The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT TRUSTEES ELECTED, REPORTS GIVEN AT ANNUAL ACCA MEET Five trustees with three-year terms were elected to the board of the local Alaska Crippled Child- ren’s Association chapter at the annual meeting of the Thursday evening in the cil chambers. Those elected were Dr. H. C Harris, Capt. M. A. Johnson, Vera Knickerbocker, Sid Voiles and Mrs Walter Soboleff. They replace five trustees whose terms of office had ended with the meeting, Annual reports of the local chap- ter and of the territorial head- quarters were discussed by Mrs. Betty McCormick, president of the local ACCA chapter. Dr. Virginia Cobb of the Alaska Department of Health, crippled children’s division, told of the work done by her agen- cy. The financial report of the ACCA Juneau-Douglas chapter revealed that the organization had $814.23 at the close oi business March 25, 1950 as against $664.10, April 1, 1951. During the past year, monies gain- ed came from donations, $447.40, projects, $645.30, reimbursement of teacher’s salary, $55, Easter Seals, $88.53. Disbursements showed that monies went to project expenses, $162.93, chapter expenses, $33.98, chapter charities, $364.29, remit- tance to the territorial ACCA was $1,822.26. Projects of. the local chapter are the sale of greeting cards, Alaska dictionaries, potholders, cups and saucers, and the Alaska cook books. Chapter charities are the children’s chronic disease ward in St. Ann’s Hospital, Christmas and birthday gifts to children in the ward and transportation of two children to hospitals for treatment. “The biggest year for the local chapter in memberships was the one just ended,” said Mrs. McCor- mick. “Seventy-five percent of the funds gathered by the local chap- ter go to the territorial headquar- ters in Anchorage while 25 percent ' of the funds remain with the local chapter.” Dr. Cobb revealed that the great- est number of patients taken care . of by the ACCA go to the Mt Edgecumbe Orthopedic ‘Hospital. A few cases of bone tuberculosis go to the University of Chicago hos- pital without charge to the patient. Children with cleft pallets and lips are sent to a hospital in Seattle for surgery while some heart dis- ease patients are sent to the Un- iversity of California Hospital, San Francisco. Eye, ear and nose pa- tients are sent to Anchorage. “Transportation is the greatest difficulty in sending patients to hospitals, in Alaska,” said Dr. Cobb. Extracts from the annual report of Mrs. Marshall Hoppin, president f the territorial Al i Children's Assocition, were wead{ H. E. GREEN, Agent by Mrs. McCormick. “Of all the chapters, Sitka and Juneau are the only ones who have both the responsibility and the pri- vilege of working with our crippled boys and girls. The Sitka Chapter gives its time to Mt. Edgecumbe while Juneau devotes theirs to the Chronic Disease Ward at St. Ann’s Hospital,” it was revealed in the report. how the ACCA the report In answering funds are expended, states that the funds are to match federal funds which can be obtain- ed only by the territory putting up a similar sum; to purchase cloth- ing, orthopedic shoes and toys for the children in the Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital; to give a y clothing fund to the att Orthopedic Jospital for the Alaskan children there. The expenditure of ACCA funds 1lso are used to pay for the ser- vices of a full-time worker at Mt. Edgecumbe who assists with the :ducation and entertainment of the hildren; to pay for care and cloth- ng of children enroute from home to the hospital and return and in SAVE 20% REDUCED WINTER ROUND-TRIP FARES Passenger Service Northbound S.S. BARANOF Tues. Apr. 24 Seward Sitka S.S. DENALI Mon. Apr. 30 Sitka Seward Valdez Southbound S.S. DENALI S.S. BARANOP Sun. Apr. 22 Sun. Apr. 29 Petersburg Ketchikan ‘Wrangell Seattle Ketchikan Seattle Freighter Service From Seattle SAILOR’S SPLICE April 27 Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Hawk Inlet, Todd and Hood Bay ° For Information . Phones 2 and 4 Juneau ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY ) T T T T T T T T T T L LT T T INSTALLATION of OFFICERS Moose Lodge No. 700 SATURDAY—APRIL 1 Dinner - 6:00 P. M. Installation - 8:00 P. M. DANCE FOR MEMBERS AND OFFICERS AFTER INSTALLATION e 2z FS®L. 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