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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, May 19, 1938
Full-Time Health
Nurse Held Vital
To Effective Work
State Workers Bring
Message as County
Group Organized
Renewed impetus to public health
work in the county was expected as
a result of reorganization of Mor
row County Public Health associa
tion at the courthouse Tuesday eve
ning when Miss Elsie Wichen, ex
ecutive secretary of Oregon Tuber
culosis association, and Dr. O. E.
Bostrom, assistant state health of
ficer, brought inspiring messages,
and new officers were elected.
Rev. R. C. Young was named pres
ident, Mrs. Maude Pointer of Lex
ington, vice-president; Mrs. Clara
' Beamer, secretary, and J. 0. Turner,
treasurer.
.' ' Miss Wichen encouraged the new
organization to work for a well
rounded, year-round health pro
gram and the acquisition of a full
time county health nurse, without
whose services no adequate program
can be carried out.
She declared that diphtheria and
smallpox are both entirely prevent-
' able, and that while some good work
in their eradication has been accom
plished in Morrow county, the im
munizations have not completely
covered the children of Vreschool
age among whom the mortality rate
is the highest.
' ' ' Tuberculosis ' still retains a place
in the parent state association's
'name for a very1 good reason, Miss
Wichen said. While the white plague
'has dropped from first to fifth place
in major causes of death since or
ganized prevention started, it still
'leads the mortality list for men and
' women who died between the ages
of 20 and 40, the most productive
years of life. The once greatly dread
ed disease is not stamped out, as a
prevailing public belief indicates,
' she emphasized, for to every known
case there still exists in circulation
an unknown case, jeopardizing
members of family and society with
which it comes into contact.'
It is in aiding and abetting the
work of prevention in these health
enemies that a full time health nurse
is most justified, though the nurse's
services are necessary in carrying
out a planned program in many oth
er ways.
Miss Wichen explained the finan
cial structure of public health work
through the sale of Christmas seals.
These health harbingers are the sole
means of support of the state and
county health associations. Morrow
county's per capita sale of 3
stamps last year brought it half of
the money raised from the sale. The
other half went to the state asso
ciation, out of which was paid five
per cent of the total gross to the
national association. Any county
that reaches the eight seal per capi
ta mark may retain 75 per cent of
the seal proceeds, and Miss Wichen
urged that Morrow county attempt
this goal in the next sale. ,
Dr. Bostrom enlarged upon Miss
Wichen's remarks with reference to
the total preventability of smallpox
and diphtheria, and urged the prac
ticability of planned public health
work with evidence substaniating
the old adage that "an ounce of pre
vention is worth a pound of cure."
He cited in particular the case of
Detroit where more and larger hos
pitals were being provided to treat
tuberculosis, until the yearly bill
finally mounted to $1,400,000 before
it was discovered that tuberculosis
was preventable and an organized
campaign was waged to prevent
rather than to cure. In a few years,
the tuberculosis rate had dropped to
a point where the cost for care of
developed cases was declining and
the saving in cost of treatment was
more than compensating for the cost
of prevention.
Citing as a human characteristic
the tendency of man to let his health
go until it is too late, then spending
for every nostrum of which he hears
in a futile effort to regain what he
has lost, Dr. Bostrom urged constant
evangelistic health work. One life
saved before it is too late is worth a
lifetime of effort, he declared.
The provision of a district super
intendent from the state health of
fice will be made, if three or four
adjoining eastern Oregon counties
will put on full-time health nurses,
he promised.
Dr. Lawrence reported briefly on
past activities of the county asso
ciation. Expenditure of funds in the
past was itemized to show in what
ways the association's funds had
been used. Included were payment
of part of the county nurse's salary,
transportation of Boardman children
to The Dalles for x-ray diagnosis of
tuberculosis, state's apportionment
of seal sale money, stationery, stamps
and other local expense connected
with the sale.
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Marshall Fell from' Portland is
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Dolph Fell, this week.
Legion Auxiliary
Gives Poppy Awards
This year the American Legion
Auxiliary again sponsored the Poppy
Poster contest in the local grade
school. This contest is divided into
two divisions, the upper division
comprising the seventh and eighth
grades, and the lower made up of
the fifth and sixth grades. Miss
Maud King, art teacher, directed the
students in making the posters,
which will be displayed in the down
town store windows to advertise the
annual memorial poppy sale to be
held here Saturday, May 21.
Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Alva
Jones, poppy poster chairman, and
Mrs. Harry Tamblyn went to the
school and announced the winners
in this contest and presented the
prizes. In the upper division Philip
Conn won first place, Dick Edmond
son, second, and Claudine Drake and
Birdine Vance were given honor
able mention. In the lower division,
Bert Brown won first place, Alden
Greely, second, and Louise Green
and Joseph Hughes were given hon
orable mention.
EXAMINER COMING
An examiner of operators and
chauffeurs from the office of Earl
Snell, secretary of state, will be in
Heppner at the city hall, Thursday,
May 26, between the hours of 1 and
5 p. m. All those wishing permits or
licenses to drive cars are asked to
get in touch with the examiner at
that time.
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