THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
TODAY’S HOSPITAL...
CAREER CENTER
FOR
AMERICA'S YOUTH
NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK MAY 12-18
tfc^HE NATION’S HOSPITALS are marking National Hospital
Week, centered this year on the theme, ’'Today’s Hospital—
Career Center for America’s Youth.”
The hospital is, indeed, a career center, for it needs nearly
every skill, profession, talent and trade. Some hospitals list more
than 200 job classifications. Hospital employes include engineers,
stenographers, carpenters and cooks, as well as the paramedical
professional workers, such as nurses, therapists and technicians.
Even with more than a million and a half persons employed
in the nation’s 7,000 hospitals, there are serious shortages of per
sonnel, particularly in the professional fields. The shortages will
continue, and even grow as the population increases, and as more
people recognize the value of prompt medical care.
Hospitals offer many career opportunities for persons of all
types — those with a sense of business, those with a desire to
help their fellow man, those who work well with people, those
who prefer the quiet of the laboratory or library’, those who enjoy
housekeeping, and those who like to teach. Whatever a person’s
interests, the hospital field has a position to match it.
The opportunity in our hospital in a unique one — a chance
for a young person to do what he likes and does best, and at the
same time contribute to the well being of his community.
We urge every young person as he looks to his future to
consider the MMM Hospital as the center for his career.
Medical careers chosen by former Nome School students were
inspired in Nome and have resulted in three doctors, two of them
women; June Dunbar and Loretta Snyder Helle; and Norvin Lewis
Jr. A nurse who returned home was Lucy Okpealuk Trigg.
Other young people interested in medical careers are given
opportunity to work part time whenever possible so they may
have some experience in their chosen field.
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Nursing Home-Type
Service Offered by
MMM Hospital
The Maynard-McDougall Mem
orial Hospital is now authorized
by the State of Alaska to offer
nursing home type service. This
service includes room, board and
nursing care but not costs of medi
cal supplies, drugs, doctors’ fees,
or other hospital services such as
laboratory work. X-rays, surgical
treatments, physical therapy.
The establishment of these beds
for this type care represents the
only such service available in
Northwest Alaska. Previous to this
authorization, all patients needing
such service have been sent to
the Pioneer Home in Sitka or one
of the nursing homes in Anchorage.
As far as the hospital personnel
are concerned, these patients are
to receive the same care and con
sideration that the regular hospital
ized patient receives. In fact, since
their stay here may be for months
or even years, we all should make
every effort to make this their
home and make what might be a
dull, boring time a pleasant, satis
fying one.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. UP> —
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the only thing she could do when
her stretch pants split during the
second annual inter-collegiate ele
phant race.
She borrowed the elephant’s
stretch pants.
Most of the 15,000 spectators
agreed Miss Volk’s mishap was
easily the major event of the race.
Why was the elephant wearing
stretch pants? A promotion-con
scious manufacturer saw to that.
The winning elephant, also a fe
male, was entered by the Univer
sity of Southern California. Her
name was Margie.
Miss Volk, 20, of Sarah Law
rence College, Bronxville, N.Y.,
was sliding from her elephant after
a picture-taking session when sud
denly she grabbed for her pants.
Then she grabbed for the ele
phant’s. A gallant male mahout
loaned her a pair of checkered
walking shorts. She donned them
also — for good measure — and
went on to win a prize as the
speediest in the somewhat limited
women’s division.
“She’s a real gamey girl,” said
the only other female competitor,
Suzanne Smith, 21, of Mills Col
lege, Oakland, Calif.
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Democrats and Republicans Embark
On Voyage to the Isles of Fantasy
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Anaylst
WASHINGTON UP — This is the
time when Democrats and Repub
licans embark on a voyage which
carries them close to the isles of
fantasy. They’re sailing now.
It happens every four years,
about a year and some months be
fore the next Presidential elec
tion. They line the rails, chanting
a political athem composed in part
of exaggerated charges and pre
posterous claims.
This makes it doubly hard on
the earnest voter along the shore.
He wants to separate fact from
fiction, the bland from the blatant,
and the true from the trite. But
he has a time, close-up or with
field glasses, telling Democrats
from Republicans since they’re
such look-alikes.
From now until election day the
politicians will be in a state which
psychologists call euphoria. With
out any apparent effort, and often
without facts, they imagine all
kinds of good things happening to
them.
For instance, Republican con
gressional leaders predicted that
the GOP in 1964 would capture
the Presidency and the House. But
then they suffered a complete
lapse of prophecy. This will last
until their convention.
They wouldn’t predict their
Presidential candidate.
Their three front-runners, all
eager to make a speech at the
drop of an invitation or without
one, have managed to fight off any
public display of their own eu
phoria.
The three — New York’s Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller, Arizona’s Sen.
Barry Goldwater, and Michigan’s
Gov. George Romney — all deny
they have Presidential ambitions.
This is like hearing a fisherman
say he’s sitting in the hot sun for
exercise.
The Republicans, now that this
is open season, are attacking Presi
dent Kennedy’s leadership. Their
national chairman, Rep. William E.
Miller of New York, has accused
him of “apathy and drift.”
Miller’s opposite number, John
Bailey, Democratic national chair
man, returned the favor against
Rockefeller who until recently, at
least, looked like the man on the
inside track in the Republican
race.
Bailey accused Rockefeller of
lacking leadership in his own state
of New York. No to be outdone,
the governor has had some uncom
plimentary things to say about the
way Kennedy is leading.
But Bailey, like the Republicans,
also got carried away by his
dreams of political plenty and in
vaded New York to tell the De
mocrats he expects them to carry
the state for Kennedy in 1964.
Even the cave-dwellers knew’
that nothing burns a man up so
quickly — including his ambitions
— as building a fire under him.
The Republicans, having built one
under Kennedy, are throwing logs
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Last week many of them popped
up in the Senate to announce that
the President’s policies had caused
a “great leap backward” in United
States prestige abroad.
But it’s still so early all this
criticism was as mild as coughing
under a blanket compared with
what the Republicans will do later.
What they're doing now is hardly
more than warming up their
motor on a frosty morning.
Kennedy, who will be running
again in 1964, for many months to
come has an advantage over any
would-be Republican candidate or,
for that matter, all the Republicans
put together.
As President he can hold a tele
vised news conference every week
— which can be like a 30-minute
campaign talk to the nation — or
do something around the White
House which gets his pictures in
the papers every day.
It’s amazing how he stays in
focus.
For a politician this is the hap
piest, because it’s the best and
most inexpensive, kind of public
exposure. No Republican can
match him in it until the party
formally picks its candidate in the
summer of 1964.
Even then he won’t get as much
attention as the President.
The Democrats, with Kennedy
a sure thing as their candidate,
will lack the special excitement
of the Republicans who still must
find one. But there isn’t a politi
cian who wouldn’t trade excite
ment for contentment any day.
The politicians of both parties
never feel so content in a Presi
dential campaign as when their
candidate is trying to renew his
lease on that house on Pennsyl
vania Avenue.
Special Project
The congregation of the Central
Methodist Church of Philadelphia,
Pa., home church of Barbara Wil
son, deaconness and nurse at the
MMM Hospital, started a special
project for the Nome hospital when
Miss Wilson came to Nome and
raised a sum of money which was
recently turned over to the admin
istrator.
The group took an imaginary
bus trip to Alaska at 5 cents a mile
and raised enough to purchase a
bed for chronically ill patients who
will be confined in the nursing
home facilities of the hospital.
This new service was recently
added to the hospital so that some
old residents will not necessarily
have to leave their home and
friends when they become incapa
citated.
Lightning-Fast Theft
LONDON UP — Thieves grabbed
a parcel containing $67,200 worth
of foreign currency in a lightning
fast switch at the London Airport,
British European Airways said
Sunday.
The parcel vanished soon after
a plane brought it here from
Zurich. A dummy parcel was sub
stituted in its place.
The money was snatched last
Tuesday. BEA disclosed the theft
Sunday in offering a $6,700 re
ward for its return.
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