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JEANNE MARLENE WOOTON
at three months
THE HEROINE OF OUR TEN THOUSANDTH MATERNITY CASE
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Jeanne Marlene, the daughter and first-born child of Mr.  
and Mrs. George Wooton, and the granddaughter of Mr. Curt I
Wooton, was born at Hyden Hospital 0n July 1, 1954. Apart
from the fact that she is a radiant baby, beautiful and happy, I
and that her people are leading citizens and old friends of ours, I  
apart from all of that, she is statistically important. Her mother, I
Sally Melton Wooton, was ourpten thousandth registered mater- '
nity case. Of these 10,000 mothers, 7,514 were attended and I
delivered in their own homes. I
To complete the statistical picture of these 10,000 registered
midwifery cases, it should be reported that there were 11 mater- ,I
nal deaths—5 in the homes, 4 in Hyden Hospital, and 2 in out- vi
post nuring centers to which the patients had been moved by  
stretcher when winter travel made the longer trip to Hyden ‘ If
Hospital impossible. " i
We feel that Jeanne Marlene’s lovely picture casts a bene- { I
diction over the eleventh thousand series of midwifery cases U
upon which we entered in July.  
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Tomorrow we haul ourselves, luggage, books and souvenirs
back on the "Stavangerfjord" and head for home. [See Bits of ,
Courier News.]  
From Celia Coit, Agoura, Ca1ifornia—September 3, 1954 gg
The only major event of the past months was buying a A,
house near Malibu Lake. The house is small and about twenty  
years old but it has charm, a glorious view and with the changes  
soon to be made will look quite presentable and be comfortable.  
I wish you could see the surrounding country. It is truly mag-  ii
niiicent—mountains with green slopes but rocky crags at the  
tops, and deep valleys. Two large ranches nearby are owned by  
picture studios (Paramount and Twentieth Century). Lately,  
driving into the Palisades, I’ve watched them making a iilm  
called "Untamed" about South Africa when the Boers were  
pioneering. I see oxen and covered wagons and all the para-  
phernalia of cameras, lights, etc.  
To be able to live in an area as spectacular as Yosemite or  
Sequoia and yet be only one-half hour’s drive from the town of  
Pacific Palisades; and to have the drive over a marvelous road-  E
part in the mountains, part along the ocean and practically no ·
trafiic———is pretty near ideal. I-have a job two days a week lso
I feel I’m not entirely vegetating. A bookmobile comes once a
week, and a small local club house has a swimming pool and fre-  _
quent square dances. ‘ · · < ‘
I went East this winter——got to the East Coast and came  ,_
back via Florida-—terribly happy to be back in California. Saw Z 

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i From Fredericka (Freddy) Holdship, Sewickley,
j, Pe1msylvania—September 14, 1954
‘ Just before Labor Day we drove East and went sailing with
l some friends who live near Greenwich, Connecticut. They had
Q just acquired a lovely thirty-six-foot sloop that sleeps four-
ii there were five of us, but plenty of room on the deck for sleep-
'_ ing bags; in fact we all fought for the "outdoor bunks"! We
sailed up the Sound to Fishers Island and then they left us on
the dock at New London and picked up some more people and
'__» , went on for a few more days. We took a train back to Riverside
  where we had left our car. What a sight we were——windblown,
  sunburned and laden down with blankets, raincoats, etc. We
1 { drove over to Philadelphia to stay a few days with our aunt. Saw
 il Fanny McIlvain and her mother one afternoon—also Joan Mc-
  Clellan, who was on holiday. She is still with the State Depart-
if ment and now working in Vienna——seems to like it very much.
  I am taking some more night courses at the University of
  Pittsburgh this fall—phil0sophy, world affairs, music apprecia-
 -, tion and Christian belief—very interesting.
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  November 3, 1954
 fl We have had a horrible time with pigs, belonging to "Steve"
  —a character who has squatted on a large farm on the hill
L ; above our house, way on the top. His coon hounds, I loved to
{ hear hunt at night; his herd of goats I didn’t mind; his cow was
  harmless and the cook loved to milk her; but these twenty-ive
‘§ pigs of all sizes—"yipes." You should see what they did to our
`i lawn! We tried to get insurance on it but there seems to be no
kind that covers animal damage. They told us it would cost
about $800.00 to iix it right, so we’ve just left it and are going
to plant onions and potatoes in it come spring! I got awfully
 a good with the .22 rifle scatter shot, but never quite had tho
 j heart to try and kill the pigs. What Would we have done with
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to bury them for fear of trichinosis! Thought you might enjoy  
reading the enclosed article. ·p
[We quote from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 26, l
1954.] Q,
The great Porcine War, which all but turned Osborne Bor- ',`
ough into an armed camp, ended yesterday with 72—year-old Q°
Steve Evans and his herd of hogs the losers. · Q
Steve, who lived the life of a recluse in a ramshackle old
farmhouse atop a hill in Aleppo Township, was committed to [
Woodville State Hospital—elderly helpless victim of circum-
stances resulting from his pigs’ voracious appetites. -
The pigs repeatedly had broken from their pens and rooted ’ I
through the backyards of residents of Beaver Road and Osborne 2
Borough. They caused damage estimated at $3,000 to about a _
dozen property owners. A ,
Finally, irate residents formed a gun-toting "militia" in '
defense of their property rights. I
Misses Margaret and Fredericka Holdship, who live on Davis . l
Lane, rigged an ingenious alarm system of rope and cow bells  ‘
to warn them of a porcine invasion.  `
Another irate resident rushed onto his lawn one morning, ¤
unshaven and in pajamas, and opened fire on the marauders with ._l
an air rifle.  ;§ —
The serio-comic drama ended when old Steve, a squatter on  Y
the farm for 30 years, bevvilderedly agreed to his own commit-  
ment to Woodville. Folks said that Steve couldn’t take care of  
his animals, his house and himself.  
While Western Pennsylvania Humane Society agents went  g
to the farm yesterday to see what would be done with animals  .,
there, a neighbor, Joe Bruno, was delegated to feed them. Joe `l
plodded among the 20-odd pigs, uncountable squawking, scrawny Q
chickens, and several lean-ribbed hounds and gave them what i 
sustenance he could.  _.
As for Steve, a Serbian whose original name nobody knows  g",
—apparently not even Steve himself—he just sat in Sewickley  5,
jail and waited for them to come and take him away. They did. '.¤
The old man’s world, an unkempt world but the only one he  
lately knew, had toppled around him. He no longer was alone  l
with his animals-—and seemingly he was afraid.  Q
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From Susan (Sue) Mclntosh, Tyringham, Massachusetts  
eSeptember 21, 1954  _
We had a wonderful trip abroad, though it was good to be  
home and get some sleep. Two friends and I bicycled in southern  ‘
England (Devon and Cornwall) for three weeks, staying in
hostels and getting so much rain that after a little while it just ,
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got to be ridiculous and as soon as it got r1d1culous It became
even more fun than before. Ever since we got so dried out last (
summer at Wendover, I’ve enjoyed being rained on, which was Y;
a lucky thing during July in England!  
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  We split up and I went to Edinburgh to see my younger
  brother finish school where he’d been all year. From there he
  and I hitch-hiked down to the southwest again and across to
  London, staying with various families we knew. Finally, we
 “ made our way up to the Western Highlands, and climbed there
T and in Skye for two weeks with some English boys we met, and
* again staying at hostels. Everywhere people were just as
{ friendly as they could be. One of the first people I met was a
_ young midwife in a train compartment who had just stayed up
is all night delivering a baby and was as proud of it as if it had
  been her own. She was very interested to hear about the FNS.
, Another nurse-midwife we sat beside in a bus had so much to
1 say about her district that she could have talked all night if
  we’d been on the bus that long.
.§ From Mrs. Bronson W. Chanler (Evie Rogers), South
  ' Hamilton, Massachusetts——September 24, 1954
  We have been off floating around Maine in a boat for three
 ii exciting weeks of vacation. We cruised as far as Digby, Nova
 Q Scotia and St. John, Halifax; and never before have had such
 ¥$ an adventurous trip. Everything happened—-from getting caught
 J in an all—night storm with fog and wind and rough seas; to going
 _` aground in a little Canadian river with nothing but two inches of
 {X water around us; to getting stranded on Nova Scotia without
 ?§ our boat, in awful old clothes and no money or iden