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Busbee pledges
Medicaid balance
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee pledges that the
books will be balanced by
Monday on the state Medicaid
program, plagued by cost
overruns now estimated to be
near S7O million, including $23
million in state funds.
The governor said he would
meet with the Medicaid over
view committees of the state
House and Senate, along with
the executive committee of the
Human Resources department.
“I will no longer allow the
state to play ostrich. Monday
will be the day of reckoning,”
Busbee said, indicating several
programs will probably be cut
back to keep Medicaid from
going bankrupt by April.
Whatever cost cutting for
mulas are written will be
implemented by Dec. 1, per
haps as early as Nov. 1, he told
a news conference Thursday.
Busbee returned from a trip
to Washington saying he
expects approval this week
from new Health, Education
and Welfare Secretary David
Mathews on a proposal to
require Medicaid patients to
pay the first $2 for doctors’ and
emergency room visits.
But he said that will whittle
away only $7 million of the
deficit.
“There will be no new taxes,
as far as I am concerned” to
balance the books on Medicaid,
the governor said. “We will
have to cut back programs.”
He said $lO million earmarked
for capital outlays, building
mental health facilities, has
been frozen and will be pumped
into Medicaid, “but the short
age will still be severe.”
Busbee indicated he probably
would not completely eliminate
any program, although he said
deleting expenditures for nurs
ing home care and drug
prescriptions would put the
budget back in balance.
Another possible approach
which the governor indicated he
would not rely on exclusively
would be uniform cuts in all
Medicaid programs, trimming
each budget to 64 per cent.
He called that a “drastic
solution,” saying few doctors or
druggists would be likely to
accept patients if the state
could promise only 64 per cent
payment of usual fees.
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Georgia Governor George Busbee refused to confirm but
idicated he would not likely recommend complete
suspension of any program to save Medicaid in Georgia
from going into bankruptcy. Busbee said at his weekly
news conference the prescription will be written for the
state’s ailing medicaid program. (UPI)
The Busbee administration
has submitted four cost cutting
proposals to HEW, including
one to substitute foster home
care for the costly S4O million
intermediate nursing home care
program.
That proposal stands a good
chance of HEW approval, the
governor said. “We intend to
present the secretary with full
documentation to support this
important waiver by mid-
November,” he said.
Go go a no no for Navy
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Navy has reduced the punish
ment against the skipper who
hired an exotic dancer to
perform topless aboard his
nuclear submarine.
Adm. J. L. Holloway 111,
chief of naval operatons, ruled
Thursday that Cmdr. Connelly
D. Stevenson can be considered
for command again. He re
scinded a fine of two week’s
pay and confined punishment to
a disciplinary letter.
The Admiral said a decision
by Stevenson’s superiors to
remove him from command
“for cause” was too stiff.
As a reward to his crew for
extra work, Stevenson permit
ted Cat Futch to perform
topless on the sub’s superstruc
ture as it sailed out of Port
Canaveral, Fla., July 10.
But if accepted, the foster
care alternative would not be in
operation until Spring, he said.
Busbee praised Mathews and
said he has “hope for the
future” under the new HEW
chief.
He predicted Georgia may
become a pilot program for the
nation on reducing institutional
ized for care of the impover
ished aging who are not
seriously ill but in need of
supervised care.
Crew and officers had
become enamored of the go-go
dancer at the Cork Club in
Cocoa Beach.
“I know quite a bit about the
Navy,” she said after the
incident came to light, “and I
never saw such a smiling bunch
of men go out to sea. It really
boosted morale and it didn’t
hurt them — or me.”
For the time being, Stevenson
will remain in the desk job in
Norfolk, Va., to which he was
assigned after the incident. But
Holloway said Thursday’s deci
sion does not “preclude consid
eration of Stevenson for future
assignment to command.”
Asked whether he was
pleased with the reduction in
punishment, Stevenson said,
“absolutely.”
Violence
erupts
in Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPI) — Security forces
blamed Protestant extremists
today for the worst outbreak of
bomb and bullet attacks in
Northern Ireland in months.
Authorities said 11 persons,
most Roman Catholics, died
Thursday in day-long violence
across the troubled British
ruled province.
Police said there was little
doubt most of the deaths were
the work of Protestant militants
seeking revenge for Irish
Republican Army bombings
last week.
The latest wave of killings
threatened to trigger a new
round of religious warfare
between the majority Protest
ants and minority Catholics in
the troubled province.
In Thursday’s attacks, four
persons were shot to death,
four died when a bomb blew up
a car, two were killed in bomb
and bullet raids against pubs
and one died in the bombing of
a photo store.
Authorities reported 183 per
sons slain in Northern Ireland’s
religious strife this year and
1,329 killed since the IRA
launched its campaign to drive
Britain out of Ulster in August,
1969.
In the most cold-blooded
incident, raiders walked into a
Catholic-owned wine store and
gunned down the owner’s three
children —two women and a
teen-aged boy.
A Catholic youth shot through
the neck ran out of the store to
give the alarm and then
slumped in a pool of blood on
the pavement. He was hospital
ized in “very serious” condi
tion.
Security officials said four
occupants of an auto were
killed near the town of
Coleraine, 45 miles from
Belfast, when a bomb being
carried in the vehicle apparent
ly exploded prematurely.
Gunmen opened fire on the
Catholic-owned Anchor Bar in
Killyleagh, 20 miles south of
Belfast, and then lobbed a
bomb into the pub. One person
died and four were injured.
In a similar boriib and bullet
attack against Catholic-owned
McKenna’s Bar in a village
near Belfast airport, one man
was fatally wounded and three
others were injured.
One man died and two others
were seriously wounded in a
bomb blast at a photo store on
the outskirts of the Northern
Ireland capital.
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Grant & Co. files for bankruptcy
NEW YORK (UPI) — W.T.
Grant & Co., the nation’s 17th
largest retailer with more than
1,000 variety stores across the
country, today “celebrated” its
69th birthday in bankruptcy.
Grant, founded Oct. 3, 1906 in
Lynn, Mass., by William T.
Grant, a shoe clerk with only
two years of high school
education, as a “25 cent
department store,” declared
itself bankrupt Thursday, owing
more than $1 billion.
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bankruptcy proceedings, Grant
will be freed from pressure
from creditors and allowed to
do business as usual while it
reorganizes its finances and
figures out away to pay its
debts.
Robert H. Anderson, presi
dent, said Grant’s liabilities of
$1.03 billion exceeded assets by
$1.3 million. But the balance
sheet does not explain the full
extent of the chain’s financial
troubles.
During 1974, Grant lost $175
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, October 3,1975
million, one of the biggest
losses ever by a U.S. retailer.
Anderson said losses for 1975
were greater than expected
and, at the company’s request,
trading was suspended Monday
in Grant stock on the New York
Stock Exchange.
Anderson said the Grant
stores will be restructured to
attract young women shoppers
with expanded lines of apparel
for women and children and
everyday household items. The
company already has begun
phasing out its major appliance
lines.
Grant owes S6OO million to 27
banks. Many of the loans were
past due and the company won
an unprecedented agreement to
defer payment on S3OO million
so it could purchase merchan
dise from suppliers, many of
whom also are large creditors.
Some venders refused to ship
goods “under any terms,”
Anderson said.