Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 34

Page 2 October 29, 1982 ELECTION EDITION THE BAXTER BULLETIN Governor's race is Bill Clinton Frank White rematch closing any plants in Arkansas. Crime has been a major gubernatorial Issue this year. Clinton has said he would work to have parole restricted for repeat offenders and for stronger penalties for persons who commit crimes with weapons. Clinton has said he is opposed to gun control in Arkansas. Clinton also has said he would not commute prison sentences of anyone convicted of premeditated murder.

Clinton supports stronger penalties for drunk driving. i 1 tion dates than his predecessor and plans to continue setting them and, when all appeal processes have been exhausted, has pledged to have executions carried out. White also has run hard on his work to improve Arkansas' prison system, efforts to bring the penal system in the state into federal compliance. He has said he has begun expanding prisons and will continue to expand them. White has said there will be no paroles to relieve overcrowding and no commutations for dangerous criminals.

He has said during his term in office only four commutations have been granted. White also has said he supports the regional jail concept, which he said could help counties which have difficulty complying with federal jail standards. He also supports work-release programs. Drunk driving also is an issue this year. White chairs a subcommittee of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving and this summer established his own task force to study the DWI problem in Arkansas and make recommendations for changes in drunk driving laws here.

In the final weeks of the campaign, gun control has become an issue in the governor's race. White has said he does not support gun control in Arkansas and has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. White has said he has been responsive to the needs of the elderly by placing a high priority on Medicaid benefits and the availability of health services. He has said under his administration home health care services have been expanded 451 percent. White has said changes in prescription drug regulations for Medicaid patients were brought about because of increased drug prices and revenue collections and were made to avoid a tax increase.

He contends the increase to recipients has been less than 22 percent of the total increase in prescription costs. Poll workers BILL CLINTON were dropped through a hiring freeze and attrition. Utility reform is a key issue in the campaign. Among White's proposals is the continuation of the appointment of Public Service Commission members by the governor with confirmation by the senate, but PSC members then would face a popular vote at the next general election to determine if they should continue in office. He also has suggested having public confirmation hearings of appointees.

White's utility reform plan also would require interest paid on consumer deposits be the maximum allowed by law; would require the reading of utility meters at least every other month; the legislature would have to redefine "immediate and impelling necessity" which allows utilities to collect rates on an emergency basis pending a PSC hearing; laws permitting utilities to exercise eminent domain for transmission lines and pipelines would be reexamined; and White would support a budget which would allow the PSC to perform increased duties and hire and retain good personnel. W'hite's plan also would create a forecast and planning division in the PSC to monitor utility reform legislation in other states and needs for future power plant construction in Arkansas. White has said he introduced laws to prohibit early collection of rate increases and "pancaking" rate increases one atop another. He has said he passed three laws dealing with utility rates, abolished the time-of-use rates charged by utilities and helped provide $19 million in refunds to utility customers. White has said he does not favor tax increases at this time because of economic problems and unemployment in the state, nor would he support a tax reduction.

He has said the state will need to examine the possibility of a tax increase of some kind in the future as the state gains controls of federal programs which are returned to state jurisdiction. Education is another campaign issue for White. He supports educational improvements in Arkansas, especially in the area of vocational education. White has said Arkansans need to be trained for the jobs of the future, high technology jobs more so than heavy manufacturing because, he has said, the state is attractive to high technology industries. He favors increasing vocational-technical education programs in Arkansas BILL CLINTON BACKGROUND Bill Clinton, 35.

Democrat, of Little Rock, is a lawyer attempting to recapture the governor's seat after his defeat in 1980. He and his wife Hillary' have one daughter. He studied at Georgetown University, Oxford University and Yale Law School. From 1973 through 1977. Clinton was a staff member of the University of Arkansas Law School and was involved in a private law practice.

In 1981, he took the position of counsel for the Wright, Lindsey and Jennings law firm. He ran for the Third Congressional District seat in 1374 and lost. In 1976, he ran for attorney general and won. In 1978, he ran for governor and won. In 1980, he ran for a second term as governor and lost.

POSITION'S Clinton has proposed his own plan for utility reform in Arkansas. He supports the direct popular election of members of the Public Service Commission and has proposed re-establishing an independent watchdog agency to monitor construction and operating costs of utilities and to compare utility costs in such areas as satareis and rent with the private sector. He also has suggested having the salaries and benefits of top utility executives published. Clinton has said he would abolish the automatic fuel adjustment clause which lets utility rates to fluctuate as energy costs change. He said he would prohibit collection of unapproved rates under bond throughout the appeals process in rate cases, if appeals can be heard in a speedy manner.

Under Clinton's proposal, utility stockholders would have to pay for all advertising costs and the costs of preparing and conducting rate cases rather than passing consumer advertising costs on to consumers; tekephone deposit, installation and repair charges would be reviewed, aimed at reducing costs when appropriate; elderly persons would not have to pay reconnection charges after temporary' disconnections; the possibility of developing hydroelectric, lignite or other power resources in cooperation among the state, municipalities and private industry would be explored; and there would be provisions for expanding measured telephone service where basic monthly charges are determined by the number of calls made. Clinton also has said he would support repealing Act 310 of 1981 which allows utilities to automatically pass along the cost of meeting government-mandated health and safety requirements. Clinton has said he would seek no tax increases if none were needed. However he also has said he would not hesitate to tell the people of any need for increased taxes and would seek their support before acting. He has said if government cuts are made and basic needs cannot be met for such things as education, care for the elderly and promoting economic development, then would be the time to examine a tax increase, but only after going to the people for backing first.

Clinton also has proposed possibly freezing, reducing or eliminating altogether the sales tax on food to help provide tax relief to low-income and elderly persons. He has said he would work to equalize taxes so everyone gets breaks they deserve. Elderly Arkansans also have become an issue for Clinton. He has said he will work to increase the number of prescriptions they can receive under Medicaid, something Clinton says the incumbent reduced and for which he increased the cost. Education also is a priority for Clinton.

He supports an improved public education system in Arkansas and uses his previous record as governor to show how he supports education. He has said udner his administration teachers received the largest salary' increase in Arkansas history, health and life insurance were provided for educators, teachers received protection from unfair dismissals, educational opportunites were provided for gifted and talented students and a fully-funded kindergarten program was developed. Clinton has said he supports an improved vocational-technical education program for Arkansas which, with an improved public education system, would be geared to helping the state's economy along with providing better education for Arkansans. Clinton has said he will work with the business community to help boost the state's economy. The vocational-technical program would be part of this with training provided to help the unemployed learn marketable technical skills and encourage the private sector in providing financial backing for job training.

Clinton has said he would establish a program to provide financing and marketing assistance to Arkansans who reopen closed plants and establish a policy requesting national companies give a six-month notice prior to for Tuesday FRANK WHITE FRANK WHITE BACKGROUND Frank White, 49, Republican, of Little Rock, is Arkansas' incumbent governor. He is married and he and his wife Gay have three children. He has been an account executive with Merril Lynch, vice-president of a management team for Commercial National Bank and president and chief executive officer of Capital Savings and Loan Association. White served as director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission from 1975-77. He also served on the Little Rock Port Authority board of directors and the Arkansas Council on Economic Education.

He ran for governor in 1980 and won. POSITIONS Much of White's campaign has been based on his record during his first term as governor. Under his administration, Arkansas' Washington, D.C., office was abolished, eliminating about a dozen jobs and approximately $100,000 in expenditures; some federally-financed positions on the governor's payroll were cut and the staff reduced 25 percent; the salaries of his staff were limited to the same level for his term; the state's Energy Department and Local Services Department were reduced; the Department of Public Safety was abolished; and, in all, about 1,500 state government jobs These are the Democratic and Republican pollworkers for Tuesday's general election. Baxter County Election Commission Chairman Thurman Wood said the workers are to be at the polls at 7:30 a.m. The polls will be open from 8 a.m.

until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. ADVANCE- LONE ROCK Democratic Workers Judges: Callie Wilbur. Maxine Henderson; Clerk: Violet Kirkland; Sheriff: Myrtle Kirkland Republican Workers Judge: William Langmaid; Clerk: Ethel Langmaid AMOS Democratic Workers Judges: Dorothy Sanders, Earl Curfman, Isabel Schneider, Pauline J. Novak and Dwain Reed; Clerks: Frances Maas, Mrs.

W.A. Osborn and Dorathy Curfman; Sheriff: R.J. Novak Republican Workers Judges: (Continued on Page 5.) to help bolster the state's economy. White also has campaigned on his efforts to get a $75 million slackwater harbor on the Mississippi River at Helena. White also claims some credit for helping get a contract signed with Taiwan to buy $325 million in Arkansas soybeans during the next five years.

While campaigning on the economy, White has said he helped create 10,658 new jobs in Arkansas. Crime has been another major issue in the governor's race. White contends he has set more execu.