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s L >Ut » for M mmm. awyer seeking overview to problem Recruiting trial continues United Press International WASHINGTON — A lawyer for he first recruiter brought to trial in nationwide investigation of the irmy recruiting system says all the nen accused in the scandal should »allowed to present their stories igether. Mark Waple, who represents Sgt. it Class Marshall B. Jackson, and other lawyers who also repre- ent recruiters charged with recruit- fraud, were scheduled to meet aday in Washington with top Army fficials. “What we re seeking is an oppor- unity to get to the bottom of the ecruiting problem in general,” Vaple said Monday after jury selec- ion was completed in Jackson’s ourt-martial at Fort Bragg, N.C. William Baxley of Montgomery, la., who arranged the meeting. and Greg Anchors of Tallahassee, Fla., were to join Waple for the meeting in the Pentagon. Waple, who represents 25 recruiters from North Carolina, estimated Baxley and Anchors represent at least another 25 recruiters. Baxley sought a meeting Tuesday with Army Secretary Clifford Ale xander, but there was no indication if Alexander would attend or send one of his subordinates, Waple said. “Up to this date, (the attitude of Army officials) has been very poor” toward the recruiters’ claims, Waple said. “I think it’s encouraging we have been given the opportunity to see someone.” The Senate Armed Services Committee has called for hearings on the recruiting situation but has not set a date. Jackson, a 15-year veteran, is the first recruiter in the country to go on trial for recruiting violations. Waple declined comment on whether he would seek a delay in the court-martial, which was scheduled to resume today. I think it is in the best interest of the recruiters in general that the Senate hearings convene as soon as possible,” he said. About 200 recruiters have been relieved of duty during an Army in vestigation that began earlier this year following allegations some re cruits were given answers to entrance exams and the records of others were falsified to make them eligible for the Army. Some recruiters have charged they were pressured into violating regulations to meet enlistment quotas imposed on them by their superior officers, who often ignored reports of malpractice. i sounded all right to Texans Maine safety slogan scrapped United Press International AUGUSTA, Maine — “Have you belted your kids today?” At first, it seemed like a clever, well- meaning highway safety slogan. But then the Maine Highway Safety Committee gave it some more thought and decided the slogan - urging the use of seat belts to save children’s lives — was inappropriate. “The idea seemed catchy to us at first,” James McLean, special services director for the state Transportation Department, said Tuesday. “But when we really got to thinking about it we decided it was in bad taste.” The Maine Safety Committee isn’t taking full blame for the promotion campaign since the idea came from the Texas Highway Safety Council news letter. McLean said the committee receives newsletters from about 25 states and often gets ideas to promote saftey in Maine from them. Public service advertisements using the slogan had been sent to 45 Maine newspapers before the panel decided to scrap it, so a letter was sent to all the papers asking that the ads be destroyed. “The committee has reconsidered the outdated seat belt design and the wording,” Leslie Hubley, public information specialist for the committee, said in a letter to the newspapers. “We are working on a replacement.” The cost of the campaign was minimal, McLean said. He said even the printing and mailing costs were negligible because other materials were mailed and printed at the same time. sOWanted: Hospital nurses p to $1,000 bounty offered etable caseii of fresh wiala >ers, eg 1 tomatoes. United Press International filed a foraii ; NEW YORK —- Some of the na- e governmeil bn s hospitals, in the face of a wor- labor in Meffl !en >ng shortage of registered be sold ini | ur $es, are offering bounties and domesticpii® recruiting inducements for hat endangeid fiose able to help attract em- of the Amelia loyees. The American Nurses Associa- ;rowing seast b n > in a report issued Monday, early $200 mil ^d estimates of the R.N. shortage egetables -® Currently range up to 100,000. And ican market htthew McNulty, president of the d its extensi® mtional League for Nurses, said rowed Men® pc shortage is likely to worsen in onstrating be future because of declining nurs- he prices fe ’ ri § school enrollment, in the UnittJ| Among those paying bounties or ■vards — of $100 to $1,000 — to de who help recruit a nurse are y because ® hospitals in Detroit, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago and Corpus Christi, an ANA spotcheck showed. Yet despite the bounty offers and other unusual recruitment strategies, the ANA said the nurse shortage remains acute in many places in the nation and may not improve in future years. McNulty, who also is chancellor of Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., said this year — for the first time in a decade — there was a decline in the number of students in first-year courses: 111,928 vs. 113,479 a year- earlier. The number of applications skidded 16 percent. One index of the current R.N. shortage is the unemployment rate for nurses seeking work; this past year it was 1.8 percent — the lowest since 1969. McNulty said health care leaders met at Health, Education and Wel fare offices last week to plot strategy for dealing with the shortage. Part of the problem, he said, is a dip in interest in nursing as a career. Salaries, a reduction in government educational funds and on-the-job stress also were listed as problems. The most recent ANA salary sur vey, done for HEW in 1977, put the average annual salary for an R.N. at $13,000. Stress, nursing journals report, causes more and more nurses today to burn out — a term for stress overload. Man’s run age oil from check blacH turns fatal tly ternational _ The nuffll jfficials in j ,y 2percenn increase on enter for Po lfr j sday. orded betwee| 1979, incW officials in * inch had •d from thes“ r | United Press International BALTIMORE — A man who fled a downtown restaurant to avoid pay ing a $3.43 check ran into the path of a tractor-trailer and was crushed to death Monday. Police say the man, who was not immediately identified, ate break fast at the Bee Hive Restaurant and walked out the door without paying. When he got outside, they said, he ran several blocks, then darted between two parked cars. A tractor-trailer driving down the street struck the man and pinned him under its first set of back wheels. He was pronounced dead at the scene. 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