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. PAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday. January 7. 19B0 FRANK JENKINS Edilor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Edilor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered as second class matter at the post oflice at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1006, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS ' AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH $ i.5o 6 MONTHS $ 9 00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL I MONTH 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 8.50 I YEAR $15.00 Oregon l'riniiir.y By FLOYD L. WYNNE What is the purpose of the Oregon Presidential Primary? Is it to provide a true test of the sentiment of the people in regard to candidates for the presidency in both political parties? ;' Or is it to be merely a vehicle ; by which one political candidate ; can use that particular party's na- ; tional delegation as trading stock ; to further enhance his own posi- ; tion? '. That appears to be the crux of a : recent statement by Sen. Richard ' L. Neuberger. "THE PRIMARY .in Oregon '. should be used in the national in . terest and not for narrow or selfish t personal purposes," the senator said. "Oregon was the first stale in the nation to adopt the system of a J primary to express the people's t choice for president," said Ncu- berger. "This choice must have true meaning. It should be among J genuine candidates for tho presi dency, among men with substan' tial national followings and sup- port. It should not be sullied or ; clouded , by local rivalries or by t tnalice against other men. ; "If Oregon's 34 convention del J egates are pledged to sonic local ; candidate wan no nationwide ue ; gree of enthusiasm or backing, it ; can only mean that our delegation f will be traded away in some hotel room at a convenient time," he j warned. I SENATOR NEUBERGER made pointed reference to the other sen- ator from Oregon, Wayne Morse, ' when he said he "regretted" the abusive attacks voiced recently in i the state against Senators J o h q 2. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, i He also stated that his name ' would not be on the primary hal ? lot for the presidency, and that "' "Words of renunciation are available to the man who does not last year, with women consulting physicians more frequently than men. Over the past 10-year period, the amount of money spent the public for medical care has varied between 4 and 5 per cent of its total expenditures for all its personal needs. Over this same pe riud, the public's total medical care expenses have nearly dou tied. In 1038, persons in the U.S. spent about as much money for medical care as they did for per sonal business expenses and only $300 million less than was spent on recreation. According to this source book, 23 per cent is spent for food by the average individual. Household op eration accounts for 14.1 per cent, 11.5 per cent goes for transporta tion and 13 per cent for housing. Clothing, accessories and jewelry take another 10.7 per cent. Rec reation accounts for 5.8 per cent, personal business 5.7 per cent. medical care 5.7 per cent, alco holic beverages 3.1 per cent, to bacco 2.1 per cent, personal care 1.4, religious and welfare activi ties 1.3, and private education 1.2 per cent. (The remaining 1.4 per cent is divided between foreign travel and miscellaneous.) In 1958, some 610,000 hospital beds were available to patients, or 5 beds per thousand population. During that year, 2.6 per thousand population (451,000 persons) were confined to hospitals on an aver age day. Nearly 22 million persons one out of eight in the U.S. were admitted to hospitals in 1958. From July, 1957, through June, 1958, 99 out of every 1,000 persons in the U.S. had some type of hos pital confinement. Women experi enced the greatest hospitalization ate attributed in a .large meas ure to causes associated with ma ternity, and there are more babies these days. The first "hospital insurance" came about in 1798 when the U.S. Congress established U.S. Marine lospital Service which called for ,ani in mak himir na,'-i in compulsory deductions for hospital rittirnvinn n.o mnnninB nnri ionif. service from seamen's wages. The nisi kiuiij dttiuuni uiiu aicKUCM policy was issued in 1910. In 1958, - Jcancc of the presidential prefer- ence system in the stale where that system was originated." J Again he was referring pointed J ly, it seems, to Senator Morse who has declined to have his name on J the ballot, but who also Iihs de f dined to file an affidavit taking it t oil should someone else file a pe f tition for him. r J YOU CAN'T FOOL tho public. ; The big question is whether or i not the voters feel Senator Morse j is a legitimate candidate for the ! presidency. If they do not feel this is true, then, by voting for him, they ' would leave themselves in. a posi ' tion of helping choose an Oregon '. delegation whose votes might well '. be traded away in a hotel room '. at tho convention. : This, I don't think, the voters ; will like. ; Give the voter in Oregon an ;'. honest list of presidential possibili ; tics, and they will in turn give . an honest Indication of which man ; they would prefer for the task. I, personally, would not want to . vote for a man who maintains only ; a "native son" role, which is pure ; ly a trading role for convention ; purposes. (hero wore more than 1,200 insur ing organizations providing the American public with health in surance against the hospital, sur gical and medical expenses re sulting from illness or injury as well as the loss of income accom panying such disability. IlOIllI ll I IIMlim ' By FLORENCE JENKINS . The first issue of the Source Book of Health Insurance Data has been received this week. It was 4 published by the Health Insurance 1 Institute and reports the results of I a variety of surveys conducted by ' leading associations of insurance J companies and other health insur- : lng plans, medical and nospila ; groups and government agon cics. ; More than 123 million Aineri ;! Cans, over 71 per cent of the ; population, had some form of health ; insurance through voluntary insur- ing organizations at the start of ' 1959. This insurance was carried to help finance the cost of hospi tal and medical care or to replace income lost through illness or in Jury. The American people spent np proximately $16.5 billion for pri vale medical care in 1958, 11 per '. cent more than they did the year ; before. On a per capita basis, the '. public spent $95 for medical core ;in 1958. or $7 more than in 1957. ; (This includes costs of eye glasses, ; non-prescribed drugs and other ; Items not usually covered by in- "curanre.) ; Americans paid $4.5 billion for hospital Care in 1958, an increase of 2 per cent over 1957. The r amount spent for physicians' scrv -ices was $4.8 billion, 17 per cent more than the year before. The public spent V billion for modi cines and medical appliances, up 10 per cent over 1957. The average American made 'livt visits to the doctor in the 2. That the hospital emergency staff be notified by the ambulance that a patient is being brought in This can be done by radio or tele phone. Nearly every ambulance is equipped with two-way radio so its operators can radio their offices to call the hospital emergency staff with details, including the patient's choice of physician, if possible. 3. That hospitals provide am bulanccs with exchangeable stretch ers and that traffic accident vic tims be placed on these stretch ers at the scene of the accident and remain on the same stretcher when being moved within the hos pital until ordered removed by the attending physician. There has been some public crit icism by persons outside the medi cal profession against the new law regulating the speed of ambulanc es. I should like to point out that eminently qualified physicians agree the traffic victims would fare much better if the above three points were made mandatory pro cedure in the care of traffic or other accident victims. All policemen, firemen, and am bulance drivers and attendants should be required to pass exam inations in first-aid, and these examinations should be reviewed periodically. Their care of the vie lim at the scene of the accident, including proper splinting, shock care, blood control and other pro cedures, is certainly more import ant than speeding to the hospital, endangering the patient and others in the process. If hospital emergency staffs were notified in advance that a patient was en route and the victim's per sonal physician had been called, ital delays in starting treatment of the patient , could be avoided. There are many other contribu- ions that could be made to pro vide better care in the case of emergencies, but if these three basic suggestions could be accom plished, it would be a credit to the state and a real benefit to the accident victims of the future. Louis J. Feves, M.D. President, Oregon State Medical Society Ambulance Speed Portland (To the Editor) A sig nificant action that may have es caped your attention was taken by the House of Delegates of the Ore gon Stale Medical Society at its 1959 annual meeting in Medford. I refer to the House's adoption of a resolution commending the 1959 Oregon Legislature for passage of a bill bringing ambulances and oth er emergency vehicles under the regular ti aft ic regulations of the stale. The House's action In adopting this resolution focuses attention on the need for more study of emer gency care, particularly as it re lates to persons injured in traffic accidents. The governing body of the State Medical Society has voiced its ap proval of the new law regulating the speed of ambulances. I am in complete accord with the House of Delegates' action. There certainly uro adequate records to prove that speeding ambulances are not in the best interests of either the pa tient or the public; in tact, it is safo to say that more lives have been lost than saved by ambu lances on emergency runs. I believe that the following arc more important than speeding pa tients to the hospitals with sirens screaming: 1. .That adequate first-aid be pro vided at the scene and en route to the hospital. Ike's Message By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) - Backstairs at the White House: President Eisenhower's State of I lie Union message which he de livers to a joint session of Con gress Thursday in reality is a joint message, t he end product of the work of literally hundreds of gov ernment officials. Quite naturally the White House maintains it is strictly the Presi dent's message. As far as the final draft is concerned, this is true. It is his message, he dcliv ers it and he bears lull respon sihility for it. But behind the pages of this somewhat ponderous document lies not one, but many stories of suggestions and even emotional pleas that poured into the White House over a period of months Each cabinet officer, as the result of conferences and studies with his subordinates, submitted his ideas for sections of the message. The process of sugges tion for a State of the Union message does not stop with the government. A preacher writes in to urge that the President say this, a corporation executive wants him to say that. There arc suggestions from members of the White House slalf, ideas from personal friends of the President, even requests by some of our ambassadors that the message contain certain refer ences to their sections of the world. These requests are reduced in volume by lesser staff members at the White House, but eventual ly several bales of paper arrive in the office of Dr. Malcolm SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal YAK-VAK-YAK-YAK-YAK HOLD ITS I STAHO HERE YAK YAI - YAK j AfO VwVff) ( MO!) I MRU YAK-YAK -YAK -YAK Moos, the chief White House speech writer, who must then undertake a tortuous process of further distillation. The first early drafts of the message were ready in late No vember and Moos went along on Eisenhower's long trip to India and other points to keep the message up to date. Moos did not have too many opportunities to work with the President during the trip until the White House party went aboard a Sixth Fleet Task Force for three days of comparative rest in the Mediterranean. While at sea one day, the heli copter whisked Moos from the aircraft carrier Essex on which he was riding, to the President's ship, the cruiser Des Moines and the two men worked together for several hours. Since that trip, Moos has been i touch with the President al most daily on the message. He flew to Augusta, Ga., for lengthy pecch writing sessions, then flew back to Washington for more re drafting. Late last week and early this week, there was a daily exchange of near-complete message drafts between the President in Augusta and Moos in Washington. Even the -night before the President left Georgia, last' Monday night, Moos dispatched another draft of the message to Augusta by plane so the President could study it Tuesday morning and aboard his plane en route to Washington that afternoon. And Wednesday morning, back in the White House, Mrs. Ann C. Whitman, the President's personal secretary, rolled heavy white paper into her electric typewriter and began to tap out the final and so-called reading copy of the message. From carbons of this final draft, the office of Press Secretary James C. Hagerty mimeographed copies of the draft for distribution to the press. So goes the birth of a new legislative program each Janu ary: such is some of the effort that goes into the President's an nual review of the situation at home and abroad which theoret ically guides the lawmakers in their later deliberations. They'll Do It Every Time k$UMll.ltaaiMN By Jimmy Hatlo I'M THINKING OP BUVNG A FLEAGLE V-8, RANCID I tr OUST GOT TH& BROCHURE OF THE NEW MODELS" WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT ? VEAHHE SAVS A BlG-SHOTI PAL OP HIS ALWAVS REWTS HIS CARS-RANCID WALKS,SO He MUST OWE FOK HIS SCOTCH GRAINS'" LISTEN TO THE i ic -Auhr AccnDn l VmPENTflTHREf II HE MUar OWE FOW H Sr h, C WHEEL KE LET V SCOTCH GRAINS J I TMNOT ALONE A &AS 1 T7 -41 BLrVIN'OWE-I'M HEAP-JHE LAUGHS IF N VSPBAWKQ OfN . .. I I I I uirr IA1I-I- -Til I uic it r-ri inu 11 c i n I 11 I u-,,A ucurAn.- 1 .'A CREDIT CARDS NlfiUT; TDACMUfl, 1 V V VOL) GOT NO COME HOME VHIM DOWN"" V Getting the inside on modern economics from the office cuff EXPERT . . . . . . ff-f 7HANX ANDATIPOF ?Lm HATLO HAT 5SVVt. 16 DAN HARRINGTON, ffiWC DALLAS.TEX. New Benefits May Be Added To SSA WASHINGTON (AP) A con gressional fight was renewed to day to add hospital, surgical and nursing home services to social security benefits. The move was pegged to cxpec- The Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday Jan. 7, the 7th day of the year, with 359 more days in 1960. The moon is in its first quarter. The ,morning stars are Mars and Venus. On this day in history: In 1830, commercial railroad service began in the United States when a horse-drawn carriage roll ed on the first stretch of track to be completed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 1914, a steamboat named Alex La Valley became the first vessel to pass through the Pana ma Canal. In 1927, regular Transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London. In 1952, General Dwight Eisen hower announced that he is a Republican and would accept the presidential nomination. In 1953, President Truman an nounced that the U. S. developed a hydrogen bomb. A thought for today: In an nouncing the H-bomb Mr. Tru man said: "From now on, man moves into a new era of destruc tive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order or magnitude. . ." Quotes United Press International NEW YORK - Charles Van Dorm, who admitted lying to a grand jury about rigged quiz shows, on being excused when he was called to serve as a grand juror: 'While I regard myself quali fied to serve as a grand juror, in view of the publicity which re sulted from my selection as a grand juror, I now wish to be ex cused from serving." CHICAGO Paul Leonas com plaining of the red tape which has kept a promise by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to send his two children here from Lithuania from being effected: "Relations between the two countries may deteriorate and I may never get my children back." WASHINGTON Sen. Hubert II. Humphrey (D-Minn ). a candi date for the Democratic presiden tial nomination, commenting on the absence of his rival, Sen. John F. Kennedy ID-Mass.) when Congress opened: Where's Kennedy? While we're dewn here, he's rrohably up steal ing mort Pennsylvanians." , Jet Plane Lands Safely DENVER, Colo. (AP)-A United Air Lines DC8 jet plane with 88 passengers and a crew of 7 jolted an emergency landing at Buck ley Field Wednesday. Two women were injured in the hurried de- aning. On a flight from San Francisco Chicago, the plane developed trouble in its hydraulic system. The pilot elected to land at Buck Icy where UAL trains its crews. After circling for an hour to use up excess fuel, the pilot landed. The big jet swerved off the run way and blew out all eight of its tires. The passengers hurriedly de planed by way of a canvas chute. Mrs. Charles Hoel of Zanesville, Ohio, was hospitalized with a pos- ible hip fracture and Mrs. George King of Lathrop Village, near Detroit, Mich., suffered a frac tured right foot. ted House action on a bill repeal ing present requirements that dis abled workers, covered under social security, must be at least 50 years of age to be eligible for social security disability benefits. Chances appeared slim, how ever, that social security health and hospital legislation can be passed - this session despite the election-year practice of Congress to liberalize the law. The bill to repeal the age lim-1 itation on disability payments was introduced Wednesday by Rep. Burr Harrison (D-Va), chairman of a House Ways and Means sub committee which handles the sub ject. It had the tentative backing of Democratic leaders. But Rep. Aime J. Forand (D- RI) said he would lead efforts- backed by organized labor to broaden any social security bill to include federal hospitalization insurance and other provisions. The Ways and Means Committee is expected to consider a one- package approach to a number of proposed amendments to the So cial 'Security law. These include possible extension of coverage to some groups now excluded and the payment of monthly benefits to wives and widows who are per manently disabled. None of these proposals would require an increase in the existing social security tax rate. I With the support of the AFL CIO, Forand first introduced his proposals in 1357 for health and hospital insurance. They would provide 60 days prepaid hospital care each year, cost of surgical services, and 120 days nursing home care. The cost would be met by an increase . of Yt per cent in the social security payroll tax on em ployes and employers alike. Both the Eisenhower administra tion and the American Medical Assn. have opposed federal hos pital insurance. Resumption Of Test Seen BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) A physicist with the Office of Naval Research predicts the United States will resume nuclear tejis by summer. The prediction was niada Wednesday by Dr. William J. Thaler, project officer on the At. gus experiment in which three nuclear blasts were set off at high altitudes in the Pacific in Senlem. bcr 1958. Dr. Thaler gave his personal opinion on nuclear tests during a lecture at Loyal College. He said he had no official information that the U.S. would resume tests. Defense officials announced 1a( week an end to the voluntary ban on testing nuclear weapons. But they said advance public notice would be given of anv tosiino plans. Annual Public Guinea Fowl DINNER Most Famous of All Birds Masonic Hall MALIN Sat., Jan. 16th 6 p.m. Till 8:30 p.m. $2.50 Per Plate (Plant &p. 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