Show MAYORS SON SELECTED FOR U S SURGEON DIL WARREN A COLTON CHIVES appointment IN HEALTH SERVICE SON OP VERNAL MAYOR WHO wito WILL TAKE UP AH AS ACTING ASSISTANT IN PUBLIC HEALTH salt lake july 31 dr warren A colton Colt Olto lion of mayor and mrs sterling D colton of vernal utah and a brother of congressman don B colton yesterday received he his appointment in the united states mates public health service as acting assistant surgeon eur goon surgeon colton hae has been detailed lod to accompany the traveling loete clinic which IB in being sent out on a tour under the auspices of the tile utah public health association in the interest intel Inte eat test of the government war risk bureau this work Is a part of the campaign launched launa lied to aid disabled former soldiers in obtaining relief from the government through the tile rehabilitation and reconstruction act which affords every former soldier who suffered a disability in in line of duty an opportunity to be hospitalized and dand to receive vocational training at the expense of the government this title applies in all cases where tahe disability has pie vented a former soldier practicing his ills previous occupation it provides that while the and treatment la Is being continued and the soldier Js Is undergoing hie his vocational training he will be taken care of al at the of the government the campaign Is fig also for the purpose of locating former service men who have allowed their war insurance to lapse due to ca circumstances s beyond ti their control and to aid them in having their insurance reinstated so that they may derive the benefits to which they are entitled former service men will doubtless be found to he be suffering from tuberculosis according to the united states public healir n service surgeon colton will specialize in his work bloh these men since he will be on the staff of the traveling clinic ho lie will have ample opportunity to complete a survey of the former soldiers and in each instance in stanco where those these men are hospitalized for tuberculosis ercul osis ho lie will see that they are provided with proper treatment in some and removed froin from their own community where they may be a probable source of infection to others surgeon colton will have direct charge of the survey he will assist major john R williams of the U S public health service who has also been detailed to utah to work in con lection with the traveling clinic surgeon colton served as a draft board medical examiner during the the war he received his commission as captain in the army two weeks before tabo armistice was signed surgeon colton is a graduate of the brigham young university at provo he lie was athletic instructor and coach from 1902 until 1905 he graduated from the medical college at columbia university in 1913 since that time ho lie has been engaged in general practice in salt lake he lie married miss atlas merle crandall daughter I of the late L D crandall of Spring springville ville utah |