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How honest are you? Yesterdays stars today DAVE HANSON (19) The very best place to live THE ADVICE PAGE (24) WEATHER Chance of rain Wednesday and Thursday. Low near 50 Wednesday night; high in the low 60s Thursday. (DETAILS: Page 12.) THE BACK PAGE Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, October 14, 1981 Six Sections Copwlfht, ml Dm Mttan RimIiIm a Tribune Cotipmv (USPS IM-MO) Price 25 Cents I I Retirement: Flood of Americans ending lifetime of work early bills because of inflation, past promises and the growing ranks of retirees. And unless something is done, the problems will get worse when the baby boom generation retires. The abundant labor supply provided by that boom isn't being replaced.

Instead of pushing early retirement, business and industry are going to be urging workers to stay on. President Reagan has proposed a bipartisan effort with Coneress to benefits director for General Motors Corp. in Detroit, said recently before his own retirement after 35 years. But the party may be over. Even as Americans have come to accept 62 and out eagerly or otherwise after being told for 20 years that they have a right to quit early, they're finding it's no longer a sure thing.

Signs are beginning to point to a reversal of the trend toward early retirement Social Security, the program that made retirement's golden age possible, is having trouble meeting its weeks' vacation a year and a bad back -r he assembled 100 gas meters five days a week. No more. Oldakowski, 63, called it quits in February, having punched bis last time clock and assembled bis last gas meter. He took his pension and his Social Security check and went home. He's still rejoicing.

"I'm doing fine, good, wonderful," he says. "Enough is enough. After doing the same thing every day for 35 years, I just wanted to get out. Wouldn't you?" The answer, for most Americans, is a resounding yes: The trickle of workers who began taking early retirement in the 1960s has swollen to a flood. They're collecting bigger benefits.

Tney're healthier. They're living longer. And they have time to enjoy it. Like Oldakowski, 70 percent of those receiving their first Social Security checks this year are under 65, and more than half are 62. Thirty years ago, half of all men 65 and over were working.

Today, it's one in five. "Those retirement parties, they used to be sad. They're darn happy affairs now," Victor Zink, employee axes Retire Please turn to Page 14 overdliuie? 17 pemialty is set This is the first of three articles on retirement in America. By Nancy Shilling Of ttw Associated Prtu Each weekday morning for most of his life, Chester Oldakowski beat the sun out of bed. He pulled on his work pants, grabbed his brown paper lunch bag, jumped into his car and headed for work.

Chet Oldakowski was an assembler at the American Meter Plant in Erie, Pa. He labored in "the penthouse," a third-floor corner that was hot in summer and cold in winter. For 35 years long enough to have five Jim Autry of the Meredith Corp. 1: iT i Iff x3 JCS Jf a. illllllllllif Ijllllllf those overdue as well as this year's state income taxes paid next year on Jan.

1, Bair said. He said be hopes the change will aid the Department of Revenue in collecting an estimated $100 million worth of taxes now outstanding. Some of that amount has owed as long as eight years, he said. The amount of outstanding taxes has climbed in recent years, he said, due to rising interest rates, a weak economy and other factors. This is the first time the annual interest rate has been determined by the director of revenue.

Legislation that took effect July 1 requires the director to set the rate all for the next calendar year. Bair said the 9-percent rate was at least three years old. The 17-percent figure also will be applied in cases in which the department is required to pay interest on refunds to taxpayers. That happens when a taxpayer pays too much, and the department misses its deadline for refunding the extra money. Bair said he does not expect that to be much of a factor, since refunds with interest are relatively rare.

Most audits result in tax assessments, not refunds, he said. By Dewey Knudson Paying your Iowa taxes late used to be a good way to pick up a little extra money. But State Revenue Director Gerald Bair hopes that will change with his decision to nearly double from 9 to 17 percent the interest rate on all state taxes. Bair said Wednesday that 17-percent annual interest will be charged on any outstanding state taxes, beginning Jan. 1.

He acted under a new law that allows him, instead of the Legislature, to raise the current 9-percent penalty. The average prime interest rate for short-term business loans for the 12 months ending Sept. 30 was 19 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bulletin. That made it attractive for some Iowans to pay Iowa's 9-percent penalty and more than offset it by earning much greater rates of interest on other investments. However, Bair said, with the state penalty rate increased to 17 percent "the tradeoff is not as good as it used to be." The higher rate will begin accruing on any taxes More food stamp control for states? Meredith exec Autry: Successful city-country mix Blessing or birthright? Mubarak to honor Sadat's promises CAIRO, EGYPT (AP) President Hosni Mubarak, in a tearful inaugural address Wednesday, declared that Egypt will honor the Camp David accords with Israel and all other foreign commitments.

He said the Reagan administration will continue as a "full partner" in the search for Mideast peace. Mubarak, weeping at times as be eulogized assassinated President Anwar Sadat, also called for national unity, urging all Egyptians, whether Moslem or Christian, to bury their differences and "rise above bitterness and trifles and the pettiness of divisions." Security guards, including paratrooper armed with rifles, ringed the Parliament building where the new The desert war in the Western Sahara heats up, with Morocco reporting an attack from "neighboring countries." Story: Page 16 The White House, acknowledging defeat even before the House vote on the proposed AW ACS sale to Saudi Arabia, focuses on the Senate. Story-Page 8 president spoke, and two of the paratroopers marched back and forth in a hall near the dais, clearly as a security precaution. Mubarak was sworn in as Egypt's fourth president eight days after Sadat's assassination. The ceremony was attended by all 392 members of Parliament and the foreign diplomatic corps and his speech was broadcast by radio and television.

The government said Mubarak won more than 98 percent of the votes in Tuesday's referendum to succeed Sadat Mubarak was sworn in by Interim President Sufi Abu-Taleb at 12:15 p.m. (5:15 a.m. Iowa time) after the Interior Ministry announced the complete results of the referendum, with 9,567,504 voting for Mubarak and 149,650 against. Egypt has 12 million registered voters. Meanwhile, a group called Al Aqsa Egypt Please turn to Page 16 City to appeal OK for blacks' radio tower By Charles Corcoran About a dozen supporters of Des Moines' black radio station KUCB cheered Wednesday as a Polk County District Court judge ruled that the station can erect its 100-foot radio tower.

But Assistant City Attorney James Nervig said the ruling by Judge I Luther T. Glanton resulted from a misunderstanding and will be appealed possibly to the Iowa Supreme Court And Glanton, the only black judge in the district, was interpreting remarks made by Nervig as having racial overtones. Glanton gave KUCB and the Center for Study and Application of Black Economic Development a default KUCB 1 I LUTHER a GLANTON From the Tribune's News Services WASHINGTON, D.C. The Reagan administration is looking at the possibility of giving states more power to set food stamp eligibility standards for people on welfare, a senior Agriculture Department official said Tuesday. G.

William Hoagland, administrator of the department's Food and Nutrition Service, said the plan at present would involve families getting welfare benefits. Those account for about half of the 22 million people now getting food stamps, he said. Hoagland said in a telephone interview that it is "not clear" what might be done about the remaining non-welfare food stamp recipients. "That's one we're still looking at" he said. The main aim, Hoagland said, is to simplify the procedures used by low-" income people to file for welfare TRIBUNE PHOTO BY LISA KRUIDENIER His office is high-tech blended with Southern comfort.

Glossy metallic and leather furnishings create a foil for the primitive oil paintings of Mississippi farm life and an extravagantly colorful, satin crazy quilt hanging on the walls. The man, too, is a mix of the urbane and the earthy, starting with the red bandana handkerchief he slips into the pocket of his conventional gray business suit A former president of the Des Moines Symphony board, Autry might offer a soft-spoken opinion Close-up of a classical composer and, just as casually, advance a formula for success: "Be smart work hard and don't up." While the business world around him seems tuned to Muzak, Autry moves to a medley traceable in part to his upbringing in Tennessee and Mississippi Sam Gore, college pal at 01' Miss (the state university at Oxford), Air Force buddy and fellow musician who lives in the tiny burg of Houston, says Autry is equally at ease with a Southern dirt farmer or his New York publishing friends. "He's well enough educated and Autry Please turn to Page Five Flood waters rise in Texas, Oklahoma By lh Associated Press The worst of the rain is over, weather forecasters say, but runoff from three days of record-breaking storms in parts of Oklahoma and Texas is swelling creeks and rivers and threatening to add to the floods that have washed away homes and bridges and drowned four persons. "We're not looking for another siege like we had today," National Weather Service spokesman Gene Hafele said Tuesday after up to 18 inches of rain had fallen in the three-day period. "But we are carrying a 20 percent probability of thunderstorms Wednesday during the day and night." The Red River, which forms most of the Oklahoma-Texas border, its tributaries, and other rivers and streams gushed Tuesday over the flatlands and hills of southern Oklahoma and central and northern Texas.

The Weather Service said the Red River would crest at mid-day Wednesday at between 27 feet and 28 feet north of Gainesville, Texas. The record is 26 feet on May 21, 1951. Flood stage is 25 feet The Muddy Boggy Creek at Farris, a small community in Atoka County on the Texas border, reached 14 feet Tuesday night but was expected to hit 45 feet Wednesday, threatening seven counties southeast of Oklahoma City, forecasters said. Flood stage is 37 feet The storm was the dying gasp of Hurricane Norma, which came ashore Sunday on the west coast of Mexico. So far, it has claimed the lives of four persons in Texas.

Two nurses' aides, Melody Nelson, 22, and Tony Lee Price, 30, of Hurst Texas, were killed Tuesday when the car they were riding in was swept off a bridge near Fort Worth. The driver, Joseph Frankenburger, 19, clung to a tree and was rescued. Homer Lewis, 77, of Newark, Texas, drowned Tuesday when his car was swept off a road into a raging creek. And John Mack Wells drowned after he slipped on his front porch and fell unconscious into seven inches of water. His body was recovered Monday.

Abilene, which is west of Fort Flood Please turn to Page Ten Nobel Peace Prize goes to U.N. refugee of ice By Susan Caba Pausing at his secretary's desk at the Meredith briefcase in hand, James Autry made his first decision of the day. "Jim," said Melanie Coulter, "that goat you ordered only dressed out to 11 pounds. Is that going to be enough, or do you want another one?" A barbeque aficionado, Autry generally insists that "real barbeque" is pork anything else is an impostor. But goat he contends, is suitable for special occasions.

He ordered a second animal. The goat issue decided, Autry, 48, settled at his desk with a ceramic mug of Sanka and a felt-tip pen and started to sift through the file folders stacked at his elbow. The stack diminished rapidly as Autry dictated quick responses to letters, signed documents and filled out a bank deposit slip for his paycheck. "I don't like automatic deposit" Autry said. "I like to get my check and look at it" Autry is vice president and general manager of magazine publishing for Meredith Corporation's Publishing Group.

As he explains it he's responsible for the profit of the company's magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Metropolitan Home and Successful Farming. Six publishers report to Autry. benefits and food stamps. The idea "is not designed to be a cost-saving option," he said. Congress has set a limit of $11.3 billion for the food stamp program in the fiscal year that began on Oct.

1. It cost an estimated $11.5 billion last year. The food stamp proposals would require the approval of Congress. Hoagland and Robert B. Carleson, a special assistant to President Reagan, told the New York Times on Tuesday that they would like to give the states discretion to tighten food stamp eligibility standards and reduce benefits.

But Hoagland said "a minimum federal standard" should remain. Giving state officials authority to change the eligibility standards would be consistent with Reagan's philosophy of returning power to the states. Administration officials said it was Stamps Please turn to Page 16 was accepting the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize "in the name of refugees everywhere." The comment came in a statement issued in Geneva following the announcement. Hartling called it "a great encouragement for us, of course, and for the refugees." Two other U.N. organizations have won the peace prize the International Labor Organization in 1969 and Childrens' Fund in 1965.

Another organization, Amnesty International, won the award in 1977. The London-based organization works to aid political prisoners. The International Red Cross has won the award three times in 1917, 1944 and 1963. The 1980 Nobel Peace Prize went to Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina. In awarding the prize to an organization, the committee passed over several people who were said to be under consideration: Lech Walesa, the Polish trade union leader; Alva Myrdal, the Swedish disarmament advocate, and Robert Mugabe, the prime minister of Zimbabwe.

OSLO, NORWAY (AP) The Nobel Peace Prize for 1981 was awarded Wednesday to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for serving "the interests of humanity and peace as well." The Norwegian Nobel committee announced the award to the office of the high commissioner, which was established by the United Nations to provide international protection for reguees and to seek solutions to refugee problems. "There are an estimated 14 to 18 million refugees worldwide. The office of the high commissioner, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954. Professor John Sanness, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee, said the office was awarded this year's peace prize of $180,000 "because it has carried out work of major importance to assist refugees, despite many political difficulties with which it has bad to contend." Poul Hartling, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, said he Advice Page 24 Editorial Page 18 Movies 23 Business Page 29 Sports Page 19 Obitnaries 21 Comics 27 TVPage 17 TheRecord 12 Please turn to Page Four.