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[aywood Hospital Staff Is Made Up Of Twenty Doctors r Harrison Owen of Can claim four members of lily as doctors. They are c. two brothers, and an lied at Canton schools, tn later received a B. S. ice and B S in medicine r Forest College and his degree at the University nasylvania Internship, #31-1933. was at Phila Ceneral Hospital, and #33-1934 he was chief resident at the same 1 1934. he has been prac i Canton and has special surgery. Kt his wife. Dr. Margaret .are tfjp parents of a j and three sons. ;aret Lineberry Owen, ime from Winterville, has rscticing in Canton since nd specializing in women ildren. acquired four degrees is manv colleges. After ng Raleigh High School, lered Meredith College, Meh she received an A. *e. then an M. A. from krest a B. S. in Medicine fake Forest College, and finally a doctor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Internship was at the New York Inforniary for Women and Chil dren. V i Like many other doctors, she is not the only one in her family to practice medicine. In addition to her husband, Dr. Robert Owen, a brother, the late Dr. J. A. Linebe'rry, was also a physician. Because use of gold caused trouble with the treasure hunting Spanikh conquistadores, :he Choco Indians of Panama, long ago aban doned its use and their wealth is now measured in silver coins. W. Boyd Owen is the chief of staff at the Haywood County Hospital, a position to which he was elected at the first of the year. A Haywood County native, Dr. Owen was born at Dellwood, graduated from Canton High School, and went on to Wake Forest College. Next he entered Wake Forest Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, interning at the Philadelphia General Hospital. During World War 11 he serv ed 35 months with the Army, of which 15 months was spent in the Pacific area. He has been engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery since 1946 Two of his brothers are doc tors: Dr. Robert II. Owen and Dr. Charles F. Owen, Jr. He is married to the former Miss Helen Bryan. They have four children. Betty, Bill, Jim, and Mary. Dog Packs Range City SAVANNAH (APi ? A slum clearance program was blamed by police for an Invasion of dogs into the city's residential districts. Officials said that families forced to move out of depressed areas did not bother to take their pets with them. The orphans, traveling in pa<;ks, are ranging the city in search of food. Police said they had received more than 300 dog complaints from residents within two weeks. J. Frank Pate, who practices in Canton, has been in Haywood County since 1931. He came to Haywood after practicing in Henderson the preceding two years following internship at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. A native of South Carolina, he was born at Sumter and attended high school at Vishopville. A B. S. graduate at the University of South Carolina in 1923, he re ceived his doctor's degree at the Medical College of South Caro lina in 1927. Since starting practice Dr. Pate has gone to Duke Univer sity for post graduate work in pediatrics and obstetrics. He is a member of the Ameri can Medical Society, the Ameri can Academy of General Prac tice, and the Haywood County and North Carolina Medical As sociations. In addition to being a stalT member of the Haywood County Hospital, Dr. Pate is also on the stall of the Memorial Mis : ion Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital in Asheville. For 12 years he has served as coroner of the county and was for eight years chairman of the Canton Board of Health. He is a Mason and a member of the Central Methodist Church. Married to the former Miss Dorothy MahafTey. a graduate of Converse College, they have two sons, Frank Jr., who is studying business administration at the University of Tennessee, and Barry, a pre-medical student at the University of North Carolina. Plates For Hams TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (API?You can tell an amateur radio operator by his automobile license plate in Florida. The state issues special tags to ell ham operators who want them. They carry the call letters and numbers of the amateurs' radio sta tions instead of the usual markings. The hams pay a dollar extra for their inade-to-order tags. Nitrate is still an important ex port for Chile, despite world-wide synthetic production. Jerome L. Kteves, from Mad ison County, has been practicing medicine in North Carolina for 40 years. His high school education was at Leicester and he then attend ed the U.S. Naval Academy and N. C. State Collage. In 1913 he graduated from Vanderbilt Uni versity. He served as a medical officer in the First World War. Sir ?? that time he has been engaged n general practice and surgery. A brother, Dr. R, J. Reeves, is a doctor engaged in practicing at Leicester. Mi&saBHK. ? matam R. Sluart Roberson is a native of Chatham County and the son of a physician, Dr. Robert M. Roberson. He attended Buio's Creek A cademy and later graduated from Wake Forest. Dr. Roberson look medical training at the Medical College of Virginia and interned at Worcester Hospital. From 1930 to 1934 he practic ed at the Glenwodd Park Sani tarium ? in Greensboro and has since been practicing in Hay wood County. His office is locat ed in Hazelwood. Dr. Roberson has a daughter, Agnes Jane, and two sons, Rob ert Stuart Jr. and Leroy. Rainmaking Reports Required MADISON, Wis. (APt?Rainmak ers in Wisconsin will have to tell the State Public Service Commis sion about their plans to make it rain. Under a bill signed into law by Governor Kohler, they must also follow through later with a report on results of the rainmaking. A recently developed telephone lineman's wrench has two openings at each end, enabling it to adjust four different dimensions of nuts. Mo^t wrenches of this type will handle only two sizes. Eyeglass Wearing Today Not Like Yesteryear Nearly 100 million Americans ira wearing spectacles today, the Bet ter Vision Institute reports. And these modern eyeglasses not only act as seeing aids but they look good. They are a far, far cry from the glasses invented by Italy's Sal vino del Armati 665 years ago, and from those framed in wood, bone, leather, and other materials in the centuries that followed. The Florentine's eyeglasses swift ly gained favor, and by the year 1300 Venetians were sending spec tacles to customers throughout Eu rope?customers who could afford their high prices. By that time, the Chinese?who had probably Invented spectacles Independently?w ere making many pairs. The Chinese made tortoise-shell rims because they considered the tortoise a sac red animal whose shell would bring long life and good luck. As glasses were used in China for reading, they became the badge of scholars and aristocrats, and even lensless rims were sometimes worn as a symbol of position. The invention of printing in 1440 brought eyeglasses into more wide spread use in the western world. Forxmore than two centuries, itin erant peddlers roved the roads of Europe with trays of spectacles marked "young" or "older." There were no prescriptions or adequate examinations then. Not until about 1700 were glasses fitted to the indi an.I ni ,.n 111. , p V :i In in.iiinm Albert Hiyward Smith, Jr. is ? | the latest doctor to set UP prac tice several months ago in Hay wood County, and he has open- j ed an office in Waynesville with $ his brother-in-law. Dr. Boyd Owen. He was born in Florence, S. C.. went to high school in Sum ter. and then entered Wake For est College. Medical training was at Bowman Grav School of Medi cine at Wake Forest, and he in terned at Philadelphia General Hospital. He Is the father of two daugh ters. Grits With Butter TALLAHASSEE. Fla (APi ? Florida Commissioner of Agricul ture Nathan Mayo and his wife, both dyed-in-the-wool Southerners, were deeply shocked recently when they went to breakfast with some Northerners and caught them put ting cream and sugar on their serv ings of grits. A white pile of grits is an In variable accompaniment of break fast in the south. It's always eaten with melted butter. Now Mrs. Ma.vo's special recipe for grits has been printed 011 pocket sized cards for admirers of her rooking. It's a simple recipe?but it's distinguished by a warning In big letters at the bottom: "You do not eat grits with cream and sugar." About 297.0 million tons of freight were carried 011 the inland waterways of America in 1951. R. H. Stretcher is probably the only Haywood County doctor who served in the armed forets as an enlisted man. That was back in World War I before he had even commenced medical training He enlisted at the age of 18. and as he says, he was "just a buck private". l)r. Stretcher was born at Cedarville, Ohio, and went to An tioch College Academy at Yellow Spring!^ His A.B, degree was ob tained at Miami University at Oxford in 1020. and in 11126 he received his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago. He interned tor 18 months at Washington Boulevard Hospital in Chicago and for the follow ing two years was a surgical resi dent at the Michigan City Clinic in Indiana. In 1920 he came to WaynesvilJe. As a member of the Haywood County Medical Society he crv ed as president in 1934 and again in 1949. He was president of the Rotary Club in 1934-35. His wife is the former Miss Harriet Uzzlc of Wilson Mills and a graduate of Salem College at Winston-Salem. Oldest son Rob ert Jr. will graduate in June from Fishburne Military Acad emy at Waynesboro, Va. Another son, George S., is in the sixth grade here. Thomas Stringfield Jr. is an other of the native born Hay wood County doctors who have returned to their homes to prac tice. His father, the late Dr. Sam Stringfield, and his uncle, Dr. Tom Stringfield. also practiced in Haywood County, and a brother, Dr. James Stringfield, has re centlj completed his medical training and will soon start a practice in Wayncsville. Graduating from the Waynes ville High School in 1927, Dr. Stringfield received his B.S. de gree from WotTord College at Spartanburg, S. C. four years later, lh< n had two years of med ical training at the University of North Carolina, and received his M l), degree from the Medical college of the State of South Carolina in 1835. Prom 1935 until 1941 he prac ticed in Waynesville. The follow ing year he spent at Botleys Park Hospital in London. England, and then entered the Navy where he was attached to the 1st"* Marine Division during its Pacific cam paigns for three yeiA's. Separated from the Navy in 1945, Dr. Stringfield returned to his practice in Wayncsville. In addition to his wife, his family includes }wo girls and a boy. II is estimated that the average American ate 17 fewer pounds of j red meat in 1951 than he did hi 1947. ft J. R. Westmoreland was born at Canton, attended schools there, and has spent most of his life, if not in his home town, at least in the State. He graduated from the Univer sity of North Carolina in 1928, attended the two-year medical school, and thn went to St. Louis, Mo., where he took his Anal two years of medical college and was awarded his degree in 1932 from Washington University. Dr. Westmoreland Interned at N. C. State Hospital at Morgan ton, Christian Welfare Hospital at East St. Louis, and Mission Memorial Hospital at Asheville. Once his formal training was completed he returned to Canton and has practiced there except for service with the Navy during the war. He is married and has a daugh ter and son. Not So Salty SALT LAKE CITY (AP)?Hand thrust in coat pocket, the man ord ered George Hughes, bartender, to give him all the money in the till. Hughes refused and he also re fused to hand over $10 or $20. The man then pulled his hand out of his pocket, laid a salt shaker on the bar and fled. ? ? We Join Our Neighbors In CONGRATULATING The Officials and Staff of the New Haywood County Hospital ? Be Sure To Attend The Open House Program Tuesday, May 12 ? 1 to 5 P. M. I FARMERS EXCHANGE I Serving a Great Need in a Growing Community THAT IS OUR FINE, NEW Haywood County Hospital Branson Motor Company DODGE - PLYMOUTH MAIN STREET SALES - SERVICE " CANTON, N. C. I
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