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TRAGEDY The Effingham hospital fire; H died.
Tragic Hospital Fires in U. S.
' Spark Nationwide Checkup
(AP NiMteatures
A total of 1,359 hospitals throughout the country have been
given careful checkups for fire and accident hazards since the
start of a nationwide inspection program inspired By the disas
trous hospital fires at Effingham, 111., and at Davenport, Iowa.
The death toll in the Effingham tragedy a year ago was 74,
In the Davenport fire last winters
41 persons died. The Davenport
hospital had been scheduled for
inspection a few days after the
date on which it burned.
More than 1700 engineers and
field men from fire and casualty
insurance companies are engag
ed in making the inspections.
They draw up specific recom
mendations for improving each
hospital's safety.
Time Extended
In Zone Case
The city planning and zon
ing commission, at a special
meeting Monday afternoon, re
quested the city council for fur
ther time in which to consiaer
the Healy-Murphy application
for a zone change at South High
and Kearney streets for a $1,-
500,000 apartment house pro-
iect.
The extension was grameo.
by the city council Monday
nieht.
The apparently confused state
of property lines and titles in
the district has made it ex
tremely difficult to compute
areas so that the commission
can be sure wnemer me peu-
tioners or the remonstrants rep
resent a majority. The differ
ence is extremely close.
pit is believed there is at least
one court decision in past years
that may have a bearing on the
situation. The property is In
George H. Jones addition, and
recorded plats are being stu
died by both sides to the contro
versy, and arguments will Be
heard later by the commission.
The National Board of Fire
Underwriters reports that more
than 3000 other hospitals are
scheduled for checkups this year
and that a total of 9000 institu
tions will be surveyed before
the program is completed.
Col. Perrin C. Cothran, vice
president of the Phoenix Insur
a n c e company of .Hartford,
Conn., who is chairman of the
special committee on hospital
inspections, says "the scope of
these inspections goes beyond
the correction and elimination of
hazards to life,
"We hope," he says, "that one
of the most lasting results will
be improvements in the training
of hospital personnel and in.
creased consciousness of fire
dangers on the part of all who
operate hospitals.
"How important this can be
was demonstrated only recently
Uncle's Nose Counters Find
Dogs and People Troublesome
Chicago, April 11 W.PJ Reports from the nation's census takers
read today like communiques from a battlefront.
The enumerators were on the defensive.
For instance, Mrs. Doris Williams, Philadelphia enumerator,
was bitten on the nose by a dog.
Another eastern enumerator
was struck on the head with
a frying pan by a householder
who said, "I'm not answering
questions for anybody."
At Seattle, a dog ran across
the street to nip census taker
C. E. Phillips.
' Another Seattle enumerator,
a woman, was chased by a house
holder who grabbed her ques
tionnaire forms and smudged
out all the answers she had col
lected. The man was charged
by FBI agents with interfering
with a government agent.
Indians In the Kickapoo Vil
lage near Shawnee, Okla., re
fused to dicker with a woman
census taker until she proved
that she was an Indian too.
It just happened that she was
related by marriage to the
chief of another tribe.
At Minneapolis, police arrest
ed census taker Ralph Sladen
for overtime parking and learn
ed he'd been arrested and served
prison terms for burglary, lar
ceny, robbery, forgery, lewd
ness, disorderly conduct, petty
larceny and vagrancy. Today he
faced a new charge falsifying
the federal application forms he
signed to become an enumerator.
A Bartlesville, Okla., enu
merator found a man in his
home "dead drunk." The cen
sus taker offered to come back
next week.
"No, ask me the questions
now," he told her. "I'll be
just as drunk next week."
Detroit enumerators planned
a special "operation skidrow'
for Thursday.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 11, 19503
Almost 150 enumerators will
invade the skidrow district
Thursday, taking up positions in
flophouses to count the bums as
they wander in and out.
Enumerator James Richard
son of Ashport, Tenn., was using
his private plane to canvass
dwellers on islands in the Mis
sissippi river. At Detroit Lakes
Minn., Rudolph Nikula traveled
on horseback when floods made
roads impassable but Arthur
Sarri loaded a tractor on his
truck, drove as far as he could
and then continued by tractor.
Ruth Sorrells hired a rowboat
to reach a family isolated by
floodwater in a house near
Shoals, Ind.
The persistent knocking of
Enumerator Begin Wlsnlew-
ski probably saved the Uvea
of a young West Allis, Wis.,
housewife and her three-year-old
daughter. The knocking
aroused the housewife just be
fore she and the child lapsed
into .unconsciousness, from
leaking gas.
The census, 17th in the na
tion's history, probably will
show the United States has 151,
000,000 residents, according to
estimates, about 20,000,000 more
than 10 years ago. It includes
every American born after 12:01
a.m., local time, April 1, 1950.
The stile, a double pair of
stairs so arranged as to permit
passage over a fence where a
gate is not desirable, still can
be found on many a farm.
when fire destroyed part of the
Sauk county hospital, near
Reedsburg, Wis.
Employes of that hospital had
been trained in fire safety. While
three employes fought the fire
with inside hose lines, other em
ployes removed 100 mental pa
tients from the building. Help
was quickly summoned from
nearby fire departments.
"This emergency was so well
controlled that employes and
some mental patients were able
to re-enter the building to re
move all mattresses, Deaaing,
clothing and store-room supplies
so that if the whole building had
been destroyed these supplies
would have been available for
the patients in other quarters.
"Fortunately not a patient
lost his life or was injured and
the building was saved."
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Only 14 of these smart suits for sale A new complete assortment of better
$39.95 values reduced to this low, low grade suits in gabardines and sharkskins
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, Dress Clearance Dress Sale
$7.90 $5.90
An unusually complete selection of dress- A limited selection of dress values to
es values to $14.95 reduced for this $10.95 nylons, crepes, cottons there
sale to just $7.90 Come early for these! aren't many of these and they'll go fast!
CURTAINS, Downstairs
Nylon Panels Cream color $1 AQ
Size. 43x81; $2.69 if perfect I .MT
Plastic Drapes 84" longe floral QQ-,
muliticolor 1.49 value OW
Rayon Marquisette 44"wide Q
Pastel colors. Reg. 49c yd. Yd. XTrC
Colorful Cretone 36" wide Q
98c value fast color.
DOMESTICS, Downstairs
quality muslin packaged.
Sath Towels Full size
various colors Limit 5.
Cannon Sheets 81x108 First A lfl
29c
NOTIONS, Mezzanine
Foam Chair Pads Quilted plas- PQ
tic. Red, blue, green, yellow. J7G
T-vill Shoe Bags 12 pockets. 70"
Maroon color. $1.49 value r V
Boxed Stationery Assorted sizes H f
ond colors Ige. selection. 39c val. I UC
Carded Fancy Buttons Metal-
lies, black jet, plastic jeweled. 37C
Values to $1.25.
Plastic Aprons Tea and Bib 1-
styles. Ruffle trim. All colors. JL I C
Reg. 79c
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flamingo . . . mgimentsl stripes and half-doHar size polka dots in turkey red.
Wue, maize, white grounds . . . three-tone stripes in choice of grey, blue.
kmc, or gcy, maize, flamingo.
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in white, blue, tan, green and grey, in sizes 14 to 17.
MIN'I, MAIN FLOOt
100 Nylon
Drews Socks
with elastic tops
regularly 75c
3 for SI. 10
Dress socks that are really tough to
wear out because they're all nylon and
have a reinforced heel and toe. in
beautiful clock and vertical patterns.
Creen, maroon, navy, brown, and tan.
Sizes 10 to 13.
Famon Ilancs!
Tee Shirts
Made of fine combed cotton, lxl rib
knit with ribbed crew neck, lock
stitch seams, full cut, slight irregu
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