Weed Press-Herald was the weekly newspaper for Weed, California. In December 1951, after an accident that involved loggers working for the Shasta Lumber Corporation, a secretary of the company, Marian Staley, approached the paper's editor Dale Dropo about the fact that the town didn't have a hospital or an ambulance service to the nearest hospital in Redding. Dropo agreed that it was a problem, and wrote up an editorial. He cautioned Staley that the town didn't pay much attention to his editorials.[1]
People did, in fact, notice the editorials. After the death of another logger named Leroy van Zandt, Staley approached Dropo again with the suggestion that if all of the lumber companies in town pooled their monies, they could establish an ambulance service at minimal costs to them on an individual basis. She admitted she got the idea from Fayvl Tabakman, the new cobbler in town (and an old friend of hers). Again, Dropo agreed to put petitions in the paper, but made no promises.[2] The petitions did yield fruit in the long run, though.
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