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THEATER ARTS: the Premier Players present The
Orphans by Ja mes Prideaux at 8 p.m. today through Satur
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TAMU SPORT PARACHUTE CLUB: there will be a skydiv
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tation meeting for interested students will be at 8 p.m. in
401 Rudder.
Nursing home
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United Press International
NEW YORK — About 16,000
nursing home workers joined 30,000
hospital employees in a strike for
belter pay Monday, upsetting thou
sands of patients and forcing doctors
and administrators to work as or
derlies, cooks and launderers.
The walkout seriously strained
the city’s health care network and
forced several nursing homes to ask
families to take their parents home
for the duration of the strike.
Strike-bound hospitals cut admis
sions, clinic visits and elective sur
gery, and unaffected hospitals set
aside 2,000 beds in case emergency
transfers were necessary.
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About 4,600 elderly people in 17
nursing homes and 14,000 patients
in 28 hospitals were affected. Nurses
at five hospitals also walked off the
job in sympathy with the strikers.
District 1199 of the Retail, Whole-
ihree sa * e ant * Department Store Union
udiowe kg 311 strike Friday at 28 hospi-
^ , tals and seven nursing homes follow-
, ,,, ing a breakdown in contract talks.
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ronnri walked off the job Monday.
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see no reason to be optimistic of a
13 quick resolution at this lime,” federal
* ie !l mediator Paul Yager said,
avaiiai yj ie wor k ers — orderlies, thera-
seniesnj pists, cooks, and other support staffs
— demanded 10 percent wage hikes
nlhete and alternate weekends off. The
hospitals offered a 4 percent in
crease.
Doctors, administrators and other
employees were on 12-hour shifts,
six days a week at Montefiore Hospi
tal in the Bronx. Spokeswoman Judy
Murphy said 1977 Nobel Prize win
ner Dr. Rosalyn Yanow was sta
tioned on the cafeteria assembly line,
while doctors were pushing patient
trays and administrators were an
swering phones and hauling gar
bage.
Administrators said they tried to
calm elderly patients, fearing patient
agitation would spread “like wild
fire.”
“It’s an extremely dangerous situ
ation,” said Steven Bernstein, exec
utive director of the Daughters of
Jacob Geriatric Center in the Bronx.
“It’s the anxieties they face. For
weeks, they’ve been crying, ‘Where
will I go if there’s a strike?”’
Bernstein said. “The emotional im
pact is far worse on nursing home
patients than hospital patients.”
Hospitals said their strike plans
were "running smoothly,” but the
administrator of at least one nursing
home, the 265-bed Sephardic Home
for Aged in Brooklyn, complained
strikers were blocking volunteers
from entering the facility to help
out.
“They’re not letting us bring in
people as volunteers in any way,”
said Herbert Freeman. “We’re hav
ing a great deal of difficulty,” he
said.
Texans
rebuild
Times
Square
United Press International
DALLAS — Developer Trammell
Crow, a common name in the Texas
construction industry, will have a
major role in the controversial and
costly renovation of New York City’s
Times Square.
Following years of often acrimo
nious debate, the city and state have
launched a renovation plan to trans
form four blocks of Times Square,
the business address for numerous
prostitutes, porno shops and drug
dealers.
A spokeswoman for Crow’s Dallas
Market Center Co., says that the ren
ovation project has “provided a spe
cial opportunity (for Crow) to do the
mart in New York, with a good deal
of support from the city and state.”
Planners expect the $1.6 billion
effort will begin in 1986 and hope to
conclude it in 1990.
Once completed, the new office
buildings, merchandise mart, hotel
and theaters will generate 23,500
new jobs, compared with 3,285 jobs
in the area now.
It will also produce at least $860
million in taxes or payments to the
city over 20 years, officials said. That
is roughly five times the current
level of revenue the city gets from
Times Square.
Following negotiations, Crow,
well known in Texas construction
circles, is expected to assist in the de
velopment of the mart and then
manage and market it.
The mart will be 80 percent de
voted to computers and 20 percent
to apparel and designer furniture.
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WASHINGTON — If the
thought of working on a computer
turns you into a pool of sweat you
may be experiencing one of the new
est social ills called computer anxi
ety, according to a Catholic Univer
sity of America study.
The symptoms are similar to those
of any lest anxiety: tension, nervous
ness, sweaty palms, racing pulse,
fear of failure and confusion.
But Dr. Carol Class, a clinical psy
chologist at Catholic University, and
Robert Heinssen, a doctoral student
there, say computer anxiety is a
unique and treatable illness.
“It’s not the kind of fear that
someone would have climbing a lad
der to the 32nd floor of a building,”
Glass said. “But people are saying,
‘Yes, I’m uncomfortable. I’m ner
vous and uneasy when silling down
to a computer.”
Glass and Heinssen surveyed
more than 150 students and profes
sionals — some of whom were en
rolled in an introductory computer
course— to determine the nature of
the anxiety.
Asked if they were “afraid of com
puters,” 50 percent of the students
and 78 percent of adults said “yes.”
They were asked to describe their
thoughts when silling at a computer
terminal. Some said they were made
anxious by the impersonality of lech-
Some (computer users)
said they were made anx
ious by the impersonality
of technology. Others said
they felt helpless, out of
control and that they
would “never be able to
figure it out. ”
nology. Others said they felt help
less, out of control and that they
would “never be able to figure it
out.”
Class said more women than men
acknowledged they were anxious
around computers. But, she said, “It
may be that men are just as anxious
but they won’t tell you.”
Men are more likely to have had
more exposure to technology and
“things you plug in the wall,” Class
added.
Class said working with comput
ers at an earlier age will curb this
anxiety for future generations, but
adults now need to learn how to deal
with their fears — especially as new
appliances bring the technology
closer to home.
Heinssen will be conducting a se
ries of workshops for adults at Cath-
Emerald Air suspends flights
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Emerald Air has tem
porarily suspended service to Aus
tin, its home base, and Houston In
tercontinental Airport, but a
company official insisted Monday
the regional carrier is not in Finan
cial trouble.
“This was simply a reallocation of
the present resources we have,” said
Ray LaCroix, customer relations su
pervisor for the 6-year-old airline.
LaCroix said the two-week sus
pension in Austin will end Aug. 1,
but there is no Fixed dale for re
sumption of service to Houston In
tercontinental.
The airline earlier permanently
terminated service to San Antonio.
Emerald, which recently ex
panded into Wichita, Kan., and
Omaha, Neb., currently serves
Houston Hobby Airport, Dallas-Fort
Worth, McAllen and Corpus Christi
in Texas with a fleet of nine DC-9s.
Although the carrier intends to
resume service to Austin and Hous
ton Intercontinental, it has asked
about 25 workers in the two cities to
relocate or be furloughed, said Em
erald spokeswoman Debra Treffalls.
She said the employees were given
the option of transferring to other
cities now served by Emerald or to
the corporate headquarters in Aus
tin. The company has about 280
non-union employees, most of them
stationed in Austin.
Company Vice President Jay
Salter said when service resumes in
Austin on Aug. 1, Emerald will ini
tiate two new flights to Dallas-Fort
Worth and McAllen.
Downtown Austin property values soar
United Press International
AUSTIN — Reflecting Austin’s
economic boom, real estate values in
the downtown area of the Texas cap
ital city have soared by nearly 300
percent since 1982, the Travis
County Appraisal District ofFice said
Monday.
Appraiser Jim Nuckles said some
downtown tracts have seen a 1,000
percent increase in land value since
the last reappraisal two years ago.
Overall property value in Travis
County was up 60 percent over
1983, he said.
Nuckles said while the owners of a
small downtown tract occupied by a
tamale stand recently got a record
$1.6 million in a highly publicized
sale, appraisers considered average
market values rather than the sales
price of one tract.
Nuckles said even in the most re
mote areas of Travis County, prop
erty is worth at least $ 1,000 an acre.
The largest taxpayer in the
county, International Business Ma
chines Corp., saw the appraised va
lue of its land jump from $8,000 an
acre to $87,120 an acre.
He attributed thejump, in part, to
the high demand for property in an
area where Microelectronics and
Computer Technology Corp., an ad
vanced computer research consor
tium, has located its headquarters.
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olic University to learn how to relax
with computers.
These workshops will be the first
in the country that are not designed
to teach computer skills, but to teach
people not to be intimidated by com
puters.
The workshops will include “anxi
ety management programs that
teach people to identify anxiety
signs, moniter them and replace
them with feelings of self control,”
Heinssen said.
“Some anxiety is appropriate and
helps people learn,” Heinssen said.
“We want to teach people to control
it to the point where it is motivating
without being disabling.”
The five weeks of 90-minute ses
sions will be offered free to all. The
workshops will be run by specially
trained therapists and limited to
groups of 10.
They will be very stuctured,”
Heinssen said. “Not like an encoun
ter group.”
Some time will be spent with com
puters to practice relaxation tech
niques. But the mechanics behind
the technology will be avoided.
“People can drive a car without
knowing the engine,” Class ob
served.
“It was just an economic deal,”
added LaCroix. “We just weren’t
doing very well in Houston and Aus
tin so wejust suspended it.
“It’s just a reorganization,” he
said. “We’re just trying to make
money in this market.”
Emerald was formed as a cargo
carrier in 1978 by three retired Air
Force officers who hauled cargo out
of South Texas for Emery Air
Freight with a fleet of prop planes.
But Emerald, which began full
passenger service in 1981, was
ranked No. 1 in the nation last year
among small regional-commuter
carriers in miles flown and No. 2 in
passenger boardings.
The company was reorganized in
1982 with the hiring of former Bra-
niff executive Thomas R. McCauley
as the company’s president.
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