Monday, April 26, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Alcoholism affects all former pitcher says
Bv MARLENE NORDMAN
Staff Writer
Don Newcombe, a former major league pitcher, told an audience of about 40 people Friday he wasn't against alcohol but against alcoholism.
Newcombe, a representative of the National Clearinghouse on Alcohol Information, spoke at Haskell Indian Junior High part of its alcohol and drug abuse workshop.
Newcombe said he had been traveling across the United States for the past four years speaking about his experiences with alcoholism.
One of the reasons he is devoting so much of his time to speaking on alcoholism, he said, is that he has seen far too many cases where people believe in a damn' about whether they drink or not.
"WELL, IT NOT going to stand back and let you be the one to lead," he said, responding to audibles, "he said."
Newcombe said he wanted to emphasize that he wasn't against alcohol itself. He said each person had to decide for himself whether he wanted to drink.
"I only ask that they find out what it can do to you," he said.
Newcombe said he began drinking when he was eight and his father gave him homebrew.
Newcombe said that Jackie Robinson, the first black to play major league baseball, made it possible for him to enter baseball. Some of the tings Newcombe and his black teammates had to withstand, he said, "would make a person's hair curl."
Newcombe said he remembered eating in hotel rooms rather than restaurants to avoid incident and staying in hotels where meals were served by white teammates staved in cooled rooms.
As a result of this and other stresses, he said, he began to drink heavily to release his
Newcombe said he he remembered Robinson having his leg cut and having dirt thrown at him by other players. But he didn't bother to play, bothered as much because he was a pitcher.
"I was known as being pretty wild at that time. It's not funny to have a baseball coming at you at 100 miles an hour," he said.
Newcombe said he also drank heavily while trying to find answers to life. He was worried, he said, because he was beginning to slip professionally despite being voted as the outstanding pitcher and rookie of the year early in his career.
Alcoholism destroyed his first marriage and almost destroyed his second, Newcombe said. At the age of 32, he was out of professional baseball.
NEWCOMBE SAID he has a happy marriage with his second wife. Billy. They have been married for 20 years.
"With all these things happening to me, I should have been a very happy man. But no, I was trying to find answers to everything—I wanted answers at the bottom of the bottle," he said.
One of the worst things about alcoholism is that it destroys the alcoholic's loved ones, he said. Even though Newcombe loved his wife, he said he started destroying her.
"She couldn't understand what was meant to the man she loved," Nuppee said. "I hadn't seen him."
He said he decided to stop drinking completely on the day he came back home drunk with lipstick on his collar and couldn't remember where he had slept the previous night. His wife had her bags leave him and take their children with her.
Newcomba said his wife threatened to divorce him because she hated him when he was drunk, but gave him another chance after he swore never to drink again.
He said too many people with a drinking problem didn't admit to themselves they had the problem. It is a mistaken notion that alcoholism causes death because most alcoholics lead normal lives.
Newcombe said more young people today drink alcohol than use other kinds of drugs, compared with a few years ago. He said he was upset to discover younger people telling him they take amphatetines and barbiturates in combination with the alcohol.
ONE OF THE REASONS he is concerned about alcoholism to speak out against it, he said, that he sees far too many young people who think that drinking
Newcombe said alcohol affects everybody, even those who don't drink.
"We can't afford the luxury of thinking because we don't drink it, it doesn't affect us."
replacement for Smith as president of the association.
"Right now, the important thing is Dennis," Bohandler said. "It's a matter of deciding whether Dennis' civil rights have been violated."
City . . .
From page one
Bohlander, who along with Smith represented city workers during affiliation talks with the Teamsters, said Smith's dismissal wouldn't affect the employees' move for recognition as a collective bargaining unit.
ON APRIL 15, Watson received a letter from Teamsters Local No. 608 in Topka Street, near the intersection of street, water and parks and recreation departments had affiliated with the union. The letter requested that negotiations be closed and a contract between the employees and the city.
Last fall Smith and Bohlander led the movement by the United Public Employees Association of Lawrence (UPEA) for recognition under the Kansas Public Employee Regulations Law. Under the law, which outlines procedures for municipal employee negotiations, employees can appeal to a state board whose decisions are binding.
"The city's reply to the letter was a flat no." Brolander said.
The Lawrence City Commission voted in November against coming under the law and recognizing the employees association. The commission also to keep bargaining at the local level.
The graphics system was begun after the state Board of Regents appropriated $9,000 last year to hire a consultant for the system. Houston firm of Caudell, Rowlett and Scott
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be erected on city streets adjoining the highways.
From page one
Lucas said a final presentation was recently made to Chancellor Archie R.
Dykes and the first signs were ordered.
Alton Thomas, associate professor of architecture and urban design and a landscape architect for KU's architectural services, said coordination for interior signs in buildings would be sought from the directors of various departments.
Thomas also said the architects of new campuses buildings would be asked to use the new facilities.
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