Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 3

May 19, 1986 THE BAXTER BULLETIN Page 3 From the front Governor Lanier said he would work on it. Work needs to be done to avoid a serious problem in Grand Gulf II, he said. Both Lanier and Britt agree Clinton's re-election would put too much power into the hands of one man. Lanier accused Clinton of having a national perspective on his programs. The governor is positioning himself to run for president or vice-president and is consequently playing the game with federal Democrats, Lanier said.

"Dire things have already happened." Britt said. He added Clinton already has working control of most of the boards. Britt also accused Clinton of having higher aspirations in mind and said he is not devoting his full attention to what is going on in Arkansas. As for what he could do about jobs, Britt said he has worked with the Small Business Administration and the SBA program can be adapted to the state. White said he does not think there will be a surge in manufacturing jobs but Arkansas can have a tremendous tourism industry.

Expanding the present industries and developing a pro business attitude are Lanier's suggestions. All three candidates had much to say about teacher testing and school standards. The money was never available to handle the teacher test, Lanier said, adding teacher testing is more political than anything. The test has destroyed the 1 morale of teachers and the respect children and parents have for teachers, Lanier said. "We have a long way to go to have quality education," Lanier said.

He said an entry-level test would be good, but the teacher test did not accomplish anything. Britt agreed the teacher test has proven bad. It insulted the intelligence of teachers and hurt their morale. It did not test the teachers' ability to teach, Britt said. He suggested letting local administrators and schoolboards determine the quality of the teachers.

White has proposed not watering down the standards but extending the deadline for meeting them for one year. Lanier and Britt were asked if they would water down the standards. Lanier said he would work the standards into three levels focusing on those which need to accomplished now. Basic competency would take a high priority, he said. He is not ready to take the "meat axe" to schools that cannot meet the deadline, he added.

In response to Lanier's proposal, White said a lot of the ability to meet standards has to do with a shortage of teachers. There is no state money available for schools. Britt said he has to be for quality education but thinks there does need to be a little flexibility. He said he does not believe in watering down the standards, but maybe they are "too much, too soon. Schools should be looked at on a case by case basis, Britt said, adding local administrators have the best concept of what the school needs.

When asked why he should have the Republican nomination, Lanier said there is a change across the South toward a viable twoparty system and he feels an unknown politican has the best chance to mount a campaign against Clinton. "White had his chance and muffed it," Britt said. White turned his back party once he was in office, accordingto Britt, who said he would have loyalty to the party. White said he can beat Clinton. "I've done it before." White also said he has state-wide name recognition.

Lanier said he would like to get the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission back out of the "political mess" he said it is in. Hayes, a fourth Republican contender, has said he would fire A.L. "Art" Lockhart, director of the Department of Corrections. Britt said he does not know Lockhart but thinks there will be some bad things come to light about the prison system. Lanier said a good solid investigation would reveal whether 1 Lockhart should be fired.

Some feel state Sen. Knox Nelson of Pine Bluff has much influence on Clinton. Britt and Lanier were asked if they were "afraid" of Nelson. Britt gave a "qualified yes" answer. He said as a senior senator, Nelson is powerful and a formidable adversary.

He has to be treated with respect, Britt said. Lanier said through the years there have been powerful people in the Legislature. "You have to respect anybody's opinion and power base," Lanier said. It does not mean one has to give in to it, he said. The question was asked before White arrived, and he did not have a chance to answer it.

Bomb only partially detonated in classroom, officials believe CBO annual benefit Bobby Morris, face painted and all "tuckered out" on mother Lisa Morris' shoulder, takes a break from the activities of the annual children's benefit Saturday at the Baxter County Fairgrounds. Sponsored by the Children's Benefit Organization, the purpose of the event is to raise funds for Arkansas Children's Hospital at Little Rock, as well as for the treatment of children at Baxter County Regional Hospital. This year's parade was canceled due to bad weather, but the rest of the benefit was unaffected by the rain and saw a good turnout. Entertainment, games and a variety of other activities and demonstrations continued throughout most of the day. More pictures of the benefit will be published later this week.

(Photo by Rita McIntosh) From the front Senator made $56 billion in 1982, 1983 and 1984, and got $2.4 billion in refunds, didn't pay a dime we had 30,000 people in this country last year who made over a quarter million dollars and didn't pay a dime, I don't see anything wrong with redressing that," said 1 Bumpers. Hutchinson has repeatedly challenged Bumpers' record on issues and contends he doesn't represent the philosophy of most Arkansans. Asked to be more specific, Hutchinson cited several issues on which he thought the senator's views differed with his constituents. The former U.S. attorney cited Bumpers' vote on the Panama Canal.

"'He listened, he did not respond," said Hutchinson. He also mentioned an amendment allowing voluntary prayer in schools and said Bumpers did not respond to the will of the people in that issue by voting against it. Hutchinson said Bumpers didn't support the president's request for a 25 percent tax cut in 1981 because he thought it was "wildly inflationary." "It had the opposite effect, it got our economy moving again," said Hutchinson. He said Bumpers has been a "constant critic" of the Defense Department and "I do not believe he is reflecting his constituents in those attacks." Specifically, Hutchinson said Bumpers didn't support the B-1 bomber and the MX missile. Bumpers countered by saying Hutchinson had taken the traditional license granted politicians in election years and embellished according to the audience being addressed.

Responding to each charge individually, Bumpers said he and Hutchinson agree on voluntary prayer in school. "I was a chief co-sponsor of the amendment of Sen. Hatfield and Sen. Danforth got the equal access bill passed. The president signed it and that's now law," said Bumpers.

"But that voluntary prayer may not be teacherled or preacher-led. "Where we disagree on prayer Summer Fun begins with Summer Styles from Hair Lair PERMS $2500 Cut Style Included The FLair SALON 425:8655 5 So. Cardinal, Mtn. Home COKEVILLE, Wyo. (AP) A bomb that exploded as a heavily armed couple held 150 children and adults hostage in an elementary school only partially detonated, officials said Sunday.

"There were seven blasting caps that didn't go off," said Cokeville Elementary School Principal Max Excell, who acted as a mediary between authorities and David and Doris Young during the standoff on Friday. The Youngs died, and 79 people were injured. "They (the caps) were attached to powder that would have exploded like a grain elevator," said Excell, who spoke to the congregation at the Cokeville Mormon meeting house. However, Lincoln County investigator Earl Carroll said it was not known how much more serious the explosion could have been. "What kind of powder it was and what it would have done if it had blown, we don't know," Carroll said.

Young shot himself hours after the takeover of the school began, when a homemade gasoline bomb exploded in his wife's hands, and authorities said Sunday that Doris Young may have been shot by her husband. Investigators had said Mrs. Young was killed instantly by the explosion, which occurred after Young passed a shopping cart filled with jugs of gasoline to his wife and went to the bathroom. Mrs. Young apparently let go of a "dead-man's switch" rigged to explode if released, said Lincoln County Sheriff T.

Deb Wolfley. Sheriff's investigator Ron Hartley confirmed Sunday that agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms speculated that Young shot his wife because part of her skull had been blown off, an injury the gasoline bomb was unlikely to have caused. Hartley declined to elaborate, saying the results of autopsies performed Saturday had not been released. Seventy-eight people suffered second-degree burns, and music teacher John Miller was shot in the shoulder. Miller was released from an Obituary Funeral today for Lois Charlene Becker Funeral services for Lois Charlene Becker of Lakeview will be at 2 p.m.

today at Kirby Funeral Home. Burial will be at Baxter Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Becker died Saturday (May 17) at Bull Shoals Community Hospital. She was 60.

John Jones, Nathan Jensen, Eugene McBride and Donald Zanzig will serve as honorary pallbearers. Survivors include her husband, Ray Becker, of the home; three daughters, Charlene Jones of Gassville, Lynda Jensen of Flippin and Joyce McBride of Republic, a brother, Arthur W. Monroe of Jacksonville; a sister, June Morris of Mountain Home; and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and first husband, Frank Zanzig. Mrs.

Becker was born Aug. 22, 1925, at Chicago to the late Mildred Marie Lufen and Arthur W. Monroe Sr. She moved to Lakeview in 1970 from Country Club Hills, Ill. She and Ray Becker were married Aug.

27, 1985, at Las Vegas, Nev. Mrs. Becker was retired. She was formerly employed at Lois' Casual Wear at Lakeview. She was a Protestant and a member of the Mountain Home Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.

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Authorities remained puzzled by the contents of about three dozen notebooks found in Young's van and a typewritten statement that was waved about by Young during the classroom confrontation. Young is described as loner, gun buff By The Associated Press The former law officer who died along with his wife in an aborted attempt to exchange schoolchildren for $300 million was a loner and gun enthusiast who had planned the get-rich-quick scheme for over a year, relatives and acquaintances said Saturday. David Young committed suicide Friday after a bomb held by his wife, Doris, exploded as they kept 150 students and teachers hostage at Cokeville Elementary School in Wyoming. Seventy-nine people, most of them children, were hurt and Mrs. Young was killed.

Young, a drifter who recently had been in Iowa, Idaho and Arizona, had served briefly as marshal of Cokeville six or seven years ago before being dismissed by the mayor, officials said. He also served: as a law officer in Mountain Home, Idaho, and a small town in Nebraska, said a longtime friend, Arthur Hoyer of Tucson, Ariz. Elmore County, Idaho, Sheriff Larry Olson told the Boise Statesman that Young had worked for the Mountain Home (Idaho) Police Department for about six months in late 1975 and early 1976. Young was not retained after his six-month probationary period because officers did not believe he could fulfill the duties, the sheriff said. Young was a "real quiet person," Olson said.

"'He didn't associate with anyone." Olson also said Young was arrested for having a concealed weapon when he visited the department while wearing a gun under his coat. Hoyer said he had known Young since junior high school in Grinnell, Iowa, Young's hometown. The Youngs had lived in a trailer in Tucson for a year and a half, he said. "I knew something was going to happen, because he wanted me to be a participant participate in something he never explained what," Hoyer said, adding he refused to take part. Hoyer said Young spoke to him in early 1985 in about "a get-richquick scheme or Young had told him, "There'd be enough (money) that you could buy 747s and just fly forever," according to Hoyer.

"I knew something was going on a few weeks ago, and then, they were gone," he said. He said he had thought the scheme would be illegal, but said it was inconceivable that it involved schoolchildren as hostages. Hoyer said Young always wore a handgun, but was not a survivalist. in school is he believes in mandatory prayer in school," Bumpers continued. "'The constitutional amendment he talks about me voting against is one that would allow the state legislature or local school board to adopt official prayers and send them down to the schoolhouse for the children to say.

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