European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Elderly found at major i in re for Hospital stays a doctor s recommendations for improving Hospital stay for the elderly a Tower Beds without rails a less use of tethers. A putting clocks and calendars on the Walls. A better lighting a keeping glasses and hearing aids nearby j a a providing newspapers and books a making recreation available a communal dining a amps Philadelphia a a Hospital stay May heal an elderly persons original malady but it could bring other complications causing the patient to end up in a nursing Home a medical journal reported monday. A hospitalization is a major risk for older persons particularly for the very old a said or. Morton c. Creditor of the University of Kansas medical Center in Kansas City. People older than 75 Are at greatest risk said the doctor who Analysed recent studies of hospitalized people. Quot for Many hospitalization is followed by an often irreversible decline in functional status and a change in Quality and style of life Quot he wrote in the annals of internal Medicine. A i know of no evidence that shows the therapeutic value of bed rest a a Hospital stay can bring such complications As a drop in blood pressure that leads to dizziness and Falls a loss of Bone density that results in More Breaks and sensory deprivation that May be mistaken for senility. Hospital surroundings can Lead to delirium and instead of going Home the patient ends up in a nursing Home. A it is not surprising that at elderly per son admitted to a Hospital bed in a quiet room with subdued lighting whose eyeglasses and hearing Aid were left at Home suffers delirium a he said. Physical restraints either tethers or intravenous lines High Beds and an unfamiliar path to the bathroom can Lead to incontinence and fractures delirium bed sores and incontinence a grease the skids. To the nursing Home a a he wrote. Creditor recommended lower Beds without rails carpeting for better traction and less use of tethers to help patients get around. A High Beds Are for the convenience of the staff not the patient a he wrote. A patients do not fall out of bed in the Hospital any More than they fall out of bed at Home. Thev Are injured As they climb in and out of High  fewer patients would become disoriented if clocks and calendars were on the Walls and if patients got dressed and undressed every Day he  suspected in deaths claims stress Lebanon to. Apr a jury will be asked to decide whether memories of vict am came Back to overwhelm a Veteran two decades later prompting him to stalk and kill three Law officers Ana the sheriffs wife in the Rural Community surrounding California to. Prosecutors arc seeking the death penalty for 43-Ycar-old James r. Johnson. Johnson is accused of a sniper spree that terrorized the Central Missouri Community and adjacent areas of Maniteau county in december 1991. The defense will contend that Johnson suffered from Vietnam induced Post traumatic stress disorder and never formed an intent to kill. A before All this happened he was your everyday California resident who was seen to be a Well liked citizen a said Pat eng one of Johnson a attorneys. Johnson is charged with four counts of first do Grcic murder and one count of assault in the shooting of a fourth Law officer. He has pleaded innocent by reason of mental disease or defect. Jury selection in the trial began monday. Kenny Hulshof a state special prosecutor teamed with Maniteau county prosecutor John Kay said the defense must show not Only that Johnson suffered from the disorder but that it caused him to lose touch with reality. The prosecutors said the defense also must con Vince the jury that the disorder made Johnson incapable of determining right from wrong. A we will be telling the jury that James Johnson reflected upon his actions that James Johnson deliberated As the Law requires and that in essence James Johnson is a cop killer a Hulshof said. Friends have described Johnson who was a helicopter Mechanic in the Missouri National guard As a hard working neighbor always willing to help others. After growing up on a Maniteau county farm and attending school with Kay Johnson served four months As an infantryman in 1970in South Vietnam. The army granted him a hardship discharge after his first wife attempted suicide. The couple divorced in 1974, and Johnson has twice remarried. Friends say Johnson a moods darkened in 1991 because of soured relationships with his third wife Jerri and her teen age daughter. The shooting spree began when a Deputy answered a Domestic disturbance Call at Johnson a Home near Jamestown on dec. 9, 1991 a within a Day of their one year anniversary. Jerri Johnson told investigators that her husband shot Les Roark four or five times As the 27-year-old a Missouri patrolman escorts James a Johnson to a Laclede county courtroom monday. A j Reserve Deputy was returning to his car. She testified at a preliminary hearing that her husband with Roarks blood on his face returned to the House saying a a a in a in trouble  she also testified that her husband whom she later divorced sat Down briefly then returned to the still moaning Deputy outside. She said she heard another shot before Johnson drove off with guns and ammunition. Schoolteacher  Jones wife of sheriff Kenny Jones was shot to death through her window later that evening As she read Christmas stories to a Church group. A few hours later Deputy Russell Borts was wounded at his Home by two bullets fired by a sniper. Cooper county sheriff Charles Smith and Miller county Deputy Sandra Wilson called in after the shooting of Boris were killed by sniper fire outside the Maniteau county courthouse. More than 150 Law officers converged on California a town of about 3,400, for a door to door search that lasted Well into the next Day. The camouflage Clad Johnson finally surrendered at the Home of 83-year-old Dorothymae Miller. Johnson allowed Miller to leave the Home before he surrendered. During Telephone negotiations Johnson told a state trooper that he had a killed some Viet Cong Quot and that some members of his platoon were wounded in the House. He also asked Why the Highway patrol negotiator was speaking English the negotiator testified at a hearing. A. Military Cable Channel signs sex Pentagon adviser Louisville by. Up1 a retired Pentagon adviser monday agreed to become vice president for military affairs and special programming for a new Cable television Channel devoted to aviation programming. The military Channel will feature full time aviation programming documentaries and Battle histories. It is scheduled to begin broadcasting next Jan. 16. Retired army it. Col. Steven m. Titunik worked As a Liaison Between documentary producers and government officials. A for years Steve has been the expert to every Cable or broadcast network doing Pentagon related news or documentary programs a said l. Douglas Keeney president and co founder of the military Channel. A interviews facts stories footage sources. He will now focus that expertise to the sole Benefit of our  Farmer says he saw ufos Hustisford wis. Up a Dodge county Farmer said it looked like a spaceship. Two deputies called it an unusually Bright Light. Whatever was in the sky above Hustisford is leaving sheriff Steve Fitzgerald scratching his head. The Farmer whose name Fitzgerald did not release reported seeing an unidentified flying object about 8 15 . Sunday in Eastern Dodge county about 50 Miles Northwest of Milwaukee. Two deputies from the sheriffs department went to investigate and saw a Bright Light 45 degrees above the horizon. A police officer from Columbus saw the Light As did a couple of Beaver dam firefight  raid said his deputies described the Light As a very  a it would fade away and come Back a he said. The deputies tracked the Light As it travelled West toward Columbus then South into Jefferson county. Fitzgerald said witnesses described it As a Flat object with a Bright Light in the Center and  on the Side. The Farmer making a sketch of what he saw Drew what looked like a spaceship Fitzgerald said. The two deputies did not describe it As a spaceship but rather As an unexplained Light. The department s dispatch Center contacted air traffic controllers who said there were no reports of air traffic in the Eastern Dodge county area at the time. After news of the sighting spread citizens started calling into the sheriffs department to report that they too had seep similar objects in the past. Parents try to keep segregated classes a amps. Richmond a. Apr a judge has Tempora blocked an attempt to end an elementary school s or Tice of putting All White pupils in each Grade in same classroom and leaving other classes All Black. T. 1 # t it it it re 11 a a a in Ivan aug mild Tia amp Ata Ait a Hawk. Richmonds schools chief had ordered Belle Model elementary school to move pupils around achieve a More even racial distribution after a a questioned the practice of a clustering Quot Whites no about 19 percent of the student body. But 12 parents a a Black and White a sued to Stop reassignments saying the move would a disrupt the Cia ligation and educational process at the  on monday circuit judge Theodore j. Markov sued an order halting the transfers at least uni hearing set for today. The school with 452 up planned to move 74 pupils half of them White of them Black a to new classes monday. Principal vial it. Richardson said she had placed White pupils one class for each Grade a for social and emotional sons. Only two kindergarten classes were integrate in december a Black Parent the Rev. Hylan Ca questioned the practice. The parents lawsuit said segregated classes had helped increase the sch White population. Two years ago there were onh Whites enrolled at Bellevue they said