Fourth Graders Will Have Free Heart Check SoonTonkawa and Union School fourth-graders will have the opportunity to have their hearts checked free this year as a service of the Oklahoma Heart Association.The program will begin at Lincoln (music room) school on April 16 and 17.The students, who will be checked during school hours, need only parent’s permission for the free heart screening.A portable computer, the Phono-cardioscan (PCS) will be used to check for heart defects. The machine has been especially designed to screen school-age children in a process which is painless, quick and encouragingly accurate.The screening consists of placing two leads on the chest and one on the inside wrist. The entire screening program takes less than five minutes per child.Those children identified as needing further study will be examined by a volunteer physician. If the screening diagnosis is confirmed by the volunteer physician, a letter will be sent to the parents recommending that the child be taken to his own physician for further study. A report of the screening outcome and physicians’ findings will be sent to the family physician.The program has been endorsed by local medical society and by the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Oklahoma State Board of Education and the Oklahoma State Department of Health.Miss Marjorie Butler, field representative of the Oklahoma Heart Association, will help set up the program. Kay county chairman Mrs. E. Clyde Mohler, Ponca City has organized local efforts.Assisting in the actual training-screening program will be Mrs. Sarah Swartz, Instructor of Nurses at NOC, and nursing students of NOC Nurses Training School.Local volunteers will be trained at the Presbyterian church, Ponca City, Educational Dept., April 1 at one o’clock in how to administer the checks.The PCS weighs less than 20 pounds and is approximately 10 inches tall, 15 inches wide, and is battery operated. Extensive use of this machine throughout the country has established that five to six of every 1,000 children screened will be discovered with previously unknown heart disease. In the majority of cases, children with heart diseases, if detected in time, can be helped through surgery or by medical treatment.The program is available through the combined efforts of the Oklahoma Heart Association, and the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital.City Council Election Is Tuesday; Four Candidates Run For Two PostsTwo city council races will be settled here Tuesday when voters go to the polls to elect councilmen for Ward ...
