PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1993 3-C." STATE REGION AP Leigh Sample is among an estimated 25 million Americans who don't have sufficient health-care coverage. Under-insured family forced into tough choices 2 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEXINGTON, Ky. Despite having a job and insur- i ance coverage, a Fayette County. woman nearly became a casualty of the health -care crisis. Leigh Sample, 28, learned in June 1991 that she had hepatitis and a failing liver.
She discovered then how money determines who will live and who will die. Mrs. Sample was among an estimated .25 million Americans who don't have sufficient health insurance coverage. Another 37 million people have no health insurance, even though most them live in households with at least one person working full time. In Mrs.
Sample's case, both she and her husband, Marc, now deceased, were employed. She worked as a bookkeeper at a nursing home. He was a jockey's agent. But with a lifetime maximum of $100,000 in benefits, her insurance barely. made a dent in the costs of a liver transplant.
in Pittsburgh, for transPresbyterian University, Hospital plants, refused to even schedule the procedure without $200,000 up front. The hospital also refused to accept Kentucky Medicaid for transplants because will pay only $100,000 for the operation. Mrs. Sample recalled what her husband found out: "He said, 'What if we don't have They said, "'We're sorry, Mr. Sample, but we have to deal with this every day.
It's 'either that or she doesn't have the Leigh Sample's mother-in-law, Ann Sample, cashed in two $100,000 certificates of deposit, and Leigh Sample soon had her transplant. Either cash in the CDs "or sit there and watch her die," Ann Sample "said. "That's pretty earth-shattering right there. I think if my husband were here, he would have said, 'Do Harry Sample, who was a vice president at Parker Seals in Lexington and who died of cancer four years ago, had intended the money to provide security for his wife and their oldest son, Brian, who has Down syndrome, Ann Sample said. Ann Sample and her son had been living on the interest from those savings and income from Social Security.
But when her younger son, Marc, told her of his wife's condition, she knew what she had to do, even though she said it meant that the interest portion of her income would be cut about in half. "I'll never see the $200,000 again," said Sample. "But I see every day in Leigh. Leigh Sample's co-workers collected at least $1,500, and friends and strangers donated to a trust fund set T-SHIRTS SMALL $1.95 thru TEE SHIRTS TANK TOPS MUSCLE SHIRTS WHOLESALE PRICES AVAILABLE WORK SMART Clothing Factory Outlet 31814 Vine St. 15840 Broadway Mapletown Shop.
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10-8 Deal reached in school strike ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTON School and union officials agreed last night on a tentative contract settlement in negotiations to end a 16-day teachers' strike, a school board spokeswoman said. Jill Moberley said the agreement was reached about 6:45 p.m. She said no details were available. The Dayton school board was to meet later last night to consider the agreement, she said. G.
Keith Haws, president of the Dayton Education Association, the teachers union, could not be reached for comment. Dayton television stations WKEF and WHIO reported that the union would vote on the tentative agreement April 18. Union and board negotiators had bargained most of Thursday and resumed talks at 4:30 a.m. yesterday. Marathon talks "They had a counter (offer) to our proposal, which we had some problems with," Superintendent James Williams said.
"We discussed that and asked them to Williams declined to discuss details of the contract proposals. Talks previously had stalled over proposed salary increases, incentive bonuses and employee contributions to health insurance. Later, Haws and other union negotiators began closed-door meetings with local labor and community leaders, including Wes Wells, executive director of the Miami Valley AFLCIO, and the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, president of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "What is happening now which lead to pact $100,000 Register to the which $300,000 contributed campaign for last fall's successful 10.4-mill I welcome is that both parties are school levy.
discussing some issues through a third party," Williams said. "Right ups and downs of the talks now, it seems to be working well distressed some striking teachers. from our standpoint. It's taking some "I feel disappointed," said' Pant of the friction out of the process, and Tyrrell, a teacher at Jefferson Monhopefully we can bring this thing to tessori elementary school. "It's taksome type of closure this weekend." ing so long, and so many people's The school district's spring break lives are on the line." began yesterday, with pupils sched- Tyrrell said the teachers' spirits uled to return to classes April 19.
The were lifted when both sides agreed to student absentee rate has been about a marathon bargaining session, since the strike began March 25. Dayton teachers have a starting Negotiators resumed talks Thurs- salary of $22,500. The teachers had day after a weeklong break. They been working under the terms of the pledged to negotiate until the strike old contract, which expired last year. is settled.
Some striking have The resumption of talks was urged started receiving interest-free loans by ministers, labor officials and busi- from the Ohio Education Associaness leaders. The meeting between tion. When the strike ends, repay. negotiators and the coalition urging will be deducted in installnegotiations was held at Standard ments from the teachers' checks. 3 Museum offers glimpse of small town By MICHELE MORIN THE DAILY TELEGRAM (ADRIAN) TEc*msEH, Mich.
It's a crystal ball of sorts, giving visitors a glimpse of Tec*mseh from days gone by. Set in a Catholic church constructed in 1913 of cobblestone from surrounding fields, the Tec*mseh Area Historical Museum lives up to its name. The museum, owned and operated by the Tec*mseh Area Historical Society, boasts an array of photographs, artwork, household items, clothing and other historic displays. All artifacts are from the Tec*mseh area, having been donated by residents, and tell the tale of this town started in 1824, explained society members Fred and Opal Dickinson. "I think it gives them (visitors) more history of Tec*mseh than anything they can learn in books," Opal said.
"It's all right here on Her husband Fred agreed. "It gives people a glimpse of what was used in the past. A lot of towns don't have anything like this," he said. Composite photos of Tec*mseh High School graduating classes from the 1930s and 1940s line the museum walls. A series of shelves are stacked with historic photos of the town and people who lived here.
One corner of the museum features dresses sewn by local seamstress Maude Bell as long ago as the 1920s. Opal said Bell was well-known during the Depression era and made TEACH SOMEBODY If you can read, you're needed. Project: and to help foreign speakers learn English. ARE YOU BEING BAMBOOZLED BY "FREE" ESTIMATES? Many homeowners are tempted by offers of free basem*nt inspections. Usually, the "inspectors," who actually are sales persons, poke around your basem*nt with a hammer and flashlight and give you some warning about the damage your home will sustain if you ignore their waterproofing recommendations.
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Roughly 40 Monday through Friday from 1 to.4 people put in 6,000 volunteer hours p.m. and additional hours by 'apbefore the facility opened to the pub- pointment 517-423-2374. Visitors are lic in 1986, Opal said. free to browse through the collection While similar to the Lenawee themselves, but volunteers are always County Historical Society Museum on hand to answer questions or lead in Adrian, the Dickinsons said the tours. two facilities try to work together without overlapping.
"We have items of interest of the Tec*mseh area," Opal said. "We're not in competition with the county Owned and operated by the historical society, the museum is funded through visitor donations and proceeds from the society's Candlelight Tour and Promenade the Past, home tours in November and May. All dis- wedding bride in the gowns for nearly every its own. Originally a Catholic misarea. sion, the building served as a site for Another corner is filled with items and photos from the Hayden Mill, originally at the site of the Tec*mseh Community Center on East Chicago Boulevard, during the 1800s.
A 1944 picture shows Henry Ford sitting a wheat field where Lenawee Stamping Corp. now is. Ford owned the mill as part of his network throughout southeastern Michigan. A compass belonging to Musgrove Evans, who surveyed all of Lenawee County in the 1830s, was donated to the museum by a relative. The typewriter which Clara Waldron used to complete her manuscript "One Hundred Years a Country Town" about Tec*mseh, sits not far away.
Other displays feature Civil War garb, Indian arrowheads and a birchbark canoe. Museum volunteers have also compiled a 10-volume archive filled with photos, newspaper articles and letters about Tec*mseh which span decades. "You can spend hours and hours sitting here looking at it," Opal said. "We invite people to come in and sit down here and just take their time." While it's filled to the rafters with historical tidbits, the Tec*mseh Area Historical Museum has a history all LEARN needs volunteers to teach adults to read To volunteer, call 621-9483. FREE WINDOW REPLACEMENT CLINIC Featuring Marvin Windows 45 MINUTE REPLACEMENT WINDOW That's right 45 minutes.
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