European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Teen Mayo Mayo building towers above the worlds largest private medical facility a medical Mecca in by Gale Tolun associated press were else can a hotel inst dial room service for n enema or order up a Nuree to gel you ready for a medical examination or choose from a Low fat or Salt free option on the hotel where else docs a cafeteria display a sign requesting that patrons refrain from discussing their operations within earshot of other diners nowhere Only in Home of Mayo the worlds largest private renowned or its tile saving somehow or other larger than the City of it Many businesses and Public facilities have ramps to accommodate Long before other Rochester Cut ramps into Street Comer downtown restaurants have ramps rather than and taxis have extra wide to make the scene downtown hotels Are connected to the eight clinic buildings by Long pedestrian other cities May rely on conventions or Golf courses or bathing Rochester has none of these of tourist but the million Mayo clinic draws a Quarter of a Mil lion visitors from All Over the world each nut Only the but their families As there arc 13 More than hotel and Motel and some 22 tourist or guest Rales Range from to a three airlines operate More than 50 flights a they land at an All weather managed by a Mayo clinic the total for the year less visible differences include the fact trial Rochester has avoided the financial and social ills ask thing Many other and it Doest know the meaning of Finan Cial insolvency unemployment in february was Only 3 per cent compared with per cent for the state and per cent for the per capita indebtedness is Only says mayor Alex if we dont build any new schools in lit next four we ii be free of Bandtl indebtedness in the because Rochester is a professional town and the people fairly Smekta property taxes have kept the City ahead of the of a is tax 580 goes to the 210 to chested county and Only to the for 15 a the Rochester taxpayer gels police and fire Library clean water and a Fine recreation it was the founded in the Early 1900s by two Wilt and Charles that pot Rochester on the the clinic likes the City and the City loves the Eugene a Mayo foun Dation says the City has made no demands on the rather it has been understanding and responsive to its without says Charles editor of the Roc Tesler the City would be Only a wide spot in the while Rochester has 70 manufacturing firms and is by no Means a on business Medicine is no the medical com plex employs More than which came to Rochester in has Over half of Rochester families arc supported directly by the medical com says Docan Gunn pres ident of the chamber of Commerce and a Mayo mayos annual payroll for permanent stall approaches the clinic employs and another work at the two Church owned hospitals staffed by Mayo marys with Beds and methodist with nearly 700 both Are undergoing extensive expansion another 200 persons Are employed by the 72bed Olmsted Community staffed by no Mayo physicians Rochester state Hospital adds about to employees to the cites medical the Mayo graduate school of Medicine and the new Mayo medical school have about about 200 Young physicians with Mayo training leave the City before ism came in with its research and manufacturing Rochester had a disproportionate number of Young women clinic oriented Rochester Stree Corner curbs have wheelchair tie fact that ism employs mostly men was one reason the firm was when a City has a High ratio of Young Erickson the girls have a hard time finding a Man and they move somewhere but ism also was welcomed because it was a clean Industry and provided Citi Zens willing to work to enhance the cites cultural we want a better Quality of life in and you get it with a High percentage of professional says mayor we want people with brains and people who arc Well paid and enjoy the people who arc willing to participate in Community of clinic employees have been Active with the chamber of and Erickson cant remember Shrai one want on the City clinic Long has had a policy of giving workers time off for Community we try to be Good says Erickson says including the Mayo and the ism pm d lend a cosmopolitan Aura beyond that normally found in a City this he says its part of what attracts people and keeps a lot of physicians now seem to be glad to get out of Large cities where there arc problems with traffic poll says Emmerson director of the Mayo foundation development pro they maybe came with an idea that Rochester  be much of a place in which to but alter three or four years they find it a pretty Nice after they Are Happy to find a smaller Community where living is easier and pleas he adds thit they also Are Happy with the Quality of work of the people on the fringes of Medicine the the the mayor Smytka says that stems from the two men who started it All Early in the Cen the understanding and compassion they possessed was instilled in he hearts of everyone living the mayos insisted on Quality and believed in citizens participating in their May 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 11