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Interest Until that election also amended the charter to put the hospital under UC control, the institution was a mishmash of administration medical staff under UC, the hospital itself under the city manager. As a newcomer, Dr. St John was brought into planning for the "pin wheel" hospital for which consultants of the New Rochelle, N. Y. firm of Dr.

Anthony J. J. Rourke had laid the groundwork in a report to the CDC. Dr. St.

John has impressive credentials for the battled at tests Casablanca ahead: He as medical operations, officer for Gen. George E. and Patton, and invaded Salerno with Gen. Mark Clark as operations chief for the Fifth Army Surgeon's Office. If the bullets have been other than steel, they nevertheless have come in the controversy which frequently waxes over a massive public project.

One point he wants clear: The city manager's office, first C. E. Harrell and now under Mr. Wichman, is building the hospital. "Many people think I award the contracts and am constructing the hospital," Dr.

St John declared, "well that is not so. The city manager is building the facility. It is he, not who awards the contracts and supervises the construction. "We have helped with the pianning--and our doctors, nurses and staff have worked tirelessly and overtime in trying to see that everything possible is done to benefit the care of patients without putting in frills." The "pin wheel" st structure will rise eight stories, with basement and ground floors besides, as one of the most modern hospitals anywhere, said. On each "bed floor" will be space for 120 patients, with the hospital's "nerve center" at the core from which patient rooms will form a pin wheel.

Kept intact will be the present hospital's Mont Reid Pavillion for surgery. Other of the old hospital buildings eventually may be modernized for research, outpatient care and departmental offices. "We don't expect to maintain any building not used for hospital purposes," Dr. St John said. On adjoining grounds will be the Shriners Burn Institute for children.

As one Tell It To Bick BY BOB WEBB The Enquirer Staff City Manager William C. Wichman bolted from the conference in his office into the wide corridor outside. "We're down to the bare knucks," quipped Cincinnati's chief administrator as quick steps carried him down the hallway. If his "knucks" were bruised--no wonder: They were used in an attempt to batter down construction costs of the new General Hospital. Soon Mr.

Wichman shot back into the session with architects and top officials of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. After the conference, he seemed hopeful the budget surgery he urged would succeed. told them to get out the long, sharp pencils and go to work." Cincinnatians voted a $17 million bond issue in November, 1960, for a new 650- bed hospital. From his remarks Thursday, Mr. Wichman intends to keep the project within bounds of the bond issue, another $728,000 earlier available and any Federal aid accruing.

"What we are faced with is that the actual costs of parts one and two of the three phase the project $17 will million," use he remarked. "The third phase is an out-patient clinic." Nor had a recent storm in Council over a requested $14.8 million of hospital 1m- provements and additions for the 1964-68 interval made life any easier for Mr. Wichman. University officials emphasize these items are "in reserve:" They are listed not only for the prospect of any city aid, but also to invite Federal, foundation or other help. "It would be shortsighted to think that a dynamic institution like a hospital would not be expanding," commented Frank T.

Purdy, UC vice-president in charge of development. "For example, the iron room' in the present hospital was made possible by private and Federal sources of research in radiology under Dr. (Eugene Saenger." Dr. Saenger's research could stir a revolution in cancer treatment, So far, about all one sees at site of the new hospital -Eden Avenue and Goodman Street is a sign telling of the facility to come. William C.

Wichman orders cost cuts Yet workmen are busy building the emergency allied by and $333,000 power of Federal plant, Hill-Burton funds. many Cincinnatians, however, the time has come for more brick, more mortar and more steel. Those in the hospital field, though, move cautiously, Dr. Clement F. St John, UC vice-president and director of the Medical Center, cites a letter from Josthe eph C.

New Hinsey, York directotalf Cornell Medical Center, urging maximum planning to avoid mistakes. "It is to remodel after a building is completed," Mr. Hinsey wrote Dr. St John in a letter August 22, 1963. dated, advice is to make haste slowly.

Even at best, there will be details that will be missed and changes that will be made." No stranger to hospital problems, Dr. St John was the major general commanding Walter Reed Army Medical Center when he took an early retirement at 56-to join the UC staff May 15, 1961, Putting a seasoned administrator over the UC Medical Center, with rank vice-president was, in fact, part of the program adopted by Citizens Development Committee before the bond issue vote. Dr. C. F.

St John we must grow Auto Use Tax by a resident of Cincinnati? I paid a tax for an automobile bought in Indiana What is the law concerning paying DEAR BICK: WELCOME tax to the State of Indiana and now I find that I must pay more to the State of Ohio. I think a person should be warned about this unjust act. This seems to be legalized thievery by the state. D. G.

DEAR D. Your conclusion is a mite strong--that "legalized thievery." Officials at the Court House inform that the is due the FINDSE-M State of Ohio as a "use tax." That tax is used to build and repair the roads on which you drive the crate. Virtually every state has such a "use tax." However, after you register the car in Ohio, you can apply to the State of Indiana for refund of the charged there, under a reciprocal agreement. You should have checked with the dealer about what taxes are imposed. Or, you could have called the House yourself and they would have given you the straight dope.

Sick Sports Coverage DEAR BICK: I think The Enquirer editorial page is the greatest now comes the flaw in the ointment! Years ago I can remember when the sports fan would use The Enquirer opinion on sports events to settle wagers the 1963 basketball season, when Cincinnati was rated No. 1, they played Illinois, rated No. 2. I read the results and looked for the box score and couldn't find one This also has happened with the the Reds games Our family has been interested in Ohio Valley Conference basketball. Lots of times Eastern Kentucky would play and there wasn't even mention in your paper The Enquirer does not do a good service on these.

V. H. R. DEAR V. H.

Ralph Holsinger, managing editor, gives the reply it's a matter of early deadlines. This applies especially to late contests (such as the Reds playing on the Coast at night, the game finishing at 2 a. m. Cincinnati time). However, the Sports Department tries diligently to carry box scores of the Reds, Royals, UC, Xavier through all editions missed on the morning after those games.

There have been some lapses, he says. Sports have proliferated so in recent years that if we carried results on all contests in which readers are interested, you'd need a baskart to carry it to the house! But, they're giving the best sports reading in town! Sick Rand "Tell It To Bick" Eyed of three in the nation, it will be a salute to the achievements, reputation and general prograrn the UC Medical Center, Dr. St John said. "We must make the Medical Center second to none," the Ohio-born Dr. St John said.

"But we don't want to do it at the expense of the taxpayer. I foresee no other bond issue for the plans under way. But I do feel that if we have reserve projects on hand we are leaving the way open for possible non-tax aid. Certainly we are making it possible for benefactors to leave funds." For example, an anonymous $500,000 gift got the College of Nursing and Health Building off to a flying start. The Center In New Hospital Budget THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Indiana! Ohio METRO PAGE SUNDAY NEWS S.

FEATURES I Page 6-A Sunday, April 19, 1964 hopes, too, to get a dental college which private funds could assist. "The more we have the more we attract," Dr. St John emphasized. He cited Harvard as the mightiest money magnet of any medical center in America. Snail-Eat-Snail ail War Supervised ed Here To Find Conqueror Of Tropical Menace Father Sweeney Of XU Is Dead Rev.

Paul J. Sweeney, professor of English at Xavier University, died Saturday morning at Good Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. A member of the XU faculty since 1929, Father Sweeney had the longest service of any Jesuit at the of which he also was an alumnus. The Mermaid Tavern, still an active literary discussion group on campus, was founded by Father Sweeney in 1931. As a student he also founded and first edited the XU literary publication, The Athenaeum.

Father Sweeney would have been 72 years old June 2. His boyhood was spent in Newport, Ky. In 1912 he graduated from St. Xavier College, now XU. As a student he twice won the debate medal, won honors in the Intercollegiate English Contest and won the Alumni Oratorical Medal.

his interests weren't literary--he played shortstop on the college baseball team. Father Sweeney entered the Society of Jesus in Septernber, 1912, studied at Florissant, and was ordained a priest in June, 1926. He received a master's degree from St. Louis University and taught at Creighton University, Omaha, and Marquette University, Milwaukee, before re- General will benefit patients throughout the area and nation. But an aid to Dr.

St John observed that while the new hospital will be one of the finest, "we will not be serving our met-champagne type meals." Uncertainties of Federal aid also haunt hospital planning. Just now UC is getting its request for Hill-Burton construction funds forward to the Greater Cincinnati Hospital Council which, in turn, will submit it to the Ohio Health Department for final ranking among Ohio priorities. "An Congress is in process of reviewing the whole Hill-Burton program," Dr. St John said. "However, we should know by late fall may easily carry the parasite to other areas of the country now free of schistosomiasis.

"The U. S. Dominican Republic Alliance for Progress was then a large-scale irrigation system to improve the arid areas of the northwest part of the Dominican Republic. It is imperative that any such project be delayed, since irrigation might also spread of the disease," the zoologist warned. DR.

ETGES SAID the disease is prevalent in both temperate and tropical climates. Estimates, probably conservative, are that about of the world's population is infected with the disease. The counterattack in how much Federal aid will be available for next year." Any delay from the bond issue vote to opening of the hospital, history shows, is not without precedent. The $2.5 million of bonds voted in 1909 for the present hospital were, turned into completed buildings in 1915. Under the 1960 campaign, $11 million was for the new hospital, $6 million to renovate the old.

Mr. Wichman figures the, ratio may have changed somewhat since. "Some of the funds orig-: inally intended for renovation, I think, are now in the estimate for the new hospital Itself," he said. Whatever the ratio, Mr. Wichman new, too, to his job--appears riveted on the voters' mandate.

Ironically, many Cincinnatians will never qualify for any" but emergency treatment at the hospital their taxes build. For General is one of the few charity-type municipal teaching hospitals remaining. However, advances pioneered at It's snail eat snail in a Cincinnati based war on one of mankind's most widespread parasitic diseases- -schistosomiasis. Two kinds of tropical snails are opposed in this silent battle for survival, a conflict ct. masterminded by University of Cincinnati scientist Dr.

Frank J. Etges. The enemy snail is Australorbis glabratus." It is host to a sometimes lethal blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni. These blood flukes contaminate water in which the snails live and can penetrate the skin of man and animals to enter the bloodstream. THE DISEASE may be acquired by children in recreation pools, by persons bathing, doing their laundry, or working in infested waters, Dr.

Etges said. While it may be fatal, it is more serious as a public health problem in some regions because schistosomiasis results in a tremendous drain on the victim's vitality, Since treatment is difficult and the problem is so widespread, direct attacks on schistosomiasis have been repulsed. Dr. Etges has enlisted legions of snails that prey on Australorbis eggs and young for a counterattack. Man's ally snail is called Marisa.

THE UC ZOOLOGIST has tried introducing multitudes of Marisa into streams and swamps of the Dominican Republic in the hope that the snail-eating snails will check Australorbis, and with it, schistosomiasis. "It was found in Puerto Rico that the Marisa was predatory to Australorbis and my attempt to use Marisa can't fail any more than have previous at- At Convention Jayne Woods and Teresa Barwick, editor and associate editor, respectively, of Our Lady of Cincinnati's collegiate newspaper, "The Edgecliff" represented the staff in Dayton, Ohio, at the convention of the Ohio Collegiate Newspaper Association. tempts" using snail-killing chemicals, he said. "I personally observed the results in Puerto Rico and have high hopes this will stem the tide," Dr. Etges said.

The UC parasitologist and associate professor of zoology spent last year at the U. S. Army Tropical Research Medical Laboratory in San Juan, Puerto Rico, under an Inter-American Programs research fellowship from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He has been working on the disease-bearing snail problem at UC since 1959, when he got a $22,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation. Further NSF support was added in 1963.

Oregon Tops 2 'Beaver' Teams In Debate Finals Two debating teams from Oregon, the Beaver state, wound up facing each other for a national tournament championship at Xavier University Saturday. The team from Lewis and Clark College, Portland, defeated the University of Oregon to win be the ninth annual Robert S. Marx national invitational debate tournament. Members of the winning team were Miss Janet Stickney and Barry E. Mount.

Rev. Vincent C. Horrigan, tournament director, said Miss Stickney was the first girl winner in the tournament's history. Twelve teams, including those of Xavier. University of Cincinnati and Miami University, participated.

Three service academies Navy and Merchant Marine--also entered. "Two teams from Oregon came 2000 miles and wound up debating each other in the finals," Father Horrigan said. Debate topic was, "Resolved: That the Federal government should guarantee the opportunity of higher education for all qualified high school students." Rev. Paul J. Sweeney scholar succumbs turning to XU, He was a recognized authority on Shakespeare and a writer of essays, plays and poetry.

Father Sweeney had served as moderator of the Philopedian Debating Society and in 1937 was appointed moderator of the XU Alumni. Association. For many years he conducted weekend services at St. William Parish, Price Hill, under the late Msgr. Francis A.

Reardon. Surviving him are a brother, Howard T. Sweeney, Cincinnati, and two sisters, Miss Agnes M. Sweeney, Cincinnati, and Sister Mary St. Anthony, Good Shepherd Convent, Indianapolis.

The John J. Gilligan Funeral Home, Woodburn Avenue, is in charge of arrangements. IN PUERTO RICO, Etges collaborated with Dr. Lawrence Ritchie and Col. Lyman P.

Frick of the U. S. Tropical Research Medical Laboratory. The urgency of the problem in the Dominican Republic was turned up as part of a current schistosomiasis survey. The City of Hato Mayor has a very serious situation, Dr.

Etges said, with a conservative estimate of to of the enormous snail population infested. "Skin tests revealed of the children in this area are positive," Dr. Etges said. Formerly, under President Molina Trujillo, people couldn't move easily from place to place. Now, conditions are unsettled and shifting populations kind may turn out to have more permanency in control than chemical methods, Dr.

Etges believes." Although not noted for speed great intellect, the creatures can detect very minute amounts of poison in their watery habitats and beat a hasty--for snails. -retreat. And since snails are prolific (one may produce many as 18,000 fertilized. eggs in its lifetime) the snail eat snail approach seems best--if it works. "If Marisa has flourished" and multiplied, then we may introduce them into other areas where schistosome-carrying snails were.

found last year." Dr. Etges plans to go to. the Dominican Republic in June to check on his army. What's With Alvin? DEAR BICK: I live on Alvin Street, Mt. Auburn, a no-outlet street at the end of which is a steep hill.

Some months ago there were three or four men in our yards surveying, marking with stakes, etc. When we questioned them as to what they were doing, they claimed they didn't know why they were surveying. This makes no sense at all. We have heard rumors from: a highway is going through here; they are taking our street for a playground and parking lot; they are going to make a through street, etc. Please find out for us, as we are nervous wrecks about all of those rumors.

A. P. DEAR A. Inquiries were made with the city engineer, the Recreation Commission and the Park Board about possible plans or proposals for the Alvin Street area. None has plans for improvements or construction.

They did suggest the possibility the surveyors were working for a private concern or individual possibly owners of adjoining property needing a boundary survey. Such surveyors often are not informed of the purpose of the work they are doing. On the other hand, you or your neighbors could have demanded an explanation -or refuse access to your property if one was not forthcoming. a bit late for that, but I'd suggest you relax--don't be nervous wrecks! Bick Let Bick Work On Your Problem Got a problem or a gripe regarding City Hall, Court House, Federal Building, any other legitimate subject? Then write to Bick, Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, 45201, state your problem, and he'll look into it for you, FULL NAME and ADDRESS MUST BE INCLUDED, will be withheld 4t requested. Unsigned letters go into the wastebasket, Bick cannot answer queries as to when answers will appear.

Thursday, Sat4rday -Enquirer (Peters) Photo: Dr. Etges And His Silent Warriors UC scientist directs quiet war on disease Cincinnati Postoffice To Be Training Center Postmaster General John A. Gronouski Saturday recognized "superior maintenance accomplishments" of the Cincinnati post office by designating it a national technical center for management of building and equipment maintenance. Postal personnel in the eastern half of the United States will be trained when necessary at the "pilot" center, one of two in the nation. The other is in Portland, Oreg.

Instruction will be on best methods for economical and efficient maintenance of buildings and equipment. The pipe-smoking postmaster general, in Cincinnati for an address at a tri-state convention of postmasters, presented a plaque at a noon press conference to Acting Postmaster Joseph Scanlon, Regional Director Joseph P. Nolan and Plant Engineer Harry Ferris for helping to develop the local office as a national center. He said Mr. Ferris' immediate staff and other regular Cincinnati post office personnel concerned with building maintenance in co-operation with postal re- John A.

Gronouski cites Cincinnati gional staffs and specialists from Washington, have developed techniques and procedures in a wide variety of building management areas. These included such details as how to best maintain elevator systems and best methods of managing maintenance of buildings and equipment. He stressed the Cincinnati center is developing these prograras at no extra cost, using its own post office buildings and present personnel. "We feel this type of operation, achieved without additional cost, exemplifies President Johnson's programs to provide more for the taxpayer's dollars," Mr. Gronouski told reporters.

"Technological developments in the Post Office Department in recent years have brought into focus the important part maintenance plays in handling mail," he added. At a dinner Saturday. night in the Hotel Netherland, the postmaster gene eral told 500 postmasters, from Ohio, Kentucky andIndiana attending the annual IKO branches tion, "You can meet the challenge of the '60s but you are going to have to, work at it." Praising efficiency and. Importance of postal workin the overall operations, the speaker added, "We would be greatly remiss, however, if we didn't use all avenues of technical. and mechanical knowledge to help us with the great avalanche of mail." Mr.

Gronouski said mall had increased from 28 billion pieces in 1945 to 70 billion annually now, with an' expected 90 billion pieces by 1970,.