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Hypnotist suggests his art be licensed
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—Hypnotist Arthur Ellen, who converted three decades of state experience into a private practice catering to sports and show business figures, thinks his field is ready for licensing.
"The spooky misconceptions about hypnosis are now reaching proportions where licensing is necessary," said the dapper practitioner from Westwood.
"We need a screening board to determine what is honest hypnosis and what isn't. It will always be more of an art than a science, but there should be standards for licensing it as a para-medical field similar to physiotherapy."
Ellen, a quick-talking man proud of his three decades as a night club hypnotist, was working with athletes and entertainers before setting up practice six years ago in a Los Angeles area medical building.
He dropped the names of Tony Curtis, Roberto Clemente, Maury Wills, Jackie Jensen, and Bill Toomey—adding that they had all publicly mentioned his treatment of "mental hangups" which were hampering their performances.
"I never discuss a patient until the patient mentions it first," he said in a recent interview.
"Hypnosis is not a panacea," Ellen said. "It can't produce greater talent than a person has. But it can help someone free himself of his hangups by leading him into his subconscious and breaking up a behavior pattern he can't break consciously." Doctors approve
In his private practice, Ellen takes referrals from more than 400 physicians who have been free to take advantage of hypnosis since the American Medical Association approved it as a method of treatment in 1958.
"It's used in anesthesia, open heart surgery and such things as
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painless childbirth," Ellen said. "But I think its most important role will be in the same areas as psychiatry—helping people to do things they should be able to do."
The hypnotist, who lectures occasionally at the UCLA Medical School and Neuropsychiatric Institute, said it can also be used in the treatment of alcoholics and drug abusers, but only those "sincerely trying to get off but troubled by subconscious fears or a lack of confidence."
Ellen's more famous clients have generally feared flying or failure.
Athletes—baseball, football and basketball players—develop fears of losing their good reflexes, of slumps, of being over the hill, or about the reasons they were traded, he said.
Baseball player Jensen's fear of flying shortened his big league career. Ellen got him into an airplane once, but the treatment didn't once. Curtis, who also feared flying, has since bought his own jet.
The hypnotist hasn't completely given up on the entertainment side of his trade. He was in town en route to his annual three-week "working vacation" at a South Lake Tahoe resort.
"All one has to do is suspect he is over the hill, and his reflexes are going to prove he is right," Ellen said.
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'Black blizzard' created Dust Bowl
SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI) Puerto Rico constitutes the top of what may be the world's highest mountain range, which begins 27,000 feet below the Atlantic Ocean in Bronson's Deep.
Farmers called it the "black blizzard." It was one of the worst continuing dust storms in the nation's history and it created what has come to be known as The Dust Bowl.
The "black blizzard" began 36 years ago, one of America's great disasters. For days on end the dust spread misery to millions throughout the drought-striken western plains. There is a lesson in this for those fighting today's abuse of nature by man—man-made desert conditions according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, created the dust storms.
The mammoth dust cloud measured 1.3 million square miles. Some of the dust came from desert-like areas. But it also came from what once had been considered farmland.
Thousands of acres in the plains states were too arid for sustained crop production. But the settlers gambled and natural grass was stripped by plows or torn by the hooves of cattle. Soil which had been building for centuries was depleted within a few years. Then came a long stretch without rain.
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The drought was bad enough. In Missouri the pastures were bone dry. Farmers chopped trees so the cattle could eat the leaves But while the drought was difficult, the dust was impossible.
A vast area, which included parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, became the dust bowl. Soil from the region was whipped into the air day after day in 1934.
On a single day experts estimated that 300 million tons of rich top soil was lifted by the
winds from the Dust Bowl. In places where there had been farmsteads there were sand dunes. The dust, like snow, drifted fence high. In North Dakota dust drifts blocked roads.
One Kansas wheat farmer, describing the "black blizzard," wrote that it "begins to blow with only a slight breeze . . . the wind increases its velocity until it is blowing at 40 to 50 miles an hour. Soon everything is moving—the land is blowing—the very sun is blotted out."
Little could survive in the gritty hell. Crops perished. Tending of livestock was out of the question. Then the people left.
There was an exodus from the dust desert such as this nation had never seen. Families which could trace their claim to the pioneer days became migratory. Highways were cluttered with vehicles carrying all the possessions the refugees could pile aboard. Between 1935 and 1939 California alone received 350,000 Dust Bowl farmers.
Coming in the midst of the great depression, the dust storm disaster pushed millions into poverty. Much of the najion had been knocked to its knees.
Soil experts estimated that in the 1930s more than 9 million acres of good land was virtually destroyed by wind erosion. Almost 80 million more acres suffered serious damage.
Then began an unprecedented campaign to salvage the nation's resources. In the spring of 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was created. The government enlisted 300,000 needy young men in the fight to restore the land. The forest service planted a shelter-
belt of more than 200 million trees. Soil conservation rules were put into effect. Grazing on public lands was regulated.
Slowly, the devastated lands were made livable again. But the loss—measured in either dollars or misery—could never be erased.
Hippie tells reason for cannibalism
SALINAS, Calif. (UPI) — A Rocky Mountain hippie blames drugs, thunder and lightning for a demonic trance which he declares turned him into a cannibal.
The hippie, Stanley Baker, also said that to "worship the devil" he killed and cannibalized a benefactor at a campsite along the Yellowstone River in Montana.
Homicide charges were filed Wednesday against Baker, 22, of Storey, Wyo., who was arrested because of an automobile accident on a highway skirting the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur. "I have a problem—I am a cannibal," he told an arresting highway patrolman.
Montana officials found a headless armless, heartless and legless torso in the Yellowstone River and say they believe it is that of James M. Schlosser, 22, a welfare worker from Roundup, Mont., the man who picked up a hitchhiker.