The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 18

FridYOCTOBER 3. 1986 THE TENNESSEAN Stress-related mental health disorders increasing in workplace, CDC reports 1 1st American reported in talks on possible acquisition Tennessean News Services and Staff Reports ATLANTA Stress, boredom and frustration at work are causing substantial health problems for Americans, the national Centers for Disease Control said yesterday. 5 Numerous job-related insurance claims filed around the country are citing mental stress, and "there is increasing evidence that an unsatisfactory work environment may contribute to psychological disorders," the CDC said In its weekly report, prepared by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. For example, a California study found that claims for "work-related shift from occupational safety and health problems in mechanization to more problems of a psychological nature." A study released last year by the National Council on Compensation Insurance found that claims, for the gradual onset of "mental for more than one in every 1 0 occupatlonal-disease-and-lnjury claims, and the average cost pf those claims was higher. In addition, a NIOSH study in Tennessee 10 years ago found workers in health care, service jobs and blue-collar factory positions seeking mental health help more often than workers in other jobs.

neuroses" more than doubled in the first three years of this decade while claims for other disabling work inju-' ries fell by 10 over the same period. "What is happening is that changes are going on in the workplace," said Dr. Alex Cohen, chief of applied psychology for the Cincinnati-based NIOSH. "New technology is coming in and shifting a lot of job tasks from those that were physically demanding to other kinds of job demands, more mental ones, more repetitive ones. "I think we're going to be seeing a Japan shows digital audio tape recorders TOKYO (AP) The long-awaited digital audio tape recorder, or DAT, was the biggest star yesterday at the Tokyo Audio Fair, where nearly every Japanese audio maker displayed models of the new recorders.

The manufacturers also had the DATs on display at the Japan Electronics Show, which opened simultaneously. The companies claim the digital tape recorders provide sound equal in quality to compact discs, but also allow users to make their own digital recordings. Digital recordings differ from traditional, analog recordings in that the sound is broken into a series of ones and zeros that represent the sound, while analog is a representation of the actual sound waves. Digital recordings provide sound of greater dynamic range and less distortion, and digital tapes are free of the hiss of analog tapes. ALBERT CASON Business News Editor- 1 Officials of First American Corp.

and the Lebanon Bank In Lebanon, have been in talks concerning the possible acquisition of the Wilson County institution, it was learned yesterday. Sources said there has been no agreement preliminary or definitive r- officials at both First American and Lebanon Bank declined to confirm or deny reports of the talks. However, the sources said that the talks are among numerous sessions going on between officials of the two banking organizations and representatives of other banking institutions in what has become a trend in the indus- Central Park USA plans to franchise the restaurants on a national and, eventually, an international scale, it said. The Nashville unit at 2608 Gallatin Road opened in November 1985, but locations of the additional restaurants here have not been selected, It said. Central Park, which operates 18 company-owned restaurants in Tennesee, Georgia and Arkansas, also has plans for immediate expansions in KnoxvUle and Memphis, the announcement said.

There are now 11 units in Chattanooga, four In Memphis and two in Knoxville, with two more to open in Memphis and three in Knoxville by the end of this year, it said. NASCO to sell 3 TV stations for $83 million try. Lebanon Bank, with assets of $li6 GcnCSCO OrOlTiOteS 1 million, has two branches In Lebanon and one each in Mount Juliet and Donald Sutton, most recently Watertown. It was chartered in 1952. Dresident of Oomphies a wom- On Tuesdav.

First Ameriran cnm. en's footwear company in Lawrence. NASCO Inc of Springfield, announced yesterday an agreement to sell three television stations, owned by its Channel Communications Inc. subsidiary, to two companies for a total of $83 million. The company has filed a definitive agreement with the Federal Communications Commission, which must approve the sales, according to an an nouncement said.

Home Shopping Network of Clearwater, will buy WCLOTV an independent station in Cleveland, Ohio, for $15 million, it said. NASCO had acquired the stations for $46.8 million when it began bujfing television properties in a diversifjea-tion move three years ago, Cook said. -JZ nouncement by Bill F. Cook, NASCO chairman and chief executive officer, and Benson B. Sloan, president Cosmos Broadcasting a subsidiary of Liberty Corp.

of Greenville, S.G, will buy KPLC-TV, an NBC affiliate in Lake Charles, and KAIT-TV, an ABC affiliate in Jonesboro, for a total of $68 million, the an pleted the acquisition of Tennessee Mass-, has been named president and National Bancshares Inc. of Mary- division manager of the Charm Step Easy Street division of Genesco Inc. ville, a holding company with assets of $270 million and five banks in Mary-ville, Jefferson City, Greenback, McMinnville and Woodbury. That acquisition gives the Nashville-based bank holding company assets of more than $5.2 billion and more than 100 full-service banking offices in Tennessee and Kentucky. First American also has commercial lending offices in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina.

He succeeds Philip Ponder, who will continue with Charm StepEasy Street as vice president of sales, the company announced yesterday. Sutton, who will report to William Dragon Genesco executive vice president and president of its U.S. Footwear Group, was earlier with Wolverine Worldwide. Charm StepEasy Street markets women's footwear under the Charm Step and Easy Street brand names. Also on Tuesday, Third National Corp.

announced plans to acquire tlLA 111 101111 DZlCt Peoples Bancshares Inc. of Lebanon, a $64 million bank with five offices in Wilson County. Third National, which has $5 billion Hospital Corporation of America and Brigham and Women's Hospital of Boston announced yesterday a three-year cooperative limited agree ment to exchange educational, pur chasing and other services. HCA and the 720-bed private nonprofit hospital will develop medical and education products for use throughout the HCA system The hospital will help assess and support quality of patient care pro in assets, owns 12 Tennessee banks and itself is being acquired by SunTrust Banks Inc. of Atlanta to form a $24 billion regional bank holding company.

Restaurant to expand Central Park Burger-Fries-and-Coke, billed as the originator of the fast food industry's double-drive-through, limited-selection concept, is launching a major expansion in Nashville. Chattanooga-based Central Park U.SA just formed to handle franchising of the restaurants, announced yesterday that the pne-res-taurant operation here will be ex- grams at selected New England hospi tals owned or managed by HCA. Patient care costs at the hospital will be reduced through use of HCA's national purchasing system Brigham and Women's will sup ply clinical and educational expertise to HCA on a cpntractural basis. The hospital will achieve substan- Danded to three more by the end of the year and to a total of 30 within the tial savings in constructing a new am- next two years. bulatory care center next spring Robert M.

Davenport, founder of through use of HCA's national pur- Chattanooga-based Central Park, has chasing contracts. Brigham and Women's is a teaching formed the Robert M. Davenport Co. hospital with expertise in all areas of adult medical, surgical, obstetric to become a franchisee of Central Park U.S.A. for stores In Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Memphis, the announcement said.

gynecological and newborn care and research. Old Chicago Seltzer drink slated for sale here soon sweetened with fructrose, the Old Chicago drinks are clear like seltzer wa ter, he said. They have 120 calories per bottle and are being sold in single units, six- packs and cases. Initial reception to the new drink locally has been good, Hundley said, adding that market research shows that about 20 million cases of soft CANDY McCAMPBF.IL Staff Writer Old Chicago Seltzer, a sparkling water drink in seven flavors, will hit the shelves in the Nashville area early next week as part of its national introduction, a distributor said yesterday. Developed and produced by La-Grette Import-Export of Santa Fe Springs, the sparkling water drinks in mandarin orange, cherry, wild berry, peach, almond creme, root beer and chocolate cherry flavors will make their Tennessee debut Jn this area, said Tom Hundley, general manager of Det Distributing wholesaler for Old Chicago.

"We're introducing it to the public this weekend and it should be In grocery and convenience stores by the first of next week," he said. Made with natural flavorings and drinks are sold annually in the Nash ville market area. "The Increased health-conscious ness of consumers, combined with several other factors, has led some in dustry analysts to predict a 15 growth rate for the bottled water products over the next 10 years," said v'i-y Fred Dettwiller, president of Det Dis tributing. Developers may ask MDHA 4 rt to condemn downtown plot i tw 1 Commerce Street which Allrieht nur- 3 ''hMnMwn. i 1 II nlli I WHfiHiMirHlll--mi mi II Hill ITHIIII liar in chased from MDHA in July for $1.1 million.

Haney, who had a partnership agreement with Allright through Nashville Apartment Properties was to pay Allright for the rights to de velop an apartment building and parking garage on that site and on an adjacent property Allright owns. Auto Parks Inc. and Chattanooga developer Franklin Haney, the source said. "They the development group will have to do a lot of homework, talk to the property owners and try to rqake suitable arrangements," the source said. "It does make sense to extend the Capitol Mall Redevelopment District east If the Haney-Allright issue can be resolved, then extending the Capitol Mall area Is an option available to the developers to accomplish their project." The development group claims the feasibility of its project depends on its ability to incorporate a site at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and But the deal dissolved late last month when Haney missed a $440,000 payment required under the terms of his agreement Haney officials contend they have an arrangement "in principle" with Allright to extend the agreement al though no such agreement existed in writing as of yesterday, sources said.

Browns brothers, not father and son 1 Dorted vesterdav in The Tennessean. The newspaper regrets the error Martin S. Brown is the brother of W. Lyons Brown chairman and chief executive officer of Brown-Forman Inc. of Louisville, not his son, as re- and is glad to set the record straight A If.