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HOSPITAL NEWS	J
^NOTES FRl THE LOCAL HOSPITAL
Two Victims of Recent Truck-Auto Collision Continue To Improve —Other Notes.
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I	Mrs. Henry Carver, recent victim of truck-automobile collision/is improving daily at the local hospital, is the report that comes from her bedside, however, it is said she will be -confined to her bed on a Bradford frame from six to eight weeks, .t, suffering from an injured spine.
Mrs. Sylvester Moran, who was in the same accident, and whose condition was doubtful and her recovery dispaired of by friends, is also improving. Even though her condition was thought to prove fatal for a while, she will be able to leave the hospital within a week or ten days, according to report.
Mrs. Oswald Malley is improving daily and will be able to leave the hospital the latter part of this week.
Mrs. Richard Anthony continues to improve and will leave the hospital in due timp.
Mrs. John Asher was dismissed Tuesday and has returned to her home.
Mrs. Joseph, Cospolich is reported somewhat better.
Mrs. Amelia Odom, victim of highway accident, is a patient at the hospital and her condition reported undetermined.
JLY 3, 1957
; VOTES TO CL0S1
j Lack of Funds to Operati Declared Reason
(Special to The Tim<s-Picayune)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., July : — The King's Daughters an< Sons hospital here will cease op eration on Sunday midnight i July 14, Mrs. Claudia Carrere
■	president of the hospital boarc of trustees, said Tuesday.
Mrs. Carrere said the board o1 trustees of the private institution reviewed its financial position at a meeting last week and unanimously found “that with the help presently being given and what co-operation the doc-, tors see fit to give, it is far , short from having sufficient income to continue to operate." i The motion to close the 12-bed | hospital, in operation for 27 'years, was unanimously carried, Mrs. Carrere said.
The institution, which main-, tains a nursing staff of about 1C and a staff of five physicians.
1	received some financial assistance from Hancock county and the city of Bay St. Louis.
Mrs. Carrere said the hospital, which has an annual operating cost of about $30,000, has been operating at a deficit in recent
Plans for Assembly at Bayj St. Louis Are An- i
I Meridian. Miss., Oct. 17.—King’s Daughters of Mississippi are making ready to attend the 31st annual convention of the Mississippi branch of the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons which will be held at Bay St. Louis, October 26-28.
! Officers of the state branch are Mesdames A. F. Fournier, Bay St.
; Louis, president; Earl Brewer, Clarksdale, vice-president:	V. T.
McClelland, Jackson, treasurer;
: James Metcalf, Natchez, chairman of the home board; Miss Lucy McKay, Greenwood, recording secretary; Mesdames E. T. Clark, Cleveland; David Jump, Pace; Daisy Gid-den, Clarksdale; Phil C. Harding, Gulfport; George M. Hodge, Meridian (honorary life member); S. R. Geise, Greenville, historian, are • members of the executive board.
State chairmen include Miss Grace Lee Hart, Meridian, publicity; Mesdames Earl Brewer, Clarksdale, junior work; Janies Metcalf, Natchez, home board; N. L. Cockrell, Itta Bena. "Silver Cross;” B. ■ T. Cameron, Meridian, Bible studies.
An interesting program has been arranged for the convention, according to Miss Grace Lee Hart of Meridian, chairman of publicity. Headquarters will be maintained in the Weston hotel, and an executive board meeting October 26 at 2:30 I p. m. will formally open the ses- I sions.	j
Orleanian to Speak
The opening session will be that night at the First Methodist church when greetings will be extended by Mrs. C. C. McDonald of Bay St. Louis and by Mayor Charles Traub. Mrs. Archie Gordon of Jackson will give the response and Mrs. Fournier will deliver her annual message. Miss Nannie Mayes Crump of Gulfport will speak on the meaning of the watchword of the order, ‘‘In His Name,” and Mr?. Walter Willis of New Orleans, president of the Louisiana branch and international corresponding secretary, will give an address.
Business will begin on October T. when Mrs. C. C. Clark of Bay St. Louis will speak and when memorial services will be conducted by Mrs. B. F. Cameron of Meridian. The annual banquet will be held that night and the convention, will adjourn after a business session October 29.
. | months. She said the nonprofit -! organization that runs the hospi-i "tal has used all available funds j J including financial aid received, |frem the state for its sick. |
No plans have yet been made
11	for the disposal of the hospital property, she said.
The possibility of a 30-bed iHill-Burton hospital in Hancock county was discussed in June by thhe Hancock board of supervisors. Five county doctors j asked the board to consider im-I mediate construction and operation of the medical institution.
! The Hill-Burton plan sets the for-^mal funds for financial contribu-j tions by federal, state and local | agencies to construct hospitals in ' i areas where hospitalization service is needed.
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