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Tony Albarran, 4, smiles at his home in Waukegan, 111., this week following recent surgery to remove growths from the upper portion of his face. Tony has neurofibromatosis, better known as "Elephant Man's disease. " Although doctors at Children's Medical Center in Dallas removed the giant bumps from Tony's face, they say the boy always will face the possibility of the tumors regrowing. Tony has had the disease since birth. (AP Laserphoto)

Elderly couple sentenced in starvation death case

ALBION, Ind. (AP) A 77-year-old man and his 76-year-old wife are being sent to prison for the starvation death of a retarded man in their care. Judge Robert C. Probst of Noble Circuit Court sentenced Willard and Olive Stafford of Sheridan to two years in prison Wednesday. He also directed that they be considered for early parole. As sentence was pronounced, Mrs. Stafford slid down in her chair and began moaning. Her husband had remained stoic,

Philadelphia Bulletin will fold Friday

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Even as The Bulletin’s executive editor urged his gloomy staff to help the 134-year-old newspaper go out in style, publisher N.S. Hayden said that for afternoon dailies, there was only bad news ahead. “I have no hope for afternoon newspapers in metropolitan areas,” he said Wednesday as he announced The Bulletin, once the nation’s largest afternoon newspaper, would cease publication with its Friday issue. The Bulletin is the fourth large daily to close in the past six months. Its demise follows the closure of the afternoon Washington Star, the New York Daily News Tonight edition and the morning Philadelphia Journal. The problems of The Bulletin and other afternoon dailies that closed generally have been attributed to competition from evening television news, the

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stroking his neatly trimmed white beard with one hand. Stafford and the couple’s attorney, Michael A. Howard, tried to comfort her. When the hearing adjourned moments later, she cried uncontrollably. Relatives helped her walk from the courtroom. The sentences were part of an agreement under which the Staffords pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in the death of Virgil Stuart, 55. Prosecutors dropped murder and neglect charges in the bargain.

migration of subscribers to suburbs and city traffic that hampers afternoon distribution. “Until Friday, no place in the country will have better newspapers,” said Executive Editor Craig Ammerman, who told the 250 editors and reporters that The Bulletin would help employees find new jobs. Subdued applause greeted

Florida to consider case against trooper

LOWELL, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana state police trooper accused of a Florida murder will be placed on indefinite leave with pay, his superiors say. Sgt. Pete J. Popplewell, 40, of the Lowell post was arrested at Key West, Fla., on Friday and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Marvin Croweley, 21. The two had been vacationing

'New federalism'

Reagan launches campaign for support in transfer of 43 programs to states

c. 1982 N.Y'. Times WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration Wednesday opened a campaign to sell its ‘‘new federalism” initiative, including an assurance that the proposed transfer of 43 programs to the states would be accompanied by a requirement that current benefits for the poor be maintained for at least five years. After 1987, administration officials said, the states would be able to decide whether to cut benefits for the poor. But they asserted that this would not happen because various factors had increased the power of poor constituents in the last 20 years, making it difficult for the states to rescind benefits. Meanwhile, President Reagan, who was visibly elated with the reception to his State of the Union message Tuesday night, told an audience of broadcasters Wednesday morning that opponents of his scheme to transfer $47 billion worth of programs to the states were like “dinosaurs, mindlessly carrying on as they always have, unaware that times have changed.

Stuart, who was placed in the Stafford’s care from the Fort Wayne Hospital and Training Center in 1954, died of stavation at Riverview Hospital in Noblesville in March 1980. When authorities went to the Staffords’ farm at Sheridan the next day, they found Stuart and a retarded woman had been living in a filthy trailer without water or bathroom facilities. Police accused the Staffords of holding their retarded dependents in virtual slavery.

Ammerman’s conclusion: “We’ve got two more days to go. Let’s do it right.” Charter Co., the oil, communications and insurance conglomerate that owns the newspaper, offered The Bulletin for sale Jan. 6, and ordered it closed when no buyer could be found. Hayden, who also is the

in Florida. Maj. Larry D. Furnas said Wednesday investigators from the state police internal affairs division have been in Florida. Furnas said that if Popplewell is indicted by a Florida grand jury which meets Feb. 4, Superintendent John T. Shettle will hold a hearing to consider placing Popplewell on leave without pay.

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“You know, I sometimes think that government is like that old definition of a baby,” Reagan said. “It’s an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” He added that he was determined “to undertake programs in our second year that are just as bold as those in our first” to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. To sell his federalism program, Reagan plans to travel and speak in the next several weeks before some state legislatures, where he and his aides expect his ideas to be warmly received. Administration strategists predicted, for example, that the proposal to transfer responsibility for food stamps and welfare to the states, in return for a federal assumption of Medicaid, would be endorsed by an array of governors and state officials. They were pinning their hopes on a recognition by the state officials that, because Medicaid is projected to grow so rapidly that the states will end up ahead on the deal. Many details of the Medicaid-

Jailing of son, 16, like any other case, Shelby sheriff says SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Sheriff Richard Westlake says he will treat the arrest and jailing of his 16-year-old son just like any other case. “I hate it, but it is part of the job.” the sheriff said. His son, Mark, faces prosecution for theft of weapons, beer and marijuana from the Shelby County sheriff’s department locker room. Westlake said he expects his son will be tried as an adult because of previous scrapes with the law. The youth has been on probation abut 1 Vi> years for an earlier theft. Also arrested in connection with the property room theft was Brian C. Pettis. 21, of Shelbyville. He is charged with theft and assisting a criminal when he came to the jail to ask about Mark Westlake late Wednesday morning.

newspaper’s president, read the announcement Wednesday at a meeting with employees. Some cried. “This is one day I wish I didn’t have to live,” Hayden told employees. “It’s nothing any of you did or didn’t do.” The closing will affect 1,743 full-time employees of the newspaper, whose longtime slogan was “In Philadelphia, nearly everybody reads The Bulletin.” “In the final analysis, the paper was unable to generate circulation and additional advertising revenues to create the positive movement it needed to survive,” J.P. Smith Jr., president of Charter’s publishing subsidiary, said in a statement from Charter’s headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. The Bulletin’s closing, less than two months after the Philadelphia Journal folded,

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welfare “swap” remain to be worked out, however, aides to Reagan said. Details were also uncertain on the administration’s legislative strategy. One top aide said Wednesday there might be an attempt to bundle all the proposals together into one piece of legislation so that the states would have to swallow the unattractive features along with the attractive ones. “We have to avoid the perception that there will be ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ among the states,” said a White House official. “This thing is dead if it all collapses into a squabble over who ends up ahead. ” In briefings and interviews, administration officials made no attempt to deny that Reagan had rejected the virtually unanimous advice of his top aides when he decided against proposals for increased excise taxes to help close the federal deficit. At one briefing, Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, was asked if James A. Baker 3d, the White House chief of staff, was in trouble for having been

leaves the nation’s fourthlargest city with two daily newspapers, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, both published by Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. The Bulletin was founded in 1847 as the Cummings Evening Telegraphic Bulletin. A gradual decline set in during the early 1960 s and the daily circulation lead was lost to the Inquirer in 1980, a few months after the McLean family sold the paper to Charter and media entrepreneur Karl Eller, who bowed out a year ago. The paper lost $21.5 million last year and its circulation dropped to less than 400,000. January’ losses were $3 million, $500,000 more than a year ago. Ammerman said many advertisers abandoned the newspaper after August, despite a circulation increase.

rebuffed on tax increases. “He was in good company,” said Speakes. “He just lacked one vote.” Neither did officials deny that Reagan’s decision on tax increases had dashed hopes to bring the federal deficit down to $55 billion by 1984, the year for which Reagan had once promised a balanced budget. Now, administration officials said the federal deficit for 1984 would be roughly $75 billion. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said the president had faced a choice of whether to finance the cost of government by increasing taxes or by accepting a higher deficit and borrowing. “Here, we’re going to borrow, not tax,” he said, adding that the deficit would not be a drag on the economy because “you borrow the money from the same type of people that you tax.” Other officials acknowledged in private, however, that the deficit would likely become Reagan’s biggest economic and political liability this year. They said the president would try to overcome the problem by presenting a budget next Feb. 8

Health agency rejects Humana hospital plan

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that would contain roughly S3O billion in cuts in regular programs, plus $63 billion worth of cuts in welfare, food stamps, pensions and other “entitlement” programs spread over four years. Even as the administration seeks to transfer responsibility for welfare, food stamps and other programs to the states, it will attempt to pare down the cost of them in the next fiscal year. The administration Wednesday listed the programs it said would be turned back, many of which were already consolidated into block grants in Reagan’s budget drive last year. They were: Labor Department: Vocational rehabilitation; vocational and adult education; state block grants; Comprehensive Employment and Training Act; work incentive program. Welfare: Low income energy assistance; child nutrition; child welfare; adoption assistance; foster care; runaway youth; child abuse; social services

sing shortage and annually deprive existing hospitals of about $3 million without filling a need for medical services. The board’s recommendation goes to the State Board of Health, which will report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Federal approval for Medicare and Medicaid payments to the facility and patients is at stake. The board also recommended disapproval of plans by St. Vincent Hospital to built a $15.2 million, 105-bed family care center and an $8.2 million obstetrics center.

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block grants; legal services; community services block grants; prevention block grants; alcohol, drug abuse and mental health block grants; primary care block grants; maternal and child health block grants; primary care research and development; black lung clinics; migrant health clinics; family planning; women, infants and children (WIC) program. Transportation: Grants-in-aid for airpots; highways (not including interstate); interstate transfer, Appalchian highways; urban mass transit construction; urban mass transit operating expenses. Community Development: Water and sewer; community facilities loans; community development block grants; urban development action grants; waste water treatment grants. Revenue Sharing: Occupational safety and health grants; general revenue snaring. The administrtion reckons the number of these grants at 43 because some of them are divided into subgroups.

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