Page a-MlRROR-HBRALD-Tuesday, June in, 1978 Many People Confused On Medicare, Medicaid Even though Medicare an.d Medicaid have been operating more than 10 years, many peo ple are confused and think the programs are the same, a social security spokesperson said to day. Although both programs pay for health care, they are different, the representative went on. Medicare, entirely a Federal program, helps pay for hospital care, doctors’ services and many other health services for almost everyone 65 and over and for certain disabled people under 65. Medicaid, a Federal-State partnership, pays for health care for certain kinds of needy and low-income peo ple. Some people can have both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare is the same in all States, while Medicaid varies from State to St ate since the States design thei r own program within Federal g uidelines. The only State mot having a Medicaid progra m is Arizona. Medicare ha s two parts — hospital insuran ce and medical insurance. Hos pital insurance helps pay for in patient hospital care and post-h ospital care in a skilled nursing facility or at home from a home health agency. Medical insurance helps pay doctor bills and other serv ices not coverei 1 by hospital in surance. Medicaid pay s the full costs of these and oi ;her health care services for tho se eligible. Since Medica re pays only part of health care costs, Medicaid can pay the difference for those eligible for both programs. Medicare hospital in.surance is financed by payroll contribu tions from employers and employees. Medical insurance is financed with premiums, with those enrolled paying about one-fourth of the cost and the Federal Government paying the remainder. Medicaid is financed by Federal and State governments. The Federal share ranges from 50 percent for the richest States up to 78 percent for the State with the lowest per-capita in come. States pay the remaining costs, often with help from local governments. The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny The murder of Charlie Silver in Burke County in 1831 and the trial and hanging of his wife Frarikie for the deed was the sort of tragedy firom which legends are made. True to the wa.ys of the mountains, a folk ballad was quickly composed about the event, and historianis believe that (somewhat garbled by time:) it became the origin of that An-ierician classic, “Frankie and Johnny.” CD 9MITH GUEST EDITORIAL WE'RE TJRED OF A LOT OF THINGS! We’re tired of last winter. We*re tired of bother and in convenience. We’re tired of lame ex cuses, musty jokes and stale propaganda. Particularly we’re tired of the exaggerations and the hyped-up propaganda that goes on and on against the Labor Law Reform Bill, which is due for action soon in the United States Senate. You don’t have to be an enthusiast for labor unions to be repelled by some of the propaganda against them, from organizations that must know better. We find the average union mem ber and his leaders are peo ple pretty much like all the rest of us —trying to make both ends meet, feed the family and stay ou t of trouble. Instead we see a I< >t of stuff about “labor bo sses.’’ and “czars” and predic tions that America will go (iow'n the drain into some ki nd of “labor dictatorship” if the Labor Law Reform Bill is passed. We don’t th ink so; we don’t see it ha ppening and we have fait’n in our democratic institut ions. On Jime 28, 1833, Frances Stewart Silver got a new lease on life — although a short oine. Hier hanging was postponed for two weeks Iby a Burke County jury. There is a tiraditicin that the tragic (and undoubtedly innocent) Mary Surratt was the first American woman to be hanged, for her ^supposed complicity in the assassination of Abraha.m Lincoln. She was not, of course, the first to die that way. Frankie Silver was the first woman to be executed in North Carolina, and she was one of the first, if not the firsit, to be hanged in the entire U.S.A. 'IL Rather, we a) gree with reputable maga zines and papers like Busir less Week, and the Wall Stre et Journal, that the Labor L aw Reform Bill is essential) .y a set of mechanical adju .stments in our labor law— a matter of doing some fine tuning on a 43-year-old stati ate. So we hope the Senate will just vote the bill on its merits —which seem to us to be plentiful. Let's turn our back on the nonsense and the exaggerated propa ganda. In other words, let’s enjoy the spring —the beau tiful spring —and put aside the worries and the scare words of the winter. It will be good for all of us. Contemporaries described Frankie as a delicate, very pretty blonde. Yet she was supposed to have killed her strapping mountaineer husbandwith his own logging axe, tlien dismembered and burned his body in the fireplace of their cabin near the bank of the Toe River (in what is now Yancey County). This, plus the fact that she was origiinally implicated through the ex trasensory efforts of a mountain “conjure man’" make the story one of the most unusual in the annals of North Carolina crimo. -oOo- RGI^DGR 'DIMOGUe The things w e need While awaiting execution, Frankie engineered a spectacular escape from the Morganton jail, and only some smart and rapid detective work by Sheriff John Boone, a descendant of Daniel Boone, prevented her cheating the hangman. On July 1, 1863, the climactic battle of the Civil War began near Gettysburg, Penn sylvania. North Carolina troops played a large part in the struggle (more on this next week). Among the casualties that first day at Gettysburg was Henry K. Burgwyn, the famous “Boy Colonel” of the N. C. 28th Regt. Burgwyn died in action at the age of 21. -oOo- Dear Editor, Let’s get down to the “nitty-gritty” of ' the dilemma the cities and towns across < aur great nation have gotten themselves Int o. Far be It from me to question the need and the necessity of federal grants or fund ing. It’s well and good, If properly used. Again, let’s get down to the “nltty-grl tty” as to what has brought the cities’ tc i ita present woes. First of all, businessmen, who d lown through the years, while making neat pr ofits and gtdns, failed to foresee and to recog nize that every material structures have a ten dency of decaying as weU as the hv man body. So, along comes the government wltj-1 its assets and programs, with good intentloi is of helping. What happens? Well, to be perf ectly honest, the business world saw a good chance of fleecing those who have kept them In business, by letting their bul idlngs deterloriate and saw an opportune t ime In which to protect their own Interests Therefore, In their greediness to ge t on the bandwagon to protect their own Inte jrests at whatever coot to the taxpayers, i and still come out ahead. This Is one of thf 5 reasons tor the present tax rebellion a> ^ross the nation. Truth will stand when the wor' kj ig being turned upside down. WhUe the b aaches and the vultures within our society are rolling those who wish to be honest tax-paying citizens, there are those who sta y up at night In their smoke-filled room.8 ar chambers figuring out ways and meanf 1 to not only fleece their next-door nelg'hbor g, just as well as their government pretending to 1 je good and law-abiding Americans, who ar e In the meantime helping the cause of tlie social communist move to break the de mocratlc process for making this great natl.on Into a state of bankruptcy and Into dic tatorship. It’s clear as one’s nose between th e eyes. EVERETTE PEARSON Iflngs Mountain Swimming pool safety begins before the splash The nitty-gritty of it... iDear Editor, A few weeks ago as I was reapearance by aiding the filter system In keeping the water clean and clear, Klrsteln said. Physical esu-e la important because leaves. Insects and debris blown Into the pool con tain harmful bacteria as well as produce an unsightly swimming environment, ac cording to the PPG e]q;>ert. Properly equipped pools have filtration systems that constantly circulate the water, filtering out debris and returning clew water to the pool. "Oth^r debris should be skimmed from the surfause regularly and pool sides and bottom should be vsMSUum- cleaned with appropriate equipment,” Klrsteln said. Pool malntenzuice Is esuiy, according to Klrsteln, and well worth the time It takes to learn the few basic steps Involved In testing and treating the pool water. A step-by-step pool maintenance plan la provided In PPG’s 16-page booklet “The Plttclor Program For Pool Protection.” It may be obtained by writing PPG Industries, 10 North, One Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. 16222. mmnaSku> •ARLAMOATR PiAfitliBr TQMMCINT VKI 'ItfItAr ■LIlAtllTN* WMLBII't ITtWART •ARVIT aY^SMILL MIMtIKOP > ORTNCAROLM4A AIIIABftOClAT ION Th# Mirro r Htfiitf i# »wl#ll#h#d tv a«n#f#i NiAllthlnt ' Company, P. O, Orawar TM, Klnpi Mountain, N , g., MOa. ■ualno'iaandaOltorlol oNIcat ort locator j p»Nona 7l» 7m. Mco Cioai pottofo Of lid at Kinpt Mountain, N. C. Iin< ^ II % uOacriptian rotoa: M JO yaarly Ir uu m fr,otitha; aa.N yaorly out-af- ftata, t I till manthi, t*,uoaait rata far nlno'^antha uu inflation is a dirty word that is everybody’s concern By HENRV HAZUTT g In ‘ ‘Washington DateUi ae” Inflation is a dirty nlne-lettei.* word which la every consumer’s and b ualnsssman’s mneem. It boggles the mind wl ille It empties pocketbook. Labor blanrieis Business. the Business blames Labor. The Clovsmment blames both. For many yeiirs, only con- serva-bla.med the govemmen,t. Most Ivory- tower Keyneelan economl its promoted deficit spending (and hence Inflation) aa a cure for everything thoirt of Ingrown toenails. They warned that economics and Inflation were too complicated for the average American to unde retand. This was to keep Joe and Mary PubU.c In the economic dark with "Keyneelan-w ool” pulTed over their eyes. Ever sinced Harry H opklns advls