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CATASTROPHE IN HYDEN HOSPITAL 200-FOOT DEEP WELL
When there is a breakdown in this well, we touch despair. These pic-
tures, taken by Jane Leigh Powell, show how the three-inch drop pipe was
pulled from the well by means of a large wrecker (left)»—given us through I
the courtesy of Mr. Mack Smith, Smith Coal Company, through his Mana- ‘
ger, Mr. Kenneth Tate, of the Smith Ford Sales at Manchester.  
The picture to the right shows the scaffolding needed by the wrecker E
with Hobert Cornett, Wendover foreman, and Alonzo Howard, Hyden fore-  
man, in the scaffolding on top of the pump house.
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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN ofthe FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE  
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Lexington, Ky. _
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year .
Edit0r’s Oflice: Wendover, Kentucky
VOLUME 32 SPRING, 1957 NUMBER -1 -
"I·lntcr¤·d as second clnss matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Office at Lexington, Ky., i
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  ·f  CONTENTS
.  lgji ARTICLE AUTHOR PAGE
  * A Friendly Group at the
_   1 Belle Barrett Hughitt Center Inside Back Cover
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gp  ; A Tribute to Agnes Lewis Z. L. 48
[   Beyond the Mountains 42
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C   Bullskin Cloudburst Bridget Gallagher 5
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  ;_  Field Notes 49
  i`   How Forest C0ve1· Affects Water
Y ‘‘`\`‘   · wr Runoff (Sketches) 4
In Memoriam 11
Junior Made It Anna May January 9
2 Old Courier News 21
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Old Staff News 29
The Chambered Nautilus (Verse) Oliver Wendell Holmes 2
; The Nautilus
——Atomic Powered Submarine This and That From Washington 3
; Y To Cherish Zondra Lindblade 16
Urgent Needs · 17
Yonder Noel Smith 39
Q BRIEF BITS
? Children of Dr. and Mrs. Williain R.
5 MacAusland, Jr. (Photograph`) 8
{ Comments and Corrections 10
U Help Keep Philanthrophy True National Information Bureau 20
` Just Jokes 27
1 Inscription on a Grave (Verse) 47
Y Our Mail Bag 15
[ P0lly’s Shoe (Verse) Eileen Minton 37
The Postman 1830 Banbury Chap Books 36
U Three Ships—Jamestown, Virginia 28
' White Elephant 38
p ·, Worth Every Cent of It Tiinothy’s Quest 36
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U THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS ii
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l The venTurous bark ThaT Tlings  
  On The sweeT summer wind iTs purpled wings T
  ln gulTs enchanTed, where The Siren sings,  l
  And coral reeTs lie bare,  
‘ Where The cold sea—maids rise To sun Their sTreaming  
hair.  l
lTs webs oT living gauze no more unTurl;  
Wrecked is The ship oT pearll ll
And every chambered cell,  
Where iTs dim dreaming liTe was wonT To dwell,  A
As The Trail TenanT shaped his growing shell,   _
BeTore Thee lies revealed.-   ,
lTs irised ceiling renT, iTs sunless crypT unsealedl  
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ThaT spread his lusTrous coil;   l
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l·le leTT The pasT year`s dwelling Tor The new, l i
STole wiTh soTT sTep iTs shining archway Through, { A
BuilT up iTs idle door,
$TreTched in his lasT—Tound home, and knew The old no i
more. ~
Thanks Tor The heavenly message broughT by Thee,
Child oT The wandering sea, ‘
CasT Trom her lap, Torlornl
From Thy dead lips a clearer noTe is born —
Than ever TriTon blew Trom wreaThed hornl ‘ ,
While on mine ear iT rings, il,
Through The deep caves oT ThoughT| hear a voice ThaT  
sings:—  
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ig Builcl thee more siaiely mansions, O my soul.
— As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vauliecl past!
Lei each new temple. nobler than the lasi,
II Shui thee from heaven with a clome more vast,
.  Till thou ai length art free.
  S Leaving thine outgrown shell by liie`s unresiing seal
    From Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
  1 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  V THE NAU’1‘ILUS—-ATOMIC POWERED SUBMARINE
  The nuclear powered submarine NAUTILUS, our nation’s
  (and the world’s) first atomic-powered ship has now operated
  for over two years with results which have been consistently
§ beyond all expectation. Recently she logged her 60,000th mile
    without refueling. The success of the NAUTILUS is reflected by
  1 the Navy’s intention to build no more conventionally powered
Q I submarines. So far Congress has authorized a total of 16 atomic-
g powered ships, 15 submarines, and one guided missile cruiser.
l l In this session, Congress will consider the Navy’s shipbuilding
l program which includes four more nuclear powered submarines
E , and the iirst nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
l . Rear Admiral H. G. Rickover, Chief of the Atomic Energy
~ i Commission’s Naval Reactors Branch, who developed the NAU-
P TILUS and who is known as the "father of the atomic subma-
rine," calls it the "Kitty Hawk" model of nuclear ships. Accord-
ing to Admiral Rickover, the impact of the nuclear submarine on
` naval warfare may approach that of the airplane. In any event,
we can see in the NAUTILUS’ performance a forecast of remark-
. able things to come from atomic power in defense, and in civilian
_ application as well.
l is From This and That from Washingt0r¢—March 9, 1957
i i By Frances P. Bolton, Congressman,
  22nd District, Ohio
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 HOW FOREST COVER AFFECTS WATER RUNOFF _
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Top sketch shows distribution of rainfall on vegetated and bare areas
into surface runoff, subsurface flow, and base flow. Width of arrows indi-
cates the relative amount of each component .... Sketch at lower left
indicates how trees reduce rain impact and perm`t water t seep into  
spongy soil .... Lower center shows a section of tlie forest flgor .... At l
lower right is a significant runoff comparison. H,
This chart was prepared by Mr. Laban P. Jackson, Kentucky’s Commissioner of \*·
Conservation, at the request of The Lexington Herald. Reproduced here through the
courtesy of Mr. Herndon J. Evans, Editor of the Herald.

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  BRIDGET GALLAGHER, R.N., s.C.M.
y Nurse-Midwife in charge of the Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial Nursing
  Center at Brutus on Bullskin Creek in Clay County, Kentucky
  See Inside Back Cover Picture
‘_; Editor’s Note:—This account of a single Hash flood of a year ago gives us
~ an understanding of what happens to vast areas when hundreds of Hash
_ Hoods st1·ike mercilessly within hours. The reason for the havoc they
I bring today is the destruction of the forest cover, and the earth with it,
' on the watersheds. Please refer to the chart called How Forest Cover
1, Affects Water Runoff.
i   The morning of Thursday, June 21st, ’56 was much as usual
  on Brutus district, except for a few additional outbreaks of
A measles to swell the current epidemic.
· “ Approximately at 1:00 p.m. I completed my district calls,
_ and returned to the nursing center. There were several chores
  which needed attention. Over at Hyden Hospital Betty Lester
‘p was giving a buffet supper for the staff, and I was planning to
Y attend.
. . At 3 :20 p.m. it began to rain, and I heard the distant rumble
of thunder. Just a shower, I thought. It rained for twenty min-
" utes, then stopped abruptly. I finished my tea and reached for
the jeep keys; but, looking out of the window, I noticed that the
j sky was very much overcast and that rain was again falling.
It was quite heavy rain but not exceptionally so.
Suddenly there was a thunder-clap that seemed to shake
the surrounding hills, accompanied by a vivid Hash of forked
lightning. So violently did the rain then descend, that I thought
` the heavens must really have opened. The deluge went on and
.... V on with increasing ferocity, and in a matter of minutes every
ST t little stream was a raging torrent, and water gushed from every
E conceivable point of the hills. A miniature Niagara cascaded
‘ from Raven Rock, the highest point back of Brutus Center.
.   My fascinated gaze was directed to Bullskin Creek which
A was rising rapidly. Already the water had risen to overiiow its
` banks and with each moment an ever—increasing tide was sweep-
i ing over most of the Hat land in the area. Vegetables were
, · uprooted and carried along in the swift current.
  Suddenly Jim Davidson left the shelter of his home and
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started up the hill to the Center at a run. Anxiously I watched I 
 . him, as it was obvious that he was extremely worried. Breath- M1
j lessly he told me that his yard was full of water, almost up to
{ the porch floor in fact. The chief cause for his concern was his I
  grandson, Ronnie, who was ill with measles and hardly capable  
{ of wading through the swirling water which surrounded his t
  home.
  I pulled on my rubber boots and a raincoat, collected from A
  the attic a water-proof garment bag (equipped with a zipper),
and set off down the hill to the garage. It took only a few ;
moments to get out the jeep and drive to Jim’s house. A four-  
foot high wall of water was sweeping across the road from the  
branch opposite, the culvert proving very inadequate indeed at F.,
this point.  
Ronnie was wrapped in a blanket and tucked into the gar-  
ment bag, leaving only his face exposed. We carried him to the pg;
jeep and I drove up the hill to the nursing center. Meanwhile {-
Vanda, my household helper, had prepared a bed for Ronnie. i
When we got him out of his covering we found he was snug as Q
the proverbial bug and none the worse for his experience. .1.
Another cause for concern was my neighbors living on li
Raven Rock Branch. The stream was dangerously close to their {
home and was rising higher with each moment. More serious, l
too, was the danger of landslides; already several had appeared i
on the hills around us and rocks and uprooted trees rolled down  
their steep slopes. It was no easy matter to make my voice R
heard above the din of thunder and roaring torrents, but even-  
tually they heard and agreed it was unsafe to remain at home. r.
They waded through the water and came to the Center where we _  
provided dry clothing. Thirteen people were given shelter at the
Center that night. Vanda braved the fury of the storm to rescue —_
a cat and four kittens at Jim’s house and we prepared a box for -
them in the basement. They settled down quite contentedly. »
Shortly after dark the storm subsided. Groups of people .,
appeared on the road discussing the cloudburst. Before us e
stretched a scarcely unbroken lake where before had flourished l
gardens and grain crops. Not one swinging bridge remained {
the whole length of the creek. Almost all of the wagon bridges  
had also been carried away. People whose homes were on the  
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J opposite banks who had gone to work in the mines and elsewhere,
V1 were cut off from their families and had to seek shelter with their
I more fortunate neighbors. The road was full of debris and slides
l of rocks and earth. Several men worked by flashlight to clear
  one slide that completely blocked the way. One house, which
  until two months previously had been occupied by a family of
eight, was carried down-stream one hundred yards and deposited
  on a sandbank. Several homes were flooded, the water reaching
‘ the windows. A washing machine was carried from one porch
  and marooned in a field some distance away. Hundreds of fowl
i and some pigs were drowned. I marvelled at the fortitude of the
it people, considering that a great deal they had labored for in the
  past three months had been carried away or ruined by the merci-
  less creek, and its branches, in as many hours. They even joked
  about their misfortunes, "Tell Herbert to go down the South
  Fork and hoe his ’tater patch-if he can iind it,"—I heard one
  man remark to another.
Q That night when we had made our charges comfortable
% and everyone had retired, I began to worry about an expectant
  mother who was due shortly to have her baby. She lived on a
  branch on the other side of Bullskin and, as the creek had risen
T so rapidly, I doubted if she had been able to come out to rela-
  tives near the road. Precisely at midnight there was a knock
l on the door. This is it, I thought; but no, it was another patient
{ who was booked for hospital delivery and was in early labor.
it She wanted to know what she should do if the road were
_i obstructed between her and the hospital. I advised her to return
  to me at the center. But she did get through to the hospital all
_ Q right. V
Next day the Hood had subsided, leaving a melancholy scene.
y I visited several sick persons. Later, when I returned home, I
found a message waiting for me to say a patient had had "a
_ stroke" and would I please come at once. I set off in the jeep,
» completely forgetting that the patient lived on the other side of
·- the creek and that I should have taken my horse, as the bridge
il had washed away. There was nothing else to do but wade the
* stream; it was not quite waist deep at that point. Just as I
V returned to the road after caring for the patient, a truck drove _
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wanted me to go up there right away." Fortunately I had taken  
_ my midwifery bags along in case of such an emergency. After ·
inverting my boots, to get rid of some of the water, I got in the ,1
I jeep and followed the truck up the road. One did not have to i
re-cross Bullskin to reach Hallie’s home, for which I was pro-
foundly thankful.
Hallie was doing fine when I arrived. I had been with her
only a few minutes when we had another cloudburst, lasting
almost as long as the previous one, and flooding the same terri-
tory as before. Hallie’s baby, a lovely 8%-pound boy, was born
at the height of the storm, and added his lusty cry to the gen-
eral din.
The roads were badly eroded in places, but I got safely back I
that night, considering myself lucky to have gotten over a
wooden bridge, which a little later gave up the struggle and
collapsed.
Things settled down after a time, but I think those two first
days of summer 1956 will long be remembered by our Bullskin
people. One old timer told me that in all the years he had lived
in that community, "There hain’t never been nothing like it
afore." ~
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· Children of Dr. and Mrs. William R. MacAusland, Jr. I
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  JUNIOR MADE IT
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.5 ANNA MAY JANUARY, RN., c.M.
For two or three weeks I had been waiting, with the patience
of Job, on both Mandy and Sally, not knowing whether I would
be called to "yon" mountain or up Hell-fer-Sartain Creek-—-in
j opposite directions about five miles each way.
I I got my call up Hell-fer-Sartain in the early evening, not
to Mandy, but "to please make haste because Sam was nigh onto
bleeding to death from an axe wound." After putting an emer-
gency dressing on the wound and getting Sam off to the hospital
’· for suturing, I learned that Mandy, at least for the moment, was
still waiting.
‘ I returned to the center to learn, with great relief, that Sally
had not sent for me. Just as I dropped the last boot on the floor,
and was ready to call it a day, "Hallo, Hallo," sounded at the
gate and there was Joe, telling me that Sally was punishing bad
. and to please hurry along. Remembering Sally from four years
5 back during an icy spell, when I slid into the yard on the seat
of my pants, I thought I had better hurry. I quickly saddled
Cindy and took off toward "yon" mountain. Cindy seems to
_ know when there is a baby on the way and seems to dare Mr.
Stork to beat her. Since the way led straight up the mountain,
. I left Cindy at the foot and took to my two feet. As Joe and I
. got about half way up, I said, "How long has Sally been sick ‘?"—
"Oh, she just took nigh onto two hours ago." I thought to
 I myself, Sally has a full term baby there this time and it doesn’t
A seem possible that Mr. Stork’s appearance could be so imminent
with only two hours in labor. But, metaphorically speaking, the
. stork’s wings seemed to be flapping very close as I arrived.
j On my last visit to Sally, I had been a bit apprehensive about
I J unior’s advent. I had a feeling that he intended to walk instead
of dive into the world, which is the usual way. Sally insisted
that he kicked where he was supposed to kick, and she just did
· not think "hit" was necessary to ride a mule six miles and then
4 "cotch that old mail truck in to Hyden to see that thar doctor."
  I realized as soon as I arrived that Mr. Stork’s flapping wings
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examination verified Junior in a sitting position. I guess he  
 v thought he would show me that he could go places in a sitting ·_`»
T position as well as I; and of all places on the top of a mountain, ·_,
Q and he had not been too careful about his waist line either.  
  I knew it would take four to six hours to get our Medical  ·
, Director, so there was not anything to do except to go ahead, and
  to pray for a safe arrival. Junior behaved, and came along very `
  well—football shoulders and all. When he got himself into the  
  world—all but his head—he must have decided he was back in  i
* a guillotine tower in the middle ages. With instructions to Sally,  it
and reminding myself that I was not on a chain gang and must ’. 
not pull—just stand him on his feet, as after all that was his T
choice of arrival, and wait-—and after what seemed like ages, *
I gently coaxed eight and one-half pounds into this world. He  
appeared more like a limp rag doll than he did a husky football ¥
player.  
I cleared his air passages and wrapped him in a blanket, .
reminding myself over and over that I must keep him quiet and .
leave a lot to nature. As I took him into the kitchen, I remem-
bered having put a drowned chicken, which I thought was dead,  
in an oven and that it revived. So, I held Junior in my arms in  ‘
the oven, and it was not long before he looked like a pink rosebud I
and let out a yell equal to any champion football player. His ·
cry was more beautiful than all the music of any of the great A
masters I had ever heard. I then made his mother comfortable
and left Junior nestled in her arms, in their little cabin on the
mountain top. As I wended my way down the mountain the
stars winked and bid goodbye to night. Dawn broke over the  .
hills and mist rose from the river and wrapped her silver cloak 2
about the hills, and built her castles in the valley.
COMMENTS AND CORRECTION
To the vast regret of our printer and to our own, we have
learned that one copy of our Winter Bulletin was mis-paged. ·
Some of the pages were left out and some of the pages were
duplicated. In making inquiries, we have not learned of a second _
copy that went out in this condition. If any of you did receive *
such a copy, please write us at once and we will replace it by  A
return mail. We have extra copies of the Winter Bulletin on hand.  

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».,» Sin Memoriam
_l  MRS. CHARLES W. ALLEN MR. NAT B. HALL
  Louisville, Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky
Died in April, 1957 Died in December, 1956
1 MR- PLEAS ALLEN MR. HARRY B. HOLLINS
. SW3}, K¢¤f¤¢ky Long Island, New York
  D1€d 111 May, 1957 Died in December, 1956
Y'  Ng°·d~T· DKBESLEY - MRS. ARTHUR DWGRAHAM
i D. Y "1,";·b€“ uc Y Providence, Rhode Island
 i wd m 6 1`“*“"Y· 1957 Died in December, 1956
Q MRS. CHARLES A. BETTS, JR.
. Stamford, Connecticut MRS;5}  TQEESQTEY
1,  Died in November, 1956 Died in Septémbery 1956
i MISS MARGARET D. BOEHM
il Baltimore, Nljaryland MR. WILLIAM E. SIMMS
.  Died in oeiobei, 1956 L€>1‘1L 1957
. MRS. GEORGE M. DAVIDSON MISS ELIZABETH WHARTON
{ Chicago, Illinois Pikesville, Maryland
 ’ Died in March, 1957 Died in October, 1956
MISS RUTH DRAPER MRS. FREDERIC C. WHITE
· New York, New York West Hartford, Connecticut
A Died in December, 1956 Died in April, 1957
A DR. CHARLES-EDWARD A. WINSLOW
New Haven, Connecticut
‘ Died in January, 1957
- "Those who are gone you have. Those who cleparTeol loving you
F love you sTill; ancl you love Them always. They are noT really
gone, Those clear hearTs ancl True——They are only gone inTo The
nexT room. and you will presenTly geT up and Tollow Them."
—W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863)
_ "I cannoT Think OT cleaTh as more Than The going ouT oT one roorn
I inTo anoTher."
—William Blake (1757-1827)
i Four of these old friends of ours died in the autumn with
. , the dying year. We only learned lately that Mrs. James F. Ramey
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months before she had sent her annual check through her ‘
‘ daughter. She was too ill to write but not too ill to remember a
  charity dear to her heart for twenty years. To this daughter and  
  to Mr. Ramey we send our deep sympathy.  
  Both of our friends who died in October were from Mary-  g
{ land. We have no record that they knew each other, but they j
  had this in common, that they loved and supported the Frontier  ·
  Nursing Service for some seventeen years. Miss Margaret D.  
  Boehm of Baltimore wrote us more than once during that long Qi 
span of time. Miss Elizabeth Wharton of Pikesville, Maryland,  
kept up an abiding interest in our doings almost until the last  
days of her honored life. We join the many friends of Miss ._
Boehm and of Miss Wharton in sympathy for the families to 4;
whom they were dear. When Mrs. Charles A. Betts, Jr., of Stam-  l`
ford, Connecticut, died in November we lost one who had cared  »
about us and supported us for a quarter of a century. Our hearts  j
reach out to the husband who survives her. o·
The month of December robbed us of three men and two  
women who had been friends of ours for a long span of time.  i
Mrs. Arthur Ingraham of Providence, Rhode Island, the treasurer  
of our committee there, was an active and generous member up
to within a few weeks of her death. One of the most useful and ,
delightful women in Providence, she was a leader in our group j
as in every group in which she served. We shall never return to i
Providence without remembering and missing her. Our sym- .
pathy is extended to her sons. Mr. William E. Simms of Lex- t
ington, Kentucky, and New Orleans, an honorary member of it
our Blue Grass Committee, shared with his wife in many acts j
of hospitality and kindness to the Frontier Nursing Service. To
her and to his daughters our sympathy goes out, as well as to
his host of friends.
Of Mr. Harry Hollins of New York it is hard to write objec-
tively, because he was the father of our own Jean Hollins. Not
only did he and his wife support us over a long period of time,
but they lent us Jean to be our resident courier for as long a time. p
The bond between us and that loved father of Jean’s was forged
in friendship. Our sympathy for Mrs. Hollins and her family is l
intimate and deep. In Mr. Nat B. Hall of Lexington we gave up
a trustee who served us with devotion. As vice-president of the · ·  

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· Security Trust Company, of which our honored treasurer, Mr.
Edward S. Dabney, is president, Mr. Hall took a personal interest
  in our trust funds and was never too busy to explain them to us.
Q For the Frontier Nursing Service, as well as for the many good
1 causes he served, Mr. Hall gave himself, in the words of The
 i Lexington Herald, "over and beyond the call of duty." Our
  hearts go out in tender sympathy to his wife and two young sons.
Q  One can hardly imagine this world without Miss Ruth
  Draper. And we in the Frontier Nursing Service realize how
 ’ impoverished our lives would have been but for her. The si