The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 35

34 Part ISunday, January 19, 1986 Coe Angeles Slimes As for all the commotion outside his shop on Center Street, Kirschner said he wasn't pleased. On most Saturdays, his two-chair shop is a beehive of gossip. But this day it was empty. "If it gets any slower," he said, "I'll have to stop breathing. Besides, how can you compete with Kenny Rogers?" lions of people are gonna see this," said Assistant City Manager Wade McKinney.

"Who knows. Maybe Taft will become a household word." Not if barber Dennis Kirschner can help it He moved back to Taft several years ago from Downey, and would just as soon Taft was not discovered by the masses. FREE INFORMATION SEMINAR The decision to try and duplicate the enormous success of the "We Are the World" video with one for Hands Across America was made two weeks ago. After scouting several locations, Taft was selected last Monday by Kragen and his crew. Drooz said Taft was picked because it is close enough to Los Angeles to move equipment and celebrities there in a few hours.

Besides, several full-length films, such as "Five Easy Pieces" and the yet-to-be-released "Best of Times," have been filmed here successfully. Early in the week the Taft City Council held a special session to approve the closing of streets and committing city resources to the project. The cost to Kragen? Next to nothing a $500 business license and a few thousand dollars in overtime for local police and cleanup. "We agreed to it because mil (ate CvJ Glendale University College of Law fit PAUL MORSE TAFT: Town Gets Into Act, Works on Video Continued from Page 3 the three-minute video, which "pre-created" a small version of the line planned for May 25. In exchange for their time, they got T-shirts, a hot dog lunch and a chance to score an autograph or two.

At midday, ticket holders were ushered into the town's lone movie theater, where they were given a copy of "Hands Across America," an upbeat anthem about caring and sharing among Americans. Country singer Juice Newton then "walked" the group through the song. An hour later, the whole theater was singing and swaying to the words and music. "Chilling, just chilling," said Newton, wearing high-top tennis shoes, red tights and lots of glittery jewelry. "It's gonna work.

I just know it's gonna work." After lunch, the crowd assembled along 4th and Center streets to line up for the filming. Then the celebrities arrived Cathy Lee Crosby, pop singer Michael McDonald, radio personality Casey Kasem, and others, more than 100 according to organizers, though few of the faces were as easy to identify as Kenny Rogers. At the same time, Taft city crews, at Krageh's behest, shoveled dirt on the street to give the town a grittier look. American flags Special Criminal Law Program Applications now being accepted Admission counseling available (818) 247-0770 220 N. Glendale Ave.

Glendale, CA 9 1 206 ACCREDITED BY THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA Citizens of Taft get in swing of things during rehearsal of song. only get one chance at fame. This is it. Besides, I guess it's for a good cause." I Tr hanging from every street lamp flapped in the breeze, and several dozen 12-foot speakers were placed along a six-block route for the video. Shortly after 2 p.m.

the music kicked in and the cameras started rolling. "I came out here for the excitement. Nothing ever happens in Taft," said Sandy Skiles, 25, a Taft housewife. "I never expected this. It is so moving." Les Causey said he came for a chance to be seen by a TV audience of an estimated 100 million next Sunday.

"My daughter called me from college and ordered me to get out here," Causey said. "I decided we ft HOME CENTERS a GRACE company 57" iV r-, 1D LUlnJU CRANSTON: Senate Democrat Sees Setbacks Under Reagan I I uaiW el- Continued from Page 3 suffering farmers in California and in the Middle West, for example. There are still hungry people in the world who need to be fed, but we have priced ourselves out of the market with the high value of the dollar and by farm programs that raise the cost of food. Are you basically happy with the direction of the country regarding civil rights and the rights of the oppressed? Well, I am glad that the people of the country accept the goals of equal opportunity and civil rights. We have made progress, but I think there have been setbacks in the Reagan Administration.

Back to California: Many of the principles embodied in the decisions of Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird are shared by you. You once supported her. How do you feel now about her as she prepares to face the voters in November? Well, since I am not getting into that race, I just don't want to get into discussions of Bird, pro or con. I think there should be a separation of that judicial race from the partisan races that I and others are involved in. But it is true that in 1978 you were more willing to cast an approving eye on her? Well, I was not running in 78 and the circumstances were different then.

Political labels seem to mean less and less. Are you concerned that there may be an erosion of the two-party system in the country? Yes, I am. I think it has been a successful part of democracy to have a strong two-party system. This erosion is caused by the tremendous role of money and mass media in elections and by the vast bureaucracy we have in Washington. It is not elected and stays there as Presidents come and go, and it doesn't respond that much to people.

Have you changed your basic philosophy that government should be activist, that there is danger in having too little government? I believe in an active government. We created government to do the things we cannot do alone. Is California more conservative today than it was when you were first elected to the Senate in 1968? I'm not sure that it is. I have never felt that California or the country got as conservative as the view has been. I won the first time when Richard Nixon was carrying the state for the presidency, and I won in 1980 by a huge margin while Reagan was being elected President.

This indicates that the California voter looks at the individual. The Republicans will choose your opponent in their June primary. Describe the kind of candidate you fear the most. Nope. I'm not going to get into that.

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