Monday, March 9, 1987 Daily Nebraskan
Zorinslty eulogized, buried in Omalia
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By The Associated Press
OMAHA Sen. Edward Zorinsky
was eulogized as a man of integrity and
an advocate for farmers and his state.
About 1,200 people filled Beth El
Synagogue Sunday afternoon to pay
their respects to Zorinsky, who died of
a heart attack Friday. Zorinsky's wife,
Cece, and other family members sat in
a pew across the aisle from 18 of
Zorinsky's fellow senators, who wore
black Jewish skull caps.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd,
D-W.Va., Senate Minority Leader Robert
Dole, R-Kan., and Agriculture Secretary
Richard Lyng, representing President
Reagan, were among that group.
"You could never really categorize
Ed because he always did the things he
believed were right," said Sen. Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah, during the eulogy at the
35 minute service.
"He was a terrific advocate for
Nebraska. Everywhere he went he
advocated for his home state," Hatch
said. "He was an advocate for the
famers, he never let you down."
Zorinsky, 56, was the second-ranking
Democrat on the Senate Agriculture
Committee and was chairman of its
commodities subcommittee.
The senator was also eulogized by
Beth El Rabbi emeritus Myer S. Kripke
and Senate Chaplain the Rev. Richard
Halverson.
"He loved and he cared and he took
his tasks seriously," Halverson said.
One of Zorinsky's first acts upon
taking office as mayor of Omaha in 1973
was to remove the door from his office
to signify that he welcomed the opinions
of his constituents.
Burial followed the service at Beth El
Cemetery. Representatives from each
branch of the armed services served as
pallbearers. Zorinsky served 14 years in
the Military Police Corps Reserve,
attaining the rank of captain.
Zorinsky is survived by his wife; two
sons, Barry and Jeffrey; a daughter,
Susan Goodman; his mother, Sonia; a
sister, Esther Rice; and two grand
children, all of Omaha.
Gov. Kay Orr must appoint someone
to serve the remaining two years of
Zorinsky's term. Orr, a Republican,
said during the weekend she would
decide later.
Regent Koefoot loses
1st round of trial
By Joeth Zucco
Staff Reporter
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Pall bearers carry the casket of Sen. Edward Zorinski to the burial site at Beth El Cemetery, 84th
and L streets in Omaha Sunday.
Dr. Robert Koefoot, member of the
NU Board of Regents, lost the first
round in federal court in his case
against the American College of Sur
geons Friday.
The jury ruled in favor of the Chicago
based college, saying that it did not
violate the Sherman Anti-trust Law.
The college bars its members from per
forming surgery if they don't provide
postoperative care themselves.
Koefoot was expelled from the col
lege in 1981 because he was practicing
itinerant surgery within a 40-mile radius
of Grand Island, where he has a private
practice.
, Apparently, Koefoot would travel in
the early hours of the morning with a
nurse-anesthetist, perform surgery in
St. Paul, Fullerton or Central City hos
pitals, leave the patients in the care of
their doctor and return to Grand Island
to work in his office.
The ACS instituted the rule against
itinerant surgery in 1964 according to
the Dec. 22, 1986, issue of Medical
Economics, Koefoot did not heed the
bylaw and continued practicing itiner
ant surgery for another 10 years.
The magazine said in 1971, Koefoot
went before the ACS Board for practic
ing itinerant surgery and splitting fees
with referring doctors. He wasn't cited
or disciplined and continued to prac
tice for another seven years under the
misunderstanding that itinerant surgery
was only if the patient was turned over
to a general practitioner when another
surgeon wasn't available.
The issue cropped up again in 1978
when Koefoot hired William L. Fowles,
a general surgeon in his Grand Island
office. Fowles applied for ACS fellow
ship but was rejected because he prac
ticed itinerant .surgery. Koefoot de
fended him in letters, saying he'd been
doing the same for 25 years. The college
still disapproved, so Fowles said he
would restrict his practice to Grand
Island, and Koefoot came under inves
tigation by ACS.
Koefoot went to court in October
1978 with evidence that 46 of the 221
ACS members in Nebraska performed
itinerant surgery and that it was vital
to Nebraskans. In June 1979, the cen
tral judiciary committee of ACS sus
pended him from membership and gave
him one year to discontinue his itiner
ant surgery. .
That fall, Koefoot sued the American
College of surgeons, its regents and two
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directors in the U.S. District Court for
Nebraska. He contended that the itin
erant rule restricted competition and
was unfairly enforced. ACS won the
case as a dismissal in February 1981.
Koefoot was expelled from the organi
zation that August.
Koefoot appealed his suit to the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District
of Illinois in July 1981. His trial made it
to court in February 1987.
Koefoot argued that the ban "was
designed not to ensure quality patient
care, but to limit competition among
the college's member surgeons and
encourage hospitals to provide slots for
young practioners, "according to the
Lincoln Star.
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