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New Rules Problem For Nursing Homes JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri nursing home operators are upset about new federal safety rules. They said tjiey were not given time to comply. As a result, Warren Fletcher of West Plains, president of the Missouri Nursing Home Association, said Wednesday 10 homes have withdrawn from the Medicare program, five have been decertified as not meeting the new standards and new homes must be found at once for 300 occupants the homes. 'Fletcher said the operators were told they would get some help in relocating the displaced persons.

The new "life safety" rules had been talked about for months but Welfare Director Proctor N. Carter said he was not notified until June 30 that federal funds would be cut off to non-complying homes on July 1. Clem Falrchlld of Kansas City, attorney for the state as-, sociation, said he feared a whole new level of federal inspectors would be added to the (Jresent state Health Division inspectors. "If the federal agency would it up to the state, I think fihese problems can be worked out," he said. I About 125 nursing home operators met with state and federal officials Wednesday to get elarification of the new rules 2nd discuss the problems they Present.

Exports Soar To $8 Million In Year WASHINGTON (AP) Farm exports soared to MEXICO (MO.) LEDGER Page Thursday, 7 July 13, 1972 strong, and we will continue to administer policies and programs in ways that enable our agriculture to benefit from the growth Ir an- to the Soviet next three years breakthrough in ASTRONAUTS Apollo 15 astronaufs David Scott, James Irwin, and Alfred Worden have been disciplined by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for secretly carrying 400 souvenir stamped envelopes to the moon. One hundred of the envelopes were given to an acquaintance and sold at a reported price of $1500 each. (AP Wirephoto) Would End Open Primary MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Delegates to the Democratic Hurt Near Hospital, Find Phony Signatures On Petitions ST. LOUIS (AP) Mildred Goudie, 74, of Alton, 111., died In police cruiser Wednesday ST.

LOUIS (AP) The in per cent while being taken to St. Louis years. National Convention have voted, city Hospital despite the fact copyri ghted story today, said Exports to continue the reforms In-, that she had been struck by a many fictitious signatures were programs, augurated this year In an at- car in ron of a private hospi- carr ied on the petitions seeking Peace, have held steady tempt to make it the true "par- tal. place the proposed $730 mil- about $1 billion annually, ty of the people. he elderly woman was pro- lion transportation bond issue Butz said the ad- By voice vote Tuesday night nounced dead at City Hospital on the November general elec- ministration's goal is for $10 delegates adopted several more after the 26 block ride in the tion ballot in i billion a year for farm exports, reforms aimed at insuring that Police car which began at the Barring further dock strikes, the 1976 Democratic presiden- scene of the accident in front of According to the account, one sales are expected to increase tial candidate is nominated by Firman Desloge hospital.

of the petitions bears the name again during the current year, delegate slates which reflect Police said that department of a man who has been dead for he said, the social mix even more than is to take accident vie- 10 years. "Our agricultural and trade 1972 delegations. tims to the municipal hospitals Agriculture Earl an- i nf anounced yesterday. a ma lor When dock strikes tied up VT2SL ports last year, administration purt tr aa officials feared farm exports would drop sharply, perhaps to nur Americans $7.4 billion or less. rour Bute said, however, that $4.2 DJ6 Com D3t billion shipments during the SAIGON (AP)-Four Amer- last half of the fiscal year that icang were in combat last ended June 30, offset the earlier wee flve died from nonhostile slowdown.

causes and another five were The $8 billion total Included i gs in action, the U.S. record sales of more than $1 command announced in its billion in animal products such wee ki cagu alty report. Eight- as butter and other dairy items, cen ner Americans were hides and meat. wounded. Exports also reached a new The week before, the corn- high for soy beans, and soy and reported 14 combat dead, bean products, totaling more seven ea from nonhostile than $2 billion, a high mark for caus es, four missing and 23 all U.S.

farm commodities. wounded. Butz said the entire Increase The South Vietnamese corn- resulted from commercial and reported 661 government sales, which have risen about 50 soldiers killed and 2,585 over the past three wounded last week. It claimed 3,320 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed. These repre- MORE SUPER DISCOUNT Chess Money Tied Up In London Banks LONDON (AP) British financier James Slater has been stalled in his efforts to get the $120,000 prize money he put up for the world chess champion- Ship between Bobby Fischer find Boris Spassky in Iceland.

Under Britain's foreign exchange control regulations, he cannot get the money out of the country until the Bank of England says so. A bank spokesman said ter had applied for permission to get the money to the players but declined to say whether bank approval would be forth- doming. Slater, a chess fan, cannot transfer the money from his worldwide banking and unless the victim requests a This year's reforms added pr i va hospital, more women, blacks and young Miss Goudie was "in pretty persons to the delegations. One reform adopted for 1976 calls for adequate representa- 11 policies will be directed strong- Of 50 persons called whose toward tnat end Butz gaid names appear on the petitions fa a statem ent. "World markets continue such a request, according one of the officers who con- tion for persons of low income, veyed the woman to City Hospi- abolished trict, 41 said they did not sign 0 the petitions, the newspaper reported.

under government such as Food for se nted increases of 15 to 25 per at cent over the previous week, due largely to the fighting in Quang Tri Province. The allied commands now have reported these total casualties for the war: killed in action, 303,208 wounded, dead from nonhostile causes, 1,639 missing or captured. South killed, 384,398 wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet killed. Another abolished winner- take-all primaries such as in California, which this year spurred the biggest credentials battle of the convention.

Sen. George McGovern won California's 271 delegates in the primary. But his opponents unsuccessfully petitioned the Credentials Committee, the courts and the convention itself to divide the California delegation in proportion equal to the vot- tal. Police said the woman attempting to catch a bus when hit by the car. The driver was not charged, police said.

Ozark Float King Is Dead A total of 93,000 signatures was needed to put the bond is- was sue proposal on the ballot. More 00,000 were collected. The petitions were filed with the office of Secretary of State James C. Kirkpatrick in Jefferson City last week. The transportation proposal, in some rural BRANSON, Mo.

(AP) Jim Owen, king of the Ozark float fishermen, has died at the age Jj for general trans Or 68. He was stricken by an apparent heart attack at his home in In 1976, a proportional divi- Branson Wednesday. niirnose in Kansas sion will be required. Owen had a sort of motto: "If same purpose Kansas Another reform would end you're too busy to fish, you're the primary practice in some too busy." The transportation package states of allowing open pri- Starting as a float trip oper- has the support of Gov. Warren maries where Republicans may ator with six boats and six E.

Hearnes, St. Louis Mayor A. over and vote for Demo- guides in 1933, Owen made the j. Cervantes and Kansas City The PRICES GOOD it SALES TAX INCLUDED open bank accounts for ei- Jher Fischer or Spassky in Britain without the bank's approval. The most he can do is pay $720 a year.

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