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NoCo keeps BnesoMn care rates low
Gy MATT BIVENS
Stan Writer
Room rates for N.C. hospitals are
less expensive on the average than
in any other state except Mississippi,
hospital officials said.
Good hospital management and
a low cost of living in North Carolina
allows hospitals to offer lower rates,
said William Erwin, director of
public relations for the N.C. Hos
L&iad smiFveyedl for collider
Dy MEG CRADDOCK
Staff Writer
. North Carolina has started to take
geological samples at the proposed
site for the Superconducting Super
Collider, the largest federal science
project ever.
The super collider is a particle
accelerator that will make it possible
to study what protons are made up
of, said Bill Dunn, project manager
for the super collider. The super
collider will be a circular tunnel
roughly 57 miles in circumfrence
through which protons can be shot
at very high speeds, Dunn said.
Panel criticizes negative report
By PAUL CORY
Staff Writer
A panel of UNC professors, state
officials and other experts Wednes
day criticized the report issued by
the Corporation for Enterprise
Development that called North
Carolina one of the five worst states
for economic growth and
development.
During the annual meeting of the
N.C. chapter of the American Plan
ning Association, the six panelists
told about 25 people in the UNC
Institute of Government that the
"report card" was an attention
seeking ploy.
The Corporation for Enterprise
Developement released a report
grading states in four areas: eco
' nomic performance, business vital
ity, economic capacity and policy
strength.
. North Carolina received a "D" in
all categories but business vitality,
for which the CED gave the state
an "F."
The panelists said the grades did
not equate with what the CED said
in the body of the report itself and
questioned the criteria and research
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Hospital occupancy in North
Carolina dropped 18 percent from
1981 to 1985, Erwin said, resulting
in lay-offs of staff members and
nurses. This has also helped to
decrease health care rates in North
Carolina, he said.
Although North Carolina is
second only to Mississippi in flat
room rates, the average cost per day
It has not been decided if North
Carolina will host the project.
The land for the project has been
decided on but doesn't actually
belong to the state yet, said Tim
Pittman, Gov. Jim Martin's press
secretary. The land won't actually be
bought until North Carolina is
certain it will be the host for the
project, he said.
The proposed site for the project
is located in Granville county,
between Oxford and Roxboro,
Pittman said.
The site's proximity to the
Research Triangle Park is a great
methods used by the CED in pre
paring the report.
Emil Malizia, a panelist and
professor of city and regional plan
ning, questioned the indicators used
by the CED in the category of
business vitality.
The two criteria were competitive
ness and entrepreneurship, Malizia
said. The CED did no original
research in determining competitive
ness, and the indicators used for
determining entrepreneurship were
misleading, he said.
In determining the grade for policy
strength, the CED did not use
original research, said Billy Ray
Hall, a panelist and executive direc
tor of the N.C. Commission on Jobs
and Economic Growth. The cate
gory was also misnamed, he said.
"The person who prepared this
report card had something else in
mind (other than policy strength),"
Hall said. "The category only mea
sured the presence or absence of
programs."
Michael Luger, the moderator and
professor of city and regional plan
ning, questioned the CED's
approach to determining economic
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of all hospital care is lower in North
Carolina than any other state but
New Jersey, he said.
"The cost per day in the hospital
is a more valid measure (than the
room rate), because it includes all
hospital expenses during a stay," he
said.
The low cost of health care is a
recruiting advantage fgr North
Carolina, because businesses con
advantage in North Carolina's bid
for the project, Dunn said, along
with the presence of Duke Univer
sity. N.C. State University and UNC,
three major research universities.
The easy access to major highways
and Raleigh-Durham airport are
also beneficial to the project, Pit
tman said.
If the project comes to North
Carolina it will have a tremendous
effect on the state, said Rep. Billy
Watkins, D-Granville.
"The economy will be the big
thing, along with the research con
nected with Research Triangle
capacity.
Lugar said some of the criteria
used by the CED were suspect
because the research did not cover
a long enough period of time or
address all issues within the catego
ries. In the case of financial resource
capacity, the criteria were of ques
tionable value because of the nature
of the economy, Luger said.
Stuart Rosenfeld, panelist and
director of Research and Programs
Southern Growth Policies Board.
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sider the cost and availability of
health care for their employees when
planning to establish a new opera
tion, Erwin said.
Retirees who know they will
probably need health care as they
grow older also consider the cost of
health care when moving, and N.C.
health rates make the state attractive
to the elderly and to those planning
retirement communities, he said.
project
Park," Watkins said.
The universities in the area would
also benefit from the project, Dunn
said, because of the new technology
brought in by the project.
"Certainly it would have a signif
icant effect on the physics curricula
at the universities," he said.
The project has support from both
parties in the N.C. General Assem
bly, said Sen. Ken Royall, D
Durham. Although bi-partisan sup
port has been strong, the Republican
governor will benefit politically
because the bid for the project was
started under him, Royall said.
on state
said that the CED also made a
mistake in evaluating the human
resources of states. The CED made
no attempt to measure the level of
skills in the labor force, or the
number of two-year technical col
leges in each state, Rosenfeld said.
Other panelists were Harvey
Goldstein, professor of city and
regional planning, and Julianne
Tenney, executive director of the
N.C. Technological Development
Authority.
replacement. No franchise has
replaced the old Florida-based
Piedmont Ambulance Service.
The Piedmont service was charg
ing non-emergency patients $60 for
each ride, but the number of calls
was not off-setting the amount it was
costing to operate the service.
Orange County manager Kenneth
Thompson said that if a new replace
ment is not found, the county will
find another alternative.
One alternative would be to
expand the present Orange County
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Soviets display spy devices,
accuse U.S. of espionage
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW The Soviet
Union put on display Thursday
microphones and other gadgets it
said were dug from the walls and
the floors of its U.S. missions and
claimed the devices prove Soviets
are victims of American spies.
The devices, some crammed
with miniature electronics and no
bigger than a pencil, are "material
evidence of who is really intruding
into the sovereign territory of
others," said Foreign Ministry
spokesman Boris Pyadyshev at a
news briefing.
The Soviet counterattack came
as American officials were trying
to gauge a sex-and-spy scandal
that allegedly involves U.S.
Marine guards who became sex
ually involved with Soviet women
and were enticed into allowing
KGB agents inside the American
Embassy.
Reagan arms proposal dead?
WASHINGTON President
Reagan's proposal at the Iceland
summit to scrap all U.S. and
Soviet ballistic missiles over 10
years is a dead issue, said nuclear
arms control director Kenneth L.
Adelman Thursday.
He told reporters the U.S.
proposal is still on the negotiating
table in Geneva. But, he added,
"1 don't think it's going to come
on the radar screen on arms
control again, if you ask me."
Reagan proposed a two-stage,
ten-year plan to Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik,
Iceland.
House approves budget
WASHINGTON The U.S
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emergency system into a fully public
service, serving both emergency and
non-emergency patients.
A second alternative would be to
purchase another non-emergency
ambulance and hire two employees
to run it, which would cost about
$80,000 next year.
About $275,000 was budgeted for
emergency medical responses this
year. If another ambulance is added,
the budget will increase to about
$355,000 next year.
The county now has four ambu
lances, plus rescue squad vehicles,
staffed weekdays by county
employees from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Another ambulance serves as a
backup, and volunteers staff the
service during off-hours.
The county is having trouble
Student wins
From stall reports
Freshman Kenneth Barber of
Durham won a $100 meal plan from
Marriott Corp. in a drawing
Wednesday.
Senior Jessica Johnson of Chapel
Hill, student liaison for Marriott,
said Tuesday that about 125 students
entered the drawing by returning
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News in Brief
House yesterday approved a $1
trillion Democratic budget that
would raise $18 billion in new.
taxes, cut President Reagan's
military build-up and block
White House plans for sharp
decreases in domestic programs.
The House endorsed the plan
230-192, with no Republicans
voting for it.
The House plan features a call
for $18 billion in unspecified new
taxes plus $1 billion from
increased lax enforcement and
another $2 billion from fees and
premiums for government
services.
President Reagan has threa
tened to veto any tax rate
increase.
Deputy shoots teenager
RANCHO CUCAMONGA,
Calif. A deputy sheriff was
taken off duty and counseled
Thursday after fatally shooting a
teenager who was using a toy laser
gun in mock combat with friends
in a dark schoolyard.
The unidentified six-year vete
ran of the San Bernardino
County Sheriffs Department had
been called to Central Elementary
School at 10 p.m. Tuesday after
a passer-by reported armed
prowlers, sheriffs spokesman Jim
Bryant said Thursday.
Leonard Joseph Falcon, 19,
who had been playing Laser Tag
with three friends, was shot to
death after he fired flashes of light
from the toy gun at deputies,
Bryant said.
franchise
finding a new ambulance franchise
because there is not enough demand
for a non-emergency service in the
area.
"There are not enough calls to be
profitable," Thompson said.
Thompson said a non-emergency
service is not a "life or death" public
necessity, but some citizens must it
have for assistance.
He said most calls come from
people who are without cars and
people who must recline while on
their way to the hospital. Elderly
people living in convalescent centers
often call for rides because they do
not have transportation, he said.
The county is advertising for a new
ambulance service in newspapers
from Burlington to Raleigh, Thomp
son said.
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