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-
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" 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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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Bonneville SALT flats in '47 John Cobb raced a
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OU1955, y56avdotherfrhot"ean
was discovered in a fiour-foot-
deep water filled hole only
about 150 yards from his horns
Saturday evening.
Thousands of tons of jade are
believed deposited in various
parts of Wyoming and also in
California.
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