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Murrow Confesses To Early Decision Made in Northwest MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNE. MEDl'ORD, ORE. THURSDAY. MARCH 16, 1381 By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -Edward R. Murrow made a confession to the Senate Foreign Relations committee the about a teen a g e decision he made while work' ing 1 o g g ing camps of the Pacific North west. "I was c h r i s t e ned Egbert but abandoned that name at the age of 16 while working in logging camps," said the fa mous radio and television commentator. Senators, perhaps more than most folks, understand the virtue of a good, solid, respectable-sounding name. One of their number, Styles I J Smith Three Hospitals In Area Make Accredited List Rogue Valley and Sacred Heart hospitals in Medford are on the annual list of ac credited hospitals published by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals in Chicago. Also on the list is Josephine General hospital, Grants Pass. Approximately 6,000 hospi tals are eligible for accredita tion, according to Dr. Ken neth B. Babcock, commission director, who pointed out that the omission of a hospital from the list did not necessarily mean it had failed to pass an accreditation survey. The pro gram is a voluntary one and only those hospitals which re quest surveys are visited. Hospitals with less than 25 beds are, with rare exceptions, not eligible for accreditation, he said. The joint commission is an agency established by the American College of Physi cians, American College of Surgeons, American Hospital association and the American Medical association to conduct the hospital survey and inspec tion program initiated by the American College of Surgeons in 1919. Dr Babcock said accedita lion means that a hospital "has voluntarily submitted to a survey of its facilities and its patient care. It is a badge of recognition which the hos pital can display to its com munity to prove that it con forms to high standards of pa tient care." Shelby Tuttle Named to Group Two southern Oregon men are among the 22 laymen to the Oregon Committee on Crime and Delinquency of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, it was an nounced this week by Herbert W. Kochs, president. Oregon is the first state na tionally to be developed under the 1960-65 grant of the Ford Foundation to NCCD. Appointments to the Ore gon committee, effective Jan. 1, 1962. include Shelby M. Tuttle. executive secretary of the Fruit Growers league, Medford, and Robert G. Davis, general manager of the Southern Oregon Plywood company, Grants Pass. The committee will study and evaluate programs for the prevention, control and treat ment of delinquency crime. Recommendations and solu tions will be made, reports is sued to the public, and action taken to meet problems and needs. Plans for the inaugural meeting of the committee are being developed for some time in April. It is expected that an office will be set up in Portland within the next two months. Television Camera Following Rockets Los Angeles - UPD - A 10 pound television camera has solved the problem of how to get a close-up view of a rocket firing so noisy it could injure a man. The camera used in many static and flight tests of mis siles and booster rockets is part of a closed-circuit tele vision system manufactured by the Siegler Corp. It was used when all eight engines of the Saturn. Ameri ca's most powerful rocket, were given a simultaneous static test at Huntsvillc, Ala. Ilailamore cameras operat ing at a distance of five feet maintained a perfect picture for observers in a concrete blockhouse during a 113-sec-ond trial of the engines cap able of generating a million-and-a-half pounds of thrust. Bridges of New Hampshire, some years ago abandoned a good American name, Harry, in favor of his present mon iker because he wanted no one to mistake him for the head of the Longshoremen's union. Fame and this confession did not, however, get Murrow off the pan with the sena torial inquisitors concerning his new job as head of the U.S. Information Service. The 90 per cent sacrifice in an nual salary which he is tak ing to join the Kennedy Ad ministration visibly impressed several senators. The conflict, however, de veloped on the issue of sales manship. Two sturdy mid westerners, Hickenlooper of Iowa and CapeharJ of Indiana, thought that Murrow's job is to be a salesman of the vir tues of America. Murrow seemed, rather, to believe he was to continue being essentially a reporter reporting to the world truth fully the story of events in America. He didn't fancy him self as the champion sales man that these senators seem ed to think he ought to be in this assignment. The difference focused on a documentary television pro gram Murrow did recently which depicted farm condi tions in the United States as something less than altogeth er ideal. Hickenlooper won dered repeatedly why Mur row didn't show more of Iowa's prosperous farms and fewer marginal farms. Cape hart wondered how in the world he expected to sell any body on America if he point ed out her flaws. As a commercial minded man who made a fortune sell ing and manufacturing the electronic product which bears his name, the chubby Indiana solon said no suc cessful salesman knocks his own product. Instead, he tells the customer about its good features, emphasizing the positive. Murrow did not pooh-pooh salesmanship or its time-honored techniques. He held the view that customer satisfac tion, based on reliability of the product, was more impor tant than the sales record based on many snappy sales. He plans to tell the customer of both the good and not-so-Eood features so the world will respect the veracity of the Voice of America. If he should tell only the good, shiny truths about the United States, the world would catch on, Murrow be lieves, and anti-American ele ments would more easily dis tort the tarnished side to make it look very black in deed. "We shall operate on the basis of truth," Murrow said. "Being convinced that we are engaged in hot an implacable competition with communist forces around the world, we will not be content to counter their lies and distortions. We shall constantly reiterate our faith in freedom. The voice of this country should at all times be steady-firm but not bellicose-carrying conviction that we will not flinch or falter in the face of threats or orovocations. . . "We live in a world we didn't make. We are honored by an awesome responsibility of leadership we did not seek. We must defend and expand that leadership in company with our allies and other like minded people because that is what our history and our heritage demand of us. We are the pivot upon which the history of our time will turn. Our task is formidable and difficult but difficulty is one excuse history has never ac cepted." NewAdlGasses To Start March 22 New adult classes for the spring term will begin at Med ford High school the week of March 27. according to Lind say M. Vinsel, adult educa tion supervisor. All classes will meet for ten weeks, ex cepting speed reading which will meet for five. Classes offered are: speed reading. Tuesdays and Thurs days, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Oliver Erickson, teacher; poetry workshop, Thursday, 7:30 9:30 p.m., Helene Hutchinson; conversational Italian. Friday, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Dr. Anthony DcSoto; choral singing for fun, Tuesdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Dr. Justin Dyrud. Intermediate short hand, Mondays and Thursdays, 8:15 9 45 p.m., Juanita Mayer; al gebra. 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