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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May 1977 victim of paperwork shuffle Dies for want of a Hospital bed a Loretta Cardosa went door to door in her Small migrant Community asking neighbors to give Money to help Bury her 4yearold Daugh Ter Lone the girl died while Hospital personnel in three counties tried to find a bed for Cardosa collected for the funeral an autopsy report attributed Lone Anns death to brain damage from loss of oxygen after she was trapped in a Refrigeri left her four Young children with a brother May 21 while she went shop when she returned to the labor Camp in Rural far she  find Lorie while she found an abandoned refrigerator outdoors with the door still on i ran to it and opened it and there she said who also Calls herself Sanchez the name of a Man who lived with the family until Lorie Anns he left soon Lorie Ann was Blue and had All but stopped her family a brother gave Mouth Mouth resuscitation while an ambulance was the Call was logged by the attendants at Lorie Ann was put on a heart Monitor and sped to Manatee memorial Hospital where Wilson Rumberger was on emergency he worked on the child for 90 minutes and said her condition was guarded because of prolonged oxygen Dep Rumberger contacted Alfonzo Vargas at Tampa general a regional facility with a paediatric intensive care Vargas agreed that a Transfer was but he said he told rum Berger that administration approval was necessary for an inter county Rumberger claimed no mention was made of such it was a situation where any time delay could be Rumberger and there is also a possibility nothing could have been but i did what 1 thought was Julian Hillsborough county director of said that the required medical and administrative clearance is Standard a medical determination for such a move must first be he an administrator must determine whether there is bed with nearly 600 doctors at Tampa Gen its impossible for each to know what Beds there Are available in the various he an admitting employee called Back to get personal data on Lorie Rumberger and the ambulance was dispatched to six minutes an employee at Tampa general called to say there were no Beds available in intensive care either child or when Vargas Learned that the ambulance was in he contacted All Chil Drens Hospital in Petersburg and made arrangements when the ambulance arrived in Vargas met and diverted Lorie Ann was taken to the third Hospi Tal in a third county about 40 Miles from the child convulsed in cardiac arrest before she could be wheeled to an empty bed in intensive she was pronounced dead at on Usa eur joins Navy in special program to treat serious drinkers Hubert Humphrey blows out the candles on a birthday cake presented to him during be taping of abcs today show in the Minnesota senator was 66 beside him is us a by Barbar Cullen staff writer Germany Sis the army wants serious drinkers that the word Usa eur is putting out through a special drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation program being presented to commanders by members of the navys alcoholism prevention pro bringing Home the Point that alcoholics can be treated is the fact that most of the seminar speakers Are recovered alcoholics serving in their former Navy Joseph chief of the navys alcohol rehab lotion tells commanders that it is their responsibility to see to it that the problem drinkers in their units receive the whole pitch in our seminar is to convince managers that alcoholism is a disease and alcoholics dont gel Well unless somebody can get them into Pursch this Means ordering those Senate approves Bill to create training for Young people Washington up the Senate thursday approved a Bill providing jobs and employment training Lor More than Young people during the next year and a the passed 80 to now goes to con Ference committee to Settle differences be tween it and a version recently passed by the the drafted in a cooperative Effort Between the Carter administration and a group of would be the first Broa scale Effort in recent years to Start new programs to Deal with the High rate of unemployment among the nations the number of Job and training positions would be about but since some of these would be for Brief the actual number of youngsters involved would be higher than the measure would set up a new Young adult conserva Tion corps in which mostly be tween the Ages of 16 and would be hired for outdoor projects in National Parks and Start a program in which Young people would work on Community improve ment projects such As fixing up Public facilities and insulating or renovating Low income provide a Range of Job programs specifically aimed at Low income including transportation assistance and ont Ejob the total amount of Money involved is still to be determined by the administration plans to spend Bil lion on these programs by Congress already has appropriated Bil lion of Senate both democrats and 25 Hurt in train collision Switzerland a people were including six serious in a collision of two local trains in the station of Neuen Stadt near police re said More than 3 million Young aged 16 through Are listed As unemployed and represent half the nations total while the jobless rate for All americans was 7 per cent in it was nearly in per cent for teenagers and 30 per cent for Black the sponsors said that without special measures youth unemployment will not be significantly reduced As the Economy re covers and As Overall joblessness they said High unemployment among the Young is a vast waste of human re sources and carries with it huge social costs such As increased Hubert said 75 per cent of serious crimes Are committed by the most of the Money would channelled through state and local governments in both Rural and Urban some senators wanted youth jobs in local governments to pay the minimum wage while others said they should pay the often higher prevailing in need of treatment into rehabilitation Pursch said that too often problem drinkers Are allowed to slide by Well meaning but always misguided command and that this practice must be he said that superiors have a responsibility to recognize alcoholics and refer them to rehabilitation an alcoholic will not Benefit from treat ment unless he wants Pursch he will usually not even get in a position where he will want that help unless we order him into he added that after seven to 12 Days in a person will want drinking begins because people want to the Captain to alcohol drinking feels Good and solves inter Nal he said that too often commanders look the other Way and leave alcoholics to become a victim of the Pursch said this results in a Man serving 19 years and the command hiding him for 12 More months so he can achieve his 20 and when Hes retired the alcoholic has six months to two years to he explaining that the alcoholic at retirement has three ways to go he Dies by suicide or a fatal Accident or through natural consequences caused from internal damage to organs by excessive drinking winds up in jail for accidental Homo cide or is committed As legally incompetent to an Pursch said that ideally an alcoholic should be restored to the same Job from which he asked for guidelines to determine Alco hol he said i dont Deal in alcohol abuse is abuse of Alco if you cant handle one drink is i define alcoholism As a person whose drinking has destroyed important facets of the Navy has a six week rehabilitation personnel who Are treated at the program have this marked in their re Pursch said that Navy personnel who Are successfully treated at the rehabilitation Center have it in their records that they Are no drinking a Usa eur spokesman said that the army is modelling its present rehab Ilita Uon programs after the Navy  
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