European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 medicare cuts hurting panel is told Washington up Reagan administration Cut backs in medicare Are forcing the elderly to leave Hospi tals denying them Home care and making doctor Bills More frightening than witnesses told the House committee on chairman Edward said tuesday he called the committee hearing to determine if new medi care policies concerning Hospital benefits and Home health care Are stacking dollars against people and hurting the elderly americas fastest growing segment of the pop in the latest health and human services Secretary Margaret heckler announced Friday the administration will Cut medicare costs by at least Mil lion Over two the plan Calls for putting a oneyear limit on medicare payments to hospitals for medical train ing and imposing new limits on reimbursements to Home care heckler said the new rules will apply pressure on Home health agencies to bring costs into but in a prepared Roybal we discharge them earlier and sicker from our then we turn around and deny them payment for the nursing care they its a classic catch 22 except that Peoples lives Are at Florida Robert Baltimore mayor Donald Schaefer and representatives of Home care agencies and individual elderly citizens cited Case after Case in which elderly patients were discharged from the Hospital under new prepayment schedule rules and then denied Home health they later we in Florida have Long since lost the fear of said committee member Dan were afraid of living and having to pay the High Cost of health Graham conceded cutting Home health care benefits now would show a Short term savings but said the Long term result would be higher government costs because More elderly would be forced into institutions and become medically in our country i think we should help the Schaefer when a person comes out of the dont Send them Home and forget we All want to live Mary Rose called the latest medi care cutbacks about the most ignorant idea Ive Ever heard of and tremendously but George defended the adminis the faced with deficits is not interested in eliminating Home but rather to put it in a different he Best of the worst Bernie Hannaford shows off a menu in his restaurant Eastern Oregon Between Bend and Hannaford the worst food in Oregon a Small eatery in said he has plans to franchise his the worst food in mines that caters to people travelling along 20 in Oregon restaurant this is not a Mastodon a a Skull and Bones found in a Trench in a woman Yard turned out to be a few thousand years newer and far less exotic than a professor initially it want a prehistoric As a Glassboro state College professor believed when he inspected the find last the remains alongside Midge Dickinson trailer were those of a buried according to Shirley a Pale oncologist for the new Jersey state museum in its very Albright but its also part of scientific the intrigue started july 1 when Dickinson went to inspect her new water the last link in a project that made her Yard resemble an archaeological dig with trenches and piles of excavated As she looked at the she spotted a portion of an oversized jaw Bone sticking out of a Side of the Dickinson said she figured the remains were too Large for a domesticated Robert a professor of history and inspected the remains and said they could be those of a a shaggy haired beast that roamed the Southern new Jersey Tundra years Harper found what he figured was a pair of tusks of a Young its a Little bit Harper but i was just an Amateur in not a the tusks were actually the roots of two Al Bright she said the Tusk of a Mastodon would have been without the pointed edges of the two her conclusions deflated what had been growing excite ment in the Rural trailer neighbors wandered into the Yard to sneak a peek at the which jutted out of the Trench after Days of gentle digging by Dickinson with a paint woman tells of ordeal at hands of Mountain men Virginia a a women biathlon team kid napped and wounded in the mountains of Southwest Montana last testified she saw one of her abductors fatally shoot a Man who tried to Rescue Kari of who broke into tears earlier As she recalled her ordeal said she saw Don Nichols aim his Rifle at Alan Goldstein and pull the she testified on the second Day of Nich ols trial in Madison county District where the self labelled Mountain Man faces up to 140 years in prison if convicted of Kidnap and assault he and his were charged with kidnapping Swenson and with deliberate homicide in the death of who discovered the Nichols Camp where Swen son was chained to a Dan was convicted in May of kidnapping Swenson and of mis Demea nor assault for accidentally wounding her the Day after the a District court jury acquitted him of the homicide the elder Nichols faces a charge of aggravated assault for allegedly using his Rifle to threaten a second Jim who also testified defense attorney Don White has said Don Nichols will claim that armed with a was shot in self de the defense planned to make its opening statement wednesday when state prosecutor Marc Racicot is expected to rest his Case following his final who was on a training run in the mountains when she was seized july began sobbing when she told of hearing a search plane Fly overhead later that you must be a pretty important person there already out looking for she said Don Nichols told i told him my family and friends would be looking for she he said if anyone found hed shoot it was Don Nichols who first grabbed her wrists and told his son to help tie her with a she when she struggled to free Nichols struck her in the face and wrestled her to the she when Swenson screamed for the defendant said he  hesitate to beat me to give me two Black she she said Nichols told her he and his son wanted female companionship in the mountains where they had lived for nearly a he said obtaining a woman was the Only Way he could keep his son in the Swenson Schwalbe testified that Don Nichols had kept a Rifle trained on him from the moment he discovered the i thought i was going to be he adding that he feared for his life while trying to Aid the wounded general electric workers approve National 3year contract new York a a three year contract covering general electric workers nationwide has been approved tuesday by More than 70 percent of the rank and file of the votes cast by 11 or 71 were in said Jerry a spokesman for the International Union of salaried and machine Twenty nine or rejected the he sixty six of the 69 local Union chapters voted in favor of the with rejection voted by and two other unions that Borstel declined to results from the four remaining unions were not available late had workers voted Down the which includes 3 percent a two tier wage an Agency shop and retirement bonuses for those displaced by Automa a walkout could have occurred As Early As the Agency shop provision Means All employees covered by the contract must join the Union or pay a fee equivalent to annual William president of the International Union of electronic whose membership has declined from in 1982 to last had expressed Confidence the contract would be based in new said a key element in the proposed pact was establishment of an Agency which would bolster the Union in the face of declining Mem overseas contracts and Ges shift from manufacturing to White Collar jobs not covered by the Union have Cut into the primarily Young workers at Ges Complex of Jet engine and aerospace plants around Lynn were upset at the establishment of a proposed two tier pay system in which new workers would earn less than current employees and take longer to reach top in addition to the Agency the contract Calls for an immediate Cash payment of 3 percent of workers expected earnings for the next 12 months and raises of 3 percent for each of the remaining two years of the