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COAIMS 0 r MCOM TV ALT A, CTS Febray T5th, y948 ourAtrot ineting went an

record endrolng Cop ita "oesitol as a domiciliary care fasti-ity to be acquired by the Veterans AftInIstration*

At that time T was appointed with comrades 0ward nytout andG eo Luek a a committee to get all the information we could in

r C: tite T1rospits. At that tim if UV memory We"es Meright, very little was known about Camp Thite Irosital at thattime. Therefore it was necessary, to get all the information pse-ibie in regards the Cam 11hite Totaital, To that eoad, wote lett-ers to members of Congress of both California and Oregon. 7or thisoffort or my part I must give my thanks to Ionorable uy Cordenr,United States Senator from Oregon, as well as Vonorable Marris Tll-.sworth V!mber of Congress from the fourth D1strict of Oon eqn,These two gentlemen sent me the hearings on the Ca 1Thite issuefrom both the Senate and TTouca respectfully, It is from the tran-script of these hearings that my report to you are based. I mustany at this time that I did get a nice letter from Ponerable Claire

1Engle Uerbev of Congress from our second District of California,with a concise brief outline of the Camp Thite issue.

/-efore I go further into this report, I want to make it clearthat this report to the district is made without prejudice on mypart, and I shall try to the best of my ability to present onlyfacts as see them gleaned from the transcript bearings as "adfrom the Senate and the Youse sub-comittee.a

The identiele bills u- for conse s ration to the Congress, are3-1035 in the Senate, and .T.R.297I In the Touse, They are to pro-vide for aqisition of CORp 7'ite Tosptitl for use as a domicliarycare facilit by the Veterans Admintstration,

Z think it is necessary to tell you, Comrades,what dmilcilia-ry in: this is quoted from testimony by Colonel j1sst page 2Ml,hearings of sub-committee on Labor and Public Telfare United Stat-es 3enatel"Colonel Ijams. MXr, Chairnansfter listening to the test-imory today I am fraid mary will be confused as to just wat dow-iciliary care is, If I morp I would like to take just a moment toexplain that domiciliary care is one of the first servioes given bythe Government of the United States to fthe disabled dependent v\or-an. This eare was dewermined upon during the War Between the States -

and in T865, I believe the Federal Governmiet assed legislation toset up ohat they called asylums for disabled veteran, to wtch mendisabled in service might go, who had no other home* and h*o wold,in fact, enter these places for the rest of their lives, men *hocould not carry on in a gainful occuPOti1on

The Camp 4ite Site ceomriQss some forty buildings, and has acapacity of 1754 bded* It cost the Tar TDepartment 1*,2881,0" whichat the present cost of building to duplicate Cp Vhite it wouldcost between MP,0*5 t00 to¶t1o5, vOnO0. ¶his ti exclusive of hoep-ital equipftent stored on the hospital site valued at better then

J 1,000,000. This Trospital was built by the Ary Corps of Enginee-re who has built better than ninety per cent of all Veteran Admin-istration hosnitals, Testimony brought forth at the Senate Sub-committee hearings from impartial local contractors, and medical

men in the Medford area, stat that amp V * hospital .W beput in first ClAs oparative order for "6*0OO, iwte" Of the¶IRooWe asked -b the Veterans Administration. The situationin reard the aquisition of Camp Uite, also exists at Cmpsco tat Clinton, IQow. Th Camp S3obik issue has the tativesupport of Legionaires from the State Dopartments of Iowa andIllizois; *ereas in regards amp hite ITospitalt Legionnaires

of Oregon has given only passive support,* The Veteran of Po-eign Iva" has ben in the forefront in support of Oamp -iteHospital, as wll as at Coup Sihiek* On the Coup 'Iit, easital hearimws, all that was presented we" letters from theOregon Departuent of Th, Amerfem Leon, and Medford Post #15of The AmericanLegion,* These letters VW"r put on the reordIV Ur* tohn Taker Jones, ntional Je1babilitattiOU Chaisn of

1#ersm 7A vestem rgamisatios, a*u " the Am-=owsLegiow, shwuld and owuld bve, dose a lo better by its

self if it would hav enlisted the aid of it'* net1toringState Departments in behalf of ts importt pieow of losts-ltiott such as was don at Camp Sohioek I think the **usonDistrict *hould do something aout it,, In ur opinion thisissue does not belong to the State of Orego aoe" At to ev-ry state on the Paoific *lope At this time thr is only

one domioilialt es horpital on the paifie slme and thatis at Sawtell near Los Angeles, California with 3,U beds.Ithas a large waiting list all tbh time*

The rean for the. two piecs of identiele legislationwere V1rws fold, I-Need 2S- Avalability;3- Veowy

1ow, mmber one- The need of dolmeiliay cr hoeaspitalfor the Pacific Werthwst is net only great; but t- ued is ad-mittod by tbe Veterans Administration. Testimom show thatthee no faility of this kind for the States of O -gonwb-ington, Idho# MeitF-a, Utab, and rl0da. ftis vat ma ofthe TWt in in dire need of a dcei lia are faellitZ.

Wwber two: Camp Vhite Rospital by ths Aa for415286500*, with over $l,0,00 worth of ehospital equiptoentwith a "aIpty of T754 bds* *£i4 lies iTle at Vedford, Ore-

1Njber three; This hospital we deal mE surlus by theArsy, and can be had by the Veterans Admini strati on from thewar Assests Administration*

Now, the objections qai et p 'Vhite hospital are thesame as those salmt Coup 3&itek at Clinton, *S ~ svoI

One The problem oa persoenllt twotcost of aintonmee;-wx ThofesSt off altraoust- fvn tl Jseli on oxeiwo

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IWOre I go insto the objestious of the veterans Afivist-ration; I ro- to youletter between hrnrable SheridanDOW Uited 1State Senator of "atlornia -a *%ar in r-

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GaX*elle Californi a,>'bur 27,r I94J.

Ronorable Sheridan Downey*United States Senator,Of California,Washington#25# D.C.

y Dear sir;On February 15th, 1948 the second Distriet of the

Amterian Legion held it's meeting at Yreka, Ctforuia. Atthis meeting the Legionnaires went on record endorsing Camp1Ite, Io"pital at Yedford, Oregon, as a Veterans Adhinistrat-ion Facility.

with Yr. George Lueck of Mount Shasta, and Yr. Roward

Daton of rule Lake, I was made hairman of a coittae to see#iat can be done with this marnnr,

s$im you are our senior Senetort I, in behUf of theSecond Distriet I ask your support. I would be very gratefulif you would be so kind as to give me all. the fats appertain-Ing to this matter,

Very Truly Your'"s,

WashigtonTC, Febr a 26*I948,re. bert A Cedros,

C 0ael eClfornmia.

Dear Yr. odros, A assure you and veteran associates ot myfullest cooperation possible In the matter of COmp itet 'os-pital at Medford aim a Veterans* Adinistration facility. T amwriting the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs urging his fea-orable consideration to the propeosl, and I will let you knowdevelopments as information can be secured

,nme to lack of fuds*, staff nersonnelet,,tseVA,may believe itself not in a position to undertk* the hos-pital's operation, but "e will do what we mS, be assured. I

alws anxous to aseist and advanso the veteran inteestsin every way I- cn

MJA1 thanks for writing me on brusiry 21*

Sincere>ly, SMIDAY DOM.** *i*+* ++x+**

,lwhingtow4 7DC. Marsh 18,T948.

Yr. Albert A* CedroB,Gazelle, California.Dear Yrr Qedros; For your interest and that of your associatesof the Legion, I -a elosing a letter fr tthe Chief MedicalDirector of the Veterans AdminLstration in WAS&ingon Kr*

an exln th it would be Impraetifal to utiliz, theate oi t dford, and T rgr t:hese ca rstanes

p tN you an encouraging reply.w ha ha -proposalfro other are u ting the V*A.

to take advantege of hostal strtures built during the war* butthier remote location and the impotsibility of inducing qualified

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doctors and nurses to staff the faailitie* has almost vrevnttdus from being of servoe#, Nronetheless, I am anxious to assistand advance interests At all times and I am glad you gave methe opportunity to go Into the CAM 'mite matter.

With best wi, n

TashIngton#DC. March IXI94R. 3' - i

!onorable Sheridan Downey,United States Senate,

Dear Senator Doweyt This ti a reply to your onmuaiatioen of?ebratT 26,1948, 'with enclosure from Albert &. Cadres* Gaeelle,California# regaring the Ca hito Iospitalo moedford, Oregon,

Vs have given careful consideration to the posibhlity ofutilising Comp Viit* and have analywed it from the standpointOf itts locati with regatts to veterans to be sorvo4t It * pro-Ximity to medical centers, and Its suitibility to converon toteGporar 0? vernant po*e

Our sur"y hae shown that the greatest handicap *hisk wewill fe in acquiring this Installation as a hospital would beto staff it. Later consideration ws given to It s possible us.as a domieliary hom, again the question of staffing arose, asin order to establish a home, aTproximately one hospital bed wo-uld have to b provided for every flve * domiciliary beds,thus necessitating a sizable hospital *Ilt for a large hom. Tinaddlition, hospital bed would hav, to be provided for the veteransresiding in the adj acent coamnnities.

To meet a nee fot domiciliary beds, in this asrea we areplanning to activate a domicilLary unit at Vancouver, Wasingtponhospital due to Its proximity to the Portland, Oregn hospital,

he ph'ioe location of Vancouver hospital is more desiraltnCam wIs, from the viewpoint of both staffing and domic-iliary care,

Please assure r*. Cedros that if It X were at all possibleto utilise the Camp Valte hospital as a veterans# hoaVltU itwould be acWired*

Very Truly Yours, Paul P# Vagnuson, Chiief ledicalDirector.

oGazelle, California, Maeh 25,1948*Ronorable Sheidankf DmUnited States Senator,of aifornia,y Der Sir; Permit me to thank oi behalf of District Two

Of the Amencan Legion, D w t of CalifoLa, I shall notforget you in m report to the Diutrieto

however, T so afraid that you and ether Yiwbersof Congrets from California will hear more about the Camp lhitematter, With kindest Regards, T sw Sincerely, Albert A. C.dro*s

I present this to you Comrades, to show you how our membersof Congress get their information, Aen publie opinion at homedoes not take the initiative to form that opinion for them,, Pr-so X cannot our members of Congre if we here athoe o the diff*eet Departments of Govrent w their *stgole (as in this cas*) do iat we the veteran thinks should not

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I will Om quote to voU fro, th Snat Hatramovivt of General P 3 B*___ Chief 11teiafor the Veterans AdministrationL, I its relation to

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befro and Oter the b WI a 2 1 a1,0 AST and V#-2 boes that we as 4to r t

J after their intornship the "A diatt bmples thin and wnoto tO theVeteras Admintstration, Thy are all gaiM out ay ofthis year we have 100me* n comi in as attendin upeiao1st.iou kinds, uSOnd a half O e 5 4ys aseek aourhospitals sat Wn owe oFv Uits. 1., avein all bran oef eio , and thon wo have about 1,200 eon-sa4tante who are all professove of med ioine or surgew In vartus sbools, who onreee the general * t

ow we realize we can't have the kind of a *#t-up evr*-wher that th;} hm in Portland, Oraego beemse, Portland,oroegobao one of the but Mtedical schools In the won*, and

m of the bout doors it the verld, spetlalitst# and theyaitr doi aerbl * t ji oe, of the bestoutfits w e ad t l l hool is oopratit, an soil 1 their stof

Tow wo don't thin either that all the 1.81 a brains inthe countr are oontand" there bet the trouble with the 10-lor plsees to that Ws oant trt *thos servise from the min Uh tow who re not engaged In teachei, but As a" ws*

Irdtprot he figre I got for the pellatief of MWdf.d

mm XTile thousand and the Lem" Irt on th UM11Wr Of d4o1Otors PVatioi; N tat town wa 35, leaves *5 peoplePer dotor*

Now out of that umber of dootore thr ae Itwand throt me, and one radiologist w a etif tse Now itIsn't neoess to haee a certified m* W" dout think thatcertification ivew a ma aw mere ,rls.

It Just chos bhe ha been able to eo a prett Stiff emalnnattieo and a lot of follo who -e oldew e t iterst-

ed in takin the xai nation, seo trwe -ebaby me inthat, to4 that ae equal to uo" Of the -m i Portlan or

of e en in PortladWe arent puttin this on the bi5 of quiaifeatious

th*at"r not knows. Te want to knw the deoter who areting in our hospitals and we tae a gd dea of pa ins t

look tha up since the Veterans AniniotratIOU Is rsponsiblfor the car of the atient,*

We he to have diret eontt between the A¢d o itra*toand the hief Medical Director and tbe patlent to be, abl tocottro the treatment.

New througthe )feMdieal shIs that thi'w "a be v5WYon ls w aeo tin that spot to

h te sto se that the right seneoos i* eentet with the ptatint that he known most about athat that practice is going to e oie4 Out not a uiAin;*eh a* A A A1A%#Wfm4+M - -+%is+ WW ¶.% - I"-.-

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but as a defenite c t'ent co tat we dont have to make 4re#4Inentus with iVedical Societies, because when You are making an qc

reentet with a medical Society you are vstkrg it with a group

over which no man has control.sow that is just our Medical sst-up, and in a dotuili1Wy

hospital or domicillaryV h-e wV have to hae porobablY 10O begs

to 500 patients, because as General Baley said, the*s patients

need caresNOW View are we going to give them that care¶ 1?tcaus we

can't get full-tim. dootoe,* Ive have a 100 bed hospital sa,

for 500 4ftiailia7 patients W have to have X-rWo laba-

ton,,Thsioal therapy eleatratherapy, and the things that tho*s

patients are going to ned to put them on their feet, because We

don't intend to let them iIe dormlnt. That isn't the plan of

the Medical department now*We intend to make every Mr as wel1 aswe an. of that i

the ideal and that ito *at we

I shall quote you forthert:olonl DiYdelf asistant s4mie

tratorfow9 sand realestate for the VotOrs"A~i~staton* P"e5 2 erw 8 5 qototO 5M1ATOR IsXX-T there

not $400*000,000 proposed for hospitals b the V, Ak, C0lm* you mean the construction pregran, Snatr SWATOR

Z *IM That is right. MOM , Ther is already arpro-

v. an -anunt of about $1,000000000 to TO

Jenner4 A billion dolMlars TC).YtO to cer costof costructing 90 hospitals for 50*000 and some beds. nWATORXORSX. Do you mean approved but not app %Piat d? C0L0Authorised, Mrf Chairman~mnd the Congrss, as I understand it

has Approved o adutboried, the Veters Ainisatrt-ion to thegiig te conrat uthorit Y for th fl --unt, anm has n p'pro'pat the eac required to liquidate p -

iturs o" a curret year b atis* SATR V J. Let us dwell on

that for a mon*t * Let us dwell on that Wrely as a hyoethet'

ic questi. Let uas assume that you Wanted to issue a co't-

ract for $, worth of eonstruetion and you took bids

for contracts. A I to understand that th Veterans i -

tion would feel that 250,000000 ha re"y bon p aGOL0!M D Ysn Sir.We hav in a S a pert of the Ulliandollave-4bou1t $350,000*000 W)TA jOMR* I will get Over

tha $550,000,000 tbem? suppos* yo 1WOM a gontrst feor $750,M

000,0000, at would you hav* to do? ML0M Mm* I ean only

speak, Senter of 'y undestaiming Te VWr gven auethorisatito

for the entire program in contraSt authOrity. and cas to bemd aailable a required to meet eOXpedtureithii the over-

all during the flscal year, IIIL other wvso ths*' is an author-

Ised and directed progrem from *he cogss point of view as I

understand it. IJWAR MOR. It is your understanding thoe

undrstandift Q h we bAad4tintt tt that in&W nww I 0" "Iw a & w na1 ptRk C?

for the ho*sita l ttOU rograef ?IiAf rati o-

That It is a blnding claim on the TreMVY Of the Unitd SIand Conres ad that you A" autemticaly entilted ato the

ony e ough you do not ciplete your pro-m In th nextten year and irrespetive of wat the tgtat problems of the(2

w eithe MUMe CMOIJ DRYMU, AS I stated Senator weee l er ue etil of f qi to lqite

v .nto los year; th d l of fund required to lil aes

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the onotraot obligations during the current year of 1948,Te now hawv beforthe toarropitirs eoywitteea request forthe cash neoessar in 1949* IMATOR MORSI. And sos*i other

words, from your understanding of the law as it stands now,if this Congress should deoide to ask the Veterans Admisistrattoion to tae over Schick Hospital and Cam 'iite ToTspitAl, andalso set up a ?ranklinVirginti, hospital, this Congress wouldhave to provide over and above present allocations, addition-al appwrpiation to do the job. In other words, it would be

an additional obligation placed oa you by the Congress, call-ing for additional approptations? CMLOM MXNP yes.

Alas 1uotet In relation to management.* flOCT PMS,7Direetor of management and planning staff of the Veterans Ad-

xninistinat*ko pages 98 and 299. quote* flRPRM$S, i have

tade a roug caloulation this moting W en the Chairman bro-4.ht up the se poilnt The 33 AM ,nd g b wande h tals we

are now operating 'have inereased 16M.-% AMN*-* the cost tothe extent that were those hospitals to be replaced by other

hospitals, *'* that we eould run at the same cost we arrunning the balance of our hospitals It would represent a

differenes i" est of $M,400#,00 a year at the present t *Page 299,* quote;* W)TOR YOR"X, J'Lowee acodig to the

testioany ae far am Vhite ti oncerned the medicel pro-fession of fakso Cotun Oraegn will staff a domiceliavyhospital up to 200 bed*, the domitiliary typ until such time

As the 'Veterans Administration hba been able to inaugurate aprogran that will train the necessary peronnel, T believesiilar testimor was apnlied to 1Shi*, 1hat is yur oe-ent on that? DR. PRSS# I don't know *iat is Meant when they

say they will staff the hospital* It is innufficint to re

cruit doctors and nurses whose only qualificatien for serveic

in the hospital is the fact that he is a docter or she is a

nUrse. Thy must here More than that. To sto" hospitals you

mus have a full time staff, particlly wilth nu"re--thers

is no subsitute for a full time staff of nurse*s, I ar very

eueeseful in some areas in geting o with a minim d-ica staff, full time, but in sudh instances that staff is very

well sup mented by the YIediosl talent which is available i1-

ediatly in the i*mntyt I do not know ohethor in these --unit*es tl'ey could possibly give us the minlm Medial satff

that is required. It has "at demonstrated to us in either area,and u kowl*4g* ti more specific of 8.hiek than it is of ied-ford, but I believe the situations are omewhat coparable. It

was brouht out this morning that ther Were# I think, 1,200physcias within a 75-mile wadius of Clinton, Iowa, it is not

the number of pbyscians qualified to beadle spelties am oom-

plicated conitionMs , *ho are available within a certain distance

It is the number of physcians fid sooiniated conditnlsv*o are avalle within a maNttr of muie

t,* and it has not been demonstrated to ns that we would e able

to find such a staff in either aws, and I think it would e farfrom fals* eo to save tho veter money as a tax-WOW If weshort chaneS him as a patient, That is our probletm I thinkthat ts the predominent problem which effeets the Veterans Main-istratiton The Cogress#, I believe, may coose to make the mone

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available to run these F1:6oitals, %at we do set aehow VWeadequatley and propery staff Vift.* M"d of ->ote.

I sik th transcript testi"ony as quoted to youis public knowledge and giv YOu a good Idea of the problemsthat are ours is regardS to getting hospital facilities foer ou

0O-adoe in nd, Too, I firmly couvinced, if we lose thisfight for a doxiciliary car h0spital at Medford Oregon nwow Wewill never in the future get e uw so lose to Won,& 'ou can seeby the transcript the infbleibility of the Veterans Administrat-lon's polity, As you road through the hearingsp one is remindedtime and again how the Veterans Administration try to impress theneed for a eomplete y~dical staff, with specialists and X t, %wibased for a general m1ediel and surgical hospital* sen it Issho" such it not the case. -still the Veterans Administrationcontemplates to build and staff a 20 bed general Medical andsurgica! hoesitlt, so miles east of Medfora Oregon, at KlmthFalls Oregon,# that does not ha"e no better civiliat medicalfaculties, than are afterd at .Mdford, Oregon* The o dofes. gives is better railroad facilities. It is such te stothat confutes and beclouds this Issue *The me cam be saidabout the alter~tiom the Vtrans Administrattion hold nemes-ary at Camp hite to put CMP Vxte 71sital in operation, *esa brmekdown of the al eratos are stud ed, they a fantastic,as vell as git, a different pictue.

ComrseuS ther is a sayig that;*The baby that cries theloudest and the longest to f trot o get fed', well I thinktle foregoing appIes to this case Te of the S*otd Districtof the merisan Legion will have to do a lot of trying, not oblyto our Vnberv of Congress bat to all Logion Districts in IToerthern California to ein us In the horus and do a it of it tothe -epartment, so this Issue ca be really felt in Ihitingtonw

I want to read to you a letter from Mr Zahn walker jonespNational Rehabilitation Chairan of the VWv,,v hieh I reeeviJust the other day. Bef or I do* I want u to know that itwas through JMr Zones valiant efforts that has t theCin 1hite Rospital issue as far as It has* W the veterans ofthe State of Oregon.

1U1WG1-rie uregon*April It# 1948.

!M. Albert A. CadresGaselle, California,

Dear SirlThaks for your kind lotter of April 15th relative

to Coup Ibite Hospita at Medford.The e"eutive order of the prsident you refer to

would hav o 'bearing on either RS5 orb3 M*29, in asMah as these bills ar an ast of or diroeting theodadmnstrator to acqure this failty an orati6 it as adomicillry hoe for vt r* "This is trUly sa atter ofinterest to all veterans of thle Peifte oast and I woulddefonitly appreotate It if the Aria Legion of Calif-ornia would urge the Clifortai 4elepo In congre anmseat* to really gt bebin the*s ills and see" t rpassage at the earliest poessil opportunity.

TO have hereteor* seoured the summort of a $esioss% delegatiens from th ats of * IdaoaEd Itontaso, if you, em seoue the swpprt fro- the Con*-

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As 04 OO Edit. m '1 dW ILw Wm stem" v*boveou * *t the vete of the*t I

*tions tu wgijqt** kw tby no" this faclllty at xo~.m.%" w -W4 Is 1itt-, t1r T-in s w* of ooramisatlou fr ew" Pat of Wffthuru pwt of ftlo"IseTo W Ahis issu to a suoesr .. wlusiou will dpend an-t asiOS5 *f the wtoro of VoVrn CaifOrSIi, Vrim

m~o to00"ommthe Calif o~ia noa mOf fto thlLiou4 to *O Is ini our fiat for thit vteas mow that tosorly vw.E.4 on, VI* psoifi. ot",*

And in o1osi, u- I l*m this - ith yW-!fyeu wt Om Vito Ritol to bse a tsWsiOiistratlOfaOflity, you will g t > t

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