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Polk County Health Funds
Are Sought for New Budget
Dallas. May 9 Folk county ran establish Its own county neaitn
unit with an additional county expenditure of only $1800 under
a plan to be proposed to the county budget committee nere lues-
riav.
The plan, drawn up after thorough study, proposes a budget
OI , v "UHJ" - school board and Marion coun-
mai neaiin una. ty, i, w .tated.
are avauaoie inrounn me
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Merchants Go
To Institute
Gene Vandeneynde, manager
of the R. L. Elfstrom company
and Robert Needham, of the
Needham book store, will be
among Oregon retail merchants
meeting on the University of
Oregon campus May IS and 16
to compare notes on common
problems.
The occasion will be the 10th
annual Oregon Retail Distribu
tors' institute.
More than 400 merchants of
the state have been invited to
the meetings, which will feature
addresses by several of the out
standing business men of this
area.
- Sheridan Canter Club Appear in Salem Horse Parade
Equestrians from Sheridan appear in the street parade pre
liminary to the horse show held at the fairgrounds Saturday
evening.
Hospital Dates
Open House
Mai Rudd, chairman of the
board of Salem Memorial hos
pital, announces the hospital
will hold open house Sunday,
May 22, to show improvements
recently made under the Salem
Hospital Development program.
The hours when the hospital
will be open to visitors are from
S to 5 in the afternoon.
Recently completed at the
hospital are new obstetrics and
nursery departments, major
and minor surgery rooms, physi
otherapy department, urology
room, locker quarters for doc
tors, and wash rooms for hospi
tal aides and the public, and in
addition a new laboratory to be
completed by that time.
Also the hospital will show
modernization offices and lobby
and general redecorations. The
exterior will be repainted be
fore the open house date. Other
improvements are in the pro
gram.
The area at the rear of the
building has been landscaped,
the ambulance loading space
paved, and the city has paved
Oak street near the hospital.
Ten-Year Old Boy
Drowns Near Halsey
Halsey, Ore., May 9 ( Ten-year-old
William Harding
drowned yesterday in Muddy
creek when the bank collapsed
beneath his feet. He was peeling
m .' m a a m ia .1
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Salem Posse Gets a Mascot Trixie, 3-year-old Shetland
mare driven through downtown streets in Saturday's horse
show parade by Earl Murray, comes as a mascot for the Salem
seriff's posse. This was Trixie's sixth appearance in harness.
off his clothes for a swim at thei
time.
Companions Phillip Villaneu-
va and Dick Lucas, also of Hal
sey, said the lad came to the
surface twice before disappear
ing.
The victim was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Harding. The
families of the boys were at a
family gathering at a ranch
nearby.
department of health to reim
burse the county for 35 per cent
of this amount, provided that the
unit meets minimal standards
Federal reimbursement thus
would reach over $8000. bring
ing cost to the county down to
about $15,145. This is only Sl,
600 over the budget for this fis
cal year of $13,500.
Proponents of the plan point
out that the present budget pro
vided $4,500 for joint employ
ment with some other neigh
boring county of a full-time
health officer. This plan was not
accomplished, and the money
will revert to the county general
fund. By using $1600 of this
year's savings of $4,500. propon
ents say, the county can receive
over $8000 more in federal
funds. The actual dollars of
savings, however, are not avail
able, since the unexpended
money must by law revert to
the general fund.
A minimal health unit, such
is nrnnnspd. wntild be made
S3) up of a full-time health officer.
two nurses, a sanitarian ana an
office clerk.
Third Nurse Possible
Possibility that a third nurse
could be employed, to ex
pand and strengthen work of the
unit, was revealed at a meeting
here Friday, when the plan was
put in final form. It was learn
ed that of $4,000 estimated sal
ary and expense cost for the ad
ditional nurse, at least $3,000
was already available in the
form of pledges from the coun
ty tuberculosis and health asso
ciation and from school districts
which would receive expanded
health service through the work
of the third nurse.
The Tuberculosis and Health
assocition's president, Mrs.
Grove Peterson, and spokesman
for the school districts inform
ed W. E. Knower and C. L. Bur-
bank, county commissioner, of
the available pledges. It is be
lieved an additional sum might
be made available from the Sa
lem school district, which has
six percent of its school pop
ulation in Polk county. A some
what similar arrangement is now
in existence between Salem
The movement to request a
county health unit in this year's
budget is the outgrowth of ac
tion taken by the Polk County
Tuberculosis and Health asso
ciation at its annual meeting
recently. W. A. Wiest of In
dependence and Monmouth
heads a committee of the asso
ciation which called the meet
ing here Friday, after several
preliminary sessions in the coun
ty. Proposal Is Explained
The group representing the
school boards of the county, the
TB and Health associtlon, pres
ent county health organization,
and the local and county PTA
groups, heard Dr. Gordon Ed
wards, state director of local
health services, describe work
of the minimum county health
units.
Dr. C. A. Fratzke of Inde
pendence, the Misses Barbara
Dike and Audrey Smith of Dal
las, county nurses, and L. P
Putnam, state field organization
director for the tuberculosis and
health association, spoke briefly
in discussion of phases of the
proposal.
Others present at the meet
ing were T. J. Means of West
Salem: Frank Bennett of Sa
lem; S. E. Whitworth. Dallas
school superintendent; Mrs. Paul
Dodd of Independence; George
E. Corwin, Independence sup
erintendent of schools; Mrs. Jack
Wells, of Monmouth; Rev. Clark
S. Enz, of Dallas; Mrs. Ernest
Lettcken of Rickreall, and Jos-
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon. Monday, May 9, 1949 13
iah Wills, county superintendent interested organizations at a
6f schools. meeting of the county budget
W. A. Wiest, Dr. Edwards, and committee at 10 o'clock Tuesday,
Mrs. Letteken were named as when the plan will be present
a committee to represent the-ed to the budget committee.
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