Word: benton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator McCarthy picked last week to withdraw his $2,000,000 libel and slander suit against Connecticut's former Democratic Senator William Benton, who in 1952, after charging that McCarthy had engaged in deceit and was not fit to serve in the Senate, waived his senatorial immunity to Joe's libel suit...
...seemingly tireless Chalmers was soon seeing 60 patients a day in his clinic and also doing a daily stint of surgery at the hospital in Prosser, 15 miles away. He started a medical program at Benton City's two schools, and somehow, between his office hours and his daily commuting, found time to make a good number of house calls. A soft-spoken but decisive man who had just finished five years of public-health work in Alaska, Chalmers made friends quickly. Said one businessman: "He's that rare type who worries more about his patients than about...
Unfortunately, the businessman was too correct for comfort. Early last month, Chalmers, 46, called on Contractor Richard Cecil, a moving spirit in Benton City's clinic guild, and told him that the clinic was going broke. Reason: his patients paid their bills slowly, and Chalmers' long working days gave him no time for sending out reminders. Although he averaged $3,200 a month on paper, his patients were actually paying him only $1,200, some $1,000 less than he needed to meet his expenses...
Cecil quickly called a public meeting in Benton City and asked for $3,500, to help the doctor pay off his debts. At the first meeting, he raised over $600. Later meetings and a benefit supper got the total up to $1,200. Meanwhile, patients began to send in their checks−so well, at first, that Dr. Chalmers was able to pay back a $400 loan the clinic guild had given...
...straighten out matters for the future, Chalmers has proposed that the people of Benton City and the surrounding towns equip a small, six-bed hospital-clinic. Chalmers will then rent the hospital, get another doctor to join him. He hopes to assure the hospital of some funds by qualifying it as a treatment center for industrial-hospitalization plans. An added proviso: the town will take over Dr. Chalmers' bookkeeping...