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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1962
Page
4
The county home reports evolving patient trends shaping care needs and resource allocation. Officials note fluctuating admission rates and common conditions guiding staff planning and support services.
HARON LOU LEWIS, 22, a University of Iowa student from Burlington, sworn in by Judge Howard McLaughlin as deputy Linn County probation officer. She will work half days until July when she starts full time, succeeding Gertrude Benecke who retired Jan. 1. A study by Walter A. Lunden shows 1940 county home patients were 58.88 percent paupers and 41.12 percent mental patients, while recent counts show 57.74 percent mental patients and 42.26 percent paupers as social security and old age aid reduce pauper stays and mental illness treatment expands. County board cites state policy shifts since 1954 sending back hospital patients to counties for custodial care. Building experts deem county home structurally sound but urge extensive remodeling after reassessing patient type and needs.
Members of Boy Scout troop 6 at First Congregational church will receive Eagle Scout awards Monday at 6 30 p m during a court of honor and potluck supper. Recipients are Robert Naibert and Chris Portner both 15 or 16, with detailed Scout histories and merit badge counts.
The city launches the final phase of spring housecleaning on Monday with east side trash pickups after the west side crews. Salvation Army notes some material may have been missed and invites residents with usable clothing furniture or paper to call Empire 5 1491. Cleanup Week chair Frank D Sheppard warns one bad apple can spoil a neighborhood and urges repairs to reduce hazards and improve health and safety.
Authorities in Jerusalem said 1,375 Americans emigrated to Israel last year and 221 more immigrants came from Canada. The report notes continuing migration patterns and broader regional settlement trends.
John Strohm the only American newspaperman to visit Communist China with U S state department approval will address the Cedar Rapids Executive Club at 6 30 p m Tuesday at the Roosevelt hotel He spoke on Behind Red China's Bamboo Curtain after a 7500 mile voluntary trip behind the Bamboo Curtain His syndicated articles appeared in 300 newspapers and Readers Digest NBC aired his films Strohm has a long career including a 1946 trip through the Soviet and coordination of the Russian farm officials visit in 1955 He has visited 70 countries and interviewed Gandhi King Saud and Pope Pius XII.
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