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9C JFlff Annlfllmi 8C Etfr Annirfon fctet Wednesday, Mar. 9, 1983 Democrats hear front runners, leave Willis out Pi3mont come together government, education, business and labor to come up with a strategy to assure a resurgence Jfpr the country). Bumpers conceded thai Democrats matchin dollars lost by the $5 million cui, ue budge? would be about $20 million below the amount needed to continue current ter- Mrs. Baggiano said Medicaid now Is not broad enough to cover the needs of many poor people. She said It provides only for the absolute neediest those who have no dollars of their own to buy health care." COOPER TOLD the joint committee his agency needs about $250,000 in fiscal 1984 and he disclosed that the ethics comm sstoi was able to keep functioning this year only with the help of a $25,000 shot in the arm from former Gov.

Fob James before he left office. Cooper said the commission budget of $231 000 for fiscal 1983 was reduced 15 percent when all General Fund agencies were cut back because of a shortfall in revenue. But he said James provided the $25,000 in revenue sharing to keep him from having to lay off two employees. the week before the Legislature begins its 1983 regular session. The next fiscal year doestfl begin until Oct.

1 But Mrs. Baggiano said her department would have to make some cuts as early as July, if needed, because the state's payment on services provided at that time would not be made until "later in the year. She said cuts might include a reduction in Medicaid coverage for hospital stays. But she the agency might also freeze its level of payment to Medicaid providers, even though the providers' costs are going up. SEN.

TED LITTLE of Auburn asked if the Legislature can expect "the same hue and cry we hear every year the same crisis we ve had in the past?" The Medicaid director replied that if the state doesn't increase its payments to providers while their own out-of-pocket costs rise dramatically, it would reasonable to expect a "hue and cry" would follow. "We're barely covering the costs (of providers) right now," she said. She said her agency's "dream sheet" calls for about $99 million in state funding for fiscal 1984. But, she said, "we've agreed to level funding" in accordance with the request of Wallace's finance director, Henry Steagall. That would give the agency some $94 million in state funds.

Mrs. Baggiano said that, counting federal By KENDAL WEAVER Associated Press Writer MONTGOMERY Cuts in staffs and services including a cut in Medicaid care as early as July are possible under a budget squeeze projected in Alabama for the next Tom Coburn, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, opened a series of budget hearings Tuesday by warning that state agencies "will probably get less" in fiscal 1984 than they now receive. The impact of his comment was underlined by state Medicaid Director Faye Baggiano who said cuts in medical aid to the poor might begin as early as July if there is no money to increase the Medicaid budget. She said she had agreed to a "level funding concept sought by Gov. George C.

Wallace administration a total budget some $20 million below the amount needed to keep pace with current Medicaid costs. MELVIN COOPER, executive director of the State Ethics Commission, also said he would have to lay off two of the agency's eight staffers if his cut-back 1983 budget was imposed for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Cooper and Mrs. Baggiano were the first two agency heads to outline the financial status of their offices as the House and Senate's budget-writing committees opened joint hearings.

They will meet periodically through April 14, rrom Staff, Wire Reports ATLANTA Georgians at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Tuesday night browsed overa menu of Democratic presidential contenders, but organizers of the gala did not publicly recognize Piedmont's Gerald Willis, who announced his candidacy in January. "We were disappointed because the Democratic Party of Georgia would not recognize us as a presidential candidate. We are just as much a bona fide candidate as cany of those other people," Willis said this morning. Although the 1964 election is still almost two years away, six of the party's seven major contenders and the son of the seventh gathered in Georgia's capital Tuesday in an effort to make an impression in a region they say must be re-won to the party fold if a Democrat is to go to the White House. State Democratic Chairman Bert Lance called the affair "far and away" the largest such fund-raising dinner in the state's history, and party officials estimated some 3,000 people school funds up PIEDMONT Superintendent John R.

Kirkpatrick had some good news (or the Piedmont Board of Education on Tuesday night. After paying March's bills, the school system has a balance of J26.059, he said. And that balance was without borrowing any money from the city, he added after the meeting. In December, the Piedmont City Council agreed to help the school system by loaning it $12,000 a month for three months, a decision made after Kirkpatrick asked for help with the school system's cash-flow problem. Kirkpatrick said after Tuesday night's meeting that the cash-flow problem was solved "by a mild winter, teachers and students practicing the saving of energy, keeping costs down to a min i attended the $100 per ticket dinner at Georgia World Congress Center.

WILLIS SAID. thaLat JeasUwo-ol- those people, an Atlanta lawyer and his wife who were sitting at a table with Mr. and Mrs. Willis, left the dinner early. "He said it wasn't right to recognize part of them and not all of them.

He said he had heard all the rhetoric he wanted to hear, and he and his wife got up and left," Willis said. "I think they're doing a discourtesy not only to me, but to the people of this nation," he said of the Democrats. Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, Sen. Dale Bumpers of John Glenn of Ohio, Sen.

Gary Hart of Colorado, Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and former Vice President Walter Mondale as well as Kim Cranston, son of California Sen. Alan Cranston, were allowed about seven minutes to speak. Willis said he was disappointed that he was not allowed to speak and was not even publicly recognized. "We're just disappointed they won't let everybody exercise their constitutional right in this country.

The people have got to be recognized some way or another We're going to continue to fight for that." THE CANDIDATES who were allowed to, speak emphasized the need for nuclear arms control, a modernized industrial base, restored competitiveness in the international marketplace and renewed concern for the needy. Askew said the country must fight unfair trade practices and bring its resources to bear on its problems "in an entirely new way." "We have come up in an adversarial atmosphere, with government against business and business against labor," -Askew said. "It is about time for us to Coburn, however, said he will advise every agency coming before the budget hearings that a cut is probable. He said it is an "an artificial hope" to think the state will have money to cover increased budgets. He said state government must either live within the appropriated amounts or raise taxes.

There is no other place to go to." would lose some of their campaign fodder if President Reagan's economic recovery program succeeds and he reaches an arms control agreement with the Soviets. "But a burgeoning economy will not change the fact that the deficit is going to grow about $600 billion during this administration," Bumpers said, "or that 80 percent of the people in this country have a smaller share of the wealth than they had two years ago, and that 20 percent have more wealth." Cranston said his father is campaigning on two themes, to get Americans back to work and to "end the nuclear arms raee nuclear arms end us." The California senator would work for a verifiable arms control treaty which would "not be based on trusting the Soviets." GLENN DECRIED that the Reagan administration has turned its back on the poor and said that military security is no substitute for economic security. "For two years, the Reagan administration has tried to turn back the clock in every area of civil rights. For two years the administration has closed its ears to the cries of the needy people around the world," the former astronaut said. "True prosperity flows up from the people and never trickles down from the powerful." Hart pointed out that he has very specific proposals to address national problems and said he is running because the current chief executive campaigned on a theme of "hating government" and went to Washington to try to "shut down the government." Noting an early Reagan proposal to FA YE BAGGIANO, MEDICAID DIRECTOR expects.cuts in program by July -a 1 CioxJi srntimiQ fnr 1 tinman believed drowned in canoeing uuciuvm Photo Gary Hart; former Florida Gov.

Reuben Askew; Kim Cranston, son of candidate Sen. Alan Cranston; Sen. Dale Bumpers; and former Vice President Walter Mondale. Gerald Willis of Nances Creek was at the dinner but not recognized. FRONT RUNNERS Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Bert Lance, left, poses Tuesday with presidential candidates at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Atlanta.

They are, from second left to right: Sen. John Glenn; Sen. Ernest Hollings; Sen. V-X wfmt morns'' imum, cooperation between the administration and teachers in the using and reusing of supplies, and we have had an increase in ad valorem taxes." In other business, the board said it would begin advertising for bids for repairs and renovations to Southside Elementary School, Francis E. Willard Middle School and the old Piedmont High School.

Kirkpatrick said the repairs would cost about $62,000. Robbers pose as guards, take $400,000 from bank SEEKONK, Mass. (AP) Two robbers apparently stole a set of official-looking uniforms, then posed as bank guards to gain entry to a bank vault and make off with $400,000, police said. Police Capt. James C.

Healy sa'd the men were "admitted to the vault area" at the First Bristol County National Bank on Monday because their uniforms gave "the impression they were bank guards or money transporters." lifejackets. Padalino, James Hatcher of Decatur and Julie McClendon of Birmingham reached shore safely. Miss Taylor and Padalino had been dating more than a year, and planned to marry after she graduated from college. Miss Taylor was a nursing student who wanted to work with hospitalized children and prepare them emotionally for surgery. Police in Tuscaloosa said they didn't know how long the search for Miss Taylor would last.

It has been hampered for three days by heavy winds and rough, deep waters. must "deal justly with the future oi our children." "If we believe in the future, then this generation has no right to poison and destroy the earth," he said. "I say get rid of the (Interior Secretary) James Watts and the EPA Director) Anne Burfords and the people who put them in charge." "He gave me the Bible and said, "This is Johnny Padalino, 21, of Vestavia Hills met Suzy last year at toe university, where he also is a student, Mrs. Webb said. He was with Suzy when the canoe overturned and he later told Mrs.

Webb that he tried to reach Suzy before the current swept her away. "He said they held onto a tree limb for a long time, and he told her to hold on, that he'd get to her." The river was 40 feet wide Sunday, more than twice its normal width because of Saturday's heavy rains. None of the four were wearing abolish the Department of Education, Hart said, "If this administration thinks education is too expensive, wait until it finds out how much ignorance costs." Hollings said such issues as gun control, abortion, prayer in the public schools and even a nuclear freeze "pale alongside the importance of economic survival in the face of international competition. "We are being told by this president that government is your We need a president who understands and appreciates government," Hollings said. Mondale, delivering the most impassioned appeal, said the government carrying Miss Taylor, her boyfriend and another couple, overturned.

All are students at the University of Alabama. "She was a devout Christian. There's no worry about her being gone," said Nell Atkinson, Miss Taylor's grandmother. "We know where she that is the greatest thing." "Suzy," as her family calls her, is feared to have drowned, and her family is waiting for word from Tuscaloosa authorities. Ann Webb, Miss Taylor's mother, said her daughter was religious.

"I'm not trying to make her out to be holy," Mrs. Webb said, "but Johnny brought me Suzy's keys and this little Bible Sunday night. TUSCALOOSA (AP) A 20-year-old University of Alabama student, believed to have drowned in a Sunday boating accident, remained missing early today as a search continued along the North River. The student, Susan Taylor, was swept away by the current of the rain-swollen river after two canoes overturned. Companions said she surfaced once, reached in vain for help, and disappeared.

Search parties have dragged the North River, which forms Lake Tuscaloosa, since Sunday accident. About 3 p.m. that day, two canoes AMERICAS FAMILY DfUG STORE AMERICA'S FAMILY DfJUG STORE Also Tuesday night, the board accepted the resignation of Debbie Goss as cheerleading sponsor. Mrs. Goss' letter to the board said her doctor hd advised her to resign.

High school Principal John Smith said he would begin to look for a replacement for the position, which has a salary supplement of about $400. Kirkpatrick said. Bond sale SOT Tactics South is in nations mai stream SALE THRU SAT. MARCH 1 2 th. DON'T MISS THESE SPECIALS ON mmmmmm mmmmm Piedmont brand means satisfaction guaranteed.

The PIEDMONT The Pied mr-msmr mr WWW ATLANTA (AP) Presidential contenders who strutted and preened before Georgia's heavyweight Democrats assured the Southerners they not only have joined the mainstream of U.S. politics but have become that mainstream. In fact, the theme at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner appeared to be that while the South will be a key region in the 1984 presidential election, Southerners themselves are little different from Northerners and Westerners. mont Water Works, Gas and Rnard will have a IB $600,000 bond sale "as soon as nccihlo" in nav nff lflAns pVMIUIb used to improve the city's 35- make additional' repairs, ac- i a iPiii 100Tl.TS J0DMS cording 10 uenerai manage Ramon Feazell. The board fyoted Tuesday nieht to have First Birm i KODAK PR-10 ingham Securities Corp.

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12.99 DURING THE news conferences, receptions and dinner itself, several candidates took pains to say they have no "Southern strategy" up their sleeves to re-win the region even though the South has voted Republican in three of the last four presidential elections. The $100-per-ticket dinner drew about 3,000 people to the Georgia World Congress Center. They included state officials and party workers, blacks such as Fulton County Commissioner Michael Lomax and Corretta Scott King, big-business lobbyistsi and labor officials like state' AFL-CIO chief Herb Mabry Former Alabama state Rep. Gerald Willis of Nances Creek, Former Florida Gov Reubin Askew, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas.

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