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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfercT, Or. Tuesday. April 12, 1960 "Evsryone In (Southern Onion Daba Th H.tl Ti-I hunt11 TOSTished Dally except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. S3 North Tir St.. Ph SP a-flUI ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvertUlnf Mnigr GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr. tRIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mnr Editor SARL H ADAMS, City Editor ARRV CHIPMAN. Telef. Editor RICHARD JEWF.TT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHKR. Women'i Editor pALE ER1CKSON. ClrcuUUon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered at second c)n matter it Medford, Oregon, under Act ol V Mnrch 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c .. Dally and Sunday 1 year $19 00 1 Daily and Sunday fl moi. 8 00; ' Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4.23 Knnrtnv Ortlv Cinn vent 14 20 Jy Carrier in Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point Eotfte Point. Jacksonville, Gold mil. t Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue Blv- : mr. Talent and on motor rail fee. M Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 05 f uany ann eunnay l mo ' i.au w Carrier and Dealera copy 10c ' AU Termi Caah inAdvnee Official Paper of Cltv of MedforJ Official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa International Full Leased Wire U.PI. Telephoto Newsplcttirea TTTembfr of" audit bureau OF CIRCULATIONS . AdvertisinK Renresentntlve: !. WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC Of , flees in New York, Chicago, De ? trolt. San Francisco. Loa Angalai, ' Seattle, Portland. St. Louli. At larta. Vancouver, B.C. 0 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS j 'ASSOCIATION 'NATIONAL EDITORIAI '-y&f I AS(sbc&Tl0)r c6T m... ......... Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 12, 1950 (Wednesday) Thirty-four names hvi been submitted so far in con test to name Medford's newest park, east of Bear creek be tween Jackson and Main sts. Recall election against Ash land mayor and a city council man appears certain. 20 YEARS AGO April 12, 1940 (Saturday) Medford's newest super market, The Big Y, located on the North Pacific highway, Btarted a four-day gala open ing celebration yesterday. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The fair sex have started wearing slacks, causing some to look slick." 30 YEARS AGO Anrll 12. 1930 ISundavl Irrigation districts here adopt plan to conserve water during coming season. Sylvanile mine near Gold Hill has produced over 700 ounces of gold, 40 YEARS AGO April 12, 1920 (Wednesday) Supply of "Hoover For President" buttons arrive here and are ready for distribution. The Moody Bible institute will start soon in Ashland. SO YEARS AGO April 12. 1910 (Tuesday) .. Little Butte-Wasson canyon ranch of 4,000 acres is re portedly sold to railroad in terests for $100,000. An old fashioned "chari vari" keeps Jacksonville citi zens awake most of last night and will reportedly continue tonight. ' What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fen correct Is tuperleii seven or eight Is eicillentj fire er til Is good. 1. What Biblical character guided the Israelites in their exodus from i-gyplT 2. Is air pressure greater at sea level, or on a mountain top? 3. How many each are there of frigid, temperate, and tor rid zones on the earth? 4. Who wrote "The Master of Ballantrac"? 5. In the Bible story, did Abel slny Cain, or did Cain slay Abel? 6. Is horology concerned with horoscopes, watchmak ing, or shipbuilding? 7. Does a gas h a v t any weight? 8. Do women constitute about one-half, one-tenth or three-tenths of the U.S. labor force? 0. What Elizabethan navi gator introduced tobacco and potatoes into England? 10. Is nylon of animal, vege table, or mineral origin? Answers! 1. Motet. 2, Sea level. 3. Two (rigid, two tem perate, on lotrid. 4. Robert Louis Stevenson. S. Cain slow Abel. S. Watchmaking. 7. Yes. I. Three-tenths. 9. Sir Walter Raleigh. 10. Mineral. Bellon Campaign Chairman Selected Salcm-MPD-Prosser E. Clark. Secretary of the Portland Livestock Exchange, has been appointed stnte campaign chairman for Slate Treasurer , Howard C. Bolton. Bolton seeks the GOP nomination lor slate treasurer. Electronic Historical, literary and some forms of scien tific research, today, is a tedious, time-consuming, eye-straining chore. It is performed, among other places, in li braries, in the file-rooms of newspapers and magazines, in old diaries, among official gov ernment documents. There will always be the need for some of this hard, dirty work, but the day is getting closer when many research tasks can be per formed simply bypunching buttons. IMAGINE, if you will, a library where every- dexed to the ultimate piece of lniormation is available instantly on pushing the right combination of buttons. This won't happen in full the day after to morrow, but steps are being taken to make it happen. And in some limited applications it is happening now. Someday, electronic libraries will be con structed which will hold virtually all the infor mation there is on certain subjects. And the electronic mechanisms will produce what is needed in a short period of time, on demand. fNE application of such a library was sug crested in a news story the other day, by a scientist who said it is entirely possible that med ical researchers have discovered a cure for can cer, but that it hasn't been realized yet for lack of coordination and communication between dis ciplines, or between researchers following dif ferent lines of research. If, however an electronic librarv were fed the findings of all researchers working in medical fields, and then were instructed to make certain correlations, it is entirely possible that a number of bits of isolated information would fit into place to provide an answer to the search for a cancer cure, or for a dozen other purposes. It would also make it possible to avoid dupli cating one line of research which, unbeknownst to the worker, had already been performed elsewhere. THE Oregon Statesman, rtnorl ai oiiph a rhino" "An International scientific library must be estab lished with the most advanced electronic brains as librarians, In order to assure the work of scientists in one part of the world will not be duplicated in an other. This is a Job for the United Nations. It will be expensive, but It will pay for Itself many times over if, by coordinating the findings of the work of Russian and United States cancer researchers, we find we have already unlocked the secret of cancer cure." There are, of course, the same principle. Maybe, some day, a small electronic library will be developed which will record, file and cross-index newspaper files, and produce on de mand any item ever printed. And do so by date, or name, or subject matter. If that day ever arrives, we know of a dozen people who will welcome it. No more poring over dusty, yellowing files, or straining the eyes over uncertain microfilm projections. E. A. Resurgent Olympias Let there be rejoicing! Olympias are com ing back. The Olympias in question are the tiny oysters which, for many years, were grown In profusion in the depths of ruget Sound, and which furn ished a palate-tickling delicacy for those who think that small raw oysters make just about the best pre-prandial cocktail in the world. Several years ago the Olympias started dis appearing no one knew just why. Production dropped down and down, to almost nothing. THIS coincided with the construction of a pulp and paper plant in the its sulphurous effluence men suspected it was to less to do anything about A couple of years closed down, because of And almost immediately the Olympias began proliferating again. Al McCready, an Oregonian editorial writer and gourmet, now happily reports that produc tion is zooming, and that in another year or so will be back almost to MEANWHILE, added f A taken, both on how wastes and by-products threats to the fishery, including the famed oyster beds. One hones this combination of events will lead to a long and successful career for the Olym- pia oysters. Oysters aren't, to mix dish of tea. But to those preferably raw, and preferably dosed with the proper condiments, spices and juices are unani mous in acclaiming the rulers of the deep. The day is coming when the little oysters will suae aown recepuve uiroais, once again. &. a If 1 1 ... .1 The use of tranquilizers may be all right in some cases but most of could do better with something stimulating enough to put them to work on the problems they take tranquilizers for. Sherman County Journal. Libraries degree, and where every In commenting on the flnva limitless applications of area, which discharged into the bound. Oyster blame, but were help it. ago, however, the plant a chance in the economy its previous level. research is being under- to eliminate destructive of pulp mills, and on metaphors, everyone's who do like oysters Olympias as the tiny A - . those who take them Dennis the Hey, 04DJ VA WANNA &NXT Washington Report By WILLIAM THE "POSITIVE" Washington- Vice-president Nixon is accentuating the pos itive - in the hope of later eliminating the negative - as he reviews the early spring bulletins from the presiden tial primary battle fronts. The Nixon people not only publicly claim, but also really belive, there Is no great cause for worry William a. ,' " , whit. c o n s 1 n pri mary so far as Its sheer math ematics are concerned. They don't for a moment hide, however, that Nixon and the Republicans generally have reason for concern at the party's present situation In the farm belt In general. Thus, "the positive" will be put on full public view the moment the Republican Na tional convention has ended, assuming Nixon has walked away with the presidential nomination. (A possible chal lenge by Gov. Nelson Rocke feller of New York cannot be wholly discounted, though the odds are still heavily against it.) AND "the positive" will be this! the linfnldlnff of a Nixon Program" markedly departing from the Eisen hower administration on im portant domestic issues while staying strictly with the pres ident s foreign policy line. At the top of the list will be a farm subsidy much more gen erous than the one to which the Eisenhower administra tion has clung with such ten acity. The vice-presidents fairly relaxed view of the sheer numbers aspect of Wisconsin does seem to make a good deal of sense. True, running unop posed on the G.O.P. side of the ticket, he got only 29 per cent of the total vote. At first glance this looks bad from a traditionally Republican state. Nixon polled 341,000 votes, as against 478,000 for the front - running Democratic presidential aspirant, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massa chusetts, and 372,000, for the Democratic runner-up, Sen ator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. BUT THIS, on past form in Wisconsin, was far from disastrously low. In the 1948 Wisconsin primary tne Demo- cratic delegate slate pledged to President Truman - who was unopposed as Nixon was unopposed this time-gathered 103,000 votes. A total of 304 Try and K85 By BENNETT CERF- PHTL RIZZTJTO, star Yankee shortstop now turned video announcer, nominates Leroy (Satchel) Paige as the greatest pitcher he ever saw. Once old Satch permitted Phil to advance as far ai third base with nobody away, then called to him, "Stop jumping up and down on that base, boy. You ain't goin' nowhere'." Ho then proceeded to fan the side on 10 pitches. After the game, Riz suto asked Paige, "How come you needed 10 pitches?" Satch answer ed In all seriousness, "It was a lousy call. The Old Man never throws bad baU at a time like that" , , Student at M.LT. got rid of a doubting Thomas in a chom lab. They sprinkled him with anti-skeptic powder. ME: You ought to see the altar of our new church! SHE (demurely): Lead me to It. . J 140, b BtftftUt Cut BlsUlDulxd b XM ttWti SiiimUk Menace S. WHITE 000 votes was cast for com peting G.O.P. delegate slates. But Mr. Truman, whose slate had been outvoted by the Re publicans by S to 1, still went on to win the state in Novem ber. Moreover, it is universally agreed that many thousands of Wisconsin Republicans crossed this time into the Democratic primary to help or hurt Kennedy or Humph rey. Nobody supposes that anything like all of these voters will be Democratic in November. A great many will return to the G.O.P. side. This, indeed. Is the stated view of Humphrey himself, among many others. Plainly, a Wisconsinlte who went with Nixon this time had to be a desperately faithful Republican partisan willing more or less to throw his vote away for immediate purposes. He had also to be stoically able to restrain the human temptation to skip a totally dull G.O.P show in order to get in on the big Democratic drama across the street. SO, THE MERE figures don't much fret Nixon, who. like nearly all the pros, tends in rocrnrri nrimaries as heavv on the eye-wash and light on lasting significance. Rut the deeoer realities definitely do fret him. He is nttprlv sure now that some thing urgent has got to be done to improve the G.O.P.'s situation with the farmers everywhere. Ditto the G.O.P.'s situation with old people In need of medical care, and with the depressed areas. Thm It ma he authorita tively predicted that once the Republican convention is oui of the way Richard Nixon will hooln tn disclose the outlines of a new Republican domestic program - even before the for mal opening of the campaign. (Coovriaht. 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Helpful Officer To the Editor: I am sorry to be so late in showing my ap preciation to the Medford state police. On March 20, 1 had the mis fortune to have my car stall on Greensprings highway. Not only did your patrolman radio help for me, he stayed until help arrived. This was greatly appreciated as the pa trolman stayed at least one hour after being off duty. My thanks is only a small token of appreciation. ' Vlto Pctrotta 741 Rose st. Klamath Falls, Ore. Stop Me Vou aint 1 Sacred Heart Hospital Spokesman Says Mail Tribune Story To the Editor: I know that my feelings are probably no different than many hundreds of others in this community who are considerably dis turbed over the news and editorial treatment given to an incident that occurred last week which Involved the Medford Police Department and the Sacred Heart Hospital as well as the doctor who at tended the subject of the mat ter. Many hundreds of people in this area have given of their time and services as well as financial aid to give this com munity excellent hospital care and services at both the Sacred Heart Hospital and the Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital. Unfortunately, from the in formation that we have been able to obtain, the newspaper reporter made his story with out checking with the Sacred Heart Hospital to ascertain the facts although he was re quested to do so by the police officials because an entirely different story would have been written, and of course, the story would not have had the sensational aspects given to it. In the first Instance, Insofar as the matter of times are con cerned, the patient arrived at the emergency room of the Sacred Heart Hospital at 9:50 p.m. on April 4, 1960, and during the next ten minutes efforts were made by the nurse to ascertain from him some of his medical back ground, and she requested the police officer to call Camp Matter of Fact a Joseph NIXON AND ROCKEFELLER Washlngton-The curtain Is about to rise on another act in the singular drama of Vice President Nix on and Gover nor Rockefel ler. Both the i. t'smiin actors ' ft would probab ly prefer a longer inter val. But their hands are be ing forced by Joseph ALsor the need to al lot the main roles at the Re publican convention. There are at least a dozen clamorous aspirants of every hue in the Republican spec trum, for every convention job with the slightest public visibility. For many weeks past, all the aspirants and all their backers have been press ing their claims on the two men with the power of final decision, the Vice President and the chairman of the Re publican National committee, Sen. Thruston Morton of Ken tucky. Something must now be done to end this hurly burly. In this situation, it can be stated on undoubted authori ty that Vice President Nixon has decided to let Governor Rockefeller make his own choice. Nixon's only rival in stature among the new gen eration of Republicans, and his erstwhile active rival for the party's presidential nom ination, can be the 1960 con vention's temporary chair man, or permanent chairman, or keynoter, or chairman of the platform committee, or whatever else he likes-if he likes. THE avenue of approach to Rockefeller has even been decided on. National Commit tee Chairman Morton will make the first soundings. If the soundings are encourag ing and even, perhaps, if they are the very opposite Vice President Nixon will make his carte blanche offer. Ac cording to the same authori ty above-quoted, the approach es to the New York governor must be made within two weeks. Governor Rockefeller's re sponse to the Vice President's offer can be predicted with almost equal confidence. As of this moment, at any rate, he is reliably reported to be strongly, even rigidly dis inclined to accept any public role In the convention that has been so carefully set up to nominate Nixon. Rockefeller feels this reluc tance, apparently because he does not want his hands to be tied by any appearance of joining the Nixon team. He wishes to avoid any limits on his freedom of action, and in particular, any limits on his freedom to discuss national issues and Republican party policy. For this purpose he has already accepted two im 25 Quince . White Domiciliary because the man had previously been there in the hope that they would be able to ascertain the type of drugs and medications that had previously been ad ministered to the patient for both his epilepsy condition as well as his diabetic condition. The police officer was ad vised that the medical records of the subject had been trans ferred to Portland, and the in formation was, therefore, not available. The patient, Mr. Strunk, The patient not only was suffering from a possible diabetic reaction in addition to the epileptic seizures, but also was Inebriated from the use of alcoholic beverages which he admitted having consumed during that day, and that he had not taken any of the medicines that he was supposed to take, During the periods in be tween the epileptic seizures, the patient was belligerent and was using obscene and profane language, and It was very difficult for the nurses and those in attendance to get any facts from him to aid in his own treatment. After the nurse in attend ance was unsuccessful in ob taining any definite informa tion concerning the patient, at 10 p.m. she called the doc tor who was on call and due to the fact that the doctor was treating another patient, he did not arrive at the hos pital until 10:20 p.m. Thereafter, the doctor was very careful In his examina tion of the patient and at- Alsop portant speaking, engage ments, one in Chicago and one In Philadelphia. The Chicago speech will probably be devot ed to domestic matters, while the speech in Philadelphia will concern foreign and perhaps defense policy. The line Rockefeller will take, according to those who should know best, will be ex actly the same line" he took in the numerous speeches he made while he was still a can didate for the Republican nomination. He will speak out, in short, for a more dy namic economy, a stronger national defense, a more vig orous and imaginative for eign policy. In doing so, one can be pretty sure, he will also refrain from any sort of direct criticism of the Ei senhower administration. BECAUSE he was not direct ly critical, Rockefeller got little attention indeed when he took this line in his autumn speeches. Now, how ever, he is not an active, easi ly predictable candidate for office. Instead, he is a large, brooding, unpredictable pres ence, somberly but not un hopefully waiting on events. Because his course is unpre dictable, every phrase he ut ters will be parsed and weigh ed for indirect criticism. Rockefeller's mere failure to endorse the Nixon candi dacy got national attention for his recent short speech at Jamestown, N.Y. It can be imagined, then, how much at tention will be paid to the major Rockefeller speeches that are still to come. As Rock efeller will make no open at tack, there can be no ugly ruckus". But there will surely be much commotion, and be hind the scenes, there will be strong emotion too. If this is the outlook, it may well be asked why the Vice President should plan to give Gov. Rockefeller his choice of public roles at a party conven tion that will be so complete ly Nixon-controlled. The ans wer, obviously, is that Nixon would still like the record to show that he has behaved generously towards Rockefel ler. Nq improvement of the rec ord will alter the central fact, however. The fact is that con trasting circumstances and nAMfltntinff mirnnf xpern tn have doomed Nixon and ! Rockefeller to a state of con cealed hostility, this hostility will endure, apparently, at least until the convention is over. (Copyright I960, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Light Snow Reported At Government Camp Salem IUPD L I g h t snow was reported today at Govern ment Camp, Warm Springs junction, Santiam pass and Willamette pass. Timberline reported packed snow with chains advised. Bob Rucker Counsellor OREGON FUNERAL PLAN The Only FUNERAL PLAN Sponsored by Orjon Funtrtl Dirtctora Ati'n . . SP 2-9210 Incorrect, Misleading tempted to solicit further medical information from him because due to the combina tion of ailments of the patient, It was very important that his treatment and any drugs ad ministered be such that he would not suffer a serious reaction. At 10:49 p.m. the drug was administered -to the patient and thereafter, the doctor called the Veterans Domicil iary at Camp White and ascer tained that they would not accept the patient from any hospital, but- would accept him if he were at the police station and indicated at that time that they would send an ambulance in for him. At no time did anyone re fuse to admit this patient at the Sacred Heart Hospital, but during all of the treat ment he was classified as an out-patient, and at no time was his physical condition en dangered by the fact that the doctor was attempting to make arrangements to. have him accepted at the Camp White Domiciliary Hospital. The doctor in attendance did accompany the patient to the city police station and arrangements were made to transport the patient by po lice vehicle to the Camp White Hospital, and In that connection the patient's con dition was not such that his health was in any way en dangered. The Executive Committee of the Jackson County Medi cal Association has studied all of the records of both the hospital and the doctor in attendance and have determ ined that the patient did re ceive prompt and adequate care, and that the disposition followed was in no way detri mental to the health of this patient. We have also checked with the Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital and find that they would have followed the same course as was followed in this case. To the. knowledge of any one that we have been able to contact, there never has been an instance where the Sacred Heart Hospital has re fused admission to any patient who needed emergency medi cal hospitalization or in any case where there were not other adequate facilities avail able. I am sure that you know and realize that both hospitals receive a great many patients brought to them by the police department where the sub jects are or have been domi ciled at Camp White, and in a great many of these cases, the problem is primarily one of an excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages. ' mere Is no one to Dav the hospital cost for the services rendered, and the United States Government through its Veteran's Administration refuses to pay for hospitaliza tion of these individuals, and it has been a serious problem to our local hospitals. Possibly you and the peo ple of this area are not aware of the fact that the Sisters of Providence and Charity who founded the Sacred Heart Hospital here in Medford did so with their own funds, and that they have continued to maintain the hospital obtain ing funds from outside of this area in order to do so, without ever having a public drive for funds from the people served by this hospital. You are probably not aware also that almost $100,000 of the amount originally requir ed to build the hospital has as yet not been repaid, and no moneys from the operation of this hospital have ever left this community but have been used entirely for the medical care of people in this area. It is true that not only the Sacred Heart Hospital has Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan V 1 - Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 - MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOllY ST. f W financial problems due to in creased costs, but every hos pital today is faced with the same sort of problems. During the past six years, the Sacred Heart Hospital has lost an average of approxi mately $50,000 per year by reason of charity cases and bad debts for hospital serv ices, and the Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital has had much the same picture on un collected bills for services rendered. Unless some solution Is found to this problem, the tax payers may find it necessary to construct a county hospital to take care of the indigents, and the cost of doing so and maintaining such a facility would be several times the amounts that are lost each year by the two hospitals, Sacred Heart Hospital and Rogue Valley Memorial Hos pital, by reason of services rendered to these people. It is most regretable that is ever necessary to collect any bill for services from any patient, but Inasmuch, as neither of these hospitals are governmental agencies, they must have the funds to con tinue their operation, and the only way they can obtain those funds is either for the services rendered or from in dividual contributors. It is most regrctablet that the Mail Tribune printed the stories without ascertaining the true facts when they could have done so with very little difficulty. It would seem that the Mail Tribune could perform a greater service for the com munity by pointing out to the people of this area the tre mendous services being per formed by its two major hos pitals and the reason for the high cost of hospitalization which the records show is due primarily to the fact that em ployees must be in attend ance on a 24 hour basis, seven days a week. The primary cost of hospital operations is for employees' salaries and wages which item accounts for al most 70 per cent of the cost of operation. I feel also that a word of commendation should be given once in awhile to the many hundreds of public spirited citizens who have been furn ishing services without charge to these hospitals so that the costs of hospitalization would not be higher than they now are. Paul W. Havlland, For the Board of Sacred Heart Hospital, Medford. NORCROSS RELIGIOUS -Easter ar4s See our fine selection (WW IE . We'll Defer It If You Prefer It! Premiums may be budgeted on the deferred payment plan you desire. Even annual premiums can be financed and still earn you a term saving. Stop in and inquire. ISt'- CP'
