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Gordon Tl ammack MLoins THE WEATHER LOCAL Chance of showers tonight, lows in lower 50s. Partly cloudy Tuesday, high in lower 70s. Rain chances 30 per cent tonight, 20 per cent Tuesday. (World's Weather: Page 3-S.) Price 10 Cents Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, July 3, 1972 Two Sections Copyright, 1977, Des Moines Register and Tribune Company IOWA IN LAST 4 YEARS Tl T)ACK IN Des Moines last week for the twentieth reunion of his East High School class was James Grayson Bo-len of Sausalito, editor and publisher of Psychic magazine and one of the authors of a new book, "Psychics," published by Harper and Row. He visited his mother, Mrs.

Jennie Bolen of 912 Shaw St. and his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Jackovich of 721 Boulder Ave. The book, consists of interviews with nine widely known psychics, six of them conducted by Bolen.

One of Bolen's interviews was with Peter Hurkos, who went to Vietnam several years ago at the request of the U.S. State Department, says Hurkos to investigate the case of a millionaire silk merchant believed captured by the Inl fftterwiiiwn mnrinin Mi -Hu I i 1 t- A 1 T- J'i -'5-i "If v. I r-. V'wrVW' J- 1 But Rate Increases Expected to Level off By Richard Hatfield Copyright, 1972, Oes Moine Register and Tribune Company Mrs. A.

of Des Moines entered Iowa Lutheran Hospital on Mar. 7, 1967, for a routine appendectomy. By the time she was discharged six days later, her hospital bill totaled $371.45 for board and room, nursing care, laboratory fees and medications. Iowa Lutheran Administrator Arne Soiiien said that if the same woman, whom he would not identify by name, though the case is real, were to be admitted to his hospital today for exactly the same operation, the total six-day bill would be $546.15, an increase of 47 per cent. And next year, he said, the cost is likely to be somewhat, higher still although the increase won't be as much as the average 9-per-cent-a-year increase that has been put into effect each year since 1987 at Iowa Lutheran, he said.

Leveling Out Sorlien and other administrators concede that hospital costs in Iowa have been skyrocketing in recent years. But they believe that future increases will be coming at a lesser rate than they have been. "We're kidding ourselves if we talk about reducing hospital costs, but I think there will be a leveling off," said B. M. What You Pay Two special Tribune charts on today's Ticture Page illustrate how hospital costs have gone up from 1967 to 1970 in each of the 140 hospitals in Iowa.

The charts list comparative figures for the two years for the average charge per day, average length of hospital stay, number of beds, rate of occupancy, payroll and total expenses. Grahek, associate administrator of Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Hospital costs in recent years have soared far beyond the inflation rate for the economy as a whole. The average daily charge per patient for 140 community hospitals in Iowa during was about $65 67 per cent more than it was just four year earlier. But Grahek and oilier hospital officials now say that will be "in line" with the nation's over-all rate of inflation.

"If inflation is curbed, our situation will reflect the same thing," Grahek said. "If there's a low percentage of inflation, hospitals will have a low percentage of increase," he said. "Catching Un" Grahek and oilier administrators said that the main reason that hospital costs have gone up so much in recent years is because hospitals have had lot of "catching up to do" in the salaries they pay their employes. Other factors that have had a major impact on rising hospital costs, according to the administrators: Medicare and Medicaid programs have made it possible for more of the elderly and tire poor to have hospital care, a factor which has, in turn, required more buildings, equipment, staff and furnishings. Advances In medical technology have resulted in the purchase of expensive new diagnostic and treatment equipment.

More doctors arc sending more and more patients to the hospital for diagnostic tests that used to be performed on an outpatient basis or in the doctor's office. Critics of the high cost of hospital care have charged that UP 67 IN See China Escalating Hanoi Aid As Cease-Fire Hopes Recede By Selig S. Harrison 1972 Washington Post PEKING, CHINA With hopes for a Vietnam cease-fire receding here, China reportedly has stepped up efforts to repair its bomb-shattered rail links to North Vietnam in preparation for an increased flow of military and economic aid to Hanoi. The conclusion emerging from conversations with Chinese officials and well-informed Asian and European diplomats during the past week is that Hanoi and Washington still are far apart on the eve of the new round of Paris peace talks starting July 13. As in the past, the key issue in Chinese eyes continues to be whether a coalition government would precede or follow a cease-fire and whether the United States is prepared for meaningful, across-the-board disengagement or expects to retain continuing leverage in Saigon.

There is a note of deep disappointment and impatience in government circles and among foreign policy specialists at Peking University following President Nixon's press conference on Thursday and an earlier statement by Secretary of State William Rogers at the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) conference in Canberra, Australia, pledging that "U.S. involvement will not end with the end of U.S. military involvement." The Rogers statement, in particular, is seen as confirming North Vietnamese fears that the United States would seek to continue its intervention in Saigon politics following a ceasefire, especially through military aid to the South Vietnamese armed forces. Above all else, it is suggested, Hanoi wants to know what President Nixon had in mind when he said with such deliberate ambiguity in his May 8 speech that U.S. peace proposals "would allow negotiations on a political settlement between Vietnamese themselves.

Bitter The tone of comments heard here carefully avoids threats and implies that 1 e-to-pcople" contacts with Americans will continue or possibly even expand independently of the Vietnam issue. At the same time, people are clearly bitter over what is regarded as American 1 1-headedness and density in the face of a losing investment in Saigon. The only beneficiaries of the present situation are the Russians, it is hinted, since Moscow is exploiting U.S. in- China Please turn to Page Five i I FEEL YOUNG AGAIN' Sixty-eight-year-old Dora Peltch exclaims "I feel young again" as she hugs Ken Beachhead of the Youth International Party in Miami Beach, at a picnic for the elderly Sunday sponsored by the Yippie organization. The picnic rang out with speeches, song and sometimes heated discussions between the young and old for a day of fun.

Yippics have gathered in Miami Beach for the Democratic National Convention, which opens next Monday. (Convention story: Page 7.) Licensing Does It or Bar Competition? Wirephoto (AP) $130,000 Offered To Fischer LONDON, ENGLAND (AP) A British banker has offered Bobby Fischer a deal worth pounds $130,000 at official parity to entice Fischer to play Russia's Boris Spassky for the world chess title. James Slater, an investment banker, said Monday in making the offer; "Hscher has said that money is the problem. Well, here it is. Whiit I am saying (o Fischer now is, 'Come out and Slater's offer was made through I)r, Fuwc, president of the International Chess Federation, and was immediately relayed to Fischer in New York, a spokesman for Slater said.

But in Reykjavik, the six-man board of the Icelandic Chess Federation, which is sponsoring the match, was reported unani-m I opM)sed to paying Fischer extra money. One board member called Fischer's gambit "a blatant attempt at extortion." Fischer faces a deadline set for noon Tuesday to be in Reykjavik, Iceland, for his 24 game championship match with Spassky. The American grand- Fischer Please turn to I 'aye Nine James G. Bolen Deals with psychics Communists and still missing. And Hurkos told Bolen this story: "When I was in Bangkok, working on the case, I was at the airport waiting to pass customs and a plane landed for a rest and refueling stop.

I got to talking to one of the passengers, a German attorney. "When I looked out at the plane later, it was completely black no color. Since this means danger to me, I said to the attorney, 'Why don't you wait for another plane, I don't think that one is going to make it." But he said he had to go, and he did. "The next morning we read that the plane had crashed in the mountains." A NOTHER of Bolen's inter-views was with the late Eileen J. Garrett, an Irishwoman credited with extraordinary psychic abilities dating back to childhood.

She told Bolen that as a child "I suppose I was a bit of a nuisance to everyone around me, because of my unusual sense I could tell when they were telling the truth, even my teachers." Bolen recalls it as a rather minor incident in his life but tells of an experience with a Des Moines woman called Madame Lamb while he was attending Grand View College. "I was preparing at the time to he an engineer and had planned to enter Iowa State University," says Bolen. "But Madame Lamb told me I would not wind up in the same profession I was then studying for. And some time later I went to California and started becoming involved in journalism and public relations. That really wasn't terribly psychic, but It did start me thinking along those lines." Bolen says his magazine has a paid circulation of 30,000 with an estimated 90,000 readers.

TWO SISTERS from Chariton were married in a double ceremony at Chariton the afternoon of Saturday, June 24 a i a McGinn to Jim Thomas and her sister, Patricia, to Doug Swarthout. Because of various obligations, neither couple had the time for much of a honeymoon but they did plan to spend the weekend in Des Moines. Following the reception at the Chariton Country Club, the two couples took off for Des Moines, following each other in separate cars. In Des Moines, they discovered that all hotels and motels were jammed because of the big square dance convention. So they went on to Ames.

No rooms there, either. On to Marshalltown. Same story. And all rooms taken at Newton, too. They wound up driving back to Charlton to their permanent living quarters.

Iowa's Job Aid Public By Larry Fruhling Copyright, 1972, Ds Moinet Register and Tribune Company Iowa legislators are grappling with the question of whether state licensing of such professions as watch repairing protects the consumer cr merely protects people already in the occupation from unwanted competition. Some two dozen professions ranging from medical doctors to architects to real estate agents to watchmakers now are regulated and licensed by the state. When another dozen professions sought licensing permission from the- 1972 Iowa Legislature, lawmakers turned them all down and instead launched a study of the whole field of occupational licensing and regulation. The study already has turned up a number of questions, including: Do some of the state licensing boards already in existence really do the public any good, or do they simply tend to freeze out healthy competition? Does the fact that a professional person say, a doctor has a state license give the Iowa had been unhappy about the proposed fee, which raised at least two questions: Would the fee be passed on to consumers and would the practice spread to other companies? Two Shell dealers In central Iowa who have been critical of the proposed fee said they were "happy" that the company has decided not to begin charging the fee immediately. "It was a bad deal," said Thomas CuIIen, operator of the Airport Shell station at 4720 Fleur Drive, referring to the original proposal.

And, Kermit SclMcr, opera License List State licenses are required by Iowa law for persons in the following occupations: watchmakers and watch repairmen, dentists, optometrists, chiropracters, cosmetologists, physical therapists, undertakers and cmbalmers, barbers, podiatrists, real estate salesmen, nurses, nursing home administrators, lawyers, physicians, accountants, architects, court reporters, veterinarians, engineers, pharmacists, public sanitarians, insurance salesmen. public unwarranted confidence in the ability of the person? Should the consumer be given a voice on the slate boards that now regulate professional groups? At present, the boards are made up almost exclusively of members of the profession being regulated. The legislative committee studying these and other questions met for two days last week to listen to representatives of professions already regulated and those who seek state regulation. The study committee chair- tor of Kerm's Shell station on Interstate 80 near Newton, said Monday's decision by the company will save him money. Frank II.

Staub of Chicago, Shell's vice-president of marketing, said the plan has been delayed because there is a question whether the one per cent service fee on the credit card accounts meets Price Commission guidelines. "We felt that in the interests of all concerned, it would be sensible to get a determination before we put the charge into effect," Staub said. man, Representative Willard Hansen Cedar Falls), said the hearings left him "with the rather strong impression that our professional licensing renewal procedure does little more than act as a gimmick for raising funds for the respective examining boards." Annual Renewal Hansen explained that such a board, once it grants a person a professional license, normally requires an annual license renewal for which a fee is charged. He said his objection is that nearly all the boards simply mail out the lieenses when ihey receive the renewal fees each year with no requirement that a person In the profession do anything to keep up his competence and learn the new techniques of his profession. "Once you pass the test or examination (to receive a license), you almost appear to be eternally safe," Hansen said.

"If you need a license in the first place, there should be some follow-up to see that a person lives up to the standards the public expects a given board is imposing." One of the witnesses at the Boards Please turn to Page Nine 10c Break-In At D.M. Firm Thieves smashed a window, opened an overhead door and stole a dime from a desk during a weekend break-in at the Safway Steel Scaffolds Co. of Iowa, 717 E. Court police said. A spokesman for the firm said Monday that a thorough check after the Saturday night break-in had determined that the dime was the only thing taken.

The coin was stolen from the desk drawer of parts manager Harry McCall, the spokesman said. He added that McCall usually keeps a dime in his drawer to use in the office soda pop machine. l'lciisc turn to Page Thrrc A Clearing Day After Showers a morning's cloudy skies began clearing up as the day progressed, giving IH'S Moines area residents hope for a good Fourth of outdoors. After a low of 56 degrees and some brief pro-dawn showers, the temperature climbed to 73 by noon. The National Weather Service forecast partly sunny skies, cool temperatures throughout the stale for Tuesday's holiday.

Highs are expected to range from the upper 60s north to the lower 70s south. Coiiufrv 1 "I like folks who say nice things ahout people which is one reason I don't mind htar-ing folks talk about themselves." ONE PER CENT SERVICE CHARGE costs- Trusting Victim Pays for Lesson LONDON, ENGLAND (AIM Dress shop owner Ken Price thought ho was dying when he was pulled from the wreckage of his car two days ago He gave one of his rescuers his wallet with 400 pounds (nearly and said, "J'lease see that, my wife gets this." The Samaritan agreed and comforted Price until an ambulance arrived. Price didn't die, and his wife didn't get the money. The Samaritan disappeared with it. Movies Page 8 Radio, TV Page 9 Women Page 12 Inside Your Tribune Shell Drops Its Fee Plan In the Age of the Jet, He 'Rides a Donkey9 THAT'S THE ANALOGY DRAWN by cellist Oregor Piatigor-sky, who at 69 shows no signs of slowing down and observes that it is puzzling that in these changing times, still nobody can build a better cello than his centuries-old instrument Page AN ARMY MAJOR WHO ESCAPED from a Viet Cong prison after five years in shackles, today is working to see that military red tape doesn't slow down reunions of other prisoners with their families once the men arc released Page 12 By Virgil Oakman Shell Oil Co.

has decided not to begin charging its dealers a $1 service fee for every $100 charged to Shell credit card customers at least not right now, company spokesmen said Monday. The company had announced two weeks ago it would begin charging the service fee Saturday, but in a statement released Monday morning the company said the fee would not go into effect as planned, at least until the federal Price Commission reviews the fee. Several iiocll dealers In Almanac Page 3-S omics Page 4-S L'ditorials Page 8.