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WARREN, PA. WARREN COUNTY OBSERVER, MONDAY MAY 28, 1962 PAGE SEVEN Welfare Head Backs Medicare By EMMA HARRISON (c) New York Times Service NEW YORK--The president of the National Conference on Social Welfare asserted last night that Social Security should be extended to provide health care for the aged. He said social workers shouldtake leadership in giving the public facts, not propaganda, to support the objective. Opening the 89th conference of the social welfare leaders at Manhattan Center here, Fedele F. Fauri, dean of the school of social work, University of Michigan, said his approval of the plan is shared increasingly by people who have developed the Social Security program.

And, he added, these are not only supporters or members of the Kennedy administration. They include Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and former officeholders in theEisen- hower administration such as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, Commissioner of Social Security Charles Schottland andUnderSecretary of Labor Arthur Larson. Reviewing alternate plans, Dr. Fauri found most commercial health insurance plans, including Blue Cross-Blue Shield, and the recently-enacted Kerr-Mills Law lacking in ability to provide basic insurance coverage for those over 65 who need it.

Only half of the people of that age have any health insurance coverage today, he pointed out. And, he added, because of the attempt to keep premium rates within reach of the aged, coverage of those who have insurance is in many cases very limited. Attempts by voluntary plans, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, to provide coverage to the aged, low- income, higher-risk group by rating" which offers coverage to all enrollees in given service areas at an average premium with the younger, low-risk groups bearing the burden of cost for the aged, poorer-risk groups are shifting in the face of competition from commercial insurance, he said. Commercial insurance uses the principle opposite to the system known as which sets lower premiums for the lower-risk and higher premiums for the higher-risk groups. Thus, he said, commercial plans tend to attract the low risks and the voluntary, the large low-cost groups.

The recent solution offered by Blue Cross-Blue Shield plans, he said, tends toward and their announced national plan emphasizes the need for the aged to their own without subsidies from younger workers. Dr. Fauri said the income level of this group makes the plan where hospital costs are concerned --without federal subsidy. And this, he added, was an PROBERS STUDY BOMB THEORY CENTERVILLE, Iowa (UPI)--Federal and airline investigators worked on the yesterday a bomb ripped apart the Continental Airliner that crashed and killed 45 persons Tuesday night. The FBI said it was making a thorough investigation of the and aboard the Golden Jet.

FBI agents and officials of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) emerged from a closed meeting with little to add officially to Saturday's discovery of chemical bums on one of the victims and evidence in the wreckage of a W. Mark Felt, Kansas City, agent-in-charge for the FBI, saida and intensive was being conducted on the basis of preliminary findings of the CAB. Edward Slattery public information officer for the CAB said the investigation concerned the and The investigation took on nationwide aspects: Centerville, where a mockup of the rear 18 feet of the plane was being constructed to pinpoint the location of the explosive device. Chicago, where the travel patterns of the 37 passengers who boarded the Golden Jet at O'Hare Field on a flight to Los Angeles were analyzed. Washington, where fragments of the wreckage and bodies of the victims were being analyzed in the FBI laboratory.

The laboratory reports were not expected for several days, because some of the fragments are being given 70 tests of one to five hours each. Denver, where Continental spokesmen at airlines headquarters in Denver said investigation by their experts indicated manmade explosive set off within the Insurance companies started processing policies purchased by passengers on the ill-fated flight 11. One company, Mutual of Omaha, said it had issued policies of maximum $75,000 to individual passengers aboard the flight. But Mutual said policies of such amounts were not unusual. Officials of the CAB at Centerville did not dispute Continental wiiiv-ictis oi uie kernel vine mu uui uispuie quartt President Robert statement and their preliminary statements bomb.

Berlin Refugee Is Slaii hr iZiin Hattie at 11 AIR CRASH CLAIMS 45 wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet liner is scatteredover a wide area after the plane crashed in a violent electrical storm late May 29. All but one of the 45 persons aboard were killed in the disaster--almost instantly. The lone survivor lived for about 10 hours but died in a hospital here May 23. (UPI Telephoto) reported no direct of a bomb. However, a high source at Centerville, where the federal investigation was headquartered, said practical people we can only assume it was a By JOSEPH B.

FLEMING United Press International and Communist police fought a gun battle across a Berlin border canal yesterday after the Communists shot and killed a refugee trying to swim to freedom in broad second refugee killed within 24 hours. West Berlin police said the Communists opened fire on two West Berlin policemen without provocation and that the Western police returned the fire. Bullets also whistled past three West Berliners taking a Sunday stroll along the Spandau Canal. Western police said the Communists fired about 30 shots at a man trying to escape, hit him and then fired about 30 shots toward two Western policemen running toward the bank of the canal in the British Sector. The East German interior ministry said the refugee died of his wounds in a hospital.

He was the 26th East German killed trying to flee since the Communists built their anti-refugee wall Aug. 13. The Western police hit the dirt and fired about 30 shots back. The West Berliners were not hit and it was believed the Eastern police were not hit. The three persons strolling past said bullets whistled past our but missed.

The duel was the second in a week and brought tension along the anti-refugee wall to the highest point since the East Berlin authorities erected the wall last Aug. 13. The West Berliners were angry because Communist police shot and killed a man of about 30 before dawn yesterday just yards from the barbed wire entanglements on the French sector border. The Communists were enraged because of repeated at- temps to blow up the wall. Each side issued angry, warnings and West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt said in a radio speech Wfest Berlin police will shoot at any Eastern border guards who fire at escaping refugees.

Brandt also told the Communists that Western police were not patrolling the border to keep people from trying to blow up the Communist wall. He said he was against force but police are not here to protect the wall of shame." Yesterday's gun duel came at 4:40 p.m. when an East Berlin man took off his coat and shoes to swim better and ran toward the eastern bank of the canal, lie fell under a burst of machine pistol bullets 15 feet from the water. The Communists let him lie there and made no move tn go to his aid. two East Berlin nurses shouted out a window of the nearby charity hospital at the Communist police.

Then an East German armored personnal carrier drove up. The Communist police took the apparently lifeless man by the arms and legs and dragged him to the armored car. The car drove away. Legal Kisses LONDON who want to cuddle and kiss on streets are free to do so without interference from the 17,000 policemen. A confidential notice to London police said the be arrested on of outraging public If police think the embrace is too passionate they must first give a polite warning to before taking more serious action.

Wet Session JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) The Mississippi Legislature ended its longest session in 92 years Saturday night after approving a bill to permit hotel and restaurant wine sales in the nation's only prohibition, state: GOP Raps Medicare Plan Differ on an Alternative WASHINGTON members of Congress attacked President Kennedy's plan for medical care for the aged yesterday, but differed on what if any alternative program is needed. At the same time, Sen. Harrison A. Williams praised the efforts to sell the public on his Social Security approach to medicare, and added: think that bill will Among GOP critics of the proposal were Sens.

John G. Tower (Tex.) and John Marshall Butler (Md.) who contended that no new legislation was needed until the current Kerr-Mills system had a chance to prove itself. On the other hand, Republican Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (N.Y.) and Rep.

Frank Bow (Ohio) urged passage of their own alternative plans, meas wruld allow individuals to choose between Social Security or a privfete plan, both to be financed with Social Security taxes. Bow as proposed a system of tax incentives, and in some cases direct grants, to enable all persons over age 65 to join a private health YOUNGSVILLE group of youngsters received their First Holy Comm union Sun day morning at St. Church in Youngsville. Posing with the class are Rev. Charles M.

Hurley, pastor, and Mildred Danuski, who assisted in preparing the group for First Communion. The group includes Sue Lindvay, Susan Kowalski, Lou Ann Lowery, Rose Mary Schultz, Roberta Miller, Nancy Youcha, Michelle Lauffenberg, Ann Muczynski, Finances Stino, Rosalie Battko, Delores Wawyko, Darlene Wawyko, Rose Taydus, Patricia Glosick, Suzanne Bauer, Joan papana, Patricia Urban Debra Battko, Florence Stino and Patricia Quiggle. Other members of the group were Jeffery Wilson, Michael Olson, Donald Stec, Gregory Sedlak, George Fill, Paul Schmader, Matthew RogerLuv- ison, John Macks, RalphSuppa, CraigMyers, James Baron, Randy Peterson, Mark Taydus, Thomas Gentz, Robin Ingols, Paul jarmul, Adrian John Lyszaz and Paul Petho. (Photo by John Martin).