Smoking ban blues in U S hospitals prompt debate
The Joint Commission orders 5000 hospitals to begin smoking bans in designated areas by Jan 1, with full prohibition in two years. Some facilities resist, arguing it harms involuntarily hospitalized patients and may affect accreditation and funding. Medical experts warn about potential mood effects for psychiatric patients and note high smoking rates among mentally ill individuals.
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Lisa Levitt Ryckman
U.S
Joint Commission On the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Commission
Stephen Davidow
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Welfare
Vicki Smink
Alexander Glassman
Columbia University
Glassman
Hughes
Nashua
N.H
John Docherty
John Hughes
University of Vermont
Burlington
Finney Sees Year One Highlights and Disappointments
Kansas Governor Joan Finney reflects on her first year in office in a year end interview. She cites reestablishing the executive branch and her veto of tax increases as major steps and regrets the Legislature’s failure to provide property tax relief. She plans to push constitutional amendments again in 1992.
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Lew Ferguson
Associated Press
Topeka
Joan Finney
Kansas
Pinney
He Lepishiture
Bob Bennett
John Carlin
Mike Llayden
Senate
House
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Stile
Hep Destie
Goveres
Herstal Palimenthy
Weekend Foretold: Cloudy Start With Light Snow Chance
Weekend forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies today with a 20 percent chance of light snow this morning. Highs near 40, light and variable winds. Clouds thin tonight with lows around 20 to 25. Sunday turns mostly sunny with highs between 45 and 50.
Tax sale abstracts finished across Franklin County properties
Assisant county attorney Joyce Hendrix said Bowers-Sheldon Title Co. completed title abstracts on about 40 to 50 parcels to be sold for delinquent taxes. The next step is district court journal entry authorizing sale, with notices to owners and a public sale date likely several months away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Tellier
Herald
Franklin County
Joyce Hendrix
Bowers-Sheldon Title Co
S. Main
Hendrix
the Herald
County Commission
District Court
Bush Eyes Texas in Beeville Quail Hunt Trip
President Bush, on a stay of his quail-hunting vacation, called Texas “a particularly bitter calamity” as Beeville faces 2100 job losses when Chase Naval Air Station closes. Flooding across Texas has killed at least 15 people, swamped farmland, and caused millions in damage amid Pentagon belt-tightening.
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Beeville
Texas
Bush
Texas Foods
Chase Naval Air Station
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Ralph Young
Craig Schultze
S. Sycamore
Todd
Cottonwood
Garfield School
Finney
Bob Docking
Bush Eyes
Chase
Pentagon
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