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North Wesfchester Times New Castle Tribune, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Dec. 12, 1963 Great Hour Of Sharing Stresses Two Children, 2,000 Years Apart MOUNT KISCO— The Church World Service, a central department of the Na tional Council of the Church of Christ in the United States, at 475 Riverside .Drive, New York is planning One Great Hour of Sharing in 1964. John J. Mullen, director of public relations' for the service says \our churches strive to re place the hopelessness of the world's destitute peoples with hope for a better future through gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing, share our substance, and other efforts to meet acute human need.\ The following letter tells the story. It was a long letter, a person al one. The recipient glanced at it and read the first page. Then, as happens to most of us, pressing problems intruded and it was put aside for sev eral days. Alter all, the letter writer would understand. She, of all people, knew how the pressures of the moment could crowd everything else out of mind. She was (and is) accus tomed to problems. Figure it out yourself: take a Church of theBrethren nurse, put her up in a hill village in Haiti. Sur round her and the \staff\ of the Good Samaritan Hospital in the backwoods village of Limbe with an average daily case load of a hundred patients, many of them seriously ill. Then consider that there is only one doctor and one nurse and a few handymen to face this almost hopeless taks. Add to the scene the deadening tension of political strife that has reached the point of men being summar ily lined up and shot. . .So, one quickly perceives that a young woman like Evelyn Grisso would understand that a small thing like a personal letter can easily be put aside. . .almost forgotten. But eventually, the letter was read. And along about the four th page, the reader was pro foundly moved by a sudden switch in the writer's mood from a light, chatty style to what amounted to a sudden cry of pain. She began by men tioning a tiny girl patient, a Haitian child. And toward the end of the passage she mention ed the birth of another child 2,000 years ago. . . However, read the passage from Evelyn Grisso's letter yourself: \She was not a pretty child. In fact, the sight of her repulsed me. It was difficult to look into eyes nearly blind from vitamin A deficiency, one of which was completely opaque, draining so- pious amounts of purulent mat ter from a bad infection. Open, draining sores around her mouth revealed lack of vita mins. Her nose was usually cak ed with mucous from a respira tory infection. Having once been the victim of kwashikor, her dark skin was now sloughing off in large sheets. Her frail, thin body no longer responded to the normal reactions of a five year old. Instead, it failed her, so that she could do noth ing but lie apathetically resign ed to the world around her. She was a horrible sight, a typical picture of neglect in a country even now caught in the throes of a threatening revolution. \I met her my first day on the ward of 30 pediatric pa tients. 'She needs special nurs ing care,' said the Filipino doc tor, as she removed from the child's leg an old, dirty, wet dressing. The removal of this bandage revealed a deep, puru lent hole in what little flesh re mained in this timy skeleton. It was a hole resulting from the negligent nursing care of an in cision made for the introduction of blood and fluids; blood se cured only after a messenger was sent into town to seek a donor, fluids and blood which would not have been necessary had the child been fed proper ly. The wound and the child were victims of an environment lacking enough people who care. \The child had been brought to this mission hospital of near ly 60 beds, administered by only one doctor; the hospital being one of the larger medical faci lities in the country, serving a radius of nearly 50 miles. The child was brought not by am bulance, car or even donkey. Her parents walked for miles over the mountains carrying her to see a doctor burdened with the daily attempt to cope with a hundred patients a day and at the end, turning away 30 to 50. Some of these come back re peatedly for perhaps a week in hope of obtaining a consul tation. This single child was brought to a doctor trying to supervise a hospital besides operating a clinic. His wife, the only nurse, helped vigorously until illness overcame her. With out more personnel he could not go on. A Filipino doctor and Jews Mark Hanukkah Festival Of Lights MOUNT KISCO— Around the world on Tuesday at sundown Jews lighted a can dle to commemorate their; fore fathers struggle for religious freedom more than 2000 years ago. Thus began Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights. Each succeeding night anoth er candle will be lighted on the menorah, or candelabra, until eight candles are burning on the final day. The holiday marks the vic tory of the army of the Mac cabees over the Syrian army during the tyrannical rule of Emperor Antiochus Epiphanes, who had forbidden the Jews under penalty of death to prac tice their religion. The Maccabees seized the temple of Jerusalem, which had been looted and defiled by the Syrians, and it was cleansed and rededicated to God. Ac cording to legend, the vessel that contained only enough oil to light the temple menorah for one night lasted instead for eight days. To mark the season, the Jew ish Community Center in Mount Kisco will hold a family Sab bath service on Friday evening at 8:45 conducted by the youth group. Hostesses for the even ing will be Mrs. Bernard Mos- kowitz, Mrs. Herbert Levy, Mrs. Henry Shore, Mrs. Jerome Ko- shar, Mrs. Herbert Feldman, Mrs. Kenneth Karasin. Children in the religious school of the Community Center will participate in a Hanukkah festi val assembly on Sunday at 10:45 a.m. The story of Hanuk kah will be enacted by the class es in song, dance and play form. Temple Beth El of Northern Camp Group Has Reunion CHAPPAQUA— T w e n t y-eight handicapped children attended a reunion at Wagon Road Camp Saturday. All had attended previous sum mer camping sessions at the camp as guests of the Westches ter Society for Crippled Children and Adults. The society sponsored the par ty on which it received the coo peration of Delta Gamma Soror ity, Bedford Hills Woman's Club, Alpha Gamma Delta, Mount Vernon Rotary Club, Scarsdale Kiwanis Club. Shirley Dykstra of Ossining, furnished accordion music and the role of Santa Claus was taken by Alton Ger- lach of Chappaqua. Roland Travers, magician, also enter tained. Dr. Victoria Bradess, of the society's medical advisory board was one of 10 drivers who brought the children to the par ty. Mrs. Ivan Combe of Scars- dale, Mrs. Malcolm Cameron of Chappaqua and Mrs. Arnold Way of Chappaqua, were party cochairmen. Westchester in Chappaqua held a family service on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The confirmation class presented a cantata and Mrs. Walter Fried and her daugh ters, Beverly and Peggy, light ed the menorah. The confirmation class in cludes Teddy Benzer, Lynne Feldman, Nancy Golub, Mark Gottengen, Douglas Kraus, ber- nard Kubetz, Frank Laskey, David Levy, Paula Lipstein, Gail Meyers, Linda Moss, Sar ah Rosenthal and Wendy Wild. The Chappaqua - Mount Kisco Pleasantville Chapter of Hadas- sah will hold a Hanukkah lunch eon on Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hechler at the Cottage School in Plea santville. The luncheon, sche duled for noon, will honor the 30th anniversary of Youth Mi- yah, the international agency for the relief of homeless Jew ish children from various parts of the world and their rehabili tation in Israel. Japanese technician answered his plea for help. They came on their vacation time and one at his own expense. But, in a cou ple of months, the doctor would again be faced without assist ance and with the threat of clos ing the hospital. What, then, would children like this do? \Whose fault is it that this child was brought to be cured, but was faced with a continua tion of neglect? It isn't the doc tor's fault. He did all he could plus being hospital administra tor, lab technician, x-ray tech nician, nursing supervisor, bus- ness manager, engineer and mechanic. It wasn't the fault of the local personnel helping them. They need ed direction in giving care, dir ection which couldn't be found Battle Never Ends \In the midst of helping to supervise hospital nursing, di rect the organization of the med ical filing system, of the phar macy, taking x - rays, there stands out the moment of look ing into the pleading eyes of the doctor showing me this critically ill child. This one child among 30 other sick chil dren, three fourths of whom have the same illness, malnutri tion. This child among millions in the country, is a victim where people fear superstitions revolv ing around the most essential foods required by children. This child is one of millions whose parents seem to understand the doctor's order, but only to re turn a week later with a - child more critically ill than before. The battle seems to never end. \Our acquaintance began with my giving this single child bas ic nursing care. She appeared to know little of what was happen ing. She whimpered when mov ed, as if each muscle pained her or that each movement was not worth all the effort. She did- not talk. She seemed to'want to be alone; along pressing her ugly, infected eye to the bed- the only indication that it caus ed her discomfort. Even the painful procedure of cleaning the deep wound in her leg. brought forth nothing more than a muffled cry. The mere necessity of breathing seemed too much of an effort for her. \Twenty hours later, I again went to her bedside. News bul letins concerning the invasion of rebels in her country were put out of my mind, as I attempted to give her the daily meagre meal of corn mush. She refused to eat and whimpered feebly in protest and lapeless resignation. She tried rather eagerly to drink some skimm milk, as if knowing the attempt would quench the fire burning within her hot feverish body. But the food choked her and her cries were muffled in the gurgling sounds of fluid in her chest. At tempts were made to ease her breathing by suctioning her nose and throat with a small rubber syringe. But these efforts were unsuccessful. I felt she would not care to struggle much longer, reported by findings to the doctor who agreed to see her later, while he tried to see a hundred patients packed into a small waiting room of the clinic. \I was then called away to perform another task and near ly forgot the child. Nearly twen ty-four hours had passed since our first meeting. The doctor came and said, \She's gone. She just now went.\ I paused in my work, not in surprise, but in sorrow that the hopelessness I felt had become reality. So cas ual and insignificant was the passing of only another child, that no one seemed to notice. Incompleted tasks were contin ued. The doctor moved on to other children and the person nel continued washing the win- I dows or mopping the floor. \When I again went to the child's bed, I found that no one had even taken time to close her eyes and cover her with a sheet. These were the last two acts of service I could do for her. These acts had been done for millions before her and un fortunately, would be done for millions following unless the chain can be broken. These were acts done for only a single child, the memory of whom is swallowed up in the pressing problems of caring for millions of other children like her. And yet, it was only a single child born 2000 years ago. The event was insignificant for it was only a child. Yet, to those who see the significance of what this child represents, every person and only a child becomes im portant.\ Still EXPANDED School Board Enlists Aid Of Citizens CHAPPAQUA— A citizen's committee to aid the Board of Education is be ing formed in the Chappaqua an announcement made by Dr. Charles Cowan, district super intendent, at Monday night's meeting of the board. Letters went out on Nov. 20 to more than 20 civic organiza tions, requesting that each de signate one member to serve on the committee. To date eight have replied, said Dr. Cowan. William Hoeft, board presi dent, said the board has been actively engaged in pursuing the needs of the district and in making sense out of the Landry report. The port, a study of school housing needs for the next 10 years, was authorized by the board and was received last month. It projected the growth of the district and made it clear that housing needs will be critical almost immediately. Mr. Hoeft said the board need ed the help of a citizens' com mittee and hoped that a meet ing could be called in the very near future. COCKTAIL ON WHEELS The Martini Special, one of a fleet of tank trucks now used by the liquor industry, simultane ously carries 6,000 gallons of gin vodka and vermouth'along the highways. To protect the flavor of the cargo, the truck tanks are built entirely of gleaming nick el stainless still and each liquor travels in its own, separate com partment. When you select U. S. Savings Bonds as Christmas gifts for those you love, you invest in their security and our coun try's. For Your Greater Shopping Convenience We, the Kisco merchants listed below, are again presenting a Christmas gift to their valued patrons. It's the second sec tion of SHOPPERS' PARK — the convenient parking area adjacent to Mt. Kisco's best shopping. This second section has facilities for 200 additional cars — a total of 500 cars in the full parking area. Expanded SHOP PERS' PARK should remove all those irritations previously associated with Holiday shopping — traffic congestion, park ing meters, locating a parking spot. It is our sincere hope that SHOPPERS' PARK, and our fine shops, will make your Holiday shopping more pleasurable. In addition, we hope that this enlarged parking area will en courage our neighbors from nearby communities to visit our shops here in Kisco. As you probably know, SHOPPERS' PARK is located be tween Main and South Moger Avenue. Just drive in and en joy the most convenient shopping in Northern Westchester. Thank you for your patronage and Happy Shopping. SHOPPERS A & P Empire Federal Savings & Loan Association Manhattan Savings Bank Children's Corner Cox & Fish Hardware Harry Ketchel Vogue Cleaners Keller's Wines & Liquors Suburban Floor Coverings Kisco Pork Store Design For Interiors Berner's Jewelers Homestyles Appliance Camera Corner Kisco Music Center Kisco Paint & Hardware Abel's Carnival Lunoheonette Peg Smith • First National Stores Cadillac Beauty Salon Cohen's Lad & Dad Briocetti's Markoff's of Mt. Kisco Joseph's Beauty Salon Lees Finn's Bar & Grill Mt. Kisco Furniture Reardon's Liquor Store Liberty Army & Navy Country Fair Restaurant Card & Party Shop Bill's Army & Navy The Golden Galleon The Cheese Shop Accent On Interiors Smilkstein's Quakermaid Kitchens First National City Bank Erno's Fashions Old Colony Furniture Daybrook Florists Mt. Kisco Record Shop Valentino Pharmacy White Horse Tavern Jason's 5 & 10 • Embassy Five and Ten Herbert's Kitchens Raymond Antiques Leed's Mt. Kisoo Luggage Singer Sewing Machine Co. The Embassy Shop Village Bake Shop Gordon's Jewelers Miller's Cleaners Arnold Brooks—Photographer Fox & Sutherland Townt Delioatassen Mt. Kisco Pharmaoy The County Trust Co. Gristede Brothers National Bank of Westohister
