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w Assos gnapcee peers through the state, the directors’ J. Grant Hobaugh of 3 Divison are considering deferring ny Street, retired patrolman of the further effort in connection with Ol City Police Department, slits i i the new hospital wing and will at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in bis’ decide shortly to go ahead with home. the building of the nurses’ resi Ne was born May 2H, 1670, in dence and training school. It is Shambury and spent his early life planned to have this building in the oil business, fronting on ast Bissell Avenue! Mr. Hobaugh was a member The directors of the hospital of the Oi! City Police Department have been fully connizant of their five different tines. He once responsibilities in the handling of, served as captain of the local por theae public funds to provide the badly needed additional facilities! A new diagnostic wall has been at the Of City Hospital, and they purchased which embodies all theyare taking a long-range view of latest improvements in X-ray. It,the program and have endeavor will be able to deliver 140,000/ed to secure options on same ad vorte st 300 milliamperes. The editional land which might be uli sable will have a spot film device fived in any faura avnensinn —— that can take a film of what the fluoroscopist sees. This device is fitted with an electronic timer]; that will permit just Wie proper, amount of timing to secure as good film. The X-ray tube will be mounted f f rom the ceiling so that a film can be taken on a patient lying on a stretcher beside the table. The tube can be moved to other types of equipment in the same room. The deep therapy equipment now in use was given by Mrs. George Heed in 1935, IL has given many hours of good service; how ever, a great deal of progress has been made in deep therapy in twenty years. The new equipment row on order is the most modern vavailable. It will be able to de liver the same dose of N-ray as to present staekting in one quar ter the time. In addition, it is equipped to do rotation therapy whereby the patient is rotated and the X-ray beat set so that the involved organ gets the most ‘uniform application of X-ray pos sible ‘the dark room will also be modernized so that the solutions “used in developing films will re main at a constant temperature. This will give uniform flms of the same patient each time. The purchase of this equip ment, when added to Lie present equipment now in use, will make the X-ray department of the Oi City Hospital as modern as any in the state. Plans for the nurses’ resi dence and school of nairsing have been completed and sub mitted to the authorities in Harrisburg and formally ap proved. Also, tentative approval has been given to plans for the new wing which would provide ap proximately 40 more beds, in ad dition to an enlarged maternity section making available a total of 45 bassiness, new and increased kitchen facilities, and relocation of the present dining room. He first was appointed to the force March 17, 1910. Five months later he resigned, June 3, 1911, he again was appinted to serve as a patrolman. In December of that year, he resigned. Mr. Hobaugh was appointed to the police force March WW, 1913, and for almost two years served as a pistolman before resigning, February 16, 1915. On January 3, 196. he was ap pointed to the force and January 5, 1920, he was ame captain. But in August of that year he re signed. On September 4, 1923, he was appointed to the force for thei r fifth time. After serving for 19 years, he was placed on the dis abled list after suffering a frac tured hip in a fall. December 16, 1948, he was pensioned by the po lice department. He was a member of the Tri City Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, and assisted in its organi zation. He also was a member of the First Baptist Church and the ‘OOF Lodge No. 589. June 17, 1905, he was married: iu Lu E. Spence who survives with two nephews, James Hanna of Oil | |City and Kenneth Flanna of Green ‘ville and two nieces, Mrs. Flge- Jence Evans and Mary Iwma of Oil City. The body is in the Oscander Funeral Mome.
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Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 27, 1955
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