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INDIANS TAKE TO ADVANCES Navajo Tribes Now Sup port White Man’s Hospital BY MURRA Y. SINCLAIR ‘ GANADO, Ariz., July 26 — (TP)— Superstitious medicine men and modern medical science are work ing hand-in-hand to cure ills of the Navajos, North America's largest snd fastest growing Indian bribe. The man who has largely brought this about is Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, head of the Presby terian Sage Memorial hospital fcere, 60 miles fr >m railroad or town. ■ Salsbury says it is true some Navajo medicine men still prac tice the weird rites handed down for generations and frown upon white man’ medicine. It also is true that more than jo.ice four or five medicine men hu\e been patients in Dr. Sais bury's hospital at the same time. Tribal healers have played an -important part in the sagebrush aurgeon’s life at Ganado. ' Shortly after the Presbyterian board of national missions’ office •iri New York sent him on a temp orary assignment to this remote .hospital in 1927, Salsbury was threatened with lynching because a Navajo child under his care had died. “It was Keel point, a medicine •man. who saved the situtation,” he says. “He told the indians to 30 'heme, that even medicine men •made mistakes.” Within a few days Dr. Salsbury had added Red 'Point to his hospital staff. . At that time the only hospital on the 16,000,000 acre reservation, 'was a small building with 12 beds. ^It served 50,000 Navajos. Sage Memorial is still the only •hospital on the reservation. But it [is rated one of the best Indian .hospitals on the continent: has •reputedly the finest nursing s-hool for Indians in the world: and the 200-acres that make up Ganado contain more than 50 buildings. In the 20 years Dr. Salsbury has been at Ganado 25,000 patients have passed through the hospital. Not one of them suffered from scarlet fever.- While children on ’ tne reservation would come down • with the disease, but never the •Navajos. Dr. Salsbury cannot ex plain why they are immune. Only five patients had diabetes. ■For some reason, possibly diet, the sugar content of Navajos ' blood is far less than whites’. A small proportion of Navajos suffer from cancer, but Dr. Sal soury has known of only one case .of cancer of the breast, and that ■ in t man. It has taken years of work to , correct some of the strange Nava .jo beliefs. According to tradition, a dead person must not be looked upon except by the burial party. A hogan in which death has taken place must be abandoned forever. “A few years ago one of our field nurses found a Navajo child that had been tossed upon a sand heap,” Dr. Salsbury explains. “The mother was sure the youngster could not* recover and • in order not to contaminate the hogan had left him to die. “The nurse brought him to the hospital and we were able to save his life. His mother was overjoy ed and amazed v hen he was re • turned in good health.” Unce Ur. saisoury was sick, a group of medicine men gathered in his hospital room and went through a chant for his recovery. As the hospital grew and his v.ork became known. Dr. Salsbury was asked to speak at medical meetings and conventions. He was also anxious to do post-graduate work. “It was hard to get away from Ganado, so I brought a post-grad uate school here,’- he says in ex plaining the Harlow Brooks Nava jo Clnical conference that will be held for the eighth time this Au gust. Some of the top medical men of the country travel long dis tances to deliver papers at the conference which cover the whole field of American medicine and surgery. “They seem glad to do it,” Dr. Salsbury says. Tire conference indirectly caus ed a tribal meeting a few weeks ago. The hospital has its airplane landing strip. A trader, with a plane of his own, thought the strip too short for the planes that will be landing. The Navajos, always suspicious, refused to sell or give ground with which to lengthen the strip. Dr. Salsbury tr.lked to them. He said the white doctors traveled many miles to treat and study Indian ailments. They gave time ! white people wanted,! and would J ‘Commission Of One* Eats 1 Many Shrimps To Ascertain Proper Methods Of Cooking BY BOB KLINE Staff Writer After governor R. Gregg Cherry appointed the North Carolina Sr.rimp Commissior to make a survey of the Tar Heel coast and find out why the shrimp popula tion is so low here, this reporter appointed himself a commission of one to find rev: ways to eat shrimp. The North Carolina Shrimp Commission has $50,000 to couduct its survey -the Commission of One to Discover Tastier and Modern Methods of Preparing Shrimp has r,o dollars at its disposal. Some argue that Governor Cherry’s commission is more im portant than the Commission of One. They say, no matter how de liciously chefs conjure their shrimp, the people can’t eat ’dm untii somebody finds’em. | On me otner nr.na. me wvm mission of One agures that no mat ter how many millions of shrimp in little crannies along the coast, they won’t be great in demand un til somebody thinks up some sure fire shrimp recipes. After extensive research by the Commission of Ore. in whicn the director heroically has eaten hun dreds of shrimp for the cause, ap proximately 12 whooperdc.o shrimp recipes have been un covered. Irma S. Rjmbauer deserves much credit for her help to the Commission of One by contribu ting about 15 toothsome shrimpy dishes in her culinary refeieocc. ‘The Joy of Cooking.” Irma tells the basic method of boiling shrimp. Bu* anybody who can boil an egg can boil jhnmp. She goes further. She explains h:w to prepare creamed shrimp and oysters, shrimp and celery au gratin, shrimp and cucumber sal ad. shrimp in grapefruit, the fa mous shrimp Mewberg, shrimp New Orleans, shrimp wiggle, and shrimp soffle. But Irma is apparently ignorant of most luscious method o£ treat ing a shrirry> before popping it in to an anxious mouth. The Commission of One dis covered this secret recipe on a boat trip last Sunday when the dir ector was a guest of L. B. Me Gormick aboard the McAnn ai Wrightsville Beach. The name of the dish is deceiv ing. When the director first heard of it, he said, “none of that mess for me, snd I don’t think it will help out survey.’ ‘‘Shrimp in Beer” was the handle they fastened in the dish tnat stole the heart of the Com mission of One. After Chief Cook Ralph Riggs dumped in the vital igredients and set them ovc, an alcohol stove in the forward com partment, the director and his wife sat on the after deck, aireadv decided not to eat any ‘‘Shrimp in Beer.” But soon a remarkable aroma started drifting back under their nostrils. “Smells gcod doesn t it? It couldn’t taste that food though. ’ In about 45 minutes the power ful Shrimp in Beer aroma over came the director, and he rusl’-ed forward to get a sample as soon as they were done. Other guests politely waited, tut not the di rector. He had his nose over the cauldron, with mouth drooling and hands extended. “Yes,” he said as he stuffed handfuls of shrimp into his mouth, ‘this recipe, Mr. McCormick, will head the least of the report of the Commission of One to Discover Tastier and Modern Methods of preparing Shrimp.” Munch munch. In this enthusiastic mood, he. de manded the recipe from Cooke Riggs. This is it: Wash 10 pounds of fresh shrimp, dump them in a pail. Pour 10 cans of warm beer over the shrimp. Add one finely chopped onion. Pour in one small bottle of hot sauce. Add about five tablespoons of salt and one tablespoon of peppci. Cook until the shrimp turn pink. Then serve hot in large quan tities to eager customers. The Commission of One salutes Shrimp In Beer as the foremost of all shrimp recipes. As soon as pay for. If the Navajos did not think this worth while they were right in refusing the ground. Again a medicine man helped. The indian told of falling off a cliff at night. He expecteq to die. But the white doctors found him and saved his life. They should have the land, he said. Black Sheep spoke. He said if the hospital wanted to land planes or. the ground where his hogar stood, he would move the Hogan. The hospital got the ground. MODEST MAIDENS 1 Trademark Registered U. 8. Patent Oflloe r-STabt c^/V/ "77w/ long blue convertible fooled tne — I hod you down as a litnousitte job.” Ifej i the Governor’s Commission finds enough shrimp to go around, the Commission of the One predicts that Shrimp in Beer will be the No. 1 national fovorite. H* A EXPANDS ECTORS BOARD — 38 New Members Are Ap pointed To Serve State’s Health Association DURHAM, July 26.—The North Carolina Good Health association has announced that its board nf directors has been expanded from 12 to 50 members. Dr. I. G. Greer, president, said tr.e decision to enlarge the board Was based on the association s plans to expanu the scope of its activities. The 46 new board members an nounced by Greer, each of whom has accepted the appointment, fol low: Dr. Frank A. Sharpe, Ralph C. Price, L. P. McLer.don, Harry B. Caldwell, and Spencer Love, Greensboro; Ralph Scott and Reid Maynard, of IJpriington; V/iiham H. Ruffin, Knox Massey, Dr. C. »-. o-pctuiuiiig, cuia v-'- *■ • o'juiiuj, of Durham; J. G. K. McClure and D. Hiden Ramsey, of Asheville'. W. D. Carmichael, Jr., and Wil liam Meade Prirce, of Chapel Hill; J. E. Broyhill, of Lenoir; and Mrs. Elizabeth Dillard Reyn olds, and E. L. Sandefur, of Wins ton-Salem. Charles R. Jonas, of Lincolnian; Judge Henry L. Stevens, Jr., of Warsaw; J. Melville Broughton, Dr. John Ferrell, Mrs. Tom Bust, and Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh; Charles A. Crutchfield, Mrs. E. B. Hunter, Dr. Watson S. Rankin, of Charlotte; James H. Clark, cf Elizabeths own; Dr. Paul F. Whitaker, of Kinston; and H. Daii Folderness, of Tarboro. Also Dr. J. Street Brewer, of Roseboro; Mrs. P. P. McCain, of Southern Pines; Di. H. S. Willis, of Sanitorium; C. A. Finri, of Spencer; Dr. Paul B. Bissatte, c Wilson; Dr. C. \V. Armstrong, of Salisbury; R. Grady Rankin, of Gastonia; George Coble, of Lex ington; J. E. Millis, of High Point; Mrs. A. B. Stoney, of Mor ganton; and H. Galt Braxton, rf Kinston. The 12 original board members of the association,' who are also the incorporators, will continue to serve. They are: R. Flake Shaw, Sirs. Harry B. Caidwell and Ben jamin Cone, of Greensboro; Pi. William M. Copp 'idge. Senator William B. Umsteac, and George Watts Hill, of Durham; Dr. I. G. Greer, of Thomasville; Charles A. Cannon, of Concord; Josephus Daniels, of Raleigh; Thomas J. Pearsall, and Hyman L. Eattle, of Rocky Mount; and Irving Cat lyle, of Winston-Sa’em. The Executive committee will also be increased in number, Dr, Greer said. The committee, which is given wide latitude in the ad ministration of the association’s program, is now composed of Hill, Eattle, an dCone, all of whom will continue t serve. New members will in elude Sharpe, Caldwell, Greer, Massey, Crutchfield, Clark Braxton, and H. C. Cranford, ex ecutive director of the Good Health association. Austrian Love Blossoms Here Mr. and Mrs. Ray T. Wagoner, Jonesville. pose for the photOr grapher in the Star-News office shortly after their marriage. Mrs. Wagoner is from Vienna, Austria where Wagoner met her while in tlfE service. (Staff Photo)._ Vienna War Romance Ends On North Carolina Farm A romance which began in Vi enna, Austria several years age had its culmination in Jonesville, Yadkin county, July 22. The romance began when Raj T. Wagoner Jonesville farmer, went to Vienna as a member oi eeGen. Mark Clark’s party during the past war. Wagoner was a cryptographic technican with the 63rd Signal corps and his first night in Vienna attended a dance at the Victuiia hotel. There, he met pretty Miss Oswalda Miskuilnig, secretary tc the Vienna chief c! police. Romance blossomed and Iasi April Wagoner was to return tc the states but aid not want k lfeove without his, by that time, fiancee. Wagoner’s fat.her posted a $50C surety bond through Jennings Otts. Wilmington naturalization officer, and Oswalda was allowed to enter the United States under the <21 Sweetheart bill. The couple flaw from Vienna tc New York city in 25 hours and the romance continued at Jones ville. Last Tuesday the couple were married then came to Wilmington to complete negotiations with Otts. Photographed in the Star News office the new Mrs. Wagoner was coy in her statements declaring “It will be fun to be the wife of a farmer—tobacco farmer that is.” As a item for the ladies she declared “Clothes as you have in America are styled somewhat like those we could buy before the war.” Otts said Mrs. Wagoner was the first Austrian war bride to take up residence in North Carolina. FHA DATA MADE KNOWN Reports Most Purchasers Earn $3,500 Or Less More than half the families who built or bought homes last year under the permanent program of the Federal Housing Administra tion had incomes of less than $3,500, it is reported by an article on “Family Incomes of Small Home Buyers” in the second quar ter 1847 isue of the Insured Mort gage Portfolio, official FHA publi cation. The analysis is confined to fami lies financing single-faimly-owner occupied homes uder section 203, title II, National Housing act. It shows that 54.4 percent of the families financing new homes un der section 203 and 58.0 percent of those financing existing homes had incomes of les than $3,500. 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