Rate Increase Approved by Hospital Board Syndicate
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4 9 2 8< The Hometown Newspaper for Trigg County VOL. 112 NO. 17 COPYRIGHT © 1993, THE CADIZ RECORD, CADIZ, KENTUCKY APRIL 28, 1993 50 CENTS Rate increase approved b y hospital board SCOTT BROWN We're at the end of our Staff Writer choices," said Trigg County Trigg County Hospital’s Hospital C.E.O. David Good- budget for fiscal year 1994 case. "We have several ser includes a 17 percent overall vices at the hospital that are rate increase and a 3 percent offered less than the cost." salary increase for employees. The rate increase, coupled The board of trustees held with the salary of a hospital first reading of the budget at position that will not be re their April 26 meeting that placed, should result in a net also saw the board officers profit for fiscal year '94 of elected to another one-year $247,491, according to the term. budget. The current '93 fiscal According to figures pre year projected net income is sented to the board, the budget $22,273. has several inflation factors Goodcase also informed the included, however there is no board that the hospital’s in non-operating revenue included surance carrier, Blue Cross- in the budget. Blue Shield, has requested a 28 "It (the rate increase) was something that had to be done. See Hospital, Page A-3 ROTARY AUCTION UNDERWAY - The 25th Annual During the first night of the auction, 50 items were Candidates comply Cadiz Rotary Club Auction began on April 26 with a sold for a total of $1,316. Manning the radio goal of $25,000 which goes to the local community microphone were (from left) Gary Mize, C.A. "Woody" with finance laws fund to help youth and elderly of Trigg County. Woodall III, and Carl Woodall. SCOTT BROWN Staff Writer Syndicate charges against two As the May primary election enters the final month, local candidates are busy campaigning and adhering to new cam paign finance laws. More arrests from undercover operation are expected According to finance reports filed April 23 at the county Two more Cadiz residents have been ment in the syndicate, said Jimmy Boyd, tence of five to 10 years. clerks office, the three candidates for county judge-executive, charged with participating in a reported director of the task force. The couple was "There will be more arrests concerning have combined to raise over $11,000 in their race for the office cocaine syndicate in Trigg County. arrested by Sheriff Randy Clark and Po this undercover drug operation,” said with over $10,000 reported spent. Barry Hancock, 22, and Jennifer Beth liceman Ricky Pidcock and lodged in Boyd. James Ladd reported the most contributions with $4,238. Parker, 19, both of 30 Cunningham Ave., Trigg County Jail under $100,000 cash Boyd confirmed on April 20 that the Ladd listed anonymous contributions of $126 and two loans Cadiz, were each charged with engaging bond each. four-month undercover operation netted made on his campaign totaling $1,600. Through April 23, Ladd in organized crime (criminal syndicate) Officers also seized Hancock's vehicle, 13 drug-related arrests — some on crimi had spent $3,785.48 for a balance of $452.52. on April 22. allegedly used in the delivery of cocaine, nal syndicate charges while others were Berlin Moore reported contributions of $4,040 through April Their arrests stem from a four-month said Boyd. from random incidents. 23 and spent $3,327.42 for his campaign. Moore's April 23 bal undercover operation coordinated by the Hancock and Parker were arraigned in May 13 pre-trial conferences were also ance of $712.58 was the most of the three candidates. Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force, with as Trigg Circuit Court on April 26. scheduled for four other people who were Harry Todd reported contributions of $3,400 and expenditures sistance from the Trigg County Sheriff's A charge of engaging in organized crime arrested April 19 and charged with en of $3,256.76 for an April 23 balance of $143.24. Todd also listed Office and Cadiz Police Department. (criminal syndicate) carries a sentence of gaging in organized crime (criminal syn- a $500 loan made on his campaign. Hancock and Parker are the sixth and 10 to 20 years, compared to a charge of See Candidates Page A-18 seventh persons charged with involve trafficking cocaine which carries a sen See Charges Page A-4 Scott Brown joins newspaper staff Scott Brown of Cadiz has been named general assignment reporter/sports editor for The Cadiz Record. Brown previously served as news director at WKDZ Radio in Cadiz. He also was an on-air personality for WHOP Radio in Hopkinsville. "Scott’s journalistic experi ence plus his knowledge of the See Brown, Page A-4 Scott Brown Man enters guilty plea last week in rape case SCOTT BROWN Livingston County Circuit Court Staff Writer Apr. 21 before Judge Bill A Hopkinsville man entered Cunningham. a guilty plea last week on A change of venue had been charges that he raped an granted for the case earlier this elderly Cadiz woman last year, DRIVER IN CRITICAL CONDITIO ...... side of the month, however Wilson’s court Thompson, 22, of Forestville, Md., was in critical road and hit a sign post. The post struck Thompson with Commonwealth's appointed attorney Thomas condition in the intense care unit -of Vanderbilt in the head and his car then traveled across the Attorney G.L. Ovey Glover and Ovey reached a Medical Center following a one-car accident on April median. Thompson was transported to Trigg County reccomending a 50-year prison plea agreement last week. 26 on Interstate 24, one mile west of Montgomery. Hospital by the ambulance service and lifeflighted to term for 25-year-old Kendall Wilson was arrested Dec. 26, According to reports from Kentucky State Police Vanderbilt Medical Center. Trigg County DES also Fitzgerald Wilson. Trooper Tom Rottinghaus, Thompson was oastbound responded. Wilson entered the plea in See Guilty, Page A-4 i i H H H P l i P I Two Sections • 34 Pages O p in io n ............................................. :.............. ................... A -2 , A -3 O b it u a r ie s ..................................................................................... A -4 Library board still Several arrests S o c ie t y .............................................................................A -11 - A -1 4 considering expansion S p o r t s .................................................................................... 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B -1 2 , B -1 3 C la s s ifie d s .........................................................................B -1 4 , B -1 5 I A-2^ieCadizRecord^edn^da^Agril2^^^ OPINION Medical reform must not become scapegoating Just the Other Day WASHINGTON—The more I watch tional, universal health care, there will By Billy Rawls efforts to reform this country’s health always be rich people who want to enrich care system, the more I fear that it will the most skilled and renowned doctors for produce an orgy of scapegoating and class Carl Rowan's saving their lives, or even for just restor Our Cadiz Record e d ito r, warfare that will be injurious to every C o m m en tary ing sexual potency or wiping out facial Matt Sanders wrote, quote, body's health. wrinkles. We don't need to defame the writer's block is a journalist’s ©1993 by King Features Synd. Let me say quickly that the Clinton most prestigious, best paid medical prac worst nightmare. — My trouble administration must continue its reform titioners to make the most needed is having too much to say like effor ts. Absolute social and fiscal disas $200,000 and ... get this ... the public changes in our system. the hordes of people that ters await us if we go on with an outra thinks $80,000 a year is fair income for a What we need to do first is make de lambast the public with their geous mess in which ^costs are out of con radiologist. The implication is. that cent medical care available at a sensible pros and/or cons concerning the trol, yet 37 million Americans have no highly paid radiologists are rats and cost to everyone. To control the cost of a usually ugly state of world medical insurance and millions more get that government reforms ought to slash fair and compassionate plan, we must affairs. move first against fraud and corruption by nothing that a civilized society could their incomes. I find the idea absurd and I likewise have trouble with things like thoughts popping medical practitioners who are ripping off call "health care." irrelevant to meaningful imposition and into one side of my head and speeding out the other. And there patients and the federal government Still, I see some ominous tendencies enforcement of medical-care reform. is my problem of wide fingers hitting too many keys. through insurance scams, treatments for arising -- such as campaigns to have the Who in government is wise enough to Sometimes my spare ideas have to be saved for the future, as I non-existing ailments, unjustified labora public declare what is a "fair" annual decide that an abortion is worth only $50 am sure some people are doing since the media is presently income for a radiologist, a surgeon or an tory tests and more. or $100 to a doctor? Or what a surgeon allowing the Waco, Texas fiasco to gradually fade. abortionist. should get for an appendectomy, or But let us never fail to recognize