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6 MAIL TRIIUME, Mriferi, 0. Tuesday, AuS. 11, 1S Centennial Wagons Arrive at Grounds Portland-AIPD-The mules and horses of the Centennial wag on train were hitched up for the last time Monday as they pulled the seven covered wag ons of the caravan from Kenton park in north Portland to the Centennial Exposition. Some 5,000 persons greeted the cavalcade. The Conestogas covered some more than 2,000 miles from. Independence, Mo., to Independence, Ore., as they retraced the route of early day Oregon settlers. The wagons were bathed in a light Oregon mist as they arrived at the Exposition. They left Missouri in a driving rainstorm. , Some x-ray pictures are so bright they ean be picked up by television. Difference in Income, Equipment, Patient Care in Two Types of Hospitals Explained Editor's note: This is the second of two dispatches on the various types of U.S. hospitals and the services they provide.) By PATRICIA MeCORMACK UPI Corrtspondtnt New York (LTD - When you need an operation or become se ill you cannot be treated at home, the chances are two in three that you will enter a voluntary, non-profit hospital. Financially speaking, in this hospital, you will be a "cost-minus" patient. In the profit-making hospital, you would be a "cost-plus" patient. In one, you are Mr. Loss; in the other, Mr. Profit. In the profit-making hospi tals, you would pay an aver age of $24-67 a day against an average hospital eost of $23.51 a day to care for you. The hospital's profit: $1.15 a day on your stay. . As an average patient in a voluntary, non-profit hospital, you will pay $25.29 a day. Expenses are $26.81 a day, and the hospital goes into the red by $1.52 per average pa tient day. The voluntary hospitals, however, have, in addition to your payment, supplemental income the private hospitals don't enjoy-gifts from chari table persons and organiza tions, endowments, and tax exemptions. Helps Offset Lou Dr. Madison B. Brown, asso ciate director of the American Hospital Association, says this money helps to offset the av erage per patient day loss. When supplemental income is figured, into the picture, the hospitals have an average gain of S 7. 9 6 per patient stay. "Keeping up with science, remodeling and expansion keeps most (voluntary, non profit) pockets pretty lean," he said, borne of the money used to offset the loss is mon ey the hospitals would like to use for these purposes, imr proving themselves. Supplemental income aside, the paying patient naturally wonders why one hospital, the proprietary type, can make money on an admission, while another, the voluntary, loses money. Recall the differences bar tween the two hospitals previ ously outlined. The voluntary, non-profit hospital tries to of fer every type of hospital serv? ice and, in addition, to care for non-paying patients and provide training for nurses and dpctors. The profit-making hospital offers only serv ices it can afford. Additional Differences There are additional differ? ences, all affecting "cost." The money-making hospital Clatsop County: Window of History tm wiewint Is eondtraatiea w a eielerlea wtiica appeared in ttie Sun der Orewaian, eae ot annual series woworid y The Oreeonian end the reaea State Meter Aua. Tkese travel mciee descrike vacatiea saets and vacetiea trips et particular interest to rt-of-itate visiters te Ortson durira Ike Centeaaial ceiekratiee. By MERVTN SHOEMAKER - Staff Writer, The Oreaenien Clatsop County presents Ore- smi uiggcw. winuuw on uie history of a century and i half ago, when men of cour age ana oetermination were exploring the wild country, and probing its potentialities for wealth. Here, in 1805. came William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, sent by President Thomas Jef ferson to find a route to the Oregon Country- Here, six years later, came the) Astor expedition, fur-trad ers, in the ill-fated Tonquin, wmcn later met disaster in Clayoquot Harbor on Vancou ver island. The Lewis and Clark and the Astor expeditions gave the united States two of its strong- st claims to the new territory. Both are commemorated by ninone snnnes at Astoria, which, of course, gets its name from the Astor visitors. Aator Colnma Graceful " High e Coxcomb Hill in As toria stands the Astor Column, a graceful 125-foot structure visible far' from the city in all directions, ? Twr miles south of Astoria Is a reconstruction of Ft Clat sop as it was built to shelter members of the Lewis and Clark party daring the 1805-08 winter they spent at the end of the journey, before starting their return. ' The Lewis and Clark expedi tion also is marked by the "salt cairn" at Seaside, an ton rail-guarded rock struc ture which illustrates how the expedition obtained salt by boiling sea water. These attractions can be reached from Portland by ei ther U.S. 30 along the lower Columbia River, or by U.S. 26 to its connection with U.S. 101. Little Time Needed The , Oregonian's Motorlog car, furnished through cooper ation of the Oregon State Motor Assn., covered the approxi mately 200 miles in an easy five hours driving time. -The Astor column, designed by Electus Litchfield, a New York artist, is patterned after the Trajan Column erected in Rome by Emperor Traian in 114 A.D. It was decorated by an icauan artist, A. Fusterla. The Pusterla work is a frieze depicting the history of the region from discovery of the Columbia River by Capt. Robert Gray in 1792 to the res toration of Ft. Astoria to the United States in 1818. This includes the Tonquin's arrival in 1811, and its destruc tion by gunpowder explosion as the climax to a fight between crew members and Indians, with an Indian interpreter re putedly the only survivor. Also included in the frieze is the arrival of the Lewis and Clark party, and the manufac ture of salt at the Seaside salt cairn. The top of the Astor column is . reached by an easily- climbed 166-step circular stair way. The railed platform at the top gives a breath-takine view in all directions. Fort Clatsop is .9 of a mile east of a point four miles south I of Astoria on Highway 101, and this soon will be Oregon's first National Memorial. The reconstructed fort, which measures 50 by 50 feet, was rebuilt by the Astoria Jun ior Chamber of Commerce and the Crown-Zellerbach Timber Co. Much credit for establish ment of the National Memorial goes to faithfulness and care Of the Oregon Historical Soci ety and the Clatsop County Historical Society in marking the site of the old fort. The reconstructed Lewis and Clark salt cairn, situated on Lewis and Clark Way. near the Promenade in Seaside, marks the location of the "plant" the party used to obtain salt by boiling sea water. The salt works was estab lished Jan. 2, 1806, by Joseph Fields, William Bratten and George Gibson, who had ob tained four bushels of salt when the fires were allowed to go out the following Feb. 20. The Oregon Historical Soci ety established the site in 1900, through the testimony of Jenny Mishel of Seaside, who was born in that vicinity in 1816 and died in 1905. Her Clatsop Indian father remembered see ing the white men boiling wa ter at the site, and pointed out the place to her when she was a young girl. The fence and sidewalk were constructed by the Great Northern and Spokane, Port land and Seattle Railways more than 35 years ago. The Lions Club of Seaside re constructed the actual cairn last February, according to specifications in the Lewis and Clark diaries supplied by the Oregon Historical bociety. i i i i Slim Ink .atiM&Si wr h.h mm ., w r Here the Seaside commenlty has reconstructed the cairn where members of the Lewis and Clark expedition obtained salt by boiling sea water in preparation for their return home. ;U.SdvL AVI T I : Wstms w-T-nr-n , R. E. Jensen, Astoria manager for the Pacific Telephone Co., stands beside the white mo torlog car to survey the reconstruction of historic Fort Clatsop, where members of the Lewis and Clark expedition spent the winter of 1805-1806 before returning East. WIMER Couple Sells Residence By MARJORIE BAKER Wimer -Mr. and Mrs. Fred Salber have sold their place and are moving to Bakers field, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Ed win F. Higgins of Costa Mesa, Calif., have purchased the Salber property. Higgins has retired from the Marine Corps after 20 years of service, and plans to take up ranching. The Higgins have a son, when a foexl shopper's "paradise' will be opened to- you Watch for if! Edwin F.. Higgins Jr., 4V. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bush and family of Klamath Falls spent the week end in Wimer. A group of 13 junior girls from the Wimer Community church attended the Bible camp at Camp McLoughlin, sponsored by the Southern Oregon and Northern Califor n i a Community churches. With the girls are Mrs. Henry R. Holsingerand, daughter Jessie, and Miss La Vena Har din. ' Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Doty and daughter. Donna, of San Leandro, recently spent a week at the home of Mrs. Doty's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L-. E. Orvis. Donna and her cousin, Janice Baker, were honored at a birthday dinner Aug. 8. Dorm awill be 8 Aug. 22, Janice was 9 Aug. 4. Re maining in Wimer was Leo Doty, who divides his time be tween his grandparents and bis uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baker. The Young People's group of Assembly of God church at Rogue River were guests of the young people of Wimer Community church, Sunday, Aug. 9 after church, the two groups went to the Frank West home for refreshments. Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. (Shorty) Smith peter are Mrs. Ray Sheldton and daughters Sandy Jean. Mrs. Sheldon is Smithpeter's niece. and Mr. County road crews are re surfacing the road on East Evans creek from the Howard Baker place to Vern Orr's place. When they are through with it they will be working on the oiled but unsurfaced section past Wimer to May's creek. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hansen and Kathy and Chris attend ed the Pentecostal churches camp Aug. 3-8. The camp was held near Willow Creek reser voir. Hansen drove the bus for the Redemption Taber nacle, Grants Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Brown entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sloman and family at dinner on -the Sloman's 19th wedding anniversary Aug. 10. Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hansen are Mrs. Hansen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph West and Mrs. Hansen's sister's two children Sandra and Joe Pe cord, of Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Minnie Baker took care of the three children of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Moran of Grants Pass while the Morans went to Roseburg to make sure of the safety of Moran's two boys by , his first mar riage. The boys and. their mother live about five blocks from the scene of the recent disastrous blast. The boys were knocked out of bed but otherwise unharmed. Steel Strike Idles Plant at Baker Baker -(UPD- Effects of the nationwide steel strike spread to this Eastern Oregon city Monday. The Chemical-Lime Co. plant near here was shut down for an indefinite period Monday when the firm's two North west lime product consumers became strike-bound. A strike Saturday night close the Union-Carbide Met als Co. plant in Portland, the Baker firm's last operating consumer. Earlier the Bethle hem Steel Pacific Coast plant in Seattle was closed by pickets. Some 25 workers were idled by the closure. Ned Thomas, superintend ent for the plant and its near by quarjy, said the company would continue the quarry op eration, but the lime-products operation would not resume until the coastal consumers are operating once more. has an average of 185 workers per iuu patients; the money- losing hospitals, 218. The average stay in the non profit hospital is 7.4 daysf in the profit-making hospital, it is 5.6-days. Special facilities provided by hospitals of all types range from B - for basal metabolism apparatus to X - for X-ray. some, obviously, nave more and better facilities than ethers. Reports compiled by , the American Hospital Association point to the percentage of proprietary and voluntary hospitals having such facili ties. In every category, the voluntary hospitals, as a group, operate mere of them, Take, for example, blood banks. Among the non-profit hospitals, 66.3 per cent have blood banks. In the profit- making hospitals, 35.9 per cent have them. Pharmacies are operated in 65.9 per cent of the non-proi-it hospitals and in 33.9 per cent of the profit-making ones. Post-Operative Rooms More than 90 per cent of both types of hospitals have operating rooms. In connec tion with such a facility, it is now recommended that where possible, post-operative recov ery rooms be set up. Available in an instant in such recovery centers are fa cilities needed to cover just about every type of post-operative crisis. Among the profit-making hospitals, 17.8 per cent have recovery rooms. They are found in 44.2 per cent of the voluntary hospi tals. Among non-profit hospitals, 53.3 per cent have special nurseries for prematurely born babies. Less than a third of the profit-making hospitals have them. Therapeutic X-ray facilities, such as those used ln treat ment of cancer patients, are found in 46.2 per eent of the non-profit hospitals and in 15 per cent of the profit-making institutions. Adds To Overall Cost The maintenance, manning and operation of such equip ment adds to the overall cost of running a hospital. When these costs are figured into the expense per patient day, the average edges upward, said Dr. Henry N. Pratt, director of the New York Hospital, a voluntary, non-profit hospital Some of the equipment nec essary for comprehensive care and maintained by some hos pitals, -isn't used frequently, he explained. For example, the complicated hear t-lung machine used for open heart surgery. Such an operation, Dr. Pratt said, costs $1,500. A recent open-h e a r t operation in a neighboring New York hospi tal was so complicated that the cost came to $5,000. An artificial kidney, Dr Pratt said, costs $500 to ope rate 24 hours. Charity Care Cited But even with a larger store of such complex machinery and heavy expenses involved in keeping them available, the non-profit hospital prob ly could break-even if it weren't for deficits stemming from charity care, Dr. Pratt said. To shrink the charity-care deficits, hospitals in many areas are battling for increas ed charity-c are reimburse ments from local and state governments. Dr. Pratt said that the char ity patients are, however, a mixed blessing for the non profit hospitals affiliated with medical schools. He described such patients as "clinical material." That means the patients, in return for charity care, grant per mission for a medical school teacher to stop by with a group of students to discuss the pa tient, his ailment and course of treatment. Invasion of Privacy When a man or woman is "clinical material" he or she submits to an invasion of pri vacy that paying patients, as a rule, would object to, ac cording to Dr. Pratt. Does it follow then that, to some extent, the paying pa tients in the non-profit hospi tals are subsidizing the cost of charity care and medical edu cation? And are paying patients doling out more than their fair share of the electric bill; are they paying to maintain expensive equipment used by charity patients, too? Strictly speaking, no, said Dr. Pratt. The hospitals ab sorb the cost and depend on the benefits, gifts and state aid to make up the difference. Adding Machines Calculators TYPEWRITERS - DICTAPHONES Standard Portable Electric Timemaster Noralce DESKS CHAIRS FILES Ask About Our Rental Purchase Option 1 1 AllMIT'C Medford 0ffice Equipment Co. UUIUll I W "Voighr will give a better deal" 41 So. Grape Phone SP 2-4100 Easy Parking Boy 'Carries Torch' For Young Girl Friend Oroville, Calif.irflJPD-A love sick high school student has been taken into custody be cause he "carried a torch" for his girl friend's father. Sheriff Larry Gillick said the 17-year-old youth from Chico, Calif., admitted that the father wouldn't allow him to date the young girl so he set fire to the father's house en Aug. 2 and then attempted to burn his car on Aug. 7. Fall Favorite 0" 9296 SIZES ' 10-18 K Smart and slim - the ideal dress for college or careerl This casual favorite is a cinch to sew in rayon, cotton, miracle blend. No waist seams just belt it to fit. Ideal for fall. Tomorrow's pattern: Half sizer. Printed Pattern 9296: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 takes 3 yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Wall Street Chatter ter business prospects. New York (DPI) Recent stock " market developments are no reason to run for the panic button, according to the brokers. Standard & Poor's says "we would not be led by the re cent reaction to disturb ex. istiijg holdings in well-situated stocks, but would move slowly in making any new commitments until the mar ket gives clearer signs of having regained its equilibrium." Prentice-Hall says rising earnings and dividends will give the weary bull market a shot in the arm before the end of 1959. It says many in stitutional investors, like mu tual funds, are active buyers who cushion sharp declines. Trendex says there is no evidence of a broad general top. It notes the stock mar ket is making an adjustment to equate share prices to win- Fiber Board Plant Planned at Albany Albany, Ore.-dlPB-Plans for construction of a $1,500,000 fiber board plant here were announced Monday by the head of a newly?formed firm. William Swindells Sr., Port land, president of Wood Fiber Co., said the particle board plant would be erected about two miles north of here on Highway 99. Mill waste will be utilized by the plant, Swindells said, The new plant will have a capacity of about 125 tons of board per day. Approximately 40 men will be employed by the corpora tion, he said. A German manufacturing technique, new to this area, will be employed, Swindells explained. The "Bahre" proc ess, which utilizes a system pf particle selection by air flo tation, will be used. Swindells said it is hoped the plant will begin operation by April 1, I960. Hill Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Salem-flJPD-Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the First Con gregational Church here for Dr. Irvin B. Hill, 44, superin tendent of Fairview Home who died Monday. His widow said she would appreciate donations to Fair view Home rather than flow ers at the funeral. Hill had been superintend ent at Fairview since 1946. 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