the physically impaired workers
currently employed at Gordons Atlanta
plant are seven deaf persons whose pictures
appear in this issue of Georgia Vocational
Rehabilitation News There are others with
various types of impairments And all are
regarded as capable dependable workers
Mrs Kendricks article in the Journal of
Labor featured the life story of Mrs Carrie
Mitchell Earney As Mrs Earneys story
is somewhat similar to that of many other
deaf persons we are quoting some excerpts
from the article
She looks like an average American
working girl and she has a warm friendly
smile for everyone At work the speed
with which she dispatches the tasks as
signed to her gives no indication that her
life has been different from any other young
woman who is well adjusted and who is
happy in the work she has chosen
Born with total deafness and a subse
quent lack of speech expression Carrie was
well on the way to having her life ruined
because of her mothers fierce protective
love Her mother refused to let her out of
her sight even to go to school She was
encouraged to be lazy and was overin
dulged in every way according to the view
point of a younger sister Mrs J W Kirk
land of Tampa Fla Tampa is also Carries
native city
As a result of this treatment at the age
of 15 when her mother died Carrie was
an uninhibited uneducated spoiled brat with
an affliction thrown in for good measure
Relatives who earlier would have res
cued her from her mothers passionate ob
Top at leftMrs Jeanette Elrod is shown packaging pies at the Gordon plant
At rightJosh R Potts 21 operates a dough machine in filling pans for the
ovens He attended the Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring and worked
in a garment factory before going to his present job At left in bottom panel
Sam Smith another deaf worker operates a marshmallow depositing machine
in the bakery At rightMrs Leila Campos reaches for a box as the cakes
come off the conveyor
session had it been possible were eager to
send her to school and to help her In short
order she was enrolled in the School for
the Deaf in St Augustine Fla and in
equally short order the new Carrie Mitchell
began to emerge
She worked hard for the knowledge that
had been denied her for so long She
learned of things and people outside her
self and although she could not hear ex
cept through the hands of others and the
written word there was a voice within her
that she could hear and from this voice
she learned much
She learned that within herself there was
a whole world over which she had the
power to rule and that she could make
it good or bad disagreeable or pleasant Her
choice is evident in her life today
As soon as she finished school by work
ing as a seamstress in a garment factory
she helped send her younger sister through
high school
Always with the idea of leading a nor
mal life Carrie married a young man who
was not afflicted The marriage failed
she came to Atlanta firm in the belief that
her heart was broken
This brought her to her present job
which she has handled efficiently for more
than 10 years and to her romantic meet
ing of her present husbandOKc GeovqvoVoca2Coro
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Vol 7
JulyAugust 1954
No 9
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross 400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Yoii Too Can Help
Throughout Georgia and the Nation local committees are being organized
for the tenth annual observance of National Employ the Physically Handi
capped Week October 3 to 9
Among the objectives are these To better inform employers of the abilities
of qualified workers to increase community understanding of the value of re
habilitation and employment of the handicapped to perfect community organi
zations so that the handicapped are better served through early rehabilitation and
job placement to study community needs of the handicapped and facilities and
opportunities for meeting these needs and to interpret to employers and to the
handicapped the services available through public and private rehabilitation and
employment services
In Georgia the State NEPH Committee of which Paul S Barrett State Di
rector of Vocational Rehabilitation is Chairman again will have the support of
the Employment Security Agency the State Employment Service Veterans Em
ployment Service State Department of Veterans Service Veterans Administra
tion and other agencies and organizations
Citizens who serve on local committees get a better understanding of the
problems of the handicapped in their own communities They soon see the ad
vantages gained by the community in rehabilitating disabled men and women
into productive jobs If you have not served on one of these local NEPH com
mittees volunteer for an assignment this year The chances are youll feel fully
rewarded for the effort
As pointed out recently by Maj Gen Melvin J Maas USMCR Ret who
succeeded Admiral Ross T Mclntyre as Chairman of the Presidents Commit
tee being in favor of hiring the handicapped is not sufficient we must do
something about it
Unfortunately he said these 10 years have added heavily to the ranks
of the handicapped Modern man who has increased our life span through
medical science and the control or cure of diseases and disabilities once consid
ered fatal has not been able to prevent the wounds of World War II and Korea
or the industrial highway and home accidents of a 60mileanhour civilization
As our population increases so too does the total number of handicapped men
women and children in our country
These men women and children are our most priceless assets and should
a major armed conflict be forced upon us our citizenpower will become even
more vital The handicapped might well mean the difference between survival or
defeat in a conflict with a foe numerically far superior to us and our allies
To a communist the individual means nothing To a free man the indi
vidual is possessed of dignity and an eternal destiny
For this reason aside from the economic and social realities involved it is
incumbent upon all good citizens to strive to increase employment opportunities
for those qualified handicapped men and women among us who seek only work
and a chance to play their part in the drama of life
MabtlitatlQiv Mws
Cover
Of the 90 Vocational Rehabilitation
trainees currently enrolled at the
North Georgia Trade Vocational
School near Clarkesville 12 are
confined to wheel chairs Here they
are shown with their pushers
coming out of the administration
building Two of the four girls in
the group are training in watch
repair The other girls are in the
commerce department Ramps simi
lar to that shown in the lower
righthand corner have been in
stalled in all buildings for the
safety and convenience of chair
bound studentsFor the fourth successive year Vocational
Rehabilitation services in Georgia last year
fiscal 195354 reached a new high point
in the number of handicapped persons re
habilitated into employment3954
That number of closed employed cases
should put Georgia again at or near the
top among states in the total number of
rehabilitations and in the ratio of rehabili
tations to state population
The major types of disabilities in these
cases were amputations 290 orthopedic
impairments 393 blind 241 defective vision
259 deaf 15 hard of hearing 110 cardiac
56 tuberculosis arrested 157 hernia 458
mental and emotional 35 female disorders
697 epilepsy 39 speech impairments 36
polio 31 spastic paralysis 4 diabetes 14
varicose veins 130 neurological 4 nose
and throat 6 and others 976
Of the total number rehabilitated 2099
were women and 1855 men 2608 were
white persons and 1346 Negroes At time
of acceptance for service 2781 had less
than a ninth grade education only 300 had
substantial employment histories 278 had
never worked and 3376 had unsubstantial
or parttime employment records 2394 were
being supported by other members of the
family 780 were working but threatened
with the loss of jobs 304 were dependent
upon welfare agencies and 106 were draw
ing workmens compensation benefits or dis
ability insurance
In all cases general medical examinations
were provided to determine the extent of
the disability and uncover any hidden dis
abilities Medical or surgical services were
provided in 2809 cases hospitalization in
2530 cases artificial appliances in 908 cases
and training in 818 cases
The men and women represented by these
case records are now earning their own
living by working in Georgia factories
stores and offices and on farms in the pro
fessions They are contributing their part
to the purchasing power of their own com
munities and to the productive capacity of
the state and nation
Leaders in College
Physically handicapped students at Young
Harris College made outstanding records
during the 195354 term John M Banner
Public Relations Director said at the Di
visions recent staff conference
There were twentyfour boys and girls
enrolled there under the joint sponsorship
of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Apple
by Scholarship founded by Mr and Mrs
Scott B Appleby of Washington D C in
memory of their son Scott B Appleby Jr
Of this number 5 had arm impairments
GEORGIA
15 YEARS OF PROGRESS
IN VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
4000
3800
3600
3400
3200
3000
2800
2600
2400
2200
2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
Number of Cases
CLOSED
Rehabilitated
413
0 290
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 I94S 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1951
4 rheumatic hearts 3 were amputees 3 had
paralysis resulting from polio 2 were dia
betics 2 had leg impairments 2 had emo
tional disturbances 1 was blind 1 had de
fective vision and 1 was a dwarf
Rehabilitation students represented only
103 percent of the student body yet on
a proportionate basis they received a com
paratively large percentage of the academic
and class honors Mr Banner said
From their ranks came the President and
VicePresident of the Student Council 5 of
the 24 members of the Student Council the
SecretaryTreasurer of the Senior Class
one of the 4 student members of the
Supreme Court the associate advertising
manager of the Year Book Staff the Editor
of Enotah Echoes 2 champion debaters
winner of the Washington Day Speakers
Contest President of a Literary Society 2
members of the Dorcas girls leadership
Club Student Graduation Speaker 4 mem
bers of the College Choir Best allround
boy and girl Accompanist for College
Choir and 5 members of the May graduat
ing class
Excuse Please
In an article appearing in the last issue
of Vocational Rehabilitation News Dr Rob
ert L Bennett was inadvertently identified
as a psychiatrist instead of physiatrist It
was one of those errors which editors and
proofreaders sometimes fail to catch Please
excuse us Dr BennettEdRehabilitation Workers Hear Editor
Ralph McGill Editor of the Atlanta
Constitution and world traveler was the
guest speaker at a dinner highlighting the
Vocational Rehabilitation Divisions annual
staff conference at the General Oglethorpe
Hotel near Savannah on August 12
He drew upon his observations and ex
periences abroad to give 200 guests an inti
mate insight into world problems
Among those present were representatives
of health and welfare agencies school ad
ministrators members of the medical pro
fession and Savannah and Chatham County
officials
Mr McGill told of some of the little
publicized accomplishments of United Na
tions committees and the Point Four pro
gram in aiding the people of India and other
countries and in developing a reservoir of
good will toward America
He was presented by Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools who acted
as toastmaster at the dinner
At the opening session of the conference
Dr Henry K Stanford of Milledgeville
President of Georgia State College for
Women and Frank DeLamar of Atlanta
Director of the State Employment Retire
ment System were guest speakers
Dr Joe Moore of Georgia Techs psychol
ogy department Charles Hudgins of the
University of Georgia and W M Eshelman
of Washington specialist in guidance train
ing and placement in the Office of Voca
tional Rehabilitation appeared on a panel
discussion on psychological testing
Developments in facilities and services
at two state schoolsthe Georgia Academy
for the Blind in Macon and the Georgia
School for the Deaf at Cave Springwere
outlined by F G Nelms superintendent of
the Macon institution and A L Davis
superintendent of the Cave Spring school
At the same session Jim Corbett executive
secretary of the Lighthouse for the Blind
Atlanta told of the statewide program be
ing carried out by that agency
The candid camera catches Ralph McGill editor of the Atlanta
Constitution speaking at the Vocational Rehabilitation staff con
ference dinner at Savannah At leftPaul S Barrett State Director
of Vocational Rehabilitation and Dr M D Collins State Superin
tendent of schools
Prominent members of the medical pro
fession led discussions of various types of
disabilities resulting from diseases
Among them were Dr T P Goodwyn
of Atlanta chairman of the Divisions Medi
cal Advisory Committee Dr Herschel
Crawford of Atlanta Dr W E Matthews
of Augusta Dr William Fisher Atlanta
Dr Braswell Collins of Macon Dr Tom
Harbin of Rome Dr C W Whitworth of
Gainesville Dr R W McAllister of
Macon Dr Peter Scardino of Savannah
Dr J R Rinker of Augusta Dr Rudolph
Bell of Thomasville Dr Hugh Mosely of
Atlanta Dr William Boyd of Augusta Dr
H F Sharpley of Savannah Dr W S
Clifford of Columbus Dr Bothwell Traylor
of Athens Dr William Hunnicutt of At
lanta and Dr Ellison Cook of Savannah
and others
CaseofYear Awards
Vocational Rehabilitation counselors in
this state and region annually enter what
is termed a Caseoftheyear Contest in
which they submit for evaluation by judges
the records of cases best illustrating re
habilitation techniques
The idea is to present the best examples
of the use of counseling skills community
jW
facilities and other resources in rehabilitating
disabled men and women into useful em
ployment
Two awards are made in each state
one to the counselor presenting the best
case involving a sighted person and the
other to the counselor presenting the best
blind case
The counselors who received the Georgia
awards this year were C W Bell of Way
cross and Frank Harmon of Bainbridge
Appropriate plaques donated by John
Stiles of Athens and Lewis P Chick of
Athens were presented to Mr Bell and
Mr Harmon by H B Cummings Regional
Representative Office of Vocational Reha
bilitation at the annual dinner during the
Divisions staff conference in Savannah
Mr Stiles an amputee operates a chain
of hotels Mr Chick is blind He is an
attorney and head of the Chick Piano Co
From left H B Cummings of
Atlanta Regional Representative
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Counselor C W Bell of Waycross
and Frank Harmon of Bainbridge
admire the plaques presented to
the Counselors in the Caseofthe
year contestWith a modern artificial arm Grant Perryman 46
of Bostwick can operate a tractor and do other
twohanded farm jobs which were impossible be
fore he obtained the prosthesis He lost his right
arm while working on a farm in 1932 The old type
of abovetheelbow appliance was not very satisfac
tory He was trained in the use of the new artificial
arm at an Atlanta rehabilitation clinic
Lower panel at leftCaesar Malone 41 of Monroe
was completely disabled as the result of a stomach
ulcer At a Cancer Clinic it was found that the
ulcer was not malignant Through Vocational Re
habilitation services he was provided with hospitali
zation and surgery He then returned to his former
job with Lanius Bonded Warehouse
Thirtynineyearold Frank Dixon of Cobbtown Rt
1 center below has been paralyzed from the waist
down for ten years The cause of his disability was
not clearly defined in the records There was some
indication that it had been brought on by a rup
tured disc Through Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices he was sent to a New York Rehabilitation center
for treatment As he had shown some aptitude for
mechanics he will be trained in shop work
Rogers Smith 17 of Monroe below at right lost
an eye while playing with a pistol cartridge Through
Vocational Rehabilitation services he was assisted in
obtaining an artificial eye and glasses He is now
satisfactorily employed as a farm hand
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Mrs Carrie Earney center is one of seven deaf workers currently employed at the Gordon Foods Inc
Atlanta She has been on the job for more than ten years Shown with her are Jack Davis bakery
superintendent left and Mrs Nellie Johnson floor lady See story on page 3
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allAbout 50 physically impaired
boys and girls are currently en
rolled at the South Georgia Trade
Vocational School Americus un
der the Vocational Rehabilitation
program
At top is a typical scene in the
diesel engine class Two of the six
students shown are Vocational Re
habilitation trainees Herbert Eng
lish third from left and Benjamine
Dosier third from right
In the center panel is a scene in
the motor mechanics class All the
students in this group are Voca
tional Rehabilitation trainees
f t i
At lower leftR R Morgan
Rockmart contractor was conhned
to his bed with arthritis when re
ferred to Vocational Rehabilitation
Following treatment at an Atlanta
hospital he was guided into a
broiler project At the time the
picture was made he had 4500
broilers ready for market
i i 1
In center belowJ T Mitchell
47 of Rt 4 Bowdon is back on his
feet again after a long siege with
varicose veins Surgery corrected
his condition Before he could get
back to work his home burned He
converted a oneroom building into
an attractive cottage He is shown
doing motor repairs in his garage
BelowAfter being almost to
tally incapacitated by arthritis for
more than two years Grady Cald
well 36 of Bowdon is in the broiler
business in a big way He was
ready to sell his little farm and
move to town when he heard about
Vocational Rehabilitation services
Medical treatment improved his
physical condition He borrowed
money to build a poultry house
with the help of neighbors His wife
went to work in a mill until he
paid off the debt He sent 17000
broilers to market and then built
another poultry house When this
picture was made he had 9000
broilers about ready for the pick
up truck He is shown with his
13 yearold son Herman He has
two other children
Home Designed for Wheel Chair
In DeKalb Countys Wesley Chapel com
munity theres a new ranchtype house which
was designed built and furnished for the
convenience of an occupant who has to
spend most of her time in a wheel chair
Its the home of Mr and Mrs Tom E
Stewart and their teenage son Jimmie Mrs
Stewart has been paralyzed from the waist
down since 1947 as the result of a spinal
cord injury For about three years she was
almost wholly dependent upon others for
personal care and household work
After surgery and treatment at Emorys
department of physical medicine her condi
tion and outlook on life improved She was
fitted with braces and learned to take a few
steps on crutches By the fall of 1950 she
was able to resume her household duties
During the past four years her husband a
plumber has done well in business So they
were able to plan and finance the construc
tion of the new home not far from their old
house
The attractive brick house occupies the
crest of a low hill All the floors in the house
side porch and carport are on ground level
All doorways are wide enough to accom
modate a wheel chair
The annual meeting of the Georgia Society
for Crippled Children the Easter Seal
agency will be held in Macon on October 21
Miss Mary Webb Executive Director has
announced
Theme of the morning session will be
Rehabilitation Centersa Need in Geor
gia Mrs Bruce Shaefer Toccoa board
member will act as chairman Dr Peter B
Wright of Augusta head of the Medical
Association of Georgia will present the
speaker Raymond R Leizer doublearm
amputee and head of the New Haven Area
Rehabilitation Center Despite his handicap
Mr Leizer is a concert pianist and will
demonstrate his talents Another morning
session speaker will be Dr Ben L Boynton
Director of the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago
At the afternoon session Mrs Leonard
Haas Atlanta board member will lead a
discussion on CampingA Need in Geor
gia and show films of Georgias first Easter
Seal Day Camp held this summer
Three table discussions will encompass the
annual Easter Seal appeal rehabilitation
techniques and Georgias progress in educa
tion for exceptional children Leaders will in
clude Ben Fortson Jr Secretary of State
and Dr Mamie Jo Jones Supervisor of edu
cation for exceptional children for the State
Department of Education

The kitchen is a compact area
The stove separate oven refriger
ator sink and storage bins may be
reached by wheeling around from
one to the other The stove and
sink are at low level and the com
partments under them set back so
as not to obstruct the foot rest on
the chair The overhead cabinets
are low enough to be reached
from a sitting posture
The beds also are at a low level
so that Mrs Stewart does not
have to stand to get in bed The
clothes racks also are at a lower
level than those found in the
usual home
The little laundry at one end of the side
porch is equipped with washer and dryer
Both pieces of equipment may be reached
from the wheel chair
Mrs Stewart says that she now can do all
of her household work and have time for
daily exercise on parallel bars and for recrea
tion She says she continues to exercise about
two hours every day and has hopes of being
able to put aside her wheel chair
AboveMrs Stewart takes daily
exercises on parallel bars under a
shade tree in back yard At right
aboveShe has no difficulty in
operating clothes washer and dryer
from wheel chair RightAll eyes
on her stove may be reached from
a sitting posture At bottomWide
closet doors make it possible for
her to reach the clothes racks
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Vol 7 SeptemberOctober 1954 No 10
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West Bldg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris Bldg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre Bldg
BrunswickWay Bldg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn Bldg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Fortyyearold Dalton A Hughes of Rt 1 Rockmart wears a laced leather
sleeve to stabilize his right forearm which is still disabled after nine operations
to unite compound fractures sustained in an automobile accident in 1941
He has only a thumb and fore finger on his
left hand The others were lost as a result of
the same accident
In spite of these disabilities Dalton Hughes
is well on the way in developing one of the
largest and most successful poultry projects
in West Georgia
He now has 500 White Leghorn and New
Hampshire Red hens in individual cages in
a 24 by 80 laying house In addition he has
65 young hens in a replacement pen and 350
pullets which soon will be producing
Hughes keeps an accurate record on the
production of each layer with a clothes pin
which he moves from mesh to mesh on top
of the cage every time he picks up an egg
If a hen fails to maintain 50 percent pro
duction she goes to the market
The cages are arranged in four rows with
watering troughs between the rows and feed
troughs on the outside The eggs roll from
the cage floors to a wire shelf and are always clean when gathered
Formerly a resident of Rossville Hughes had worked on construction projects
before being injured He used this experience in building the laying house and
pens with help only in lifting heavy timbers
He has the land graded for an extension to the laying house and has set his
sights for 4000 layers in individual cages
The LaGrange Daily News
The observance of the tenth National Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week October 39 gives us dramatic illustration that a mans usefulness is not
limited by the number of limbs he has or the other physical aspects jobs may
require
This observance shows us that many men and women are suitable for
numerous jobs and more important their usefulness to society does not end with
a loss of some physical facility
Rather as this week is designed to teach a person becomes useless when
he so deems himself and not before And it is society which has an obligation
to respect handicapped persons for what they can do and not for what they
cannot do
W C Tucker in The Columbus Enquirer
It is time once again to pay tribute to those who are overcoming physical
handicaps
Each year at this time there is an observance of National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week
The program designed in the interest of the physically handicapped is highly
praiseworthy
It is one that deserves the full and complete support of the public It is
one that has a humanitarian appeal More than that though the program presents
an opportunity for the employment of a man or woman who is fully qualified to do
a job despite the fact that there might have been a physical impairment Plans for an expansion of Vocational Re
habilitation services in the six Southeastern
states under Public Law 565 and related
measures passed by the 83rd Congress were
made at a conference of State and Federal
officials in Atlanta September 2224
State agency representatives included State
Superintendents of Schools Directors of Vo
cational Rehabilitation and directors of
agencies for the blind Among those from the
Federal agencies were Nelson Rockefeller
Under Secretary USDepartment of Health
Education and Welfare D H Dabelstein
Assistant Director Office of Vocational Re
habilitation R H Lyle Atlanta Regional
Director Department of Health Education
and Welfare and H B Cummings Regional
Representative Office of Vocational Rehabili
tation
Mr Rockefeller told of the studies made
in the department to determine the needs of
the nations handicapped citizens and the
steps taken in developing a legislative pro
gram to meet those needs
This rehabilitation program can work
wonders he said Yet it was inadequate
almost everywhere even in Georgia to
meet the full needs of the disabled and give
them back their chance to live to work to
pay taxes to contribute to community life
and national strength
So this administration promptly set about
getting the program expanded President
Eisenhower asked the Congress to strengthen
and improve the system As a result the new
law was passed last summer and signed by the
president on August 3 This law is intended
to increase progressively the number of dis
abled people rehabilitated each year from
the present 60000 to 200000 by 1959 That
is a worthy objective and it can be attained
he said
He commended the state officials for the
record made in the Southeastern region in
developing Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices
In a welcome address Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent of Schools said the
new law is a new charter for Vocational
Rehabilitation services a bill of rights for
the nations disabled citizens
It authorizes increased appropriations for
grants to the states for the regular program
provides for Federal aid in establishing
special projects and facilities such as centers
and workshops and in improving services
for the blind and homebound
Amendments to the Hospital Construction
Act make it possible for the states and com
munities to get Federal aid in developing
modern rehabilitation centers And certainly
one or more such facility is urgently needed

From left H B Cummings Regional Representative Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation D H Dabelstein Assistant Director OVR
Washington Nelson Rockefeller UnderSecretary U S Department
of Health Education and Welfare Paul S Barrett State Director
of Vocational Rehabilitation and R H Lyle Regional Director De
partment of Health Education and Welfare
Blind Deaf Girl In School
A 13yearold Georgia girl who was born
blind deaf and mute was enrolled in the New
York Institute for the Education of the Blind
on September 7 after the General Assembly
had authorized the State Board of Education
to use state funds for such purposes
She is Myrtle Tarrant daughter of Mr
and Mrs Archie Tarrant of Rt 2 Douglas
The Tarrants are tenant farmers and have
eleven other children
Myrtle was enrolled at the Georgia
Academy for the Blind in Macon for several
months but it was found that she required
a type of training not available there The
State operates a school for the Deaf at Cave
Spring
F G Nelms Superintendent of the
Academy for the Blind said the Douglas
Lions Club and other civic organizations in
Coffee County cooperated in supplying the
child with clothing luggage and transporta
here in the Southeast
Moreover amendments to the Social
Security law give to rehabilitation agencies
the opportunity and responsibility of serving
a large group of disabled men and women
injured in industry
Congress has given us a big order and it
is up to us to deliver the goods he said
Myrtle Tarrant
tion The Coffee County Welfare Depart
ment he said also had been untiring in
their efforts to aid the girl Myrtle was ac
companied by Mrs Valeria Cowart a Wel
fare Department case worker on the trip to
New York
This is our first experience with a blind
deaf mute said Mr Nelms It is possible
there may be others in the state If so we
could develop here or at the School for the
Deaf a training center for such childrenVeteran Educator Honored
More than 350 Georgia educators public
officials and coworkers honored Dr John I
Allman retiring Assistant State Superin
tendent of Schools at a dinner in Atlanta on
September 24
The occasion highlighted the annual meet
ing of the Georgia Association of School
Administrators It was an emotionpacked
tribute to a man who has devoted more than
a half century of faithful service in the
cause of education in Georgia
Dougherty County School Superintendent
J J Cordell Vice President of the associa
tion presided Among those who lauded Dr
Allman were Dr M D Collins State Su
perintendent of Schools George P Whit
man Jr Chairman of the State Board of
Education Atlantas Mayor William B
Hartsfield a neighbor of the guest of honor
N A Rogers President of the Association
and Harold Saxon Executive Secretary
Georgia Education Association
Dr Collins presented Dr Allman with a
Memory Book containing hundreds of letters
from state officials school officials employ
ees of the State Department of Education
and others expressing their friendship and
best wishes to the veteran educator
Governor Talmadge said The detailed
facts you have furnished me about public
education have not only made my duties
easier but given me a broader insight into
school problems You have my respect
and appreciation for what you have ac
complished for the people of Georgia
Governorelect Marvin Griffin I will
continue to rely upon your good judgment
for advice and guidance in school matters
Dr Collins I have always found you
frank and fair in dealing with Georgias
school problems and with Georgians Your
word is as good as your bond
From left standingDr John I Allman Dr M D Collins State
Superintendent of Schools and George Whitman Jr Chairman State
Board of Education SeatedMrs Allman
Chairman George Whitman Jr I feel
I am a better man for having known you
As Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools Dr Allman showed his interest in
and concern for physically handicapped
people and the work of the Vocational Re
habilitation Division
Dr Allman started his career in education
as a teacher in the Moreland School Later
he served as superintendent of Toccoa and
Stephens County Schools He served the
Hartwell and Dalton Schools before coming
to the State Department of Education in
1930
Dr Allman attended Peabody College
and Mercer University He holds a BS in
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Dr Allmans successor as Assistant State
Superintendent of School is Dr Claude
Purcell
Award of Merit
The Master Manufacturing Co Inc At
lanta has been awarded a citation for out
standing services in the employment of
physically handicapped persons The award
was made by the Presidents Committee on
the Employment of the Physically Handi
capped upon recommendation by the local
and State Committees
Presentation of the certificate was made
by Labor Commissioner Ben T Huiet at a
ceremony in the Luckie street plant on
October 1 Afterwards W A Sims Jr
President and B W Kaplan Secretary
Treasurer entertained their guests and em
ployees at a box luncheon
For several years the Master company
has given qualified handicapped workers
preference in filling all vacancies Currently
about sixty out of 100 employees have physi
cal disabilities Their story was featured in
a recent issue of this publication
At left is a reproduction of the
Distinguished Service Award cer
tificate presented to Dr M D
Collins State Superintendent of
Schools by the National Council of
Chief State School Officers Dr
Collins served as president of the
association in 1940 He has been a
member of the organization for
thirtyone years He is now dean
of the chief state school officers in
AmericaAlthough his left arm had been
amputated at the shoulder Lunnie
Thomas 42 of Roopville learned to
use an artificial limb Because of the
high amputation some doubt was ex
pressed by representatives of limb
manufacturers and others that Thom
as would be able to use the appliance
But without it he said he couldnt
guide his plow He is shown cultivating
a cotton crop near his home He lost
his arm in a shotgun accident
After being confined to a wheel
chair for several years as the result
of paralysis from a gunshot wound
43yearold John Mitchell now oper
ates a cafe on Lee street Atlanta
A tile setter for seventeen years he
was compelled to change his vocation
after his injury Through Vocational
Rehabilitation services he was sent to
a rehabilitation center in New York
for treatment and training in the use
of crutches Then he was assisted in
establishing the little business which
at least makes him selfsupporting
In the center panel he is shown
waiting on a customer At right below
he is shown standing by his cash reg
ister The other picture shows him in
the living room of his home before
leaving for the rehabilitation center
He did the tile work on the fireplace
and mantle
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For four years Edmond G Smith 40 center has successfully operated the vending stand in the Gen
eral JWectric Co plant near Chamblee one of about fifty units conducted by the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc Mr Smith lost his sight in 1938
after haying been handicapped by defective vision since birth Prior to losing his sight he had been
employed by an Atlanta department store
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Lockheeds Georgia Division at
Marietta are two blind men who
operate complex wire numbering
machines which number the 27
miles of wiring that go into a single
B47 Stratojet They are R L
Powell 18 at left formerly of
Chauncey and J L Potts 51 ot
172 Hill St Marietta Powell grad
uated from the Georgia Academy
for the Blind Macon in the class
of 54 Both were placed at the
Lockheed plant through Vocational
Rehabilitation services They work
under the Supervisor G C Mike
Fennell in the Electrical and Pre
cision Assembly Department
I just stood amazed for 45 min
utes the other day watching Mr
Potts said Supervisor Fennell 1
could hardly believe what I saw
He has mastered the technique ot
putting those numbers close to
gether on both sides of the small
WIpoStts said I like this job bet
ter than any I ever had He has
been totally blind since 1943 for
merly he worked in a Carrollton
textile plant
Powell said I like it fineit s
a wonderful place
Left in center panelFortynine
vearold Ernest Bobo of 1344 Grant
Street SE Atlanta operates a
successful mop factory in the base
ment of his home His output of
about 100 dozen a week is sold to
Fulton County on a competitive
contract and through an Atlanta
chain of retail stores He lost his
sight in 1947
Right in center panelFor two
vears 24yearold Bobby Baxter
formerly of Carrollton has worked
as darkroom technician in the A
ray laboratory at Georgia Baptist
Hospital Atlanta A graduate of
the Georgia Academy for the Blind
Macon Bobby enjoys his work and
is popular with hospital staff mem
bers
Lower panel For seven years
Dan Hughes has been manager of
the vending stand in the duett
Peabody plant at Buchanan A
graduate of the Georgia Academy
for the Blind he had never worked
until placed in this small business
enterpriseA Decade of Service to the
For ten years Georgias adult blind have
received vocational rehabilitation services
through a special unit of this Division of the
State Department of Education Earlier they
had been served by Supervisors and Counsel
ors who were also working with sighted
people
In this 10year period 1534 blind men
and women have been rehabilitated into suit
able employment in a wide range of occupa
tions Among them were 1119 who were
aided in getting surgery or medical treatment
to restore or improve their vision
Under the Vocational Rehabilitation pro
gram eligible sightless people get whatever
services they require to become employable
individual counsel and guidance medical ex
aminations surgical psychiatric and hospital
care personal and social adjustment artifi
cial appliances training equipment mainte
nance and transportation while in training
The blind have the same range of intelli
gence talents and aptitudes found in sighted
people Some are qualified for training in the
professions arts and sciences others for
manual and business occupations At the
present time 18 are being assisted through
college Two of them are Negroes
The purpose of Vocational Rehabilitation
services is to guide these sightless people into
careers for which they are best suited to pre
pare them to become selfrespecting self
supporting citizens of the communities in
which they live
In 15 other states including the District
of Columbia Alaska and Puerto Rico this
specialized services is under programs simi
lar to Georgias
In 21 states it is administered by commis
sions for the blind under Public Welfare De
partments In 10 states it is administered by
separate or independent commissions and
in 5 states including Hawaii by commis
sions under other agencies such as State
Boards of Control
From time to time the question arises in
legislative circles as to the most effective
method of administering programs for the
blindthrough general vocational rehabili
tation agencies or by commissions
The answer we think may be found in re
ports of the Federal Security Agency now
the U S Department of Health Education
and Welfare showing the number of blind
persons rehabilitated in the states and terri
tories during the past five years and the costs
of the services
Over the 5year period an average of 176
blind persons a year were rehabilitated in
Georgia at an average case cost of 62019
During the same period the states having
commissions for the blind rehabilitated an
average of 86 persons a year And the av
erage case cost in those states was 141222
Under the program as administered in
This map shows the distribution
by counties of the 1534 blind per
sons rehabilitated into jobs during
the past ten years through the
services of the Georgia Vocational
Rehabilitation Division
Georgia it costs less to rehabilitate a blind
person into economic independence than to
maintain him on public welfare rolls for one
year Public Welfare benefits for the blind
may amount to 660 a yearand continue
for many years
The Atlanta Constitution reviewed these
facts in an editorial in the December 6 issue
and then concluded
The Department of Educations program
for the blind is used as a national model
Certainly it is one division of the state gov
ernment that thoroughly deserves to survive
all political putsches and purges
Seal Sale
The 48th annual Christmas Seal Sale is
now in progress in Georgia and throughout
the Nation
Funds raised in this sale are used in a
constant fight against one of mans oldest
enemiestuberculosis
Fifty years ago when the National Tuber
culosis Association was founded tuberculosis
was a cruel and relentless disease about
which practically nothing could be done
Continuing research and study have de
veloped a whole arsenal of weapons against
this disease
Today as the long fight begins to pay off
with a reduction in the number of deaths
from this cause attention should be focused
upon those who have survived in their per
sonal battles with this disease There has
been no significant decline in the rate of at
tack by TB It is obvious then that programs
to restore these survivors to usefulness must
be increased
The tuberculosis associations national
state and local are working with public agen
cies to strengthen the rehabilitation program
You may have a part in this vital program
by buying and using Christmas SealstKc 6ecnrqoVocoXOAo
Aekabilitatiorv jVews
Vol 7 NovemberDecember 1954 No 11
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Dr M D Collins
Slate Superintendent of Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
Rome314 West BIdg
Phone 8438
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 7773
AUGUSTA DISTRICT
Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins BIdg
Phone 23639
Athens110 Hancock Ave
Phone 2802
Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
DublinMorris BIdg
Phone 119
Gainesville 414 Jackson BIdg
Phone 816
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
Bainbridge Martin Theatre BIdg
BrunswickWay BIdg
Phone 1007
Thomasville 309 Upchurch BIdg
Phone 1274
Waycross400 Bunn BIdg
Phone 824
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance BIdg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers BIdg
Phone 21904
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
Americus S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Again at Top
1COR the second time in a decade Georgia last year was first among the states
JL in vocational rehabilitation services for handicapped civilians including the
blind according to reports from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation U S
Department of Health Education and Welfare in Washington
During the fiscal year which ended June 30 3954 disabled men and women
in Georgia were rehabilitated into employment This figure was 325 higher than
the total number of rehabilitations in the second stateNew York The third
state in this respect was Illinois with 3598 rehabilitations during the year
The announcement of Georgias achievement was made in a message from
Miss Mary E Switzer Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation to Dr Paul
S Barrett State Director
Miss Switzer said
The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and I personally extend hearty
congratulations to you and the staff of the Georgia Division of Vocational Reha
bilitation on leading all states in the number of disabled persons rehabilitated dur
ing fiscal year 1954 Georgias 3954 rehabilitations reflect a continuance of
diligent and intelligent effort that has characterized your program over the years
I hope that with new funds and new law you will be able to increase the results
of your good work greatly
Georgias record in this field of public service was made possible by the finan
cial support given the program by the General Assembly Governor and State
Board of Education State appropriations for case services are matched by
Federal funds and in addition the Federal government pays administrative costs
With the increased allocations under the Minimum Foundation Program for
Education the Division has been in position in recent years to accept for reha
bilitation services a larger proportion of seriously handicapped personsmen and
women paralyzed from spinal injuries crippled by arthritis or other disabling
diseases and the blind
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Georgias disabled citizens again
will have a friend in the Executive
Department when GovernorElect
Marvin Griffin is inaugurated next
month Throughout his official life
Governor Griffin has shown a deep
interest in the problems of the dis
abled and has given his full sup
port to the Vocational Rehabilita
tion programFirst Stand Manager Retires
The manager of the first vending stand for
the blind opened in Georgia under the Ran
dolphSheppard Act has gone into semire
tirement after 18 years of service to the
public in the same location
He is E C Archer who has operated the
business enterprise in the lobby of Atlantas
main postoffice since 1936 Day after day
he has sold confections tobacco products
magazines and other articles to postoffice
patrons and employees And he is known
personally to thousands of Atlanta citizens
Under a recent amendment to the Social
Security laws Mr Archer now 67 like oth
ers in his age group is permitted to earn up
to 100 a month and still get their retirement
benefits
So he decided to work on a parttime basis
at the vending stand and accept his Social
Security benefits This arrangement opened
another employment opportunity for a blind
person And Frank Rice a former industrial
worker who lost his sight in an accident
about a year ago was placed in Mr Archers
old stand He also works parttime in the
vending stand in the State Highway Depart
ment Building
Mr Archer told friends It was one of
the happiest days of my life when I was al
lowed to work half a day Due to arthritis
I had reached the point where it was almost
impossible to stand a full day Now thanks
to Vocational Rehabilitation 1 spend only
half a day at my stand And with Social
Security benefits I have a good living
The vending stand program in Georgia is
administered by the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Division and the Georgia Cooperative
Services for the Blind Inc a nonprofit or
ganization of civic leaders who supplied the
E C Archer left foreground gets a warm handshake from
Atlantas Acting Postmaster B F Sanders for many years of service
as manager of the vending stand for the blind in the central post
office In the rear is Frank Rice the new parttime manager
initial capital which could not be provided
from public funds
Currently the program provides employ
ment for fifty managers and assistants who
otherwise might be drawing Public Welfare
benefits During the fiscal year which ended
June 30 1954 the total sales volume at the
vending stands reached a new high peak
49099324
The average earnings of managers and as
sistants some of whom worked only part
time was 1980 last year Some earned up
to 4500 and of course paid state and Fed
eral income taxes even after the special ex
emptions allowed blind persons In addition
they will share in a 3000 fund from vol
ume discounts allowed by wholesalers and
distributed for Christmas
All managers and assistants are covered
by group hospitalization and surgery insur
ance as well as by Social Security
Officers of the Georgia Cooperative Serv
ices for the Blind Inc are President George
Craft a Vicepresident of the Trust Com
pany of Georgia Vicepresident C E Elsas
President of Fulton Bag Cotton Mills
Treasurer Ben Gordon Vicepresident of
Richs and Secretary Glenn E Boggs Super
visor of Business Enterprises Vocational Re
habilitation Division
Directors are Norman Elsas James Sib
ley Jack Spalding and Dr Allen Albert of
Atlanta and Kirk Sutlive Savannah and
Elliott Dunwoody Macon
At leftConnie Bryan formerly
of Hortense who has only travel
vision is shown teaching visually
handicapped deaf children at the
Iowa School for the Deaf Council
Bluff A graduate of the Georgia
Academy for the Blind she was
assisted by Vocational Rehabilita
tion in three years of college train
ing at Mercer and then placed at
the Iowa institution Shown with
her are at left Barbara Schultz
11 of Long Beach N Y and at
right Gary Suranyi 9 of Arvada
Wyoming Photo through courtesy
of Bob Pyles Council BluffBlind Leaders In the News
When the General Assembly convenes in
January Catoosa County will be represented
in the House by John William Love Jr
who though sightless graduated from the
University of Georgia Law School in 1953
after being voted the Most Outstanding Sen
ior in a campuswide election
While in college he was Chief Justice of
the Law School Honor Court President of
the Demosthenian Literary Society President
of the Law School Advisory Council and an
organizer of the Student Council Since
graduation he has been practicing law in
Ringgold
Bill as he is known to friends lost his
sight at the age of 12 as a result of head in
juries He continued in school leading the
Seventh Grade with a 97 average Then he
enrolled at the Georgia Academy for the
Blind where he learned to read Braille devel
oped his flair for public speaking and won
the state finals on the Academy Debating
team in 1948
Judge Victor H Mulling
On January 1 Judge Victor H Mulling
Associate Judge of Savannahs Municipal
Court will begin his third term on the bench
Judge Mulling entered the Georgia Acad
emy for the Blind in 1929 after losing his
sight the year before when struck in the eye
by a schoolmate
Upon graduation in 1934 he enrolled at
Mercer University and was graduated summa
cum laude with an AB degree He attended
the University of Georgia and received the
AM degree in 1939 In 1942 he started
studying law and passed the bar examination
the following year He was in practice be
fore being elected to the bench in 1947
John William Love
Georgias Record
In a letter to Dr Paul S Barrett State
Director of Vocational Rehabilitation H B
Cummings Atlanta Regional Representative
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation says
You have received from the Director of
the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation na
tional figures on cases rehabilitated in the
fiscal year 1954 showing that the State of
Georgia rehabilitated in that year more dis
abled persons than were rehabilitated in any
other State
1 feel that you will be interested in Geor
gias record in rehabilitating blind persons
in the fiscal year which ended June 30 1954
In the Southeastern Region comprising
the States of Alabama Florida Georgia
Mississippi South Carolina and Tennessee
Georgia ranked first in the number of blind
persons rehabilitated during the 1954 fiscal
year
In fact of the total number of blind per
sons rehabilitated in the Southeastern Region
in that year 28 percent of them were reha
bilitated in Georgia During the 1954 fiscal
year 561 new referrals of blind persons were
made to the Georgia Rehabilitation Agency
and 287 new blind cases were accepted for
rehabilitation services during fiscal year
1954
One of the methods of rehabilitating the
blind is that of establishing them in business
enterprises including vending stand operation
At the end of fiscal year 1954 15 percent of
business enterprises and vending stand op
erators in the six Southeastern States were in
the State of Georgia
I want to congratulate you upon return
ing to remunerative employment during the
fiscal year 1954 241 blind citizens of Geor
gia 35 of whom were established in busi
nesses of their own either small business en
terprises or vending stands
Mrs Hughes Dies
Mrs Lucy Hughes administrative aide to
Dr Paul S Barrett State Director of Voca
tional Rehabilitation Services died Novem
ber 5 in an Atlanta
hospital after an ill
ness of three weeks
She had been em
ployed in the State
Department of Edu
cation since 1927
and secretary and
aide to Mr Barrett
since 1933
The former Miss
Lucy Mackey she attended Atlanta schools
She was a member of the National Rehabili
tation Association and the Georgia Educa
tion Association
Funeral services were held Sunday No
vember 7 at Spring Hill and interment was
in Hollywood Cemetery Members of the
Divisions staff formed an honor escort
Lewis P Chick
Under the leadership of Lewis P Chick
blind attorney and head of the Chick Piano
Co the Athens Committee on Employment
of the Physically Handicapped makes an out
standing record year after year in the annual
observance of National Employ the Physi
cally Handicapped Week
But his interest in visually handicapped
people is not confined to this single civic
responsibility Many clients of the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Division have been
given onthejob training as piano technicians
in his shop And for the past two years he
has donated appropriate plaques awarded to
the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor who
does the most outstanding job in the re
habilitation of blind persons
Mr Chick is a former member of the
Georgia LegislatureAt right in top panel Forty
yearold Harrison Randolph was
threatened with the loss of his job
when he lost his sight after 18
years of service at Atlantas South
ern Spring Bed Co A survey of
job requirements made by Voca
tional Rehabilitation Counselor W
H Fargason and Placement Agent
for the Blind Griff Eastin revealed
several jobs which could be filled
by a blind person Randolph was
switched to the furniture sanding
department where he is doing a
satisfactory job after some train
ing He is shown with O B Rowell
Personnel Manager
Training facilities at the head
quarters of the Metropolitan Asso
ciation for the Colored Blind at
293 Sunset Avenue NW Atlanta
are used by the Vocational Re
habilitation Division in helping
Georgia men and women to become
adjusted to a sighted world Here
they are taught the fundamentals
of Braille handicraft home eco
nomics and travel
At left in top panel Johnnie
Jenkins of Omaha learning to op
erate a mopmaking machine
At left in center panelRichard
Blandinburg of Midville learning
to bottom chairs Shown with him
is Jason Ransby craft instructor
At right in center panel In
structor Ransby shows Lizzie Mae
Welborn of Washington how to
weave the splits in a chair
At right in lower panelEllo
Card of Monticello learns to use
a handsaw and Braille ruler
BelowCard Jenkins and Ed
ward McClain of Macon learn the
first steps in unassisted travel
Upon completion of this basic ad
justment course they will be given
additional training if needed and
aided in getting jobs
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Atlanta 3 Ga
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Another unit in Georgias vending stand program for the blind was opened recently in the beautiful
Polk County Court House in Cedartown nianager 01 ihe uusiness is Herscheli Fuiceil behind counter
who is totally blind and had never worked until assisted by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division in
getting into business for himself
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Two years ago Rossvilles John L Marshall 36 supervisor of
mechanical tabulating control boards in the U S Weather Bureau in
Chattanooga entered a hospital in an Eastern city for heart surgery
At time of admission he showed clear signs of rheumatic heart
with mitral stenosis and some degree of mitral insufficiency says
medical reports
After the operation mitral valvulotomy he regained conscious
ness slowly and that evening it was evident he had suffered a right
hemiplegia with aphasia
By the end of a week he would respond to simple commands and
a month afterwards select objects accurately by name and identify
them by functions
But he could not speak And he says I had forgotten every
thing except how to operate my IBM control boards
Through Vocational Rehabilitation services Marshall was sent to
a New York rehabilitation center for physical and occupational ther
apy and speech training Three months later he came to Atlanta for
additional treatment
Though his right side is still impaired Marshall has regained his
speech but still speaks slowly He had to learn to write with his left
hand
Marshall returned to his job last fall after a nine months leave
of absence He is highly regarded by his associates who say he is
fully capable of handling the mass of wires on the intricate control
board He and Mrs Marshall are active in church work and serve as
counselors to a group of about twenty young people
LeftTrannie Huff 57 who operates a farm near Watkinsville
was nearly blind from growths on his eyesbilateral ptergii they
call it An operation corrected the handicap and he is again able to
carry on his farming
Robert Gilley 36 lower left is totally blind but he can assemble
piano benches Shown with him is C N Arrington instructor at the
Georgia Association of Workers for the Blind shop on Courtland
street Atlanta
Thomas E Lillard 42 below has less than 20200 vision He is
shown operating a powerdriven machine cutting and punching slats
used in assembling waste baskets The machine was designed by Harry
DeLaney manager of the GAWB workshop
Operates Store From Wheelchair
Twentyyearold Virgil L Johnson a
chairbound quadriplegic who was paralyzed
from a swimming pool accident in July
1950 now operates a modern aircondi
tioned grocery store in a thriving com
munity a few miles south of Rossville
Virgils story offers a striking example of
community cooperation in helping seriously
disabled youth to overcome lifes hurdles
His parents Mr and Mrs Louis Johnson
their neighbors and friends the Rossville
Kiwanis Club the Crippled Childrens Di
vision of the State Department of Public
Health and the Vocational Rehabilitation
Division of the State Department of Edu
cation helped in his long struggle to regain
selfsufficiency
A bright blueeyed boy Virgil had com
pleted the eighth grade in school when in
jured in the accident He was taken to a
Chattanooga hospital for emergency treat
ment and discharged three weeks later
The Kiwanis Club adopted him and
raised funds to help pay for his hospitaliza
tion and other expenses In a feature story
in the Chattanooga Times Jim Lindsey said
A nurse was employed by the club to
give the boy daily care for more than a
year his room was redecorated and special
equipment added for his daily comfort
In the fall of 1950 the Kiwanians led a
drive for public contributions for further
medical diagnosis and aid to the youth The
fund reached a total of more than 2000
including a check from the Chattanooga Elks
to purchase a ceiling projector enabling him
to read
Through the services of the Crippled Chil
drens Division he was treated at hospitals
in Atlanta and showed some improvement
in his physical condition
In the summer of 1953 doctors recom
mended that Virgil be sent to a rehabilita
tion center Through Vocational Rehabilita
tion services he went to the Institute of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in
New York
During his stay there he made marked
improvement in the activities of daily liv
ing learned to sit erect in bed to put on his
own shirt and socks to move himself from
bed to wheelchair and to attend to other
personal needs
Meanwhile the Johnson family and Voca
tional Rehabilitation Counselors were mak
ing plans for Virgils business future Sur
veys indicated there was an opportunity for
a small business enterprise in the community
where the Johnsons lived
A lot adjoining the home site was avail
Virgil Johnson operates an adding machine
able on a longterm agreement The father
Louis Johnson an employee of a Chatta
nooga tannery signed a note for funds with
which to build a concrete block store As
sisted by Kiwanians he worked in his spare
time to erect the building Club funds helped
to supply the initial stock of merchandise
Vocational Rehabilitation provided train
ing services in merchandise stock display
recordkeeping and inventory management
It also supplied some of the modern equip
ment needed in this type of enterprise
The store was opened about a year ago
in what was called a housewarming Said
the Times story In the group attending
the opening were John Pope club presi
dent former State Senator John Mavity Bob
McCoy the Rev Melvin Shrout pastor of
the First Nazarine Church in Rossville Ron
ald Shankles banker the Rev Gordon Ster
chi pastor of Simpson Memorial Methodist
Church and L O Ledford under whose
administration as club president the Virgil
Johnson Fund was set up
They are real friends he told the news
men from his wheel chair and turned his
head away as tears coursed down his face
A year after the opening Virgil had suc
ceeded in paying off the building debt He
had built up the stock of merchandise and
installed a modern fresh vegetable cooler
The interior arrangement of the store is such
that the properietor can operate his chair
in getting to the shelves and other fixtures
The stock is well displayed and the place
kept neat and clean Mrs Johnson spends
her spare time helping her son
Virgil now has limited use of his hands
and arms He can operate an adding ma
chine use a writing instrument in keeping
his records and get in and out of an auto
mobile
Virgil is proud of his business and opti
mistic over ability to carry on with only
limited helpOKc GeovqvoJocokotCV
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Vol 7
JanFeb 1955
No 12
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department oj Education
Atlanta
Dr M D Collins
State Superintendent oj Schools
Paul S Barrett Director
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
131 State Office Building
ALBANY DISTRICT
Albany607 N Jefferson
Phone 2782
S Ga Vocational School
Phone 5148
Americus
Bainbridge
Thomasville
Waycross
ATLANTA E
Martin Theatre Building
Phone 448
309 Upchurch Building
Phone 1274
400 Bunn Building
Phone 824
Atlanta
305 Peachtree St NE
Phone LAmar 3841
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville
Athens
Battey Hospital
Clarkesville
Rome
414 Jackson Building
Phone 816
110 Hancock Avenue
Phone 2802
Rome
Phone 7773
N Ga Vocational School
Phone 98R2
314 West Building
Phone 8438
MACON DISTRICT
Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg
Phone 27321
Columbus 411 Flowers Building
Phone 21904
DublinMorris Building
Phone 119
Milledgeville 103 West Green
Phone 8292
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah
Augusta
Brunswick
2 East Bay Street
Phone 39835
633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg
Phone 23639
Way Building
THE refusal of many employers to consider job applications from qualified
men and women who have had tuberculosis constitutes one of the most
serious problems faced by Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors in finding em
ployment for their clients
The attitude of these employers seems to stem from fear although few will
admit it They are fearful of contagion of absenteeism and of the inability of the
applicant to do the job because of physical limitations
Employers who entertain such fears recently were given reassurance by
Dr Carl C Aven of Atlanta former president of the Georgia Tuberculosis As
sociation and former president of the Atlanta Tuberculosis Association
In a public statement Dr Aven said
Tuberculosis is a longterm illness of great economic loss to the family
unit and to the community Therefore employers should consider that persons
who have had tuberculosis are neighbors and citizens who desire jobs These
people want and need to become selfsupporting taxpaying citizens and not
parasites supported at community expense
Is it safe to employ them to work with others
Yes often safer than others in business or industry because they are not
permitted to return to a job until a physician or health department has given
them the green light
At that time work tolerance has been established they are free from
contagion and are able to do whatever may be determined as best for their
employment
Absenteeism is often less in the tuberculous because they have established
good health habits and do not dissipate their strength mental or physical by
breach of observance
After all they are human beings and deserve the utmost consideration
Last year 157 men and women who had recovered from tuberculosis were
placed in jobs through the Vocational Rehabilitation Division But at the close
of the year there were about 500 others who were receiving training and other
services to qualify for suitable jobs
It will take the understanding and cooperation of employers throughout
the state to make sure that these men and women have opportunities to again
become selfsupporting citizens
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Virgil L Johnson of Rossville
chairbound owner of a modern
grocery store He is shown with
his mother Mrs Louis Johnson
See story on page 3Lauds Georgians Pro
Dr Howard A Rusk Director of New
Yorks Institute of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation and a world authority in his
field has authorized publication of the fol
lowing letter to Dr Samuel F Rosen of
Savannah regarding Georgias program for
disabled civilians
Mr dear Doctor Rosen
It was good seeing you at the Phi Delta
Epsilon Dinner It was a wonderful meeting
and I feel deeply grateful for having been
chosen recipient of the Annual Award
As I told you briefly at the meeting we
here at the Institute of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation have patients referred
from all over the country many from State
Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
As I said it it my unequivocal opinion
that Georgia has the finest State Rehabilita
tion Program in the country We have had
many severely disabled Georgians referred
to us and they have been beautifully pre
pared for rehabilitation and they have been
sent without regard to race creed or color
the only goal being to get them back into
productive life again
I think all of you in Georgia should be
very proud of the leadership you have shown
in this program
With kindest personal regards and hop
ing I shall be seeing you before too long I
am
Sincerely
Howard A Rusk MD
Director
In addition to his duties as director of the
Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabili
tation Dr Rusk is consultant in medical
rehabilitation to the Secretariat of the United
Nations medical consultant to the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation U S Department
of Health Education and Welfare and to
the Veterans Administration
He established the convalescent training
program in the Army Air Force which be
came the pattern for the rehabilitation pro
grams of the Navy and Veterans Admini
stration
At the request of President Eisenhower
he went to Korea after the armistice to plan
health and medical services in the devastated
areas
Dr Rusk has received numerous awards
and citations here and abroad for meritorious
and outstanding service in the field of physi
cal medicine and rehabilitation
He is Associate Editor of the New York
Times
He was principal speaker at the Divisions
staff conference in Savannah in August 1953
Dr Howard A Rusk
Tenn Director Heads NRA
J Hank Smith of Nashville director of
Tennessees Vocational Rehabilitation Divi
sion was installed as president of the Na
tional Rehabilitation Association at the an
nual meeting in Baltimore
The current issue of the Associations
News Letter says
On leave of absence from rehabilitation
in Tennessee he served eight months 1948
as deputy director of the Rehabilitation
Branch of the Retraining and Reemployment
Administration in Washington While in
Washington he served on a committee that
set up the national committee now known
as the Presidents Committee on Employ
ment of the Physically Handicapped He also
served on an interagency committee consid
ering problems of the severely disabled and
wrote its report Community Programs for
the Rehabilitation of the Severely Disabled
This report has served as a broad basis for
rehabilitation planning in many communi
ties
Upon his return to Tennessee Mr Smith
was able to put into action the recommenda
tions of the report being the organizer of
Operation Knoxville and Obligation Mem
phis community efforts to promote the re
habilitation of the handicapped which have
attracted nationwide interest
Along with other duties Hank has found
time to serve as secretary of the National
Rehabilitation Association president of the
States Vocational Rehabilitation Council
and executive secretary of the Governors
Committee for National Employ the Physi
cally Handicapped Week
Prior to appointment as director of the
Tennessee Division he has served as re
habilitation counselor assistant director and
acting director He has held his present post
in Tennessee since 1948
Research Fund Planned
The board of directors of the National
Rehabilitation Association at its Baltimore
meeting authorized officers of the Associa
tion to take steps for setting up a nonprofit
association to handle research projects which
the National Rehabilitation Association may
want to promote in the future Support for
such projects will be sought from sources
other than membership dues It is felt that
there are advantages in having funds for
such purposes administered separately from
the regular NRA budget It is expected that
plans for the organization of this fund
will be submitted to the board of directors
for final action at St Louis in 1955
NRA News Letter
J Hank Smith
HireTheHandicapped Drive
Acting on a suggestion of President Eisen
hower the National Association of Radio
and Television Broadcasters has agreed to
cooperate with the Presidents Committee on
Employment of the Physically Handicapped
in launching a nationwide campaign in sup
port of rehabilitation and placement of the
physically impairedGeorgias annual Easter Seal appeal
scheduled for March 10 to April 10 is part
of a nationwide effort to aid the handicap
ped
The 1955 campaign headed by J J Mc
Donough and Mills B Lane Jr both of
Atlanta will stress the need for funds to
expand crippled childrens centers and add
other units Existing centers set up by the
Seal Society with the cooperation of local
groups are located in Atlanta Athens Au
gusta Macon Thomasville Douglas Griffin
and Savannah
Contributions will go toward 1 research
to develop new ways of dealing with physical
handicaps 2 treatment given at the chil
drens centers 3 training of therapists
doctors and teachers to staff the centers
through scholarships and 4 equipment
such as wheel chairs crutches and braces
Throughout the nation more crippled
children were helped in more centers finan
ced by Easter Seal funds in 1954 than ever
before says a report from Lawrence J
Link executive director of the National So
ciety for Crippled Children and Adults
The societys 33rd year saw 118445 crip
pled boys and girls and adults started on the
road to independence It also saw the total
number of facilities pass the 1000 mark
The number of persons helped increased
15 percent over the previous year and the
number of centers in which they were
Mrs Clyde T Lavender physical therapist at the Bibb County
School of Special Education Macon is shown giving therapy treat
ment to a young patient The Macon crippled childrens center is one
of eight established by the Georgia Society for Crippled Children the
Easter Seal Agency
treated increased 14 percent Approximately
100000 or 83 percent of those given treat
ment were children the report says
The 1954 annual report points out that
24700 parents of crippled children were
given assistance in their problems through
institutes workshops and education services
You can join in the spirit of Easter by
giving to help the crippled children of your
state
Commission Bill Defeated
A bill to create a sevenmember com
mission with administrative authority over
all State services for the blind except those
at the Academy and the issuance of welfare
checks was killed by a vote of 109 to 37 in
the House during the closing days of the re
cent session of the General Assembly
Sponsored by Decatur Countys blind Rep
resentative Vaughn Terrell former superin
tendent of the Georgia Factory for the Blind
Bainbridge the measure would have placed
under the commission the rehabilitation pro
gram now being administered by this Di
vision of the State Department of Educa
tion It also would have put the Factory for
the Blind under the commission and au
thorized the establishment of other work
shops schools and production facilities
The State Board of Education went on
record as opposing the bill in a strong reso
lution which pointed out that such a step
would seriously disrupt and impair the
academic and vocational educational reha
bilitation and employment services now be
ing provided Georgias blind youth and
adults through the Academy for the Blind
and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division
The resolution also pointed out that the
establishment of such a commission would
result in the education training and em
ployment of a much smaller proportion of
our blind youth and adults unless State ap
propriations for such services are substan
tially increased
Catoosa Countys blind Representative
John W Love led the opposition to the bill
on the floor of the House Others who spoke
against it were Representative Hugh Cheeck
of Taylor County and William Parker of
Appling County
New District Supervisor
Nathan Nolan former Vocational Re
habilitation Counselor in the Athens area
recently was named District Supervisor with
headquarters in Albany He will have super
vision over the services in the areas covered
through the Albany Americus Bainbridge
Thomasville and Waycross offices
New Projects Planned
Steps have been taken by the Vocational
Rehabilitation Division to take advantage of
the extension and improvement and special
projects for the disabled authorized under
Public Law 565 passed by the 83rd Congress
Projects have been submitted to Washing
ton to expand Georgias services in several
areas Among them is one to improve the
services to the blind in rural communities
another to develop training facilities for the
blind in specialized agricultural occupations
and still another to improve the services
offered epileptics
Hire the
Handicapped
Its Good
BusinessLeft in top panelWillie Thomp
son 33yearold farm hand of Rt 1
Good Hope Walton County exhib
its the in knife blade removed
from his right ear in an operation
provided through Vocational Re
habilitation services
For months before the medical
examination he had complained
about buzzing in the head and
loss of hearing After the operation
he remembered being in a knife
fight with another man Willie
was picking cotton when this pic
ture was made

Right in top panelTwentyfive
year old Jesse Moore 596 Fair St
SW Atlanta with less than 20
200 vision operates a letter sealing
machine in the Georgia Association
of Workers for the Blind shop at
539 Courtland street NE

Left in center panelA hearing
aid and speech therapy supplied
through Vocational Rehabilitation
services solved Bert Daniels two
year employment problem He was
unable to pronounce even his name
clearly and was dependent upon his
wife for support For more than a
year now he has been manager of
a pool hall in Monroe

Right in center panelLuetta Johnson 34 of 599
Hancock street Athens had a disfiguring harelip
which barred her from employment Vocational Re
habilitation provided the necessary surgery and she
was placed as cook in a cafe

RightOla Jo Starks 32 of Rt 1 Bethlehem
had a harelip and cleft palate Surgery a prothesis
and speech therapy were provided to make her em
ployable The picture shows her in the kitchen in
her home
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belt links in the Georgia Association of Workers for
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