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Show DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER medicine bill was a little hard to swallow This ROYAL OAK, Mich, (LTD -Not even a spoonful of sugar would help this medicine go down. After her son underwent a routine tonsillectomy at Beaumont Hospital. Constance Feola of Southfield received a $896.26 bill for his 36 hours of care. The bill included $1.19.46 in pharmaceutical costs a bit Steep, even by hospital standards. Even though she was fully covered by medical insurance, the former model who now gies dancing lessons decided to investigate. Mrs. Feola demanded a breakdown from the hospital on the medication charges. Five months and several dunning notices later, she got it. It showed she had been charged $50 88 for two milliliters of a drug called Trimethoben- - U.S. penalties WASHINGTON (ITI) The New York tax commissioner, whose state loses an estimated $!00 million to cigarette smugglers each year, asked Congress today to make cigarette bootlegging a federal crime. "New York will not surrender to the Mob." said James H. Tully Jr. state commissioner of taxation and finance. zamide that her son never received and $26 86 for a teaspoon of ordinary cough syrup that sells for $2 07 an ounce at the drug store. The hospital admitted its mistake, apologized to Mrs. Feola, refunded $69 07 to her insurance company and overhauled its billing methods for prescriptions "1 know medical costs are outrageous these days and it was no money out of my pocket, but it was the principle of the thing," Mrs. Feola said. "Ive never done anything like this in my life. I dont usually pay attention to prices. I dont know why I got involved this time except people may think that overcharges and padded hospital bills are just the insurance combut the cost is pany's problem passed along to us m premium increases i in testimony ATLANTA (UP- D- Re- publican national chairman Bill Brock said today that government is stifling the American people with regulations and taxes that are killing the American dream. "Taxes have gone up to the point that, even if you work your whole life to own your own home, property taxes are so high, you can't afford to low-taxe- states," Tully said, and to accomplish that we need you," A bill before the committee would make it a federal crime to ship, sell or possess more than 100 cartons of cigarettes across state lines without paying state taxes Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said "our immediate concern is not with the person who purchases two or three cartons for himself" but the is organized crimes "takeover" of the cigarette black market. Tully cited previous narcotics, gambling and weapons charges against some of those accused of cigarette smuggling . problem ROOF REPAIR MATERIAL GOP told imuL m pay them," Brock told delegates to the national Federation of Republican Women convention they're not." Brock, who spoke at the opening convention session, said the national "We are burdening the Republican Committee American pwple with has calk'd on all Republicans to support a 30 regulations and taxes (icrcent that are stifling their tax cut for every Amerihe said productivity." can because our great"If taxes were the ans- est source of energy is wer, New York City and our people" and the burEngland would be the den of taxes must be most Hipiilar places m removed to allow them to the whole world, but be productive. across-the-boar- af u. s. scene Klan urged for cigarette smuggling prepared for a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. He said evidence is clear that the smuggling of cigarettes from North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky to high tax states such as New York, is done primarily by organized crime. The only sensible alternative is eniorcement of the tax laws in all the .jl:I dAUb Si fling, J 21, 1977 d TWO PANTS THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL PLASTICS COATING ROOFING PAPER Complete Soppiyfrjohng Moteiok KETCHUM'S The Fun Ploce To Shop OGDEN SALT LAKE all wool worsted ESyWMSKS 60 to IN REGS.. LONGS, EX. LONGS, UP TO THE MINUTE STYLES. WE ACCEPT AIL CREDIT CAROS. OPEN FRIDAY AN0 MONDAY TILL 9 P.M. SUITS $79 LORDS, 216 So. MAIN Reg. to SI 30 IV VALLEY DAY THE BEST BUYS OF THE YEAR greeting draws fire TV DOWNTOWN COTTONWOOD A coalition of minority and SAN DIEGO tAP) religious groups has asked President Carter to fire regional immigration officials for giving "the red carpet treatment" to a Ku Klux Klan official. A telegram was sent to the White House Thursday by a dozen minority, religious and organized labor groups joined by Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally and farm labor leader Cesar Chavez. IV VALLEY FAIR COURTESY DAY "MAGIC BUYS" EXTENDED THRU SATURDAY PICK UP YOUR VALUE PACKED FLYER OF SUPER BUYS AT ANY PARIS STORE Polanski parties in Munich Film director SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Roman Polanski has been ordered to tell a judge why he was photographed partying in a Munich beer hall at a time he said he would be working on a film in Tahiti. Polanski was given special The 44 year-ol- d permission to finish the film Hurricane" rather than lxgin three months of psychiatric testing prior to sentencing for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl. Marine jet crashes, 2 killed A Marine Corvs F4 POINT MUGU, Calif. (UPI) Phantom II jpf fighter plunged into the Pacific Ocean during a routine training mission Thursday, killing the pilot and radar technician. 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