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SAT., NOVEMBER 8,1980
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(NNPA News Service)
Dr. George I. Lythcott,
administrator ' of the
Health Services Ad
ministration, Department
of Health and Human Ser
vices, operates the most
important federal agency
providing day-to-day
primary health care to
millions of Americans.
His agency employs
more than 16,000 people
and has an annual budget
of two billion-plus dollars.
More than five million
persons receive care
through HSA's Com
munity and Migrant
Health centers, National
Health Service Corps and
Indian Health Service.
Several million others,
mostly mothers and
children receive valuable
services from HSA
through its Maternal and
Child Health program.
Since joining HSA in
August, 1977, Dr.
Lythcott has become in
creasingly aware of the
broad spectrum in human
needs in health. A special
challenge facing HSA is to
ensure access to health
care in isolated rural com
munities and urban ghet
tos where an estimated 28
million residents are
without a regular source
of private sector health
care.
One means of helping
these people, often poor
persons not covered by
welfare or Medicaid, is
through the National
Health Service Corps.
With a 1980 appropriation
oi 4 million it has on
assignment in urban and
rural areas 1 ,21 1 doctors,
341 dentists and 508 other
medical support personnel
most of them nurses?
4 There are 6,500 others
in training under a
scholarship program that
pays for their education in
exchange for their agree
ing to serve in urban
and rural areas where
there are shortages one
year for each year of sub
sidized training received.
Twenty-three per cent of
trainees are black.
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Under Lythcott's
leadership, HSA has
developed several in
itiatives designed to more
effectively increase access
to health care. The three
most important of these
are in urban heahjhu rural
health and child health.
The urban health pro
gram is designed to build
primary care capacity in
medically under-served ur
ban areas through the
coordination of man
power, support service,
facilities and technical
assistance at the com
munity level. This in
itiative was created for ur
ban areas with high
percentages of poor and
elderly, high infant mor
tality levels and low physi
cian patient ratios.
In 1980, HSA is
operating more than 290
urban community health
centers and serving some
2,250,000 men, women
and children, many of
them minorities. The rural
health effort has received
renewed emphasis under
Dr. Lythcott's leadership.
Like its urban health
counterpart, it is targeted
to serve people living in
medically underserved
rural areas. This year, Dr.
Lythcott's agency has sup
ported some 570 projects
serving more than two
million people living in
rural America.
HSA works with state
and local governments in
trying to develop a system
for identifying and keep
ing in touch with high risk
mothers and infants. Key
goals of the child health
effort are to reduce unac
ceptably high infant mor
tality rates and to ensure
that all children are im
munized. The effec
tiveness of this program
can be seen in the District
of Columbia, where in one
year there was a drop of
eighteen per cent in the in
fant mortality rate.
HSA is responsible for
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serving more than 770,000
American . Indians and
Alaskan Natives. The In
dian Health Service pro
vides direct health services
to 48 hospitals, 100 health
centers and more than 300
health stations.
HSA is the agency
within HHS' Public
Health Service responsible
for ensuring access to
health care. As the major
federal provider of health
care, HSA was called
upon to see that Indo
Chinese, Haitian and
Cuban refugees received
Prompt, high quality
medical care when they
entered this country. Since
1978, facilities supported
by HSA provided health
services to more than
425,000 refugees.
HSA also operates
several other programs in
important areas such as
genetic diseases, hyperten
sion and black lung
disease. Dr. Lythcott was
born in New York City
April 29, 1918. He receiv
ed a bachelor of science
degree from Bates College
in 1939 and graduated
from the Boston Universi
ty School of Medicine in
1943. He served as a con
sultant for Public Health
Service programs in
smallpox eradication,
American Indian Health
and Cancer research. In
1971, he received a
Meritorious Honor Award
from the Agency for Inter
national Development for
directing the smallpox
eradication program in
twenty West and Central
African countries where
the disease was stamped
out.
In addition to previous
private practice in
pediatrics, Dr. Lythcott
has served as a professor,
instructor and practitioner
in pediatrics at the New
York University College
of Medicine and the
Boston University School
of Medicine. From 1969 to
1974, he served as
associate dean and pro
fessor of pediatrics at Col
umbia University. In
1978, he received Boston
University's Alumni
Awajd attd this, year he i
. received an honorary Doc 1
tor of Laws degree from
Bates College. In 1977, he
received the Edward Jen-
Ask Lawyer Day
Set For Wednesday 1
the Durham and Raleigh Call for Action offices will
participate in the fourth National "Ask The Expert
Lawyer Day," co-sponsored by Call For Action, Inc..
and the State Bar Associations throughout the nation,
on Wednesday, November 12.
Volunteer lawyers will provide free and confidential
legal information by phone for such areas as consumer
rights, landlord-tenant problems, domestic relations,
commercial law, taxes, and housing, between the hours
of 3 and 7 p.m. The attorneys can be reached by calling
688-9306 in Durham and 832-7578 in Raleigh.
"Ask the Lawyer Day combines the best efforts of
broadcasters and CFA volunteers with the expertise of
attorneys to bring free information to thousands of peo
ple," says Mrs. Mary Livas Smith, director of WRAL
TV's Durham Call For Action office. In 1979, over
5,000 people were able to reach 160 volunteer attorneys
while thousands more were unable to get through the
busy lines.
Call For Action, Inc., is a nationanelephone infor
mation and action service inpartnership with broadcast
stations and staffed by 2,000 volunteers in 38 cities. Na
tionally, CFA helps 200,000 citizens annually. Sixteen
per cent of all calls require some form of legal
assistance.
Lamplighters Club Meets
The Lamplighters Club of the Hayestown Communi
ty met in the Community Building recently, under the
leadership of Mrs. Alice Carrick.
Members present were Mmes. Roberta Allen, Delia
Hubbard, Annie Webb, Josephine " Lassiter, Edna
Roystcr, Lillie Owens, Ollie Ray, Mary Satterfield,
Hester Brown, Mozelle Robinson, Sonya Allen, Janet
Allen, Alice Carrick, and Odessa Flake.
The next meeting will be held Sunday, November 16,
4 p.m., in the Hayestown Community Building in C.R.
Wood Park.
Lyon Park Rose
Garden Club Meets
Mrs. Mae W. Webb hosted the Lyon Park Rose
Garden Ladies in her home recently, which was
gracefully decorated with several green, leafy flower ar
rangements. The "Garden Gate" was opened by Mrs.
Hor tense Jones with a reading entitled, "Making Use
Of Your Time Wisely." Ms. Halite Crews rendered
prayer.
The business session was opened by Ms. Margaret
Milligan and committee reports were given and tentative
plans were made for the club's Christmas dinner. The
club is also planning a plant sale for the spring of the
year.
Ms. Catherine Shaw, who recently returned from a
Bermuda cruise,, shared pictures of island flowers and
scenery.
Members present were Mmes. Maine Cannty,
Margaret Milligan, Hallie Crews, Celestine Cunn
ingham, Mae W. Webb, Hortense Jones, Mabble
Freeland, Mary Hardy, Mary Rice, Catherine Shaw,
Annie B. Green and Misses Brenda Lyde and Amelia
Merrill. Guests present were Mmes. Martha Lyde, Pearl
Tilley, Gemala Webb and Miss Calandra Rice.
Mrs. Green closed the meeting thanking Mrs. Webb
for her hospitality.
Durham Social Notes
Of Inferos!
ByMrs:symlnerDaye
477-3370
Happy birthday anniversary to Mrs. Olinzie Johnson.
Mrs. Rebecca Whitfield of Kinston spent a week's
vacation with Mrs, Nola Folks in Rougemont recently.
The Red Mountain Baptist Church Usher Board held
its most recent meeting Sunday October 26 with the
president, Oliver Bullock, presiding.
Others present were Mmes. Connie Bullock, Emma
L. Bullock, Lillian Glenn, Cornelia Riley Clayton,
Thelma Parrish, Nola Folk, Georgia Lyons, Wallace
Harris, Syminer Daye; James Harris and Norman Daye.
The Board will meet again in January.
Mr. and Mrs. Manning Maxwell and family of
Kinston spent the weekend with her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. John Folks in Rougemont.
It's a fine baby boy! Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Branch on their new arrival.
Miss Portia Scott has returned to Ferrum College
after spending fall break with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Scott in Durham. Miss Scon is a member of
Voices of Hope Choir" in college.
Miss Lydia Harris, daughter of Dr. B.W. Harris and
Mrs. Ben Harris of Greensboro, has returned to school
at UNC-Chapel Hill after spending fall break with her
parents.
Please pray for the sick and shut-in: Mesdames
Georgianna Moore, Viola Smith, Ida Thorpe, Dianna
Montgomery, Estelle Nixon, Maud Lucas, Willie Mit
chell, Maggie Parker, Grace Mack, Lina Glenn, Lillie
Eubanks, Eula Johnson, Moriah Judd, Pearl Foskey;
Ms. Bernella Phillips, Patricia Coin, Julia Robinson;
Messers. W.A. Harris, Ervin Lyons, William Carr
lngton, Bonnie Lee Allen, Sammie Parker, Lucious
Glenn, Edward Glenn, Alphonzo Claiborne, Hosea
Moore, Master Brian Umstead, Ross Scoggins.
Sincere sympathy to the family of Rev. S.P Bigeers
and to the Eubanks Family of Chapel Hill, the McCali
Family and the Garner Family.
Prize Winner
Mrs. Generia Reid of Weaver Street won the 300
pound hog that was given away at Whitted School,
November 2, during the closing service of the crusade
for Elder Bradsher.
Mrs. Delois Rogers of 2401 Southern Drive, won the
prize for the Queen.
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New World was unearthed in 1979 at the 1619 Wolsten
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