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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1971)
Subscribe to The getter Hospital Care Is Mill City Enterprise n.ii-.i.jt_ i_ _ _ _ _ _ ir $4.50 per Year By Gail Christensen NUTS and BOLTS We have a good stock of all sizes in cluding Big Bolts MILL CITY HARDWARE Everett Hamilton, owner Phone 897-2977 Are hospitals inefficient? Maybe so, but compared to what? Governmental opera tions? Compare medicare with the cost of operating other pri vate prepayment plans. What about the overlapping of gov ernmental units, national, state, county, and local. What about the petroleum industry? One fourth as many gas stations would be ade quate. The Insurance Industry? Fifty companies could do the same thing as the thousands we now have. The Construction Industry? Airlines could become more efficient by reducing expens ive frills and duplicated routes. Automobile manufacturing with its styling changes and multiple model costs??? Are defense contractors real ly as efficient as they pretend” Production quotas and fi nancial incentives may have a place in hospitals, but I would hate to get an enema from a nurses’ aide being paid on a MILL CITY CHEVRON SERVICE Highway 22 — Mill City ATLAS TIRES and BATTERIES Expert Tune up and Brake Repair We Pick Up and Deliver j to our homes and jobs much 4—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Sept. 9, 1971 1 sooner than we did 10 and 20 T W. --------- - years ago. It is true hospital ------- HTT iíiMSi costs have gone up 300% since World War II and they will continue to go higher as medi cal advancement continues and as hospital wages catch up SPEED DEMONS' ■ to the level of industry. Two- T he fastest reflexes ^ thirds of hospital costs goes transmitted bv the to labor of employees. Aver nervous system travel age cost in a hospital today is jxA AT THE RATE OF I near $100.00 per day. How 265 MILES PER HOUR! much is a life worth? I am V sure none of us would sell out, for that price. piecework basis. With effort, cooperation, manpower and adequate financing we can im prove efficiency. But it is time we stopped being apologetic and defensive about hospital costs and start telling people I how much they are receiving for their money. the easy way ! Hospitals are doing a good JOINING job, especially when you con sider the strait jackets being placed on us by outside agen- By Boots Champion ■ade'/i < an ? now that cies. t & isabonuô The date of the Home Ex (tax- Government money inte / zegtona ^ us ' tension Unit meeting announc- ' payers money) is not always ed earlier as September 21. HI&H WATER I the answer. Their cost of ad has been changed to Septem- I enjoying >r ministration is too high and ber 14. The meeing will in T he highest wave reported was THE ONE THAT STRUCK THE U.S. 5. efficiency too low. clude a covered dish luncheon RA41AW0 DURING A 68-KNOT J SALE. You hear so much about high 1 and will be held at 10:30 a .m. ! IT WAS ESTIMATED TO HAVE REACHED A HEIGHT OF 112 FEET hospital costs. You know the | in the club room of the Idanha t FROM TROUGH TO CRGST ! 6c postal card was once a pen-1 Fire hall. I ny and the $5,000 automobile! A large aluminum carrying J. was once $800.00. j can was lost off the Canyon 1 Of course the post card now , Collection Service truck last I * has a better delivery system 1 week. Owner Jimmy Hiebert | The automobile is faster and requests anyone finding it to has many more extras. | I please contact him at 854- 1 What about hospitals. The 3628. adv • — public expects the very best Vern Bergreen of Idanha ' 7. of medical care both in serv was called by illness in the I ice and facilities. They want family to Montana Saturday, to live longer, which they are It has been reported that _ ______________________ doing. But, no one wants to Shirley Knapp and children1 and friends. Bringing her 9 a. m. He is survived by wife, pay the price. People cost , of Idanha, have moved to Van- home Sunday was her grand Dorothy, brothers, Ray of De money and more all the time. I couver, Wn. They have resid- nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Gary troit, Lester, Seattle, Ansley, Hospitals are much more ef- I ed for a number of years in Balch and family of Wood Eugene, Wendel, in the Sail ficient than they used to be. Idanha. land. This was the Balchs’ first Francisco Bay area; sisters, You are getting more for your! Mrs. Len Davis of Idanha visit to the area, and like Mrs. Edna Caram, Antioch, dollar all the time. There are returned home Wednesday fol- many other they fell in love Calif., and Mrs. Bertie Moore, more employees per patient.! lowing a week’s vacation at with the scenery. Arcadia, Calif. Medicines have advanced and the home of Mrs. Velma Al Detroit school opened at 8:45 Mr. and Mrs. Ray May re as a result you recover faster, derman at Senior Estates in ceived word Saturday that Mr. a. m. Tuesday. The cafeteria, Did you know that 75% of, Woodburn. May’s brother, Herb, late resi serving both the elementary the drugs in use today were i Holiday visitor at the Idan- I dent of Reno, died unexpected and high school, was not in op unheard of just five years ago.1 ha home of Mr. and Mrs. Len ly of an apparent heart attack eration, although milk was Many more labs tests are now Davis were Mr. and Mrs. at his home about Saturday available. Supt. Ron Wilker conducted thereby finding Lanny Vickers of Seattle, noon. Arriving at the May son said renovation and in more of your ailments and in | Mabel Poncia returned home home on Sunday were Mr. and stallation of new equipment a lot of cases you doctor is Sunday following a 3-week Mrs. Lester May of Seattle was delayed by late arrival of treating several illnesses at' visit at the home of her ne- and a cousin, Opal Payne of some equipment. Completion once. The very excellent med- j phew, Vade Balch, Woodland, Portland. The family left Mon is expected in about two weeks. ical care now being provided! Wn. While in the area she vis- day morning for Reno where A change of time for Sunday enables each of us to return' ited with many other relatives services were held Tuesday at evening services at the Idan- o DETROIT IDANHA r I TZvery one of us is a Builder. Some of us build bridges, some build houses; others build great fortunes or police records, electronic brains or lawn furniture... but each and every one of US is a Com munity Builder. Because... every penny we spend to satisfy our daily needs helps to build the economy of the trade area in which it is spent... making that community a happier, more prosperous place for its citizens to live, to work, and to shop. Which makes it profitable and wise to do our trading... our Com munity Building.. .where we get the benefit of the inevitable results of it... in the economic area where we have our own lives and tal ents invested... and where our children are being trained for life. There may be nobleness and unselfishness about using our money to help build bigger and better cities for the pleasure and profit of other people...but is it practical? These Firms Are Genuinely Interested in the Future of Our Community and Your Welfare H. L. Ashby Santiam Cable Vision Madison-Davis Ins. Co. Inc. Kelly Lumber Sales Distributor of Shell Produets Jerry Pittam Insurance Phone 897-2413 or 897-2754 U. S. National Bank of Oregon Head Office Portland Mill City Pharmacy Prank Stromquist, Owner Mill City, Oregon Circle K Mill City’s New Convenience Store DON’S TIRE SALES “TIRES ARE MY BUSINESS” 4th and Broadway Mill City Mill City. Oregon Moffatt Plumbing & Heating Phone 897-2799 Mill City, Oregon Girod's Hilltop Super Market S & H Green Stanws We Give S & H Green Stamps 1he “An opportunist is a man who goes ahead and does what you always intended to do.” ha Community church was an nounced this week by Rev. Orville Swindler, pastor of the church. Beginning Sunday, September 12, evening services will be held at 6:30 and will include a series of bible and family life on 12 or 13 sub jects, geared for young famil ies. Wednesday evening serv ices will continue at 7 p. m. Word was received here this week that Mrs. Dave (Veda) Oja of Salem, is hospitalized at Holiday Park Hospital, 220 N. E. Multnomah, Portland. The Oja’s formerly resided here for a number of years be fore moving to Salem. Friday to Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray May were Mrs. May’s cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Browning and daughter Linda of Gresh am. Skyline Trail Improvement Is Planned DETROIT — According to a report, the biggest dip in the Pacific Crest Trail as it clings to the sides of the Oregon Cascades is down to Pamelia Lake on the western side of Mt. Jefferson. From elevations of about 6,000 feet on either side of the mountain, the trail drops to 3,884 at the lake. Hikers of the Skyline Trail, as it is sometimes called, will be interested to know that a new section of trail is in the making, carving out a higher route around the Western side of Mt. Jeff. It will save the hiker perhaps as much as 1.000 feet in elevation loss. Forest Service people indi cate there will not be much •more new trail development in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness. There may be no more trails developed from the outside. The report goes on to say, “under the pressure of public opinion, prodded by the grow ing wave of environmental protection, the U. S. Forest Service is taking the Wilder ness Act very seriously these days.” The 1964 act of Congress says: “A Wilderness—is here by recognized as an area where the earth and its community life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain—retain ing primeval character and in fluence, without permanent improvements or human habi tation.” The report goes on to say “so it may be entirely understand able why the Forest Service feels duty-bound to protect the wilderness from over use by people. But by a policy of not introducing more trails into the wilderness the Forest Ser vice is guaranteeing that even more population pressure and overuse will be concentrated on the present access routes A section of the Wilderness Act declares it is a policy of Congress that the wilderness areas “shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people.” A foot note: The Forest Ser vice should be commended for the excellent efforts they are putting forth in prforming their duties with the number of facilities they have and the appropriations allowed in car rying out their work in their respective districts. HARLEY SWIGART Funeral services for Harley Swigart of Molalla were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday. September Building Supplies, Paints, Plumbing 7. at the Everhart and Kent Supplies, Electrical Fixtures Chapel in Molalla. Interment was at the Zion Cemetary in Canby. Survivors include the widow Edna, son Elwin and daughter S. W. Broadway at Fifth Lucille Thronson. both of Mo lalla Surviving also are one brother and five sisters, eev- , en grandchildren and 4 great- j grandchildren. Randy Swigart Complete Body Repair & Paint Service of Mill City is a grand-son. D & J Automotive Less Body & Fender Repair
