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TlSdlna 1 1 he Journal 11 year 300 Fall It's standard time again, to your one hour at 2:00 a.m. thlt Sunday, October 29th. STAY UP TONIGHT and finish that novel you've been reading. Or maybe be the last one to leave the party. Tonight's the night you get to set your clocks back and snuggle in for an extra hour of sleep.

Enjoy. Inside Business 29,30 Classified 22-27 Living Today 6,7 3 On the Record 15 Opinion 4,5 Religion 11 Sports Television 27 Weather 2 Weather KANSAS Mostly sunny today, highs 70 to 75. Clear tonight, lows in mid-30s to low 40s. Sunny Sunday, highs in mid- to upper 70s west to the low 70s east. Salina, Kansas SATURDAY October 27,1990 35 Cents RV maker ready to crank up Town smiles again as industry resumes ByALANSTOLFUS Staff Writer MINNEAPOLIS October, November and December aren't the best months for the recreational vehicle market.

But. if you're trying to jump-start an RV company that has been closed since January, the slow marketing months can be a blessing in disguise. Honorbuilt Industries Inc. the revamped ElDorado Motor Corp. opened last week after a 10-month forced vacation following Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

The company is taking advantage of these slower months to open and retrain itself to making a high-quality product again, president Robert Stewart said Friday. Being back at work is good not only for Honorbuilt but the city of Minneapolis. "I think there are a lot more smiles around Minneapolis than there have been for a while," Stewart said. "We're pleased to be a part of it." Besides Honorbuilt opening, a new hardware store and other small industries are open or planning to open soon. "I really feel like things are getting going again," Mayor Gerald Denison said.

"We were in a slump for some time." The important key to the city and Ottawa County's economic future is Honorbuilt. "I think the city is happy that they're back," the mayor said. "We're just hoping that everything -will go good this time and they will be to stay open." Honorbuilt opened its doors Oct. 17 and is spending its first three weeks readying the plant for work again. Some repair work was needed, but Stewart classified the plant as being in good condition.

Finished minicamper vans are scheduled to roll off the assembly line the week of Nov. 5. The large, 27- to 35-foot motor homes should come off the line a week later. By late November, the first camper van should be finished. "Initial orders are good," Stewart said.

"We see our products being well received. I'm looking at a production schedule that takes units to New (See RV, Page 15) Scott Wllllomi UP AND DOWN DAY Dallas Everhart, 1 0, Salina, jumps on a trampoline late Friday afternoon. Congress near final passage of budget bill WASHINGTON (AP) House leaders scoured the Capitol for votes Friday for a compromise budget that would reach into the pockets of the rich, raise Medicare recipients' bills and add an extra nickel to everyone's gasoline tax. Top Democrats and Republicans said they believed the House would endorse the giant deficit-cutting package. For the rank and file, the vote the climax of the 101st Congress' raucous year was a chance to make a statement and return home in time for Election Day.

"Democrats have a message of fairness to carry home, and I want to get out of here so I can do it," said Rep. Tom McMillen, D-Md. "I'm voting against this because it's not necessary'to raise taxes on anybody, let alone everybody," said Rep. Richard Armey, R-Texas. Just a week after the House and Senate approved separate budgets, bargainers molded the final details of a compromise bearing about $140 billion in new taxes and $100 billion in spending cuts for the next five years.

The original $250 billion size of the package shrank by about $9 billion as leaders dropped unpopular items such as forcing state and local government workers to join Medicare as a tradeoff for votes. By late afternoon, leaders said the fine-tuning was complete. "It's over," said House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo. "We're done." Even some conservatives who would have preferred deeper spending cuts supported the plan, arguing that at least it took a whack at the government's growing red ink. "I don't know if it was Confucius or Garfield who said, 'When you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is quit said Rep.

Charles Sten- Other action Other action taken Friday by Congress included: The Senate gave final congressional passage to a $268 billion defense bill that made modest cuts in weapons systems. The House approved and sent to the Senate the first overhaul of the federal clean air laws in 13 years, requiring new pollution controls to sharply reduce urban smog, acid rain and industrial release of toxic chemicals. The Senate is expected to vote today, The House approved on a voice vote and sent to the Senate a bill toughening sanctions against banks and savings and loans convicted of money laundering for drug dealers. The House passed and sent to the president a bill requiring more nutrition information on food labels. A House-Senate conference committee reached agreement early Friday on a $15.5 billion foreign aid bill.

holm, D-Texas. When enacted, the bill is to be the heart of an effort to shrink the deficit by $500 billion over the next five years. The remaining savings are to come from restraints on defense spending and from lower interest payments because of reduced borrowing. White House officials said President Bush liked the way the package was shaping up. But he contended anew on a campaign trip in California that the Democrats were to blame for letting the federal deficit rise so high that he had to go back on (See Budget, Page 15) Lawmakers still grind out 'pork' despite cuts Appropriations panel steers funds for members WASHINGTON (AP) Congress' struggle to find $20 billion in spending cuts this year as a part of a five-year, $500 billion deficit-reduction plan is not stopping lawmakers from taking care of their home states and districts.

Indiana Rep. John Myers, the top Republican on the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water projects, got $4.8 million for a new technology center at Indiana State University. Another subcommittee member, Rep. Wes Watkins, got $5 million for a technology research center at Oklahoma State University. Yet another, Rep.

Virginia Smith, got $5.7 million for biochemistry and chemical engineering research at the Univer- sity of Nebraska. The panel's chairman, Rep. Tom Bevill, D- got $10 million for biomedical research. Its No. 2 Democrat, Rep.

Ldndy Boggs of Louisiana, also got $10 million, for an energy research park at the University of New Orleans. None of the spending had been sought by the Bush administration or authorized by any House committees with jurisdiction over scientific research. All of it, plus another $45 million that key members of the Senate Appropriations Committee wanted, showed up in a negotiated compromise between the two houses directing President Bush just where to spend Department of Energy funds next year. "This is research that has to be done," Myers, (See Members, Page 15) Resentment bubbles up over Welk house project STRASBURG, N.D. (AP) Resentment is bubbling over congressional approval of $500,000 to restore the birthplace of Lawrence Welk, the king of champagne music.

The project's leader defended the plan to renovate the sod farmhouse where Welk was born and develop a German-Russian history museum and other tourist attractions. "People are saying we're taking money away from fanners. It's not so," said Rosemary Schaefbauer, president of Welk Heritage Inc. "This money was allocated for rural development. North Dakota is going to benefit a whole lot from it." The grant is included in a $52.2 billion agricultural appropriations bill that the House passed Monday and sent to President Bush.

It piqued the interest of radio talk-show hosts across the country, who have been calling Schaefbauer. It also raised the ire of Rep. Silvio Conte, who said it's an example of the kind of projects the country cannot afford during a budget crunch. "What will they do for an encore?" Conte asked. "Earmark funds to renovate Guy Lombardo's speedboat? Or restore Artie Shaw's wedding tuxedo?" Welk, 87, does not grant interviews, but one of his daughters, Shirley Fredricks, said that the grant caught the family by surprise.

"We were astonished and I must say embarrassed," she said. "We actually didn't know until last week that the funding had even been (See $500,000, Page 15) Hair-raising research gives bald men hope LONDON (AP) A hair-raising experiment at Cambridge University has raised hopes for bald men, but experts said Friday it could be years before scientists can apply their test tube hair growth to shiny heads. "This is the real thing," said Dr. Terence Kealey, leader of the research team that grew hair in a synthetic blood product at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry. "We have for the first time succeeded in getting hair to grow in vitro." The balding scientist stressed in a BBC radio interview that growing hair in a test tube "is not in itself a cure for baldness." But, it provides the perfect medium for experiments and could lead to effective treatment within 10 years, he said.

The results of the research are to be published in the Journal of Cell Science next month. Experts welcomed the achievement, saying it could lead to preventing hair loss in men genetically disposed to baldness. "Any knowledge of how hair grows and metabolizes could have various offshoots in preventing baldness from happening," said Dr. Ken Masted, a dermatologist with the Glasgow Health Board who went bald at 18. "Whether it is a cure for people who are bald, I'm not quite sure.

I think it's rather nice having a waterproof head." Dr. John Firmage, a consultant at the Scalp and Hair Hospital in London, said the research was an important first step to understanding what affects hair growth and loss. "Until now, it has been very difficult to know what happens" except that the process of balding is hereditary, Firmage said. "Hence the many lotions and potions which are produced." Dr. John Romano at St.

Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in New York said scientists would be able to test new chemicals on test-tube hair without worrying about injuring someone's scalp. Kealey said the next step is to find out why many middle-aged men suffer a disruption in the normal mechanism that triggers the growth of new, replacement hair. "I hope that within 10 years we could come up with a cure for baldness," he said. Hairs grow for about two years and then spontaneously shed, he said. The hammer falls 'American injustice system' sentences Barry to prison Washington D.C.

Mayor Marion Barry leaves court after he received a six-month prison term. WASHINGTON (AP) Mayor Marion Barry drew a six-month prison term Friday for cocaine possession from a judge who said Barry's drug use had given "aid, comfort and encouragement" to the illegal drug culture. Barry said the sentence came from "the American injustice system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson could have merely sentenced the mayor to probation but said Barry's "breach of public trust alone warrants an enhanced sentence." The judge stayed the sentence, which also includes a $5,000 fine, pending an appeal. It was filed later that day by defense attorney R.

Kenneth Mundy. Pleading for leniency before the sentence, the mayor said he had "led an exemplary life" since his arrest in January in a downtown hotel. Barry had been lured there by former girlfriend Rasheeda Moore and was videotaped smoking crack cocaine by FBI agents operating concealed cameras. "I should have been shocked and stunned, but I'm not," Barry said. "I understand that there are different sets of standards for different people, and that's the American injustice system." Mundy, who argued during the trial that Barry had been singled out for prosecution because he is a well- known black official, said after the sentencing that the judge had made the mayor "a whipping boy for all the ills that beset the District of Columbia." In addition to his biting criticism of Barry, the judge also had harsh words for the jury, which acquitted (See Barry, Page 15).