The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1947, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— IU\'EAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1947 — — VETERANS' GUIDE By MAJOR THOMAS M. NIAL [ comr o i g It takes more than a doctor and a nurse to get a seriously disabled veteran to the point where he can be discharged from the hos- pital. Sure, doctors, all kinds of them, start the process. And the nur must be on hand. But there are other experts, all of whom have a definite job to do on the pat- ient. There’s the He administers hea massage treatment, tries to get the patient's good muscles in shape so he can handle himself even it physical therapist and light and wall-staring, is taught a making trade at the same time his medical and other treatment [: on. He's progressing all the time, Dr. Donald Covalt told me, and that, he said, is the critically important thing Dr. Covalt is in charge of all this medical re-| habilitation. He s: “We have some vet hospitals who will again. We have some never shake hands again, never hear a voice again. less? “Not a bit Some, of course, will have to stay under a doctor’s s in our never walk| who will who'il | Hope $500 w ] money- sisted in establishing the ortho- | pedic hospital at Sitka, which treats nearly 90 percent of tuber-| culosis of the bone—$500 was as- | cigned toward alterations to make |the hospital facilities more useful as an orthopedic hospital, and s contrituted towards the purchase of orthopedic equipment. The Alaska Tuberculosis Associa- |tion further donated $200 towards jthe cost of printing an illustrated |booklet on the crippled children’s program. Dr. C. E. Albrecht |stated that this continued evidence of a working cooperative prograr between the non-official and oft. |cial agencies in the A‘\l ka is an pirit of everyone that tuberculo- sis must be controlled. Everyone | contributing to the Alaska seal sale . ve would be proud to know that r donations are used effectively d in a worthwhile manner. Territory o. | indication of the| DICK TR \(\ PUT THAT IN THE MAILBOX. MARK IT GENERAL DELIVERY. s ANY NEW | ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT ME TO DO, COFFYHEAD?, SO THEVY'RE THE STOPPERS"! HA! MY! PAGE THREE "CRIME HA~HA. THE'\/ RE SUCH NOTHING STARTLING. THINK I'LL GO TO THE BALL GAME OR STROLL OVER TO THE BEACH, PRACTICING WITH THIS DICK TRACY RING CAMERA V_0r DO A LITTLE ) AW, ( CGET OUT OF BULLETINS. | pPLE. BB "WITH_TESS CHIEF 25 . % he has lost both his legs HERE, HERLCCK And the occupational therapists. cars for the rest of their lives They teach a patient to weave, But most will be able to go nu( maybe, or sculpt or something else and e their own living, like that. Why? So he'll streng- way they want to. Our job is (u then his fingers and ha and 'cenvince them that they can go be spending his time in a useful out and earn a living. And after way. convincing them, we have to teach There's the corrective them a living they can make, in rehabilitation expert. spite of their disability. guy who carries out the doctor's “It's Leen gratifying to sec the orders for certain exercises. Take reaction. This kind of rehabilita- a patient who nas had a bad tion is pretty new and I'd say we ' km\g can't uke it M‘ all. The L Persons appointed to Sccial Wor- have developed it in our VA hos- kor 3 » b " Phosid. - vetidbllltation gy Hatps lpitals - 3S er positions, at salaries ranging much as, if not more > him do leg exercises desizned to than, anywhere else. We've Leen from $3307 to $8179 a year, will keep up circulation in that tad asked more than once to o give social work assistance to vet- leg. The circulation makes the none-veterans into our hospitals, clnics In hospitals, ~out-patient | leg healthy. patients who e i clinics and other Vetrans Admin- "DEAR COFFYHEAD: h the! BAUGHEOHAT therap- [Uhey'is paralyzed from the alst :.‘:ufmn‘ ms[t)allgtmnsl hl);awdl in VEAH. COFEVHEAD FOUND EVERYONE A s " [ Booe 5 1 . hrit ¢ son Vashingten, 3 , and throughout | ' ist. He's probably the most im- down) or acute arthritis or some °% 4 b 3 : portant of all. . Although, of course, jother serious disability and let the United Ststes. No written test HERE'S A NOTE any one of these people is useless them take our treatment is required. 'To qualify, applicants ' without the others. They work as “Qf course, we can't do that. must have had appropriate train- a team. i But some day we hope medical re- ing and experience in the field of ; . ., habilitation will be standard in all \n"ml work. The educational therapist s just Geold i 2 positions are located in a plain old teacher, working fun Dospitals. No doust it will.” I Washington, D. C. d vicinity, i time in a VA hospital. If a patient RSO, and vicinity, in various Fedeial agencies, and never got through high school be- g sical then the educational thera- She througk i) i S fore he got thraugh his Army phy-| woughout the United States in pist fills him in with the needed AIDS TER RIIORYIS LOOK PRETTY NOW, CHIEF, CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS Examinations are znounced by the U. S. Civil Service Commission for filling Social Worker and Geo- | ist positions in the Federal ser- physical He's the F "CHILDREN ARE ALL TOGETHER AS EXPECTED, OUR VISIT MOST PLEASANT." GAME. WE'RE PPE'TTV BAD. the Department of Agriculture and courses. And he gets a diploma, Department of the Interior. all while in the hospital. Courses range from high school (ONIRO’. pROGRAM L g e " ¥ Salaries range from $4,149 to $7.- / : R \.0@ SRl ; 3 A English or geometry to accounting 102 a year. Competitors will not be ' @ t . required to take a written test. To ks : DRV o qualify, they must have completed .wrk.oa o say, or shorthand and typing. All college study m“ geology or must‘ these courses are “good for mor- The Territorial Department of have a combination of such study ale” because they create an in- Health has received a grant of and tgehnical experience, plus pro- centive to the patient to get out $2000 from the Alaska Tuberculo- fessicnal experience in geology. of the hospital. He's not wasting sis Association to be applied to Further information and applica- | Hiimd. 1 4Ho ‘wamts: $o Gek ‘out ‘and the : tuberoulosis ‘education -consul- fion forms may be obtained from put into practice the stuff he's'tant’s annual budget. Miss Lois the Commission’s Local Secretary, learned. Jund, tuberculosis education con- W. Cuif, at the Juneau Post Finally there's the “manual sultant loaned to Alaska by the Office. H arts” therapist. He, too, is a|National Tuberculosis, receives half really important fellow. He teach- her salary from the National Asso- es actual trades, like watch-mak- ciation and half from the Ter ing and repairing. Or how a radio torial Department of Health. T works, and how to fix one that sum of $2000 is a generous and J¢ doesn’t. Or how to repair re- most worthwhile assistance in . frigerators. Lots of things. It |carrying out the tuberculosis con-| TOYS! ! FURNITURE! : | depends upon the disability trol program throughout Alaska. An appealing selection on Ju- So the patient, instead of look-' In addition to this donation the neau-Young’s Mezzanine Floor. ; ing forward to an inactive life of |Alaska Tuberculcsis Association as-i —adv. 637-tf ' ARE YOU VEAH. ZIP FELLOWS [AND I HAVE GOING HOME | TO STOP NOow? AT THE P HERE, YOU MAY/[ VEAH — NEED THE CouLD TAKE THIS LETTER: "ANXIOUS TO GET YOUR KNUCKS BE? REPORT ON CHILDREN. HAVE A PLAN Bl COFFYHEAD. i lbzocry <, — . —— HERE FROM NEW JERSEY . G. G. 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