Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 12, 1983 Page: 2 of 28
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PAGE 2A-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY JUNE
By Leggett board
Tractor considered
Thursday.
Trustees are also slated to
pay bills, and discuss items
of routine business. An ex-
ecutive session is scheduled
for the purpose of discussing
personnel matters.
To emergency personnel
Special skills taught
LIVINGSTON - Eight patient to improve the personnel received «0 hours
area emergency medical volume of oxygen to the of classroom training in liv-
personnel - representing lungs. ingston, under the guidance
Livingston, Onalaska and The emergency medical of the medical and nursing
Corrigan - have completed personnel were also trained staff at Livingston Memorial
Special Skills training, an in the use of Military Anti- Hospital,
advanced level above that of Shock Trousers (MAST), They also received 50
the basic Emergency pneumatic trousers which hours of in-hospital on-the-
Medical Technician (EMT) are placed around the lower job training, much of which
training. torso and, when pressurized, was received at Hermann
Those completing the force blood from the lower Hospital in Houston, where
training include Ricky extremities to the upper ex- they worked in the emergen-
Taylor, Jerry Brame, Corky tremities, where it is more cy room, observed surgery
Cochran and Ricky vital. and worked on an I.V. team.
Hamilton, all of Livingston; I.V.’s are utilized for The men also observed
Bobby Smith, Richard volume replacement, when a surgery at Lufkin Memorial
Gerald and Roy Newport, of trauma victim is in shock, Hospital.
Onalaska; and Keith Ander- has a large volume of blood Also as part of the instruc-
son of Corrigan. loss or when, through tion, they received 50 hours
By completing the Special disease, there is a loss of of training on an advanced
Skills training, the men are pressure. In the case of heart life-support ambulance
now qualified to administer patients, an I.V. may be through Nacogdoches
an I.V. in the field, such as at established in the field so Memorial Hospital.
LEGGETT - Trustees of
the Leggett Independent
School District will consider
the purchase of a tractor
among other items of
business when they meet in
regular session at 8 p.m.
Radio course
completed
NORFOLK, VA.—Marine
Pvt. James C. Simons, son of
Gifford Simons of Route 2,
Corrigan, has completed the
Field Radio Operator’s
Course.
During the seven-week
course at the Marine Corps
Communication-Electronics
School, Twenty-nine Palms,
Calif., he received instruc-
tion on the installation, ad-
justment and operation of
the tactical radios used by
Marine Corps ground and
aviation units. He studied
voice radio procedure, com-
munications security and the
use of encryption (message
“scrambling”) equipment.
Cooped up chemicals
HURLEY
TOWN & COUNTRY
WATER FILTER
SYSTEM
THE NO. 1 WATER
FILTER
Livingston firemen were called to Dr. Michael Shukan’s residence shortly before 6:30 p.m. Fri-
day after pool-cleaning chemicals which were being stored in a small room beside the pool
became overheated and ignited. Wearing gas masks to protect them from fumes, the firemen
removed the chemicals. There was little damage other than to the chemicals themselves.
Local vet attends seminar
glaucoma.
The program was offered
by the College of Veterinary
Medicine through the Texas
A&M Office of Continuing
Education. t
Parkhill is a veterinarian
with Parkhill-Thiel J
Veterinary Ginic.
The seminar, which was
held at the Veterinary
Teaching Hospital, focused
on differential diagnosis of
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the red eye in companion
animals. Discussion topics
included conjunctivitis, cor-
neal disease, uveitis and
COLLEGE STATION-Dr.
K. R. Parkhill, a Livingston
veterinarian, participated in
a seminar entitled
New equipment
Jerry Brame and Ricky Taylor with Cochran Ambulance Ser-
vice pose with some of the emergency equipment which they
now carry. The ambulances are now equipped to transmit
EKG strips directly to the hospital, although the system is not
yet fully operational. Besides the direct link-up to the hospital,
other recently-additions include a defribulator.
“Diagnosis and Manage-
ment of the Red Eye" at
Texas A&M University June
BODY FASHION & PANT PROMOTION
by VANITY
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To#». Nlt« Family
$3.00 Carload
Show Starts 8:30 PM
71110 - Bandgau Bra
Reg. 11.00 SALE 8.49
75110 - Underwire Bra
Reg. 13.00 SALE 10 49
Reg. 14.00 SAM 10 99
72278 Underqlnvvs
Reg. 15^50 SALE 9.99
75278 Underglows
Decollelage Underwire
Reg 13.50 SALE 10.49
Reg. 14.50 SALF 11.49
75-102 Profile Underwire
Reg. 14.50 SALE 10.49
Reg. 15.50 SALE 12.49
NOW PLAYING
June 13 - July 2
Ready to roll
GIRDLES
Communication with the hospital has become even more important with the completion of the
special skills training. I.V.’s can be started in the field upon telephone order from the emergen-
cy room physician.
40-110 Stretch Bikini
Reg. 7.50 SALE 5.99
40278 Underglows Brief
Reg 8 50 SALE 6.49
40-015 Brief Panfy Girdle
Reg. 18.00 SALE 14.49
41-015 Double Tulip Lonqleg
R^g. 25.00 SALE 19.99
51 -614 Double Tulip Open
Reg. 22.00 SALE 17.49
45-013 Tulipette Lightweight
Reg. 18.00 SALE 14.49
Hughes
completes
training
KELLY AFB-Army Pvt.
Larry L. Hughes, son of Roy
A. Hughes Jr. of Rural Route
2, Decatur, Ark., and Ivy
Lannon of Onalaska, Texas,
has completed one station
unit training (OSUT) at the
U. S. Army Infantry School,
Fort Benning Ga.
OSUT is a 12-week period
which combines basic com-
bat training and advanced
individual training.
The training Included
weapons qualifications,
squad tactics, patrolling,
landmine warfare, field
communications and combat
operations. Completion of
thiq course qualifies the
soldier as a light-weapon in-
fantryman and as an
indirect-fore crewman.
Soldiers were taught to
perform any of the duties in
a rifle or mortar squad.
^ ENTER *
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PANTIES
13718 Brief
Embargoble Lace
Reg. 6.00 SALE 3.99
18718 Hipster
Reg 6 00 SALE 3.99
15712 Classic Brief
4-7 Reg. 4 00 SALE 3/10.00
XL Reg. 4.50 SALE 3/11.50
15706 Classic Hipster
Req 3.75 SALE 3/9.50
15711 Classic French Cut
Reg. 3.75 SALE 3/9.50
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 12, 1983, newspaper, June 12, 1983; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth790957/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.