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4 4 i 1 ri 1 1 itnulb ag 4 ra It tali a itab ier i Just A Sink(' Aid A Whittlin9 Fewer Friendly To Business NI LEIE-GTON HERALD-LEADER CO Lexington Ky 229-239 West Short Street NEW YORK 495 Lexington Avenue The Msoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of aU news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news sigEto Sunday July 9 1972 1 Surplus Hospital Bed 1 k411 1 A- slier 111-ir 2 4111 0 Illk 4loor 7 l' ra i 1 0061da 1 oi 1Allit it :11 Si tii t-V te 4 1 el i Ac a 0 7-''' 4 tz-z- 7 ---41141 "I fr 1 4 --nk 4 'ft-N 1" sklesN 1 1 1 7 1 k'- 7 IL 4 1 1141PCp I a Allit :0 i 11 A I 1 11 A 41t" tre----1r- A i -ze 4 ea ys --)C0 i 1- tr' 11 rA --''N Q01-''' A' 1:1 i 1- -1k- f' e' 4 1 i I 169 77 A' ::4 'I WHO WOULD have thought hospitals might someday be complaining about a shortage of patients? Well' that someday has arrived The average occupancy rate of hospital beds dropped last year to 752 per cent the lowest point in a decade the American Hospital Association reports This means that almost one bed in every four was empty Only three years ago it WEIS one in five The figures seem to be continuing downward agaht this year indicating that they are not a fluke Hospital fiscal managers think they see a trend and view- it with alarm According to Medical World News a bed that is vacant costs the hospital from two-thirds to three: fourths as much as one that is occupied Many explanations are being offered for the turnabout The number of hospital beds has increased over the past decade at a faster pace than has population There has been a tightening of Medicare restrictions And it has become standard practice to get surgical patients up and on their feet as soon as possible Although hospital- admissions rose slightly last year to a total of 30126844 the increase was more than offset statistically by a shortening of the average stay WHO WOULD have thought hospital' roilht someday be complaining about a I tir Nur my 4 By 'MON LLOYD JONES Fewer Americans are friendly to American business Mom and more think busimssmen are callous to public welfare dishonest and greedy A rising percentage believes industry could lower 1 rem pay higher wages contribute more taxesd cress quality and still make plenty of money The money matter is interesting A cross section of 40511 consumers bterviewed by: Opinion Remora Corp of Princeton guessed that the average manufacturer nets fr about 25 cents on Ms sales dollar after tazeo' The COWMEN was that lt) cents would be plenty Last year the average industrial profit was- 42 per cent on sales down from 511 per cent six years ago 'rho SOO largest tcorporations-t netted 45 per cent The same survey showed that id per conk of those interviewed thought that polluting Plants? should be closed down But only 22 per minty said they would be willing to pay higher prices for goods made in plants that installed expensive Pollution controls The rest either didn't know or felt that the difference should come Out 011 Most alienated are the many COf whole believe that business is grubby and who yearn for a life of "public service" generally on some government pay roll Where a large: part of Ai the tax wherewithal comes to make that part! roll hasn't seemed to occur to them But "the young" is an imprecise term Those sq who only get as far as high school seem ast anxious as their fathers and grandfathers were to just get good jobs and jobs in private business are fine There is little antib usin ess feeling among business school graduates from the universitim3 possibly because they have been exposed in their classrooms to the genuine difficulties of making an honest profit Nor are graduste engineerset being pragmatic types "turned off" by private enterprise Most of the flak which business recelvee: comes from liberal arts studenta via thetr4 professors As our professor at the Universityl of Iowa told me not long ago: "You have noll conception of the economic illiteracy prevalent in our letters and science familia' Such professors find the competitive system abhorrent au demonstrated by their fondness for rigid tenure guarantees which freeze thents Into lifetime teaching Jobs They also doubt if: business competition really acts to protect the consumer and they generally favor strict govern meat controls if not government ownership ao the only feasible means of saving the publie from robbery It is not surprising that their students would reflect this But it would be a great mistake if businessmen assumed that these attitudes would be a passing phase like acne of the ymmg-detracton of the American business system whatever their misconceptions natively smart articulate and evangelical' lo Immense damage can be done to incentive research profits prices and foreign trade it impractical or confiscatory theories become law and these disaffected young people will soon be making law I received a bill for $550 It included charges for a semi-private room laboratory tests and the use of an operating room for the resetting of a broken bone in her wrist The doctor's fee was an additional $150 Few items in the government's Consumer Price Index have risen faster in the past three years than those for hospital care Between May 1969 and May 1972 the latest monthly index figures reported charges for semi-private hospital rooms rose by 86 per cent Operating-room charges went up by 80 per cent In the same period of time the average for all medical costs went up only about half as fast (17 per cent) and these were going up faster than the entire index (14 per cent) for all things that Americans buy Hospital salaries have gone up for nurses janitors and other employes often making for years of underpayment Complex and costly equipment must be added to keep abreast of medical technology But more than that Fortune writer Edmund Faltermayer has discerned "Cost controls have always been weak in many hospitals partly because many of the doctors have no stake in promoting hospital efficiency" Even if the doctor has the best of motives and a conscience about wasting money Faltnermayer added "the growing menace of malpractice suits may induce him to pile on precautionary tests and treatment which he can do without restraint" Can nothing be done? The government and health insurance companies together have enough reports and recommendations to fill a reading shelf But as yet the only sure way a patient has of cutting his hospital charges Is to get out quickly rec cha 1 1 9 sr 4:: 3 4 0 0 All $1 6 4 1111 44v I 'd -1 ll ------e4 I-74 Ili :4 41 l' 1: 1 4-- vit)-4 u--- 4 '4 4 4 :1 1 LI- "Y'' 4-' 4 0 -N ry 4'04 't Pzt 4 1 r' ''N--- ''4 i -o -ir- -4 'K 7 1-1'A tilir 11 '7-''-'I''F'-1- 'k l'' a 'g II qvs -r-zL f- i 3- -L- 41-1t-' 119k --( e-r 2- -1 i 7i r- i' '-i :11 t4 si 01 fl 1 OM Your Health By DR LAWRENCE LAMB 4 i "'A recession doesn't necessarilY mean that admissions go down but it does put pressure on doctors to get patients out quickly" explains Richard Foster asslstant directOr -of the American Hospital Association's research division Charges for hospitalization frequently run in excess of $100 a day in metropolitan areas A woman who spent two iights and a day in a Washington DC hospital do anytMng In the line of aorta as long -as I don't overdo it and get tired Dear Reader If you are able to be lave in sports without diffictddes you shouldn't have any trouble having a baby Many women who have rheumatic heart disease have bad several -pregnancies The decision is of course depen- dent entirely on how severely the hearth damaged Women who have trouble with their pregnancy because of rheumatic heart disease usually have enough damage that they will also have clear-cut limitations in their ability to exercise or engage in amts (Newspaper enterprise Mo) Is your family getting a balanced diet? To find out you'll want to read Dr Lamb's booklet in which he answers your questions about this subject Send 50 cents to Dr Lamb in care Affilik mom alma eft (newspaper enterpnie Assn) le your getting a balanced diet? To find out you'll want to read Dr Lamb's booklet in which he answers your questions about this subject Send 50 cents to Dr Lamb in care 0 I Dear Dr Lamb I mould Mce to ask you about your statement that "frankly psychotic behavior often occurs after open heart surgery" My daughter is scheduled to have surgery at age 5 or 6 to correct tetratology of Fa llot and I would like to know if we should watch for behavior other than normal at this time I am a nurse and we are rather strict with her and I am afraid that if we are unaware of possible changes we would think it was "sickly child syndrome" and become even more severe Dear Reader The psychological problems that some people have after heart surgery are commonly noted immediately after surgery before they leave the hospital For the operation your daughter will have I should think that if she were going to have any problems of this nature they would be recognized by the hospital staff It has been my general impression that these problems are more apt to occur in adults than they are in children Perhaps this is because adults often Self-Transfusion Of Blood THE WORST HAZARDS of blood nevertheless presents at this thne the transfusion during surgery may now be most hopeful prospect for blood-banking i avoided by the simple expedient of using improvement Since two-thirds of all I the patied'i own blood inetead of trsmsfuslons are administered during and i someone "lie's So-called autologous after surgery wider acceptance of transfusion -involves withdrawing a pint autologous transfusion would greatly transfusion 'involves withdraiving a -pint autologous transfusion would greatly so the time hes come: 1 For buainess and industry to responi: family positively to legitimate consumer gripes par- tictdarly those involving false advertising decep tive packagingedesign deficiencies and so on- 4:: 2 To go over to the offensive where etc: of this newspaper a Box 1551 Radio MI neuxamopbillee recalls rs many youathsli Station New York NY 10019 Ask for rebuttal is lid convinced or tom at "Balanced Diet" booklet- evidence of the worst engineering and workman ship ever It should be pointed out that the4 bug-filled autos of a generation ago were neverl recalled nor th oe' car-buyer in any Corn- munist country have such protection today 3 To throw out those public relation' imagine that their chief hmee i of blood from the patient before surgery teduce the pressure on the common store and then giving him large intravenous 13i blood for emergency cases' doses of iron and other nutrients to make The Association of American Blood up for the loss Banks has appointed a committee headed If more than one unit of blood is by Dr Daniel Rosenstein of San Antonio considered necissary for the operation Texas to study autologous transfusion -e ofrtatay W1UUU IISL1bLUOIW1 iiiin-iit-e- on: -Is these Palms time el slipping public con: fidence the who refuses to -answer i-nu-mber'of other medical problems that have accumulated over the years and as a nurse At Buchwaid you probably realize that young children often tolerate even major surgery far better than adults do Scenario For For the benefit 44 our other readen a tetratology of Fallot is a birth defect of the heart which is associated with a bole between the lower pumping chambers of the heart (the right and left ventricle) and a displacement ha of the artery that carries blood to the body scenario for this week's Demoa and the artery to the lungs The combination Convention The way things hay of defects often causes a child to be cyanotic with the party one scenario I or blue Many of these as with other birth validity as the next This is the a defects of the heart can be corrected with written and if it comes true ri modern heart 11111gery read it hers Heart eurgen has been an absolute miracle It is the fourth day of the for children born with defects that would the Democrats have been unable otherwise pose a handicap for them Of all the a presidential candidate The 1 marvelous things that have been done in heart delegations has taken up three ourgery 1 am inclined to believe that what people who were ruled ineligible has been done to eradicate the birth defects to give up their Beats to those who of the heart is one of the brightest chapters designated as delegates to the con Dear Dr Lamb I had rheumatic fever when I was a baby but my parents didn't know it had a high fever for a couple of days and it left me with a heart murmur have to take penicillin until am 21 years old I am 19 now When someone tries to speak and planning on getting married won I would clown by the opposition faction I like to know if I will be able to have a baby the chairman of the party hal My heart murmur is much better and I can Anted with the National Guard Art Buchwald Scenar io For has scenario for this week's Democratic Convention The way things have with the party one scenario validity as the next This is the written and if it comes true read it here It is the fourth day of the the Democrats have been unable a presidential candidate The delegations has taken up three people who were ruled ineligible to give up their seats to those who designated as delegates to the Almost every state delegation sitting in every chair No one floor for fear that someone will When someone tries to down by the opposition faction The: Conventi the chairman of the party has ringed with the National Guard hod with the National Guard questions of 'legitimate public hgetest is nor doing the job for hi stockholders 4 To use business' secret vi 1 periodic informative and factual ad describing just bow the company is doing In stock panics it's all in the annual report should be Business news is hot People read it But most institutional ads are slick and bland An annual full page heavy with text writteli4 so that the average man can understand It" and laced with photographs and charts would 1 have high readership It might go far to counter' the wild swings of Ralph Nader and bunt dope put out by some unions -and the New Populate American business has pmra that it can sell its products marvebus But if -it wants' to stay out of the straitjacket it had better start selling itself Ms own National been going has as much one that I have remember you convention and to decide on fight to seat days and those have refused were officially convention has two people dare leave the grab 1111 HAL he Is hooted as mimy as three or four units may be and develop rildelines on managing the withdrawnfollowed by the blood-feeding procedure for the use of the medical regimen so long as the blood will not profession The committee will report on be- more than three weeks old when it its study at an international transfusion 11- returned to its donor congress to be held in Washington later 7 The chief advantage of self-transfusion this summer 7: is that it eliminates the risk of hepatitis some doctors are so enthusiastic about An- estimated 30000 Americans a year the blood-feeding possibilities that they contract transfusion-connected hepatitis believe it can eliminate the nec essity of end 1500 or of them die of the transfusing any blood at all in some disease according to a 1970 National cases Research Council study Another risk And "bloodless surgery" his proved eliminated would be that Of the in- a for members of Jehovah's compatibility of blood cells Witnesses whose religion forbids: the While not for surgery transfer' of blood from one person i would be eligible for the procedure it another Larry O'Brien Today DOUGLASS better or wane? Ons better We advance2 eleven but there have considarablez The tax on gasoline in Kentureased tic) cents an increase that nature passed on to the consumer The revenue from is tax will be used for Kentucky roads as required by law It not the use of this revenue we disagree with It is the direction For instance it has been hinted by state officials a half-cent of the two cents collected will go back to the communities communities 2500 or more in population That automatically eliminates a lot of small cit les in Kentucky such as all of them in Bath County Yet we pay the tax the same as anyone elem anyone dem the podium so no one can grab the microphone Strength Fa Net Beard The nomination speeches ban not been By BM Dou heard but the candidates have been is the world getting hei McGovern Humphrey Wheel Chisholm' the whole it is getting Jackson and Muskie 7 twelve inches and fall back There have been no demonstrations for the is a margin in which we cat candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid bops If he gets up and marches they won't let him What about the young pea back in his section again us feel that they are the On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1234 young Peon we have eve votes well shy of the 1509 he needed The rest thel get 'Went and when were split between the other candidates with to be treated as violent Pool the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone this is a generation of yew The second and third ballot found no one letting the world know wha budging By the 10th ballot of Wednesday's all- such things They would la: I night session the convention was hopelessly in defense of their country deadlocked did but they are not willing The state delegation' caucused right on the lives oven' time trouble-me floor trying to get people to change their minds Part Of the world begin to ate But it wee impossible me out" says the youngste Short-Tempered a better world and will do On NBC bourn Chancellor and David Brinkley the present world better 1 became short-tempered and refused to talk to to do this or that or sometbh each other Howard IC Smith and Harry PeOPlSiflPOWertellmIba Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to hunger any Plan It ha each other and on CBS Walter Cronkite wasn't ollPromess oven if these a a 1-1 -g mamas owds Stallinble fida 41 so non One Can Strength For gra the microphone MOUS SIT ZAIL Is the world getting the whole it is getting 7 twelve inches and fall back is a margin in which we can i bcr What about the young people us feel that they are the young people we have ever they get vicdent and when to be treated as violent people this is a generation of young letting the world know such things They would lay in defense of their country just did but they are not willing lives every time part of the world begin to stir me out" says the youngster better world and will do 'the present world better to do this or that or sometbincelse people in power tell me I le hunger any place it has helpfulness even if these means are nothing than today? Many of best generation of seen Sometimes they do they bane' always are But people who art what-they think down their liver as their forebeary to lay down their trouble-makers in a distant: up trouble "Count 1 "I want to see--a what I can to make' but 'I'm not going: that certaint have to do" If there' to be met with allegedly helpful: more a handout' From The Herald leddeffilet By JOHN MARTIN iroda In 1962 landmarks Diamond Head sect Beach were as plain al day at 111112m4 flask of an atmospheric nuclear blast away on Johnson Island I County agriculture agent Charley) reported that the local tobacco crop was weeks ahead of mason and in good Kentticky Editors Speak THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY in Ken- while I wet not be hors when the derision Is 1: Allan at bast seem to be booming if the nude and although I the Falmouth re- i i figures for the month of May are meaningful servoir these facts thould be available to those Statistics on contracts let for future construe- who will make din decision" tion are kot by the Dodge division Of Driving bug-settled farm families from their McGrawaL For May they show total building homes for benefits to others that can be provided contracts in Kentucky to be up mon than 100 some other way is causing many solid old farm- per cent from the same month of lad year The en to become cynical and distrustful of govern- ftures are $223 million compared to UM million meet And may we Coady have enough dams for May 1971 and reservoirs Biggest gain was In the category which Dodge West Liberty Courier terms "non-building" We would mder to call it Public for it includes streets highways bridges Wuzai DOES the best 'cheese come from? dams reservoirs river projects airports Mill- Well some of the choicest cheddar we ever tast- ties and tmmmunkatimm aYatems MITIC to uP ed came from CyntMana And some other great i was upby over 350 per cent from 922 cheeses came from the state that provides the WO m0 Reiddential building was 99 per cent best and only Bourbon whisky old Kenthcky higher than for the Peree Man and amilast" The Commonwealth produces about 65 mithon dential 52 per cent higher pound' of cheese annually and one of our Irtgares madamHl building fortheafirat five monthatdket tre at al Vle that product at $10 1111111On Which is a --aw in the Aka -its littli off according to our grocer who gets well '22 'POr cent id from St" on to $145 over a dollar a pound for even mouse cheese '4- resential uP bY 44 Per reekfrom $221 million Anyway In ens you didn't know it Kraft at to $326 million while the public sector still lags Lawrenceburg far behind 197L Through May "nonbidlding" and Hart County reameries at construction this year totals only us million Horse Cave pmduce some mighty good cheddar Compared to 007 million in 1971 Thu leaves total too while Cudahy at Harrodsburg makes a construction still about 15 per cent behind the first five months of last year but indicates a mozzarella and a provolone that'll make a pins flip a French firm Fromage Be! makes several 7 healthy upswing in private building investment kiMs of fromage at the Albany Cheese Co plant Paducah Sun-Democrat at Lietchfield including brands called Babybel and Laughing Cow Avabn Cheese Co at London WE COMMEND Senator Sherman Coop is -experimenting with Swiss-type cheeses and er for his determined stand against government of courses the TraWsts at Gethsemani have approval of the Falmouth Dam on Licking River keen making fancy cheese for more than a cen- C00per's latest stand against the huge dam tury and now produce about 150000 pounds a i was to win Senate approval last week for funds year- 1 to plan construction of floodwalle at Falmouth Kentucky's future looks even cheesier A 1 an Newport The Senate approved 230000 to Danish firm studying the possibility of mak 1 nuke the floodwall studies as an alternate to the ing blue cheese in the Bluegrass And Dr Ted dam at Falmouth Freeman who teaches dairy at the University of 1 Senator Cooper contends that the Boodwalls' Kentucky's college believes the which would cost approximately MA million world" rarest roquefert could be made in Ken 1 7-7: would the neceuary protection against tucky'm already celebrated limestone caverns 1 goods about one fifth the cost of the Iral- A Kentucky newsebick recently asked several mouth dam and that it would save thousands of ckeelemakere why they like Kentucky She was I 7 acres of farmland from -being flooded along tbs told that in addition to this state's fhe dairy I -Licking by the Falmouth Reservoir herds its midland location the seven other i The oporoortations mg also contains $100000 states on its borders ers makes or most efficient I for continued Kt planning of the Falmouth dam distribution of cheese I Cooper made no effort to strike that provision Bet if this state is Ereat for 'skiPPinit cheese( 1 1 from the bill it's got be equally great is a continental dia Cooper said that planning and design of all tributing point for other products! 1 three projects ibould he completed so a decision Doesn't it? on the issue can be made "upon the basis of fact Kentucky Post 1 and not emulation" Unless 'planning proceeds on the basis "The Corps of Engineers will make BEGINNING last Saturday Kentuckians art I the final decIsion and not the people of Kentucky paying two cents more per gallon of gas for the or their reprerentatives in Congress for they will privilege of building toll roads that do not pay 1 not have all the facts" Cooper declared their own way and perhaps a small part of it 1 "I want Falmouth and Wilder' (a community going to certain designated communities of 2500 at Newport) to have full protection and I believe population or more It not known exactly bow 11 the floodwalls can provide protection much the swag will be divided but where it will do the cheaper and at an earlier date" he went on most good politically you can rest assured Most will go to pay off toll road obligations At the present time the commonwealth cannot pay for the roads it has built in the recent put Yet plans are being made for another toll road' this one to run from Elizabethtown to Albany near the Tennessee border This bit of news is made all the more unpalatable by a recast report on the Purchase Parkway The Purchase Parkway la a four-lane toll road which stretches from Calvert City to Bul ton a distance of 51 miles The interest from the -bonds sold to finance and road amounts to moo per day The average traffic count on the Purchm Parkway is 3500 vehicles A little math tells us that each vehicle traveling the 51 miles of the Purchase Parkway mud theoretically pay almost $200 for 51 miles just to pay the Interest The sad part of the gasoline' tax charade is that the taxpayers and the retailers will suffer While the politiclins build more road' when the old ones cannot pay their way the taxpayer Is getting soaked and is blaming the retailer The taxpayer does not cam for the most part whether a road is builtfrom Elizabethtown to Albany He is more concerned with the extra two cents his gallon of gaaollne is costing him In 1950 the cost per gallon of gasoline to the wholesaler was 1026 cents In 1971 the cost was: 1233 cents The rise in gasoline prices in those years Is not due to the rise of the bus colt of gasoline but to the rise in federal and state taxes Previously Zentucklau were paying four cents federal and seven cents state tax on each gallon of gasoline they bought After last Saturdfy this increased to four cents federal and nine cents state If the state insists on charging the extra two cents on a gallon of gasoline then that revenue or at least a portion of it should be spent in the district from where it came The extra revenue could be used to upgrade area roads or build roads where they are truly needed However we will not hold our breath until this Is done As it has in the past the money will be used to perpetuate the memory of the administration on some Godforsaken road that will be turned over to the crows and possums as soon as the ribbon Is cut Bath County News Outlook talking to himself It was obvious to -everyone in and out of the convention hall that a compromise had to be who had not already been nominated But who? 'rho Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium They argue and Ai thrash it out for several hours The only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate Is a very famous but controversial figure on the American scene He has announced Ramat many times that he is not a candidate for the Waikiki I Presidency or the Vice Presidency' and has from the said 'under no conditions would he accept a Igo mums draft Fayett Yet leaders argue he Lithe ON person Gulley re who can save the party about Um The Only One sham This young man whose name had been aseoclated with a very embarrauing incident A Is a household word now Because of the Analt deadlock at the Convention he is the only one alvvEirghty who can possibly beat Nixon in November The compromise candidate is not at the new belt acquired convention He has purposely stayed away so le be in people would believe he was not interested in to yea the nomination O'Brien puts in a call to 'him Everyone In turn gets on the phone and tells him he has to be the candidate new golf I The compromise candidate speaks to George McGovern Humphrey Muskie and Wallace Rafts They urge him to run The candidate finally work of si agrees to a draft and sap he will take the next were beir plane to Miami houses an 'And that's how Bobby Fischer the chess A call champion became the Democratic presidential of Atlanta nominee for UM Church And Hawaiian Waikiki from the 750 miles Fayette Gulley about two shape An 200 persons Eighty new acquired to be in to 5 years a new golf Rafted work of were being houses and A call of Atlanta Church Today In 1947 electric steam radiator plant employmgi opened in Paris per cent of' the right of way for thel beitline around Lexington had been The 22 million highway was expected! use within a year and completed WI Today In 1937 Beim formerly of Covington was the pro at Lexington Country Club Today In 1922 officials and foremen doing the striking shop workers at the LAN shops refused service by some boarding restaurants was extended for Dr Daniel to become peetor 'of the Tint Baptist i I 4 IA 1 -4 741'.