Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 14

Page 14 Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Wednesday, August 5, 196S tion frwn ti foreman Medicare For Two Firm Gains By Houston Heart Surgeons Hiring Men For Plant Teens Pushing Battle For Ballot Rights Highest Paid Doctors WASHINGTON (IP) Two famous Houston heart surgeons. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and Dr. Denton A.

Cooley, each'received about $200,000 in Medicare payments last year, ranking them as apparently the highest paid doctors in the nation under the government program. A special investigation now underway has found no indication of irregularity in the payments, which involved hundreds of difficult heart and blood vessel operations. Investigators said the payments went mainly into a fund at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, rather than to the doctors personally. Cooley has performed 20 human heart transplants, more than any other surgeon in the world. DeBakey, the first physician to use an artificial heart pump on a human, has performed 11 transplant operations.

Washington officials said none of the Medicare money so far has gone for transplants, although one patient receiving government disability payments died in Houston while awaiting a new heart. Official Medicare records listed $202,959 in payments for DeBakey last year. This is the highest sum for one physician made public to date throughout the nation. Cooley was paid 8193,124 under Medicare, records showed. This also topped the previous known high.

A Medicare report sent to Congress earlier this year but compiled before 1968 records were complete had listed the highest annual payment rate at 5191,000 to a Florida physician eventually identified as Dr. Morry S. Fox, a Miami osteopath. DeBakey said the payments covered operations performed by a team of doctors, rather than himself alone. He said they involved "the whole range of cardiovascular operations and open heart most complicated and most difficult type of operations." Medicare records show that DeBakey was paid for 642 operations last year and Cooley for 40S.

DeBa'-key said all the Medicare payments were meant to go into the general fund of the Baylor College of Medicine. He is president of the school. A spokesmen for the treasurer's office at the Baylor medical school said most of the money for operations by DeBakey and Cooley was kept by the fund, although part of it was paid to the two physicians under a fee arrangement with the school. He would not give other details. Cooley, 48 was a member of the Baylor faculty until he spring after a controversy over the use of a totally mechanical heart on a human patient.

He is head of the Texas Heart Institute and is chief of cardiovascular surgery at two Houston hospitals. DeBakey, 60, is chief of cardiovascular surgery at a third Houston hospital. He was the first physician to introduce the use of synthetic tubes to replace blood vessels damaged by bal- loning, or aneurysms; In 1962, he became the first to use an artificial heart pump to bypass the main chamber of the heart and allow it to heal itself. The two doctors collaborated in 1962 in developing a heart- lung machine that helped revolutionize open heart surgery. "DeBakey is an honorable man and so is Dr.

Cooley. They are not cheating the government," said a congressional investigator, who is familiar with both cases. DeBakey said he couldn't verify that all the payments went into the Baylor fund becaiise the surgery was performed at a number of different hospitals. However, he said the money was meant to go there, and his staff is checking now to make sure it did. Cooley was in surgery Monday and couldn't be reached for comment.

WASHINGTON (UPI)-Adults of the goldfish-swallowing and panty-raiding generation be hereby put on notice that young people are made of sterner stuff. Current campus fads run to political action. While youth is disparaged ii terms of seizing buildings the like, the vast majority are serious, concerned and political ly active, according to the National Education Associa lion's Project 18. Not the least of the causes these young people are promot ing is their own right to vote According to Project 18, onlj four states now have voting ages below 21. But a survej indicates that 20 states have legislation reducing the voting age to 18 either pending or passed and awaiting voter approval.

Strong gubernatorial support or the closeness of the vote were noteworthy even in states By ROBEKT COX Waynosboro Record Herald WAYNESBORO. Pa. (AP) In an era that focuses attention on youth, a now Waynesboro ilant has found experienced lands by hiring retired work- rs. On the payroll of Northwest Equipment Co. of Pennsylvania, makers of fruit handling equipment, are five men who have more than 200 years' combined experience.

They represent one- fifth of the firm's employes. But President Robert Coates isn't ignoring the young, either. He has hired high school and college students this summer in a training program. The kids get special instruc- varans Snow- herger, lathe operator Uriah Konner. snader Ellis Pryor.

dril' press operator Fred Barnitz machinist Jolui Shaffer. Because of the bumper crop of fruit this year, Coales i his firm is hard pressed to build new equipment, such as apple polishers. Thc.se machines, all custom made, were first introduced in the west and are now catching on here, Coates said. "Not only does the polishing improve the appearance of the apple, but the artificial wax tends to extend (he life of the fruit after packing," he said. The firm was formed two years ago with three employes, and Coates said he plans to expand operations.

"The outlook of the industry iias no ceiling," he said. The mustard plant belongs to same family of plants, the Crucifera, as do the cabbage, cauliflower, kale, turnip and radish. Black Lung Disease where proposals to lower the voting age were defeated, Project 18 declared. The group advocating the franchise for 18- year-olds said the support among governors and congressional leaders is largely a result of the political clout wielded by the young people themselves. "The young men and women 1 who campaigned so vigorously during the last election proved their interest, concern and judgement," said Les Francis, Project 18 director.

He said youth now are aggressively writing letters and making speeches in support of gaining the right to vote. The potential number of voters now between 18 and 20 years of age is 10 to 12 million or about 10 per cent of the present electorate, Project 18 said. Beyond the adult reaction to campus unrest, Project 18 asserted, opposition to enfranchising youth comes from three principal sources: political right wing which contends young people are generally radical or very liberal and can be swayed by emotional appeals from, the left. owners who fear the impact of a younger voting population on such issues as school budgets when these voters are not tax-paying property holders. extreme left which, ironically, speaks of democratization of society but worries that young people, once given the right to vote, would find a legitimate outlet for frustration and abandon radical causes as a result.

Project 18 acknowledges thai "old enough to fight, old enough to vote" is one of the weakesl arguments in favor of the 18- year-old vote. But, it says, 359,000 persons under 21 now are serving in the Armed Forces and that 29 per cent ol the Vietnam dead were under 21. In most states, 18, 19 or 20 year-olds can enter into legal contracts, marry, be recipients of wills, drive cars, carry firearms, pay taxes and stand trial in adult courts. Why not vote? Lebanon Twp. Lions Playground Assoc, Meets Favor Swafara Project In Cleona Fire Hall CLEOXA.

Aug. Cleona Playground 6 The Association met Monday evening in the fire hall. Raymond Stima. The North Lebanon Township Lions Club wont on record favoring the Swalara Creek project at a meeting Tuesday night at Hie Isaac Walton League park, members and There were 20 two per- president, presided. Due to labor SC nt.

President Ivan Ponting problems. equipment that was ia rge of the business ordered for the summer could not be delivered. The order has now been placed for Trip club's intention in favor of project will be presented in a next year. letter to the state secretary of In addi'ion. they have ordered the Department of Forests and a unit of four steel see-savs, for Waters at the hearing scheduled next year.

'to be held on 6. N'ext Wednesday evening, willj Committee reports were heard be the last movie nizht. On Au2. jfrom Jerome Hnllrr, lake, com- 21 for the closing night there mittee; K. H.

P.rorr.mcr. sight will be Indian dancers featured. The kitchen will also be open. Mrs. Edward Shenk was hostess to the 10 members present.

Due to the Labor Dsy holiday, the next meeting will be held Sept. 8 in the fire hall. The U.S. Office of the Superintendent of Documents distributes more than 700 million copies of Government Printing Office publications each year. committee and Hoover, family picnic 1 The guests for the evening were Blaine Hutler Gieonshurg and Richard Rudy from the Frodericksburg Lions Club.

Birthdays were noted Clarence Deck, Gerald Wallers and Marlin Aunssl. The next, meeting scheduled for Aug. 15 has been cancelled in favor of the Lebanon County Lions Picnic on Aug. 19. Totally Disabled Coal Miners To Get Up To $272 WASHINGTON (UP1) Coal miners totally disabled by black lung disease will receive up to $272 a month in federal compensation.

A Mouse labor subcommittee voted Tuesday for the bill enabling payments. Chairman Dominick V. Daniels, N.J., then sent the measure to another House labor subcommittee be included in that group's mine health and safety bill now being drafted. Under the measure, a miner otally disabled by pneumocon- osis would receive federal compensation of $135 a month. A married miner would get $204 a month and that amount would go to $238 for a couple with state for such a disability.

one child and up to maximum of $272 for couple with two children. Pneumocon'osis is a lung dis ease caused by coal dust. The measure stipulates a miner must prove the disease was linked with his work if he had worked in a mine less than 10 years. For those who worked 10 years or more in a mine the compensation would be automatic. If the employer contests the compensation, the mine operator would have to prove the disease was not contracted as part of the man's job.

The measure would be retroactive in that miners totally disabled when and if the provision is enacted into law- would qualify regardless of how long they have suffered from the disease. Government and inion officials have estimated 50,000 miners would qualify for he compensation throughout America. The full federal compensation would be in addition to any compensation now paid by a Judge Deliberates On New Trial For Ex-Reporter PHILADELPHIA (UP1) Judge Robert N. C. Nix Jr.

look under advisement Tuesday a petition filed by former Inquirer reporter Harry J. Karafin for a new trial. Defense Attorney Benjamin Paul argued Tuesday, during the second day of the proceedings, that, the jury which convicted Karafin on 20 charges of blackmail and 20 charges of unlawful solicitation did not give "due consideration" to the evidence. He pointed out that the jury reached a verdict after only five minutes. But Nix, who presided at the trial, said the brief period of deliberations was "significant" and the jurors had found guilty on the testimony they heard.

Nix also disagreed Paul's contention that to the jury gave the impression Karafin had lied in his testimony. The judge said he merely told the jurors they would have to decide whether Karafin lied. Karafin, 54, was fired by the Inquirer in 1967 after he was accused of using his news stories in a shakedown racket. He was convicted in October of 19G8 and has been free under $30.000 bail. The prosecutor, Asst.

Dist. Ally. Richard Sprague, argued against a new trial in a 10- minute statement. He charged that people paid Karafin because "they were afraid he would smear them in the press." Sprague said Karafin's testimony branded him as "a blackmailer." ElECTRIC 23 S. 6th St.

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