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Employees Volunteer for Hospital Work
By BETTY DOTSON
A total of over 5,000 volunteer the Salem General, The Deaconess, and
hours of hospital work have been given the State Tuberculosis hospitals, at the
by 43 women, state employees in: Sa Marion County Health Department
lem. These women have been trained clinics and at the Salem Blood Bank.
as Volunteer Nurses’ Aides by the Mar
ion County Red Cross Chapter. Of
COURAGE
these Aides, 2,3. are at present on active
duty several hours every week at one I do not heed to pray, dear Lord,
of the local hospitals. Three others have For courage, when the sun,
entered the Army Nurses’ Aide Corps, Has tipped with rose the hills
four joined the WAVES, two entered For work is .just begun,
nurses’ training, and two have trans And I have youth, and I have strength
ferred to duty in California. Of those And life with purpose thrills.
trained only three have dropped out
before the required 150 hours were do I do not need to pray dear Lord, |
nated. In the latest class, which will be Fbr courage, when the day/ H
capped about April first there are six Has reached the noon time hour,
stateemployees,, bringing the total For friends along the way
number trained- to 49. The number of Have given love, and brought me
strength
State employees working in'hospitals in
other parts of the state is not available. And filled my life with power.
at this writing.
But now I need to pray, dear Lord,
• Mrs. Maxine Rasmussen of the Public For Courage, for the night
Utilities Commission has earned the dis Has dimnied the s'un-lit way,
tinction of receiving an award for 500 And,faded from my sight
Arethose I loved and held most dear,
volunteer hours of hospital work.
’Tis now I need* to pray.
All women employees are - urged to
By Jessie C. Singleton
investigate the need for Aides in their
(A State Employee)
local hospitals. Any woman with the
time and physical capacity for this im
portant work will le^rn the deep satis
Who are you? Where did you come
faction-of serving others and will gain
from? Where are you going? What are
experience of lasting vlaue to her.
you doing here? Success and happiness
Jack Mayes of the State Civilian De are, dependent upon correct answers to
fense Office recently I notified Mrs. these questions. Getting right on them
Louise Arneson, director of the Marion acts like a compass to a mariner. There’s
County. Nurse’s Aide Corps, that this a definite port, and there’s a way of
corps is rated first on the Pacific Coast reaching it. '
— Ad Vantage
and third in the nation. This standing
is based on the number of Aides grain
ed, the number actively retained on
He who is false to the present duty
duty and the total hours given. Since breaks a thread in the loom, and you
December 1943 the 132-.active Aides will see the effect when the weaving of
have -given 34,150 volunteer hours at a .life-time is unraveled.—L. Channing