The Bangor Daily News from Bangor, Maine • 17

Bangor Daily News Tuesday June 24 1975 17 Cohen opposes any fry to set up nuclear park Nuclear stations are becoming increasingly more expensive to build and nobody knows for sure whether the power they produce will be competitive with solar energy or electricity from coal fired plants for heating and cooling buildings the Maine congressman said Meanwhile Cohen criticized Congress for producing a weak energy bill that will do little or nothing to solve the energy problems while exacerbating the energy plight of New Englanders this legislation will do is discriminate against New Cohen said because the bill calls for import quotas to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil but it does nothing to make sure New England gets a fair allocation of the oil and gas left in the country Right now New England in general and Maine in particular use more imported oil than other sections of the country Cohen said the do -nothing energy bill is a result of fragmented approach to energy matters More than 30 separate congressional committees deal with energy legislation and until there is a consolidation of responsibility Congress probably come up with a good energy plan Cohen said But the Republican Congressman also believes that President energy program has serious flaws because it is based on price increases that can only lead to more inflation and higher unemployment And as for voluntary conservation a flop because people really believe there is a especially you fly over New York and Boston and see all those neon burning late into the night By Dennis Mills Of the NEWS Staff Congressman William Cohen said Monday he will fight any attempt to place a so called in Maine intend to see 40 nuclear plants on our Rep Cohen said during a news conference at Bangor International Airport Federal energy officials are proposing that up to 40 nuclear reactors be placed in one location to provide electricity for an entire region such as New England That many nuclear power plants would need huge volumes of cold water to cool the reactors and lengthy coastline has been suggested many times as a logical place for a nuclear park But Cohen suggested Monday that Maine has another attraction for the nuclear power industry its isolation have not resolved substantial safety Cohen said and that is why a sparsely populated state like Maine is preferable to a major metropolitan area for a nuclear park Cohen said it may also be unwise to place all of energy eggs in the nuclear basket because plants may not be cost And they're off or are they? Racing fans at Bass Park Bangor might become a little confused at deceptive look with a painting done by Wallace McQuarrie of Brewer It was whom is racing where The back of the park grandstand has acquired a designed by Eaton Tarbell and Associates (NEWS Photo by Carroll Hall) Rep Cohen Budworm kill data due soon When trauma strikes spraying over 22 million acres of Maine forests Director Fred Holt referred to the expected before the bureau receives its summary showing the fercentage of budworm kill rom this aerial PRESQUE ISLE The director of Maine Bureau of Forestry said Monday it will be a week or 10 days Specialization funnels many for hospital care State official suggests doctors be licensed than budworm kill will be tree showing up in areas not sprayed Such browning Holt explained may peak about July 4 Persons flying over the north Maine woods may observe and compare the sprayed and unsprayed areas The forestry bureau leader admitted that even in sprayed areas he expects browning to show up with an 85 per cent kill there would be enough budworm left to cause he said The bureau of forestry recommended that about 35 million acres be sprayed in Maine from the north end of Moosehead Lake north to the Canadian border and from Quebec on the west to New Brunswick on the east Because of a shortage of insecticide materials the bureau finally had to earmark about 22 million priority acres for spraying A vast budworm epidemic spreading over northeastern North America intensified last year and currently infests about 100 million acres in Maine and Canada laboratory reports as more specific measure down the The forestry bureau head said at the same time think an 85 per cent kill would be effective in avoiding widespread tree mortality in those areas we Pilots of Hillcrest Aviation Co of Lewiston Idaho sprayed 2245000 acres in Aroostook Penobscot Piscataquis Washington and Somerset counties from May 25 to June 12 The 1975 Maine budworm spraying started and ended earlier than in past years after unusually warm weather advanced budworm development Holt declared got our goal acreage wise and came in under the wire too time wise think in general we considered it a successful Employed were 46 aircraft flying out of Presque Isle and Millinocket 29 World War II spray planes and 17 navigation and guide planes Holt added that a more general measure of success The purpose of the JUA Hogerty said is to provide for no longer than two years a market for medical practice insurance on a self supporting basis Those who qualify must have been rejected already by other insurers Whenever malpractice insurance becomes available on the voluntary market the JUA will dissolve he said The legislation also creates a study commission to examine the root problems of malpractice of their rights and demanding new Although the problem is less severe here Maine doctors are increasingly finding it difficult to obtain and retain malpractice insurance at affordable rates He said hospitals too beginning to feel the Hogerty said long -range solution must be found to prevent the health care delivery system from being severly impaired He said the recently passed LD 1459 is a temporary Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) composed of all insurers' writing personal injury liability policies in the state is a stopgap measure to buy time while a lasting solution is worked the commissioner said By Emmett Meara NEWS Rockland Bureau ROCK PORT Should Maine doctors be licensed periodically by the state? Insurance Commissioner Frank Hogerty suggested here Monday that that is a possible considerati to the malpractice problem in the state The malpractice around the country plaguing doctors has not approacned national levels in Maine but it is growing according to Hogerty Explaining the new legislation on malpractice insurance to the Maine Hospital Association convention on Monday Hogerty blamed part of the problem on consumers who become more aware insurance Medicare have a By Dennis Mills Of The NEWS Staff (Second in a Series) There was a time when people smiled at hearing the word They thought of a likable old fellow who had brought them into the world tended to their cuts and bruises and dispensed as much advice as medicine He was a trusted family friend Today the country doctor has become a relic and the memories people have of the old are perhaps mellowed by the passage of time However romanticized those memories might be they account for much of the dissatisfaction people have with emergency medical care in this country A veteran ambulance attendant quietly sipped his coffee and thought about why many people in the Bangor area prefer St Joseph Hospital's emergency room over Eastern Maine Medical emergency room guess TLC (tender loving care) is more important to most folks than a lot of fancy new he said got to talk to a patient show them compassion got to calm them down make them feel Ironically though most ambulance attendants interviewed said they would take a seriously injured patient to EMMC because the emergency room there is to handle such cases they really insist take them to Eastern Maine if one ambulance attendant said Another attendant characterized the staff at emergency room as and because they have to handle so many cases sometimes more than 100 a day always be sociable when patients are backing up like he said It was 3 pm and Dr Winford Adams had just finished an eight -hour shift in the EMMC emergency room He appeared weary and the stack of paperwork on his desk did not help much 35 per cent of the cases we treat here are true Dr Adams said explaining that the remaining cases fall into categories that would have been treated by a family doctor 20 years ago the day of the family doctor has pretty much Adams said living a world of specialists and the ordinary person needs help but know where to turn so he comes to the hospital emergency And when they do they find they are in a strange the chief of emergency services at EMMC said Dr Adams said that the unfamiliar surroundings and unfamiliar faces coupled with a lack of knowledge about hospital procedures lead to a feeling of frustration for the emergency room patient Then too he said who have things several weeks old and come in at the height of the rush and they see why they have to wait to see a During the previous shift people were being treated at the EMMC emergency room at the rate of one every six minutes and that pace is enough to drive many skilled doctors away from emergency practice takes a special kind of doctor to work in an emergency Adams said of them are too The EMMC emergency room normally has five doctors on its staff but now there are only four covering full time but doing it by working overtime with no holidays or weekends off and no Dr Adams said There remains however the nagging question not fully answered by Dr Adams Why do so many people prefer the emergency room at St Joseph Hospital? It cannot be a function of numbers alone since St emergency room handles about 20000 patients a year compared to 30000 at EMMC Nor can it be medical training since both hospitals hire well qualified doctors nurses and technicians according to experts not directly involved with either institution NEXT: The administrator at St Joseph Hospital discusses emergency room policy feathers 'n' fur Jerry ElweH oflhenww jfcRlwC advances like and Medicade tendency to overburden doctors and their facilities Although the standard of medical care has risen such improvements mean that average doctors have more than ever to keep up with These facts call for watch ful eyes on professional competency It is therefore increasingly necessary for the medical profession to police Hoberty said A real solution to the malpractice problem lies in changes in law medicine and social attitudes he said Hogerty warned against laying blame for the current situation rather than working for solution He suggested consideration of peer review to establish competence of local doctors periodic licensing of doctors by the state closer supervision of hospitals and their personnel and arbitration boards to resolve malpractice claims Motorists' aid sought in slaying NEWPORT State police appealed Monday to the motoring public in the investigation into the robbery-slaying of a Newport service station attendant Robert McKee here early Friday morning Authorities have asked that anyone who purchased gasoline from McKee at Texaco station between midnight and 4 am Friday to call the nearest state police barracks The service station is just off the Newport exit of Interstate 95 body was found by a Rhode Island motorist who stopped for gasoline shortly before 4 am He had been shot in the head An estimated $600 was missing from the cash register No new leads have been turned up by police However a motorist called the Troop barracks in Skowhegan Monday stating he had passed the Texaco station about 2 am Friday and saw McKee alive Previous reports had the last persons a state policeman and a truck driver seeing McKee about 1 am Dr Vincent Gallucci superintendent of School Administrative District 53 which employed McKee as a sixth grade teacher for four years said Monday that an area businessman is offering a reward for persons giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons found guilty of the slaying of McKee Gallucci chairman of the Robert McKee Fund said donations coming in strongly from all mJfH 2 another helping of column hash and mish-mash Next season those bird houses near and among the trees will be pulled up and transplanted in open areas where the swallows be surprised by hawks such as the one who has taken a disturbing toll of -parent birds this spring Concealed in the evergreens or thickly-leaved branches of the hardwoods the preying fellow zeroes in and snatches adult swallows from the roofs of nest boxes In the air the swiftly-moving swallows easily elude this enemy but his surprise attacks befuddles them to a state of complete helplessness The dog-like beasts which recently plowed through our flock of poultry spooking the peacock injuring a duck and eliminating a Manchurian pheasant may have been dogs About two weeks ago a Patten lady sighted five of the nearly-identical beasts four in the road one eating something in the ditch And since she was on her way home from church we presume "the lady was quite sober when she observed the animals A report from Greenville states that an oriole has built its nest in the crotch of a rugged tree near a residence there so she along with the by Patten and Shin Pond orioles may have advance warnings of summer gales and heavy rains Shadow the more-than-a-year old raccoon who was brought here for release in the woods still refuses to leave He sleeps in his cage until the poultry come in to roost for the night then he has his turn at cavorting out of doors But as soon as a woodsy raccoon appears Shadow takes to a tree where he wails for help and he has yet to spend an entire night out He not only has the temperament and mannerisms of a friendly dog he climbs a tree about as well as one If he come thudding to the ground by sliding off the tip of a bough he rides a broken branch right to earth or we have to rescue him with the aid of a ladder It appears many moons shall pass before educated to woodsy ways Daddies the wild duckling had quite an experience the other morning While wrestling with a piece of bread he caught his reflection in a mirror and believing another duck was stealing his breakfast he attempted to attack himself People items and furnishings may be ducky for humans but not for ducks UMM to offer credit course on sailing Yard sale set for Saturday A yard sale will be held at the Forest Avenue Congregational Church Bangor on Saturday June 28 from 8 am to 4 pm The church is at Forest and Stillwater avenues Monday through Friday July 718 Further information may be gained by contacting Kenneth Walker director of the summer session Dr Philip Glaser associate professor of science at UMM will offer this two credit course Fundamentals of Sailing from 9 am to 4 pm MACHIAS A special course on sailing will be offered again this summer as part of the summer session of the University of Maine at Machias Out-of-state fee hike may cut hunters retain funds CORRECTION CORNER the license fee was raised to $75 Lutz predicts that onlyhl8000 hunters would purchase a license for declining revenue of $1350000 At a fee level of $100 figures show that only about 3000 out of state hunters would be inclined to come to Maine in search of bear or deer for an estimated revenue of only $300000 The major argument against raising the price of out of state licenses was that with fewer hunters coming into the state in search of game fewer dollars would flow into tourist establishments Lutz readily admits this would be a problem raising the cost of anything demand is at least affected in some small way" he said the purpose of my study was to find a happy medium in the pricing of The Inland Fisheries and Game business manager Ralph Will believes the report might perhaps provide some new insights into the problem of adequately pricing out of state hunting licenses "Although have to study the report thoroughly to make any detailed said Will "it looks to me as though it may have some concrete suggestions to offer from the income from hunting and fishing licenses a certain level of revenue is required The Lutz report maintains that this level of revenue could be attained and even surpassed with the simultaneous effect of reducing the number of out of -state hunters that come into the state each year The simple solution according to Lutz is to raise the price of licenses issued to out of staters to a level at which adequate revenue to Fisheries and Game could be realized To arrive at such a price Lutz through the computer considered several variables which affect the number of out of state hunters who come to Maine each year The most basic factor is the price of the license According to statistics if the license fee remained at $4650 about 35000 out of state hunters would purchase them for an estimated revenue of $1627500 If the fee was raised to $60 as LD 566 recommends Lutz predicts that only 27000 hunters from out of slate would purchase licenses resulting in $1 620000 in revenue There docs seem to be a plateau level however If By David Thompson Of The NEWS Staff AUGUSTA It is possible that the number of out -of state hunters who flock to Maine each fall in quest of deer could be greatly reduced while showing no great decrease in revenue for the state That conclusion comes as the result of a study recently given to a joint legislative Committee on Fisheries and Wildlife by a University of Maine at Orono economics professor Mark Lutz The study the result of a computerized data compilation is in reference to LD 566 a bill which proposes to raise the cost of out of state hunting licenses next year from $4650 to $6050 The bill was passed in its second reading in tne House Friday 98-28 It will go to the Senate this week for two readings before it is referred back to the House for a final vote Stated simply the Lutz report recommends that the cost of out of state hunting licenses be over the $4650 cost for the 1974 season Since the entire operations budget of the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Game is derived Readers are encouraged to call the attention to factual errors by telephoning the Maine Desk 942-4881 extension 285 between 2 and 5 pm or by writing the NEWS editor at 491 Main St Bangor Maine 04401 Corrections when justified will b4 published hereunder promptly and candidly An account of a recent meeting of the Sullivan Sorrento Historical Society in Hancock County edition mistakenly indicated that the late Harry Stanwood of Tunk Lake had spoken to the group Actually Mr Stanwood has been dead for several years and a published account of his early remembrances was read to the group.