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Sinkiang Province (area: 705,769 sq. mi.; population: 4,360,000), sometimes called Chinese Turkestan, is a fairly rich, comparatively unexploited, thoroughly exotic area. Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there...
Married. Helen Charis Wilson, 24, daughter of Novelist Harry Leon Wilson (Ruggles of Red Gap); and her employer, famed U. S. Photographer Edward Weston, 54; at Elk, Calif. Said Father Wilson, 72: "I'm sure the difference in their ages should make no difference in their happiness...
...addition to initial stock investments, a small annual sum for medical care. Most conspicuous of the cooperatives is the Group Health Association in Washington, D. C., at whose behest the Government is now prosecuting an antitrust action against the American Medical Association. Most successful is the Community Hospital in Elk City, Okla., a clinic which serves 15,000 farmers throughout the southwestern part of the State...
Beirut to Elk City. Michael Shadid was born in a little stone hut on the olive-clad slopes of Mount Lebanon in Syria. He worked his way through the village school, later through the American University's high school in Beirut. Then young Michael went in steerage to New York, started peddling cheap jewelry. Within a few years he had saved $5,000, had combed almost every State east of the Rockies. But he wanted to be a doctor, so he tossed out his trinkets, went to medical school at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated, finally settled...
After a year's study, Dr. Shadid called a meeting of his farmer patients, asked them to subscribe $50 each for stock in an association which would build a clinic and hospital in Elk City. Said he: "In western Oklahoma we do not have a single specialist in urology. We do not have a brain specialist, child specialist, orthopedic specialist. . . . Two thousand of you can pay $25 a year for your families, and with the $50,000 you will have collectively, you can hire eight or more good doctors and specialists who will provide you with free examinations, free...