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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.
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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.
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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.
Spear & Staff says present
market action represents a
moderate correction rather
than a topping out. Some
further decline appears to be
in order before confidence is
restored and a new base is
established. It looks for an
'invigorating" rebound after
the steel strike is settled.
Investors Research Co. be
lieves the market has entered
a "plateau" phase during
which stock prices will re
main at a relatively high level
with widely divergent trends
among individual industries.
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chairman of a leading Lang
Island City printing firm that
bears his name, died hero
Monday night.
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