Mercy Hospital Opens New Physical Therapy Center in Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids announces a new physical therapy department the first at the facility. Leo Morrissey directs the 20 by 40 foot space added to the west wing at a cost of 17000 dollars with equipment funded by the Mercy Hospital Women’s Auxiliary. 4000 dollars has been donated toward the 7000 dollar equipment total. The center offers exercise and treatment for out and inpatients, including post polio fractures neurological trauma arthritic and bursitic conditions, featuring an ultra sounding machine and paraffin baths among 12 treatment areas.
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Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Mary Maura
Leo Morrissey
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mercy Hospital Women’s Auxiliary
Morrissey
Mercy
St. Luke’s
University of Iowa
Alice Lynch
Rock Island
Mercy Helpes
Ospital Auxiliary
Agnes Powers
Laurie van Dyke
Leo Morrisey
Mother and Daughter Survive Train Tragedy in Monroe
A 25 year old mother, Dorothy Wilson, shielded her three year old daughter as a box car train bore down on them at railroad tracks in Monroe North Carolina. She received 16 stitches in the hip and 14 in the head while her daughter Dianne escaped with minor bruises.
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Monroe
N. C
Dorothy Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
Dianne
Thief Caught in Act of Stuffing Himself
In Long Beach, California, police arrested 61 year old upholsterer Howard D. Quinn after he attempted theft in a supermarket. He concealed two steaks two pounds of grapes a bottle of punch and a jar of tartar sauce inside his shirt.
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Long Beach
Calif
Howard D. Quinn
Breakthrough Therapy Uses Light and Heat for Healing
A report notes baths and short wave, microwave diathermy, infrared and ultraviolet lights as therapeutic tools. The article discusses how these modalities are employed in treatment settings and the potential benefits observed in patients.
Monitors Spread News To Chinese Communists
In Tokyo the Peiping Radio described how Communist China disseminates news to hundreds of millions without radios. It cites 28,000 monitoring posts, each with an operator recording commentary and news at dictation speed, circulated locally via printed bulletins, with home receivers to follow.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
China
Vagrant Bird Is No Stool Pigeon
Lincoln ton police parole a homing pigeon that tried to enter a house via the front door. The bird wears an aluminum band engraved AU-55-CNC-87. William Green turned the bird over, noting no local pigeon fanciers. Police parole the vagrant in Green s custody.
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Lincolton
N. C
William Green
Green
Mica Production Spotlight in Western North Carolina
The text notes that the majority of the United States mica is mined in the western region of North Carolina, highlighting the state's key role in the mineral industry.
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The
United States
North Carolina
Bull Halsey In Becalmed Retirement
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, at 72, reflects on the Pacific War from a Manhattan boardroom seat. He recalls Guadalcanal to Tokyo, Leyte gulf, and Midway, explains critics, and discusses regrets, leadership, and life after command.
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New York
William F. Halsey
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Philippines
Tokyo Bay
Leyte Gulf
Bull” Halsey
Manhattan
All-American Cables and Radio, Inc
MacKay Radio and Telegraph Company
Big Guns
South Pacific
Tokyo
Third Fleet
Admiral Halsey
New Caledonia
Douglas MacArthur
Halsey
Thomas Kinkaid
Seventh
U. S
Fleet
Park Avenue
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