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MEDICAL SUPPLIES are dispensed from the new central supply at Mercy Hospital by
Miss Pot Moson, central supply supervisor. Shirley Sinclair, RN, is shown receiving the
items. The new supply orea was completed and was custom designed to meet the needs
of the hospital. Miss Mason designed all storage facilities in the room which hove exact
dimensions tailored to supplies they contain. Miss Moson visited hospitols in Eugene ond
Medford to gather ideas for the new supply area. It is the only such supply room in a hos
pital between those two cities. Lumber for the project was donated by the Martin Bros.
Container & Timber Products Corp.
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AUTOCLAVE to sterilize instruments used by nurses is shown in its new location in the
remodeled central supply area by Miss Moson. The new supply headquarters is comprised
of three rooms, receiving room, sterilizing room and storage ond dispensing room. The
new unit took about a month to complete ond cost about $1,900. It was finonced by a
lown sociol bozoar held ot the hospital by employes lost October.
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PHARMACY inventory is inspected by Paul Bellendorf, manager of Mercy Hospital The
recently renovated phormacy, now located on tr second r'oor, is a boon to the hospital,
according to BeMendort. It as formerly located in the basement Mercy is the only
hospital between Eugene and Medford that has a registered pharmocist on dutv. BeM
endort said. In-patent dispens.ng, only, is conducted ot the hospital phormacy The new
pharmacy was financed by fh hospital Remodeling only cost obout $400. occordmg to
Bellendorf, because supplies mere oiieady on hand Bellendorf added that other hosp.tols
could maintain a phormacv but necessary space is lacking. (Paul Jenkins photos)
Reported Sighting Of
JL.SKAf. Alaska, .f A com
mercial fifthrrman who reporlrd
aiKhtinn an unutrntifi- d tubmarinr
in l'arifir waters jmt a frw milts
oil' the Alaska town of bitka rt
off a toast Guard inve (ligation
Saturday
Officials at 17th District (oat
Guard firaduartrrs hrre said its
investigation of the report was
confidential and declined to dis
cuss further the reported sord
ini! Our Boggets. a lon time Sitka
fisherman, reported seeing the
submarine at 11 IS am. iPSTl
Friday while he was hoard his
trolling boat, the Mohawk
tie said he saw the sub near
Sn .Vile Kock off Burnof l'oint. a
spot halfway between tiny Biorka
Island and the town of Sitka. The
sighting there would place the sub
Dear the location of a big Civil
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Aeronautics Administration com
munication installation
Boiesa declined to gie any
details on whether he saw what he
believed to be a submarine on
the surface or underwater He
said he had been advised hv the
t oast Guard not to disclose any
further information
l.t, Richard Moulctte. dutv of
ficer at the Coast (,urd head
quarters here, said he sji not
at liberty to discuss the investi
gation Navy Cmdr R A ('.room at
Kodiak. where the 1 7th Naval
District hcadnuariers and the Alas
ka Va frontier conducts antt
sub patrol on a routine basis,
said there was no information on
the reported suhtinn tfcrre
I ate last year Canadian offi
cials repofV'd that two submarine
identified as Russian had been
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seen in North Pacific waters off
the western coast of Canada
At the same lime. 17th Navy
headquarters and the t oast Guard
headquarter here declined to sav
whether thev had any informa-.
lion on those reported' suhtincs. 5
Cmdr Groom said Saturday,
"All information of that nature
can only come from Washington"
he added
"Most of these reports turn out
to be sighting of whale "
The weather off Sitka Kridar
wa calm and clear, with tem
perature above freering.
RAINFALL RECORD
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record rainfall of .! 47 inches
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Power Dam Progress Fast; G
$74 Million Expected Cost
COLGAR. Wuh , Feb. 5 f
Hen d michinet. working in
cessantly at thu remote ljtv.it
River town in southwestern Wash
ington, are creating the world's
highest eartniill power dam.
The job is more than half fin
ished. The last load of dirt will
be dumped at the crest of the
512-foot high dam by a giant earth
hauler this summer.
The roar of dicsel engines has
echoed in this Lewis Valley wil
derness of northern Clark County
for more than a year, millions of
cubic yards of earth and rock
have been gnawed from nearby
mountains and hauled to the dam
site
The Swift Dam. named for an
other mountain torrent that joins
the Lewis River nearby, is being
built by the Pacific Power 4 Lieht
Co.. which serves five Pacific
.Northwest states.
It will have a peak capacity of
,250.000 kilowatts and form a 12
mih reservoir storing 740.000 acre
I feet of water.
j MO Ft. High, Still Climbing
i Measuring one-third mile thick
at its base, the dam now is 300
; feet above its foundation and ris
1 ini! steadilv. Karth haulers have
i placed 8.200.000 cubic yards of
: matenal since early last year.
I Swift Dam will have two power-
j houses, and will be the largest
of three hvdroelectric projects
built by PP4L to harness a 38-
j mile plunge of the Lewis to the
: Columbia river.
; "Completion of Swift will in
; crease the installed power gen
erating capacity of the company
!on the Lewis River to 533.000 kilo
I watts." Haul B. McKee. PP&L
president, said.
The three big turbine-generators
at Swift No. 1 will generate
j 250.000 kilowatts. Water flowing
through the generators will travel
down a thee-mtle long canal and
used again in a second power
house with 70.000-kilowatt capac
ity. This power plant is being built
as a companion development by
the neighboring C'owliu County
Public Utility District.
Cost S74 Million
The Swift project is the third
built by PI'&L on the Lewis. Yaie
and Merwin dams downstream al
ready turn out about 350.000 kilo-
watts of power.
PP&L'a share of Swift Ls ex
pected to cost 56 million dollars.
I the Pl'D's share 18 million.
During the past season an aver-
I age of l.ooo men have been on
J the pavrolls of the contractors.
A. J. Jones Co., Charlotte. X. C,
' and Chas. H. Thompkins Co.,
Washington. D. C . work jointly
on the dam: Guy F. Atkinson Co..
San Francisco, on the two power-
houses.
The design for Swift Includes
two features that have attracted
' international engineering interest.
Below the bottom of the dam, in
terlocking ll-frame beams were:
driven 100 feet to bedrock and ;
filled with concrete. Called a cut
off, this steel curtain prevents
i UmJfillj Commissioner
'Again Faces Indictment
! PENDLETON . - Roscoe
Kelley, Umatilla County commis
j sioner. was indicted auain Tues-;
day on a charge of trying to bribe
a policeman.
Errors in a similar indictment
against him last year resulted in
Us dismissal,
j In the new one Kelley is accused
of offering $250 to Clifford Smick.
, a merchant policeman, if Smirk
would say city police last March '
' 22 broke into a warehouse in which
j HO .slot machines were stored
Police said the door was open
at the time of the raid.
Kelley has denied the charge.
He is scheduled to complete his
first term as commissioner at the
end of 1S58 and has filed for re-
nonunation.
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seepage beneath the earthf ill. In
side the dam itself, a vast chim-
' nev -like drair. of rock ls laying ,
formed. It faces the downstream'
side of the impervious core of the .
dam. and will carry rtiy any'
i moisture which penetrates from
the reservoir side.
Work Ahoad of Schedule. ,
Although winter weather has 1
slowed earthf ill placement to
i about 110.000 cubic yards a. week
'compared to a summer peak of
65.000 cubic yards each clay, the
. work is ahead of schedule, E.
: Robert de Luccia, PP&L vice
president and chief engineer, re
ported. , Excavation for a 220-foot deep,
725-foot long forebay. a canyon-
' like cut which will funnel water
lo the power-tunnel portal, has
been fimsned. A trench cut 1.750
feet along a mount that forms
the south abutment of the dam
will be the spillway, but will rare
ly be used.
! Pacific Power has other power
'developments on the Lewis River'
in the making
Above Swift is the Muddv creek
site, for which PP&L has filed a
license application with the Fed
eral Power Commission. It will
have a caparitv of 110.000 kilo-
watts. And higher on the water
: shed, in the Meadows area, the
company has, directed studies at
collecting the flows of four
streams and dropping the water
2.200 feet down the side of a foot
hill of Mt. Adams and through
two powerhouses.
Sale Of KOAC
Strongly Opposed
SALEM Proposed sale of
stale-owned radio station KOAC
was strongly opposed here Tues
day at the first of a .series of
public hearings.
The General Extension Division
of the state system of hirhcr
education, which operates ilie
station, has proposed abandoning
it lo concentrate on its new edu
cational television station.
About 45 persons attended tlie
hearing.
Dean J. W. Sherburne of the
Extension Division said there isn't
enough money to operate bc:h
radio and television.
Spokesmen appeared on behalf
of the American Asn. of T'nivcr
sity Women, state Department of
Education, parent groups and the
Audio Visual Assn.
Charles Schmidt, superintendent
of Salem schools, opposed sale of
the station, saying that no other
station could supply the need ior
educational radio programmes.
KOAC programs are used in the
schools.
Secretary of State Mark Hatfidd
aked that the station be continued
at least until Jurie 30. 1959 He
said it is too early to make a
decision on sale of the station.
Other witnesses strongly advo
cated continuance of the sta'.ion
because of its classical music and
farm broadcasts.
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CaUSe Of Insurance KOlSe
By ELMER C. VOGEL
SEATTLE Anguished howls
went up all over the Pacific North
west this month after a sharp rise
in automobile insurance rates v. as
announced.
Profiteers and gougers," Lhe
policy holders screamed at the
companies. "1'nfair" said others
in the "never had an accident"
category.
The howls were not alone f;om
the policy holders. The insurai.ee
companies had their explanations.
One cited more than any otner
was what the companies called
"over-generous" juries in personal
injury suits.
An investigation indicates must
of the howls are misdirected. By
and large, there are a dozen rea
sons on both sides. But the big
gest, by far. is the same cost of
living that hits you where it hurts
when you buy a pound of cotfee.
pay your taxes or ride a street
car.
Driver's Vanity
Coupled with that is the driver's
vanity and his lack of consider
ation for others. Well down the
list is the actual costs from jary
awards They are substantial, it is
true, but not the biggest sinner.
This state has 1.310.000 licensed
drivers and 1.341.000 registered
vehicles, of which approximately
1.003.000 are passenger cars.
Every few minutes some one
whacks into someone else in 'he
state and a damage claim of some
sort is born property damage,
personal iniury. loss of earnings.
It adds up at a tremendous speed
and so do the amounts needed
by insurance companies lo pay off
these claims. Our problem is:
Why?
First, consider the oft-mentioned
accusation that over-generous ju
ries account for a heavy portion
of the increased insurance premi
ums. Few Reach Juries
The most reliable figures ob
tainable show that only 2'i per
cent of accident claims made
against an insurance company
ever reach an attorney's hands
The other 97'i per cent are settled
in a meeting of the minds of the
insurance companies and the
claimants.
Of the 2!j per cent which reach
lawyers and lefal-d o e u m n t
2 Porrlanders Arraigned
; For Death Of Holloway
PORTLAND . Two men
were arraigned in circuit court
here Tuesday on first degree
murder charges.
Harold R Keith. 43. and Lee
Allen Parker. 31. are accused in
the death of Robert Holloway. 44.
whose body was found Dec. 19 in
a lime-filled well near Vernonia,
west of here. Holloway had van
ished from Portland about two
months before.
Circuit Judge Charles V. Red
ding continued the cases to give
1 the men time lo obtain counsel.
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"s. x " v. Plenty, they will be sure to ask fo
stages 24 per cent get into court
24 per cent, that is, of 2li per
cent. Which means only six-leuihs
of one per cent of all accident
claims.
H. W. Pigott. vice president of
the General Insurance Co. of
America, one of the largest writ
ers of automobile insurance in
the Pacific Northwest, says the in
surance companies get what ihey
consider a favorable verdict in 82
per cent of the cases.
This means 82 out of 100 jures
return verdicts at or below tne
figure the insurance company of
fered or would have paid in pre
trial settlements.
In King County, Washingion.
during a recent 12 month period,
127 such cases were brought in
superior court, seeking over five
million dollars in damages The
juries found for the plaintiffs in
82 cases, awarding slightly over
a million dollars or 20 cents on
the sued-for dollar.
Didn't Cat A Cant
In 45 cases the plaintiffs didn't
get a cent and one jury returned
a verdict viging damages to the
defendant.
, A study of the award amounts
showed they ranged from SI50 to
SI 00.000 In the so-called whiplash
-cases, the type often mentioned
as being a cause for "excessively
high damages." the biggest award
was under S7.000. the others aver
aged slightly over S2.000.
Twelve of the 82 awards were
for 81,000 or less: 44 were from
SI .001. to S10 000: 11 between S10.
000 and $20,000. and 8 in the 20
30.00 range. The remaining sev
en cases were in the $3,000 to
SSO.000 range.
Attorneys discussing the jury
award problem point out that in
surance companies regularly de
mand jury trials when cases do
reach the courtroom. Only very
rarely will an insurance company
permit a verdict to be handed
down by a judge alone. The law
yers say they would prefer having
the damage question handled by
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judges a.'S believe they would get
higher awards.
From all damage awards to a
plaintiff one must deduct 30 to 40
per cent collected by the attorney
as his fee. It is likely that juries
consular this factor when setting
the tutal to be awarded a plain
tiff. Another factor which cannot be
determine in an analyst of jury
award totals is how much is paid
by defendants and not by insur
ance companies. Approximately
30 per cent or a quarter of a mil
lion of Washington's drivers are
uninsured. It is likely that a pro
portion uf defendants in law suits
are uninsured, with no insurance
company liability
Attorneys, for their part, are
com plaining tlirouhout the coun
try about what they call low jury
awards. Statistics indicate the
amounts are dropping, slowly hut
steadily, resulting in less for the
in lured person and the attorney
who represents him. "
As a consequence, the lawyers
have organized the National Assn.
of Claimant's Compensation At
torneys, known familiarly among
lawyers as NACCA.
NACCA has thousands of mem
bersmore than a hundred in Se
attle. Its local chapters meet reg
ularly to consider new and hetter
ways to increase the size of ver
dicts. New techniques in how best
to appeal to a jury's sympathies
are studied. Doctors address
NACCA meetings to tell the at
torneys how to present evidence
of injuries, and how to combat
testimony by defense witnesses.
John Sullivan, president of the
Seattle chapter of NACCA, says
a study of 100 recent cases in
King County shows that no more
than two or three resulted in ade
quate verdicts.
It is this proportion which
NACCA would like to see changed.
The insurance companies, ques
tioning the accuracy of the esti
mate, hope it doesn't.
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