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A20 The Sioux City Journal, Saturday, May 12, 1984 Economists hail positive reports Drug treatment a family affair Parents on guilt trip Battle for sobriety THE MERCHANTS WASHINGTON (AP) Wholesale "prices held steady and retail sales surged in April, according to twin government reports Friday that were quickly hailed by the White House and private economists as fresh signs the economy is growing at a strong clip without kicking up higher Inflation. "It's good news all the way around," said Allen Sinai, chief economist at the New York investment house of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc. "It's hard to find any fault in those numbers." At the White House, presidential 'spokesman Larry Speakes said the reports show "the recovery has followed on its course." Presidential economist Martin Feldsteln, speaking to reporters at a business meeting in Virginia, added: "'The news of tero inflation is so good that it speaks for itself." Keeping the wholesale Inflation figure flat last month was a sharp 0.6 percent decline in food prices strongly In the April-June quarter. It grew at a robust 8.3 percent annual rate In the first quarter and many analysts had expected a sharp slowdown in the current period. But Jerry Jasinowskl, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said the new report "confirms the second quarter Is still surprisingly strong." He predicted the economy would grow about 5 percent In the April-June quarter.

Sinai also predicted a good second quarter and added, "Despite all the worry about a big re-acceleration of Inflation to come, there remain powerful forces exerting downward pressure on prices." Meanwhile, a group of business economists forecast the economy would remain strong this year but said federal budget deficits pose a threat and could plunge the nation Into a recession in 1986. "None of our consultants believes a recession will occur this year, but a growing minority feels unless decisive action is taken on the deficit, the current expansion cannot be sustained' said John Opel, chairman of IBM in releasing the forecast at the spring meeting of the 200-member Business Council at Hot Springs, Va. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, In remarks on Capitol Hill, said he sees no signs of recession but cautioned that a too-tight monetary policy by the Federal Reserve could in time push the economy into a decline. Donald Ratajczak, economic forecaster at Georgia State University, said food prices should advance in the coming months, particularly pork prices, which were up a sharp 8.7 percent In April. Beef prices, which had been rising, turned down, falling 2.8 percent last month.

Vegetables prices plunged 26.1 percent and costs of fruit were off 8.2 percent. paced by lower fruit, vegetable and beef costs, the Labor Department said in its report on the Producer Price Index for finished goods. than offsetting the food price I' Idecline was a 2.0 nercent surge in 'gasoline Diices. the first pickup in detention for three to six months. "I chose the treatment center, not to get help or anything but It was only three months so It was the lesser of two evils.

The night before I had to leave, I went on a real binge. I remember we went back to the liquor store at least three times. "My mom came up with me. Saying goodbye to her was really bard. It was the first time In three years that I let myself feel anything but anger." The only thing Campbell really recalls about his first month at an Iowa treatment center is loneliness.

"Finally, I decided I really wanted to see what they were talking about and the most important thing I learned was that I wasn't a bad person. That people could care about me and I could care about other people." Following four months of treatment and the only sobriety he had known since the sixth grade, Campbell was transferred to a Sioux City foster home. Going back to his mother's home was not an option; two of his brothers were drug users. "I had no idea what it would be like to be in a normal family. Mine was utter chaos all the time, I got to feeling like a real part of the family, that's the thing that did it for me.

I stayed there for almost two years." Life for Campbell has come full circle. He has been sober more than four years. In December, will graduate from the University of South Dakota with a bachelor's degree, a four-year project he managed to complete in two and one-half years. He has put himself through college by working weekends as a chemical dependency technician at Sioux City's Gordon Chemical Dependency Unit He plans to earn a master's degree in alcohol and drug abuse counseling. What he tries to teach chemically-dependent young people are skills he did not learn as a youth.

need to start with the parents so they can start teaching their kids at a real young age. They need coping and problem-solving skills. They need to be taught alternatives to having fun with drugs, they need assertiveness to be able to say By Betsy Burkhard Journal staff writer For Robert Campbell, learning to live without drugs took nearly five years. The battle began with alcohol when he was 11 and marijuana when he was 12. "Each time I tried something, I promised myself I wouldn't go to the next thing.

When I smoked pot, I said I wouldn't take speed. After I tried speed, I said I'd never use coke. Then I tried that but told myself I'd never use acid. It Just kept on going up like that" Campbell, 20, did use acid, at a rock concert the first time. "I thought I was In heaven.

I'd been searching for something, the ultimate high, and that was it for me." Campbell spent his adolescent years stoned and drunk. At one point, he was selling speed and taking between 30 and 40 tablets a day. "I got really scared because I knew it was serious. I lost a lot of weight and I had a hard time getting up in the morning. I didn't have any energy.

I'd have to take speed the first thing so I could wake up." Campbell's score card for arrests Included several public intoxication charges, possession of marijuana, resisting arrest and assaulting police officers. "One morning I woke up in Jail with two black eyes, my mouth was cut and my shirt was ripped off my back. I had blacked out and all I could come up with was that the police did It. I decided I'd get even." Campbell got his chance less than a week later while awaiting a Dec. 14, 1979, court date where his future would be decided.

"My brother and I went out over. the weekend. We did some acid and we were drinking downtown In what would be the loop here. We were really stoned and these police, a lot of them, came up to us and we started fighting with them. "I woke up in jail again.

My mom came down and said, 'Robert, you put one of them In the I broke his cheekbone. I felt pretty good about it at first like I finally got even." When his court date arrived, Campbell was given a choice: a substance abuse treatment center for three months or Juvenile Editor's note: This is the last In a aeries on the Sioux City drug trade and its effects on local youth. By Betsy Burkbard journal staff writer Unlike treatment of most diseases, the remedy for chemical dependency goes beyond caring for the afflicted. The entire family must spend months, often years, in rehabilitation. And treatment Involves more than just "drying out." Family structures and personal relationships must be realigned, goals revitalized and lifestyles modified, of ten drastically, Dealing with the problem, especially for parents, means facing the shock waves that announce carefully orchestrated family lives are beginning to crumble.

"My reactions? Fear. Anger. Denial. And especially, 'It can't be as bad as they Margaret, parent of an addicted but recovering teen, said. "But the guilt, that was the worst.

I raised them wrong. I should have been able to see it coming. I went through all of It." Parents of "using" teens after the drug abuse is brought out into the open through an arrest or a confession usually feel betrayed. "I thought my daughter was on the straight and narrow all this time and here she'd been running circles around me," Jackie said of her recovering chemically dependent teen. "You find out a little more and a little more and each time, you die inside.

You feel as if you've been ignorant but the love you feel for a kid is so strong, you want wholeheartedly to believe they're not into it, even if you know In your heart they are." But It is the guilt, most parents agree, that can be paralyzing. "Parents have to get off that darn guilt trip as soon as possible," Margaret said. "Some parents are absolutely devastated. But they have to learn they are not to blame. They are not the cause." Treatment counselors agree that parenting, be it skillful or lacking, has nothing to do with teen drug abuse.

"Kids use because other kids use. That's it," Karen Wall of Sioux City's Gordon Chemical Dependency Unit said. "Another kid is the most important person to a kid and will have more power over thosecosts in nine months. i in fiu wnniesaie nnces rose ai an .1 MMial L(. if A A In ttiA ftrct motths of 1984, in line witn 'economists' predictions of the pace them than a parent ever will.

The need to belong is that strong." That reality Is little consolation to parents Initially confronting the problem, parents with more questions than answers. "A lot of parents Just don't know where to go," Jackie said. "They don't know that teens can get care here in town for in-patient or out-patient treatment" Seeking that treatment is only, the first step and it does not mean an end to the problem. In fact, it often creates new ones. "Treatment is a lot of ups and downs," Margaret said.

"Discipline becomes a big problem. They've learned to divide their parents and conquer. They know who the soft touch Is. We have to learn as parents to become better disciplinarians to be a united front and not allow that to happen." Building trust In the parentteen relationship once it has been destroyed Is often a major battle In itself. "I thought I had an open and trusting relationship with my son but found out I really didn't," Margaret said.

"While we learn to be better at discipline, they have to start re-earning that trust. 'You took it away, you earn it back' is basically what we have to say Constant fear accompanies parents on the road back to a normal life. "Do I fear for my other kids? I'm terrified," Margaret said. "I think, 'Oh, my God. Is my family going to have to go through this But, we're learning.

About being good parents. About keeping that communication open. We're learning this is a blameless dis- ease." 'for the entile year. Those prices rose a slim 0.6 percent last year. In another Veport, the Commerce.

Department said retailers' sales shot i up 2.9 percent last month to wipe out a decline in March that had been one the sharpest In recent years. The increase was led by sales of new-cars and furniture. The strong showing of retail sales, which caught most analysts by surprise, was quickly seized on as a sign the economy wovld perform News iirbrisf i Reagan claims school reform credit A WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan claimed credit Friday for Gosches want bungling' FBI out DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) The Mrs. Gosch charged r'nday that the FBI has been slow to pursue leads in the case, has given the; family conflicting stories about the availability of telephone records launching a school reform movement ne saia nas enaea zo years oi academic 'decline and "changed our history" by putting education back on the American agenda. Reagan, in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White 'House, celebrated what he called the "electrifying" response across the 'country to the harsh verdict on U.S.

schools rendered last spring by his National Commission on Excellence In Education. Duarte declared Salvador victor SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) The official final results of El 'Salvador's presidential election gave moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte a clear "victory over the ultra-right candidate, Roberto -d'Aubuisson. The official results gave Duarte 752,625 votes, or 56.6 percent, and d'Aubuisson 651,741, or 46.4 percent. D'Aubuisson's party, the Republican Nationalist Alliance, called the conduct of Sunday's presidential election runoff a "farce" and said it would not accept the results. Pope offers refugees sympathy, hope BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Pope John' Paul II offered sympathy and hope to refugees in a Thai camp on Friday, then denounced the conditions In Communist Indochina that have torn a million people from their native soil and driven them to foreign lands.

"My heart goes out to you," the pontiff his voice breaking with emotion as he spoke to 3,500 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians gathered under a blazing sun at Phanat Nikhom camp. Before departing for Rome on his special Alitalia DC-10 Jetliner, John Paul made a last stop at Bangkok's St. Louis Hospital. Americans abducted in Sri Lanka formally made the request Thursday night to the FBI in Washington. Herb Hawkins, special agent In charge of FBI operations in Iowa and Nebraska, said he had not heard of the request until being told of it by a reporter.

But he said as far as he was concerned, the investigation would continue. "We have a missing child, the circumstances of which are still a mystery," he said in a telephone Interview from his office in Omaha, Neb. "We are operating under the assumption that foul play was Involved. Based on that we are continuing on the case." Johnny Gosch, then age 12, disappeared early Sept. 5, 1982 while preparing to deliver his Des Moines Register newspaper route in an upper middle-income neighborhood near his home.

Witnesses said he was last seen talking to a man In a bluecar. Since their son first disappeared, the Gosches have been highly critical of what they said was Inaction and Indifference on the part of state and local authorities. Their lobbying helped passage of a bill In the Iowa Legislature requiring immediate police action on reports of missing children. neeaea to trace cans Deiievea 10 De from her son and has been negligent In its handling of other aspects of the I Investigation. There have been delays "on every single thing that we ask them to do," she charged, and that has her son's captors to get awav.

"Due to the lack of response and the bungling on many occasions, we no longer can trust the FBI to act on our behalf," she said. mother of missing newspaper carrier Johnny Gosch Jr. says the FBI. has "bungled" the case so badly it ought to drop its Investigation, but an FBI spokesman said the agency would continue looking for the boy. "It's not possible for an Individual to Just pull the FBI off of a federal investigation," said Ed Gooderman, special agent assigned to the agency's public affairs office In Washington, D.C.

"We don't go to citizens as local authorities do, asking them to sign a complaint. When, an allegation Is made that a federal violation has been made, we go out and check the facts and then we take the facts to the U.S. Attorney's office," Gooderman said. Gooderman made the comments after Noreen Gosch publicly asked the FBI to end its Investigation into the 20-month-long disappearance of her son, now 14 years old. "They have bungled it so badly we feel It has Jeopardized his life more than a dozen times," said Mrs.

Gosch In a telephone Interview from her home. "We would rather have them just back out." She said her husband, John, elton's death puts 3 ehind bars from page one 'COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Tamil separatists kidnapped a newlywed Ohio couple on Friday and threatened to kill them unless Sri Lanka's government paid a ransom of $2 million and freed 20 Imprisoned rebels, officials said. "You have only 72 hours to comply with our demands. There will be no negotiations. If our demands are not met within 72 hours.

We will kill a prisoner every six hours," the kidnappers said in a ransom letter. The victims were Stanley Bryson Allen, 36, and his wife Mary, 29, of Columbus, Ohio, according to U.S. and Sri Lankan officials. The Defense Ministry said Allen was an engineer for the Ruhlin Co. of Columbus, and was supervising a water project in Jaffna sponsored by the U.S.

Agency for International Development. last summer to first-degree slaughter and is serving a 20-year prison term and Bernie Bahmer, 26, will be tried in July on charges stemming from Felton's death. He is i charged with kidnapping, assault, and conspiracy to commit murder. In exchange for his court testimony, Kevin Babb was not charged for his Involvement. i -i nection with Felton's death and was sentenced Tuesday to 70 years imprisonment.

Fred Ruble 23, was convicted of first-degree kidnapping, assault and conspiracy to commit Felton's murder and was sentenced In January to life In prison. Pete Gentile, 24, pleaded guilty Results of the autopsy, which could determine the cause and approximate date of death, were not available Friday, Bennett said. Roger DeMey, 31, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in con Lotto fever grips New York as pot hits $18.5 million i ii 3 I Vt "'1 NEW YORK (AP) Thousands of New Yorkers waited for hours Friday in lines that spilled onto the sidewalks, buying chances to win a record $18.5 million lottery jackpot at the rate of 17,000 tickets a "For $18.5 million, J'd wait two weeks to buy a ticket," said Anna Freeman, who was stuck at the end of a line of about 700 at the Port Authority Bus Terminal In Manhattan. "It's been absolute madness all said terminal supervisor Marian Malloy. "The lines have been like this since 7 this morning." Lottery officials said business has boomed at most of the state's 2,400 "authorized Lotto dealers since the Jackpot for today's drawing, the largest ever in North America, was announced on Thursday.

As the 8 p.m. deadline approached, people were buying an average of 17,000 tickets a minute most of Friday afternoon, according to New York State Lottery Director John Quinn. The jackpot grew from S3 million because no one has picked all six winning numbers in the last three drawings. Quinn believes this will be "the I biggest jackpot in all of North America." Massachusetts Lotto had a $18,218 million jackpot on March 10, and Pennsylvania had an $18.1 thlllion jackpot on Sept 2, 1983, he The winner of a Canadian lottery A selected during a televised drawing tonight Multiple winners would split the jackpot but a single winner would receive a payout of about $881,000 a year for 21 years, less tax. If no one wins, which Quinn says is "highly unlikely," the prize would be capped at $25 million.

"It's a judgment call on my part," Quinn said. "I figure $25 million is enough for anyone to live the good life." The odds of someone who buys one ticket winning today are about one in 3.2 million, said Quinn, who expects to sell about $14 million worth of tickets. But the chances of a single person claiming the entire pot are about one in 14 million, he said. "I'm not Interested In $18 million," said Don Gore, who was waiting in line outside a Rockefeller Center card store. "Just give me $1, million and I'd still be happy and still be a millionaire." But not Eugenie C.

White of the Bronx, an employee of the U.S. Labor Department who was "positive" she Would win the whole pot "I feel good, I feel good. I never felt said White, a regular player who has never won. "This is It I am going to win. No one can be more positive than I feel today." That brought cries of "amen" and "right on" from other waiting in line.

Edgar Ambert was probably one of the few people who could care less who wins as long as somebody takes the pot. Edgar works in a Port Authority bookstore that sells the tickets. "I hope somebody gets It anybody really," he said. "Just so the lines stop. I don't think I can take this for another week." I -'In January pocketed a tax-free $13.9 million $11.1 million in U.S.

dollars. U.S. lotteries are taxable. In New York's Lotto game, $1 buys two chances to win. The object -'is to pick six numbers between 1 and 44 and match them to those Town Judge William Boiler of Elma, N.Y., heads up a line of Ms normal bet from $2 to $10.

This line was In the lobby of the people waiting to buy tickets for today's New York State Elllcot Square Building In downtown Buffalo. Officials said Lotto drawing worth a record $18.5 million. Boiler Increased tickets were selling at 17,000 a minute. (AP Laserphoto.).

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