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Ed. Note: To many of her clientt, the public health nurte it advitor,
confidante, friend .. .a tource of help and itrength in ticknett and
in health. To othert of the general public, the it a puzzling figure, a
woman in uniform with dutiet and retponnbilitiet that are little
known and lett appreciated. FROM THE NURSE'S CASE FILE
takei you behind the tcenet and gwet you a glimpte of the public
health nurte at the livet and workt in Georgia today. All accountt
are bated on actual cate hittoriet; only the namet of the people
involved have been changed to preterve their right to privacy.
THE DISCOURAGING CASE
The Galloway family were first referred to the Health
Department by a local hospital after the birth of Mrs.
Galloway’s second child. There are five persons in this fam
ily — the parents, two children, and a 64-year-old grand
mother, who, by physician’s diagnosis, has chronic bron
chitis and heart disease.
Mr. Galloway, I learned on my first visit, is 32, has a
sixth grade education and works for a salvage company as a
laborer. His income is unstable, but averages about SBO.OO a
month. His mother receives a monthly welfare check, and
this, plus his earnings, are what the family has to live on.
Though I did not see Mr. Galloway, I discovered, in
talking with his mother, that he has many health problems
including bad teeth, hearing difficulty, and an injured
shoulder. He was scheduled tentatively for surgery on his
shoulder when I visited.
Mrs. Galloway is apparently more limited than he is. She
has never worked outside the home, and scarcely spoke two
words to me during my call. “Darlene, she’s all right,” the
grandmother explained, “but she’s had no schooling and
she just don’t have much to say.”
Inter-Agency Services Needed
It was immediately apparent that there were a few
things 1 could do to help this family, but that other agen
cies were needed if their circumstances were to appreciably
alter. I made arrangements for the elderly Mrs. Galloway to
attend heart clinic at the hospital and checked with the
doctor to find out what medicine she required.
I then referred Mr. Galloway to the local Vocational
Rehabilitation office. They have attempted to enroll him in
a training program for the hard core unemployed, and
underemployed. So far, all efforts to get him to keep an
appointment have failed, even though he has been assured
that the work he will be trained to do is easier than his
present job. The counselor says he seems grateful and prom
ises to come for the interview, but just never shows up.
I also checked with the hospital to learn what I could
about the man’s shoulder injury. It seems he doesn’t keep
his appointments there, either. The last time they saw him
before his operation was to take place, he said he was get
ting regular work and would not be able to take time off
for the surgery just then. He has not been back.
I do not mean to give up; I intend to aid the Galloways
all I can, but right now that aid seems limited to immuniza
tions for the children — they are already coming to clinic —
visits to the grandmother to check her condition, and fam
ily planning services for Mrs. Galloway. Hopefully she will
choose to have the service; this family cannot meet its pres
ent needs. They surely would not be able to provide ade
quate care, food and clothing, for yet another baby.
Will she come to clinic? Now that’s a very good ques
tion. Some cases are discouraging!
USSR RAPS WEST
MOSCOW (UPl)—The Soviet
Union said Monday Britain has
joined the United States in a
naval buildup in the Mediter
ranean.
“It can only worsen tension
in this region and create a
menace to the peace and
security of peoples,” the
government newspaper Izvestia
said. “The presence of British
ships in the Mediterranean has
nothing in common with de
fense of Great Britain.”
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Across from Courthouse —
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INFORMAL ENFORCER
MIAMI (UPl)—Police have
arrested a 20-year-old messen
ger they said put a red light on
his Volkswagen and charged
around town “arresting” traffic
violators, then taking bribes to
fix their tickets.
Ernesto Pantoja, a messen
ger for Western Union, was
charged Tuesday with imper
sonating a police officer, giving
false information to police,
attempted armed robbery and
possession of stolen property.
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Committee on giving
American Independent Party a ■
permanent spot on the Georgia
ballot. Seated left is
BB u ... Mobley Howell of Blakely, vice-.
chairman of the committee. B
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Hitchcock honored
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
The Southern California Motion
Picture Council honored Alfred
Hitchcock with its “Family A
ward” for his new thriller,
“Topaz.”
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Music for ‘EI Condor’
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
Oscar-winning composer Maurice
Jarre, who has captured two
Academy Awards, will write the
musical score for “El Condor”
which stars Jim Brown and Lee
Van Cleef.
Mariette Is Back *
With A Big Part
f By DICK KLEINER
NEA Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (NEA)
Here’s a tip to would-be producers. Want (who doesn’t?)
to get Dustin Hoffman for a picture? Get a story involving
a prize fighter who goes to prison.
“There are two areas I am really interested in,” Dusty
says. “Prize fighting and prisons.”
Soul-searching time is over for Mariette Hartley. She
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MARIETTE HARTLEY
She’s compulsive about it.
searched and she found
that she really does want
to be an actress, after all.
Mariette, big and beauti
ful and talented, had been
acting—“l was a compul
sive actress” —since she
was 10. Then she did the
television series, The Hero,
and after that failed, she
had a long, hard year. A
year “of almost nothing.”
“That was 0.K.,” she
says, “because it gave me
a chance to find out who I
was and where I wanted to
go”
She worked as a salesgirl
in a big L.A. department
store—“and I was a good
salesgirl”—but she found
out that she really did want
to act. Now she’s back, and
she was one of the
“Marooned” wives and she
has a big part in
Griffin Daily News
“Barquero” and an even bigger and better one in another
film coming up.
And she has found out she loves the West, too. She did
a Death Valley Days “and I drove through Death Valley at
sunset and it was so red it was like driving through blood.”
Then, in Colorado for “Barquero,” she drove through the
Rockies.
“I’d see full rainbows from mountain top to mountain
top,” she says. “It was so beautiful I was looking while I
was driving. And I said, ‘Look, God, you’d better drive—
I’m too busy watching.’ ”
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All you dreamers who want to be stars but are just too
lazy to try, meet Lyle Waggoner.
He knew he wanted to get into show business. But it was
just a “someday” kind of thing. At 29, he was still saying
“someday,” and meanwhile earning a good living for his
wife and himself as a salesman.
Then he began selling tons of salt for ice removal and
he thought he had it made. Only problem was that spring
came along and nobody was concerned too much about ice
removal. So he took his wife and his profits and came to
California.
He got a job—as a salesman of photo-copying equipment
—and, simultaneously, tried to break into show business.
He did, through meeting an agent who signed him. But
there was a long, lean period after that. He worked in a
mailroom and his wife worked for an airline.
But finally he had a good job—as Carol Burnett’s on
screen “announcer.” He’s still with Carol, and it’s three
years now.
“I’m learning,” he says. “It’s on-the-job training. I take
the scripts home and try to figure out how Harvey Korman
would say the lines, and I learn from the times I’m wrong
as well as the times I’m right.”
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This is show business, where the best thing that can be
said about somebody is something bad.
Exhibit A: Bob Cummings.
He says that his ex-wife gave an interview and said
some horrible things about him.
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Thursday, Jan. 22, 1970