European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday july 18, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 Nancy Kinder awaits patients at Detroit a doctors Hospital where the emergency room must treat patients within 20 minutes of their vows care will be fast a or free Detroit a Call it the dominoes effect. A Hospital is promising to see its emergency room patients in 20 minutes or the care will be free. The offer was inspired by the Michigan based pizza company a claim of delivery within 30 minutes. During the first three weeks of the offer no patients at doctors Hospital have been stitched bandaged a Rayed or splinter free of charge. But a few came close. A a it a been Down to within five minutes a director of ambulatory care Nancy Kinder said last week. Administrators say doctors Hospital was already treating patients quickly. The reason for the promotion was that the 101-bed Hospital about a mile from downtown is suffering financially and is searching for ways to boost revenues. The emergency department which treats 8,000 to 10,000 patients a year is an untapped resource said Lynn Kelley chief operating officer. A if you walked in right now you a wait just As Long As it took to Register you a Kinder said. The Hospital has its Busy spells Kelley said. But projections show that an increased patient Load brought on by the free car offer would generate revenues greater than what would be lost during Busy time she said. Kelley declined to give figures. The Hospital which specializes in Industrial Medicine lost about $1.2 million last year and has a $2.75 million loan up for renewal in August from the Detroit fire and police retirement system. Eastern states . Consider California a i clean air program by the new York times representatives of All the states from Maine to Virginia agreed tuesday to explore adopting californians strict standards on automobile pollution. Meeting in Boston the representatives from 12 states and the District of Columbia said they supported the standards. The six new England states new York and new Jersey had previously pledged to adopt the California standards and the action tuesday signifies an even broader agreement. Adoption of the standards would bind the Region to whatever actions California imposes on itself. That state has already approved rules that will require extra equipment on gasoline powered cars. California regulators have estimated the Cost of that action at less than $200 per car but automakers argue the Cost May be higher and could Hurt the cards performance. By 1999, 2 percent of cars sold in areas adhering to the California rules will have to be Battery powered. The figure will Rise to 5 percent in 2001 and 10 percent in 2003. Thomas c. Jorling new Yorkus commissioner of environmental Protection and a signer of tuesdays agreement said no group of states had Ever joined before to consider pollution restrictions. Quot these 12 states and the District of Columbia concluded that the California motor vehicle control program is the Best vehicle to achieve healthful air for their people and that s a major a com he said. The clean air act of 1990 allows California with the nation s worst smog to adopt its own rules on vehicles and it gives the 49 other states a Choice of adopting the California program or the Federal standards. Quot the six new England states a Maine new Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut a and new York new Jersey and California represent about 30 percent of the car Market. With the audition of Virginia Delaware Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia the total would Rise to nearly 50 percent with a population of about 100 million people. According to pollution experts who work for the member states Virginia and Pennsylvania argued tuesday for a study instead of an outright commitment to the California program. The clean air act gives the states until november 1994 to submit a plan showing How they will comply with the act. Swaggart described As jealous liar at trial new Orleans a televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is a jealous liar who spread rumours to destroy a competing preachers growing ministry the rivals lawyer charged tuesday. In response Swaggart a lawyer Phillip Wittmann tried to portray evangelist Marvin Gorman As a longtime Womanizer who sued Swaggart for $90 million in damages because his ministry was in financial trouble. Gorman 58, filed the defamation lawsuit in 1987, claiming Swaggart and others conspired to destroy his new Orleans based television ministry in 1980 by falsely accusing him of adulterous affairs. The accusations Gorman claimed led to his . At the time the lawsuit was filed Gorman admitted to a single a immoral act Quot with a woman Lynda Savage. But the first witness tuesday Michael Indest an assemblies of god minister testified that Savage told him that she had sex Many times Over a period of years with Gorman. The trial pits one fallen televangelist against another. In 1988, Gorman helped topple Swaggart 50, by having photographs made of the Baton Rouge evangelist with a prostitute. Oregon moves toward abolishing High schools Salem Ore. Apr Oregon has embarked on a Long Range program to abolish High schools As they now exist in Hopes of producing students better Able to compete. The program called the Oregon educational act for the 21st Century has received final approval in the legislature and is awaiting the governors signature. It would restructure High schools so that students would receive a a certificate of Mastery in the 10th Grade. Students then would be steered toward a College preparation program or vocational training. The reforms also would eliminate Early Grade Levels and lengthen the school year from 175 Days to 220 Davs by the year 2010. Gov. Barbara Roberts and the state school superintendent Norma Paulus Are among the plans strongest supporters. The governor has promised to sign the Bill soon. Some sceptics have said the goals Are laudable but won t be reached unless future Legislatures Are willing to spend More Money to implement the changes. Lawmakers committed about $2 million to get the reforms off the ground in the next two years. Other critics have complained that Oregon is adopt ing an elitist european style system in which students not bound for College Are pushed into Early training for factory work. But the programs chief sponsor state rep. Vera Katz said it will put Oregon at the head of the class when it comes to producing students Able to keep up with changing technologies in the global Economy. Oregon a plan would affect students from the beginning of their formal education. It would do away with the traditional Grade Structure from kindergarten through third Grade grouping children according to abilities rather than on school prayer reversed in Louisiana Baton Rouge la. A Louisiana a attorney general on tuesday cancelled an assistants Legal opinion that prayer at school sponsored events is unconstitutional. A devout roman Catholic and father of 10, attorney general William Guste read about the opinion in a newspaper tuesday morning. A it spoiled my breakfast to say the least. I was shocked a he said at a news conference. On monday assistant attorney general Michael Hebert issued the opinion that prayer at graduations or other school sponsored events would be unconstitutional. He noted that a Federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that prayer at graduation exercises violates constitutionally guaranteed Freedom of religion. An appeals court upheld that ruling. However Guste said the 5th . Circuit court of appeals in new Orleans ruled in another Case that prayer at school sponsored events is Legal. Consequently we have divergent opinions issuing from different circuit courts Guste said at a news conference. A under those circumstances this office should suspend its opinion and allow what has traditionally been a practice in Hebert was at the news conference but did not comment. Guste said he will advise All 66 Public school systems they can continue offering invocations at graduations and sporting events but will make Clear that prayers should be non denominational
