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Medical Facilities
Receive Grants
Federal grants of funds totaling $1,908,588 under the Hill-Burton program were announced for eight Virginia medical and nursing facility projects this week by the State Department of Health.
Architects for the various projects are preparing specifications; bids will be asked later. TTie projects involve a total cost estimated at $5,233,293.
Included in these projects are two county health departments, two facilities for the mentally retarded and two mental health centers. Both new buildings and expansions are involved.
The State Health Department’s Bureau of Medical and Nursing Facilities Services reported that the following projects have been approved (project, estimated total cost, federal share, description):
Isle of Wight County Health Department, $224,936, federal $120,910, new building. Alleghany-Covington Health Department, $95,000, federal $46,750, second floor addition. Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital at Woodstock, $903,438, federal $242,108, addition of separate one-story building.
Zuni Presbyterian School for Mentally Retarded, $377,500, federal $155,375, new boys’ and girls’ cottages plus kitchen and dining room. Sarah Bonwell Hudgins Center for Retarded Children at Hampton, $148,869, federal $81,877, new administration building.
University of Virginia’s Children’s Rehabilitation Center at Charlottesville, $435,000, federal $239,250, expansion of existing building. Community Mental Health Center of Norfolk, $2,200,000, federal $1,181,950, new building. Fairfax County Mental Health Center, $848,550, federal $424,490, new outpatient section.
heavier. The cloud boils higher and darker. The cumulus becomes a thunderhead.
Ice crystals cap the cloud, butj in its middle water drops grow' heavy enough to overcome the updraft and fall. They drag cool air with them, the cold gust that blows out from the skirts of the storm.
Laced with Lightning
Massive charges of electricity form inside the thundercloud. Negatively and positively charged centers polarize within a thunderhead. Eventually, an electrical discharge flashes from one center to another or between one and the ground. This is lightining. The shock wave, as the lightning bolt expands along its length, is thunder. Because sound | travels at about a thousand feet a second, the number of seconds between the flash and the thunder, multiplied by one thousand, tells roughly the distance between an observer and the storm.
A single flash of lightning seldom drains a storm cloud of its electrical energy. Repeated strokes down the same channel are common, and dozens of bolts can occur in one second. The old saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place is false. One belief that is true goes: “If you heard the thunder, the lightning did not strike you. If you saw the lightning, it missed you; if it did strike you, you would not have known It.”
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