An elderly man suffered a heart attack while exercising his dogs in the woods.  He died while his companions drove him six miles looking for a doctor.

A youth was stricken by convulsions at school.  Teachers drove him immediately to the home of the nearest doctor, but he was out on calls.  The boy was taken to the hospital, but was dead on arrival.  There is a possibility that he would be alive today if his teachers had been able to find out that the doctor was away and he had been taken directly to the hospital.

On Route 52, two cars collided and burst into flames.  A passing motorist drove four miles for help, while only 50 feet away from the burning autos was a useless telephone.

In one emergency a doctor simultaneously dispatched three messengers to find a surgeon, and six Ladies Aid members to find a special duty nurse for a man who had fallen 30 feet from a crane.  But even so, aid arrived too late to save the man.

Dr. Chester H. Allen said, "We are having deaths that could have been prevented, but too often we are not given the chance to see if we could prevent them."

Meanwhile, 90 miles away in Columbus, Gov. Frank J. Lausche was meeting with members of the Portsmouth Voluntary Citizens' Committee for Law Enforcement and representatives of both sides of the dispute.  The governor, then nearing the end of a placid but successful campaign for a United States Senate seat, lost his temper during the 4-hour conference and castigated both company and union.  "The public should not have to carry the burden of your stubbornness," he told them.

The blackout continued.  Two weeks later the Scioto County Medical Society warned that the county's blood supply was being rapidly depleted and might be exhausted in two weeks because donor groups were disintegrating.  It demanded "quick restoration of a semblance of telephone service" before a disaster or epidemic overwhelmed physicians.