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New Hospital Switchboard Handles 400 Calls Daily Ahurg with the other new equip ment the hospital boasts the most modern tvpe of telephone switch I iard. This was Installed bv the Y> .,vm sville office of the Southern Hell Telephone and Telegraph Company. The switchboard, located near the information desk, stays busy most of the time. Including out- ' tide and inter-office calls, between -Kin and 500 messages are handled daily. , This new switchboard is much more streamlined and efficient j than previous tvpes. The writing ' slieif, for example, is devoid of all equipment except the operator's dial It can be equipped to serve 120 stations, or telephones, and it l felt ttiat telephone communica tion at the Jiosnital will be ade quately taken care of in the years to come. As an emergency measure a hand generator is provided. In case the power at the central office fails, this generator can provide enough power for making calls. Such precautions almost complete 1 eliminate any chance of power shortage. Like iason, Uncle Sam Quests "Golden Fleece" As the U. S. begins its partial mobilization program. Uncle Sam is loosening his purse strings to enter the international market In an expensive quest for large sup plies of wool, which today is truly the "golden fleece." A compelling reason for the In tensive buying program is indicated by the recent disclosure that the country has failed to build an ade quate stockpile of wool to meet the present emergency. Meanwhile, prices for this vital commodity have soared to the highest level in his tory, notes the National Geographic Society. Although practically every nation grows some wool, most of It comes from Southern Hemisphere coun tries?Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay. Australia is the world's leader, ac counting for about one-fourth of the international supply. Large pro ducers in the Northern Hemisphere are the United States, Great Bri tain, Spain, France and Italy. But U. S. demand for wool has far outdistanced the domestic sup p.y. The nation normally consumes about -SCO million pounds- annually, - domestic sources yield little more than a fourth of that amount. At Boston, long a center of wool trade activity, prices in recent weeks have risen to as much as $3 a pound for certain good grades of cleaned wool. Steel-making capacity of the United States has risen 44 per cent since 1940. The increase is nearly twice the annual capacity of Great Britain and more than Russia's total estimated capacity. Watt ads bring quick results. ' Nurses' Home Is Asset To Hospital This is the exterior view of the nurses' home, which is just back of the Hospital. ? - -- - : in ? m?ihum?? The large, and spacious living room of the nurses' Home. t ? ?i w i i iwbo?? One of the home-like bedrooms in the nurses ' home. A Queen's Language LONDON IAP> ? British pwrs, lucky enough to be assigned seats in Westminister Abbey for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, received this "invitation" from the young sov crign: "Right Trust and Well-Beloved Cousin. "We greet you well. Whereas the second (lay of June next is appoint ed for the solemnity of our royal coronation these are to will and command you 'all excuses set apart) to make your personal attendance on us at the time . . . furnished and appointed to your rank and quality appertaineth. Whereof you are not to fail. And so we bid you most hearty farewell." The term "cousin" is used by British sovereigns in addressing members of foreign royal families and persons of high social rank. Scientific Instrument Charts Human Blood Flow The newest scientific instrument i* a machine which photographs the flow of blood through the human circulatory system. Called a "seriagraph", i\ is ac tually an X-ray machine, which takes pictures as rapidly as every hall-second although it can be sat for lower speeds. The seriagraph is most valuable to the brain surgeon. It can be used for other parts of the blood system, but is especially valuable for lo cating brain tumors, cerebral hemorraghes, atrophies, and otheT kinds of pathological deteriorations. Principal parts of the apparatus are the rotating anode tube, which projects the x-ray, and a Fairfield aerial camera, which records the pictures on a roll of film. A patient brought in for observa tion of a suspected brain tumor la placed on a table, under anesthetic, with his head immobilized between the tube and the camera. A radio opaque substance, either * thorium or an iodine dye, is injected into the artery in the neck with a syringe. During the six seconds It takes for the dye to travel through the arteries, capillaries and veins at the brain, and out again, the camera makes its pictures. If there is a ^mnoi^^MDicturQjnj^hnwjriwre ? ? Haywood County Hospital ...an Institution that will take first rank position in Service. Heartiest Congratulations From Kaiser's Book Store Phon* 73 Waynesville, N. C. Funds For New Hospital Game From Three Sources i Three different sources have con tributed to the financing of the hospital improvements with the ex- { caption of renovations in the old wing, expenses that were paid by the county. Totaling (671,000, the money has come 'in various proportions from ~ the county, the State, and the fed eral government. So in a way, the people of the U. S. have figured in the Job. The U. S. Goverpment gave 44 per cent, or $295,240; the State 26 per cent, or $177,144; and the county. 30 per cent, or $198,616. Federal funds were already at hand through the Hill-Burton Act. and the State, to help counties im prove or erect hospital facilities, also contributes funds. The county is obliged to furnish only one third the total cost. On Oct. 1, 1949, the people of the county gave a 13 to one ma jority to the $225,000 bond issue and the expansion waa assured be cause federal and State money is i not available until the county has ' raised Its share first. Army Nttds All-Purpost Rubber For Operations American chemists, who engineer ed the synthetic rubber miracle during World War II, must now pro vide the army with rubber equip ment which will withstand all > weather conations from tropical sunlight to Artie cold. Because it is poi possible to ear mark rubber items for use under a given set of climatic conditions, all equipment must be designed for successful opef^ipp from 65 degrees below zero tp 130 degrees above. Items intended |pr tropical usa might encounter tmB#r*twes be low freezing during airborne tram ait. indicating that the Army needs rubber items which, when out of use, can be stored at temperatures from minus 80 to plus 160 degrees. Even greater extremes than this have been experienced. Four low-styrene modifications of the standard GE-S synthetic rub ber?two of them made by the "cold rubber" process?or blends of them?fulfill the requirements of non-oil-reslstant rubber for mili tary purposes. The use of these typea of rubber would also tend to relieve the nation's critical short age of atyrene. Cerro Aconcagua, South Ameri can peak 23,091 feet high, is said to be the highest known peak in th? Western hemisphere md high est south"of the equator any place in the world. i When the royal regalia, crown i and jewels oI the British sovereign were recreated after the restora tion, they cost about $159,900. Traveling Traffic Record HARTFORD. Conn. (AP^-rll i Connecticut motorist becpmes t traffic law violator, he carries his court record around with him The 1953 issue of drivers' licens es has a space on the reverse sidt side for the court to record the typs of violation, date, town and tht judge's name. There's room foi two violations. Youthful Curi*. ' S?UTHlNGTOSp ' Thefeno, *hot^* ?' alarm that brJJ** ; speeding to a k ** ; ca^d ?rres, The culprit hb,** ? Old pattern ?moved intoaho^' r stood under a ftre 4l*j the tnfan, occupaJS enough to reach * V*. -9 We Are All Proud of The I Haywood County Hospital I Our Very Best Wishes 4 * For Another Twenty - Five Years of Progress. Cline ? Bradley Company I Joe Cline Dick Bradley Phone 1110 Hazelwood,N.C, I I i: . j \ We too, are mighty Proud of the I Haywood County Hospital I -and especially our pari of I the Painting in the old Unit I ? ? ?? ? * I Stone Paint and Wallpaper Co. I PHONE 3136
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