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o Historic Curry Estate Mansion Is Local Landmark ..tr:i' J..TTII newnimvuuiKuy iw wn Doctors Their Business , Bv FOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) Havinu tackled all other kinds of problems, Hollywood U now takinsr on the issue of th medical profession. Twentieth CenturvFox has already dealt with anti Semitism, anti-Nejrro feeling- and snobbery in college so rorities. Its latest "problem" feature is "the Dr. Prae torius story," a romedv with overtones of medical con troversy. It is being written and directed by Joseph Man kiewicz, the man who s.iajged four Oscars in the last two W4 April II, It SI The Newt Review, Roseburf, Ore. tienta awakened from health-giv-1 ing sleep ao they ui take i bath on schedule,' he aaya." I The hospital of Dr. Praetorius will be a glimpse into the future. H will be brightly decorated with bed headboards containing every thing of convenience for the pa tient. An attractive curtain can be drawn around the bed to pro vide unobtrusive privacy. "Of course, we realize that econ omy is the reason that hospitals are so cheerless," admitted lech' meal Arlvisor Sacks. But he indi was the diagnosis of a newspaper man who had been given to drink by recurring headaches which no doctor could cure. Coins New Werd "I had to think up a disease for him." Dr. Sacks said. "So alter much thought, I decided he could have phaechromocytoma of the ad renal glad. This could give him severe headaches which wou!d clear up before a doctor could diagnose him." One of the chief problems in dealing with medical subjecta on ine screen rears. Dr. Ben Sacks, a retiied Newitjfnt BOt jUst the disease. In!1"" forbidding without too much York heart specialist who is tech-1 otnPr words, he feels that it is not ; ex,r c0' nical advisor on the film, explained enough to cure the ailment alone: Veteran Adviser the issues in the film: I the doctor also must get the patient ' Dr. Sacks is getting to be a vet- 'It's the story of the conflict in a healthy menial and emotional eran technical advisor for med- s,ck; ;,,d. The zrs:: ,".T "h rid rule, forbidding such of two schools of medical thought. ! state. Dr. Praetorius, played by Cary i Modern Practices Grant, believes in modernizing ho- j "The modern principles of psy pitals and medical treatment. He chiatry and psychosomatic med is opposed by an anatomy pro-1 irine are followed by Praetorius. fessor. who believes Praetorius is I fie knows that many diseases, or destroying the dignity of the pro-1 panic as well as functional, are fession. I caused by mental conditions. Also. "Praetorius believes that a doc- he has a disregard for hospital tor has the duty to treat the pa-' procedure. I will not have my pa- things as the injection of hypoder mic needles, the showing of blood, wounds, etc. Many words are ver boten, such as forceps in connec tion with childbirth. "But the censors art getting much more broad-minded." the doctor reported. "In 'Praetorius' we are actually allowed to use ical films. He spent several years in such work at Paramount and is now on his third film at 20th. His dutiea call not only for okaying scalpels and dialogue, but helping , the word 'pregnant.' out on the acript as well. For instance, he worked on "Wel come Stranger." the Bing Crosby Barry Fttrgerald follow-up to "Go ing My Way." The crux of the film Alexander Gaham Bell, the in ventor of the telephone, also per fected cylinders and discs of wax for the phonograph. mansion in Riv- p Vjfcl JA? IT J- -V" A - . ' .. bunt, it w.s tfViU- f I -C-1 l'r ir-'W J it a fill n Til'l f ' -t"'i aWV r Iff n " "'mi altr . . A a ,VT .. .X taaWWaat.. A; KfKmnmim f ,. ' mm niaiiiaaiiiiiiiiiiiei .t, s, ii-y v w ' rfr je v : S H i , I ;V Art: ' : 1 h 1 . :.. , v " rCl ' : H:' ;l ' 1- U much used in fine homes of the .,. w v "r i . .. i-.t . ' ' . ' ! K : 4 I f 1 i J 3 1--B per.od. Thromh the years of the , . d . tJ t , JjL I if J f , TTl I Currv occupancy the mansion Oe- ; ' -. "vv;. . ."" f I J-V V, J,,.-, I I " 1 . ' I came a veritable treasure house f-r-rTT , . .'-f . v'...'1' - ,!.' " '.Ttf'i-- tl 1" of furnishines some bronchi to ' - ,:, ' i ,:,: -v--"". . ' "V -v A i!,TM' I "' ' ' Orecon from the former C u r r v ..'-,1-v"" :. . v;r : i?. Jt " j C .- I home in Califmnia and other items , . ,.7t, ' 'h- ' ' ' 4 " i- i '-' U'j H'-' -J ' ' 4 secured during extensive travels. . ":i" , ' ' ; .'""" "v - - . .. ". -4 -A. I Survivinc members of the Currv t i. , . ,. . -,."'" .M . Ai.t. I I Huge Mansion Is Now Owned McDonalds Sixteen-Room Structure Was Constructed CURRY ESTATE : is the tree-bordered to the Currv estate ersdale. now the home Mrs. II. C. McDonald. when the house w surrounded bv a fine stand of fir timber several hundred acres in extent. Nathaniel Currv erected a f sawmill and sawed all the rough timber used in its construction. Another view of the mansion Is afforded in the picture to the ri?ht ' . ;jY..av -rf" r ff e'' ; '' -1. Mr. Currv owned 2.090 acres of t. voa.i.Si j,r Ji3in?S')-'T "''xS ricn land surrounding me nome srut' site, a district now widely known as the Currv estate. It included the donation land claim of Thomas Brown, one of Douglas county's no'ed earlv settlers. Third picture dewn shows the dnwing room and living room of the home, used by Mr. and Mrs. McDonald as living room and mu sic room. In the former is a mag nificent fireplace, one of the seven the house contains. Furnace heat was installed later, but heat was originally supplied by the fire places and stoves. The large hallway shown in the bottom picture leads from the front of the Currv house to the kitchens at the rear and throueh the cen ter of the building, duplicating one on the upper floor. The house consists of 16 spacious rooms, plus bathrooms, storage aoaces. and basement. The rooms , and hallwavs are done in redwood 'nrt pine woodwork and the great .ilancase is walled with Linctusta Walton, a composition material m.-mifactured in Knuland and familv. the Misses Isabel. Lulu md Ldith Currv. now live at 313 East Lane street in Roseburg. A sister, Miss Khrabeth t urrv. lives in San Francisco. tPaul Jenkins) i4 4 1 i MM'A Slot Machines Are Vanishing In Western Area Br T1i Auorlitcd PrM Now that slot eiSchines are g"t ting scarce wit west, a lot of dudes may have to spend Iheir summers outdoors looking at the scenery. business. In Tsos. for example, thi-y say the value of tourist ac commodations bsrs, cafes, tour ist count and resort hotels nas been cut in half. But optimistic New Mexicans say the gambling money vill be spent in the shops for curios, works of iocal art, and handicraft pieces. t'tah t experience with gambling makes that sound reasonable. Heavily influenced bv the Mormon n associated Press survey of church. Utah has for many years Six KocKy mountain states cow-; outlawed all forms of gambling. laoo. Wyoming. 1 lav. iew Mexico, i Occasionally some one sets up a Montana and Idaho shos that, i hank id mirlimn nnlv to have1 In Montana, the past year has them confiscated. But the tourist (' sren me sioi cmime riunri. ineikept turning, attracted mainly Dy Republican - dominated legislature j the beauty of the Stale's parks, voted $40,000 for cleaning up gam- I Idaho has slot ma' hines on a bling Manv politicians figured it local notion basis. Most of the i j would get the popular new Demo- larger towns have outlawed then, Q cratic attorney general Arnold II. but for every large town there sv A Ulsen- into trouble and out ol poll- ; a small one neht nesr willing tn I tit Instead, he closed a rw have slot machines. Ketrhurru and clubs in the right places, had Hailey, near Sun Valley, cl)es . declared "illegal lotteries" by ; penally good business. 'tarrying a few test cases IhroiiKn i Gambling machines completely i the courts, and suddenly the ma- di 'appeared in Colorado a fw chines were gone. I months ago, when Denver police j New Mexico, too. has clamped i rrjeked down and the legislature down on the slots, and some rritirs I mt talking about rigid enforce-1 aay it win t" hard with the tourist ment. I Jo Our simple oueeS o o o This is the fourth week that you have been out on strike. Nothing has been heard from your Union since the meeting, of Friday, April 6th. It was understood then that the Union would contact the conciliator! after having drawn up a counter proposal, and arrange for another meeting. The Company receives 'phone calls every day from employees of all depart ments wanting to know when they are going to return to work. The position of the Com pany still remains that there will be no resumption of operations until a new contract has been signed. If it is not the intention of the Union to take any further action, then it means that they intend standing by the outrageous demands originally made. In case some of you do not understand what these demands are and why they cannot be granted, here they are again: 1. The Union demands that the Business Agent or an accredited Union Representative shall have access to the plant. Under no circumstances will the Company grant this, fast experiences has proven that when the Company did admit the Business A gent to the plant the normal grievance pro cedure was completely ignored. Shop stewards were bypassed as well as foremen, and work stoppages occurred directly by order of the Business Agent, all in violation of the contract. The Company received calls from the Business Agent late at night, threaten ing strike in the morning if a grievance was not settled to the Union's satisfaction, when the Company did not even know that a griev ance existed. Had the normal grievance procedure been followed in these cases, there would have been no trouble. It was necessary for the Company to refuse the Business Agent continued access to the plant because of these deliberate trouble-making practices on his part. The Company later withdrew its refusal of access to the plant with the understanding that there would be no interference with the employees or wi th the regular grievance procedure. Again we encountered the same difficulties, petty grievances were magnified, the work of em ployees was interfered with, the grievance procedure was Ignored and foremen and stew ards bypassed. In view of this the Business Agent was informed that further access to the plant was prohibited. Perhaps now you will better understand why the Company will not be compelled to ad mit the Business Agent or an accredited Union Representative to the plant. It is to the best interests of both the employees and the Company to prohibit his admission. 2. The Union demands that new employees be approved by both the Company and the Union. If this were granted the Company would in effect lose its right to hire. The Com pany will not give up its right to determine If a man or woman is qualified, and refuses to be placed in the position that it must seek approval from the Union. The foreman of the department and the supervisors are the people to judge qualifications, not the Union. The Company is sure that the employees, would much rather have the Company judge their qualifications. 3. Under grievance procedure the Union has demanded that either party be given the right to do as it should choose in the event a grievance could not be settled immediately. To some of you this may not seem an unusual demand. What this actually does, however, is kill the rest of the agreement. The employees would then be subjected to the Union pulling them out on strike on any minor grievance. Neither the Company or the em ployees would have any protection. The purpose of a contract between the Company and the Union is to eliminate strikes, work stoppages or lockouts. This demand author izes them, in fact authorixes damage to plant and equipment. It is contrary to the Taft Hartley Act. You employees certainly should understand why the Company could not possibly go along with this additional trouble maker. Those of you who have been with the Company for some time should remember that the grievance procedure in the old contract worked very satisfactorily and that there was no trouble until you acquired a Business Agent. 4. One of the most senseless demands of the Union is the one which prevents mainte nance and repair crews from working on Sundays. The Company thinks that its employees are all intelligent enough to realize that the plant cannot operate efficiently on this basis. This might mean shutdowns on Thursday to get equipment in shape for operation the following Monday, or it might mean shutting down on Monday. No Company is interested in Sunday work. But if repair or maintenance is necessary on Sunday to insure the operation of the plant at full production, no company wants to be deprived of the right to do so, and no group of employees would care to be thrown out of one or more days work In a week because of inadequate repair and main tenance. If you operated the Company, would you or could you operate on such a basis? No, certainly not. The Union has asked the Company to let the Union run its business, and tried to force the Company to sign a contract authorising this. The Com pany intends to continue to run its own business. s The Company believes in its employees and in good relations with them. It also believes that if enough of you exercised your right to vote, instead of letting a radi cal minority dominate meetings, then there would be no strikes or v6rk stoppages. O G The continued 'phone calls from employees look to the Company as though they are desirous of returning to work. The Union has not elected to carry on negotia tions. There has been no request for another meeting. The work stoppage continues. If it is the desire of the employees to return to work and the Union prevents Wy progress toward that end, then Mr is up to the employees to take steps to make progress. The stalling tactics of your Union are equivalent to nothing more than a refusal to bargain. u o o o . THE MARTIN BROTHERS BOX COMPANY