Scope - Volume 07, Number 01

              Hospitals giving up their kitchens,
serve patients ready- made foods
51 million expedition planned
to recover Noah's ark timbers
by Louise Henriksen
science writer
Instant meals consisting of
freeze- dried, frozen, or
refrigerated foods prepackaged
and ready to serve with minimal
effort are replacing the
conventional system of food
preparation in many American
hospitals, according to a Loma
Linda University dietitian who
periodically surveys the field.
Kathleen K. Zolber, PhD,
associate professor of nutrition,
observes that a large number of
restaurants and restaurant chains
are also abandoning cookery and
buying ready- made menu items to
serve to their patrons.
Instead of keeping a corps of
kitchen workers busy all day
preparing and cooking a variety of
dishes, many hospitals and
restaurants have found it simpler
to buy the convenience foods that
can be popped into microwave
ovens and made ready in seconds.
( However, the Loma Linda
University Hospital is still
preparing foods in the traditional
way.)
In a study of three 250- bed
hospitals in the Los Angeles area
which adopted the
convenience- food system some
time ago, Dr. Zolber compared
the labor time per meal devoted
to serving the assembly- line
menus with the time required in
other hospitals using the
traditional system. Her report,
published in the current ( January)
issue of the Journal of the
American Dietetic Association,
indicates that two of the hospitals
saved labor time; the third did
not. Its kitchen staff remained
too large to offset the extra cost
of the already prepared food.
That the new food service
system saves labor and therefore
may reduce labor costs, Dr.
Zolber said in discussing her
report yesterday, is not the only
reason so many American
hospitals are converting to it. The
precooked or ready- for- oven
foods come in portioned
amounts, and make possible
tighter portion control, equally
important in controlling costs.
Many items desserts, salads,
and entrees come individually
served in plastic or paper
disposable plates and bowls, and
may be eaten with disposable
flatware, thereby eliminating
dishwashing and avoiding other
sanitation problems for hospitals.
Those hospitals which have
adopted the system have installed
a microwave oven near each
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Plans for a one million dollar
expedition to recover timbers
believed to be the remains of
Noah's Ark from a frozen lake on
Mount Ararat, Turkey, were
announced last week by a team of
scientists and explorers.
Ralph E. Crawford, president of
Search Foundation, Incorporated,
Washington, D. C., told a news
conference in Los Angeles that
several pieces of hand- tooled
wood, which has been estimated
to be more than 4,000 years old,
had been found in an ice pack
near the 14,000- foot level on the
17,000- foot mountain in
northeast Turkey near the Soviet
border.
The expedition is scheduled to
set up a base camp this spring and
begin studying ways to melt a 100
by 450- foot glacier covering the
find.
Mr. Crawford said there are no
trees on the mountain. He added
that the timbers found by an
expedition last summer appear to
be white oak and there are no
white oak trees within several
hundred miles of the mountain.
Members of the Ararat
operation presented their findings
January 3 in the Campus Chapel,
Loma Linda, and January 6 on
the La Sierra campus.
Fernand Navarra, a French
explorer who found the timbers
in a deep crevasse, said he is
confident they are from the Ark,
built by Noah to survive the
Biblical flood.
Mr. Navarra, who has been
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LOCAL ISSUE
Vol. 7, No. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1970
University professor predicts
political trends of 1970
" What's Ahead in 1970," the
fourth Loma Linda University
Artist and Lecture Series program,
will be presented by Alonza L.
Baker, PhD, professor of political
science.
Dr. Baker's forecast of trends
and developments for the nation
and the world in the next year is
scheduled for Saturday night,
January 17, at 8 p. m. in Burden
Hall, Loma Linda campus.
He recently
completed a trip
which took him to
Russia ( for the
third time),
Hungary, Czecho
slovakia, East
Germany, Libya,
Tunisia, Egypt,
Jordan, and Israel.
It was his fifth trip
to Israel where he
was guest of the government for
Dr. Baker
two weeks.
Dr. Baker has also been active in
American affairs for more than 40
years. He was appointed to
government commissions by
Presidents Hoover and Truman,
has served as president of
chambers of commerces and a
Rotary Club, and as commander
of the American Legion Post.
In addition to being on the
faculty of Loma Linda University,
Dr. Baker is professor emeritus at
the University of the Pacific,
Stockton. He earned his Doctor of
Philosophy degree in political
science and international relations
from the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, in 1948.
Students will be admitted free
upon presentation of a University
identification card or a University
Artist and Lecture Series season
pass. Individual tickets will also be
sold at the door for $ 1 per person.
Hospital- based helicopter
proves worth as ambulance
A five- passenger ambulance helicopter was headquartered at the University Hospital helistop for ten days
during the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
In an experiment conducted by Western Helicopters, Incorporated, of Rialto, and University Hospital, a
pilot and mechanic were stationed at the hospital during the daylight hours from December 24 to 28 and
December 31 to January 4. Cooperating in the experiment were the California Highway Patrol; the San
Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department; Redlands Ambulance
Service, Redlands; and Courtesy
Ambulance Service, San
Bernardino.
Druing the experiment, the
helicopter responded to nine
emergency calls, picking up a total
of ten accident victims. On each
call, a hospital physician
accompanied the pilot. Oxygen
and first aid equipment were also
installed in the craft. It carried
two stretchers for patients.
All the emergency calls were for
car and motorcycle accidents in
the San Bernardino Mountains,
though an area extending from
Ontario to Beaumont and the
Riverside County line including
the pass to Victorville had access
to the services of the helicopter.
The purpose of the experiment,
according to Norman H. Meyer,
assistant administrator of the
University Hospital, was to
determine the advantage to an
injured person of using a
helicopter equipped with medical
personnel.
The experiment was labeled a
success by both Mr. Meyer and by
Thomas J. Zirkle, MD, assistant
professor of surgery and medical
AMBULANCE HELICOPTER carrying automobile accident victim
prepares to touch down on the helistop. The five- passenger craft,
provided courtesy of Western Helicopters, Incorporated, Rialto, was
based at the hospital over the Christmas and New Year's holidays in an
experiment to determine the advantages of bringing injured persons in
by air. A hospital physician accompanied each emergency call.
Staff Photo
Dental convention scheduled
for last weekend in February
SAN BERNARDINO RADIO STATION KRNO'S Santa Claus presents
a University Hospital pediatric unit patient with a Christmas gift. Each
year KRNO asks its listeners to donate toys for children in inland
empire hospitals. staff Photo
director for the ambulance
helicopter project.
Dr. Zirkle said that the greatest
advantage the helicopter provides
is speed in bringing an accident
victim to a fully- equipped
emergency room. He also
mentioned the advantage of using
a helicopter over an ambulance in
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American Dental Association
president Harry M. Klenda, DOS,
will be the keynote speaker at the
tenth annual Loma Linda
University School of Dentistry
Alumni- Student Convention
scheduled for February 27 to
March 3, according to Charles T.
Smith, DOS, dean of the school.
Attendance of more than 1,200
dentists, dental hygienists, and
students of the two professions is
expected at the convention.
Highlighting the convention will
be the dedication of the School of
Dentistry building in the memory
of M. Webster Prince, DOS, first
dean of the school. The ceremony
will take place Monday morning,
March 2.
Other convention activities will
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