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Page 8A, THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, S.C., Friday, February 1, 1974 Medicaid Program In S.C. Gets Reprieve fair contract. The association is pleased with the action taken by the General Assembly and is looking forward to full cooperation with the people who have displayed their interest and care for the elderly people ed for 30 days the potential crisis of the nursing home industry. The General Assembly passed a resolution to establish a joint committee to study the entire medicaid program and to assist the nursing home association and the Social Services Department to arrive at a William Green DesChamps D-Lee, and James H. Moss, D-Beaufort.

The president of the South Carolina Nursing Home Association, John R. Cothran, released this prepared statement: "We applaud the action of the House and Senate which avert housed in nursing homes in our state." resentative for the nursing homes, agreed to the one-month contract extension Thursday morning. The contract between the state and the nursing homes was to expire Friday. Ellis had offered the nursing homes a payment of $16.55 per medicaid patient, per day, a boost of about 40 cents a day over the current state contract. The nursing homes, claiming a loss of money each year on medicaid refused.

Ellis and Dent also agreed on a resumption of negotiations with hopes of signing a new contract by March 1. Operators of the nursing homes said they had been notified by Ellis to be prepared to move those elderly patients who received medicaid payments. By ROB WOOD Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)-The medicaid program in South Carolina has received a 30-day reprieve after officials of the State Social Services Department and the attorney for 43 nursing homes agreed Thursday to an extension of the present contract. Meanwhile, the South Carolina General Assembly appointed a six-member study committee to probe into the hassle between the nursing homes and the Social Service Department that had threatened to end the program that covered some elderly South Carolinians.

R. Archie Ellis, commissioner of Social Services, and Harry Dent, a Columbia attorney former White House aide to President Nixon, and legal rep Gov. John C. West said, "We did this only as a precautionary measure. We didn't want these old people left without proper medical care." The Senate passed a resolution urging the State Budget and Control Board to turn over the $100,000 to the Social Services Department for extension of the nursing home contract.

A couple of hours later, Sen. L. Marion Gressette, D-Cal-houn, the senate president pro tempore, asked that the resolution be withdrawn. Gressette said the emergency $100,000 appropriation was not needed. Then the special legislative study committee was named, including Sens.

Frank L. Rod-dey, D-Lancaster, Albert Doo-ley, D-Lexington, and Thomas O. Bowen, D-Sumter, and Reps. John K. Earle, R-Greenville, NOTICE Hunt's Exxon And Lee's Exxon Will Be Closed On Saturdays Until Further Notice Two Truck Drivers Killed OLD FORT, N.

C. (AP)-Two truck drivers were killed Tuesday when their tractor-trailers, one a refrigerator unit carrying about 35,000 pounds of beef, collided on U. S. 70 on a two-mile grade on the side of Old Fort Mountain near where five other persons were killed in a collision last fall. A spokesman in the office of SHE'S KEPT HER BOUNCY EXUBERANCE Actress Jane Withers, shown as a child star back in the 1930s (left), demonstrates she's still got the same bouncy exuberance today (right).

Evidence can be viewed Monday, Feb. 4, when she appears on a Mitzi Gaynor television special. The new generation recognize her as Josephine the Plumber on TV commercials, but she first achieved fame when appearing with Shirley Temple in "Bright Eyes" about 1934. (AP Wirephoto) Jane Withers Still Moppett Chromacolor DtttMI INCH DIAGONAL "The kids have always meant more than anything to me," said Jane, "and we always held a family meeting to vote on whether I should take jobs that I was considering." The family voted 12 years ago that she should accept the role of Josephine in the TV commercials, and she has been doing it ever since "the longest-running one-minute show in television" she calls it. "It has been great for me, COMPACT PORTABLE TV Now you can enjoy Zenith Chromacolor almost anywhere in your home kitchen, bedroom, living room or den.

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