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Tuesday, February 17, 1976
University Daily Kansas
associated press digest
Abortion aid challenged
TOPEKA—The Kansas Legislature should decide public policy on spending
the money for poor people, the Senate Ways and Means
Council made today
"Our intent is not to stop abortions, only to stop the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) from paying for them," said James Francisco, D-Wichita, one of three senators sponsoring a bill to prohibit expenditure of state funds for abortions.
Francisco said 30 states now paid for legal abortions under the federal Medicaid program, but 20 states wouldn't pay for them.
Francisco attacked the appropriation of $270,000 to SFRS for the fiscal year that ended last June 30 and $300,000 in the current fiscal year to match federal funds to FPSRs.
Francisco said recent federal court decisions had indicated that the states didn't have to spend state funds for abortions.
Prison site questioned
TOPEKA-A high-level dispute appears to be developing between Missouri and Kansas over the site chosen for Missouri's new medium-security prison near ST. Louis.
Kansas Gov. Robert F. Bennett said at his news conference in Topeka yesterday that there was a question about ownership of the small parcel of land on left the Kansas side of the Missouri River by a change in the river channel nearly 25 years ago.
Missouri claims ownership, but Bennett said Monday he wanted a boundary survey made to determine whether the land was actually part of Kansas.
The land in question houses St. Joseph's airport, an Air National Guard facility and some industrial property. It is accessible by highway only through Kansas, a point that has prompted Kansas residents in the area to initiate a petition drive to keep the prison out.
Mail heist stamped out
BOSTON- Authorities said yesterday they had seized $27 million in stolen negotiable securities at the home of a U.S. Postal Service supervisor, some of them rolled up in newspapers in a fireplace. It was the biggest mail heist ever, an official said.
Pasquale Luzzo, 38, a supervisor at the Hanover Street postal branch in Boston, was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property. He was released on bail.
Luzzo, an 18-year veteran with the postal service, is married and has two children.
Malpractice bills okayed
TOPEKA--Four bills dealing with the problem of medical malpractice insurance won tentative approval yesterday in the Kansas House.
The measures are part of a 12-bit package recommended by a special committee that studied the subject between the 1975 and 1976 legislative sessions.
Only one of the bills sparked any debate during consideration by the House. A bill that would reduce the time in which a malpractice action could be brought was passed.
Rep. John Carlin, D-Smolan, the change applied not only to medical malpractice cases but to other types of civil damage suits as well.
Carlin said that people across the state had asked the legislature to do something about the malfunction practice problem but the bill as it stands "gives them the right to avoid liability" in such cases.
Nuclear contract out
TOPEKA-Atty. Atty. Gen. Curt Schneder yesterday declared a proposed contract to provide water for a proposed nuclear generating plant invalid and unenforceable. But he agreed to expedite a review of his decision before the Kansas Supreme Court.
Scheider said that two members of the state Water Resources Board, which made the contract with KG&E and Kansas City Power and Light Co. on behalf of the City, had been appointed to the board.
Meany blasts Ford
MIAMI BEACH (AP)—President Ford's lack of compassion for the "little people" was demonstrated by his vet of legislation that would have created new jobs, George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, said yesterday.
Meany said Ford has a capita of the nation's big corporations. If the United States is to recover from its economic downturn, it will not start getting people back to work."
At a news conference marking the opening of the AFL-CIO's winter meeting,
Meany denounced both Ford and his Republican challenger, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, as products of Republican conservatism.
Waina also called Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace "a disaster", but declined to say whom he favored among the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The House is expected to vote Thursday in an effort to override Ford's veto of the multibillion dollar public works bill, and increase chances "look pretty good" for an override.
"We in the University share the concern of this committee and have undertaken a major reorganization which we believe will benefit our students and others," Dykes told the committee.
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HE OUTLINED plans for correcting the deficiencies, and added, "We believe these steps will give the chancellor's office much better input into the Medical Center problem solution of these problems are on the way to solution, and if they are not, they soon will be."
A plan of Chancellor Archie R. Dykes to correct deficiencies in the operations of certain facilities at the KU Medical Center was unanimously endorsed yesterday by the Legislative Post Audit Committee in Toeka.
The deficiencies were in food service, housekeeping and laundry operations, Dykes said, and had been uncovered in an audit report.
Audit committee okays Med Center changes
Dykes said the Med Center's physical
The resolution was adopted by the committee on a motion by Sen. Jack Steinger, D-Kansas City, after Dykes and others appeared before the Post Audit Committee.
Dykes said a study was also being made
using nurses to distribute food to patients
using nurses to distribute food to patients
Dykes said a decision would probably be made by the end of this year whether to build a new laundry plant at a projected cost of $1.8 million. The Med Center now contracts with outside firms to do 85 per cent of its laundry, he said, and the question is whether building a new facility would save more money than the present system.
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plant had recently been reorganized under Russell Mills, assistant to the Chancellor for special projects, to provide more accountability to the chancellor's office.
DYKES SAID new purchasing methods were being studied for possible savings. He said he also supported Gov. Robert F. Bennett's proposal for a $200,000
The audit had showed that the cafeteria lost more than $388,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30. Dykes said several staff members were unable to reduct or eliminate the cafeteria's losses.
HE SAID these included reducing the hours of operation from 22 to 18 daily, using part-time help, increasing prices for meals and using more convenience foods.
management study at the Med Center to investigate other possible adjustments.
For example, Dykes said, the Med Center has no one with expertise in the areas of personnel and manpower to tell its staff that many people are needed for specific services.
"We need some hospital consulting firm with expertise which could help us determine our manpower needs and help us set work standards." Dykes said. "Then they
could stay with us to help implement their recommendations."
SEN. WINT WINTER, R-Ottawa
Legislative Post Audit Committees chairman,
then the panel would recall Dykes and
the Center officials in the future for an update.
Richard Brown, the state's auditor, called Dykes' report "positive," and said his staff could work with it and the Med Center staff to correct the problems.
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