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. Tuesdays. 7:30-9:30
p.m., Adelbert Hackert; con
versational Russian II, Tues
days, 7:30-9:30 p.m., John Mc
Kinney; ceramics. Monday,
7:30-9:30 p.m., Jack Teeters;
radio license, Monday and
Thursday, 7-10 p.m., Charles
Moody.
Complete schedules of
spring term classes are avail
able by calling the adult edu
cation department, SPring
3-7220.
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