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i Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 31, 1949
Passing Up a Necessity
Nearly all counties in Oregon are woefully short of hos
pital beds and the people of many of them are conducting
drives for new hospitals or expansion of old ones, like
Salem. The costs of building and equipping hospitals are
higher than other buildings, and all building costs are
naturally much higher than in the pre-war period.
The United States Public Health service shows that
the average construction costs of hospitals built in the
last year have been running $13,000 per bed not count
ing site costs. On 105 general hospital jobs, the costs per
bed have averaged $12,910.
The Eugene Register-Guard in answering queries as
to why hospitals cost more than hotelsi quotes from the
American Hospital Association magazine "Trustee" the
following ansver:
1. Hotels and hospitals exist for entirely different purposes.
2. Bed space in a hospital occupies only 20 to 25 percent of
total space; in a hotel the bed space will be at least 50 percent
of total.
3. In the best hotel, the ratio will never exceed one employe
per guest; in the poorest hospital it will be 2. for 1.
4. Percenage of high-skilled and professional help in a hos
pital is very high.
5. Hotels have many sources of income; hospitals one.
8. Hotels do not have to supply operating rooms, laboratories,
. X-ray, special dieticians and a vast array of special and tech
nical services imperative for hospitals.
The Eugene paper also quotes from the U.S. Public
Health Service figures on costs in hospitals now under
construction as follows:
"It requires 604 to 639 square feet of overall space in relation
to each bed. Tn a hospital ward or room the actual space occu
pied by a bed is very small, but for each bed throughout the
Institution there must be a space equivalent to a room 20 feet
wide and 30 or 32 feet long equivalent to a whale of a big liv
- lng room. Furthermore, the modern hospital should be fire
proof, and for fireproof construction the costs are running
$15.61 to $19.43 per square foot. Add in equipment costs (but
not sites) and your overall costs jump to $18.56 and $21.36 per
square foot. Translated into costs per bed they are running
from $11,256 to $14,475 with the average at $12,910."
It ii recognized that for general hospital purpose maxi
mum efficiency cannot be achieved with less than 200 beds.
Operating costs throughout the United States averaged
$11.78 per day. Unless the people of the Salem area come
through moi generously than they have so far and un
less they all cooperate for hospital facilities which a large
percentage have not so far done, the prospects for ade
quate facilities are not bright. Somehow or other, this
area Is muffing its opportunity as is daily being demon
strated at our hospitals and will continue to be, as the
non-cooperativeg will find out when their own emergency
arrives.
Aviation Day at McNary Field
With interest keen these days on what will happen to
the commercial air transportation picture at McNary field,.
Salem's Aviation Day, Sunday, came at an appropriate
time.
Events of the past two years have been leading toward
special recognition of what goes on at the airport.
In the first place, the dispute over a master plan for
the field was settled in favor of development of the west
side. This meant that civilian flying gradually would be
concentrated on that side of the field opposite United Air
Lines' present station.
The master plan was a fundamental step toward plan
ned development of aviation in Salem. It called for a new
road to give proper nccess to the west side. It also per
mitted a basis for accepting a Navy bid to establish air
reserve flying here. Since the decision already had been
made to move civilian flying to the west side, the Navy
could be accommodated in the big hangar on the east side.
As a result, Navy planes will soon be flying regularly out
of here on training flights.
This, in turn, happened to lead to the re-establishment
of the control tower. The tower was essential to control
of the airways into and out of the city, if Salem was to de
velop aviation locally.
The city is now planning an administration building on
the west side in line with its plans for developing that side
of the field. When allotted federal funds become available,
construction of the building can then go ahead. That is,
when the threat to United Air Lines' serving the city is
Withdrawn by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Special notice should be given the private operators on
the field who have all now moved over to the west side.
Those individuals have constantly worked for improve
ment of the field and are really the motivating force for
the special day.
Aviation Day this year amounted to general recognition
of the "coming of age" of development of McNary field.
CAPITAL CARTOON
BY BECK
Life's Little Lessons
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Iran Puts Backstage
Squeeze on for Big Loan
(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson Is on vacation, the Wash
ington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old partner,
Robert S. Allen.)
BY GUILD '
Wizard of Odds
By ROBERT S.ALLEN
Washington The Iranian government is attempting a new back
stage squeeze for a big U. S. hand-out.
It is a demand for a $25,000,000 World bank loan.
The proposal was sprung by A. H. Ebteha), head of the Iranian
State bank and a governor of the World bank. He is due here
next month for.
a meeting of
bank governors.
Mean while,
Ebtehaj is try
ing to put on
the heat in Te
heran. He has
told U.S. offH
cials there that
Iran is entitled
to the same kind
of monetary and
military aid the
U.S. is giving
Greece.
He concluded one
U2J
Is it legal for me to shoot them?'
"We explained that in Wash
ington pickets could not be mo
lested as long as they kept mov
ing and did not obstruct traf
fic. Bilbo replied, 'In that case,
I guess I can't shoot them,' and
hung up."
Robert S. Allen
SIPS FOR SUPPER
tion with the haughty observa-
PUBLIC HOUSING PAL
During the bitter house bat
tle over the president's low
cost Dublic housins bill, one of
Turkey and the most acrid foes was Rep.
Gene Cox (D-Ga). At one point,
his trigger-temper flared to
where he struck Rep. Adolph
W . IFWU LIVE IN KANSAS,
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CENSUS REPORTS
SHOW WORE PEOPLE
A6ED 49 THAN 50, AND
39 THAN 40-AND
V0UKN0W WHtV
FVFP.Y
DAY 7000.000 PEOPLE
IN THE U.S. ARE SICK IN BED.
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Getting Nosey
By DON UPJOHN
We've been sniffed at by a lot of people around town the past
few days and we believe there should be some explanation to the
visitors pouring through town from day to day that just because
they are sniffed at by the local folks Is no reason for them to
think we have an impolite brood in these parts. Far from it.
This sniffing is - -r . ;
i ship. Judge O'Hara agreed that
it sounded pretty much like
abandonment and annulled the
marriage. "I stayed married be
cause I didn't want to be fooled
twice," Mrs. Nichols said.'
not caused by f'
boonshness, it s
just the advent
of a sort of epi
demic of the
summer cold. It
seems to have
been more or
less running
riot around all
parts of the
town and so If
somebody snif
fas? " 4 i
The chances are that around
10,000 or so piggy banks will be
cracked and emptied over the
coming week - end to be ran-
Don Upjohn sacked for the pennies, nickels,
BUilicuuuj' oil.,- uiiiica niiu ijuo, u.
fles at you, think notning oi n. for the state fair.
The chances are you'll be snif- -
fling back at him in a few days We haven't heard any offi-
and not having any fun out of cial notification as yet as to
ft either the state f.-.ir will operate
' on, daylight savings or standard
Playing Safe time. But it probably won't
Detroit W) After 26 years, make much difference as most
Mrs. Sophie Nichols has decided all ot the folks who go will go
that, minus a husband, a mar- eariy and stay late and they
riage isn't a marriage. Yester- wont care about an hour one
day the former Detroit school
way or another.
teacher officially shucked her- -
P1f nf Walter Nichols, who has There's still a chance left that
not been heard from since he this afternoon will produce jected.
bolted their wedding reception enough marriage licenses ai in
Dec 23, 1923. She told Circuit county clerk's office to set up
Judge Chester P. O'Hara: Nich- an all time record this month
ols left after picking up the for any month in the country s
wedding presents and the con- history. As.lt Is " 'sJTV"
tents of ladies' pocketbooks ner-up for August, 1946. Which
while the others feasted. It was abates the old myth about June
the climax to a whirlwind court- being the month for brides.
Battered Piano Saves Her Life
Sturgis, S. D. ftl.R) A battered upright piano Is credited with
saving the life of Mrs. Eileen Wilcox.
Just before a high wind collapsed the roof of her home,
Mrs. Wilcox huddled under the old music box and escaped
with only cuts and bruises.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Shaking of Stalin's Hold
On Satellites Not Surprising
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(dl'l ForeiKn Alfalrs Analyst)
One of the hottest pieces of current news out of Europe is the
report reaching Washington that Stalin's hold on the Red. satellite
states has been badly shaken by Moscow's row with Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia.
John M. Hightower, AP diplomatic expert In Washington, says
this information ffWffi!1 "
might be outside lmenerence.
There might be another world
war going full tilt overnight.
Troop movements In neighbor
ing Bulgaria and Romania have
led to speculation that war
might be developing between
them and Yugoslavia. That
could be, but here again Mos
cow would be running a great
risk in letting such a conflict
develop, because it could grow
into world conflict.
That leaves the Muscovites
with the alternative of trying to
smash Tito economically, or of
tion that if such assistance is Sabath, aged dean of the cham-
not forthcoming the u.b. can Der.
go to hell." But Cox sang another tune the
Actually, a large flow of U.S. other day at the public housing
dollars is pouring into Iran, administration.
American oil interests are pay- Officials of Albany, Ga., his
ing out millions monthly, and home town, appeared at PHA to
the U.S. government is spending sjgn Up for a housing project
large sums. It has just complet- under the new act. Albany is
ed a $500,000 engineering sur- the first small town to get such
vey for Iran. a development. And right up in
front to get his picture and name
Behind-the-scenes, diplomatic in the papers was Cox who
relations between the U.S. and had so violently fought the le
Iran are at the lowest ebb since gislation.
the "20's, when the state depart- NOTE Since the enactment
ment deported a member of the Df the measure, PHA has been
Iranian legation for smuggling flooded with applications for
opium. low-cost housing projects, many
Curious aspect of the current 0f them from the home towns
strained relations is that Shah 0f congressmen and senators
Mohammed Riza Pahlevi is ma
king a state visit to Washington
this fall. His mother and several
other members of his family al-
who tried to kill the bill.
"FIVE-PERCENTERS'
Commerce Secretary Charles
ready are in the U.S. Authorities Sawyer's announcement that his
are at loss as to the reason for field offices will provide busi-
Iranian gruffness. nessmen with information on
Iran put on a huff last month government contracts free of
at the turndown of an opium charge is causing no concern to
scheme. "5-percenters."
Famine conditions exist in Reason is,' the intricacies of
Azerbaijan, northwest Iranian government procurement are so
province. Despite large oil roy- complex that only an insider can
alties, Iran asked the U.S. for make any headway against
200,000 tons of free grain. When them.
that was refused, Iran proposed ah
to swap opium for the wheat.
big corporations have
their own business representa-
U.S. Narcotics Commissioner tjves in Washineton and hun-
Harry Anslinger vehemently ob- dreds of other concerns employ
;ctea. . part-time agents. Most of them.
tie cnea tne iact mat iran is are legitimate contact men who
the most flagrant exporter of il- know their way around and
legal opium in the world, and make n0 claims to inside influ-
has persistently defied United ence.
Nations attempts to curb this AH the publicity given "5-
vicious traffic. Also, that due to percenters" has boomed their
these notorious violations, the business greatly in recent weeks.
U.S. ceased buying medicinal .
opium from Iran.
Anslinger's forthright protests
blocked the swap scheme.
PICKETS
Rep. Arthur Klein (D-NY)
SHORTS
Members of congress who
want to hit the lecture trail can
now do so through a new
speakers' bureau organized in
Washington to handle exclusive-
telephoned the District of Co- iy congressional clients,
lumbia corporation counsel for sen. Edward L. Leahy (D-RI),
information about local picket- app0inted to fill the seat for
ing laws. merly held by Attorney General
"This is the first time in five Howard McGrath, is rated one ,
years we have had a query 0f the ablest tax experts in the'
about that," was the answer, country.
"The last time a member of con- Capital politicos are reading
gress called us on this subject with relish advance copies of
it was the late Senator Bilbo of Joseph L. Dinneen's hilarious
Mississippi." "The Purple Shamrock," a
"What did he want to know?" plain-talking biography of Bos
asked Klein. ton's colorful Mayor James Cur-
"He called early one morning ley. The book goes on sale Sep
and said, 'There's a bunch of tember 7.
pickets outside my apartment. tcopyruht 19491
Mm. V K SiJI
LMXJ
is contained in
highly responsi
ble reports from
eastern Europe.
These reports
are expected to
play an impor
tant part in the
forth c o mi n g
meetings in the
American capi
tal among Sec
retary of State
Achcson, British Foreign Secre
tary Bevin and French Foreign
Minister Schuman.
iV o t a r m Hinlnmnte 11 mvi
Hightower, "forsee in ' these inspiring a revolt against him
meetings a three-power preview among own people.
J
The economic approach al
ready has been tried without
the desired success. On orders
from the Kremlin, neighboring
satellites cut Yugoslavia off
from essential supplies.
The unexpected result was
that Tito promptly turned to
the west for aid and got it.
of the grand strategy of the cold
war with Russia, followed by a
determined effort to devise new
moves against the Kremlin."
Sensational as this news is,
it isn't surprising.
This column numerous times
has pointed out that the trend Washington approved his pur-
m eastern Europe, ann especially chase of equipment for a big
the Kremlin-Tito fight, might be steel mill, and the Indications
expected to weaken Russia's are that he also will get a large
hold on the satellites. loan from the world bank.
Czechoslovakia, Poland and So that seems to reduce the
Hungary all have powerful ele- possibilities to the one of in
ments of opposition to Red rule, spiring within Yugoslavia a re
And Finland has refused to bow volt which might be assisted
to Moscow. surreptitiously and unofficially
The Yugoslav dictator's de- by neighboring Red satellites,
fiance, in refusing to surrender Observers recognize that this
his country's sovereignty to may be what Russia now is
Moscow, has placed Russia in maneuvering for.
the difficult position of having In any event there is no doubt
to make him eat crow and that heavy pressure is being
quickly unless she is to sus- brought to arouse discontent
tain a disastrous loss of face among the Yugoslavs with their
among the satellites. government.
But how to get at the recal- Should anything untoward
citrant and imperturbable Tito, happen to Tito personally, Mos
who refuses to budge from his cow's way likely would be
position? greatly smoothed, since the mar-
Of course, mighty Russia could shal dominates his country. And,
handle Yugoslavia by force as observed In a previous col
handily enough if there weren't umn, he i.m"t a particularly
outside Interference. But there good Insurance risk.
Here's the Latest Alibi
Oklahoma City, Aug. 31 W) Motorcycle Policeman C. C.
Cole thought he had heard all the alibies.
But the motorist weaving back and forth across the street
had a new one. '
"Believe it or not officer, I was trying to keep from run
ning out of gasoline," he driver said. "I was sloshing the gas
back and forth in my tank so I could get it all In my carbure
tor." GRUB-STAKED FOR HUNT "
'Hank's Lost Mine' Lures
Prospector in Desert Again
El Centro, Cal. u.R A dogged prospector, Don Freer, 42, has
returned to the Superstition Mountains, this time hoping to
write a final successful chapter in his years'-long search for
"Hank's Lost Mine."
Hampered by lack of supplies, his most recent expedition
nearly ended in disaster when him the stake, remembering
he staggered out of the desert their good fortune when Walter
and collapsed at a highway fill- (Scotty) MacDonald paid them
ing station. . handsome dividends for a sim-
This time he has a fully nar grubstake several years ago.
equipped pack train and prom- MacDonald made a rich find in
ise of a four-year "grubstake." the Pine Valley area of the San
Diego Mountains.
Freer found a sympathetic jjose and Sol also have a cou
audience in Sol and Mose Gul- pie 0f other prospectors using
let, El Centro grocers, when he their funds at present. .
told them of a legendary ...
"Hank" who used to go into the Freer, who customarily work
desert in the western part of ed as a bookkeeper long enough
Imperial Valley and come back t0 start walking through the
after six weeks with enough hills again, said the blazing des
gold to live on for a year. ert sun doesn't even bother him
Freer says a personal friend any more, despite summer tem
of the original Hank gave him peratures frequently over 120
some first-hand information on degrees.
the location of his goal several "I'm just going to be sure I've
years ago. got plenty of water all the
The Gullet brothers, members time," he said as he trudged off
of a pioneer valley family, gave behind his loaded burro.
117 Days to Christmas
Patchogue, N. Y., Aug. 31 (U.PJMembers of the Elks lodge
said today the 117 days remaining to Christmas will give
them plenty of time to recoup their losses to a sneak thief.
The Elks recently started their annual drive for a Christ
mas basket fund. A thief broke Into their club house yes
terday and carted off a three-gallon bottle which confined
an unknown amount of coin contributions.
LEATHERNECKS EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE
Marines Put On Mock
Atomic War Maneuvers ,
(Editor's Note The author of the following dispatch was a
war correspondent in both the European and Pacific theaters, ,
He hit the Guadalcanal beaches with the first U. S. Marines.
(Now he just has completed an assignment covering the
peace-time air-ground maneuvers of the same Marine outfit
that staged the Guadalcanal operation. He reports the leather
necks' first division improved in every respect with better
weapons In their hands and more experience between their
ears.)
By ROBERT C. MILLER
Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug. 31 U.R The atomic war wlU ht
fought over steeper hills, under a hotter sun, in dirtier dirt and
with shorter breath than any previous war.
We know. We just fought a mock one with the marines at
Camp Pendleton. Zero hour was a stifling 10
The combined air - ground a m
maneuvers involving the First we attached ourselves to Abla
Marine Division and some two company's second platoon when
hundred marine reserve aviators it crawied out of its foxholes
showed what would happen af- and began the torturous fight
ter the atomic bombs were drop- s part 0f the sixth marines
ped and the footsloggers moved assault.
in. For the next three hours tha
The maneuvers proved that, as platoon squirmed through sage
in previous wars, the "buzz brush, blistered itself on molten
boys" will get the glory and the rocks, breathed warmed - over
infantry will catch the hell. dust and spit mudballs.
Today's objective was a sun- The artillery barraged, tha
baked ridge defended by radio- planes bombed and the mortars
active areas, artillery, mortars, exploded. Blank rifle and ma
rattlesnakes, tarantulas and chine gun fire rattled all over
cacti. the place as supporting fire was
Able Baker and Charlie com- given the sprinting, bellyflop
panies "captured" their objec- pjng marines working their way
tive, using equipment and train- forward.
ing that makes them the most We slithered into canyons,
lethal infantrymen in the world, clawed our way out of them and
The superiority of today's then broiled in prone positions
first marine division over the while pinned down by "enemy
Guadalcanal defenders was ap- mortar fire" and awaiting air
parent everywhere in the opera- support.
tion. The cought corsair fighters
Squad leaders like Tech. Sgt. were a godsend, their hedge
Frank Lawson, Oceanside, Cal., hopping prop wash brought the .
and Charlie Kent, Pasadena, only breeze of the day.
had better weapons in their The marines showed that
hands and more experience be- from riflemen through tankers
tween their ears. to pilots they were a well-train-
They had flame throwers, ed coordinated team, carrying
bazookas .and secret infantry out . assignments usually with
weapons perfect timing.
POO? MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
No Time for Bickering
While Changing the World
By EDCREAGH
(Substituting for Columnist Hal Boyle)
New York, Aug. 31 m When James Keller says he's out t
change the world, a lot of people listen. . ,
For one thing, he's a big, quietly persuasive Catholic priest
with a non-nonsense air about him. He resembles his friend Spen
cer Tracy.
gious groups, and I wanted to
know if there wna annthr
j to the story.
The man in the Roman collar
is sure that there is.
"The Christophers." he said.
1? "are people of all faiths. Soma
have no particular faith.
"We're all sorts of people
housewives, actors, employers,
union officials. . . .
"We concentrate on a lew
fields teaching, government
work, labor - manaspmunt arid
i( "The U.S.," Father Keller says, the spreading of ideas by radio,
ia uc.iis uuuc.iiiuitu u, a movies, puDiisning ana so on.
fanatical group of men and wo- ..wh , Because thats wher,
men who hate God and sneer at ,ubversives are most active.
the Declaration of Independence, ,, . , , . .
with its stress on our God-given B 'subversives' we don't
rights mean communists alone. We
' "We want to stop this mean those wn0 are against what
"And we hope to do it by normal. decent Americans are
putting men and women of good 'or: uSuch thinSs as divine truth
will into jobs where they can be and numan integrity,
a force for good and order. "Probably not more than one
"There has been too much American in 100 is working
shouting against 'subversives.' against these things. But that
"The time is here for action adds up to more than 1,000,000
for offering something better persons. It means that we'll
than the subversives can offer." need more than 1,000,000 Chrls-
tophers."
The Christophers are in the I asked a couple of questions
news on several fronts. that a Protestant friend of mine
A novel which won the $15,- had suggested: Is there opposi
000 first prize in their literary tions to the. Christophers be
contest has just been published, cause their founder is a priest?
Its title is "Call It Treason." Any suspicion that its aims are
The author, George Howe, is a sectarian?
Protestant. Father Keller smiled. "Why
The Christophers are trying to don't you look over some of our
establish training schools in all correspondence?" he said,
parts of the country, to guide So I did.
"men and women of good will" There were letters of support
Into key jobs where they can from Catholics; from Methodist
make their influence felt. ministerial students in George-
And Father Keller himself is town, Texas; from an Episcopal
reading final proofs on a new rector in Beverly Hills, Calif.;
book, "Three Minutes A Day," from a Jewish television execu
to be published by Doubleday tive in Chicago,
in October. His last book, "You I read the letters and others
Can Change the World," sold like them.
200,000 copies. "Father," I asked, "are you
going to get a million Christo-
I went to see Father Keller phers? Are they really going J
because I had been hearing a to change the world?"
good deal about misunderstand- "With God's help,' said Father
lng and bad feeling among reli- Keller promptly, "Yes."
For another
thing, he's a
best-selling au
thor who has
banded more
than 100,000
Catholics, Prot
estants and
Jews into
movement call
ed the Christophers.
Their aim, in1
their own
words: To change the world.