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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1945)
ttOHT MTOrOBD MAIL TRIBUNfl MondT. Sep!. 10, 1845 E PLAN AVAILABLE 10 The Blue Cross Plan for hos pital care is now open to Indi viduals under the newly adopted direct enrollment program of the Northwest Hospital Service Plan. The new service applies to in dividuals formerly ineligible for membership because they could not qualify for group enrollment. More than 50,000 persons are already signed up for hospital service benefits through the group enrollment plan launched three years ago by the Oregon participating hospitals. These people single persons, hus bands, wives and childrcr are assured of paid-in-advance hos pital service up to a maximum of 21 days full benefits plus an additional 90 days of 50 per cent benefits, in the event of sickness or injury, by the participating hospitals of the plan, which in clude: Portland: Coffey Memor ial, Emanuel, Good Samaritan, Providence and St. Vincent's; Medford, Sacred Heart. Croup Plan In Effect The basic group enrollment plan through employers of five or more persons or professional or agricultural associations re mains in effect. Now, for the first time, Indi viduals who cannot qualify for group enrollment through their employer or because they are in business for themselves can ap ply for hospitalization benefits ClfAHfA WAY directly to the Service Plan of fice, 1200 S. VV. Morrison street, Portland, Oregon, or their local participating hospital. It is the intention to open direct enroll ment on October 1, January 1, April 1 and July 1 of each year. Applications may be submitted before these dates and; if accept ed, protection becomes effective one month later, for conditions which did not exist at or before the effective date. The applicant and family members must be un der the age of 65 and in good health to qualify. Nursing Included Blue Cross bed-patient service in participating h o s p i t a 1 s in cludes the following: Bed and board and general nursing serv ice in award accommodations; operating and delivery room service; anesthesia, when admin istered by a hospital employee; dressings and plaster casts; drugs laboratory examinations; X-ray; basal metabolism tests; and electrocardiograms. Materni ty care is provided up to 10 days after 10 months continuous fam ily membership undei group en rollment and after 24 months family membership under direct enrollment. Emergency room care is covered in accident cases within 24 hours at the accident. Fixed payments arc made by the Service Plan toward hospital bills incurred by members who become sick or are injured while traveling anywhere in the Unit ed States and Canada. Here Is what each type of membership costs: Under group enrollment: one person, $ .00 monthly; two persons, $1.80 monthly; family $2.40 monthly. Under direct enrollment: one person, $0 semi-annually; two persons, $12 semi-annually. Fam ily, $16 semi-annually. Enrollment Foe $1 There is an initial enrollment fee of $1 required for each ap plication for direct enrollment. As a result of the cooperative efforts of leaders of industry, labor, agriculture and hospitals, over 3,500 hospitals in the Unit ed Slates and Canada participate in the 87 Blue Cross Plans which are approved and coordinated through the American Hospital Association. National enrollment has now reached 19.000,000 and is increasing at the rate of almost 17,000 per working day. The non-profit Blue Cross Plan Is community service to enable the individual to budget against the unexpected and unpredict able expense of hospitalization. The hospitals themselves sponsor the plan and guarantee the serv ice under the membership certificate. Alaska Is governed conjointly by Its own legislative assembly and by Congress, which reserved the right to legislate on certain subjects when the territorial government was approved in 1012. CROWN mSTRY FLOUR CD Cooks amateur or professional like me. I suppose it's because I'm scientifically milled and laboratory tested. Anyhow, housewives who let me take a hand with their pies and other pastries say I've got what it takes. M - CROWN PRESENTS 5 MINUTE MYSTERIES KMED Tueiday U Friday 9:45 - 9:50 P.M. CROWN MILLS PORTLAND, OREGON Mining Offers Medford Area Potential Wealth, Employment By Runell A. Mitchell Now that the war is over we should look at our particular section of the country to see whether we have any potential industry capable of development and employment of surplus labor and capital. In my opinion min ing offers a greater opportunity for employment of both men and money than any new Industry we can start. As yet it is only a potential source of new wealth. It is a question of whether it can be de veloped with a minimum of out side help. As it now stands, comparatively few laborers can expect to find permanent jobs at living wages. Undoubtedly if depression comes, a great many men can eke out a living but such a condition is not desirable. It is better for us as well as the whole nation that labor be em ployed at good wages. We need a sound, permanent Industry such as mining can be in south ern Oregon. Gold Main Metal The future of all metals except gold is insecure. Fortunately for our part of the country gold is more mldcly distributed and shows better prospects for pro fitable mining than any other mineral. The market for gold is reliable ond secure. We have the gold. What we need is money to develop it and machinery to mine it. So far not much has been done except by the prospectors. They have done their part by expos ing the outcrops on the surface. That is all prospectors are able to do anywhere. Exploration at depth requires money, machin ery and miners. Of the three re quirements money is by far the most important and the most dif ficult to obtain. After explora tion is done and ore Is blocked out any amount of money can be obtained. The difficulty lies in getting the first few .hundred feet underground. This difficulty seems more exaggerated in southern Oregon than anywhere the writer has ever been. I believe there arc real reasons for such conditions and I have endeavored to find out why more exploration has not been done. Geology Different In the first place the geology is different. The Siskiyous are older mountains than cither the Cascades or the Rockies. The volcanic rocks are highly miner alized and break down to form a thick overburden, thus hiding outcrops. Veins as a rule are not continuous for great dis tances. These mountains have been broken and moved several times and veins are, as a result, fragmentary. This is no real ex cuse for not mining them. The truth is that the more broken a country is the more likely it is to turn out large amounts of high grade ore. In the second place the climatej is different. Being extremely dry in summer and extremely wet in winter causes or helps to cause deeper weathering of veins. Quite often veins at the surface do not show more than a trace of gold. Sometimes the quartz practically disappears. There Is nearly always a bar ren zone between the summer water level and the winter water level. Even when a pocket is left in the vein at the surface, the barren zone causes pocket hunt ers to conclude that "it don't go down". Unless a vein pays all the way down a poor man cannot follow to any depth. But to abandon a claim because it will not pan out a living is pure nonsense. We should expect to have to use machinery and to make a profit on fairly low grade ore. : No extremely rich shoot of gold j can last forever, but lowgracle I bodies can be mined for many, i many years. The pockets at the surface are compensation for ! deep weathering and heavy over burden. They are as sure a sign of pay dirt as can be found any where. When the chemistry of gold veins in southern Oregon is better known to the reputable engineers and geologists I be lieve they will be willing "to stick out their necks" and advise i money being spent for explora tion. The third great hindrance to Nestle's gives the world A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN EVAPORATED .a lV--.. a-'' V' It" . VIVA " .. 1). S ill V MJ- 3 " to- TASTIS BETTER THAN EVER . . . Try a tcispoonful, rii;lit from the can. You will Jrcc the new NTMlEs Milk is nurvrlpin ! Try it on l uiit! I se it in (ollcc . . . compare it in Mr cooking! 'fi to Vt?4NUN O NISTll I FOR 7 YIAKS. IIAOIRS IN WOBIO-WIOI MIIK MJIARCN I mining Industry In Oregon Is lack of roads. The writer ob served small mines operating all over Boulder County, Colorado, and wondered how in the world they could build those roads over such steep, hard country. Upon inquiry, I learned they did not. The county builds the roads. Mining is an important means of livelihood for the people in Col orado and the people build the roads. It would not be too great a burden for Jackson County to bulldoze a road up to a miner when he had out his first carload of pay ore. Nothing the people could do would accomplish more toward encouraging and promot ing the industry to the good of the whole county. As it is, the miner feels there is no use in digging out, say, S20 ore when there is no possible way to get it iO market. A- fourth very important point is the lack of milling facilities near at hand. Colorado has the Golden Cycle mill that before the war ground a half million tons of ore per year. Most of this ore was shipped from small operators and its average value vias less than $15 per ton. We have no such milling facilities in southern Oregon, and if every miner must erect a mill to ex tract his particular ore, the in dustry is doomed. I realize that simply to rush out and build a mill without any source of mill rock would be foolish. I am also sure that it will take years of development before a half-million tons can be produced per year in southern Oregon and northern California. But if local money is interested, enough ore can be found to in- ORDER WILL BE T A oublic hearing to provide a basis for revision of the milk marketing order for Jackson County marketing areas No. 2 and No. 3 and Camp White mar keting area is scheduled to be held at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce on Sep tember 13, at 130 p.m., accord ing to notices sent out by the Milk Control Section, State De partment of Agriculture. The hearing will deal mainly with details incidental to revis ion of the milk market order issued by the former Oregon Milk Control Board in order to bring local milk market regula tions up to date, within limita tions imposed by the various fed eral price and production orders. Some changes in the order will be proposed by the Department of Agriculture to comply with general policies of the depart ment in the administration of the Oregon Milk Control Act. The hearin gwill have no con nection with laws passed at the sure success for a smaller milling plant which can in time be as large as necessary to take care of this region. last session ot the legislature, It is pointed out. Although matters to be discus sed will be primarily of interest to milk producers, distributors and dealers, the hearing is open to consumers and others inter ested n fluid milk marketing. E. L. Peterson, director of the State Department of Arglculture, will be represented by an exam iner fronvthe Portland office of the Milk Control Section of the department. E. Eugene Chad wick, Eugene, district represen tative for the department in Southern Oregon', is in charge of arrangements for the hearing. IOOKT-A GRAMP fEW CEREAL $Y KEUCZG'S CRISP GOLDEN FLAKES! 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