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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1972)
general agreement on one 3—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Jan. 13, 1972 point. They don’t want the hospital to cut corners when a life is at stake, and very few question the value of recent medical advances. All want the best treatment and best by Jack Zimntrmin care possible. Rv Gail finii Christensen By Like any other purchase, we VOTER REGISTRATION Hospital rates have advanced hospital 30 cents, dentists 10 get from hospitals what we are percentage points stronger RECORD ‘AIN’T when it comes to actually vot 343 percent since 1940. On the cents, medicines and applianc willing to pay for. Better care, NECESSARILY SO’ surface this seems to be out of es 26 cents and all other medi new drugs, the use of expen Record voter registration ing. But Independents and all sive equipment, naturally costs for Tuesday’s special cigaret others always turn out _ jn proportion even in these in- cal are 6 cents. The hospital’s share seems ' more money, because it costs tax election is misleading on smaller percentages when it flationary times. But such fig- ores can be misleading unless to be on the increase. Why? | the hospital more to provide one hand, and on the other, comes time to express them- you know the whole story Here are a few of the answers. them. But you can be sure selves in the vtoing booth. tends to negate speculation the First, never let it be said that Room costs have risen sharp- that hospital costs are never In Marion and Linn Counties “youth vote” will seriously in | hospital leaders are not aware ly, ____ „ because ________ of ______ mainly shorter *°° high, if that is the cost of fluence ballot results. i of skyrocketing hospital costs,I work week, making it neces- living, in the final analysis, When it comes to claiming nor is it remotely true that sary to hire more people who the dollar costs loses its signi- current Oregon voter registra they are doing nothing about, require more pay. Hospital ficance when life is at stake tion is an all-time record, one TO THE it. Every adminsitrator is con- [ employees now work a 40 hour , particularly if that life is is reminded of Sporting Life stantly fighting the battle of week the same as everyone yours, or someone you love, singing, “It Ain’t Necessarily the budget in his hospital. The I 1 else. The increasing costs of So” to the assembled cast of efforts to keep hospital costs food, housing and services, re George and Ira Gershwin’s to a minimum are not made lative to your home, have been 1935 Broadway Musical, ‘Por Dear Sir: A report to the Mill City because these costs are out of equally felt by the hospital. gy and Bess.” proportion to other living Check your food budget, Sec. of State Clay Myers' of area people by Charles Fultz, costs, for they are not. On the Eat Drink and Be Merry utility bills, your taxes. fice at voter registration dead last year’s president of the Mill contrary, the dollar you spend your and compare them with what City Ministerial Association. line released figures showing There were 23 baskets of for medical care today buys [ they were five or 10 years a total of 1,029,299 Oregon re more and better service ago. All phases of hospital op- sidents signed up to vote. That food delivered, for Christmas I I you it did proportionately in I eration have been affected by figure considerably outstrips use, to those we felt were in than 1940. That’s hard to believe, the general rise in living costs, Santiam Memorial Hospital the 1,018,017 registered prior need of help. The money to I isn't (Stayton) it? I just as have household opera- to the State’s 1970 Primary purchase these baskets came Look at is this way: In 1940 tions. MARLIN —To Mr. and Mrs. from several sources; private, Election and is even further I a factory employee had to1 Even basic items are costly. Harlan W. Marlin, Salem a ahead of the 955,459 who clubs, churches, and commun work more than 15 hours to For an operating boy, January 2, 1972. signed up to ballot during the ity groups. Some church peo pay for $10 worth of medical table example, cost as much as PHILIPPI—To Mr. and Mrs. General Election on the same ple gave money, food, and service. Today he has to work $6.000. can A cart to deliver meals Steve Philippi, Mehama, a bov, helped as neded. The Jaycees year. a little more than six hours the patients rooms costs as January 2. 1972. But the discrepancy between gave toys to many in the spirit to buy a comparable amount to much as $1,800. Then there are WRIGHT—To Mr. and Mrs. of the season. Primary and General Election Inthefuture, when you have' °f ser,vic!,a"d that is figur.ed expensive machines that most D. Wayne Wright, Detroit, a registration totals is the tip-off at °"'y $t65 price hospitals would like to have, boy, January 3, 1972. to the fact current registra done all that you can do, and per hour. cannOf afford, such as McKAY—To Mr. and Mrs. see your last pieces of money tion’s “ain’t necessarily so.” ; The services do cost him in artificial heart and lung ma Douglas McKay, Aumsville a disappear, let us know and the ! Oregon election officials are I dollars and cents three times which cost around $45-, boy, January 5, 1972. quick to point up the mislead-I community will help you over as much as they did in 1940, chines ORDERS TO GO 000. A cobalt machine costs | _ ing nature of the current voter those difficult times, if you but he does not have to work a minimum of $20,000. X-ray roll. State law requires the are in real need. ------------- * *“ $20,000 ’n nnn *- to movie cameras — cost k. Phone 769-5311 The United Good Neighbor nearly as long for them. In----- Secretary of State to purge other words, the average per I-tfixhtsfw# Ite Otí'ítrtnt/í Fund was our greatest finan voter lists following each Pri son now works over 50% less I $50,000. Such machines, coup- mary Election. This is neces- cial helper. than in 1940 to earn the identi- i led with new drugs and 1m- Stayton, Oregon Charles Fultz. ary, of course, to eliminate cal amount of medical care, I proved medical techniques are voters who have passed to Where does the money go that saving the lives of thousands their ultimate reward and who NEW HOURS: Mon. thru Thurs. 10 a.rn. to 11 p.tn. you spend for medical care? whose cases would have been have moved to another state. Who gets it? The department hopeless 20 years ago. Even the Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to Midnight Keeping voter rolls as clean as of Health, Education and Wel smallest hospital today is bet possible helps eliminate fraud fare has released these figues ter equipped to save lives than at the polls. And this biennial “To be well-heeled tomor Live a Little pertaining to medical care the largest hospital was just a housekeeping also saves mon costs. The physicians receive few years ago. In the final row, you’ve got to be on your ey. 28 cents of each dollar, the analysis most people are in toes today. Each registrant receives an official Voters Pamphlet be fore Primary and General Elections. An accurate voter roll certainly saves the state money when it comes to print ing and mailing this pamphlet. It also saves candidates con siderable campaign money when they start mailing litera ture to would-be constituents. Sec. of State Myers said the Voters Pamphlet is the key to Oregon’s every-other-year voter purge. Each bears a “re turn” request and the Postal Service brings back undeliver able pamphlets. Following the May 1970 Primary, some 143,- C00 pamphlets were returned. About 33.000 returned pam phlets belonged to persons who had moved elsewhere within the state without leaving a for warding address, or had been misdirected for one reason or another. But about 11,000 vot ers’ names actually were re moved from voting rolls. Valid new registrations by' persons achieving majority, | r moving to the state or register- ing for other reasons for the I first time made the actual dif- ference between 1970 Primary , and General Elections only 62,558. So one has to presume registration today is vastly overblown by non-valid re gistrants and the “record” total will be reduced consider ably following Primary ballot ing this May. Current registrations —ac curate or not—also fail to change significantly the dif ferences between types of voters going to the polls next Tuesday. A Republican in crease of 4.8% leaves the GOP with 41.8% of the voter total. Democrats, registering an 8.8% gain, have 55.1% of the total. And those registering Inde pendent, no party or a variety of others—despite an increase of 35.9%—still only represent 3.1% of Oregon's enfranchis ed citizenry. Election officials figure the 18-29-year age bracket includes some 100,000 potential new Oregon voters this year. And trends show the greatest per centage of voters in that age category registering “Inde pendent.” But the total of all such registrants—lumped with everyone not otherwise regis tered as Democrat or Republi can—is only 31,398! Reasons for registering one way or another are many. But as a bloc, it’s doubtful a po tential 10% youth vote will solidify sufficiently to register and perform at the polls. Distributor of Shell Products Mill City. Oregon Mill City’s New Convenience Store Everett Hamilton—Owner Affirming this assumption Phone 897-2977 Mill City is performance of registered voters at Oregon polling places in the past. Democrats usually poll 70% to 85% of their regis Mill City, Oregon Phone 897-2413 or 897-2754 trants. Republicans are a few Building Supplies, Paints, Plumbing ¡Report to the People from Salem Scene Santiam Memorial Hospital SUBSCRIBE To The Enterprise $4.50 a Year LETTERS Do It Today z EDITOR When In Stayton Stop In And Have A Dairy Queen Treat ^Dairiv |Queer^ Subscribe to The Mill City Enterprise $4.50 per Year ■s ci Builde r T ADE built this community ... its homes, its churches, its schools, its busi ness houses, its jobs, its pleasant way of life Without Trade . . . the exchange be- tween neighbors of labor’s fruits for goods and services ... none of these would —nor could—exist here. yQU* Quite naturally ... more trade builds better communities. Every single ad ditional dollar that is spent here at home you and for all of us who live here. Asa matter of fact, Trade builds wher ever it exists. Spend your money at home, the trade it creates builds here. Spend it in the city, the building takes place there. There is contentment, security and op portunity in a growing community. These are the most important things that your dollar buys . . . but they can’t be wrapped up and taken home with you These Firms Are Genuinely Interested in the Future of Our Comnriunity and Your Welfare H. L. Ashby Jerry Pittam Insurance BEST THINGS IN UFE U.S. National Bank of Oregon Call BILL ALLMAN Head Office Portland 713 IM—Stayton Phone 769-3729 Mill City Pharmacy State Farm Li’e Insurance Comoanv Frank Stromquist, Owner Madison-Davis Ins. Co. Inc. Kelly Lumber Sales Supplies, Electrical Fixtures MILL CITY HARDWARE Circle K Santiam Cable Vision Moffatt Plumbing & Heating Phone 897-2799 Mill City, Oregon D & J Automotive S W. Broadway at Fifth DON'S TIRE SALES “TIRES ARE MY BUSINESS” 4th and Broadway Mill City Girod's Hilltop Super Market Les's Body & Fender Repair S & H Oreen Stamss Complete Body Repair & Paint Service
