OCR Text |
Show t rmf' M4pMqpMMN)ga0gqpMa ,THE Bushnell Heals Wounds Salt Lake City, Utah NEWS With recognition of Utah's first years in mind, members of Days of 47, Inc., are formulating plans for the staging of a state centennial, July 24, 1947, which will be comparable In theme and production to the oc- for which it is planned. fsion even a world fair" will be projected "to honor the Utah pioneers and their descendants comTo insure appropriate memoration of the event, the group will, attempt to organize community forces into a cooperative unit and to glean and catalogue existent resources and properties for use during the celebration.' For the past two' years this organization, which is representative of the Sons and Daughter? oTthe Utah Pioneers, has staged Faced with the difficult task of rehabilitating servicemen who have been wounded in action, mentally, physically and vocationally, Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham City,, is now considered one of the most adhosvanced and pitals of "this kind in the nation. Goal of the army's vast re- conditioning program is to see that .wounded veterans, when discharged," have . an equal or better chance than- their wholebodied - competitors in civilian well-equipp- ed tfe- 1944 Pag6.7 grounds and has bee,n successful m popularizing the location for manyevents, "thus justifying tha expenditure of a suitable sum to properly improve 4t. an appropriate and substantial celebration in honor of the founders of the state. According to David H. Thomas, president of the Utah State Fair AssociaRSh, the fair will remain open most of 1946 and 1947, and the huge crowds which could be expected to attend would bring tremendous business to the state . At present.lhere . is a plan to buythe plot extending from the fairgrounds to Garside St. from the McCune estate and improve it a little at a time for the next three years. This has been submitted by the Utah state Department of Publicity and Industrial Development to the state Finance Department and the Board of Examiners. As part of t h e postwar improvement program the present fair board has promoted a plan d of usage of the fair- - 100 Rehabilitates GIs Saturday, December 18, 7 Centennial Eyes Brigham City Hospital -- DESERET g'i j "Soles"-- ' Army shoe repairers at 37 Thousands.Of army installations in the West 76,912 recently reconditioned shoes in one month, the Ninth Service Command quartermaster announced at Ft. Douglas. re Two Main Groups Generally, plastics fall Into two main groups the thermoplastics, which can be shaped or moulded under heat and pressure as often as may be desired, and the thermosetting plastics, which yield readily enough to heat and pressure the first time, but are set permanently thereafter. No amputee is ready to leave Bushnell until he is prepared for civilian life, Maj. Thomas F. Barrett, director of the recon-ditioning center under Col. Rob. . ert M. Hardaway --commanding I J W. aj5P'r,if officer of the hospital, said. L JEvery soldier has been rev ' -stored to 'a top physical condition, he has been given a prosthesis (substitute arm or leg) and taught hpw to use It, and he has been shown how to overcome his physical handicap and himself to norrqal 4? il3 'v , V living. - i x r W r - s.is.s Major Barrett has some , . ready clay for his experiment. --nS-v A loss of a leg or arm, or 4 ! , even both Is nothing to keep .s. ; A' sv LJ " a healthy man in bed, and j. V- " are these wounded usually s "? healthy in body and mind, he ! added. The amputees are ready to start fighting the uphill road to normal living just as iwwnnWftaT. soon as they can, and this trail starts while they're still COMMUNITY OE MERCY . . . Spread out at the foot e and riding stables in the near future, to aid in reconditioning in bed. mountains, surrounded by fruit orchards, is Bushnell General and rehabilitating the wounded veterans who are sent here from THE MAJESTIC MT. NEBO OVERLOOKING NEPHI Reconditioning has three primost of and installations overseas modern its areas treatment combat for and convalescence. The Hospitalone ofjhejargest mary goals., restoring the GIs kind. One of six, amputation centers among army hospitals, and picture also shows the tjpical terrain of many a Utah community. earning ppweryjeadiiusting hun. a center for neuropsvchiatric treatment, Bushnell also specializes Brigham City, built on a delta at the mouth of Box Elder Canyon, in "his mental attitude and outin neurosurgery Almost a hoscommunity, the slopes down from the orchard lands, through garden and farm- look on the world and then repital has 'its own laundry, dry cleaning plant, bakery, auto repair ing land levels, into the meadow lands and eventually the fitting him for a better place and carpenter shops, chapel, theater, gymnasium, playing fields brackish swamps of the Great Salt Lake Valley. The eye is di- in the world than he had before the war, Major Barrett explainand tennis courts. Col. Robert M. Hardaway, commanding ofrected in the picture toward the west, where the world-famou- s ed. ficer, plans to add a swimming pool, golf course, bowling green jnigratorybirdrefugejs located, (Official U. S. Army photo.) While the amputees are still in bed, occupational therapy Ih &, I ' aides stand ready to help the 'isf, , i soldier patients weaving a rug, 15 cutting a model plane from wood, - ' 55 or studying an armed forces in4. Puzzling Unemployment Problem Confronts City In peacetime stitute textbook on a subject which the soldier hopes to folBy E. J. Fjeldsted, When the history of this war west, with the possible exceplow after he is discharged. tion of San Diego, California, is written, Ogden will stand pre-t- y Manager - Secretary, Ogden hiie the mind is kept busy, -in citithe of its m'uch alone when judged Chamber of Commerce percentage also has the bed soldier-patiezens gainfully employed. per capita contribution to the NEPHI'S SHOPPING DISTRICT his body tuned for the civilian OGDEN The entire economic and However, the war has still left war effort. in. futr?: special exercises leadeis the complexion and the normal life .. nations Among mild sports, provided under of every citizen has been alter- the cooperative spirit intact in Probably one of-- the mostno-ticeab- le war bond performance, the peoed by the impact of the war Ogden, as is evidenced by the effects, of the war' ef- ple of Utah have outstandingly competent instructors, in addi- on Ogden City and Weber Coun- - goods and services rendered the fort is the demand for services supported every phase of home tion to keeping the body in trim, and also disty. consuming public, which is little thrown on the county's political front effort in backing World restore confidence, of of short helplessness. miraculous. Because pel thoughts The of the being War II since 1939. This has been effected in sevVolleyball, with all the pareral ways and it was inevitable management and employes of tremendous increase of popula- -. The united war fund drives i stores letail demonstrated have I tion, Ogden city and Weber. have found Utahns giving more ticipants sealed on the floor, is that this should occur when it js one of which 'I tpe sports provides County both with statutory lim- than was asked. Utahns, as a realized that government investteam and fun while itations to their powers for levycompetition, ment in this area more than whole, hae dug deep to help keeping the soldier's body in the entire actual valuation of ing taxes have found it next the merciful and multiple misto impossible to even function shape. taxable property in the county. sions performed by the Red prime one Then day the amputees and provide normal services that Cross JUtah has More than 127 million dollars developed a modstump has healed enough to be were considered adequate in pre- el Minute haVe been invested by the govfitted-xvith organization Womb's a prosthesis. Soldier war times, but now are considerthat has accounted for a splendid woikmen fit the ernment in the Ogden area, as new leg or arm ed only mediocre. salthe an in assessed of various valuation performance then1 against oarefully in place, Weber - County of 56 million howvage campaigns fat, paper, scrap comes the toughest job for the Taxpayers generally, airftWiwi rubber. metal and dollars, which represents about ever, have recognized the extra wounded veteran learning tor f half of theactualvalue of the burden placed on cityand However, there is another most use his new limb. CENTRE OF DRY FARM AREA- county administrations, a n d important field, that of war fitaxabteproperty. The amputee takes his first have urged the tailing units to nance, to which Utahns can In addition to this there are careful steps in the physical raise taxes to the end that sufsome 24 000 persons employed In really point with pride when therapy clinic, where certain ficient funds may be had to their fighting sons return with muscles especially needed in war installations in this area on inevitable-unspothe functions and ken This numoer constitutes more carry the questhe use of his prosthesis have " tion: What did you do for freethan the entire employment roll , services demanded by the citibeen given special care. Later, zens. At no time in Ogden's dom on the home front? in oecupational in Weber Cpuntv during normal therapy he times. The ; peacetime learns Jojnanipulatc Jhe new history have city officials been pasroll Utahns In five major war confronted with such an acute was estimated at about three limbs; hjs nerves and muscles loan drives, and with monthmillion dollars per month, but are trained to their new task.' problem. ly quotas, ranging upward when six million dollars in waV-tiAn arrtt amputee, for examfrom three million dollars for This picture places Ogden "V government pavroll are war ple, might tfy dart throwing. purchases regular in an excellent for economy added to this amount, bringing Dart throwing teaches use of between drives, have invested a the moment. With high in- -. to milmore than nine the total the shoulder muscles which total of $286,368,576. That is comes resulting in all commerlion dollars monthly, the econcontrol the straps which opthe cumulative total from May cial and institutions, goods erate the artificial arm. A leg omy is nec1941, when the war- - finance -- services Institutions realizing a essarily affected. amputee will learn Use of his program was inaugurated Nov. sound legitimate income, the prosthesis by similar means, 1, 1944. The tremendous demand for CIVIC LEADER E. J. Fjeldcommunity has assumed a among them, possibly, Jiorse-bac- k manpower bv the government prosperous atmosphere. The Although "the sixth war loan sted is secretary-manage- r of ' riding. inInstallations has greatly-reduce- d at concern was this of total not business, writing, SUFFOLK CENTER OF UTAH completed of Commerce. Chamber An Ogden officer who lost air corps at was is s the normal regular emplov- least and that it howevfft, labor, dustry, apparent two his a hands bomber crash ment to a further irreducible the postwar economy. fifty million dollars would peaches for. his;n pocket'-booin c this spirit by making Ogden the minimum. Thus goods and sei T! .be added-t- o the cumulative to- his back & All- - of us recognize that fola per- pocket. Unless first city in the state of Utah institutions are now mantal. This will bring the grand ., would be lowing victory in the Pacific to adopt a one night per eek ned principally of by women, tangible 4nrdlooks closelyrealize that metal war plants wall immcdiatcly .be-gi- n aggregateof theirUtahns older residents and young peomen to opening exclusively for the acsupport fighting a reduct on program. No one have replaced his hantjs,, commodation of war workers in a magnificent sum approaching clamps ple who normally confine their so natural and easy are these, efforts to domestic work, the this area. This Monday night can predict just how drastic this the 350 million dollar mark motions. will be, or just what more than one? ' retirement list, or arc of school opening has been in effect two program quarter of a bilI f Its not easy To learn To walk" age or below the age of normal years despite the heavy drain 05 the employment load will be at lion. with one, or perhaps two artifi- these .normal times. in depots of the of the employment. personnel energies Concerning this achievement,. .cial legs, Major Barrett said, retail institutions. v vl Ogden has no parallel in the But when-th- e fact is recognized Charles L. Smith., chairman, ClarTtrequnes plenty of deter that there are more employes in ence Bambergerrexecntrve vice- - minatfon, patience-andpractwar industries than in our ci- chairman and D. Howe Moffat, but the men have these require-executivilian economy, the' conclusions manager of The TJtah ments are obvious- - Without a doubt we War Finance Committee had this Some men1 can learn use of will have a heavy unemployment to say to Utah war bond buvers their legs in two weeks, but volunteer-be which relieved must load, by and to the thousands of none are ready ffr release until who plaved such a they have mastered the use of. industry, Ogden City, Weber workers us County the state of Utah, and vital role in meeting the new limbs. . the federal government. "The bond goals: ' lWhen this goal is reached, the more we can absorb the poten"You' men apd women of soldier is ready fur return to tial unemployed by free enterUtah who have made such a civilian life. He has come a long success of six major war bond prise, the better will be our fuway from the day he was CATTLE RAISING IS IMPORTANT HERE ture economy. drives as well as nearly four w'ounded, and many of the am- now bettor prepar- years of interim buying can To this end the business instiputees tocotd 90 mips scn!h of Soli LoV Janes I is Fom hor that cn fiad Nephi has a irumcipaPy owned ' ed for civilian life than when il Cityfln-joulaincreasing satisfaction to (ho east power and natwol flneuntamordlha tutions of Ogden city and and take systpra, plenty of they entered the army, Maj. cllc r r, Nephi lays m a broad into Sanppto County, the takeoff point watr for cuhnary and industrial Weber County are striving to with passlngyears.i "You who have bought bonds Norman T. Kirk, the army s l(?rtip va ley, that is overloiced bylor Spvipt County, to the DR.- W.H. GROVES create a climate in the city and soutoastpses ard plenty of eedrical power can well regard them as your surgeon general has said. Mt Nebo, one of the hiqhest and most 'ard to the west a route to Milard q rates tha compare very favorably county that will be conducive to medals for valor and sacrifice on Physically and mcntall ready beautiful perils in U"an( County and over route 91, Sah Lae wPh ccirmuntips of like size Nephi fUl the expansion of our present the home front. You who have for return to the community. Nephi is tn Jraa center for a vast is to tne ror'n soutrern Utah and nas an exelent and well stqffed ele- industrial and commercial enterefso of Ifi and time the amputee now scheduled tirelessly south. jmntary and high school teaching jaiT that has lortq ben known for LosIt Anqefromes o tre that prises, and (2) the establishment given one enters the corns. is Nephi of those industrial and "commer- fort to sell bonds can view your for interviews at the separation jjry land grain, turiPvs sherD ca4 from the U. S. Treas- and classification center, when onc a larqe piaster mill that bears sky line aive of southern Utah. Oft Nephi Is a cny of fine homes, fire cial institutions that may choose citations 8th Ave. & C St., Salt Lake City, Utah ury as distinguished service trained personnel interviewers lts name, and her people aiAlaymg times on this drive you reach leva people and has always been known as , this area as a location. ' V crosses the direction of Capt. plans for even greater divetifica lions of 10000 fee4. Nephi is situ a ci'y of high culture religious and under William M Hale balances ther- - lion Smre its fqunding aed at 5260 ft, elevation and ensovs social well being ONE OF AMERICA'S aputicsl .army experience, for- - j Nphi is th county seat cf Juab Windier that is usually very pleasant is one of Uah s pioneer communities, OUTSTANDING mer civilian jobs, the training Juab County has produced millions m summertime rarely does the tem has4 always been "civic minded, alhe has undertaken in the hos- and miMions from her great gold nera.ure reach 100 degrees and sl HOSPITALS baacipg local and state projects ways his and aom in wirxer is there zero or sub phvsical handicap silver zinc lead mines. pital tr Sjy . )mx)TS year-roun- NEPHI, UTAH . M-th- Ogden Contributes Heavily To War r r Utah Backs Fighting Men With Dollars EsreriM' .. ur A , 4 t hmlfiflifiTtfifnimWiiMf nt ns S -- d IM&K -- St fXffi aiv-oth-er n0tr k t sf - tce, ve the-vario- Season's Greetings Y - pur-Ge- n - LtD. Sr HOSPITAL-- $ S' Robins Canning Co, Roy, Utah PACKERS OF QUALITY & A I H of- " T FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 7 I I U vilian employment future but one factor is certain, the ampu- - & jss r trained program woi by the reconditioning to do just this And when you meet an amputee well treat him as a normal nerson, because that Is exactly what he is,,, says Ma- jor Barrett. I - . Nephi is 'stfa'eqicahy located (vision pom4 for transcontinental 1 zero recordings. bus smoke-fre- Nepni is Yog tree and . make the stale place in which to live, would abetW .is county seat .ofjuab nephi. THE TRADE C E N TER OF A' VAST ARE A THE HOME OF UTAHS GREATEST SHOW-TH- E UTE STAMPEDE. WATCH FOR.-- , DATES 'If1 1 1 1 1 i , t lXf , V I |