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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
95th Year, No. 241
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Eugene, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1962
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Why Controversy About
Plans for New Hospital?
EDITORS NOTE: A new hospital in
Eugene? This possibility has raised a
number of questions in the past two and
a half months. Register-Guard reporter
Jerry Vhrhammer spent two months in
vestigating the complex issues, traveling
nearly 5,000 miles. Here is the first of
his reports:
By JERRY UHRHAMMER
or tho ReglFter.Guard
Asset or hot potato?
That was the question, asked recently in
a letter to the editor of the Register-Guard,
about the proposed new 100-bed general
hospital in Eugene.
But it has ben only one of many ques
tions asked since one day early in April
when a California hospital builder, Allen
G. Tatkin, confirmed that he plans to build
a new hospital here. Some others:
With four hospitals already in Eugene
and Springfield, is there a need for still
another?
Wouldn't it be better to expand one
or more of the existing hospitals?
What effect would another hospital
have on the existing hospitals?
Would a new hospital affect the cost
or quality of hospital and medical care?
Do we have free choice of hospitals
in the Eugene-Springfield community? And
how big a role does religion play in the
support for a new hospital?
What's wrong with free enterprise?
If someone wants to spend private capital
to build a new hospital, why shouldn't
they? And why should anyone be con
cerned? Who are Allen G. Tatkin, the Cali
fornia hospital builder, and Gilbert C. Nee,
the hospital consultant who came to Eugene
on behalf of the new hospital?
Why did a substantial majority of the
community's doctors, together with direc
tors of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce
individuals presumably wedded to the
concepts of free enterprise give spoken or
tacit opposition to the proposed hospital?
And, as citizens of the sidelines many
have wondered while viewing the bubbling
controversy: Why all the commotion?
It all started about the first of April
when rumors of a new hospital began cir
culating. A few days later, both Tatkin, of
Allen G. Tatkin & Associates, Los Angeles,
and Roy Parmenter, a Eugene building con
tractor who's also president of Pacific
Planning Inc., confirmed the rumors. The
days which followed brought additional de
tails: The general hospital, with 100 beds,
would be a proprietary (profit-making) in
stitution. It would be built by Tatkin, back
ed by some still unnamed investors, then
leased to a locally-formed operating corpo
ration which would include Nee and local
investors , , . Nee would invest in the local
corporation.
Martin Brandenfcls, Eugene attorney
for the group, said people from Eugene
were interested in having a new hospital,
Tatkin recognized the area as a growing
one, in need of additional facilities.
In the two and a half months which
have passed, the project has purportedly
attracted additional supporters. But they,
so far, have remained anonymous. Brand
enfcls, meanwhile, has become their
spokesman, rather than spokesman for
Tatkin.
Tatkin, so far as is known, has not been
back in Eugene since a visit in late March
or early April. Nee was here in late March
or early April and again in May, to appear
before the Chamber of Commerce Public
Health Committee. He has not been back.
Announced plans to explain full details of
the hospital project to the Lane County
Medical Society were not carried out.
But meanwhile, planning for the pro
posed hospital has continued. And it has
become a public issue.
The foremost reason is that the public
has a vital stake in its hospitals, li is of
legitimate public concern what quality and
extent of care and treatment is available
to the sick and injured. And, moreover, it
is the public and patients, by one means or
another who pay for the hospitals.
One of the central issues involved in
tho Eugene situation is whether another
hospital is actually needed. Everyone
agrees more hospital beds are necessary to
accommodate a growing population, but
questions have been raised of whether they
should be in a new hospital or in an exist
ing one.
Supporters of tne proposed nospuai re
portedly believe there should be a separate
hospital facility and religion is said to
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be one of the major factors. But most of
the area's doctors, on the other hand, say
that the community would be better served
if these additional beds were in Sacred
Heart Hospital.
One thing is evident in investigating the
situation: Establishment of another hospital
in Eugene at this time could set the stage
for potentially serious effects on the com
munity's hospital picture.
One potential effect might be an in
crease in the cost of hospital care to the
patients and public. This could happen for
example, if too many hospital beds existed
for the needs of the community.
Another possible effect if the new
hospital did not adhere to the strict stand
ards of medical practice followed by the
area's existing hospitals might be a
lower standard of care at the institution.
Concern is evident about the philosophy
behind the proposal for the hospital. Ac
cording to announced plans, it would be a
proprietary hospital profit-sharing. There
are good proprietary hospitals and there
are bad ones. If the new hospital was in
tent on making a profit for its investors, it
might fall into the "California pattern" of
proprietary hospitals and the majority
of California's proprietary hospitals are
held in less than high esteem. The chief
charge against them: They put profits first,
patients second.
It is known that at least one individual
behind the proposal for the new hospital
would profit. He is the California hospital
builder, Allen G. Tatkin. Under the leasing
arrangement proposed for the hospital, he
would collect a quarter of a million dol
lars, more or less, in rent over a three-year
period.
Any possible monetary gain which
might accrue to Nee, the hospital consult
ant who has been connected with the
venture, is less clear. He has said he'll go
anywhere for a fee. But there are also
some things he didn't say including what
happened to a certain sanitarium which he
and his wife owned in California.
The question of the new hospital is in
extricably tied up with what has been
called "the hottest topic in the hospital
field today" planning.
Planning is what a budget-conscious
house uses when she tries to stretch
her grocery dollars to the fullest. She
knows that buying too much food, or the
wrong kinds of food, raises hob with the
budget and wastes dollars.
The same rationale lies behind plan
ning for hospitals and medical care facili
ties careful budgeting of the public's
health dollars in an era when already-high
costs of health care are climbing steadily.
The objective of planning is to see
that the public's health dollars aren't
spent wastefully; to "make available the
best possible quality of care in modern
facilities . . . operated at a maximum of ef
ficiency and economy," said a joint com
mittee of the American Hospital Assn. and
the U.S. Public Health Service in a 1961
report.
Oregon already has a measure of plan
ning which is brought to bear on the hos
pital field. This comes through the federal
Hill-Burton program of assistance for hos
pital construction in communities.
The Oregon State Board of Health ad
ministers the program in the state. Part
of this program is determining where this
federal assistance is needed the most.
These needs are set forth in the "Oregon
State Plan."
Since this federal-state program went
into effect following World War II, a
large number of Oregon hospitals being
built or expanded to meet the needs of
their communities have received Hill
Burton assistance. In Lane County alone,
more than $1 million has been invested in
hospitals and related facilities: McKenzie
Willamette Hospital and Cottage Grove
Hospital twice received Hill-Burton grants;
Sacred Heart Hospital and Western Lane
Hospital in Florence has each .received
grants; and some Hill-Burton money went
into the new Lane County Courthouse for
the county health department (city-country
Public Health Center).
This year, Sacred Heart Hospital is
seeking Hill-Burton funds again to finance
part of a forthcoming expansion. But the
possibility of a new hospital has jeopar
dized the possibility that Sacred Heart will
receive the funds.
It is around this point that a good deal
of the controversy has swirled.
(Tomorrow: Hospitals and bed needs in
the community.)
Copyright, June 1962, Guard Publishing Co.
New Step Proposed in Dispute
Strike
At TWA
Ruled Out
But Engineers .
For Other Lines
Reject Terms
WASH I N G T 0 N (P)
Agreement was reached
Thursday to head off the
threatened strike of flight
engineers on Trans World
Airlines, but engineers em
ployed by Eastern and Pan
American airlines rejected
the terms and threw the sit
uation into' new confusion.
Government mediators head
ed by Secretary of Labor Arthur
J. Goldberg, who pushed the
marathon negotiations that
brought about the TWA settle
ment, had relied on that settle
ment to set a pattern for general
agreement on the threatened
carriers.
A meeting of the Eastern and
Pan Am chapters of the Flight
Engineers International Assn.
was called for New York Friday
to decide on the course those
groups will follow.
Not only the government me
diators but the other lines as
well had expected the TWA
agreement to settle the whole
affair.
Eastern Gratified
Just as the union announce
ment with respect to Eastern
and Pan American was given to
newsmen, a statement from Mal
colm A. Mclntyre, Eastern's
president, expressed gratifica
tion that the TWA deal had
been made. ,
Mclntyre adopted Goldberg's
statement that "this should help
resolve the same issues involv
ing other airlines."
Labor Department officials,
however, took the position that
nothing was essentially changed
by the Eastern and Pan Am
engineers' action, since only
TWA engineers were parties to
the agreement reached Thurs
day. Strike Notice Out
As things now stand on the
other two lines, a strike notice
is out but no walkout has been
actually called.
All three lines originally
were threatened but the fire
finally was centered on TWA
with the others on the sidelines.
A spokesman said there were
no immediate plans for any La
bor Department volunteer ac
tion on the Pan American and
Eastern situations.
A union spokesman said re
jection of the terms by Eastern
and Pan Am engineers does not
affect the validity of the ar
rangement on TWA.
'I Took a Little Hike
Boy Tells Searchers
7 -Year-Old Youth
In Qood Condition
GOVERNMENT CAMP Ufi A boy found alive after
being lost 78 hours in mountain wilderness says he never
was really scared through it all.
Clifford Altman, 7, had this assurance for his parents
and those who took part in the long, frustrating search
after two loggers found him Wednesday night in the Mt.
Hood foothills wilderness. He appeared little the worse
for his ordeal.
Things looked so hopeless that the search was called
off officially at noon.
But as Richard Larsen and Leo Peters, both of Port
land, were leaving their Camas Prairie logging operation
they saw Clifford walk out of some brush.
"You're Clifford Altman, aren't you?" they asked.
Yes, the hoy replied.
"How did you know?"
They put him in their pickup
truck and drove to the Bear Paw
Camp grounds, where his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Alt
man, and his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Donald E. Grant, all of
Portland, were waiting.
"It was a joyful and tearful
reunion," said State Policeman
Jim Hanson.
It all started at 1 p.m. Sunday,
when the boy left the Bear Paw
grounds where he and his grand
parents had stopped on their re
turn from a fishing trip in east
ern Oregon.
Soon Got Lost
Algiers Quiet
As Moslems
Resume Jobs
ALGIERS m Moslems re
turned to work in droves in Al
giers Thursday, feeling the
citv's truce will stick riosnitn
continued scorched earth at
tacks by the Secret Army Or-
(AP Wircphoto)
Clifford Altman, 7, is lifted from car
T5.X7. , by his father, Kenneth, after being
JJUy found sale Wednesday, climaxing a 78
.. - hour search on the rugged slopes of
C f Mt. Hood. Two loggers found the boy
Jcllc after 'an organized search had been
given up earlier in the day.
Unable to bargain their way
out of a deadlock, Oregon con
tractors and iron workers may
solve their extended dispute by
taking a pioneering step in
labor-management relations.
A spokesman for four em
ployer associations involved in
the negotiations proposed the
step after fruitless bargaining
In Portland Wednesday.
The employers propose that
the two sides voluntarily sub
mit their dispute to a national
appeal board. The board was
established only last year. It is
composed of seven presidents
of international construction
unions and seven represent
atives of the Associated General
Contractors of America.
Any decision of the national
hoard would be binding. The
board would have 14 days to
reach a decision. It is believed
that this would be the first time
the board has been used.
Replying to the proposal,
spokesmen for the International
Assn. of Bridge, Structural and
Ornamental Iron Workers said
the union must consult with its
Northwest District Council,
then submit the suggestion to
the 700 rank and file members.
This means the union's answer
probably will not be given un
til next week.
The iron workers have bcr
on strike for 24 days in the
absence of agreement upon a
new contract with the employ
ers. The Eugene Contractors
Assn. is one of the four employ
er associations in on the bar
gaining. On Wednesday the four em
ployer groups announced that
they had given their negotiating
team authority to call for a
shutdown of all jobs on which
iron work is yet to be done if
no agreement were reached ty
midnight Friday.
Little news came out of Port
land Thursday morning on in
other labor-management mat.er
of prime interest the attempt
of Northwest timber firms and
two big timber unions to settle
on new wages for lumber work
ers. No direct negotiations have
been conducted lor some time.
Officials of the International
Woodworkers of America con
tinued Thursday a meeting to
discuss possible strike action
against the employers. The oth
er union affected by the negr.
tiations Is the Lumber and Saw
mill Workers.
Tension High
At Border
Of Cambodia
SAIGON, South Viet Nam Wl
Tension between South Viet
Nam and Cambodia increased
with new charges of border vio
lations from both sides and a
formal complaint by Cambodia
to the three-nation control commission.
The Saigon paper Thu Do
claimed that 100 Cambodian
soldiers attacked the Vietna
mese border town of An Lac
100 miles west of here Monday
and clashed with Vietnamese
forces. The account claimed
eight of the Cambodians were
killed and arms were seized be
fore the attackers were beaten
off.
In a cautiously worded com
munique Thursday night, South
Vict Nam said the attack was
carried out by "about 100 un
identified men in battlefield
dress and equipped with many
types of weapons" and the fight
lasted more than six hours.
South Viet Nam listed its losses
as one dead and two wounded.
In another incident, it was
learned here Wednesday that
Cambodia has complained to
the commission of four border
violations by South Vict Nam.
. . . Affront to Human Dignity'
Dean Rusk Takes
First Look at Wall'
BERLIN M Secretary of
State Dean Rusk got his first
look at the Red wall splitting
Berlin Thursday and called it
"an affront to human dignity."
"It will be broken down one
day," he had declared earlier.
After touring the wall, Rusk
said he is ready to continue
talking with the Soviet Union
in an effort to find a basis for
negotiating Berlin's future.
He was speaking at a cere
mony in West Berlin's City
Hall, where he signed the gold
en visitors' book during a 2V4-
hour visit to the threatened
city, more than 100 miles be
hind the Iron Curtain.
"I continue to be ready to ex
plore further with the Soviet
Union whether a basis for nego
tiation exists," he said. "To do
less would be a dereliction of
my duty to the American people
and to the people of West Ber
lin." Rusk mounted a British army
observation tower to look over
the wall and down Unter' den
Linden, once Berlin's smartest
street.
An estimated 30,000 persons
stood along Rusk's 10-mile
winding route from the airport.
Rusk held a third and final
meeting with French Foreign
Minister Maurice Couve He Mur
ville today before his flight to
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tour of West European capitals
in an effort to clarify major
problems within the alliance.
ppcarcd confident that some
measure of progress had been
made with France on the ques
tion of that nation's independ
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Rusk was reported to feel
that when France's nuclear
striking force becomes an ef
fective instrument within the
next several years, it will be
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De Gaulle, however, withheld
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"I just started to take a little
hike," he explained. "Then I
decided to walk a little farther.
Pretty soon I was lost."
He said that through it all,
though, ho didn't panic and
never was scared."
. "I kept walking all the time,"
he said. "I never saw any peo
ple but I heard the helicopter."
He wasn t aware the Air f orce
helicopter had been sent up to
try to spot him.
The boy's hands and face were
heavily scratched. He said he
slept under logs at night and
drank from streams, putting his I
face into the water.
Tho family physician, Dr.
George Nash, said "he's in re
markably good condition, mostly
just tired. The reason he's in
such good condition is that he
got adequate sleep and drank
lots of good mountain water."
Parties of as large as 200 men,
aided by bloodhounds and heli
copters, took part in the search.
They relied heavily on such
things as footprints found on
various roads and some discard
ed undcrshorts. Finding of the
shorts sent hounds racing to the
edge of Clear Lake Tuesday,
leading to fear that he had
drowned. The lake was dragged.
Never Saw Lake
But, Clifford said, "I never
saw the lake."
None of the footprints were
his, nor were the shorts.
Camas Prairie is some 4V4
miles east of the campground
and in the opposite direction of
the main area covered by the
search.
The boy's father was notified
of his safety near Government
Camp.
Keith Pelric, search coordi
nator, said the hunt was one of
tho largest ever conducted in
the long history of the mountain,
U.S., India Sign Pact
NEW DELHI, India Wr-Thc
United States and India signed
agreements Thursday for $285
million in long-term loans to
aid Indian industrial development.
Former Circuit Rider
Rev. Francis Cook, 96, Dies
A long time Eugene minister
and singing evangelist, the Rev.
Francis Lincoln Cook, 96, died
in Portland Wednesday.
Cook, a former circuit rider,
built the McKenzie River Chris
tian Church and was one of the
first members of the Octoge
narian Quartet whose members
! claimed they were the oldest
; singing group in the Unitcc'
1 States.
' He was born in Olathc, Kan.,
Aug. 27, 1865, but because there
were no schools nearby he
didn't begin his education until
he was 12. Later he was a stu
dent at a teachers' college in
Fort Scott, Kan., and a Bible
college at Ash Grove, Mo.
Hi worked bit way west at a
minister during the 1880s.
Cook served 41 years in Ore
gon churches and for 11 years,
was assistant pastor of the Eu
gene Christian Church.
After building the church at
McKenzie Bridge, Cook contin
ued as its pastor for some 13
years. He drove the 55 miles!
from his Eugene home to the
church each weekend.
In addition to his other work,
Cook was pastor of the Chris
tian Church at The Dalles from
1905 until 1909.
As late as last fall he was
still making solo singing appear
anccs as well as preaching guest
sermons throughout the state,
although he had retired six
years ago.
On his 90th birthday anni
versary ho married Mary E.
Stevens who had been the ac
companist for the Octogenarian
Quartet. It was a surprise cere
mony originally scheduled as a
birthday party. His bride, who
died two years ago, was 69 at
the time of his marriage.
Since I960 he has made his
home at the Northwestern
Christian Home In Bcavcrton.
Funeral services will be held
at 9 a.m. standard, 10 a.m. day
light Saturday at the Bcavcr
ton home at 3400 S.W. 103rd St.
Interment will follow at the
Sunset Hills cemetery on
Canyon Road between Beaver
ton and Portland.
ganization in eastern and west
ern Algeria.
Authorities reported a virtual
ly 100 per cent roturn to work
in all vital services ot the city.
For the first time in months,
the city's streets were cleaned
of piles of garbage.
A number of Moslems also
returned to work In private
companies. Several restaurants
reopened and movie theaters ad
vertised new films.
Moslem Policemen
Moslem auxiliary policemen
were being gradually put to '
work in European areas. They
patrolled tho streets in pairs
and here and there attempted
to direct traffic.
Officials said it was essential
that the Europeans get used to
tho idea of Moslem policemen
before independence next
month.
Authorities believed that ter
ror would not return to the city
again.
Authorities also were optlmls- '
tic concerning the situation in
western Algeria.
Some French reports said the
secret army's West Algerian
command was debating adher
ence to the Algiers truce
worked out last weekend by a
secret army leader in the capi
tal and a member of the Mos
lem National Liberation Front.
Installation Wrecked
But officials in Oran said
there was no sign of a change In
tho Oran terrorists' earlier defi
ance of the peace agreement.
Instead, a blast wrecked a large
natural gas installation, sending
flames shooting 300 feet into
the air. The secret army was
blamed.
Terrorists in eastern Algeria
also were active, burning down
the city hall and two other
buildings in Bone, a major port
260 miles cast of Algiers.
Laos Princes
In Agreement
On Decree
VIENTIANE, Laos W Right
wing leader Gen. Phoumi Nosa-
van said Thursday the three
Laotian factions have agreed to
give full powers to King Savang
Vathana to Install a new provi
sional government of national
union,
Phoumi made the statement
after a 45-minuto meeting with
premier-designate Prince Sou
vanna Photima and Pro-Communist
Pathct Leo Prince Sou
phanouvong's r e p r e I entatlve,
Phoumi Vongvichit.
This compromise was reached
after four days of discussions
among Laotian leaders to iron
out a disagreement over the
drafting of a royal decree in
stalling the new government.
The neutralists and pro-Communists
object to recognition of
the legality of the National As
sembly, a right-wing body.
Souvanna Indicated, however,
that the dispute primarily was
between the right wingers and
pro-Communists.