Word: norristown
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...patient in the shiny new emergency ward of Suburban General Hospital in Norristown, Pa., inexplicably began to turn blue last month while presumably breathing oxygen. To his horror, Dr. Leonard Becker discovered that the tube labeled OXYGEN was actually pumping nitrous oxide to his patient. After a preliminary investigation, hospital authorities last week admitted that mislabeled pipe connections for the anesthetic gas "may have" caused as many as five deaths in the hospital since Suburban opened its wing almost eight months ago. In all, some 300 patients were apparently dosed with nitrous oxide by mistake...
...these times, the situation was not unusual. The Suburban Bank of Norristown, Pa., found that 10% of its customers who had taken out loans were unable to make their payments. Nor was it surprising that the bank discovered that nearly 75% of those who were be hind in their payments were out of work...
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Despite the apparent anti-ecumenical bias of the action, the vote to withdraw from COCU-if it is not reversed at next year's meeting-could actually improve Presbyterian ecumenism in some other directions. The Rev. Matthew Welde of Norristown, Pa., who led the Philadelphia anti-COCU move, says that he and his supporters oppose "structural union" but would like to see wider "spiritual unity" in ecumenical contacts-including those with groups not now included in the COCU plan, such as the Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists and Pentecostals. Also, the Presbyterians' plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church...