The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 9

ZERNS DUTCH COUNTRY MARMIT GIlBERTSVIlli Feature The Ugly Mug Restaurant Featuring laut Service and Take Out 20 S. Charlotte St. Pottstown 323-9930 Pottstown, Saturday, October 21, 1972 Paae Nina Emergency Unit Termed Money Loser The fastest growing unit in the hospital the emergency department which serves the community 24 hours a day also is losing money for the hospital. In figures revealed by Albert P. Pol lick, president of the Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, losses for outpatient emergency care plus inpatient care for the year ending June 30, 1972, totaled $242.200.

The emergency department accounted for the largest part of that loss $173.010. The unit saw 18.507 patients during the 12-month period, an increase of almost 3.000 persons over the 15,824 the previous fiscal year. Veterans Wait for November Most area banks, county and local governmental offices and some schools in the Pottstown area will be closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day. In fact most of the community will be observing Veterans Day in some way. except area veterans who plan to honor all war veterans in November instead of following floating holiday program.

In 1954 President Eisenhower proclaimed Nov. 11 should be set aside as an occasion for honoring veterans of all wars. Previously it was a day of honor just for veterans of World War I and was known as Armistice Day. In 1971 President Johnson signed a bill making Veterans Day one of five movable holidays, providing many Americans with five three-day weekends. Numerous veterans organizations like the idea of Congress changing the holiday and agreed to observe the holiday on Nov.

11 as in past years. The Pottstown Area Joint Veterans Council, consisting of members from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Catholic War Veterans and Jewish War Veterans, will follow suit. August Schrumpf, treasurer of the Joint Veterans Council, said it was the decision of the council to observe Veterans Day in November instead of the fourth Monday in October. All schools in the Pottstown School District however, and those in Phoenixville will be closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day. Students and teachers in both districts will be given a holiday.

Students in the Owen J. Roberts and Twin Valley Districts will also be given the day off from classes, but teachers in both those districts will conduct in-service workshops. All schools in the Perkiomen Valley, Upper Perkiomen, Pottsgrove, Spring-Ford. Oley, Bovertown, and Daniel Boone School Districts will be open Monday and conduct classes as regularly scheduled. Officials at Perkiomen Valley and Pottsgrove.

however, said special Veterans Day programs will be conducted at their schools. Most area Catholic schools, including St. Pius High School, St. St. and St.

Aloysius will be open Monday. While most banks and savings and loan associations in the area will he closed Monday, the main office of the National Bank of Bovertown and branches in New Hanover. Douglassville, Bally and Lower Pottsgrove will be open. A spokesman for the National Bank of Bovertown explained the bank is a member of the Berks County Banking Association and the organization doesn't observe Veterans Day like banks in Montgomery County. The local post office will handle special delivery mail and make box deliveries but the regular mail will be cancelled for the holiday.

Robert McDevitt, superintendent of mails, said incoming mail will be sorted Monday morning but delivered only to those persons with post office boxes. The post office lobby will be closed Monday but parcel post may be delivered to the back platform between 9:30 a.m. and 4. p.m. Collections will be made from the main boxes in the borough beginning at 2 p.m.

and a final collection at special boxes, marked with a white star, in the downtown business district will be at 4 m. All offices in Montgomery County Courthouse will be closed Monday and all borough hall departments, with the exception of the police Banks, Schools to Note Veterans Day ment. will be given a holiday. Offices of District Justice Charles Dasch and Michael Stigura as well as most district courts in the area will be closed. Shoppers, however, will find downtown stores and those in surrounding shopping centers open and parking meters in the downtown business district and municipal lots will require money.

Employes at Bethlehem Steel Firestone Tire Rubber Dana Corp. Stanley G. Flagg Doehler Jarvis and most other industrial plants in the area will work regular schedules. Many of the plants, however, will observe a period of silence at 11 a m. which is customary on Veterans Dar.

Flood Damaged School Monocacy SMALL PORTION He had been in the medical center eight months and had incurred a total bill of $16.900. Of that amount, Medicare reimbursed the hospital $3,697. Thus, on just one patient, the hospital had a deficit of $13.203. Why was he in the hospital so long? It had been determined long before by the utilization committee (a committee of physicians and hospital personnel responsible for the most efficient use of hospital space that the man did not require acute hospital care. Yet he did not have a place to go and many facilities refused to admit him.

Finally, through the efforts of Mrs. Eva Smith who handles the extended care placement of patients, a facility was found which would accept him. Much time and effort wfas spent on just this one case, which meant added expense to the hospital, Pollick added. George Murphy, former U. S.

senator and movie actor, will be speaker at the Day and dedication ceremonies 11:30 a.m. today at Ursinus College. The new $3.9 million physical education facilities will be dedicated. The gymnasium, known as the D. L.

Helfferich Hall of Health and Physical Education, will be named in honor of Donald L. Helfferich, past president and now chancellor of the college. The swimming pool will be dedicated in honor of Dr. William Elliott, member of the board of directors. He was leader of the all-Ursinus anniversary drive which raised Reopens in The flood-damaged Monocacy School, Monocacy, opened for classes this week after being closed nearly four months for repairs.

were pleased at how quickly the building was stated Dr. Sidney, Willar, Superintendent of the Daniel Boone School District. of the school was under water and everything had to be For the first six weeks of school, students who would normally go to the Monocacy School were bused to the Roosevelt School, Birdsboro. The Roosevelt School had two sessions, morning and afternoon, to accomodate its regular students and the Monocacy students, Dr. Willar explained.

FULL SCHEDULE now classes are operating on a full schedule throughout the at Ursinus the private funds for the building program. Two members of the board of directors, Paul I. Guest and Thomas P. Glassmoyer, will receive honorary doctor of law degrees. Following the dedication, alumni and friends will be served box lunches in Thompson-Gay Gymnasium and the Ursinus Bears will play the Svvarthmore Garnets.

Half-time ceremonies will include the crowning of the homecoming queen and the Ursinus marching band will play. The Alumni Loyalty Fund kickoff dinner will be in the evening. Water covered both floors of the two story building for several days during the June flood. the ground floor, the water pressure caused a large water tank to break loose from its mountings and float into the heating Dr. Willar said.

the tank floated over into the boiler and moved it from its mountings. So we had to replace Dr. Willar said only a few ducts were salvaged. when we replaced the boilers and turned on the heat, we got an awful stench. We discovered that dead birds and other animals were clogged in the ducts we had left in place.

We had to replace Another major loss was school books. library also was in the ground floor and it was completely he said. make matters worse, we had summer school in the building and we brought school books from other schools to put in the Everything in the school cafeteria. including kitchen equipment and lunch tables, had to be replaced REIMBURSED entire cost was estimated at superintendent stated. will be reimbursed for the entire amount by the federal Three government inspectors spent three days examining the building and making estimates for repairs in July.

order to obtain federal reimbursement, we had to replace everything exactly as it was before the Dr. Willar observed. only difference is that the floors are carpeted because it would have been more expensive to restore the hardwood Carpeting is superior he noted, because it deadens sound more effectively than wood floors. Former Movie Actor To Speak Halloween Parade Set at Grigg Field REIMBURSEMENTS Reasons for the loss of money In operating the emergency room are small Medicaid reimbursements, inability of patients to pay and the fact that many insurance plans do not pay for emergency care. realize that the emergency department is serving a vital need in the Pollick said.

we have no intentions of discontinuing it. the public should be aware that when not-for- profit hospitals operate services at a loss, that loss must be made up in other ways either through higher rate or reduction of costs. has been working very hard at cutting costs the deficits in certain he said. The monetary loss on Inpatient indigent free care for the year was $69.190. The hospital absorbs losses on both Medicare and Medicaid patients who.

while eligible for regular reimbursements require hospitalization beyond the time limits allowed by the state and federal regulations. Pollick explained. are always those patients not eligible for aid and who do not have the personal funds to pay the hospital A significant part of the loss occurs when hospitals are not able to transfer patients who no longer need acute hospital care, to lower-cost nursing homes or custodial care facilities. A recent example of this, Pollick said was a man transferred to a nursing center near Norristown. BOILERS INSTALLED Three huge boilers which will heat the new Pottstown Memorial Medical Center have been installed and one soon will be put in operation.

It will supply enough heat to allow workmen to work through the winter town area are eligible to participate. Judges will be seated in the press box selecting and announcing winners during the course of the parade. As soon as the costumed youngsters make their way across the flat bed, they will be treated to pumpkin pies, courtesy of Mrs. Pie and hot dogs and birch beer, served by the Pottstown Elks. Along with the change in date for the parade, the Pottstown Police Department announced the change in dates for trick or treating.

Canvassing the homes will be permitted only Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 30 and 31, after school in the afternoon until dark. The DPBA announced. In connection with the Halloween parade schedule, that a major Thanksgiving parade is planned for 1973. months.

Working on the boiler are Francis Mastrangelo and Woodrow Strum, both employes of Corbits mechanical contractor. Nathaniel Egelston, director of building services for the medical center, is at right. (Mercury Staff Photo) A parade of Halloween costumes will be held Oct. 30 In Grigg Memorial Field, replacing the previously scheduled parade along High Street Wednesday, William Pharaoh, director of recreation for the Pottstown School District, announced Thursday. Rain date will be Oct.

31. The rescheduling of the parade was prompted by a poor registration of marching units and floats this year, which would have made a parade down 100-foot wide High Street a Pharaoh said. only two bands and two floats registered so far, the entire parade would have lasted only 10 or 12 minutes at any given point along the parade route. felt that would have been a waste of time. with the relocation to the track of the high school, we can stretch the parade out to an hour or even 1 Vt He explained that the children would parade in single file by age groups across a flat bed trailer directly in front of the press box at the stadium, giving observers a clear view of each individual.

Furthermore, parents and friends can be seated comfortably in the bleachers, instead of standing with craned necks along a downtown sidewalk. Children and adults throughout the greater Potts- Addition Started at Area School Contractors have begun work on a $1,665.000 renovation of the Amity Elementary School, Amitvville. The project will include an addition for a new library, cafeteria, eight classrooms and offices. plan to have the building completed by said Dr. Sidney B.

Willar, superintendent of the Daniel Boone School District. OTHER CLASSES During renovations, students in the Amity area are attending classes in the Monocacy School, the Roosevelt School, Birdsboro: St. Church, Douglassville, or St. Church, Athol. made arrangements to rent classrooms from the Dr.

Willar explained. of course using our Tie educator said the students are being bused to the school or church nearest to their home. original building is three the superintendent noted. putting new ceilings and floor in the building as well as a new lighting and heating FACULTY ROOM Dr. Willar said that some classrooms would be enlarged by knocking out walls and combining rooms.

The old cafeteria be made into a faculty room, a health room and a supply room, he said. have an art and a music room for the first he continued, the new library will be considerably larger than the old Since the addition is being built where the playground was, a new playground will be built on the other side of the school, he added. Area Residents Given Chance to Study in Capital Area Directors Okay Study Hall Exemption The opportunity for residents of the Pottstown area to study the workings of the federal government first hand while being paid for the privilege now is available- according to Congressman John H. Ware 3rd. Ware announced Thursday that applications are being accepted from area residents interested in becoming White House Fellows.

The fellowship program, open to either male or female applicants no younger than 23 and no older than 36 by Sept. 1. 1973, provides for a year of work in Washington governmental offices. Salaries, which are paid by the federal government, range up to $27.289 for the year in the nation's capital. Applications must be sent to the Commission on White House Fellows, Washington D.C.

20145, and postmarked no later than Dec. 15. Candidates may apply on their own. said Ware, or they may be nominated by an individual or organization. Final selections will be made by the commission and announced in May, following testing and interviewing.

Gently, fellows. This game is blacked out." A new study hall exemption plan for seniors was authorized by the Upper Perkiomen District School Board at its October meeting. Endorsed by the student council, faculty and administration, the plan allows seniors with study hall assignments the first or last period of the day to be excused to participate in unscheduled educational studies, work programs, athletics, library or other personal use of this time. Successful in other schools, the plan gives responsibility to the seniors for individual control of activities which they soon must assume in college or in employment. The plan will be on a trial basis this year, subject to evaluation before continuation in succeeding years.

Named by ihe board to the substitute teacher list were Richard Farkas. Kathryn E. Abraham, Fenton P. Crossgrove, Horace L. Shauger, Mrs.

Deborah J. Saetler and Patricia A. Kelly. An out-of-school-hour swimming program was approved by the board. Included are Red Cross life saving class, student swimming lessons Saturdays, skin and scuba diving and adult recreational sessions.

The board appointed Patrick Schubert as assistant varsity coach, William Truman as ninth Senators to Speak One hundred fifty persons from the Pottstown area will hear Sen. George McGovern and Sen. Edmund Muskie speak at Penn Square, Reading, 2:30 p.m. today. Democratic headquarters will have an auto caravan and bus leaving 1 p.m.

from First Federal Savings and Loan Association, High and Hanover streets. grade coach and James DiCarlo as Middle School coach. Geraldine Stride was appointed 11th grade class advisor; Mrs. Susan Boland, advisor to the high school newspaper, and Mrs. Wayne Beck as teacher of adult school candlemaking.

The meeting was the first with full representation of teachers and the student body at the board table. These included Harold W. Harner Jr. and Stephen Ruby of the faculty; Theresa Engle, student council president, and Robert Bauer, junior member of the council. They were welcomed and participated in discussions.

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