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Wednesday, December 7,1988 The Battalion Page 7
Panel proposes plan
to curb nurse shortage
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas faces a
“critical shortage” of nurses and the
problem must be addressed, says a
committee created by the Legis
lature to conduct the first compre
hensive study of the state’s health
education system.
The Special Committee on Post-
Secondary Medical, Dental and Al
lied Health Education said, in a
statement discussing its legislative
report, Texas has one registered
nurse per 418 people. That com
pares to one per 200 nationally.
The Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board should develop
a master plan for providing nec
essary nursing manpower in an equi
table, cost-efficent manner the com
mittee said.
The committee also recommends
the Legislature reduce 1989-90 non
resident tuition rates for medical
and dental schools and make no fur
ther increases in resident tuition
rates.
Resident rates for medical and
dental schools for 1989-90 are
$5,463 and $4,511, respectively, the
committee said. Non-resident tuition
rates are $21,852 and $18,044 a
year, respectively.
Expanded loan repayment, schol
arships and grant programs are
needed for medical, dental, nursing
and allied health students, the com
mittee added.
The Texas health education sys
tem includes eight medical schools,
three dental schools, 69 registered
nursing programs, 97 vocational
nursing programs, 374 allied health
programs and five health science
centers.
Health education components
generate $4.68 billion annually in
economic activity, creating 76,000
jobs, the committee said.
The components provide $474
million annually in indigent health
care, the committee said, compared
with the state’s $900 million share of
the Medicaid program.
“Texas Medicaid programs
should be expanded and local gov
ernments should be required to pro
vide increased levels of financial
support for the health care needs of
their residents,” it said.
The committee also suggests relief
for health care liability costs of state-
employed faculty and residents and
volunteer professionals, especially
for services for indigent or Medicaid
patients.
Experts: Texas keeps
large house inventory
despite smaller market
Associated Press
The number of houses for sale
throughout Texas is shrinking but
the inventory still is likely to be the
third-highest on record with some
386,000 sellers looking for buyers,
according to the Real Estate Center
at Texas A&M University.
In addition, the center reported
Tuesday that, barring a strong mar
ket in the second half of 1988, the
number of sales made in the state
this year is likely to be smaller than
in 1987.
“Assuming the sales pace seen in
the first half of 1988 continues, this
year will end with 1.4 percent fewer
sales than last year,” assistant econo
mist Charles E. Gilliland said. “Sales
may decrease from the 88,000 last
year to about 86,700 in 1988.”
The 386,000 houses for shle, as
provided by the Texas Multiple List
ing Service, is down from 400,700 in
1987.
Although the inventory is down
slightly, so is the average selling
price. The first-quarter price of
$82,100 was 5.4 percent below the
previous year. The second-quarter
average of $86,523 was off 4.2 per
cent from 1987. Both dollar figures
represent five-year lows.
“Housing is a function of supply
and demand,” Ted C. Jones, an
other research economist at the cen
ter said.
“When you’ve got tremendous
surplus and a buyer’s market, you
have to work through that inven
tory. We think recovery indeed is
taking place in Texas real estate.
“What we’re saying, bottom line, is
the Texas economy is improving and
demand for Texas real estate is pick
ing up. It is getting better. But it is
slow.”
Jones said the Real Estate Center
tracks 26 Texas cities and sees bright
pockets of housing activity.
“If we look at it, demand for hous
ing is local in nature,” he said. “The
Houston Board of Realtors reported
in September and October more
sales than ever.”
Dallas, he said, also shows promise
with the move of several large com
panies like J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and
GTE Corp to the city, telephone op
erations and the recent announce
ment that the government’s super
conducting supercollider would be
built nearby.
“When you’ve got tremen
dous surplus and a buyer’s
market, you have to work
through that inventory.
We think recovery indeed
is taking place in Texas
real estate. ”
— Ted C. Jones,
research economist
Austin, however, was a different
story, he said. “For a city of its size,
Austin has just so many doggone
homes,” Jones said.
Researchers caution that there are
problems accurately determining
the number of homes for sale be
cause many houses now are serving
as rentals until the owners feel prices
increase enough to put them on the
market.
“We get into a complex intermix
of weak financial institutions that
can’t afford to hold on to the prop
erty and lending institutions are not
in the business of rental properties,”
he said.
“But Houston has indicated in
September and October that de
mand is coming back — at a snail’s
pace.
“We have a lot of good things
going for us, but real estate is not
going to recover until the economy
recovers. But we’ve got President
Bush coming, who’s putting to
gether a Texas cabinet. And we
know the influence of that.”
Atlantis’ top-secret misson
ends after 4 days in orbit
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (AP) — Atlantis streaked out
of orbit and glided to an afternoon
landing Tuesday as a small band of
spectators cheered the five astro
nauts’ safe return from a secret spy
satellite mission.
Navy Cmdr. Robert L. Gibson
guided the 97-ton shuttle to a touch
down at 3:35 p.m. PST on a hard-
packed clay runway after a flight of
4 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes.
“They have been given the wel
come back call,” Billie DeasOn at Mis
sion Control in Houston said.
Two loud sonic booms crackled
overhead as Atlantis descended
through partly sunny skies and
made its swooping approach to Rog
ers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.
One tire on the shuttle’s left land
ing gear had a slow leak, but NASA
said it was not a concern, and it did
not seem to affect the smoothness of
the touchdown.
It was only the seventh afternoon
shuttle landing, the time apparently
dictated by the orbit Atlantis fol
lowed in its classified mission that re
portedly deployed a radar satellite to
spy on the Soviet Union. NASA pre
fers morning landings at Edwards
because winds tend to gather force
later in the day.
Because of the military secrecy,
Tuesday’s landing was closed to pub
lic viewing from the observation site
on this military base 80 miles north
of Los Angeles. Only a few hundred
journalists, NASA employees and in
vited guests were witnesses.
In contrast, hundreds of thou
sands of people had watched Discov
ery return in October from a flight
that put Americans back in space for
the first time since the Challenger
tragedy.
Mission Control in Houston had
lifted its curtain of secrecy on the
flight to report, as it was happening,
that Gibson had fired braking rock
ets to slow the spaceship’s 17,400-
mph speed by 2,283 mph and drop
it out of orbit onto an hourlong fiery
descent through the atmosphere.
NASA and the Air Force per
mitted live television coverage of the
landing, as it did for Friday’s launch
from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Every
thing in between was blacked out, in
cluding the reported deployment of
the satellite.
The flight was the 27th shuttle
mission and the second since the
1986 Challenger explosion that
killed seven astronauts and halted
launchings for 32 months. It was the
third flight for Atlantis and the long
est of the three shuttle missions that
have been dedicated entirely to mili
tary purposes.
Rear Adm. Richard Truly, a for
mer astronaut in charge of the shut
tle program, called the current flight
one of NASA’s most important mis
sions. “It’s Atlantis’ first flight after
the standdown, and now you have
two vehicles proven in flight,” he
said. “That’s extremely important.”
U.S. and Soviet news organization
reported the shuttle’s classified pay-
load was a powerful spy satellite.
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