CAPITOL MEMO , . .
Oregon Oldsters Shun
State's Medicare Plan
SALEM (UPI (-Oregon's Medi
cal Care or the Aged program
(MAA) has upset the belief that
people flock to take advantage of
.something for nothing.
When MAA went into effect on
Nov. 1, 1961, it was estimated
55.000 would take part.
On Nov. 30, 1962 13 months
later 4,576 were enrolled. During
that same period 9.042 had ap
plied, and 6,744 had been found
eligible to receive benefits.
During the 13 months $103,747
had been paid to doctors, $327,332
to hospitals, and $21,429 to nursing
homes under MAA.
Response to the program has
been so low that the governor's
advisory committee on MAA has
recommended coverage be broad
ened. The recommended changes have
the "enthusiastic endorsement" of
Gov. Mark Hatfield.
The revitalized program is ex
pected to up enrollment to 15,000
still a long way from the original
estimate of 55,000.
Major change suggested is in
clusion of "major medical" bene
fits. A spirited publicity campaign is
called for to encourage more eld
erly persons to take advantage of
MAA.
. Under the present law, anyone
meeting these requirements can
enroll:
65 years of age or older.
A resident of Oregon.
Individual having less than
Fidel Lashes
At Kennedy
HAVANA 'UPIi-Prcmier Fidel
Castro lashed out at President
Kennedy today and ridiculed the
United States for paying "indem
nification" for 1,113 ransomed Cu
ban invasion prisoners.
"They call it ransom," Castro
said. "We don't care what they
call it.
"They had to agree to pay in
demnification. "For the first time in history,
imperialism has paid war indem
nification." Castro's speech was the high
light of his regime's observance
of its fourth anniversary in pow-
i er. He spoke after a two-hour re
view of Cuba s armed might be
fore a reviewing stand of 400
Communist notables.
Castro tried to poke fun at Ken
nedy's action in welcoming home
the invasion prisoners and pledg
; ing that their flag would be re
' turned to a "free Havana."
; Castro suggested that perhaps
there was a bar in Miami called
; the "Free Havana" and specu
lated that Kennedy may have had
"loo much to drink" when he
spoke with the prisoners.
He said Kennedy "acted like a
vulgar pirate chief" when he met
with "the invasion cowards. .
They have hoodwinked Kennedy,"
he shouted.
Castro said the only reason the
United States paid the ransom he
demanded for the release of the
invasion prisoners was "because
they were defeated. . .
"At Giron Beach la rcierence
to the April. 1961 Bay of Pigs in
vasion attempt' they i im
perialists) suffered their first de
feat in Latin America.
Poet Fights
Blood Clot
BOSTON UPI Poet Robert
Frost. 88, critically ill. fought
back from a third major com
nlieafim Wednesday.
The nation'! unofficial poet lau
reate was hospitalized three weeks
fr a urinary hlock. then had
a heart attack, and Tuesday night
became a victim ot a pulmonary
embolism-a blood clot in his
luncs.
H is comfortable today and
has sustained the episode satis
factorily." said Dr. F. Lloyd Mus
sells of Peter Bent Brigham Hos
pital. "Clnttins is a comtrnn compli
cation in the ased. especially
when they must spend long per
ioH in bed."
The hospital said Frost was well
enough before the attack Tuesday
In receive a visitor.
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couple with less than $2,000 an
nual income.
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$1,500 for a single person or $2,000
for a married couple.
All that is needed is an applica
tion at the county welfare depart
ment office and a request to be
enrolled.
It costs the individual nothing.
The plan is financed by federal,
state and county taxes.
Ignorance of the program is
cited as the major reason for its
low degree of acceptance.
The advisory committee told
Hatfield "despite early and con
tinuing publicity by the Public
Welfare Commission, many eligi
ble persons are encountered who
have no awareness of its availa
bility or whose knowledge of MAA
is so faulty and incomplete as to
prevent their applying for cover
age.
'Providers of service are also
not properly informed in many
instances, so that they may fail
to recommend this potential re
source to a patient when it might
be needed and applicable."
Another problem suggested by
the committee is the "reluctance
or refusal to enter the program
because of its identification with
a public assistance agency."
And there is criticism of the
benefits now offered by the pro
gram. In the words of the com
mittee: "The present plan de
parts too much from the princi
ples of protection for the patient
where he needs it most in the
area of major medical."
Administration of MAA also
came in for criticism. "Because
of the small volume of the pro
gram, several of the county wel
fare departments have had to use
part time or non-specialized per
sonnel. Problems in operational ef
ficiency have resulted, both with
beneficiaries and with providers
of service."
The "major medical" approach
recommended by the committee
and approved by Hatfield would
have the patient paying for the
office call and other minor ex
penses, and MAA paying for the
big items such as hospital, nurs
ing home and heavy medical and
surgical care.
At present the plan has a $50
deductible feature.
Another suggested change would
increase maximum hospitalization
from 14 to 30 days, and expand
the availability of nursing home
care for senior citizens.
The governor has already an
nounced he will submit proposals
to the 1963 Legislature to bring
about expansion and improvement
of MAA.
The governor's committee calls
for better publicity "to correct
misunderstandings" and for "at
tractive and informative pam
phlets" to carry the message to
the people who are eligible to
participate but have not yet done
so.
With a better program, and
more publicity, the MAA people
hope they'll be able to sell more
free medical service.
Plant Rocked
By Explosion
RIVERSIDE, Calif. 'UPI' An
explosion rocked part of the Aero
jet General's ordnance facility
near here Wednesday, and River
side Community Hospital reported
17 persons were treated for in
juries. At least two of those engaged
in work of a classified ordnance
project were seriously hurt, at
tendants at the hospital said.
Aerojet General later reported
12 persons were admitted to the
hospital, most of them w ith minor
injuries.
It said it regarded the explosion
as a "small" one.
Security measures were quickly
enforced. The California Highway
Patrol was turned away when an
officer sought to investigate re
ports of an explosion.
Six ambulances were sent to
the Aerojet General facility in the
hills about eight miles west of
here. The building where the ex
plosion occurred was separaie
from several other structures, and
damage was restricted to the one
unit, a firm spokesman said.
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Study Of State Highway
Fund Allotments Urged
SALEM (L'PIi-A study of how
highway funds should be alloted
to counties and cities was called
lor today by the Legislative High
way Intcrm Committee.
In its report to Gov. Mark Hat
field, the committee recommend-
fed the transportation research in
stitute of Oregon State University
conduct the study under the 1963
Highway Interim Committee, and
that the study be financed by the
highway fund.
At present cities receive 10 per
cent and counties 19 per cent of
the total highway funds trans
ferred to the highway commission
for distribution.
The funds come principally
from registration fees, fuels tax
and weight mile lax, with a minor
amount from fines.
During calendar 1961 approxi
mately $12 million was distributed
to counties, and $6.25 million to
cities under the 19 per cent - 10
per cent formula.
The committee reported Some
witnesses testified that the burden
upon the cities was much greater
than that upon the counties and
that the ratio should be altered to
provide the cities with 12 per cent
and counties 17 per cent.
"At the conclusion of Uie hear-
igs the committee was convinced
that the respective burdens and
nroblcms of cities and counties
had changed considerably.
The committee said, however
information was produced to
indicate how a new formula
hould be determined.
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Knifing Death
Charge Filed
MILTON-FREEWATER (UPD-
Manuel Alvarado, 31, Walla Walla
Wash., was stabbed to death on a
downtown street here last night
and Umatilla County Prosecutor
Richard Courson said he had filed
a first degree murder charge
against John Pena, 35, Umapine,
Ore.
Pena was held in the city jail
here without bond.
Courson said Pena would be
taken before a grand jury Thurs
day.
The prosecuting attorney said
the stabbine took place on the
main street in the business dis
trict about 9 p.m. during an argu
ment between Alvarado and Pena
The stab wound in the chest
was inflicted with a pocket knife.
Courson said. Alvarado was dead
on arrival at a Walla Walla Hos
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'Blocking High' Weather Phenomena
Frigid Blasts That Numb, Kill In
Editor's Note Europe
and the eastern United States
still are suffering horn some of
the worst winter storms of the
century. To investigate their
causes and effects L'PI as
signed a team of reporters:
Daniel F. Gilmore, for London
and Europe; James W. Ryan
and Jack O'Brien, for Maine
and the East Coast; firman
Itunnion, for the weather bu
reau meteorological experts in
Washington.
Biography of the Storms
A UPI Extra
A UPI Team Report
At 18,000 feet above the cold
blue-grey waters of the North At
lantic in the days just before
Christmas, a mass ol air formed
into what weathermen call a
"blocking high."
Circulating there between
Greenland and Iceland, unseen
by human eyes but marked on
the charts of meteorologists, this
wind pattern helped forge a vi
cious machine of nature that has
now clobbered two continents.
Nearly 600 persons died in Eu
rope for reasons attributed direct
ly to the storm, either from auto
accidents, drownings, asphyxia
tions or freezing. In the United
States, the death toll was scat
tered and much smaller, but the
property damage from wind and
cold was huge.
Joseph D. Panaro. of May-
brook, N.Y., who had seen and
survived a great many storms in
the 65 years of his life, died
when the car in which he was
riding was involved in an acci
dent caused by blowing snow.
Arthur Barber and his wife,
Daisy, of Robert's Place, Dor
chester, England, froze to death
on the back scat ol a Vauxhall
sedan which was stalled in a
giant snowdrift on the A353 road
three miles north of Weymouth,
England. (
Londou Hit Hard
London, which has fogs, found
itself covered in snow. At times
it was too cold to ski in the fa
bled winter sports grounds of the
Austrian Alps. Fourteen inches of
snow fell on Marseilles, on the
Mediterranean coast of normally
sunny southern France. It was
the most in 61 years.
Spawned by a combination of
weather factors around the globe,
timed almost with the precision
of a rocket countdown, the great
winter storms that blew out 1962
and slid in 1963 were among the
most severe of the century.
They were still around today,
and the "blocking high" that
helped cause them still is hover
ing above the Atlantic at latitude
64 north and longitude 31 west.
This huge pressure area that
was born before Christmas week
end pulled in arctic blasts from
Siberia that now have swept
across Europe. But at the same
lime it disturbed wind patterns
in the Western Hemisphere and
caused the big East Coast storm
to crunch up the Atlantic sca
Iward and bury parts of New
England.
Europe took the first blow.
"It's been the worst cold wave ,
since 194V, '' said Gordon H. Kob-
bins, deputy senior meteorologi
cal officer in the British Air Min
istry. "The worst snow blizzards,.
according to our records, since
1927."
Nothing Stopped Invasion
The high pressure area that
had built up between Greenland
and Iceland blocked off compara- j
lively warm winds from the At-1
lantic. These winds, and the Gulf
stream, provide England with its (
usual damp but temperate win-i
ters. But with the "blocking
high" in place, there was noth
ing to stop the windy invasion
from Siberia.
While Europe moaned, and
Rome newspapers reported "the
coldest Christmas ot the cen-l The same is in store for Eu-1 long-range weather forecaster, Ibors influence us, and we Influ
tury:" while snow conted the r0P- Jerome Namias, chief U.S.foresaw it this way: "Our neigh-lence them."
crater of Mt. Etna in Sicily and
avalanches cut olf millionaires
and the young set in ski resorts
throughout Switzerland, a storm
began moving up the eastern sea
board of the United States.
At weather bureau headquar
ters in SuitUmd, Mel., outside of
Washington, the experts consult
ed the prevailing patterns, exam
ined data from the computers,
made their own calculations, and
agreed that an onslaught was en
route.
Last Saturday, at Suitland, ex
perts such as Haiian Saylor,
chief of the analysis and forecast
branch of the National Meteoro
logical Center, decided to alert
weather bureaus around the coast
that a big storm, then located
near Cape Hatleras, N.C., was
building up. Their notice moved
about 1:30 p.m. EST.
By then it was snowing, and
later raining, in Washington it
self. New York City was soon to
be hit, and the Giants and the
Green Bay Packers would play
for the National Football League
championship in arctic cold.
Storm Moved North
The storm pressure area con
tinued to move north. It attract
ed bitterly cold air liom Canada.
The "blocking" area over the At
lantic prevented it from sweeping
out to sea. And the storm turned
toward Maine.
The highest weather bureau in
the northeastern United Slates is
atop 6,228-foot Mt. Washington, in
New Hampshire's magnificent
White Mountains not far from the
Maine border. In 11134 the tern
uerature there fell to 47 below.
The record almost was broken
Sunday night. ,
At 10:30 p.m. Guy Gosselin, 28, j
a 6-foot. 180-pound member of the
observatory staff, struggled along
a 20-foot long walk and found the
thermometer reading 41 below.
The storm was in full force.
At Bangor, Maine, the snow be
gan at 4:10 p.m. EST on Satur
day. When it ended at 3:23 a.m.
Monday, 29 inches were on the
ground which already had been
covered with 10 inches Irom a
previous snow.
In Washington, the weather bu
reau was grim. A 30-day forecast
issued Monday said that temper
aturcs should continue "below
season normals" over the eastern
third of the nation.
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