Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 8

Saturday, July 25, 1987 THE BAXTER BULLETIN Page 8A Governors to discuss strategies on social problems, the economy Oil) fl 'M- 7 A and their families also will have a chance to grab a piece of a 14-ton cherry pie to be baked for a try at getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. The Grand Traverse area is a leading cherry producer. The musical entertainment on tap ranges from the youth orchestra at nearby Interlochen music camp on Saturday afternoon to a Motown revue featuring the Four Tops on Monday evening. Michigan has been chosen to host the NGA meeting five times, more than any other state. The nation's governors met three times on Mackinac Island, in the Straits of Mackinac between the Upper and Lower Peninsula, and once in Detroit.

Forty-five of the 50 governors are expected to attend. Those who definitely are not coming, according to the NGA office in Washington, are Alaska's Steve Cowper, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards, Maryland's William Schaefer, Missis-sippi's William Allain and Oregon's Neil Goldschmidt. More than 1,700 people registered for the meeting, making it the largest in the NGA's history, sai Lisa Grayson of Michigan Gov. James Blanchard's press office. The previous high for a summer session was 1,437 in 1981 when the meeting was held in Atlantic City, Grayson said.

have bit the bullet and did what had to be done at the local and state level," Branstad said. "We think its time the federal government do the same thing," he said. Some of Detroit's most prominent business leaders will travel north to address the governors. Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca and Ford Motor Co.

Chairman Donald Petersen will speak on topics related to the stated theme of the meeting, which is "Making America Work: Productive People, Productive Policies." General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger Smith also is scheduled to make brief remarks to the governors. During the four-day meeting, the governors also will hear a follow-up study on initial steps taken by the states to implement the recommendations of an NGA education report released last summer. Other discussions will deal with nuclear safety, state initiatives, telecommunications and motor carrier procedures. The governors also will have a chance to unwind with a weekend of activities in honor of Michigan's 150th anniversary of statehood.

Saturday evening's events include a 33-minute fireworks display after a parade of some 130 ships on Grand Traverse Bay. Earlier in the day, the governors By JEFF HOLYFIEID Associated Press Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) Halting America's economic decline by tackling social ills ranging from illiteracy to teen pregnancy will be the topic of discussion this weekend as the nation's governors gather in this Lake Michigan resort town. The 79th summer meeting of the National Governors Association begins Saturday afternoon with a news conference to unveil a series of task force reports. The reports cap a year-long effort by the governors to identify and suggest remedies for social problems underlying the nation's dropping productivity and its sag in world markets.

Appearing on NBC's "Today" program on Friday from Traverse City, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton said the reports will include "very specific strategies that can be used by every state, every local government, every citizens group in the country to address these problems to liberate the capacities of the American people." Also on the show, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, head of the association's task force on jobs, said the federal government needs to work harder at balancing its budget. "We have had the responsibility of balancing the budget in our individual states and the governors they solved the many problems associated with the project. Also involved with the problem are Jackie Leatherman as counselor and Sara Kelly as librarian and bus driver.

BulletinRipple After the students in the OASIS program got to know each other and began working together in groups they were given materials and told to construct a building. The buildings all took different and interesting shapes as OASIS students explore both of 'growing up gifted' FBI director nominee William Sessions Arkansas native; family in Lake Village Buren." The music group is led by Donna Maxwell, the creative writing group by Larry Bergman of Yellville, visual arts by Beth Ivens of Viola, journalism by Helen Gammill and photography by Kurt Kellams. JoAnn Roden, counselor at Mountain Home Junior High School, worked with the students the first three days on getting to know each other and understanding the joys and sorrows of being gifted and talented. Growing up Gifted." The students in each group are chosen on the basis of applications which include their academic records, a recommendation from a teacher, and a list of their accomplishments in their school and their community service. Each student is also required to write a personal essay.

Bergman says "Students have come from all over the state to be in this program, representing approximately 11 schools, some as far away as Hot Springs and Van Ozark Art Summer Institution for students is one of 35 programs for Gifted and Talented Students which has been state funded through the AEGIS program (Academic Enrichment for the Gifted in Summer) The three-week program is currently underway at the Mountain Home Junior High School. According to Steve Bergman, director of OASIS, "There are five media groups involving 34 students." They are exploring the theme "Happiness and Hassles of sippi River, the younger Sessions said. "The family is traced back to the Luna Plantation there in Lake Village." The judge's son said his father's cousins, Floyd Sessions and William N. Sessions, still live in Lake Village. Judge Sessions, a Republican, was selected to head the nation's premier law enforcement agency after a 4'2-month search.

Sessions, chief U.S. District Court judge in the western district of Texas, is known for his hard-line law-and-order approach to criminal justice and would replace William H. Webster, who became CIA director May 19. Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) lives in Fort Smith, where he is "quite active." The judge's son said his grandmother, the judge's mother, was born Edith Steele in Van Buren. She is now deceased.

The younger Sessions said his mother, the judge's wife, was born in Australia. Her father, he said, was a founder of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. "My great grandfather, Richard Richardson, my great grandmother, my dad's uncle, most of the members of my family are buried, and lived at one time or another, in Lake Village" in southeast Arkansas near the Missis Ey The Associated Press U.S. District Judge William Steele Sessions of San Antonio, Texas, nominated by President Reagan on Friday to become the fourth director of the FBI, is a native of Van Buren, according to Sessions' son. William Lewis Sessions, the judge's son, said by telephone from his father's home Friday that his father was born in Van Buren, moved from Van Buren to Kearney, and later moved to Kansas City, where he attended North Central High School and met his future wife.

According to the younger Sessions, the judge's father, the Rev. William Sessions, a minister in the Black woman recommended to replace Saltzman as Health Department head executive session before members voted unanimously to approve the recommendation. Born at Schaal in Howard County, Ms. Elders earned a bachelor's degree with honors from Philander Smith College at Little Rock. She spent three years at Brooke Army Medical Center and received her medical degree from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine in 1960.

She is now a professor of pediatrics at the UA's Medical Sciences Campus. resigned recently to become director of the Pulaski County Health Department. The Health Board's recommendation goes to Gov. Bill Clinton. Ms.

Elders' salary hasn't been determined, but she said the appropriation provides for $69,500. Saltzman was earning $67,751. Saltzman said he would continue to run the department until Oct. 1. Ms.

Elders, the only applicant for the job, met with the board in LITTLE ROCK (AP) Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders of Little Rock is in line to become the first black and the first woman to head the state Health Department. The state Board of Health has recommended the appointment of Ms. Elders, 53, as director of the agency.

Ms. Elders, director of pediatric endocrinology at Arkansas Children's Hospital, would replace Dr. Ben N. Saltzman. Saltzman, director since 1981, Leaking gasoline tanks at truck stop send 60 residents from their homes Betty Ford has surgery Protect Your Heart CONTROL HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE tanks are to be repositioned in the pit.

A state Pollution, Control and Ecology Department official was at the scene to check for possible contamination, and Ms. Forsyth said some of thesoil on the edges of the pit will be removed. Richmond said the residents were evacuated because of the fumes from the gasoline. Interstate 30 was closed for about an hour and traffic was routed to U.S. 67.

"The only thing they were really worried about were the fumes," he said. Between 75 and 100 truck drivers were at the site when the leak was discovered. were to be buried by the company on Friday, floated to the top of the pit. Dorothy Forsyth, local Office of Emergency Services coordinator, said the tanks were discovered floating about 10 p.m., but the leak did not occur until about 4 a.m. The leak started when a valve on a tilted tank came off and gasoline spilled into the pit.

The cause of the broken valve was not known. Benton received 2.44 inches of rain Thursday night and a flash flood warning was issued for Saline County. About 5,000 gallons of gasoline and water was drained from the leaking tank and the pit Friday. Authorities were also considering draining the second tank. Both BENTON (AP) About 60 people who live near a Saline County truck stop were evacuated early Friday after two gasoline storage tanks floated to the surface of a rain-filled pit and one of the tanks began leaking.

Residents of about 20 homes in a half-mile radius of JJ's Truck Stop, 10 miles west of Benton, were evacuated, according to Lt. Ray Richmond of the Saline County sheriff's office. The evacuation took about 15 minutes and residents were allowed to return to their homes about three hours later. Heavy rains filled a pit between two buildings and the tanks, which Michael McFadden. No details of the procedure on one of the two carotid arteries were released.

The surgery began at 9 a.m. and ended two hours later. The carotid arteries are among the principal arteries in the body, carrying blood to the two sides of the head and neck. Mrs. Ford, 69, has battled arthritis and cancer, and has overcome alcohol and drug abuse.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) Former first lady Betty Ford underwent carotid artery surgery Friday and was expected to be hospitalized a short time, an Eisenhower Medical Center spokesman said. "Mrs. Gerald R. Ford had elective carotid vascular surgery at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.

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