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p' The Courier-Journal, Tuesday, March 8, 1977 7S metro regional news business deaths 32 possible sites listed for optional-school programs ter and Carter. In the eastern part of the county, Greathouse, Field, Chenowetih, Siiryock and Stivers. Chosen as possible sites for secondary traditional schools were: Barret Middle School in the eastern part of the county; 'Mfeaisf -s- jr It-si 'jliT 4 "3f J-" I XST" 4 By WANDA NICHOLS Courier-Journal Staff Writer A special committee that has been studying how the Jefferson County school system should use its buildings last night suggested 32 schools that would make good sites for optional educational programs. Anne Crockett, a member of the special committee and a member of another panel that has been studying optional schools, said the recommendations are simply for the board's study and are not to be considered final suggestions. Supt.

Ernest C. Grayson said the' committee will continue its study and, before making a final decision, will seek suggestions from members of the community. The optional school committee has recommended that the board set up two more traditional elementary schools, select a school as a permanent site for the traditional high school, establish an "open" elementary school and pick out a school that can temporarily house the Youth Performing Arts center. The school district has received a $500,000 federal grant to build a performing arts center at Noe Middle School, 121 W. Lee St.

The center is not expected to be ready for use until the 1978-79 school year. Board member Thomas Shultz said he is disturbed that no schools in southwest Jefferson county, where there is wide support for traditional schools, had been recommended as a site for one. The committee recommended these schools as possible sites for traditional elementary schools: In the western part of the county, Crums Lane, Cane Run, Schaffner, Waller, Parkland, Perry, Fos- Staff Photo by Robert Steinau number of famous Americans, such as Col. Harland Sanders, Adolph Rupp and Benjamin Franklin "made significant contributions to their nation or community" after age 65. Mrs.

Zimmerman also mentioned that one of the board members, Scott De-trick, "is approaching age Then she said "it only seems fair that if you can not teach or administer after reaching 65 you can not' set the policies as a school board member." -She said "the proposed policy of age 65 as the retirement is arbitrary and without justification. Board member Carolyn Hutto said she's concerned that a mandatory retirement age of 65 would mean a number of ca-pable people would no longer be employed by the school system. Grayson said that only about 20 people in administration including counselors, supervisors, assistant superintendents, directors and principals and a total of 122 teachers would be affected the first year. Grayson said the board could seek a "declaratory judgment" in the courts to determine the legality of the policy. Dan McCubbin, an attorney for the board, said a judgment in the state Supreme Court on a case involving the school system in Harlan County, where similar retirement policies have been adopted, should be coming soon.

In other business during the meeting: Carol Haddad, a board member, presented Grayson with a petition with 74 names from students at Noe Middle School in support of reinstating bus driver Bill Williams. Williams was transferred from his job as a bus driver after some complaints from parents concerning the publicizing; of Williams' criminal record. Mrs. Jean Ruffra and Mrs. Hutto also presented Grayson with mail they had received in support of Williams.

Mrs. Hutto told Grayson she thinks administrators should look into schools where there have been a number of. problems to determine ways to promote better relations between students and improve discipline. She said, "I feel that ultimately that the people who sit up here are the ones who will catch it if something happens. I would like to have some information as to what the problems are in the schools." Grayson promised to work on developing such a report.

The board decided to apply for a $22,000 federal grant to set up a special program to work with mentally retarded children. Grayson said that if the school district is awarded the grant 60 children who have not received much training or education in their lives will be placed in the program over a three-year period. Unemployment office goes under Parkland and Duvalle Middle Schools in the part of the county; Male High, Durrett High and Woerner Middle School in the central section of the county and Thomas Jefferson High School in the south-central portion. Other schools selected as possible sites for some type of alternative or optional school program were: Barret, Parkland and DuValle, Woerner, Lowell Elementary and Iroquois High School. The committee suggested DuPont Manual, Central High and Male High as possible sites for the temporary performing arts center.

During the meeting the board rejected a proposal that Roosevelt Elementary School be changed to a school with an open-classroom concept that would be open to all students. A committee that studied the proposal that Roosevelt become an alternate school said the innovative and sometimes controversial educational programs at the school did not meet the definition of an optional school. The committee said that while it was with a number of projects going on at Roosevelt, not enough information had been supplied about the goals and academic program for students, i In selecting the schools the committee considered such factors as the building's capacity, design and physical condition; projected enrollment; transportation; cost, and how the local desegregation plan would be affected. Mrs. Carla Taylor, a spokesman for the Citizens Education Workshop, said she believes that it's important for the board to "establish rigorous procedures" in selecting buildings to be closed and used for other educational purposes.

She noted that "there is a tremendous impact on the community" when schools are closed. Debbie Bogle, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, told the board that students at the school were very concerned rbout the recommendations that the school become the permanent site of the traditional high school, which is now housed in a wing of the high school. Grayson assured her that no final decisions have been made. In other business last night, the board adopted a policy that will require all emploves to retire at age 65 beginning July 1, 1978. Currently employes of the board can work on limited contracts after age 65, subject to review each year up until age 70.

Mrx Sharon Zimmerman said the Jefferson County Teachers Association "is epposed to any plan that would mandate retirement at age 65." She noted that a Chaos resulted yesterday when about 1,500 laid-off efits. Later, arrangements were made for them to go Philip Morris workers appeared at the state unem- to the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, where ployment-insurance office to apply for jobless ben- things were more orderly. (Story, Page 2.) Two attorneys cleared in change-of-will case er the two attorneys had acted improperly. He called on the bar associations to investigate the lawyers' professional conduct and asked Armstrong to check into the possibility of criminal violations. In a report to Mudd dated March 3, Armstrong said he could find no law violation.

He said the case raised "questions of ethical propriety which should be considered and determined by the appropriate bar association." A spokesman for the Kentucky Bar Association said rules of Kentucky's Supreme Court prohibit him from commenting on investigations into alleged misbehavior by attorneys. 1 Both Wood and Stites said in interviews they, are pleased with Armstrong's determination that there was no criminal violation involved. properly in amending the will and trust agreement. Mackey claimed Mrs. Uri was already incompetent when the will was amended in 1972 and that the change resulted from undue influence exerted, upon Mrs.

Uri by Wood. The suit also charged that Stites should not have made the changes in the wll without talking with Mrs. Uri to assure himself that she waited the changes made. Mudd issued an order Oct. 6 removing Mackey as a party to the suit, leaving the library as the plaintiff.

The suit was settled when Wood and his wife renounced their interest in the Uri estate and $50,000 was awarded to' the Wood children. The library got the remainder of the $500,000 estate. After the settlement, Mudd. said it wasn't proper for him to rule on wheth the remainder, to go to the Louisville Free -Public Library at the time of the daughter's death. But the daughter died in 1972.

At that time, Stites drafted changes to the will, and accompanying trust agreement. Under the amended will, Mrs. left her attorney Wood an income of about $35,000 annually for life. After the deaths of Wood and his wife, the will provided that the Woods' two children would receive about $17,500 apiece Under, the will, the library was to receive what was left of the estate after all the Woods' had received their shares, The amended documents were chal lenged irr a suit brought by Edward h. Mackey, who was appointed to handle Mrs.

Uri's affairs after she was" declared legally incompetent in 1974. Mackey charged that Wood and Stites acted im By LARRY WERNER Courier-Journal Staff Writer Two attorneys have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing for changing the will of a client of one of the attorneys. Commonwealth's Atty. David L. Armstrong said he could "find no provable violation" of criminal laws by Louisville attorneys Charles F.

Wood and Jame: W. Stites Jr. The statement was made in a report to Jefferson Circuit Judge Jack E. Mudd, who had asked Armstrong and the Kentucky and Louisville Bar associ- ations for an investigation. There has been no report on the bar association inquiries.

The investigations resulted from a case involving the will of Sonia Uri, who died in 1975, leaving an estate of more than $500,000. Mrs. Uri's will had originally left the bulk of her estate to her daughter, with Medicare allows treatment at commercial facility of official fears for kidney research By STAN MACDONALD Courier-Journal Staff Writer Hundreds of millions of tax dollars are being used through the Medicare program to treat victims of kidney disease. Just how well that money is being used is a subject of debate among members of Louisville's medical community. Two men who disagree on the matter are both involved in the University of Louisville medical school's program for treating patients suffering from kidney failure.

Dr. Arthur Keeney, dean of the medical school, indicated that, he feared that the end result of the tax-supported program is that the school's research might suffer. Underlying his premise is the fact that the university, which operates its own treatment clinic at General Hospital, has lost patients to a more attractive, com-merciaJ, for-profit center, Bio-Medical Applications. A spokesman for the university's medical school speaking for Keeney said that a larger number of patients at General would mean that more money would be generated for research. Keeney said research, which is a major goal of the university's could lead to better methods of treatment.

Dr. Sidney Marcum, interim director of the of L-Jewish Hospital kidney transplant team, said the commercial according to Dr. Fred Ferris, acting director of the medical school's clinic. Ferris said that about double the present number of 26 patients is needed to carry out "meaningful, long-term study." He said a larger staff is also needed to allow some of the clinid's physicians to spend time on research. He said two physicians might join the staff within the next year.

Marcum said the patients treated at Bio-Med are available, under proper supervision, for teaching and research in connection with the university's program. He said Bio-Med, which has 107 patients, has offered this cooperation but the medical school didn't accept. There also appear to be some differing views on an effort by some U.S. congressmen to reduce the costs of the kidney program nationally. A congressional committee is scheduled to hold hearings on the matter this spring.

A few years ago the Social Security Act was amended so that virtually all people who suffered kidney failure were covered by Medicare. The result has been described as the nation's "first catastrophic-disease program." Federal money pays most of the costs of kidney transplants or of treatment on an artificial kidney machine that filters and cleans a patient's blood. The blood washing Is called dialysis and it is provided at the medical school's and Bio-Med's clinics. There patients who come to the clinic two or three times a week for treatments that last several hours. The only other dialysis facility in Louisville is at Jewish Hospital, but it is for hospitalized patients.

The hearings in Washington this spring will focus on a bill introduced a few weeks ago by U.S. Reps. Charles Vanik, D-Ohio, and Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill. clinic has provided quality care cheaply and efficiently and has not jeopardized the university's program. In addition to his role with the trans-' plant team, Marcum is one of two directors of the commercial center.

Keeney said the use of such federal funds "function as a deterrent to basic research and investigation." He did not specify what changes he would make in the use of the funds to produce more money for research. The medical school spokesmen said the institution did not oppose Medicare going to commercial centers. He said the private clinics' attraction to patients hasn't stimulated the money for research that he would like to see being generated. There is a sharp contrast in appearance between the two clinics. Bio-Med's is colored in bright blue, green, orange and yellow.

It is clean, shiny and modern. Patients can watch television on small sets mounted near the artificial kidney machines. The university's clinic appeared orderly and clean but gray and drab in comparison. Bio-Med in Louisville is one of 63 clinics that National Medical Care, a Massachusetts-based operates across the country. Lubrano said profits of the parent, company, which were reported as $8.7 million for last year, are being plowed into expansion.

Bio-Med charges $150 for each dialysis, including $12 to $15 in physician's fees. The $150 is the maximum amount allowed by the federal Medicare pays 80 per cent of the bill. The medical school's clinic charges roughly the same amount. Although the school's clinic is nonprofit, the doctors staffing it receive a physician's fee. The fee, based on a formula, is $10 to $15 for each dialysis, Vanik has urged that costs be reduced by placing as many as half of all patients on home or self-care dialysis, which he said is about one-third the cost of treatment at a dialysis center, like one run by the medical school or by Bio-Med.

The current law doesn't provide incentives for home dialysis in that some expenses covered at the clinics aren't covered if incurred at 'home. The Vanik-Rostenkowski bill seeks to correct this. Vanik has said the Medicare-backed program has been successful for patients. But he warned that the cost is "staggering" and has "ominous implications" for any future programs to deal with catastrophic illness, including those that may pay for Ic-term diseases like hemophilia, cane. cerebral palsy.

The Social Se -it." Administration estimates that 32,000 people in this country have suffered kidney failure and that dialysis and other forms of treatment will cost the federal government $720 million this fiscal year. Keeping a patient alive can cost $20,000 or more a year. Vanik said last month that some experts forecast that by 1981 the program's cost may. be $1.5 billion a year with the number of patients reaching about 65,000. As far as could be determined, there are possibly only two or three patients in the Louisville area on home dialysis.

Dr. Ferris advocates placing more patients on home treatment. He said it can give many patients a psychological lift by freeing them from the weekly trips to the centers. "I think its probably in- See PROGRAM PAGE 3, coL 1, this section Beg your pardon Friday's Courier-Journal incorrectly said Criminal Court Judge George H. Kunzman would decide by April 22 whether Jefferies Moody Sr.

will be retried on charges he shot and wounded an off-duty policeman last May. The decision is up to Commonwealth's Atty. David Armstrong. Staff Photo by Richard Brack Debbie Sharp has been a patient at Bio-Medical Applications, a commercial center in Louisville that treats people with kidney disease, since December. She is scheduled to have a transplant in April.

i He roomed with them 9 years; one day he left and died "We haye no -right to infer" what was the cause of Scoggin's death, said Buckaway. "I don't know, no one knows. Only the Man above is the judge of those things." Coroner Carl L. Adams said the-cause of death apparently was drowning and apparently suicide. A native of Robertson Couhty.Ten-nessee, Scoggin was an Armyteran of World War II.

He was a mcmbeisof the Methodist Church of In addition to his sister, he is survived by his father, H. B. Scoggin of Green. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, Buckaway, of 118 North Bayly but, Moore said, she told them that "he had not to worry about him. He'd get along all right." Sunday morning, said Moore, Scoggin left the house.

Moore said they put a note in his room later Sunday to remind him that he had to leave yesterday, but he never returned. "We wouldn't have had that happen for said Moore. "I feel that my wife did everything possible to take care of him for those nine years, including the time he didn't pay us anything." said his brother-in-law "Hasn't feeling any too good" recently and had health problems. By KEN LOOMIS Courier-Journal Staff Writer As the police and coroner reconstructed it must have happened about sundown Sunday. But apparently there were no witnesses.

The police were called about 10:30 a.m. yesterday, after a passerby crossing the bridge on the lake in Cherokee Park saw the body. On the shore near the bridge, they found the jacket, hat, glasses and billfold of Douglas G. Scoggin all arranged in a neat pile. There was no notf.

V( He died much as he lived: alone. The cause of death was believed to be suicide by drowning. For nine years, Scoggin, 70, had roomed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore, of 1800 Windsor Place.

But he must have been an unobtrusive man because some neighbors said they rarely saw him. Mrs. Russell Shipp, however, who lives next door, said she saw him "almost every day." He was slender and usually- wore a hat, she said, so she wasn't sure what color his hair was. Moore, his landlord, described him as "cordial," and he said he knew Scoggin had friends. But he didn't know who they were.

Moore and his wife were especially distraught last night over Scoggin's death because they had recently told him he had to leave. For the past year and a half, said Moore, Scoggin had paid them no rent. They knew he was getting some kind of veteran's disability pension but not Social Security. "He said he wouldn't take it yet, so it would build up more," said Moore. And, he added, Scoggin told them that he stood to inherit a lot of money when his elderly father died.

"in my opinion, he was sort of a proud man," said Moore. "He wouldn't go to his father, and he wouldn't go down to the welfare." But, "it wasn't really a money proposition that we asked him to move." There were other reasons, he said, that he didn't want to discuss. So, six weeks- ago, said Moore, "we asked him to move or get himself straightened up." Scoggin agreed to go, said Moore, about a week ago. But then he asked for one more week. It was agreed that he would go yesterday.

The Moores offered to take him to Bowling Green to live with his father, but he refused to go, Moore And they called his sister, Mrs. W. A..