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1 HEALTH COUNCIL - . V~.
HOLDS CONFERENCE / .
A city -Health Con- •
ference meeting iras held
on Thursday evening in
the Health Center at City
Hall. .. .
Dr. Melvin Beltz
called the .meeting to
| order and a . discussion
followed regarding new
equipment needed at the
local hospital.
Hiss Dorothy Dress
ier, public health nurse
gave a report to the
group on health condit
ions her e- in
ity.
bne reported unau no
new cases of tubercolocis
had occured in the city, /
and that eleven exrays /
had been given under the/
program. There, t
had been no hospitaliz- \
ation recently under the
program. She stated that
forty children had been
given pre-school examin
ations and that more were
1 to soon be examined. The
well baby conferences are
being well attended and
the school children are "
being checked each day... *
Hiss Florence Eby*
nursing supervisor who i-s
in Seldovia for a brief
stay, spoke to the group
and stated that the Terr
^ itorial boat Hygene is
due to arrive in Seldovia
soon. She stated that
Miss Dressier will soon
be visiting other
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mmy.
Inscribed on the
Statue of Liberty
Gave me your tired,
- ypui* poor,'
*- YoufcMtoiddled masses,
yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of
your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me:
I lift my lamp beside
the golden door.
ENGINE ROQL'
DAIiAGED BY FIRE
The powert barge
Seldovia, belonging to
the Berger Distributing
Co. of Anchorage, had a
fire this morning while
tied up in Seldovia har
bor.
The fire was due to
a backfire of the auxil
ary engine - which set
aflame the, ~ surrounding
oils and greases.
According;, 10 tne
Engineer aboard, John
Bartell, he came out of
the companionway of the
starboard engine and as
he turned to• go to the .
Port, engine a streak of
flame shot out of the
port enginq.^. This flame
extended for'several feet
catching afire oils and
greases which it touched.
The, Engineer then had to
go topside and get an
extinguisher from the
neighboring barge the
Lois Anderson.
Three or four large
bottles of 602 were
emptied into the engine
room and all dorrs and
ventilators were shut.
This in a short
#hile extinguished the
flame.
Later investigation
revealed considdrable
damage to the light pl
ant and surrounding wir
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