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Show 4 The Salt Lake Tribuiw, Sunday, April Marshall Plans Value Stressed 2, 1978 Parlor By John F Inited Ini er na- Press tional American - and the Sovict would dominate Europe if the United States had not come to the rescue with the post World War II Marshall Plan, says the man who played a major role in making it work Union wS-j- J A Averell Harnman, still active at 86 after half a century m diplomacy and politics, has no doubt what would have happened to the western European nations 30 years ago without massive U S. aid. "Stalin would have had his dream, he would have been in Paris. Moscow would have been dominant, Harriman said m an interview recalling his role in the Marshall Plan, which was signed into law April 3, 1948 Finest Period Harnman, a tall, trim scion of a famous American railroad family, called the decision to spend $13 billion for a four-yea- r war-blaste- d Associated Press Photo Dr. Erika Voss checks feet of Inez Barber during weekly visit in Blanch- - After 12-Ye- ardville, Wis. Town of 800 searched for 12 years to find doctor to serve rural area. Search ar doctors are a vanishing Editor's Note: Small-tow- n breed. They're hard to come by and hard to keep. After a search, this town has found one, and she wants to stay. But a strange twist of events may force her to leave. By Chris Angelo Associated Press Writer BLANCHARDVILLE, Wis. The small wooden shingle hangs over what was once the front window of Marshalls grocery on Main Street in this southwestern Wisconsin farm community of 800. It was the symbol of a success search for a doctor. But now, in a parade of ironies, Blanchard ville may not be able to keep Dr. Erika M. Voss, and that irony doubles because this is the kind of place she has always sought. The physician chose Blanchardville because I wanted to work where there was a need for doctors, which is also why she spent 14 years as a medical sionary in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Africa. A committee to find someone to take over his practice. But in an age of specialization, computerized medical equipment and the five-da- y week, they soon found it was no easy Job, even for a picturesque town nestled in a green rolling sea of Wisconsin dairy farms. in the "Somewhere time that elapsed, patterns changed, says Elden. While the town was without a doctor drifted elsewhere for treatment, to patients Argyle eight miles to the south, to Monroe 25 miles away or the 40 miles to Madison. Now, regardless of how happy they are to have Dr. Voss on Main Street, many are reluctant to leave other doctors or specialized clinics. and raised money to help get a practice going again. When Dr. Voss came to Blanchardville, it was oniy one of at least 10 communities lobbying for her services. Blanchardville had the advantage of being able to link up with an organization working on a countywide health program. for every 4,000 residents. The national average is one doctor for every 730 persons. Paid by Grant The grant purchased equipment for the clinic and pays salaries of Dr. Voss and a clinical pharmacist. The committee is uing about $24,000 it has raised, more than half of it in the span of a few days, to pay off the loan on the building and remodel it Part of Something "I didnt want to just start a private practice, says Dr. Voss. "I wanted to be part of something like this, that if its suc- cessful might serve as a model for other communities. Dr. Voss came here in the fall of 1976 and still is averaging only 10 to 12 patients a day, about The Blanchardville part of Lafayette Clinic is the number needed for the practice to become one-thir- d County Community Health, Inc., which administers a $492,000, three-yea- r federal grant the county qualified for primarily because it had Not Discouraged "Im but think more people could use it, she says. "But it takes time to know if people are going to change. The clinic was planned to draw on a population area of about I Europe and to hold "free and unfettered elec' ions, Harnman said There is no doubt that free elections would have turned out in favor of the Harri- capacities and an improved standard of living far in excess of anything they had in pre-wa- r days " United Europe The whole purpose was to bring Europe together, and the steps which have been taken to getting the Common Market, a united Europe, have followed from it, Harriman said. man said. "I'm sure he agreed in Yalta to hold these free elections because he had been told hy his people that the Red Army would be welcomed as a liberating force. New Invading Party I think he was very Although many people worked on it, "President Truman decided it should be called the Marshall he had Plan because almost a reverence for General (George C.) Marshall, he said. Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON statutes. And at- change significantly some gambling is sanctioned These findings come from a $277,503 study financed by the when him very well Generalissimo, this Justice Departments Law Enforcement Assis- must be a great satisfaction for you to be in Berlin after all the tragedies and difficulties you have been through. tance Free am 11 PRE-SEAS- ft Oh SAVE o SSJS. $500 The um AMANA LABORATORY 9 INSTALLED ANYWHERE IN AREA AT NO EXTRA CHARGE THE O PARTIAL DENTURES 9 Relines & you wait repairs while 560 West 9460 South r I' Office Only 21 TRAMPOLINES a DantUt for all your dantal naadi. 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And youve got not only a breach with China, hut really a paranoid fearon the part of Mosa cow of Peking and so that this whole monolithic struc- FREE DEMONSTRATIONS 8xl3 Stephen He does not believe, however, that Communism is what it was 30 years ago varying Mon. Apr. 3 to Fri. Apr. 1 EVERYONE WELCOME! SPECIAL ON OCTAGON w appointments also' "I thought that the Marshall Plan had dealt a body blow to the Communists, and it has been very disappointing to me to see the Communists come back in Italy as strongly as they have in degrees & - yard-wid- e 131 dis- HOT DOGS ...for beauty a mi Harriman had sachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. In 17 cities, inves- - a droplet with pendent, But Administration. of morning dew on a rose petal treat your lawn and garden Eurocommunist pa "lies in western Eurrpe," which want to be inde- Quality youll enjoy forever Special Type thought that someRight after World where, sometime, there War II, in the 1940s, the would be a doctor wno American Farm Bureau liked small towns like I Federation expressed do, says Gordon Elden, concern about the lack of a local banker and presiin rural dent of the committee to physicians Dr. Bond L. areas, find a doctor. Bible, who recently reSo it was that Dr. Voss tired as director of the came to Blanchardville American Medical Asin her home state. But sociations Department now the federal grant of Rural Health, says. that pays her salary has Today Lafayette Counonly a year or so to run, ty, with Blanchardville in and there arent enough its northeastern corner, patients to make the is one of nearly 1,000 practice critical physician short- The story is repeated in age areas designated by the U S. Department of countless small towns across America. Some, not Health, Education and so fortunate as BlanWelfare, 83 percent of chardville, will never them In find a doctor; those who areas do face the challenge of Committees Work keeping him. comBlanchardvilles No Easy Job mittee talked to state When Blanchardvilles agencies and medical asonly physician died in sociations, printed a fol1964, its service organizader telling prospective tions quickly formed a doctors about the town is course there are, The study was done by the Center for Survey Research, a joint facility of the University of Massachusetts, the Mas- No Military Designs He looked at me and said, Czar Alexander got to Paris. The inference of that seems very' clear two-ho- the publics toward illegal gambling does not titude I saw him, it was quite natural for me to say for I had known lunch break. A federally financed study in 17 cities concludes that the legalization of commercial gambling has little effect on the amount of illegal betting or the vigor of enforcement of When Needs Vehicle She also would like to equip a vehicle with supplies so she could make house calls to remote areas. Already she calls on one or two patients with the possible-exceptioof Bulgaria," he said "And then of cow, Legalized Betting: Little Effect Harriman, the American ambassador to Moscow during the Nazi invasion of Russia, recalled a talk with Stalin at Potsdam in the closing days of the war. Meanwhile, Dr. Voss still has time to make some rounds with county health nurses and start a hypertension screening program with them. She and Young write a weekly newspaper column and wrote a self help health manual that is sold at the clinic 1 BEAUTY power. Stalin also was misled about eastern Europe and quickly broke promises made at Yalta to "have a coalition government not only in Poland but in all of liberated ... 3,000 during her economic conditions would elect them to much disappointed that the Red Army was consi dered as a new invading party not only in Poland but also Rumania, and for that reason he broke his agreements " POOLS TROJAU Rarely Easy Its rarely been easy in recent decades for any small, rural town to find and keep a physician. not discouraged. leadership into productive Town Struggles to Keep Its Doctor fewer than one physician of which was the finest period in our history. "It was in our own self he said, addinterest, ing, "I think we have been paid off many fold over "If it hadn't been for the Marshall Plan, France and Italy, 1 think, would have had Communist governments at that time, and that would have led to Communist encouragement in other countries of Europe," Harnman said Instead, the Marshall Plan, which he implemented as a roving ambassador based in was extraordiParis, narily successful. Each country had its recovery StaWASHINGTON lin would have Iieen in Pans Berlin wasn't the end his ambitions But Harriman denies Stalin had military designs on western Europe. He believes Stalin was misled by overzealous European Communists into believing voters unhappy with postwar rebuilding program m Europe "an exercise in Zip Add $1 00 per item for shipping and handling Utah residents include 4 75 sales tax APRIL IS CANCER CONTROL MONTH When the American Cancer Society volunteer calls . . . Answer generously |
