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FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE QUARTERLY BULLETIN ‘
Published Quzirtcrly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Lexington, Ky.
Subscription Price $1.00 a Year '
Edit0r’s Office: \\'cnc10ver, Kentucky
VOLUME 35 SPRING. 1960 NUMBER 4 I
"Entercd ais second class matter June 30. 1926, at the Post Office at Lexington, Ky.,  
under Act of March 3, 1879."
Copyright, 1960, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. V
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E i coNTENTs
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Q   ARTICLE AUTHOR PAGE
  American Association of Nurse- I
ts Midwives 27
  I Beyond the Mountains 33
I ' Darkness and Light Arma May Jaiiaary 28
  l Editor’s Own Page 6
E E Field Notes 40
{ 1 Hyden Hospital Chapel W. B. Rogers Beasley, M.D. 3
J   In Memoriam 11
Many Blessings Hoaght Barber 15
l Mary Breckinridge at Wendover, Ky. Photograph Inside back cover
i Old Courier News 17
E Old Staff News 21
Our Mail Bag 31
` Spring in 1960 (Verse) Ambrose Rice 2
V i Urgent Needs 7
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{ BRIEF BITS
  "Although my feet . . ." (Verse) 26
  Brain of Individual Held Affected
{ by Feet Reuters 10
A Distance Lends The Lexington Herald 38
  Fashions in the Eighteenth Century Vicar of Wakefield 30
5 Just Jokes 25
` Letter Lost Postal Service News 38
Quicksand The Thousaizdsticks 14
  Take Time 30
é Taxes! ! ! The Colonial Crier 32
Ax, Where the Educational Dollar
V Comes From F'i·ances P. Bolton 32
  White Elephant 39

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SPRING IN I96O ;
by  
AMBROSE RICE YJ
Postmaster, Saul, Ky. Member of FNS Brutus Committee.
lt`s Springtime on earth again  
The little birds begin to sing i.
Don`t shoot the birds as they build Y
It is against the Father`s will.
l like them to build their nests tt
And cover eggs with their warm breasts. y
Little brown bird called a wren Y
Busier bird has never been. .
Cat bird builds in apple trees
To eat the bugs that intest these.
When sun shone and wind did blow `
They drove away the sleet and snow. E
Snow and ice have made Spring late
But thunder now will waY
11. Cabin: clothes cupboard for bedroom without closet ........................ 55.00 ~
12. Coal Grate: replacement for iireplace—Mrs. Breckinridge’s room 12.50 i
13. Kitchen Coal Range: grates replaced .................................................. 22.85 {
BEECH FORK NURSING CENTER {
Jessie Preston Draper Memorial lr
1. Waiting Room: one end converted into storage room (Beech  
Fork has no attic or basement). Materials and labor—esti- _]
mated ....................................................................................................... $150.00 W
2. \Vater Tank: leaks stopped; tank and hoops painted; wooden "
ladder madefmaterials and labor—estimated .............................. 50.00
3. Fencing: front boundary line down by the road—approximately *
200’ to be replaced—locust posts, wire, labor-—estimated .......... 100.00 L
4. Foot Bridge: over the branch between house and barn»—replaced l
—lumber and labor—estimated ........................................................ 25.00 ll
5. Blankets: 100% orlon acrylic—3 (ri $9.65 ea ..................................... 28.95 LL
6. Pillows: 4@ $5.75 .................................................................................... 23.00 ~
7. Quilt Cover: 9 yards cotton print material @ $ .59 ........................ 5.31 {
BRUTUS NURSING CENTER [
Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial Q
1. Porches: carpentry repairs on screened porch off living room g
and entrance porch to Clinic—before painting Center—ma— 2
terials and labor—estimated ............................................................... $100.00 Q
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V 2. Center—Painted: last done in 1952. The paint is peeling»it
must be done this year-materials and labor—estimated ...,...,.. 500.00
3. Cypress Water Tank: new overilow pipe; repairing leak, clean-
‘ ing and painting—materials and labor—estimated ...................... 50.00
4. Garden Plot: fencing with rabbit and poultry wire—materials
and labor—estimated ............................................................................ 25.00
K 5. Chest of Drawers: unpainted—quoted @ .......................................... 27.95
6. Aluminum Double Boiler: quoted @ .................................................... 3.98
_‘ 7. Pull-Gate: reset to make it open properly—labor ............................ 6.00
CONFLUENCE NURSING CENTER
"Possum Bend"—Frances Bolton
i This nursing center, built in 1928, was evacuated under orders of the
» Government of the United States on April 1, 1960. Its buildings are being
torn down on behalf of the Buckhorn Dam Reservoir. The site for its
’_ relocation has not yet been determined.
i FLAT CREEK NURSING CENTER
" Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial
` 1. Yard: Rotted paling fence replaced by board fence around yard
·j and garden—material and labor—estimated .........................._..,_, $200.00
l 2. Pasture Fence—Field Wire: posts reset; new locust posts and
·_, wire put up where necessary to make it safe for mare, Laura
i —-material and lab0r—estimated .........................................___._________ 300.00
l 3. Tin Can Pit: With wooden top, covered with roofmg—materials
‘ and labor—estimated .....................................,........._____________________________ 15.00
i 4. \Videning Driveway: Built in the wagon era, it must now be
i widened to enable coal truck to get up to center safely——labor
_ —estimated ................................................................_________,___________________ 25.00
{ 5. Mirrors: 2 for bedrooms without mirrors——unframed—quoted @
. $5.00 ea ........................................... . ........................................................ 10.00
P RED BIRD NURSING CENTER
b Clara Ford
I 1. Road to Center: Hauling creek gravel, crushing rock to iill in
Q ruts, and a culvert back of the barn—culvert, truck expense,
1abor—estimated .......................... - ........................................................ $150.00
{Q. 2. Cypress \Vater Tank: Painted; (tank, hoops, roof)—pai.nt and
Q labor—estimated .......................... - ........................................................ 50.00
I 3. Wee Log House: (Storage) 3 rotten logs replaced (necessitates
i raising building)—labor—estimated ................................................. 100.00
" 4. New Motor for Furnace Fan: Necessary to heat Clinic and wait-
_ ing room .................................................................................................. 17.81
  5. Window Shades: 4 @ $3.95 ea ............................................................... 15.80
1, 6. Comforters-—Dacron: 2 @ $8.98 ea ..................................................... 17.96
l 7. Mirror: To replace broken one——estimated ........................................ 5.00
  WOLF CREEK NURSING CENTER
[ Margaret Durbin Harper Memorial
7_ This is the center built in the Bowlingtown Valley in 1931 as a
[ memorial to the mother of the late Mrs. Hiram Sibley. That whole valley
·· is being turned into a lake above the Buckhorn Dam. The money given
' by the Government of the United States when it took over the property
Q was not sufficient to build a comparable nursing center at present day
2 prices. When the original center was built, common labor was at fifteen
Q cents an hour. Skilled carpenters worked at thirty-five cents an hour.
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Excellent stonemasons were paid forty cents an hour. The steel hog wire  
fencing could almost be bought at the Five and Ten. Costs are many p!
times more today.
The money from the U. S. Government paid for a roomy house with  
quarters for nurses, clinic, and waiting room. It also covered 13 acres of
the best land in the Frontier Nursing Service, including fine pasture. Below _
are listed some of the items not covered by the grant from the United _
States: ·
1. Barn: for 2 horses and a cow; including feed room, tack room
and hayloft ..................................l.....................................l.................. $1,800.00
2. Manure and Sawdust Bents: one building, concrete block with
screen wire at top, tin roof ............................................................ 300.00 L
3. Two-Jeep Garage: concrete block with asphalt shingles .............. 850.00
4. Septic Tank and Drainage Field: ........................................................ 500.00
5. Chicken House and Run: (good old lumber), poultry wire and ·
labor ...................................................................................................... 85.00
6. Piggery: (used lumber), labor ............................................................ 35.00
7. \Vel1: 74% Feet Deep: drilling and casing ...................................... 255.75
(The electric pump from the old center was installed.)
8. Driveway to Garage and to Barn: hauling and crushing rock; _
culverts; low retaining wall at garage ......................................._ 350.00
9. Clinic Cupboards: for drugs, supplies and saddlebags ..........,.....__ 75.00
10. Clinic and Waiting Room: linoleum rugs @ $10.95 ea ................... 21.90 A
11. Coal Heating Stoves: for two small outlying clinics .............__...____ 33.75 i
12. Window Shades: 17 @ $4.00 ......................................................,...,..... 68.00
13. Boundary Line Fence: locust posts, hog wire, labor ...._.............____ 275.00
Note: Paling fence around yard and board fence around barn
have been given by an old courier.
BRAIN OF INDIVIDUAL HELD AFFECTED BY FEET
TOKYO, Feb. 19 (Reuters)—A person’s brain may be Q
affected by the soles of his feet, according to a Japanese scientist l
who has examined 100,000 pair of feet in 20 years of study. ig
Yaichiro Hirasawa, an assistant professor at Shizouka Univer- i
sity, central Japan, said the area of the soles of the feet of city-  '
dwellers has reduced due to lack of exercise. This results in .
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{ II BIIIUITIHIII
MR. PERCY N. BOOTH MRS. FELIX PRESTON FARMER
· Louisville, Kentucky Hyden, Kentucky
_‘ January, 1960 April, 1960
MRS. A. SMITH BOWMAN, JR. MRS. JAMES C. GREENWAY
Sunset Hills, Virginia. Greenwich, Connecticut
January, 1960 December, 1959
C MR. HENRY BRECKINRIDGE DR. W. O. JOHNSON
New York, New York Louisville, Kentucky
. May, 1960 February, 1960
MRS. W. L. CLAYTON MRS. EDWARD C. MOORE
Houston, Texas Cambridge, Massachusetts
January, 1960 November, 1959
_ MR. THOMAS J. CONNOR MISS LOUISA RAWLE
Cincinnati, Ohio Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
February, 1960 November, 1959
i MRS. MAHALA COUCH MISS ELSIE R. SINKLER
Jason, Kentucky Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March, 1960 April, 1960
THE REV. CHARLES R. MRS_ C_ W_ TANNER
ERDMAN, D.D.
Princeton, New Jersey Owensborq Kentucky
‘ May, 1960 NOV€I11b€I‘, 1959
MISS BERTHA G. WOOD
Marblehead, Massachusetts
January, 1960
They pass beyond our touch, beyond our sight,
i Never, thanl< God. beyond our love and prayers.
And even as, out ot the darkest night,
l Dawn stealeth unawares,
A So trom our night ot sorrow and distress,
*5 We, who are lett in loneliness below,
l lvlay catch some vision ot the blessedness
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