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Wednesday, February I960 atattoonUL) Journal Nursos pick work hours Blair said many women prefer to work while children are in school, while others want to work in the evenings while the husband is at home to care for the children. A mini-orientation has been developed for the nurse on an abbreviated schedule. "After orientation the employee works with another R.N. until she feels comfortable with what they're doing," said Blair. I 'CrY' Ideally, to be at full staff, Blair said the hospital would need the equivalent of 20 full-time registered nurses.

"That is an Ideal number, so that we can expand services." However, she said Sarah Bush does not have the lack of registered nurses which other hospitals are suffering. Mannel said some hospitals have been forced to reduce their number of beds, due to the nurse shortage. Johnston, R.N. i BY LINDA D. SMITH MATTOON Selecting one's own working hours can be a definite enticement to a job, as local hospital officials have discovered, John Mannel, personnel director at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, reported Tuesday on the success of "Mothers' Hours," in hiring nurses.

Mannel said the hospital has hired 12 registered nurses with abbreviated hours, who were given the opportunity to pick their working days and times. Marilee Blair, nursing supervisor, said the part-time hours chosen by the employee have brought many nurses back Into the field. She noted that many nurses leave the nursing profession to have children and many don't feel they can return to a full-time Job. With the mothers' hours or abbreviated hours, Blair said the nurses can gradually work back into the profession. "Nursing changes so drastically if a person ever wants to come back full-time, this is a way to keep current on nursing practices." The idea of mothers' hours came during one of the leadership meetings.

"We knew there were nurses in the community who were not working," said Blair. Offering a selection of part-time hours has proven successful in getting them back into the profession, she said. At most hospitals the working schedules are very rigid, said Blair, "but there are so many peak times during the day when we can use the extra help." Maria Johnston, R.N. has been working the abbreviated schedule since October. Mrs.

Johnston had been in nursing full-time for 10 years, then quit for two years after having a child. "I tried to work full-time in pediatrics, but it just didn't work out, she said. Now Johnston works from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. three days a week and one weekend a The nurse does no important function on her own until after she been with the hospltaljoratime.

1 To work the abbreviated schedule, Blair said the hospital asks the nurses to work four hours a day, one day a week. The employees on mothers' hours are assigned to work 20 percent of their working hours on weekends. For Johnston, that is equivalent to one weekend a month. Marilee Blair, left, with Maria 'None whatsoever," Groff said. Groff also said he reviewed "In extreme detail" documents showing Scott reimbursed himself from campaign funds in 1967 and 1968 for expenditures as small as $2.

Prosecution attorneys said they hope to wrap up their case by the end of next week. The trial currently is in its fifth week. Groff, on the witness stand Jjonday and Tuesday in the tax evasion trial of Attorney General William J. Scott, clenched his shoulders with his hands and told U.S. District Judge John Powers Crowley, "It's cold in here, your honor." Crowley chuckled as if to say, "So, what Good Samaritan Paul Keating U.S.

tax attorney testifies else Is new?" and told the jury, "The witness has just come to the conclusion that It's cold In here." Laughter broke out in the courtroom. The extremes of temperature in Crowley's courtroom on the 23rd floor of the Dlrksen Federal Building have been a topic of somelmport in Scott's trial, and hardly a day gos by without a comment about it from the judge. Crowley himself attributed a 102-degree fever, which forced him two weeks ago to halt the trial for a day, to the "climatic conditions" in the courtroom. 'Gentle gunned NEW YORK (UPI) Friends said Paul Keating was a sensitive, gentle man, almost shy. He died trying to help a man being robbed on a Greenwich Village street corner.

"Along with being a little foolish, be was very brave. He could have easily walked away. If he had been the average New Yorker, he probably would have. walked away," Detective Charles Pendergrass said. Police said today Keating, 27, was killed by a bullet that entered the back of his head during a struggle early Tuesday with two gunmen holding up a New York University student.

He died in the minutes that a delicatessen counterman allegedly refused thejrjbbery victim Js frantic, pleas to call police for help. -Paul Keating Aas "a -very sensitive anfl" gentle man, almost shy" and a "fine young photographer who had the potential to be one of the tops in the field," said Arnold Drapkin, picture editor of Time magazine. A free-lance photographer, Keating had done numerous assignments for Time over the last six years. One of his top assignments was photographing Pope John Paul II sales astound experts i ft 1 Bl.it Will Tampico be new Plains? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmm a man' down during his recent tour of the city. Twice In the 1976 presidential campaign, his photographs of Jimmy Carter made the Time magazine cover.

The man he helped, Daniel Schwab, 19, told police he was walking to a subway station to go home to Queens after skating at a Village roller skating rink when he was approached by two youths. Pendergrass said the assailants pulled out handguns, took Schwab's roller skates and a wallet filled with $110 in cash. answered Schwab's screams for help. As Keating struggled with the bandits, the detective said, Schwab ran to the all-night -Celion Delicatessen on the corner and begged an attendant for several minutes to cj1 the police. "It's, not true," said Demetrlos PoVloJ night manager of the De-lion.

"I called the police from here twice one minute after they shot the guy and a uminute after that. A detective at the West 10th Street Stationhouse said he had "no way of knowing" wheter the calls were made. Keating, son of a doctor, died at St. Vincent's Hospital shortly after he was admitted with several bullet wounds in the head and chest. school hero civic boosters nurture similar dreams for their bustling city of 18,000.

Tampico needs the help. About half of the dozen downtown business buildings are vacant. Three firms, including the town's only restaurant, were burned in a fall fire. The owner of the First National Bank Building, where Reagan was born, is getting ready for the former California governor's inauguration by installing a new furnace and restroom facilities in the 90-year-old red brick structure. "I'm trying to get the building presenta West side of 21st from Charleston to Lafayette East side of 21st from Charleston to Wabash East and west sides of Lake Land Blvd.

from Charleston to Wabash Phipps said the parking restrictions will go into effect after the signs are posted next year. Parking, where permitted within the limits of the improvement, shall be parallel and adjacent to the curb, according to the agreement with the department of transportation. Other ordinances approved in connection with the project regulate the encroachment on public right of way and prohibit the discharge of sanitary sewage and industrial waste water into any storm sewer constructed as part of the bridge Improvement. According to the agreement, the reconstructed bridge will carry four lanes of traffic with a 4-foot-wide median. Traffic lights, to be maintained by the state, will be Installed at both approaches to the bridge.

The city will pay for the energy to operate the traffic lights. Several road Improvements to be made In connection with the reconstruction include: Widening and resurfacing U.S, 45 from Charleston Avenue north 200 feet and resurfacing the remainder of 19th Street north to the Conrail Railroad tracks. Widening and resurfacing Charleston Supervisor ditures in his 1968 campaign and ot $15,000 in his 1964 effort. U.S. Attorney Jeremy Margolis asked Groff, "Did Mr.

Barnett provide you with a single scrap of paper or document that showed how Mr. Scott received this money in 1964?" "None whatsoever," he sail Margolis then, asked the same question about 1968 Again Groff answered, "None whatsoever." "Did Mr. Barnett provide you with a single bill that demonstrated how Mr. Scott spent the $35,000 on political purposes?" Margolis asked. Brisk car I'll.

i r. Americans purchased cars in January at a rate that astounded industry analysts and set a new sales record for General Motors and foreign cars sales surged to their best January performance in history. Led by Japanese manufacturers, foreign car makers captured 26.9 percent of the U.S. domestic market in January on record sales of 216,500 units, up 61 percent from the same month last year. Buoyed by GM, U.S.

automakers reported Tuesday that they sold 587.739 cars "Most of Tampico and this area are behind him," agreed Vernon Denison, a grade school classmate of Reagan's. "He's well thought of around here. We're certainly rooting for him." "It might help the town," said Don Crow, glancing casually at a Reagan poster tacked to a wall of his gas station. "We had a lot of visitors when he was here last time." The family that lived above the restaurant 69 years ago was poor and could not afford to stay long. Reagan's father, who worked as a clerk across the street in a general store when his son was born, hopped from town to town.

When Reagan was about nine, the family moved 35 miles northeast to Dixon, where he attended high school and became a star athlete, leading performer in class plays and president of the student body. A 1928 yearbook quote under his senior class photograph: "Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music." "I used to hike out to Lowell Park where Reagan was rt feguardTmdlalirio him when he wasn't busy," reminisced Bernard Frazier, 84, Reagan's high school dramatics teacher. "He had a very keen wit, but he was always too busy to get out of line. And he always wanted to know why and how, which is more interest than most kids show." Dixon, as the local newspaper proudly claims, is "Reagan country." A local bridge is named after him and residents still use his high school nickname, "Dutch." "I don't think there's much of a problem about him being nominated, but the events of the world are playing into Carter's hands right now," said Frazier, propping his chin upon his cane. Another former teacher, Freya Lazier, 90, who taught languages for 25 agrees Reagan's chances depend on how Carter fashions world opinion.

"But the people here have a very great confidence In Reagan. I've never heard him criticized." Most who know Reagan don't think his age will hurt his campaign. They write off his loss to George Bush in last month's Iowa precinct caucuses as a freak accident. But at least one former high school classmate ot Reagan's thinks his age will hurt him. "I definitely think his age is against him," Ethel Buchner said curtly.

"I'm the same age and I know what It's like." TAMPICO, 111. (UPI) The dying farming town of Tampico has only one claim to fame: 69 years ago today, Ronald Reagan was born in a simple, six-room flat above a local restaurant. Many of the village's 850 residents are rooting for Reagan to win the presidency and revive their community by making it a national landmark. "Tampico might become just like Plains, one man cheerfully put it. About 35 miles down the road in Dixon, 111., where Reagan's family moved when he was nine and he became a high in January, off only 7,9 percent from the strong performance of last year.

Despite January sales decreases reported by Ford and Chrylser, it was one of the best monthly sales reports the domestic industry has turned in since its current slump began last spring. The combined domestic-imported sales amounted to an annual selling rate of 11.5 million units nearly 1 million above projections for all of 1980. "The record sales level at which we finished January and the strong sales for the entire month are perhaps the best indication that conditions in the automotive market have improved since last fall," said Robert D. Burger, GM marketing i "-I CHICAGO (UPI) Attorney General William J. Scott's lawyers provided no documentation for claims that a mysterious $50,000 Scott stored in two safe deposit boxes was reimbursement for past campaign expenses, a federal tax attorney has testified at Scott's tax evasion trial.

Scott, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate' is charged with understating his income on tax returns for the years 1972 through 1975. The government is trying to prove he converted campaign contributions to his personal use storing them In a series of safe deposit bores and failed to pay income tax on the money. If he is convicted on all counts, Scott, 53, could be sentenced to prison for up to 15 years and fined as much as $25,000. Joseph H.

Groff III, who works for the criminal section of the Justice Departments Tax.Division, said Tuesday Scott's attorneys told him during a meeting in Washington that the money was reimbursement for some of Scott's own money he spent during his 1964 and 1968 campaigns. Scott, according to evidence and testimony introduced earlier in the trial, has told different stories about whether the $50,000 was his personal money or campaign cash. Groff said he asked Scott's attorney, William A. Barnett, for documentation both of Scott's alleged $35,000 In expen ble just in case he becomes president," said Paul Nicely, 60, a livestock farmer. "I'd like it to look fairly decent." "It would become a national landmark," his wife Helen added.

"Chances are it would be taken over by the state." The building's first floor, now vacant, has housed Tampico's city hall and a bank in addition to the restaurant. An elderly couple lives upstairs. "People around here will rally behind him," predicted the Rev. George David, a Methodist minister. "It has a lot to do with our small town." from 19th to the bridge structure and from the bridge to 17th, by reconstructing the existing 54-foot wide pavement to 56 feet, allowing for four lanes of traffic.

Widening and resurfacing U.S. 45 from Charleston to Wabash. The city will not share in the cost incurred for resurfacing Charleston from 19th to 21st; improving 21st south to the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad tracks; and Improving Charleston from 17th to 14th. Also at Tuesday night's meeting, the council approved application for funds to study an industrial pretreatmenl program. The total cost of the study is expected to be $29,000.

The city's share would be $7,625. The council approved an appropriation of $31,812 for the 1980 street maintenance program to repair potholes in city streets. A motion authorizing the city clerk to advertise for bids for the purchase of a new animal control van was approved. Two contracts were extended with firms hired to upgrade the city's water treatment plant. The firm of Ray Gilbert Sons, was granted an extension of 54 calendar days.

Dettro said the company had not received a pump and valves necessary to complete the project. Commercial Electric was also granted a contract extension. Both contracts were extended until March 25. Mattoon council approves bridge project ordinances vice president. Executives for Chrysler Corp.

and Ford, Motor Co. also said they were encouraged by the performance, although they fell far short of GM's record. "With the improved Chrysler confidence in the marketplace along with the excitement generated by our recently announced Chrysler guarantees, we expect continuing improvement in our sales," said Gar Laux, Chrysler's executive vice president for sales. "Both the economy and the automotive market are resisting any further downward movements," said Ford sales Vice President Gordon B. MacKenzie.

The union's first contract, which covered only four months, expired Dec. 31. The old contract has been extended for an Indefinite period while negotiations continue. Either party must give 30-day notice to cancel the contract extension. Also, the -union must give at least a 10-day notice if it intends to strike, according to Local 418 President Robert Camp.

Camp said the union doesn't expect negotiations to continue until August or September again this time. "We'll either reach agreement or impasse," he said. 1 ft J' Reagan blows out candles on his birthday cake Sarah Bush contract talks resuming today BY LINDA D. SMITH MATTOON The city council Tuesday approved appropriation of $173,648 for the reconstruction of Charleston Avenue Bridge. The money appropriated by the city represents 12'4 percent of the total cost in rebuilding the subway bridge on Charleston and improving adjacent streets.

Federal funding will account for 75 percent and state funds will pay for 12V4 percent of the total cost, estimated to be $1,432,985. Mayor Roger Dettro noted last week the city's share of the cost could be higher or lower than the $173,648 appropriation, depending on the bids received for the project. Street Commissioner Morgan Phtpps said Mattoon will pay for Its share of the reconstruction from motor fuel taxes. State department of transportation officials plan to open the project for bids in March. Construction Is expected to begin this summer and continue for one year.

Besides the appropriation, city council members approved other ordinances in connection with the Charleston bridge, Including parking restrictions which are expected to go Into effect in 1981. Parking will be prohibited in the following areas: North and south sides of Charleston from 14th to 21st East and west sides of 19th from "Charleston north 200 feet MATTOON Contract talks resumed Tuesday at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 418, representing about 280 non-. professional employees at the hospital, is seeking its second contract with the hospital administrators. Sarah Bush Lincoln Administrator Martin Tullis said Tuesday night that some progress was made in negotiations Tuesday and that another session Is scheduled for today..