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State jobless
rate drops as
U.S. rate rises

From AP and UPI
LANSING - Michigan's unem-
ployment rate dropped for the second
straight month to 14.3 percent in May,
giving some encouragement to state of-
ficials who are banking on an economic
upturn this fall.
The improvement from 17 percent in
March and 15.5 percent in April was
better than expected, but analysts were
cautious in interpreting its long-term
significance since it was the highest
rate for any May since 1958.
According to the Michigan Em-
ployment Security Commission, there
were 616,000 people out of work last
month, compared with 654,000 in April.
Unemployment has fallen 2.7 points
from the record 17 percent rate of
March.
U.S. Unemployment figures, also
released yesterday, showed the
national jobless rate climbed to a new

post-World War II high of 9.5 percent in
May, a fractional increase that the
Reagan administration portrayed
yesterday as a sign of better times
ahead.
The slight rise from 9.4 percent in
April pushed the number of Americans
out of work to 10.5 million, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics said.
New records were set for overall
black unemployment at 18.7 percent,
and one out of every two black teen-age
males ws out of work - another all-time
high. Joblessness among adult males
jumped to 8.4 percent, still another new
high.
Employment increased by 780,000, to
approximately 100.1 million. But a rise
of nearly a quarter-million in the num-
ber of people out of work - coupled with
seasonal adjustments - accounted for
the overall percentage increase in the
basic unemployment figure.

DR. ELISABETH KUBLER-JROSS, internationally acclaimed author and
psychiatrist, describes methods of helping terminally ill patients cope with
their problems at a Continuing Education for Nurses workshop held Thur-
sday evening.
Renowed author conducts

workshop on
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problems..
"GRIEF IS the natural God-given
gift that helps you get through life. It
lasts a very short time and then you're
able to become a whole person again,"
Kubler-Ross said. "If you restrain this
natural process, you will end up a
bucket of self-pity."
Born in 1926, Kubler-Ross said she
initially became interested in the
psychological trauma associated with
death at the end of World War II while
working with survivors of the infamous
Nazi-administered Maidenek Concen-
tration Camp, in which more than
960,000 children were among those
killed.
"My work began in Maidenek, it was
an experience that changed my life,"

death
Kubler-Ross said, adding that she often
remembers the sight of railroad cars
piled high with thousands of baby
shoes.
Citing sub-standard living conditions
and low-quality care, Kubler-Ross
lashed out at the way many nursing
homes are administered, saying, "Our
nursing homes, before I die, should be
changed-all of them."
In 1977, Dr. Kubler-Ross founded a
non-profit organization that conducts
programs for battered women,
homeless youths, ex-convicts, and the
terminally ill. Called "Shanti Nilaya,"
(a Sanskrit work translating "Home of
Peace"), the organization focuses it's
energies on successfully confronting
conflicts and crises that erupt-in
patient's lives.

Woodcock warns grads
of federal aid cuts
By LOU FINTOR
Citing recent federal cuts to student
financial aid as "the greatest threat to
continuing research progress that this
nation has had in many years," former
United AutocWorkers'President-
Leonard Woodcock addressed 218 newr '
doctors yesterday afternoon at Hill
Auditorium.
"The House Budget Committee
estimates almost 2 million fewer
college students would receive aid in
the 1983-84 school year than in the
previous year." Woodcock said, "The
implications are profound. We stand on
the brink of losing the seed corn of
medical scientific progress in this coun-
try," he added.
IN ADDITION to his position as UAW Woodcock
International President, Woodcock
served as the first U.S. Ambassador to blasts federal cuts
the People's Republic of China in 1977. called the UAW experience with
He held a University appointment as preventive health care benefits "disap-
Adjunct Professor of Political Science pointing."
during the 1981-82 academic year. "In retrospect, it appears that not
Woodcock's address, entitled "The enough of our member familes were
Vulnerability of Medicine to Noxious knowledgeable about the advantages of
Influences," highlighted health care these preventive health measures, and
delivery systems in the People's their doctors, when they saw patients,
Republic of China which focus on didn't promote preventive health,"
prevention and primary care, and Woodcock explained.


Strike continues to delay hospital work
By BILL SPINDLE workers in Washtenaw County went on strike thoughnothing officialhas been planned.
Hospital planning officials are still uncertain how Tuesday morning after talks with Associated General Frank Kruse, spokesman for Associated Contrac-
long a construction workers strike will delay work on Contractors of Detroit broke down late Mgonday. tors of Detroit said he felt the strike would be settled
the University's Replacement Hospital Project. With those four unions not working, it becomes im- before the end of next week.
The $285 million hospital construction site has been possible for any construction on the site to continue, Hospital and University officials said they did not
closed down since Monday when contract talks bet- according to Bremer. know how much money, if any, the project could lose
ween laborers and a Detroit contracting firm broke "FROM OUR point of view it's impossible to tell due to the delay. University Vice President and Chief
down. who is on strike, who is withholding services, and who Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff said the
HOSPITAL PLANNER Marsha Bremer said there is just not showing up-there's just no one there," University hospital would have to pay for additional
was "nothing happening" yesterday on the construe- said Bremer. expenses incurred by the delay.
tion site. Hospital and labor officials are unsure of how long Meanwhile, Bremer said the hospital planners
Four trade workers unions-Teamsters Local 247, the strike will last, however, Ray Poupore, business were "doing as much management planning as we
Ironworkers Local 25, Operating Engineers Local manager for Operating Engineers Local 324 said can to be prepared for when they do go back to
324, and Carpenters Local 512-that represent "there has been talk of a meeting over the weekend," work."