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Show UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. 4 ' Returning Wounded Are Moved Quickly From Ship to Hospital Quick, efficient handling of U. S. army hospital ship debarkations in this country is speeding wounded soldiers, sailors and marines along the road to recovery and rehabilitation. Charged with the operation of hospital ships and ports of embarkation and debarkation, the Transportation Corps has devised a plan whereby the combat sick and wounded are evacuated from vessels with top speed and with the greatest consideration for their comfort and safety. The soldier with the shrapnel wound, for example, need not worry that his arrival is unexpected or that hell be inconvenienced by needless delay before he sets foot on home soil. He has been expected for quite some time, and welcoming officers know everything from his rank and serial number before his ship slips into port. If he can walk, he can usually get down a single gangplank in six seconds. If hes a litter case or a take about 30 ' major psychotic, itll seconds. On the whole, the last patient is off the ship and on his way port for the reception and debarkation. Direct radio communication and wireless between the overseas ports and the ports of debarkation in this country supply all the necessary information the expected time of arrival, the number of patients (averaging approximately 600 per ship), their medical classification, whether they are Army, Navy or Marines, officers or enlisted men and women. For convenience, patients are placed in one of four categories: Neuropsychiatric patients, hospital litter cases, hospital ambulant cases (who require hospital attention, yet can move about on their own) and finally, the troop class, or patients who need very little hospital attention and can take care of themselves in an emergency. A flexible evacuation plan allows for storms, mechanical failures and unforeseen difficulties which may delay the ship or for rare instances when a ship may arrive ahead of schedule. Upon arrival, the ship is met in the harbor by a boarding party consisting of the superintend- - "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers to the hospital within three hours after the gangplank is down. PINS WITH A PLOT Honestly, the things that clutter np a teen agers sweater and jacket lapels would amaze you! Well, anyway, they would amuse you. Weve rounded up three new pins-with-a-p- that are bound to start tall talk (not small talk) anywhere. Drool Cup If youve noticed little dolls tea cups hanging from the la- -' pels of some of . the wiser witches AJ A .think dont gone into theyve a premature sec- youll see the tell- ond childhood. If you look closely, Drool ing words, Cup, written in red nail polish, and, if youve been keeping up with the march of time, youll know that a drool cup is what every girl asks someone to pass when a smooth wolf walks by or when Sinatra sings or, in fact, when anything or anybody sends her. Rare Relic You know how precious bobby pins are these days, what with all the available metal needed for jeeps and tanks and other tokens for Tokyo. Thats why lots of girls are proudly exhibiting their last remaining bobby pins on little squares of shellacked wood, with good as gold written in nail polish beneath them. Use liquid cement to keep the pin secured to the wood. If you cover the bobby pin with red polish your gadget will be more decorative. Hobo Honey Its the easiest thing in the world to make a hobo pin. Just stuff a pretty handkerchief with cotton. Tie it to a small stick like a hobo bag and attach a pin in back. Sharp stuff for sports clothes. n. ent of the water division, the port surgeon, the port evacuation officer, the general staff corps supply offiTwenty Hospital Ships. the public relations officer, a This is how Uncle Sam prepares cer, United States Customs officer and to bring back his injured: Over- personnel who inspect the seas base commanders issue a hospital ship for the safest and quickest monthly report of the sick and method of evacuation. Patients are wounded requiring evacuation. This given debarkation tags and wards report is sent to the port of embarka- are numbered in order of their evaction handling that particular debaruation. kation. U. S. army hospital ships opShips Emptied Quickly. erated by the Transportation Corps are scheduled to reach those foreign Port personnel required to evacuports where the patients are await- ate a hospital ship vary with the ing the voyage home. Two of the 20 number of patients aboard. Each hospital ships (most of which are litter case requires four litter bearconverted passenger liners) are op- ers. Psychotic cases require two erated in the Pacific by the navy escorts each, and some ambulant for the army. cases need soldiers to guide them down the gangplank and carry their Twenty-fou- r hours after the ship has left its overseas port, prepara- personal baggage. Since the injured tions begin in the United States show great concern when they are separated from their baggage, the port is careful to make additionral transportation allowance for the l patients personal luggage to travel I I with them. to. I To keep the traffic moving smoothI i By PHYLLIS BELMONT ly, military policemen are assigned l to the ports dockside apron and I.. along the route to the hospital. Litters, dressed and stored against the debarkation day, are brought to the ship and the litter patients placed on them in the ships ward. The litters, transported to the hospital by ambulance, remain there until evacuation is completed and are not reused for that days operations a time-savto eliminate the necessity of waiting for additional personnel to redress them. Maj.-GeCharles 'P. Gross, chief of transportation, and the commandQuestion I have some very beau- ing general of the port of debarkatiful and very old tumblers that I tion are responsible for the sea evacuse with dinner service. A friend uation of patients from the moment told me tumblers are incorrect and they leave the jurisdiction of their I should have stemware. Is she overseas commanders. On the Atright? lantic coast, the Charleston port Answer Strictly speaking your of embarkation is the port of call friend is right. Stemware is pre- for hospital ships and devised the ferred for dinner use, and tumblers evacuation plan now accepted as for more informal occasions, such standard. On many occasions, the as breakfast and luncheon. Charleston port evacuated 163 litter if However, your glassware is old patients at a rate of 15 seconds each! and rare you should be happy to On the whole, the use it. People enjoy a hostess who Corps is giving injuredTransportation soldiers, sailwill do the unusual and everyone ors and marines a welcome they honlikes beautiful things so use your estly appreciate. like the muThey tumblers when you wish. sic of the military band whith is alIf you select stemware be care- ways on hand to greet the ship. And ful to choose a pattern that will go there is one brief delay which with the rest of your table appoint- thoroughly enjoy the time outthey for ments. Certain tyjfes of glassware crisp doughnuts, milk and ice cream are suitable , with certain types of served by Red Cross volunteers. china, silver and table coverings, so Everywhere there is speed and eftake all those things into considera- ficiency, a helping hand, a waittion when selecting your new glass- ing ambulance. ware. The sick and the wounded have Ledser Syndicate WNU Feature. come home. What Vo WNU Got Down to Economizing Feature. A man who held the belief after a youth had attained that hi he should be taught t in the other, youll need these first majority fend for himseU, gave his son tw aids for fun. hundred dollars and told By NANCY PEPPER PARTY WIRES Once you get a party started, it will take care of itself. Very few girl and boy parties are self starters, so, if youre the hostess, its Sailors who were hurt in the invasion of Normandy are shown leaving up to you to break the ice. When the hospital ship at Charleston, S. C. The walking wounded are the gals are giggling in one corner boarding a Navy bus. Behind them litter bearers are going up the gang- and the boys are looking sheepish plank to bring out the men who are still bed-ridde- After His Fling, Youth Business Dancing in the dark is a popular teen trick, as well as a popular song. For a black-ou- t dance, turn out the lights and give the extra boy a flashlight. He prowls around until he finds his favorite Paper Doll and theq he turns the flashlight on her. He gets the girl and her partner gets the flashlight. It goes on and on until somebody (usually the chaperone) turns on the lights! Sinatryouts Nothing brings down the house like a Sinatra contest. All the boys have to imitate the one and only Frankie and the best imitation gets a prize. Its a panic. Sinatras the competgetting worried, too keen. itions Target Practice After the boys and girls have arrived, bring in a game of darts, with names of the girls written all over the target. The idea is for the boys to throw darts for partners. (Not AT partners, please!) Loose Ends One of the most novel ways of pairing the guests off is to put the boys and girls in separate rooms. Give each boy a long piece of string to hold and run the other ends of the strings into the room where the gals are waiting uhexpec-tantlEvery girl picks a string and follows it into her partners arms. (They start to dance, of Black-Ou- t j r: CLASSIFIED DEPART M E N T OFFICE EQUIPMENT $ WE BUY AND SELL Furniture, File. Typewriters, Add. lng Machines. Safes, Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE SS Wast Broadway, Salt Lake City. Utah. Office Used Cars Trailers y. course!) TRIXIE TEEN SAYS-S- ure, you have a line. Everybody has. But you need more than one line if you want to catch more than one fish and who doesnt want to make a big haul? Boys have a way of talking things and gals over among themselves, just as you gals discuss them. One of them will repeat the pretty nothings you whispered into his ear during that dreamy blackout dance, and he wont like it one bit when his pals cry ditto." Dont be a carbon copy conversationalist youre bound to get monotonous. 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