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Executive Committee of Eagle Point
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Eagle Point Grange has voted to
push fox full utilization of Camp
White Domiciliary facilities so
a large Veteran's Administration
hospital may be created, accord
ing to Cliff Moore, Eagle Point
Grange master
An 'Eagle Point Grange com
mittee headed by Charlie Hoov
er, Camp White farmer, will
work with a group from the
local American Legion organiza
tion. The latter committee is
headed by Eugene Orr, Medford
merchant.
SA. Grange committee led by
Hoover veiled e Camp White
Domiciliary Friday morning and
made its recommendation to the
executive committee of the
Grange following the tour.
The Grange executive commit
tee will send a letter to the
state Pomona Grange urging a
resolution from it. Another let
ter will be directed to Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) asking
him to push for full utilization
of the Camp White facilities.
Written to Morse
Orr said the American Legion
and other veterans groups in the
county have already written Sen.
Morse and Morse has written the
Veterans administration in Wash
ington, D. C. In addition, Orr
said he has visited the nation's
capitol five times requesting
Camp White be converted to
veterans hospital. He said he
hopes the Grange effortowill be
a signal for other groups to join
in the request. ,
Following questions of officials
at the Domiciliary Friday it was
revealed an estimated 475 more
beds could be placed in five
buildings. The Domiciliary now
has 860 members occupying pre
sent equipped facilities.
Official Name
Harold Jaffrey, assistant man
ager of the Domiciliary, said if a
veterans hospital is made from
present unused facilities Camp
White will be called officially a
veterans administration center
since it will combine the facili
ties of both a domiciliary and
hospUal.Now there -are,:14.
s'jxfi places in tne united Mates.
- . K. Ricker, domiciliary man
ager, said thifc is the only vet
erans domiciliary west of the
Mississippi. It is also the largest
of the three in the United States.
One is located at Thomasville,
Ga., and another at Clinton,
Iowa.
A tour of the Camp White faci
lities and questioning of staff
members revealed few additions
would be necessary for handling
a veterans hospital outside of
adding beds and corresponding
equipment.
Sewer, Water Lines
A sewer line is already in
which could serve a population
of 35,000. A 12-inch stand pipe
was added two years ago when
the new Medford pipeline was in
stalled. This would provide more
than enough water for a veterans
hospital, according to Bert Sims,
chief engineer. During the war
Camp White was housing 1,750
people when it was an Army and
Navy base, Sims pointed out.
Power and heating facilities
would also be more than adquate,
he said.
With sprinklers in every room,
including the bathrooms, of
ficials feel all the buildings are
(properly protected against fire.
In addition, Camp White is
served by its own fire depart
ment equipped with two 750 gal
lon capacity pumper trucks.
Miss Gladys McCracken, chief
dietician, estimated it would
take an hour to feed 880 people
in the dining room. With the
REBEL GUNS SEIZED Customs agent C. C. Williamson
(left) and an unidentified man remove guns from grease
barrel after an arms shipment was seized by U. S. agents
in Miami, Fla. The arms were said to be destined for the
forces of Cuban rebel Fidel Castro.
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addition of a hospital it would
take a second hour feeding per
iod. The domiciliary food costs
are figured at 86 cents per per
son a day.
Addition of a hospital or ap
proximately 50ft more people
to serve would require about
two-thirds more food, Miss Mc
Cracken and Don Pulley, chief
cook estimated. Approximately
20 more employees would be
needed in the kitchen to serve
the added group of patients.
Post Exchange
The domiciliary is now equip
ped with a post exchange, coffee
shop, bowling alley and a large
theater. The theater was expand
ed in November increasing the
size of the stage from 16 by 16
feet to 36 by 24 feet. This was
financed from "general post
funds." Jaffrey said. These are
funds provided by donation and
money left by members who die'
leaving no dependents or family
to will their money to, he ex
plained. The ball park was fi
nanced from the same source, he
said.
George E. Heller, national
field representative for the
American Legion, made a visit to
the Camp White facilities recent
ly on request of the local Amer
ican Legion post. In his report
to the National Field Service he
recommended that "the veterans
administration establish a 400
bed hospital at the VA domicili
ary, Camp White, with 300 beds
to be used for chronic conditions
and 100 beds for general medical
and surgical conditions. If this is
accomplished it will relieve the
chronic bed situation in a large
western area."
Veterans On Waiting List
"During my visit here, I read
a news item in the local paper
that Administrator Higley, while
attending a convention in Flor
ida, made the statement that be
tween 16,000 and 17,000 veterans
are on the waiting list for medical
attention, which is giving the vet
erans administration much con
cern. He stated also this situation
was caused by the shortage of
trained, personnel,., .
"Nearby Medford" is considered
a medical center for a large area,
and has five medical clinics, hos
pitals, and a new hospital being
planned. I am informed, and I
believe reliably, that personnel
sufficient to man the hospital can
be secured without difficulty as
soon as funds are made available."
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Services for Men at Sea
Newport, R.I. (IP) Faced
with the problem of getting or
gan music to Protestant sail
ors at sea, the Navy is supplying
hymns taped at Newport's First
Presbyterian church.
The Navy is not only furnish
ing .taped hymns, it also has re
cordings of 13 different full
religious services.
Services are usually conduct
ed by lay readers appointed by
ships' captains.
Vermont was the first state
in the Union to authorize the
practice of osteopathy, the act
having been passed in 1896. Dr.
George Helmer of Chelsea was
seeking the right to practice.
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South Burlington, Vt. (IP)
Glen Woodbury has given up
dairy products and turned to
wood.
After eight years of butter
and cheese-making, the fascin
ation of wood-turning caught up
with him, and he decided to try
earning a living at it. 1
Now, 15 years later, he owns
a fully-equipped, two-story wood
turning shop. He sells his pro
ducts to approximately 500 de
partment stores and gift shops
in the United States and Canada.
"My biggest problem," Wood
bury said, "is finding real good
wood. Exotic woods like teak
and mahogany are so high that
I use them only on special ord
ers." ,
Most of his wood birch,
maple, cherry and butternut
comes from Vermont. But even
native woods of fine quality are
hard to find.
"It takes a big tree to make a
block 14 inches across and four
and one-half inches deep,"
Woodbury explained . "The
wood must be free of cracks,
knots and blemishes of any
sort."
He estimates that half of the
rough wood coming into his shop
ends up as firewood for his two
kilns.
A barren-ground caribou car
ries his sustaining food with him
all winter. A solid slab of tallow,
often six inches thick at the
rump, is used by the caribou
for energy throughout the winter
and often is used up by spring.
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