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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday. January 7. 19B0
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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
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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
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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.
Card of Thanks
To all our loyal customers and
friends, who have contributed so
much to make Lokeshore Gar-
dens Nursery a successful, enter-
" prise, we thank you.
As we retire offer twenty seven
active years in the nursery busi
ness we ore happy to recom
mend the new owners of Lakeshore Gardens Nursery,
Curtis and Phyllis Schoenthaler, who will continue
our policy of friendly helpfulness. You will find them
gracious, accommodating ond anxious to serve you.
Also, I will be available at the nursery as landscape
consultant. Wishing you a prosperous and happy year,
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