Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - April 25, 1977, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING The perm who doei thing i little better or faster than he has to Is by all who know 105th Year No 195 Lebanon LEBANON MONDAY EVENING APRIL WEATHER Fair and cool tonight Partly sunny and cool tomorrow Lows tonight 40 to 45 High tomorrow upper 508 to low Ms 15 CENTS Carter Raps Hospital Costs Hospitals Too Surgeons Said At Fault In Complications WASHINGTON UPI A study prepared by surgeons themselves says the surgeon was at fault in 78 per cent of preventable complications or deaths resulting from opera tions in hospitals in seven states The other 22 per cent of incidents were related to the hospital where surgery was performed the patient or the community said the study submitted to the House subcommittee on over sight and investigations The majority of Council To Host Youth At Session Approximately 40 city youth government officials will be on hand tonight when Lebanon City Council meets The student government will attend the meeting as part of a monthlong education al experience in the operation of Lebanon city government The program is held each year with city officials and Lebanon High School and Lebanon Catholic High School alternating as the participating school The students will see city council approve a plan to fi nance almost million in ble incidents were surgeon related 78 per it said Technique was the most com mon factor with postoperative care far behind in second place followed by a mix of inadequate diagnosis judgment and pre operative care The subcommittee planned to resume its controversial probe of unnecessary surgery this week A subcommittee study re leased last year found mil lion unnecessary operations were performed in 1974 result ing in deaths and a bil lion cost to the public That re port came under heavy fire from the American Medical As sociation and other representa tives of organized medicine Hearings this week and next week on the quality of surgery in hospitals will include a new study reporting sharp dif ferences among hospitals in surgical death rates and com Another was to present judg ments by surgeons on whether surgical deaths and life threatening situations are pre About onethird of the deaths and almost half the critical inci dents among surgical patients were judged preventable ac cording to the study by Dr Charles Child of the Ann Arbor University Hospital Authorized by the American College of Surgeons the Continued on 8 Continued on 7 Tests Rule Out Food Poisoning By CED KURTZ Education Editor Tests of stool samples from students at the Cedar Crest Mid dle School have failed to show the presence of any of the usual food poisoning bacteria as the cause of a malady which afflicted more than 300 students Thursday and forced the closing of the school Friday Dr William Parkin acting di rector of the division of com disease control of the state Department of Health late this morning were nega tive meaning that the presence of food borne bacteria normally associated with food poisoning was not detected Parkin said enough samples were tested that the bacteria should have shown up if present Although the tests do not rule out the presence of unusual foodborne bacteria Parkin said the test results point to ward a communicable viral in disease More than 100 students were sent home from the middle on 1 County Woman Killed In Crash Amanda H Noll 77 Lebanon RD 5 was pronounced dead on arrival in the Good Samaritan Hospital Saturday evening after a car in which she was riding was involved in a colli sion at Route 72 and Rocherty Road She was a passenger in a car driven by Hannah Kreider 74 536 Weidman according Twp police reports The Kreid er woman is in satisfactory con dition in the Good Samaritan Hospital this morning suffering from rib injuries According to police reports the Kreider car was traveling west on Rocherty Road and ap pulled out into the path of a car traveling south on Route 72 The driver of that ve hicle was identified as Tamara Sweitzer 19 Manheim Upon impact the Kreider car con on to strike a vehicle op by Charles J Katchel School Lane The Katchel car was stopped on the other side of the intersection facing east on Rocherty Road accord ing to police There were no im mediate estimates of damage The accident occurred at about Mrs Noll widow of Ammon Noll who died in 1953 was born in Lancaster Continued on S Photo Return Policy Photographs submitted for publication in the Daily News WILL NOT be returned unless accompanied by a stamped envelope Photos submitted with out a return envelope wil become property of the Daily News and cannot be returned Shifting Shares of the Coal Market 1975 1985 1975 1985 1975 1985 1975 1985 1975 1985 Seeks Limit On Jumps In Hospital Fees SHIFTING SHARES This chart illustrates the shifting shares of the nations coal market show ing current and projected sales to the major utility companies by region based on Federal Power Commission figures But the pro figures for 198S are subject to change if President Carters energy proposals become law His plan comes down heavily in favor of eastern Appalachian bituminous coal at the expense of enormous tracts of virgin coal in the Far West The President is also seeking a strong federal strip mine control law which is about to come out of Congress UPI Telephoto Energy Program Schlesinger Cites Incentives WASHINGTON UPI White House energy chief James Schlesinger says Presi dent Carters energy program has major production tives and the oil industry is making invalid mislead ing charges about it Schlesinger said the indus try wants higher incentives bigger profits and a larger share of Americas gross na tional product What Carter has proposed he said is setting the worlds highest price for new oil dis but offering no addi tional profit for oil that already has been found This program has major production Schles inger said Sunday on a televi sion interview Face the Industry charges that the program lacks incentives are absolutely invalid and in fact they are he said However on another Sunday program Meet the Standard Oils John Swearingen said current pros will not qualify for high er new oil prices and it will take at least S to 10 years before new leases will be acquired on which that price will He said Carters energy plan takes money away from the industry that exists under the current regulations because old oil prices would rise at the rate of general inflation while present law provides 10 per cent with an incentive price in Carters proposal calls for prices on new oil discoveries of more than per barrel the world market price prices now range from to per barrel Industry has said there should be the emphasis on exp for new Schlesing er said And that is where the incentive will Asked what sacrifices Americans would have to make under the Presidents proposed package he said The thing that we most will have to sacrifice is cherished Continued on Page 8 WASHINGTON UPI President Carter attacking a per cent increase in spend ing on health care since 1950 was ready today to send Con gress a proposal to limit jumps in hospital costs to about 9 per cent a year The proposal carries a dou ble goal of slowing inflation in one of the most overheated parts of the economy and lay ing the foundation or taking the first step toward national health insurance Presidential assistant Stuart Eizenstat Carters domestic af fairs adviser estimates savings to the public of billion over the next two years He acknowledged that hospi tal groups oppose the proposal but suggested their opposition would be offset by support from private insurance companies The limit would not apply to government hospitals The proposal would be to dis courage hospitals in small com from duplicating each other by buying the same ex pensive medical equipment The administration has cited figures placing the increase in health care costs at per cent since 1950 Eizenstat said the cost of hospital care now in creases about 20 per cent annu ally making it one of the most inflationary parts of the economy Eizenstat said the proposal is the first step toward meeting Carters campaign promises on national health insurance be cause any such plan would re quire some kind of cost control He said the proposal would save billion in fiscal million in federal spending million in state and local Experts Seek To Stem North Sea Oil Spill Norway UPI A Phillips Petroleum Co official said today no at tempt would be made until at least Tuesday to cap a runaway offshore oil rig spewing tons of a murky mud and oil mixture into the North Sea Charles Lane regional ad ministrative manager for Phil lips at said nothing has changed on the rig which has shot 4 million tons of sludge 120 feet into the air daily since Friday Relatively calm winds have slowed the progress of a mile oil slick toward the coasts of Norway and De The blowout of the rig has caused Europes worst offshore pollution disaster Lane said his companys Bravo well in Europes largest oil field was still freef lowing and an American team of oil rig fire experts will at tempt to put the blowout equip ment in place Tuesday He minimized the danger of fire on nearby offshore rigs from the slick I dont think the oil could be set on fire even if you put a match to he said The water is so cold it just con However natural gas es caping from the well still posed a problem officials said Two oil well fire experts from Houstons famous Red Adair Fires and Blowout Co Boots Hansen and Richard Hatterberg flown to the disaster site to handle the tricky job of capping the well The two men plus three Phillips employes from Stavan gar boarded the oil rig Sunday by helicopter as a change in wind helped disperse natural gas fumes that could explode at any time They left the rig after an hour and flew to a nearby rig where they finalized their plans Weather forecasts call for high winds and waves Continued on 11Col 8 WalkAThon Raises BATTLE SPILL The Norwegian Sea way Falcon pours water on oil platform Bravo yesterday in a battle to contain a ton a day oil spill in the North Sea Britains energy minister is scheduled to travel to Norway to assess damage from the leak UPI Telephoto The March of Dimes is richer as the result of a walka thon sponsored Sunday by the Sons of Italy lodge Three hundred hikers took part and all completed the 20mile trek John was chair man of the event Other organi assisting were the Mrs Jaycees Lebanon Motorcycle Club Lebanon United Monitor Patrol and the Lebanon Inde pendent Ambulance Unit Milit ary police served as escorts along the way taxes and billion in private insurance costs Savings for fis cal 1979 were placed at billion Prospects of passage in Con gress are pretty Eizen stat said Weve never given hospi tals an incentive to Vice President Walter Mondale said in a speech in Atlanta March 11 If they want to build a new wing or if several hospi tals in the same community all want to buy the same piece of expensive new equipment the costs are just automatically passed onto the Were not going to tell hos how to run their business or set their he said But we have proposed a reasonable upper limit be placed on the rate hospital costs can increase each Ceiling On Hospital Care Nixed LITTLE ROCK Ark UPI The presidentelect of the American Medical Society says his group is opposed to stabiliz ing health care costs by putting a ceiling on hospital costs It will cost patients ser vices in the long said Dr John Budd of Cleveland President Carter is expected to propose such a ceiling today when he announces his health care proposals to Congress By oppose I dont mean flatly Budd told an Ar kansas Medical Society meet ing during the weekend We may be able to negotiate some thing Budd said National Health Insurance wouldnt solve the problem of raising medical costs either He said he was to the need to curb health care costs but said arbit rary ceilings on price increases wouldnt work A ceiling on health care costs will affect the recipients rather than the providers of the he said Budd said there were places where costs could be cut and the AMA was trying to identify those areas One area he said Continued on 6 Loss In Home Burglary About in cash and jewelry was stolen Friday morning from the home of Mr and Mrs Larry Rover Fre RD 1 Bethel Twp police reported this morning The cash about in old coins and currency was kept in a 250pound safe in the Royers bedroom The entire safe was stolen Jewelry taken included about in watches and in necklaces and chains ac cording to police reports Entry was gained between 8 and Friday while the Royers were out The front door was broken in police said All the stolen items were located in the bedroom No vandalism was reported An investigation is continuing Today In The NEWS Amusements Classified Comics Editorial 4 Education 34 Obituaries 2 Sports Womens Pages IMS
