Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 12, 1960, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., October 12, 1960, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1960)

Page of 20 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.8 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 20 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Texto Sac res Heart Hospital to amis Re on Medford., 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1960 No. 176 Bomb Reported in High School Twice ' .. Twice this morning city of ficials received a call report j tag a bomb at the Medford i High school. , The first call, received by " the city police at 7:07 a.m., was from a man who said that a "powerful bomb" was ' at the high school and that ' he "didn't want anyone to get hurt." Following a thorough ! search of the building by 1 about 20 police officers and 10 city firemen the search 2 was discontinued shortly aft er 9 o'clock. At 9:16 a.m. the ' fire department received a 1 limilar call, also from a man, ; who said that a bomb was in i a "locker at the school." ; i In both cases it was report ed that the man hung up . quickly so it was impossible to have the call traced. .". After the second report school officials checked all 1 lockers at the school. No bombs were found on the premises. City police reported that the few students at the school when the first call was re iceived left the building with only the maintenance staff and school officials remaining in the building., Classes resumed . after 9' o'clock. ' " :; During the first search the air was released from a tire , i of one of the police patrol Kennedy Concerned Over Debate Vetov New York-IDPD -n. John F. Kennedy said today he was concerned because Vice Presi j dent Richard M. Nixon had turned down a fifth television debate before the. November jl election; ' A Kennedy said he also was .3 nnDosed to turning over, the . s last of four "debates he has i scheduled with Nixon on Oct. ' 21 to the two vice presidential i .i candidates. ' ; f But Kennedy agreed with a ' Nixon campaign headquarters suecestion that the last debate "' be lengthened to two hours instead of one. 'm Kennedy and Nixon, will l' meet in their third hour-long i: debate Thursday night. The fourth debate, by agreement, is to be on foreign policy. BULLETIN : New York-TOPl) - Viktor Jaanimeti. who fltd com munism from Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev's liner Baltika, wai granted aivlum in the United Stalei today, U.S. immigration- authorities announced, if" l 'IXf jT &slgU V .r" Y ty rV J " S !-V' I V Ma i y 'i:y i7 .- JS 9 ( 1 M w US-! m DISPLAY BANNER Chris Barker of the Security In surance and Realty company, Medford holds Junior -Fire Marshal banner which will be presented to schools in he Medlord district in connection wiUv the f re Prevention achievement awards. Looking on are Medford City Fire cars at the scene and a wet, muddy dog was placed inside the vehicle. School officials later required several stu dents to change the tire on the car and clean up the mud. City and school, officials are still . investigating the inci dents. Police notified the fed eral ' bureau of investigation as federal statutes cover bomb explosions where dam age has been reported. California Man Killed in Cave-In At Building Site ' Yreka - Dwight Eugene Moody, 29, Areata, Calif., was killed, and two other men in jured about noon yesterday in a cave-in at a forest access road construction site about 50 miles southwest of Yreka. Siskiyou county sheriff's deputies said Gene Phelps, 39, a Yreka contractor, and Vern Taylor, 46, a forest service employee from Yreka, was in jured. Taylor, was the more 'seriously injured of the two, deputies said. The accident occurred on McNeil creek in the Forks of Salmon area. Workmen were packing dirt under, a large culvert when tne cave-ln , oc curred, deputies said. A helicopter from Etna car rying Dr. Ash Craft was dis patched to tne scene, wnere Dr. Craft treated the injured men before they were flown out. .' Deputies said it took a 15 man rescue team more than two hours before Phelps and Taylor were freed. ! The road is being construct ed . by Sharps Construction company, Yreka, for the for est service. . 10 Lookouts Are Removed by State Ten of the 11 lookouts of the state department of for estry are now donw, the south west district office has report ed. Only Tallowbox lookout, John Groner, is still at his station. He is still at his post because of the station for some radio communication and be cause the Applgate area got leses rain than other parts of the county, it was explained. The office said that the lookout facilities are not closed, however. Lookouts are on standby and some of them if forests dry out. 55th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune Khrushchev Plans To Present Two More Resolutions Russian Premier Again in Tirade United Nations, N.Y. - (UPD - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, far from exhaust ed by his General Assembly tirade on disarmament Tues day night, decided to try it again today on two more pet subjects - colonialism and the American U2 spy flight . Soviet sources said Khrush chev was expected to come to this afternoon s assembly ses sion to argue his proposal to put the Russian propaganda items directly into floor de bate although he suffered a major defeat on disarmament Tuesday night. . . . Expected To Lose Normally such items would be referred to the 99-nation Political Committee for pre liminary debate. He was ex pected to lose in this effort, too, as he did Tuesday night when the General Assembly by a vote of 62-12 turned down his bid for an arma ments debate. The United States, heading off one Soviet move after another, prepared to beat down two Soviet proposals at the afternoon session: -Assembly debate on "a menace to world peace cre ated by aggressive action of the U.S. against the U.S.S.R." This referred to the U2 and RB47 flights. -Assembly debate on Soviet demands for "immediate" in dependence for "colonial" ter ritories. The 20-nation Steering Com mittee has voted that both issues be sent first to the Political Committee. ' The United States was go- Ina into the next phase of U.N. assembly action with the warning that it might with draw from the world organi zation if warlike Red China were admitted Whether the United States will be willing to sit m-the same organization with peo ple who want , to mane war an tne time, i am ""v ou, U.S. Ambassador James J Wadsworlh told newsmen Tuesday. Khrushchev Speech Futu Wadsworth said the close 42-34 vote by which the Red China issue was shelved for this session last Saturday, did not mean Peiping would get in next year. Wadsworth spoke before Khrushchev erupted in an in temperate outburst before the startled assembly, trying to put across his proposal for having the assembly debate disarmament rather than send it to a committee. It was a I futile exercise in arm-waving, Marshal Truman Nelson, left, Capt Wes Coleman of the Westside fire stationlbehind Barker), and the Medford Fire Chief Gordon Barker at right. The Junior Fire Marshal program was introduced into the Medford schools this weei in connection with NationaFire Prevention Week. Pirates Records Tumble as Whitey Ford Wins; Series Again Even Pittsburgh -(UPD The New York Yankees evened the world series at three games each today by crushing the Pittsburgh pirates, iz-u, on lefty Whitey Ford's seven-hit pitching and a recora-iuiea 17-hit attack. ' A crowd of 38,580 watched the Yankees achieve the most one-sided shutout in World Series history. The deciding game will be played here at Forbes Field Thursday. Little Bobby Richardson set World Series record for runs batted in when he knock ed in three runs with a pair of triples. Those two triples in the same game also tied a series record. By winning the seventh series game of his career, Ford equalled the record shared by Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing of previous Yankee teams. Team Records Set The Yankees also set team records of 46 runs and 75 hits for a series. The run total broke the old mark of 43 set by the 1936 Yankees and the hit total surpassed the old rec ord of 74 by the 1912 New York Giants. Roeer Maris. John Blanch- ard and Yogi Berra each col lected three hits for the Yan kees. . i . . The Yankees suffered a casualty early in the game when catcher Elston Howard was struck on the right hand by a pitch from Pittsburgh startnr Bob Friend. X-rays dis closed a broken finger and Howard was lost to the Yan kees for Thursday's game , Richardson's three runs bat- tpri in rave him a total of 12 for the series, breaking1 the old mark of 10 set by Berra in 1956 and tied by Ted Klu szewski of the White Sox last year. . ' The Yankees, striving to even the series'at three games for each club, knocked out Bob Friend in the third in ning. Mickey Mantle's two-run single and Richardson's two- run triple were me Dig una w that uprising. YANKEESFIRST: Boyer bounced out. Kubek grounded out. Maris filed out. No runs, no nits, no errors, none left. j PIRATES FIRST: Vlrdon singled. Groat bit into a double play. Cle mente singled, Stuart struck out. No runs, two hits, no errors, one left. YANKEES SECOND: Mantle bunted out. Berra walked. Skow ron singled. Howard was hit by a pitched ball. Howard had to leave the game and Grba went In to run km nir-hnrHsnn filed Out. Ford singled, scoring Berra. Boyer struck out. une run, iwo mi, iiw k. lAft PIRATES SECOND: Blanchard went In to catch for New York. Clmoli grounded out. Smith singled. Hoak forced Smith. Mazcroski filed out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left, YANKEES THIRD: Kubek was hit by a pitched ball. Maris dou bled. Mantle singled, scoring Ku bek and Maris. Berra singled. Mur taugh took out Friend and called in Cheney. Showron lined to Cle mcnte. Mantle scoring after the catch. Blanchard singled. Richard son tripled, scoring Berra and Blanchard. It set a series run bat ted In record for Richardson, giving him a total of 11. Ford struck out. Boyer filed out. Five' runs, five hits, no errors.' one left. " PIRATES THIRD: Baker batted for Cheney and struck out. Virdon grounded out. Groat struck out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. YANKEES FOURTH: Mlzell went in to pitch for the Pirates. Kubek lined out. Maris struck out. Mantle walked. Berra grounded out. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left. PIRATES FOURTH: Clemente and Stuart grounded out, Cimoll struck out, No runs, nu hits, no errors, none left. YANKEES FIFTH: S k o w r o n doubled. Blanchard filed out. Rich ardson lined out. Ford grounded out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. PIRATES FIFTH: Smith singled. Hoak walked. Mazeroski hit into a double play. Nelson batted for Mizcll and struck out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. YANKEES SIXTH: Green went in to pitch for the Pirates. Boyer tripled. Kubek singled, scoring Boy er. Maris singled. Murtaugh took out Green and called on Labine. Mantle struck out. Berra singled, scoring Kubek. Skowron hit Into a double play. Two runs, four hits, no errors, one left. PIRATES SIXTH: Vlrdon ground ed out. .Groat lined out. Clemente singled. Stuart bounced out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. YANKEES SEVENTH: Blanchard doubled. Richardson tripled, acor ine Blanchard and raialna- his all- time series runs batted in record to 12. Ford laid down a squeeze bunt. Richardson scorlnff and Ford being safe at first on the fielder's choice. Boyer hit into a double play. Kubek lined out. Two runs, two nits, no errors, none left. PIRATES SEVENTH: The Yan kees now had a total of 44 Tuns and 75 nits, both scries records Llmoli was safe at first wben Ku bek fumblcd his ground ball. Smith forced Clmoli at second, Hoak forced smith, Mazeroski filed . out, No runs,-no hits, one error, one leu. , . , . , , j YANKEES EIGHTH: ' 'Marts singled. Mantle forced Marls. Man tle went to second on a wild pitch. Berra singled, scoring Mantle and when Vlrdon threw wildly to the plate for an error, Berra went to second. Skowron grounded out, Mazcroski to Stuart, Berra -going to third. Blanchard doubled, scor ing Berra. Richardson filed out. Two runs, three hits, no errors, one left. PIRATES EIGHTH: Kubek went to left field and DeMaestri to short for the Yankees. Schofleld batted for Labine and grounded out. Vlr don grounded out. Groat singled. Clemente grounded out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. YANKEES NINTH: Witt went In to pitch for the Pirates and Schof- licia went to snonsiop. roru grounded out. Boyer grounded out. Kubek lined out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. PIRATES NINTH: Stuart ground. ed out. Clmoli singled. Smith hit into a double play. No runs, one hit. no errors, none left. . NEW YORK AB ft II RBI Boyer 3b .-. . 6 Kubek-ss-lf 5 1 Marls, rf 8 Mantle, cf 4 Berra If - 4 DeMaestri ss 0 Skowron lb . . 4 Howard c . 0 a Grba 0 Blanchard c ..... . 4 Richardson 2b 5 Ford p - 4 Totals 41 12 17 12 PITTSBURGH . AB H RBI 1 0 Vlrdon cf 4 Groat ss 4 Witt p 0 Clemente rf 4 Stuart lb 4 Cimoll If Smith P 4 Hoak 3b - 2 Mazeroski 2b Friend p ... Cheney p D Baker Mizell p Nelson Green p T.nhin n d Schofleld is 1 Totals 32 . 0 . ' a Ran for Howard In 2nd. b Struck out for Cheny In 3rd n etr...u nt fnr Mizcll In 5th d Grounded out for Labine In Mhw Vork ... 015 002 22012 Pittsburgh 000 000 000 0 E Kubek, viraon, ru- a, new York 27-19, Pittsburgh 27-11. DP Richardson, KuueK ano oKowron; nn.or R i-MMinn Ann OKowron 4 UnaU Mazeroski and Stuart. LOB New York 7. Plthsburah 6. 9R Mir , Skowron. lliancnara 3B Richardson 2, Boyer. S Ford. SF Skowron. IP H 9 7 t.R BB SO Ford (Wl 0 1 9 Friend (LI.. 2 5 I 1 0 0 I 2 0 4 0 0 0 Cheney I Mizcll 2 Green .- 0 Labine 3 Wilt I Friend pitched to four baiters In 3rd: Green pitched to three baiter? in ethi. irp nv Friend (Howard. Ku h.- wp T.hine. U Stevens IA), .Ia-knurkl Nl. first hasC: Chvlak IAI. second base; Boggcas ,m; ihlrH hj lndes (Nl and Honochlck (A i, foul lines. T 2:38. A 38.580. Radio-TV Highlights Thursday's debate, third in a series of four belwetn Vies President Richard Nixon and Sen. John Ksn n d y, presidential candi dates, will be broadcast by KYJC (1230 kc) and KMED (144Q, kc) at 3:30 p.m. It wiinbe in ovtr KBES-TV it 7:30 p.m. OoMeird, 12-0 PIRATE OUT Pittsburgh's Bill Virdon is out at second base in the first inning of to day's World Series baseball game at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek waits for the toss from second base Tempo Picks Up In Embezzlement harge Trial Tempo of the circuit court case involving embezzlement charges against O. H. Bengt son picked up today as Mrs. Rachael Peterson. C a r t e r, former Medford Escrow com pany officer, testified. Mrs. Carter was on the wit ness stand yesterday after- nnnrk and most of this morn- ine. This morning Brian u Mullen. deDuty district attor ney, was apparently trying to Drove Mrs. Carter was presi dent of the escrow company in name only. This morning she testified as ?ta who the officers or tin escrow company are. She alsi testified' - that' she had never seen the bylaws ,ol ,ine corpo ration until: they were snown her this morning in court. : Informed of dffic ' ' Asked how she became com pany president she replied she was never elected. Bengtson informed her that she was president,' she added. Further Questioning at mid- morning was interrupted by a conference in hie ju"s- " ohnmhers between Attorneys Gerald Scannell and Mullen, of the district huuhicj f ice; Robert Boyer and Rich ard Carney, representing Bengtson, and Circuit Judge Orval Millard of Grants Pass. A recess was called later while the- deputy district at torneys prepared other docu ments as evidence in the case. Witnesses who testified yes mi afternoon included Peter Ruef, operations officer for the First National jamm Oregon, Mrs. tarter, n McGray ana seima iuuuB. -vnived in a transaction with Medford Escrow company, and Cecil Ray Moore, Young's employer. . Burlington Official To Visit Medford c. Murphy, presi dent of the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy Railroad com pany, Chicago, will be in Med ford Thursday evening and Friday morning. He will be accompanied here by Guy R. Glover, vice urea dent in charge or tratut;, F. E. Sperry, assistant vice nresident in charge of opera tions; and S. S. Hankis, west ern traffic manager, San Fran cisco. . W. H. Pyle, Burlington's enmmerciai aKent here, said he has Dlanned tours of local fruit packing firm and a lumber mill for the officials. Thursday evening they will meet with shippers from this WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night. Fog patches during early morning hours. Variable clou diness Thursday with possi bility of a few showers late In day. Low tonight 38. High Thursday CS. Temp. Highest Yesterday 60 IjiwhL This Mornlnr 42 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:35 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow S-.2J a.m. The Moon rises 11:30 p.m. tonight and Is In Apogee. !.ait QuarsT today .. B:ZS a.m. VISIBLE IV-ANF.TS Venus, sets S:Z3 P-m, Jupiter, low In south west 1:51 p-m, Saturn, low In south west . .:? p.m. Mars, rises 10:23 p.m man Bobby Richardson. Calling the play is Umpire Nestor Chylak. On the play Dick Groat hit into a double play to Richardson, who tossed to Kubek and the throw to first baseman Bill Skowron. (UPI Telcphoto) Sweetland Forand Bill; Talks To Demo Monroe Sweetland, Demo cratic candidate for Secretary of State, said in Medford last night that his opponent is try ing to make a campaign issue out of the Forand bill, even hough the Secretary of State's office would have nothing to do with this." Sweetland said, however that he is glad the matter has been entered Into the cam - nalon he.niiRe Vte ran nnw dls- - --- tt 1 "lettitlmntelv He " - v a' - snid the nroble mof medical care tor tne anuu i& ui mv.i a-, ne nau not nuuuuu n. ucuwic-1 pne closure of the hospital Ing importance, particularly rage said Dr. Baker ''is will- has been long rumored and in Oregon, and he threw his jng to take full blame',', on the di3Cussed. Doctors of "the support behind the ..Forand bill. -Sweetland, a state senator from Clackamas county and publisher of the Milwaukie (Ore.) Review, addressed nis remarks ,to a dinner meeting. of the Democratic Social club at Kim's restaurant. Approxi matcly SO persons attended the meeting, Receives Notice Earlier, Bill Dcatherage, Swcetland's campaing mana ger in Jackson county, said that the Medford Chamber of Commerce roundtable lunch eon had received notice two weeks in advance that Sweet land would not be able to speak to their group last Monday.- . SP May Acquire Western Pacific San Francisco (UPB South ern Pacific company has filed an application with the Inter state Commerce commission for its approval of SP acquir ing control of the Western Pacific Railroad company, SP President D. J. Russell an nounced today. Russell said Southern Paci fic Land company, an SP sub sidiary, had acquired for in vestment 182,300 shares of the common stock of Western Pacific by purchases on the New York Stock Exchange He said Southern Pacific applied to the ICC for appro val of gaining control of West ern Pacific through acquisi tion of additional stock which he added, would be accom plished through an offer for the exchange of boutnern ya cific common stock, share for share, for Western Pacific common stock, or through the purchase of Western Pacific stock, as the company may be advised. Sacred Heart Hospital Founded Here in 1910 Sacred Heart hospital was founded in Medford in 1910. Dr. R. J. Conroy and Dr. R. W. Clancy, Medford physi cians, Interviewed Archbishop Christie in Portland and re quested some Catholic Sister who would consider opening a hospital in southern Oregon, according to information from Sister Luke, present hospital administrator. The sisters of St. Vincent Catholic hospital In Portland volunteered to erect a hospital in Hfjdford. When they ar rived here they took over what was then the Southern Oregon hospital. It was a yel low wood frame house on the corner of South Central ave. and 11th it. and already occu- Supports Club Here Dr. Ken Baker, round table chairman, said he did not re ceive notification that Sweet- land's appearance had been cancelled and the luncheon group met 1 '"V . .. .. 1 would be there, Wen imauy disbanded after he did show up. ;, , ; , : , Dcatheraize said Dr. Baker 1 told him it was possible tthat 1 It une nnnall-iln tlmf o letter I v 1 nnnlllr.o , the nrmnlntmertt vniiii.a -t-t - . hurl hnon received bv him. but matter.- - ' s itcgarainu meuic" t-sni 1 1 . J C,..nflaHrf. BoM thinks these issues are rem ed to the campaign "in tnei sense that they.rovcal the var- ious points of view of the two candidates." (Continued on Page 9) Oregon Traffic Fatal To Five By United Press International A barge explosion, a trucK s plunge over an earthfill dam and two traffic accidents claimed the lives of five per sons in Oregon Tuesday. A sixth person, Owen R. Buse, 63, North Bend, also died in a traffic accident but authori ties think his death was caused by a heart attack. Ward Warren, 4S, was in jured fatally, and Ed Coburn, 54, .was believed arownoa Bi ter an explosion ripped a 208- foot fuel barge at The Danes. Louis Gcorec Englehart, 32, Willamette City, was killed Tuesday afternoon when the truck he was driving crasneo off the earthfill dam at the Hills Creek Dam project. Orvil Owen Harris, 71, For est Grove, was killed in a col lision between the pickup truck in which ho was riding and a logging truck about 15 miles northwest of - Warm Springs. ' " . L Mrs. Frona McCormack, 79, Salem, died of injuries suffer ed when she was struck by- a car in the Salem city limits. WOMAN INJURED Mrs. Bertha Dalton was re ported in good condition at Sacred Heart nospnai at noun today following a one-vehicle accident about 11:15 a.m. on Highway 99 at Blackweu run pied by 14 patients. A Mrs, Havsrr was then supervisor. The sisters moved into the attic of the wood frame house, Construction of the present Sacred Heart hospital on Sis kiyou heights was started soon after the sisters located ncre On Jan. 2, 1912, the new hos pital was officially opened. Estimated cost -was $175,000. During the last 10 years Sacred Heart h averaged 4,000 in-patients a year and about 2,200 out-patients, sis ter Luke said. I Shop and storage facilities in outbiuldings w! added 10 years ago. A section of the hosnital was remodeled 1954, and surgery and lab fa cilities provided. Action Announced After Study; May Be Year or Two Financial Reasons Given for Decision Sacred Heart Hospital will be forced to close its doors within the next year or two it was announced today. The announce m e n t was made by Sister Luke of th8 Savior, administrator of the hospital. She cited a high and increasing debt, a continued operating deficit, and increas ing patronage of Rogue Val ley hospital, combined with high costs of improvements and construction, as reasons for the decision. The decision to close, after the Rogue Valley hospital completes its planned new wing, was made by the Sisters of Providence, who operate the hospital, and by the hos pital board. The plan received approval from the sisters' headquarters in Montreal, Canada, yester day. ' The Sisters of Providence plan to leave the hospital be- -fore it is closed, Sister Luke said, and it may be within the next month or so. Mean while, the hospital has appeal ed to the Rogue Valley hos pital board to work out a plan of operation and admin istration for Sacred Heart until it closes. (A spokesman - for Rogue Valley hospital today said the board will meet tomorrowt and will consider the prob lems involved in providing a continuity of hospital care facilities. Board members said they -will give their full co- operation In meeting the hos- nital needs-nf the communltv. dl completion of the ew h7gpUa, wing.v . . . . ;S(Ther problems Involved, IV rI,. t iM,,rf main.' 1 tuning the necessary number - 1 .'. n . j i i oi'oeas; -operating aueti,uav' I ."'. .. ..,- . ... - I surgical-, laciiittes, ana tn 1 n i ' county earlier this, year an w i nouncea tnejr view mat mea- ha f I . . , J 1 I . A .3 1.. - 1 both hospitals continuing to operate, s -.. - .'But Sister Luke, obviously 1 saddened by the necessity of the decision, said condition! have made It impossible . to continue. , : ' Wants Success. -'.''' "I want Rogue Valley hos pital to succeed," she said. "I do not want there to be any bitterness when we finally close and leave the valley." The decision followed re- ceiot of a comprehensiva study of the two hospitals, . nd of local medical needs. prepared for both hospital by James A. Hamilton -A soclates, hospital consultants. The survey found that, con trary to earlier beliefs, the) " trend In medical treatment will not make Medford a medical center" for a large area, except in a few special ties. Growth of good hospital facilities in Ashland, Klamath FaHs, Grants Pass, and else where in southern Oregon and northern California, will re sult in mostly local peopls patronizing the local medical facilities, the survey stated. It recommended, first, a "two-hospital" plan, with a new Sacred Heart building; adjacent to the Rogue Valley site, with many facilities com bined. As alternates it listed a modified two-hospital plan, a single-hospital plan, and, finally, continued operation of two independent hospitals. Price Estimates s The price estimates ranged from $2,740,000 for the first up to $3,181,000 for the lat ter. The Sacred Heart board. supported by the Sisters, de clined to accept any of these proposals, either because of prohibitive costs, or because of a loss of essential purpose. Sister Luke said yesterday that during the half-century the Sacred Heart hospital has been in operation, it has sc- cumulated a debt totaling $285,000. Of this $100,000 is the original debt, never paid off, and another $180,000 is. an accumulation i of deficits over the past 7V4 years. - Recently, a drive to raise $75,000 in operating funds brought in only $29,000, much of it from local physicians, Sister Luke said. She estimated the hospital has some $200,000 worth of equipment which must be dis posed of, perhaps to Rogue Valley hospital. . , Nine sisters comprise the supervisory staff of the hos- pital, she said, and when they leave, they will assigned to other Catholic hospitals. The rest of the staff will remain during construction of the new Rogue Valley wing. (Continued en Page 9A) j ,i