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A16 The Sioux City Journal, Sunday, September 28,1986 Hodgson iape debatte no Cherokee arahdy have the government pay the farmer, pay him to get into the market place and perhaps do it in a more expedient manner. "Give him some income support if he needs it for awhile, but do allow the market to seek its own level." When told that Hodgson had called that "welfare," Grandy dug up his own word identity: "I think if you want a buzzword, it should be workfare" "If you've got to have some sort of term and that to me is much more palatable than what we have now which is welfare when you pay a guy not to grow. What is that? Grandy added, "We certainly need to try some new ideas in farming and this is one of them." Grandy said if there was a center point in the debate it was the whole question of taxation. "The question of raising revenues is one that we will have to address. decent farm program: It restores profitability to agriculture.

It's much cheaper to the taxpayer and it makes us competitive in the export market," he said. Hodgson continued, "Now, what Fred would do is just send farmers a welfare check. Cargill (a grain elevator firm) would love this because it is going to drive down farm prices even farther than they are now. Cargill is going to be able to buy corn exceedingly cheap and it is also going to expand production because what is a farmer going to. do? The farmers are going to plant their ground in corn or soybeans or whatever makes sense and it's going to wind up with more surpluses than we already have.

Replied Grandy: "He (Hodgson) wants to raise the loan price. He wants to, really, I think, maintain the government in farming with production controls. I say if you are going to the farm language better I feel than my opponent," declared Hodgson. McCormally tossed another slider at Hodgson: "Do you know, your way outside of Iowa?" Hodgson retorted that he certainly does, but at the same time reminded that he primarily is focused in on representing residents of this district. Grandy and Hodgson are divided in their feelings toward U.S.

farm programs. Hodgson wants to toss out the current program because it will continually lower farm income during the course of the five years of the program. "I would replace it all with a program where we have a loan rate on corn at around $3.50 a bushel and then we buy down our exports so that we are totally competitive in the export market and that does three things that I think are crucial for a And it is naive to say we can balance this budget without somewhere down the line raising some revenues. And I was pleased mat I think the debate will show that I was forthright on that and Clayton was not," he said. During the debate, Hodgson was adamant in saying he did not at this time want to consider generating additional revenues.

Grandy reminded "it is popular for candidates to say they would never ever ever do this, but sooner or later everything that goes around comes around and people are going to be aware that you are going to have to (paymoretaxeseventuallv)." Grandy then hurried out to downtown Cherokee to help open the new Cherokee Republican headquarters on Main Street before heading out for Spencer, the same destination of Hodgson, who left earlier because of a tight schedule. By Frank Buckingham Journal correspondent Iowa A crowd of nearly 100 persons came to the Cherokee Community Center on Saturday Ito watch the taping of a debate between Fred Grandy and Clayton Hodgson. The two are candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 6th Congressional District. 1 The Iowa Press taped the debate "for the opening program of its 14th season on Iowa Public Television.

It will air at 7 p.m. today, including Channel KSIN in Sioux City. 1 Republican Grandy of Sioux City is a former political worker and televi-I sion star while Democrat Hodgson of Le Mars is a veteran agricultural community leader and a work-ling farmer. Before the debate began, Iowa Public Television aired a seven-minute videotaped piece on the candidates. The views and opinions of incumbent U.S.

Rep. Neal Smith, D-Altoona, and Republican challenger Bob Lockard of Des Moines come across two large monitors in the auditorium. Then it was on to the taping, with questioner John McCormally of the Burlington Hawkeye tossing a hot one Grandy'sway. "How well can a movie actor be expected to represent Iowa in Congress?" Grandy offered a small smile and replied, "I think it's not what you have claimed to have done, but what you are going to do." Quizzed about a rural person serving in Congress, Hodgson had his ammunition loaded. "Farmers are serving in Congress now.

Charles Grassley (Iowa Republican senator) is one. I can talk A v. eto puis Reagan on collision course Ml override as early as Tuesday with the Senate, which originally approved the measure 84-14, following suit on Wednesday. With a House override believed certain, it will be up to the Republican-controlled Senate to decide the issue. But even there the odds against the president are formidable.

Two-thirds of members voting are needed to override a veto, and in the Senate that means 34 votes if all 100 senators answer the roll. Twenty Republican senators would have to change position to reach that number. In his veto message, Reagan said he would be willing to go along with steps similar to the limited sanctions approved recently by the European Economic Community. "I believe we should support their measures with similar executive actions of our own, and I will work with the Congress toward that goal," Reagan said. While the administration did not immediately spell out what actions Reagan has in mind, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, said the.

actions would allow Congress and the White House to form a united front and to send a message to Pretoria even stronger than the sanctions bill. But Sen. Richard Lugar, who broke with Reagan on the sanctions issue, said that sustaining the veto would be interpreted in Africa and around the world as a victory for South African President P. W. Botha.

"Regardless of what the United States says or how many executive orders are issued and diplomatic initiatives undertaken, the United States would be seen as apologists for apartheid," Lugar said. Lugar said the choice for the United States is to support the blacks and whites in South Africa who he said are working to build a framework for freedom and democracy. -r. "If we turn our backs on them, and give a wink to the present government, we will lose our opportunity to help effect change," Lugar said. i Good clean fun Two men wrestle a 275-pound pig named Poison Dart at a "pignic" in Longmont, Colo.

Contestants had to remove the pig from a dy pit and place it in a barrel. (AP Laserphoto) process be 1 Mm Sen. Russell B. Long, who is retiring this year after a quarter-, century as a major influence over the tax said the measure "is a great bill. It will be a fine thing for the country on balance." Those qualifying words were echoed by numerous other senators, including some of the bill's most vocal supporters; the words heard most often during the debate were "it's far from perfect Sen, Paul Simon, D-Ill.

opposed the bill because due to Reagan's opposition to a tax increase it does nothing to reduce the budget deficit. "It is a mistake to collect an addi- tional $120 billion from industry to querque, N.M., school There hasn't been much research into anti-matter, so not much is known about the tiny particles, he said in an interview. The unmanned balloon was 340 feet in diameter when inflated and 550 feet long when stretched out on the ground uninflated, according to a worker at Raven Industries in Sioux Falls. The balloon was made in Sioux Falls, the unidentified worker said. The gondola was 15 feet high, 5 feet wide and had a payload, including a computer, according to Golden.

A 12-member NASA crew launched the craft. The ground team included researchers from the Goddard Space Center in Maryland. The balloon was expected to land Saturday but scientists weren't sure where it would come to rest. i seriously in 1982 with introduction of bill by Sen. Bill Bradley, and Rep.

Richard Gephardt, calling for lower tax rates and fewer deductions. Reagan got behind the drive in his 1984 State of the Union message and, in May 1985, submitted plan for radically overhauling the System. The final 1 product was written almost totally behind closed doors by the Senate and House tax committees, with their chairmen, Packwood and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, leading the way. It is variously described as the most-thorough rewriting of the tax code since 1954, 1936 or 1913 when the income tax was adopted.

Finance ministers pledge coordination WASHINGTON (AP) Finance ministers from the world's richest nations ended two days of meetings Saturday apparently without resolving their major differences, but pledging close coordination of economic policies to solve world problems. 4 The session marked the first time the world's seven leading industrialized nations had gathered to implement a coordination strategy devised at the economic summit this past May in Tokyo. Finance leaders from the United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy met for more than 12 hours over two days behind closed doors at the Treasury Department. Texas House votes spending cuts AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The state House on Saturday approved $582 million in spending cuts and an $869.2 million temporary tax package to cope with the oil slump that has left Texas with a projected $2.8 billion deficit. The cuts would mean the loss of 1,981 state jobs, 1,460 of them in higher education, and erase next year's 3 percent state employee pay raise.

The $869.2 million temporary tax package, which must be approved by the Senate, would raise the sales tax from 4y8 percent to 5V4 percent and add 5 cents to the dime-per-gallon gasoline tax. Fund-raiser balloons go astray CLEVELAND (AP) About 1.5 million multicolored ballons were released Saturday as part of a charity fund-raiser, but shifting winds carried themiohto an airport runway, closing it for a half-hour. The balloons were held inside a net-covered structure built with scaffolding on Public Square in downtown Cleveland until their release as part of the United Way Services of Cleveland's fund-raising campaign. However, winds shifted and carried thousands of ballons north to Lake Erie, where they dropped into the water, and onto the runway at Burke Lakefront No, it wasn't a UFO WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan's veto of economic sanctions against South Africa's white minority government places him on a collision course with Congress and many of his most faithful Republican supporters. The extent of GOP defections in both the House and Senate on the sanctions issue makes clear Reagan is facing great odds and likely defeat as he appeals for the votes to sustain his veto, something neither GOP leaders nor the White House deny.

Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said finding enough votes would be "very difficult" and in--dicated Reagan would not invest his prestige in an all-out fight if it is certain he will lose. "It depends on how close we are," he said. "It's very difficult to shift that many votes of senators who have already cast their vote in the other direction. We will simply have to assess the situation and see what the numbers are. It all depends on what the possibilities are for success." The House, which approved sanctions 308-77, might vote on a veto increase the taxes of one-third of middle-class Americans and not spend a penny of it to reduce the deficit," Simon said.

Sens. John C. Danforth, and William Roth, who have been in the forefront of the tax-overhaul movement, opposed the bill, Danforth because he fears it will hurt U.S. competitiveness and Roth because of concerns about reducing incentives for savings. Despite such concerns, most senators apparently agreed with Sen.

George Mitchell, D-Maine. we defeat this bill today, after many months of difficult work," he said, "tax reform will be dead. We will not soon return to the process." People in Sioux City and Sheldon, Iowa, reported seeing the balloon, as did people in parts of Nebraska, authorities said. Golden said it will take from three months to a year to analyze the data gathered during the balloon flight and that the results will be published in international scientific journals. The balloon was so bright in the early morning sky because it was high enough to reflect sunlight before the sun rose, he said.

The balloon, which also was visible in southwestern Minnesota, was designed to rise to 120,000 feet, according to a statement from the National Weather Service's Sioux Falls office. The balloon carried sensitive instruments to measure cosmic ray particles, the NWS said. swimmer had pulled his noseclip off, which caused him to take in sea water. McGowan is a graduate student in counseling psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia and a counselor in the school's Office for the Disabled. He was partially paralyzed in 1951 after being stabbed in the abdomen by a Brooklyn street gang in New York City.

ers were expected to speak at the farm rally. A march was planned afterward, and the farmers planned to be near the arena when the president arrived. Sioux Falls labor and women's groups called a news conference Friday to announce their support of the farmer rally. Some farmers plan to demonstrate inside the arena during Reagan's speech, said Scott Skorr, a Garret-son-area farmer and a rally organizer. But most of the farmers will be outside at their own rally, he said.

"The company's much better outside," Skorr said. fax bill from page one page resolution that corrects hundreds of typographical and other errors in the huge bill. The House passed that resolution but added several substantive changes, some of which have raised questions in the Senate. Both houses normally agree to such "an "enrollment resolution" before sending a bill to the president for his signature. Packwood expressed fidence the problems could be ironed out and the resolution passed this week.

Senate passage of the bill was the 'final chapter in a process that began Copter escapee Z' PARIS (AP) A prisoner who made a spectacular escape by "helicopter from a Paris penitentiary last spring was wounded and cap-' tured in a shootout while trying to rob a bank, police said Saturday. On May 26, Michel Vaujour, 34, was plucked from the roof of La Sante prison by his wife flying a helicopter she had rented that morning. They landed in a nearby soccer field and eluded a city-wide search. was Vaujour's fourth escape 'since 1973. He was serving an 18-year sentence for armed robbery and the 'attempted murder of a policeman.

Police, speaking on condition of an- onymity, said Vaujour was hit in the head during the gun battle Friday afternoon that developed when he and two accomplices tried to rob a of the Credit Lyonnais bank in -eastern Paris. They said Vanjour was identified from fingerprints and tattoos, but did not say how seriously he was wounded. One of the accomplices also was wounded and captured, police said, fbut they gave no further details. I Officials said Vanjour's wife Nadine, who masterminded the May was arrested Saturday mom--ing at a hideout in southwestern France, but did not specify where. Farmers SIOUX FALLS, S.D.

(AP) Farmers planning a rally to show itheir concerns with Reagan ad-vministration farm policies say they want the president to stop by when he's in town Monday. "Not only do we wish to hear your -views on rural concerns, but we like to speak our story, give our viewpoints also," according to a "letter to Reagan from Charlie Johnson, a Madison-area farmer and rally organizer. first rule in being a good communicator is being a good 'listener. We ask that you be a good listener that day so we can begin to 'solve problems here in rural -America." captured a a SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) The telephone at the air traffic control tower at Joe Foss Field was ringing off the wall early Saturday with callers reporting a bright silver light in the predawn sky There were so many calls that after a while, tower personnel were answering their telephone with this greeting: "UFO Watch Center." But it wasn't a UFO.

It was a 340-foot-tall high-altitude balloon on a scientific experiment. The balloon, launched Friday evening from Ainsworth, was part of an experiment by the University of New Mexico and NASA to gather anti-matter particles and investigate how stars evolved and how they are changing, according to Bob Golden, an electrical' engineering professor at the Albu Paraplegic DOVER, England (AP) Penn- sylvanian Jim McGowan, who is paralyzed from midchest down, ended his attempt to swim the English Channel after two hours and 19 minutes Saturday and was hospitalized with mild hypothermia, or lowered body temperature. McGowan, 54,. was to become the first paraplegic to swim the 21-mile crossing from England to France. He swam 2V2 miles, all in quits channel swim Airport, less than a mile away.

The runway was closed for a half-hour because the ballons made it unsafe foraircraft. Lockheed may get Air Force contract M. WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force appears likely to award a final, $2.2 billion option to the Lockheed-Georgia Co. for C-5B cargo planes despite the company's refusal to prepare a new bid and evidence the contract lis significantly overpriced, congressional investigators said Saturday. The company, "in two incredibly arrogant responses," refused this spring to respond to an Air Force request that it or develop an updated Did for the final option for 21 C-5's, the staff of a House subcommittee said.

The Air Force then backed down on its request and decided to perform Its own study of Lockheed's expenses, but that study appears to have been manipulated in such a way as to support the originally negotiated option price, the staff said. Church trio charged in boy's beatings SEATTLE (AP) Three members of a church have been charged with assault for allegedly beating a 9-year-old boy more than 80 times with sticks because he sprayed water on a rug at a church picnic. All are members of the Evangelistic Chapel, based in Burien, a south Seattle suburb. The three were charged Friday with hitting the boy on the buttocks and legs while he was at a July 5 church picnic at Camp Berachah in Auburn. i Britain says Libyan Airlines implicated LONDON (AP) Britain said Saturday that Libyan Arab Airlines is "clear invite Reagan to rally backstroke, before signaling to an escort boat that he wanted to leave the 57-degree water.

His coach and trainer, Lou Neishloss, said" McGowan would remain in Dover's Buckland Hospital for 24 hours, but "he's going to be fine." I Although he wore a full length wet suit and swimming cap, McGowan was unable to endure the channel's temperatures. Neishloss also said the aren't all that likely," Johnson said. "But I think it's important that he knows we're inviting him to South Dakota. From that point, it's his decision or prerogative on how he wants to approach the people of South Dakota." Car caravans to drive to the rally are being organized at several locations in South Dakota and Minnesota, rally organizers said Friday. A busload of people was expected from Benson, and the Minnesota Farmers Union urged its members to attend.

1 Jim Nichols, Minnesota agriculture commissioner, and other farm lead ly implicated" in terrorist-related activity and a Foreign Office official said the government will consider banning flights by the state-owned airline. The announcement followed the conviction Friday of a Palestinian doctorron charges of receiving four grenades at London's Heathrow Airport from a man in a Libyan Arab Airlines uniform. Prosecutors said the grenades were for use in terrorist attacks in Britain. The president plans a short campaign stop Monday afternoon at the Sioux Falls Arena for Sen. Jim Abd-nor's re-election effort.

Reagan will arrive in Sioux Falls about 2:30 p.m. and leave about 4 p.m. Monday, campaign officials said. Organizers said 1,000 people might attend the farm rally, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. near the arena, where Reagan is scheduled to speak several hours later before an expected 9,000 people.

Johnson said organizers wanted Reagan to know he is welcome at their rally. "If you want to deal in today's world, and the logistics sudden changes in his schedule probably Pirates kilH 4 aboard launch MANILA, Philippines (AP) Pirates intercepted a motor launch off the southwestern island of Tawi-Tawi, killed 14 passengers and crew and wounded four, the Philippine News Agency said Saturday. The agency said two victims were women who were raped, machine-euniH to death and thrown overboard. The launch was headed for Bongao port, about 660 miles southwest-of Manila, when it was intercepted by 10 pirates in another vessel, PNA said..