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Evening star., 1954-12-05
But It's a Thread
Only That Provides
Top Medical Service
By John McKelwoy

About two years ago the name
Of "Gallinger" was dropped and
the Districts city hospital be-
came District General"
The name change was done
rather quietly. Even those at
the hospital slip now and then
and call the place Gallinger.
Cab drivers have the same
trouble.
Other changes have taken
place at the hospital within the
last five years. These have been
Of a gradual nature. not as easily
recognized, but changes which
promise a better hospital for the
Districts INDECENT sick.
Still, the feeling persist Dis
trict General is the same old
Gallinger-the hospital with the
dubious reputation. Hospital Of
flcials feel it keenly and say it's
unjustified.
"You won't find chrome water
pitchers by bedsides." one doc
tor says, "but you will find our
patients are getting as good med
ical care as any other place in
the District can furnish"
"A Good Hospital"
And a top medical authority
in private practice says Of Dis
trict General: That's a good
hospital. It's finally coming
along"
But how does one judge, or
measure a hospital?
You can look at the structure.
And District General is a hodge
podge of buildings with little
architectural unity, lying in the
shadow of a Jail, next to a
morgue and beside an old ceme-
terry and the muddy Anacostia.
The shady reputation fits easily.
There is no great block of marble
towering, a symbol Of modern
medicine.
Or you can be stung by So
called "pitiful conditions" there,
the lack Of personnel, the meager
salaries, crowded wards where
men die next to other patients.
You can hear the hospital called,
from time to time, a slaughter
house, butcher shop. hell hole" !"
or. 1.-THE Shame of the Nations
Capital"
But these methods of measure
ment give little indication Of
what really goes on inside Dis
trict General.
In "a buildings, on IS acres,
In 1882 beds, District General in
fiscal "a:
Treated 25,601 personals per
cent colored and all medically
INDECENT.
Delivered 5,376 babies, or one
out of every five born in the
District. ....*
Performed 1885 operations.
Received over 100 patients q
day in the admitting Office
sometimes over 200.
Gave treatment and instruc-
ton to 100000 persons in the
out-patient clinic.
Sent 1906 persons through
the rehabilitation department
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Nine and a Half Millions Appropriated For
 Alaska Public Works

JUNEAU - Gov. Heintzleman was advised today that the h. terior Department appropriation bill as approved by the House Senate conference committee con- tains nine and a half million dol lars for Alaska Public Works. The bill now goes to the President for his signature.
 The Alaska Public Works appro- priation as finally agreed upon by the two houses is half million dollars below the original request of the Department of Interior but four and a half million higher than the amount approved first by the Bureau of Budget.
 The Alaska Public Works Ad- ministration is a branch of the Office of Territories headed by William c. Strand, who will visit Alaska in July with Secretary of the Interior Douglas Mckay and at that time is expected to discuss with Gov. Heintzleman and direc- tor James Houston the allotment of APW funds.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Improved Alaska
 Mental Health Bill OKd in Committee

WASHINGTON, R-The House Rules Committee Wednesday ap- proved for early House considera- ton a bill to revamp Alaska's mental health treatment program.
 Committee action followed state ments by Rep. Saylor R-Pa), chairman of the territories sub committee, that present proceed ures require that mentally i'll per sons be "treated as criminals"
 "Outside of the statehood issue," he said, "this is the question in which Alaskans are most inter ested."
 In addition to prescribing com- mitment and treatment proceed ures in line with a model program in effect in several states, the bill also would have the effect of turning over to the territory the responsibility for the mentally ill.
 It would limit federal appro- priations for the purpose to the $798,600 appropriated during the present year. Additional costs would be borne by the territory.
 Saylor said that cost of the AL aska program is high because present law forbids their treat ment in the territory, necessitat- ing transportation costs for both the patient and US. marshal to Portland, Ore, where care is pro- vided at Morningside Hospital.
 It was considered probable the bill would receive floor action next week.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Man Shoots His Wife
 While Embracing Her

BALTIMORE, R-Kenneth c. Kellar, who told jury he acci- dentally shot his wife while en- bracing her, was sentenced yes- terday to IS years in the peniten- tiary for second-degree murder.
 The 23-year-old mother of two children was fatally shot in the head last January. Kellar, "A, said he was embracing her and stroking her hair with a hand that held a pistol.
 He said the gun was discharged accidentally.
 The sentence imposed by Judge Michael J. Manley was the maxi mum term provided by law.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Little League Teams To Play On Monday

The Little League ball game to be played July at 400 pm. will be between the Arctic Slug gers" explained by Ralph Luke, and the "Polar Cubs" explained by Carl Tveter. The Sluggers are coached by Dan Fritz and the Cubs by Bill Barber.
 Starting batteries will be-
 Polar Cubs-Carl Tveter, pitch CT and Walter Cabinboy, catcher.
 Arctic Sluggers-Ralph Luke, pitcher and John Herman, catcher.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02

What took place July A. 776, the date celebrate? member of the fiveman committee headed by Thomas appointed Declaration Independence the 1776 Continental Congress. the Declaration signed on July 4? Declaration permanent home after its adoption?
 B. Why Declaration kept hidden for time? the Declaration be today? the Liberty Bell with its Proclaim Liberty inscription after the Declaration written? S. Did Is days 3 days to write and polish the Declaration?
 the first celebration? TO- phrase "sae and Fourth originate?
 ANSWERS ON PAGE SEVEN
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Steel Price Boost Follows Wage Hike For SteelWOrkers

PITTSBURGH, R-U.S. Steel Corp, which produces more than one-third of the nations steel, Thursday announced an increase in prices averaging $3 ton. The present price of basic carbon steel is $120 a ton.
 The price increase comes just two days after the nations No. 1 producer signed a contract with the CIO United Steelworkers giv- ing 190,000 employees a five-cent hourly wage hike and improved pension and insurance programs.
 Other basic steel producers are expected to follow US. Steels example in tipping prices sin9. they also reached agreement with the union on similar contracts.
 The company did not say inn mediately when the increases will become effective.
 The increase in steel prices may touch off a series of price hikes in the cost of number of finished products made of steel. That means the hike might touch the pocketbook of nearly every Amer ican.
 The steel industry's biggest cus- toners include the automobile in- dustry and the manufacturers of home appliances and farm equip ment.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Sally Carrighar's Nephew Working For U. s. Smelling

John Wagner, nephew of Sally Carrighar, is spending his sum- mer vacation from college in Nome and is employed by the US. Smelling Go. in the thawing fields. He enjoyed a visit in Una lakleet with friends of Miss Car righar before coming to Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
BILL OF RIGHTS


 One of the purposes of the celebration on the 4th of July is to take time for few minutes on that day and review the Declaration of Independence and renew pledge in the words of Lincoln when he said, ''let every American pledge his life, his property and hls sacred honor"
 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence helped prepare the Bill of Rights" the first 10 amendments which attached two years after the Constitution iteslf ratified And why the Bill of Rights necessary? Many of Jefferson's N0''@S'e' SPELLING OUT FREEDOM
 Article (of the Bill of Rights) specifically sets forth freedom of worship, of speech, of press and freedom to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances Article II acknowledges the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Article III aclnowl- edges the sanctity of private propery-prohibng the quartering of soldiers in any house without consent of the Article " details the rights of citizens to be in their person. houses papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
 Article V provides that no person shall be arrested for crime without prior presentment or indictment by Grand Jury that person shall be twice placed in jeopardy for the offense; nor shall anyone be compelled in criminal case to be a witness against himself Article also resates the sanctity of private property-declaring that person cannot be deprved of life, liberty, property without due process of law shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.,, sns tI9E ,ccusrn
 Article VI protects the accused It guarantees the right to public tria the right to information on the nature of the accusaon the to be confronted with the accusers subpoena defense witnesses and to have access to counsel Article VII provides sim liar rights in civil according to the rules of the law. Article VIII restricts bail to a reason able amount and prohibits excessixe fines and cruel and unusual punishments
 Article TX makes it clear that the Constitution points to certain rights specifically but that in so doing it does not deny disparage other rights retained by the people, Article x is the States Rights" amend ment It says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people, This Bill of Rights spells out important freedoms. But they cannot survive unless the citizens enjoying them accept the individual respon abilities which are the price of freedom.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
Knowland to Resign Leadership of Senate Majority if Chinese Reds
 Admitted to Membership in JUN.

WASHINGTON, R-Sen. Know land R-Calif) said Thursday that if the Chinese Communists are admitted to the United Nations, he will resign as majority leader of the Senate and "devote my full efforts to terminate United States membership in that organi- zation .'
 Knowland told the Senate that there is likely to be Ca Commu- mist victory of no mean propor- tions" in Indochina and as result of that he expects a concerted effort later this year to bring Red China into the JUN. through action by the General Assembly.
 "On the day that Communist China is voted into membership in the United Nations I shall re- sign my majority leadership in the Senate so that without embar- rassment to any of my colleagues or to the administration, I can devote my full efforts in the Sen ate and throughout the country to terminate United States member ship in that organization and our financial support of it," Know land declared.
 My conscience would not permit me to remain silent or inactive if this last grand appeasement takes place."
 Knowland, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Con- mittee, has urged that the United States take the initiative-With or without Great Britain-in moving to stem the tide of Communist aggression in Asia.
 The California senator told his colleagues that as they met today "our ally, France, in thinly disguised surrender, is being re- quired to permit 10 million Viet- namese in the Red River delta and northern. Viet Nam to pass into Communist control.
 "Will the argument not be re- peated a dozen times that the danger ot atomic destruction is not worth the risk of involvement in far off places?" he inquired. "Where is the line to be drawn? Is the American public to first fully realize the grave conse- quences of the chain reacton now in progress only when future de- mands are made on us for Alaska and Hawaii?"
 Shortly after Knowland made his statement, Chairman Wiley R-Wis) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rose to point out that he has said repeatedly that to admit Red China to the United Nations would be the death knell of that organization.
 "It would be serious threat to the peace of the world," he said, if China were permitted in the United Nations.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-02
HINTS FROM MOSCOW RADIO

LONDON, R-Moscow Radio hinted Thursday Red China may withdraw its offer to "normalize" diplomatic relations with Britain if the latter joins a proposed Southeast Asia defense bloc against Communism.
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Text Of Bishops Sermon At St. Caspar del Buffalo Rites

20 praise the Lord, all We
nations praise Him, all We
people " Psalm 116.
Gods own inspired word of
praise and Joy alone can serve
our need on this blessed occa-
sion We cry in iuhilant sum-
mons to all the Faithful. and
indeed to all mankind. We ex-
press a universal rejoicing that
new Star is now shining in
the great galaxy of heaven.
Another Saint has been named
by the infallible voice of the
Church. A beloved patron and
model of our own has now
been set for honor and imita-
tion before the eyes of all ma
tons and all peoples. Quick
to appreciate the sentiment
proper TO this time, the Catho-
lie heart pours out grateful
praise to God and calls upon
all the world to share IT'S jubila
ton. 20 praise the Lord, all We ma
tions. Praise Him all We people
On the twelfth day of last June,
an act OF eanonizatiou raised Gas
par del Buffalo to the honors Of the
altar. His sainthood was then off
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ton of the Most Precious Blood.
II was in the year 1915, the year
of Waterloo and the end of the
Napoleonic seourge which had been
to Saint Gaspar a constant source
of trial and irritation, that the Con
gregation was definitely estab-
lished.
On the Feast of the Assumption
of Our Lady, the rule and consti-
tuition of the new Community we're
approved by the Holy See in the
pontificate of Plus VII. 1t was a
fortunate and significant fact that
the great event occurred on Au-
gust fifteenth. During all his life
Saint Gaspar had the most tender
and earnest devotion to the Bless
ed Mother. Again like the Magi he
found Christ on the knees of His
Mother The Congregation. estab-
lished on Mary's Feastday, has al
ways retained its founders special
dedication to the Mother of God.
Shall we be imaginative if we think
that the canonization of Saint Gas
par in Mary's own year of 1854 is
more than a mere coincidence?
Shall we be only fanciful in the
thought that there is a direct af-
finity between devotion to the
Most Precious Blood, the price of
human salvation, and devotion to
the Providentia1 source of that
sacred humanity which made pos
sible the shedding of the Precious
Blood? ~
Saint Gaspar died two days after
Christmas in the year 1887. He was
just ten days short of rounding
out his fifty-second year. Fifteen
years later he was declared Vener-
able. Slightly more than a half
century passed and he was beati-
fled; this was in 1904. An even
half century elapsed, and now, in
the current Marian Year of 1854
the Blessed is proclaimed the
Saint.
To this heavenly Star whose
light has just come through to us
we turn with joy. AS always in our
veneration of Gods Saints, we turn
with a prayer of strong supplica-
tion on our lips and in our hearts.
We beg Saint Gaspar, whose own
personal memories are of the
Church in troubled days, of fading
faith in millions, of people turned
to the idolatry of materialism, we
beg him by his constant interces-
sion before the throne of God, to
bring to us and to our times a
universal revival of living faith, a
renewal of Catholic virtues among
mankind, new-stirred devotion to
the Precious Blood that wrought our
salvation and steadfast allegiance to
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known the sanctity of your Found
er; you who have held him in your
souls deep esteem as Father,
teacher, leader, the inspiration of
your dedicated efforts in the cause
of Christ; you before all others,
must now experience a sacred sat
isfaction in beholding his achieve
ments recognized, his virtues pub
licly praised, his spiritual nobility
appreciated, his religious establish
ment uniquely approved, and his
status as effective intercessor for
souls authenticity proclaimed. Up
on you are focused, in full strength
and brightness, the rays of the
new Star whose light is now diff
fused throughout the threefold
realm of the Communion of Saints
And to you, in a special manner,
the Church does honor She honors
the Father surrounded by his spir-
itual children. In honoring Saint
Gaspar the Church honors his
works. Your great Congregation is
the first fruit of his labor and the
finest of the works of his hands.
Certainly we of the United States
and especially of Ohio, are eager to
express our abounding gratitude to
God for the work of the Congrega-
tion in so many important mission
ary and educational works in our
favored land. The Congregation
from the beginning cast its lot
with the Bishops and entered into
the active apostolate by responding
to the Ordinaries' appeals to estab-
lish parishes, missions, and schools
to extend the essential organization
of parish life in this vast Ohio ter
ritory.
The monuments OF The eongre-
cations real and sanefitY may be
noted in our cities as we'll as in
rural areas. The Missioners Of
the Precious Blood have preach.
ed The saving gospel OF peace
and salvation as assistants TO our
devoted Parish Clergy and have
taken the truth and grace Of
The Gross 10 home and foreign
mission fields. The Congregation
has prospersd under the Just in.
stitUiions OF our Country and its
work has been noted by the real
Of its superiors and members 10
work in harmony with The Bish-
ops and Pastors in building up
the Church, which iS the Body
of Christ.
We today acknowledge their co
operation and hail the Sons of
Saint Gaspar for their genuine hu,
mility and holiness and zeal but
particularly for their generous ser.
vice in the full life of the Church
The life of Saint Gaspar del
Buffalo began in the year 1885. He
is, therefore, a Saint not remote
from our own times-not that this
fact is of significance in the
Church whose view is timeless. But
it is interesting for us to notice
that this Saint was born three
years after the close of the Revo
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Iutionary War and three years be-
fore Washington took office as our
first President. The birthplace of
Saint Gaspar was the Eternal City
itself. He came of a family that
was never very prosperous, and, at
the time of his birth, was actually
impoverished. Throughout his COM
paratiyely short life-for he died
in his fifty-second year-Gaspar
had no experience of ease or afflu-
ence. In his religious family, as in
his natural home, poverty was his
unfailing companion, a holy power
ty whose spiritual fruitfulness is
ever mystery and an offense in
the eyes of a materialistic world.
From the first, Gaspar and his
Congregation we're the instruments
and channels of an increasing flow
of grace in the Church. The spir-
itual riches which they garnered
and dispensed were beyond calcu-
lation. Yet they never had any ma
terial wealth, or even the secured
prospect of bare sufficiency of
earthly goods. Theirs was the de
privation experienced in both the
hidden and public life of Our Lord.
In literal truth, they could say
that they had left all things to fol
low Christ.
Gaspar del Buffalo was born on
the Feast of the Epiphany, January
9Th, 1886. His mother, mindful of
the festival, decided that her little
son should have the names tradi-
tionally ascribed to the Magi. At
his baptism he received all three:
Gaspar, Melchoir and Balthasar. II
is not mere sentiment that finds a
peculiar aptness in the selection of
these patronal saints. For Gaspar's
life was to bear their mark in un-
miStakable ways. True, he did not
like the Magi make a long journey.
Geographically, his life and lsbors
were spent within very limited
area. We read with surprise tinged
with reverent amusement that his
exile under the Napoleonic tyranny
in 1910 carried him off a distance
of only $50 miles. We are some
what startled at the vehemence of
his sorrow in being taken from his
believe mother, and at the
mothers pathetic cry that she
should never see her son again. For
to us, less than a century and a
half later, $50 miles means only q
few hours travel by train or auto
mobile. and a matter of minutes
rather than hours If we 90 by air.
Yet in Rome, just 144 years ago, a
journey to Piacenza, the city of
GaSpar's exile. was long, arduous,
and even dangerous prospect.
Saint Gaspar was not like the
Magi in point of travel. But he was
decidedly like them in many other
ways. Like the Magi ne made his
whole guest the Divine Child and
His Mother. Like the Magi, he en-,
dured hardships, sacrifices, and
tolls in working to his goal. Like
] the Magi, he carried precious gifts
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cially recognized and proclaimed.
Astronomers say that in the starry
armament which spreads its fiery
beauty before admiring eyes there
are countless other stars whose
light has not come through to us.
And thousands Of other shining
suns are visible only to the few
who scan the heavens with the aid
Of powerful telescopes. Something
of this kind is true of the souls that
shine as stars in Gods heavenly
kingdom
The light of millions of these
blessed individuals does not come
through to the peoples of the
earth. The shining glory of others
is known to only a comparative
few. But when, by the operation of
Providence. the few are made the
many and the heavenly splendor
OF a soul, till now obscured is man
ifested to all mankind, We say that
a Saint has been csnonized. Then
are the Faithful summoned to be
hold a newly shining Star, to re
iolce IN its beauty. and in its light,
to seek and serve the Father of
lights, with whom there Is no
change, nor shadow of alteration
and from whom descends every
best gift and every perfect gift
including certainly, the gift of
newly canonized Saint.
II is therefore, with souls crate.
ful and full of praise that we are
assembled here to honor the re-
Gently canonized Founder and Fa-
ther of the Congregation of the
Most Precious Blood, Saint Gaspar
del Buffalo. Mine is the high privi-
lege today OF expressing special
congratulations to the members of
the Congregation, Saint Gaspar's
noble religious family of Mission
aries, Priests, Brothers and Sisters,
whose zeal and sacrificing toll have
blessed the Church during the past
l39 years
While all the household of the
Faith rejoices in the canonization
of Gaspar del Buffalo, there is
special Joy, q peculiar right to fe
licitation, in the members of the
SAINTS own community You the
Fathers and Brothers of the Pre-
cious Blood, who have always
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Holy Name
Notes

All men and boys of the st.
Joseph Cathedral parish are invit-
ed to a baseball treat at Tuesday
evenings meeting of the Cathedral
Holy Name Society. The new Car
dinal-Red Bird Training Film will
be shown. The full-color film will
show plenty of action, close-ups
and behind-the-scenes shots-many
of former Red Birds. The meeting
is scheduled for $50 p. m, Oct.
4. in the Cathedral Rectory.
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the Blessed Mother, and peace and
Justice, with abounding charity,
among men and nations.
Gaspar del Buffalo, great Saint
of God, heavenly herald of the
Most Precious Blood, pray for us!
Amen.
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