European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday december 21,1989 new incentives scheduled to Spur benefits Boston a the Bush administration will offer new financial incentives to employers to provide health insurance and a publicly financed program to cover the unemployed says health and human serv ices Secretary or. Louis Sullivan. An estimated 37 million americans do not have health insurance and More than three quarters of them arc workers and their dependents. The precise shape of our plan is yet to be Delurm nine but 1 think it will have a significant measure of incentive to make sure insurance is available Sulli Van told the Boston Globe in an interview published wednesday. His outline of the plan resembled legislation introduced by sen. Edward m. Kennedy. D-mass., with the big difference that it would not mandate that allem players offer health insurance to employees who work a specific minimum number of hours a week. Pur concern is that Many Small businesses Are not offering insurance now because the expense is so Bur  Sullivan said. To mandate programs could work to the disadvantage of our Economy As Well As that of Small  Sullivan said that like the Kennedy plan the administration plan probably will propose insurance pools which Small employers could use to make insurance coverage More affordable. The idea we have is to try to have these incentive programs to make insurance much More available he said. He said he and Bush agree that there is More to be gained in the Long run by investing in children and pregnant women than by increasing Federal support for Long term care of the elderly. The Bush administration probably will propose Steps to try to lower the country s infant mortality rate which is the i9lh-Highcst in the world he said. Clearly we know what to do. We simply need to do it. We have to get the resources we need he said. No survivors found in plane wreckage in . Mountains Catskill. . A the wreckage of a Small plane missing for four Days was found tuesday afternoon in a rugged Section of the Catskill mountains authorities said. None of the six people aboard survived. A state police helicopter found the wreckage at 2 15p.m. Along a Steep escarpment about 10 Miles West of Catskill. Which is about 30 Miles South of albany..officials said. An air National guard Rescue team was dropped into the crash site by helicopter but found no survivors slate police maj. Carl Colberg said in  team was to climb the mountains wednesday morning to recover the bodies Colberg said. The twin engine Piper Navajo disappeared from radar screens Friday evening about 30 Miles South of Albany while in route from Glens Falls. ., in the Southern Adirondack mountains to Montgomery ., nearly 50 Miles Northwest of new York City. More than 20 aircraft searched a 5.000-Square-Milearea in the catskills and the Hudson Valley on tues Day said civil air patrol spokeswoman Ann Macmil Lan. The air patrol state police the stale department of environmental conservation and the army provided aircraft for the search. Aboard the plane were Pilot Timothy Burns 27, of Allentown n.j., and five people who had attended a business meeting in the Glens Falls area according to Briar contracting spokesman Dick Mann whose com Pany was owned by one of the passengers. Mann identified the passengers As Salvatore Arlott Ajr. 42, of Wal kill \, and Peter Lovi 33, of Pine Bush ., both employees of the Schran Engi Neering environmental consulting firm in Middletown . Ronald d. Pacchiana 56, of Pound Ridge .,president of Briar contracting and owner of Unicorn industries Ltd. Lawyer Michael j. Trainor 45, of Newyork City and Timothy p. Burns 44, of Yonkers ., no relation to the Pilot. Cuddly Hospital helpers have their jobs Down Pat Baltimore a Nancy Gephart dons a Blu Hospital gown once a week and docs for strangers children what she used to do for her son. She feed them talks to them sings to them and holds them. She is one of a growing number of Hospital  who try to provide emotional support and a Healing touch to sick children whose parents either cannot or will not do so. Nearly three decades ago Gephart spent As much time As she could at her son s bedside at mount Washington pc Dalric Hospital As he Lay suffering from rheumatic fever. In those Days visiting hours were very restricted but now parents arc allowed to visit Day or night but some of them Don to Gephart said. Some of the parents just can t face the severity of a child s medical  Susan Kolodner. The Hospital s director of volunteers characterized the children As medically  this is their Home for several months or eve years and their parents can t be Here All the time Kolodner said. That s where the cuddles come in to provide an extra pair of hands for the nurses and to provide the children with extra attention and  when mount Washington began its cuddly or pro Gram in 1986, Hospital officials were looking for the grandmother Type Kolodner said. The first cuddles came from a retirement Home up the Street. At first said i can t do that. I Don t have Lime " said Edith Dobbs a retired nurse who lives at that Home. But i was so impressed with their orientation program and with the nurses. When i left 1 was signed up for tuesday mornings Andi be been Here every tuesday morning for the last three  program has since expanded to include volunteers of All Ages. The 60 current cuddles Range from Early 20s to 84, Kolodner said. Once mount Washington s cuddly or program was established other area hospitals were swamped with Calls asking about similar Volunteer programs said Debbie Bangledorf. Volunteer programs coordinator for Johns Hopkins Hospital and Hopkins children s Center. We kept getting requests from people saying do you have a cuddly or program so we sat Down and said hey let s do it " Bangledorf said. It been an overwhelming  other hospitals have started similar programs impart to Deal with the growing number of children born to drug dependent mothers. Addicted at birth the children require extra attention and nurturing to Calm  it will take two hours just to get a baby to drink a few ounces of formula said Gap Hart. The nurses each have to take care of up to four patients. They just Don t have the time to sit Volunteer Nancy Gephart feeds baby Ashley it mount Washington pedlar in Hospital in Baltimore. For two hours with one  Jacobs a nurse at mount Washington said the babies quickly learn to associate their nurses wit the sometimes painful treatments they administer. But they get to know the cuddles and you can see their faces Light up when a cuddly or comes in Jacobs said. They Don t associate the cuddle with pain. They associate them with Loving and playing and cuddling. The cuddles Are a major major help to the  Jacobs said parents also Are grateful for the cuddles services they feel better knowing that if they can t be Here there is someone who will watch Over their children and give them Comfort she  say this is one of the most giving things you can do Gephart said. But it s definitely Atwo Way Street. I get so much out of it just to see a child who has been unresponsive smile or to get Achild to eat something or to sleep. I get As much out of it As they  recent slowdown of Economy was Surprise to Many analysts Sashington a the . Economy grew at an annual rate of 3 percent from july through septem Ber the government said wednesday but analysts said it has slowed dramatically during the fourth Quarter. In its final report on third Quarter economic activity the Commerce department said the Gross National product was revised upward 0.3 percentage Point from the 2.7 percent rate reported last month. Many economists had predicted no change from november in the figure released wednesday. The change was attributed to another upward Revi Sion in net exports and a downward revision in person Al consumption. The Gnu is the nation s local output of goods and services and its broadest measure of economic health. The report was Good news for the Federal Reserve s goal of restraining inflation. A Price Index tied to the Gnu Rose at an annual Rale of 2.9 percent during the july september period unchanged from last month s report. It is the fed s High interest policy that is blamed in part for the fourth Quarter sluggishness particularly in the automobile and other manufacturing industries. The Federal open Market committee the Centra Bank s policy making Arm met secretly monday and tuesday to consider monetary policy but As usual did not announce whether it would permit rates to continue to fall and thus stimulate economic growth. Other disruptions in fourth Quarter growth Are expected from the Boeing aircraft strike the lingering effects of Hurricane Hugo and the san Francisco Bay area earthquake. In a companion report the Commerce department said after tax profits of . Corporations fell 5.4 per cent in the third Quarter. That was a revision from the7.2 percent decline reported last month. Corporate profits have dropped for three consecutive quarters. They were Down 0.3 percent in the first Quarter and  percent in the second. Consumer spending which accounts for two thirds of All economic activity was revised to show a 5.6 percent growth rate compared to the 6.2 percent gain reported last month. The various changes left the Gnu expanding in the third Quarter at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $4.16 trillion