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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 1961
Rotary News
Atlanta Rotarian Edwin Peel
superintendent of Georgia Bap
tist Hospital, addressed the For
est Park Rotary Club, Wednes
day, January 25, at the Barbeque
Kitchen.
Mr. Peel spoke specifically on
the cost picture involved in pres
ent day hospital care. After the
glamorous phase of being ill.
with its shock and its emotional
trauma, has passed; the cost
picture looms large in the mind
of the family breadwinner. It is
particularly well seen in the man
who has ten dollars in his pocket
and is suddenly faced with a
$250 hospital bill. Once he is on
the road to recovery he not only
fails to give credit for the ef
ficiency with which he was
treated, but he tends to mini
mize it in favor of thinking and
often compounding the “exorbi
nate” cost involved. Much of the
fallacy of his thinking is due to
the fact that he was involun
tarily there in the first place.
This same man’s objections to
the cost of a new car are not so
resounding—he wants and plans
to enjoy the new car.
The speaker contended that
patients today as a group and
as individuals ate getting a bar
gain for what they spend on
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State Capitol at Harrisburg. A feature of most tours is the
State Historical Museum. Special tours can be arranged
through the Treasury, Education and other buildings of the
Capitol group. On the beautiful Susquehanna River, Harris
burg’s attractions also include the River Pari, Italian Gar-/
dens and Sunken Gardens. Hershey with its chocolate fac
tory, rose gardefis and amusement parks is not far away.
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hospital care and gave figures
to substantuate this contention,
j The expenditure for automo
biles last year was roughly ten
times that spent on hospitaliza
tion. The gross sales of one
manufacturer alone were twice
the hospital expenditure figure.
Hospitals from necessity have
become big business, represent
ing a $16,000,000,000 investment,
and an annual expenditure of
$7,800,000,000, largely spent for
salaries.
Mr. Peel pointed out that most
private hospitals, without the
benefit of endowments, subsidies,
or tax derived funds, are non
profit organizations with one
pressing need—a better under
standing by the public of its fi
nancial picture and the public’s
knowing why it must pay the
bills. The public is too often de
manding of free service. Free
service as such does not exist.
Someone has to pay for it. The
public in thanks of financial
accounting often overlooks the
fact that it is better off as a re
sult of the hospital and fails to
realize that 65 out of every 100
dollars goes to salaries to main
tain a staff 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. 365 days a year. A
hospital is not a facility that can
be operated from 8:00 a.m. to
I 5:00 p.m.
It was also shown that hospi
tal service is a complex service
1 ' which includes tfeatthent bf but
-1 patients, in-patients, emergency
patients; educational programs
. for nurses, technicians, interns:
. educational programs for the
, public, research programs. All
these services add to the cost
i picture. The cost is generally
. paid by the in-patient and this
cost averages S3O a day. For this
: expenditure the patient receives
. 24-hour care, at roughly $1.25
per hour. One can hardly have
a lawn tended for this hourly
' expenditure. This figure includes
everything in the cost picture—
' standy equipment, standby per
sonnel, all hospital facilities.
Mr. Peel showed that the cost
picture is deceptive in one re
. spect—that even though it has
. risen during the past 25 years—
the cost per illness is less today
than it was at that time. Citing
one example, the pneumonia
victim is hospitalized today
from 3-5 days, whereas 25 years
, ago he was hospitalized from
seventeen days upwards. The
shortened duration of hospital
i stays has been occasioned by in
tensification of medical care and
1 technical skills.
Mr. Peel drawing another con
tract with the hospital picture
of 25 years ago, said that people
today go to the hospital to get
well rather to die. It is a process
which in a private hospital re
quires a great expenditure which
from necessity must be paid by
the patient. At the cost of $1.25
an hour he would be hard
pressed to get a better service for
less.
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“ 1169 MAIN STREET FOREST PARK, GEORGIA
PHONE PO 6-0274 — PO 1-5866
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THE FOREST PARK FREE PRESS-NEWS AND FARMER
JAYCEE JOTTINGS
Wednesday, January 25th a group of 17 Jaycees, led by
’ “Dub” Currie made their way to Griffin to attend the
■ Fourth District Winter Meeting. Griffin proved to be a very
’ gracious host, thereby making the meeting very successful.
Answering to the “Fighting
Fourth” roll call were all four
teen (14) clubs, totaling 117 Jay
cees. The Newnan-Coweta Club
was welcomed as our fourteenth
(14th) member. As of the Tsth
of January there are 682 Jay
cees comprising the “Fighting
1 Fourth" District Georgia Jay
cees.
Interesting business conducted
at meeting:
1. National Convention to be
held in Atlanta, June 17th to
22nd. The Dinkier Plaza Hotel
will be headquarters. Expected
attendance of over 8.000. A
ticker-tape parade with floats,
national elections, and a possi
bility of President Kennedy as
keynoter are some convention
highlights.
2. State Winter Board Meet
ing to be held in Macon at the
Hotel Dempster, February 17th
to 19 th.
3. Man Mileage Awards pre
sented to Forest Park for last
District Meeting and to La-
Grange for this meeting.
4. Spring District Meeting to
be held in Thomaston.
Mr. Doug Blankenship, State
President, was an honored guest.
This weekend many of our
‘Jaycees and Jaycettes attended
the Governmental Affairs Con
ference. They attended a ban
quet and debate featuring the
Hon. Ross R. Barnett, Governor
of Mississippi for States’ Rights
and Hon. George H. Bender, for
mer U.S. Senator of Ohio for
Civil Rights. They also met with
Lt. Gov. Byrd, Speaker Smith
and various other officials and
were honored Monday, January
30th as this was Jaycee Day in
the State Legislature.
Committee Chairman, Joe
Lane and his members along
with the Jaycettes are to be
congratulated for their hard
but very successful work in the
“Bosses Night” program. A total
of approximately 55 people en
joyed this banquet which serves
as a means of honoring “The
Boss.”
Jaycees activities during Feb
ruary are:
Board Meeting—February 7th
General Meeting — February
14th
State Board Meeting in Ma
con-February 17th-19th
General Meeting — February
28th
ALEXIS J. HEIL
Publicity Director
Forest Park Jaycees
St. Timothy Church
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Reverend Howell received his
education at Newberry College,
Newberry, S. C., graduating in
1955. He attended the Lutheran
Seminary, graduating in 1958.
Reverend Howell is the son of
Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Howell of
Sumter, S. C. He has a brother
in the ministry, the Reverend
A. W. Howell, pastor of St. Luke’s
Lutheran in Florence, S. C.
As a hobby, Reverend Howell
is a Ham Radio Operator.
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can cause DEATH or serious illness as much as a year after drinking.
The next SMALL DRINK May Bring the amount of Lead Salts in the Body
to the concentration point necessary to cause DEATH.
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Dr. Wasserman
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| largest delegations to the con
■ gress include Georgia,- Florida,
Alabama, South Carolina, North
। Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
j Kentucky, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
The congress educational pro
gram will consist of 14 hours of
lectures by a trio of the Nation’s
foremost authorities in the vi
sion care field. Dr. James S.
Bailey, Charlotte, N. C., SCO
president, will preside.
Dr. William W. Policoff, of
Wilkes-Barre, Penna., will cover
contact lenses. A vital part of
optometric practice — visual
training—will be discussed by
Amiel W. Francke, of Washing
ton, D. C. The other lecturer,
Dr. Victor S. Glover, of Roswell,
New Mexico, will report findings
of a recent research project on
the effect of various levels of
lighting upon the vision of chil
dren in classrooms.
Rev. Don Graham
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the University of Georgia, class
of 1955. While on the campus he
served as president of the uni-
St. John Students
Study FP City
Government
Members of the eighth grade
class of the Saint John Evan- j
gelist School in Hapeville have
been making a study of city gov- i
ernment, its functions and oper
ation this past week. Certain i
members of the Civics Club se
lected the City of Forest Park
for their study.
Class members Carol Gilman,
Linda Moscardelli, John Richie,
Linda King and Kenny Fields
held a personal interview with
Mayor W. Reid Puckett on Sat
urday, February 4, to gain their
insights into the workings of
city government. From the in
terview the students will com
pile a report to be presented to
their Civics Class at school.
The students expressed their
pleasure at being able to gain
first hand information on city
government. They were no doubt
able to learn more from this
versify of Georgia Religious As
sociation, an inter-faith group.
He was elected to Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Univer
sities for the year 1954-55.
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Mr. James E. Starr
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man emeritus of the board of
deacons. Mr. Starr was a retired
farmer and merchant.
He is survived by other sons,
R. E. Starr, R. A. Starr, H. A.
Starr and J. T. Starr, all of
Forest Park, and C. W. Starr of
Jonesboro; and two brothers, J.
jS. Starr of Morrow and K. M.
Starr of Forest Park.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 2 p.m. at the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church. The Revs.
Thomas W. Gilstrap and James
Fulford officiated. Burial was in
the church cemetery. Aber
crombie - Patterson Funeral
Home of Forest Park was in
charge of the arrangements.
The loss of this great man will
be felt throughout the entire
county and will be grieved by
his many friends and family.
visit than they ever could have
from their books.
The instructor of this partic
ular eighth grade class was Sis
ter Delores Marie.
He that hears much and
speaks not at all shall be wel
come both in bower and hall.—
John Ray.
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