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PAGE PIVE THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOUBHAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER H. lflSfl | health officer, who is now living tance of patients with all types of in Idaho. communicable diseases. In the past, A rea O n Hospital •'As the health officer of Mal unfortunately, many general hos heur county, I always enjoyed work pitals would not admit this type of "I should like to take this oppor ing in Nyssa and especially m the patient even though there was dire tunity to congratulate the people of Nyssa school system. In my mind need for good hospital and medical Nyssa and the surrounding com mere is no question that in 1949 -1950 care. Modern techniques permit the munity on the completion of their you had the best school health pro admission of these cases without new hospital and on the far-reach gram in the county in Nyssa. This endangering other patients. Anoth ing spirit it represents", said Dr. P. was due in large part to the under er advantage of your new hospital O. Graeber, former Malheur county standing and vision of Mr Henry will be that your mothers may now Hartley and his staff. The com be delivered with all the advantages pletion of the new hospital will give only a well organised hospital can your community 24 hour health pro tection seven days a week. It .s give. “I think it is too bad Malheur further indication of the commend able spirit so exemplified by your county no longer has a health unit. school system. With your new hospital, with the "In the old days, hospitals were Eagles-sponsored well child confer places to go to die. Now they are ences and with the good school and becoming centers for better com public health program in Nyssa. I munity health. In several of the believe that Nyssa would have had newer Idaho hospitals, notably Weis- a health program that it could have er, Salmon, Twin Palls and Blacx- been proud of and one that would foot, county or district public health rank with the best. I know that departments have been provided for some of the crippled children, not in the hospitals. With the health only in Nyssa but in the whole coun unit in a hospital, curitative medi ty. will suffer because of the lack of cine. preventive medicine and sani the health unit. Because there is tation are combined under one roof some federal money involved, the as they should be for better pro state department of public health tection of the health of the com of Idaho has always considered it munity; thus the accent in these logical to give some care to children days is more rightly being placed in eastern Oregon. Without the help on keeping well rather than only on of a local health unit in Malheur the curing of disease. Your new county, it will become difficult for hospital not only offers more needed us to offer this service in the future protection in case of emergencies, to these children. but should also serve as a center for "I again should like to congrat preventive medicine in your com- | ulate you on the successful complet munity. It should afford good x-ray ion of your hospital. I know that and laboratory facilities which are this has entailed a great deal of important measures in any prevent sacrifice by many civic minded in ive health effort. dividuals in Nyssa and that the "It is to your credit that your problems they have faced and over hospital is dedicated to the accep come have been enormous. Dr. (ira eb er Lauds I sociation j Fischer Says T h is "This is one big step forward for Is Y o u r H ospital this community In making it a better "The completion and opening of the Malheur Memorial hospital is the realization of a dream of several years and the reward for lots of hard work and generous gifts of money- made by the people of this area and surrounding communities", said Jake Fischer, president of the hospital as- OPENING OF THE Malheur Memorial Hospital marks another chapter in the long history of the project, but it does not represent the final chapter. The last Chapter will be marked by long years of service to the community Bunn’s Signal Service THE HOSPITAL EFFORT HAS INDEED BEEN COMMTJNITY-WIDE Residents of every section near Nyssa have contributed and actively worked for the establishment of the institution. W e can all be justly proud that we had a part in the project. WILSON BROS. DEPT.STORE Best W ishes. . . . To THE Malheur Memorial Hospital and its Board of Directors / This hospilal is certainly a wonderful addition 1 place in which to live. "As president of the Malheur Memorial Hospital association, I wish to take this opportunity to thank all the people who shared in | any way to help make this commun ity hospital a realization I "Don't forget in the future that this is your hospital". Attend The Malheur Memorial Hospital Opening Sunday, Sept. 24 1:30 to 7 P. M. Much Praise Is Due the Board of Directors for making possible for this community an adequate hospital at a minimum of cost. The per-bed cost is among the lowest in the state, or in the northwest, for that matter John J. O'Toole ----------------------------------- A John O ’ T o o le Is Experienced In H ospilal W o r k + — ❖ John OToole, superintendent of the Malheur Memorial hospital since last April, has spent 30 years in hos pital work. He has literally grown up with the work, for his father was a hospital administrator in New York before he retired and came west. It was in New York state that Mr. OToole began his work in the hospital field as an employee for the Central Islep State hospital and King's Park State hospital, two of the outstanding mental institutions in the United States. Mr. O Toole moved to Arizona in 1926 to become personnel manager and purchasing agent for the Ken- necott Copper corporation. In 1944 he resigned to be superintendent of the Pinal General hospital in Ari zona. In 1947, Mr. OToole went to Cali fornia. where he organized and equipped the Exeter and Biggs-Orid- ley hospitals. At the time he came to Nyssa last April, Mr. OToole was manager of the Mount Shasta hos pital. Mr. OToole has a wife and one daughter. His wife, Mary OToole Is a trained surgical nurse. According to Mr. OToole, he be gan to have some qualms about the prospects of western Oregon as he came up from California via Lake- view. His optimism began to lower as, leaving Burns behind, he found his gas supply running low. with not many signs of coming to a town of any size. However, after a day or so in Nyssa and the Snake river valley, meeting with the hospital board of directors and some of the people here, his interest in becom ing superintendent of the Malheur Memorial hospital was restored. John and Mary OToole like the out-of-doors, and one of their major interests is baseball. They were found many nights during the sum mer at the local baseball field. As superintendent of the new Mal heur Memorial hospital, Mr. O'Toole, feels his responsibility in service to the public. "It is the aim of the hospital” said Mr. OToole, "to make the patient as he enters the new world that is found within the hospital walls, to feel as much at home as possible and to allay any fears and doubts that he may have. It Is our place to carry out the orders of the medical staff who serve this hos pital." Clover Lawn Dairy Don Engstrom Phone 4 Local Residents HAVE GIVEN TO This community something of Inestimable Value something that can't be bought with dollars and cents, in the form of a community hospital Fischer's Custom Dressing Service '0 Congratulations. . . . To The Residents of The Nyssa Area for completing and equipping the Malheur Memorial Hospital to the community. Everyone has worked hard H and given freely to make this project a success, - i - but not in vain-we now have a hospital that is May this Institution enjoy Success for many years in the future! second to none, and especially for this size com munity Nyssa Tavern Thompson Oil Co. Phone 50 116 Main St.
