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0 QUAD-CITY TIMES Tuesday, Aug. 21, 1984 Record ttlltil3if i 343- 4l7 I BIRTHS Davenport Osteopathic Hospital LOVE, Roger and Julie, 6061 Appomattox Davenport, girl, Sunday. MILEY, Susan, 824 Siegfried Davenport, twin girts, Saturday. Mercy Hospital, Davenport BLAKE. Tab Allen and Joy, 412 W.

51st Davenport, boy, Monday. THOMAS, Gary and Melissa, 2324 N. Michigan Davenport, boy, Monday. St. Luke's Hospital, Davenport FRAZER.

Terry and Teresa, 4116 Warren Davenport, twins, boy and girl, Sunday. PELO, Daniel and Nancy. 2923 Central Bettendorf, girl, Monday. PETERSEN, Gary and Becki, Route 2, Muscatine, Iowa, girl, Monday. VOSS.

Clifford and Maurita, 5903 W. Kim-berly Road, Davenport, twin girls, Sunday. Mike Hengl Benefits Representative for UAW Local 215 in Davenport, said about the joint effort. "The response of the public is it's an image builder for both sides. They couldn't understand why labor and management didn't do this long ago." The UAW sponsored the exhibit in a tent just inside one of the fair-gates to show off products made in Iowa and one of its big allies in the effort is Caterpillar Tractor Co.

Not long ago, Local 215 and Caterpillar were embroiled in a bitter By Mike Owen QUAD-CITY TIMES DES MOINES Some Quad-City businesses and the United Auto Workers are working together on something. This quiet revolution is happening on the southwest corner of the Iowa State Fairgrounds with the UAW's first "Partners in Productivity" exhibit at the fair. "I guess maybe you'd call (us) odd bedfellows to a certain degree," strike. But both are putting it behind them. Caterpillar spokeswoman Kim Steffen even came to help set up the UAW's display last week.

"We're all in this together," she said. "It's a fine show of cooperation between union and company and it does us all some good." Hengl noted he and Ms. Steffen "were on opposite sides of the fence" during the strike, but "I think the times have changed." "The cooperation's got to be there," he said. Gosch assault reported FIRE CALLS Bettendorf No calls reported Monday. Davenport 9:40 p.m.

Sunday, to 6300 Telegraph Road, auto. 11:32 a.m. Monday, to 433 S. Pine alarm malfunction. 11:53 a.m.

Monday, to 8500 Northwest auto. 12:06 p.m. Monday, to 1441 Rockingham Road, structure. 1:36 p.m. Monday, to 4510 N.

Division mattress. 3:14 p.m. Monday, to 1400 W. Central Park honest mistake. 5:13 p.m.

Monday, to 700 Waverly Road, alarm malfunction. 6:26 p.m. Monday, to 1402 E. 14th leaves. Six emergency medical service calls Monday.

Under construction Noreen Gosch, mother of missing newspaper carrier Johnny Gosch, told police she was assaulted by her husband, John, while driving in the Quad-Cities last weekend, according to a Bettendorf police report. The incident was reported to have happened around midnight Friday while the two were driving on Interstate 74 in or near the Quad-Cities, the report says. The Gosches were in the area attending a wedding, police said. Mrs. Gosch, 41, of Des Moines contacted Davenport police from a motel room at the Ramada Inn in Daven port, Bettendorf police said.

The case was referred to Bettendorf police for jurisdiction reasons. Police said there were no injuries reported and no charges were filed. Mrs. Gosch did not return a reporter's telephone call Monday night. Johnny Gosch disappeared more than two years ago while delivering newspapers in Des Moines.

Another Des Moines newspaper carrier, Eugene Martin, 14, disappeared Aug. 12 while delivering papers. The Gosches are formerly of Eldridge. Road crews continued Monday to grade 7th Street south of Black-hawk Road in Moline to prepare for its paving to 52nd Avenue. It's part of a master plan to extend 52nd Avenue from 16th to 3rd streets an area that promises significant development, city officials say.

If the weather holds up, the project could be completed this autumn. (Times photo by Phil Cunningham) Setting the record straight A Paul Ohman Thomas Robinson Stephen Shelton Robert Tunstall Douglas Bosworth THE LAST name of the winner of the $250 Quad-City Times drawing at the Muscatine County Fair in West Liberty was incorrectly reported in the Aug. 13 editions of the Times. The winner is Marie Streger of rural Muscatine. THE NAME of JoAnn Seelye of Morrison, I1L, who won $250 in a Quad-City Times drawing, was misspelled in Monday morning editions of the Times.

The Times regrets the errors. 5 to lead United Way divisions Suicide attempt in jail A 27-year-old Davenport man in Scott County Jail tried to hang himself Monday night for the third time in less than a year, officials reported. Thomas Overton, 27, of 409 E. 6th was treated Monday night at Mercy Hospital and returned to the jail where he was being held on a third-degree theft charge. A Scott County jailer noticed at 9 p.m.

that Overton had torn a strip of a bed sheet, tied one end around his, neck and tied the other end through some grill on a speaker box in the' holding cell, Sheriff Forrest Ashcraft said. Ashcraft said the attempt was noticed almost immediately. Overton attempted to hang himself last November with a torn piece of bed sheet tied to the intercom grill He was not seriously injured. On March 25, he tried the same method again. Standing tip-toe on the floor, he then pressed a button on the wall alerting the jailers.

Jailers cut down the improvised noose and rescue personnel took him to Mercy. Illinois lottery the second year he's headed the division which includes Iowa commercial areas. He's a member of Davenport Chamber of Commerce and the Quad-City Development Group, and has served on other civic organizations. Robert M. Tunstall, manager of product support in the Industrial Equipment Division of Deere is this year's Industrial I Division chairman.

He'll be responsible for areas of chemical and paper products, food and related products and general manufacturing. He's a member of Rotary International and has served Bank of Moline, will be Commercial I Division chairman, responsible for Illinois business areas of sales, banks, transportation, general services and construction. He's active in the Moline Chamber of Commerce, president of the North Scott Rotary Club and treasurer of Robert Morris Associates Iowa-Illinois Mississipi Valley Group, and active in several other civic organizations. Stephen E. Shelton, manager of customer services, Iowa-Illinois Gas Electric will assume the volunteer position of Commercial II division.

This is in posts for United Way in Dubuque, Iowa. Douglas L. Bosworth, works manager, John Deere Plow-Planter Works, Moline, was named Industrial II Division Chairman. He'll be responsible for areas of machine manufacturing, metal products, farm equipment and labor unions. Bosworth is a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, has served on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accrediting Board for Engineering Technology, and is a member of Moline Rotary Club and other civic organizations.

United Way's 1984 campaign cabinet is shaping up with the appointment of five volunteer first division leaders. The organization's goal is $5 million to aid programs in 44 Quad-City area social service agencies. The first division appointments include: Paul F. Ohman, general manager, John Deere Harvester Works, East Moline, will head up the four Industrial and Commercial divisions. For the past two years, Ohman has served as Industrial II Division chairman.

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v- i Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill, questions a witness Monday's Senate hearing on Medicare. mm 1 By Tom Davidson QUAD-CITY TIMES Just about everyone who attended Monday's hearing on Medicare sponsored by U.S. Sen. Charles Percy agreed the health-insurance system needs help to avoid bankruptcy.

But just what that help should be and who should pay for it became a bone of contention at the special hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging held in Rock Island. "We in Congress must take action to restore solvency to this vital program, just as we did in the case of Social Security," said Percy, R-I1L The part of Medicare that pays for hospitalization the health insurance trust fund is projected to go bankrupt between 1988 and 1991. But each of the methods proposed to save the system increasing taxes, rausing the amount Medicare users must pay, or changing the way hospitals are paid, to name a few had its opponents at Monday's hearing. L. Boyd Mclntlre of Rock Island, president of the Moline chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons, said the elderly can't afford to pay any more of Medicare's costs.

"Many of the old believe that after the elections, there will be drastic changes in Medicare, with the old paying increased costs," he said. "The villain in the Medicare crisis is the rapidly rising hospital and doctor costs," Mclntire said. The American Association of Retired Persons supports trying to control those costs by legislation, but opposes tax increases that might cause taxpayers to resent Medicare's elderly users, he said. But other witnesses said health-care providers such as doctors and hospitals already are doing their part to help control the spiraling costs of Medicare, which are projected to top $60 billion next year. Physicians are in the midst of a 15-month freeze on increases in Medicare payments, and hospitals are being shifted onto a new payment plan that gives them a certain amount for each type of patient rather than I V' fWi mm wfmm mm ti, i 9 'l reimbursing them for the entire cost of treating a patient That plan called the prospective payment system has helped slow increases in Medicare spending, said Carolyne Davis, administrator of the federal Health Care Financing Administration, the government agency that administers Medicare.

But Tim Kearns, director of fiscal services for Lu- theran Hospital, Moline, said that while the new pay- ment plan is cutting costs now, it might eventually hurt quality. "If over the foreseeable future we cannot or will not be reimbursed for our full financial requirements, the quality of care will most likely have to suffer," Kearns said. After the two-hour hearing, Percy said he thinks Congress will be able to pass a Medicare bailout package by using the same bipartisan approach that led to a new Social Security package last year. But it probably won't occur until after the November election, he said. I iS 85 LL51 Ms i'iWzr Part of the crowd of more than 150 people listen to testimony during a special Senate hearing on the Medicare crisis held in Rock Island Monday.

(Tunes photos by Harry Boll).