TEN - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Teleradiology machine to aid in patient treatment
Warrens to celebrate 50th anniversary
The children of Paul and
Claudine Warren invite friends
and family to a belated 50th
anniversary open house at the St.
Patrick Senior Center, located in
downtown Heppner, on Fnday,
Sept. 1, from 2-4 p.m. The
couple request no gifts.
Paul Warren and Claudine
Drake were married June 9,
1950, at the home of Dean and
. Lois Hunt in Lexington.
The couple lived in Heppner,
both working for the Morrow
County School District until the
fall of 1951 when they moved to
Sisters. From Sisters, they went
to Corvallis, then later to Eugene
where they owned and operated
"The Galley Lunch". Paul ran the
restaurant and Claudine was the
bookkeeper and also baked
homemade pies as a specialty.
In 1951, Paul was asked to
come back to Heppner to work
for the M oitow County School
District where he was the plant
engineer until 1984 when he
retired.
Claudine was a homemaker
while their family was growing
up, then later did some reporting
for
the
East
Oregonian
newspaper and worked in the
Morrow County Clerk's office
from 1980-1986.
In his earlier years, Paul
attended West High School in
Salt Lake City, UT, and joined
the Air Force in WWII.
Claudine graduated from
Heppner High School in 1943
and attended Capitol Business
Obituary
Della Lee Nichols
Della Lee Nichols, 99, former
long-time resident of Heppner,
died of natural causes on
Thursday, August 17, 2000, at
Portland.
Disposition was by cremation.
Graveside memorial services and
internment will be held Friday,
August 25, 2000, at 11 a.m. at
the Heppner Masonic Cemetery
in Heppner.
She was bom February 3, 1901,
in Holden, Missouri, the third
child of Lawrence Lee and Mary
Elizabeth Nichols. The family
came to The Dalles on an
emigrant train in 1905 . They
continued on by stagecoach to
Old Trail Crossing and Della
spent her childhood on the
homestead there.
Della met and married Frank
Edmondson in Madras in 1918.
They moved to Heppner in 1933
where they worked a ranch in
Clarks Canyon until 1940. The
couple then moved closer to
town and bought the old Bisbee
home on South Mam Street and
continued to ranch. They had
five children. Frank passed away
in 1941.
In 1943, Della married Durward
Tash. They were married for 45
years until Durward passed away
in 1988. During their maimed life
in Heppher, she worked as a
waitress at the Elkhom Cafe, at
the Heppner Laundry and at the
Pioneer Memorial Hospital as a
nurse's aide.
After Durward passed away,
Johanne Wood and Peggy
Lauritsen cared for Della in
Heppner and Johanne took Della
on weekly outings to the
Heppner Senior Center..
Della continued to live in the
Heppner house until 1992 when
she moved to Portland to live
with her son Jack. In 1994, she
moved to an adult foster care
home in Portland.
Della enjoyed music, dancing,
tending to her home and hoshng
big family reunions. She was also
a member of the Rebekah Lodge.
Survivors include children Mae
Nichols
of
Kingston,
Washington, Dick Edmondson of
Sacramento, California, and Jack
Edmondson of Portland; eight
grandchildren,
14
great
grandchildren and 13 great-great
grandchildren. She is also
survived by sisters Derris Brown
of Dallas, Jessie Tycer of Forest
Grove and brother Thomas
Daron of Redmond. She was
preceded in death by two of her
children, Glen Edmondson in
1930 and Leland Edmondson in
1984; and by siblings, Edith
Lynam, Alma Freels, Gladys
Rammon and Lawrence Nichols.
The
family suggests
remembrances to the American
Cancer Society.
Paul and Claudine Warren
College in Salem. She worked as
a secretary for Salem Abstract
and Title Co., Pacific Fruit and
Produce in Portland and the Keep
Oregon Green Association in
Salem.
The Warrens are active
members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints
where they have both held many
positions.
The couple have four children:
Michael Warren of Sanders, AZ,
Steven Warren of West Valley
City, UT, Matthew Warren of
Pocatello,
ID,
and
Joan
Yamamoto of Belluvue, WA;
and 11 grandchildren and two
step-grandchildren.
Court approves levy
The Morrow County Court, on
August 16, approved putting a
local option levy for Road Fund
operations on the November,
2000, ballot
. The measure would assess a tax
rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of
assessed
value
to
levy
approximately $1,500,000 per
year for four years. Because of
Measure
5
compression,
uncollectible
taxes
(eight
percent) and the required
distribution of a portion of Road
Fund money to the cities (17.5
percent), the County would
collect approximately
$1.1
million dollars per year of that
amount.
The court took this action after
being advised by County Finance
Director, Lisanne Currm, of a
projected budget deficit for the
2001 fiscal year of $1,015.000.
Currm further said that she
expects the amount of the
shortfall to increase each year for
at least the next six years, if not
longer.
Morrow
County's
revenues have not been keeping
pace with costs since the passage
of Measure 50 and the decline in
other County resources. As an
example. County timber receipts,
which are generated by logging
on federal lands, have declined
88 percent from $369,768 in
1993 to an estimated $45,000 in
2000 .
Morrow County has been in a
deficit-funding position for
several years but has been able to
meet required expenditure levels
by such means as decreasing
contingencies and curtailing
programs - such as shutting down
the rock crushing in the Road
Department this year and
eliminating the museum staff and
GIS department. Additionally. 13
full and part-time positions were
lost through lay-offs and jobs
that were unfilled after offering
early retirement to eligible
employees.
After consideration of these
facts and with the knowledge that
without this levy further cuts in
service and personnel would be
necessary next fiscal year, the
county court made the derision to
seek
voter
approval
for
additional funding.
Commissioner Dan Brosnan
said, "I think we need to offer the
choice to our citizens: continuing
county programs at current basic
levels, or whether, by defeating
this levy they wish us to make
further cuts in programs, services
and staffing levels. Because the
general fund currently helps to
support the Road Fund, if further
cuts have to be made to balance
the projected shortfall of
$1,015,000, they will have to be
made across the board, affecting
not only the Road Department,
but general fund activities which
would include law enforcement,
health and other services."
The commissioners will mount
a strong effort to contact as many
citizens as possible before the
election so that the voters can
make an informed decision on
November 7.
A new "state-of the art"
teleradiology machine at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital will not only
offer patients additional services,
but may also save them the time,
expense and anguish resulting
from an ambulance trip or "life
flight" ride to another medical
facility out of town.
The machine is similar to a
computer scanner—it scans x-ray
film, digitizes it and then
transmits the x-ray images over
telephone lines to other medical
facilities.
In the past, when physicians at
PMH had questions about x-rays
that could indicate potentially
serious conditions, such as a
spinal or head injuries, for
example,
the patient was
transported via ambulance, plane
or helicopter to another facility
for
consultation
with
a
radiologist. If the radiologist at
the other facility determined that
the patient’s x-rays did not
indicate the more serious
diagnosis, the patient was sent
home or treated at that facility.
As a result of the new system,
PMH can now send x-rays that
need immediate reports to
radiologists on 24-hour call at St.
Charles Medical Center at Bend.
"It will eliminate a lot of
unecessary transport," says
Gaylin
Fickel,
radiologic
technologist at PMH. "The other
amazing thing about it is that the
patient doesn't have an additional
charge and they get an opinion
from the specialists."
(An
additional charge will likely be
assessed at a later date, however,
when the radiologist reads the
"hard copy" of the x-ray itself.)
Not all x-rays, however, will
be sent via the new teleradiology
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Radiologic technologist Gaylin Fickel with new teleradiology machine
at Pioneer Memorial Hospital.
machine, said Fickel. "Probably
90 percent of the time (providers
at PMH) will be able to make a
diagnosis here," he said.
The machine will enable
physicians at distant hospitals,
clinics or even in their homes, to
read the x-rays and even magnify
certain areas. "They have a
tremendous amount of power.
You can see incredible detail,"
said Fickel.
Fickel says that right now,
because of the phone lines, the
transmitting process takes up to
45 minutes, which is still less
time than a trip to another
facility. "If we had faster
phonelines, we could send it in
minutes. We're working on that,"
he said.
Fickel said that PMH is also
hoping to add to the system so
that x-ray images may be sent via
the machine from PMH to
Pioneer Memorial Clinic in
Heppner and from providers at
the Irrigon Clinic to physicians in
Heppner and other areas.
While PMH is currently
sending the digitized x-rays to
Bend, technically they could be
sent to facilities with compatible
computer systems anywhere in
the world. Fickel said that he
believes that Good Shepherd
Hospital in Hermiston and St.
Anthony Hospital in Pendleton
are working at getting a
compatible system in place.
OHSU in Portland does not yet
have a compatible system.
Fickel says that in the future,
the system could be tied directly
into the x-ray machine itself,
eliminating x-ray film, which is
expensive, thereby eliminating
the problem of x-ray film
storage. Rather than being being
filed away and stored for the
required 10 years, x-rays could
then be archived in computer
files.
The medical district is also
beginning the process of
remodeling
PMH
to
accommodate a C-T (Cat)
scanner which will provide even
more services for area patients.
The teleradiology machine was
funded through a grant obtained
by St. Charles Medical Center.
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M O RRO W COUNTY PA R K S
Andrea Mortimore, representing Klamath First Federal in Heppner,
presents a $50 check to Sandra Van Liew to the Banner Committee
towards the downtown's banner project.
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IN THE PARKS.
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lone woman wins BEO contest
will close the late afternoon & evening
of Saturday, August 26th for the
Treve & Elizabeth McEUigott Peterson
wedding reception.
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The bar will be opened
later in the evening to the public.
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Sharon Camarillo, lone, came within one cent in guessing how many
pennies were in a jar in a contest sponsored by the Bank of Eastern
Oregon at the Morrow County Fair.
Camarillo guessed $6.30; the correct amount was $6.29.
Camarillo, pictured above with BEO employee Becky Kindle (right)
and her daughter. Tiana. nine, received $50 from BEO for the closest
guess. Camarillo says that Tiana coaxed her to enter the contest.
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