Cafeteria Provides Meals For Staff And Visitors |
While designed primarily for the hospital stall", the cafeteria can also be used by visitors. Here complete meals can be obtained for
75 cents three times daily. (Mountaineer Photo).
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Hospital Has 26 Graduate
Nurses On Present Staff;
Live In Two-Story Home
A hospital could hardly operate
without nurses and 26. plus aids
and technicians, are on the staff
here.
Besides the 26 registered nurses
there are four undergraduates. 30
aides, two X-ray technicians, two
laboratory technicians, a patholo
gist.'and a radiologist.
Mrs. W. F. Freeman, director of
nurses, said the nursing staff is as
large as any hospital of similar
size in the State. When she came
to the Haywood County Hospital
in 1048. she recalled there were
only 14 nurses.
They live in a 10-bedroom home
at the rear of the hospital. This
from the Duke Endowment Fund.
It was not included in the hospital
improvements, partly because it
v as repainted, redecorated, and had
the floors worked on in 1949. In
addition to the bedrooms and large
downstairs lobby, there is a small
kitchenette for the nurses' use.
The two-story brick structure is
*sed for medical and staff meet
ings for both doctors and nurses.
The island of Zanzibar, former
ivory and slave trade center, and
nearby Pemba produce 9/10 of the
world's supply of cloves says the
National Geographic Society.
Officials Believe
35 < Increase In
Parcel Post To
Relieve Deficit
Dat old debbil. the postal deficit,
is breathing down the neck of the
taxpayer again. Prospects are that
it may reach S700.000.000 this year,
according to some estimates.
There are many factors respons
ible for this overdose of postal red
ink, according to Postmaster J. H.
Howell. Foremost is the fact that
jjilLCj yharmed for postal service
nav^noirisf'f! to Wlifcn i befell sod
costs in recent years.
The price of our chief commod
ity, the familiar three-cent stamp
for a letter, has not increased since
1932. declared Mr. Howell.
While it is true that the rates
for parcel post and some other
services in the po>t ofTiee have in
creased moderately, none compare
with increases in commodities dealt
with in other businesses, he point
ed out.
The cost of rail and other trans^
portation which the oost office uses
in the form of mail cars, busses
and mail routes, has grown tremen
dously. but has not been matched
i by similar increases in postal rates.
The cost of labor in the post of
fices, which has necessarily kept
pace with the increased cost of. liv
ing. has added heavily to the over
all cost of \apmMrrt; t*n?~hwbil
jlion dollar postal business.
Recent approval by Postmaster
| General Summerfield of a thirty
! five percent raise in parcel post
rates is a step in the direction of
reducing the deficit. Even with this
increase, however, the cost of send
ing a package parcel post will still
be considerably less than by ex
press.
It is probable, concluded Post
master Howell that if postal rates
were raised in exactly the same
ratio that prices of other commod
ities and services have risen since
the war. the postal deficit could be
resolved very quickly.
Negroes Now
Have Larger
Section At
The Hospital
To accomodate colored patients. ]
the hospital has given them a larg- j
er section in the right wing on the
first floor. *
Now with eight beds, the section
formerly had only two. The im
provements include two private
rooms and two three-bed wards
plus a waiting room.
They have the same facilities as
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an institution built tor
TODAY And Also TOMORROW
- - - built to serve as well as any hospital in the South. We
are truly proud of this splendid institution, and know we speak
for this entire section in expressing our happiness on this joy
ous occasion of the formal opening of such a modern hospital.
HAZELWOOD PHARMACY i
Phone 392 Hazelwood. N. C.
Training
Pvt. Bennett B. Rogers, son of |
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Rogers of
Route 1, Clyde, is at Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo., where he is
taking basic training. Prior to
being drafted March 10 he was
employed at the Wel'.co Shoe
Corporation.
The Age of Eating
RALEIGH <AP>?Are you eating
your way to an early old age? Age
can't always be measured in birth
days says Miss Virginia Wilson.
State College Extension nutrition
ist.
Scientists today agree that much
of what is regarded as aging may
actually be signs of poor food
habits, she says.
Dr. Edward J. Stieglitz. an au
thority on the science of aging,
says that what you eat between the
ages of 40 and 60 helps decide
sour health in later years. Many
of the "old age" diseases of the
heart, arteries, kidneys and joints
find their beginning during the
middle age period. The right foods
in the right amounts are important
aids in slowing up these old age
symptoms.
New Giant Atom Smasher
Undergoes Initial Tests
Satisfactory initial tests of the
University of Chicago's $2,500,000
synchrocyclotron, giant atom
smasher, have been made after
thief? and one-half years spent on
design and construction, Samuel
K. Allison, director of the Univer
sity's Institute for Nuclear Studies,
announced.
Deuterons, the nuclei of heavy
hydrogen atoms, have been ac
celerated to an energy of 250 mil
lion electron volts, the - highest
known energy ever achieved arti
ficially with these atomic particles.
Herbert L. Anderson, professor
of physics In the Institute, and John
Marshall, assistant professor, who
directed design and construction of
the big accelerator, conducted the
tests.
Next step In getting the Chicago
instrument into final working order
will be to produce a focussed beam
of protons, the nuclei of ordinary
hydrogen. In the test, the deuterons
Were not brought outside the mag
netic field.
The energy attained with deuter
ons indicates the synchrocyclotron
will accelerate protons to energies
of the order of 450 million electron
volts, making it the most powerful
accelerator of positive ions in the
western world.
other patients and are cared for by
the regular nurses. However, there
have been very few Negroes in the
hospital but officials believe with
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Pathology Department Is One Of Best In WNC
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Formerly the hospital had to send laboratory specimens from operations to Duke University for examination ?
tion of its own pathology deDartment the results of examinations a re known in a few hours.
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another job we are proul
to claim I
IS THE
HEATING SYSTEM
OF THE % I
Haywood County Hospitl
This Modern System Not Only Pro- I
vides Heat For The Entire Building/ I
But Also Steam For The Modern I
Kitchen. I
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ATTEND THE OPEN HOUSE PROGRAM I
FLOYD MILLER I
WAYNESVILLE, N. C. I