Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halfway Mark. In Houston, pleading guilty to forging some $177,000 in bad checks in 44 states, Frederick D. George defiantly told the judge: "I planned every hot check I wrote. My only regret is that I didn't write twice as many...
They Get Over It. "It would never occur to the average citizen that there might be some problem in getting him a nurse when he's sick," said a Houston hospital administrator. And this same citizen would likely ask: "What happens to all the little girls who want to be nurses when they grow up?" The answer is: plenty...
...over the nursing craze about the time their brothers lose the yen to drive locomotives or airplanes. When they are old enough to go into nursing school, most of them are looking for something more glamorous. "There's no glamour in nursing," says a nursing chief in Houston. "The girls have to come into it with a spirit of dedication, and enjoy it because it's a tough job well done." One-third of all U.S. student nurses drop out without finishing the course, many of them because they find it too tough...
Wherever she elects to work, the average nurse trained in Houston will stick at it for only 15 years. After 40, most will do only private-duty nursing. The chances are seven out of ten that she will get married and sooner or later quit work to mind her children. In Harris County (which includes Houston), only 109 nurses graduated in 1952. While some moved out of town, seven more moved in. But the county lost 111 by retirement, for a net gain of only five, while the number of hospital beds soared from around...
...Houston is learning fast what the rest of the U.S. has been slower to realize: building more, bigger and better hospitals is not the same thing as providing more and better medical care. With all the step-saving gadgets and wider use of less-skilled personnel, nursing still takes nurses...