August 5, 1965 (24 pages)

e ei You could be receiving generic equivalents at Nevada County Hospital and never know. the difference. The only difference, according to Dr. C. Jackson Raybum, medical director at the County Hospital, will show up in a possible savings of thousands of .dollars in drug purchases, Generic equivalents, according to Raybum, are drugs which do not carry the trade name of the original patent holder, but are chemically the same as the original product. As an example he cited Empirin Com pound and its generic equivalent APC's which were widely used in the armed forces during the war, The question of generic equivalents came up because Raybum Boho ReroReroOBerloe Viet Nam War Grows As United States Sends More Men And Money At a WASHINGTON press conference, July 29, Pres. Johnson moved the nation up another rung in the Viet Nam war escalation by announcing (1) the commitment of a new helicopter-borne division and other troops sufficient to raise US forces in Viet Nam from.75.000 to 125,000; (2) an increased draft call of over 100%, from 17,000 men a month to 35,000; (3) a request to Congress for increased appropriations to defray the cost, Noting that he was not mobilizing National Guard or reserve units, the President said he wastaking “carefully measured steps" to “convince the Communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms", but to avoid an expanding struggle with consequences no one can foresee” . . The President also initiated stepped-up efforts towarda peace settlement, including: (1) His first assignments to the new Ambassador to the UNITED NATIONS, Arthur Goldberg, who delivered a letter to Secretary NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Thursday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Alfred E. Heller, PublisherDonald L. Hoagland, Editor. . Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior 4 Moony June 3, 1960, Decree No. 12,406. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years, $8 Kk&kkk&kkkk 1964 MERIT CITATION FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE. AWARDED BY CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Rayburn Proposes Hiring Drug Consultant For County Hospital ' asked the county supervisors Monday to permit him to hire a local pharmacist as a consultant to aid him in purchasing and obtaining savings on drugs. “After this becomes public knowledge, " Rayburn said, “you will hear that we are using inferior drugs at the hospital, but this is simply not true, " He said after checking drug cost figures at the hospital he felt a savings could be made by starting a pharmacy at the hospital itself. He contacted several local pharmacists to see if they would be willing to work about three hours a day at the hospital. He said he obtained only one response and this mandid not feel he could spend the time at the hospital, but if a pharmacy General Thant, asking for UN help in seeking a negotiated peace, and, ina letterto Security Council Pres, Morozov, for the first time asked the aid of the Security Council in seeking “an accéptible formula" for peace, (2) Endorsement of free elections in Viet Nam, a provision of the 1965 Geneva Conference which was opposed by the Diem government and the Eisenhower administration. (3) Endorsement, through UN Ambassador Goldberg, of U Thant's proposal for a new Geneva Confetence, * (4) A messageto the 17 -nation disarmament—conference at GENEVA, urging prevention of nuclear arms proliferation, limits on nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and a ban on underground testing. esesss In VIET NAM, six US jets were lost July 27 in raids on missile bases and a barracks 30 miles from Hanoi. One pilot was rescued, The Viet Cong blew up a bridge,. closing highway 19, which supplies Pleiku and which had been opened the week before by 6,000 Vietnamese emergency reserves aided by B52 bombers from Guam. On July 29, 3,700 paratroopers of the.101st Airborne Division began landing at Cam RanhBay. The sixth and seventh raids of B52 bombers each dumped 500 tons of bombs on suspected Viet Cong positions, apparently with little effect. The biggest American land operation of the war, asweep of 2,000 paratroops and 1st Division artillery southeast of Saigon, produced nothing. eens ese In INDEPENDENCE, Mo., July 30, Pres. Johnson signed the Medicare health insurance bill in the presence of former Pres. Harry Truman, 81, who proposed the first such bill 20 years ago. eee#8eses In WASHINGTON, the President appointed distinguished liberal lawyer and close friend, Abe Fortas, to Arthur Goldberg's Supreme Court seat, and named John Chancellor, NBC White House correspondent, as director of the Voice of America, stock was set up at the hospital, he could check out the drugs from that stock and make up the needed prescriptions at his store ‘on the basis of a fixed fee for each prescription. In addition he would act as a consultant in the selection and purchasing procedures for drugs and for drug control at the hospital. Rayburn was asked how muchthe: . , consultant would cost and he replied that he had not antici-~ pated the matter would cause so much confusion and he therefore did not yet have a set amount. He added that he believed the pharmacist had agreed to act as consultant for the cost of making 3 out prescriptions. He was asked to check on this andreport back in the afternoon, During the afternoon session he #@ stated that the consultant would fee. The supervisors felt that the ) whole idea needed more investigation and action on the request was deferred. In other hospital action, the supervisors sent Rayburn's request to create the position of Chief Nurses Aide to the personnel commission, Rayburn said the hospital has 35 nurses aides and one person is needed to oversee the entire operation. , Odd Fellows Meetin Grass Valley Lodge No, 12 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will hold its regular meeting tonight. Atthat time the first degree will be conferred on candidate James Armold. All Odd Fellows are asked to attend, Irrigation District Approves Contract For New Office (Continued from Page 1) share of the construction grant in a lump sum, but the money for initial sanitary and water facilities would be advanced on the basis of specific completed projects, The directors Tuesday also approved entering into a contract with Don Murchison Construction Co of Sacramento for the construction of a new district office building west of Grass Valley, The final negotiated bid for the job is $158,000. Koster said the contractor is all ready to go to work, The contract calls for completion of the job in 120 working days Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall July 29 86 45 30 89 53 31 eT 59 trace ‘Aug. 1 86 55 2 89 53 3 88 50 4 87 50 Rainfall to date trace Rainfall last year -03 do the job for the prescription @ bes ‘om NEVADA CITY Chamber of Commerce President John Reed (left) resigned his post Tuesday at the luncheon meeting of the Chamber board of directors. Vice president, Ralph Friedrich, shown here with Reed, will take over the job of president for the remainder of the year. Reed's decision to resign was announced by his wife, Maxine, whotold the directors his job left him no time for Chamber work and rather than perform his duties as president poorly, he thought it better to resign, Supervisors Deny Role In Legislature Pay Hike Bill Nevada County Supervisors and County Auditor-Controller Tom Trauner this week strongly disavowed any connection with pay raises which were approved by the legislature for Trauner, the district attorney and the court reporter, The supervisors asked Trauner to explain the situation during their meeting Monday. Considerable confusion had arisen from passage of the salary bill authored by Assemblyman Gene Chappie, Trauner said that. contrary to reports in the Sacramento press, the bill passed by the legislature increased the salary of the auditor by $70 per month to become effective in 1967, He explained that the grand jury had come to him and asked him ifhe wanted a raise and also asked himtoappear. He said he told the members he felt it was their job to decide on that question and he did not think a county officer should appear before them on this matter. He said members of the grand jury met with him again in his office and came up with the $70 increase formula, He stressed that he had not asked for the raise from the grand jury or from the board of supervisors. Board chairman Gene Ricker said the board had been approached on several occasions on the question of raises, but felt it could not be done at this time. He said several calls were made to Sacramento in an effort to stop the legislation until the board of supervisors could pass concurrent resolutions, The resolutions were never approved, but the legislation passed anyway, Ricker said. Living Cost Pay Increase Authorized (Continued from Page 1) increases, The Association had asked for a $20 increase and the letter from the personnel commission had strongly recommended the $15 raise. During the afternoon session the board directed the controller to prepare an ordinance for the $15 cost of living increase, Excluded from the raise are elected officials andterm officers such as the agricultural commissioner who is prohibited by law from obtaining a pay raise during his term, The package will cost the county about $36,000 and is figured into the current budget proposal, The board also granted increases of $50 per month to the county's three judicial district judges raising their pay from $500 to $550, »# S96T *g asn8ny***3088nN Aluno5 epeaan’** WS)

e ei You could be receiving generic equivalents at Nevada County Hospital and never know. the difference. The only difference, according to Dr. C. Jackson Raybum, medical director at the County Hospital, will show up in a possible savings of thousands of .dollars in drug purchases, Generic equivalents, according to Raybum, are drugs which do not carry the trade name of the original patent holder, but are chemically the same as the original product. As an example he cited Empirin Com pound and its generic equivalent APC's which were widely used in the armed forces during the war, The question of generic equivalents came up because Raybum Boho ReroReroOBerloe Viet Nam War Grows As United States Sends More Men And Money At a WASHINGTON press conference, July 29, Pres. Johnson moved the nation up another rung in the Viet Nam war escalation by announcing (1) the commitment of a new helicopter-borne division and other troops sufficient to raise US forces in Viet Nam from.75.000 to 125,000; (2) an increased draft call of over 100%, from 17,000 men a month to 35,000; (3) a request to Congress for increased appropriations to defray the cost, Noting that he was not mobilizing National Guard or reserve units, the President said he wastaking “carefully measured steps" to “convince the Communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms", but to avoid an expanding struggle with consequences no one can foresee” . . The President also initiated stepped-up efforts towarda peace settlement, including: (1) His first assignments to the new Ambassador to the UNITED NATIONS, Arthur Goldberg, who delivered a letter to Secretary NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Thursday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Alfred E. Heller, PublisherDonald L. Hoagland, Editor. . Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior 4 Moony June 3, 1960, Decree No. 12,406. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years, $8 Kk&kkk&kkkk 1964 MERIT CITATION FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE. AWARDED BY CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Rayburn Proposes Hiring Drug Consultant For County Hospital ' asked the county supervisors Monday to permit him to hire a local pharmacist as a consultant to aid him in purchasing and obtaining savings on drugs. “After this becomes public knowledge, " Rayburn said, “you will hear that we are using inferior drugs at the hospital, but this is simply not true, " He said after checking drug cost figures at the hospital he felt a savings could be made by starting a pharmacy at the hospital itself. He contacted several local pharmacists to see if they would be willing to work about three hours a day at the hospital. He said he obtained only one response and this mandid not feel he could spend the time at the hospital, but if a pharmacy General Thant, asking for UN help in seeking a negotiated peace, and, ina letterto Security Council Pres, Morozov, for the first time asked the aid of the Security Council in seeking “an accéptible formula" for peace, (2) Endorsement of free elections in Viet Nam, a provision of the 1965 Geneva Conference which was opposed by the Diem government and the Eisenhower administration. (3) Endorsement, through UN Ambassador Goldberg, of U Thant's proposal for a new Geneva Confetence, * (4) A messageto the 17 -nation disarmament—conference at GENEVA, urging prevention of nuclear arms proliferation, limits on nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and a ban on underground testing. esesss In VIET NAM, six US jets were lost July 27 in raids on missile bases and a barracks 30 miles from Hanoi. One pilot was rescued, The Viet Cong blew up a bridge,. closing highway 19, which supplies Pleiku and which had been opened the week before by 6,000 Vietnamese emergency reserves aided by B52 bombers from Guam. On July 29, 3,700 paratroopers of the.101st Airborne Division began landing at Cam RanhBay. The sixth and seventh raids of B52 bombers each dumped 500 tons of bombs on suspected Viet Cong positions, apparently with little effect. The biggest American land operation of the war, asweep of 2,000 paratroops and 1st Division artillery southeast of Saigon, produced nothing. eens ese In INDEPENDENCE, Mo., July 30, Pres. Johnson signed the Medicare health insurance bill in the presence of former Pres. Harry Truman, 81, who proposed the first such bill 20 years ago. eee#8eses In WASHINGTON, the President appointed distinguished liberal lawyer and close friend, Abe Fortas, to Arthur Goldberg's Supreme Court seat, and named John Chancellor, NBC White House correspondent, as director of the Voice of America, stock was set up at the hospital, he could check out the drugs from that stock and make up the

needed prescriptions at his store ‘on the basis of a fixed fee for each prescription. In addition he would act as a consultant in the selection and purchasing procedures for drugs and for drug control at the hospital. Rayburn was asked how muchthe: . , consultant would cost and he replied that he had not antici-~ pated the matter would cause so much confusion and he therefore did not yet have a set amount. He added that he believed the pharmacist had agreed to act as consultant for the cost of making 3 out prescriptions. He was asked to check on this andreport back in the afternoon, During the afternoon session he #@ stated that the consultant would fee. The supervisors felt that the ) whole idea needed more investigation and action on the request was deferred. In other hospital action, the supervisors sent Rayburn's request to create the position of Chief Nurses Aide to the personnel commission, Rayburn said the hospital has 35 nurses aides and one person is needed to oversee the entire operation. , Odd Fellows Meetin Grass Valley Lodge No, 12 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will hold its regular meeting tonight. Atthat time the first degree will be conferred on candidate James Armold. All Odd Fellows are asked to attend, Irrigation District Approves Contract For New Office (Continued from Page 1) share of the construction grant in a lump sum, but the money for initial sanitary and water facilities would be advanced on the basis of specific completed projects, The directors Tuesday also approved entering into a contract with Don Murchison Construction Co of Sacramento for the construction of a new district office building west of Grass Valley, The final negotiated bid for the job is $158,000. Koster said the contractor is all ready to go to work, The contract calls for completion of the job in 120 working days Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall July 29 86 45 30 89 53 31 eT 59 trace ‘Aug. 1 86 55 2 89 53 3 88 50 4 87 50 Rainfall to date trace Rainfall last year -03 do the job for the prescription @ bes ‘om NEVADA CITY Chamber of Commerce President John Reed (left) resigned his post Tuesday at the luncheon meeting of the Chamber board of directors. Vice president, Ralph Friedrich, shown here with Reed, will take over the job of president for the remainder of the year. Reed's decision to resign was announced by his wife, Maxine, whotold the directors his job left him no time for Chamber work and rather than perform his duties as president poorly, he thought it better to resign, Supervisors Deny Role In Legislature Pay Hike Bill Nevada County Supervisors and County Auditor-Controller Tom Trauner this week strongly disavowed any connection with pay raises which were approved by the legislature for Trauner, the district attorney and the court reporter, The supervisors asked Trauner to explain the situation during their meeting Monday. Considerable confusion had arisen from passage of the salary bill authored by Assemblyman Gene Chappie, Trauner said that. contrary to reports in the Sacramento press, the bill passed by the legislature increased the salary of the auditor by $70 per month to become effective in 1967, He explained that the grand jury had come to him and asked him ifhe wanted a raise and also asked himtoappear. He said he told the members he felt it was their job to decide on that question and he did not think a county officer should appear before them on this matter. He said members of the grand jury met with him again in his office and came up with the $70 increase formula, He stressed that he had not asked for the raise from the grand jury or from the board of supervisors. Board chairman Gene Ricker said the board had been approached on several occasions on the question of raises, but felt it could not be done at this time. He said several calls were made to Sacramento in an effort to stop the legislation until the board of supervisors could pass concurrent resolutions, The resolutions were never approved, but the legislation passed anyway, Ricker said. Living Cost Pay Increase Authorized (Continued from Page 1) increases, The Association had asked for a $20 increase and the letter from the personnel commission had strongly recommended the $15 raise. During the afternoon session the board directed the controller to prepare an ordinance for the $15 cost of living increase, Excluded from the raise are elected officials andterm officers such as the agricultural commissioner who is prohibited by law from obtaining a pay raise during his term, The package will cost the county about $36,000 and is figured into the current budget proposal, The board also granted increases of $50 per month to the county's three judicial district judges raising their pay from $500 to $550, »# S96T *g asn8ny***3088nN Aluno5 epeaan’** WS)