Drugs Stolen in Break-In Through Roof Educators, Courts Seek To

LIBRARY DRAWER D *u«UWN CQUftB MfMWHAj. Mid-Week * (Geor^cf ofcm ®itne$ Edition ESTABLISHED 1797 IN COUNTY $7.00 INSTATE $8.00 Georgetown, S.C. 29440 OUT OF STATE $9.00 Thursday, February 20,1975 Vol.179 No. 25 Residency Drugs Stolen Matter Eyed The residency problem en satisfactory election for both In Break-In countered by Jerome Holmes in parties. his bid to get on the April 8 special election ballot for County Election Commission County Council may be a factor Chairman Joe Delzell told the in his certification proceedure commission that he had asked by the County Election Com representatives of both parties mission, according to James to attend the meeting, but Through Roof Hendrix with the State Election neither side was represented. Commission. Hendrix concerned most By ROGER COLLINS of the Myrtle Beach area. In another incident Wed Hendrix spoke to the county of his talk to the problem Two Myrtle Beach men are nesday, police officers foiled an group last Tuesday afternoon the county had with poll charged with the Wednesday They are each charged with attempted break-in at Dingles' primarily about the training of managers after the November morning break-in and burglary three counts of breaking and Grocery on Merriman Road at 1 poll managers, but also an General Election. Hendrix of three businesses in the entering, two counts of grand A.M. swered some questions con suggested another training Fraser Street and Winyah Road larceny, and one count of Arrested at that time and cerning the Republican party's session be set up and that both area, according to Georgetown possession of drugs with intent charged with breaking and two county council candidates, parties supply a list of poll Police Chief Fred Shelley. to distribute, Chief Shelley said. entering was Paul Godfrey, 35. Holmes and June Svedberg, managers for the county. The In the incident Georgetown Through investigation, who recently announced their commission will have the final Pharmacy was robbed of $487 Bond had not been set Wed Nathaniel Gardener, 22, was intention for office. One can say as to who will be poll cash and a large amount and nesday and investigation is still also charged. A third suspect is didate, Holmes, said he was managers however. variety of pills and drugs. continuing in the case, Chief being sought, according to Chief running against incumbent J.D. Dennis Rowe Insurance Agency Shelley said. Shelley. Munnerlyn, but Holmes was The County Council candidate was robbed of $172. The Mer later found to be living in the problem arose when the names chants Credit Bureau was wrong township to run against of three incumbent councilmen broken into but nothing was the incumbent. Holmes has were inadvertantly left of the reported stolen. County Baby- since moved into Munnerlyn's ballot in November. The three Burglars entered all three township and has continued his were unopposed at the time. businesses by cutting holes in campaign. the roof. Vandalism was also However, in early February , reported as they emptied desk Boom Expected * Hendrix commented that the the Republican Party an drawers apparently searching residency issue could be in nounced that Holmes and for money, according to Chief (Special to the Times) volved when the County Svedberg were running against Shelley. the number of people in the Election Commission decides if Munnerlyn and Dr. C.J. Beck The two suspects were A new baby boom appears to prime marrying ages-21 to 24- both Holmes and Svedberg are respectively. The poll manager arrested inside Georgetown be in the offing in Georgetown has reached 3,977. Ten years eligible to run, but he cautioned problem began during the Pharmacy about 4 A.M. County. That is what is forecast ago, by way of contrast, there the commission "not to get election when managers who Wednesday by a police officer for the rest of the 70's. were only 1,762 in that age involved with the situation until were not schdduled to run polls who responded to the store's The indications are that there the certification procedures." bracket. showed up for the election and PSRO--WHAT IS IT?-Dr. James B. Edwards, III, president of the alarm, Chief Shelley said. will be a marked increase in the It represents a 126 percent »i* asked to be paid later. The extra Georgetown Medical Society and Dr. C. Lide Williams, left, secretary, discuss A very large quantity of pills number of births, locally and in increase in the number of "Neither has been certified cost of the managers came out the new "Professional Standards Review Organization" (PSRO) law that were recovered at the time of most other areas of the country, potential parents locally. yet," he said, "and you of the county's pocket and both arrest. during the next few years, Elsewhere in the United the State and County Election went in effect on February 1. The new law, according to some of the medical despite the fact that women in shouldn't get involved until that professional will have a detrimental effect upon patient-physician-Medicare- The two 26-year old men are States, the increase amounts to time. The key to residency is Commission hopes to avoid that identified as Alkton James general still plan to have 37 percent. It is 61 percent in the where the individual sleeps. problem in April. Medicaid relationships. I Hodges and Frank L. Williams smaller families than their State of South Carolina. parents and grandparents had. There is a direct relationship, Hendrix also stated there was The expectation of bigger it is noted, between the number no legal problem in the Required By Federal Law baby crops is based upon the of marriages and the number of Republican party opening their sharp increase in the number of births in any one year. filing books after the General marriages now taking place. In Georgetown County's Election in November. That is due, in turn, to the general area, the latest figures avalanche of young men and show that the ratio is 84 births in women, born between 1950 and proportion to every 100 "Filing books being opened, New Hospital Admission Policy Set 1955, when birth rates were at a marriages. And, with more even after the situation you had record high, who are now here in November, is an marriages locally, more babies reaching marital age and are expected in that proportion. automatic thing. There may be By ETHLYN MISSROON The new health-service "The program, in effect, calls hospitalization area, will prove judging from descriptions of setting up their own households. a moral question, but legally A new and stringent law monitoring program officially the judgement of the com to be an adverse force in which symptoms and diagnosis in Does all this herald a new there isn't," he added. Compared with 1970, when baby boom? According to a controlling hospital admissions, known as "Professional munity's physicians into health decisions will be dicated upon his chart, needs there were 2,179,000 marriages treatment and followup ser Standards Review question and mandates how removed from doctors' hands hospitalization, she will assign statistical report here, Hendrix avoided giving in the United States, according "projections indicate that vices in the Medicare-Medicaid Organization" or "PSRO", long the patient may remain in and his opinions disregarded in him to a hospital stay. to the Department of Health, definite answers to certain legal program is generating resent became a hard and fast Federal the hospital (if, in fact, the a move by HEW to curtail around the end of 1975 the an [a questions because, "I can't give If she disagrees that the Education and Welfare, there nual level of births will rise ment and disapproval among law on February 1. patient's admission is approved health care and conserve funds patient is sufficiently ill, she will be close to 2,450,000 this legal opinions and I am not a the patients who are vitally It is being enacted under the to begin with). in what has been termed a above the all-time high of may confer with a neutral year. 4,308,000 which occurred in 1957, law enforcement agent. I am affected and among members sponsorship of the United States Dr. Edwards, further said "political sickness rip-off". physician advisor whose only an advisor and I'm here to of Georgetown's medical In Georgetown County, the and will remain at that level for department of Health, that the program is definitely The law will also impose CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Census Bureau's figures show, try and help you run a profession. Education and Welfare, cost-oriented and unfortunately heavy additional paperwork in several years thereafter." Washington, D.C. there will occur instances in the many reviews and con The purpose stated by the which pateint's hospitalization sultations necessary in the "to Five Men Running draftors of the bill is to "review benefits will be terminated over be or not to be treated" the health care provided...make the objections of the patients' decisions relating to patients. Pawleys And Plantersville judgements on the medical private physicians. "The Professional Standards necessity and quality of patient Dr. C. Lide Williams, Review Organization" will be For Andrews Council care...determine whether care secretary of the Georgetown implemented through an is proposed to be provided or Medical Society, said that "admissions review" process. Water Deadline Nearing The Andrews Democratic J. Theron Altman and Willis L. has been provided at a level PSRO represents an un A participating hospital The number of signups for the needed at Plantersville.

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