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r T5 o 19 aKl 8S,huJy, July 31, 1938 have managers had funds ade In equipment. We have econ-1 senrlal care to our patient- omized to the extent that es-is inevitably deteriorating." quate to discharge their spe cific responsibility in protect ing the government's invest ment in the physical plant and PefSer To Continue Campaign for VA Hospital Facility . 4- 101ERT SMITH Rail Vriktfus Correspondent tshinjton Rep. Charles Frtr (D-Ore") plans to admission to the Roseburg hospital. "So while 65 eligible appli cants wait for hospitalization, the VA plans to reduce by 60 the number of hospital beds," Neuberger declared. Congressman Porter has a bill drafted to authorize a 100-bed general medical and surgical hospital at Camp White, but he sajd the strategy now is not to introduce the hospital at the domiciliary." ing slowly strangled- by the administration. There is a vast difference between what the bureau of the budget permits the VA to request and what the VA actually needs." The senator pointed out that last March the managers of the 23 VA hospitals, medi cal centers and domiciliaries in the seven western states met at Oakland and adopted a resolution which pointed up OPENING AUGUST 2 KRUGGEL'S TEXACO 4th and Central Crackerjacks Candy Balloons FREE GAS TO ALL CUSTOMERS Full Detaila in Tribune Friday bill since the VA could ig nore it anyway and not ex ercise that authorization. "Our approach is going to be to try to convince the VA that this would be a good business proposition for the VA," said Porter. "We will stress that this is not a new hospital we want, but it's an enlargement of the existing Porter said he planned to take this up with the head of VA in order to show that it would be less cost per bed to the VA to open hospital facilities at Camp White than to transport area patients to Portland or Oakland, nearest general VA hospitals. Neuberger said he felt the VA "hospital program is be the need for more hospital fa 8 HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 cilities. The resolution said: "Our VA hospitals have not received funds over the past several years sufficient to continue the tampaign lor a 11??' h0S- keep abreast of ascending costs. We are endeavoring to maintain a medical program equal to that offered in the community on pre-inflation appropriation levels. Neither White near Medford, de spite contin u e d opposi tion from the Veterans Administration. . V 13 ' us) Porter has testified .b e- A. Robi. Bmitk fore the House Veterans Committee for the Q&snp White proposal, relying heavily on material compiled by Eugene Orr, Medford mer chant who has dedicated him- ' self to the project G Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (B-Ore.) also submitted a strong statement in favor of the hospital and against the current policy of the VA to reduce Its hospital facilities tfeuberger'i Statement "Let us take a specific ex ample of what the present VA hospital program means," Neuberger stated. "At the VA hospital at Roseburg, the ad ministration plans to reduce the average annual patient load by 60, from 630 to 570, for the fiscal year 1959. At the same time I was advised on July 7 that as of May 31, there was a total of 65 eligible applicants awaiting 1 mm gLA STING off Canaveral, Fla., Able rocket carries ropuMtin items cone. at Cape this Thor- whiU Eini$f,6riee!o Be&vc&ifBtli Kew Yri -flJ Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Princess Grtca Rave accepted an invitation to be guests of honer mt tna fourth annual Imperiil Ball it the Hotel Astor I$t. 4, it vat announc ed wtflnesdy. it fcill mtri tha first time thpftyal couple has return ed to the United States since thsir marriage in 1956. 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