Daily Journal (Newspaper) - October 11, 1977, Fergus Falls, Minnesota Leaves arc fun for jumping for Dustin Christopherson and Mark Hospital care costs show increase in state ST. Minn. The cost of hospital care in rose again during the year ended June 30, but there is some evidence of a of ballooning Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota A study conducted by the health care benefit program said average daily hospital charges in Minnesota increased 14.8 per cent during the year ending June 30. At the same the median fees for a dozen common cal procedures increased 7.9 per cent. state hospital and medical cost trends are ning to increase at a slower rate than during the past few said James Q. Hospital costs in previous years had consistently in- creased at 15 per cent or but this year dropped below the 15 per cent a spokesman believe the hospital costs haved hit a high point and now are slowing a spokesman said The average hospital stay for subscribers was 6.9 days during the study unchanged from the previous With an average daily charge of for board and related the stay re- in a total average charge of up 14.7 per cent over the previous The average charge for a hospital outpatient visit was an increase of 17.4 per Chinese preoccupied with of PEKING Wherever visitors go today in China newspaper middle uni- fishing village the one thing they are certain to hear is an attack on the of It is a national In a 16-day a group of Associated Press executives and directors heard the purged radical leaders blamed for most every conceivable back China suffered in recent but particularly in the 13 months since the death of Chairman Mao The format soon became Our host perhaps the leader of a factory would outline briefly what the factory how large it is and so a reference to how the workers are ening of the cals and trying to repair the damage done by their The Gang of now Federal tax cut possible next year WASHINGTON President Carter's tax revision plan could reduce taxes by up to 522 says Treasury Secretary W. Michael and may go into effect in 1978, a year earlier than originally emerging from a meeting with Carter and senior economic advisers on left open the possibility that the ad- ministration might try to put the plan into effect next depending on the direction the economy walking out of the net Room meeting thai lasted nearly live the treasury secretary insisted no final deci- sions had been His confirmation that the ad- ministration was considering tax cuts that could reach billion was the administration com- ment on the possible size the The billion figure is deed one of tlie but il is not necessarily the that will be settled he just went over the entire program and the has not made up his mind on any of the the treasury Administration sources had said earlier that the tax cut would he in the range of lion to although some reports had placed it as high as The sources have forecast that one-third of the tax cut would be for businesses and two-thirds for The sources have said the tax cut would be introduced in 1979, although it would phased in over several But said the timetable for putting Ihe tax cut into remained undecided and that decisions on any tax cut in 1978 would depend on Die stall of the He said further meetings were planned and that it was likely Carter would send the plan to Congress by the end of month under a form of house were Chiang Mao's Wang former party vice Yao a former buro and former Vice Premier Chang These are a few of the things we heard them blamed Excessive earthquake damage last because their interference retarded research into earthquake output at Ihe king Arts and Crafts where they convinced some workers that making vases and traditional objects was a waste of the minds of workers and students the idea that there was no need to learn trades or work hard and that all they needed to do was lo study Tiie list goes on and It is difficult to envision an American counterpart to this aspect of the Chinese ex- It had been reported in the Western press that Mao's Chairman Hua and Ihe Uth Party Con- gress in August ordered the criticism But the scope of and Ihe intensity with which China's leaders are clear only when one hears il Quie urges single endorsement MINNEAPOLIS Albert who considers himself front-runner for the nation for governor next says Die GOP contenders for office wilt have to erate somewhat keep our getting at each other's Quie said the party would be best served by dropping talk of multiple endorsements or an open the party can put it best thing would be a single if it can be done in a few Quie said in an interview Quie said he has talked with three other GOP candidates for governor and suggested they think about other slots on next year's hasten to add that none gave me any indication they Quie Quie will end a 20-year Con- gressional career after next He confirmed his bid for the governorship a few weeks ago and said he will make what politicians call a start to his campaign in Quie already is at odds with one of his neapolis attorney David in how to tackle Gov. gcr has taken a hard de- claring that Perpich is seldom in doesn't understand the office and doesn't know how to use it. always have a difficult time saying that about another Dial's a judgment the people have to Quie Other announced candidates for governor on the Republican side are former state erf W. St. and state Sen. Howard are Quie has approached about running for lieutenant saying that would be the strongest ticket the GOP could that nice I said the same about re- Republican leaders have teen weighing the idea of dropping the old system of endorsing a single Some leaders feel that an open 104lh YEAR NO. 339 FERGUS OCT. 1977 SINGLE COPY 15 cent over the previous Broken down into the study showed the average pital charge per per cent in Minneapolis from 5167.10 to 14.3 per cent in St. Paul from 5152 47 to 15.8 per cent in from to 14.7 per cent in hospitals outside Minnesota's three largest from to 5155.22. Regnier said the lower rate of increase was evidence of a decrease in health care cost trends is Continued on Perpich asks farmers to ovoid using violence Minn. Gov. Rudy Perpich made another in- formal odyssey across central Minnesota urging farmers not to resort lo lence in their effort to prevent construction of a high-voltage power The governor told people he could not intervene to stay a court order permitting the con- struction of the ernor can't stop the he His reception was somewhat chillier than an earlier when he was merely to the people of his just got the feeling that he wanted to tap us on the back and said ard Koska of rural Koska was angered that pich declined to attend a group meeting with some farmers last wanted lo have some input in Koska like Alee Fuchs of ral said they had to give Perpich credit for being concerned about violence when crews come back to the fields to begin Perpich said two points he wanted lo get across were that violence must be prevented and that a science court to study health issues is still a viable Critics of the science court say construction would continue during court proceedings and that the ings of the court would not be Surveyors are expected to re- turn to work early next The way was cleared for work to resume by a Sept. 30 decision by Minnesota Supreme which ruled in favor of two power The 400-kilovolt to be built by United Power Elk and tive Power will run from North Dakota to the Paul bringing in power for bution to rural electric Perpich said he to ex- plain to the people opposing the line that the surveyors are not the decision makers regarding the power are just people ing for a Perpich The governor said he would like to see scientific evidence regarding the power line ined in and said he feels most of the concerned farmers support the Perpich said he plans visits with farmers a number of times before the is He said there was some ing among the farmers that the governor could stop the but said he explained that once the court had ruled on the pretty much The governor said if there is any confrontation between and it will be up to local authorities to handle they request inter- Fun for walking for Sarah Eriekson and Jeremy Lake Region charges near state average Lake Region Hospital patients pay an average daily charge of an increase of 14.2 percent over a year Phil said Figures show the is 6.3 day id the average total an increase of 11.9 Larson gave figures for hospital costs as of Sept. 30 this year following the release of studies by Blue Cross and Blue The average daily cost for a patient in a Minneapolis area hospital was during a 12- month period that ended June 30. The increase is 14.9 percent from the year The national increase has been about 15 The average total for Lake Region is considerably less than the Twin Cities and the state Larson which is reflected by shorter The 6.3 day Weather roundup Continued on Page 14 Tonight mostly cloudy with a few flurries upper 20s to lower 30s. day partly sunny and Highs upper and tower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph Probability of measurable precipitation 20 percent High Monday 42. Al a.m. 37F, 3C. At Noon 42. Precipitation 24 hours ending 8 come a.m. v Sunrise Wednesday Sunset Temperatures One Year Ago High 81. 38. average is 28 percent less than the average Twin Cities stay of 8.1 The average daily charge of includes a day for board and room and 5105.78 in ancillary charges which in- clude laboratory tests and The Minnesota average daily cost during the period that ended June 30 was room and 591.31 For Minneapolis hospitals the figures were room and board Larson noted that the figures he gave were for the year ing Sept. 30 while Blue Cross and Blue Shield used figures for the year ending June 30. It's likely state figures would be higher if the period was ex- tended for three more months of Robber has sweet success N.J. A gunman demanded a super- market cashier's cash box but settled for minted breath eners police He pulled a revolver after buying a box of but the cashier told she couldn't reopen the register without a with the store manager the gunman took his change and left quietly with a pack of Ihe police Knr Darren leaves arc fun for Americans among Nobel winners On the inside Since you On local li Area 1'age 7 Sweden Two Americans and a Briton won the Nobel prize for physics today and a Belgian was awarded the prize for The Swedish Academy gave th e physics prize lo John H. Van 78, of Harvard Uni- his former student Philip ol ton University and Bell and Sir Nevill F. 72, of Cambridge University in The chemistry prize went lo Ilya 60, of the Free University of He is also director of Ihe for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of The physics who will share equally a were cited for research on the electronic structure of ic and disordered systems work applied to development of the advancement in the industrial use of and in copper spirals for birth control who gets was cited for contributions in the ticld ol The physics award was an- behind schedule after three deliberation by the which was divided over two sets of A statement by the academy cited the able in of prize put the emphasis on work con- inter- action and the coupling be- the of the trons and the atomic nuclei in magnetic and disordered whore they have gone far beyond the conventional with direct tance for experiments and the academy also s professor was born in 1905. once a student Van was bom in 1S3. They will share a prize sum of The physics prize has been dominated by Americans since World War year Continued on Pago II
