Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1949 [PAGE 15]

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Page 13 The 428-bed Research and Educational Hospitals HOSPITALS AND CLINICS and 24 outpatient clinics are at 1853 W. Polk St.., Chicago. Care and treatment is limited to Illinois residents whose cases are of educational and research interest, and who are referred by their attending physician. Financial inability to provide for specialized medical services is a deciding factor in selection of patients. In 1948-49, a total of 7,000 patients received bed treatment, and 189,000 visits were made to the outpatient clinics. John E. Millizen is administrator. The Division of Services for Crippled CRIPPLED CHILDREN SERVICES Children, at 1105 S. Sixth St., Springfield, is the official state agency to provide medical, surgical, corrective,and other services and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and after-care for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling. The Division cooperates with the U.S. Children's Bureau of the Federal Security Agency under provisions of the Social Security Act. The Division seeks to make available all services and resources which will allow, within reasonable limits, all handicapped children to reach adult life as selfsustaining individuals. Director is Herbert R. Kobes. Located at 904 W. Adams St., Chicago, this EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY service is operated by the State Department of Public Welfare, and staffed by the University's College of Medicine. It has 147 beds. Last year 4,000 patients received bed treatment, and 87,000 persons visited the outpatient departments--eye,, and ears-nose-throat. Superintendent is Lester R. Gerber, Robert Allerton Park, a beautiful country estate and ALLERTON PARK forest with outstanding examples of landscape gardening, was given to the University in 1946 for use of the public, education, science, and a memorial 4-H club camp. In the park are a Georgian mansion, extensive gardens, walks, and statuary. A part of the gift was farm lands whose income supports the park. The total gift, including 3,773 acres of farm land and 1,745 acres of wood land, was valued at $1,286,826. Director of the park is Par Danforth. The mansion is the site of numerous conferences and meetings throughout the year. It provides sleeping space for 40 persons, and can provide food service for 200. Station WILL, operating on a frequency of 58O kilocycles with RADIO 5,uuu watts power, is the only state-owned, educational, noncommercial radio broadcasting station in Illinois. It operates weekdays from 7 a.m. to local sunset and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. It is heard in most parts of Illinois and nearby areas of adjacent states. Monthly program schedules are free on request. Station WIUC, 91.7 megacycles (channel 219), 250 watts power, is a frequency-modulation transmitter also operated as a non-commercial educational service. It is on the air weekdays 4-9 p.m. Director of Broadcasting is Robert B. Hudson. The University of Illinois Press publishes original UNIVERSITY PRESS research and interpretive studies in the humanities ' ~~~~ and in the social and natural sciences. Since establishment in 191.8 it has issued more than 500 books. It prints several series of scholarly publications in addition to the catalogues, bulletins, and other publications of the University. Director is Wilbur Schramm.