de de THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1969 SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, I KY. Cuts In Medicaid Program Revealed FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Medicaid recipients will receive special cards 1 to prevent overuse of doctors' services when cutbacks in the Medicaid program begin Tuesday. Each visit will be recorded on the card for inspection by lic assistance offices. The recommendation was one of several approved Wednesday by the state Medical Advisory Council in an attempt to avert possible $5 million fiscal deflicit in the Medicaid program.
The cutbacks are scheduled to take effect Tuesday. The recommendations came from the Economic Security and Health departments after a budget check revealed the Medicaid program probably would exceed its allotted $51 million by $8.5 million. The departments also recommended limiting house visits to two per patient per year. Another recommendation was for payment to be made for a maximum of three family memone seen by a physician in day, except in emergencies. The two measures are expected to cut doctor payment expenses by $450,000 annually.
In addition the recommended that length of authorized hospital stays be from 14 to seven days except in extreme cases. Low priority drugs costing $2.8 million annually will be stricken from the approved drug list. Included will be cough medicines and similar minor drugs. Economic Security Commissioner Merritt S. Deitz Jr.
said he hopes to have expenditure figures at the council's next meeting to show whether or not the Medicaid program is staying within its budget. Tragedy Hits Family Again; Two Missing PETROLEUM, Ky. (AP) Violent tragedy has struck again at the John Anderson family. Anderson, 88, and his sister, Mrs. Ella Dalton, 89, are still missing after rampaging flood waters swept away the Anderson home.
The body of his wife Minnie, 86, was recovered Wednesday by Civil Defense authorities. A daughter, Mrs. Eunice Walker, 55, Indianapolis, also was in the house when it washed away. She was was found alive after clinging to tree branches for eight hours. Mrs.
Walker related the following history of tragedy that has marred the family's lives: -Her sister, Maudie Britt, was shot to death in Indianapolis 15 years ago. -A brother, bill, died when his legs were severed in a sawmill accident. -And, the wife of J. D. Anderson, another brother, died last year when fire destroyed their Indianapolis home.
Mrs. Dalton's body was found in the Trammel Creek, about eight miles from the spot where the creek's floodwaters carried away the Anderson home. Mrs. Walker said she urged her parents Monday to leave the house after water had rushed in. They refused, she said.
Then, she added, she heard a loud noise and was swept away when water smashed into the home, demolishing it. Ray Saver, a witness, said the flood "just pushed the house up into the air and dropped it in pieces." Recreation Grants Set For Five State Areas FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) More than $725,000 in grants to five Kentucky communities have been approved at the state level, Gov. Louie B. Nunn's office announced Wednesday.
The grant applications, forwarded by the Kentucky Program Development Office for final approval and funding from the federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, are: Fayette County; $250,000 buy 105 acres of land for the proposed Shillito Park. Georgetown; $105,500 for a swimming pool, bathhouse, playground, ball fields, tennis courts, picnic facilities and parking area on a 10-acre city park site. Louisa; $60,250 for a swimming pool, bathhouse, play- and ball field on a acre site. Maysville and Mason County; $100,000 to acquire and develop a 67-acre tract of land with a swimming pool, bathhouse, playground, ball field, picnic facilities and parking areas. Frankfort; $210,999 to develop the 45-acre East Frankfort Park with a swimming pool, bathhouse, ball fields, multi-purpose courts for tennis, volleyball and the like, and shelters, picnic facilities, playgrounds, trails for hiking, roads and parking areas.
If funded, these grounds would bring the total of Bureau of Outdoor Recreation grants to Kentucky to $1,640,867 for fiscal year 1968-69. Vietnam War Toll a Decline Reported SAIGON (AP) Battle deaths in Vietnam dropped last week with a lessening in major ground fighting, the allied mands reported today. U.S. headquarters said 247 Americans were killed in action in the seven-day period ending at midnight Saturday--a decrease of 88 deaths from 335 the previous week. American wounded also dropped from 1,695 to 1,686.
Of these, headquarters said, 797 were hospitalized. South Vietnamese headquarters said its forces lost 474 men killed last week, down from 516 the previous week. But the 1,496 Apollo 11 Team Rehearsal Is Set CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) The Apollo 11 launch team to-, day readied rocket and spaceship for a seven-day countdown rehearsal for next month's man-on-the-moon mission. The rehearsal starts Friday and involves all countdown steps planned for the launch, including loading tons of propellant aboard the 36-storytall Saturn 5 rocket.
The first phase of the practice count is to end next Wednesday. The following day, with the fuel tanks emptied, the three astronauts are to participate in a practice of the final hours of the countdown. Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
and Michael Collins are to ride the Saturn 5 into space July 16. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin are to land on the moon. PAGE TWENTY-ONE-A TORRES ROCERY SCENE OF MULTIPLE SLAYING Police year old mother, and seven of family's nine remove bodies of eight members of family of children were either stabbed or beaten to Rafael Torres, 42, from home in Jersey City, death, police reported, in outN.J. early Wednesday. Mrs.
Marie Torres, 40- burst by father. unexplained, Status Of Knowles As Chief Health Nominee Undecided WASHINGTON (AP) The on-again, off-again unofficial nomination of Dr. John H. Knowles as the nation's top health officer appears off again today or does it? Differing, President reports Nixon abounded had on decided to battle the American Medical Association and Senate LIZA MINELLI IN NEW YORK -Singer Liza Minelli, daughter of the late Judy Garland, sits in car as she leaves her East Side New York apartment Wednesday, about an hour before an airliner carrying her mother's body was due at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Miss Garland died in London over the weekend.
(AP Wirephoto) Judy Garland's Body Returned For Funeral NEW YORK (AP) A crowd gathered behind police barricades this morning, dark, threatening skies, to be among the first to view the body of Judy Garland. A few had waited through the Another Jetliner Hijacked MIAMI (AP) A man in white sweater hijacked a jetliner with 57 aboard to Cuba Wednesday night, boosting to 1,611 the number of persons who have been detoured to the ibbean island this year. A witness at Havana's Jose Marti Airport said the man was taken into custody by Cuban officials. No weapon was visible and further identification could not be made, said the witness. Jim Frazier of the Federal Aviation Administration in Miami said the crew gave no information on the during the nonstop California to Ha: vana flight, the hijacking to Cuba in 1969.
The pilot veered southeast from a regular course on the scheduled Los Angeles-to-New York flight over Riverside, less than 16 minutes after he was airborne. The DC8, United Air Lines flight 14, carried 50 passengers, including several United sales personnel from New York, and a crew of seven. The plane landed at Havana at 12:01 a.m. Mrs. Ora Webb, 67, Dies At Princeton PRINCETON, June 26 Mrs.
Ora Mae Webb, 67, died at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Caldwell County War Memorial Hospital. Survivors include her husband, Frank Webb; two sons, the Rev. George Webb, Westboro, and Dickie Webb, Princeton; four brothers, Homer, Louard and Richard Herron, Princeton, and Jesse Herron, Columbus, and three granddaughters. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
The body is at Morgan Funeral Home here, was a memone The to by of be except government last week soldiers wounded in- action was an crease over 1,424 wounded a week earlier. The two commands said 3,988 enemy were reported killed last week. They updated the previous week's toll from 4,360 to 4,504. The casualties raised to 36,625 the number of Americans killed in action in Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961.
Another 234,889 Americans have been wounded and 1,337 are listed as missing, captured or interned. The number of enemy reported killed since 1961 now stands at 520,219. By unofficial count, 13,674 Americans have been killed since May 13, 1968, when preliminary peace talks began in Paris. Of these 6,568 have died since Dec. 7, when South Vietnam agreed to join the talks.
War Protest OKed By Court Ruling WASHINGTON (AP) There was no police interference Wednesday when about 30 Vietnam war protesters, protected by a court ruling, peacefully took turns reading the names of American soldiers killed in the war. Police had broken up six previous gatherings but a District of Columbia judge ruled last week that the arrests were invalid. Judge Harold H. Greene of the Court of General Sessions held that peaceful, non-disruptive assemblies can't be barred from the Capitol steps under present law. LEADS MARCH-Rev.
Jesse Jackson (center) Wednesday led more than 600 blacks in a long march through the racially tense city of Cairo, Ill. The march, staged to emphasize a boycott by blacks against white merchants in Cairo, began at Pyramid Courts, all-Negro PRAYER SESSION--About 600 persons kneel in prayer in front of Alexander County, (Cairo) courthouse Wednesday following a silent march through downtown Cairo. The Prayer Session Follows (Staff Photo by Carl Manning) housing project, and was routed through the downtown section, ending in front of Alexander County Courthouse for a prayer session. Jackson is national director of Operation Breadbasket, sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Republican Leader Everett M.
Dirksen and send the name to the Senate. And the White House itself was doing little to help matters. A White House spokesman warned newsmen Wednesday against "going out on a limb" in predicting that Knowles would be named for the post that has gone vacant for nearly six months while a major test of wills built up between Dirksen and the administration. The warning was issued even though Nixon told a nationally televised 1 news conference last week that he would abide by the choice of Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch and a Finch spokesman said Wednesday night "the name had been sent up to the White House." Knowles, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital, is Finch's choice to be his assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs.
He is opposed by powerful elements in the AMA who feel he is too liberal and too hospital-oriented. Dirksen publicly sided with the AMA in April, saying the medical association deserves to be heard because of its broad influence in the health field. A few hours after the word of caution from the White House CBS news said flatly Nixon had decided against the nomination. It quoted an unnamed senator who had been with Nixon earlier. Shortly afterward the Washlington Post weighed in with a report that the nomination was in doubt.
said. He referred to widespread reports, that the administration about to revise guidelines that call for desegregation of all schools by this fall-a revision that would extend the deadline until next year or later. in The guidelines question has been building throughout the at week into a separate controversy that could cause the administration to put off the Knowles nomination for several more days. There also was speculation, however, the administration's nip-and-tuck efforts to win extension of the 10 per cent income surcharge might interfere with plans to announce the Knowles appointment. Finch, who spent Wednesday in New York giving a speech, could not be reached for comment.
An aide declined to try to contact the secretary, saying "the guy's under too much pressure." It quoted Rep. Bob Wilson, California Republican who chairs the House GOP Campaign Committee, as saying "It's a whole new ball game now." Wilson, who opposes Knowles although he has no official say in the matter as a tive, attributed the apparent sudden change to "too many pressures on both sides." Contacted by telephone, Knowles appeared surprised at the reports but said he would have "no comment." An aide to one leading Republican senator said "my boss was amazed" at the latest reports. "The last thing we heard was speculation that there was a trade between Knowles and the school guidelines," the aide Mrs. Alexander, 75, Arlington, Dies; Rites Saturday ARLINGTON, June 26 Mrs. Maggie Alexander, 75, died Monday at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah.
She was a member of the Silver Springs Baptist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Minnie Host, Gary, a brother, William Smith, Arlington; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Silver Springs Baptist Church by the Rev.
C. C. Reynolds. march was led by Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led a similar march Sunday and a rally Tuesday night, (Staff Photo by Carl Manning) Blacks Stage Peaceful March Through Cairo By CARL MANNING Sun-Democrat Staff Writer CAIRO, June 26-A silent peaceful protest march by more than 600 blacks Wednesday through downtown Cairo ended with a prayer session in front of the Alexander County Courthouse.
The march, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, was the climax to three days of marches and Cairo sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Rev. Jackson is director of Operation Breadbasket and a SCLC leader. The first rally and march was on Sunday morning followed by a rally Tuesday night at Ward Chapel AME Church which was filled with more than 1,000 persons, mostly black.
The next scheduled move for the SCLC is to lead a caravan Thursday from Cairo to Springfield, picking up support from SCLC members in various cities throughout the state. Once in Springfield, the Rev. Jackson said, they are going to petition Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie to bring an end to the alleged inequalities for the blacks in Cairo.
The protest march today started. the Ward Chapel Church on 17th Street with the Rev. Jackson leading his followers through the Pyramid Courts, where he picked up several more followers. The Pyramid Courts is an allNegro housing project and has been the site of several raciallyoriented incidents in recent weeks. From Pyramid Courts, the group, chanting "Black Power" and "black is beautiful," walked a through a residential section before crossing the main street through Cairo and walking through the downtown area.
At times the line of marchers, almost all black with the exception of about four Roman Catholic priests and a young white girl, was two blocks long. City police were visible although their duties were confined primarily to directing street traffic around the marchers. Merchants and shoppers alike came to the front of the as the band of marchers passed. The onlookers also remained silent as the group progressed towards the courthouse. Once at the courthouse, the Rev.
Jackson held a prayer session and told the group gathered that "we are going to see a new day, a day when all of us can be free and walk straight." Several county officials came to the front of the courthouse but they, like those in the downtown area, were silent. The group broke up after a short prayer session at the courthouse. Following the march, the Rev. (Gerald Montroy, a white Roman Catholic who has been working in the black community, said he was pleased with the outcome of the march. "It showed a solidarity of the black people who are working for the cause of justice," Father Montroy said.
"If the black Rhine River Is Clear Of Poison DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) The West German section of the' Rhine River showed no more traces Wednesday of a poison that has killed millions of fish, officials reported. A Health Ministry water expert said one sack of insecticide may have caused all the trouble. A spokesman for the North Rhine State Agricultural Ministry said the poison began disappearing from the river water late Tuesday. He added that fish put in the river showed no effects of poisoning. Trout died within seven minutes after being put in the water Tuesday.
The federal water expert told a news conference in Bonn: "As far as can be established, the poisoning was caused by about 100 kilograms-220 pounds--of Endo Solvan, which is about a sackful." Dutch authorities earlier said they had traced the poison to the German-produced insecticide which is marketed under the trade name of Thiodan. Amsterdam has shut off all water from the Rhine, which usually supplies about half the city's water needs. The water expert, who is aiding investigation of the poison, said the insecticide could have been thrown, dropped or washed accidentally into the already heavily polluted river in the wine-growing region around Bingen, where the dead fish were first detected last week. Camden, Youth Dies In Car Accident CLINTON, June 26 A one-car traffic accident Wednesday approximately three miles north of Clinton on U.S. 51 took the life of Leonard W.
Hampton, 20, of Camden, Tenn. State police reported that the accident occurred at about 3 a.m. The Hampton vehicle ran off the road and through a guard rail into a ditch. Hampton was declared dead at the scene by the Hickman County coroner. community is not united, then nothing will ever be accomplished." The march came after Cairo's black community was called upon by Illinois Attorney General William Scott today to end its 12-week economic boycott of the downtown merchants.
Organizers of the boycott said they were "completely rejecting the idea by the attorney general." However, Father Montroy said, "Anytime the city is ready for meaningful dialogue, then the United Front will be willing to meet with them." The United Front, a group of black-oriented organizations including the NAACP, started the boycott a few weeks before the racial violence began. night, and since 3 a.m., they tened to her songs, from a portable record player carried by a 21-year-old Bronx girl, Marylin Davis. About 500 persons had gathered along East 81st Street at Madison Avenue, near the funeral chapel as morning rushhour traffic moved by and New Yorkers hurried to work. Miss Garland's body was returned to New York early today. Except for the singer's daughter, Liza Minnelli, only police, newsmen and cargo handlers were present when the jetliner from London taxied up to Kennedy Airport's International Ara rivals Building shortly before 1 a.m.
Miss Garland, 47, collapsed and died in the bathroom of her Chelsea home Sunday. Dr. John Trehearne, her London physician, told a coroner's inquest Wednesday that Miss Garland took barbiturates for a long time and said the sedatives he prescribed for her were necessary to life. "I don't think she could have slept without them," he said. Coroner Gavin Thurston ruled the death accidental through "an incautious self-overdose" of the sleeping pills and also said "there was no question of alcoholism." Liza waited in a heavily guarded limousine outside the building while Mickey Deans, the entertainer's fifth husband, and the Rev.
Peter Delaney, who married the couple three months ago, stepped from the plane. Deans, looking pale, waited until the other passengers left and went to the rear of the plane to watch as the burlap-covered coffin was transferred to the hearse. Then he and the Rev. Mr. Delaney left with Miss Minnelli.
The hearse drove to the Madison Avenue funeral chapel where a private funeral will be held Friday. body will lie in a glass covered coffin for public viewing from a.m. to 10 p.m. today and 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Friday. About 45 persons were on hand at the funeral chapel when the hearse arrived at 1:45 a.m. Five of the troup said they would wait through the night to be first in line when the public viewing begins. Mrs. Smith, 84, Dies In Kuttawa BENTON, June 26-Mrs.
Dovie Adeline Smith, 84, widow of Jack Smith, died Wednesday at 6:30 p.m, at Hilltop Rest Home in Kuttawa. She was formerly a' resident of Paducah Rt. 3 and a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church. Mrs. Smith i is survived by three daughters, Mrs.
Herman Walden of Paducah Rt. 3, Mrs. Curtis Housden of Symsonia, and Mrs. Frank Ashley of Lake City; one son, Erie Smith of Symsonia Rt. one sister, Mrs.
Nancy Hamlet of Benton Rt. 14 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at Collier Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Henry White and the Rev.
Mayo Mansfield in charge. Burial will be in Benton Cemetery. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call at the funeral home. Mrs.
Pruda Mayes, 73, Marion, Dies; Services Friday MARION, June 26 Mrs. Pruda Mayes, 73, died at Western Baptist. Hospital in Paducah early Wednesday after a lengthy illness. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Ohannesan of Detroit; one son, Delmer Mayes of Paducah; a sister, Mrs.
Vera Mayes of Sullivan, two brothers, Enis and Cecil Ward of Flint, seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Rosebud Methodist Church. The Rev. Guy Gordon will be assisted by the Rev.
S. R. Beaty in officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Tuckler Funeral Home..
