The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1960-11-03

Division of Indian Health, Wash
dedicatory address.
Montana's Governor J. Hugo
Aronson, known as After Buff
falo" among the Blackfeet, will
also be present and give a short
address, as will Mayor o. A. Tel
lefero, Supt Howard F. johnson,
Blackfeet Indian Agency, Meade
Swingley, Tribal Council Chair
man; Henry Magee, Tribal Health
Committee Chairman, and Char
ley Grow Chief" ReeviS, Honor
airy Councilman.
The days schedule will begin
with an open house, with tours
beginning at $50 am. and con-
tinuing until noon. At 100 pm.
the dedicatory ceremony will take
place at the hospital. Entertain
ment interspersed by talks will
consist of selection by the Brown
ing high school band and dances
by the Heart Butte and Starr
School Fancy Dancers.
There will be an evenings pro-
gram at Starr School consisting
of barbecue and dances, during
which DR.. Shaw will be indicted
into the Blackfeet tribe.
DR.. Shaw spearheaded and cor
related efforts of federal and
state officials, churchmen, Indian
tribes, Indian organizations such
as the National Congress of
American Indians and other
groups and organizations too nu-
merous to mention, to convince
congress that the health needs
of the nations Indians were being
neglected.
Resulting appropriations, while
not amounting to budgetary re-
quests, were increased to allow
expenditures for facilities and
j services such as represented by
the local hospital.
Formerly the health needs of
the Blackfeet were dispensed
from a hospital located at the
Cut Bank Boarding School sew
eral miles north of town, until
the spring of 1887, when a new
hospital of native stone was COM
pleted in the government square
section of the Browning area.
The first medical officer in
charge was DR.. Herman Schrader
Others who followed were Doc
tors r. V. Rogers, DR.. CreviSton,
Darrell Darius, George D. Waller,
DR.. Murine, Thomas Crabbe,
= Frederick G. Panico, William F.
: Bennett, Sylvester E. Corrigan
and Elmer Gaede.
) The hospital proper, according
to information obtained from the
Blackfeet Indian Agency, cost
S142, 923.00 and an additional
I; sig, 10000 for the nurses home,
Il 4,84400 for residences, and
/ So, 10000 for a garage were spent,
t to comprise a total of S181, 469.00
|, for the entire hospital plant.
!, Constructed in 1886 and part
) of 1887, active operation began
the spring of 1887, according to
: R. E. Miles, Blackfeet Agency
Chief Clerk, who was then prop
!, erty clerk responsible for moving
1 in equipment.
A reconstruction of the struc-
ture at today's prices could con-
!, ceivably cost three of four times
: as much, or more than a half
, million dollars.
2 That original hospital, which
we now call the old one, has been
n renovated, revamped, remodeled
4 and added to, at a cost of one
half million dollars. One who has
. not been in the building for some
: time would not recognize the
: place except for the exterior
stone construction.
The heating system alone, a
5 circulating hot water pipe sys-
tenn new in this area, cost about
S128,000, nearly as much as the
entire hospital proper construct
ed in 1886.
The bed capacity remains at
! 35. The remodeling created a new
/ and more modern surgical depart
ment, larger and up-to-date den
tai clinic, new out-patient facili-
ties, an emergency room, larger
and more modern X-ray and lab
oratory department, a new OBJ
/, stetrics department, office space,
completely new heating plant,
new and larger record room,
j plus a great amount of new and
, modern equipment.
DR.. Irwin A. Ebaugn, medical
!, officer in charge, will go down
, in local history as the first medi-
, cal officer in charge of the new
facility that is being dedicated
, Sunday.