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Ed. Note: To many of her clients, the public health nurse it advisor,
confidante, friend ... a source of help and strength in sickness and
in health. To others of the general public, the it a puzzling figure, a
woman in uniform with duties and responsibilities that are little
known and less appreciated. FROM THE NURSE'S CASE FILE
takes you behind the scenes and gives you a glimpse of the public
health nurse as she liver and works in Georgia today. All accounts
are based on actual case histories; only the names of the people
involved have been changed to preserve their right to privacy.
THE CASE OF THE ANXIOUS DIABETIC
William Copley, age 65, was carried to a local physician’s
office last fall after what he described as a “black out
spell.” When he came to he was unable to use his right arm
and leg. The physician, Dr. Wren, saw the patient many
times and watched him become completely dependent on
his 55-year-old wife. Dr. Wren referred him to our health
center in September for encouragement and mild exercises.
I found out much about Mr. Copley’s condition upon
visiting in the home, and Dr. Wren was helpful in summariz
ing the patient’s diagnosis and his plan for treatment in a
conference I had with him.
According to the doctor, Mr. Copley has hardening of
the arteries, diabetes, chronic peptic ulcer disease and suf
fered from hypertension and anxiety.
In addition to medicines prescribed to control the hy
pertension and diabetes, Dr. Wren stressed the importance
of a bland low sodium diet, avoidance of emotional stress,
and support to counteract Mr. Copley’s anxiety.
Planning Patient Care It Essential
To meet these needs, I developed a nursing objectives
work plan which has been largely carried out with aid from
our physical therapist. The plan included:
1) Encouraging the patient to dress, bathe and shave
himself, to use a pulley for strengthening his right
arm and leg, and to walk outside daily, weather per
mitting, by using a cane to provide some support;
2) Keeping a daily record of the things he ate, relating
foods consumed to the urine checks we taught him
to make;
3) Stressing the importance of a diet that was low in
sodium and cholestrol and composed of bland, easily
digested foods;
4) Urging him to take his medicine as prescribed by Dr.
Wren;
5) Visiting often to discuss his progress and to give Mr.
Copley an opportunity to express his feelings about
his condition;
6) Checking his blood pressure regularly and reporting
changes to Dr. Wren.
Through these simple, routine services, we were able to
help Mr. Copley a great deal. Keeping a record of his uri
nalysis and of the foods he ate helped him to understand
the importance of diet, and to be more conscientious about
what he ate. He was also made aware of the value of exer
cising and taking his medicine regularly. After several
months, Mr. Copley found he could walk about the house
unattended and take care of most of his personal needs.
This eased the burden on his family considerably.
While his health problems still exist — and will continue
to do so — Mr. Copley now realizes that his future is less
discouraging than he once thought. With continuing encour
agement from his family and his doctor he will be able to
enjoy his remaining years. To some, this accomplishment
may seem slight - to me, it is significant and rewarding!
Solomon’s Reign
King Solomon ruled until
he died in 926 B.C. It is not
known when he came to the
throne, but the Bible uses
the round number of 40
years when speaking of the
length of his reign.
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05 A, Fill Grounded
For Check On Wings
By DARRELL GARWOOD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Both
of the Air Force’s newest
planes, the Fill fighter and the
CSA jet transport, have been
grounded because of apparent
structural weaknesses in the
wings.
The CSA Galaxy, largest
airplane ever built, was ground
ed because an 8-to-10-inch crack
was found late Friday in a wing
section of the third of the giant
planes to be completed at
Marietta, Ga.
The 223 FIIIC fighter planes
built so far already were
grounded because a wing
section fell off one of the planes
Man Who Triggered
C-5A Flak Fired
By MARY ELLEN RIDDLE
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(N E A)—
A. Ernest Fitzgerald was a
good efficiency expert. So
good the Air Force nomi
nated him for most outstand
ing federal employe in 1967.
That was before Fitzgerald
revealed the cost of building
the 120 C-5A cargo planes
the government ordered
from Lockheed was going to
cost about $2 billion more
than the original estimate.
Now Fitzgerald is a good
out-of-w o r k efficiency ex
pert. The Air Force abol
ished his $31,000-a-year job;
the Air Force says it was an
economy measure. Fitzger
ald says the Air Force loses
several times his annual sal
ary “through the cracks.”
He is a mild-mannered
man who took the conse
quences of telling Congress
about the cost overrun phil
osophically. While one secre
tary finished clearing out
her desk and departed for
the personnel office to find
out what her new job would
be, Fitzgerald adjusted his
glasses—the kind with plas
tic rims that are dark on top
and clear below — and ex
plained he was surprised by
the intensity of the attack
launched on him after his
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A. Ernest Fitzgerald
“I caused some
embarrassment . .
testimony before a Senate
committee.
“We had always won these
little tussles before,” he said,
“but they wanted very badly
to conceal this one.”
Why?
Fitzgerald thinks his su-
Eeriors at the Pentagon be
eved Lockheed was going
to lose so much money on
Sat. and Sun., Jan. 17-Is, 1970
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at Nellis Air Force Base
outside Las Vegas last
month, killing two pilots.
The Air Force said the 10
CSA transports so far opera
tional will not be flown until
after inspections that will take
several days.
Whether the C5As will be
permitted to fly before mea
sures are taken to strengthen
the wings has not been decided.
The wing weakness in the
CSA already had been discov
ered in static (non flying) tests.
The No. 3 operational model
was in the Lockheed plant for
“retrofitting” when the crack
was discovered. It had made 84
the C-5As that the company
would go out of business:
“The estimate is that Lock
heed was $671 million over
the ceiling at the completion
of the first 58 planes.”
The Air Force wrote a new
contract including a repric
ing formula that Fitzgerald
says was designed to bail out
Lockheed. According to the
formula, if the cost of the
remaining 62 planes ran less
than 10 per cent over the
ceiling, the Air Force would
pay back one-and-one-half
times the loss. If the prices
were more than 10 per cent
above the ceiling, Lockheed
would get back twice the
amount from the Air Force.
“It’s a reverse incentive,”
Fitzgerald said. “You can
see that it would be better
for Lockheed to be 11 per
cent over than 9 per cent
over. Os course, on the first
groups of planes the overrun
was nearly 40 per cent.
“We figured that with 33
more planes, Lockheed
would offset the losses on
the first run of planes. After
that, the rest would be
gravy.”
That’s what Fitzgerald
told the congressional com
mittee studying the defense
budget.
“I caused some embar
rassment by answering Sen.
Proxmire’s question truth
fully,” he said. The "embar
rassment” caused a flurry of
activity that reached all the
way up to the Air Staff.
There was a memo outlin
ing three ways Fitzgerald
could be removed from his
job—one being to abolish the
position. Another memo was
sent to Fitzgerald to inform
him that he had been given
the status of a career civil
servant (who couldn’t be
fired) because of a computer
error. Then he was taken
off his job as the top man in
cost control for major wea
pons systems and put in
charge of figuring expenses
for a servicemen’s bowling
alley in Thailand.
Rumors about Fitzgerald
holding stock in a consulting
firm that handles govern
ment contract accounts were
widespread, Fitzgerald said.
He was president of the firm
until he took the Air Force
job in 1965 but claims he
sold all the stock, 30 per cent
of the company, within a
month after he took the job.
“I was even criticized for
working late and driving an
old car,” he said wryly.
“During the Johnson admin
istration, I was accused of
being a member of an ultra
right-wing conspiracy trying
to destroy our defense sys
tem. Lately, with the Repub
licans in office, I’ve been ex-
flights and had logged 297
hours. A “retrofit” is described
as “a simple aluminum brace
which reinforces 11 points on
the wing at places where major
wing sections join.”
The weakness, which first
showed up in severe tests, had
not been considered sufficiently
severe to ground all of the 10
planes completed so far.
The Galaxy, almost as long
as a football field, is capable of
carrying 220,000 pounds—or 375
fully armed troops—a distance
of more than 3,000 miles. It is
245 feet 9 inches long,
compared with a Boeing 747’s
length of 231 feet 4 inches.
plained away as a member
of a left-wing conspiracy try
ing to destroy our defense
system.”
The most damaging accu
sation, according to Fitzger
ald, was that he had released
confidential documents to
congressmen. The charge
was made by the secretary
of the Air Force in May,
1969, but was retracted last
November.
Despite intimations that
the administration was look
ing for another job for Fitz
gerald, he says he received
no offers. So he is opening
his own office in Washington
and will return to private
consulting. A lawsuit chal
lenging the legality of Fitz
gerald’s dismissal and the
investigation that preceded
may be filed.
Fitzgerald’s friends in
Washington say his dismis
sal is another step toward
closer congressional control
over Pentagon spending. But
the Defense Department re
organization that eliminated
Fitzgerald’s civilian job in
the name of economy cre
ated a new office to be
staffed by several Air Force
members under the direction
of Col. Frank Ayers.
Fitzgerald claims the
whole group will be assigned
to do his old job.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
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(1733-1804), discovered carbon
ated water, the basic ingredient
of soda pop, in 1772, says World
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After it was originally
planned as a fleet of 120 planes,
the CsA’s cost rose by nearly $2
billion to a total of $5.1 billion.
This would mean a cost of
about S4O million a plane. The
Air Force now has decided to
reduce the fleet to 81 planes.
The Air Force still is not
convinced that its Fill fighter
planes, formerly the TFX, are
afflicted with a fatal weakness
in the wings.
The wing failure at Las
Vegas, according to the Air
Force, could have been caused
by unusual circumstances such
as vibrations that no wing
structue could resist.
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J Property i
[Transfers J
The following property trans
fers have been recorded at the
Spalding County Courthouse:
James D. Banks to Manson D. _
Banks, house and lot U. S. High
way 41; Slaton Stanley to T. Ed
ward Vickery, two houses and
lots North 15th st.; Mrs. Janie
R. Vickery to Billy C. and Vir
ginia H. Beavers, lot East
Mclntosh road; Frances Banks
to Alexander W. Ledbetter,
house and lot East Broad
street; Johnson W. Sutton Jr. to
Alvin F. Staham, lot Charles
Circle; C. L. Owen to Clinton
Watson Jr., house and lot North
Eighth street; Belle M. Mills es
tate to James H. Campbell, four
lots and house on East Brooks
avenue; City of Griffin to
Donald F. Waggoner and Rus
sell Waggoner Jr., six acres
Airport road.
H. V. Kell Co. to Spalding
Concrete Co., Inc., building and
tract West Solomon street and
tract on West Bank Alley; Cen
tral Land Corp, to Oliver D._
Denton, lot Greer road; Mrs. J.
W. Sharp to Chris L. and Nora
L. Owen, house and lot Drewry
road; Kyle Cobb to Douglas M.
and Lynette S. Hardwick, 7
acres Midville road and Tri-
County road; M. Arthur Flour
noy to Buford F. Williams,
house and lot Vineyard road;
Terrell L. Jones to Bickley W.
Smith Jr., house and lot Winona
drive; Mrs. Elizabeth R. Brown
to Imperial Land Investment
Co., 209 acres Mimosa road.
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Impact of College
Grads Exaggerated
By BRUCE B,OSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Though the nation’s college campuses have been far
quieter this year than last, a hangover notion persists from
1968-69 that college-educated Americans soon will dominate
this country numerically and perhaps in many other ways.
It is not going to happen in terms of numbers. The col
lege-educated may surely play disproportionately large
roles in managing U.S. society-but it can be argued that
they do this now.
The estimates for the immediate future, up to 1985, may
contain some surprises for self-centered college youngsters
who imagine they are soon going to swamp out everybody
else.
A study made for the Urban Affairs Council went beyond
the college age to more broadly defined youth—all those
Americans 14 to 25. There are presently some 39 million
in this category, about twice as many as were in the
bracket in 1900.
By 1985, the survey forecasts, this population age group
is expected to reach 46 million. The gain sounds impres
sive, but the evidence is that most other age groups will
also be growing substantially in that 15-year span.
The significant figure is a percentage calculation. Despite
a predicted 7-million gain in numbers in the 14-25 age sec
tor, the proportion of such youth to the total population will
remain where it is now and has long been—around 20 per
cent.
This column often before has scotched the idea that the
U.S. population is growing steadily younger. For a time,
some politicians were saying the median age was 25 years.
It was not. It was always higher. Today it is about 27.8
years, and by 1985 it will be over 28.
As for strictly college youth, though the numbers initially
enrolling have risen spectacularly to around seven million
this fall (three times the total 20 years ago), the proportion
of college graduates to the total population is not all that
startling and apparently is not going to be.
Today, some 11 per cent of Americans are graduates
from a four-year college course. By 1985, notwithstanding
the prospect of higher youth numbers and still higher basic
college enrollment, the percentage of college graduates in
America probably will be only 14 per cent.
That hardly makes for prospective numerical dominance
by the college-educated, defining that as persons with a full
college education.
There may be a good deal higher proportion of people
with limited college schooling. But numerical domination
ultimately will go to those in this country who are grad
uates of our high schools. Right now more than three
fourths of the nation’s young do graduate at this level, and
about 94 per cent of the high school age group—l 4to 17 —is
enrolled in secondary schools.
As indicated earlier, the fully college-educated have a
high potential for taking commanding roles in society. Not
surprisingly, the survey for the Urban Affairs Council
shows that in today’s college population, there is heavy
over-representation (in terms of their real percentage in
the total population) of youngsters from white, middle
class, well-to-do and relatively well-educated families.
But, by 1985, clearly, these Americans and others to fol
low them still will be heavily out-voted by the far greater
millions whose schooling record shows high school gradu
ation or less.
Their dominance will be significant when set against the
exaggerated expectations of college-e d u c at e d numbers
stirred by the turbulence of the present campus era.
It is also an impressive prospect, for as recently as 1949
fewer youngsters were enrolled in U.S. high schools (six
million) than now enroll in our colleges.
But we need to gauge all this quantitative expansion
carefully. It is no automatic guarantee of a better-educated
America. Serious questions exist about the quality of U.S.
schooling at most levels, and President Nixon himself is
among those most deeply concerned.
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Defense Pact
In 1280 8.C., the Hittites
and the Egyptians concluded
the first nonaggression and
mutual defense pact in world
history. The good under
standing was cemented at
top level by the marriage of
Rameses II to a Hittite prin
cess.
Where They Sit
In the U.S. House of Rep
resentatives, Democrats oc
cupy the east side of the
chamber, on the speaker’s
right: Republicans sit across
the main aisle on the speak
er’s left.
Powerful Meteoroids
High-speed meteoroids
striking a spacecraft could
release kinetic energy equal
to more than 1.000 times the
explosive energy of an equal
weight of TNT, according to
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The incredible day that shook the earth to its core!
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