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GREAT DAY A "great" meeting of six generations of eldest daughters took place in San Francisco Friday when grea t-grea t-grea t-grandmother Frankie Russell Underwood, 90, Fitzgerald, was introduced to the youngest member of the elite group, 6-week-oId Tara Kathlene Peters. Pictured UPI Pholo are (clockwise) great-great- grandmother Olene Cox Hutto, 73, Ma con, Ga. (seated); grandmother Jo Ann Jacobi, 37, Foster City, great- grandmother Kathlene Langella, 55, Burlingame, Mrs. Underwood; Tara, and mother Kimberly Peters, 19, Burlingame. Barry gets Truman award KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(UPI) Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, known as the patriarch of American conservative politics, Friday received the 1982 Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award at a birthday luncheon honoring the late president. Goldwater, 73, served as U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1953 to 1964 and from 1968 to present.

He delivered an address to the 400 or more guests attending the the luncheon, according to a statement announcing the selection. The award is presented each year at the "birthday party" sponsored by the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation. Saturday, the 98th anniversary of Truman's birth, the traditional presidential and American Legion wreath-laying ceremonies were scheduled at the gravesite. Barry Goldwater Asner says CBS 'caved in' HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Actor Ed Asner, who roused controversy with liberal political stands, angrily accused CBS of giving in to protests from "schnooks" and "yahoos" in canceling his TV series, "Lou Grant." Asner Friday cited the Rev.

Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority as the kind of antagonist he had in mind only to draw a protest from Falwell that he is a "Lou Grant" fan. The network again denied that Asner's outspoken politicking which included fund raising for the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador had anything to do with the demise of the series, in which Asner played a gruff newspaper editor. A CBS spokesman said the show's declining popularity was responsible. "With those yahoos beginning to carp," the network should have saved the show "so it wouldn't look as if they caved in," Asner said. "I regret their lack of It allows the Jerry Falwells, the Kleenex people and the Caucus of Conservative Consumers to think they can curb freedom of speech at will.

"The affect of the schnooks is minimal but they will go about crowing over the fact that they achieved what they set out to do." Falwell, however, said he and the Moral Majority "did no lobbying whatsoever against the show," and instead support Asner's right to express his political views. "Although I disagree with Ed Asner's politics, I believe him to be an outstanding actor. I personally watched and enjoyed the 'Lou Grant' series," Falwell said. MRS. AMERICA Rhonda McGeeney, 29, Houston, Texas (center), 1982 Mrs.

America, poses with four runners-up after pageant Friday at Las Vegas Hilton. From left are UPI Photo Faye Fincher, 37, Charleston, S.C.; Susan Combs, 31, Rockford, Mrs. McGeeney; Susan Best, 29, Towson, and Kristin Tolson, 31, Billings, Mont. Newlywed new Mrs. America LAS VEGAS, Nev.

(UPI) Rhonda McGeeney, 29, a Houston recruiting agency owner who has been married only two months, is the new Mrs. America. Mrs. McGeeney was selected over contestants from 49 states in a weeklong contest that ended Friday and will be seen on a two-hour television special this summer. "It's a dream come true," she said.

"I'm deliriously happy. I will do my best to represent families all over America." Mrs. McGeeney and the other contestants in the sixth annual contest were rated on poise and personality and on how they looked in swim suits and evening gowns. She won a new car, a kitchen remodeling, mink coat, wardrobe, cash and a year of travel to make personal appearances. Carole Sperling Salinan Carole Sperling, 2358 Wesley, was Kansas' contestant in the Mrs.

America contest. Sharon Best, 29, of Towson, was first runner-up, followed by Faye Fincher, 37, a nurse and model from Charleston, S.C.; Susan Combs, 31, a real estate agent from Rockford, and Kristin Tolson, 31, a nurse from Billings, Mont. Salina Journal Sunday, May 9. 1982 2 Reagan lambasts Democrats, media WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan accused Democrats and the news media Saturday of inaccurately portraying economic and unemployment statistics in glum terms to make the administration look bad. In his sixth weekend radio address to the nation, Reagan lashed out at critics on the issues of Social Security, unemployment, the budget and federal spending.

He told his listeners they probably had heard about the topics, and "if so, you have also heard some things that are not true." The president's sharpest comments came on Social Security. He said it was "a plain falsehood" for, critics to say the budget compromise the administration worked out with the Senate Budget Committee last week would reduce Social Security payments. "It does nothing of the kind," he said, adding the only change in payments to the elderly currently in the program will be when they get a scheduled raise this summer. "Those who rush to face the TV cameras or get their names in newsprint by frightening our Social Security recipients should be ashamed of themselves," the president said. "Let me repeat what I have said before: I will protect the benefits of Social Security recipients now and in the future." Sen.

Christopher Dodd, delivering the official Democratic response an hour later, said Reagan's address was nothing more than a "campaign stump speech" when Americans expect something UPI Photo RADIO ADDRESS President Reagan gives radio address from Oval Office Saturday. more in a time of the highest unemployment since World War II. "What hope does he offer our country when we need his leadership?" asked Dodd. "Our president unfortunately says it's all the fault of the Democrats and now the news media. I believe the country gx- pects more from our head of state than frankljg a campaign stump speech." He said Reagan was blaming of the news media, business and the Democrats for the nation's economic ills "everyone except his own administration and the Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee." "Now you and I know that argument is absolutely ridiculous," Dodd said.

Oval Office address In his five-minute address from the Oval Office, Reagan also discussed the latest 9.4 percent unemployment figure, spending tittle complaining about how the news media reports the jobless rate. Reagan said reporters concentrate on the sonaUy-adjusted rate" of the unemployment flgurfa, but added, "I'm not sure we live in a seasonally-adjusted world." "I wonder, though, if the news media couldn't serve us better if they would give us more of the statistical information on unemployment provided fcy the Bureau of Labor Statistics." I' According to the adjusted figures, Reagan there were 525,000 more people working in than in February and 88,000 fewer He said the unadjusted figures released at (he same time showed 400,000 more Americans working in March than the month before and 300,000 fewjsr unemployed. He said those figures "should, not buried or ignored by the press." Tories ride patriotism to victory at polls LONDON (UPI) The ruling Conservative Party scored unexpected gains in local elections in England and Scotland as voters, swayed by patriotic fervor, backed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's tough stand over the Falkland Islands, provisional results showed Saturday. Biggest prize for the Conservatives from the polls for 180 city and municipal councils was control of Britain's second largest city, Birmingham, in the English Midlands. The provisional results showed the Conservative Party gained 25 seats overall whereas the Laborite opposition lost 49.

-tr -tr -tr Kassebaum opposes budget amendment WASHINGTON (SNS) Sen. Nancy Kassebaum has split with President Reagan and other members of the Kansas congressional delegation by refusing to support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. "The Constitution isn't the appropriate place to solve budget problems," said Kassebaum, R-Kansas, who thinks Congress is using the issue to duck re- sponsiblity for staying within the budget. A constitutional amendment to balance the budget would be misleading to the public, provide a false sense of fiscal control and would rely on the courts for enforcement, Kassebaum said. -tr Plane crash claims three in California BURBANK, Calif.

(UPI) A twin- engine plane crashed into a home in a quiet middle class neighborhood Just after dawn Saturday and exploded into a ball of flame, killing its two occupants and a woman asleep in a converted garage. Identities of the pilot and passenger in the Piper Aerostar plane and the woman were not immediately released, but police said the woman apparently was the elderly mother of the home's owner, Wanda Wang. Mrs. Wang and her son, Bill, escaped from the burning brown stucco home immediately after the crash, but the aircraft directly struck the garage, which had been converted into a bedroom, and flattened it. (Continued from Page 1) who was not reappointed to the library board.

In response to his being passed over, Black sent a letter to Duckers, accusing the mayor of being "as pre- sumptous as you are rude and thoughtless." Black wrote that he was offended that Duckers had not called him personally to inform him he was not to be reappointed, and only learned of it when a clerk at Government Center called him to verify the correct spelling of his name on a plaque given to those who are stepping down from city boards. "As for the plaque," wrote Black, "why don't you throw it in the nearest pea-green trash cart? I refuse to accept it as 'thanks' for my past service." Duckers told The Journal Friday that Black was denied reappointment because "I've had members of the library board and staff express concern with the way he wanted to serve on the board." Black's letter drew a sharper reaction from Commissioner Charles Roth, who defends Duckers' appointments. "You don't want to write a letter like that to anybody," Roth said. "To me, it sounds like Mr. Black is a whiney crybaby.

The mayor told him he couldn't play anymore and now he is off pouting. If his level of maturity is reflected by that letter to the mayor, the library board is better off without him." Mrs. Graves, who recruited Black as a library board appointee four years ago, defends his performance on the board and also challenges Duckers' style in making the appointments. Mrs. Graves contends it has been traditional to allow an appointee to a city board or commission to serve a second term if the individual so desired and had served effectively.

In response, Duckers compiled a list of library board appointees who served during the past 28 years, noting that 20 out 27 appointees only served one four- year term. "Surely out of those, some were willing to serve again," he said. Backed by others The other three commissioners generally support the appointments made by Duckers and the method he used in appointing them. Merle Hodges, who served as mayor last year, says he does not begrudge Duckers his authority to- make the appointments. "My problem with the appointments is that I had no inkling of who they were going to be before the time; they were made," he says.

Hodges also says he supports the tradition of allowing appointees to serve two terms before being replaced. "It has been traditional, but I also thought it was a good idea," he "If you don't do that, you tend to-lote all difference of opinion on the boards." Roth and Burgess support Duckeni' appointments wholeheartedly, and disagree with Mrs. Graves' objections about not being able to submit names as candidates. "I just don't think Karen was doirjg her homework," Roth says. Burgess says that, contrary to Mrs.

Graves' contention, he was no more ig- volved than she was in the appointr ment process. "If she was (left out), then so. wgs he says. The commission needs to set asirje its differences and get on with the city's business, Burgess says. "It's a petulant deal on a certajh commissioner's part, and if she wanjs to see Salina go farther, we need to bury our petty differences," he says.

WAVA EXTENDED OUTLOOK Tuesday through Thursday A chance of thunderstorms east Tuesday and Wednesday. A cooling trend with highs Tuesday from the upper 60s northwest to around 80 southeast, cooling to mostly 60s Thursday. Lows 50s west to 60s east, cooling to mostly 40s Thursday. ZONE FORECASTS Zones 1 and 2 Sunny, windy and warm Sunday with the high in the mid 80s and south winds 15 to 25 mph Partly cloudy Sunday night with a 20 percent chance for thunderstorms and the low around 50. Partly cloudy and warm Monday with the high around 80.

Zones 4,5, 7 and 8 Sunny, windy and warm Sunday with the high in the upper 80s and south winds 15 to 25 mph Partly cloudy Sunday night with a 20 percent chance for thunderstorms and the low in the mid to upper 50s. Partly cloudy and warm Monday with a high in the mid 80s. Zones 10 and 11 Sunny, windy and warm Sunday with the high in the mid 80s and south winds 15 to 25 mph. Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms Sunday night and Monday. The low Sunday night upper 50s to low 60s.

Warm again Monday with the high in the mid 80s. ZONE Rowllni, Shtrmon. Thomoi. ZONE logon, Wlshllo. Scott.

ZONE Norton, Shtrldon, Grohom. ZONE Trmo. Ntxx. ZONE7-Phillipt, Smith, ftooki, O.born.. ZONE 8-Ellli.

Ruoell. Ruih, Barton. ZONE Republic, Washington, Mitchell, Cloud, Clay. ZONE 11-Lincoln. Ottawa, Oicklnion, Dice, Marlon, McPhcnon.

(Continued from Page 1) High School, Wava Armsbury caught the eye of Nolan Farrington. They were married and she started her career "raising kids." "It was probably 10 years later, after I married, that I really got to missing that last year in high school. "So, I just decided to go back and finish. I didn't bother telling my husband or family until I got back. This was just something I had to do." She finished high school, but didn't go through the graduation exercises.

"That was back in the days when old people just didn't go to graduation exercises. That's why this one is so important to me, it's the first time I've ever worn a cap and gown." Lauds parents What has prompted her, she said, are the philosophies taught by her parents. "They didn't leave us any legacy of money," Mrs. Farrrington said. "But they did teach us their philosophies.

Weather Mother had a strong faith and Daddy raised us so that we could face just about anything, as long as we didn't hurt anybody else. If we'd just stiffen our backbones we could do it." That, she says, is exactly how she earned her associate degree at Kansas Wesleyan. "I work for the R.S.V.P. (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) and ask the different people, who I come in contact with, to fill out little cards about their unfulfilled dreams and desires. "I tell them that they are never too old for anything.

One woman, I know, took up tap dancing. And she was more than 60. Another learned how to swim you can do anything." And, is there life after college? "Well, you really want to know what I'd like to do? Write a book about my family. And I do see myself coining back and taking just a few courses in advanced writing." But, she admits, she needs to watch herself when she says that. That's how she got started on her associate gree.

"I just was taking courses for because I really was interested in learning," she said. "And then I cided to settle down and work The first semester I took 14 hours." vC Now, four years later, Mrs. FairingS ton is about to receive her degree. -f "I am so thrilled, and at my age? Imagine that. I tell you, I've lucky, the Lord has given me good health.

"Why, just recently I was in Asbiuv NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST good EKG and a good blood pressure? And I get exercise. Two summers hiked up a mountain a pound backpack. "You ask why I do this? Wefi, I'ig just an ordinary grandmother wild; loves what she does. I make my mind; up to do something and I do it. That's all." 8 The Salina Journal P.O.

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