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1 Glance Tulsa World Wednesday June 14 1995 News 3 TOP BILLING McCasland and other drivers to find new campsites along the route Unseasonably heavy rains have caused flooding in western Nebraska and McCasland said that two of the drive's next four eampsites are under water a good thing we were shut down for a week" he said North Platte Ki ver is over its banks and it still hasn't crested yet We have relocated our camp for Wednesday night and we'll be there two days but we re still looking tor places to camp after that" 1 McCasland said the drive is ahead of schedule and can take its time getting to Ogallala Neb for its next big celebration The herd is scheduled to arrive there June 22 really only seven days away as far as herd movement is concerned" he said "We're kind of doggin' it right now" The Great American Cattle Drive left ort Worth on March 5 and is scheduled to end its 1500 milc journey to Miles City Mont on Labor Day NORTH PLATTE Neb The Great American Cattle Drive is getting a much needed rest at the Nebraska Research Center and when it moves out Wednesday it will be back to full strength The Texas longhorns were herded onto the campus last week "The herd is being brought back up to the original amount said Bud McCasland the drive originator rested steers that had been injured along the way and putting them back in the herd When we leave Wednesday we will be at full strength again" The steers have suffered minor cuts and bruises along the route Most injuries occurred in ditches where the cattle and horses sometimes have to navigate through broken bottles jagged cans and rusty barbed wire As each animal was injured McCasland said it was taken off the drive and hauled up the road by trailer With the extended layover at North Platte everything has healed he said The herd is generally referred to as 260 head but it is actually 256 McCasland said That number has been as low as 249 at times The layover in North Platte also allowed really only seven days away as far as herd movement is concerned kind of it right 1 Bud McCasland Your World at a 1 11 Local Prosecutors call their final two witnesses against former coach Brett Webber and then defense puts on five character witnessesjn his sex and molestation trial News 6 Bosnian Serbs release most remaining UN hostages in what they call a peace gesture tdJN: officials report an extensive buildup of troops outside Sarajevo News 5 orce pilot Scott O'Grady goes to thehospital his feet aching from his six day ordeal in Bosnia News 5 i i This is a great time' to get out those jam jelly pie and cobbler recipes A variety ofberries both locally grown and shipped inshould be readily available Living 1 Entertainment be Thursday concert by the Glenn Miller Orchestra benefits the Nature Conservancy Entertainment 7 Business The one time quintessential conglomerateITT Corp will divide itself into three parts in one of the biggest corporate restructurings Cattle Drivers Herd Rested Ready to Go By Art Chapman ort Worth Star Telegram Since 1915 June 14 has been set aside as a special day to honor the symbol of US freedom Old Glory A city ceremony will mark lag Dayat 9 am at the Boatmen's Bank Tower 4815 Harvard Ave Gov rank Keating and Mayor Susan Savage are slqted to speak A reception follows or information call the American Veterans Association at 742 0007 And American Legion Post 1 will hold a formal flag retirement ceremony at 6 pm Park 18th Street and Boulder Avenue Tulsans with worn or torn flags to be retired can take their flags to any Tulsa fire station ever after flirting with the idea for more than two years Business 1 News Words Methotrexate: A cancer drug used in experimental therapy for asthma patients Classified 8 Pronouncers Slobodan Milosevic SLOH boh dahn mee LOH soh vitch News 5 Care Continued from News 1 so called baby boom generation of persons born in the 1950s and 1960s will start entering their re tirement years substantially ex panding the number of people eli gible for Medicare At the same time the size of the taxpaying workforce which foots the bill will shrink On his town meeting tour Cob urn asked people with suggestions to write letters to his offices And then he went one step fur ther He asked the elderly to scan completed Medicare forms from offices hospitals and oth er health care providers to make sure that all of the services billed for were actually delivered Coburn said he is setting up a hotline in his Muskogee office 1 800 413 6502 for people to call when they suspect a Medicare health care provider has over billed them or charged for servic es not provided The hotline will be open from 8 a to 6 pm weekdays Coburn said Coburn who thinks violators should receive jail terms said this way of policing health care providers solve the total Medicare funding crisis but will be a step toward slowing fraud looking for the obvious abuse areas" said Coburn "One of the ways we are going to slow down fraud and abuse is to have the senior citizens get up in And how is' this going to play with other members of his own medical profession? who are working within the system today and are not defrauding and not abusing the system want the fraud taken out of it too" Coburn said ously if we have $18 billion worth of fraud we need to do some thing" The written and verbal com plaints brought to his attention Coburn said have included: A doctor charging Medicare for a comprehensive medical ex am after a brief routine visit by an elderly patient 11 A health care provider charging Medicare for a prosthe sis that was never provided for a woman who had a leg amputated A hospice charging Medicare for home health care services al ready covered by Medicaid a government funded insurance program for poor people Coburn said he already has a stack of written complaints about Medicare that he will take before a House subcommittee on health The chairman of that panel he said has appointed him to devel op fraud and abuse language to put into possible Medicare re form legislation The reform effort carries some political danger because Social Security and Medicare can be emotional issues for senior citi zens he said By making it his No 1 issue Coburn said he must be able to convince the elderly that Medi care must be changed because it is headed toward bankruptcy "If and when I run for re elec tion" Coburn said "the first thing that will be said is that is the guy that disturbed your1 Medi whether 1 can con vince people that my integrity is on the line that what I really want for them is what they want: A secure health care system" Clinton Continued from News 1 cism from Republicans who are well on their way toward enact ing a balanced budget have already pro duced a strategy to balance the said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole Kan who de livered the GOP response But while citing "strong philosphical disagreement with the Dole vowed to work with him en thusiastically long awaited national discusison finally begins in he said Clinton said he wanted to con tinue the note of harmony he struck Sunday in a joint town hall meeting in New Hampshire with House Speaker Newt Gingrich but Gingrich grumbled: done all this work for He called it good public relations and said see tomorrow if they have any Leaders of own party tried to dissuade him from pro posing it now They feared they would lose important political aiYimunition for denouncing GOP sponsored cuts In a bitter commentary Rep Dayid Obey of Wisconsin the ranking House Democrat on ap propriations said think most of us learned some time ago that if you like the position on a particular issue you simply need to wait a few House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri said Clinton had turned Medicare into a political football real los ers will be the elderly and the families that support he said All that prompted White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to warn Democrats to their powder He said new budget was act of opti mism an act of cooperation and Clinton's move marked a dra matic and significant political milestone: Both the White House and Congress have now produced specific plans to end the decades long hemorrhage of federal red ink The federal budget had not had for the middle class he decided to back it in its entirety The plan calls for a $500 per child tax break and allows fami lies earning under $100000 a year to deduct up to $10000 a year in college tuition It would cost the Treasury $96 billion over seven years and $176 billion over 10 compared with a House passed Republican tax cut of $350 billion over seven years and $630 billion over 10 Clinton whose comprehensive health care reform plan was shot down by Republicans last year as a big government boondoggle of fered a limited new proposal: health insurance reforms that' would make it easier for people to get and keep coverage when they switch jobs or get sick and make coverage for small busi nesses more affordable He also wants to offer premi um subsidies for six months to families who lose coverage when they lose a job New Medicare benefits would include limited coverage for home care and Al disease caregivers and eliminating the co payment for mammograms He also would increase the health care deduction for self employed individuals to 50 per cent up from 30 percent States would gain more flexi bility in administering Medicaid the government health program for the poor Among other aspects proposal: Trims welfare costs by $35 billion less than half the size of the Republican plans saves $55 billion in Medicaid costs about one third that in GOP plans Makes widespread general cuts across a wide range of agen cies of more than 20 percent by the end of the 10 years Proposes no change in his de fense spending plans House Re publicans want $267 billion in de fense spending 4 percent more than the White House new budget repre sented substantial political risk It threatened to alienate some a Surplus since 1969 As a result the national debt the accumu lation of yearly deficits is now $48 trillion In all plan would achieve $517 billion in net deficit reduction over seven years and $123 trillion over 10 including the cost of the tax cut Despite speculation that Clin ton would scale back his tax cut o' important Democratic constitu encies such as the elderly with its deep proposed cuts in domestic programs But White House spokesman Mike McCurry suggested it would avoid a fiscal later this year when GOP plans come to desk has to give a lit McCurry said My'L WHB Bomggg J' HIV Continued Irom News 1 son's infection the couple had gone to the Tulsa City County Health Department for blood testing They were considering having a baby and because Jack son had had sexual relationships with men they decided to be test ed former wife contin ues to test negative for the dis ease They are now divorced Jackson who had been laid off' from work and had no health in 1 surance at the time of the test was told by Health Department workers where he could go fori treatment and counseling He was I also told to keep his diagnosis to' himself AP Photo Morgan Nick 6 appears in a May 1995 photo Morgan has been missing since riday night after disappearing from an Alma Ark baseball park Two drawings released by ort Smith Ark police show an unidentified suspect in the abduction of Morgan Nick 6 The suspect is described as a white male 6 feet tall with a 'medium to solid build a mustache and 1 inch beard with graying or salt and pepper hair The suspect is described as 30 to 45 years old Gir Continued from News 1 riday looking for a child to ab duct section and it may have an Ar kansas license plate Morgan the daughter of Col have another woman in the police station right now giv ing us information about her now have four separate in Best said The suspect is white 6 feet tall of medium to solid build and is anywhere from 30 to 45 years old Police believe he has a mustache and perhaps a short beard with graying salt and pepper curlyhair He whs last seen driving a 1968 to 1974 faded red ord pick up with a short wheel base and a4 leen Nick of Ozark and John Nick of ort Smith was last seen at 10:45 pm at a field in Crawford County The girl was standing alone in front of her mother's vehicle pouring sand from a shoe after playing in a sand pile with other children Colleen Nick who told police she was watching her child and "only took her eyes off Morgan for daughter's contact with a man having the same description" Best said A woman whose 4 year old daughter was nearly abducted at an Alma coin laundry riday morning has yet to come forward with a statement Police learned of the incident Saturday morning jafter Morgan' was reported ab ducted A woman who saw the white camper shell that sits about four inches below the cab's roof Best also said the camper shell may be damaged in the right rear BUDGETS Highlights of the 10 year bal anced budget plan President Clin ton unveiled Tuesday and a com parison with Republican plans for eliminating the deficit in seven years approved by the House and Senate Unless otherwise indicated all figures were provided by the White House and compare House Senate and Clinton deficit reduction plans to the administration's own projections for spending All fig ures are for seven years unless otherwise specified BALANCING THE BUDGET: Clinton's plan claims to eliminate the deficit in 2005 when it projects an $18 billion surplus The House and Senate claim to balance the budget in 2002 when each claim surpluses of about $1 billion DEICIT REDUCTION: Clin ton cl aims $123 tri II ion worth of net deficit reduction over 10 years including the costs of his tax cuts with $517 billion of those savings occurring over the first seven years Over their seven years the House plan would save $109 tril lion including itstax cutcosts the Senate plan would save $15 tri II ion TAX CUTS: Clinton would cut taxes by $96 billion over seven years $176 billion over 10 years The House cuts as measured by the administration would cost $340 billion The Senate assumes $170 billion in tax cuts but they would only be triggered if a legitimate balanced budget plan becomes law CORPORATE SUBSIDIES: Clinton claims $25 billion in sav ings but provides no details say ing only they would be worked out with Congress The House claimed $25 billion but House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer Texas says he will ig nore them when he writes the tax bill this year The Senate approved $9 billion in closed tax loopholes MEDICARE: Clinton would save $127 billion over seven years the House $286 billion and the Senate $254 billion MEDICAID: Clinton saves $54 billion the House $187 billion the Senate $176 billion AGRICULTURE: Clinton saves $4 billion the House $17 billion the Senate $12 billion VETERANS: Clinton saves $6 billion the House $6 billion the Senate $10 billion ANTI POVERTY: Clinton saves $38 billion the House $131 billion the Senate $116 billion INTEREST SAVINGS: Clinton saves $172 billion the House $272 billion the Senate $346 billion Associated Press a moment said her daughter was a quiet child who would not have wandered off A Mulberry Ark woman con tacted police Saturday night and told them a man fitting the de scription of the suspect in the Morgan Nick case approached her daughter at the Total conve nience store in ort Smith about 1 pm riday Best said the wom an statement was useful issued a John Doe warrant for our suspect for first degree harassment of a child a misde meanor" Best said Police have also utilized the description of the man to aid them in a BI sketch prepared Tuesday by an artist flown in from Washing ton DC mother rescue her child gave po lice a description of the people involved and police began searching for the mother and child The woman is described as tall and heavy set with long brown hair The child is described as chubby with short black hair Best said the man involved in this incident fits the description of a man seen at the ballpark that night just before Morgan Nick disappeared have followed several leads and we continue to follow Best said took one of the witnesses to Little Rock to be hypnotized to see if she could come up with a license plate num ber of the truck but we didn't have much Welfare Continued from News 1 other $596000 has been blood on the track over the years to get any increases whatsoever (in said Cain chairman of the Senate Human Services Committee know you have to prepare for bal ancing the budget I would like to see more done in cutting back if need be in employees before we have to come after direct servic es to ADC recipients I am real ly weary the only reason you would be considering a 5 percent ADC cut is because the governor has made such a big deal out of a 10 percent cut" Last week after signing a wel fare reform bill Gov rank Keating called it three quarters of a loaf and said he would push for more reforms next year in cluding lower welfare benefits to equal those in the region commission has had a habit of standing up for the poo rest of Cain said of a sudden this time when the politi cal climate takes a turn there are cuts in ADC It is not like these people are getting rich None of you could live one week on what these people are getting per month This really strikes deep" Cain said he agree with cuts in a program in which the state receives matching money from the US government result ing in an influx of more dollars into the state's economy Don Benson a DHS commis sioner from Alva said he hasn't had one discussion with Keating in his 18 months as commission chairman say we are responding to the governor is not correct" Ben son said one on this commis sion has had a discussion with the governor or his staff Quite frank ly been a little disappointed I thought this position was a little bigger than The welfare cuts are an eco nomic reality Benson said guys did your best when you divided up the pot" he said you did that you passed to us the responsibility of how to spend that" Tulsa attorney Bill Wilkinson also a commissioner blamed the woes on the nursing home industry saying it hired lobbyists to kill proposed DHS money for in home care pro grams for the elderly which com pete with nursing homes is a question of priorities" Wilkinson said were suc cessful in completely torpedoing erasing and deducting and sub While the industry was success ful in killing money for the pro gram the commission will fund it' by making up the shortfall from other areas Wilkinson said are going Wil kinson said are fighting that in spite of enormous opposition from the nursing home industry" Wilkinson was referring to the ADvantage health care waiver which started as a pilot project in Tulsa County and now serves 1600 people in five counties In the past the poli cies forced the frail and elderly into nursing homes Wilkinson said adding that the pilot project is expected to save the state mil lions Steven Dow Director of Tul sa's Project Get Together said two thirds of the ADC caseload involves children Lawmakers had several chanc es to reduce the welfare pay ments and chose not to said Dow reached Tuesday in Denver Dow said he didn't know what alternatives the department faced but he hoped that all ef forts to cut personnel were made prior to cutting ADC and that the cut was a last resort 4' counselor) said: tell anyone They'll turn on you' 1 and she had all these stories to prove he said "So here we were with this diagnosis and we didn't know where to turn It drove me crazy" Over the next few months Jackson began telling people of his diagnosis and his homosexual 1 ity His best friend the first to hear the news accepted it But some family members so understanding Jackson's mother i and a brother are supportive he says but other family members arc not To learn more about HIV Jackson attended state run clas 1 ses to become certified as an AIDS speaker and in August 1993 1 he went public about his condi tion He has since devoted himself to AIDS education and is now an I outreach worker for the Indian I Healthcare Resource Center 915 Cincinnati Ave "I'm not going to let this dis I ease get the best of me I'm going to turn this into something posi live because it's imperative that people know this can happen to he said Talking to others has helped Jackson come to terms with sev oral issues including his homo sexuality His marriage he said was an attempt to deny that to i himself i "I've known (I'm homosexual) all my life but I desperately wanted to be straight" he said "There is so much prejudice that I you have to deal with and I didn't I want to not scared of death of dy 1 ing I'm scared of suffering" he 1 said a very vain person 1 don't want to look sick to have sores and lesions on my face I want to deal with that" Jackson is involved in a clinical 1 trial of the drug Nivrapine which i he takes along with the drugs AZT and DDC They can slow the de I velopment of AIDS but not stop it Although Jackson said he feels i better than he did three years ago I because he has been taking better 1 care of his body he has noticed 1 that small ailments such as aller gies strike him more often get rid of them I have to I go on stronger antibiotics for Ion ger periods of time That's scary for me" he said "It lets me know that the disease is taking a toll on my body If on the strong (antibiotics) now what will it take on down the road?" Jackson is frustrated by the re luctance of local physicians to treat AIDS patients If not for Dr Jeff Beal who has run many clin ical trials for new drugs to treat HIV Jackson said he would have few local places to turn "Doctors are the most AIDS phobic people there are" he said "Dr Beal has two physicians will ing to cover for him when he's gone a plastic surgeon and the other is a gynecologist" Jackson hopes his talks to groups especially students will affect attitudes toward people with HIV "I think people need to realize that this is in Oklahoma and something they have to worry about" he said it seems like not making a dif ference but then I have to tell myself that change comes in small increments I realize this is 1 something that I have to do" LOTTERIES Results of lottery drawings Tuesday: Missouri Pick? 7 0 0 Missouri ShowAe 17 24 KansasPicK3 7 5 7 8 3 i TOP BILLING 4.