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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1956 8 Pages Walter Reed Army Hospital Lives Up To Reputation As Eisenhower Goes in Door By PATRICIA WIGGINS United Press Correspondent Washington (U P) Sprawling Waiter Reed hospital which equipped lor very important people began living up to its reputation when an ailing Presi dent Eisenhower wa carried through its doors last Friday. Before the President had left the White House, reporters asked Press Secretary James C. Hager ty if the hospital was making an operating room ready. Hagerty retorted that "a place like Wal ter Reed always has an operat ing room ready." He could have said the same thing concerning quarters for VIPs. The hospital, and its more than 4000 military and civilian personnel, is accustomed to high American and foreign officials seeking treatment from its medi cal experts. Important Patients Philippines Ambassador Car los Romulo and retiring Gen. Al fred M. Gruenter were two re cent patients in VIP Ward 8 where the presidential suite is lo cated. Besides Mr. Eisenhower, occupants of the suite itself have Move May Block State AFL-CIO Merger Portland UR) Possibility that some building trades unions in the state will seek to block the state level merger of the AFL-CIO in Oregon was voiced here yesterday. Volney Martin, executive sec retary of the Oregon Building and Construction Trades Coun cil. said he had heard reports that some unions in the state were planning to attend the merger convention next week, armed with a resolution against the merger. Richard J. Gray, head of the AFL-CIO building trades depart ment, has been urging that the state level merger not be adopted until jurisdictional dis putes between unions have been ironed out. State labor leaders strongly favor the merger and reports in dicated that any attempt to block it would stand li'.Je chance of success. Rend and Use Classified Ads . . The Community 's BiKEest Marketplace included Harry S. Truman, there just once when he was presi dent; General of the Army George C. Marshall, a more fre quent visitor, and Mohammed Mossadegh when he was premier of Iran. The late Gen. Hoyt Vanden burg died of cancer in one of the suites in Ward 8. The installation is made up of four main components: the hos pital, the Army Medical Institute of Research, the Central Dental laboratory and the Armed Forc es Institute of Pathology. Build ings are connected by seven miles of winding streets on 113 beautifully landscaped acres. Walter Reed Army Medical center, as the installation is offi cially known, was established Sept. 1, 1923, by a War Depart ment order signed by General of the Armies ' John J. Pershing, then Army chief of staff. Persh ing also spent his last years in honored retirement at the hospital. Best Medical Car But the hospital itself, now 47 years old, was going strong long before the center was created. All enlisted or retired person nel of the Army and Air Force and their dependents are eligible for treatment at the hospital. So are certain high-ranking civilian officials. In addition to the best in me dical care and treatment, facili ties include a modern gymnas ium equipped with everything from punching bags to bowling alleys outdoor lighted tennis courts and a Softball diamond. Also on the grounds are a chil dren's nursery, a post theater with a ramp for wheelchair pa tients, a non-secretarian chapel, a branch office of a Washington bank, and clubs for both non commissioned and commissioned officers.., It was named "Walter Reed," in honor of Maj. Walter Reed, the doctor who conquered yel low fever. Portland (U.R) Gerald Meindl of Portland has been el ected state chairman of Lions International. Lakeview (U.R) The Lake county fair will be Aug. 28, 29 and 30. 1956 held Read and Use Classified Ada . . . The Community's Biggest Marketplace Judge Prescribes Way For Safety of Couple Trumbull, Conn. (U.R) Town Court Judge John P. Ev ans wasn't impressed with reas ons given by Eugene H: Dillis ton, 28, as to why he was caught driving while his license was un der suspension. Dilliston said his girl friend had forgotten her glasses, and he volunteered to take the wheel of her car. In imposing a $100 fine, the judge said: "If your girl friend, needs glasses to drive, you two ought to sit home on Saturday night and watch Jackie Gleason. Then you'll both be safe." 4-HCIub News Antelope Club , The Antelope 4-H Livestock meeting was held at the home of Bob Hayes on June 8. During the meeting it was announced that , the Dairy Club would have a separate meeting on June 26 at j the Bitterling home to practice j dairy showmanship. All new i members should be sure to at- tend. Bill Bigham said that the tour to see all the livestock member's animals was successful. Bigham also announced the date for the Antelope Local Fair which will be Aug. 1. The next meeting will be held on July 13 at the Woolfolk home. Before the meeting the mem bers judged two classes of sheep and Bob Hayes and Linda Mal loroy gave a short demonstra tion on showing a beef animal. After the meeting cake, ice cream, and punch was served. Reported, Jo Anne Malloroy CANTALOUPE 6 Fer $1.00 WATERMELON 98c Each . IPOK if f MARKET 1 1 1202 North Rirenide I OPEN EVERY ( NIGHT TIL J& MIDNIGHT Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS New York Fire Capt. Seymour Schoichet on the landslide that killed six Brooklyn children: "The doctors said the insides of the kids were crushed. Some of the bodies were pretty mangled. They all were such little tykes." Washington Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty on whether the President feels some pain from his recent operation: "He does not feel like getting up and doing a jig." Paris Former President Truman answering Russian charges that the United States ussd atomic bombs against Japan for politi cal reasons: "Stalin knew we had a weapon but he did .not know what it was. He was in complete agreement with Mr. Winston Churchill and myself that the 'weapon should be used." Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in caution ing against undue optimism about Russian denunciations of Josef Stalin: "There is only one cure for the tvils of the imposed Soviet dic tatorshipthat is government which derives its power from the consent of the governed." Chicago Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler in charging that some of the doctors attending President Eisenhower are propagandizing: "They apparently do a terrific job of saying that anyone who has-had a heart attack and an operation for Crohn's disease is much better qualified physically to be president than anyone else." 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