Arizona Daily Sun from Flagstaff, Arizona • 2

2 The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, February 23, 1972 Williams Hospital Ups Rate Assessment Protests Heard Supervisors View Indigent Care Cost Williams Hospital Is billing the county three dollars a day more for Indigent nursing care of 16 reported Tuesday with a chart of monthly rates for eight nursing care facilities with charges hill now, we have already moved them down once and up once (from Phoenix,) she said. "Moving Breathalyzer Machine Going into Use Soon Coconino County will appar- the one machine from the Traf-ently put its first alcohol breath fic Survival School and see the testing machine into operation in machine went into use at Page, the next several weeks. where law enforcement off County Supervisors modera- cers have made the loudest ted a runoff Tuesday between piea for a machine to use in drunk County Attorney Michael Flour- driving cases. Other breath running from $275 to $496. Williams Hospital topped the list with the $496 rate.

Coconino County has six patients in the Glendale Nursing Home at a monthly rate of $365.45, she said. The county has also one patient at the Valley of the Sun home at $400 a month and another patient at Bells Lodge in the Phoenix area at $430 a month, she said. Charges for patients will not be Identical since care required by patients differs, she said. Maricopa County pays a maximum $12.60 daily for nursing care of its indigent patients, her reported noted. The Glendale home charged Coconino County $11.79 daily, the report also said.

Although transferring the 16 county Indigent patients from Williams would save the county considerable expense, Mrs. Myers said she was opposed to frequent transfer of the patients. "We are talking about moving them down the these people Isnt good. I dont like playing checkers with peoples lives, she said. Board Chairman Robert Prochnow agreed that patients who could not bear moving should not be moved.

Prochnow also asked Supervisor E. H. Weigel of Williams if he could talk to Williams Hospital financial officers to learn if a $3 rate hike was necessary. Weigel agreed to do so and report back to Prochnow and Supervisor Tlo Tachias for reconsideration. The next board meeting is set for March 6 and the board could presumably take action at that time to either pay all or part of the $3 Williams Hospital rate hike.

The board is also questioning the Williams Hospitals additional services charges for medicine and laundry. Mrs. Myers told the board the Williams Hospital billing system for these additional patient services runs up monthly bills even higher than the flat monthly rate, more so than other nursing care facilities do. patients, but county Supervisors are still seeking a rollback or compromise. Supervisors met with Chet Arnold, Williams Hospital administration earlier this month to register their disapproval of a price hike from $16 to $19 per day at Williams Hospital.

Arnold defended the rate hike and the board asked the county medical examiner to make a comparison study of nursing care rates at Phoenix area homes. The county now has eight patients in Valley rest homes. In the meantime, Williams Hospital forwarded to the county a bill for care of 16 county patients from Jan. 15 to Feb. 15 of $6,017.

The total bill for patient care was $9,942, but after the patients welfare and social security was applied to the bill, the county was left with $6,107 to pay. The bill is down somewhat from the previous bill of $7,105 for care of 18 patients at Williams Hospital. Mrs. LaVaughn Myers, medical investigator, test machines are also needed at Williams, Fredonia and the Flagstaff Sheriff's Office, Rich-ardson has said. Supervisors switched hats for his house at $16,965.

Davis said his house was over-valued in relation to other houses in the area. Assessor Dick Hillman said the area would be surveyed before the next year's as-, sessment. George W. Smale won a reduction of his 2.5-acre parcel near Koch Field from the assessors $3,000 per acre to $800 per acre, $200 below his own estimate of $1,000 per acre. Tuba City SchoolSuperinten-dent Hadley Thomas appeared with a request for that high school to exceed its present budget by $92,000 because of an increase in average daily student attendance of 74, bringing more expenses.

Thomas also sought a $96,500 increase for the elementary school for an attendance increase of 112 children. The board granted both. An Arizona Refining Company bid of $59,659 to supply asphalt to the county the only bid was accepted. Superior Court Judge J. Thomas Brooks appeared to announce his resignation July 1 Honav Lake Pamphlets Election a short time Tuesday and sat as a Board of Adjustment to hear assessment protests from four county property owners.

The board allowed no change on a protest by Melvin Wolver-ton of Florissant, Mo. for his Cibolla Hills Subdivision lot in Sedona. Wolverton valued his lot at $5,374 and the county Assessors Office valued it at $6,174 a difference of about $14 in taxes. George McCullough of Flagstaff won a $6,000 reduction in his unimproved acreage valuation in the Sedona area. The assessor valued the acreage at $116,000, McCullough at $100y 000 and the state Departmentof Property Tax Valuation set the value at $185,000.

The board set the value at Bill Davis of 2035N. Crescent won a reduction from the assessors valuation of the Davis house from about $22, 000 to $18,200. Davis valued Ballots Readied Council, Mayor Help Pay Costs names printed on the ballot. Munoz, who decided to seek the mayors office only In mid-February will be a write- in candidate. City General Paper To Airport Flagstaff voters will again use Sylvan L.

Harenberg, CityCoun-which paper when they go to oilman C. Russell Turner, and will be on the March 13 ballot. Cost is to be paid for equally iree by advocates and opponents of ctyCkrDick williams said the measure. The cost to each at paper ballots would 0Ui 1 orf1 'k mayor comes definitely be used in the election c.0,uncl dicat- that will see incumbent Mayor ed it felt it should pay the cost pre ltas Council Names 9 representatives of the Winslow race people. The council also discussed the new jail proposal.

Though the funding has been approved, the city and Arizona Justice Planning Agency must come to Regional Drug Control Program Funds Pledged Six candidates, J. Dale Na-tions, A. J. (Tony) Lee, Robert L. (Bob) Moody, W.

W. (BUI) Davis, Ray Larkey, and BUI Morrall wUl have their names on the baUot for the three coun-cU seats and Mel Hannah, assistant manpower director for NADEC, wiU be a write in candidate in that race. Williams told the council at its regular meeting on Tuesday that he had checked with the firm that supplies Coconino County with its "computer voting system and had learned that for $1,500 such a system could be set up in time for the Flagstaff election. The council took no action on the type of ballot to be used. Williams said he has already ordered the printing of the paper ballots.

WASHINGTON (AP) Jer- possibly would include a radar ris Leonard, administrator of network along the Mexican the Enforcement Assistance Border to aid law enforcement-Administration, promised New officers in detecting illegal im: Mexico Gov. Bruce King to get portation of drugs by airplane federal funding for a regional 0r other transportation meth-narcotics control program. 0ds. The money would be used to King said he already has Nine Flagstaff citizens were named Tuesday to serve as an agreement on the final de- members of the City Councils newly created ad hoc advises11- Consultants for Justice ory commission on the municipal airport. Planning advocate individual The council, which created the commission at its previous cells for the inmates.

The city regular meeting, acted Tuesday to fill the membership of the believes this would be far too group by naming former Councilman Elmer Hubbard, and expensive for Winslow because eight others to the board. of the unusually high number others appointed were Lewis McCoy, William Preston, of prisoners. Jacqueline Wonsetler, John Wagner, Dr. John Vosskuhler, Joe It will also be necessary to Troxler, Coconino National Forest Supervisor Don Seaman, prove that plans are being made Dr. James Holder, and Dorothy Ward, to care for problem drinkers.

in other appointive action, the council also voted unanimous-The city has organized a com- jy to name Mrs. James Brathovde and James Crawforth to posts mittee of law enforcement of- 0n the Civic Beauty Commission, and Glenn Helms was named ficers, social workers and to fill a vacancy on the Citys Sign Code Board of Adjustments clergymen to work on the prob- Appeals created by the resignation of John More, lem. noy and Sheriff Cecil Rich-ardson. Both men had been trying to get the machines in something of a contest. Flournoy won.

The Coconino Traffic Survival School has do- nated $1,200 to the county for a breath test machine and mater, ials, he said. The county has on-ly to accept the money, he said. Richardson said he had spoken with the Highway Safety Department of the Governors Office which had originaUy offered the county four machines. But, the department could not meet a one month deadline the board handed down in its Feb. 7 meeting, Richardson said.

The need for breathalyzers came up in that meeting for discussion. Flournoy said then he could get one machine. Richardson said Flournoys offer might compromise his attempts to get four machines. The board aUowed Richardson a month to follow up his attempts. Tuesday, Richardson reported he could not get the machines.

The Sheriff did agree to accept School Concert Set Thursday The Flagstaff Junior High School music department will present a band concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Flagstaff Junior High gym. The program will feature the Concert Band and the Wind En-semble directed by Charles Bame. Of special interest will be the performance of a work by Arizona composer Kenneth Kessler. The composition, "The Yuma Crossing, will be directed by the composers son, Kenneth Kesslar, a senior music student at Northern Arizona University.

Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. i Sc- 'sca Panel SOUND sr PROMPT DELIVERY from the Divislon h. grooks ke appreciated the boards cooperation during his six years in office. Prochnow said the board regretted to see Brooks leave. Eleven parcels were sold for back taxes, one in Coconino Estates and 10 inKaibab High north of Wiliams.

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An outstanding color set. ONE YEAR ON ALL PARTS 90 DAY CARRY-IN LABOR 1839 The PEOPLE STORES The six members of the Winslow City Council and the mayor, Tuesday night, voted to pay $100 from their own pockets for half the cost of a publicity pamphlet concerning the Honav Lake proposition. The law requires that for any initiative measure a pamphlet must be prepared and distributed to all registered voters prior to the election. The pamphlet is to contain arguments for and against the proposition as well as the full Police Seek Suspect in Theft Case The Flagstaff City Police are seeking the whereabouts of a young man named "Larry who allegedly asked a second young man to sell a stolen tape recorder for him. Patrolman Christopher J.

Bavasi reported that Greg BaUentine, of 2540 North Cen- ter street, in Flagstaff, told him he had found his tape recorder, valued at $69.95, at Poor Boys Second Hand Store, in east Flagstaff. Ballentine told the investigating officer that the recorder had been stolen sometime last week in an unreported burglary at his house. A clerk at the store told Bavasi that she had purchased the recorder from a young man identified as Gilbert Lopez, of 2517 North First street, who told Det. -Gary J. Kirst that he had sold the recorder on behalf of someone named "Larry.

"Larry was identified as being a regular customer at a popular east Flagstaff cafe and Lopez said he could probably identify him if he saw him again. Death Takes Jesse Allen In Phoenix Jesse E. Allen, 67, a former business teacher at Flagstaff High School and training officer with the Veterans Administration, died Monday in the VA Hospital in Phoenix. Mr. Allen, who retired from the VA in October 1970, had been in ill health for some time prior to his death.

He taught various commercial subjects at Flagstaff High School from 1926 to 1933 and first went to work for the Veterans Administration in 1945. He served in the U. S. Navy during World War H. Mr.

Allen was a native of Mountain Grove, and was a graduate of West Missouri Teachers College. He also held a masters degree from the University of Arizona and was a member of the Field Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa at the school. He received his emeritus membership in the honorary fraternity in 1971. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Shrine. Survivors include his wife, Aileen, and a daughter, Hughla, both of Phoenix.

Services will be Thursday, at 4 p.m. at the A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, 333 WestAdams street, in Phoenix. Burial will be in Greenwood Masoleum.

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