Show n y ntprympypt n'y ryjyyByfyiyyjayagyfip Gunnison p yi ipnyrnipi y ryt p Valiev News August 9 995 p Pages CENTENNIAL! 18961996 Celebrating Utah's Centennial Juvenile delinquency - a Marva Hanchett was The Nurse century old problem for Utahn's to many southern Utahns WELL INTO THE 20TH CENTURY SOPHISTICATED FAMEDICAL CILITIES were largely unheard of in most rural areas of Utah The small town of Annabclla in Sevier County was no exception in Consequently 1924 when Dr R Gam Clark the local physician diagnosed old Sheldon Christensen with double pneumonia taking him to a hospital was not an option Instead his mother Maud and sister Marva soothingly applied mustard plasters and administered cooling sponge baths When the boy’s condition did not improve the doctor recommended The unusual events of that operating day affected Man a and solidified her desire to be a professional nurse She spent most of her life ensuring that many southern Utahns received adequate health care Marva was born December 3 908 to Peter and Maud Christensen and at a young age demonstrated an interest in matters When her family contracted smallpox in 9 9 Marva asked the doctor about the disease and helpfully brought liquids to ill family members and applied medicine to their pox She reacted similarly when her brother lay ill with Unseveral years later pneumonia A he had developed fortunately empyema a condition causing the accumulation of pus between the two coverings of his lungs Dr Clark said he would have to cut a small section of nb and insert a soft rubber tube in order to drain the pus In preparation for this procedure Marva and her mother scrubbed the walls floor and windows of jthe parlor with Lysol solution andremoved all the furniture On the appointed except two tables day Dr Clark arrived accompanied by “Nurse Amanda” a large stem woman dressed in white who sometimes helped deliver babies Only Sheldon’s mother was allowed to rein the room during the operation so Marva and her father went outside and watched with great curiWhen Dr osity through the window Clark picked up a very small saw and started to work “Nurse Amanda” fainted into a starched white heap on the floor She managed to crawl into main the kitchen where she stayed ‘being sick” for the remainder of the successful operation Marva For the experience demonstrated the importance of properly trained nurses and from that moment on she determined to become a professional nurse After graduating from high helping with home baby dehome health care and emergencies Many of her patients lived in financial despair due to the Great and many times her pay Depression was only a loaf of bread a bucket of honey or nothing After a year in rural Utah she moved to California where she found employment in a large private hospital in Los Angeles She became supervisor of the maternity ward and managed to save a little money from her regular pay In 1933 Marva returned to southern Utah and shortly thereafter marregion liveries school Marva anxiously awaited her eighteenth birthday in anticipation of entering nursing school Finally on January 4 1927 she began classes at the Salt Lake General Hospital School The first six months of of Nursing training involved a full day of classes and demonstrations In January accompanied by ried Myron Hanchett 1934 she established the first regular heavy assignments each night Those who survived received their caps and public health program in Sevier in addition to continuing classes County complete with clinics school shifts in one of nursing home nursing and other prospent grueling the hospital wards Marva was asgrams Even after becoming a mother signed a stint in the Red Isolation she arranged her time to allow for ward containing patients with comcontinuing work in health care When municable diseases An epidemic of Dr Dan W Manning built the Sevier had hit Utah and Valley Hospital in Richfield she bespinal meningitis Marva became invohed in endless came nursing supervisor She spent spinal punctures to relieve the build nearly ten years in her position one up of fluid on the brain and spinal year during World War II she was cord the only registered nurse in the county Exhausted from her time in Red She worked her regular shift and reIsolation Marva caught pneumonia mained on call for emergencies and and retuned to Sevier County to rest surgery 24 hours a day In response Her parents frightened by her weight to the nursing shortage she trained loss and pale tired countenance tried several nurses’ aides and even reto persuade her to stay home cruited registered nurses to move to Undeterred Marva recuperated southern Utah Marva’s outstanding work evenfor a couple of months and then returned to Salt Lake to complete her tually gained recognition and in Notraining At school the demanding vember 957 the state director of pubpace continued in addition to her lic health nursing appointed her sustudies Man a was assigned hospital area of pervisor of the work six and a half days a week She Beaver Garfield Millard Sanpete persevered nonetheless and after Juab Piute Wayne and Sevier counthree challenging years received her ties In this new position she directed Before long she a preventive disease program health diploma in 1930 returned to Sev ier County to apply her education a home visiting service a new skills There was still no regular school nursing service and several clinical services including heart orhospital in the region and Man a became the only registered nurse availthopedic mental health and pediatable for service The doctors in the rics For her tireless service the Utah area eagerly called upon her for as- Public Health Association honored In her first real case she assistance her with a lifetime membership sisted with the amputation of Gotfried shortly before her retirement in JanuBrugger’s gangrenous leg Later ary 1979 Even after she officially quit work Mana helped the old gentlemen get accustomed to his crutches and on Marva was still respectfully known as several occasions thereafter he visited “The Nurse” to many southern her in gratitude for her cheerful aid Utahns She died in Richfield on Mana continued her work in the April 20 1995 Satina Drug and gifts toys magazines novelties of boys broke people’s windows w hile they were attending church on Sunday In the 1870s youth groups became more defined with their own names and objectives The Deseret News recorded on December 10 1873 that the “Bummers Brigade” and “Whittlers’ Squad” had cut a street lamppost in two at the Exchange Buildings comer On December 7 an article reported that a group of teenagers called the “Squirter’s Squad” spent their time squirting tobacco juice on goods put out for sale along the streets of the city Before 1889 youths who committed crimes were prosecuted as adults in district courts According to law all children were liable for punishment regardless of age But judges treated each case individually While some delinquents were let off without trial or punishment others were The Utah Territorial Reform housekeeping sewing hygiene music and drama classes Boy sand girls came together on the weekends for dances and entertainment For daily GET A MAMMOGRAM EARLY DETECTION IS THE BEST recreation children participated in basketball and baseball games boxing a school band and theatrical performances Discipline was a matter of conEven though it cern for the school was based on the concept of positive support and encouragement some measures were deemed disciplinary necessary to keep children in fine Among the most severe punishments were solitary confinement whippings and the use of handcuffs and chains Children were often depriv ed of meals and privileges when they openly disobeyed school authorities The school faced a setback on June 24 1891 when a fire destroyed most of the building Though the first and second floors were saved both The resident halls were destroyed Ogden Military Academy offered the school several vacant buildings until But the restoration was completed school’s emergency housing soon beIn 1896 the school came permanent moved into the site of the old Ogden Military Academy and w ith the coming of statehood officially became the Utah State Industrial School The school continued in operation until the early 1970s when government officials decided that overcrowding and a lack of adequate facilities made the institution unsuccessful in creating a positive change in the fives of delinquent youths Though it ended with the stamp of and failure the initial inefficiency creation of a school for trouble making youth marked the beginning of a new approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency in Utah Bridal Registry Dusty Ross & Becky Mason August 11 1995 PROTECTION f CALL JJWD k V 423 South 100 WesUSalina f Ut lj y 'We treat you like Family' is more than a slogan candy Other employees at Safina Drug include DeNeece Verna and DeAnn A unique feature of Safina Drug is the old fashioned soda fountain specializing in malts sodas sundaes root beer floats and your favorite mi j favorite part of Salma Drug home made sandwiches and chili “We inv ite you to bring us your prescriptions a tasty treat at the fountain” said Redge Hansen and 65 North State - Salina - hile they are being filled browse through the !!i POOR COPY: - 95 rr f nt ENRY’S store or enjoy 529-74- Any Gift Purchase 0 u soda fountain ErL Expires u 7J IDE WAY the Salina Drug r in local School was officially opened in Ogden on October 31 1889 Resident halls were located on the top two floors of the building During the first ten years girls and boys lived in the same howdormitories Daily activities ever were divided according to gender Boys learned practical skills such as shoe repair printing carpentry typing and barbering They also tended a garden in the seven acres of land surrounding the school Girls spent most of their time in cooking it i to harsh treatment Problems with punishment prisons led to the development of a separate In institution for juvenile delinquents 1888 the Reform School bill was passed by the legislature through the initiative of Janes Moyle Salt Lake The measure provided City attorney fora reform school in which juveniles could develop new skills and change their previous habits Efforts to organize the school began shortly after the bill was passed In May 888 a committee investigated fifteen schools throughout the nation to determine which model would be best for Utah The group reported that they preferred the schools that had “no walls no heavy frowning buildings with barred windows” but “nice pleasant homes surrounded with lawns where a boy is held gardens trees more by a sense of honor than by bolts and bars” They decided to build the reform school under this model jacui -- Salina Drug has been a fixture in Safina’s business district since 1940 Current owners managers Gerald Briggs and Redge Hansen offer a wide variety of services including filling jour prescription needs the latest in the line of cosmetics reported a similar complaint from Jones who said that a group Thomas sentenced “We treat you like family” isn’t just a slogan at Henry’s Hideaway It’s the way we really try to treat our customers We want to make sure when people stay with us that they’re as comfortable and well cared for as if they were at home a pool a guest Our rooms are super clean We offer full cable TV including HBO We have a indoor laundry room and a very good restaurant right next door Our ownermanagers Bill and Lisa Henry came here from Orange California about 9 months ago It's been a big change for them but they are having a good time adjusting to life in a smaller town Bill and Lisa treat their employees like family too They care about us and our families They expect us to do our best of course When we do something extra they are so appreciate e It's nice to work for people w ho w elconie This gives us pride in our work and a sense of belonging 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A part of Salina since 1940 65 North State Sajina - 529-74- Utahn's have long struggled with the question of how to most effectively respond to and prevent juvenile delinquency Rowdy teenagers were a menace to Salt Lake residents during the early years of the city’s development During a church meeting on May 14 1868 a custodian of the Mormon Tabernacle complained of “indecent words being written on the walls and the backs of seats being very much cut up” The Deseret News recorded on March 2 1870 that Martin Lenzi had seen teenagers tearing up foot bridges and ripping off mail boxes and throwing them over the fence Several days later the News "We Queens Cable including HBO Jacuzzi '’ e You Like Family" ®d(FREE Double Beds Kings Pool On-sit- UTTI Treat Coffee m Gift Shop AmFm Clock Radios Restaurant On Premises Guest Laundry tt 60 North State Street accepted Salma ap XJt 801-529-7- 46 7 |