Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 12, 1962, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text8 A THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON y2 fllllltli Will Be Us i Step ed Start ifal Addition g April 1 6 . The $1V5 million new wing to the Rogue Valley hospital is nearing completion and will add 88 beds to the hospital's capacity. Total capacity will be 175 beds, according to Charles I. Gustafson, hospitil administrator, who conducted news media representatives on a tour ol the wing yester day. With the increase In ca pacity, the hospital for the first time will be able to have specialized areas, he explain cd. The new win? will have hnrts for 29 orthopedic pa tients on the first floor, 18 maternity beds on the second, 'end 31 general surgery beds jn the third floor. . An additional 10 beds will be gained through remodeling t -e existing building. 'W!'l Be Moved Prlients will be moved into the new maternity section on 'April 16 with general surgery .und orthopedic patienu arriv- ric in the new wing May -remodeling of the present structure will start immedi 'ate'y, Gustafson said, and will continue for approximately six months. " In May, construction also vill start on a lioo.ooo per ,.sonneI housing project to the rear of the hospital on Mur phy rd. The 11 buildings will house nurses and technician . personnel. They will all be o-e story and will be operat ed on a non-profit basis By "the hospital. The hospital now employs .250 persons, Gustafson said, and with the opening of the new wing an additional 70 to 1 100 persons will be added to the payroll over a period of s'x to nine months. Has 80,000 Square Feet The present structure, com plctcd in May, 1958, cost $2.8 million to build and equip, "and contains 80,000 square feet. The present building was constructed with extra large boilers, dietary and laundry facilities to accommodate hos pital expansion. The new wing adds 44,000 square feet of area to the hospital, the administrator said. Gustafson said that future plans call for the expansion of surgery suites, laboratories and the x-ray department. The Kiwanis dental clinic, now in the county courthouse, will be moved to the new hospital wing in September, and plans are under way for a crippled children's clinic there. The administrator said the present hospital has been op- crating at approximately 99 per cent capacity and with the new winn should be able to handle 10,000 patients a year without problems. The aver age stay at the hospital for a patient is five days, he said. 80 Doctors on Staff There are 80 doctors on the hospital's staff of which 60 per cent are certified special ists, Gustafson noted. In commenting on the size of the hospital, the adminis trator said four hospital beds are needed for each 1,000 population. He explained that approximately one out of ev ery six persons in the commu nity is hospitalized each year. The entire hospital is fire proof, Gustafson said, noting that the hospital pays the low est rate of fire insurance pos sible for a hospital. Each room is a unit, constructed so that a fire could burn in it for four hours without burning into a neighboring area. Expansion Joints Above all doors In the struc ture are expansion joints to prevent cracking due to the heavy doors. Light pastel colors are used throughout the new wing with the first and third floors pre dominately in beige, yellow and blue with light green cor ridors. On the second floor p i n k a n d blue are used thronghhout, including t h e telephones. The entire structure uses metal or plastic furniture and patterned plastic wall cover ing for easy maintenance, Gustafson said. All windows In the rooms have been low ered to a height of 22 inches sn patients may sec out while lying in bed. Each floor of the new wing has a nurses' station with a medicine unit and nurses' lounge. All millwork for the wing wns done In the valley, Gus tafson said, with 1)5 per cent of the work by local workers. Physics! Therapy Rooms In addition to rooms, the first floor contains physical therapy and cast rooms so It will not be necessary for pa tients to go to surgery to have casts replaced. A paved terrace has been built off the southeast end of the wing for patients' use. At the end of the patio and along the new wing, a small garden with fountain, waterfall and circulating stream is being constructed and planted. on this project is mainly do nated. On the second floor there are two delivery rooms one equipped for major obstetric surgery four labor rooms, nursery, fathers' waiting room, and other related rooms. Gustafson said the memo- j The general nursery is con rial garden is not named for strucled so babies may be any particular person. Work viewed through a window so K r IE J u , i ' i .... H4S4fxl 'l ' IT GETTING IN SHAPE - Internal Revenue Service Commis sioner Mortimer M. Caplin, who weighs in at lu8 pounds, works out on the light bag In the Pentagon gym in Wash ington, D.C. The exercise is one of the commissioner's fa vorite pastimes. Caplin said he will insist on an audit of 5.3 per cent of all tax returns this year, a new high, and expects the gross take to reach a record-breaking $95 bil lion. The deadline for filing tax returns is April 16. (UPI) Beverly Hills Man Speaks al Church Nothing is beyond the pow er of scientific prayer, Martin Broones of Beverly Hills, Calif., told an audience in Mcdford Tuesday. Any problem in human ex pcrience-lack of health, lack of employment, lack of sup ply, or unhappy relationships can be solved through scien tific prayer, Broones main tained. A Christian Science teacher and practitioner, Broones is on an extensive tour as a member . of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. He spoke at First Church of Christ, Scientist, 100 Windsor ave., on "Christian Science: Religion that Heals Through Prayer." He emphasized that spiri tual understanding of the na ture of God and man is esscn- .tial to scientific prayer. The '.healings of Christ Jesus show ed the operation of divine law, a law which revealed the nature of God to be wholly good, he stated. Salem Hotel's Liquor Permit Suspended Portland -IUPII- The Oregon Liquor Control Commission decided Wednesday that liq uor sales at the Senator Hotel in Salem will be suspended for seven days because of sale of drinks to a minor. The OLCC did not name dates of the suspension but said they would be in April. JAIL FOR CROOK London -UPIi- Robert Crook was sentenced to prison Wed nesday for burglary. visitors will not have to enter the controlled maternity area. Gustafson mentioned that all formulas used for infants at the hospital are packaged and no formulas are made at the hospital. The third floor has a gener al layout similar to the first floor, it was explained. In the basement is a class room and auditorium seating 70, hospital volunteer auxil iary workroom, and mechani cal areas which house air con ditioning equipment, an addi tional emergency generator, and a filter room where the air, is electronically filtered and washed. Gustafson noted that there are air conditioning systems for separate areas so that the air Is not mixed in controlled areas with the gen eral areas of the hospital. Gustafson said all rooms have individual thermostats. He added that two-thirds ot the hospital's cost is in me chanical equipment. Among the larger new items now in stalled is an ethylene-oxide sterilizer which cost $15,000. To Cltan Plastics Large enough to accommo date a bed, the sterilizer is used to clean plastics, articles and similar articles which can not be put in a more conven tional sterilizer under heat and pressure. Such articles would be telephones, televi sion control cords, and mo tors. Gustafson said the ethyl ene-oxide gas is effective only in a vacuum so that it is not harmful to persons in case gas escapes into the third floor room In which it is housed. In commenting about the patients' room, Gustafson said each private room has been equipped so it may accommo date two beds in emergencies. Electrically Operated The hospital beds, costing $400 each, are all electrically operated. Each room or ward is furnished with at least one television set mounted on the wall, above and across the room from the patient. The sets are constructed so pro grams from two television sta tions and three radio stations may be received by the pa tient. Through the use of hand control unit, which also is an inter-communications speaker, the patient may change pro grams or talk to the nurse. The control unit has long cord which plugs into the wall above the bed. On the third floor there is one large private room, which in addition to private bath, has a small dressing room. All other private rooms and wards in the new wing are the same prices as the other part of the hospital, Gustafson said. There will not be a public opening of the new wing, the administrator said, since the beds are needed as soon as the area is completed. Also constructed to the rear of the hospital was a storage building which will handle all bulk supplies for the hospital. CHRY MEATS f round r TELL-TALE CLUES San Bcrnardina, Calif.-it'Pli -Two men suspected of taking I $78 from a radio shop may j wonder why they were arrest- j rd 30 minutes later but it Is no mystery to police. Sgt. Jim I Maddock said with broad-1 east description it was easy to spot Ray Daniels, 24, a six-footer weiring bright red sweater, and his compan- f ion, Roger Grace, 22, who is 8 foot-2. j The House of Personal Service 4th and Fir SP 2-7315 THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL We Will Make Any Cut to Your Specifications Bacon Squares ,J9e VEAL Shoulder Steak ,b 69e T-Bone Steak r-L ,t.89e V 1 I 1 Boneless f fa TonSir om-- 08c Rib Steak,. J5cfei4 LlY6f Baby Beef lb. GRAIN FED KLAMATH BEEF 1, or Whole 7c 1L CUT- WRAPPED and FREE 2 lb. QUICK FROZEN NO DOWN PAYMENT ON APPROVED CREDIT $ 90-ib. FREEZER ORDER Q'QCutandWrap d to YourSpccificati Beef Pork Fowl tions 25 LB. FAMILY ORDER BEEF S1098 Merger of Churches Believed To Be Nearer To Reality By LOUIS CASSELS Washington-UPD-In the high vaulted library of Washington Cathedral, leaders of four Protestant denominations sat, side by side, at the end of a huge oak table. For the past two days they had been talking candidly be hind closed doors about the possibility some would say the distant dream of merg ing the tour denominations to form a single great church with 20 million members. Now they faced roomful of reporters who wanted to know how it had gone. Did these churchmen really think there was a chance of uniting the Episcopal Church, the Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ and the United Presbyterian Church? The question brought a smile from the Rt. Rev. Rob ert F, Gibson Jr., the hand some, grayhalred Episcopal bishop of Virginia, "I can tell you this," he said. "I'm a lot more hopeful about the prospects than I was when I walked in here." A big, baldish man with shoulders like a fullback nod ded in vigoroui agreement. This was the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, who first proposed the merger. "This initial meeting has carried us much further than we had dared to hope," he said. How so a reporter pressed. New York attorney Charles C. Parlln, a member of the Methodist delegation, replied that the conferees had reach ed agreements "easily and enthusiastically" about sev eral Important question! of procedure. They had decided to Invite three more denominations (the Christian churches. Evan gelical United Brethren, and Polish National Catholic Church) to join the talks. They hid -fixed March IB, 1983, for their next meeting. To Begin Studies They had also taken iteps to initiate a large number of joint theological studies, to clarify the specific issues of doctrine and church organiza tion that will have to be set tled before a plan of union can be drawn up. The Rev. Dr. David G. Col Article by Verl Walker Appears in Publication An article entitled, "Forty Years in Electronics Has Brought Us Lots of Firsts, Few Seconds," written by Verl G. Walker of the Verl G. Walker Radio, Engineering and Supply company, 20S West Jackson st., is featured in the recent issue of the magazine, "Electronic Dis tributing." In the article, Walker points out the growth of the busi ness from the time it was started in 1922 until this year, a span of 40 years. "Pioneering an electronic distributing operation in a well of the United Church of Christ suggested that these agreements, while valuable, were not the real reason' for the optimism which clearly radiated from the whole group. .What really counted, he said, was the "excellent at mosphere" and the fact that in two days of frank discus sion "no roadblocks were erected which will make dif ficulties in the future." How long will it take if all goes well? Ten years was the lowest estimate that any of the dele gates was willing to offer. community really much too small to support the venture has been both challenging and great fun," Walker relates. He also explains that at that time his service labora tory was both mobile and portable, mobile because both the technician and the ap purtenances of his trade could travel easily in a Model T coupe, and portable because in those days a service labora tory that was well equipped comprised a device for check ing the three or four tube types in general use, a pocket voltage meter, and a screw driver. The firm occupied a frame building on the same site as the present modern structure for 30 years. In 1952, the old building was moved to make room for the new building. In the past 10 years, the business has grown in such proportions that it now is necessary to build a larger building, and soon the busi ness will be moved into the new headquarters which with its parking areas, will require both the lot on which the original building was located, as well as two adjacent lots. RED FIR WOOD 16" Dry 2 Ft. Dry 16" Green 2 Ft. Greer 2 Ft. 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