Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, November 28, 1977 Page: 1 of 14
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Israelis accept invite
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Weather Service Mid the reason familles invited stranded trav- passing.
Health guidelines drawing flak from all corners
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DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
RESCUE EFFORT-The driver of a tractor-traller rig loaded
with bricks was in Brownwood Community Hospital's
emergency room at noon today with undetermined injuries after
his rig went out of control and rolled over onto the center median
of the Fort Worth Highway about seven miles east of Early
about 9:45 this morning. Fire fighters of the Brownwood and
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Partridge; and Joey Snider as
Hilary Pond.
was that the storm had moved stars to stay overnight in their
through the state much faster homes.
hospitals, are not applicable to
rural hospitals found here in the
Southwest.
He expressed hope that some
of sections that would be dif-
ficult for western rural medical
institutions -to comply with
would be rewritten before the
guidelines are finally submitted
for implementation.
Ferrill Mid that over 3,000
written comments have been
received by HEW from medical
people, local and state gover-
nment officials and the general
public most voicing objections
to the proposed guidelines that
limit the number of beds a
hospital could have to four for
each 1,000 population in a health
service area.
Other guidelines in the
proposal include an average
occupancy rate (of patients) of
at least 00 percent for all non-
federal, general, short-term
hospitals. Dr. M A Childress,
owner and administrator of
“Wild Goose Chase,” a three
act comedy, will be presented
by the Brownwood High School
Speech and Drama Department
Dec. 5 and 6 in the high school
auditorium
Larry Mathis is the director
of the “Chase,” while Alane
Fowler, a junior from BHS,
serves as assistant director.
geria in lining up a rival meet-
ing of Sadat's Arab opponents
The Egyptian president Mid he
would negotiate “with the Is-
raelis alone” if other Arab na-
tions refused to come to Cairo.
Israeli Prime Minister Men-
ahem Begin accepted Sadat's
invitation before receiving the
formal bid. But he warned that
no Israeli delegation would
negotiate with the Palestine
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anticipating the 2-month-old Gulf coasts are scheduled to about $27 billion.
reasonable cost.
The 51-member executive
board of the Tri-Region HSA,
which includes Mary Acuna and
W. Lee Watson of Brownwood
and Bill Boswell of Brady, went
on record at a Nov. 9 meeting in
Abilene as being unanimously
opposed to the National
Guidelines for Health Planning.
The board members Mid that
the obvious desired results of
the guidelines were to reduce
health care costs However,
they found little evidence that
this reduction would ever ac-
tually occur in this particular
area.
They Mid that “the more
obvious results are likely to be a
reduction in services, par-
ticularly in rural areas,
resulting in an increase in
travel and mental and physical
distress to the patient."
Specifically, the board Mid,
"The guidelines would have an
impact on the educational
Childress Hospital in Gold-
thwaite. Mid he and the doctors
in his area have been trying to
keep their patients well and
keeping the hospital bed oc-
cupancy rate down as the
federally funded Medicare
program has asked them to do.
Childress Mid he finds it hard
to conceive that the federal
government is making a 180-
degree change in policy and
asking hospitals to keep their
beds at least 80 percent full.
Another of the guidelines says
that small hospitals equipped
with obstetrical units should be
making at least 500 baby
deliveries a year
In five Central Texas
hospitals surveyed that serve
primarily rural areas it was
found that the average number
of babies delivered was 99 with
the highest being 190 and the
lowest number 15.
“In my opinion," one Central
Texas doctor said, "it’s not the
The double-cast play revolves 1 72 d
around Elrod Castle and the | « S
comical antics of the people 86
who occupy it. 2ada
Roles are portrayed by Vic sa
Parrish as Chester Dread- 663
nought: Patricia Thompson and =ah
Liz Arwine, Lady Elrod; 87 3
Eugene Acuna, Lord Elrod; J S
Alan Beadel, Capone; Lisa Er 9
Parrish and Lindy Maynor. 284
Ada, Theresa Snow and Natalie
Lee, Patricia Elrod: Bobby EEB
Ross, Wedgewood: Elice m
Morrison and Susan Reedy, u
Jenny Stewart, Dana Smith and 40
Jonna Funderburk, Miss K0
catheterization unit.
Many of the proposed
guidelines do not apply to the
smaller hospitals, but would be
applied to medical centers the
size of Brownwood Community
Hospital.
Also voicing opposition to the
proposed federal guidelines was
the Tri-Region Health Systems
Agency (HSA), a public. non-
profit corporation that was
created by the National Health
Planning and Resources
Development Act of 1974.
The Tri-Region HSA, which
operates in a 44-county area
(including Brown, Coleman,
Comanche, Eastland and
McCulloch) and is based in
Abilene, was created by
Congress to work toward the
federal priority of equal access
to quality health care at
By LASH LASHBROOK
Bulletin Staff Writer
The proposed National
Guidelines for Health Planning,
which has caused a furor in the
public, medical and state
government sectors across the
nation, is also drawing flak
from within the ranks of federal
government.
Dr. C. Ferrill Hamilton, chief
of the Health Planning and
Facilities Branch of Region VI
of the Public Health Service, a
branch of the U. S. Department
of Health. Education and
Welfare (HEW) located in
Dallas, said in a phone con-
versation with the Bulletin last
week that he was not in
agreement with all the
guidelines that were published
in the Federal Register of Sept.
23.
Hamilton Mid that, in his
opinion, portions of the
document, which would impose
limitations on many smaller
should be performed annually
by an adult cardiac
catheterization unit and by a
Snow finally tapers
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quarter-inch of snow before the maxeshift lodsing into a snow-covered Indiana
storm paassd. The National He Mid about 11 Caryville farm fleld as the storm was
Curtain time for the comedy DRAMA UNFOLDS - Rehearsing for the upcoming Howard
is 7:30 p.m. each night. Ad- Payne drama “When You Cornin' Back Red Ryder” are Weldon
van any stseare Avarahla Kilburn and sharon Kay Garmer. The play wi run at * p.m.
student for $1.25, while the price Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in Coggin Theater. Admission
of admission at the door is 81.50. is 81.50 for adults and 91 for children.
to Cairo peace talks
Chatm Herzog Dajan left for Beirut with the istiy, legal adviser to repro-
mister Memhem Begin anno- In Cairo, acting Egyptian invitation sent IwJlin
unced Israel’s acceptance today Foreign Minister Butros‘B. PLHpokesmen have de sen incairo. gn..
of an invitation to the ore- rhah oa n 40 .Gi , j 2Ve Ge. he SalC that M It Decomnes
miai mP Ghal said invitation had clared they will not attend the necessary to expand our dele
liminary peace conference In been sent to Yasir Arafat, head Cairo meeting but there has daton we win‘P„
Cairo next weekend and named of the Palestine Liberation Or- been no"arn; Dunne nN g ... „ _
two senior official as Israel1. _ 'LL toerauon Or Deen no durect response from Begin went before the Knee-
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which would be transmitted to committee, Ghali said in a Elissar director-general of the the events A E,1n6, itI
Egypt through.lsrael’s.sam- telephone interview. Pale- prime ministerssokce,‘and thst’ventsaol Sadatshtstoric
bassador to the United Nations, stmian sources confirmed that Meir Rosenne, the Foreign Mln- Begin Mid that after receiv-
ing an invitation to the confer-
ence through his U.N. am-
bassaador, he consulted by tele-
• a a F. . m . phone with Foreign Minister
Trade deficit skyrockets
WASHINGTON (AP) — The dock strike, sent many of their vote Tuesday on a contract to “Last night,” Begin said,
United States recorded the goods abroad in September, end the containerized shipping “two ambassadors met, shook
largest monthly trade deficit in when exports totaled a strong strike, which began Oct. 1. hands and Mid shalom to each
its history in October as a dock $10.9 billion. In October, they Economists said the Septem- other. They were the Egyptian
strike cut deeply into exports, fell to 99.2 billion, the smallest ber and October figures aver- and Israeli ambassadors to the
the Commerce Department Mid amount since March 1978. when aged together, however, showed United Nations The first gave
today. they were 99 billion. little change from the previous the second a letter, and this is
The nation bought 93.1 billion The dock strike also cut into six months, with the monthly its content”
more in goods than it sold imports, which declined from deficit averaging about 92.4 bil- Begin then read the content of
abroad, surpassing the previous 912.6 billion to 912.3 billion for lion. In September, the trade the invitation from Ghali and
record of $2.8 billion recorded the month, the smallest since deficit was $1.7 billion announced his acceptance.
last June. May. The administration expects the Syria, Israel's other military
Economists said exporters, Dock workers on the East and trade deficit for the year to be adversary, joined Libya and AL
preparation of needed health
personnel and further
aggravate the problem of
getting physicians and other
health care providers to rural
areas...the guidelines attempt
to apply National standards to
local areas where conditions
and the incidence of conditions
vary greatly...several
definitions in the guidelines are
unclear... (the guidelines) apply
rigid formulas and averages to
a dynamic system where
conditions are constantly
changing (and) will not
work..37 of the 44 counties in
the Tri-Region area have been
determined to be medically
underserved areas Therefore,
low utilization of health ser-
vices and facilities is probably
due more to the unmet needs in
these areas because of the lack
of adequate health personnel
than it is due to overbedding.
Closing beds in these medically
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number of babies we deliver
each year that's important, but
the accessibility of medical
care for the mother and her new
bom child — that’s what's
important."
Bill Boswell, administrator of
the Heart of Texas Memorial
Hospital in Brady Mid that if
the expectant mothers in his
area had to be carried all the
way to Brownwood to have their
babies “we'd be having babies
delivered in ambulances all
along the highway between here
and Brownwood.”
Other proposed guidelines
deal with the occupancy rate of
75 percent in each obstetrical
unit; the number of beds in a
pediatric unit and their oc-
cupancy rate; the number of
beds in neonatal intensive care
units for infants under 29 days
of age: the number of open
heart surgery cases a hospital
should have in a year; the
number of procedures that
"whether it is ^Geneva or Stock prices
EEez Cairo or the moon.", , 62 "
pBeginwasstqmaV ma0 down sliahtlv thpnhadbeenexpectedgn More snow was expected to- and one in Kentucky Sunday.
| PaipsPamhentdryinned U ' -S-TY t.Morethan,oopersonssdiedon day for parts of New York, Travelers and residents In
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m mands: a Palestinian state on industrials, up 8.66 last week, between 4M and 560 fatalities.
1 • the West Bank of the Jordan dropped back 4.68 to 839.74 by The storm hit hardest in the . > r , I
T River and the return of all ter- noontime today. Midwest, western New York Ann hnrrdlc At - di l
Aem ritory Israel occupied during Losers took a small lead over State and western Pennsylva- JVV HMII1> VI V‘‘
• .. the 1987 Arab-Israeli war, gainers among New York Stock nia. . e n
_N In a speech to the Egyptian Exchange-listed issues. Six inches of snow were AtserFAIAI FrAr enke
I parliament Saturday, Sadat in- The Commerce Department recorded at the Metropolitan • VUI I1 VW II Vf ll 1U1 In>
• vited Israel, the United States, reported this morning that the Airport outside of Detroit ba-
the Soviet Union, Syria, Leba- nation had its largest trade tween Sunday noon and early LAKE BROWNWOOD - the tanks, opened the valve into
non and Jordan to prepare for deficit ever in October. The this morning, when the tall to- About 500 barrels of crude oil an Exxon pipeline around six
Geneva at roundtable dis- seasonally adjusted figures pered off to flurries. The streets overflowed from three storage p.m. after being contacted by
cussions in Cairo next week, showed imports exceeding ex- of Detroit suburbs were so tanks located on the Burl law enforcement officials.
ports by 83.1 billion. slippery that taxi companies Windom ranch near Byrd's Batteas said the overflow
orricini nointea nt that th. were refusing to take calls. Store Sunday before a valve came within 159 yards of the
20A940). gfislsPointedatutthatthe in Alpena, Mich., along Lake waa opened allowing the fuel to Lake Brownwood at its closest
KM4776 SoP strike"geratd Ort.1 Huron, nearly 7 inches 0 snow flow into an oil pipeline. point, though he added there
dgsstrikesthatbeganaoct was recorded and another 2 Member. of the Brown was no leakage into the water.
BROWNWOOD AREA - dercttsevstSnminnwntrrde inches was expected today. County Sheriffs Department A truck from the company
Mostly cloudy and cool with from Ji im st, L , mal , Motorists stranded in Car- and the Brown County Water arrived at the scene in the
occasional rain tonight. suemec at PoTen Mr w.n y villa, Tenn., on Interstate 75 Improvement District No. 1 evening, drawing most of the oil
Clearing trend Tuesday Streeters north 01 Knoxville, slept in mo- labored Sunday afternoon to out of the reservoir by about
Low tonight in mid-40s. high m6ues tel lobbies, a church, an ele- divert the overflow into an 9:15 p.m Sunday night, the lake
Tuesday mid-50s One reason for this is that mentary school and on the floor empty earth tank owned by patrolman Mid
Maximum temperature they tend to depress the dollar of a coin-operated laundry. Elmer Hounshell of Abilene. The situation is under further
here Sunday 71; overnight against other currencies and Police Chief Wayne Gunter According to Lake Patrolman investigation by the Brown
low 41. Sunset today 5:31 make securities in this country said, "We had about 4 inches of LaWayne Batteas, a truck County Water Improvement
p.m., sunrise Tuesday 7:19 less attractive to foreign in- snow Then it turned to solid driver for Scurlock OU Com- District and the Environmental
am. vestors. Ice.” He Mid northbound cars pany of Midland, which owns Protection Agency.
Slick roads caused at least
two traffics fatailties in Ohio 1
II' Daily 35 Suadey
Earty Fire Departmentas, Department of Public Safety troopers.
Emergency Medical service personnel from Brownwood
Community Hospital and numerous volunteers worked for about
aa hour to free the 2-year-old Brownwood driver who was
pinned la the twisted wreckage of his cab.
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