European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 27, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 $700,000 or More in Federal Money doctors can t Dodge medicare list Washington api _ a revised list of doctors doing $100.000 or More in medicare business a year will include 214 who asked that their names be omitted says he Secretary Joseph Califano or. We will not Lei a doctor decide if he wants to be Califano told a news taxpayers of this country have a right to know who is getting Federal Money an a Classi fied and in the daily news Miner offering to sell a .357 magnum revolver eral funds such As medicare payments. My Strong belief is that one of the prob lems that plagues the health Industry is Lack of information he said. We intend in publish More and More of that information As time goes he added that Sun Shine is going to be a great disinfectant in the health in remarks made Friday for release sunday the head of the department of health education and welfare said the listing did not invade doctors privacy be cause of the Public Money involved. The question of whether to list protest ing doctors has slowed attempts to Correct an error riddled list published in March which named 409 Solo practitioners. 1.752 group practices and 58 laboratories asking not to be included on the new Lisl Are 2u of 469 physicians who complained of errors concerning their 1975 earnings from medicare the Federal health assist Ance program for the elderly. I have been told that about half of the complaining doctors Don t want to be listed and won t Supply any other information Califano added information from the Doe tors it May not be possible to Correct All the errors. But Califano said the physicians would be listed anyway with a notation of the complaint and whether he or she declined to give further information. Califano. Who has apologized to physicians and the american medical association for the previous errors said the new list should be out in a few weeks. In other matters Califano said he did not know if the supreme court ruling last monday on abortion would eventually increase Wel fare Rolls. The High court said slates could refuse to pay for abortions unrelated to medical necessities with Public funds. The Secretary restated the Carter administration s opposition to using Federal Money for abortion unless the life of the Mother is said that there arc Many Allor natives to abortion such As sex education and trying to gel at the tools of the Len age pregnancy problem. We Musl move More vigorously in the area of sex he said. The age of puberty is going Down and we have to have sex education Al a younger Califano said experts Tell him the aver age age of puberty for girls is now about 108 years. Friends pay tribute to actress gathering at the Academy of motion pictures arts and sciences in Beverly Hills calif., for a tribute to the late Joan Crawford Are four of the actress s friends from left director George Cukor John Wayne Robert Young and Myrna Lay. They were among the thou Sand colleagues and former in workers taking part in the program. A Joan Crawford Given genteel Wake l api it a is like a genteel Irish wakes Wayne a is the first Lime the to Stirt film Indus try his come Togo tour in a mor urn of its remarked Myrna by. Hie to film stars were among speakers at a tribute to Juan held Friday night at the acad Emy of motion picture arts and so it Niees with the film Industry and its guilds participating and a thousand of Crawford s friends and co workers in the Audi nce. The Star died May 10 in new York at the reported age of 69. This is not a somber memorial serv ice said Kathleen Nolan president of the screen actors Guild which Crawford joined june 12. 19 t4. Its 3 a huh member. She never looked bark i Gret a s no in " and so. For a couple of hours friends talked about the actress who seemed toc Piloni a stardom the audience watched Sci nes of rur nit Morable performances m dancing Sicly Mildred Llu Tun h the gorgeous reunion in and others i by claims to be Crawford s oldest Friend in . Since they appeared As showgirls in the 1925 production pretty ladies " Loy recalled. We had to form a human Robert Young who appeared in four Crawford films reminisced about his secret marriage 44 years ago film actors weren t supposed to get married in those Days an 3 having children was Tut of the question 1u brought his Bride Home a find Ivy du/4-n Nti ruses and a copy of the Prophet gifts of Juan Crawford Wani Jii Vii i Lathurd Al i a dances in Angeles in the late 1 hos Nadir red the Star us courteous polite arid gracious to Ellow workers and Steven Spielberg director of remembered his first directorial assign ment a night gallery television Seg ment starring Joan Crawford he was Only 21 she treated me like knew what 1 was the Young director said a was a baptism of fire and i loved her for the Crawford tribute was attended by such other figures from her career As Dana Andrews Lloyd Nolan Gene Ray mond directors Clarence Brown. David Miller. George Cukor and Vincent Sher Man and Crawford s adopted daughter
