ttOHT MTOrOBD MAIL TRIBUNfl MondT. Sep!. 10, 1845
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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