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TROOPERS ALL—These members of Jackson Troop 80, Boy Scouts of America, and
their leaders are left to right, front row, Jeff Raynor, Wesley Parker, David Miller, Keith
Bridges, John Hall, Mark Dupree and Randy Cook,
Second row leaders, left to right, Bill Parker, Harvey Hall and Rev. Charlie Thurman,
Back row, left to right, Todd Foster, Billy Barlow, Lester Patterson, John
Prentice Barlow, Charlie Thurman, Jr. Absent when the picture was taken was Cedric
Evans. Photo by Carole Lawrence.
New Investigation of Medicaid
Program in Georgia to be Made
Plans to combat Medicaid
fraud in Georgia were
announced last week by
Governor George Busbee.
The program, a combined
state and federal effort, and
only the second in the nation
will be launched as a result of
meetings held between re
presentatives of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation
(GBI) and the department of
Health, Education, and Wel
fare (HEW).
The novelty of the program
is that it will consist of an
undercover strike force
which will work with a team
of state and federal investi
gators already stationed in
Georgia.
The governor said that
undercover agents will be
employed to gather evidence
of “unlawful practices by
providers.” These under
cover agents will pose as
patients in order to obtain
information which will be
passed on to the current team
of investigators.
The collected data will be
studied for about eight to 10
weeks in order to decide
which cases may be prosce
cuted.
Busbee, who encouraged
the current and the under
cover investigations, said
the current effort is part of a
10-state concentrated pro
gram which is attempting to
seek out fraud among
providers and recipients.
The governor stated that
during the last two years the
investigation of dental and
nursing home audits have
produced enough evidence of
fraud to perhaps enable a
special investigator
prosecutor to present some
cases before Grand Juries
within a few weeks.
Busbee said that during the
pr IMPORTANT NOTICE!!
To The Residents of Butts County CK
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course of the investigation
hundreds of dental patients
have been examined to
determine if the work billed
the state by dentists was
actually performed.
The governor said the
investigation is in its final
stages and a decision will be
made on which cases contain
sufficient ’’probable cause”
to obtain indictments.
Busbee noted that he has
sought to bring the soaring
costs of the Medicaid
program under control
through a variety of mea
sures. These have included
“co-payments to reduce
overutilization, suspension of
the optional dental and
optometric programs and the
removal of high-priced
name-brand drugs from the
formulary.”
Busbee stated that he has
spent the better part of two
years wrestling with Medi
caid problems, and “the
fraud, abuse and over-utiliza
tion I have found are
shocking and shameful. This
type of fraud is just as much
a criminal act as burglary,
and for that reason I feel that
these criminals should be
treated just as any other
criminals are treated.”
Uranium
Uranium is probably the
world’s most important
nuclear metal. Others in
clude thorium, beryllium,
zirconium and hafnium,
caesium and ribidium, and
rare earths. Development of
nuclear power and its re
lated industries has ex
panded the search for and
thp production of these
various metals, although at
the present time there is a
surplus' of production of
uranium.
China Peach
Observers generally agree
that the original home of the
peach was China.
THE JACKSON PROCRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1976
J. W. Huggins
Burial Rites
Held Saturday
John William (Jake) Hug
gins, 44, of 616 Brownlee
Road, died at Emory
University Hospital about
two o’clock Thursday morn
ing, October 21, after an
illness of several months.
Born July 21, 1932 in Pearl
Harbor, Florida, he was a
correctional officer with the
Georgia Diagnostic and
Classification Center. He was
a member of Indian Springs
Lodge 307 of Masons.
He was son of the late John
Marion Huggins and Mrs.
Floy Hall Williams of
Jackson who survives.
Funeral services were
conducted Saturday after
noon at three o’clock from
Sherrell’s Chapel with the
Rev. Don Folsom officiating.
Interment was in Macedonia
Baptist Church Cemetery
with Masons of Indian
Springs Lodge 307 in charge
of graveside rites.
Masons were pallbearers
and officers of the Georgia
Diagnostic and Classification
Center served as an honorary
escort.
Mr. Huggins is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Sue Thaxton
Huggins; three sons, John
Marion Huggins and William
D. Huggins, both of Atlanta;
Dennis J. Huggins of Tampa,
Fla.; four daughters, Mrs.
Jeri Sue Thomas of Atlanta,
Mrs. Laney McClendon of
Jackson, Miss Lisa Huggins
and Miss Debbie Huggins,
both of Jackson; mother,
Mrs. Floy Hall Williams of
Jackson; one sister, Mrs.
Gwen Childs of Kennesaw,
Georgia.
Judge Hugh Sosebee Named
To Sentence Review Panel
Judge Hugh D. Sosebee of
Forsyth has been named a
member of the State Superior
Courts’ Sentence Review
Panel. The superior court
judge of the Flint Judicial
Circuit will serve on the
three-member panel through
December, 1976.
Judge Sosebee is one of
four superior court judges in
Georgia named to this
judicial panel responsible for
examining five-year and
longer sentences imposed by
superior court judges. The
panel is empowered to either
affirm or reduce court-set
sentences but cannot in
crease any sentence.
October-term members in
addition to Judge Sosebee
include the panel chairman,
Judge George A. Horkan, Jr.,
Southern Judicial Circuit,
(Brooks, Colquitt, Echols,
Lowndes, and Thomas Coun
ties); Judge Thomas W.
Ridgway, Alcovy Judicial
Circuit (Newton and Walton
Counties); and supernume
rary member, Judge George
L. Jackson, Ocmulgee Judi
cial Circuit (Baldwin,
Greene, Hancock, Jasper,
Jones, Morgan, Putnam, and
GENERAL _ _ _ _ _ _
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THIS REPORT ADVISING YOU HOW THESE FUNDS HAVE BEEN USED OR OBLIGATED DURING THE YEAR FROM JULY 1. 1975, THRU JUNE 30. 1576.
THIS IS TO INFORM YOU OF YOUR GOVERNMENT S PRIORITIES AND TO ENCOURAGE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN DECISIONS ON HOW FUTURE FUNDS
SHOULD BE SPENT NOTE: ANY COMPLAINTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE USE OF THESE FUNDS MAY BE SENT TO THE OFFICE OF REVENUE
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with respect to the entitlement funds reported hereon, I certify that they
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requirement (Section 103) or the matching funds prohibition (Section
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Paid for by the Committee for Amendment 2,
Hugh Jordan, Chairman.
P. 0. Box 102, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30086
Wilkinson Counties). The
supernumerary member will
sit on the panel in the
instance one of the panel
members is disqualified
from hearing a case or is
unable to attend the session.
A graduate of the Univer
sity of Georgia and Mercer
University, Judge Sosebee is
a past president of the
Monroe County Chamber of
Commerce, chairman of the
Monroe County Democratic
Executive Committee, solici
tor general of the Flint
Judicial Circuit, and county
attorney for Monroe County.
He is a member of the State
Bar’s Board of Governors as
well as its Judicial Proce
dure and Administration
Committee and the only
superior court judge on the
1976 Legislature’s Code Re
vision Committee.
He has been a Flint
Judicial Circuit superior
court judge since 1964. The
Flint Circuit is comprised of
Butts, Henry, Lamar and
Monroe Counties.
The . Sentence Review
Panel was established in 1974
when the Georgia General
Assembly gave superior
court judges responsibility
for sentencing persons found
guilty by a jury of non-capital
offenses. Such sentencing
power prior to the 1974 law
was in the hands of the jury.
The Sentence Review Panel
was created to assure that as
much as reasonably possible,
criminals with similar per
sonal histories and records
receive similar sentences.
Each panel is appointed for
a three-month term by-
Council of Superior Court
Judges’ President Marcus B.
THE GOVERNMENT
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has received General Revenue Sharing
payments totaling $2,007.00
during the period from July 1. 1975 thru June 30, 1976
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1 Balance as of June 30 1975 iOOOO
2 Revenue Sharing Funds
Received from July 1 1975 thru June 30. 1976 3 Q~7
3 Interest Received
or Credited IJuly 1. 1975 thru June 30 1976) 3 V i/ ~
4 Funds Reieaseo from Obligations iIF ANY) 3 r
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9. Balance as of June 30, 1976 S—)J-A-CLQI
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REPORT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCU
LATION. ! HAVE A COPY OF THIS REPORT AND RECORDS DOCUMENTING THE
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AMENDMDiT 2, NOVEMBER 2
A CORRECTION
In last week’s Progress-
Argus. a story was carried
regarding a four-county
water resource study being
conducted by the U. S. Corps
of Engineers and listing
Butts County as one of the
four counties to be included
in the study area.
Calhoun. superior court
judge in the Southern
Judicial Circuit, Thomas
ville.
The source of the story was
the monthly newsletter of the
Mclntosh Trail Area Plan
ning and Development Com
mission.
Information contained in
the newsletter was incorrect,
officials of the APDC say,
and Spalding County should
have been included as one of
the four counties to be
studied, rather than Butts
County.
So, for the moment, Butts
County's water resources
and needs will go unstudied.