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Show Are we compounding a LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear and certainly some equipment is not essential. But a hospital should have a minimum stock of equipment necessary for effective operation. Initially, money should be allocated to acquire new equpment such as a respirator which Is essential tn many emer -The hospital does not have one gencles. at this time. Unserviceable or Inadequate equpment should be replaced. Improvements should be made In the building. The hospital administration Is capable of establishing priorities, cutting out frills, and spending money wisely to Insure the facility Is adequately equipped. Personnel problems are not so easily solved. There are not enough trained personnel available In Fillmore to staff the hospital. The problem will be more severe If new doctors come In and Increase the patient population of the hospital. One way to encourage people to live and work is to provide incentives. Pay, working conditions and fringe benefits should be Increased to a point where they are comparable to the best locations In the West. People would be much more Inclined to remain here If their pay was better than anywhere else In Utah and they were provided a high level of security. Providing scholarships for qualified young people who wish to remain In Fillmore Is a means which I feel to be an excellent possibility. Every year MlllardCounty sends many of her intellegent, talented high school graduates to colleges and technical schools. Many of them do well In school, learn a profession or a trade, then find they have no opportunities for employment InFlllmore. Many are never again able to return to the area and live near their families. Why not choose a few well qualified seniors In the high school who want to pursue a medical career, provide them with the means to gain their education, guarantee them a position on their return, and obtains contract tor their service, to the community for a specified period of time, in return for their education. Another way of Improving conditions In the hospital and helping the staff accomplish Its work more effectively might be to Institute volunteer programs. Pink lady and candy stripper programs, similar to those of larger hospitals, could help make the staff more effective and make the lives of the patients brighter. These programs could be run capably by the LDS Relief Society or some other organization which is dedicated to making the lives of others more comfortable. The shortage of additional physicians may be the most difficult problem to solve. Considerable effort has been directed toward finding other doctors for this area, without success. The past efforts have been commendable and should be continued. I think the situation has reached a point where a major effort should be directed at waking the State and the Nation up to the fact rural areas are suffering severly from the lack of physicians. In effect, I think the community should ask for help. Go to the Governor, the County Commission, snd especially to the representatives we sent to the United States Congress and the Utah State Legislature. We pay these people good salaries to find ways of spending our tax money where we need It most. As far as I can see the people of rural Utah have been on their own for some time In solving many public problems. MV. Wilson: In the i elatlvc ly short time 1 have lived tn Fillmore, 1 have developed an Intense Interest In the problems that face the community with regard to medical facilities and health care. Letters on the subject which you have printed In recent editions have fur- ther stimulated thinking. I must say I do not agree with the highly disputed opinion that Fillmore Is provincial Fillmore seems to be typical of other places In Utah and elsewhere, both rural and urban, where the citizens allow their fate to be decided by circumstances. The community may have to be Jolted by some near disaster before It realizes that positive action Is the only way to correct a problem situation. To those who have had family members Injured or 111, and who have been unable to obtain medical treatment, lact of action on the part ofthecommunltyhasbeenacalamlty. Many have learned the hard way about the of being sick In Fillmore. problems Individuals, such as Ashby Robison, have been tireless In their efforts to correct but the enormous problems Involved, Individual concern and effort Is not enough. Robert Bedford stars in the title role of Warner Bros.' "Jeremiah Community effort and unity Is needed and Johnson," as a man who decides on the lonely life of a moun- until the community unites In finding solutions, taineer In the 1800's. Redford Is pictured as he braces himself in the deplorable situation will continue. I would like to make a few suggestions. a tight with an Indian. Feature is at the Avalon Theatre They are not really original thoughts, but as far as I know, they represent actions which might be feasible but have not been adequately Investigated as possible solutions. In of Warner man he mountain the The lifestyle portrays First a method of attacking the basic Bros.' "Jeremiah Johnson," opening today at the Avalon of Inadequate financing for the hosproblem to kind that Is the of appeals precisely lifestyle Theatre, Let the community serviced pital facility. a and at man heart outdoor Robert Redford, contemplative by the hospital decide whether they want actor by profession . a first-cal- ls to maintain a marginal facility or improve, the hospital to an acceptable level of quality. If the people of this part iff Millard County want adequate health care to be available in the local area, they should be given the opportunity to say so In a referendum. They should be allowed to decide whether it Is worth it to them to allocate lax dollars to the creation and maintenance of a quality I feel the votors will favor the hospital. creation of a horpltal district which will cooperate with the LDS system by providing funds to help operate the facility. It Is obvious the hospital Is not but a good hospital is certainly In any community, self worth having supporting or not. All the people of the community benefit at some time, directly or Indirectly with adequate medical facllles. Tax dollars spent In supporting sucbfallltles are well spent. The return from these dollars Is gained in human comfort and saved lives. The community should not depend only on fees from patients to provide a facility A firm mcuns responsibilities. I he proper prelection which Is available to provide services to of that farm . . . buildings, equipment, livestock, peranyone at any time. If the majority of the is sonal ellccts one of those responsibilities. We'd citizens share this opinion, they should say like to give you a hand with planning complete so with their ballots and cough up the money insurance protection in one program that necessary to support a good quality medical can save you confusion and money. Sec us for all the facility. Assuming the money Is made available, methods will be needed for attacking the other major problems facing the hospital. These problems as I see them are: (1) lack of adequate hospital equipment and need for Improvements In the building. (2) lack of trained personnel adequate to stafT the facility. (3) lack erf an adequate number of physicians 1 needed to serve the community. rilONE Fillmore, Utah As Mrs. Wilson stated In her letter of last week, hospital equipment Is expensive my well-qualifi- ed Jeremiah Johnson Opens Today It takes many hands to run a farm! . ... ' PETERSEN INSURANCE AGENCY 143-571- MILLARD COUNTY PROGRESS disaster before It happens ' 'XVV85 Fillmore, Utah 84631 Friday, September 21, Perhaps we have not been vocal enough In telling our representatives what our 1073 could then find attention locally when they reed It, and could In turn provide a healthy practice for the physicians. priorities are. We should also go to the LDS Hospital system for more help In obtaining physicians. If the hospital system Is effectively shown the needs Fillmore has, and the exasperating situation we face, maybe It can provide more Why couldn't the system delegate help. resident physicians or Interns from Its larger hospitals to help us, and communities like us, when we need It. We all realize the community Is large enough to support two or three doctors. It Is Impossible for one physician to handle all of our medical problems. We need to cssemble a team of doctors who are and efficient. Local residents These suggestions for Improvement are Detailed study might find many superficial. of them Impractical. I believe at least some of these Ideas might be adopted to work tn our situation. I am certain of one thing, cooperative effort Is required In solving the problem. Cocqierattve effort was the foundation of the settlement of Utah and of Fillmore. People have conqured seemingly Insurmountable problems by working together. If this can be done now, 1 believe Fillmore can be made an example for other rural places In solving medical care problems. Sincerely Jack C. Peterson ed HOLDEM VIEWS at the Salt Palace In the afternoon. They visited the State Fair and the Lynn Anderson show, Jerl Crosland Joined the group at the fair. on Ice" TRAVELING IN OGDEN DURING THE weekend was Ambrose Hunter. He went to meet his wife Ina as she returned from a trip to Hawaii. ELAINE HENDRICKSON Richfield, spent the weekend with her mother Hettle Bennett. AND MR. EARL MRS. SIDNEY AND BETTY HUNT-- er took their daughter Joyce St. George Monday. Joyce will attend Dixie College. GLENDA KENNY IS SPEND-ln- g a few days with her parents G. Wells and Ramona Kenney. She has been working In Logan and will return to enroll for her senior year at Utah State. Home from Montana MR. AND BEN MRS. Stephenson and daughter returned home after enjoying a few days In Montana visiting her parents. This was the first time Pennls parents had seen their They report granddaughter. there was snow on the ground. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Sherwood, Salt Lake City were the guests of their parents Clyde and Lillian Wood for the week end. AND MR. MRS. LEWIS Overson, Lynndyl visited at the bqme of tjielr daughter Lloyd and Orlene Christensen and family, Sunday. Hello! world FIRST TIME CRANDPAR-ent- s are Lewis and Janet Monsen. David and Julie Hare became the proud parents of a baby boy Sunday Sept 18 at Utah Valley Hospital. Attend fair SATURDAY SPENDING IN Salt Lake were Warren and Ella Crosland, Linda and Russell, Mark and LaRee Stephen-o- n. They attended "Holiday San Diego Family Here wife Held M. Mitchell, Gwcncvore and sons Corey and Dnvld spent several days in Fillmore with their parents, Hy and Grace Mitchell and Vera Frampton. They pave them a lift with canning and the fall work. Mack was a banker In Fillmore when they moved to California. He Is now manager of Mutual of New York In San Diego for that area. Both he and Gwenlvere are and sons Corey Gwenlvcre active In civic ch,,"'b ad Cajon, the urb where they reside. tiv Hies In EH f At maturity in ten years, this Interne Special Ceri'hcate will pay $1000 tor each $450 deposited now You may purchase in any multiple amount of $450 This Special Certificate otter is good only until October 31 1973 Act protoday to take advantage ot this iniiation-beatingram For additional information on this and other inter- lake thrill savings programs contact the nearest you Inte-'ak- olhce e "fl MAIL COUPON TODAY Pleas send me a Special Ce'li'icale lot the I understand al the end Of Ion amount of $ years each $450 deposited now wM pay $1000 Ten-Vee- sub- F Called to mission Mr. snd Mrs. Alma Anderson have been called on a ml Ion to the Mantl Temple. They are occupying a mobile home In Mantl and come home for part of the weekends. frtusni experience WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE AN EXCHANGE STUDENT? HOW XR-- 7 Cougar lv s t i . ; ; : j : It, n:--- . kill! :jt D . r, brt lor . 5t"Ut ,i r is. : 74 pv - v- of Coupar i$ like Grand Pnx and Monte Carlo. In every other Aay, its like Aid buckets, nev. dasn .mUi tachometer and hooded gauges mounted m Ni-.- v roct Elegant opera .undo radtals. Steel-belte- standard. All NEW 74's AT YOUR MERCURY DEALER SEE ALLTHE 'C-- Montego Marquis Brougham Today a dts r; : toruj'rtjr And f 1' I ret 5 74 . . .ic Guv1 it sl- -t I Mjidais cct5 1 :t f cr.5 r,n. nl" Uk.:' ru ; So :.e concTucal standard. . r.' lb'5 MX bt,; car O' an trC Brougham Mircw, is txua .iV st t) Si. t' susi'-rsio- L lLM-t- pxp nsive luxury i.ar mi j siZ" car BjI ridt year. lik- -j and tbc samp rcoln Mercurys most t( P economy o! a - Marla Rlbelro, a Brazilian girl needs a borne for six months while she stays tn Fillmore. To be here as an international Fellowahlp exchange atudent, she will be on the same program as several of our studnets last yetr and at least one this In arrive win Marla She la 18 years December. old and speaks besides her native Portuguese, Spanish and English to a fair degree. She Indicates she would like to Indulge In snow sports. Her father Is a civil engineer. Anyone Interested In Inviting Marla to their home for the six months period is asked to call Dr. Wayne Reid at the Millard High School. The Fellowship requires a family type situation for their students, a visit to the church of their choice each week and provides medical Insurance for the FRIDAY IS THE DAY OF THE CAT : Georges home MR. car Not sho.n Mercury Monterey, the medium-pricewith the famous Mercury ri u; See the .hole r,v brmly of wagons too The km J Cuiy could bui'd. It all happens "Tne Day of the Cat." AND MRS. rcge art happy to b again (or a few week. OLAF born '-r- rititf!jAi MARIA rfTTT Cornel with Custom Option V. r 5 u h.x.. N . ji 1 , .,y,' .00 . 5 . r y ir pla.n lithe cars7 on Cun el s Stirg on gas it S in i Con Ue Cougar it fos sg:ia to.;-a, t 7'x-Miluxury jS vv ijiiun ' nt p "I'f L'OUfcr-jr'n- to. trs. Cougf AjW filo, WARNER MOTORS 70 NORTH MAIN FILLMORE, UTAH 'stereo col, ftjkV UPi if t r,whfe! ('. whrI ccno toner It for cemi tfett AbwuttirptiHett WHITAKER HAS returned from visiting her children, Carolyn and Joan and tamllica. Salt Lake and Marlow Brigham City. While in Salt Uke, a he attended the Whltakjr Reunion and the wedding and reception for her niece Faith Whitaker, daughter of Ted and Charlotte Whitaker. SACRAMENT MEETING WAS conducted by Vernon Christensen. Prayers offered by Frank Paxton and Olaf Geroge. Jess Bennett of the High Council and Jack Condle were tbs guest speakers. 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