Nurse Shortage Deepens As Medicare Looms
A longtime shortage of professional nurses worsens from New York to San Francisco. Hospitals cut care as administrators seek solutions, with unions demanding better conditions and pay. Government plans aim to recruit 16,000 nurses monthly for a decade to meet Medicare needs.
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Florence Nightingale
New York
San Francisco
New York City
New York State Nursing Association
Bellevue Hospital
Nursing Association
Howard Cook
Chicago Hospital Association
Angels of Mercy
Agnes E. M Anderson
Pennsylvania Nurses Association
Medical World News
South Carolina Hospital Association
Tennessee
Pennsylvania Public Welfare Department
Pennsylvania
President's Council, of Economic Advisers
Washington
James E." Ferguson
University Hospital
Knoxville
Venn
Levis Letson
St. Joseph Eospital
Nursing crisis prompts shift in care roles
In Los Angeles a discussion centers on the nursing shortage and a perceived decline in traditional home care. A speaker laments the nurse's historical position as the doctor’s aide and notes changing attitudes as technical executives hire nurses for specialized tasks. The piece references a Boston arrival and an aerospace executive.
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Los Angeles
Bel
Boston
Battered Ketch Back After Rough Five Months
The Kwan Yin endured five months at sea with storms and engine trouble off Acapulco and Los Angeles. Captain Phill Akin recalled missing work while four crew members Dan iels Pederson Maigle and Flewelling stayed aboard to guide the vessel home. The voyage ended with the battered ship and crew safe in port.
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Phill
Akin
Kwan Yin
Acapulco
Los Angeles
Jack Daniels
Richard Pederson
Dennis Maigle
Rick Flewelling
Tecmosa Beach
Weld
Flewelling
Youth reenlists in Navy during 13000-foot jump near Virginia Beach
Pi Carlo I Zellers Jr., 21, reenlisted in the Navy to enter frogman training at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base after a 13000 foot jump. Lt Cmdr Heinlein swore him in mid descent. Zellers, formerly aviation electronics technician third class at Oceana, earned a $2500 reenlistment bonus and planned to stay for special underwater demolition work with the Little Creek unit.
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Virginia Beach
Pi—Carlo I Zellers Jr
Navy
Zellers
Cmdr
Joseph Heinlein Jr
Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base
Palmyra
Third Dass
Oceana
Naval Air Station
Little Creek
Miss Edith Wetmore Dies At 55 In New York Society
Newport RI society figure Edith Wetmore died in New York after a long illness at age 55. Daughter of George Peabody Wetmore, former Rhode Island governor and U.S. senator, she was a noted participant in Newport’s century-old social season.
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Newport
R.L. Society
New York
UPI
Edith Wetmore
Old Guard
Miss Wetmore
George Peabody Wetmore
Rhode Islan
U.S
Job Corps marks first birthday with Humphrey speech
Vice President Hubert Humphrey spoke at a Job Corps anniversary noting the program as a dream realized. Bossed with 20,000 enrollees at 98 centers nationwide, the initiative aims to train unemployed young people.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
America
Curb Roles Overhead Cuts Policemen Ball Profits
In San Antonio Texas police chief George Bichsel barred officers from working off duty to solicit ticket sales for the policeman’s ball. The event grossed 61000 but telephoning overhead paid 20000, reducing take to about 1500.
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San Antonto, Tex
UPI
George Bichsel
Won't Ban Saunas Togetherness in City Baths
A San Francisco public safety panel on Thursday rejected an ordinance that would ban husbands and wives from sharing sauna rooms in the citys ten public establishments. The committee endorsed allowing coed saunas to continue under existing rules and guidance from the police department.
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San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
Police Department
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United Prats International
David Hitt
Baylor Medical Center
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Tex
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William F. Claypool
Hospital Council of Greater Milwaukee
Wilma Metzger
Eid
Berthal
Plough, Inc
St. Louis
American Nurses Association
Massachusetts
United States
Doris Andrews
The
Massachusetts Nurses Association
Aeee
Rick Fleyelling
Dennis’ Naigle
Richard Pearson
Tim
Job Corps
Peer Elton Asteren
Hollywood
BOX Springs
Ortho Mattress Firm
Set Free
Sinth
Twiner Fall Suu
Becklund Flayer Piano Store
QueenSie Bess
Siva Bees
Guarantead Homes
California
Manu
STOW
AUDEL
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Casement
Shordow
Idea
Ab Ma
Bellflower Stiteb
Compton Blvd
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Atlanilo Ava
Oshipten
Wilmington
W. Pacific Goast Hwy
Harker City
Lomo Beach
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Long Basch
Cirpet Sale
du Ponluate
Egular
Warastah
Nigelow
Lees
Philadelphia
Hollytex
Masland
Firth
Rosecrans Ave
Horwalk
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