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EDMONTON (CP) —
Alberta . Hospitals
Minister Dave Russell
winees at being cast as
the villan in the con-
tentious issue of “a
hospital users’ fee.

pointed at the way ithe. ..
news got out,” says

ne
or sree

users should be charged
$10 a day to help defray
therising costs of hospital

care of the sick and
‘dying. has become as

mind as motherhood, he
said,

“But the more demand
there is, the more ex-
pensive % is, And it’s all
free, Most Albertans
don’t know what health
care costs.”

Russell proposed the
fee be ‘levied to give
hospital . boards: an ad-
ditional source of revenue:
17 and to curb excessive use
| of hospitals by patients. A
committee set up to look
‘| into hospital utilization is
'} expected-to hand down a
‘| report within a year.
| Reaction to the idea
Tanges . from

“I'm a little disape:.

Russell, who suggested’
Jast month that hospital -

inviolable in the public

unequivocally * negative ”

IN HOSPI TALS

from organizations for
the handicapped and
chronically ii,. to am.-
bivalent from hospital ad-
ministrators, to guar:
dedly: positive from

+ doctors, .

i: cdma. Laforge, Ed:
oo Monton, director of the
MG tiple Sclerosis Society

of Canada, says the fee

would bé a drastic step.
“Any family that has a
chronic invalid has all
- they can do to keep their
head above water,’’ she-
says. “They already have
to allow for housekeeping
money, medicine and

id care,

“] know a lot of people
who juat can’t look at $10

Charman,
district secretary of the
Canadian Cancer Society,
says many out-of-town
patients. who must pay
travel costs to hospitals
for special treatment
would be bankrupted by
user , fees.

At full capacity,
hospitals in the province
would be able to collect
$43.9 million 8 year from
12,000 acute-care ' beds.
But if geriatric and social

-- assistance ‘patients are

- exempted, the “revenues

- hospital:

Alberta patients must pay

. Tikely would be cuitin half.
A Saskatchewan study
done by University of
Manitoba economist and
health researcher Dr.
- John Horne‘ found that
these two groups made up
50 per cent of hospital
users, Dr, Horne says
that after administration
costs are considered,
hospitals would not be

’ much further ahead. .

“Tt’s © regressive
taxation for low-income

‘ famillea who are not poor

enough to qualify for
social assistance," he
says. “It does nothing to
cut down hospital’ use,
improve the efficiency of
the health care system or
cut costs.”
Saskatchewan had a
user's fee
system, Before it wag
Sbollshed in 1672, Dr.
Horne found surcharges .

_ didnot reduce admissions

or lengths of stay in the
hospital.

“The reason for high .
hospital utilization is our
emphasis on hospital-
based medicine,’’ he
says. ‘We should be
looking at alternative
services to cut costs, such
as employing physicians’
assistants and tong term

: geriatric and auxiliary
: cére,”

.Hospitals Association,

’ Robert Clark, Alberta

Peter Langelle,
president of the Alberta

says opinions differ
among local hospital
boards on the merits of
the user’s fee.

“Ag far as the
asgocation is concerned,
it’s atrictlly a political
decision.”

Meanwhile, doctors sea
the user's fee as an en-
dorsement of extra billing
for their own services,
Controversy haa been hot
over some doctor
charging feed higher than °
the Alberta medicare -fee
schedule.

Russell says the two
issues are separate but
doctors don’t agree.

"If anything, the
government will have to
be consistent,” says Dr.

Medical Association
sident,

“If the government
accepts patient par-
ticipation in one part of
the medical yialivery
system, then it has to
accept patient par-
ticipation for another part
of the health care
system."

Edmonton director quits job

EDMONTON cP) — Greg
| Rogers says he has no hard
feelings, toward . Citadel

Theatre or: its artistic
director Peter Coe,

Rogers, 28, - whose

;resignation as associate
“direclor was announced last
‘Friday, is the third associate

‘direcior to resign in the last
year,

He says. he quit because
jgome of ‘his expectations

ere nat met and because he
had communication
‘iproblems with .Coé. ,

“ The resignation takes”

effect in mid-Octobér when
-Citadel, on ‘Wheels, the

p.school-touring © company,
(Starts to roll with three Len
‘Peterson plays Rogers will
direct. ‘

. Rogers - Bays . his dis- .

Chilean refugees tortured |

‘TORONTO (CP) -— Eleven
Chileans seeking refugee ~
status in Canada between
1977 and 1878 had been
‘tortured in concentration
‘camps, says a report in a
current issue of the Cana:
dian Medical. Association
Journal, .

Doctors who examined the
refugees on arrival said the
three women and eight men,

satisfaction had : nothing to
do with the school company
but with bis over-all role in
the theatre, ‘particularly as
production’ director on the
Rice atage: - *

He had expected to direct. -

the entire Rice season and

with enouragement: from --:
general - manager: Wayne.

Fipke he had sought to form

a full-time com any DY,
‘Toronto, .
Vancouver and Edmonton. °’

holding duditions

But Coe said the theatre
could not afford a company
for the Rice and Rogers
would only be directing
Jitters, scheduled to be the
second play of the new Rice

season, =.
Rogers decided not to
direct Jitters because he and

Coe. had B. » emest

net ee ne

vate

, aged 22 to 44, had been
beaten and. fed oniy bread
and water for up to 48 hours.
Six of the group had also
been tortured with elec-
tricity,

‘Some had been sexually
abused, deprived of sleep,
submerged in water,
threatened with death and
forced to stand or lie in a
painful Position for more

about casting.

Having refused to direct
Jitters, Rogers would have
had nothing to do for the rest
of the year. He says he

decided to resign, partly.
tbecause he ‘would not be

earning his keep.

- Rogers has decided to stay
in Edmonton with bis family.
He says he does not regret

. leaving Toronto but that he
amiade

an.,“‘errer in
judgment.”

Rogers sald he likes Coe’s
work and his appreciation of
Coe's ability as a director
was important to his decision
ta move to Edmonton.

The first director to resign
after Coe took over at The
Citadel was Nola Hague
from from London, Ont.. She
was hired to direct Citadel on

ry fers a a
got

than two days. One had been
strung up by the hands,
The report was written by
Dr.'L,M, Cathcart, chief of
family medicine at Toronto's
St. Michael’s Hospital; Dr.
Philip Berger, co-ordinator
of the Amnesty International
Canadian Medical Group;
and lawyer Brent Knazan.
Suspected torture victims
should be examined as soon

fey Hy:

Wwien ahe resigned last
summer, Rogers took over
direction of the three
Wheels’ productions she had
begun. He returned full-time
in March to direct Cer-
vantes, staged for children in

e spring.

Randy Maertz, chosen by
Coe as his first associate
director, resigned earlier
this year. He said he had
been “used as a pawn” by
the theatre to convince the
immigration department
that Coe, a British citizen,
was training a Canadian
director. Management
denied the charge.

Maertz's letter of
resignation also depicted a
poor working relationship .
between himself and Coe.

as possible as the
“technology of tozture
techniques is so advanced
that after torture has taken

place, , physical symptoms
rapidly,” the report
said.

Although refugee status
may depend on proof of
torture, witnesses are hard
to find so a medical

examination may be crucial-

Dieting game is profitable

WINNIPEG (CP) —
Dieting may be a pain to
some, but Ron: and Susan
Craig have found it can be

‘fun and possibly profitable.

Tf a game they've invented
for weight-watchera
becomes popular, the Craigs
may literally cash in thelr
plastic chips for money.

_ Meanwhile, they will

continue honing thelr skills
at Kalory, where the winner
is the person who ends up
with no chips at all.

The Craigs invented
Kalory a year ago. It's “a
game for all fun loving,
weight-conscious people,”
says the box.

an started ag a con-
versation, just from our own
personal weight problems,”
sald rales 38, a teacher at

South Indian Lake, Man

Mrs, Craig also is a
teacher in the remote
community, more than 750
Kilometres jporth ole pans
nipeg, 4 e couple plans
to slay there, even if sales
and profits take off.

Right now, there are 5,000
copies of Kalory sitting ina
Winnipeg warehouse,
waiting for a buyer.

The game is played on a
board with dice, Kalory
chips, and: three types of
penalty and bonus cards —
Slim Hope, Fat Chance and
the Get Fit Pit.

A Kalory is defined in the

rules as “the amount of
effort it seems to take any
one person to lose one
pound.” All very un-
scientific, Craig says.

Players start with the
same number of Kalories,
represented by different-
colored discs, and try to lose
weight while forcing their
opponents to put on pounds.

Part of the fun comes from
drawing a card from the Get
Fit Pit and doing compulsory
light exercises to lose chips,

Players choose the light-
weight, middleweight, or
heavyweight game depen-
ding on whether they wish to
lose 2,000, 3,500 or 5,000
Kalories,

The Craigs were teaching
this spring when the big
trade shows were taking
Place so they didn't get a
chance to show thelr game to
buyers in time for the

lucrative Christmas market,

Low prison population

due to lack of proper staff

EDMONTON kere a The
peisoner population
monton's pew $15.2-million
federal maximum security
penitentiary haa been
reduced . while . officials
struggle to hire more staff,

Nine months after. the
prison opened, the car-
pentry, paint and metal-
working shops atill are not in
full production to occupy the
prisoners’ time.

Frem a peak of 128 con-

viets about six weeks ago,

the on ulation now
probes pitween 100 and
115. Capacity Is 192.
Assistant director Dennis
‘Weir said thera are about 150
‘staff members, although the

official maximum total Is
218,

“We have authority to in-
crease the staff by about 45
positions," he said.

“Recruiting has been
somewhat slow. It’s very
difficult to compete with
private industry.

“We've countered (the
staff shortage) by keeping
the Inmate population
down.”

A team of federal civil ser-
vanta was sent to the
penitentiary in February to
investigate poor staff morale

- and resignations.

At that tlme, Jack Davia,
another priaon assistant
director, wrote in an internal

memorandum: ‘“‘As the
inmate population Increases,
if vacancies remain unfilled,
excessive overtime and
strain on staff will result.”’

Weir said Friday that
morale had Improved since
the winter but overtime
remains a problem.

He said extra shifta are
worked voluntarily, but
added; “When we have a
person working a good many
extra shifts, his morale is
bound to drop.”

Wages for Instructors in
the plumbing, woodworking
and sheet metal shops would
be about 20 per cent lower
than hourly rates in the
private sector,

They will go that route
next year, but for now the
couple ia trylng to get small
retail stores in Winnipeg to
take the game and may try
to find buyers in Toronto,
New York and Los Angeles
before the start of the achool

Ar.
The game also is being of-
fered by mail for $12.50,
Meanwhile, the Craigs
have formed Boodjie En-
terprises Inc, and a sub

sidiary, Kalory Games Co,
Lid.

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Charlie Brown’s illness.
is still a big mystery

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP)
— Charlie Rrown is home
from hospital, five weeks
after he came down from the
Peanuts plicher’s mound
with a mysterious illness.

But true to form, get-well
cards for the round-headed
kid who's never sure anyone

‘Yikes him are just beginning
to trickle in — to the home
and studio here of the comic
strip’s creater, Charles
’ “T’'ve just gotten a little bit
of mail eo far, but I'm ex-
pecting a lot more,” said
Schulz, whose strip is printed
in about 1,300 newspapers
around the world.

Moat of the well-wishers
are worried about Charlie
Brown, the comic's put-upon
anti-hero, Schulz said
Saturday in a telephone
interview. |

Some want to know what
‘made him il] — a virus? A
knock on his famous head
from an errant flyball?

Not even Schultz knows.
figwe first I wins trying to

out what was wrong
with Charlie,” said Schulz.
He said he debated whether
to dream up a disease, But
he kept the allment a secret
after he decided that “the
main thing waa the reaction
of the other characters.”

“It turned out that Marcie
really liked Charlie Brown,
that Peppermint Patty Is
still confused (about her
feelings for Charlie), that his
sister immediately sold his
belongings and that his dog
didn't miss him at all.”

Inthe strip that ran in Sun-

doghouse, as usual,

master, freshly home from
hospital, exclaims: ‘‘It
seems like I've been gone
forever. I sure missed you."
an Charlie shuffles away,
pleased smile- upon his
face, the world's best-known
beagle is seen to think:
“Now, I remember! He's
that round-headed kid who
always feeds me."

The reaction of bossy,
fussbudget Lucy to Charlie's
hospital confinement was
more dramatic.

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world where someone like
Charlie Brown can get sick
and then mot get any bet-
ter?’* she lamented.

Schulze admitted that
Lucy’s cry could seem a
“heavy philosophy”’ to some
readers, but Schulz said he
mainly was having fun.

Sehulz promised the fun
would continue as the
recovered Charlie greets the
rest of the regulars, notably

the usually all-business, no-
heart Lucy.

With Charlie flat on his
back in a hospital bed, Lucy
found she couldn't eat, On
Friday, she was moved to
tell Charlie that ‘if you get
well, [promise I'll never pull
the football away again.”

She sealed her promise
Saturday by repeating it to
her brother, Linus.

In today's strip, Schultz
said, Charlie Brown comes

ta Lucy's front door —
tball in hand.

She's been the
football away for 22 years,''
Schulz sald. “Now she’s
trapped. She made a death-
bed promise."

Schulz refused to tell what
ensues, but did say that
“there has to be a con-
sistency in a comic's
character" to keep the
readers happy.

Man says he’s a killer

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.
(AP) — Police in several
states are checking their
files for unsolved slayings
after a paroled murderer
said he killed 20 people in the
last year, including at least
eight in California and
several in New York City’s
Bowery section.

John Fischer, 50 — saying
“Pm tired of running” —
turned himself in to New
York Clty authorities
Friday. He told them he had
Killed his wife at their home
in Wassaic, about 110
Kdlometres north of New
York City. State police found
the body of his wife, Claudine
Eggers, 78, dead of multiple
stab wounds.

Fischer, paroled’ from a
New Jersey prison in June,
1976, after serving 25 years
for the murder of a 16-year-
old boy, confessed to 20
murders alter being tran-
sferred from New York City

. to the Dutchess County jail
day's color comic sections,-.
his dog, Snoopy, sits atop hi

CE
listens, puzzled, as his:

here, said John Crodelle,
senior Investigator of the

; State police Bureau of

Criminal Investigation, -
“We could be sitting on a

masa murderer _ here,’

Crodelle said Saturday:

Fischer is being held
without bail on -second-
degree murder charges in
his wife's death. Police. said
the couple married last year
— against her ren's
wishes — after a cotttship
based on a correspondence
begun when he was In prison.

State police sald Sunday
they notified authorities in

Herald.

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TRIG ACE-AETIMAT

States about Fischer's
claims and that warrants
have been Issued for two

deaths in Oklahoma and Ari-
ZOnB.
“We're waiting for

authoritles from the other
jurisdictions to check their
files and notify ua of
anything pending,’’ sald
state police Lieut. Thomas
Neilson.

In addition to the murdera
in Oxlahoma and Arizona,
Credelle said Fischer
claimed to have committed
five or six murders in the Los
Angeles area, three around:
San Francisco, ‘numerous'": :
murders in the Bowery ,
section. of Manhattan and —
aingle murdere in Coop-
erstown, N.Y., Portland,
Me., Hartford, Conn..

“divers ‘and helicopters
Otsego Lake

Newark, N.J., and New
Mexico.

Officials in Oklahoma said
Fischer is wanted in the
bludgeoning death this
spring of a Moore, Okla.,
woman.

They sald he had been
dating Betty Jo Gibson
before her body was
discovered May 25 In a
nailed-shut closet in her
home. She had been dead
about four weeks, police

sald,

Authorities in Arizona said
Fischer ts wanted in the
atabbing death of a Mexfcan-
American mah in Flagstaff
inJate March or,carly April.

‘State police -in Oneonta,
N.Y,, near F Cooperstown, had

searching ‘Otsego
Saturday. .‘ ae healed

Terrace, B.C,

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