‘Card party planned
annual card party to be held
Stephen’s Episcopal Church, South
Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
A yearly feature of the card party
sized, handmade quilt are awarded.
Baked goods, plants and books are
also sold.
The card party is one of the
Auxiliary’s annual fund raising
events. All proceeds are donated to
General Hospital to help defray the
cost of various hospital expansion
projects and to help in purchasing
new hospital equipment. Men are
now active in the Auxiliary. Leona
Obeid and Alice Biernacki are co-
chairmen of the card party.
Raffle and admission tickets are
available from any Auxiliary
memher and also at the door on
April 30.
Those attending are asked to
bring their own cards. Mrs. Stanley
B. Ushinski is Auxiliary president.
Although the Commonwealth has
gram, expansion and replacement
plans continue to be approved in
areas of current excess capacity.
Tough recommended strengthening
of the CON program, and elimina-
hospitals to add up to 10 new beds
every other year without obtaining
According to Tough, a short-term
hospital inpatient beds. During the
to identify existing excess inpatient
capacity, and the study results
would be used in future CON deci-
Tough also said that Blue Cross of
x
been a pioneer in designing and
implementing hospital payment sys-
containment, which is the third area
the program covers.
“We must expand the use of
incentive payment systems for hos-
pitals and other providers,’” he said.
“Systems that encourage cost con-
tainment through flexible negotiated
payment arrangements, not a rigid
state-run rate-setting system.
“Systems which encourage hospi-
tals to control both use and cost,
through economic incentives are
very promising,” he added. ‘‘Penn-
sylvania’s Blue Cross plans are
committed to expand the use of
such systems, and to the develop-
ment and implementation of new
and more effective incentive pay-
ment approaches.”
The fourth point Tough brought
out was that of encouraging price
competition in the health care
system.
“Changes in Medicare payment
policies, and in Medicaid payment
methods in Pennsylvania, are being
accompanied by other changes that
are making hospitals price-sensitive
to a greater degree than ever
before,” he said. Growth in health
maintenance organizations and the
development of other competitive
medical plans such’ as Preferred
Provider arrangements are bring-
ing new competitive forces to bear
on the health care system. Experts
agree that these developments will
bring dramatic changes, if they are
allowed to reach maturity.
‘All of us are concerned with the
increases in health care costs,”
Tough added. ‘“We have taken an
active leadership role in efforts to
contain those costs.”
Blue Cross, however, can’t do it
alone. Tough explained.
“This program requires a coor-
diante effort on the part of all those
involved: doctors, hosptials, hospi-
tal trustees, Blue Cross and Blue
and individuals,” he said. “We are
prepared to take an active leader-
ship role, to implement those pro-
grams we can do alone, and to work
with others where necessary. Our-
goal is the continued availability of
quality care at a price we can all
afford.”
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This is for Kingston Township
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Show
the atmosphere of Southwest Amer-
ica.
The Decorators’ Show House will
be open to the public Sunday, April
29 through Sunday, May 20. Hours
are Monday through Saturday, 10 to
4; Thursday, 10 to 4 and 7 to 9;
Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Lunch will be
available daily, except Sunday,
from 11 to 2.
Advance tickets can be purchased
by mail, telephone, or from any
Junior League member. Tickets are
$5 in advance or $6 at the door.
Special group rates are available.
Orders may be sent to the Junior
League of Wilkes-Barre, 1261 Wyo-
ming Avenue, Forty Fort, Pa. 18704.
Blossom Festival:
Friday, April 27 — Casino Night, Wilkes College
Student Center (student I.D. required), 9 p.m.-mid-
night. ;
Saturday, April 28 — Softball (Wilkes College) River
Common, 10-1 p.m.; Cherry Blossom Carnival, River
Common, 1-6 p.m.; Air Force Jazz Band, Wilkes
College Gym, 10-1 a.m.; “Look Back to the Hill”, St.
Stephen’s Church, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 29 — 10th Annual Cherry Blossom
Regatta, West Pittston, 11 a.m.; King’s Spring Con-
cert, King’s Gym, 8 p.m.
Monday, April 30 — Wilkes-Barre Jaycees Carnival,
Stegmaier Lot, Monday-Friday 6-10:30 p.m.; Saturday,
noon-midnight.
Towers, 5-9 p.m.; “1984”, King’s College, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 4 — Annual Tree Planting, Sheraton
Crossgates, 11:45 a.m.; Annual Luncheon, Sheraton
Crossgates, 12 noon; “1984 King’s College, 8 p.m.;
LCCC Art Exhibit, Provincial Towers, 7:30-6:30 p.m.;
Great Rock Scare, Stegmaier Lot, 7-9 p.m.; Penn’s
Woods Girl Scouts Flea Market, Ice-A-Rama, 7:30-9
Saturday, May 5 — LCCC Art Exhibit, Provincial
Towers, 7:30-6 p.m.; LCCC Art Exhibit * Opening
Reception, Provincial Towers, 2-4 p.m.; Penn’s Woods
Girl Scouts Flea Market, Ice-A-Rama, 10-7 p.m.;
Penn’s Woods Girl Scouts Flea Market, Opening
reception, Ice-A-Rama, 2-4 p.m.; “1984”, King’s Col-
lege, 9 p.m.; Penn’s Woods Scouts Auction, Ice-A-
Rama, 2-4 p.m.; Cherry Blossom Craft Project,
Osterhout Library Lawn, 11-12 p.m.
_ Saturday, May 5 — Pat Ward, Clown, on the square
11-5 p.m.; Queen Contest, on the square, 11-12 noon;
Sounds of Silence, on the square, 12-12:30 p.m.; Music
Choral Ensemble, on the square, 1-2 p.m.; Luft 4
ical and Geological Society 1890’s Auction, on the
square, 3-4 p.m.; Barbershop Harmony on the Square,
on the square, (features barbershoppers from Pa, Va.
and Md.) 4-5 p.m.
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Monday, May 7 — LCCC Art Exhibit, Provincial
Towers, 7:30-6 p.m.
The Economic Development Coun-
cil ‘of Northeastern Pennsylvania
and the Small Business Develop-
ment Administration have joined
together in inviting state and local
experts on small business to speak
on achieving successful start-up
ventures and expansion and contin-
uation of their respective commer-
cial or industrial enterprises.
Small business expert panelists
will be at the Hilton at Lackawanna
Station, Scranton on April 27 and
will include Thomas Joseph, Presi-
dent of Markdata, Inc., Pittston;
John Yaissle, President, Yaissle
Body Company, Pottsville; and
Loren Shultz, Executive Director o
the Montgomeryville Technology
Center. These successful business
people will be discussing strategic
planning, financing, managing and
motivating people.
Other important speakers partici-
pating will include John Sokolowski,
Director of the Wilkes-Barre Branch
Office, Small Business Administra-
tion and Lee Ciarmatori, Vice Presi-
dent of Wyoming National Bank.
Both will be discussing current
financial packaging strategies.
Local business persons and gov-
ernmental officials interested in
participating in this full day semi-
nar may make a reservation by
contacting Robert Murphy of the
Economic Development Council of
Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1151
Oak Street, Pittston, Pa. 18640-3795
or by calling (717) 655-5581. A fee of
day event and will include handout
materials, a lunch and participation
at a wine and cheese reception to be
held. The conference is scheduled to
run from 9 a.m. to 4;30 p.m. with
registration 8 to 9 a.m.
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital will
sponsor a monthly series of lectures
on ‘Living Today With Diabetes,”
beginning on Thursday, April 26, at
7 p.m.
The program will continue on the
third Thursday of each month
through October in the auditorium
of the Medical Arts Building.
Speaking at the first session on
April 26 will be Richard English,
M.D., who will explain diabetes, its
symptoms and risk factors contrib-
uting to the disease. He will also
outline treatment measures and
complications of this disease that
affects 20 percent of the American
population.
Dr. English, a family practitioner
in Edwardsville, is a graduate of
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and
Thomas Jefferson University School
of Medicine, Philadelphia.
Future diabetes lectures will
focus on the causes of low blood
sugar, appetizing menus for diabet-
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betes and obesity, as well as insulin
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be Mrs. Mary Stoneham, R.N. and
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being offered free of charge under
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Dietary departnmients. For more
information about the series, call
Mary Stoneham, R.N. of the Educa-
tion Department at 288-1411, ext.
4036.
Dogs will
be checked
The entire force of state dog
wardens assigned to the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture’s
Regional Office in Tunkhannock are
presently working in the Back
Mountain area. Their quarry con-
sists of the owners of unlicensed and
free running dogs.
According to Dog Law Supervisor,
Gene Dziak, dog owners who have
failed to get a 1984 license or who
let their dogs run unattended are
leaving themselves open to fines up
to $300 plus court costs. Strays will
be caught and impounded.
Licenses are currently being sold
at the County Treasurer’s Office or
at the Dallas Township Municipal
Building.
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Nanci Krakosky of Swoyersville,
plays the romantic lead of “Babe”
in the ‘Pajama Game’, scheduled
to open on April 27 at the Music Box
Playhouse in Swoyersville.
When the laugh-filled musical
sage of labor vs. management
begins, all members of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union will be entitled to a $1.00
discount on any performance during
the four-week run.
“The Pajama Game’ abounds
with comic and romantic situations
at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory in
the 1950’s. Union, members will
especially appreciate the hijinks
and will probably see many com:
parisons with their own workplaces.
Discounted or regular tickets may
be secured by calling the Box Office
at 283-2195.
JOAN FELA
Fela honored :
Joan Fela, a College Misericordia
junior majoring in Occupational
Therapy, was recently awarded the
Mary R. Minglin scholarship from
the American Occupational Therapy
Foundation (A.Q.T.F.). Ms. Fela is
one of seven students to receive the
scholarship nationwide.
The A.0.T.F. awards scholarships
field of Occupational Therapy (OT) .«
Ms. Fela will be among the first
class of students to graduate from
Misericordia’s O.T. program.
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