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A 3 THE CUREr3uRNAU TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1S09 All appears ready for launching of lottery today NASHVILL 3J" 4 J. Percy Priest 5ii J3 Reservoir lix" SMYRNA Louisville rf KENTUCKY Nashville (Sm AREA -JP ENLARGED JT TENNESSEE ginia state lottery, which uses the same equipment. Also yesterday, a state Revenue official said the lottery had already brought about $31,000 to the state treasury. Reed Rhorer, a principal assistant to Revenue Secretary C. Emmett Calvert, said the money came from tax checks that were routinely conducted on each store owner who ap plied to be a lottery retailer.

The lottery must devote 35 cent of its gross sales to the state treasury if the first two games sell out completely, the state would receive $35 million. was largely complimentary of the organization. The 13-page audit, which cost $15,300 and was conducted by the accounting firm of Coopers and Ly-brand, pointed out that the corporation had no contingency plan for dealing with emergencies such as power failures. Because the lottery relies heavily on its computer, a "a prolonged interruption in computer services may have a serious impact on the business performance and image of the corporation," the audit notes. Keener said he hopes to develop a joint contingency plan with the Vir Continued from Page One by DreamStakes." Both games use tickets with a waxy coating over six dollar amounts.

Tickets that reveal three matching dollar amounts win. Each "Beginner's Luck" ticket will cost prizes will range from $1 to $1,000. Lottery officials hope to sell 40 million tickets for the game. The odds of winning at least $1 are about 1 in 5. "DreamStakes" tickets will cost the game's biggest prize is $1 million, paid in 20 annual installments of $50,000.

The game will pay prizes of be Nissan plant expansion will add car, 2,000 jobs Continued from Page One ket as the Nissan Stanza. The design for the car's styling is expected to be completed within a few weeks, Benefield said. But design of the engine and other options won't be complete for up to 18 months. "It is a completely new car being designed with completely new styles and developed from scratch," Benefield said. The new car is scheduled to roll off the line in the summer of 1992, in time for the 1993 model-year introduction.

The company, which employs 3,200, will hire 1,750 production technicians and about 250 administrators beginning next year. Nissan said it will spend $90 million on a training program and has asked the state to chip in $9 million for the program. "We have training money available in Tennessee and naturally we will go to the legislature and discuss it with them," said Gov. Ned Nurse shortage to close some operating rooms tween $2 and $500, and 200 of the game's 30 million tickets will feature the word "Derby" printed three times. The winning "Derby" tickets net a $5,000 prize and the chance to win one of 25 expense-paid trips to the Kentucky Derby.

Those 25 winners will be winnowed down to the number of horses in the Derby; those winners will be assigned a horse, and the person with the winning horse wins the $1 million jackpot. Also yesterday, state Auditor Bob Babbage released a management audit of the lottery corporation that Doctors who don't want their patients on a waiting list for operations might move them to other hospitals, Holtzman said. But University is the primary hospital serving poor people in Jefferson County, and Polk said he didn't know how long patients with no other options would have to wait for surgery. "I'm extremely concerned about it" Polk said. University Hospital has tried to attract more nurses, Holtzman said, advertising a $1,500 bonus for new hires and bringing In some workers from a company-wide nursing pool.

But the hospital has not been able to replace nurses as fast as they are leaving. Moreover, new nurses tend to be less experienced than the ones who left "Almost invariably, what's happened is we have lost more experienced nurses and have replaced those nurses with younger nurses with less experience," Malangoni said. "As in any job, experience counts for a fair amount. There is no doubt that an operating-room may forgive nurse who has experience is a much more efficient employee." Having inexperienced nurses in the operating room "might slow the operation down a little bit" Malangoni said. But because of surgeons' expertise, "it's not really going to cause any direct harm to the patient." Holtzman said: "What tends to happen here is that we get younger nurses coming here to get experience.

And then they become very marketable people to other hospitals here in town, once they get that experience, and we see that turnover" Often, Holtzman said, the nurses who leave are being offered daytime work hours or supervisory positions at other hospitals. Most nurses at University frequently must work overtime, nights and weekends, he said. Gemma Ziegler, a nurse involved in recent efforts to organize unions for Louisville-area nurses, said operating-room nurses have cited under-staffing, long hours and stress as reasons for leaving University. Wilkinson hints he may deal on education program, tax hike billions it's owed by Cuba Miller, the trauma director, said, "I see morale (among operating--room nurses) as a big problem." fore Humana took over operation of University Hospital, "the conditions were bad," he said. "The nurses worked hard," but they also had "this sense of altruism Now they see this as just Humana turning a profit" Miller and others said they also are concerned about what will happen if the shortage of operating-room nurses persists.

"When the weather gets warm, we begin to see a lot more" accident' and trauma cases, Polk said. "We've -got our head halfway above water now, but if we were to get busy, the way we always do in the summer, I don't know how we'd manage." The hospital probably could cope. Miller said, but only if the operating rooms were used almost solely for emergency cases. A long-term shortage is "going to have a huge impact on the teaching function, and a big impact on the patients who are sort of locked into this hospital," he said. toward democracy.

Nevertheless, Castro has gone out of his way to present a friendly face' to Gorbachev and the hundreds of journalists who are in Cuba to watch. As the Soviet leader descended the steps from his plane Sunday, Castro began to beam, and the two men have been going out of their way since to show the world a relationship that is close and comfortable. When a reporter asked Gorbachev if Soviet-style reforms should come to Cuba, Castro took the Kremlin leader by the arm, tried to lead him away and said, "They are all North Americans. You don't have to talk to them." "There is change going on everywhere," Gorbachev said, and walked off with his Cuban host Information for this story was also gathered by The New York Times. Westinghouse takes over Savannah nuclear plant AIKEN, S.C (AP) Westing-house Co.

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Joe Wright Said meeting produced some agreements of raising funds up in the air," Wright said. If the legislature agrees to some kind of deal, Wright said, it needs "a very clear understanding of what's going to be done." House Speaker Don Blandford said the discussion with Wilkinson was encouraging. "Certainly it's frustrating that you don't quote, have a breakthrough," Blandford said. "But I think as long as we're talking and discussing the issues like we did today, like we did last week, that's got to be positive. Something will follow from that I think we will eventually get there." Wilkinson was not available after the meeting at the Governor's Mansion, but his spokesman, Doug Alexander, said the governor was pleased with the gathering.

Lawmakers hope to reach a consensus on an approach to education that may be taken up during a special legislative session this year. The essential differences between Wilkinson and the lawmakers involve timing and emphasis. Wilkinson has said repeatedly that he believes nothing short of a complete restructuring will improve Kentucky schools. Legislators back some more concrete proposals, such as reduced class sizes and more money for poorer districts. "The question as to whether you only consider restructuring or include other items along with restructuring would be the basic disagreement" if a disagreement exists, Blandford said.

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Frank Miller, the hospital's director of trauma, the operating-room closings should not affect the hospital's ability to cope with people needing immediate surgery. "What it will affect however, is somebody that needs a more elective operation, that doesn't have an acute need like a hernia repair or in some circumstances perhaps a hysterectomy," Malangoni said. "There may be some reordering of those cases, and delays." Dr. Joseph E. Kutz, president of the Jefferson County Medical Society, said physicians have been told that they no longer can reserve blocks of time for non-emergency surgery in University's operating rooms.

Doctors have been told "this is now a first-come, first-served basis, and we're going to be limited for a period of time," Kutz said. Soviet Union Continued from Page One our economic ties," including an increase of Cuban exports to the Soviet Union. In a speech today to the National Assembly, Gorbachev may excuse the billions in debt that Havana has accumulated since the two countries began their special relationship three decades ago. If Gorbachev does excuse the debt estimated by some Western experts at up to $20 billion the gesture will be more symbolic than substantive. Few analysts have ever expected Moscow, which continues to send $6 billion in aid to Cuba each year, to collect on the debt.

According to one senior western diplomat "If Castro ever had to pay back the debt to the Soviet Union, Cuba would have the largest per-capita debt in Latin America." However, such a gesture would give an important boost to Cuban confidence in the Soviet Union and would win political points in this region against the U.S. and other Western countries whose banks are the major creditors in the Third World. In several recent speeches, including his Dec. 7 remarks to the U. N.

General Assembly, Gorbachev has challenged the West to be more lenient with debtor countries. In their 90-minute session at the Cuban Central Committee building yesterday morning, Gorbachev gave an extensive description of the March 26 multi-candidate elections in the Soviet Union, said Gerasimov. Castro has rejected any similar program of democratization, and the Soviet elections are said to be a sore point The official Cuban press has carried few details about the process and the startling results. UP 89 CHEROKEE SPORT Was $15073. 4 4, 6 cylinder, tilt, gauge group, visibility group, radio.

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Wright declined to specifically characterize Wilkinson's position. Asked to confirm an account of the meeting that had Wilkinson favoring conformity in return for passage of his plan, Wright said, "That is an accurate reflection." Wright also recalled Wilkinson suggesting that another option could be other changes in the income tax. One of the other lawmakers said the group also discussed eliminating or reducing some tax exemptions. Asked how much revenue Wilkinson appeared willing to raise, Wright said the discussion "went from $100 million to $300 million" a year. It has been estimated that conformity could raise as much as $100 million a year.

Wright said a Rent increase in the sales tax, which would raise about $200 million, was not discussed. Wright said there appeared to be a consensus at the meeting that the state also should raise the minimum tax effort that local school districts must make to qualify for state "power-equalization" funds, which reduce the disparity among districts' property-tax bases. Wright said he did not know how the rank and file of the General Assembly would respond to the developments. "There was some concern expressed afterward that, if you give the governor what he wants, it leaves the legislature and the issue 1 89 NISSAN SENTRA w. 1950S speed arsmistion.

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