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Emergency Service
Important Aspect
Of Area Hospitals
HEADED FOR CHILE - A 19,500 pound
water purification van is loaded aboard an
Air Force C-124 Globemaster as part of a
40-plane airlift to Santiago, Chile, of two
complete Army field hospitals for relief of
victims of quake-devastated South Chile.
(UPI Telephoto)
By lynn M
Small
Worlds
Around
Watkint
The Family Council
Editor Note: The Family Council consists ol a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two wrltera
Each article Is a summary of an actual .ase history The Council reports
on problems that have been dealt wt b by responsible agencies and
Karen R, I don't know
whether I really love him.
Mrs. L. R. - This is no time
to back out of the marriage.
'Strange' Salamander
Always Misunderstood
The salamander had a fish
for an ancestor back a few
hundred thousand years ago,
and some of them just can't
teem to get over it.
Of the hundred or so varied
kinds, scattered pretty gen
erally throughout the United
States, some live only their
early lives in fresh water
ponds. But at a certain stage
in their development they
leave the home pond and
spend a couple of years on
land.'
Then, as if remembering
their early life, they return to
pond, some to spend the rest
of their life in the water.
A salamander is a tailed
amphibian, sort of a tadpole
like creature that never sheds
Its tail. They are lizard-like,
but they have no scales or
claws.
Many Names
Salamander names, because
there had to be so many, are
mostly descriptive words de
noting color, preferred habi
tat or some other individual
characteristic. So we have
tree, worm, two-lined, long
tailed, blind tiger, slimy, four
toed, purple, red, spotted and
cave salamanders, as well as
painted, red - banded, dusky
and others to numerous to
mention. The fresh water
newt, mudpuppy, water-dog
and hellbender are all sala
manders, and all of course
look like wet lizards.
These strange little creat
ures always have been mis
understood. Mythology pic
tures them in a strange and
unjustified light. It gave the
poor things a reputation that
a real dragon couldn't pos
sibly live up to, crediting it
as a creature that breathes
(ire.
To make the poor thing
even more fearsome, the cre
ators of these legends imagin
ed the salamander as assum
ing the form of a man who
groveled in the dirt and wait
ed with bared fangs for
human victim. The salamand
er of mythology was only the
brainchild of an over-stimulated
Imagination. Other su
perstitions gave the creature a
fire-proof reputation.
Advocates of this idea be
lieved the creature could walk
through fire and emerge un
harmed. Newt Relative
About the nearest relative
the salamander has is the
fresh water newt. It is also
related to frogs and toads, all
of which belong to the chilly
blooded family of creatures
known collectively as "the
amphibia."
Unless the pond where the
strange little creatures live
dries up, few people suspect
the presence of the salamand
ers that may be living there.
Even then the creatures may
bury themselves in the mud
and live for some time in a
emi-dry environment.
They are all pathetically
harmless and relatively help
less. They are sometimes used
as aquarium pets, and make
Interesting inmates of a gold
fish bowl.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
Karen R. - I am 19, en
gaged to be married and wor
ried to death.
My fiance is 33, very nice
looking and a good provider,
but I am beginning to feel I
don't really love him. We have
had physical relations and
ever since I haven't felt the
same about him. It isn't that
I found love-making disap
pointing. I realize this may
change in time. It is more that
I see many things about him
that I don't like John is arro
gant and pushes everyone
around. Maybe he'll start
treating me like that.
My parents think a lot of
John and my mother thinks I
should go ahead with the mar
riage. My dad washes his
hands of the whole thing be
cause ol what I ve done.
Mrs. L. R. - This is no time
to back out of the marriage.
If Karen doesn't marry John
now, I don't know what will
become of her.
I feel I've failed as a moth
er. I tried to bring Karen up
with the right attitudes. I
never suspected she would go
and do a stupid thing like this
She seems to think it's better
to find out before the mar
riage mat tnings are not as
they should be, but I can't
make her understand she will
feel differently once she is
married.
I am annoyed with John for
inducing Karen into having
relations with him, but out
side of that I feel he is a good
man for her. She needs a
strong person to keep her un
der control.
The Council: We don't go
along with the idea that any
adult woman should have
someone else "to keep her
under control." If Karen is
mature enough for marriage
she must be her own super
visor. If she is not mature
enough, it is doubtful whether
the marriage can be a success.
We suspect there has been
a bit too much parental pres
sure behind this relationship
trom the beginning. Karen
may have had doubts about
John she didn't dare confess
to herself or her parents. Pos
sibly she thought having phys
ical relations with him would
be a "trial ' of whether she
really loves him. Now she
feels she has a more legitimate
basis tor her negative feelings.
Of course Karen should be
aware of the fact that she has
had the worst possible intro
duction to the physical side of
marriage and that her immed
iate reaction is no indication
of what the future holds
store. But we don't think her
objections to John's personal
ity should be completely
glossed over by her parents.
Mrs. L. R. is evidently
airaia ner aaugnter will "go
wild if she continues unmar.
ried. We think, however, that
the danger may be just
great if she is pressured into
an undesired marriage. No
man can "control" a wife who
doesn't respect him and deep
ly wish to give her loyalty
and love.
Mrs. L. R. attaches too little
significance to John's role in
this affair. She doesn't seem
to realize that the maturity
and strength with which she
so strongly credits him failed
him completely on a crucial
issue.
Karen needs help in gaining
emotional maturity, but prob
ably from a qualified doctor
not from a man who has
proven his lack of good sense
and moral stability.
(Copyright 1960, General
Features Corp.)
Alan's Request for Cup of Tea Leeds
To Request by Wife To Obtain Divorce
(Editor's Hotei This U the
last ia a series ef articles ia
which financial problemt
and major services of hos
pitals are diacuasad. Today's
article, which discusses
emergency service, was pre
pared in cooperatiea with
two valley hospitals and the
Jackson County Medical Society.)
Forty per cent of all wives
in the U.S. also have jobs out
side the home.
Emergency service is an im
portant responsibility of both
the hospital and the medical
staff of the hospital.
The responsibility is great
er in an area where demand
and financing do not warrant
resident physician at the
hospital, as is the case with
Sacred Heart and Rogue Val
ley hospitals.
The emergency service at
both hospitals is manned by
the medical staff of each hos
pital on a 24-hour, seven-day
a week basis. Each staff phy
sician is on duty for one 24
hour period, although he may
not be at the hospital during
the full day. He is, however,
easily located by hospital au
thorities in an emergency.
A patient should try to call
his family doctor before go
ing to the hospital, since this
would speed up handling his
case, hospital officials suggested.
Emergency Nurse
Each hospital maintains an
emergency nurse on duty at
the emergency ward on an
a r o u n d-the-clock basis all
week. It is the nurse's duty to
comfort the patient as much
as possible until the arrival
of the physician, either the
patient's family doctor, or the
emergency doctor.
But she cannot, without doc
tor's orders, proceed with
treatment, nor can she offi
cially diagnose an emergency
case, even if the patient's case
is apparent, such as a broken
leg or other injury suffered
in an accident.
It is the physician who
makes the final diagnosis, in
structs the nurse as to treat
ment and decides whether the
patient needs hospitalization.
Emergency Defined
An emergency as defined
by hospital administrators is
"a situation in which the hu
man's life is in danger." Not
all cases which enter the
emergency ward are of this
type, administrators say,
Many of them, even those
which at first are considered
emergency cases, are not even
admitted to the hospital
For example, last year both
Sacred Heart and Rogue Val
ley hospitals handled about 4,
000 mergency cases. Of that
number only about 5 per cent
were actually admitted as hos
pital patients.
In a recent month, 63 per
cent of the cases handled in
the emergency ward of one
local hospital were consider
ed actually as legitimate
emergency cases. They in
clude accident victims and
similar type incidents i n
which a person was injured,
or suffered an acute attack of
an ailment.
But the other 37 per cent
were cases such as influenza,
common colds and other mi
nor complaints, which both
physicians and hospital ad
ministrators agree should
have been cared for at the
physician's office or clinic.
Many of those included in
the 37 per cent are persons
who repeatedly appear at the
emergency ward for a variety
of reasons.
Hospital administrators
u. 'e all persons to have a fam
ily physician, for it is he who
is called if the patient seek
ing emergency care has a
family physician and he is
available.
If the family physician is
not available, or the patient
is in such condition that he
cannot give the name of his
physician, the emergency doc
tor is called. In many cases
when persons are taken by
an ambulance service, the hos
pital has been notified an
emergency case is on its way,
and hospital officials contact
physician on emergency call.
Physician Contacted
Should the case warrant
more immediate attention,
physician in the building is
contacted. H e administers
emergency treatment until
the person's family physician
or the emergency doctor ar
rives.
Hospital administrators
noted that the community also
has a responsibility to help
maintain a competent emer
gency service. Rogue Valley's
emergency ward cost valley
donors about $80,000, and
this, administrators say, "is a
large investment by the com
munity." The one at Sacred
Heart hospital cost about the
same.
Commenting on persons
who seek emergency service
for minor complaints and oth-
discomforts such as the
common cold, hospital admin
istrators noted that the total
cost of diagnosis and treat
ment probably is more. This is
because of the hospital'
charge for the service. If the
patient, administrators say,
went to the doctor's clinic or
office, he would be charged
only for an office call, plus
any drugs prescribed.
Loughton, England - tWt -
When George Lusher's wife
bawled him out for coming
home late from golf one day,
he decided not to say another
word to her until she apolo-
lzed.
The way Mrs. Lusher fig-
red it, why should she speak
if George didn't?
From 1949 to 1956, through
the Korean war, a labur gov
ernment, leaky plumbing and
the rampages of two healthy,
young children, the Lushers
id not exchange a single
word.
The Starter
Then George asked for a
cup of tea. The result-every-one
knows how one word will
lead to another-landed the
couple in divorce court.
High Power Line
Kills Youth, 17
Milwaukie -(UPD- A 17-year-
old Milwaukie high school
senior was killed instantly
when he touched a power line
carrying 12,000 volts Thurs
day night. .
Killed was William Matson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L.
Matson of Milwaukie.
Matson grabbed onto the
power line while about 30
feet in a tree. Two other boys,
David Hunemiller, 13, and
Thomas Cendana, 12, of Mil
waukie, also had climbed the
tree with Matson but were
unhurt.
They said they had been
climbing about five minutes
before Matson grabbed the
line.
As the judge later quoted
Mrs. Lusher, George's seven
year reign of silence was just
a "sulk."
Since the couple were not
speaking, there of course
could be no talk of a divorce.
They remained under the
same roof. George-a travel
ing salesman - got his own
meals. Day after day, month
after month, year after year
neither George, now 54, nor
Mrs. Lusher, now 48, so much
as grunted in the other's di
rection. "I just let it go on and
did nothing to help my hus
band out of his silence," Mrs. I
Lusher was quoted as telling
the judge. "I expect I could
have ended it at any time."
Finally, she said, she wrote
George a letter suggesting the
possibility of conversation,
and his request of a cup of
tea was the result.
Mrs. Lusher said the falling
out after they started talking
to each other again was about
George's reluctance to do his
share of the dishes. That, she
said, made a divorce manda
tory. The judge, howtver, did
not agree. He turned down
e$tUNr, Medlar-, tjfc)
Friday, May 27,(t)0 "A"
her petitionjWilIng that "in
their own way, each la (till
fond of tta other." -
His honor did concede, how.
ever, that George "when up
set tends to withdraw and be
come silent." I
ASSESSORS NEVER MISS
Riverside, Calif .-(UPD - Mrs.
A. Harold Wishart, complain
ing Thursday that she and her
husband have been passed by
census takers in 1940, 1950
and 1960, quipped "The asses
sors never seem to miss us."
Ediiorial Writer
Dunked in Columbia
The Dalles -(UPD- Editorial
writer Al McCready of the
Oregonian took a bath in the
Columbia river Thursday with
his clothes on.
McCready was dunked in
the Columbia with the help
of a push from Bob Paulos,
editor and publisher of The
Dalles Daily Chronicle.
It all came about because
of a friendly wager between
the two men concerning last
Friday's voyage of the de
stroyer escort USS Edmonds
up the Columbia river.
McCready had written an
editorial saying the Edmonds
might have some trouble mak
ing the trip. Paulos countered
with an editorial in which he
offered to be dunked in the
Columbia if the vessel didn't
make it without difficulty. He
also suggested that McCready
agree to do the same if the
Edmonds did make it.
McCready did. The Ed
monds did. And Thursday Mc
Cready got his bath.
Hollywood Couples
Planning Divorces
Hollywood-OIPD-Two Holly
wood couples, both wed 13
years, are heading for the
divorce court.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke. 68.
and his wife, Mary, 32, have
their attorneys working out
property settlement and ac
tress Laraine Day, 40, and her
husband, Leo Durocher, 53,
already nave signed a prop
erty settlement pending di
vorce action.
Hardwicke and his wife
have one child and Miss Day
and Uurocher, former man
ager of both the Dodgers and
Giants baseball clubs, have
two children.
TRUCK COMPACTS CAR
Dallas, Tex.-fl!PD-Mrs. James
C. Tate got a compact car the
hard way Thursday-she ran
her auto Into a truck and an
other truck hit hers in the
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