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t SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TJiurtday, April 26, 1958 Nation's Medical Schools Face Enlarging Problems Editor's Note: Thi i another in a iri of articlri prepared in con nection with Medical Education ek. April 22-28, on the statu of medical education in the United States and efforts of the medical schools to keep the nation supplied with a sufficient number of well trained doctors to meet its health needs. New York The nation's me dical schools, most of them in comfortable middle-age, have suddenly acquired a most adoles cent sickness. .They have a bad case of grow ing pains. Today there are 75 four-year medical schools, plus six two year b a i c medical science schools whose students must complete their training else where. New schools are in the offing. By 1960, prospects are that there will be 82 four-year schools and three two-year schools. Some of the existing schools may have significantly larger classes. Steady Pattern The steady pattern of growth began as far back as the end of World War II. Although five new medical schools have been built since the war, and many institutions have increased their enrollment, it is unlikely that the schools will be able to handle the big rush due about 1964, when the "baby boom" of the 1940s is felt by the colleges. Medical educators fear that tuition eosts, plus the years of low-income post-graduate train ing, may price medical school out of the range of some of the best students. Average tuition today is $300 per year, though the total cost to the school for one year's training is at least $3600. Recruitment of teachers is a big problem. Since there can be no margin for error in .medical teaching, individual instruction in Of is essential There are 28,435 teachers U. S. medical schools today these, 21,323 serve without pay. Most of the volunteers are work ing physicians who give up time from their own practices. Of the 4231 paid, full-time men, most of them teach at sal aries far lower than their poten tail earnings in private practice. In the search for scientists to teach the most fundamental courses, such as anatomy, bio chemistry, physiology, the situa tion is most acute. In medicine, as in defense laboratories and industry, there are not enough scientists to go around. Creation of new medical schools requires hospital facil ities. Good teaching involves about 600 hospital beds for ev ery 200 students, so that diseases and treatment may be studied first-hand. NEW PRESIDENT Jim McDon ald, a sophomore in secondary education at Southern Oregon college, was recently elected president of the Future Teachers of. Oregon association. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. McDonald of route 1, Eagle Point. Hanford Engineer Speaks At PEO Meeting in Medford Harold W. Heacock, mechani cal design engineer at the Atomic Energv Commission's Hanford atomic plant, spoke at the annual joint dinner meeting of the Professional Engineers of Oregon and the American Insti tute of Electrical Engineers this week. The title of Heacock's talk was "The Essential Difference Eetween Nuclear and Conven tional Power Plants." Color slides illustrated the subject. The nuclear power plant would use a conventional system turbine and electric generator but would have a reactor in stead of a fossil fueled to gen erate the heat required, he said. The nuclear plant would oper ate at lower pressures and tem peratures than the modern steam plant. Animal Lending Library Proving Popular Venture Heacock explained different types of reactors which could be' used and their advantages and disadvantages. Heacock discussed difficulties of servicing the nuclear plant because of radiation hazards in volved. Also, waste disposal presents a problem, he said. Waste from the Hanford plant is buried in large steel tanks encased in concrete in the desert. The cost of generating power with the best nuclear plant is theoretically 6.8 mils per kilowatt-hour, he said. The cost does not include transmission or dis tribution. Several nuclear power plants will begin operation soon after licensing requirements are work ed out by the Atomic Energy Commission, he said. Ex-Convict Admits Slaying Teacher Munising, Mich. (U.R) A sur ly ex-convict confessed the mur der of a pretty, 21-year-old school teacher and led police to he,r body shortly before mid night Wednesday. Police said Leonard H. Lund berg, 35, a parolee, broke down after 12 hours of questioning and showed them the bludgeoned body of Patricia Burdick only three miles from where she hitchhiked a ride with him Sun day night. The petite brown-haired wom an's body was lying under a clump of jackpines and was cov ered with straw and branches. Blood spotted her tan slacks and red coat and her skull was crushed, police said. An autopsy was ordered today to learn whether the girl was criminally assaulted. Authori ties said assault apparently was the motive for the slaying. Lundberg would give no mo tive, police said. He admitted picking up Miss Burdick at an intersection near Seney, Mich., 27 miles south of Grand Marais where she was teaching for the first year. Her body was found along Highway M-77 in an area which was scoured by a posse of woodsmen, conservation offi cers, volunteers and police au thorities. Police said the search ers must have stepped within inches of the body while comb ing the area during the last two days. Eisenhowers To Spend Week-End at Gettysburg Washington (U.R) The President and Mrs. Eisenhower will spend this week end at their farm in Gettysburg, Pa. Mr. Eisenhower plans to go to Gettysburg Friday shortly after a meeting with the Cabin et. Mrs. Eisenhower probably will go up ahead of him. Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) You can borrow a snake from a lend library here. Or a skunk. Or rabbits and gquirrels The California Junior Muse um has the first animal lending service in the nation. Anyone over seven years of age is eligible. Animals can be borrowed for up to a week. If you don't bring your porcupone or rabbit back on time you. are charged a fine of 10 cents a day. Pioneered Service Fred G. Evenden, a Ph.D., from Oregon State, is in charge of the unique museum which pioneered the animal lending service for children, but is find ing it patronized by teachers and adults, too. There are 300 animals in stock. The usual procedure is to start young borrowers out with one of the more domesticated an imals, like a rabbit, a hamster, or a white mouse. As the bor rower proves his ability to handle animals he can graduate to a snake (non-poisonous), a skunk (deodorized), or a por cupine (with quills). ' Gila monsters and rattlesnakes are loaned out only to teachers or special student groups. The most experinenced borrowers can have a raccoon, a fox or a coyote named "Snipsy." 'We haven't lost one-tenth of one per cent of our animals and we haven't had any accidents," Evenden said. "One of our big gest problems is gifts. We turn down enough to stock a zoo." Just recently he said no thanks to an offer of 55 rats. Gift Backfired At least one gift backfired. A man found a skunk which he presumed had been deodorized and was a pet gone astray. The skunk was turned over to the junior museum. Not for several days was is discovered the skunk was loaded. Parents have borrowed an imals from the museum with the specification that the animals be pregnant. The purpose: Sex ed ucation at home. Czechoslovakia Ousts Minister of Defense Vienna, Austria (U.R) Russia's "down with Stalin" campaign appeared today to have claimed unother victim Alexei Cepicka, a leading fig ure since 1948 in the Commun ist regime in Czechoslovakia. Radio Prague announced Wednesday night the Reds have stripped Cepicka of his posi tions as vice-premier and de fense minister because of his "mistakes and shortcomings." ' The broadcast said Bohumil Lomsky, formerly deputy de fease minister, has succeeded Cepicka in the defense post. Edward G. Robinson's Son Out of Hospital Hollywood (U.R) Edward G. Robinson Jr., 22, son of the stage and screen "tough guy" actor, has been released from Cedars of Lebanon hospital where ne was treated for an overdose of sleeping pills. Young Robinson left the hos pital Wednesday, less than 26 hours after he was found un- conscious by police in his west Los Angeles home. 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