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Pag* 10 West Craven Highlights September 18.1986 Senior Citizens Fun Festival Outpatient Care Booming Raleigh--Two entirely new categories of "fun and games" will be featured at the 1986 Senior Citizens Fun Festival at the North Carolina State Fair, according to Superintendent Frank H. Jeter, Jr., of Raleigh. The festival will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 20. A dance contest will be one new category. Cash prizes of $25 will be awarded winners in each of three types of dan:;ing: The Charleston, The Twist, and the Waltz. Space for up to 100 contestants will be provided in Dorton Arena where the 25th annual festival will take place. The other new category will be the hat contest. Winners in this competition will also receive $25 prizes. Hats will be judged in three groups: glamour. North Carolina Agriculture and comic hats. In addition competitions, a to these traditional bronze plaque will be presented to the oldest North Carolina resident at the festival. Preresistratlon will be required to enter either the hat contest or dance contest. The deadline is September 30. Numbers will be assigned to help the judges. To Preregis ter, please write.Superinten- dent Frank H. Jeter, Jr. 1321 Williamson Dr. Raleigh, N.C.,27608 Awards will be presented by officials of state government and other platform celebrities. The traditional "Senior Citizens Walk for Fun and Fitness" will conclude the Senior Citizens Fun Festival. Raleigh-'Testing and treatment without an overnight stay are booming at North Carolina hospitals, a trend that helps reduce the cost of health care for patients, employers and government. The North Carolina Hospital Association reports that hospitals in the state had 1.4 million outpatient visits for the first quarter of this year, the latest figures available. This is up 13 percent from the same period last year and up 26 percent from the first quarter of 1984. An outpatient visit is a trip to the hospital by a patient who receives medical services but who is not lodged in the hospital. The figures appear in the hospital association's latest TrendWatch newsletter. "We're encouraged to see how quickly hospitals in the state moved to meet the demand for outpatient care," said C. Edward McCauley, president of the hospital association. "Bills are lower with this type of care, plus the patient gets to return to his or her family sooner." McCauley noted that 94 percent of community hospitals in the state responding to a survey last year offered outpatient surgery performed in the hospital. The percentage rose to 98 percent of county hospitals and 100 percent of corporately-owned and proprietary hospitals. One hundred hospitals responded to the survey. The dramatic rise in ourpatient care is helping hospitals make up financially for a steady decline in the number of patients admitted for at least one night, McCauley said. Admissions in the state dropped 6.9 percent between the first quarter of last year and the same period this year. North Carolina hospitals have seen a 16 percent drop since the first quarter of 1984, hospital association figures show. This continues a steady decline in admissions that began in 1981. Other trends reported by the association include: 1) The percentage of occupied staffed hospital beds rose slightly to 69 percent for the first quarter of the year. (Staffed hospital beds are those for which the hospital has nurses and other staff members available.) 2) The average length of a hospital stay vvent up both for all patients as a whole, and for Medicare patients taken separately. Medicare patients stayed an average of 9.5 days during the quarter, up from 9.2 days for the same period last year and 8.9 days in the first quarter of 1984. The average stay for all patients was 7 days, up from 6.7 last year and 6.9 days in 1984. Scout News Rocky Mount—The North Carolina Association of Convenience Stores is sponsoring the 1986 Annual Scouting Fall Roundup for the 12 Boy Scout Councils here in the state. This year's Roundup, encouraging boys to join the Scouts, is exoected to be one of the biggest for the North ♦ Chamber Commerce Campaign of The New Bern Area Chamber of Commerce will be holding its membership campaign September 16-25. Please answer the invitation to join the nearly 400 businesses and professionals who are working together to build a healthy economy and to improve the quality of life in the New Bern Area. For more information, please contact: Denise Willey, Membership Coordinator, at 637-3111, or visit the Chamber office at 101 Middle Street. NJ. HOPKINS BUYING SERVICE is a service dedicated to correcting and maintaining a healthy body through the use of herbs. Please contact Mr. Hopkins at 244-1841 at Route 2, Box 69 in Vanceboro for your every health requirement. ANNOUNCING William Hinton Gurkin III D.D.S. NOW OPEN For appointment call .244-0667 24 hr. emergency number 244-0355 Main Street-Vanceboro Quality dantlatry at affordable pricaa. 5% discount for Senior Citizens Carolina Councils. The Convenience Store Associa tion has provided the councils with 5000 posters and 400,000 recruitment flyers. Currently, 2500 convenience stores throughout the state are displaying posters for both the Boy Scout and Cub Scout Roundups. These posters will remain on display through October. In addition to the Roundup sponsorship, many Associa tion members will be actively involved in various other scouting projects. Jack Cotten, President of NCACS stated, "Scouting makes a great contribution to every community by teaching its young people leadership, self-sufficiency and good citizenship. Our association is very proud and pleased to have the opportunity to help such an outstanding organization." Area Director for the North Carolina Boy Scouts, Wallace Patts, attended the North Carolina Convenience Stores Annual Convention earlier this year to thank the Association for its support. He was joined by Eagle Scout Robert Turner and Cub Scout Andy Collins, both from Wilmington, N.C. Rotary To Go To Australia Rotary International District 773, Southeastern North Carolina, is seeking candi dates for an all expenses paid trip to Australia to depart February 27, 1987, for five weeks. Applicants must be business or professional women between the ages of 25 and 35 and may not be related to a member of a Rotary Club. They must have spent at least two years in their vocation. While in Australia the group of four ladies and one Rotarian team captain and his wife will observe the culture ^ ,the country. The purpose of the exchange program is to promote international under standing and friendship. 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