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154, No. 33 MARYSVILLE, OHIO 43343 WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 13S0 Single Copy: 25 Cents' AlgglC-gmju Coc'juGO GJogg "3 -A yy ft i rv WASHINGTON (AP) A balanced budget constitutional amendment came within seven votes of passing the House as lawmakers showed frustration over Congress' inability to strike a deficit-reduction deal with the White House. Meanwhile, President Bush planned another meeting with congressional leaders this afternoon on the budget talks, which have shown scant progress. "The time for game playing is over," he said Tuesday. White House chief of staff John Sununu, asked about today's meeting, said: "The agenda's a very simple one: let's get a solution to the deficit, get a package to come out of the summit and move forward." Democrats were sure to deliver the message that they need more leadership from Bush, especially in selling to the public the prospect of pocketbook-painful decisions on taxes and program cuts.

Eight years ago, the House defeated a balanced budget amendment by a comfortable 46 votes. On Tuesday, it fell just seven votes shy of the two-thirds margin needed in a 279-150 tally. The measure had Bush's endorsement. Rep. Wayne Owens, D-Utah, said he had opposed a balanced budget amendment all his political life, but he voted for it Tuesday.

"I don't like this constitutional amendment," he said. "But we must figure out how to have the courage to raise the revenues or cut the expenditures" or expand the already un-fathomably large debt burden on the next generation. The government's debt topped $3.1 trillion this year and would well exceed $4 trillion before the amendment took effect. The amendment starting in 1995 Oil can and coal shovel in hand, two members of the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association prepare to "crank up" for the steam show this weekend at Plain City. Pictured at Pastime Park with a 50-horsepower Case steam-powered tractor are, left, David Beekman of Big Plain, and association president Fred McDanicl of South Vienna.

The large, coal-fired tractor was used in the 1920s for heavy work such as pulling a gang plow and belt work such as running sawmils and threshing. It is now owned by Lloyd Kramer of Eaton. As many as 40 antique tractors and 700 antique engines will be among the items on display at the park Thursday through Sunday. (Journal-Tribune Photo) Opsns Thursday would prohibit government spending from exceeding revenues, or any increase in government borrowing, unless the requirements are waived by a three-fifths vote of each chamber of Congress. The White House asked for the effective date of 1995, rather than 1993 as originally proposed by Reps.

Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, the chief sponsors. The administration said cutting the deficit too quickly would hurt the economy. Doing it by fiscal 1993 would put spending cuts or taxes before the public right before Bush's re-election date. Opponents said the amendment's requirements could easily be dodged through accounting gimmickry, and delaying the effective date to 1995 amounted to passing the buck. "This so-called balanced budget amendment is the amendment for the truly religious because the balance to which it refers occurs only in the hereafter," said Rep.

David Obey, D-Wis. But supporters said it was their best hope of returning the government to fiscal balance. "It's obvious we need a more compelling force to restrain spending," said Rep. Tim Penny, D-Minn. "This could not hurt, and in fact might help." Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him, has never proposed a balanced budget but has touted the amendment.

But faced with a new surge in red ink, the president abandoned his pledge not to raise taxes. The White House budget office on Monday projected that the deficit in fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1, would reach $168.8 billion not counting the tens of billions needed to bail out insolvent savings and loans. Plain City Will Host Steam Threshers Show Drag Voo COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Ohio House is expected to vote Friday on a long-debated bill imposing tougher sentences on pushers and giving the state more tools to fight against drug abuse. Approval by the House, which is expected, would send the measure to the Senate for a final vote at its next session, scheduled Aug.

2. Aides of Gov. Richard Celeste worked with members of both chambers in drafting the final version, indicating it will become law barring a final snag. However, it appeared Tuesday, when the timetable was announced, that the Democratic House and the Senate, controlled by Republicans, will not be able to agree on major Duo Friday campaign finance reforms, as earlier hoped. An aide of Speaker Vern Riffe D-Wheelersburg, said Friday's House session also will include action on some other less significant measures left pending earlier as a result of Senate amendments.

Neither chamber has had a floor session since mid-June, and the leaders said that the midsummer meeting would be the last until after the Nov. 6 elections, barring an emergency. Kent Carson, the speaker's aide, said that although a joint conference committee was appointed last month to negotiate on campaign reforms, the panel has not met. He said he (Continued On Page 2) elephant ears, along with a variety of drinks and snacks. A group from the New Boston Fair, dressed in old-fashioned clothing, will cook chicken and noodles in big kettles over an open fire.

Thursday is half price day, with displays opening at 11:30 a.m. and children admitted free. Thursday evening's entertainment will be provided by "Patchwork," a group which will walk around the fairgrounds singing old-time songs, McDaniel said. Friday features a 1 p.m. horse show for horses, mules and ponies, featuring performance and harness classes.

The grand parade the longest usually seen in Plain City begins at 6 p.m. Friday, starting at the U. S. 42 entrance to the park and proceeding down Noteman Road, North Avenue, Main Street and Park Street, back into the south park entrance. Last year's parade took nearly two hours to complete.

if White Mouse Shifts Policy On Cambodia By JEANNETTE FISH Those who enter Pastime Park in Plain City this weekend will step back into the past at the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association annual show. Steam engines and antique tractors and industrial equipment will be on display, along with antique horse-drawn farm implements. A blacksmith shop will be in operation, along with a sawmill, shingle mill and veneer mill, as wheat is threshed the old-fashioned way by a steam-powered threshing machine. A rare, hand-fed Sterling separator will be threshing wheat. The machine is made of wood, except for the running gear and the wheels.

A horse-powered baler will be in operation to handle the straw. Association president Fred McDaniel said the show will feature industrial equipment this year, and he expects4o have trucks, bulldozers road building equipment, cranes and other heavy equipment on display. Along with all the antique machinery, visitors to the park will find an antique flea market, arts and crafts and nearly enough food for the state fair. There will be a hog roast, sausage, brats and hot dogs, Texas tenderloins, funnel cakes and Qegistsr Voters At Ur.icn Ccur.ty Fcir Ohio Secretary of State Sherrod Brown reminds citizens that there are many important issues and races on the ballot this year. "But you can't get involved if you're not registered to vote," he said.

That is why the Union County Board of Elections, in conjunction with Brown's office, is making it easier for citizens to register by offering registration services at this year's Union County Fair, to be held July 24 through July 29. "Exercising your right to vote is one of the basic principles of our democratic society," Brown said. "We don't want Ohio voters to lose this precious right because they don't know where or how to register." County fairs provide quick and convenient opportunities for Ohio voters to register or re-register. "It only takes two or three minutes to fill out a registration form," Brown said. To build familiarity with the booths and in turn enhance voter turnout on election day, mock elections are a fun, easy way for Ohioans to express their opinions on current issues, become involved in the electoral process and most importantly become comfortable with it, To be eligible' to register to vote, you must be a U.S.

citizen, at least 18 years old by Nov. 6, 1990, and an Ohio resident. Ohio voters will also need to re-register if they have moved to a different county or if they have not voted in any election in the last four years. A. yf rr The evening entertainment Friday, beginning at 8 p.m., will feature a Dixieland band made up of professional musicians from Columbus.

Saturday's activities begin with an antique consignment auction at 10 a.m., a 1 p.m. cranking contest, a pedal tractor pull for children at 2 p.m., steam and gas "slow races" at 3 p.m. and a 4 p.m. antique tractor pull. The Country Knights, a country-western band from Washington Court House, will perform at 7 p.m.

Saturday. The equipment will still be in operation Sunday. A church and memorial service is planned for 9 a.m. To prepare for the festivities, a group of community volunteers has been working at Pastime Park to spruce up the facilities and provide for visitors' comfort. Businessman Joe Rummell has helped organize the effort to get 45 new benches built for use at the park.

(Continued On Page 2) its fighters had launched a five-pronged attack over the weekend on the country's second-largest city, Battambang, in the northwest. The announcement by Secretary of State James A. Baker III reflected a growing conviction in Washington that the Communist Khmer Rouge forces are on the verge of toppling the Cambodian government. "It is very important to do what we can to prevent a return to power of the Khmer Rouge," Baker said after a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, whose government supports Vietnam.

The two were in Paris for talks with European leaders on German unification. Under U. pressure, the United Nations has awarded a seat to the Cambodian resistance coalition, which is led ty Prince Norodom Sihanouk, denying formal recognition to the Hanoi-backed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Bulletins Index followed moderate 0.2 percent increases for both April and May. Through the first six months of the year, consumer prices have been rising at an annual rate of 5.9 percent, well above the 4.6 percent for all of 1989.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, meanwhile, sent a strong signal today that the central bank will act to keep the country out of a recession by lowering interest rates once policy-makers agree on a deficit-reduction package. White House and congressional negotiators are trying to come up with such a package. STOCK USRXETtf NEW YORK (AP) Prices declined broadly in the stock market today, retreating from record highs amid renewed worries about inflation. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 11.63 to 2,968.12 by noontime on Wall Street, Losers outnumbered gainers by more than 5 to 2 tn nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 377 up, 1.003 down and 497 unchanged. Recent standout performers hit by profit-taking today included Wal-Mart Stores down 14 at 34; Waste Management, down 1.25 at 4175, and Eli Lilly, down nearly 24 at 864.

Flies High On The Hog Marysville's new radio station, WNRJ, (105.7 FM) provides traffic reports each weekday morning from the helicopter in the above, photo, known as the 'Turk Chopper." (The station is dubbed the "Power The pilot is Greg "Captain Link" Cassagrande, right, and the reports are given by radio announcer Fred Shaffer, left. The five-passenger McDonald Douglas 5C0C jet copter is kept at Don Scott Field in Columbus. Areas covered include 1270, St. Rt. 315, downtown Columbus and U.

S. 33 to within four miles of Marysville (pictured below). Periodic traffic updates are given to aid commuters who make their daily trip from Columbus to Marysville or from Marysville to Columbus. Traveling at about 120 knotts 140-145 mph), the blue and silver aircraft owned by Jetcopters began the traffic reports the end of 24-hour station has an office at 118 N. Main St.

in Marysville and broadcasts from studios on Post Rd. in Dublin. Station general manager Mark Litton says operating a helicopter is costly, and to keep it in the air requires sponsorship by area businesses. The long term plan Is to add afternoon reports, especially for bad weather, when sponsors become available. Litton said that cellular phone reports from cars stuck in traffic are also being considered.

(Journal Tribune Photos) PARIS (AP) In a major policy shift, the Bush administration announced today that it is withdrawing recognition of the rebel coalition trying to oust Cambodia's Hanoi-backed government and opening a new dialogue with Vietnam. The change is prompted by fears of a resurgence of the Khmer Rouge, which is the strongest faction in the tripartite rebel coalition and has, after 11 years of civil war, scored a string of recent battlefield victories. The Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians during a four-year reign of terror that ended with Vietnam's 1978 invasion. It now controls large sections of northwestern Cambodia. Cambodian guerrillas said today they retained a firm hold over the strategic town of Stoung in the center of the country.

Also, the Khmer Rouge said in a radio broadcast that Late Sesk NATO Ties BRUSSELS, Belgium tAP) The Soviet Union and Hungary have become the first Warsaw Pact nations to seek diplomatic ties with NATO, officials said today at the headquarters of the Western military alliance. Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall disclosed his government's plans today after he became the first leader of a Warsaw Pact nation to pay a visit to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner, who met with Antall, said the Soviet Union also intended to ask its ambassador to Belgium to open formal channels with the alliance. Woerner just returned from a weekend visit to Moscow where he formally invited President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to visit NATO headquarters.

He said Gorbachev did not set a date for the visit but "he clearly accepted the invitation." Ccnsunsr Prices Jump WASHINGTON (AP) Consumer prices, fueled by sharp increases in food and gasoline costs, shot up 0.5 percent in June, more than double the rate of the past two months, the government said today. The unexpectedly steep rise in the lbor Department's Consumer Price 1 Ir jy ItiuvA Classifieds pages 8, 9 Comics page 7 Crossword Puzzle page 7 Farm page 10 Legals page 5 News From Our Files page 3 Picture of the Past page 3 Society page 4 Sports page (as of 1 1 a.m. today Hi Low Tuesday 84 65 Wednesday 76 63.