Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 12

Sunday, October 4, 1992 A 12 Star-Tribune, Casper, Vyo. Campaign Continued from At fitness to command the nalion'i armed forces. "This guy couldn't remember in detail that he didn't Inhale 20 years ago, and he can't remember what came out of his mouth 20 minutes ago." Bush said, accusing Clinton of waffling on issues while at the same time referring to Clinton's acknowledgement that he once experimented with marijuana. But Clinton said in St. Louis, "The American people know that Bush is the great flip-flopper in this campaign.

I have displayed a constant passion throughout my political life and a remarkable consistency on the economic, education and other challenges of the day." Campaigning in Fort Lauderdale, where he trained as a pilot in World War II, Bush de- focus now was on preparing a 30-minute commercial that will be telecast Tuesday night. In Washington, Clinton campaigned for Italian-American votes, appearing with political and business leaders of that ethnic community to announce formation of a leadership council to back his ticket. Reclaiming the so-called Reagan Democrats, blue collar voters who had shifted to the Republican column in recent elections, has been a major Democratic aim this campaign. Clinton said Italian-American working class voters are among those "we hope and believe will be coming home to us this November." In Missouri, Clinton said he'd had trouble getting Bush to agree to debate but that the schedule was falling in place. Congress Continued from Al vote on Monday night.

The bill Cassed both the House and Senate margins sufficiently large to overturn a veto meaning Bush's perfect record of 35 sustained vetoes may be jeopardized by his 36th. In the Senate, supporters of a bill easing the Bush administration's ban on medical research using tissue from aborted fetuses complained that they were being thwarted by delaying tactics of a small minority of anti-abortion lawmakers, urged on by Bush. The Senate voted a day earlier 85-12 to revive the issue and cut off a filibuster. But delaying tactics by opponents left in doubt whether the bill would come to a vote before Congress adjourns for the year. Bush and other anti-abortion forces contend the research would encourage women to have abortions, and say tissue from miscarriages should be used.

Supporters of the bill dispute that assertion and say the tissues hold promise for many medical cures, and that miscarriages don't provide enough tissue. Bush has Vetoed nine abortion-related bills and sustained them all. House Speaker Thomas Foley retreated a hit from his Monday target for adjournment but said he still expects the 102nd Congress to end early in the week. "I think of U.S. firms.

At the same time, negotiators on a separate defense spending bill cut SD1 even further, limiting spending to $3.8 billion. The spending measure largely echoed the budget bill on other matters, and provided full funding $755 million for the developmental V-22 Osprev, a tiltrotor craft that can take off like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. And the House approved, 232-164, a bill authorizing up to $417 million in aid to the republics of the former Soviet Union in the coming year. The bill gives the administration wid6 latitude to use the money for technical assistance, humanitarian aid, or programs to foster democracy and economic reform. Still to be decided was the tax bill.

The House and Senate have passed differing versions, and a compromise was in the hands of House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, and the Senate Finance Chairman Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, who were meeting behind closed doors. Also awaiting House and Senate floor attention was a compromise energy bill the most far-reaching rewrite of America's energy policy in 15 years. The bill would encourage the development of more energy-efficient lightbulbs and make it easier for nuclear power plants to be licensed and built. it looks good for Tuesday," he said. Both the House and Senate Cassed the defense authorization ill and the $245 billion appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services and related agencies.

Both passed the Senate without a recorded vote. The House approved the defense bill 304-100, and the labor, education and H1IS bill 363-47. The largest chunk of the social spending is for so-called entitlement programs such as Medicaid, Medicare and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The Labor Department gets $8 billion, of which most goes for employment and training programs. For education, the total is $28.2 billion, including $5.8 billion in Pell grants for college students and $6.7 billion for grants to help school districts serve educationally disadvantaged children.

The defense bill also provides $2.7 billion to round out the Air Force's fleet of B-2 Stealth bombers at 20 planes, and offers $1.5 billion for programs to help defense industries and workers make the adjustment to a slimmed-down military. It includes, as well, a section that would toughen the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba by extending it to cover foreign subsidiaries Wyoming is comprised of conservatives whom Bush has alienated by reneging on his "no new taxes" pledge. While those conservatives may be disenchanted with Bush, they will not be able to support Clinton in the end, Wallop said. Wallop said some of those voters have also been flirting with the off-again, on-again Perot candidacy, but that they will ultimately turn to Bush as a candidate who can actually win the election.

Pat Thorson, Bush campaign coordinator in Wyoming, said the campaign was pleased with the Star-Tribune poll numbers showing Bush in the lead even if his support lags behind that traditionally bestowed on her party's candidate in the Cowboy State. This has been an "unusual political year," Thorson said, so Bush's support might be expected to be softer than that gained by earlier Republicans. Additionally, Thorson said that 4 dared, "I do believe that serving in uniform is a good criterion for being commander in chief of the armed forces." Bush did not mention Perot, who entered the presidential race Thursday and is preparing to take the stage with the president and Clinton at the debates. "I'm looking forward to debating all comers," Clinton said. "I'm happy about it." In Dallas, Perot spokesman Orson Swindle said, "I think Mr.

Perot is most interested in seeing the issues debated and not so much the format of it." "Mr, Perot is a man who is very observant, studious, intelligent. He will be well prepared" for the debates, Swindle said. He said no campaign appearances have been scheduled for the Texas businessman and that the On the futures market, purchasers buy gas in advance for delivery later. Due to flexibility clauses in futures contracts, gas sold on the futures market is not necessarily sold for the price agreed upon when the delivery time arrives. Still, futures prices often are a "harbinger of things to come" in the spot market, said Colorado Interstate spokesman Wayne Tiller.

But "the futures price went crazy when Hurricane Andrew came in that just sent things into a tizzy. Then a few days ward they found the damage wasn't all that great and then things settled back down," Tiller said. During September, some futures prices peaked at $2.74, but quickly began to drop, and had levelled off at about $2.50 by this week. "We're going to continue to get spikes" in the price such as those last month, because the spot market is so dependent on the "day-today environment," said Holm. "Over the long haul," though, "we're still talking about a steady strengthening of gas price just because the supply and the market is coming into balance.

"There's been a significant increase in power generation projects, both co-generation end in-. dependent power plants. And there's been a reduction in drilling," Holm said. Jack Stevenson, who edits a Houston-based monthly publication on the natural gas industry and natural gas prices, said a combination of short-term and long-term factors can account for a drop in supply relative to demand, and the subsequent higher gas prices. Cold weather in much of the country through the spring and early summer kept utilities from stockpiling gas as they normally do during those months, Stevenson said.

"The storage volumes are just now catching up to where they normally would have been about a month ago," he said. Stevenson, like Holm, said the TODAY 10-4 I Fairgrounds Industrial Bldg. Admission 1 .25 Casper Antique Collectors Club Fall Fertilizing ojyour trees somas Check our special CC3C1C3 SPzens Diaperap Ky when you Diaper Service sign up 472-3533 in October livery Day Price 3" 3" Yellow Post It Note 5.28 doz. Joseph E. Waste John C.

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In February of this year, natural gas spot prices bottomed out at under $1 per thousand cubicKfeet (mcf)- In the early 1980s, gas was selling for more than three times as much. Spot prices prices for short-term, small-volume sales vary from region to region. During September, spot prices for gas entering the Colorado Interstate Gas six-state delivery system which transports subtantial volumes of Wyoming gas production briefly achieved $2.50 per mcf, according to a CIO spokesman. The president of the newly-constructed Kern River line stretching from Wyoming to Colorado said spot prices for Wyoming gas shipped on the line were peaking at about $2.20 earlier this week. Of Kem River's 700 million cu-bic-feet-per-day capacity, Wyoming gas accounts for 600 million cubic feet.

About half of that is sold on the spot market, Kern River President Jay Holm said, with the other half sold over long-term contracts. According to the Wyoming Geological Survey, the average spot price for gas in 1991 was $1.41. The WGS had earlier estimated the 1992 average at only a slightly higher $1.44, but will have to revise that cost-estimate upwards, the agency said in a recent publication. Holm and others in the industry point to any number of explanations for the jump in prices a cold spring, a more stable delivery system, an increasing balance between gas supply and demand. Most agree, however, that the recent jump in prices, particularly futures prices, was triggered by both real and perceived blows dealt to Louisiana gas production by Hurricane Andrew.

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Something for everyone! Watch for the complete schedule in Section of the Casper Star-Tribune on Sunday, October 4. Call 268-2551 for more information and mark your calendar now! iiii. mm fct. increased use of natural gas in power plants would contribute to increased demand. And the dismal market of recent years has also decreased the supply, he said.

Fewer wells are being drilled, and producers have been willing to shut in their wells "if they can't get at least some sort of decent price," he said. One thing the industry should not anticipate to lead to prices, however, is an expanding demand on the West. Coast, Stevenson said. "The West Coast market is going to get flooded. Completely he said.

With the construction of the Kern River line and the planned construction of another Pacific Gas Transmission pipeline from Alberta, "the supply is going to exceed the demand. There's stiU tons and tons of Canadian gas up there just waiting," he said. But the combination of other factors could keep prices at least in the range of $1.80 or $2.00 per mcf, Stevenson said, and that should be enough to encourage more drilling in Wyoming. "Everybody had to go through this sticker shock" from such low prices in recent years, he said. "It's taken a while to get that out of their mentality." Holm of Kern River agreed that as the price stabilizes, drilling will pick up.

But "you're not going to see a mad rush" such as occurred when prices were four dollars per mcf or higher in the late 1970s and early- to mid-1 980s, Holm said. Drilling has already picked up in the state in recent months, but the heightened activity has little to do with prices, said a spokesman for one production company. David Hampshire of Wexpro said his company has been active in the state this year primarily be- cause it anticipates that a federal tax exemption for production in tight-sand formations will expire after the first of the year. All Breed Dog and Cat Grooming at Gall 234-7333 Check our prices Tiffany Lamps in the tradition of the masterfully rendered by Casper artist Terry Glaser Endiantcb Earitjmorkj MhlDwMifMS-MM After thX big game othing scores like a sandwich from Chef Pierre LeBart Dinner SpofcSy Cakn Catfish QJBM wA TO Poll Continued from Al voting booth they will not be able to bring themselves to support Clinton. A poll published Friday in the Star-Tribune showed Bush with 44 percent, Clinton with 39 percent and 17 percent undecided.

"It can be nothing but stunning political news" that a Democratic presidential candidate is competitive in Wyoming, said Democratic Secretary of State Kathy Karpan. The undecided voters in the state are "Clinton's to win" because they cannot bear to support the president, Karpan said. If they don't go for Clinton, they may very well skip the race, she said. Democratic Gov. Mike Sullivan, who was the first governor in the nation to endorse Clinton's candidacy and who is widely rumored to be in line for a cabinet post should Clinton win in November, said he was not surprised by Clinton's showing in Wyoming.

This many undecided votes this late in the campaign in traditionally-Republican Wyoming "has to signal a positive" for the Clinton campaign nationwide, Sullivan said. Bryan Sharratt, Wyoming Director of the ClintonGore campaign, predicted Clinton will take Wf MAKCY SCHOOL BOARD BEGINNING PAINTING CLASSES Fred Hudson, featured artist of the Wyoming P.B.S. Television Series, The Art Of Western Landscapes. will be starting a new series of lessons for the beginning student In Casper. Monday, Oct.

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Sharratt said that although the poll published Friday in the Star-Tribune showed Clinton running statistically even with Bush, Clinton will continue to gain voters' support as election day nears. "An overlay of common sense" in the Democratic platform is attracting Republican Wyoming voters who have "a feeling that they don't want four more years of Bush," said Sharratt. Sharratt said the Star-Tribune poll results were probably affected by the fact that independent candidate Ross Perot was considering fe-entering the race while the poll was taken. Sharratt said a polling firm hired by his office is conducting a new study this week that he predicted will show a greater Clinton following in the state. Sharratt said a press conference would be held Oct.

6 at 10:15 a.m. on the Capitol steps. Wyoming Republicans, meanwhile, acknowledge that Bush is not receiving the strong levels of support GOP presidential contenders routinely garner in Wyoming. But they say there is little doubt Bush will win the state. Sen.

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