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VA Runs Info Trouble Trying
To Reduce Expenses
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, — (NEA) - Veterans Adnvinis
trator Carl R. Gray, jr., recently visited the VA
tubercular hospital at Fort Bayard, N. M, It is a
temporary structure ang something of a fire haz
ard., General Gray came back to Washington and
recommended that it be closed. The recommenda
tion wase turned down because of political promises
that it would be kept open,
Veterans Administration has been having its
troubles in trying to close down its paraplegic hos
pital at Van Nuys, Calif, This is another temporary
fu ility. It was proposed to move the patients at
Van Nuys no farther away than to Los Angeles,
Long Beach and San Fernando hospitals, Also, it
was proposed to build a new 1,000-bed neuropsy
¢l atric hospital on the site of the Van Nuys hos
pital after it was closed.
But when the Veterans Administration announ
ced the closing, a storm of local protest arose. The
Chamber of Commerce got busy, Rep. Helen Gaha
gan Douglas was drawn into the hulabaloo, to add
her official congressional protest to the closing.
Movie stars were enlisted to protest. Frances Lang
ford was delegated to see President Truman about
it on his recent western trip, but she got a none too
neat brush-off,
This kind of monkey business is apparently going
to be repeated about 16 times in the next few years.
Veterans Administration has made no official an
nouncement of it as yet, but it has plans to close all
o' its temporary hospitals.
' ROGRAM WOULD SAVE LOT OF MONEY
VA’s purpose is to save money, Maintenance costs
are far greater in a temporary, horizontal-type
rambling structure than in one of the newer, ver=
tical, skyscraper-type hospitals. Also, the perma
nent-type structures are safer and can give better
medical service.
Not all the 16 temporary VA hospitals will be
closed at once. The plan involves shutting down the
old facilities only as new facilities in the sanre area
can be opened. It may take five years or more to
complete the present VA hospital building program.
If permitted to go through with this program,
Veterans Administration would save a lot of money.
A new Budget Bureau field study on government
hospital operation costs is now under way, But a
recent survey indicated that it was costing about
$8,000,000 a year more to operate the temporary
hospitals than it would be to operate the same num
ber of beds in permanent buildings.
The trouble is that every time a proposal is made
to shut down one of these inefficient installations,
local pride and pocketbooks get hurt and produce
a terrific yell. Governors and congressmen and sen=
ators join the protest. And under such pressure,
saving the government money becomes impossible.
Veterans Administration is now operating 106,000
beds, Its new building program will provide 35,000
more beds, which will bring the VA up to its pres
identially-set ceiling of 131,000 beds, Not all peds
are occupied all the time. Eighty-five percent occu~
pancy is considered most efficient. Present Veterans
Administration hospital costs are figured at $10.63
per day per patient, The average is 26 days per pa
tient, VA's mredical director, Dr, Paul B. Magnu
son, believes that one of the best ways to save
money for the government is to reduce this time as
much as possible, consistent with good care.
FIFTEEN SLATED TO BE CLOSED
This is the list of temporary hospitals which the
Veterang Administration now wants to close as new
facilities are opened:
Cushing General Hospital, 1,100 beds, Framing
ham, Mass.; Phoenix General Hospital, 144 beds,
Phoenix, Ariz.; Fort Logan General Hospital, 326
beds, near Denver, Colo.; Chamblee General Hos
pital, 750 beds, Chamblee, Ga.; Fort Benjamin Har
rison General Hospital, 500 beds, near Indianapolis,
Ind.; Topeka Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 1,400 beds,
Topeka Kan. (This is a big NP training center and
will not be closed for some years.)
Louisville General Hospital, 1,000 beds, Louis=-
ville, Ky.; New Orleans General Hospital, 670 beds,
New Orleans, La.; Springfield Tubercular Hospital,
~ 600 beds, Springfield, Mo.; Saratoga Springs Gen=
i ¢-al Hospital, 50 beds, Saratoga Springs, N, Y.;
: ananoa General Hospital, 500 beds, Swananoa,
] i . C.; Crile General Hospital, 1,000 beds, Cleveland,
Ohio; Oklahoma General Hospital, 220 beds, Okla
honm City, Okla.; Butler General Mospital, 905
beds, Butler, Pa.; McKinney General Hospital, 1,000
beds, McKinney, Texas.
Only one VA temporary hospital has actually
been closed. This is a 150-bed hospital at Wilming
ton, Del. The 1,500 VA beds in Halloran General
Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., have been reduced to
Tfip. Eventually all will be vacated and the facility
will be returnéd to the state of New York for a
ghildren's hospital,
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We cannot stand and weep forlornly over the
mzili dead policy.—Navy Undesecretary Dan
on Communist conquest of China,
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Still Plenty so Be Done In
Streamlining Government
Vital streamlining of the federal government still
has a long road to travel,
Thanks to a late spurt in Congress, we made
more progress this year tnan it seemed we would,
But that doesn’t obscure the fact we should have
done a lot better,
In one big batch President Truman submitted 21
reorganization plans, most based fairly closely on
the recommendations of the Hoover Comnvission
which studied the problem exhaustively, The Sen
ate killed five and the other 16 are now in effect.
Offhand that score looks good, but the results
need to be analyzed a little. Former President Her
bert Hoover, who headed the commission, says only
one of the 21 plang calls for major surgery on a gov=-
ernment department, That's the cne putting the
Maritime Commission into the Commnerce Depart
ment.
The Hoover group recommended 18 major ad
ministrative shifts, Three others, besides the Com
merce Department change, have already been ap
proved. They include reorganization of the State
Department and unification of the armed services.
But that still leaves 14 to be acted on,
Not until these are instituted can the government
begin to realize the efficiencies and economries
promised from this great streamlining program.
Savings of perhaps $3,000,000,000 annually depend
on carrying this plan to completion.
Mr. Hoover does not appear to be worried be
cause some of Mr. Truman’s proposals vary from
the commission’s. “The President has the right and
duty to present his own ideas in these matters,” he
says.
What does trouble Mr, Heover is the kind of op
position some plans have aroused. Proposals for re
aligning the Treasury, the Agriculture Department,
the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Fed~
eral Communicaticns Commission were killed. Mr,
Hoover is said tc Zeel pressure groups worked hard
against reforms that would affect them, while
shouting loudly for all the others.
Too many senators appear to have yielded to
these pressures, Moreover, they have argued incon
sistently in defense of their negative action. They
have charged that the plans present a “power grab”
for Mr. Truman. Insofar as they call for a clearer
line of command and a centralization of adminis
trative respongibility, this could be said of all the
Hoover Commission proposals,
With the exception of the President’s back-door
effort to amend the Taft-Hartley law by “reorgan
izing” the office of NLRB general counsel out of
existence, the defeated plans should be submitted
again. And action should proceed forthwith on the
14 remaining major operations recommended.
Toward all of these the Senate and House should
take a constructive, statesmanlike attitude. If they
do not, congressional spouting about federal waste
and inefficiency will have an empty sound for a
long time to come.
Truman’s Newest Economist
Cails Himself ‘Expendable’
Roy Blough, new third man en President Tru
man’s Council of Economic Advisers, will come to
the job'with a commitment to quit if he finds he
isn’t doing any good.
Blough was formerly head of treasury tax re
search. He left that at the end of the war and went
back to teaching economics at University of Chicago.
Last December Brough made a speech before an
American Economics Association meeting in New
York, His subject was, “Political and Administra
tive Requirements for Achieving Economic Stabil
ity.”
Dr. Edwin G. Nourse had just resigned as chair
man of the CEA. Blough at that time was not even
being considered for membership on the Council.
But the speech he made may have had something
to do with his selection for the job four months
later, \
Blough’s speech was really an analysis of what
makes the work of a presidential economic adviser
almost impossible to do. Blough concluded that the
Council of Economic Advisers should be absolutely
independent of presidential or other political pres
sure in whatever it recommended. Then came this
kicker: e
“Reérhaps we should look ori Council members as
expendable, each carrying forward the work as far
as he individually can, then retiring in favor of
others who can carry it farther before they, too,
drop by the wayside. I suggest that even the insti
tution of the Council itself is expendable and that
sooner or later it will be cut down politically to be
replaced by some other organizatin carrying for
ward. the same functions in somewhat different
ways.”
What Blough seems to have done in this speech
was to prepare the way for his own exit even be
fore he knew he was to enter the Council of Eco
nomic Advisers, and to predict its ultimate end.
Stories prevalent in Washington for the past few
‘months—that President Truman was looking for a
new chairman to replace Dr. Nourse—were untrue.
The President indicated he wanted Leon H. Keyser
ling for chairman and John D, Clark for vice chair- |
man, right from the start. |
Senator Taft's remark that these two, with
Blough, “gives the President three left fielders,” is
a good crack. But it is pertinent to note that right
field hasn’t contributed much of anything to win- |
ning the ball game eiiher, |
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“Third Man Theme" Is Heard
From Newlywed Paul Douglas
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD --(NEA)-- Be
hind the Screen: Paul Douglas
went to Paramount to take Jan
Sterling, his bride, to lunch. It was
her first day at work in “A Rela
tive Stranger,” and Douglas found
her in the arms of John Lund, be
ing well-kissed. “I guess,” said
Douglas, “I'm the st:anger here.”
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Economy note: The fat and lazy
goldfish in the Paramount park?
pool have been put to work—in
an aquarium for Ray Milland’s
“Mr. and Miss A:lonymous.” |
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Alice Faye didn’t fling the script
of “Jackpot” back at Fox. “It was
a good story,” she told me, “but
nothing can keep me from going
to Europe this‘ su‘:mrzer with Phil.”
Mickey Walker is beaming. Hol
lywood will film his life story,
“The Toy Bulldog,” and one of his
oil paintings is hanging next to a
Rembrandt in Thomas Mitchell’s
home . . . Joan Woodbury and
Henry Wilcoxon expect the stork
any edition. They have two daugh
ters . . . Patricia Morison, who
‘held out for years against a snip=~
'snip job on her long hair, is about
to &lvo in . . . Two ex-husbands of
a blonde star are working in the
same movie. When they went on
location the other day, they co
signed a telegram to her which
read:
“Having a wonderful time. Glad
you're not here.”
Convert?
Jack Carson will make the big
leap into TV . .. Note to Gussie
Moran: Dorothy Thompson, the
noted suede designer, is now turn
ing out suede panties . .. The Joe
E. Browns will observe their 35th
wedding anniversary this summer
with a world cruise.
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The dancing DeMarcos, Tony
and Sally, and the Charlivels, the
sensational French trio, headline
Hollywood’s current night club en
tertainment,
Ten years ago when he was di
vorced from Renee DeMarco, Tony
said: “I could never dance with
anybody else.” But now there’s
Sally, his ninth partner and the
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Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY.
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgia
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
New York and East—
-11:22 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
8:45 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
East—
-12:15 a. m.—(Local).
Leave for Atlanta, South and
West—
-5:50 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
4:25 a. m.—‘g‘Local).
4:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily) 12:35 p.m
Leaves Athens (Daily) 4:15 p.m
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
From Lula and Commerce
Arrive 9:00 a. m.
East and West
Leave Athens 9:00 a. m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Week Day Only
Train No. 50 Departs 7:00 p. m.
Train No. 51 Arrives 9:00 a. .
Mixed Trains.
third Mrs. DeMarco in 32 years of
dancing DeMarcos. Sally was a
ballerina who changed Tony’s
mind two years after Renee’s di
vorce.
But whether he has Sally, or
Renee or Mabel or Helene or Ar
line in his arms, Tony still mas
ter-minds the best white-tig-and
tails ballroom dancing act in the
country.
The Charlivels are learning
about the acrobatic know-how of
movie stars who are being dragged
out of the audience to gu'ticlpato
in their box somershult number,
Juan Charlivel, who lets the eager~
beavers straddie his back and
catch his tumbling brother with
their legs, told me:
“Burt Lancaster and _ George
Burns, they refooze to take a
chance, But Kitk Douglas, he
lohv thees treek. Hees legs are
strong like a bool. He catch Char
lie everee time and he beg to do
treeck again.”
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~ Dale Evans comes out, leans on
a fence and talks and sings to a
‘local TV audience every week. The
fence serves to conceal her figure
8o she can do the show right up to
the time she’ll keep a date witi the
stork . . . Fountain of youth dept.:
As Lee J. Cobb gets older, he gets
younger on the screen. At 27 he
§layed the father in “Golden Boy.”
ow he goes remontiec and g‘ets
gae ,girl, Jane Wyatt, in “The
un.”
Some Type
Dorothy Wong, a waitress at the
Ming Room, does bit parts in films.
Other day her agent called ex
citedly and said, “Get right over
to the studio. They're looking for
an American type Chinese girl.”
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Humphrey Bogart, I'm guessing,
had a finger in some of the blister
ing wordage about Hollywood that
scorches the sound track of his
new picture, “In a Lonely Place.”
There was a yell of “Amen, broth=-
er,” at the press preview when
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for re-election as Clarke
County Representative subject to
the rules and regulations of the
June 28th Democratic Primary,
Your support and influence will
be greatly appreciated.
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Bogey said:
“The trouble with Hollywood
dames is that their education is
sketchy. They know nothing
about the Community Chest, but
everything about community pro
perty.”
Another sizzler to the pompous
relative of a studio head:
“You have set the son-in-law
business back 50 years.
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Gimmick that will get the laughs
at Ul's “The Milkman"”: A rigged
up milk truck that stops, starts or
backs up when Jimmy Durante
whistles, Jimmy says:
“Den I'll ku.fy 'em wit’ a line
about inventin’ an electric nose,
so dat a milk truck can follow my
scent.” .
Jimmy says he didn't have to
do any research on the habits of
milkmen to play the part.
“I useta zetai;x their trucks and
help ’em deliver de stuff back in
my Broadway days around six in
de morning.”
IRAN FACES OPIUM
PROBLEM
TEHERAN—(AP)—The poppies
bloom white in Persian fields. The
result: opium—*“living death” in
the colorful Chinese phrase.
Each year's crop is good news
tc medicine makers of America
and Euro&e. From opium they
derive pain-easing morphine and
codine. For norcotics men it’s a
new headache, Perhaps half of
Persis’s annual production of from
1,000 to 1,500 tons slips into illegal
channels. It ends up in the pipes
of addicts in sickly-sweet smelling
dens from San Francisco to Singa
pore. Persia, or Iran, is a great
opium producing nation along with
Turkey and Yugoslavia.
EdD elehanty, who played for
Philadelphia in the National
League and Washington in the
American, led both leagues in bat
ting —the National in 1899 and
the American in 1902 .
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SANDRA COX
Sandra Cox To
Open Holly
Heights Revival
It was announced today that due
to many requests, little Sandra
Cox, ten-year-old revivalist from
Macon, will.open a week of serv
ices at Holly Heights Chapel Mon~
day night, June 5, continuing
through Sunday night, June 11.
Many will remember the dy
namic services conducted at Holly
Heights last fall by the Macon girl
and the capacity crowds that at-
ARTHRITIC, RHEUMATIC VICTIMS
Now Offered Faster, Longer Lasting
Relief From Deep-Seated Pains
Amafl “F“;Zoad” Tablet Has
en Prwg_n_gudlenu
New “Film-Coated” tablet is latest
method found. Reduces uric acid.
Strikes directly at chronie, deep
seated pains through blood stream.
Bm:g soothing, long-lasting relief.
Unlike plain tablets, film-coating
avoids toxic effect, and useless action
in stomach. Pain-relieving medi
cine is carried to intestines. Abscrp
tion by blood stream starts effective
analgesic action fast, All &omu of
deep-seated pain and ess are
quickly reached. Gt this new, safe
compound, called Ar-Pan-Ex, at
Crow’s Drug Store
Citizens Pharmacy
Horton’s Drug Store .
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CANDIDATE FOR
CITY ATTORNEY
OF ATHENS
CITY ELECTION
Monday, June 5, 1950.
YOUR VOTE AND INFLUENCE
WILL BE APPRECIATED
FRIDAY, YUNE 2, 1950.
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Billy Shepard will be at the
piano and Ralph ¥erring willl leaq
the congregational Wiging of the
old-time Gospel songs,
These services are interedenom
inational and the public is eor
dially invited to attend.
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