Word: haluska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania State Senator John J. Haluska quit as president of the board at Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa., giving the medical staff a clear-cut victory in its fight to keep out the unorthodox Hoxsey treatment for cancer which Haluska championed (TIME...
...worst of Hoxsey's method, say the cancer researchers, is that he draws cancer victims away from conventional treatment, making eventual cure impossible. But Hoxsey goes right on making new friends. No friend is louder or more loyal than Pennsylvania State Senator J ohn J. Haluska, who plumped for Hoxsey after his 35-year-old sister took the tonic last summer. "I don't care whether it's cough syrup or pure mountain water." she told him. "That's what I owe my life...
Also a Cure for Recession. As administrator of the 160-bed Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa. (pop. 3,200), Booster Haluska castigated the hospital staff ("slaughterers") for not adopting the tonic. Then he staged a "Hoxsey Day," with a parade, baton-twirling high-school girls, and a speech by Hoxsey, up from Dallas for the occasion. Hoxsey won over miners and businessmen with talk of the wealth that a Hoxsey clinic would bring to Spangler and nearby Portage, both badly hit by the recession in the coal-mining industry. Later Haluska suggested that the Miners' Hospital...
...M.D.s at Miners' Hospital promptly declared that they would quit unless 1) Hoxsey was kept out of the county, 2) Haluska was fired as administrator. Cried Haluska: "There will be bloodshed, marches on the hospital. Labor is inflamed." A few days later the doctors charged in court that Haluska, for all his baiting, had quietly offered to clear out if they paid him $10,000. Whereupon the hospital board of trustees fired both Haluska and the hospital's entire medical staff (although the doctors were reinstated later). Last week, after a stormy court hearing, County Judge John Pentz...
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