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AP PHOTO Hog imports increase 91 percent murderer had 'explosive personality' 1 'V .4 Uil i Continued from Page One ties on all imports of live hogs and pos sibly pork products from Canada. This is a rare trade request from this country where farmers axe heavily dependent on free world trade, with the equivalent production of one acre out of every three or four harvested eventually sold overseas. Criticism about the imports has grown, with part of the unhappiness blamed on the use of an income subsidy program based on what it costs to produce pork in Canada. Gagosf chief message to Iowans, in the wake of sharp criticism from the National Pork Producers Council, seemed to be that any "protectionism" taken by the U.S. would be similar "to shooting yourselves in the foot" He was referring to legislation in troduced by Iowa congressmen that would set up trade barriers for the first time between the long-time major trading partners.

In addition, Iowa politicians initiated an investigation by the International Trade Commis sion concerning the Canadian imports. Gagosz noted that various trade agreements exist that benefit both countries, which he said totals $120 billion a year double the trade with Japan, or the European Common Market. No two countries in the world have such similar values, he added. Counting natural gas coming from Canada to Iowa, Gagosz said Iowa enjoys a $325 million "trade surplus" with Canada by itself. Without natural gas, Canada has the trade advantage of $300 million, he said.

The important thing, the Canadian official said, "is to look at the whole trade) picture anything done in the way of protectionism hurts us in Canada and also hurts you The controversy was brought to at tention by the National Pork Producers Council last spring, based on research done for the council by University of Missouri economist Glenn Grimes. Grimes claims that Canadian hog and pork imports in 1982 and 1983 cost U.S. hog farmers a half-billion dollars. At a Congressional hearing in May, the council said that live hog imports had increased by 91 percent during the first quarter of 1984 compared to a year earlier. In actual numbers, there were 486,522 hogs imported during January-May this year, compared to 210,513 a year ago.

Gagosz doesn quarrel with the council's arithmetic, but points out that this is "a very small number of hogs, less than one-half of one percent of the total hogs sent to slaughter In theU.S." He also blamed several factors for the increased exportation: A strong U.S. dollar, which is i I jf TV. T.j. Continued from Page One a Vietnam-style jungle camouflage suit and carrying the pistol, a shotgun and a semi-automatic rifle. Huberty "was always talking about shooting somebody" and once threatened to "take everyone with him" after losing his job when construction was halted on a power plant at Canton, Ohio, closed, said a former co-worker, Stark County sheriff's Deputy Terry Kelly.

A friend of Kelly's who visited Hub-erty's home in Massillon "said he had a gun in every corner of his house, loaded," Kelly recalled, describing Huberty as a survivalist who hoarded "thousands of dollars of food. He talked about the end of the world. He said he and his family were going to be the only ones left." In Canton, Ohio, Brother Dave Lom-bardi, minister of the Trinity Gospel Temple, said he believed Huberty's problems went back to childhood, when the boy's mother deserted the family to become a religious missionary to an Indian reservation. Huberty grew up in Ohio, raised mainly by his father, according to Lombardi. "He had real inner conflicts," said Lombardi, who performed the marriage ceremony for Huberty and his wife in 1965.

"He was pent up; he was a loner, and he had kind of an explosive personality. When you talked to him you knew he had nervous anxiety and was wound up inside." The victims included three 11-year-old boys who were shot as they rode their bicycles up to McDonald's to buy soft drinks. Two of them died on the spot, but Joshua Coleman of Chula Vista survived in serious but stable condition Thursday. "He played dead, and that probably saved his life," said his mother Debbie. Another was Lawrence H.

Versluis, 62, a senior driver for McLean Trucking Co. He "worked like a young man," said operations manager Ken Wessels. "Tomorrow (Friday) was his last day." "So Much in Love" Victim Neva Caine, 22, of San Diego, had been married for only a month and wanted to be a mother. "They were so much in love with each other and life," said neighbor Hann Raymond. The bloodbath began as Huberty entered the restaurant about 4 p.m., and Ybarrando estimated that every dead or injured person in the restaurant was shot within the first 10 minutes of his arrival.

"He ordered everybody to lie on the floor, which they did," Ybarrando said. "At that time, he proceeded to systematically start shooting people, walking up and down the aisles. His first words, when he entered were, Register by telephone. The "stabilization" program, however, will be continued on those bogs marketed inside Canada. "What little we spend on this hog payment) program is far from, the $22 billion In subsidies your farmers receive," he added, alluding to the 1983 payment-in-kind farm program.

Pork producers urge trade sanctions The U.S. is being asked to impose countervailing duties, or create a tax, on imports of live hogs and possibly pork products from Canada, according to Wayne Walter, president of the Des Moines-based National Pork Producers Council Walter announced at a news conference here that the council is filing a formal petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission requesting the imposition of countervailing duties on live hogs and maybe pork products shipped in from Canada. Walter also said that the council is considering a similar action against the European Common Market Mary Tone heads Iowa Arts Council Gov.

Terry Branstad has named Mary Hutchison Tone of Ames and Mark Shearer of Columbus Junction as the new chairwoman and vice-chairman of the Iowa Arts Council. Branstad also reappointed Barbara Quinn of Spencer and Larry Brand-stetter of Red Oak and named Rose Marie Draheim of Clarion, Joseph Guinta of Waterloo and Robin Martin of Pella to three-year terms on the 15-member board. Tone, who has been a council member since 1980, is an instructor at Iowa State University and is assistant editor of The Iowan magazine. She succeeds William Fultz of Des Moines as head of the council. Shearer is the editor and publisher of the Columbus Junction Gazette.

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Canadian packers have problems bidding against U.S. packers because of the difference in the value of the dollar. American packers can pay more for Canadian bogs than what those same animals would bring in Canada. In addition, the Canadian packing industry is not as efficient as that in the U.S., with a higher cost of production. Labor costs an average of $5 more per hour in Canada.

The U.S. hog market is attractive to Canadians who had some unprofitable years recently. Hog production has increased sharply since the late 1970s in Canada, but was described as "leveled off" now at about 13 million hogs per year compared to something like 85 million marketed in the U.S. annually. Since the 1970s, the Canadians have used a "stabilization" program that involves payments to pork producers based on their cost of production and the market price for porkers.

This has been a voluntary program, in which the hog farmers pay into a fund used to "stabilize income." This approach has been attacked by some American pork Interests, including the pork council that charged the use of such "subsidies" is unfair competition that "dumps" Canadian hop on the U.S. market at a time when American pork producers had expected relatively good prices. Information presented here Thursday indicates that the use of the "income stabilization" program will not apply to those bogs sold into export to all points, as well as to the U.S. "Our taxpayers don't want to see their dollars spent in payment for hogs exported," a Canadian official told The lous," Shearer said. Instead, she described each item over the phone, and Shearer set a price for them.

"I should have sent them to the warehouse, and I did not," he said. "I definitely will from now on, that's for darn sure." Four Rusty Chairs Shearer said two of the four lawn chairs purchased by the Parkses for $5 were "rusty and pretty much broken." "She thought they could make two good chairs out of the four of them," Shearer said. "If they had gone to the warehouse, they probably would have been thrown away." Madden said he didn't think Ellen Parks was aware of the regents policy covering the sale of university furniture. "As one looks back, it is probably not the way this should have been handled," Madden said. "We are taking steps to see that it doesn't happen again." CORRECTIONS CURIFICATIIil Th Rtflitor Mrlvn Mr accuracy wid laknm.

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"There were teen-age boys with their dinners half eaten on the table," he said. There were "bodies behind the counter, customers lying under the tables, slumped over tables," said Phil Moomjean, a nurse with the Life Flight helicopter service and a Vietnam veteran. "It was just like Vietnam." An infant girl was in critical condition Thursday. The girl, Karlita Maria Felix, 4 to 6 months old, was at Children's Hospital suffering from serious gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen and a minor head wound. Authorities said her mother, Astalfo Felix, 26, of Chula Vista, was in fair condition at Bay Hospital Medical Center.

More than 150 people donated blood in the first four hours after the San Diego Blood Bank opened Thursday, responding to an urgent plea for blood following the mass murder. McDonald's saying it was "shocked" by the mass murder, asked advertising outlets nationwide Thursday to delay broadcast of its commercials, a company official said. Burger King, one of its biggest competitors, quickly followed suit. "We are shocked and grieved by the tragic incident, which took place yesterday," said McDonald's spokesman Richard Starmann from the fast-food chain's suburban Chicago headquarters. tollman's will NEW YORK, N.Y.

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"I would suspect that this furniture will be transferred back to the warehouse." The Parkses currently are vacationing at Cape Cod, Madden said. In May, Ellen Parks contacted Robert D. Shearer, supervisor of equipment inventory at ISU, and told him she would like to buy 2C items of state furniture stored or being used at the Knoll. A similar request to buy 12 more items was made June 29. Most of the furniture was purchased by the university more than 20 years ago at a total cost of more than $1,000.

"I made a mistake," Shearer said Thursday. "She was willing to pay full price for them, which I thought was ridicu A young girl sits outside the McDonald's a gunman opened fire, killing 21 persons. 'Everybody get down on the floor or I'll kill Then he began methodically firing at diners, employees and passers-by outside, pausing to reload each time his weapons were emptied, authorities said. A few minutes after police sharp-, shooters were given the "green light" to shoot at Huberty, Officer Charles Foster felled him with a single bullet fired from the roof of an adjacent post office, Ybarrando said. Police recovered a semi-automatic 9mm Uzi repeating rifle, a 9mm Browning semi-automatic pistol and a 12-gauge pump action shotgun as well as at least 140 spent 9mm cartridges from inside the restaurant, Ybarrando said.

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