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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
6
At the Boulder state training school 313 boys and 238 girls come from many backgrounds. Most are classified as moron imbecile or idiot and will remain permanently. Doctors urge sympathy and proper care, noting hereditary and nonhereditary causes and a routine intake process for each child.
If there is anything that sends Dr. A E Westwell into a slow burn it is the misguided individual who believes he can push one child ahead of another for admission. Doctor Westwell enforces a policy of equal treatment regardless of religion party or race.
A Helena mother wrote a poem titled Gods Children praising mentally retarded children for their simple happiness and dignity at the state training school. The verse, sent to Pearl Buck, notes how children may wish to return to the school tomorrow rather than stay home.
Doctor Arthur Westwell heads Montana's Boulder state training school as it nears capacity with 551 residents, far above the 380 design. The aging facilities, fire hazards, and slow growth prompt improvements though the staff expands and a new hospital infirmary is planned to create a safer, more hopeful environment.
A psychologist completes tests and enters the name of the child deemed retarded on a waiting list. The doctor’s records are open to inspection at any time. About 200 names are currently on the Waiting list.
The American Cancer Society states 1952 deaths in the United States reached about 220000 from cancer, while motor vehicle accidents killed around 38000 persons. The society notes medical use of betatron therapy delivers 26000000 volts for treatment.
Dr A E Westwell and staff welcome visitors to the state training school. The group offers a variety of activities and staff are frank in answering questions. No part of the institution is barred to callers.
A Pampa Texas campaign walk by L. P. Fort for county judge shows in his expense ledger a line reading Miscellaneous pew soles and heels for shoes $3.50.
Despite handicaps, Boulder state training school offers Work, Play and Worship as a program. Dr A E Westwell praises it as a model for normal people. Teaching staff more than doubled since 1949 to ten, plus part timers, with classes in physical education, handiwork, tap and interpretive dance, boys' band and girls' string instrument.
Montana voters will decide in the general election on a proposed bond issue to fund two 50 bed dormitories for girls and boys at the Boulder training school. The plan also includes a school unit and housing, a ranch dorm, storehouse, abbatoir, sewage plant, road work, and facility upgrades to aid instruction and access for handicapped students.
Rochester Minnesota. Dr Melvin S Henderson 71 founder and chief of the Mayo Clinic orthopedic section until his 1950 retirement and past president of the American Orthopedic Association dies Thursday.
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