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4 Tuesday, June 3M H8
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Medford and Jacksonfounty
History from ths filesf The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
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10 YEAR, AGO
June. 1948 (Thursday)
Legal school voters in the
Howard school district are to
ballot Friday on the question
of voting on school bonds
for providing four, Additional
classrooms. w
Parents were reminded to
day that a city ordinance
carries a penalty (rom $1 to
100 in fines, 50 days in jail
or both for setting off dire-
crackers within the city
limits. O
20 YEARS AGO .
beesedonrNoAhncVtraivef telescopes have been constmcted, and maps
, r!Laranrrthr,rrivTbf the heavens have been made which show the
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before noon today.
From Arthur Perry's V
Smudge Pot colunln: "The
esteemed Boston Post edi
toriay alleges this fair com
monwealth along with the
sister state toOthe north con
stituteQthe twoomost radical
states in the union."
3fpYEARS AGO" O
June 3. 1928 (Sunday)
:Mermers of. trie citizens'
committee appointed to look
in the feasiJity of a scenic
road to the top of Rlxy Anne
plan O attaciO the project
with TenewedCigor.
An all - daychild welfare
clinic will beconducted to
morrow at Phoenix.
4PyEARS ABO 0O . q
June 3, 1918 (Monday)
From local and personal
column: "O. O. Alenderfer
and A. B. Cunninham driving
ud Jacksonville hill Sunday
killed a rattlesnakeCJhreeeet
long with 11 rattles."
A crowd of about (.000
peoplQ gathered at the depot
Sunday to bid farewell to the
Jackson county boys in the
special draft.. O
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten carreer it superior,
even 'or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
2. Ioyaddition to mweage
allowances, U.S. Congressmen
also receive extra pay when
thejH atwnft special sessions;
true or false?
3. (St is, or is not,
correct
to eat artichokes with
fingers?
the
4. How is the humming
sound produced by a bee?
5. According to Paul, what
lire uie duiuuis vmutij. w r
6. The so-cal&d Centuryi
Plant blpoms only once in
every cerMiQ; true or false?
7. Do stalactites or stalag
mites form on the roof of
limestone cafs? Q
8. What iSj-lhe number of
the prohibition amendment to
the U.S. Constitution? -
9. Name the Los Angeles
boxer who died of a cerebral
hemorrhage in Cleveland 17
hours after his TKO in a title
bout with Sugar Ray Robin
son. 10. Concrete is usually re
inforced with what?
Answer?: 1. Frederick A.
Seaton. 2. False. 3. It is. 4.
Vibration of wings. 5. Faith,
hope and charily. 6. False. 7.
Stalactites. 8. Eighteenth. 9.
Jimmy Doyle. (Delaney). 10.
Steal rods or wire.
Vew Bte and
P GSome thousands of
liviftg in the city 5f Nineveh, fashioned a rock
crystal into lens, and usejd it as a magnifying
glass. o . 0
This or something like it was the first time
that a man had used artificial means to increase
the scone of his vision.
Galileo ?n the late
tturiesjwas the first to make use of the glass lens
telescope as a practical instrument. During the
same period a Dutch experimenter, Zacharias
Janssen, using the sam principles in the other
direction, constructed
crosctipe.
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CINCE these efirlv davs.
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been reiined una, improved virtually to, tne
lwpit of optical efficiency.
The SDO-inch telgscope en Mt. Palomar has
extended man's vision by billions of light-years
info the skies, and inert are plans under way for
the castictio of a 300-inch telescope. It "is
hopecllt will similarly nlarge the scope of man's
knowledge dHhe gnivorse.
And, at the other nd of the spectrum of size,
the develd'nment of odHc1 microscoDea has en-
i i . i T x i it.
auiKii men iu peer au unugs umniagiimuiy uuy,
some of tHemcbelhg enlarged by 2,500 times.
UT thereQare limits beyond which optical in
strumnts cannot (go. The microscope itself
is limited by the length f light waves, lor when
an otrject is smaller than ihe length of a light
wave, trying to ini)rov the magnification power
is useless.
The telescope alsocis limited, but not by the
same factor. It limited by the practicalities of
constructing a miiror large enough to catch and
resolve light images which0 began their journey
to earth biSons of vears 1120. A 200-inch miiTor
(2e Kt, j ;
and one 300 inches 25 feet in diameter is just
that much more so. Thg sheer weight and siie of
such aft instrument, and th &et that tempera
ture causes expansion an contraction, are
enough to cuse a certain amount of distortion,
no matter how carefully it is mounted, and con
trolled. The fractional tolerances liscessary are
almost impossibly to obtain.
FACED with thes
t,I fT,
aginably small and the unimaginably lerg.
Radio telescopy is a nw science, resulting
from the discoveiy that many of the stars, and
other celest&l objects, emit radio waves. So huge
results of the probing of
some purposes, tnese lumisn greater accuracy
and more significant
optical telescopes.
Asrain. in Drobinp-
ployed streams of electrons, rather than light
waves, as a scarce of image-making impulses, and
have captured them on photographic film. The
resulting magnification is far greater than that
possible using light waves alono, because of
shorter wave-lengths.
AN-EVEN more recent
whole new view of the
and cellular structure.
It is called theoflying
couples tubes of the kind used in TV with ultra
violet light, which lias a wave-length far shorter
than that of visible light, and can be employed
on living tissues, as the electron microscope
cannot.
An aiiicle in a rCfcent edition of the Scientific
(American says that one
spot of ultraviolet light, which traverses the mi
croscope and specimen. The beam emerging from
the specimen is picked up by a photo cell and
concerted into electric impulses wjch, amplified,
actuate a conventional TV picture tube . . . Min
ute features of specimen cells a3-e revealed in
exquisite detail." G
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THE article adds:
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"It has long bee)the dream of biologists to find a
supermicroscope that could reveal the drama of the
cell'P inner life processes. Ordinary misooscopes can
not do so because waves of visible light are too long
to resolve activities at the molecular level. The elec
tron microscope ran penetrate to that level, but it
captures only a picture of a cell stopped in the stillness
of death.
'The new microscope can make motion pictures of
the living cell i the act of nQing and dividing to
reproduce itself. It also tells us something about the
chemical changes going on within the cell. It shows
movements and activities of the tiny cell organs. It
pictures some of the changes that take place hen a
cell suffers injury and d. Finally, thanks to certain
electronic devices, the flying spot of ultraviolet light
canbe made to fall more heavily on selected parts of
specimen cells and hence destroy those portions with
out damage to ttd surrounding structure. Thus, in
effect, the instrument can be made to serve at once as
microscope and micro-scalpel."
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THE equipment is also adaptable to take pic
tuife over varying periods of time from 10
per second to one every 25 hgurs. The time-lapse
photography permits observation of long-range
changes, as Well as those which appear quickly.
The radio telescope, and the electron and
"flying spot" microscopes serve to illustrate.
again, mankind's insatiable curiosity about his!
wnvlrl o fnrirGiri7 iitVii'U i i i.1 i Q
out all the fields of science, and, indeed, in all
the areas of. intellectual achievement of which
man is capable. E.A.
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Very Small
years " ago, Assynan
16tluand early 17th cen-
thf. first compound mi-
fcoth instruments nave
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limitations, science has
the new instruments. For
discovering than do the
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the nv. man 'nava em
development, utilizing
minutest aspects of life
- spot" microscope, and
tube "produces a flying
Donnis tho Monaco
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jtoo ttu'u. NEvot ma &i
Matter of Fact ? j i
WHAT WILL XE GAULLE
1 LIKE?
Paris Everyon now sks,
evcryon now has to ask, this
crucial question. Nobody
quite knows
the answer.
But there is
at least
chance that
the agonizing
crisis which
has,, convulsed
France for so
long will turn
out to be the
climactic mo
Jet! Also
ment in France's postwar re
covery.
Jar too little attention has
been paid to this remarkable
process of French recovery in
the postwar years. But in fact
the Fourth Republic that i
now coming to an end achiev
ed a total transformation of
the humiliated and neurotic
nation, with an outmoded in
dustry, and 0 antiquated agri
culture and a shrinking pop
ulation that was France in
1845.
Today every practical in
dex, from the birth rate to
the rate of industrial output,
point to the conclusion that
France has already experi
enced a splendid renaissance.
Sut two factors have obscur
ed the vigorous reality of this
French rebirth.
ONE of these obscuring fac
tors has been the incom
petence of the French Parlia
ment to deal decisively with
any really passion-charged na
tional problem. The other has
been the cruel difficulty of
the most passion-charged of
all French problems, the
problem of France's former
empire. Interacting together,
these two factors have given
the reborn France a mislead
ing appearance of impotence
amd even of frivolity.
Now, however, Gen. de
Gaulle is coming to power, by
legal means, for limited
term, and with,a specific man
date to do the two things that
so desperately need to be
done. He is to reform the con
stitution. And he is to seek a
solution in blood-stained Al
geria. Logically, therefore, there
is every reason to feel hope
ful about the final outcome
of this French ' crisis. It often
threatened to take the most
appalling turn. But it has end
ed with a decision to do the
two things that everyone has
always known had to be done
and everyone previously had
been unable to do.
BEFORE one grows too op
timistic, to be sure, certain
important reservations have
to e made. The biggest of all
concerns the problem that
Gen. de Gaulle will certainly
tackle first of all. In Algeria,
to be blunt about it, something
like a ready-made Fascist gov
ernment has plainly come in
to existence since the Com
mittee of Public Safety was
formed on the staircase of the
government general in Al
giers.. The slogans, the tone,
gL
Try and Stop Afte
-By BENNETT CERF-
TEXAN ZILLIONAIRE suddenly noticed that his chauffeur
had headed in the wrong direction on a one-way street,
and was hemmed in by irate motorists bearing down on him.
"Don't just dttand there,
you fool!" barked the mil
lionaire to the chauffeur.
"Go out and buy a Cadillac
going in the right direc
tion!" e3 . ' O
Out-of-town motorist in
Boston sked an erudite
traffic cop, "Could you sug
gest a good place to stop at?"
"I could," replied the cop.
"Just before the 'at' "
Stingiest citizen in Aber
deen raised a mighty com
motion at the city hospital last week. He complained he got
well before all his medicine was used up.
t) 1953, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Featuru Syndicate....
mz aqaih vll pinner time
the modes of actions are all
too clearly and consciously
anti-Democratic.
De Gaulle's first decision of
prime importance will be his
decision about dealing with
Jacques Soustelle and the
others who form this new
government in Algeria. It will
not be an easy decision, ei
ther. The events in Algeria, for
all their easily perceived ugly
side, have also had a very
good side. By the unanimous
testimony of observers of all
viewpoints, these events have
created the opportunity for
an Algerian solution an op
portunity which did not exist
before.
Will de Gaulle then fee able
to find a way to seize this op
portunity for the infinitely
desirable Algerian solution,
without becoming dangerous
ly entangled with the men
who are in actuah command
in Algeria? This vital and im
mediate question in turn sug
gests the larger but more re
mote question that has to be
asked concerning Gen. de
Gaulle's elevation to power.
BY NATURE, he is authori
tarian. He has a deep sense
of history, a passionate pa
triotism, a magnificent per
sonal style. But he bas never,
in the past, been really at his
ease in the free play of free
political institutions.
Will he then give France
the truly free institutions, re
formed but firmly Democrat
ic, that France needs to0 give
full expression to the vigor
of her rebirthT
This is of course iht ques
tion that has agonized the
French Left. In de Gaulle's
demand for full powers, in
his claim to prepare his own
constitution, even in his de
sire for a "Cabinet of Techni
cians," there have been rem
iniscences, of Marshal Petain
in 1945. The men of the Left
in France who are not Com
munists desperately fear that
despite the general's stern in
sistence on "Republican le
gality," de Gaulle will end by
giving France an authoritari
an regime of some sort.
IF THESE fears are justified
by the event, the ultimate
fear of cthe men of the non
Communist Left will also be
justified. Soon or late, an au
thoritarian and conservative
French- regime will founder,
and it will then be replaced
by still another authoritarian
regime dominated by the
Communists. One extreme
will surely beget the other.
But there is no reason as
yet, in this reporter's opinion,
to suppose that Gen. de
Gaulle has the slightest desire
or intention of going to any
authoritarian extremeA hap
pier forecast is suggested by
the whole manner of his ask
ing for power, the character
of his reported cabinet, and
every other item of evidence
that is visible on the surface.
All his life this man has
been obsessed with the gran
deur of France. If ttie two
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words,
The letters printed in this
:olumn do not necessarily repre
sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary is often the
case.
"Buf American" Advice
To The Editor: I have read
with interest the comments
about the import of Japanese
plywood and I can agree that
it is hurting our economy here
in the West, but there i ac
far greater threat to our
American way of life than
that, and that is the flooding
of foreign-made cars in the
United States. Just the other
day a man who works in one
of eur local plywood plants
was talking to me and he was
saying how tough things were
and that he didn't know how
long he would have his job
and he blamed it all on the
Japanese plywood that was
being brought into our coun
try and which waa giving
tough competition because it
was cheaper. I certainly
agreed with him end I was
sorry that he was going to
have a tough time making the
payments on the new car that
he had bought. Well, we said
so long, and do you know
that that clown had the nerve
to ge into a German-made car
and drive away.
That is an example of what
is happening to our economy
right now. Our tax money
went overseas to build the fac
tories that today are shipping
cars to this country, that are
putting men out of work all
over the United States and
those men who are out of
work are the ones who we
here in Medford depend upon
for buying the products thatpeva, Switzerland, and that ex
are produced here.
The automobile business
has been hurt bad by this
invasion of foreign-made cars
and if one would stop and
consider just how many meth
ods and products spread out
over the country, even wood
products, that go into making
a car and how it affects our
economy, I believe that they
would not buy foreign-made
cart with American-made dol
lars. This is a fact, when a
foreign-made car is sold here
a man is laid off from work
in the automobile industry
who might have been buying
a home made from the wood
products . made in Medford.
Just stop and think. Buy, and
when you buy make sure it
is American made. Keep Med
ford dollars in the U.S. not
Europe.
M. Hall
0 906 Winchester st
Medford
In the Day's News
ly PRANK
In these days when the
troubles of France hold the
center of the world spotlight,
it'a easy to point out that the
French got themselves into
the mess they're in toy TOL
ERATING POLITICIANS in
stead of DEMANDING
STATESMEN as their leaders.
And
Ita true enough.
The mess the French are in
is due largely to politicians
who refused to face the facts
of life particularly the hard
FINANCIAL facts of life. In
every financial crisis, the
French politicians have
chosen the primrose path lead
ing to the flowery pastures of
inflation in preference to the
rough and often rocky road
that leads to the rich and re
warding valleys of financial
stability, o
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UT
How about US?
What right have WE to
throw stones at France's fin
ancial windows?
We live in a financial glass
house ourselves.
FOR example:
We came out of the war
with a big debt. We SHOULD
have started PAYING OFF
our debt. If we had done so,
we would have it paid down
by now to the point awhere
the burden of taxation would
be bearable.
If, in the prosperous years
that followed the war, we had
paid off our debt or at least
hadaid it down to the point
where it would be manage
able we would be sitting on
the world now, with few fin
ancial worries.
Instead, we took the easy
way, and piled up more debt.
ANOTHER example:
We came ouj of the war
with a farm bill based on
tasks de Gaulle Pas set him
self are well performed,
France can again be truly
grand. The rebirth that
France has already experi
enced makes that possible.
The raw material is there. All
now depends on what de
Gaulle will do with it.
" (Copyright-958, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Test Ban Talks With Russia
Seen Before Month is Over
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
"It looks as if negotiations
with Soviet Russia for a pos
sible ban on nuclear weapons
tests may be
started be
fore the month
is over.
A letter
from Soviet
Premier Niki
ta S. Khrush
chev to Pres
dent Eisen
hower seems
to leave the
way clear for the opening of
the test ban negotiations.
3 At the same time, n$oti
tioni; for later "summit"
Conference) of) heads of gov
ernments) on cold war issues
are proceeding secretly in
Moscow. o O
Eisenhower told Khrush
chev on May 24 ftat he was
ready to start technical talks
on the test ban withi three
weeks after receiving word
that the Soviet government
wai agreeable.
Ready
The; President suggested
that the xperts who would
engage0in the talks make a
progress report within 30
days after the start of their
meeting and make a final Te
port within 60 days or as
soon thereafter as possible.
hrushchev Replied Satur
day that Hg)was ready to stagt
the talks within three Qeeks,
s Eisenhower suggested. But
he proposed that the finaFre
port be made with three or
four weeks instead of within
60 days.
As regards the Qietails of
tne talks, Eisenhower suggest
ed that they be held in-.Gen-
perts tH the United States,
Britain, France and possibly
other countries which have
means of detecting nuclear
weapons tests be included.
Khrushchev said that Gen
eva would be a suitable meet
ing place but that ne prefer
red Moscow.
He said he would like Po
land and Czechoslovakia, and
India and ossibly sonq) other
coijniries, xo De represented
It Was Expected
This is what " Eisenhower
had expected. He is most like
ly to propose that Japan,
which is uncomfortably in
;the middle between Russian
tests in Siberia and American
tests in the Pacific, be in
eluded.
Presumably? the nex step
may be for Eisenhower to
suggest a firm date for the
start of the meeting and eith
ef to accept Moscow as the
meeting place or to ask again
that 'it be Geneva
JENKINS
subsidies that were designed
to PROMOTE FARM PRO-
DUCTIgN in order to meet
the demands of war .-.FOR
FOOD. 0
Knowing that with the end
ft world war would come a
slump in the demand for food
and more food andjsll more
food (history tells us plainly
there is never enough food in
time of war) we should have
repealed the subsidies. But
we didn't. We took the EASY
way and kept the suosidies
going! in time of peace.
As a result, we now have
fabulous agricultural surplus
es that hang ojer the markets
of the future like a dark
thundercloud.
PUT it this way:
When came the end of
the war. STATESMEN would
have started paying off oufl
debt. o
When came the end of the
war, STATESMEN would
have repealed the farm sub
sidies that were designed
wholly as a war measure.
But .
When came the war's end
POLITICS, rather than
statesmanship ruled our gov
ernmental policies. So now,
along with the French, we
are paying the bill. When
one elects to dance, you know,
one must pay the piper.
Ah,
-TV W
me!
What 9 wonderful thing is
hindsight. It always has been
that way. A century ago, John
Greenleaf Whittier put these
words in the mouth of the
aging Judge as he watched,
comely Maud Muller raking
the meadows sweet with hay:
"Of all sad words of tongue
or pen, the saddest are these:
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."
Nearly a thousand years
ago Omar the Tent Maker
put the same thought in this
quatrains
"The moving finger writes,
TOOTH STAINS
STAINS REMOVED
"like Mogic" with Ktp powder.
Um Kfp with your loothpaite.
Dentiiti um and recommend Kip
There is no guarantee that
expert talks will result in an
agreement to end the nuclear
weapons tests.
Regarding the summit con
ference negotiations, the Un
ited States, British and the
Fjgnch ambassadors inQ Mos
Rising Costs, Fees
Threaten jiisu ranee
for Health
By HELEN B.SHAFFER
Washington SoaCStng hos
pital operating cgsts, mous
ing doctors' fees, and devel
opment of new and costly
drugs and treatments are
Kitting voluntary health in-
surance tothe snyerest test
it has ever had to. face. Un
less policy benefits are to be
restricted, premiums jnust be
rad- o ..
Blue cross and Blue bnield,
in fact, have been seeKiftg
authority to make rate in
creases in Various states. If
the rates ga too high, plans
r prepayment of medical
expenses risk pricing tnem
selves out of the market.
Three-fourths of the people
of the United States are now
able to depend on health in
surance benefits to defray
some portion of Hospital or
Upther medical expenses. The
way toward the goal of as
suring everyone adequate
medical atBntion when need
ed, tyt, if progress of the vol
untary plans for prepayment
of medical expenses should
be halted or reversed, de
mands for ta - supported
health insurance for everyone,
as an adjunct to other social
security benefits, would cer
tainly be revived.
Cost Climbs
rfThe cost Q medical care
started climbing rapidly after
World War II, and it now has
gone higher thanoany cQer
component of the Consumer
Price Index. A large art of
the increase is accounted for
by a spectacular jump in the
ct of hospitalization. In the
20 years between 1936 and
1956 $ae over-all increase in
cost of medical syices was
85 per cent, but hospital
room rates shot up 265 per
cent. Increases in surgeons
fees Counted to 60 per cent,
A in general practitioner's fees
to 73 per cent.
The sharp rise in hospital
costs, combined with a tend
ency of many insured per
sons to make liberal use oi
hospital benefits, . has Cput
many of the Blue Cross plans
Bedstone Missile
Undergoes Test
Huntsville, Ala. (UPI)
Army troops Monday night
staged the first successful in
land firing of the Recwpne
mjfaile at White Sands Prov
ing urouna, w.m., me uepari
ment of the Army announced
today.
The Army said members of(j)forms
the 40th Field Artillery mis
sile group fired the 6$foot
missile from a lightweight
tower under tactical condi
tions. O "Other than for the elemen
tary and safety precautions
provided by the missile range,
the troops were on their own,"
the announcement Qaid.
and having writ
"Moves on, nor all your
piety and wit
"Can lure it back to cancel
half a line,
"Nor all your tears wash
out a word of it." q
WcqLIVE, but we don't
sn to LEARN.
Counsel With . Q
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
fill Fish
Phoge SP 3-7343
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
cow have conferred separate
ly with Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei A. Gromyko on
this question within the last
week.
There is no indication of
the progress being nde, if
any, in these talks. -
Benefits
in precarious financial condi
tion. The Blue Cross contracts
with hospitals to reimburse
them for services to insured
persons. To meet rising hos
pital charges it has had to
dig into reserves or increase
its premium charges to sub
scribers. As a result, state
regulatory authorities have
been allowing increases in
Blue Cross rates which have
ranged up to 40 per cent.
In some cases, notably In
Pennsylvania, the right to
raise the rates has been made
conditional on an earnest
search for means of bringing
costs under control, chiefly
by cutting down unnecessary
hospitalization. (Hospitals in
that state likewise have been
ordered to make intensive ef
forts to wipe out waste and
inefficiency.
Over-utilition of hospitals
by insured persons has been
attributed in part to needless
surgery and in part to the
fact that some doctors appar
ently recommend hospitaliza
tion linly as a means of
making certain they will col
lect their fees. Surgeons' fees
and fees of other doctors for
calls on hospitalized patients
are paid directly to physicians
for patients covered by Blue
Shield policies. Payments are
based on a fixed fee schedule,
though doctors are allowed
to send bills for additional
amounts to patients with in
come above stated levels.
Stern warnings against fee
padding 6fid other abuses
have been issued by thenedi
cal societies.
Many Protected
Around 123 million persons
now are protected by health
insurance of some kind. The
protection at a minimum is
for a certain number of days
of hospital room and board,
but 90 million of the insured
have . surgical coverage as
well. The Blue Cross plans
cover about 50 million per
sons. Commercial insurance
companies, which issue a
great variety of group and
individual health policies, cov
er a majority of the insured
(J about 70 million persons.
The remainder are protected
under special group health
programs such as that operat
ed by the United Mine Work
ers for the union's members.
Although commercial health
insurance goes back a long
time, the Qiushroom growth
for all health insurance only
began in the 1930s when hos
pitals and phsyicians gave
their support to the Blue
Cross plans. While the two
of voluntary health
insurance are compeuxors,
they are united in strongly
opposing compulsory health
insurance.
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