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"A Old Stories For Young Pens By volunteering their life experiences, older visitors to a third-grade class in Webster Groves give pupils something to write about. EVERYDAY IF The Macintosh Is 10 Years Old In the 10 years since Apple introduced the first Macintosh personal computer, its mystique has remained strong. TECHNOLOGY 5C mm ILLINOIS Betting May Be Down On Luck 6a REGION OTallon, Keeps On Growing ib SPORTS Blues Ground Jets At Arena id post-os ID IT. i I 5-STAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 1994 (1) 116, NO. 40, Copyright 1994 Mudslide In Malibu limritoini fta Fir Intel) lotos lDw jjK.

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That amounts to a 16.5 percent increase and a pronounced shift from the policies of the 1980s. "This is striking to us because, during the campaign, Bill Clinton said See POPULATION, Page 8 plan that spills 'blood on the floor' 8A Study Predicts Compiled From News Services WASHINGTON In a setback for the White House, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that President Bill Clinton's health plan would drive the deficit $74 billion higher over the next six years, not cut it by $58 billion as billed. In its long-awaited, independent look at the proposal for paying for universal coverage, the congressional agency also concluded that the premiums would be 15 percent more expensive than touted and should be included in the federal budget. Clinton has argued that provisions in his plan that would require companies to pay 80 percent of their workers' insurance premiums are not taxes and should not be counted as part of the budget. Administration officials also have said the plan, which would require all but the largest companies to join state-run cooperatives that would sell private insurance, would be in essence a private system.

The budget agency's study refuted that premise, saying that Clinton's plan was a government-run program that "would be unique in its form, size, scope and complexity." Although the agency said the premiums in Clinton's plan should be counted as federal revenue, the agency did not call them taxes which would have been a political body blow to the administration. It also suggested that spending by state-run health alliances, which would sell insurance to most Americans under the plan, should be segregated in a budget category similar to the way Social Security is treated. Republicans cheered the 81-page i Cabinet pushes budget as tough 16 Year Old Girl a scene. ay? For get Benefits Hofsepl what it was designed be," said its sponsor, Sen. Franc Flotron, R-Creye Coeur.

"It's supposed to be a system that pays benefits to people who are injured as a result of working on the job. The bill does not preclude anyone with a real legitimate claim for something that happens in the course of their employment." For the third year in a row, business groups are pushing the Legislature to revise the state's system of dealing with injured workers. They claim that premium payments for workers' compensa- See WORKERS, Page 10 By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief JEFFERSON CITY While Elwanda Pullum was plucking chickens on the night shift, one of her co-workers playfully fired a piece of packing ice at Joining in the fun, Pullum picked up a piece of ice and tried to put it on the shirt of another employee. The movement startled the employee, who was holding a pair of scissors. In a reflex motion, the employee stabbed Pullum through the left wrist with the scissors.

Under Profits rise on workers' compensation insurance, study finds 10A Missouri's workers' compensation law, Pullum, 49, was awarded $18,061 in benefits for her 1991 injury. But if a bill heard Tuesday in the Senate Labor Committee becomes law, people like Pullum would no longer be eligible for workers' comp benefits. The bill would deny compensation for injuries caused by workers' "horseplay." "This bill restores workers' compensation to Did 'Scientific Hocus Pbcus' Convict Murder Suspect? Questions Persist In SavageSlaying Of self-employed carpenter, to the murder Nor is there firm evidence that Heaton had met Krystal. Sightings of a white pickup resembling Heaton's at the scene were unreliable. There is reason to doubt the reliability of the prosecution's silver bullet a genetic test that seemed to tie Heaton to the crime.

The defense lawyers have said that the DNA test was improperly performed and overstated the probability that a tiny spot of semen found See HEATON, Page 4 By David Protess and Cheryl Dahle Special to the Post-Dispatch RAMSEY, 111. The crack of the gavel split the hush in the courtroom. Again and again, Judge Joseph Fribley let his mallet fall before condemning Stuart Heaton to life in prison for the stabbing death of a teen-age girl. His voice edged with anger, Fribley said that 20 blows of his gavel were a fraction of the number of times 16-year-old Krystal Naab was stabbed on a midsummer day in 1991. "There's a day of reckoning and a day of murder in the county.

The sentencing restored a sense of comfort to the community, where doors are often left unlocked. But is Heaton guilty? Questions linger. Hea-ton's lawyers go before the Illinois Appellate Court in Mount Vernon on Thursday to overturn the conviction. They contend that no credible evidence links Heaton, 27, to the murder. They will argue that: No fingerprints, blood or fiber tie Heaton, Authorities warn of many pitfalls in DNA testing 4A judgment," Fribley said.

"Today the scales of justice will be balanced toward Krystal." The hearing was the climax of an event that dismayed the residents of the small town of Ramsey, a rural community 75 miles east of St. Louis in Fayette County. For the previous decade, there hadn't been a Index Automotive IE Business 1-8C Classified 1-24E Everyday 1-10F Movie Timetable 9F NationWorld 3A News Analysis 5B Obituaries 4B People 2A St. Louis 1-8B Sports 1-8D Television 8F EDITORIAL PAGE The Ultimate Zero-Sum Game Just Say No To Tarkio 6B ry tk re? 1 "1 'Let Patient Decide' On Prostate Surgery U.S. Health Panel Outlines 'Symptom Scorecard' 5 1 1 AP martialed; about 50 received administrative discipline.

Karen Johnson, national secretary for the National Organization for Women, said, "That fact that here it r' See KELSO, Page 5 Admiral Accused In Tailhook Naval Operations Chief Covered Up, Judge Says Compiled From News Services NORFOLK, Va. A military judge accused Adm. Frank B. Kelso II on Tuesday of witnessing sexual misconduct in the 1991 Tailhook scandal and trying to cover it up. The judge dismissed charges against three aviators who had contended that their cases were tainted by the Navy chief's actions.

The judge, Navy Capt. Wil Kelso liam T. Vest also accused the Navy's top brass of not paying attention to instances of sexual misconduct at earlier Tailhook meetings. Had they done so, Vest said, "a high probability exists that both the assaults aW much of the Navy's em- Compiled From News Services WASHINGTON Federal health officials Tuesday chided doctors for too often using surgery to treat men for an enlarged prostate gland, saying that in many cases prescribing drugs or even doing nothing is better. For prostate patients with mild or moderate symptoms, "observation or 'watchful waiting' may be sufficient indeed, it may be preferable," said Dr.

Philip Lee, director of the U.S. Public Health Service. "For others, medication may be the treatment of choice, and still others will conclude that surgery is required," Lee said at a news conference. "But the ultimate decision should be the patient's based upon the symptoms as the patient experiences them." The prostate is a walnut-sized gland that is located at the base of the bladder and encircles the urethra the tube that conducts urine out of the bladder in urination. Benign prostate hyperplasia, or BPH, is a non-cancerous enlargement of thewostate.

An enlarged prostate corjricts the urethra, im- Surgery offers the best chance for easing symptoms but also has the highest risks. a A balloon can be threaded into the urethra to push it open. Symptoms usually recur in two years. Alpha blockers are a type of drug that relaxes the muscle of the prostate so it causes less pressure on the urethra. Long-term effects are unknown.

Finasteride is a new drug that can shrink the prostate while lowering levels of a type of hormone within it. Long-term effects are unknown. "Watchful waiting" is monitoring mild symptoms. Patients may opt for no treatment unless the slow-growing condition worsens. peding urine flow.

Men suffer an urgent and frequent need to urinate, one that interferes with their sleep and daily routine. SetJfROSTATE.PagelO WEATHER Snowin', Blowin' FORECAST Today Snow ending with total of 1-3 inches. Wind from northwest 10-20 mph. High 19. Low 10.

Thursday Partly cloudy, not so cold. High 26. Other weather, 8B lmM ce POST-DISPATCH WEATHEHBIRD acq pat, orp. '09 100 yLl Navy Cmdr. Gregory Tritt (right) and his wife, Rosa, after charges against him were dropped Tuesday.

Also cleared were Cmdr. Thomas Miller (left) and Lt. David Samples (background). barrassment could have been avoided." The dismissals leave only one case pending in the investigation of the scandal that damaged the image of Navy anrf Marine Corps aviators. Of 140 casJs, no one was ever court-.