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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
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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.
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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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