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Hospital's Treatment Costs Them a Paying Customer Mrs. Mary Joyner of Lantana isn't going to pay the $150 bill John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital sent her. She isn't even going to let her insurance company pay it. Mary Joyner is one more angry lady.

On the afternoon of May 8, Mary Joyner's 14-year-old son, Barry Moore, took a bad fall on his trail bike. He was not wearing a helmet and sustained a head injury and numerous bruises. He was taken to the emergency room at Kennedy Hospital by Universal Ambulance Service. He was examined by a physician, X-rays were taken of his skull, chest and left upper arm and his scrapes were treated. The examining physician's diagnosis was "contusion of the left temporal region with numerous skin abrasions possible head injuries.

X-rays appear negative" for fracture. The doctor told Mary Joyner she could take her son home. She was given a form advising her to call the boy's doctor if he started vomiting or the pupils of his eyes became dilated. "He was vomiting up blood right then," his mother said. "His eyes were dilated.

But they said it was all right to take him home." Mary took her son home, but she didn't even let him get out of the car. She called his pediatrician, who referred her to a neurologist who told her to bring her son to Good Samaritan Hospital at once. X-rays were taken at Good Sam. They revealed a "basal skull fracture, left." The neurologist said, "The boy has a fractured skull and we're going to admit him." Barry's nausea continued for 24 hours. He was under observation for meningitis, which can develop as a result of a skull fracture.

Fortunately, he did not develop meningitis and was released from Good Samaritan after being hospitalized four days. His mother is deeply grateful for that, but what she did not appreciate was getting a $150 bill from JFK Hospital $105 for X-rays. $30 for the doctor who examined Barry and $15 in emergency room costs. "I'm not going to pay it and I'm not going to let my insurance company pay it, either," she said angrily. (Barry is fully insured.) "It's the principle of the thing.

They sent my boy home with a fractured skull, and if God hadn't given me enough intelligence to know there was something wrong, he could be dead of meningitis right now." Mary Joyner went to Kennedy Hospital to tell them she was not going to pay the bill and tell them why she was not going to pay the bill. She couldn't get in to see the administrator, but the administrator's secretary listened courteously to her story. The X-rays didn't show a fracture, the secretary explained. As for discharging her son well, doctors make mistakes, too. There would be an "adjustment" on the bill and Mary shouldn't worry about paying it.

Mary Joyner isn't worried about paying it. She doesn't have the slightest intention of paying it. In fact, she says, the hospital can consider itself lucky that her son apparently suffered no damage as a result of his accident, wo lawyers have advised Mary Joyner that the apparent absence of damage precludes the possibility of legal action. And as for that $150 bill, Mary Joyner plans to pay that whenever it snows in Key West. In August.

Steve Mitchell News of the Serving South Lake Okeechobee outh. Coast The Palm Beach Post SECTION FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1975 Administrator Candidates Reduced to 4 By GAYLE PALLESEN Poll Stiff Wrlttr Acting County Administrator John Sansbury, former Boca Raton City Manager William Law and two officials from Broward County emerged as finalists yesterday in the search for a Palm Beach County administrator. All five county commissioners met yesterday for two hours, dropping eight other names on a list of 11 finalists and adding Sansbury as the fourth finalist. The four which include Deerfield Beach City manager David M. Gatchel and Assistant Broward County Administrator F.

Thomas Kain will be interviewed as soon as appointments can be set up. Sansbury didn't apply for the post, but agreed to consider it when asked by Commissioner Bill Medlen who said: "He's done a very excellent job. "You stepped right in and we appreciate the efforts you've made," Medlen Staff Photos by Max Kaufmann said of Sansbury's five weeks in the interim slot. "I work very closely with John every day and I have to concur with Mr. Medlen," said Chairman E.

W. (Bud) Weaver. Kain, who was the runnerup when commissioners selected Robert Rollins last December, has been offered a job as assistant city manager in Fort Lauderdale, according to County Personnel Director Don Roberts. Kain, however, refused to comment last night on whether he has accepted or even been offered the Fort Lauderdale post. "It's none of your business," he said.

Before Kain became an assistant county administrator in Broward County, he was city manager of Hollywood, but was forced to resign when he lost the support of the majority of the City Commission. He was city manager in Boynton Beach from 1964 through 1967. Law resigned as Boca Raton city manager three months ago, saying he was swept out by "political houseclean-ing" that no manager could escape. At that time, Law was the highest paid municipal employe in the county, earning He was given a $20,000 severance settlement by city councilmen who wanted to avoid going through the cumbersome process required by the city charter to fire him. Gatchel has held his Deerfield Beach position for three years.

He is a former pity manager for Delray Beach and Beach, a former city commissioner in Sanford and a former county commissioner and clerk of the Circuit Court in Seminole County. Sansbury served as an assistant county administrator for two years before taking over the interim post, when Rollins resigned. Saying they had received telephone calls from senators and a U.S. congressman in support of Robert T. Creasy of North Palm Beach, Commissioners added his name to the original list of 10 finalists.

Commissioners Robert Culpepper and Robert Johnson voted unsuccessfully to make him one of the top finalists. Creasy is a former executive director of the Professional Golfers Association and was an assistant U.S. secretary of labor under President Harry Truman. Those on the list of finalists who were dropped from consideration include: Maitland consultant O.K. Armstrong Temple Terrace consultant Raymond D.

Bray; former Housing and Urban Development official Charles R. Davis; Dade County special projects administrator Larry E. Eiker; Palm Beach County Environmental Control Officer Dennis P. Koehler; Clearwater consultant Lowell C. Wikoff, and Edgar E.

Maroney, chief of the Bureau of Intergovernmental Relations in the state Department of Administration. 3 Historic Crash The Brelsford house, homt of one of the earliest residents of Palm Beach, sags and collapses as it is rammed by a bulldozer. The 72-year-old building was given several short reprieves before the demolition crew of the ABCO Construction Co. Inc. went to work yesterday morning.

The house was on the property of the Royal Poinciana Chapel, whose trustees said the aging structure was more liability than asset. Costs to renovate it for public use would have been prohibitive, the trustees said. The house, named for its first owner, E. M. Brelsford, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

if-' it rt L.J I ewe -ne is ..4 "(SfiSrT-jl Simpson Claims Killing Not Part Of Plan to drive Lawrence Bean to Fort Lauderdale. Their companion, Melton Hunt, said, according to Simpson, 'Money's no problem. We can make some Melton said we could do some Then they spotted Brown and Marie Swesten walking along the street, carrying a milk bottle. "I said (to Hunt), 'Hey I say, 'I don't know about this. Turn to SIMPSON, a Hunt got a shotgun at a pool hall and Simpson told him, "Hey, man, let me hold the shell cause I don't want anything to jump off that we'll regret." They went to three convenience stores in Delray Beach and Boynton Beach, but all were too crowded to rob.

dence. Court was recessed for an hour and IS minutes while the tape again was pieced together. The all-white jury trying the case of Simpson, who is black, eventually heard him tell Hillary how he needed some money Dec. 15 to buy enough gas A Kitchen Hitchin Chef Weds His Sweetheart In Ceremony at Restaurant By BARBARA LEVIN Poit Staff Wrlttr "I said okay, we'll do some robbing. I said but look, one thing, we'll do no hurting, no killing." Willie Simpson's recorded voice boomed out over the public address system yesterday afternoon in the fourth day of his second murder trial in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

He was describing how he and two friends planned to rob an elderly Boynton Beach couple. The robbery was unsuccessful, but as Simpson and the two other youths sped away from that quiet Boynton Beach street on Dec, 15, 66-year-old Thomas Ross Brown lay dying on the sidewalk. Simpson claims he did not pull the trigger or even hold the gun used in the killing. The two other men, who are expected to testify against Simpson today, say Simpson was carrying the shotgun. They have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

The 15-minute taped statement Simpson gave Boynton Beach Detective Lt. Edward Hillary the night of the murder took over two hours to play in court yesterday, and was played over the objections of Simpson's attorney, Edward Starr. The "deteriorating" cassette tape broke when it was played at Simpson's first trial in February. (That trial ended abruDtly when Circuit Court Judge Timothy Poulton ruled blacks had been systematically excluded from the jury. The issue is being appealed.) The tape was spliced, but the glue used to splice it caused tape loops to stick together.

The tape broke again yesterday as Circuit Court Judge Emery Newell was listening to it while the jury was out of the room to decide whether it could be admitted as evi- waitress Louise Marshall scurried into the kitchen. "I just want to get a loaf of bread before my customer kills Marshall said. Layman's sister, notary Edith Scholtz of Lantana, then performed the double ring ceremony. It was only the second wedding Scholtz had performed. Last fall she married off her brother Fred, but that was in her home.

With second cook Kent Gillespie and bartender Sam Mancuso standing up for him, Layman added one vow to the "love, honor and cherish." "I'm going to cook her a beautiful breakfast tomorrow," he said. After that he left lit--tie doubt about who will wear the apron in Urn family. "I've been cooking so many years, I'll be" glad to get out of it," he said. They left on their honeymoon in a shower of rice from the kitchen. "Hev, that's my rice you're throwing away," Layman said.

By JOHN PETERSON Poit Staff Wrlttr BOYNTON BEACH After waitresses' cries of "Coming through, hot" had died down, Barbara Blackburn and chef Bob Layman were married last night amidst pots, pans, ladles and baked potatoes. The ceremony for the two, both from Lake Worth, was in Layman't kitchen at Gentleman Jim's Restaurant, 1905 S. Federal Highway. Although waitresses and dishwashers interrupted the evening dinner schedule to watch, the diners didn't seem to feel neglected. They were given complimentary champagne.

Layman, in full uniform, said the idea of marrying in the kitchen came to him when he told his boss about the big day. "I told him if I didn't get next Thursday off, I'd have to do it in the kitchen. It just went from there. "We serve 300 to 400 people here a night," he added. "We've got more confusion over one wedding than serving 400 people.

The only delay in the wedding came when -P' -v i' 1 -1 LsMMMWWWS -Willi 111 Stiff Photo by Aklrt Smwi Bride and Groom (With Hat) Are Beam as They Receive Congratulations I).