Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1949 Page: 5 of 10
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BASTROP ADVERTISER DECEMBER 8. 1949
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A
ORC OFFICERS TO
ATTEND CAMP
AUSTIN, Tex.—Organized Re-
serve Corps officer* of Texas
have an opportunity to attend
"Operation I'ortrex" to auK'tient
the Umpire Group for that exer-
cise, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott,
Chief of the Texas Military I)is-
trict, announced here. The selected
officers will report to Camp Lee,
Virginia between January 10th -
17th, 1U60 and will be released
to return between March 20th and
.'10th. At "Operation I'ortex" ap-
proximately 80,000 Army, Navy,
Marine and Air Force troops will
converge on Puerto Kico in a .real-
istic war exercise.
Under the overull command of
Admiral W. H. P. Hlunriy, Com-
mander in Chief Atlantic and U.
S. Atlantic Fleet, the exercise as
directed by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff will provide training for
Armed Force.- personnel and t -t
procedures and equipment in joint
airborne-amphihious operation-
Climax of the war Karnes that
will employ the largest number of
troop ever assembled for a joint
peacetime exercise in thif. hemis-
phere will Im- a combined land,
soa and air -fcult on Bieques
Island, four miles off the ea-tern
tip of Puerto Rico. Ground o|mt-
atio'is with the Navy and Air
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Force in support of Army units
will follow the amphibious and
airborne phase of the maneuver.
Basic plans for "Portrex", now
being prepared by a joint Armed
Forces staff assembled at Atlan-
tic Fleet Headquarters, Norfolk,
Va., calls for ground forces that
will include an infantry division,
airborne troops and a regimental
combat team or equivalent force.
The Navy will muster 162 ves-
sels of all types from the Atlantic
Fleet including aircraft carriers,
submarines, destroyers, cruisers,
minecraft, the battleship Missouri,
and various types of amphibious
and service ships. Several vessels
from the Pacific Fleet will also
be assigned to the operation.
Air Power will be supplied by
the Continental Air Command and
will include a mobile tactical air
force consisting of two fighter
groups, a troop carrier group, a
phot o reconnaissance squadron
i(Jets), a night photo reconnais-
jsance squadron and auxiliary
; ground units.
Tin requirement for the Texas
Organized Reservists are mostly
for company grade officers al-
though thine i> a vacancy foe two
Infantry .Major*.
Colonel Abbott stressed the fact
that all applicants from Organised
Reservists must reach thi- Head-
quarters no later than December
Hi, H>4! and that all interested
personnel should immediately con-
tact their nearest Organized Re-
serve Corps Instructor's office.
I Texas Mental Patients
Need More Room
AUSTIN, Tex. Patients in Tex-
'as mental hospitals are despcrate-
lly in need of "breathing room."
Now numbering 16,0<M) and in-
creasing every day. the State's
'mental wards are jammed into
50-year-old buildings for less than
half the present hospital popula-
tion.
N e w «• paper men, representing
; some of the State's largest and
rnailest papers, recently got a
i first-hand look at this pathetic
situation when they made a 1,000-
mile -wing through Texas. Their
| slopping points were the packed
mental institutions
The tour was inspired by Gov-
ernor Allan Shiver and sponsor*
ed by the Austin profe-«ional
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, a
journal.-m fraUrnit \ composed
mostly of working newspapermen.
Karly this
inspected th*
finding them overcrowded and
I.ater. he described
the journalism fra-
journalists started
before the
fo; tin m-
f al I, the Governor
institution.* himself.
understaffed,
his finding
ternity The
planning a press tour
meeting ended to see
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Baal top, Texas
«e!ve- the conditions.
Guided by Dr. James S. Scar-
borough, medical director for State
Hospitals, the newsmen sa« what
the Governor told them they would
see.
In San Antonio's mental hospi-
tal, '' bed were jig saw ed into a
wai Ironm with pace for 1(. So e
<>f Abilene',* epileptic case- were
eating in bathrooms for lack of
dining space.
At Terrell, 77 Negro women
were confined in a rotting "in-
firmary", condemned and evacu-
ated decade* ttefor.", but pre- ed
into ervice again when "breathing
room" ian out.
Rusk State Hospital's superin-
tendent told the visitor- that .Id
patient- were on a "waiting list"
to enter his hospital. Half wers
•till living at home, half in jail
cell#.
In th > \u*tin hospital tuber-
cular patients could not 1m- iso-
lated from other patients for lack
of dormitory space.
In more than one hospital pa-
tient* slept on open porches, win-
ter as well as summer. Ituildings
with fire escape- were in the
minority at several hospitals
Superintendent of the institu-
tions pointed out that, while ade-
quate bed space is essential in
ordinary hospitals, it it even morn
imperative in mental hospitals.
The officials emphasized that
mental patients often become "dis-
turbed" during the night and can
inflame a whole ward when bods
are only inches apart.
The hospital authorities also ex-
plained that hundreds of new pa-
rent* with only slight mental
illness have become hopeless cases
after living with the acutely-ill for
a few months.
More space, the hospitalmcn add-
ed. is the only mentis of separat-
ing patients according to the stage
of their insanity
Ahilenei's hospital for epilep-
tics offer a special, deadly pro-
blem.
Ml the Abilene institution's
buildings have three or four
stories. Step flight - of razor-sharp
slate steps make every building
a deathtrap for epileptic patients
who are subject to "seizures" at
any time. Falls down the stairs
have taken some lives and re-
sulted in many serious injuries.
An unrehearsed demonstration
of this hazard was seen by the
newsmen. They watched whih n
nurse ran to help a little nirl who, I
unnoticed, had pulled herself a) I
most to the top of a steep flight
of stairs,
Officials of the hospitals tol«,
the newspapermen they plan to
ask the special January session of
the Legislature for funds to give '
their patients "breathing room." ,
Texas Mental
Hospitals Under-
Staffed Due To Wages
AUSTIN, Tex.—Low pay for
long hours of hard, distasteful
work keeps Texas mental hospi-
tals seriously understaffed.
Texas newspapermen, on their
recent tour of the mental institu-
tions, got figures to this effect
from hospital officials. They saw
the facts for themselves.
The newsmen visited a 913-pa-
tient ward in San Antonio, cared
for by one attending physician.
They saw women attendants do-
ing the work of registered nurses
for $80 a month. The same work,
performed in private hospitals,
would bring $175 a month.
The newsmen talked to men
attendants who work 72 hours a
week for the same $80 wage.
"How jn earth can we attract
anyone when other hospitals pay
three times as much." exclaimed
Dr. A. T. Hanretta, superintend-
ent of the Austin State Hospital.
Most doctors in the State sys-
tem are paid $l'J.r> a month. Some
receive a.- low a $-S2 >, and the
top salary is $ .00.
The Austin hospital houses .'i,200
patients. According to minimum
Eight New Members
Added To Braniff
Airline Staff
DALLAS. Tex. Braniff Inter-
national Airways today graduated
a class of eight of Uncle Sam's
World War Two pilots as flight
engineer- on DC-fi airliners fly-
ing from Chicago to Rio de Jan-
eiro, Brazil.
R. V. Carleton, Director ol
Flight Operations for the Dallas-
iiased airline, awarded flight en-
gineer certificate- to D L. Mas ey
of Kansas City, Mo., O. L. Lip-
pert of Alma, Mich., David J.
Wallace of 1'ontiac, Mich., Arthur
H. Gibson of I'plalnd. Calif.,
Donald H. Showman of Shells-
lung. la . Ha I S, Bond of Abilene,
Tex , \.15.1 Morgan of Louisville,
K>., and D. B. DeWit (cq) of
Chicago, III.
The eight additions to Braniff
Airways' flight engineer staff
give th< sirlne flight engineers
for it fleet of big four-engined
planes. The men qualified for
their job- aftei an eight-week's
tin ning course at the big Branifl
basi here. ('apt. Bill Walner, As-
sistant Chief Pilot for Braniff,
and T. K A-hiey, Aviation Safety
Agent f■ ■ r the CAA. gave the clas-
it final flight check. Krnest T.
Donahoo, B-nniff Superintendent
of Training, is in charge of the
course.
All of the new flight engineers
are former -ervice pilots, and like
all Braniff flight engineers, hold
omm< rnal pilot ratings. Massey.
Wallace, Showman, Bond, Morgan
■a d I leWl* .rved with the l". S.
\nny Air F-ce during the late
war. Lippert and Gibson w* re
pilot for the 1" S Navy. All a-so
have engineering backgrounds.
The i ight-weok training course
for fliirht engineers consists of
threr weeks of ground school and
five weeks of study of DC-<1 oper-
ations. The ground school course
inc!ud< the -t.ul> of basic main-
tenance of aircraft.
Iri the IK'-t; cockpit, the flight
engineer -its just behind the pilot
and co-pilot. Braniff's flight eti-
gineers are the c< pilots and pilots
of the future, for any additions
to co-pilot ranks come from th<
flight engineer Maff.
TAKE CARE OF
COMMON COLDS
AUSTIN. Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer declares
there's hardly anvone who hasn't
caught cold at one time or another.
The common cold is common in-
deed' Besides making you feel
miserable, colds steal your time
and your money. They fool you,
too, because the early signs are
often the same as those of more
serious illnesses. And long-con
tinned colds may pave the way
for an attack of pneumonia, tuber-
culosis, or a chronic infection of
the nose, throat, ears, or sinuses.
So, do your best to keep from
cntching col«L And if you do
catch one. take proper care of
yourself so you can get rid of it.
When you have a cold:
1. Get as much rest as possible.
Stay in bed or indoors for the
first day or so if you can.
Keep comfortably warm and
dry. If you must go to work, wear
clothes that will protect you ade-
quately when you go outdoors,
and avoid drafts and sudden chill-
ing when overheated.
3. Drink plenty of citrus fruit
juices, water, and other liquids,
Kat .simple foods which agree with
you.
4 Protect other people as much
as possible. Cover your mouth and
nose when you cough or sneeze.
Use paper handkerchiefs or papei
napkin- that can be burned. Wash
your hands frequently with soap
and water.
5. Blow your nose gently. If
you don't, you may force infected
material from your nose into your
sinuses or middle ear and develop
sinus trouble or serious ear in-
fection. •
•>. If a cold .starts with chills,
fever-, or aching, or seems more
severe, or la ts longer than usual,
consult a physician without de-
Inv.
standards of the American Psy-
chiatric Association, the institu-
tion should have 30 doctors and
133 registered nurses. It has 10
doctors and 4 nurses,
The shortage of doctors and
nurses was prevalent in every in-
stitution the tour covered.
Dr. R. C. Rowell, superintend-
ent of the Abilene hospital for
epileptics, says he needs 8 doc-
tors instead of 4, 12 nurses in-
stead of 2.
Dr. A. D. Patillo's 2,000 patients
at Terrell have no registered nur-
ses and only 8 aoctors. The State
allows the hospital 5 more doctors,
but no more will agree to work
for the salaries the State offers.
Rusk State Hospital's superin-
tendent, Dr. C. L. Jackson, gave
the newspapermen a different
angle.
"I could hire some more doc-
tors, but I just can't accept most
of the ones our kind of salary
attracts," ho said.
Mental hospital work, he ex-
plained, requires active, vigorous ,
physicians with psychiatric train-
ing ^ j
"We're losing one of our young-
est and best doctors," Dr. Jackson
added. "He's going into town and
practice on his own."
The newspapermen learned that
maintenance food and quarters)
is the only advantage work in
State hospitals offers. This advan-
tage, they found, is blotted out by
the type of quarters the institu-
tions have to offer.
Some attendants are living in
the wards with their parents,
others in "sweat box" rooms above
the hospitals' bakeries and laun
dries. For other attendants there
are not even these kinds of ac-
commodations, and they are given
$12 monthly to "pay" for room
and groceries outside.
Dr. Paul Rease, of the Rusk
hospital staff, emphasized that
overworked doctors are unable to
devote enough time to patients
who could be sent back to society.
"The main thing in the rehabil-
itation of mental cases is to do
the right thing at the right time.
Unless this is done, a hopeful
case may become perpetuated."
This point again will be em-
phasized when hospital represen-
tatives carry their needs before
the special January session of
the legislature. The hospitalmen
will be asking for "decent" wages
and living quarters for hospital
employees.
They will point to the San An-
'onio State Hospital which hired
00 new employees last year and
lo-t 2MI of them before the year-
ended.
As a pretty, middle-aged attend-
ant at San Antonio put it: "There's
just some intangible something
about helping these people that
keeps me working here."
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1949, newspaper, December 8, 1949; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237248/m1/5/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.