Papago Indian news., September 01, 1954, Image 1

About Papago Indian news. (Sells, Ariz.) 1954-19??

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PUBLISHED MONTH LY AT SELLS,; ARIZONA BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE PAPAGO
INDIANS* - SUBSCRIPTION RATE: SI,OO A YEAR - - VOL* I * Kb, g - SEPT* 195 k
Since we have been here we have been impressed with the need for a hospital
in Sell So In asking people from various villages what they need most medically
speaking, we have almost always been told a hospital in Sells*
We no longer need to be told, but the people that need to be convinced are
the policy makers that have to vote the money necessary for building the hospital*
They don T t listen to the number of miles from Sells to the present hospital or
how bumpy the dirt roads are for a very sick person riding an ambulance from
Hickiwan or San Miguel* The facts which will convince them are figures on the
total population of the Papago Reservation, the number of births, deaths afid
various sicknesses which occur all over the reservation* Not until these figures
are compared with those over the rest of the country will the Washington
politicians favor a hospital in Sells,
Our big problem isto gather this information together* We first need to
know the population* The Tribal Council has expressed interest in expanding
the tribal role and getting more complete figures* We hope
soon so we can figure the sickness and death rates* Second, we need every-
help in reporting to us everysickness, death and birth* It is important
for each case that is missed means that we will report less disease here than
actually exists* This will make things look too good on the Papago Reservation,
and we will again be in danger of losing the chance for a hoppital in Sells®
We also hope that people will learn the other advantages of reporting these
things* Diseases, if reported, can be treated and usually cured* Births, if
reported, can result in a birth certificate which in later life comes in very
handy. When deaths are reported, the causes may be discovered then we can
seme times prevent others in the family or village from dying of the same
disease* We hope all the people will soon realize that in reporting every birth,
death and! sickness to us, they will be very much helping themselves#
Lewis E* Patrie, M*D*
SELLS NEWS
The annual camp meeting of the Sells
Presbyterian Church will be from Sept# 16-
20 this year* The Rev* Edmund Nelson of
the Salt River Indian Church, ®ima
Reservation, will be the principal
speaker* It has been planned this year
that the Church will take care of as.
many outside people and that there will
be enoughtfood to supply the need of
those who come from distant places to
worship at the meetings*
Any of the papagos desiring to find
employment off the reservation contact
Mr* Therman C. Ingram, the new Agency
Employment Officer* Mr* Ingram and his
family moved to Sells from Nevada Agency
August 15* The reservation isn*t a
foreign place to them because he and his
wife Elainetaught at the Kerwo Day
School about 2 years ago*
A stork shower was given for Mrs*
Mable Antone, August 30, Hostesses at
the patty were: Mrs* Martinez, Mrs*
Patrie, Miss Bowness and Miss Ortiz*
SERVICE NEWS
Home on leave after one year in
the Waves, is Orianna Whitman, niece
of Marcus Whitman* At the present
time she is visiting relatives on
the Pima Reservation but will return
and finish out her stay at her uncle *s
home in Sells* She will return to her
base in Arlington Virginia, the.
latter part of this month*
Amends Lewi for Riverside,
Calif* August 20, 195 u where she
will assume her new duties as (Papago
Interpreter in the classrooms at
Sherman Institue* Miss Lewis has
been at Sells for two years doing
work in the Welfare Department*. It
is hoped tfoattMiss Lewis will enjoy
her new work*
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Mr* & Mrs* Camilo Castrillo and
son are going on a holiday week-end
trip to visit relatives and friends
in Silver City, New Mexico# The
Castrillos are leaving Saturday
Morning find plan on returning Monday
Aeptember 6*