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Vol. 1, No. 20 Friday, January 24, 1964
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
All Night Show to
Beam Interview
On Tobacco Habit
Lester H. Lonergan, MD, as
sociate professor of pharma
cology, will be the guest on a
southern California television
broadcast Monday night.
" The All Night Show," car
ried in Los Angeles by KTTV
Channel 11 and in San Diego
by Channel 10, will feature Dr.
Lonergan in an interview on
the subject of smoking, accord
ing to Public Information Of
ficer John Parrish.
The program begins at 1
am. ( Tuesday morning) and
provides night- owl viewers
with about an hour of " live"
feature material and commen
tary by hosts Joe and Betty
Karbo and their guests before
showing old motion pictures
until daybreak.
Jerry Pettis
Candidate for
US Congress
Jerry L. Pettis, who resigned
as vice president for public re
lations and development Janu
ary 9, formally announced his
candidacy for the U. S. Con
gress this week.
Mr. Pettis, a Republican, will
seek to unseat Democratic Rep
resentative Harry R. Sheppard,
79. At stake is the House seat
from the 27th district, an area
including Lorna Linda with
boundaries corresponding to
the borders of San Bernardino
County.
The press release announcing
Mr. Pettis' candidacy described
his platform as advocating " the
good life for everyone." Nei
ther the incumbent Represen
tative nor any other candidate,
Democrat or Republican, had
announced intention to enter
the race against the former Uni
versity officer by Wednesday,
but political observers foresee a
campaign between Mr. Shep
pard and the Republican suc
cessful in the June primary
election,
Pakistan Heart
Patient Released
Ammanullah Khan, the 34-
year- old Pakistani man who
traveled to California for open
heart surgery by the Loma
Linda University heart team
which was unable to schedule
his operation in Pakistan, was
released from White Memorial
Hospital last week.
The father of five, a road-building
contractor in the pic
turesque state of Swat in
northern Pakistan, had a nor
mal recovery from the surgery,
according to Ellsworth E.
Wareham, MD, associate pro
fessor of surgery who cared for
Mr. Khan.
Dr. Wareham says the man
sought surgery for a heart de
fect while the Loma Linda Uni
versity team was in Karachi,
Pakistan, on a U. S. Department
of State mission last summer.
The team's crowded schedule
prohibited the operation for
Mr. Khan there, however, and
he traveled to Los Angeles
with his wife last month to
undergo the corrective surgery.
Veterans Voice Interest in
Federal, State Hospitals Here
Three representatives of vet
erans' organizations in south
ern California last week strong
ly recommended the Loma Lin
da area as the site for a pro
posed state veterans' hospital,
contending that there are no
better medical facilities in the
country than those at Loma
Linda.
A federal veterans' hospital
was proposed for the Loma Lin
da area at previous meetings by
veteran's organizations. The
state institution would be in ad
dition to the proposed federal
project, supported by 60 vet
erans representatives in previ
ous meetings.
The three officials testified,
with four other veterans' group
$ 100,000 Grant To Support
LLU's Heart Research Project
The Loma Linda University
Division of Public Health and
Tropical Medicine is currently
conducting a research project
in the prevention of recurrence
of congestive heart failure
through comprehensive health
education and follow- up care.
A $ 100,000 grant from the
California State Department of
Public Health heart disease
control program will support
the project over a three- year
period. Twenty attending phy
sicians are referring patients
to the study, which is one of
five projects of a similar nature
in the United States supported
by state health departments and
the U. S. Public Health Service.
110- Foot Plunge Kills LLU
Employee Harold Hicks, 29
Funeral services for Harold
G. Hicks, 871% Lugo Avenue,
San Bernardino, were con
ducted January 17 in Hughes
Loma Linda Mortuary.
Mr. Hicks, 29, who was an
employee in the housekeeping
service of Loma Linda Sanitar
ium and Hospital, died January
15 in San Bernardino County
Hospital after a 110- foot plunge
to the bottom of a ravine in
the San Bernardino mountains
on the previous Sunday.
He is survived by his wife,
Linda, two daughters, ages 5
and 6, his parents and two sis
ters, Mrs. Lois Greenwood, also
employed in the housekeeping
service, and Mrs. Clifford
Downs, who is employed in the
University accounting office.
The scene of the fall was a
200- foot embankment off
Highway 30 where a car had
gone over the cliff two years
previously. Mr. Hicks, who
was hiking with his family,
landed on the hood of the car,
which was still at the bottom
of the ravine. Doctors specu
lated that it may have pre-
The project incorporates
regular visits of a public
health nurse, nutritionist and
health educator to the homes
of congestive heart failure pa
tients.
These visits are to deter
mine the level of health
knowledge; to assess the total
health, socio- economic and
emotional needs of the patient;
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vented his immediate death.
Mrs. Hicks ran to the road
way and signaled a passing mo
torist, who in turn signaled
another. The second was a doc
tor. The two, upon reaching
Mr. Hicks, administered first
aid.
Members of the San Bernar
dino Mountain Search and Res
cue Team were called to re
move him from the ravine. He
was then rushed to the county
hospital where he. was reported
to have a skull fracture, brain
concussion and compound frac
tures.
He never regained conscious
ness. Burial was in Montecito
Memorial Park.
THE DENTISTRY ALUMNI- student convention February 19- 23 will have a large
tent on this parking lot. Newly constructed southeast of the University library, the
lot is soon to be opened toward the fork of Anderson- Central streets. The gasoline
station at the corner has been discontinued. Development plans call for demolition of
the station. Staff photo.
representatives, at an all- day
session of a Senate Fact Find
ing Committee on Labor and
Welfare hearing in the county
agricultural auditorium in San
Bernardino.
The representatives con
firmed at the hearing the need
for such a medical center for
the veterans in southern Cali
fornia, preferably near existing
medical facilities.
R. Pete Ostrander, an Imper
ial County veterans' service of
ficer and chairman of the spe
cial committee for Southern
California Veterans' Home and
Hospital of the California de
partment of the American Le
gion, was first to propose the
Loma Linda area. He was
joined by two other representa
tives who said the veterans'
home could be served best by
medical facilities here.
Two other towns, Twenty-nine
Palms and Victorville,
were advocated before the com
mittee, also.
Ken Carter, president of the
Twentynine Palms Chamber of
Commerce, claimed that area
to be more suitable, from a
health standpoint, than any
other southern California loca
tion.
The area had been suggested
to ailing veterans by the gov
ernment in the early 30' s, he
said, as a place where climatic
conditions were conducive to
rehabilitation from various
chronic ailments.
A Victorville veterans' group
made the appeal for that area.
The proposed undertaking
would include a hospital, con
valescent home and domiciliary
quarters.
The only veterans' home in
the state is at Yountville, near
Napa, in the northern part of
California. Proposals for a
comparable home in southern
California have been voiced for
years.
It was pointed out in last
week's testimony that there
are more than 1,200,000 vet
erans in the southern part of
the state and that few are able
or willing to travel to- Yount
ville when in need of care.
Lack of facilities in southern
California is creating an over
load on county hospitals, testi-
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