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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1952)
o * i*. . ' ' ’ • ' Nurse Marilyn Fritton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A1 Fritton of O'Neill, is a recent graduate of the St. Catherine's hospital school of nursing. Omaha. She is shown making a bed in a double room. Oxygen is piped lo all rooms, lighting is indirect and colors are cheerful. Mil - - W Doling new fathers will peer through this window into the nursery located at the west end of the second floor. Capacity is 12 bassinets. Each bassinet is a unit in itself with drawer space for ..i • •:; storing clothes, blankets and diapers. Formula for baby is prepared, refrigerated and kept in a special compartment in the nursery. ----m—m-i-1-I-Him II ■ .-- - - This is a camera's view of the basement laundry room which will be headed by Mrs. John Smith. Equipment includes washer, mangle. drier, extractor and other equipment. An esti mated 74 sheets will be laundered daily. Rooney Secretary of Building Committee James W. Rooney, O’Neill bus inessman, has been secretary of the St. Anthony’s hospital build ing committee since the organ izational meeting in 1946. Mr. Rooney has devoted an un told amount of time and person al effort to the job; has made frequent trips to work out details and coordinate activities with contractors and state and federal health agencies, and has partici pated in all the vital conferences. Mr. Rooney, a graduate of the University of Nebraska college of agriculture, was Holt county’s first county extension agent. He has been secretary of the O’Neil! Production Credit association since its founding and only re cently retired after many years as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. His wife is the for mer Miss Helen Mack, Atkinson. Telephone Service Handy in Rooms Patients at St. Anthony’s hos pital may enjoy limited telephone service in their own room—pro vided the doctor says okay. All rooms are wired with a sim ple telephone jack. If receipt or transmission of a phone call is sanctioned a portable phone is brought into the room, plugged in, and, presto, the patient is in contact with his or her own many miles away. This service involves installa tion °f the latest-type switch board facilities—a cordless tvpe all-electric board. The switch in the hospital office amounts to a private branch exchange. There will be three trunklines into the hospital to handle the anticipated, volume of incoming and outgoing “switch ” CaUS WiH g° through th® * ?,x^fns^on telephones are in stalled at strategic places through out the hospital, says Harry Peter sen manner of the O’Neill office of Northwestern Bell Telephone company pital?n* Ca^ Aphony’s hos The number is 596. L*. C. Walling Serves As Committee Officer Vitally engaged in the fund raising for O’Neill’s hospital was r %t^af1Urer of the committee, lu c- .Walllng, who kept records of the financial progress of the con tributions. It is significant that Mr. Walling, completely on his own accord, insisted that books be audited periodically by a cer tified auditor and arranged it at not a single cent of expense to the hospital committee. Mr. Walling, it was announced recently, will retire as district manager of Consumers Public Power district in O’Neill, where he has spent 23 years in man agerial capacities. Always active in the affairs of his communitj’-, Mr. Walling intends to continue to make his home in O’Neill af ter his retirement becomes ef fective on December 31 of this year. Julius D. Cronin, O’Neill man who is a prominent North-Ne braska attorney, will be master of-ceremonies at the dedication rite on a specially-erected stand in the hospital park. The Frontier’s average gross distribution for September (ex clusive of this issue) is 2,367 copies weekly. NURSE BOSN .. .Miss Rosalyn Bosn (above), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bosn of O’Neill, graduated a year ago from the St. Elizabeth’s hospital school of nursing, Lincoln. She has joined the St. Anthony’s staff after a year in Winner, S. D. beef best? Meat dish for the dedication banquet—$2.50 per plate affair at noon—originally was planned as pork. Three O’Neill cattle men changed that: They donated beef. Try Frontier want ad vs! SHOES for Happy Little Feet.. Congratulations to St. Anthony’s OSBORNE'S Family Shoe Store Congratulations 4 O’Neill i Dr. W. F. Finley "'\r S " " 11 . . . O’Neill and vicinity for helping make this community a better place in which to live and Congratulations Harry R. Smith Imp. "Home of John Deere" Smith Motor Co. Paul Shierk, Mgr. DESOTO and PLYMOUTH ■/. * *. vmmt»»tm»mtmttitTTiii i mm mm