The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 25, 1952, St. Anthony's Hospital Magazine Supplement, Image 20
—=~ — ~ - - . - ...... - . . . Financial Problems Not Over By JAMES M. CORKLE • Chairman, St. Anthony's Hosp. Building Committee As you know, St. Anthony’s hospital will soon be open. Our dream of a modern hospi tal to serve this great sandhills area has finally become a real ity. Since the campaign to raise funds began six years ago, we have been confronted with dif ferent obstacles some of which seemed insurmountable. Ever since construction began there have been times when you perhaps wondered if it would ever be completed. The hospital program has been a success be cause you have all done a mag nificent job and you should be proud as I know you are. I want to thank you for your wonderful cooperation and I want to thank you for the op portunity of serving as your chairman on this hospital pro gram. You have made a great contribution to this communi ty. I am sure you will continue on with that same enthusiasm and cooperation that you. have shown since the hospital movement be gan in 1946. Every day and every hour bring the possibility that we direly need the hospital. This need is not only confined to ac cidents and emergencies. The hospital, while primarily for the care and treatment of the sick and injured, also provides educa tion and training to doctors, ^nurses, and technicians, and is a center of medical research for our community. As such, the hos pital makes important contribu tions daily to the health, happi ness and welfare of everyone in the community. Because it is an investment in individual as well as community health, every budget should pro vide for regular contributions to the hospital. What better invest ment can one make than in help ing to provide and make always available better hospital care for ourselves, our family, and our neighbors? A wise man once said, “The greatest use of life is to spend it for some thing that will outlast it.” In this hospital project you are doing just that. To be remem bered is an instinctive desire as old as man. No memorial will be imbued with greater warmth of human feeling than one with in this institution of healing. There are still opportunities for memorial gifts in St. Anthony’s hospital. One piece of equipment that has not been obtained that I might mention is an iron lung. If we are able to purchase one for the hospital it will un doubtedly save a life some time. It might be yours or mine. The decision to build St. An thony’s hospital was the result of obvious needs which have too long been urgent and imperative. We met the situation in an Am erican and Christian way. The success of the venture is due to the many who cooperated. This hospital is your hospital and I am sure you will continue to support it now that it is a reality, in the same splendid spirit as you have during the fund raising and building program. We will take our place among the many, many modern communities of America whose people live longer and enjoy better health because they have provided the necessary fa cilities to assure good health. In the sight of God and man we shall live to be proud and thankful for sharing in this hu manitarian and Christian effort. I say: “Thanks.” Arabs Were Founders of Hospitals— The modem world is very much indebted to Arabic interest and progress in the science of medicine. It is interesting to note that the first hospitals were founded by two Arabs, Emir Adad-adaula and Emir Nured din, in 977 and 1160 respective ly. Another famous Arab physi cian, Al-Razi, made the first scientific classification of chem ical substances. ^ ■ - - Corkle Man With Irons in Fire’ Father of 11 Heads Committee (By a Staff Writer) James M. Corkle was bom near Tilden* where his parents were farmers. His father and • iB?|i|njirriuiBf Mr. Corkle . . . thanks! mother became the parents of seven children. Something of the inherent nature of the fam ily is told in the fact that the elder Corkles thought seven were not enough so they adopted two more. James married Blanche Han sen. They went to Sargent in 1937 and a flood virtually washed them out in 1939. It was that year the Corkles •came to O’Neill and establish ed a business that was to ex pand and include north-Ne braska’s largest poultry hatch ery. two turkey farms, a feed store, etc. Mr. Corkle. a man to whom considerable credit belongs for the new 'O'Neill hospital that today is a reality, is the father of 11 children whose ages ranqe from 6-months* old to 16-years-old. Genial Jim Corkle is sandy complexioned with crisp talk and mannerisms. He is in his late thirties but can pass as something little above the col legiate set. To this man right ly belongs the title of being an alert, aggressive and influ ential businessman. He is a trim chap, medium height and probably has had more irons in the fire, if you please, dur ing the course of the hospital construction and the conduct of his own business affairs than any man within a hun dred miles. For a man young in years yet mature in know-how and the art of working with people, Mr. Corkle has made a valu able contribution to the O’Neill region by proffering leadership at a vital hour. His personal contribution in terms of un counted hours of work sub tracted from his own enter prises cannot be measured in dollars and cents. O’Neillites will be eternally grateful to James M. Corkle. Visitors to the new St. Antho ny’s hospital unfamiliar with the city of O’Neill will find this guidance helpful: Proceed north two blocks on North Fourth street from the principal O’Neill business district intersection (at -'t traffic signal, known as Fourth and Douglas), then west on Benton street two blocks. .444444*4 4444* ****** * 4 «♦****♦•*♦#♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦ * ♦. f MYRT’S CAFE Says . . . “GOOD JOB . . . WELL DONE!” WEST O’NEILL • SHORT ORDERS • MEALS • HOMEMADE PIES it to the I O'Neill Community « « • > ... and all public-spirited and charity-minded people who have helped to create the New St. Anthony Hospital— truly a remarkable institution for a city of the size of i;| O’Neill. § We Extend Every Good Wish | to the \ Sisters of St. Francis \ [ O'Neill's New Hospital I (ST. ANTHONY’S) | ... the Finest in SERVICE O'Neill's Town House j 111 1 ... the Finest in food I STEAKS ... SEA FOODS ... FRIED CHICKEN I We Cater to Groups I : We join the rest of the community in rejoicing \>\ upon the completion and opening of a magnificent I addition to our city. 1 VAL & JOYCE DARLING Phone 273 The TOWN HOUSE . • 4• ♦♦ O'Neill 1 Marches On | | *♦ The inexorable march of time in these j past few months has witnessed the erec tion and glorious completion of a new half-million-dollar community hospital. Our very best wishes to the good Sisters of St. Francis as they undertake to op | erate St. Anthony’s and to provide the | people of this region with the finest in | hospital services. ji ii: C- ji I O’NEILL LIVESTOCK MARKET | VERNE and LEIGH REYNOLDSON. Managers PHONE 2 ::: I: