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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1948)
t The Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday, April 21, 1948 Kellogg Grant Ready to Build County Health Unit; Action of Public and Court Held Vital By Dr. Frank Slsler City-CoBty Health Officer (Salem and Marion County) In 1924 a "not of sold" fell on Marion county when it wu elected by the Commonwealth fund as ja county, for child health demonstration. Now, 24 years later, another such event may occur. Twenty-five years ago the public health organization in Marion county and in Salem was rudimentary, indeed. There were a part time county health officer, a part-time ischool physician, a Salem school nurse and a county nurse paid by the Tuberculosis association. In addition, there was a sanitary inspector in Salem. That very small group of people was respon sible for the public health needs of nearly 50,000 people. Despite that state of affairs, the Marion county voters in 1924 turned down the proposal to pay the salary of county nurse. Then, late in 1924, the Common wealth fund came along and of fered to pay, for a limited term of years, the greater part of pro viding a public health staff which, cooperating with physicians, den tists, schools, and other communi ty agents, would build up a sound working public health organiza tion. The emphasis was to be placed on child health work in the county. Local leadership responded eagerly to this offer of the Com monwealth fund. The Salem Chamber of Commerce rallied public and private agencies, in cluding many community clubs, in a joint application for this aid. Marion county was finally select ed over many other competing counties to receive the grant. Fine Unit Established Early in 1925 a staff was organ ized and the Marion county child health demonstration was begun. (A book, "Children of the Cov ered Wagon," was written about this.) By the time the demonstra tion period was over, in 1930, a fine public health organization had been established, including a full time health officer, a full-time as sistant health officer, a half-time dentist, a public health nursing aupervisor and seven public health nurses. In addition, there was a dairy inspector, a sanitary inspec tor for the county, and two clerks besides the sanitary inspector for Salem. The county population in 1930 was around 50,000 course; that thousands of people are not receiving the public health service they deserve and need. The demands imposed upon its health; department by the large population of Marion county are met as well as they are only be cause jthe staff expends time and effort far above that which is rea sonably expected of a public health organization. Since 1930, community need, community population, and the as sessed valuations of the communi ty have all risen at a rate greatly in excess of the slow increase in the budget alloted to the health department. Another Chance Here But : today, through the gener osity o the W. K. Kellogg foun dation; and the help of the United States public health service and the Oregon state board of health it be comes possible once again for Mar ion county to strengthen its public health department in a manner that would not be possible under the limitations of its small annual budgef increases from lgcal sources. Through these agencies, a large grant has been made avail able, with no strings attached, whereby the Marion county de partment of health may provide for the salaries, expenses, and ma terials of such additional person nel as may be necessary to raise this local unit closer to the mini mum standards of the American Health association, U. S. public health service and the state board of health. In return for this magnificent grant,; the donors would expect very little. Indeed. Training Center Sou ht The agencies contributing would Today. 18 years after the close like to see Marion county health of that demonstration period, the j department grow towards the min ce m bin ed city-county health de partment is very little larger than the one set up in 1930. The only additional personnel now are two more clerks, one more nurse, one more sanitarium and a health edu cator. Yet, the county population today is nearly twice as great as In 1930. Tar Too Few' Nurses A public health organization is based primarily upon its public health nurse. Marion county has far too few. A public health nurse should serve a population no great er than 5,000. However, in this county, each staff nurse now car ries a population-load of 17 to 18 imal standard, and then to estab lish itself as a field training cen ter fpr health officers, public health nurses, sanitarians, health educators, and others who need or would like field training in a more nearly Ideal health organization. The establishment of such a field training center here would cost the community nothing extra, but on the other hand would contribute greatly to the prestige and renown of the county and its health de partment. At its second quarterly meeting for 1948 in Medford, the state board of health approved the es tablishment in Oregon of two Artist Draws Proposed Champoeg Memorial - - The proposed memorial and museum st Champoeg state park, birthplace of Oregen provisional govern ment, would look like this, according to plans viewed this week by the state highway commission. The $125,oM structure wonld be east of the present pavilion on the river's bank in the park, which la in northern Marion county. S. H. Board man. state parka director, was directed to confer with offi cers of the Oregon Historical society on the building, for which funds have been included In the state parks budget. personnel, and plans were laid to help establish these centers in co operation with the county boards of health of Marion and Jackson counties. This plan was immedi ately approved by the health de partments of both counties. The community and the county court of Jackson county promptly sub mitted a request for the grant Up to People, Court It remains now for the people and the county court of Marion county to approve a request for such a grant for this county. The Children of the Covered Wagon, those thousands- of chil dren who benefitted by the Marion county health department expan sion in 1925 through the aid of the Commonwealth fund, are now the adult population of Marion county. These people, and all oth ers here who have seen the bene fits of their public' health depart ment's efforts, will welcome now, as they did in 1924, the pot of gold which is now being offered. Moose Plan Installation Installation of new officers will be conducted by Salem lodge 144, Loyal Order of Moose, at a meet ing Thursday night st Moose hall, 12th and Leslie streets. Cliff R. Ellis will be installed as govern or, succeeding Matt Sherfield. Other new officers are Mel v in Govig, junior governor; O. A. Chastain, prelate; Elmer Hedine, secretary; Roy Downing, treas urer; J. Oscar Cooter, trustee; Orval Prunk and Carl O. Sim mons, sergeants-at-arms and as sistant; R. B. Danielson, inner guard; Wilbur Good a 11, outer guard. Installing officer will be Harvey Schuebel, past governor. The lodge is planning to spon sor a quadrille set for the old time fiddlers' contest Friday night. thousand people! That means, of training centers for public health 1 '"in - IT Jtii' n in i ii ii i i in T i r'l- r Here It Is! The Roof You Have Been Waiting For. Aluminum interlocking shingle, grained to look like cedar. Stur dy, can be walked on. Guaranteed for life of building. Call 2-4656 for free estimate. CR0F00T BROTHERS 115 So. 19th Exclusive Distributors Salem. Or. fl lCW t ' -'L:-! 0 f) QUIIIII7E The old Peruvian word for the Cinchona tree Is Quinine and that is the name. Pierre PeUetier and Joseph Caventon, two French scientists, gave to the chemical which they isolated from th bark of the Cinchona tree in 1820. It is one of the five most important alkaloids obtained from this bark , and sine its discovery has been largely used la the cure of Malarial Fevers. WILLETT8 Capital Drag Sforo Cor. Stat & Liberty - Phone SI 18 Be Be 1 1 LESLIE JUNIOR HIGH ICHOOL HI h Honors Awarded Thirty-one Leslie junior high school students made the high honor list by having not more than two Bs as grades for sub jects and in citizenship and all other grades of A for the last nine weeks. Eight of the high honor students received straight As. They were: seventh graders Barbara Klunder and Barbara Bonesteele, eighth grader Helen Booth, and ninth graders Louise Matter, Doreen Cavender, Mar celene Smith, Judy Wood and Virginia Bickell. Other high honor students were: 9th grade Arnold Evans, Bruce Goldblatt, Irma Lockard, Mar garet Miller, Marilyn Foxley, Lois Roseler and Jim Verdieck; 8th grade Wallace Carson, Michael Deeney, Carolyn Seay, Shirley Brockart, Roselle How land, Barbara Wagness, Emily Hubbard, Beverly Kayser and Janie Lambert; 7th grade Glenna Allmer, Patricia Deeney, Arda Lien, Gloria Wood, Diane Burkland, Sidney Kromer and Donald Agnew. Honor Students Named One hundred forty-five honor students having a B average in both citizenship and scholarship were named at Leslie for the past nine weeks period. Receiving hon ors from the ninth grade were: Robert Bruce, Roger Emmons, Norma Hamilton, Shirley Kenyon, Norman Lee, Patsy Sayles, John Templeton, Shirley Dixon, Va- lorie Dunn, Roxann Hussey, Rob ert Luther, Shirley Newberry, Donna Nothelfer, Lois Reeves, Elizabeth, Williams, Sharon Brown, Iven Gartner, Bonnie Hagen, Reva Jones, Carolyn Par ker, Walton Reeve, Patsy Walt ers, Eileen Anderson, Harland Brock, George Carlisle, Ramona Green, Mary Lou Hatch, Barry King, Shirley Kimple, Marie Marquardt, Lawrence Ostren, Leona Strode, Joyce Wood, Ber nice DaMoud, Florence Ingram, Harold Nichols, Marilyn Penhor- wood, Rosemary Starr, Dick Adams, Richard Adams, Jean Brown, Jerry Brown, Joy Davis, Venetta Gaylor, Bob Holden, Marilyn Blakley, Hertha Long, Pat McGuire, Agnes Smith, Mar gie Atwood, Victor Johns, Mar ion Putnam, Waldo Willecke, Marie Rogers, Beverly Nunn, Gary Bourgeois, John Lesher, Ar nold Manke, Larry Martin, Max Morris and Marlin Nelson. Eighth graders receiving hon ors were: Shirley Bingenheimer, Hjalmar Davis, Gaylord Hall, ella Carlisle, Maureen Gustafson, Verna Long, Todd Salisbury, Doris Spaulding. Roberta Boyer, Hazel Eyler, Nadine Gilman, Larry Paulus, Carolyn Real, Jerry Agnew, Cecil Weaver, Lynn Da vis, Darlene Johnson. Steve Mer chant. Jeff Walton, Elmer Wine gar, Greta Ann Schrecengost, Pat Rath, Mariorie Little. Sharon j Laverty, Norma Baker, Marilyn Goodrich, Ottie Grieve, Clarine Woolery, Lloyd Bonenko, Milton Bishop, Gordon Juve, Norman Cocking, Roberta Neuenschwan der, Donald Perllch and Joyce Younger. Seventh grade honor students were: John Neal, Margaret See- ger, Phyllis Shrake, Loretta Stew ard, Patty Sunderlin, Curtiss Ad ?itt. Tom Hunt, Peter Loder, Dorothy Dixon, Delores Eggleston, Wanda Mayden, Beverly Roy, Margaret Baker, Elaine Beier, Jim Folston, Laurel Herr, Robert Barnes, Carol Lee, Marilyn Olson, Judy Shmele, Carol Schmidt, Patsy Snider, Betty Barnwell, Betty Carda, Merle Griebenow, George Meyers, Ruth Pankey, Alfred Blake, Dale Borcher, Al vin Friesen, Bill Ringnalda, Luan Chandler, Glenn Hall, Barbara Franz wa, Justine Lewis, Betty Lund, Lynn Minifie, Richard Morris, Darlene Radke, Jack Schroder, Patricia Adams, Sharon Collins, Gail DeBow, Mary Har ger, Marcia Maple and Julie Miller. Mi ii mm B. F. Goodrich Cilvortovno special io-oAr SALSI I T..vt -m 1 eotBAft- 4owbJe eenoe 0 X at! you ifM the "omtm" la today's ilvettowa youll nod yon'te for vow aoUata. m safotv. tjttr MO agin rood pounding aa 198 8. CommcrdaJ Phone 9156 Auburn Mothers Plan For Rummage Sale AUBURN Sixteen members of Auburn Mothers club were at Mrs. Loren Richeys Thursday. Rum mage has been collected for the sale Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24 over Greenba urn's store in Salem. Articles were sorted and priced. Officers for the new year will be elected in May and on the nominating committee are Mrs. Arlo McLain and Mrs. E. C. Sunderlin. Plans were made for the sale by the club members of pie, pop and cake at the open house meet ing for the school May 4. Jaycees Mcct' New Officers The Junior Chamber of Com merce officially "met" their offi cers for the coining year st the club's regular luncheon Tuesday at the Marion hotel. Outgoing President Al Schaefer introduced the officers including Gordon Keith, president; Robert Gormsen, first vice president; James Buchanan, second vice president; Paul Lippold, secre tary, ond Dennis Hiennor, treas urer. . I Air show chalrraah 'Dick Schmidt eaplained features of the June 1 event to club members. American tanner I use a bout-a million kangaroo land wsllsLy skins a yesr. I M . on. 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