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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1960)
J g THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1860 MEDFORD MAIL TRIgUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. - $13 Million Federal-State Medical Care Program Recommended Disapproval of Government Seen As Possibility Salem-IUPD-The Governor's Advisory Committee on Medi cal Care for the Aged Wednes day unanimously recommend ed a $13 million federal-state medicare program in Oregon beginning July 1, 1961. Bui tne program appears oversnaaowea By the possi bility that the federal govern ment may not approve it be cause it includes the use of deductibles and co-insurance. The committee said in Its report to Gov. Mark Hatfield that the State Welfare Com mission is asking the. U.S. De partment of Health, Educa- Kidney Transplant Performed on Identical Twins Boston - (UPD - Rare kidney transplant surgery which re quired prior approval of the Massachusetts Supreme Court was performed Wednesday on Identical 11 -year -old Stein bach, Manitoba, twin girls. Officials at Peter Bent Bngham Hospital, where the first such successful trans plant surgery was performed six years ago, snid the double surgery involving removal of a healthy kidney from one girl and its installation in the sec ond twin took more than six hours. The operation required the services of surgical teams of 10 members each, . 11th Transplant . In the operation, a healthy kidney was transplanted from Lana Nightingale to her sister, Johanna. The surgery, was at tempted because Johanna suf fers from chronic, kidney dis ease. .. , i It was the Hlh time the transplant has been perform ed here between identical twins. They were the young est participants to undergo tne surgery pioneered here. The official hospital state ment said the girls ''with- stood kidney transplant opera tlve procedure satisfactorily dui cautioned that the an nouncement "does not include a prognosis for success at this time. The statement added that It will be "several days or long er before the function of the new kidney can be evalu ated. tion and Welfare about this .quire complete reconsidera phase - an integral part of tion of Oregon's proposal, cs the committee's proposal. ' pccially the eligibility formu An adverse decision by the la, scope of bencfiva and meth federal government would re- od of providing them. Color Doodle-Do w-;r i ?v m i i f " , . fi 1 i i w i PRESIDENT RELAXES A&P President Halph Burger re laxes qtop a turn-of-the-century bulk tea bin similar to those from which he made up customer orders 49 years ago when he started with the big food chain.. (UP! Telephoto) Buying Red Pepper Led to Presidency Of Big Food Chain WAKE UP your kitchen color scheme - embroider live ly roosters on towels, curtain, cloth! Bright, bold, BIG! Swift-to-emboider roosters - gay rick rack trim - cover almost half a towel. Pattern 7470: tranfer four motifs 8x8Vi inch; direc tions. Send Thirty-five cents (in coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to the Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P. O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. ; JUST OUT! Our 1961 Nee dlecraft Book, Over 125 de signs for home furnishings, for fashions - knit, crochet, embroider, weave, sew, quilt toys, gifts, bazaar items. FREE six designs for popular veil caps. Quick-send 25 cents today. Reserves of lignite, a low grade coal, are located mostly in the states lying west of the Mississippi River, New York -IUPII- Ralph W Burger was delivering furni ture for $7 a week when he went into a Glens Falls, N.Y., grocery store one wintry day for some red pepper to keep his feet warm. , r He' struck up a friendship with Charley Reilly,' the man ager of that A M P store, and went to' work for him "be cause' Charley Reilly would pay me $9 a week." That,-was in 1911. Thirty- nine years later, in 1950, Bur ger became president of the giant grocery chain. Reilly, sensing the abilities of his new young- employee, recommended within a few months that he -be transferred to the firm's headquarters office, then ,in Jersey City, N.J.i.'. ' '' , ': ,'.:.;: Workftd' as Bookkeeper There Burger went to work . a ' bookkeeper, working closely with John and George Hartford, sons of the A 4c P's founder, Young ' Burger had had no particular training for this work. He had gone through public .schools and spent one year ' at Wcsleyan University, failing to com plete the training his mother had hoped would make him a minister, -But- he learned quickly. ' ' The company was growing rapidly under, the. plan evolv ed by John .Hartford of a chain of cash and carry econ omy stores. New stores were opening 'at 'the rate , of 1,000 a year. Recalls First Advice Burger recalls ' today the first advice given . him . by John . Hartford: "Never do anything in V liiirry. And al ways listen to the voice of ex perience." It has proved good advice, Burger said. "In these days we often seem too prone to act in haste and impulsive ly, without balancing action against past experience and without weighing the con sequence of our actions." Burger is a constant dood lcr. His scrt)blings Have never been analyzed, he said, but "all of them seem to consist of straight lines, as straight as I can make them. I hope that indicates I'm Interested in the shortest distance between two points; maybe, I am, because that's been a constant aim of our food distribution business ever since I've been in it." A&P sales volume has risen from S3 billion to more than $5 billion a year during Burger's presidency. For the last three years he also has been chairman of the board of directors. But one of Burg er's proudest boasts is the sat isfaction of the chain's em ployees - Us 100.000 full-time employees have been with the company an average of seven years. And he attributes much of the firm's growth to the policy which makes each store "as local as possible," conforming architecturally to its neighborhood as well as basing lis store hours and purchasing on local custom. Funds for Research Burger also is president and a trustee of the John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc., to which the Hartford brothers who were his early associates left the bulk of their personal fortunes, with the direction that it be used to do "the greatest good for the greatest number." It is currently de voting most of its funds, an nual grants of nearly $4 mil lion a year, to medical-research and practice. Burger, . now in his 70s, white haired and erect, spends his long week end holidays with his wife at an Adiron dack Mountain hideout where they swim, ski and climb mountains. A favorite sport is visiting rangers in Adirondack fire towers, and Burger fig ures he's climbed the stairs to about one-third of those in New York state.' He's no longer keeping his feet warm with red pepper. But that old-time remedy, sug gested . by his Glens ' Falls boarding house keeper, "defi nitely did the trick of keeping my feet warm," he said. Planting Bids! On BLM Seedling Projects Opened Portland (UPD B i d s f o r planting 2,249,500 seedings in U.S. Bureau of Land Man agement reforestation proj ects have been opened by the BLM here. Apparent low bidders were, Eugene area, 294,500 seed lings, Tree Farm Manage ment Service, Forest Plan ning service, and Fred Heinz of Salem. Coos Bay, 197,000 seedlings, Wayne Young. Roseburg, 926,000 s e e ti lings, Wayne Young. Ellon Zuver, L. A. Young, Snow Re forestation Service. Baker, 24.000 seedlings. B. L. Rounsvillc. Medford, 808,000 seedlings, Wayne Young, Elmer Beier, Southern Oregon Reforesta tion Service, Paul Blair. Bidding was by units, rang ing from a low of $31 to a high of $40 per unit. In another reforestation project, Georgia-Pacific Corp. has announced about one mil lion fir seedlings will be planted in the Coos Bay, Springfield and Toledo areas, while 15.600 acres in the same region will be seeded aerially with 8.000 pounds of treated ' Douglas fir seeds. I The report also noted that amendments to the federal law are probable in the next Congress but concluded that Oregon should proceed with participation anyway. Legislation Recommended The committee recommend ed emergency legislation in 1961 that would make Oregon law conform with the federal law enabling the state to es tablish its medicare program, The Oregon Public Wel fare Commission would ad minister the program. The program at $6.5 million a year would include $3,250, 000 in state and county funds and the rest federal. Share of the counties would be $850, 000. Purpose of the program would be to provide medical care help for those over 65 not on public welfare. Doctor Services Included The committee said at least half of Oregon's 185,000 per sons over 65 should be eli gible for some benefits. Benefits would include all necessary physicians' services with a $100 per case deduct ible and a $2,000 a year maxi mum. . All eligible -persons would have the option of buy ing or continuing a health in surance policy and the state would pay up to $8.73 a month toward the cost. This would be in lieu of receiving direct payments from the welfare commission. Disapproval Heard The proposal is one which the committee fears the fed eral government may disap prove, i The committee . asked 12 state agencies and organiza tions to make comments and suggestions on the proposal and Chairman Joseph Harvey Jr., Portland, said replies in dicated general approval of the plan. The committee said the plan should provide flexibility needed to accommodate future legislation and . that it will give private voluntary health insurance agencies "an oppor tunity, to assist in supplying medical coverage to this im portant segment of our population." kidHet'niiwat liver Beat chicken meaty nix chopped fish HAPPY'.'' M m o) SHOP FOR 2 DAYS! CLOSED SUNDAY & MONDAY WORRELL'S E-Z-CUT HAM (Already Baked When You Buy It) FULL HALF OR WHOLE lQ)5jib. Fresh Fancy Roasting Chickens (4-LB. AVERAGE FRESH GROUND BEEF lorDS STOCK UP AT THIS . LOW PRICE FRESH CRAB MEAT Strictly Fresh j f sUl WE WILL HAVE ; SOME OLYMPIA OYSTERS TOO! lb. "MORRELL'S PRIDE'' CANNED II lip 5 Pounds Solid Lean Ham 8159 EACH OUR OWN CURE BONELESS BRISKET CORNED BEEF EXTRA LEAN m Fresh Oysters Medium six. jfrxi Full ' Pint ' Salad Size E for Avocadoes I (Excellent for Dips) f Crisp Tender GEL 2 LARGE BUNCHES 1ic TREESWEET "INDIAN RIVER" FRESH FROZEN ORANGE JUICE 12-OZ. 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