Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 8

Page 8A THE BAXTER BULLETIN Thursday, October 27, 1988 Legislative Council completes check of proposed public education budget 'v' vv i -V I ,7 V. -M'MV'- sv' 5 --N" I i I I A I 'V 1 1 v- vv Tax Amendment passed on the Nov. 8 ballot. The state Board of Education proposed the public school budget that the council heard. Legislators also heard Clinton's two recommendations one without a tax increase, the other with a tax increase.

His recommendations were about $100 million each year below the board's requests. Clinton says his tax increase package will need a tax increase of $192 million on top of about $80 million in normal growth anticipated in state government revenue. Revenue in government usually grows because population increases result in more taxpayers, inflation increases the price of goods which increases the amount collected by the sales tax when those goods are sold, and a variety of factors result in higher incomes which generate more taxes when income taxes are collected. After hearing the public school budget, the council moved on to consideration of the budgets proposed for higher education, with University of Arkansas system president Ray Thornton making the opening pitch by recalling budget cuts in recent years. He thanked legislators, saying they had "helped us survive," and saying budget increases are necessary if Arkansas' colleges are going to compete with colleges elsewhere in the nation.

The institutions also need a strong and positive tenure policy, while academic freedom is maintained, he said. The state Board of Higher Education has proposed a budget of $356 million for fiscal 1990 and $389 million for fiscal 1991. Clinton's recommendation each year is $30 million to $40 million below the board's. UA-Fayetteville Chancellor Dan Ferritor said the Razorback foot ball team is ranked 11th in the nation, but he said the UA had other rankings to be proud of, including leading the world in superconductivity research, having a writing composition program that is among the top five in the nation, having a music faculty that wins international competitions and a chemical engineering program that produces graduates who are in the top 3 percent in the nation. Under the public school budget proposal made by the Board of Education, most of the money $1.06 billion the first year, $1.12 billion the second year would go, as usual, to the Public School Fund, most of which goes to teacher salaries.

The request for the Education Department, Mrs. Steele said, includes funds for five new programs and improvements to eight other programs as part of the department's work to help schools prepare pupils for the 21st century. LITTLE ROCK (AP) The Legislative Council completed Wednesday its preliminary examination of the proposed budget for public education the next two years and appointed a subcommittee to give it a more careful examination. "This is not a Cadillac budget," Education Director Ruth Steele told lawmakers at the close of her two-day presentation of the request for $1.25 billion in fiscal 1990 and $1.31 billion in fiscal 1991. The budget would account, as usual, for half of the general tax revenue the state collects each year.

General taxes include sales tax, income taxes, and a host of smaller revenue-producers, such as taxes on cigarettes. The council is conducting budget hearings in preparation for the regular legislative session, which will begin in January. The subcommittee sessions begin Monday and likely will continue for weeks. The budget won't be settled until sometime after the first of the year, when the amount of tax increase if any has become clear. Gov.

Bill Clinton won't even unveil his tax increase proposals until late November. By then, he will know whether his proposed Learn to Fly VHS Homecoming Queen Sheri Cotter was crowned the 1988-89 Homecoming Queen at Viola High School Friday. The Viola Longhorns played ICC following the homecoming activities. Cotter, a 17-year-old senior, is the daughter of Max and Vilma Cotter of Henderson. (Photo submitted) Warm Up to Winter Solo Package A.

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Fahmy Malak was the first from Sheriff James Steed, who had been referring to Malak before as an expert whose opinion he accepted. But after emerging from the courtroom where the grand jury was in session, Steed read a prepared statement to reporters. He said he had found it "very difficult to understand why Dr. Fahmy Malak of the State Crime Lab would exhibit so little regard for a thorough investigation of the forensic evidence presented to him by the Saline County sheriff's department. His lack of Ihursday at thoroughness has caused the families prolonged anxiety and considerable frustration for the investigation teams of my office, the Arkansas state police and the FBI." Steed said Malak's report has caused "many complications to so many people." Asked for a response to Steed's criticism, Malak said: "I am not a politician, I have no comment." The grand jury is investigating the deaths in August 1987 of Don Henry, 16, and Kevin Ives, 17.

They were struck by a Union Pacific train as they lay on a railroad track near Alexander. Two days later, Saline County investigators said there was no sign of foul play. Malak later issued an accidental death ruling. Steed said he wasn't surprised at additional evidence presented by Dr. Joe Burton, an Atlanta pathologist who has helped the grand jury, steed commended Burton's work, saying it had open-ed up new avenues of investigation.

Referring to an earlier public announcement that the case was closed, based on Malak's findings, Steed said: "I must confess to a little white lie. "At the time, we were spending so much time talking to the press that we felt as long as it was front page-prime time news, the killer would go underground with the heat of exposure." The sheriff said his office never stopped investigating the case, and built a case file that was turned over to the grand jury. Deputy Prosecutor Dan Harmon released copies of a letter Burton wrote to the grand jury and to prosecutors criticizing Malak for taking "a posture in the case which is somewhat unprofessional." el mounUtn turn 1745 Hwy. 62 NE 8-5 Weather Permitting 1 Town to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 'War of the Worlds' broadcast Why Fay Moire? As Your Twin Lakes Manufacturing Jewelers, Art Metal Goldsmith's believed the broadcast because the popular show Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on a competing network ran long and those who tuned in late to the Mercury Theatre missed the disclaimer. With radio's sophistication growing, listeners were becoming accustomed to hearing reports from Europe about the deepening threat of war, she noted.

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The hysteria over the radio broadcast clogged telephone lines and roads as the gullible thought huge cylinders carrying Martians were landing throughout the country, wiping out military forces with heat rays and poisonous gas. Some who sheepishly recounted their terror said they headed for the hills after hearing the fictional newscast. Others said they grabbed their guns and headed for Grovers Mill to fight the invaders. Others just prayed. Millions heard the broadcast; one survey gave the listenership at 6 million, another at 12 million.

Of those who tuned in, according to the surveys, up to 1 million believ ed it was real, despite disclaimers before and after the program. After 50 years, many people in Grovers Mill and surrounding West Windsor Township are tired of rehashing the tale every autumn. Douglas Forrester, a state pension director and former West Windsor mayor heading up plans for the 50th anniversary celebration, said it's a good time to think about why "War of the Worlds" caused such consternation. "It was a worldwide event, and it raises intriguing questions about human psychology, civil defense, the power of broadcasting, media responsibility and what kind of relationship we might have with other beings from another world," Forrester said. "There was a cascade of alarm that was just unstoppable." Freda Remmers, a Kean College media professor, said many Today's history highlight: In 1858, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was born in New York City.

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