The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1972 Page: 9 of 10
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GEORGE H. THOMAS, MISS HODGES AND MRS. HICKS
Douglassville
Highway meeting set
By Mrs. B. W. Swint
A highway meeting will
be held at 1:30 p. m. at the
community center in
Douglassville on March
28. It involves the hearing
on the completion of 4.6
miles of Highway 8 here.
Everyone seems to be
taking advantage of this
nice spring weather by
gardening although it is
quite dry here now.
Mr. and Mrs. James
Swint visited in the home
of their daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Dan Beckham
of Nacogdoches over the
week end. They returned
Ed Talliaferro
is doing
Alterations
at
Aaron's
Quality Cleaners
897-5341 Naples
Sunday after noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest
McAlexander of Ore City,
Mrs. Melba Scales and
Miss Eunice Sharpe of
Jefferson visited in the
home of Mr. and Mrs.
H. O. Allen Sr., last week.
All of our sick ones
are improving at their
homes this week.
Mrs. Bettye Jean Cox
of Atlanta was a visitor
Sunday with her parents,
the H. P. McCoys.
Mrs. Irwinna Hamill of
Marshall and Mrs. Gor-
don Brook of Jefferson
were Sunday afternoon
visitors in the homes of
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Allen
Sr., and Mr. and Mrs.
H. O. Allen Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Martin and boys of Ar-
lington were week end
visitors last we~k in the
home of her mother, Mrs.
Willie McCall
Mrs. Marie IVL^oy of
Texarkana visited in the
homes of Mr. and Mrs.
O. L. Fisher, Miss Alice
Ormand and Miss Ruth
McCoy on Monday.
FRESH FiQWERS
Naples Flower Marl "cA-bw1
The Monitor
Thursday, Mar. 2, 1972
Naples, Texas Page 9
Douglassville man
killed in shooting
A Douglassville Negro
man has been killed and
a Mt. Pleasant man has
been charged in connec-
tion with the fatal shoot-
ing.
Z. P. Parker Jr., 29,
of Douglassville, was
pronounced dead on ar-
rival at the Naples hos-
pital with bullet wounds
to the head and arm Fri-
day night.
Cass County Sheriff
Bill Dowd said the inci-
dent happened about 9:15
p.m. Friday. The sheriff
said that Parker had been
shot with a .25 calibre
pistol during an apparent
argument between the two
men at the home of Erma
Jewell Richardson near
Douglassville.
Dowd said Ed Rockwell
Jr., 34, of Mt. Pleasant
has been charged in con-
nection with the incident,
and, as of Sunday night,
had been denied bond.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Larry Dean Boyd and
Margaret Joyce Evans.
John Nathaniel Wright
and Paula Marie Burt.
NOTICE
To all ladies who sew.
We now have fabrics in cut
lengths from 1 to 3*/2 yds.
All at great savings
One Group
HANDBAGS
at
each
Fall
DRESSES & PANT SUITS 1 2 Price
Many other values
Spring dresses and pant suits arriving daily.
Use our Lay-A-Way and buy now for best
selections.
STYLE SHOP
A new kidney machine, one of the only ones in
northeast Texas, is now at the David Granberry
Memorial Hospital in Naples, and was put into opera-
tion Monday for the first time.
The machine arrived here a couple of weeks ago
and installation was finished last week end.
It is known as a hemodialis machine and is re-
ferred to as an artificial kidney. The machine is used
to remove the toxic materials in a patient s blood-
stream who has malfunctioning kidneys.
Two patients are using the machine now at the
hospital here.
George H. Thomas, of Naples, was the first patient
to use the new machine on Monday cf this week and
another patient, Leonard Stevens of Daingerfield, will
also be treated at the hospital here.
The nurse who will operate the machine is Miss
Vickie Hodges of Omaha. She spent two weeks at the
Veteran's Hospital in Houston learning the technique
and is teaching Mrs. Mike Hicks, another nurse at the
hospital here, the procedures.
Thomas is responsible for the machine being at the
hospital here. The apparatus is usually placed in the
home of a patient but he felt that he wasn t going to
use the machine full time and that it should be
handy for others to use should they need it.
Thomas suggested placing the machine in the
hospital to the officials in Houston but they told him
that this wasn't being done. He insisted and calls
made to Washington. Officials there thought it would
be a good idea. The hospital here is the first to have
this kind of equipment available for veterans and for
emergency use when the machine is not being us®"*
Thomas, who lives with his sister, Mrs. Gladys
Ranes of Naples, has been in a Veteran s hospital in
Houston since last July. He made a trip home last
October and became ill during the visit. He wa®
sent back to the hospital there and only came back
here last Thursday. .
Thomas will use the kidney machine twice a week
at the hospital here. He will be treated on Mondays
and Thursdays. Stevens will use the machine on
Tuesdays and Fridays. ,
Without the new machine, the two men s chances
for being alive are almost none. They both are the
patients of Miss Hodges and each of them has to lay
in bed for six hours during the treatments twice a
week.
In using the hemodialis machine, the patient has to
be hooked up to the machine by doing what is called
a vena-puncture. The needles used, large 14-gauge
ones, are placed in two different places in the veins.
In one of the places, blood is drawn from the patient
and is sent through tubing, through the blood pump
into the coils of the machine where the toxic materials,
that build up in the body, are transferred into a
solution.
The cleaned blood is taken then back through more
tubes and back into the patient's body.
The machine is used until a patient can have a
kidney transplant. Thomas is a candidate for a kidney
transplant but Stevens is not.
Miss Hodges, who took the special training to
operate the new equipment, said, "You have to kinda
be technician, mechanic and nurse on this machine,
when you are this far away from the people who can
service the machine. If we run into any real problems,
we can call them and they'll be on their way. It s a
real interesting machine and I wish everyone could
see. We are real proud of it here at Naples.
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Craig, Morris G. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1972, newspaper, March 2, 1972; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329746/m1/9/: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.