Silver City Daily Press from Silver City, New Mexico • Page 16

PAGE EIGHT-Section Two SILVER CITY DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1965 MALE WINS FEMALE LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)--Louisville Male High School won the Kentucky Girls' High School Track Championship. Male, which became co-ed two years ago, rolled up 82 points in Thursday's meet, 64 more than its nearest competitors, Danville and Hopkinsville Attucks. AHTICSIA COACH QUITS AIITESIA (AP)--Jerry Cook, Artcsia High School basketball coach, has resigned to become head basketball coach at El Paso. Durgcs High School.

He also was assistant football and track coach. fVllMRDD AMERICA'S LARGEST SELLING CAMPING TRAILER For a demonstration see Mann Motor Mart 1200 HUDSON CORINNE G. (CONNIE) FRECHET 10DG9DW SERVICE He's on our he's working for you! He's a man with a purpose. His job is to help create a brighter future for each' city and town we serve. As a member of our Community Development Department, he cooperates with local Chambers of Commerce and other civic groups in efforts to attract new industry and create more jobs.

He's ready to help with other community-building activities, too. Progress-minded citizens of the communities we serve are invited to contact our local manager for assistance from our Community Development Department. COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE E21-65 Your Electric Uqht Power Company MAURICE CONNER. District Manager Woman Veteran Watches Ft. Bayard's Heartbeat The heart-beat of Fort Bayard VA Hospital is watched over by a woman veteran of World War II, Corinne G.

(Connie) Frechet, R. who has been a registered radiological technician for 13 years and knows the secrets of every patient's heart who has passed through the ECG (Electrocardiograph) department during the six years she has served at the old Army Post. Enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, Miss Frechet was assigned to the U. S. Air Force and stationed at Boston, for a year following completion of basic training.

She was then transferred to Walter Reed Hospital for duty in the School of Research. A member of the American Radiological Society since 1952, Miss Frechet keeps up with the latest techniques in ECG including the operation of the Sanborn Twin-Beam Photographic Research Recorder, newest type equipment for recording heart defects. The devise is so delicately attuned that reliable records may be obtained as small as a on animals mouse. As complicated in appearance, to the average layman, as a ham radio transmitter and with many more complicated turning knobs, the Twin-Beam Cardiette serves a multitude of purposes and provides a photographic negative record which is easily maintained in a minimum storage space for many years. The highly skilled techniques of electrocardiography have been developed over a century since Rudolph Albert Von Kolliker, German physiologist and zoologist found that the twitching, which he noticed in the muscles of a frog when they were brought into contact with the heart of the frog, was synchronized with the beat of the heart.

Further investigation led him to believe that this reaction was caused by electrical potentials generated within the heart. diette not only provides a sensitized film record (developed in the same manner as kodak or X-ray film) but allows the use of phonoamplifiers to be used with jacks to allow the technician and two doctors to "listen in" on the patient's heartbeat simultaneously while the patient can actually watch his own heartbeat being recorded on a Viso-Scope, a sort of television screen which portrays the graph lines as the dynamic-type amplifiers pick up the sound down to the faintest murmur. Also used in the Fort Bayard ECG is the more conventional Burdick direct-recording electrocardiograph which amplifies the varying potentials which accompany the beating of the heart and impresses them on a super-sensitive galvtnmeter. The galvanmeter, in turn, actuates an electrically heated stylus causing it to produce on heat- sensitive graph -paper a continuous and accurate record of the waves of voltage associated with the action of the heart. A second stylus, actuated by an independent synchronous motor, records a time "pulse" at intervals of one second.

Miss Frechet, who instantly becomes "Connie" to new patients whom she quickly puts at ease and dispels their fear of the unfamiliar complicated nachine and the tiny electrodes attached to their chest and imbs, is one of the many dedicated staff personnel at Fort Bayard who does not want to leave this area. Like the physicians, surgeons and technicians, Connie appreciates the importance of Fort Bayard to Veterans in the Tri-State area. She is one of the few who have firmly refused to believe the hospital will be closed, in the event her optimism is unfounded, thf. patients transferred to other hospitals will miss the kindly and efficient watch kept over their hearts by the woman who, as Various scientific and medical investigators have conducted experiments throughout the intervening years and successively have corroborated the beliefs of Von Kolliker, developed equipment sufficiently sensitive to measure the minute potentials, devised methods of recording the electrical activity of the heart and thus have contributed to the development of the modern instrument which records immediate study the changes in electrical potential, which occur during various phases of the heart beat. William Einthoven, a physiologist, early realized that- an instrument of sufficient sensitivity and accuracy to measure the potentials of less than one- thousandth of a volt was not available and to him goes much of the credit for development of the electro-cardiograph.

His first operating model was strictly a laboratory instrument. It weighed approximately a quarter of a ton. Later he developed a more flexible apparatus which served to prove the value of electrocardiography in diagnosis of various heart The compact apparatus operated by Miss Frechet at Bayard, costing nearly $2,000, can be carried like a suitcase for expediency in providing electrocardiographs wherever necessary. A far cry from the bulky equipment designed by Einthoven, the Twin-Beam Car- a veteran, is one of them. Alternate technicians in the ECG section, during Miss Frechet's leaves of absense are Willie Adams, Chief X-ray Technician, and Ramon Garcia, X-ray technician.

Dr. Wylie F. Creel, Chief Medical Service, is Supervisory Physician for the ECG section Staff doctors interpret their Patient's ECG films. MENU COBRE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS May 24-26 Monday-Hamburger on a bun Lettuce, onions and pickles Buttered corn Lemon cake pint milk Tuesday- Spaghetti with meat sauce Buttered green beans Cabbage and carrot salad Hot rolls and butter Pudding pint milk Wednesday-Meat sandwich on a bun Lettuce, onions and pickles Pork and beans Plain cake with chocolate frosting 14 pint milk The Federal Reserve System, central banking system of the U. was established Dec.

23, 1913. SOCIAL NIGHT Our Lady of Fatitna Hall Bayard, New Mexico 7 P.M. SUNDAY, MAY 23 Donation $1.00 Sponsored by Holy Names Society.