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Clinton's list mmmiB favors UICH PRESS Wdvay, rv. 1. 171 7F education Chicago Daily News KMl MtMllainxilVVtia lUkK.ii SoaWyurCfa? money vaults dren at kindergarten age, and about M.OOt of them are in the kindergarten units that now exist. The appropriation for the program In the current year is IIS.S17.t0t. The Education Department has asked for more for the next fiscal year.

That would be sufficient ta Increase the number of units to about 1.404, about lot below the number necessary to have kindergarten in every school district. The additional money sought by the department also would allow the UTTLE ROCK (API -Gov. -elect Bill Clinton's priorities lor legislative action li II are vague tn aome areas (or example, ape-ciflc amounts for teacher salary raises, additional revenue (or the highway program but some of his specific priorities are: Appropriating enough money (or the kindergarten budget to provide the state aid necessary to enable almost all school districts that want to establish kindergarten classes to do so. The state has about 35.00 chil -V 0 RTA gas tax sits in bank a a Young Arkansas chief eyes next term already the program could pay higher salaries. It would be mora able to attract and hold nurse to staff the twn nurseries, one af which not nw in use.

to provide around-the-clock nursing care infants Carrying out the state's agreement to buy from The Nature Conservancy the 1 1. M4 acre Hobbs Estate an Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas. The agreed- poo purchase price is 13 2 million, but the state share of that would be about $1,281,247. The deal waa arranged by the administration of Gov. David Pryor so the slate could have the land for recreational and wilderness development.

Fulfilling the state obligation, under federal mandate, to complete the process of providing special education for handicapped children in the public schools. The state was supposed to have done this by last Oct. I. but Pryor chose to delay the action. The appropriation for the program this fiscal year Mais about S14 million, but that was insufficient to finance about 360 of the special education units requested by school districts.

Another S3 million to million would be necessary to complete funding. The state also would have to find qualified teachers for all the programs, something it has had difficulty doing so tar. million In additional atata money probably would cover the cost of kindergarten transportation. Expanding the state's free instructional materials program to include kindergartens. The appropriation for the program for the current fiscal year for grades through and for grades through 12 It is t2.l7S.3lt.

These amounts equal an allotment of SlttS per child at the elementary level and SIS 7 per child at the high school level. Adding about 30.001 kindergarten pupils, where fewer hardback texts would be needed, could be done for probably 1330, OOt or less, state officials say. Creating an Economic Development Commission to absorb the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and to try to attract manufacturing and farm businesses, build markets for products and crops, train employees for industrial job needs and give management aid to smait firms. The budget, proposed at just under S4 million, would be about double the current AIDC budget. Helping the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Campus at Little Rock carry out its perinatal nursing program-, which provides special care, some, of It intensive care, for to 45 sick babies per day.

some of whom were born prematurely or were born with serious medical problems. If state to increase Its payment per kindergarten unit from $11,870 to SI3.270. Financing transportation for kindergarten pupils. The public school transportation program provides transportation for about tQo.Out of the slate's SOfl.OOo sr so pupils at a cost of about I2J million, including a slate appropriation of about tit 4 million. 18,009 of the M.OOt kindergarten' pupils probably would use transportation facilities of.

the schools, state education officials estimate. About SI. 2 people have had full knowledge of my age going in and chose to let me try to make the changes I hope to make. "I don't want to be so anxious to reassure everyone that I don't Iry to do the things I know are right or change the things I know are wrong." Will his plans and programs need more than his two-year term? "Yes, and I do want a second term, and there is a good chance I'll want a third term if I'm making progress and if the people want me to stay." MON. THRU SAT.

Suburbs may say it all Todav tkr Maj .1 I 1 1 i S't M-T1 AS, MKrS E5 HUtTJESM JkstCf Jwwcy Ws)n sVtafjs Do tutWfaan fwpmymn i expressing hope that he'll avoid that. Potential dangers of being governor at 32? "Some people may try to test me more than people otherwise might try to test me, more than they might if an older person were governor, to see if I'm easier to budge or spook. "There's another problem: No governor is going to bat 100 percent, and I'm not going to either, but I wonder if that will be perceived as a consequence of age. I hope there won't be negative associations with my youth, and there shouldn't be, since OPEN DAILY 9-10 Newspaper changes TKLT.S., SAT. This Is the frsat psge of the secssd pilot edition of the new Chicago Dally News that kit Chicago area newsstands Monday.

Style ad formal may be tke only things tkat resemble Ms asmesske, Ike Marshall Field-owned paper Ikal ceased publication In March. Tke new Dally News Is pabllsked by suburban Addison Leader Newspaper which says It's making no pretense that It's tke same paper. Machines hamper write-ins LITTLE ROCK tAP) -Voting fur write-in candidates was hampered Tuesday in Little Rock by paper jams in voting machines, election officials said. Jack Files, who narrowly lost his bid as a rlle-in candidate for chancellor, says he will ask for a recount and try to void the election. The problem became so acute by late Tuesday morning that Files' attorney asked US.

District Judge G. Thomas Eiwle to intervene. Eisele was asked to order the Pulaski County Election Commission to furnish paper ballots to those who wished to vote for write-in candid ConCon vote asked ty tlU SIMMONS LITTLE ROCK (AP) you," he says as he tells his wife, Hillary, goodbye on the telephone. Speaking of her sometimes as "my little wife." as in "my little wife and I went out for dinner last night," he unabashedly dotes on her with something akin to reverence. "He" is Bill Clinton, the governor-elect.

There's a side or two to him that few know. He confesses he once was among those who would get into cars and go "mooning" during high school days on the streets of Hot Springs. He's an old saxophone player. When the music is smooth, the microphone is handy, and just friends are about, in a light-hearted moment he sometimes has found the temptation to get the mike and "croon" a tune or two. Campaign headquarters, catling by telephone, can't find a newspaper article Clinton sent.

"What do you mean 'you can't find if what do you think I send those things over there fur?" he snaps. Rushing by car from office to home for fresh clothes, he's a speeder, sudden-brak-er, lane-shifter and tail-gater most of the way in a breakneck race to match the pace of his super-crowded schedule. He's a jogger. He's a diet-drink drinker. A bit of baby -fat shows as he p-els off one shirt and puts on another without interrupting his rapid fire answers amid a hectic interview en route to catch a plane.

Cruising for the airport, he spots one of the kids in the neighborhood smoking cigarettes, stops to admonish her: "I thought you told me you were going to quit." He avoids cigarettes, but, once in a while, he'll smoke a pipe or a cigar. The neighborhood is where he and Hillary are buying a small, red-brick bouse at S419 Street In a neat, quiet, but not particularly affluent part of Little Rock. They'll probably sell the house after they move igto the Governor's Mansion, he says, "because I'm not a very good landlord." There's a pile of Clinton posters in the yard. He duns jeans and sweatshirt when he turns out for battles between his staff and working reporters in weekend Softball games. He's no Babe Ruth there aren't many in those games but he gets by.

As attorney general, he hired a blind girl to be the office receptionist. Hire the handicapped isn't just a slogan, he says.1 Hillary goes by her maiden name, Rodham, and that's been mentioned by some of Clinton's political toes, but she decided to do that when she was t. long before women's lib, he says, adding. "It depresses her some when she thinks it's hurting me, but she's a lawyer, and she doesn't want to go into I he courtroom as somebody's wife tf people knew bow old fashioned she waa in every conceivable way, they probably wouldn't do that she's just a hard-working, no-nonsense, no frills. Intelligent girl who has done well, who doesn't set any sense to extramarital sex.

who doesn't rare much for drink, who's witty and sharp but without being a stuk in the mud she's Just great Does the prospect of being the slate second youngest governor at age 32 cause him some trepidation "Vcs" Young polilicos around the nation sometimes seem arrogant and haughty, he says. ates. Klsele would not issue such an order. With most precincts reporting today. Prosecutor Lee Munson held about a edge over Files.

Munson was unopposed in his bid (or chancellor until September, when druggists protested Munson action in a case involving a man who had pleaded guilty to three drugstore robberies. Munson had recommended that the man be sentenced to five years in prison with two years suspended. Files agreed tu oppose Munson when the Central Arkansas Pharmacists Associa should be held. Pryor preferred 1979 The election would be (or a constitution to be drafted next year by a convention composed of delegates who were being elected Tuesday, with a run-off election in delegate races set for Nov. 21 The vote on the ratification year was only advisory, not binding on the Legislature, which actually will set the date.

But lawmakers could be expected to heed any formal. attempted to revive him without success. A Pulaski County Emergency Medical Service spokesman said Kanchmo showed no vital signs when EMS arrived at the station. Steve Barnes, who worked with Ranchino on the station's election telecast, announced the death on the air shortly before pm, describing Ranchino as "our friend and colleague." Gov -elect Bill Clinton said his victory was "tempered by the loss of my dear lrn nd Jim Ham hum jjsus NEW SHOP HOURS 8-9 XsVETyTpfoM I 883-4633 dl fl. LJHS SAVING PLACE.

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The paper wouldn't advance on many machines Tuesday. Howard Deinier, Pulaski County election coordinator, said that until the machines were repaired, voters were directed to only machines that worked properly. He said he was certain some voters became impatient at the delay and left. in 1980 statewide expression of the public will, and especially so when, as this time, it coincides with preference of most of the lawmakers. Attorney General Rill Clinton, who hopes the courts may be encouraged to delay a statewide reassessment of taxable property at current market value, endorsed 1979, He said the courts might not be as tolerant toward delaying the reassessment if constitutional changes in the system could not be carried out until VUO.

"He shared with me a vision of a belter Arkansas, and I only bop thai I can fulfill that vision," Clinton sjd during his victory statement. Ranchino had served as KATVTVs election analyst for the past five elections and prepared polls fur the station on various races. Ranchino, widely known in Arkansas political circles, was a political science professor who two years ago became associated with a Little Km advertising agency as a -political pollster. speeds" came to light several weeks ago when Sen. Dale Bumpers.

D-Ark announced he reached agreement with department officials to end the policy. Mrs Foreman, however, then announced Bumpers had misunderstood the department's position and It had agreed only lo conduct a study of the situation. DO year marked i pen-ent drop from the ws recorded the previous year The all lime high was the IH4M re orded in ItJl California toped the stale-liv-slale listing lor the Litest (iscal year. LITTLE ROCK (AP) -Most Arkansans who voted in Tuesday's election preferred the regular general election of Nov. 4.

I9s0, to a special election on Nov. 13, l7, lor constitutional ratification. With about 81 percent of the vote counted, 1979 had 101 votes while I W0 bad 131. 29t. The question was on the ballot after it was referred to the people by the Legislature, which disagreed last year with Gov.

David Pryor on whrn the ratification vole LITTLE ROCK (AP) -Jim Arkansas' best known pollster, died Tuesday night after collapsing of an apparent heart attack a few moments before he was to appear as co anchor on KATVTVs election returns telecast. Ranchino, 39, collapsed at the station about 7 pm. and was pronounced dead at 7 35 m. in the St Vincent Infirmary emergency room. A station spokesman said Ranchino collapsed after climbing flight of stairs to a studio.

Station rmploeea Suit filed LITTLE ROCK AP A second lawsuit has been filed against the US. Department of Agriculture over policy that allows faster chicken production east of the Mississippi River. In a suit filed Tuesday In I' S. District Court. Attorney General Rill Clinton alleged the department poly unreasonable and discriminatory.

He asked that the department be permanently enjoined from enforcing the policy. Friday, the Arkansas Poultry Federation filed a similar soil in federal court. Roth lawsuits name as defendants Agriculture Secretary Bob Uergland. Assist on chicken rule ant Carol Tucker Foreman and other department officials The department allows poultry plants east of the Mississippi River to process chickens at a rate of S3 per minute. Rut plants west of the river are allowed lo process 43 chickens per minute The department's policy on poultry production "line BNKKI I'Tt CHICAGO (AP) Bank ruptcy petitions dri lined again in the fiscal year ended June 30.

according In the Commerce Charing House. The aeenry said the lnl.il of jirj case filings for the.