Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - November 8, 1976, Winona, Minnesota at Auditing of claims criticized Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Wisconsin Physicians Service have not lived up to their contractual duty to audit Medicaid claims Wisconsin contend The three groups are paid by the state to sift through bills of million a month from providers of medical care to needy patients They have not provided accurate statistics properly billed the services or uncovered fraud or waste the state study team said Double life When South Dakota's director of economic development Robert Martin died three weeks ago he left a wife and four children in Pierre He also left a wife and five children less than 200 miles away in Sioux Falls The double life surfaced because attorneys for both families inquired about his estate after he died of a heart attack Oct 16 at the age of 52 An investigation is under way The Sioux Falls wife said she did not know there were two families Mrs Martin of Pierre This is not and declined further comment Robert Martin Ford welcomed President Ford arrived at Palm Springs Calif Sunday for a vacation and plunged into an old routine shaking hands with welcomers The welcoming crowd was estimated at and many held up placards Peron prosecuted Former Argentine President Isabel Peron imprisoned in Buenos Aires is facing trial for fraud and administrative ir- responsibility She has been confined since a March 24 military coup and officials insist she is not a political prisoner but is being prosecuted under civilian statutes Voting on contract continues About one-third of the workers affected by a new contract between the United Auto Workers union and Deere and Co have voted to accept the pact which includes higher wages and increased pension benefits The remainder of the locals covered were to vote today The new pact provides a wage increase of 33 to 43 cents an hour for hourly workers and 27 to 36 cents an hour for incentive employes It also calls for an additional 3 increase during the second and third years of the contract Church closed The front doors to President-elect Jimmy Carter's church in Plains Ga were locked Sunday and deacons prevented a black activist minister from entering through a basement door to attend services The Rev Clennon King pastor of a nondenominational church in Albany was restrained at a basement entry by two Plains Baptist Church members Upon finding the front doors locked King delivered a sermon on the front steps telling about 50 onlookers Christians of all races must unite Services were canceled last week in a similar incident Rev Clennon King The inside 9 Daily Snow Shies will be cloudy Tuesday and snow flumes arc possible It will begin to turn colder Tuesday after highs near The extended forecast calls for cloudy warmer weather Thursday and colder temperatures Friday weather details Page 5 Will Rogers says Mr President there was nothing personal in the vote against you You just happened to be associated with a political party the people had lost their taste for The people wanted to buy something new and they didn't have the money But they could go out and vote free and get something for nothing So cheer up Mr President you don't know how lucky you Mayors forming urban plan By JONATHAN WOLMAN CHICAGO AP Mayors of the nation's largest cities today formulated a new urban battle plan calling for immediate emergency aid for jobs and creation of an Urban Development Bank The mayors urban strategy will be presented to Congress and President-elect Jimmy Carter with a stern warning that federal urban programs are almost a nightmare of confusion Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson president of the U.S Conference of Mayors told 100 city officials here that the Carter Administration must set a national tone of concern for urban America Gibson said mayors should have access to Carter suggesting it could be through a vice president as an urban ombudsman or a domestic council in the White House with real urban clout The issue is to make the federal bureaucracy Gibson said In an address that ended a conference session to outline urban priorities Gibson called on Carter to develop a coherent national urban policy that includes consolidation and cohesion of federal grant programs which he said number Federal urban programs are now almost a mare of Gibson said The cornerstone of what the conference is calling a new national urban investment policy is creation of the Urban Development Bank which would provide low cost loans to businesses for expansion and location in Ihc cities and to city government for economic projects The mayors also will seek an emergency jobs program to shore up cities in deep fiscal trouble Gibson also said Congress and the Carter Administration would have to provide additional federal money to aid troubled cities Gibson did not say how much money the plan would cost Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit in a television interview criticized Carter's representative here Howard Samuels of New York who was an un- of commerce under Lyndon Johnson Young said the cities would be in trouble if they have to depend on Mr Samuels I guess he's the man who recommended that President Ford let New York go down the drain In a magazine article last year Samuels said default he less painful for New York City than deeper and deeper budget cuts The mayors are hoping to influence Carter with their strategy that would provide crucial aid to troubled cities at lie expense of healthier communities Carter has indicated he is going to help all the said New York City Mayor Abraham D Beame Some cities may need more help than others Absent from the discussions was Chicago's own Mayor Richard J Daley who like Carter was on vacation Daley's reputation as a Democratic party power suffered a setback in last week's election when Illinois electoral votes went to President Ford and Daley's candidate for governor was defeated Reame Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley and Boston Mayor Kevin White all suggested that federal money be distributed according to a formula based on unemployment Quakes hit four areas 16 are dead By Thp Associated Press Earthquakes hit Iran The Philippines Greece and Japan and one was reported in China during the weekend and today A volcano erupted in Indonesia Casualties reported were 16 dead and 32 injuries in northeast Iran A duty officer at the National Information Center in Golden Colo said he believed there was no con- among the weekend quakes The Iranian quake occurred Sunday morning p.m EST Saturday and registered 6 2 on the Richter scale Most of the casualties were reported in the mountain village of Vandik 400 miles northeast of Tehran where all of the 150 houses collapsed The Hong Kong observatory reported a quake in southwest China early Sunday morning p.m EST measuring 6.3 on the scale The observatory said the epicenter was about 970 miles northwest of Hong Kong and about 205 miles northwest of Kumming There was no confirmation from the Chinese and no report of casualties or damage A quake measuring 63 on the Richter Scale shook the eastern half of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines early p.m EST and a mild quake was felt in western Mindanao hours later but there was no report on casualties or damage Philippine officials described the tremors an aftershock of the Moro Gulf quake in August that killed at least persons and left more missing many from tidal waves that swept tho coastline after the main quake Tidal wave warnings were issued by the government observatory following the earthquake today but no waves have been reported The Philippine government said it -3 flown pounds of relief goods in- eluding to northeast Mindanao The epicenter of the quake was 530 miles southeast of Quezon City about 15 miles offshore of the province of Surigao del Sur Five quakes jolted Salonika the capital of northern Greece Sunday night and this morning Must of the city's half a million people spent the night out of doors but police said there were no casualties and no serious damage Tte most severe of the shocks had a reading of 3.4 on the Richter Scale Amateur radio operators added to the panic with broadcasts of rumors of heavy damage in the suburbs Long lines of cars left the city despite government pleas to everyone to return home A weak earthquake shook Tokyo and part of northern Japan today but there were no reports of damage or casualties Unions ready shopping list WASHINGTON AP In the early morning hours on the day after the tions with presidential race still un- decided Jimmy Carter was on the phone with George Meany telling the bead of the You people do good work Organized labor turned out its troops in what has been described as the biggest most expensive best organized and most sophisticated campaign in behalf of a presidential candidate Carter is likely to show his appreciation with several top-level jobs and by ad- legislation supported by labor The unions also have a shopping list of long-sought measures dealing with bargaining rights for public employes a stronger merchant marine workmen's compensation standards rights for construction workers and repeal of the section of federal law that authorizes state laws banning the union shop Nevertheless while labor leaders are taking credit for helping to elect Carter surveys show he had a margin among voters with union backgrounds they say they do not regard it as any guarantee of Carter's support when it comes to their special interests It one special group thinks its going to be treated to an advantage over another I think they're said Jerry Wurf president of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes Wurf and others regard jobs health insurance welfare and Medicaid reform as their priorities On the eve of Tuesday's election Carter aides in Atlanta said he would probably give high priority to early action on job programs including efforts to promote more employment in private industry through job subsidies and stimulation of housing construction Carter also said that before making major appointments he would talk to key leaders in business and labor Meany expects to be among those consulted just as he was when Carter picked Walter Mondale for vice president At the top of Meany's list for labor secretary is John T Dunlop who held that Cabinet post earlier this year before quitting in a policy dispute with Ford Reports due on Rhodesian talks GENEVA Switzerland AP Two of Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger's assistants left for Washington today to report to their boss on the deadlocked Rhodesian conference Neither Asst Secretary of State William D Schaufele nor Secretary John Reinhardt would say what they planned to Democrat jn jj 5 Bep Charles C Diggs Jr of Michigan called for Kissinger to put new pressure on the head of the white Rhodesian regime Prime Minister Ion Smith Diggs new home Sunday to report on the conference to President-elect Jimmy Carter's advisers He told reporters that most critical problems could develop unless the Rhodesian negotiators cleared their first hurdle agreement on a firm date for the transfer of power from the white minority to the black the end of this week DIMS blamed Smith for conference stalemate and certainly foresee the necessity for some more dialogue between the United States and Mr Smith the kind of dialogue He added that the Carter people would support fully any moves Kissinger might make before the new administration Ukes office But another Democratic visitor to the Geneva conference Sen Dick Clark of Iowa said President Ford's administration had been very negligent toward white rule in southern Africa and pursued unwise policies for the area Clark who flew to Africa to discuss the situation in South Africa and Rhodesia with leaders of several governments said he believes Carter will hasten the transfer of power in Rhodesia The British chairman of the conference Ivor Richard spent the weekend urging Smith's foreign minister Pieter van der Byl and the four black leaders attending the conference to move toward agreement on March as the dale for the blacks lo take over But blacks Joshua Nkomo Robert Mugabe Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole in- on a one-year transition period while Van der Byl refused to agree to anything less than two years Richard scheduled more separate meetings with the leaders today Reinhardt met Saturday in Dar es Salaam with President Julius of Tanzania after met with the black Rhodesians other chief African supporters Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola and Vice President Masire of Botswana Winona Daily News year of publication Winona Minnesota November 8 1976 14 Paces Soviet parade Soviet surface-to-air missiles on trucks roll past a huge portrait of Lenin at Sunday's Revolution Day parade across Red Square in Moscow For the second consecutive year military hardware was No big items were shown AP Modest inauguration seen WASHINGTON AP The planners of Jimmy Carter's presidential inauguration sny they will put on a more modest celebration than the million extravaganza that installed Richard M Nixon in 197.1 Washington attorney R Tirana says Carter will use like the reviewing stands that held and sheltered Nixon and others four years ago That was too extravagant for Carter Tirana said The inauguration be It will not be extravagant that much I know Tirana and South Carolinian Vicki Rogers both longtime Carter supporters have been named by the president-elect as chairmen nf the committees the festivities for the Jan 20 inaugural The million total tab lor the 1973 inauguration included the ceremonies at the Capitol several concerts five inaugural balls and a reception for President Spiro T Nn over-all budget lor the 1977 ceremony has been established Much of the inaugural schedule is determined by custom and To church Accompanied by his daughter-in-law Caron Carter President elect Jimmy Carter arrives for church Sunday at the Christ Church on St Simons Island Ga AP protocol and won't he changed by he Carters Tirana said The will primarily influence specific details the type of hats the men will wear if any Inter this week Tirana wijl meet with Mrs Carter who will indicate some ol the general ideas she and thr president-elect would like included in the schedule Detailed planning will begin from there Tirana said Contractors authorized by Congress have begun work on platform in front of the cast portico of thu Capitol Nearly oil presidents since Thomas Jefferson have taken the of office near there Ono variable the committee can do little about is the which has disrupted more than onp in the twist William H Taft moved his ceremony indoors to the Senate chamber in 1909 because of a snowstorm In 1961 on the night before John F Kennedy's inauguration about eight inches of snow fell and the military had be railed Kit to clear the Bui no has suffered from inaugural like William Henry in Wtt in a downpour lo he oath then rode hack to the While House on a white charger Israel refuses examination of nuclear sites TKI AVIV Israel AP The Israeli has put secret in the Negev Desert off In a party of U.S senators checking safeguards the manufacture of atomic weapons a leading Israeli newspaper reports Tile newspaper reported the government turned down numerous requests from the 13 senators lo visit facilities built with French help in Uie near tho town of Dimona in southern Israel We want to loam about the atomic development programs in tins region and to study how supervision and control both here and in Egypt can ensure that atomic energy will be for peaceful uses Sen Abraham told reporters at Ben-Gurion Airport The senators arrived Sunday for a day visit in preparation for Senate action on agreements carrying out former President Nixon's offers of nuclear power reactors to Israel and Egypt Before the reactors can be supplied lie Senate must approve the safeguards against diversion of the nuclear material to the production of weapons Foreign press reports have said Israel has made more than 10 atomic weapons with material from the Dimona installation Last March the editor of a Washington newsletter said senior of- of the U.S Central Intelligence Agency told him at a briefing that Israel had 10 lo 20 nuclear weapons ready for use The CIA refused to confirm or deny the report Sen Howard said the senators would not pressure the Israelis to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty which Egypt has signed
