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Show 8 THE PAYSON CHRONICLE Valley Music Hall Thursday, November 27, 1969 GROUND THE hsTOWN'bZJ by I Divii (vni Dear Reader; I j I . f ' - Well, here I am in my bath tub, trying to develop a subject for a column. Its 4:30 a.m., Thursday, November 20, 1969, Gee I may as well write on the subject conof insomnia. If my sleeplessness of one on it I an authority may be tinues, these days. A feller told me the other day that its caused by a guilty conscience. I was glad he told me that; I wore myself out trying to figure out wnat I was guilty of and I slept well for a couple of nights. My doctor told me that if I exercised enough faith in myself to sleep, I could sleep. Have you ever lain flat on your back in the dead of night and exercised faith hour after hour. I believe those were the worst nights Ive had. Count sheep; I was told. So I corraled about 20,000 imaginary sheep and I started counting them as they came down a narrow shoot and jumped over a low fence. Do you know a feller can count 14,000 sheep from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. As the old clock down stairs struck 6, I decided it wasnt working because of my dislike of mutton so I turned the remainder of the herd into veal, I counted about 300 of them and it was time to get up. Take Sominex, no! I awaken with a headache. Id sooner lie awake. Perscrip-tio- n sleeping pills? I have a hangover until noon the following day. This business of using home remedies for insomnia reminds me of my early days in the mission field when I was losing my hair fast. Ill bet I had 20 remedies for falling hair, all the way from rubbii raw onions over my scalp and standing for an hour each day in the Florida sun to hot packs. Yes, I tried them all. I think thats why Im so bald. Im afraid if I keep trying the insomnia remedies, I may get dead. Some of the remedies are actually worse than the disease. There was a time when dancing would relax me and I could sleep, but with the junky music one must dance to now days, I get no help there. Well, thats how it goes. Come four a.m. and my bed comes a torture chamber. When I hear a person talk about how well he sleeps, I immediately break two com- mandments: I hate him and I covet his ability to sleep. Sleep well, Dear Reader. Ill be here when you awaken. nnumnuwmiiuuunnzimnztt. The View From Here Mr. Paul Haymond, Pharmacist and member of the Administrative Council, is presenting awards to Mrs. Wilma Koyle (Procurement Secretary) and Mrs. Maxine Hudson (L..N., Emergency Room). They each received a $5.00 award for their excellent suggestions which were considerred the best by the Supervisory Council in their first meeting in November. Hospital Happenings The implementation of the Best Idea or program at Employee Suggestion Payson City Hospital has been very stimulating and is proving effective in improving conditions at the hospital for the betterment of patient care, which is always the goal of hospital employees. Suggestions for September and October were recently reviewed by the Screening Committee (Administrative Council) and the following suggestions were considered worthy of implementation at the hospital. Employees who submitted these ideas will each receive a $1.00 gift certificate at the Hospital Gift Shop. 1. I suggest we put the fire station phone number posted at the Nursing station along with Engineer, Administrator, Business Manager and Nursing Director. If fire emergency arises you dont have time to look up the phone numbers. -(Submitted by Afton Williams, L.P.N.) 2. Wall plugs in the upstairs hallways would be very helpful for use with floor buffers, etc. - (Submitted by Joyce Underwood, Housekeeper.) 3. My suggestion for the month of October would be to put awnings or some kind of protection along the south wall upstairs where the three private rooms are located. It gets hot and is uncomfortable. (Submitted by Lillie Holden, Housekeeper.) 4. It would be nice for the mothers to nave a set of scales down in O.B. Many have asked for them. (Submitted by Florence Smith, Housekeeper.) In Supervisory Council Meeting in November the suggestions were all considered to determine the winners. The Supervisory Council came up with two winners for the excellent suggestions submitted. Maxine Hudson and Wilma Koyle each received a $5.00 award for their winning suggestions; which are given in detail. Maxine Hudson - What about patients with no relatives one around close to care for them? The nurses are always good to such patients, I know, but there are times when these patients need extra attention and needs that the nurse may not have time to do. I suggest that we give their names to the Pink Ladies to spend some extra time reading to them, helping to write or post run an errand for something letters special he or she may need, or just to brighten their day. We are people caring for people -- - so, lets give some extra care to the ones with no one to care for them. (Maxine Hudson is an L.P.N. in the Emergency Room.) Wilma Koyle - The thing I would like to see improved in our hospital is the answering of the patients call lights. We have a lovely call system if it could be used more efficiently. This is not to criticize the nursing personnel because, having been on the floor, I realize how busy they can be and are. It seems that this is one of the most common complaints we hear around, that sometimes a patient cannot get an answer for a long time, no matter how sick or how important the call may be. Yes, I realize that sometimes a nurse can be right next door, working with a patient, and never hear a buzzer. Sometimes a nurse cannot leave one patient and run to another for a few minutes. The thing that I would like to see worked out, somehow, is that our lovely call system be used more efficiently. When we first moved over in the new part, the Ward Clerks were the ones answering the call lights by the telephone connected to it. This of course, made the patients feel like they were at least being considered. But, along with all the other duties of a ward clerk, this proved to be too much for them. Sometimes it was a call to take someone off the bedpan, which was not in the line of duties of a ward clerk. Of course, there were many other things needed by the patients. The R.N.s have their hands full doing other things. Would it be possible to have an aide, or some other capable person, doing nothing but answering the call lights and in some cases, perhaps even waiting on the patients themselves on the things they need. I feel sure this, or something similiar, would make our patients feel that our hospital was a better place to stay. (Wilma Koyle is Procurement We Need Your Help! On December 2 the Salt Lake Elks Lodge 85 in conjunction with the Valley Music Hall will present its annual show for all crippled and handicapped children in this area. We need your help to get the information about this show out to all the crippled and handicapped children so that they might attend this special show. If you want to help in any way or if you belong to an organization that is looking for a worthwhile contribution to make there are a multitude of areas where assistance would be gratefully accepted. The special show for these children is the Donald OConnor Show starring Donald OConnor and included on this already great program is the special added attraction the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band. This combination is sure to delight all of the children in attendance. Donald OConnor, who heads up the show, is a master of comedy, song and dance, combines good comedy with superb music and excellent dancing. The children will surely love the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band as they introduce them to a new mode of musical expression. These 27 young men make their unusual music by playing on empty oil drums, creating a sound compared to that of an organ and even a full orchestra. So please if you know of any children that need to be notified, volunteered assistance, or any other questions you might have, please call Jim Vollmer at 0, Elks Lodge 85 at 3, or 5. Valley Music Hall at Berts Western Wear Christmas Sale Lay-Awa- y Resistol Hats .... 1 0 Everything for the Horseman 350-506- 355-173- 295-343- Tony Lama Justin Acme Texas Big Reduction on all Saddles 15 off on Guns & Scopes Boots l 10 OH --- no By Ruth Rothe mnnnnnnnmnnnrAnnnnrmnf all holidays Thanksgiving more than seems to mean a family get together. Usually even families which dont celebrate Christmas or the Fourth of July or the other festive occasions manage to come home for Thanksgiving. Like occasions of this kind they have their happy times even though with all sizes and ages and personalities which large gatherings involve there may be moments of trauma when someone tips over the gravy bowl in the center of the lovely table. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to remember these times of trial and laugh over them next year and in the years to come? One of our children will never live down the time she sat in a lovely coconut cream pie the year we all went to Aunt Lauras. We were supposed to furnish the pies for the occasion and when you get a family the size of ours that means a lot of pies. We had mince meat, pumpkin, coconut cream and lemon that year and even with the six of us it took a lot of hands to hold pies on the journey. All would have probably gone well if we had not stopped to pick up grandma on the wiy. The others all put their pies in a safe place while we went in to help her carry rolls and various things to the car, but this particular daughter (I wont name names) put her pie on the seat and hurried in. Of course she w'as the first to enter the car as we wore loading up to continue the journey and she SAT in the pie and scooted it across the seat with her. TRAGEDY!! Aunt Clara who lives in the next county always brings a special and very elaborate salad for Thanksgiving dinner. She will always be reminded each year of the time she got in such a hurry she forgot and left the salad home. A HEARTBREAKER. Aunt Alice likes to tell about the time she and her family went to spend Thanksgiving with Uncle Harrys family and one of the other uncles spiked the punch. Needless to say that was the last time they ever celebrated there. She says it was a GAY affair. One year Grandma had been determined that Grandpa would paper her diningroom for Thanksgiving. He put it off until the day before and after finishing it that night it did look lovely but next day just as everyone sat down to eat and the room was warm and cozy the wall paper on the ceiling began to fall down in long strips. Just then one of the table legs grandpa had fixed too started to wobble. Grandma got so upset she put salt in the pudding sauce instead of sugar. One strip of wall paper wrapped itself around the stove pipe to the heaterola stove and just about ended in trouble. But tragedy was avoided and everything concerned we all had a happy and thankful Thanksgiving day, and my wish for you and yours is that each of you will have the same this year, p day filled with true thankfulness, joy and happiness and enough fun experiences to make it memorable. Of any other i IS If K 1 r ...People to people Its people who make things happen. People and organizations. Like contributions to community and state projects. People and the United Fund is a good example. i , the newly launched JOBS program of the National Alliance of Businessmen, where business is searching out jobs for the disadvantaged of the Salt Lake metropolitan area. Another is The JOBS program needs people of goodwill to show goodwill to people in need. After all, its the only USemaecoSS country youve got. 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