Show Club seeks funds to buy Isolette What would you answer If asked How someone you long longIs Is an hour If you were doing something you really enjoyed you might find the hour dropped away almost without notice or orf orif if II f you were awaiting the outcome outcome outcome out out- come of or something terribly Im Important important im- im in your life an hour would be a long long time For Reed and Barbara Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor of Ephraim an hour was wasa a long long time That was three months ago after their little son born six weeks premature premature premature pre pre- mature had developed yellow jaundice and had to be taken to Provo for a complete trans trans- fusion Just five days old the little fellow had had some earlier trouble and an especially equipped Incubator called an Isolette had been borrowed from a Salt Lake hospital The Isolette was flown to the Manti Manti- Ephraim Airport by the Utah Highway Patrol and Trooper Bert was on hand to rush it to the Mt Pleasant Hospital when it arrived The parents noticed that thal In just half an hour after the pound ounce boy had been placed In the Isolette its it's breathing became regular and for several days it looked like everything would be all right Then the jaundice developed and he had to be taken to Provo The borrowed Isolette wasn't made for travel so the baby was taken to Provo In the best transportation available available- an air conditioned car He made the trip all aU right but that was a along along along long and anxious hour for the parents He was placed in another another an an- an other Isolette In the Utah Valley Hospital and after a complete transfusion so that the goodblood good goodblood goodblood blood could encourage his liver to function properly he was able to come home In just three days He hadn't gained his birth- birth weight back when he was re released released released re- re leased from the hospital He weighed only 4 Ibs lbs 5 but buthis buthis buthis his troubles were over and now after three months he Is a happy healthy baby weighing nearly nine pounds Mr F Farrell a r r e 11 McKInney superintendent of the Sanpete Lt Hospital has planned the return of the borrowed Isolette Isolette Isolette Iso Iso- lette but twice more has needed It for other new babies bornat born bornat bornat at the Mt Pleasant Hospital Hospital officials at Mt Pleasant say we have a real need for an Isolette in our area One that could also betaken betaken be betaken taken In a car as well as used in the hospital The cost of this piece of equipment Is about and is one of the many improvements planned for forthe forthe forthe the hospital In the future Campus Women at Snow College College College Col Col- lege have launched a campaign to raise the necessary funds to buy an Isolette the transport kind that also rides In a car Special functions planned to raise this money Include a visit from Mrs Lenore Romney who will wUl speak in the Snow College auditorium on the evening of October 8 at pm p.m. Tickets will be available through the stakes In this hospital area Moroni Sanpete North pete South Stakes Donations will be accepted by members of S Snow now College Campus Women members of the Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San San- pete Hospital Board or by bythe bythe bythe the business office at the hospital hospital hos has pital in Mt Pleasant Suggested donations for those attending the October 8 meeting at Snow College featuring Mrs Romney Is t. t H q S iti ti i M J J Ti r f FRANK RAY TA TAYLOR |