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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
19
Lungs damaged by tuberculosis are being repaired and chests reshaped in American TB centers. Ribs are removed and new ones grown to form a remodeled chest cage. The aim is permanent healing, an alteration noted as part of a national program.
Dr Richard H Overholt of Boston reports on thoracoplasty a TB surgery that permanently collapses diseased lung by removing upper ribs reshaping chest wall and using periosteum to form new ribs. The operation can require reshaping shoulder blades and may limit hard labor but patients often live well and resume ordinary activities. Funeral services will be held Sunday at Sprague River Community Church with burial in Sconchis Indian cemetery.
Isabel Hammer Clark 68, a Randolph County native and missionary to Indians, died in Sprague River Oregon. Surviving children Albert Hubert and Clark Allen, Ruth Allen, sisters Lou Esla Lovett and W F Redding, brothers S B Hammer and John A M Hammer. Preceding sentence indicates late sister Con- may be referenced.
Wilson resident Paul A. Burton recounts that the German raider Ta Mesis looted the Egyptian ship Zamzam while afloat from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., then bombed her. Prison ship captains confined men in the hold and fed little, while women and children received cabins. Burton and two others said they were among the last to leave the shelled Zamzam. Chocolate is used in more than half of American candy reports the Commerce Department.
The Rev. P. Ke. Parker, retired Thomasville minister, addressed the Thomasville Rotary Club at the Woman's Club building. He traced growth over 30 years, noting population rose from 4,500 upon his arrival, with progress in churches, manufacturing, streets, civic improvements, schools, and hospital facilities. The program was led by Dell Mendenhall and Parker was introduced by Rev. Charles Patterson.
A telegram from Dr. O R Hodgin and his son Jackie at the International Rotary Convention in Denver was read to the club.
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