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Interim Committee on Welfare Still in Fact-Finding Stage The philosophy of public welfare li to give financial aid to those people who are eligible and to provide serv lcei to help people to help themselves. It ia the aim of the legisla tive Interim committee on welfare to tee that this philos ophy ia carried out in the most eff icent, economical way possible. At last week's public hear ing here, Mrs. Grace Oliver Peck, Democratic state repre sentative from Portland and legislative interim committee chairman, remarked, "We are not trying to condemn any body, but to find out what to do with the laws which gov ern welfare; either recom mend new ones or change the old ones." Committee investigat Ions have covered aid to depend ent children, old age medical service and how to make the budget stretch. The commit tee and Its subcommittees are still in the fact-finding stage, Mrs. Peck said. To Submit Report The subcommittee on the welfare program's medical phase will submit its report soon to the state legislature. Dr. Norman David, profes sor of pharmacology, Univer sity of Oregon, not long ago met with the charitable care committee of the Oregon Med ical Society. It made a list of effective low-cost drugs which could be useVl in the welfare medical care program instead of the more expensive ones. In Multnomah county, the in terim committee and the sub committee have recommended that medical attendants be maintained in nursing homes. The subcommittee on ad ministration has recommend ed central computer system which could be used for all state agencies. This could save a half million dollars a year in rental fees on these electronic computing devices, Mrs. Peck said. The machines must be rented or leased. They cannot be bought. Initial Application The Interim committee Is also concerned with the initial application for welfare pa tients. It has recommended careful screening of all re sources applicants have. The committee believes that legal ly responsible relatives should be notified when ap plications for old' age assist ance are made. Such proce dure has been more carefully followed since the committee was formed, the chairman noted. v Same state Welfare prob lems tie in with national ones. Aid to Dependent Children program is one of these. If current charges are true, the program founded under the Social Security Act of 1939 to keep fatherless families in tact, has become a national game of fraud. In 19S9, for the . first time, Its stakes would surpass fl billion, ac cording to reports. The interim committee has not made any definite recom mendations to help cure this social sore yet. However, Lane county officials have recom mended federal and state par ticipation In tracking down and convicting men charged with non-support. Lane coun ty already has an outstanding record by recovering an esti mated $300,000 from non-supporters and perpetrators of fraud in 1959. National Concern "There is considerable na tional concern with illigitl mate children," Mrs. Peck said. "Several judges have talked of sterilization, but this is very unpopular with the general public. These illi gitimate are not necessarily on welfare. Lane County Cir cuit Judge William S. Fort has suggested that all llligiti mate children ba made wards of the court automatically Just as children of divorced couples are now for their own protection." Frank Ganong, Klamath county commissioner, and Martha Smith, chairman of the Klamath County Welfare commission, both protested that the local commission was not given enough money to carry out an adequate medical care program Local physicians have re sented the red tape and short age of funds for medical care, Ganong pointed out. Present Memorandum Ganong presented a memo randum of proposed changes the Klamath group would like to see in state laws relating to welfare. The changes were adopted as a recommendation to the interim committee on welfare by the Klamath Coun ty Welfare commission in a special meeting in March. The proposed changes are all designed to allow a meas ure of control of welfare poli cies and procedures at the local level. Under existing state law this type of increas ed local control is not possi ble, the report stated. Recommended state law changes are: A county judge and chair man of a county welfare com mission should be on the state welfare commission. Uniform state-wide proce dures should not be required. Program Reviewed Proposed allocation of funds for each county welfare program should be reviewed by each county welfare com mission and certification re quired by each county, but subject to quarterly revisions. No county welfare commis sion member should serve for more" ' than two successive terms. The state should establish state-wide standards and make periodic audits, but the local commission should hire the local staff and have them answerable to the local body. When welfare recipients are buying articles on time, the fact they are on welfare should be made known to credit associations for the In formation of merchants. In a resolution passed March 18 by the Klamath County Welfare commission, It was requested that the state public welfare commission transfer unexpended balances of non-medical funds to the medical budget beginning im mediately so the county could provide state-wide standards of medical care for the bal ance of the fiscel year within the total welfare funds available. It also requested that any unexpended balances remain ing at the end of the fiscal year bt used to pay hospital costs incurred since January which have not been paid pre viously. Reason for the resolution is that Klamath county has been unable to pay welfare hospital costs since January, 1960, within the allocated funds for hospital payments. The daily reimbursable costs of Klamath county hospitals compare favorably with other hospitals in the state, it was pointed out. Placing local representa tives on the state welfare commission would provide practical advice from the lo cal level, the report ex plained. "The attitude of the state administration seems to be that the budget certified to the county is merely for al lowing that county to calcu late and collect property taxes for its share of the budget," the report stated. Not Committed "The state department Is not committed to making these funds available within that certified budget. This is their state policy in not al lowing transfers of surplus funds from one category to the other." The Klamath Welfare com mission also noted that It has handled a number of cases where the welfare recipient's income is hopelessly involved in payments for non-essential items purchased on credit. There is no discrimination against a welfare recipient by making such a law since any private citizen is subject to similar disclosure of financial rating. James Pullman, Jackson county welfare administrator, testified that without con trolled administration Jack son county medical expenses would have increased a great deal. Some cases recommend ed for hospitalization-by the doctor do not need hospitali zation, he noted. Cites One Case He cited one case in which a welfare patient was in the hospital for 28 days and could have been in the Jack son County Farm Home. Pullman said sterilization was authorized on the medi cal care program only to pre serve life or health. Yet a fe male welfare recipient was sterilized in a Jackson county hospital "merely for social reasons." This brought a star tled exclamation from Mrs. Peck. Dr. Ennls Keizer, com mittee member from North Bend, disputed Pullman's statement. "All such cases must be re ferred to a local hospital ster ilization committee," Dr. Klz er stated. "A patient must have a good reason for sterili zation or it will not be al lowed. Any physician who performs a sterilization opera tion without approval of such a committee would lose his hospital staff privileges." However, Pullman insisted It was done. Nursing Home Operator ' A nursing home operator from Grants Pass, who said be represented southern Oregon nursing home operators, said Stereotyper Held On Second Charge Portland - (UPD-Stereotyper Levi McDonald, who is under indictment on a charge of de struction of property by ex plosives In the Jan. 31 news truck bombings, was arrest'd again Friday afternoon. The new charge Involved throw ing of a "stink bomb" into the Oregonian Drug store the night of Jan. 12. McDonald was Implicated In the incident by Carl For bish, 24, who told Multnom ah county police McDonald hired him to toss the jar of liquid in to the store. Forbish appeared Friday afternoon without an ailorney and the arraignment was car ried over for two weeks by Circuit Court Judge Herbert Schwab to enable Forbish to obtain counsel. McDonald was arrested at his home, in the same block in which Forbish lives, by city and county police. Offic ers said McDonald refused to admit them and they had to force their way into his home to make the arrest. Mc Donald was lodged in the Rocky Butte jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. Filing Not Valid If Check Bounces Salem-OIPD-If a person who files for a state office pays his filing fee by check and the check bounces the filing is incomplete. In announcing this opinion Friday, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said a check cannot be considered payment but rather "condi tional payment." Therefore the filing is completed when the secretary of state actually gets the cash. Band Assured of Portland Trip Ashland-The Ashland High school band is almost assured of representing this area in the Portland Rose Festival pa rade, but Ashland Band Boos ters still are seeking a sponsor for a float for the parade, ac cording to Mrs. Thelma Ta bor, president of the Boosters. A smorgasbord at Lincoln school Thursday was consid ered a success, and brought the total in the Band Boosters fund for sending the band to Portland to within about $400, Mrs. Tabor said. An estimated $1,800 Is need ed for expenses for the band to participate in the Rose pa rade, Mrs. Tabor said. About 700 people were serv ed during the smorgasbord, 300 of them adults, she said. At the smorgasbord, the Band Boosters selected a king and queen to participate in the Rogue Valley Pear Blos som Festival in Medford the week end of April 23. King Is Bobby Cady, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cady, 1354 Webster St., and queen Is Debbie Tlschhauser, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Tischhauser, 1330 Windsor r.ve. The Ashland High school band also will participate In the Pear Blossom Festival pa rade, and will present a band concert in downtown Mcdford Saturday morning, April 23. to raise funds for the band benefit program. FISH LEAD Miami-Fish are the most numerous of the vertebrates with about 20,000 species. Group Wants To Help Small Schools Salem-IIPD - The Interim Committee on Education Sat urday gave Its support to a proposed study to improve the quality of small high schools in Oregon. After a discussion of the problem by Dr. Keith Gold hammer of the University of Oregon, the committee voted lo write a letter to the Ford Foundation's fund for the Ad vancement of Education sock ing a grant lo experiment In small state high schools. ram VAYjIZ wh -SHUWIK LAWN HORMOTOX 2,4-D 2,4,5-T BIO Y FEED & SEED CO. 1948 No. Pacific Highway Phona SP 3-3160 Salem-HTD - Although the state capitol building will not be open on Sundays to visit ors on a regular basis until Memorial Day, the building will be open today in connec tion with Salem's annual Blos som Day. Members of the Salem Cherrians will serve as guides from noon to 4 p.m. MAIL TRIBUNI, Mcdford, Or, A Sunday, April 10, I960 A Salem-lllPD - Clyde Ronald Zamzrla, 17, Ashland, one of a group of youths who staged a riot last May at MacLaren School for Boys, was booked Friday by Marion county au thorities on a charge of viola of his probation. PUBLIC SHOWING La Cabana House Boat TODAY, 1 TO 6 P.M. S29 Hamilton St Medtord REFRESHMENTS SERVED This Notice Courtesy of Crescent Spices & Extracts ii 3 Brothers Held On Burglary Charge Salem - (UPD-Marion county day from Fresno, Calif., with day from Fresno, Call., with three young brothers charged in a warrant in Salem for burglary not in a dwelling. Held in the Marion county jail were George L. Spicer, 27, and his two younger broth ers, Earl Robert, 18, and James Paul, 24. Are You Building Or Buying A Home In One of the New Subdivisions? THEN, OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR HOME WITH THE RIGHT LOANI Many homes in our valley have been financed through the popular home loan plan we offer you. Let us explain how you can reach debt-free home ownership through our financing plan. You'll find our service friendly . . . prompt . . . and helpful. ' Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 337 E. Main, Ashland 126 E. Main, Medford I Building With Jackson County Since 1909 the welfare commission should allow such homes more money. He said he and other operators resent the case workers' attempt to work to ward rehabilitation of pa tients. James Foster of - Foster's Pharmacy in Medford, speak ing for the Jackson County Pharmaceutical associat I o n, said It was not fair to ask the druggists to cut prescription prices to welfare patients as was suggested by the local welfare commission. He thought It was unfair to single out the druggists among all the citizens. Welfare patients' accounts are usually 60 to 80 days be hind and cause bookkeeping expense to the druggists, he added. Druggists do not make over 7 per cent net profit and they need that to stay in busi ness, he saldj Each recipient has free choice of doctor, phar macy and hospital. Physicians Agree , ' "Do you make a profit off welfare patients?" Dr. Klzer asked, Foster said he did. Since 1935, when the social security law was passed, Ore gon physicians hiive agreed not to seek a profit from such patients and in many cases have been paying them out of pocket costs themselves, Dr. Klzer said. "So' don't feel unique or that you are mak ing any great concession." "We all have to give a lit tle to do a little," Mrs. Peck added. The Jackson county welfare administrator said after the hearing, "All I want in behalf of the commission is a uni form price schedule (on drugs), a discount in line with the Veterans Admininstratlon or surrounding states and as surance that unethical prac tices will be stopped." Allotment Not Enough Mrs. Eldred Charley, Cen tral Point, said the $30 a month alloted by the state welfare commission for teen age foster children is not enough. She said she and her husband have six such chil dren whom they treat like their own. Food costs alone per teen ager exceeds $50 a month. Since she and her husband run i dairy farm that helps some, she added. 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