Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 31, 1963, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextMEET NEWSMEN-Domocratic Congression al leaders are shown talking with newsmen at the White House following their weekly meeting with President Kennedy. From left, they are House Speaker John McCormack. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Sen. Hu bert Humphrey iD-Minn.), Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Sen. George Smathers (D-Fla.) (UPI) j Man Sentenced to Institute on Charge Gregory Brian Wolfe, 55 Quince St., Medford, yesterday in Jackson county circuit court was sentenced to 2i years in the Oregon State Cor rectional institute on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. Wolfe had pleaded guilty earlier to entering the offices of the American Cancer So ciety in Medford last Dec. 8. Paulette Bone, 99 Motel, 816 North Riverside ave., was placed on probation and her sentence suspended for three years on charges of forgery. She had pleaded guilty to the charge, which involved a check. Stephen Lee Fowler, 1136 Court St., was placed on pro bation and sentence suspend ed for five years on a charge of larceny from a person. Fowler was ordered to make immediate arrange ments to move to Colorado. AVOIDS RED TAPE London - IliPl) - John Glyn Barton, who said his family has been waterless for five days because officials refused to see what's blocking a water main in front of his suburban Hampstead home, today hired workmen with picks, shovels and pneumatic drills to dig for water in the street. "I've had enough red tape and regulations," he said. SECTION D PAGES 1 to 8 MEDFORDafeJTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963 Religion in America Moral Aspects of Euthanisia Argued by Doctors, Ministers By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent "Please, doctor, don't keep him alive any longer. Just take out those tubes and let him die." That plea from the relative of a hopelessly ill patient is not unfamiliar to members of the medical profession. When ever it is made, it confronts a physician with an agonizing moral dilemma. What is a doctor's duty toward a patient who is slowly dying of untreatablc cancer or some other disease from which there is no hope of re covery? He could take positive steps to bring about death, and thus release the patient from suf fering. This is called euthani sia or "mercy killing" and it has some advocates, both in and out of the medical profes sion. But the overwhelming majority of physicians are strongly opposed to medical murder, however "merciful" it might appear in a particular case. And in this stand they are supported by moral theolo gians, who condemn euthana sia as a blasphemous usurpa tion of God's prerogatives. At Great Cost The obvious alternative is to keep the patient alive as long as possible. Most physi cians feel instinctively that this is what they ought to do. And modern medical science has made it possible for them to maintain a spark of life in a dying person for days, weeks and sometimes months. It is done, however, at great cost. And not the least of the cost is the prolongation of suf fering, both for the patient and for his loved ones. In recent years, many doc- who adamantly reject cuthan asia have come around to the conviction that indefinite, arti ficial prolongation of life is not much better from a moral viewpoint. At an American Medical As sociation symposium on medi cal ethics a few months ago, Dr. Edward H. Rynearson of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., argued eloquently that there comes a time in the handling of terminal cancer cases when the only humane thin? for a doctor to do is to "step back and let God lake over." Physician Supports View His view is emphatically shared by Dr. John R. Cav anagh, a Washington, DC, physician who also lectures on moral theology at the Catholic University of Amer ica. "There is a point at which the physician not only should refrain from prolonging life, but should actually withdraw extraordinary measures of keeping the patient going," says Dr. Cavanagh. "It is my conviction that when death is inevitable, when the dying process is beyond doubt, the patient should be allowed to die un encumbered by useless appa ratus." Dr. Granger Wcstberg, a Lutheran clergyman - physi cian who serves on both the theological and medical fac ulties of the University of Chicago, also upholds the hopeless patient's "right to die." And he points out that cancer victims are not the only persons for whom death may be a merciful release. At a recent medical meet ing in Minneapolis, he said it disservice to keep very tors and religious leaders old and infirm people alive -fciiltfti vifcj-. & m&srjw i rr wmm 'irVM ir;s f .'Vr-TtkMV I tt-u i w r wrtfri mam m$ free. ft f $2.41 it rauEirs XM'lill .-l rafdV7 FINEST INTERIOR 4 NL$&$- Lm fiax semi-gloss enamel i H 2. 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In an address before the International Congress of Catholic Doctors in London, Dr. Frank Ayd Jr., a Balti more physician, contended that it is "neither scientific nor humane" to stretch out the dying process with arti ficial means once it has clear ly become inevitable." "Only when there is a rea sonable hope of sustaining life for several weeks or months during which time the patient is comfortable should we exert every effort to delay death," he said. "Otherwise, life preserving treatment ceases to be a gift, and becomes instead a scien tific weapon for the prolonga tion of agony." These are weighty argu ments. But there still arc many physicians who cannot bring themselves to let a hu man life expire so long as there is any medical means of forestalling death. And there are religious leaders who ap plaud their instincts. "I have seen enough 'dying' people recover to understand why a physician would be un willing to write off any pa tient," says the Rt. Rev. Wil liam F. Creighton, Episcopal bishop of Washington. "I agree that it is hard to see any merciful purpose In maintaining a spark of life In some far-gone cases. But I don't think we should ask doc tors to play God." BPA Asked To Hike Rates for Power Washington-IUPIl-Rcp. John r. Ssaylor (R-Pa.) Wednesday called on the Bonneville Pow er Administration to increase its electric power rates to pay us own way. Me cited a $13 million annual loss. Saylor told the House It is "almost Inconceivable" that Congress could be asked to consider a federal budget re questing over $107 billion in new appropriations, while at the same time being asked to consider a rather sizable de crease in federal taxes. The congressman read a Icttr he has sent to Bonne ville Administrator Charles Luce saying the Bonneville project act provides for rate adjustments at "appropriate intervals not less frequently than one in every five years." SCHOOL NEWS Jackson School The fifth and sixth grade students of Jackson school had a talent show recently. The program presented in cluded the following: Meet ing called to order, Don Sam ple, student bodv Dresldent' color guards, Elizabeth Rog ers and Karen Trefren; master ot ceremonies, Steve Fixsen; magic stunts. Ronnie Phlllin. Jim Mercer; skating routine, Liark Curtis, Ralph Peterson, Gary Stamps. Keith Schnfpr' shadow act. Keith Funis Sinn Chrislensen, David Bailey, MiKe Murray; duet, Nancy Hendrickson-clarinet. Janet B r i n s o n-saxnnhnnv xtvld show, Leslie Llppcrt, Sandra Nicholson, Dolores Mathews, Karen Webb, Terry Ray, and Linda Hansen; trombone solo, Mark Van Sickle: ono and dance. "Little Green Men from Out of Mars," Candi Sloocr and Marv Rolls: nr. cordion solo. John Lee: com. cdy skit, Gary Singier, as rankle Fontaine and Nick Jones, as Jimmy Gleason; pi ano solo. Cheri Hawkins: nnH rhythum band concert, 6-M class. Each home room teacher helped the students organize the material. The second half of the school year has started. The slogan we adopted early Is "At Jackson School, Learning is our most important prod uct. The listening post In the library is used many timet ev ery day. Children listen to stones, music and phonetic drill. This can be done on an individual basis as the phono graph is equipped with earphones. The fifth and sixth grade classes have almost complet- I cd the first 44 lessons tn SRA I reading program; 10 review . lessons will be done later In i the year. All fourth grades ' have begun this phase of read ing. I Students are receiving and writing letters to pen pals in Easlabrook School in Lcxlng- ; ton, Mass. Art Jennings, know as Hap ; py Daze, performed for the children and teachers recent ly. Happy Daze it a clown, but he gave advice on safety 1 and good manncrt through , hit joket. The basketball season Is on a full schedule. 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