The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 28, 1984 Page: 1 of 36
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( ARM ALFORD
Publio Fiori, a member of the
dominant Christian Democrat Party,
said Martella's findings confirmed
"a plot of Eastern (bloci countries
against the pope."
Only one of the Bulgarians,
36-year-old Sergei Ivanov Antonov.
tat revenues for 1985. Allen gave an
••sample of how much a taxpayer
local manager; Dwight Turner, former
Hereford manager and now executive vice
president; J.E. Sweet, president; director
and contractor; Farris Oden, director;
and Aubrey L. Steele, president emeritus.
Shown below is an artist’s concept of the
new facility.
$347,138 in the revenue sharing fund
I do not believe that the County
budget is being prepared with the
The cost-cutting system started
last fall groups Medicare-sponsored
treatments into 23 mayor diagnostic
categories and 467 DRGs A set pay •
ment - based <m the national average
cost for the particular medical ser-
vice • is assinged to each DRG
Peer review organizations are to
determine among other things,
whether a Medicare treatment per-
formed in a hospital was medically
necessary If the service is judged
not critical, no federal money will be
sent to the erring facility
According to Bullard, only two
faulty Medicare admissions were
found to be executed by DSGH dur-
ing the first year of DRGs This is an
indication, he said, the local hospital
should not have too much trouble
with PROs
relations with the Soviet bloc coun-
try
the county had used this surplus, the
taxpayer would pay only 8«MI next
October This is a one-year tax sav-
ings to one taxpayer of $205. ex-
The Hereford
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more effective budget administra-
tion
Allen. Republican candidate for
the Precinct 3 commission post, call-
ed a press conference at 3 p m. Fri-
day to share with taxpayers the in-
formation I have obtained from
reviewing the county's financial
report ”
says most of the loan balance is in
single family homes and most are
owner occupied
Security Federal has seven offices
located throughout the Panhandle
with assets of more than 129 1 million
Dwight Turner formerly Hereford
manager and now executive vice
president of SFSRL. said Fndav
We know it's been popular and a lit-
tle more profitable for financing in-
Alford named Key sweetheart
Carla Alford, daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl lee Alford of
Westway. has been selected Hereford High Schoo) Key Club
Sweetheart for 1984-1988
As sweetheart. Alford Is to be honored guest at all Key Cub
meetings and work with the dub in its service and fund-raising pro-
jects She is also supposed to help plan the club's annual apprecia-
tion and installation banquet held each spring
A member of the HHS varstty
basketball squad, band and National
Honor Society. Alford boasts hobbies
of reading and lifting weights
Other nominees for the sweetheart
honor were Dana Haxel. Nlckki
Hammond. Atny Mason. Delight
Thames. Vickie Viegel and Kim
Williams
Alford to automatically to be the
local club's nominee for sweetheart
of the Texas-Oklahoma district of
Key Club International and to to
travel with the club to its annual con-
vention in Fort Worth
meat
Beginning with the new fiscal year
on Oct 1, Allen said the county shows
raising taxes before the county show- beginning cash balances of
ed a need is being responsive to the
taxpayers" He claims the county
"should eliminate this practice, and
if I'm elected. I will work to bring the
to utilize the excess cash in its
budget
If a taxpayer's home is valued on
the tax rolls at $50,000. he would pay
Although the report and all figures $513 in county taxes next October If
are public record. Allen said he
doesn't think the public to aware of
the budget practices of the county 1
believe that taxpayers should keep
their money instead of it being in the plained Allen in his prepared state-
county treasury ." said Allen
Allen said he didn't think the prac-
tice of budgeting expenditures and
Groundbreaking Held Friday
A groundbreaking ceremony for Security
Federal Savings & Ixian Association was
held Friday morning with the chamber’s
Hereford Hustlers and others par-
ticipating. Shown above are Security
Federal directors turning over the first
shovel of dirt. Left to right are Bill Harns.
Power people to be awarded
Five employees of Southwestern Public Service Company in
Hereford are to receive service awards at a Tuesday dinner in
Amarillo Civic Center.
Bill Bankston and Troy R Waddell. Hereford district manager,
are to be commended for 20 yean of SPS. Ten-year awards are to go
to Jerry lee Walker and Dywane Fry. while Mona Romero to to get a
five-year service award
One hundred six employees are to be honored at the SPS Panahan-
dle division's banquet by Bert Bailengee. president and chief
operating officer of SPS
Illis year. SPS is supposed to recognize a total of 421 employees in
four states who have served a total of 8.M8 years with the company
defense lawyers said they don’t ex-
pect one until next year. All the
defendants face life terms if con-
victed on the charges of complicity in
the assassination attempt.
The trial is potentially explosive
because of the implications for shaky
East-West affairs of an alleged inter former Rome” manager of the
Bulgarian state airline, is in custody
in Italy The judge alleged that An-
tonov was waiting in a car outside St.
Peter's Square to help the assailants
escape.
A 12-page summary of the
1.243-page indictment released to
reporters said Todor Aivazov. 40, a
former Bulgarian Embassy cashier,
accompanied the gunmen to St.
Peter's Square, but it gave no other
details The third Bulgarian indicted
Security Federal breaks soil
By SPEEDY NIEMAN
Editor-Pu blither
With an assist from Mayor Wes
Fisher, the Hereford Hustlers and
other guests Security Federal Sav-
ings A Ioan Association held a
groundbreaking ceremony Friday
for a new office building to be located
at SOI W Park Ave
Construction on the $375,000 facili-
ty is to get underway soon, and the
building will have twice as much
space as the present office at 1017 W
Park It is scheduled for completion
in the spnng of ’.985
The new building is a symbol of
Allen questions tax hike need
Claiming that Deaf Smith County
to entering the budget year with a
$15 million cash surplus county
commission candidate Bill Allen Fri-
day questioned the need for an
8-percent tax increase and called for trol "
Saying that the cash surplus
represents 40 percent of the budgeted best interest of the taxpavers in mind
when it appears that the County
treasury will have more than $1
could have saved if the county chose million at the end of the 1985 budget
year." stated Allen
Seeking to become the first
Republican commissioner in the
county. Allen claimed that his oppo-
nent is in favor of the current over-
budgeting practice " Troy Don
Moore to the Democratic candidate
for the commissioner's post being
vacated by Bruce Coleman
Informed of Alien s statement Fri-
day evening. Moore said he would
"not respond at this time."
The county budget for 1984-85 is
listed at $3,777.9# Anticipated
revenues include $1,729,543 from
fees
and other sources. That left $500,001)
to be covered by beginning cash
PROs hit hospital scene
By REED PARSELL
Managing Editor
Ijst year's Medicare bombshell
was the invent of DRGs This year,
those involved with health care of
elderly citizens must cope with
PROs'
Peer review organizations, accor-
ding to James Bullard, are "three
times as scary" as the diagnosis-
related groupings initiated in Oc-
tober of 1983 The Deaf Smith
General Hospital adminstrator said,
though, his facility is braced for the
new evaluation process and should
not be troubled much by it
Both DRGs and PROs are designed
to quell Medicare's ballooning costs
Eighteen years old. the federally-
sponsored program now boasts a
budget near $100 billion Bullard
described Medicare as "a monster
that is eating us" and has said its
debt could approach $400 billion a
dozen years from now
1 think that we're just going to
have to do business as usual. y
Bullard commented, and unders- w
land we're in a far better situation L
than 70 to 80 percent of the area's y
rural hospitals "
Many Texas hospitals - 96 of about aw
220 participating in the Medicare
program. Bullard said ■ are to have
ail their DRG charts monitored by
PROs Since Deaf Smith General had
such a clean record with DRGs last
budget year, it is not subject to the
100-percent review
Bullard explained any hospital
which is judged to have mistreated
or mis-diagnosed at least 2.5 percent
of its Medicare treatments will
automatically have all its DRG
treatments reviewed
What slivuld be the biggest burden
peer reviews will place on DSGH.
Bullard said is the cost of bookwork
At a Tuesday meeting of hospital
district directors, he said he felt
logistics will be far more difficult
for us than the results "
The annual paperwork cost of Deaf
Smith General complying with PBOs
should be around $3,000. the ad-
ministrator guessed We think we ll
spend more money justifying the
system than we'll lose in denied
claims "
Peer review organizations are to
consist of nurses and medical record
librarians hired by the Texas
Medical Foundation On Oct 4. TMF
signed an $18.3 million contract with
the Health Care Financing Ad-
ministration to oversee Medicare
disbursements in the state
The PRO system went into effect
Oct 1 despite the agreement being
reached three days later and state
hospitals having until Nov 15 to sign
contracts with the TMF Bullard said
DSGH should not run into major pro-
blems with the retroactive regula-
tions
In addition to determining medical
necessity of Medicare treatments,
PROs are to check for readmissions
within seven days of dismissals to
make certain petients were not
prematurely discharged Transfers
between hospitals must be approved
if payments are to be made
Also scrutinized are to be
pacemaker insertions One thing
PROs will check for. Bullard said, is
hospitals requesting reimbursement
for new pacemakers when the old
ones were still on warranty
A review process has been
established for hospitals appealing
unfavorable PRO decisions. Ten
steps are listed on the flow chart.
$1,191 992. Of this amount. $451,843 to __
in the general fund and $554,542 in the taxes and $1 548J82 frw fines, f<
Road and Bridge fund. In addition.
he said there was a balance of
national plot to kill the head of the
Roman Catholic Church
Bulgaria, in a statement released
in the capital of Sofia through the of-
ficial BTA news agency, said the
charge of its involvement was a
political conspiracy against
Bulgaria and socialism "
Relations between Italy and
Bulgaria already have soured since
the assassination attempt, and on
Friday a member of Italy's Parlia- ,
ment called for an end to diplomatic was Maj Zhe|yo Kol^ Vassilev. 42.
former aide to the military attache
at the embassy
For construction of new facility
the confidence we have in Hereford,
said J E Sweet, president of Securi-
ty Federal We are proud to be part
of this community and are looking
for more ways to help our friends and
neighbors here." he said at the
groundbreaking Friday morning
Security Federal opened a branch
office here July 7. 1975 At present,
the local office has approximately
$19 million in total loans in Hereford
and b>tal deposits here of $13 5
million Bill Harris, local manager.
(See cover page, Section B)
Bulgaria cites pope case conspiracy
ROME i APi — Charged by an
Italian judge with involvement in a
plot to kill Pope John Paul II, Com-
munist Bulgaria has accused the
United States and NATO of conspir-
ing to use the case to discredit
socialism and worsen East-West
relations.
Italian Judge Ilario Martella, who
conducted a three-year investigation
of the May 13. 1981 attempt on the
pope's life, indicted three Bulgarians
and four Turks on charges of com-
plicity Friday.
The judge also charged that
Turkish assailant Mehmet All Agca.
already serving a life sentence for
wounding the pope, was accom-
panied by a second Turkish gunman
who escaped
Martella alleged that a reputed
Turkish Mafia leader offered $1.2
million for the attack, that Bulgarian
Embassy employees helped plan the
shooting, and that a Bulgarian was to
drive the getaway car
No date was set for a trial and
Brand_
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Parsell, Reed D. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 28, 1984, newspaper, October 28, 1984; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1348410/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.