MEET 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.
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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
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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. The vanity
team play games on Thursday,
and the Junior Varsity on
Friday. All games are It 4
p.m.
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