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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1957)
.ZkK cl i c i I (omew to '""COAL COUNTRY liy Jerry Klein T I o wrest coal from the deptlis of the earth, men always have gambled their health and safety. Many have lost the gamble and perished. But all too often, even those who escaped sudden death have had to live out their lives in hopelessness and pain because proper medical care was not available in many small-town mining areas. A decade ago the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund financed entirely by the mine operators began to bring men with broken bodies down out of the mountains to metropolitan hospitals. Recently, the UMW opened its own chain of modern hospitals in the mining country, an achievement which won an Albert Lasker Award from the American Public Health Association. Located in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, these 10 hospitals were dedicated to the service of 400,000 miners and their families. Costing more than $25 million, the hos pitals have about 1,000 beds. The largest is Becklcy (W.Va.) Memorial, with facilities for 200 patients. One of the first miners to receive help was a Kentuckian whose spine was broken 15 years ago. Lacking money for professional care or drugs, he hadn't seen a doctor in more than three years. There was no road to his home, so he was carried down the mountain to the hospital on a blanket slung between two poles. As the hospitals were dedicated, the Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, said in his invocation: "We thank Thee for patriots who dream of an America which in social betterment shall go from glory to glory. . . . We thank Thee today for the growing determination that private greed must give way to social gains." A Where modern medical care never existed, Mine Workers' hospitals like this one at Man, W. Va., now serve many families. Their mining years total 115, Modern laboratories art an inttqrjj Mi Worler,' iiffT molality ptotyMl oflerv yet hospital keeps them healthy, part of complete mcij) lajrvices. hundrtoV. of babies better chance 1o live NEVER! i r - Never No, never will I go back to that miserable pin-belt-pad harness! Never again will I put up with telltale bulges, with embarrassing odor, with messy disposal! Why in the world do you? Why do you Mill play martyr on problem days when you could do what did change to Tampax, change to freedom! Tampax in ternal sanitary protection is invisible, unfelt when in place . . . Completely comfortable . . . Easy to use . . . Easy to dispose of . . . Unobtrusive to carry. With so many, many benefits to you, isn't Tampax worth giving a trial? Ask for it in Regular, Super or Junior absorbencies, wherever drug products are sold. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. SICK OF BEING cone? Lack of dietary bulk, a common cause of irregularity KHIokk's All-Hran, eaten daily, restores the natural laxative hulk you need to enjoy gentle, comfortahle elimination. All Kran, made of wholv hran, hint literally helped millions. You'll like its old-fashioned hran muffin flavor. Famous for over 40 years. Ki'IIokk'" the original ready-to-eat hran cereal. If lax ative drugs (for temporary re lief) give yon little or no results, try All Mran for 10 days. You must he fully satisfied in every way, or return empty carton and get douhle your money hack. J it U Best liked 0 by 3 millions All BB All Graylinir m ji rmy wnn nrnwimorr 9 Thcm.'itlitK r Ml IU list. I 5 rl aiiiiraritiK rolnr Ii fe W.. utandy i nits dll Urifd i arav hair lo hiitrrm slinl Farmtv Weekly, June 22, 1957 ttt hUmrlr blown or Mark "" ' Hmtr lor on nd yoir ir -(nanmi I.Bvlinf )lu tax at all rtrumiM or writ (fif Ftrr Hamiile (lot lie Mulfd lit plain wraiirr Mrnlx.n nalmal hair rokir. lirumnaloiie. Irin If.'.l, Co mi ton. Kmliitky o
