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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 1, 1984 R.l. (O.K.MFAJ.ms/S MND EXPERfMEtiTAL P.E. WHO Here /s not/*) the corps? Proposal could out of business, put airline says United Press International A Full 5 Course Meal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2 Pieces of Delicious Chicken Fluffy, Hot Potatoes and Gravy Juicy corn on the Cob Fresh naked Duttermilk Discuit Hot Fried Pie For only *2.49 + tax Kentucky Fried Chicken 3320 Texas Ave. - 846-3238 Bryan Efe 110 Dominik Dr. - 693-2331 College Station Try our Drive-Thrus ASK US ABOUT YOUR CATERING NEEDS SEATTLE — A Continental Airlines executive said Tuesday that efforts by organized labor to prevent businesses that are reorganizing under Chapter 11 from cancelling union contracts could put his firm out of busi ness. Amendments to a bankrupt cy judges’ bill proposed by the AFL-CIO and Airline Pilots Association could cripple air lines and other industries, Con tinental’s vice president of gov ernmental relations Clark F. Onstad said. The proposed amendment would retroactively prohibit cancellation of union contracts by firms taking advantage of bankruptcy law to reorganize. “We’ve saved the American consumer $100 million already since filing for reorganization in September and we expect to save them $1 billion by June,” Onstad said. tinental ticket counter at Jack- son International Airport. “The union action is anti consumer, anti-non-union worker and anti-individual un ion worker,” he said. Labor organizations have protested Continental’s callback of only 4,200 of its 12,000 em ployees, at half pay and longer hours, when it resumed flying with a much-reduced schedule after filing for Chapter 11 pro tection in September. Continental’s unilateral *« of labor contracts immed after it filed for reorgani was illegal. se Onstad held a news confer ence in Seattle four days after AFL-CIO president Lane Kirk land led 200 union members on a picket line outside the Con- "We had to make the cuts or go under,” Onstad said. "Before we filed for reorganization, un ion flight attendants were work- ing 55 hours a month for $37,000 a year.” Since September, Contii has re-expanded service ll times and now employsd«l 5,700 workers, many of4 new employees. But thea needs bankruptcy courtapp al to go forward with its reo:] nization. Unite Union lawyers have argued Onstad said other firmsiii trucking, mining, meat and garment industries under if Congress passen they wei “retroactive amendmem." for Pen EL P and five Telephone service coordinates wide range of crisis services farmers as they ' ceive chi United Press International ROCHESTER, N Y. — If your teenage son or daughter comes home from a party stoned and sick, where do you call first for help? Poison control? The hospital emergency room? A youth drug center? Most cities have single-service agencies aimed at treating speci fic problems. Residents of Mon roe County, in upstate New York, can call Lifeline, a 24- hour, 365-day-a-year, crisis in tervention service that pulls together the county’s most vital information agencies to provide help for a wide range of needs. The Monroe County service is not affiliated with the Boston- based Lifeline organization, which has about 30,000 subscri bers enrolled nationwide in 800 programs. “We (the Monroe County ser vice) look at ourselves as a com prehensive first entry to the whole network of mental health and other human services,” director Betty Oppenheimer said. Not all crises are life- threatening, she said. “If an 89-year-old woman is homebound and has had a cat for years as a constant compan ion and the cat dies, that’s a crisis for her. “For a 14-year-old girl, losing a first boyfriend can be a terrible ordeal.” The 10-year-old program be gan with three existing services in the Rochester area: A poison control center, a mental health information and crisis service and a medical emergency ser vice. In 1981, administrators added a United Way human ser vices referral network. large cities, where people are moving around a lot — where they don’t have support systems or a knowledge of the commun ity and what v s available. When you’re in a crisis is not a good time to find out these things.” The i tlementi last Ma Mushroi and two Oppenheimer said 25 ii tractors, volunteers are accepteds year for training out oflhei The 90 applicants. cruiters Oppenheimer said Lifeline is more practical financially than single-purpose agencies. “We look for people who: stable lives,” she said. Utl they should have theirowil in hand before they can!: other people. SK “This way you can call for an immediate assessment for an emergency or to ask somebody about where to get services or just to talk,” Oppenheimer said. “With lots of hotlines, the volume of calls is never that great. You might get one call an hour. But when you combine the services and get 15 calls an hour, that’s much more cost- effective,” she said. Uni Counselors direct callers to the right places to receive help instead of providing face-to- face, on-going therapy them selves, she said. The service, which expects to handle 98,000 calls this year, is funded by the county depart ments of health, mental health, aging and social services, as well as United Way. “All our work is short-term crisis intervention. We don’t du plicate anything already avail able in the community. Counselors are recruited from the community and screened before they are allowed to answer crisis phone calls. “And we also look font judgmental volunteers- J need people who don'tbM AU some bias about particular: ^ radios < lems, who can understdi lateral empathize.” g e dy a day to c David, 27 (volunteera st ude asked not to reveal their demen names), said it is sometimes!^ Te to fit a weekly five-hourt a PP rov around his full-time wort« Read J dule, “but it’s worth ittoitt ° en t c< money “There are a lot of people The there who need helpandills! h rst m good to me to be able to dot drroug he said. progra “The best thing you can 1 ? tween just be a person who are,’ said. 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