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Show THURSDAY, MAY 26. 1977 Let's Hear It For The Hospitals In U.S . By PAUL HARVEY c) 1177, Lot Angeles Times Syndicate This next seven days in May will be "National Hospital Week." ATter that we can go hack to taking for granted our nation's 7,156 hospitals unless or until we visit in pain or in tears. ticuted technology. Hilt these costs have to he measured against the har- vest: transplants, surgery, mega-voltag- by-pa- e ther- apy. Your grandfather hud to go to Mayos for specialized treatment now commonly After "National Hospital available in your hometown community hospital. There Week" some will go back to g the medical mean-mouthin- profession generally and mention hospitals only to repeat some alarmist story relayed through some friend nr a friend of a neighbor's relative. if only this once a But let's hear it for the year are now 4(N 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 respiratory therapy, 31.3 per cent have nuseries for by-pa- 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 To allow a flat "percentage rate increase" discrimintaes against the administrator who has kept his ov erhead down. lrt's hear it for the hospit- al! So far I've said nothing alxnit 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. And the malpractice insurance menace has multiplied that cost some places percent in one year! And while you and I are staggered by the increased Rocky Mountain Communications American hospitals, at ever cost, by all meas- ores the world's finest have given us hack work davs we would have lost and have credited our ner- - lr day cost of hospitalization - balance that against this: Our hospitals, whether six Ix'ds or more than three thousand, general or specialized. are now able so to expedite treatment and or s,,n!,l account with addition-wli.i- l Summer Special a pam free years of life itself It only for this seven days in May. let's hear it for the hospital! Midland 7 Baso S209.00. SBE Malibu 23 Channel AM Mobile 569.95. therapy that the average patient is out of the hospital in fewer days. That amounts to a saving for the patient. Midland 23 Channel SSB Base 5269.00. Midland 23 Channel SSB Mobile 5175.00 Base load Antennas 519.95 CACHE An appendectomy used to keep you hospitalized for 14 days - now 5 days. The hernia repair which used to require two weeks of now is care resolved in 24 hours with the patient back at work in one-fiftthe time' Many Other Specials JUNCTION TRAINS WE BUY USED TRAINS W StH ind Oorfir TnCfrij Smici All 852-249- 9 llnCC - Sloqnn. Two miles Inins Types of Toy Qttafi Huh north of Preston on Highway Quantities Limited 91 752-066- 7 h half-agai- dkoracTmi, has been a 45 per cent increase in the number of clinical laboratory tests performed per Yet despite improved efficoverhead is such iency that only of Americas 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- - Danm m9ynn man-hou- r. one-in-te- n (nar if mice U.S. Leads Watercolor Field The United States leads the world in what kind of art? If you correctly answered watercolor" you can understand why Utah State University has created a significant happening in bringing r .together in its annual West exhibit the works of many of the greatest Water-colo- living American watercolor-ists- . Nine years ago Twain Tippetts, curator of the USU Library Gallery,' organized the first Watercolor West exhibit. I PERSONALLY very much enjoy watercolor," he said. I felt that too many people believed the myth that only original oil paintings are great works of art." This national invitational exhibitserves not only Jo please and educate gallery patrons, but also to encourage local beginning artists. "The USU Art Department places a premium on cultivated individuality, Tip--1 petts said. After learning the fundamentals, we want each student to discover his own strengths, what he unir quely has to share. t -' Water-colo- West provides these students the models of a wide variety of individual yet successful styles. This year more than 60 ' pieces will be exhibited re- presenting artists from two major watercolor societies, The American Watercolor Society, from the New York and New England area, and The National Watercolor Society, covering the Western states. IN ADDITION, work is invited from artists who have competed as winners in i , national shows and whose work has been reviewed in national art magazines. Three members of the USU art faculty, Harrison Groutagc, Gadl Lindstrom j ; I ! and Adrian VanSuchtelen, j 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. National Endowment of Fine Arts, the exhibit will be shown in several intermoun-lai- n college galleries after leaving USU. Schedules to receive the Galexhibit are: the s lery, Ogden; Southern Utah State College, Cedar City; Dixie College, St. George; Snow College, Ephraim; A eslminstor College, Salt Iikc City; Brigham Young University. Irovo; the College of Eastern Utah, Price; the University of Wyoming, Laramie; Kicks College, Itcxhui'U. Ida. Hundreds off 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-blu- e water... and the resort. Property which is just a nine-iroshot from Sweetwater's championship golf course. 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WITH SUPPORT from the Institute of Fine Arts and the 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 additioa many people have decided that Sweetwater would make a great place for a vacation .iikI i.m.I it Mine lroTly Kqn.rt fri.in nyning aitvllilmj HDD 100. V). at Moollilv fMvrn.Mil would Iv $H)37 aver eight years at 'XT, Itfyin OtHam HI UJ l.i it ilu- merits of v m,r ,u. Vllllt. .,( U- - novrly ,i ,m unvrfnu'lit. it any FRANKLIN Dll 1 I i i |