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NOT THROUGH YET—The Hospital Ship USS Repose is still playing a vital role. Tied up at the
Long Beach Naval Station in California, she serves as a 200-bed annex to the U.S. Naval Hospital.
Although a permanent fixture now, the Repose could be made sea ready in 90 days.
Ship saves money
as hospital annex
LONG BEACH, Calif. - For
U.S. Navy Radioman David
Prentiss, recuperating from a
shattered kneecap hasn’t been
as bad as he thought it would
be.
“The quarters are a little
cramped, but after three years
in the service, I’m used to
that,” he says, patting his
gargantuan leg cast. “But it’s a
nice close atmosphere here.
Everybody gets a chance to
know everybody else. It’s good
to be aboard.”
Aboard? Just where is Pren
tiss recuperating, anyway?
Well, if he had arrived at the
U.S. Naval Hospital here a
year ago, he would undoubtedly
have been assigned to one of
the wards. But since last Jan
uary the hospital has had a
rather unique annex, the Hos
pital Ship USS Repose.
The Repose was one of sev
eral ships built during World
War II to tend to the Allied
wounded. She later saw service
in Korea before going into
mothballs. But in 1965 the
Repose was recommissioned
for duty in Southeast Asia
where she cared for nearly
7,000 battle casualties and
38,000 outpatients. For her
services, the Repose was
awarded two Navy unit com
mendations.
As the Repose was being
readied for rotation back to
home waters, hospital adminis
trators here were becoming
aware of an increasing bed
shortage. Instead of going
ahead with plans to construct a
multimillion-dollar addition to
the hospital — it costs approxi
mately $40,000 per bed — it was
decided to try something new:
reoutfit the Repose, tie her up
at pier side and use her facili
ties as a hospital annex.
The decision saved the tax
payers a chunk of cash. Modifi
cations to convert the Repose
into a “land-based” facility
were completed at the Navy
yards here for slightly more
than $600,000.
Some of the bulkheads had to
be removed, doorways en
larged, additional lighting in
stalled and an intricate ex
ternal plumbing system had to
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be engineered into the existing
network.
What results is a ship linked
with umbilical lines to the
shore. The engine rooms on the
Repose are sealed. Electricity,
steam and water lines snake
their way from the dock along
the sleek white hull of the
Repose. All of the waste is
dumped from the ship into
200,000 gallon holding tanks
moored at her stern and during
the early morning hours the
sewage is pumped through the
Long Beach City system.
Although she is firmly
moored to the dock, the Repose
can be ready to return to sea
duty within 90 days if neces
sary.
At one time, the Repose was
rigged to handle 900 patients.
Equipped with up>-to-date hos
pital facilities including a
dental clinic and three operat
ing rooms, the ship can still
handle any emergency. But the
primary role of the Repose
these days is to absorb the
overflow from the 400-bed
naval hospital 15 miles away
and the base dispensary a few
steps from the Repose. To han
dle the patient load, which
hovers around 170 men a day,
there is a medical staff of 20
doctors, 10 nurses and around
160 corpsmen, all under the di
rection of Capt. W. W. Hamil
ton.
Since the Repose is not in
commission and flies no flag,
the medical staff is actually at
tached to the naval hospital.
Both the Repose and the base
dispensary are considered "an
nexes” to the main hospital and
Hamilton is the senior medical
officer at both locations as well
as being the executive officer
at the hospital itself.
As you walk down the narrow
passageways of the Repose it is
not difficult to imagine that you
are really at sea. The distant
whir of the air conditioning as it
pours fresh air out the over
head vents, the dimly lit grille
covered lights and the faint
smell of the sea all belie the
fact that the Repose is moored
securely to Pier 7.
Out on the fantail, the heli
copter pad sits empty waiting
for an emergency that may
never come again. And the
triage area behind it, more
Nimoy says ‘Star Trek’
is spatial ‘Gunsmoke’
HOLLYWOOD - Leonard
Nimoy was talking about
another time in his career. This
would be in the “Star Trek”
days when he was playing the
enigmatic Mr. Spock, part
earthling, part-Vulcan, a man
with no visible emotions, a
superb intelligence and pointy
ears.
“Don’t let this get around,”
Nimoy said, lightly, “but we
were really doing ‘Gunsmoke’
in outer space.”
So “Star Trek” was "Gun
smoke” with spaceships?
Could this be possible?
“Now Spock was a kind of
Chester, different from the
others physically,” said
Nimoy. “Bill Shatner as the
captain of the Enterprise was
our own Marshal Dillon.
DeForrest Kelly, as our ship’s
doctor, was Doc. Nichelie
Nichols was our Kitty. And
whereas ‘Gunsmoke’ had the
Old West as its frontier, we had
space, the unknown frontiers.
They wore cowboy outfits, we
wore funny suits.
"I’m also willing to bet some
than once filled with the
agonizing screams of men in
pain and medical teams
desperately at work, is tranquil
and totally still. Even the
wardrooms and crew quarters
and officers’ staterooms are
locked and shuttered. And the
ship’s giant galleys no longer
telegraph the dinner menu.
“But don’t let all this fool
you,” cautions Medical Service
Corps Lt. Francis Ohnemus,
the ship’s operating and fiscal
supply officer. “'lbis old gal
isn’t dead in the water yet.
There’s one hell of a lot that
goes on around here that may
not seem exotic but is vital
nonetheless.”
Ohnemus points out that a
pilot alcoholic center on board
is proving instrumental in fu
ture treatment of patients. He
is also quick to mention that
there is virtually no medical
service that cannot be per
formed aboard the Repose.
“Anything from a hangnail to
massive surgery, we can han
dle it here,” he says.
And what is it like to work
aboard the Repose?
“I think it’s just great,” says
American Red Cross social
worker Margie Brunn. “I’ve
been stationed at shore-based
hospital facilities up to now and
until I got transferred here the
closest I ever came to a ship
was riding the ferryboat down
in San Diego.”
Miss Brunn says she has
found a certain esprit de corps
aboard the Repose that she has
found lacking elsewhere.
“I don’t know exactly how to
put it, but it just seems that the
patients are happy, the doctors
are happy. Heck, everyone is
happy. Being on a ship, I guess,
is just different enough to be a
little fun.”
Miss Brunn does have one
complaint, however, one
shared by her landlubber co
workers.
“I can’t get used to the
sloping floors in my office. The
fellows around here tell me the
‘decks’ are canted to prevent
flooding. But all I know is that I
keep spilling my coffee into my
saucer when I set it down on my
sloping desk and the chair
keeps rolling away whenever I
get up.”
of our scripts were old ‘Gun
smoke’ story lines, with a few
changes. But it all worked. We
had a very good show going
despite a shaky beginning for
the Spock character.
“At first,” said Nimoy, "the
network wanted to drop Spock
or at least dispense with those
ears. They understood the
marshal and the deputy, or the
aging lawyer and the young
rebel out of law school, or the
old doctor and the young intern.
But some stoic guy with pointy
ears from another planet? That
troubled them.”
Ultimately, of course, “Star
Trek” became a substantial hit
and Mr. Spock, to Nimoy’s vast
surprise, developed into one of
television’s rarities, a sex
symbol. At first this turn of
events perplexed him and then
it amused him and finally it
proved a dilemma.
“Three times I was
nominated for an Emmy but I
never won it,” said Nimoy,
“and I think some snobbery, a
status thing, was involved.
People may have thought my
Spock was more popularity
than performance. There’s no
doubt that the character was
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One of the of 1971 for members of the Griffin High
class of 1925 was its reunion in Griffin. The class graduated
the same year that Quimby Melton came here as publisher of
the Griffin Daily News. He was a special guest of the class
and recalled some of his predictions about the future of the
class. Preston Bunn was chairman of the reunion committee
composed of Ethel McLeroy Kendrick, Annie Ruth Elder
Nealy, Roswell Reeves, Ruby Bolton Vance, Katherine
Weaver, Harriett Berry, Jesse T. Ellis, Jr., Margaret
Newton Harwell, Jimmie Lu Williams Willis, Wilburn
Wilson, Class Officers were: Phinazee (Turk) Griffin,
president Katherine Weaver, vice president; Harriett Berry,
secretary; and Mary Alice Beck Hatch, treasurer. Posing for
the class picture above were: (front, 1-r) Harriet Berry,
Ideas are name of the game game
By JOYCE GABRIEL
NEW YORK— (NEA)-
Television may be the best
thing that has ever hap
pened to the game industry.
When the small screen first
entered American homes,
game manufacturers shud
dered. They thought their
market would be seriously
hurt by the electronic won
der.
Instead of hurting the
game market, however, TV
helped it. Television kept
people at home evenings.
When some of the novelty of
TV watching wore off, peo
ple were still at home and
looking for ways to enter
tain themselves. Games
were one form of entertain
ment and sales boomed.
The game industry is big
business. Ed Parker, presi
dent of the 88-year-old Park
er Brothers firm, says his
company creates approxi
mately 15 new games a
year. If they get one million
dollar seller out of 15, they
consider themselves lucky.
Monopoly, the company’s
biggest seller, was created
in 1934. Over two and one
half million sets are still sold
each year.
Unfortunately for game
manufacturers, not every
game sells as well. Parker
recalled one game that
everyone thought was a sure
fire winner. It was tested on
people. They loved it. Buy
ers bought it. The game was
called, “Hey, Pa, There’s a
Goat on the Roof.” The ob
ject of the three-dimensional
game was to move goats
from inside the “house” to
the “roof.” Perhaps the
name had something to do
with what happened to the
“sure-fire success.” It
bombed.
The company has a staff
of “idea men” who think up
game premises. Most of
these thinkers are industrial
engineers.
“They have creativity, and
they also know what will
work and what won’t” Park
er explained.
Once a game is devised,
it is tested on a sample
group. Children between the
popular but I still did serious
work.”
As “Star Trek” continued,
Spock recalls that he was
always asked if he thought he
might be stuck forever with the
role. “People in the business
may have wondered — is he a
guy who wears pointed ears or
is he an actor?”
When “Star Trek” was
canceled, Nimoy dropped the
pointy ears and moved into
“Mission: Impossible.”
“I had two specific motives
for going into ‘Mission,’ ” said
Nimoy. “First was money. I
had never gotten into the big
money on ‘Star Trek.’ In
‘Mission: Impossible’ I signed
for sizable money. Second, they
gave me an opportunity to play
a wide variety of characters. I
could prove I was an actor. I
did ‘Mission’ for two years and
then it was time to move on.
“I’ve always thought of
acting as an art form,” Nimoy
said, “away of expressing
colors from an emotional
palette. Before Spock, I was
doing well as a character actor.
Fortunately, the character of
Spock was so well written I
could work in some depth.
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ages of 8 and 15 are the big
gest game buyers. “Young-
Women’s lib
loses in French
translation
By ROSETTE HARGROVE
PARIS—(N E A)—Equal
ity for women is by no
means a for-America-only
movement.
There is in France, or
rather in Paris, a Women’s
Lib movement, called
M.L.F., claiming some 400
members. But while it is
campaigning hard for im
mediate goals of equal pay
in all jobs and free state
abortions on demand, it has
difficulty convincing most
French women that they
need liberating.
How equal are French
women as compared to
Americans, British or other
Europeans? Talk to any ca
reer girl, waitress, beauti
cian or shop assistant—they
all seem to have an answer.
Mireille, an attractive,
eminently competent physi
cal instructor and masseuse,
who is 30, shrugged her
shoulders ever so slightly
and said: “We French wom
en have won nearly all the
liberation we want without
having to march through the
streets waving a banner and
shouting slogans. All slight
ly ludicrous, no? I think we
are born with an instinct that
tells us how to handle a man,
often with a smile and a
sense of humor.”
Genevieve, cashier in a
large department store, said:
"We are too clever to want
to be the apparent leaders
ot our men. We understand
male vanity, strength, weak
nesses and sexual appetite.
We know how to play a
man's orchestra so that we
call the tune.”
A nurse’s aide in one of
the modern new city hospi
tals explained: “To openly
fight men would in the end
destroy our femininity. Who
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Jimmie Lu Williams Willis, Sallie Mae (Willis) Harrell, Evie
(Epps) Smith, Katherine Weaver, Mary Alice (Beck) Hatch,
Lucy (Hemphill) Hemphill, Ruby (Bolton) Vance, Hallie
(Buchanan) North, Myrla (Bowden) Martin, and Jesse Ellis,
(middle) Preston Bunn, Quimby Melton, Sr., Torrance
Westmoreland, Mrs. E. C. Hulsey, Jr. J. R. Berry, Mattie Jo
(Pullin) Gardenhire, Margaret (Newton) Harwell; Ethel
(McLeroy) Kendrick, Sara (Randall) Tingle, Ann
(McElveen) Scott, Frances (White) Adams, Eloise Woods,
Roswell Reeves, Annie Ruth (Elder) Nealy, (back) E. C.
Hulsey, Wilburn Wilson, Henry Amoss, George Weldon,
Henry Pullin, Royce Collins, Frank Pittman, Robert
Shapard, Turk Griffin, Brumley Pritchett, and Marvin
Beckham.
er than eight, children aren’t
entertained by games for
wants to live in a world
where women have all the
rights but men find them
unsexy.”
Talk to any of the younger
—2O-35 age group — taken
from a social cross section
and they agree with Mireille
and Genevieve that French
women have a much better
lot than others anywhere
else in the world. And sim
ply because they learn early
how to manage their men.
Higher education in
France has the world’s high
est proportion of women.
Forty-seven per cent of uni
versity students are women
It has an infant education
system that is ideal. A work
ing woman can take her 3-
year-old to an 8 a.m.-to-6
p.m. nursery school where
he will be fed and given the
best care without charge.
As for working conditions,
the picture is far from ail
black. There are 26 million
women in France and 7.2
million between 15 and 60,
work.
One million of them are
government employes—
nurses, Reachers and such—
and they receive the same
rate of pay and opportunity
as men.
The Paris metro has 40
per cent women station
masters.
Back in 1945 equal pay for
equal work was decreed the
law of the land by the Na
tional Assembly. It does not
always work that way,
though.
The average male worker
earns 20 per cent more than
the woman in the same job,
and some factories pay men
as much as 50 per cent more.
Yet there is no sign of wom
en’s liberation activities in
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, Dec. 29,1971
very long,” Parker explains.
"Once they hit 15, dating
and cars take over and the
interest in games decreases
until they become young
marrieds.”
Parker Brothers is based
in Salem, Mass., and they
use students at the elemen
tary and high schools and at
the college in town as test
groups for their games.
The company has scored
successes with such games
as Sorry, Risk, Rook, Pit,
Careers and Clue.
“We look for timeless
games,” says Parker.
“Games with universal in
terest. We stay away from
current events topics.”
One exception—and a mis
take, economically—was the
Tiny Tim game the company
put out a couple of years
ago. It had virtually no
premise. Its selling point
was the pop star’s name—
but it didn’t work.
Sometimes game ideas
come from outside the com
pany, through letters from
people. The classic example
of this type of game idea is
Monopoly. It was created by
Charles Darrow and was
based on the economic the
ory of Henry George, who
said the only valid taxes
were taxes on property. Dar
row parlayed George’s the
ory into a money-making
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this sector.
On the credit side, how
ever, Common Market soci
ologists have shown in a
recent study that France had
the smallest gap in men
women salaries in Europe.
The one hurdle which the
French Woman’s Lib is aim
ing to remove is abortion.
“It is unlikely,” said a
professor of law, “that
France will ever pass a law
permitting abortion on de
mand. Because France is
still inherently a Catholic
country.” He went on to say,
however, that it was not un
likely that abortion clinics
would be opened in the next
few years to take care of
medical and psychological
cases.
Any Frenchwoman who
has lived some time in
America comes away con
vinced that her compatriots
are much more liberated
than American women.
She is always surprised to
learn that an American hus
band can be nagged into
debt in order to keep up with
the Joneses. And it appears
to many Frenchwomen that
many divorces stem from
the fact American women
today, because of the abun
dance of labor-saving de
vices, do hardly any work
in the house, prefer the easy
way out of cooking by buy
ing frozen, prepackaged
meals and obviously do not
game.
Parker is often asked why
the streets on the Monopoly
game board are named after
those in Atlantic City, N.J.
It seems Darrow grew up in
Philadelphia and spent
every summer in Atlantic
City, so when he constructed
the game board, he used the
street names of his favorite
resort town.
Recently, Atlantic City
erected a plaque in honor of
Darrow’s contribution to the
city’s fame. Appropriately,
the plaque is at the corner
of Boardwalk and Park
Place.
Ed Parker doesn’t think up
game ideas himself. But he
is the undisputed champ at
making up game rules.
“It’s difficult to write
game rules,” Parker ex
plains. “First you must learn
the game thoroughly by play
ing it a lot. But, once you
know the game well, it’s
easy to assume that the peo
ple for whom you’re writing
the rules know as much as
you do. They don’t. The
rules have to be written in
such away that someone
who has never played the
game before will be able to
understand them.”
Parker chuckled.
“During the first year Mo
nopoly was out,” he said,
"the rules were rewritten
seven times.”
know how to manage their
husbands. Many women
don’t need liberation at all,
they believe they should
learn how to be women.
On the other hand, foreign
observers are inclined to
think that the Frenchwoman
wields altogether too much
power. In most French mid
dle- and working-class house
holds it is the woman who
manages the budget, does all
the buying.
But, to all outward appear
ances, it is the man who is
master and women like it to
seem that way.
What is behind the French
woman’s success in society?
There are several reasons,
but one of them is that they
talk to men. In many so
cieties, women have not
learned to talk frankly to
their men. An important
point. Also it is well known
that Frenchwomen much
prefer the company of men
to that of other women.
There is not one success
ful women’s club in Paris.
Women’s lunches are the ex
ception rather than the rule.
A hostess will always man
age to corral one or two men
if she has to entertain sev
eral women.
But if there are no men
present, why should a wom
an be interested?
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)