Show m — im I 12C THE OGDEN STAND ARDEXAMINER FEATURE PAGE OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 27 1955 4 v m 1 J rvost r j! fS 7 x - Vv y : X Xk v x w' y V 1 j- I f1 S J? f' t 3s ' ' £ £ ‘ V ' X I yew f £ f Pioneers Brought Cult Practitioners to Utah Doctors in Disfavor By DR JOSEPH R MORRELL When the pioneers came to Utah they brought with them a number of medical practioners belonging to a cult known as the Thomsonians They were disciples of Samuel Thomson of New Hampshire and had been exposed to his methods of treating disease for a few days and then were given certificates which qualified them to practice A few of them had had contact with Thomson personally but most of them had been certified for a fee by one of his agents who gave them permission to use the name and methods of treatment No actual training was required One- such practitioner said that it made no difference what the trouble was the medicine always worked and the patient was always cured The Thomsonians were in greater favor than the regular doctors principally because they used no "poison” in their treatment an implication that the physicians medicines must be considered dangerous The medicines they used were obtained by distilling native herbs mostly from the mountains They claimed that nature provided the remedies in each locality to cure the diseases there They had a standing offer of $1000 dollars for anyone who could find poison in their remedies ‘GLORIOUS MEDICINE lobelia was the drug which carried the greatest magic and was referred to as a "glorious medicine” It was an emetic and throygh its effects the system supposedly could rid itself of harmful accumulations within the body and bring about a complete - relaxation " Relaxation was the objective desired and lobelia was called the best "relaxum” available It was especially good in fevers but was also useful for treating injuries and in childbed the claim went Heat was also a favorite remedy and was used internally and externally Cayenne pepper and hot enemas were said to warm the internal organs and steam baths-woulheat the entire body One doctor was said literally to cook his patients The medical service rendered -- d during the first years in the Valley was provided largely by the doctors of this group Their activities were not confined en-tirely to treating the sick however They also cultivated their farms and worked in the canyons getting out wood doing other labor necessary for their security A number of the Thomsonian doctors made a contract with "Old Doctor Cannon” a "poison doctor” to do their surgery In -- return for this favor he was to treat no medical patients This was probably the first instance of specializing in Utah but nothing is recorded as to the outcome of the "clinic” thus organized and "Old Doctor Cannon” does not appear in the literature again These cultists early established a Council of Health into which were invited prominent men and r women some being members of the general authorities of the church This was obviously a serious attempt to convey useful health information and indicated a desire on the part of the people who joined to solve some of their health problems The council was formed in 1849 the group of organizers meeting in D Willard Richard’s wagon The first meetings were held in his home and were attended by the doctors of the group and many interested citizens Health subjects were discussed by members and invited guests educators and church officials often partici-- pating It is not known how much practical information was acquired at these meetings They were well attended and doubtless created an interest which aroused some study of the available health literature of the time This was probably the first attempt at teaching any phase of public health to be made in Utah Some of the Thomsonians were high officials in the Church Willard Richards was a counselor to Brigham Young and was the first editor of the Desert News He was also the presiding officer of the first Territorial Legislature As a result of all this prestige such men were in good standing in the communities and received much favorable comment On the other hand the regular doctors were made to appear as public enemies They were sometimes advised to get into more useful employment one being commended when he was seen getting out his winter’s supply of firewood from the canyon This was said to be a "healthy The wave swells and grows un- of the til the skies are filled with an For the air arm capable of blasting the other branches the Center must enemy from border to border of determine the AF specialty which his aggressive homeland best fits the man’s prior service Where will they come from? training and satisfies the appli-n- t For Air Force officials say our and the Air Force air arm isn’t that strong OCCUPATION IMPORTANT The nucleus is already there — Civilian occupation also can the pilots and ground crews of play an important role in the our standing Air Force The others are your next door specialty of the Reservists For The butcher who example an Air Force World neighbors: flew the Hump during World War II medic may have graduatWar II the lawyer who chased ed from law school after his disthe Mig back across the Yalu charge and be a practicing lawduring the Korean conflict yer If he wants to join the ReKEEP IN CONDITION serve acceptance into the legal They are the Air Force reserv- field would be a mere formaliairmen who ists — the part-timare keeping in “condition”at ty After the applicant has been through night classes offered numerous Air Reserve Centers accepted and his specialty dethroughout the country he can decide whether Centers like the one at Clear- termined to participate in a paid or unfield where 530 officers and airpaid training status If the remen are currently attending w’ants to join the paid servist classes twice a month to keep group he must report training in touch with the latest developactive for duty the day the U S an ments and techniques in Air attacked is Force rapidly converting to the All the paid training classes jet age are conducted at the Clearfield The Air Reserve Centers were Center reservists are auorganized to provide a reserve thorized The 24 two-hoto hold of 35000 to 40000 personnel periods annually usually ready to take up arms the min- training divided into two monthly sessute an enemy strikes The 2647th sessions are curions Training Air Reserve Center at Clearfield activated in April 1954 plays a rently being held on Tuesday vital role in this preparedness Wednesday and Thursday nights of the first three weeks of the program Listen to the 2647th’s com- month lit Col Herbert W Davis mandant Col Floyd S Cofer exofficer said attempts training plain why the Centers are train- are made to set the classes being ing every former serviceman they for the first and third weeks of can get into their ranks month the action the decisive in "The The classes last from 7 to 9 next war will occur in the initial “Of pm and currently concern instages’” Col Cofer says course the war won’t be over that struction in flight operations adsoon There will be a lot of ministration comptroller medical maintenance supply persmopping up to be done onnel communications intelliMUST PREPARE gence legal and education and "We must be prepared to be training fields Ninety-fiv- e the one that comes out on top per cent of the inin this early action We can’t struction is provided by Utah support a standing Air Force colleges on a contract basis The large enough to take this decisive Air Force provides all the mateaction so we must rely on our rials instruction literature and e ur sign” It must not be inferred' however that all medical practice was futile or that all doctor’s were as helpless as they were pictured There were some good medical schools many connected with the best universities and they were reserve force” teaching the available medical Col Cofr emphasizes that this knowledge of that period reserve must be a force trained SCHOLARLY MEN and ready to go the instant an "In our next Some of the early doctors of enemy strikes war won’t the hit Pearl enemy Utah were scholarly men and on concentrate and Harbor then were graduates of these schools Pacific South Islands from far They were capable of doing much our shores while we prepare good but they were classed witli here-are to hit going They right Thomthe poorly trained and the v and keep coming” sonians in the public mind and Now let’s see what the Clearnone was regarded highly or received with any great acclaim field Center is doing with the Dr J M Bernheisel one of the $1000 it spends daily to train flight operations perfirst to come to Utah was elected' mechanics sonnel and supply and medical delegate to Congress and re- technicians for that day of preelected for several terms serving paredness with distinction The Air Force Reserve is diThe better doctors were always vided consulted for emergencies for in- and into organized ground units units and paid and unjuries and were frequently called paid flying individual training by the midwives when they enis the It paid training with deliveries countered trouble in which Clearfield the Center is These latter sevices were often concerned These mainly people to be rendered surreptitiously as meet two for classmale doctors had no place in the room and nights a month instruction public mind in maternity practice They also laboratory on active go duty 15 The fear of the doctor was en- days each year hanced by the general feeling that For administrative purposes they sometimes "put the patient they are nominal members of of qUietly away” How this idea the 9092nd Air Reserve originated is not known but was commanded by Reserve Col Group C B perhaps due to the fact that fail- Dockmejian of Ogden a civilian ures in treatment occurred so employe at Hill Air Force Base often because of the lack of 530 BELONG knowledge or the use of methods deemed harmful such as bleeding Of the 530 reservists belongthe patient At any rate many ing to the 2647th Air Reserve community leaders stated public- Center about 250 are members ly that they would rather die a of the 9092nd training at the natural death than to be put away Clearfield Center which occupies by any of the disciples of Aescul- two buildings on the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot The othapius new or old school These strained relationships be- ers are training on an unpaid tween the doctors and the public status at units in Ogden Salt were not much changed for the Lake City Provo Richfield Price better until there was evidence and MurrayThe average reservist in trainthat medical training was more effective ing at the Center is a When it was felt that the doc- veteran of World War II is martor could really render a good ried and raising a family "Col service because of greater knowl- Cofer estimates about 80 per cent edge and skill he was welcomed of the reserve personnel are but often as-- supplement to faith World War II veterans The maand administrations The leaders jority of the remaining 20 per told the people to use all avail- cent are Korean veterans There able helps in time of trouble and is a sprinkling of younger men now medicine could be appreci- discharged from the Air Force with a reserve obligation ated as helpful To join the reservists training ENCOURAGED TO TRAIN at the center an applicant must About 1870 Brigham Young en- be an There are couraged both young men and no age limits other than the reyoung women to think of training quirements governing the ages themselves for "the practice of of officers and the dependents physic” The women were urged for an enlisted man to enter medicine in order to be For example a first lieutenable to care for their sisters dur- ant must be under 35 and an ening childbirth Male doctors still listed man with three dependwere not popular in this field of ents must be eligible for the rate practice As a result there was of staff sergeant The maximum soon a capable group of both men age limit is the retirement age and women practitioners in Utah For the former AF personnel teaching health and rendering a joining the Reserve is a matter good service Medicine had made of applying meeting the necesa favorable start toward a real sary age and dependency qualiplace in community life and all fications and being assigned to would benefit as a result a training cycle in his specialty - ld $ 4 i S : f ay en the working of an electronic circuit trainers to Air Reserve MSgt Spaulding N Bartley The $18000 piece of equipment plays a vital role in the graining offered the Air Reserve Center at Clearfield Naval Supply Depot The Center is spending about $1000 each day to maintain a ready Air Force reserve in case of sudden warfare X J Let’s say it’s again — a day nobody wants but many expect — and a horde of enemy bombers has just given parts of the United States a nuclear pasting As the planes that got through our continental defense head for home a wave of fighters and bombers bearing the proud insignia of the U S Air Force climbs skyward to follow and deliver retalatory blows TECHNICAL— MSgt James LeFevre (right) explains -5 By CLIFF THOMPSON D-D- x""y S 2 v £ V -- i ii V m n r"X fW equipment “We organize a class receive the instruction materials from the Air Force and then put it out to the colleges for bid” Col Davis explained “We have instructors from Brigham Young Utah University USAC and Weber College teaching here now” Exceptions to this are the medical classes taught by the reservists themselves and the administration instruction which is provided by the permanent personnel assigned to the center In case a man does not want to be paid for his training classes he may become a member of the local units meeting in one of several Utah cities The local unpaid reservists meet in the Beatrice Building 2940 Washington Blvd Materials for the classes are provided by the Air Force but the reservists do the instructing UNIFORM PROVIDED Uniforms for the enlisted reservists are provided by the Air Force but the officers pay for their own as in the regular Air Force Reservists attending the paid status classes receive a day's pay for each class plus points for retirement and promotion Reservists in the unpaid classes receive points for promotion and a 5 I I y I V LEARNING HOW —An Air Force Reserve class in aircraft maintenance receives a little engineering know how y on jet engines at one of its meetings at the Air Reserve Center Henry W Leavitt (civilian clothes twice-monthl- center) employe at Hill Air Force Base is the instructor made it difficult to into the go liquor business on anything less than a lengthy shoe ORDINANCES NEED OVERHAULING passed-th- Don't Turkey Trot Bunny Hug It's 'Agin' Law' in Weber County By ROBERT CROMPTON If you dance the “turkey trot” in Weber County you’re subject to a $100 fine imprisonment in the county jail for 60 days or both That’s the law And the sheriff can also haul you off to the hioosegow for dancing the “Texas Tommy” “Grizzly J3ear” “Bunny Hug” or other dances of like character” That’s also the law— laid down by Weber County commissioners in 1914 in county ordinance 173 SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN It’s one of a whole shoe box full of jumbled thumb-markeordinances that supposedly govern functions of Weber County government Many of them should be recorded in history books and the rest should be forgotten brought up to date and codified in the opinion of County Attorney Maurice Richards Section 2 of Ordinance 173 reads: “It shall be unlawful for any person or persons in any public dance hall or dancing academy in Weber County State of Utah outside of the limits of incorporated cities and towns therein to dance any improper indecent or obscene dance or dances commonly d string For all engaged in "manufacturing selling bartering dealing out orotherwise disposing of any spiritous vinous malt or other intoxicating liquors the applicant as the half a hundred years is often re shall pay to the county treasurer known and designated Turkey Trot Texas Tommy Grizzly Bear Bunny Hug or other dance of like character” That law wouldn’t be any Rougher for Sheriff LeRoy Hadley to enforce than one passed June 12 1905 when Henry Ford’s new creation the automobile first started rattling over Weber County’s roads in force it stipustill Probably lates that all “automobiles motormust cycles and locomobiles pass horse drawn vehicles on the side of the road nearest Ogden River while traveling in Ogden Canyon Apparently it was passed after some cruising 15 12 miles or at the canyon up an hour frightened a team so badly it leaped into the river "Yes” County Attorney Richards Agrees “many of our county ordinances are out of date All of the ordinances should be codified put into one easily read book BIG JOB a tremendous job that "It’s would cost about $5000” A county’s laws reflect its problems the mood of its people and the disposition of its leaders A glance back at society’s rules of rock-studde- vealing Apparently before the turn of the century grey waives were taking a toll of sheep and cattle A bounty was offered for their tail Now its doubtful if there’s a grey wolf left this side of Cheyenne Back before the county was 50 e years old you could also four-bits bucks for a bear and for a lynx cat wild cats fox or mink If "big game” hunting was slow you could always pick up a few extra dollars knocking off muskrats for five cents jack rabbits prairie dogs or ground squirrels for two cents each COULD BE FINED For breaking a quarantine in 1898 — and probably now too for there’s no record the ordinance has been rescinded — you could be fined from $5 to $100 In those days you would be automatically quarantined if you contracted get-fiv- d old-tim- e hot-rodd- er scarlet fever diphtheria whooping cough smallpox or typhoid fever The ill person the old ordinance relates "must display a yellow flag upon which is printed iu plain black letters the name of disease which therein exists” And it was termed "illegal to be permitted to leave the house in which he or she resides without a permit from the board of health” Probably the first speed limit in Weber County was passed in BETTER THAN PARENTS Whiz At Jigsaw Puzzles Is 3-Year-- Old 1905 The commissioners made it easy to enforce for it read simply: “No vehicle shall run a sufficient speed to endanger human life or cause property destruction if guilty of said offense Earl D Hebdon (they shall be guilty of a public comes to assembling nuisance and guilty of a misde- A little guy with a big memory is who can put most adults to shame when it meanor” jigsaw puzzles Since then automobiles have He puts four together one by one —after having scrambled all grown bigger faster and more : the parts in a single pile numerous and with the problem The son of Mr and Mrs Asa has taught him just which part myriads of speed laws have been passed for different conditions Hebdon of 830 Grant Ave Earl goes where It’s hard to say now what Moreover anyone inclined to is a real whiz at remembering the ordinance but in ‘prompted just which part goes where and lend a helping hand had better 1913 the commissioners decided: morover at mastering new puz- be hep' One or two false moves “It shall be unlawful for any perzles his parents are always bring- and you’ve had it with Earl He’d son or common carrier to leave within the limits of Weber Counrather not be bothered ing home any indigent or insane person Earl has been at it only a year ty Jigsaws are a mild mania with now not having a lawful settlement in —working on puzzles made the Hebdons but it’s the little Weber County" of for youngsters boy who shines when it comes to especially — course a he’s but veteran real CAN’T SWEAR d parts topiecing the An older brother Floyd 9 is That same commission ruled it gether a pretty fair hand at the some- "unlawful to drink be drunk IIE RARELY FUMBLES times provoking game but Mr smoke swear or be boisterous in He’s never been timed at the Hebdon is frank to admit — a dance hall or dancing academy” "Earl has us all beat when project but Mr Hebdon says his In 1909 an ordinance was son rarely fumbles Experience working on the new ones” j j odd-shape- wxxv"--- ' at of Weber County $1200 per an- num” And there came a time too when the commissioners found it necessary to rule out the fire cracker on safety grounds That was on May 10 1932 — just in time for the Fourth of July that year — when an ordinance was passed that made it "unlawful for any person to keep sell give away or otherwise dispose of any gun powder giant powder Hercules powder nitroglycerine or dynamite in any quantity or ire crackers rockets pin wheels or fireworks of any kind outside the incorporated cities or tovfns in Weber Cofcnty” 'If that ordinance left anything powerful enough to pop it wasn’t wTorth putting $ match to In a sense Weber County op-erates— as far as its ordinances are concerned —out of a shoe box? At least one county department can prove it It has a shoe box full of ordinances that date back to pioneer days KILL EARLIER LAWS County Attorney Maurice Richards said that when new ordinances were passed the commissioners W'ould also kill earlier laws on the same subject But on some subjects no new laws have been passed for half a century often leaving the ordinance outdated and ridiculous "It’s quite a job to find a county ordinance under the present setup” Richards said "and when you do find it you can’t be sure it’s the latest on the subject” He pointed out however that county government ordinarily runs smoothly and the condition of the ordinances seldom causes much trouble Weber County Sheriff LeRoy Hadley operates mostly under state law for there are few mod efh county ordinances that his department could enforce You 'can’t ever tell when one of the old ordinances might serve a purpose for history has a way of repeating itself Such an ordinance is the one passed April 16 1942 during World War II Though that war ended the ordinance might still be handy one day It provides for-"- a system and method of precaution from enemy ” because "the air attack United States is at war and this country is in great continuing danger of air and other attack by the enemy” y retirement The Center has one organized ground unit Detachment 5 of the 12th Ainvays Communications Squadron based at Hill Air Force Base ' In case of mobilization the organized units will be called as a unit and assigned where needed The individual training personnel will be assigned as individuals to units needing them The flying groups of the reserves receive their administration and instruction from the Air Reserve Flying Center at Hamilton Field Now a word about the women The Center can accept women into the WAF reserves without prior military training Civilian occupation or training may qualify a woman for one of the WAF specialties Currently there are two nurses and one administrative specialist training at Clearfield "It isn’t a glamorous job wTe are doing” Col Cofer said "But it is a necessary one for when that horde of bombers starts laying nuclear eggs around the United States we must have this reserve force trained and ready to start fighting — right then And a visit to the Center on a training night will go a long way toward convincing anyone comes that when and if again Utah’s Air Reservists will be ready D-D- ay i v y'- Earl D Hebdon a regular whiz with a jigsaw puzzle fits one into of four pu?zles whose parts have been jumbled in a single pile One by-- one he puts the four a piece puzzles together AND THIS ONE GOES RIGHT HERE—Three-year-ol- d v i |