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Dawn Faber Erin Baker Angle Georo Elai Mellita Lahra Jan Smith Julia Windsor record freeze damages Florida Effrus crop by the associated press Florida Cirrus growers reported Scal i cd Damar to fruit Friday from a Sec Ond night of record cold while wind gust ing to -10 Mph drifted Snow around the great lakes pushing accumulations near i december record. Related photos. Page 3.1 but the severe weather relaxed some what Friday As Florida warmed up and a storm edged cast from the Midwest. Fog that has hampered air traffic in the West for Days continued to keep flights grounded. At least 15 deaths in six states since wednesday were blamed on weather mostly in the Midwest. A temperature of 2 degrees below Zero Friday morning combined with a 23-Mph wind for a wind chill of minus 46 in Alex Andria Minn. Before moving cast the storm an Alberta Clipper from Canada buffeted northeastern Ohio overnight nil winds gusting to 50 Mph. In the South Florida crop & livestock reporting service inspectors were in Groves Friday but damage Esti mates probably will not be available for Days. Temperatures overnight were in the Rnid-20s Over parts of the 600,000-Acrc Citrus Belt for four hours the level at which fruit can be damaged. A killing freeze made 1983 a financial disaster for growers. Another freeze hit in january 1984. We Are hoping there is not any major extensive damage and it does t look that Way said Ernie Neff of Florida Citrus Mutual which maintains a cold weather alerting system. It looks like just scattered locations May have been  temperatures in Florida were expected to be Normal by saturday As the cold air moved into the Atlantic said Bill Sammler a meteorologist at the National severe storms forecast Center in Kansas City to. Horticultural and ornamental nurseries in Northern Florida experienced substantial damage said Earl Wells executive vice president of the Florida nurserymen and growers association. And there was probably some heavy damage in Broad Leaf plants like azaleas Viburnum and i gust rum in nurseries in Central Florida he said. Records were broken Early Friday in at least six Florida cities including the 23 degrees at Daytona Beach that broke a record of 27 degrees set in 1935 the 34 degrees at fort Myers that broke by 4 degrees a 1977 record and the 44 degrees in key West that broke by 4 degrees a record set in 1906. It s quite weird to see people walking around in fur Coats and scarves Ana boots said Tony Howard who Sells Sun Tan lotion at a hotel in Miami where the Mercury dipped to 38 degrees. Yester Day there were people in the Pool. They must All be in bed with a  bundling up would be quite Normal around the great lakes where Buffalo ., received enough Snow to put it in reach of a december record. Donald Wurch meteorologist at the Buffalo Airport said 52.4 inches of mow had fallen this month As of 7 . The record set in 1976, is 60.7 inches. Strong wind raised water level m the Eastern end of Lake Erie posing a threat to beachfront Homes in Hamburg  They suffered $1.5 million in damage from floods earlier this month. Wind up to 40 Mph Trig gered a flood erosion warning along & shores said meteorologist Tom Niziol. In the West fog remained but Etter somewhat in los Angeles. At los Angeles International Airport where flights had stacked up because or fog thursday visibility was limited Friday but flights were not cancelled said John Hicks operations manager. Fog closed the Reno nev., Airport again Friday. Since sunday All but three flights have be in cancelled by a freezing 1,500-foot deep fog Bank. Weather related traffic accidents claimed five lives in Michigan three in Minnesota and two in Wisconsin. Reagan 87 budget would Cut a medical benefits Washington not president Reagan s draft budget for fiscal 1987 would Cut spending on veterans health care Bene fits by reducing the number of people treated and for the first time by requiring insurance companies to help pay the costs. Harry n. Walters the administrator of veterans affairs warned that cutbacks in spending and staff could ultimately result in a reduced Quality of medical care for veterans. He made the comment in a letter to the office of management and budget which wrote the proposals. The draft 1987 budget to be submitted to Congress in Early february would re quire Many veterans to show financial need to receive care. It would also provide no Money for new nursing Homes for veterans even As the number of older veterans i rising rap Day because of the Large number of men who served in world War ii. The proposal Calls for a new Long Ter care policy emphasizing the use of Community nursing Homes and state institutions rather than additional Federal facilities. The veterans administration had sought seven new nursing Homes and Walters is appealing to Reagan s budget director James c. Miller Iii to permit at least the two highest priority projects at Hampton va., and Tampa Fla. At present the Agency which boasts the nation s largest medi Cal care system has 116 nursing Homes with 11,072 Beds. Walters in a letter to Miller said the new policy on Long term care was not prac tical because there Are no Community or state nursing Home Beds available in the affected  the budget office said the a must in crease productivity by 1 percent a year for the next five years and must treat fewer Low priority  it did not define such veterans. Confidential budget documents show that the office of management and budget seeks to reduce the number of patients admitted to veterans hospitals by 62,000, to 1.2 million in 1987. It would reduce the number of visits to outpatient clinics by 1.3 million to 16.5 million in 1987, and by another 1.9 million to 14.6 million visits by 1989. These cutbacks would be accompanied by a shrinking of a Hospital staffs and other health care resources for veterans. The number of a employees working on medical care programs would decline un4�r the president s budget proposal from 193,941 in fiscal 1986. Which began oct. I to 185,039 in 1987 and 171,674 in 1991, the documents show. In the letter to Miller Walters said he was fully supportive of the need to exercise budget constraints so Long As they did no harm the Quality of care. The proposals for veterans programs in Reagan s 1987 budget Are part of a larger White House package of non military Bud get cuts designed to reduce the Federal Defi Cit to Levels specified by a new Law. The Law seeks to balance the budget by 1991. It appears Likely that Congress will authorize the government to collect reimbursement from private insurance companies and will establish some income based eligibility test for veterans although perhaps not the one being proposed by Rea Gan. Both houses of Congress endorsed such changes earlier this month but they adjourned last week without giving final approval to the legislation which was included in a Bill designed to save $74 billion overthrew years. Under the Bill the government could col Lect from private insurers the reasonable Cost of care provided by the a to Veter ans with disabilities unrelated to their Mili tary service. The insurers would be legally obliged to pay for such care to the same extent As if the patient had been treated Ina private Hospital. Many insurance contracts now preclude payment for care Given by Federal hospitals. The Bill would m effect invalidate such language in any contracts written after the proposal became Law. The income eligibility test envisioned by Reagan is More stringent than the one endorsed by key members of the Senate an House committees on veterans affairs. Under current Law at the age of 65 a Veter an is automatically eligible for medical care on request without regard to financial need if space is available in a a facility. Under the congressional proposal toe a would have to provide Hospital care to veterans with disabilities unrelated to Mili tary service if they had income leu afcan specified amounts $ 15,000 a year for a sin Gle Veteran $18,000 for a Veteran with oae dependent plus $1,000 for each additional dependent. The government could decide based on available resources whether to care for peo ple with higher incomes. Veterans without service connected disabilities would have to contribute to the Cost of their care $492 for the first 90 Days if they had income exceeding $20,000 a year for a single per son or $25,000 for a married couple. Under the Reagan administration s proposal veterans with family incomes of More than $15,000 a year would have to pay substantially More before they could qualify for a health care