Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 10

i SURGEON RETURNS FROM FRE CLIN Washington Doctor Performs 150 Tonsil Operations in Three Days. Another installment paid on the life- long_debt he feels to Johnston County, N. C, for giving him the start to his medical education, Dr. Wade H. Atkin- son of Washington has returned from “back home” and reports there are 150 school children of the backwoods com- munity about Selma, N. C., who are going to school this Fall a whole lot healthier for having lost their '.(mlllsi and adenoids. Makes 150 Operations. The 150 operations were made by Dr. Atkinson and his assoclates in three s, and a great many more would hav been performed, he said today, if there had been facilities for their per- ! formance. Already he is planning to make an- other pilgrimage to North Carolina next Summer to make another payment ‘n health to the county he is 50 grateful to for helping him when he was young and ambitious, 40 years ago. Dr. Atkinson reports th: | first visit two years ago, all the opera- tions performed this year were on an operating table improvised from a fold- ing ironing board, and the children were i received and over:ted on as fast as they | could be handled, with two doctors and | two nurses in addition to Dr. Atkinson . in attendance. All the operations were performed in the office of the county | &chool superintendent in Selma, and no REAR ADMIRAL JOHN HALLIGAN, Jr., Commander of the aircraft squadron of the scouting fleet, whose appointment as assistant chief of naval operations was announced Wednesday. He is seen here in an especially posed portrait. —Underwood Photo. charge was made for the work, except | in cases where parents could pay. $5 to cover the bare expenses of post-opera- | tion care and medicines. The latest trip of Dr. Atkinson was sponsored partially by the Washington Optimist Club, an organization of local business men. He was supplied with the | County. period of reconstruction in the South. |left with THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, necessary surgical instruments, dressing, | portunity to get back to Johneon Coun= etc, by Sibley Hospital. In his work he was assisted by Dr. R. M. Ellyson, also of Washington, an ear, nose and throat specialist; by Dr. J. B. H. Waring, Cincinnati specialist, originator of the ‘Waring suction tonsil operation, and by the Misses Elizabeth King and Edith Batholomew, graduate nurses of Sibley Hospital, all of whom volunteered their services to Dr. Atkinson for the clinic. The party left Washington August 30, and was in Selma for three days. Unfortunately, Miss King was stricken with an acute attack of appendicitis the day after the party arrived in Sel- ma, and was forced to take a hurried trip.back to Weshington for an opera- tion. Miss Bartholomew returned to Washington with her companion. Local nurses, however, filled the ‘gap caused by the departure of the two Washington women, and a great deal of help was given, Dr. Atkinson reports, by local North Carolina doctors. Born in Johnston County. Dr. Atkinson was born in Johnston He grew up in the post-war His hmlli’, wealthy before the war, was ittle. - His home was the dairy of what had been but a small part of the establishment about the Atkinson manor house before the war. The land produced little, for there was little money to finance cultivation. Young Atkinson grew up in the county, and taught school in the county schools for a living, later being appointed by the county to the University of North Carolina, where he started his educa- tion toward a medical career. 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It was on a visit several years ago that Dr. Atkinson noticed that many of the children of his home country were backward physically and making poor progress in the schools. Johnson County is in the corn and tobacco belt, and there is not a great deal of money there. He diagnosed Johnson County’s problem as infected tonsils, and on his return from that visit set about getting up a party to hold a free tonsil clinic there. Two years ago his work was in such shape as to allow him to leave, so he went “back home,” board for an operating table, and per- formed 205 tonsil operations in 10 days. | All of the operations were on children of school age and all were successful, no bad effects resulting. As a matter of fact, his operations proved his diag- nosis, and those children operated on were found to be less susceptible to malaria and immediately improved, both physically and mentally. Sought Health in Europe. The strain of those 205 tonsil opera- tions in 10 days, however, took its toll of Dr. Atkinson's strength, and he was forced to abandbn his_practice here | and spend two years in Europe seeking | the services of the best heart specialists | to be found in Europe. | When he returned to Washington this | Summer, the Optimist Club and the parents of children in Johnston County | appealed to Dr. Atkinson to make an- | with an ironing | he would “take my chances and star: the sentence with the hope of a pardon.” | was organized on much more elaborate lines than the first one. So successful have the clinics been that the people of Johnston County are now clamoring for Dr. Atkinson to make an annual visit, and Dr. Atkinson, feel- ing he still has something to pay on | that debt to the county, is planning to g0 back again next Summer. SRR LIFE SENTENCE LOOMS | FOR MIAMI MURDERER| Joe Cook Found Guilty of Pool-| room Slaying—Jury Recommends Mercy in Verdict. | By the Associated Press. | MIAMI, Fla, September 12.—Joe; | Cook, alias Jennings Pearman, was | | found gullty of first-degree murder with | |a recommendation for mercy by a jury in Dade County Circuit Court yester- |day. He was tried for the slaying of | | M. H. Beddell, alleged Chicago gambler, | |in a downtown poolroom February 22. ‘The verdict automatically reduces the sentence to life imprisonment. Cook told his atterneys that the| rdict was acceptable to him and that | petaizinlthsranlind | For 12 years, from 1644, Chrlstmns] other trip and take out a few more was not kept in England. The Puritans,| tonsils. Dr. Atkinscn agreed and the party ! deeming it a pagan festival, passed an | act of Parliament abolishing it. ! | gold brocade coat, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930. 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