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Show THURSDAY, MAY 26. 1977 Lei's Hear If For The Hospitals In U.S . By PAUL HARVEY (c) IW7. Lm Aageles Times Syndicate This next seven days in May will be "National Hospital Week." After that we can go back to taking for granted : our nation's 7,156 hospitals unless or until we visit in pain or in tears. ticated technology. But these costs have to be measured against the harvest: transplants, by-pa- thersurgery, mega-voltag- e apy. Your grandfather had to go mean-mouthin- profession generally and mention hospitals only to repeat some alarmist story So far I've said nothing about the punishing effects of inflation and arbitrary hiring quotas and mandatory government safety modification. To comply with just one bureaucratic edict last year cost Florida hospitals fifty million dollars. by-pa- relayed through some friend or a friend of a neighbor's relative. if only this once a But let's hear it for the year hospital! Your parents had a life expectancy of 47.3 years. n You can expect to live that long. We must be doing something right. In just the past five years our nation's death rate has been reduced by nearly five percent! In the last seven years there : Let's hear it for the hospit- al' available in your hometown community hospital. There are now 400 American hosteams. pitals with Intensive care, unheard of a few decades ago, is available now in 63 per cent of our hospitals, 31.9 per cent are equipped for cardiac intensive care. 69.8 per cent for Week" some will go back to g the medical . down. to Mayo's for specialized treatment now commonly After "National Hospital . To allow a flat "percentage rate increase" discrimintaes against the administrator who has kept his overhead respiratory therapy, 31.3 cent have nuseries for And the malpractice insur- ance menace has multiplied that cost some places percent in one per year! And while you and I are staggered by the increased per-da- cost of hospitaliza- y tion balance that against this: Our hospitals, whether six beds or more than three thousand, general or specialized, are now able so to expedite treatment and or Rocky Mountain Communications American hospitals, at sonal account with addition al years of life whatever cost, bv all measures the world's finest -have given us back work days we would have lost -and have credited our per pain-fre- Summer Special e itself. If only for this seven days in May. let's hear it for the hospital! Midland Base $209.00. 7 SBE Malibu 23 Channel AM Mobile $69.95. Midland therapy that the average patient is out of the hospital in fewer days. That amounts to a saving for the patient. Midland B 23 Channel SSB 23 Channel SSB Mobile $175.00 Base S269.00. Base load Antennas $19.95 CACHE An appendectomy used to keep you hospitalized for 14 days - now 5 days. The hernia repair which used to require two weeks of care now is resolved in 24 hours with the patient back at work in one-fift- h the time' Many Other Specials JUNCTION TRAINS WE BUY USED TRAINS We Sell and Senrke All Types 852-249- 9 Two miles north of Preston on Highway 91 of Toy Train Quantities limited jCoctcQott'cq tUflfC - Cqan. QUqb f hone 7524667 half-agai- has been a 45 per cent increase in the number of clinical laboratory tests performed per man-houYet despite improved efficoverhead is such iency n that only of Amer-- ' ica's finest hospitals is able to operate in the black and those by less than 2 per cent. Much of the increased overhead reflects more sophis- - cT3Ti r. 81 (HMQMttB (B&UBDim SQlfl ft (HQ one-in-te- Leads U.S. cssnm cnJ3ran O n (MTU (F Watercolor Field The United States leads the world in what kind of i: 4 art? If you correctly answered "watercolor" you can understand why Utah State University has created a significant happening in bringing together in its annual Water-colo- r West exhibit the works of many of the greatest ' living American watercolor-ists- . Nine years ago Twain curator of the USU Library Gallery,- - organized the first Watercolor West exhibit. Tip-pett- s, "I PERSONALLY very much enjoy watercolor," he said. "I felt that too many people believed the myth that only original oil paint- ings are great works of art." - - ( This national invitational exhibitjerves not only to please and educate gallery patrons, but also to encourage local beginning artists. "The USU Art Department places a premium on cultivated individuality," Tip- petts said. "After learning the fundamentals, we want each student to discover his own strengths, what he uni-- i quely has to share. Water- color West provides these students the models of a wide variety of individual yet successful styles." This year more than 60 pieces will be exhibited representing artists from two major watercolor societies, The American Watercolor Society, from the New York and New England area, and The National Watercolor So-- i ciety, covering the Western Sweetwa (pFSnndl awnft findKiy states. art si 1&3 sfialk dtftmoDrj work is IN ADDITION, invited from artists who have competed as winners in national shows and whose work has been reviewed in national art. magazines. Three members of the USU art faculty, Harrison Groutage, Gaell Lindstrom and Adrian VanSuchtelen, will exhibit work in the show also. "I am pleased that locally we will have a chance to see the work of these fine USU faculty artists shown in the company to which it belongs with the other great watercolor of the country," said Tippetts. Watercolor West will open in the USU Gallery May 26 and run through June 10. Gallery hours are weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. WITH SUPPORT from the Institute of Fine Arts and the National Endowment of Fine Arts, the exhibit will be shown in several college galleries after leaving USU. Schedules to receive the exhibit are: the Eccles Gallery, Ogden; Southern Utah State College, Cedar City; Dixie College, St. George; Snow College, Ephraim; Aestminster College, Salt Lake Qily; Brigham Young University, Provo; the College of Eastern Utah, Price;, the University of Wyoming, Laramie; Ricks College, Rcxbuig. Ida. intermoun-tai- n Property owners can use facilities Sweetwater Park on Bear Lake has been an amazing success story. In a little over five years, the resort has become a favorite vacation spot for thousands of Utah and Idaho residents. In addition, many people have decided that Sweetwater would make a great place for a vacation home or cabin. Hundreds of acres sold Since 1971, Sweetwater Park has sold nearly 15 million dollars of choice lakeside property. Property which is located on a hillside overlooking Bear Lake's turquoise-bluwater... and the resort. Property which is just a shot from Sweetwater's championship golf course. And property which is (or will be) fully improved by nine-iro- n 6 NORTH CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY STATE, PHONf SWEETWATER PARK on Bear Lake Sweetwater Park. Chad Wilkinson Sweetwater Representative 200 North Main Salt Lake City, 84103 Utah Mail today! Now only $99.00 down Have a free steak dinner on us! For a limited time only, Sweetwater Park is offering cabin sites or homesites-- at just $99.00 this property-f- dr down... plus monthly payments. A remarkable offer. No strings attached. No catches. We hope you'll agree; this is a remarkable offer. What's next? Come to our free steak dinner. We'll have a representative there to show you more. And to answer your questions. Please make your reservations now! NEXT FREE STEAK DINNER Date: June 2nd $600 OF FREE VACATION MONEY (If you buy now!) 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And when winter comes, Sweetwater offers skiing at Beaver Mountain, only 15 minutes away), unbeatable sncwmobiling, ice fishing (for cisco) plus many other winter sports. use 521-971- 7 U (Collect) 1 if any. 9, FRANKLIN MSMI3 I |