Salem (CA 139) - Naval Cruise Book

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT My Medical DeparTmenT is responsible Tor The healTh oT my crew. This involves surgery, minor TreaTmenTs like sTiTches and bandage-s, diagnoses, X-raying, mainTenance oT healTh records and pre- venTaTive TreaTmenTs Trom TirsT aid lecTures To The violenTly haTed shoTs. The l-lospiTal-Corpsman who make up The Medi- cal DeparTmenT are highly skilled aT Their Trade. They seT broken bones, apply dressings, do labora- Tory and pharmacy work, nurse The paTienTs in sick bay, man General QuarTers and TlighT quarTers sTa- Tions and scrub, clean and scour Their spaces To gleaming cleanliness. They are one oT my smallesT buT mosT viTal groups. My Medical OTTicer, LT Jerome Sadowih, is a graduaTe oT BosTon UniversiTy School oT Medicine. BeTore coming aboard, he was assigned To The Philadelphia Naval l-lospiTal. l-le relieved my Tormer Medical OTTicer, LCDR James STewarT. Dr. Sado- wiTz is married To The Tormer MargareT Joyce l.aTT oT BalTimore, Maryland. The Doc is as skilled aT The operaTing Table as he is aT The cribbage board so TaiTh in him is unexcelled.

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CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT lvly Chaplain is The man who slands no walches bul gels less sleep Jrhan anyone else. l-le is re- sponsible lor The religious and moral heallh of my crew and many olher lhings lhal would rake you enlirely loo much space lo lisl. l-le conducls Prolresranl services and arranges for Chaplains of o+her lailhs Jro conducl services on board. l-le is Jrhe co-ordinalor of all USO and recrealion lacililies, arranges for my ships par- ries, dances and orphans parlies on board, sels up Chrislmas parlies and enlerlainmenl for Jrhe dependenls and Jrheir children and counsels lhe crew on any and all subiecls from gelling mar- ried io shipping over. l-le is always ready 'ro lis- ren ro your problems, gripes, lerlrers from home, Jrroubles, jokes and good iforlunes. l-le can be found in The sail locker, afler sleering, or Jrhe mess decks as oilen as his office and in his spare lime he has ediled my Cruise Book and by beg- ging, Jrhrearening, screaming, and ordering, gor- Jren il compleled. l-le is LCDR Wendell S. Palmer, who reporred ro me on I8 Auguslr I957 and relieved my former THE CHAPLAIN'S DOOR IS ALWAYS CHAPLAIN PALMER Chaplain, CDR Roberl Schneck. er's previous assignmenrs have Chaplain, Porlrsmoufh Naval mandy Posr Graduale School af 'rhe Sourhern California: Chaplain of The MONT lAD-l7lg and Naval mand, Norfolk, Virginia. l-le is former Lorraine Sfoddard of Jersey. During fhis cruise. They home in Beaulieu, France.