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by upstate communities because
of lti sound financial condition,
City Councilman Dwi?ht Hough
ton last night outlined the cityl
financial problems and water
and fire department needs in a
talk to Methodist men and wom
en at (he First Methodist church.
Medford's monetary problems
arise from the city's growth and
increase in costs, and the six per
cent tax levy limitation, Hough
ton brought out. He pointed to
Medford's growth from a city of
10,000 people to one of 18,000 or
20,000. At the same time costs
have more than doubled, he said.
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The city has been "peanutting
along," he remarked. Medford
has been taking advantage of
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the six per cent limit every
year, he said, but Portland has
not and is in trouble.
Houhton told of the need to
look to outside sources such as
business taxes, fines, parking
meters, rentals, franchises and
inspections, to obtain enough
money to meet payrolls. Other
sources of revenue include bond
issues and extra levies which
can be voted, he added. He re
ported that Medford's present
bonded indebtedness is $1,200,
000. The city of Medford bor
rows money cheaper than the
United States government,
Houghton stated.
Pip Plans Told
Plans for constructing a sec
ond water pipeline from Big
Butte springs to Medford were
outlined by the councilman. He
said that there is no increase in
nvrc nr water bills contemplat
ed for the improvement. Hough
ton brougni oui mai ine oia wat
er bonds are scheduled for rc-
tiromont in tlUn VPftTS. fOllf VCBTS
ahead of schedule.
mnnu nniri In hv outside Users
has helped much in paying for
the old waiur line, nuusmuu
indicated. As a health measure,
it is only good sense to take wat
er to outside users, he main
tained. Medford's water supply prob
lem, Huughton reported, is acute
to the point of danger. Citizens
for the most part use all the wat
er they want, and Medford con
sumes three times as much water
as any city its size.
Ditcui.es Fir Ndt
In telling of the need to ex
pand the fire department, the
urujnL-er pvnlainpd that the mat-
ter ties into the water problem.
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ment for 10,000 people he
said.
As the city has grown, the
mistake has been made of
-starving" the fire department
in cav finances. No one man is
to blame for the shortcomings;
"we are the ones 10 Diame,
Houghton told his audience. He
tunrnnrl nf inprPASed fife illSUr
ance rates if the situation is not
corrected.
Houhton praised his fellow
councilmen, the board of water
commissioners and the police de
partment. He said he was sure
every member of the council is
a Christian man who wishes to
see the city progress in a clean
orderly way. He expressed the
opinion that the water commis
sion could not be operated any
better than it is. Police are doing
a good job, Houghton asserted,
and Chief Clatous McCredie has
an outstanding reputation in
Oregon. He told of the handicap
of a big turnover in police
personnel.
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Delake, Ore., Apr. 18 (U.R)
Two Lincoln county towns. De
lake and Taft. today joined the
northwest cities adopting day
light saving time April 30.
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Physician
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Scores Socialized
Medical Planning
Ashland, Apr. 18 Speaking
before the Ashland Kiwanis club
at their noon luncheon Monday,
Dr. Russell Barnes, Medford, de
scribed socialized medicine as an
impractical, costly program
which has never provided better
or cheaper medical service for
any individual in any country.
The Medford physician told as
sembled Kiwanians that the com
pulsory health insurance bill
drawn up by Oscar Ewing would
be financed and apply only to
employed persons who come un
der the social security act. The
cost has been estimated at a six
per cent payroll tax on em
ployees' wages and an equal six
per cent tax on employers. Re
cently, this has been changed to
a three per cent tax for both
parties, with the remaining six
per cent to be raised from taxes,
Barnes said. One of the weakest
points in the proposed bill is
that it doesn't cover the people
who are said to be receiving sub
standard medical treatment, he
added. The program would be
administered by a government
bureau, run by the federal social
security agency, and the huge
number of offices required would
naturally add to the administra
tive cost, the speaker noted.
Cost Said nigh
Dr. Barnes stated that social
ized medicine has cost more in
every country where it has been
tried.
The average doctor in England
today must see one patient every
four minutes, he said, while in
this country, under the present
system, the average doctor can
devote at least 17 minutes to
every patient. A doctor cannot
practice adequate medicine un
der a system of socialized medi
cine, the speaker emphasized.
In England, where medical care
is supposedly free, more people
demand medical treatment, he
said, and many of these persons
can be classified as neurotics and
hypochondriacs, who have filled
English hospitals to overflowing.
The result is that a person in
England must wait eight months
to gain admittance to a hospital,
while because of the low salaries
paid to hospital employees under
the socialized set-up, many hos
pitals have been closed, Barnes
said.
Research Lack
The speaker noted that be
cause of high administration
costs, the English do not have
adequate money to spend on
medical research.
Wlule socialized medicine of
fers a person the security of
knowing that he will receive
some medical care, Dr. Barnes
said, that same person can re
ceive better care for less In this
country today, for the price of a
fiackage of cigarettes each day,
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can get coverage from private
insurance plans, which are work
ing, which cost far less than 12
per cent of the nation's payroll,
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By Robert C. Millar
Unltad Prats Correspondent
Calcutta, India, Apr. 18 (U.R)
Calcutta's cholera outbreak
reached epidemic proportions to
day and hospitals were unable to
remove victims as fast as they
died.
One hundred fifty-eight new
cases' were reported by noon to
day. More than 100 have been
hospitalized daily for the past
week and authorities said these
were "only a small fraction" of
the stricken.
Smallpox Rporld
Unusually large numbers of
smallpox and meningitis cases
have further loaded the wards
of Calcutta hospitals and over
taxed the inadequate staffs.
One hospital designed to ac
commodate 230 patients has
checked in more than 800 dying
of cholera. Victims are dumped
unceremoniously on the floor of
Truck Driver Held
In Woman's Death
San Jose. Cal.. Anr. 18 lU.Rl
A murder charge will be filed
today against Truck Driver
Henry A. Wilson. 29-year-old ex-
convict who confessed slaying a
red-haired waitress with a tire
hammer. Wilson said he killed Mrs.
Helen Mae Piper, 27, mother of
three children in a quarrel over
driving his car last Wednesday
night at the Highway bar where
she worked.
Wilson said the quarrel start
ed when he refused to let her
drive his car. ' He said she was
too drunk.
Wilson said he hit her with
fists, knocking her out. He
helped her come to, he said, but
she again insisted on driving.
Wilson said he knocked her
out again, put her in the back
seat of his car and began driv
ing. "She came to and started yell
ing, so I hit her on the head with
my truck tire hammer," he said.
He said he took her to a lonely
ravine and tossed her bodv down
a 25-foot bluff. The body was
found that morning in the
branches of a prune tree.
Russia Zone Germans
Dislike Soviet Rule
Milwaukee, Wis., Apr. 18
Germans in the Russian zone ad
mit frankly that they dislike So-
viet rule, says Lyle C. Wilson,
general manager of the Wash
ington bureau of United Press.
Wilson said that when he vis
ited the Russian zone during his
recent two-month trip to Europe,
some Germans "asked to return
with me to the western zone."
Wilson was the principal
speaker last night at a founder's
day dinner of the Milwaukee
professional and Marquette uni
versity chapters of Sigma Delta
Chi, national journalism frater
nity. The dinner observed the
founding of the fraternity in
1909.
Economic recovery in western
Europe appears "well advanced,"
Wilson said, but the sale of Ger
man goods to other countries has
been hurt because the German
mark is valued so high.
Wilson said he observed, while
attending the Leipzig trade fair
in Germany's Russian zone, that
factory products were of high
quality but that there were few
sales.
Benson Radio Station
Gets Power Increase
Washington, Apr. 18 (U.R)
Benson Polytechnic high school
of Portland, Ore., was today au
thorized to increase the broad
casting hours and power of its
station KBPS by the federal1
communications commission.
Involved in the FCC decision
was the denial of an application
by Hugh Francis McKee for a
new Portland station.
KBPS was authorized to raise
its power from 100 to 250 watts
and Increase its hours from 10:30
a.m.-6:30 p.m. to 10 a.m. to 10
p.m. Monday through Fridays.
The commission said Benson
had demonstrated that its pro
grams would he "distinctly
superior" to McKee's.
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the receiving room by harassed
ambulance attendants who speed
from hospitals to homes and
hack without letuo.
Every hospital bed Is occupied
and mattresses have been thrown
on floors to accommodate other
seriou.slv ill. As soon as a dead
body is removed, the bedding is
changed and a new patient is
placed on the cot.
Caua.d bv RefuaMt
The arrival of thousands of
refugees fleeing communal dis
orders in East Bengal was be
lieved to have caused the out
break.
Overworked doctors admit
they were unable to cope with
the situation because, one said.
"Most cases are too far gone by
the time they are hospitalized
and we haven't the facilities to
give them adequate care.
Wards reek with the nauseat
ing odor of stale vomit, and un
washed bodies as patients lie on
bare, dirty mattresses, some
rigid in death, others twisting
and moaning in pain.
Attendants are too busy try
ing to relieve pain to answer
pleas for water to clean up pa
tients, most of whom are too
weak to move.
Agonies Wort In Day
few are able to accept the
pain, and the moans of the dying
tear at the heartstrings! of the
well. Sometimes it is hours be
fore a dead bodv is removed to
make way for one of the dying.
The victims range from young
children to furrowed aged. Dur
ing the day, with temperatures
near 100 degrees, their agonies
are worse. Doctors expect the
situation to remain at least as
bad as now until the monsoon
rains later this year.
Health authorities have ap
pealed to all persons to get vac
cinated. Large advertisements
for inoculations appeared in all
papers during the past few days.
But the number of new cases
appears to be growing larger
daily.
U. P. Stage Employees
Set Strike Thursday
Portland, Ore.. Apr. 18 (U.R'
The Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway and Mo
tor Coach Employees (AFL). no
tified Union Pacific Stages, Inc.,
Monday that its members will
strike at midnight Thursday.
Union Pacific is a division of
the Overland Greyhound lines.
General Manager G. E. Motz said
here that a strike would discon
tinue service in Oregon, Idaho,
Washington and Utah.
Motz contended the company
has offered the highest industry
wage to its employees plus a S50
monthly, company-paid pension.
Union demands are for condi
tions equal to those on other
Greyhound lines in the north
west. They involve wages, a re
vised pension system and im
proved working conditions.
Service of other Greyhound
lines serving Portland and Spo
kane would not be affected by a
walkout.
Buddhists Give Thanks
For Saving Valuables
Portland, Ore., Apr. 18 (U.R)
Japanese Buddhists here offered
prayers of thanks today for sav
ing valuable statues, vases and
other furnishings when fire
swept their temple's upper story
Monday.
About $4000 damage was done
to the Henjyoji temple but the
loss was covered by insurance.
Firemen protected valuables by
covering them with canvas be
fore turning their hoses on the
blaze.
Rev. G. Y. Kimura. bishop of
the temple, was away at the
time. His wife and six children
got out of the temple unscathed.
lovers' lane Romeo
Turns Out To Be Cop
Vancouver, B.C., Apr. 18
iURi James Windrim tried to
frighten a lover's lane couple
last night by rapping on their
car window and announcing.
"I'm a policeman."
Constable E. H. West, getting
some off-duty romance, stepped
out of the car and arrested the
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Youngest Composer
Plays Concerto Solo
Beverly Hills. Cal., Apr. 18
(U.R) Chubby Fred Myrow laid
aside his baseball bat last night
to play a piano solo in the first
orchestra performance of a con
certo he composed.
Fred is It. He is believed to
be the youngest composer ever
to draw royalties from the Amer
ican Soicety of Composers, Au
thors and Publishers.
"He takes it in his stride," his
father, Joseph Myrow, reported.
"When I showed him a story
about the concert, he turned to
the funnies."
Fred, who belongs to both a
Cub scout pack and a neighbor
hood ball team, started pecking
out tunes on the piano when he
was three. He was "inspired" to
write the five-minute long "Palm
Canyon" miniature concerto aft
er a vacation in the movie mecca
of Palm Springs.
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