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...helps the patient? Kansas' Topeka State Hospital declares in an official pamphlet: "Patients are directly dependent on psychiatric aides, the only team members who are with them every hour of the day and night. The aides are likely to know the patient best. The aide's influence on patients and the quality of person needed in his job are often underestimated by the public. The quality of treatment in mental hospitals depends directly on them...
Work-ln. Yet one place where aides are most grossly underpaid and underrated, and where they have recently staged a dramatic revolt on behalf of themselves and their patients, is Topeka State Hospital. Kansas' state capital, with a population of only 133,000, has long proclaimed itself on roadside signs as "the Psychiatric Center of the World." That was based largely on the fame of the Menninger brothers, Karl A. and the late William C., and their private C. F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, universally miscalled "the Menninger Clinic...
...1950s, the Menninger brothers wrought a transformation at the nearby state hospital. Thanks to their lobbying, the old snake pit was replaced by attractive modern buildings. Topeka State abandoned its bars, chains and straitjackets and began returning "incurable" mental patients from the shadows of its back wards. (One woman was released after 53 years in confinement.) Kansas led the states in the modernity and humanity of its approach to mental illness, and its budget of $8 a day for a patient's care was about the nation's highest. But that was a dozen years...
...Industries" may sound like an overextended name for a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo Indian blankets. When the name begins to appear on stock tapes sometime later this summer or early fall, even Easterners will soon learn that it refers to the big and already well-known Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Like other U.S. railroads, the fourth largest, Santa Fe, has become increasingly active in nonrail businesses, now receives about $17 million annually, or close to 30% of its total earnings, from these other activities...
...Heineman, has merger agreements worked out with the Chicago Great Western, and would like to include the Milwaukee Road. The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, with 9,200 miles of frequently parallel track, hope to merge too. The Missouri Pacific is anxious to take over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The three "Northerns"-the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington-have been given tentative ICC permission to combine lines that cover most of the territory between Chicago and the Pacific. The Rock Island Line, an enticing property despite financial difficulties, has a plethora of suitors. Hoping...