Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - January 7, 1977, Joplin, Missouri City Final 153 PAGES Economic Els in Priority Over Medical Bills Carter Team Delays Health insurance Plan By JANET STAIHAR WASHINGTON AP Although President elect Carter has prescribed national health insur ance for soaring medical dont expect any immediate relief for that nagging pain in your Carters transition team working on the pro gram says the nations economic ills take prior ity and that Carter wants to make existing health such as Medicaid and work right t Ullman the House Ways Means which will handle tax costs of national health says the adminis tration will need most of this year to perfect its We may get to hearings this Ullman but no more than Even after Congress approves a national health insurance it will take a few years more to gear it said Paul chair man of the health national health insurance is far from being on the back said Robert health issues coordinator for Carters campaign and now a key adviser on Carters transition Its something were working on But Havely added Were going to have to work very hard and for a long time to get Its not something thatll happen tomorrow or next He said he doubts the program will begin this but declined to speculate about when it the economy isa Very important prior It is obviously not doing as well as we would like it so Carter has to turn his attention to inflation and other economic Havely Carter wants national health insur ance to be phased in so some of the other prob lems we have seen with other federal programs can be avoided Carter has said the first move toward national health insurance is getting a handle on existing programs and making them function And that certainly does include Medicare and Americans pay about billion a year for medical In a campaign speech to the Student National Medical Association last Carter called for a universal and mandatory national health insur ance program to ease the He said it should be funded by general tax revenues and employer and employee payroll Under the Carter rates should be for institutional care and doc tor and patients should be free to select the physicians and treatment centers they He said the program should include more pre care and prenatal and infant care ben and should monitor the quality of all health care He did not say how much the program would but said the government would not run it by Carter said the program would be a coop effort between the public and private Big Shakeup Shifts Committee Control To Louis Area Dropped From Consideration AP Presidentelect Jimmy Carter has dropped campaign aide Greg from consideration for the job of White House Appoint ments Secretary because of string of bad debts and bounced a Carter spokesman said in The financial prob lems turned up in a routine FBI background check on a former restaurant owner who became one of Carters closest Close Carter Aide Loses Bid for Post By LAWRENCE KNUTSON AP Bounced checks and bad debts have denied one of Jimmy Carters closest aides the influential job of making appointments for the Greg so close to Carter another aide calls him the third withdrew from consideration to become White House appointments secretary after seeing the FBI file on his Carter Press Secretary Jody Powell said Obviously Jimmy agreed with Powell Powell said there has been no allegation of illegal and that Carter retains a high regard for Schnei ders and his He said Schneiders still might get a secondary position in the Carter He quoted the president elect as saying I have real confidence in and it is typical of him to want to take whatever action is necessary to avoid embarrassing me or the Carter was in line for the appointment secre tarys One Carter insider From what I know about the I think he Schneiders made the right Other people would have put all of this together and just beat his brains Schneiders financial problems piled up during his ownership of a on Capitol Hill in Washing and the Georgetown Beef a similar operi ation in the Georgetown section of the honeymooning in the Caribbean and una vailable for has said he believes all the bounced checks have been paid off and that he has whittled his debts down to a minimal It was just a sort of situ ation where things piled and once Greg saw them all there together in the FBI file he saw the situation differently than Powell If he hadnt gotten involved in this cam and been in line for a highly visible it would never have amounted to He frankly decided it wouldnt be worth it from several standpoints to go on in what is probably the closest staff position to the Powell See 2A JEFFERSON AP A major shakeup in the committee membership of the Missouri House that has shifted control of those panels to the Louis area was announced Thursday by Speaker Kenneth The Clayton Democrats appointments to the 33 House committees also included the demotion of six veteran House members who had headed com under Rothmans Richard Rabbitt of The committee selections were issued following the adoption by the House of the permanent rules it will operate under for the next two Included in those rules is creation of a new Sunset Committee to review the efficiency of state agencies and a significant increase in the power of the House Rules The 10 members of that panel will now be able to provide spe cial consideration for bills they believe merit Pre such special consid required the approval of 82 House I made no promises and no commitments to any body on any Rothman said in explaining the basis for the The closest of my support ers did not know their assignments until The release of the assign ments evoked rumblings from a number of House members that those Demo crats who supported Roth mans bid for speaker last November where rewarded and those who opposed him were Marvin Proffer of Cape who had opposed Rothman in the speakers was stripped of his committee Proffer has served in the House for 14 years and headed com for the last 10 Several of those who supported his also received less important committee assignments than they had in the The other former chair See 2A Empire Granted Rate Increase Empire District Electric headquartered in announced Thursday that the Missouri Public Service Commission has granted it a rate hike that is designed to produce an additional 8 per cent in reve nues from its Missouri The which goes into effect is the third increase granted Empire District in Missouri since 1974 after 16 years of no rate increases and some Under the new the for the average resi meaning 600 kilowatt hours per is expected to increase by approximately per The new schedule is expected to increase Empire District revenues by approximately mil lion The when it filed for the increase in Feb ruary of last had sought a schedule that would produce million or per cent more in revenues per The company was allowed by the PSC to increase its revenues by per cent in early 1974 and by per cent in Empire District said that even with the new the companys rates remain among the lowest in the state and less than 80 per cent of the companies in the United The original request of million was based on the issuance of new shares of company common stock in December of Allen the commission allowed additional revenues to cover an additional shares sold by the company and a rate study ordered by the commission in this nei ther of which was contemplated at the time of the fil ing last Earlier this Empire District officials listed the following monthly residential service rates 250 KWH 500 KWH 750 KWH KWH Empire District has approximately customers and generates about 82 per cent of its revenues from Missouri No School Today Due to Weather Todays classes in Joplin schools have been can celled due to street and road which school officials did not expect to see improved Classes also were cancelled Thursday because of snow covered streets and Today is the third day classes have been cancelled this week as the result of the The days will be made up during the first full week of other wise planned as a spring Only two days of that week remain for use as makeup Todays classes also have been cancelled at McAuley Regional High Peters Junior High Marys Elementary units of the Catholic School system and at Martin Luther School operated by the Lutheran Classes in Carl Junction public schools also were scratched for but classes are planned as sched uled in the Webb City public school Classes are out at Missouri Southern State College until 20 because of the midsemester CLOUSE Clean Sweep When the weather turns and snow covers the normal activities like the movement of goods by rail must Following Thursdays snowfall in rail switches had to be and Harold Clouse and Rick Mahurin MAHURIN Globe Photo by Charles Snow made a clean sweep of the Some projects must cease during inclement but others continue some of those that continue are depicted on page Good Morning Today is 1977 Todays Weather Outlook A snow storm dumped up to three inches of snow on Joplin and the immediate Area early Thursday forcing the closing of many schools and slowing traffic on city streets and high ways to a The Empire District Electric Company reported three inches of snow in the downtown The snow contained little moisture measuring only of an The high Thursday was 28 and the low was Clear to partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures are forecast for the Joplin area The mercury is predicted to reach a high today of 30 to 35 The low tonight should be in the Winds are forecast to be light and Mostly cloudy skies and cold temperatures are forecast for the Joplin area Saturday through The mercury is predicted to range from lows in the 20s to in the Snow flurries are forecast for Saturday and Hourly temperatures 1 9 10 6 11 4 8 5 1 9 6 2 10 7 3 11 8 4 Joplin Skies Sunset Sunrise Moonrise Last 12 Prominent Cons tell at ion Orion in southeast at Visible Planets Venus in the and sets soon after Saturn near the Jupiter high overhead at Inside Today Classified Financial Hospital Joplin and District Open Womens Roll Out the Barrels Congress opens business with and public works program as the first installment of Carters economic program directed to reducing See todays lead editorial 6B in Brief JEFFERSON AP While the num ber of reported syphilis cases in Missouri fell in 1976 to its lowest total in two cases of gonorrhea continued to according to the states annual health report Syphilis cases in Missouri dropped by more than 30 per cent to the report Council Narrows Manager Search The search for Joplins fifth city manager has been narrowed down to three All nine members of the city council worked Thursday afternoon with applications of 10 persons and then reduced the list to three A citizens at the request of the had looked at a total of 83 applications and recommended 10 finalists to the council for Mayor William Mauldin said the council will be con the three remaining candidates to arrange interviews with The council hopes to make a selection by the end of this month so the successful applicant can be on the job around March 1 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Robert who served more than eight years before becoming city manager at the first of this Buel finance is acting city The form of city government has been used in Joplin since
