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TOP POLITICIANS HONORED ?╟÷ It was a busy weekend In Las Vegas for Nevada?╟╓s congressional delegation and governor. Saturday night at the Sands Hotel the Clark County and Neveda Mental Health Associations honored, from left, Sen. Howard Cannon, Sen. Alan Bible, Gov. Grant Sawyer and Rep. Wal- ter Baring. Last night at the Sahara Hotel Sawyer was presented the Distin- guished Service Award by the Nevada division of the American Jewish Com- mittee at. its annual Appeal for Human Relations dinner. (SUNfoto) ? α ? α ? α ? α ? α ? α ? α ? α ? α BUT MUCH WORK AHEAD_ - Earl Warren Jr. Lauds Mental Health Progress Praise for the vigorous lead- ership of Nevada legislators in establishing improved mental health care facilities was tem- pered by a reminder of work yet undone in the keynote speech at the Nevada Mental Health Recognition Dinner held here Saturday. A near-capacity crowd of 570 Citizens filled the newly-opened Sands Hotel Convention Hall to hear principal speaker Earl Warren Jr. call for support from governmental and private re- sources to put an end to the ?╟úcruel game of ping-pong,?╟Ñ in which mental patients are now forced to bounce back and forth between total supervision in mental hospitals and virtually no supervision at all in the out- side world. ?╟úWhat used to be considered symptoms of chronic, mental ill- ness have now been identified as symptoms of chronic institu- tionalization,?╟Ñ Warren, who is regional vice-president for t the western states for the Assocu tion of Mental Health, said. ?╟úWe must seek to make the patient a productive member of our society once again.?╟Ñ Warren looks forward to the development of a system of Community Mental Health Cen- ters which would bridge the gap between the institution and the outside world through programs of in-and-out-patient care. Such programs already exist on a small scale at Rose de Lima and Southern Nevada Memorial Hospitals here. It is hoped that recent state and fed- eral legislation will provide funds to expand these programs. Warren went on to attack the present treatment of the senile as ?╟úactually and actively in- humane.?╟Ñ By confining them to institutions we ?╟úlet them die a mental death?╟Ñ long before their time, he said. He struck out at the ?╟úunten- able position?╟Ñ of members of the so-called anti-health movement, which takes the position that politically conservative people are often railroaded into mental institutions, by quoting the American Medical Association's firm statement that ?╟úwe are in this program to stay.?╟Ñ