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RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1986 L2213 Snelling, in Northeast Kingdom Says Election Winnable Sen. Harkin Campaigns for Sen. Leahy By DEBORAH SLINE Vermont Press Bureau DERBY CENTER GOP Senate candidate Richard A. Snelling swept through Vermont's Republican heartland Monday stressing the significance of every vote in the upcoming U.S. Senate election.

I don't have tp get every vote, Snelling told supporters during a luncheon in this small town nestled near the Canadian border. I just have to get one more than Patrick Leahy. The former four-term governor, entering the final two weeks of his uphill battle to unseat the Democratic incumbent, made that point more than once during his visit to the Northeast Kingdom. It underscored Snelling's conviction that defeat of the incumbent remains feasible and could hinge on these final weeks before the Nov. 4 General Election.

"I will tell you, everything I know about this election tells me that its winnable," Snelling said to more than 60 supporters during a noontime gathering at the Border Motel in Derby. Support for Snelling appeared widespread during his issues has complicated that task. Patrick Leahy is playing an age-old strategy, which is to win the election without waging it," he said. But Snelling, reiterating his view that Leahy will prove vulnerable in these final weeks, said, 1 think there's weakness everywhere for Leahy. Earlier, while sipping coffee with a dozen people at Bettys Restaurant in Milton, Snelling said that if he won his victory would be far from a landslide, however.

"But I really feel in my bones that its got to be close, he said. vIt doesn't matter what it looks like ahead of time. He added, in reference to the unexr lead of the Boston Red box in the World Series, In case anybody didn't believe in miracles, how about the Sox ahead 2-0? Snelling, who has visited the Northeast Kingdom several times already this year, said the final lap of his campaigning would take him through every county and into every major community. At each stop he seems likely to urge supporters, as he did Bv JAMES E.BRESSOR Vermont Press Bureau SOUTH BURLINGTON Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin visited Vermont Monday to stump for fellow Democrat Sen.

Patrick J. Leahy and for the Save the Family Farm Act which, he said, has a brighter future if Vermonters return Leahy to Washington. Harkin, who sits on the Senate Appropriations and Agriculture Committees with Leahy, said his proposed Save the Family Farm Act, which would create a national quota system for farm production, has not gotten any attention from either the Reagan administration or Con- Sress. If Vermonters re-elect Leahy, he said, is proposal, co-sponsored by Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, has a better opportunity of receiving a fair hearing and becoming law.

If Leahv defeats his Republican opponent, former Gov. Richard A. Snelling, and Democrats gain control of the Senate, Vermonts junior senator will become chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, a position now held by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-North-Carolina, Harkin said. With this administration ideologically opposed to helping the family farmer and with the resent committee leadership under Jesse elms, we arent going to get that fair hearing, he said.

Leahy has not put his support behind Harkings proposal but promised that as committee chairman he would make sure the act receives plenty of consideration. I guarantee that if I'm chairman they will be the fullest, most complete hearings ana most of the hearings will be outside of Washington, Leahy said. Snelling. Monday again said Leahy is not assured oi heading the Agriculture Committee. He isnt going to be chairman of anything because the Republicans are going to maintain the majority, Snelling The Save the Family Farm Act would create a supply management program with prices based on parity.

Each farmer would be assigned a production base tied to their production average over the past five years. For dainr farmers, for example, production would go down about 8 percent at first as part of the effort to eliminate the milk surplus. The money they receive per hundredweight, however, would increase. Supporters of the proposal say consumers would see a slight increase in their grocery bill but taxpayers would save $20 billion they now spend on price supports Prior to their news conference together, Leahy and Harkin met with about 75 farmers at the University of Vermont farm to talk about Harkins proposal. One of them, state Sen.

Francis Howrigan, D-Franklin, a Fairfield dairy farmer, said he, like Leahy, wants the proposal carefully studied first. I believe it has merit. But first we've got to define whats a family farm. Like he (Harkin said, we're not talking about 40 acres and a mule," he said. could be expected to boost Snelling's chances.

Another element Snelling has said could give his campaign a critical boost is Reagan's promised campaign appearance in Vermont on his behalf. He said late Monday that he should know "very soon" whether Reagan's preelection schedule would includes stop here. When asked about the possibility of a Reagan visit later this week, Snelling said: "Its not impossible. There was a day, a9 of Friday, when it was not impossible. Throughout his stops Monday, Snelling hit on various issues he has raised during his campaign, highlighting his concern about tne federal deficit, his belief that national farm policy needs to be overhauled and his worry about the nation's trade deficit.

Snelling also said he thought Leahy's initial criticism of President Reagans handling of the recent arms control summit with the Soviets in Iceland was a mistake. Leahy subsequently said Americans should pot second guess Reagan and he expressed optimism about renewed treaty negotiations. Criticizing the president for not acceding with other people's demands, I think, was a blunder on Leahys part, Snelling said. stops Monday in this tradi-tionally Republican stronghold, in Vermont's nor- theastern corner. It was a classic campaign day that took Snelling across the top of Vermont: He had coffee with a small crowd and reason why people dont run against incumbents, he said.

Its a tough Snelling added that Leahy's acceptance of just two debates and his reliance on campaign staff to respond on many Kaagan to Seek $40,000 to Aid Bennington Schools Monday, to encourage others to vote this year. A large turnout particularly among those Vermonters who overwhelmingly backed President Reagan in the last election I cant advise much stronger action unless there is a real educational emergency. It would be tested in court," Kaagan said. He told the state board he would need their support as he moves to implement the recommendations for Bennington. "I need the commitment of OOOOOOOOOOOft oi tTMPfl Oqoooooooqoo Snelling was upbeat and jovial as he greeted voters in the region, but during an interview between stops he did not deny the difficulty of challenging Leahy.

Theres a darn good and the board. In this report, I think youve given us a blueprint. 1 will provide the strong leadership to see that it happens, but I'll need personnel from your department to help me, he said. Kaagan and O'Connor moved to assure Leonard he would have all the help he asked for. I think I can turn it around so the new superintendent will have a good base to work from.

I want you to come and help me Im giving you an invitation," Leonard said. But Leonard said he would not be comfortable with a special assistant" Kaagan has said he will hire to work with the new superintendent, and Kaagan said he will probably wait for a permanent superintendent before hiring the special assistant. Kaagan, who has been criticized by some local and state officials for taking a limited role in the two-year old Bennington school crisis, said he still believed that the Bennington school problems must be MIDWAY DINER and RESTAURANT TODAY'S SPECIALS COMPLETE DINNERS Rust Pork DiBB8riltoali8 7 A LA CARTE (potato and veggie included) takelKtatloaf 4 10 sz. N.Y. SirlaiR Strip Steak SM Telsf Bab Bed Liver wBacoi 5 10 Discounts to Senior Citizens during dinner hours 5 PM-9 PM ENTERTAINMENT EVERY TUESDAY THRU SATURDAY 9:30 p.m.

til closing. October 2126 Cahlua and Cream Contemporary Top 40 Hits Dancing No Cove Charge ly MANCHESTER Education Commissioner Stephen S. Kaagan said Monday he would ask the Legislature fof $40,000 to help the problem-ridden Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union. Moving to implement recommendations made a week ago by an educational assessment team, Kaagan told the state Board of Education he needed the additional money because he and his department would be taking an increasingly active role in the supervisory union. There will be a much greater resence for state officials in ennington than has been true over the last several months and years," Kaagan said at a board meeting Monday morning at the Manchester Elementary School.

Kaagan said he intended to get personally involved until the supervisory union was no longer in chaos," and said he would be meeting Friday in Bennington with business and community leaders to get their ideas on the school problems. More than half the money he will be asking the Legislature for $23,500 by Kaagans estimate will be earmarked for legal help during the Department of Educations de-certification hearings againstteachers who have had credits expunged' by Castleton State College. College officials last month said 41 teachers have had credits expunged by the college, with more than 15 of the teachers currently working in the supervisory union. The Education Department has been preparing for those hearings for the last month and will probably begin them in November or December, Kaagan said. Kaagan estimated he would need $16,500 to pay for training of the local school boards and for a later visit to Bennington by another educational assessment team.

In a report issued last week, Kaagan noted an atmosphere of "rivalry, mistrust and personal animosity" in the supervisory union, and said the school board training was essential for local school board members to reconcile their differences, arrive at mutual agreements on shared services, and better then visited a plant in Milton, toured a factory and had a radio interview in Newport, and wrapped up his day pum-workers hands outside nion Butterfield plant in Derby. understand the role of a board vis-a-vis that of superintendent. Kaagan said the appropriation of $40,000 could help prevent a much bigger bill to the state in the future. I will ask thfe Legislature early in January to support it. Ill say it is money well spent, because if you don't spend it now you wiil spend more later, he said.

If the Legislature turns us down, then we must find the money elsewhere from direct services to kids," he said. Kaagans report and the recommendations for more state involvement in supervisory affairs was backed Monday by the Board of Education. Martha O'Connor, chairman of the state board, moved to endorse the report. I move that we endorse the report and have Steve implement it immediately, and that he will report back in November with timetables for more action and a request for the supplementary budget," OConnor said. The motion passed unanimously.

In. his report to the board, Kaagan repeated the assessment he made last week on the status of the supervisory union. There is no educational but The governance and management of the supervisory union is in he said. Business affairs are not functioning well at all, and special education is not being carried out within proper practice and law," he said. Kaagan noted that the supervisory union has been operating for a month without a superintendent, and urged again that the supervisory search committee move as fast as possible to find a new, permanent superintendent.

Philip Leonard, who was hired as in interim superintendent last week and began work Monday morning, said he has read Kaagan's report and is confident he can work with Kaagan to get the supervisory union back in working order. I just started today, but I already feel there is a lot of positive education going on, with a real nucleus of dedicated teachers," Leonard told Kaagan RAKING DONE OH PREMISES VT PRODUCTS GIFTS COMPLETE GROCERIES SPECIAL OCCASIONS CA TERING solved locally, with only as much state help as necessary. "We are no longer waiting for an invitation to step in. But we must be very careful not to overstep," Kaagan said. I fear that some forces in the community think that greater state intervention is the answer.

It is not," Kaagan said. The local boards will lose significant amounts of Authority if we take over. We dont want to take over, we want to work cooperatively," he said. Kaagan said he does not have the legal authority to put the supervisory union into receivership, and would be careful to do everything he could before declaring an educational emergency and having the state take over the day-to-day running of the school system. South Fork Dey Bed Ivory finish with genuine brass finiaia Complete with Seely SOQQ mattress.

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