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The little black bag’s altered path illustrates the changing
patterns of medical practice, the trend toward centralizing medical
care in the hospital.
Medical care has shifted from the home to the hospital, and
with the shift, a new ingredient has been added to patient care—
the highly technical methods resulting from die scientific revolu
tion of the 20th Century.
Combination of science and individual patient care is die
theme of National Hospital Week, May 6-12. This observance
originally celebrated as National Hospital Day has been marked
annually since 1953. Sponsored by the American Hospital Assn.,
it is held each year during the week of Florence Nightingale’s
birthday.
Today community hospitals have more than two employes for
every single patient admitted and 50 per cent are directly concerned
with the professional care of patients. Machines cannot replace the
nurse who notes carefully her patient.
Nome, in its isolation, has been fortunate to have the Women’s
Division of Christian Service of die Methodist Church fostering
and maintaining an up-to-date hospital, fully accredited, the only
hospital, to meet the needs of all the people of Northwestern
Alaska. Its Board of Directors is ever watchful that a staff of com
petent medical personnel is available here because although science
and technology play a big role in today’s hospital with its X-ray,
electro-cardigraphs and anti-biotics, all are usless without the
doctors, nurses, technicians and other human beings who supply
the hospital care.
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CIGARETE MANUFACTURER
IN DEATH OF FLORIDA MAN
NEW ORLEANS UP) — A federal
appeals court has upheld a lower
court ruling that exonerated a
cigarette manufacturer in the death
of a Florida man from lung cancer
caused by cigarette smoking.
In New York, president Paul
Hahn of the American Tobacco Co.
said the firm was gratified at the
decision handed down Thursday
by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The Florida jury had decided
that, while cigarette smoking was
one of the causes of a fatal cancer
of Edwin Green Sr., the tobacco
firm could not have foreseen that
Lucky Strike smokers would be
endangered by smoke inhalation.
Green claimed in the suit,
brought in 1957, that he had con
tacted lung cancer from smoking
Lucky Strikes, When he died sev
eral months later, his son, Edwin
Green Jr., was substituted as a
plaintiff under Florida law. His
wife also filed suit.
FOUR WALRUS PUPS TO BE
SOUGHT AT GAMBELL
FOR SAN DIEGO ZOO
Clyde Hill and Fred Mabbatt
from the San Diego Zoo are here
to take back live walrus pups. In
1060 the first pups were taken to
the zoo from this area but for sev
eral reasons did not survive. How
ever the zoo learned a lot about
the needs of the walrus and hope
to be able to handle these more
expertly. „
Four pups are sought and plans
are made to go to Gambell for
the catch. If they are unsuccessful
there they will follow the ice pack
by oomiak to Wales and try again.
MRS. MARY DAVIDOVICS
OF KOTZEBUE PASSES ON
Mrs. Mary Davidovics, widow of
the late Paul »>a«ao^
away in Kotzebue last week after
a lingering illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Davidovics were
operators of the Davidovics Road
House and were an important part
of the Kotzebue scene before
World War II.
Mrs. Davidovics is survived by
a son, Frank, of Kotzebue; and
three daughters, Mrs. Emma Lee
of Spenard, Mrs. Anne Burke and
MTS. Angie Thach, both of Seattle.
Father Carrol returned Saturday
from Ireland where he has been
visiting with his mother, sisters
Mid brothers since last July, spend
ing a few weeks in the states on
his way back.
After being heartily welcomed,
he was dispatched to Kotzebue
the same day as there had been two
deaths and he was needed as the
priest there.
Dillon Will Review
Domestic Gold
Mining Industry
WASHINGTON U!) — Secretary
of the Treasury Douglas Dillon has
agreed to review his previous op
position to incentive or subsidy
payments to the domestic gold
mining industry.
Western members of Congress
painted a picture of vanishing gold
mines at a 90-minute meeting with
cabinet officers Friday.
Rep. Harold T. Johnson, (D
Calif.), who arranged the meeting,
said the group, including industry
representatives, came away with
a feeling of hope that legislation
now pending before the House and
Senate Interior Committees could
be tailored to suit the Treasury and
other government agencies.
The measures would keep the
Treasury price of gold at $35 an
ounce, but provide additional gov
ernment payments up to $35 an
ounce as an incentive for the pro
duction of newly mined gold.
Johnson said Dillon related that
Treasury opposition up to now has
been based on the fear that a do
mestic mining subsidy would be
regarded abroad as a first step
toward a gold price increase and
undermine confidence in the dollar
as the foundation of the world
monetary system.
Rep. Ralph Rivers called the
pending legislation is purely an at
tempt to solve a domestic mining
problem without destroying the
domestic price. He suggested that
it might be accomplished without
creating a run on the Treasury’s
gold stocks from abroad if the pro
position is explained in advance
to foreign monetary officials.
Dillon informed the group,
Rivers said, that he is meeting
within 10 days with international
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officials in Rome and would discuss
the matter with them.
Johnson said Dillon recognized
that it would be beneficial to re
vive the gold mining industry.
“We want very much to increase
the production of gold in this
country,” Dillon told the group.
“We should redouble our efforts
to see If we ean find any possible
way to solve this problem without
endangering tine international ex
change rate.” ~ T
Johnson said the group told Dil
lon they hoped he would have a
favorable reaction to their proposal
by May 23 when the Senate In -
terior Committee resumes hearings
on the gold subsidy legislation*
Other participants in the meeting
included Sen. Ernest Gruening,
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REPORT RED CHINESE
ASSISTED IN CAPTURE
OF TOWN IN LAOS
VIENTANE, Laos iff> — Ameri
can military sources said Saturday
they had confirming information
that Red Chinese troops assisted
in the capture of Muong Sing and
its jungle airstrip in northern Laos
Thursday.
Muong Sing, five miles from
the Chinese border, has served as
an alternate supply source and
troop area for Nam Tha, the half
encircled provincial capital 20
miles to the southeast.
The rightwing government an
nounced that Communist forces
followed up their success at Muong
Sing by capturing another defen
sive position southeast of Nam Tha
Friday.
The government, in reporting
the fall of Muong Sing, had said
two Red Chinese battalions and a
Pathet Lao battalion staged the
successful attack.
The Red Chinese then withdrew
back over the border, the govern
ment said.
American military sources until
Saturday disclaimed any eonfirma
CAB Suspends Charter Rates
WASHINGTON M — The Civil
Aeronautics Board suspended the
proposed jet charter rates of
Pacific Northern Airlines Friday.
The board ordered an investiga
tion on the basis of a complaint by
Northwest Airlines that the plan
ned rates were “unduly low.”
The CAB said the proposal to
charter Boeing 720 jets at a rate
of $3.75 per “live” mile and $2.75
for ferry mile, and a layover
charge of $150 an hour, represent
ed a departure from “the existing
general level of jet aircraft charter
rates.
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