Regular Meeting
November 14, 1950.
Meeting called to order at 8:05 by the President, Hugh C. Thompson, M.D.
Miss Dorothy Barbour, of the Arizona Children's Home, was introduced by Dr. Storts, and spoke about adoption procedures.
Dr. M.W. Westervelt, of Tempe, Arizona, was introduced by Dr. Storts, and talked on the "Medical Aspects of Atomic Warfare". Dr. Westervelt also showed several fine descriptive films on this subject.
Motion was made and seconded that the reading of the Minutes of the last meeting be dispensed with. A brief resume of the Minutes of the Board of Directors meeting of November 9th was made by the Secretary.
It was moved by Dr. Harry Thompson that the matter of numbers in place of names for the doctors was tabled. Motion was seconded and carried.
Applicants for membership Dr. Selig Aaron Shevin and Dr. Harold Johns Rowe were voted upon and unanimously elected to term membership in the Society.
The President appointed Doctors D.J. Heim, Boris Zemsky, Dennis Bernstein and Walter Hileman as teller to count the ballots for the primary election.
Report of the Alameda Plan Committee was given by Dr. Kinkade, as follows: "To bring you up to date on the activities of the Committee and to present it to see if you want to go into it a little further and find out more about it. Quite a bit of information has been obtained from Alameda County. The principal factor is to develop good relationship between public and doctors. There is protection from unethical practices and malpractice prevention. The collection agency helps to finance the plan. There is an additional cost for each member of the Society, but this is reduced with the years. I would like to make a motion that we go on record as favoring the program and the Committee will get to work and find out more about it. We are desirous of concrete information as to practical application."
Motion seconded by Dr. Sarlin and carried.
Report of what is being done for hard of hearing in this County was given by Dr. Kinkade, as follows:
Our conservation of hearing program started in the spring of 1947. We had no money, but the Crippled Children's Society came to the rescue and since then we have instituted quite a program in the State. This fall we had our fourth Clinic. We are now up to date on all school children, and have Otolaryngological setups in Bisbee, Douglas, and Flagstaff and Prescott. We have a worker who goes to each place and instructs, and the otolarygologist carries on from there. Crippled Children's Society is going to pay half salary for teachers in public schools and the schools will pay the other half, this teaching to be in lip-reading, stuttering and stammering. There are also courses for high schools and adults. The Department of Public Health and Department of Public Instruction are cooperating. Crippled Children's will see the program through."
Announcement was made by the President that the Red Cross has requested First Aid instructors from the Society, which will be circularized in this connection.
