gest hospital! to do thij li or
research purposes. But there li
no reason tn the world why a
medium-sized or small hospital
which does no research should
keep such records. It is a waste
of time and money.
Those are just the most Im
portant management problems,
which need Improving and stan
dardization. There are many oth
ers, McGlbony points out. For
instance, there are no establish
ed lines of authority between the
doctors who practice in he ho.
pltals and the managers. There
are no uniform accounting or
billing systems among hospitals.
Some charge patients for depre
ciation on the building.
Dr. McGlbony doesn't claim
that streamlining, standardizing
and generally improving hospital
management will make any drag
tic cut in the cost to a patient.
It is entirely possible that in the
long run It might, he says. But
what he and his staff are most
interested In is Improving the
service which a hospital gives a
patient by encouraging it to
make the most efficient use of
its facilities.
Federal Health Officials Start
To Streamline Nation's Hospitals
By DOUGLAS LARSEN . .
NEA Staff Corruponduit
WASHINGTON (NEA) One of the small parts of the Presi
dent's long-range national health program which did get through
Congress has the potential of making U. S. hospitals much better
places in which to be sick.
Inefficiency and varying stan
darda are notorious in the man-
agement of hospitals. And it his
only been recently that public
nealtn omciais ana aociors nave
awakened to this fact. It is keep
ing patients from getting full
benefits out of medical progress.
The new law involved simply
spells out in detail the authority
of the U. S. Public Health Ser
vice in doing research on hospi
tal management. Ana it directs
the agency to try to sell hospit
als on adopting the findings that
this research might produce. Up
until now PHS has been confined
to a "brick and mortar" func
tion has run the various feder
al aid plans aimed at spurring
local hospital construction.
Dr. J. R. McGlbony. PHS of
ficial who will direct the work,
explains that the annual hospital
bill to patients In the U. S. is
about $3,000,000,000 and that an
other half billion doilart each
vear Is belne spent on the con
struction of new hospitals. He
says that less than one-tenth of
one per cent of that huge sum
has been spent on researcn to
improve hospital service. And
that he claims, is less research
money than is being spent trying
10 improve automoDues, rauios
or ciotnmg, lor instance.
Better Food Wanted
Gettlntr hosDltals to serve bet
ter food is one of the big things
Dr. McGlbony nopes to accom
nlish. Food is almost as impor
tant in getting a patient vell
as the medicine he is given. Yet,
Dr., McGlbony says, a jig per
centage of hospitals don't run
their kitchens as efficiently and
cleanly as the average restaur
ant And frequently there is scant
attention paid to serving weii-oai-anced
and nutritious meals.
What he hopes to be able to do
in this particular Held is una
out how the hospitals with the
best kitchens operate, and make
the information available to all
of them. Part of the job is to
show smaller institutions how to
prepare and serve food without
the elaborate kitchen equipment
and without the help of full-time
nutritionists which are available
to the bigger hospitals. -
Pharmacy departments In
most hospitals need drastic im
provements, Dr. McGlbony says.
Five per cent of a patient's bill
Is usually for medicine. In manv
cases medicines and drugs which
deteriorate with age are kept on
shelves long after their useful
ness. New stocks are piled i n
front of old and the bottles in the
back finally have to be thrown
away. That a pure waste, Dr. Mc
Glbony says, which could easily
be avoided.
Reeords Unsatisfactory
Still another hospital function
which needs standardization is
record keeping. Most Institutions
keep elaborate records of pat
ients, copying the biggest hos
pitals. Only reason for the big-
Phone Workers
Dodge Injury In
Freak Accident
LEBANON, Nov. 3. OP) Six
telephone company workers es
caped injury Tuesday in a freak
accident that disrupted power
and telephone service within a
25 mile radius.
Kenneth Sims, manager of the
Mountain States Power company,
said the six were holding a tele
phone wire when it camt in con
tact with a 12,000-volt power line.
The electric charge, instead of
passing on into the ground as it
normally would, set up an arc
with a 66,000-volt power line on
the same power pole.
The men i'elt the shock, but
were not even burned, Sims re
ported. But the circuit-breaker
was thrown out with such force
at Lebanon it was damaged and
circuit-breakers were thrown at
Albany, Lebanon, Corvallls etvi
Sweet Home as weU.
Telephone company fuses were
blown out, too, at Sweet Home,
and there was some damage at
the Lebanon plant
The power and telephone serv
ice Interruptions ranged from 10
to JU minutes.
SPRAY GUN GIVES ALARM
WASHINGTON UP) Some
one reported a grocery store was
full of smoke. Firemen raced to
the store, broke open the door
and were assailed by clouds of
insect spray. The proprietor had
hooked up an automatic spray
gun before locking up for the
night.
Congratulations
and best wishes to
Patterson's Bakery
from
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extends congratulations
to
Patterson's
Bakery
Resident of Roseburg and Douglas County
con point with pride to this now, fully mod
ern baking plant.
Thur.. Nov. 3, 149-Tha Naws-Revlew, Ronburg, Org.
Sand Dunts At Siuslaw River Mouth To Be Controlled
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. W A
project to keep shifting dune
sand from blowing Into the Siu
slaw river, creating navigation
and drainage problems, was re
ported today.
Under an agreement announced
bv Daniel L. Goldy, regional direc
tor of the Bureau of Land Man
agement, public lands at the
mouth of the Sisulaw river will
be planted to beach grass, Scotch
broom and other grasses.
Others cooperating are the Siu
slaw State Soil Conservation dis
trict, Lane county, the Federal
Soil Conservation service, the For
est service and the Port of Flor
ence port commission.
Goldy said this Is the first co
operative project of its kind the
bureau has entered into in the
Pacific Northwest and might set
a pattern on conservation projects -on
public lands.
Labor Leader Suggests Formula For Economic Crisis
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. UP Mat
thew Woll, second vice president
of the American Federation of
Labor, Monday told 1,800 leaders
of Industry and finance that the
world economic crisis can be
solved by: .
1. Increased productivity.
2. Increased living standards
and purchasing power.
3. Adequate "moral and mate.
rlalyes, military If need he
strength to maintain and sustain,
to defend and extend, our basic
human rights and freedoms."
Woll spoke at th session of the
National Foreign Trade conven
tion, which closes tonight with
an address by Secretary of State
Dean Acheson.
Commons Votes
New Lords' Curb
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affair Analyit
Britain's House of Commons
has passed a bill which further
curbs the powers of the August
House of Lords, thereby gaining
another notable victory In the
eeneration-old fight between the
elected representatives of "the
people , ana tne ermine rooea no
This measure restricts the lords
from holding up for more than
one year any legislation passed
py commons, neretoiore tne
lords could delay commons' mea
sures for two years.
This in Itself is a notable vic
tory for Commons, but It cuts
deeper than that. It opens the
way for the final passage of the
Commons bill nationalizing Eng
land's huge steel Industry.
The preponderantly conserva
tive lords had agreed reluctantly
to lesser measures for state own
ership, but had refused to accept
the steel program, which repre
sented the high-point in the so
cialist program qf nationalization.
Now they will have it rammed
down their throats, and the gov
ernment will be able to achieve
this before Its five-year term ends
next July.
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NEW BAKERY Patterson's,
Roseburg'i wholesale bakery,
has moved Into its new home on
Short street. Bread fresh from
the ovens is wrapped by S. A.
Patterson and Ethel Jurgenson,
pictured ( I ) above, beside the
bread racks and wrapping ma
chine. 12) Tony DeCroot rolls
dough for butterhorns. 13)
George Patterson and Glen
Bailey remove bread from one
of the large white ovens. (4)
An overall view of the ovens and
bread racks on the main floor
of Patterson's bakery.
The lowest temperature re
corded on earth was 90 degrees
below zero on Feb. 5 and 7, 1892,
at Verkhoyansk, Siberia, U. S.
Weather Bureau reports show.
When a bat gets mad he ruf
fles his fur and bares his teeth
like a cat. He also gives a low
pitched buzz, which is his warn
ing snarl.
The U S. Bureau of Mines
estimates zinc-lead deposits i n
the tri-state district of Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma at 66,000,
000 tons.
Public Buildings Warm
Citizens In Coal Lack
ROME, Ga., Nov. 3. (JP
Heated public buildings were
thrown open here last night to
prevent suffering by any fam
ilies caught by the coal shortage
and sub-freezing temperatures.
Less than a dozen tons of coal
remained for sale in this city of
26,000 persons in North Georgia.
The thermometer dropped to 31
during the night.
VAGRANT JAILED
Sam Theodore Hotchkiss, tran
sient, was fined 520 and sen
tenced to serve 10 days in ths
city jail In lieu of payment, up
on appearing in municipal court
this morning, Judge Ira B. Rid
dle reported. Hotchkiss was
charged with vagrancy, accord
ing to the report.
Congratulations!
Pa Herd on 6 er
Coen Supply Company
(LonqraluiationA to
PATTERSON'S
BAKERY
rom
M & M PRINTERS
504 N. Jackson
Phone 823-J
Best Wishes
for
Continued Success
to ,
Peterson's
iakery
This new bakery is another
step forward for Douglas County
West Coast
Fruit Company
Valley Packing Co.
Salem, Oregon
70i S. I. Union Arenut
Portland