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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) U.S. Medical Schools See New Revolution (Editor's Note: This is the first of five articles prepared in connec tion vith Medical Education Week, April 22-28 on the status of med ical education in the United States today.) New York The nation's 81 medical schools are in the throes of a quiet revolution the second in less than 50 years aimed at producing a new kind of doctor for the American fam ily. They are conducting more medical research than ever be fore, with more research funds and losing money in the pro cess. They are struggling hard to keep up, in terms of the num ber of doctors produced, with America's relentless population growth yet they are striving just as hard to keep from ex panding too fast to keep up the present high quality of training Worried About Students They get the cream of the na tion's students, but they are wor ried about finding enough good ones. Yet they are aware that - in ten years they'll be swamped with excellent applicants. They are1 the chief source of trained young biological scien tists and researchers for the na tion's laboratories yet they cannot find and hold enough scientists for their own faculties They must teach today's stu dents with today's facilities and today's knowledge," but their graduates must- be equipped to practice medicine in the signifi cantly different vorld with different health problems of ten years from now. Their budgets increase by $11 million every year, but they are threatened constantly by finan cial malnutrition. Prospects Bright And yet, in this golden age of : biology and medicine, the pros ' pects were never brighter in their continuing effort t& find new knowledge of health and disease, and to turn out doctors equipped to use it. Their story, in short, is one of deep crisis and high promise, packed tight with paradoxes, ! problems and progress. ' How and when are the crises ; to be met, the problems solved ; and the progress achieved? These are questions of urgent . public interest, for they really add up to a simpler but bigger question: ' Complex Center There are both government and private groups that believe the question is even bigger: "Will the nation stay healthy?" In support of the belief that medi cal schools are the real tap-roots of the nation's health, one group ; the National Fund for Medi- -U JJUUVUMVU IVillWVU VU, " cently: "A medical school is no long er simply an educational institu tion devoted solely to the train ing of doctors. It is a complex center of the medical sciences, carrying on vital research pro jects, treating thousands of pa tients, providing- year-around postgraduate courses to keep doctors and other medical per , sonnel abreast of medical ad- - uates to become skilled physic- lans. Survey Report Add up the 81 schools' work, the Fund notes, and you get some impressive totals. Each - year, a survey shows, American medical schools: 1. Teach 28,500 medical stu . dents and graduate nearly 7,000 doctors. 2. Give 12.5Q0 graduate doc ' tors, interns, residents and spe ' cialists the advanced training and experience they need for practice. 3. Teach 17,000 practicing doctors who have come back to school for short courses and re fresher training to learn the . newest advances in medical science. 4. Instruct 20,000 dental, phar macy, nursing and technical stu dents in some essential parts of their professional training. 5. Teach 10,000 non-medical students taking medical courses. In this group are many of the nation's future laboratory and research scientists. 6. Serve 86,000 additional fam ily doctors, health officers, hos pital staff members and other practitioners through short courses, seminars and clinical conferences to keep their knowl edge and skills up-to-date. 7. Conduct research projects costing more- than S40 million dollars, plus tens of millions of additional dollars assigned to research in the hospitals asso ciated with medical schools. Dr. Robert A. Moore, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, estimates that the schools and their hospitals conduct more than half of all medical research in the nation. Budget Limited Somehow, the schools do all this on a total budget (includ ing appropriations for research) of about $160 million a year. This is the current yearly price for "good doctors and enough of them" and it is money, as one observer said, "that has to be wrenched each year from legis latures or coaxed from the gen eral public." There is a certain irony in MAIL TRIBUNE that figure. It is less than the nation's yearly expenditure for monuments and tombstones. Finances, however, are only a part of the picture and not the most important part. The dollars-and-cents problems and the rows of statistics cannot ob scure the fact that the medical school story is an intensely hu man story and therefore an in tensely exciting one. Its central figure is today's medical student. He's tomorrow's doctor. There is evidence now that in some important ways he's going to be a different kind of docter and a better one. Pennsylvanians Vole Tuesday in Popularity Test Pittsburgh (U.R) Pennsyl vanians vote Tuesday in a pri mary election which may indi cate the relative popularity of President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in Pennsylvania. Less than half of the state's registered 2,683,400 Republic ans and 2,238,639. Democrats were' expected to go to the polls. In the presidential voting, which will not be binding on the state delegates to. the nom inating conventions, Mr. Eisen hower is opposed by U. S. Sen. William. F. Knowland of Calif ornia on the Republican ballot. Write-In for Kefauver On the Democratic ballot, Stevenson's is the only name but supporters of Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee pushed for "write-in" support for their ca-didate. The Republican organization has thrown full support to Mr. Eisenhower, who carried the state by 269,520 votes in win ning the 1952 election. Know land was expected to receive only a token vote. In the balloting for nominees for state offices, there were no contests on the Democratic side and few on the Republican. Both parties will nominate candidates for the TJ. S. Senate seat now held by James H. Duff, a Republican and ardent supporter of the President. He is opposed by Paul E. Sanger, a Lebanon county farmer. Phil adelphia Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., is unopposed on the Dem ocratic side. The parties will pick candi dates for 30 seats in the U. S. House of Representatives. In addition, voters will nominate candidates for 210 House and 25 Senate posts in the State Gen eral assembly and name dele gates to the national conven tions of both parties. CAMPAIGN KISSIN' Democratic presidential aspirant Senator Estes Kefauver is repaid in kind by Joan Ogren as he bestows a kiss on her cheek during campaign tour of San Diego, Calif. Thousands Line McKenzie For White Water Parade Springfield, Ore. (U.R) Thou sands of spectators lined the banks of the McKenzie River yesterday as the McKenzie River Guides Association started its annual white water parade down the swift-flowing stream. A total of 135 boats took part in the parade. Five boats turned over, two of them at one rapids, before the parade stopped at West Bar lor lunch, but there were no casualties. If farmers gave their wheat away, a 21-cent loaf of bread still would cost the consumer 18 cents. Monday, April 23, 1958 Three Stales Face Threat of Floods By Melting Snow By UNITED PRESS Tons of melting snow sent flood crests rolling down icy rivers in three states today. An April freeze across the nation's north slowed up the big thaw. But lowland residents were warned to be ready to move out in parts of Idaho, North Dakota, and Minnesota. The Idaho flood threat ap peared to. be the worst. Warm weather and an unusually big run-off from the snow-covered mountains sent both the Kot- tenai river in the north and the Blackfoot river in the south close to flood stage. Bankf Sandbagged Sandbagging was under way along the banks of both rivers and a federal disaster special ist, Herbert C. Mosher, hurried from California to help super vise the precautions. To the east, the Red river and the Red Lake river were both over their banks in low areas of North Dakota and Minne sota. The Red Lake river flood crest bore down on Crookston, Minn., and the Red river crest was aimed at Grand Forks, N.D. Several families near Park river and Grafton in , North- Dakota were forced from their homes. ' Ice Jams Dynamited Dynamite blasted ice jams on the Red Lake river to keep the flood waters from backing up. The cold which slowed down the flood waters crept across the central plains and eastward through the middle Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley to day. Snow flurries whirled down on baseball crowds in Chicago Sunday and the temperature dropped to a wintry 23 degrees at Houghton, Mich., today. Other low temperatures includ ed 30 at Madison, Wis., and Fort Wayne, Ind., 31 at Springfield, 111., and 44 at Boston, Mass. Hiss Speech Rapped From Church Pulpit Princeton, N.J. '(U.R) The spiritual leader of Princeton University's Roman Catholic students denounced from his pulpit for the second consecu tive Sunday a scheduled speech by Alger Hiss. The Rev. Hugh Halton, chap lain of Princeton's Aquinas Foundation attacked the univer sity's board of trustees for re fusing to ban Hiss' speech which is scheduled for Thursday night. Rev. Halton said under the trustee's non-internvention de cision, Princeton students "might just as well invite prostitutes and embezzlers to discuss purity and banking." CLAIM-FREE" DRIVERS GET AN EXTRA DISCOUNT! mm NATION-WIDE S4-HOUR SERVICE Don Edwards. District1 Agent 414 E. Main Ph. 3-5361 i, - SURVIVES UNDERGROUND ORDEAL LaVell Golding, one of three miners rescued from a cavein at Sunnyside, Utah, wears a big smile for his daughter and grand daughter after spending 40 hours under tons of coal and rock. The search continues for a fourth man still trapped in the mine. Fourth Coal Miner's . Crushed Body Found Sunnyside,-Utah U.R) Coal miners found the crushed body of Joseph Otterstrom, 58, yesterday, ending a four-day rescue effort at coal mine No. 2 of the Kaiser Steel Co. Three other miners, trapped for 40 hours by a cave-in, were rescued. Dr. James McClinstock, mine physician, said he believed that Otterstrom was killed instantly. Otterstrom, a foreman who had mined coal for 30 years, was the father of seven children. Use Tribune Want Ads For Best Results! Just Call 2-6141 """M"wwiiipi mill iy rft gr, -r'-r'-y--- Southeastern Oregon Postmasters Confer Klamath Falls (U.R) Post masters of five southeastern Ore gon counties met yesterday at Oregon Technical Institute to or ganize into a workshop unit to study changing postoffice regu lations in order to give better public service. Fred Peat, Lakeview post master, was named president; Farley J. Elliott, Bend post master, vice-president, and Dick Copinger, Brothers postmaster, secretary-treasurer. Some 30 postmasters attended the meeting from Dschutes, Jef ferson, Crook, Lake and Klam ath counties. They voted to hold three meetings a year and sched uled the next one for June at Chiloquin. New Mexico has an estimated 176,000 acre of gypsum. Indianapolis where super racers have racing fuels 9 out 10 times since 1947. bluebird Donald Campbell's new jet-propelled racer set new record on water (2165 mph) in '55 with Mobil products. How we learned to make 1956 Mobilgas Special For years we've mixed "hot" fuels for nearly every major engine competition in the world-on land, sea, air. You name the record-Mobilgas know-how has helped set it That's how we learned to meet the demands of today's high-compression passenger car engines ... that their fuel must be specially refined to get Mobilgas Special S i it. an immjH .jjMi.iii " Portlander Elected Head of Young Demos Portland (U.R) Bruce Bishop, Portland, was elected president of the Young Democratic club oi uregon at the organization's annual convention here Satur day. Bishop is editor of the Inter national Woodworker. Alice Corbett, Portland, was reelected national committee- woman and Vernon Viles, Cor- vaiiis, was named as national committeeman. U.S. Bases in Korea Due for Rehabilitation Seoul, Korea (U.R) Bids will be made soon on a multi-million dollar rehabilitation program covering the U.S.. Air Force's four major air bases in the Re public of Korea, the Air Force said today. The bases, built on a tempo rary basis during the Korean war, are located at Osan, Kimpo, Kinsan and Pyongtaek. The re habilitation program is expected to cost more than $6,000,000. . Phil Hitchcock's Wife Breaks Bone in Foot Portland (U.R) One of Phil Hitchcock's most able helpers in his campaign for the U. S. sena torial nomination was sidelined temporarily today. Hitchcock's wife, Sally, broke a bone in her left foot yesterday when she fell on the stairs in their home. Her foot will be in a cast for about six weeks but she said she still planned to "help out" in his campaign headquarters. Crater Lake Attracts , Record Tourist Crowd Klamath Falls (U.R) Crater Lake had the biggest tourist turnout so far this year yester day as motorists took advantage of clear, sunny weather to visit the national park. The ranger station there re ported that 193 cars brought 673 visitors to the lake. Plans call for opening the lodge at the lake June 15. won with MobQ Vancouver Boy Drowns In Pond Near Home Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) A six-year-old boy drowned in a pond near his home here Sat urday. The body of Wilbur Belisle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Belisle, j Fasftesi service ffo .S Rj SAN FRANCISCO hrs. pj SEATTLE whrs.i h i CHICAGO io'i hrs: 1 NEW YORK x j fast one-step service! LlgP ' P Leave 1 1:40 p.m. daily r- I I : Airport terminal. 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