0I1EACCA GOAL ACEIiLVEO
An orthopedic hospital for the territory
of Alaska, goal toward which the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Association has been
struggling for the past year, is .now a real
ity. .......
At a recent meeting of officials of the
Department of the 'Interior 'in Washington,
D.C., at which Governor Drnest Gruening and
Dr. C. Dari Albrecht,' territorial Comm is
sinner of Health*..were guests, it-was annou
nced that the f a*/al hospital at Sitka is to
be Immediately prepared fpr use as a general
■hospital for Tthopedio cases.
The hospital , will care for 50 orthopedic
cases. It will be operated and administered
Py personnel of the Alaska Native Service,
with technical personnel needed for the care
of the orthopedic cases .loaned from the ter
ritorial Department of Health.
That this long-needed orthopedic hospital
has become an actuality a little less than a
year after the Alaska Cripfled Children’s
Association first came into existence, is a
tribute to the., hard work and enthusiasm of
the officers and members of the organization.
a 'chapter of the Association so*n is -t#
he organized in Seldovia. You will be 'asked
t* purchase a membership card in it. a11
proceeds from the sale of these cards will
be returned to the parent organization to fbe
used in supplying funds for the' am»ng;
Alaska1s crirpled children.
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The ACCA already ha? done much for our
crirpled' children and ypuhg ®3ople. It
plans much mere in the months to come. One
rf its principal goals at this time is to
plac e an orthopedic consultant on the staff
pf the territorial Department *f Health in
*rder .that the crippled children in isolated
t*wns and villages may be -sought out and t
brought to the Sitka hospital for treatment.••
. THE ACCA NEEDS YOUR HELP IN THE WORK
PLANNED I OR 1047. BUY a MEMBERSHIP CaRD
NEXT MONTH.
AT THE CHURCHES
Cos pel Center
Sunday School--l°:30
Church
Sermon:
in the book of
.Philippians
Tru-Blu---4 :0°
(Wednesday)
Mother’s: Class^-1:30
(Thursday)
Services held in
Union Hall.,
• Me'thcdist Church
..Sunday Schorl--2:00
BACK TO HOSPITAL
Miss Koette Jaccb
sa»,• public health
nurse here, again is
. confined to Seldovia
.hospital by a recur- *
ring illness. Miss
Jacobsen was released
from the- hospital on
ly a short time ago.
I'LL BE AROUND
IN A MORE DAYS
BOYS AND GIRLS