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'i til' v. I tj LTL Time for spuds, page 2B Diverse career, page 6B v0 Michael Landon, page 7B SOCtiOfl ones tni(o)7 TTio ally Sontlnol Local newsObituariesCalendarTelevisionPeople Wednesday January 30, lOOS Things to come Strang offers budget plan to committee $1 1) i jC v'v i i-v 1 i VvJ 1 iU P(v oil- i I' Strang, a Republican who successfully campaigned for his first two-year term in the House last year on the pledge to work toward a balanced budget, said he supports action to reduce federal spending through cost-saving measures and spending cuts. Otherwise, he said, We will just borrow more, print more money, and raise taxes." During his 1984 campaign in which he defeated Democrat Mitchell for Congress, Strangs recurrent theme was Dont let em raise your taxes. The amendment went to the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N has effectively blocked similar legislation in the House in the past, according to Strang. Strang said he expects supporters of the amendment to try to get at least 218 members to sign a dis-.

charge petition, to force balanced budget amendments to the House Aoor for a vote. A similar effort in the 1984 Congress was unsuccessful. In 1982, the Senate passed a balanced budget amendment, but did not do so during the last two years In the 98th Congress. However, Strang said such Senate action is expected during the 99th Congress. Planners KJOL manager Bob Scheidt will probably have to tone down his activist-Christian radio messages under the stations new ownership.

transfer from the Federal Communications Commission in mid-January, said McCullough, the general manager of KWBL Leaders of the free church, who have a longstanding relationship with the bible college, voted to pur KJOL radio will lower its voice New owners want activist tones out Tony Unk Daily Sentinel KJOL-FM radio, an activist Christian voice in the Grand Valley that helped spawn conservative protests, has changed hands and the new owners say the station will cease encouraging listeners to get socially We would not view it as our role to be an organizer. We would not take a politically activist role," said Jack McCullough, speaking for the new owner of the noncommercial station, Western Bible College in Morrison. Contrast that with KJOL's image under current general manager Bob Scheidt, who over the airwaves has encouraged listeners to appear at such protests as the anti-abortion demonstration Jan. 22 in front of the Grand Junction Womens Clinic. That protest, promoted by other groups as well, saw about 45 demonstrators appear.

It is me on a soapbox, Scheidt said of his morning Call to Action program. The bible college, which owns the Christian statibn KWBI-FM in Morrison, bought KJOL from the Columbus Evangelical Free Church in Grand Junction for $24,000 and received the license County OKs sewer links in Appleton Mary loulu OIMIn Daily Sentinel The Mesa County Board of Com- miissioners voted 2-1 Tuesday to create the Appleton Local Improve-i ment enabling owners of 359.14 acres in the 24 Road area to install collector lines into the Val- Wide Sewer District 'Commissioners Dick Pond and Maxine Albers voted for the project and Commissioner Bob Holmes cast the dissenting vote. Under the proposal, the county will sell the bonds and property owners will repay the bonds under a special district assessment on their property taxes. Although County Attorney Lyle Dechant warned the commissioners there had been a not-at-all-veiled threat made at litigation by opponents to the district, those opponents said they had no com-me nt after the decision. Gary Eikenhorst of Moores-Eik-enhorst, a Denver real estate development firm which owns a portion of 158 acres of non-developed land, -said only that his Arm will evalu- ate what the commissioners did today.

Eikenhorst appeared at the Tuesday hearing to oppose the spe-ciall district for his Arm and Grant Development the former Excal-ibuir Enterprises, which owns some of jthe property and is going thro ugh bankruptcy proceedings. We don't need sewer now. We object to the way the costs are ap- portioned, because we pay the same as the people who need it, he said. Regardless of the number of lots, owners would pay the same amount per acre for the sewer tap, so that the owner with extensive development would beneAt more than 'one with little or no development,) he said. Representing the proponents, Blake Jordan, bond counsel in the Denver Arm of Lamm Edstrom Braymer, argued that the way the property is now being used is irrelevant and the way it could be used Please check District, page 3B Mary UxiIm OHMln Daily Sentinel Third District S.

Rep. Mike Strang introduced a balanced budget amendment to the S. Constitution today his first piece of legislation as a congressman. Strang said his amendment is simpler than others introduced in previous sessions of Congress. It re- quires that expenditures not exceed receipts, provides for a waiver by a two-thirds vote of Congress in times of war or national emergency, and becomes effective two years affer ratification by three-fourths of the states.

The fact now is that congressional spending is hemorrhaging in a pool of red ink. There is a clear and present danger of economic suicide, Strang said as he introduced the amendment Strang's co-sponsors are Colorado Congressmen Dan Schaefer of Lakewood, Ken Kramer of Colorado Springs and Hank1, Brown Greeley. We need this constitutional restraint because our plastic voting card has in fact become a plastic credit card, Strang said in his House Aoor statement Unlike our commercial credit cards, this one has no limit 'Daily Sentinel With the opening of the Glenwood Springs office, Fitzsimmons anticipates helping more transients, who are usually given a meal, shelter for a night and bus fare or gas money to get to Grand 'Junction or Denver. Already, Lifl-Up offers temporary aid in Rifle, Parachute and New Castle, using volunteers who work half a day each week. Although each branch maintains food and clothing banks, Fitzsimmons said, a lot of what we do is referral and mediation." Since people are only expected to use Lifl-Up services one to three times, much of the volunteers time is spent helping people help themselves: finding jobs, getting food stamps or welfare, and negotiating with landlords.

Please check Lift-Up, page 3B r- Class of 40 preparing for reunion It may be hard to admit you were a senior at Grand Junction High School 45 years ago, but it is time to plan a reunion. The class of 1940 committee is holding a planning meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Kiva Room at the Mesa County Library, 530 Grand and wants help from everyone who was in this class. For further information, call Norma Allen at 242-4408 or Barbara Wetherell at 243-4217. GJ dentist to demonstrate care of teeth To kick off Childrens National Dental Health Month, the DooZoo has invited Dr. John Bull, a local dentist, to give a short demonstration about dental health for children and adults at 11 a.m.

and 2 p.m. Saturday in the DooZoo Theater. No extra charge yill be made for the presentation. Admission to DooZoo is $2 for children and $1 for adults. For more information, call 241-5225.

Annual meeting of wool growers to be Saturday Members of the Mesa County Wool Growers are reminded that the annual business meeting will be 9 a.m. Saturday in the southwest building of the 23rd Street Office Plaza in Grand Junction. George Graves will discuss animal damage control, Controlling Predator Depredations, at 2 p.m. The annual dinner-dance will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Redlands Community Club.

Qld-car buffs to have dinner, view movie The Colorado West Chapter of the Veterans Motor Car Club of America will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday for a covered-dish dinner at the Palisade Community Center in Palisade Park. The program will be a film from a past Chrome Glidden Tour and looking at everyones VMCCA pictures of bygone days. Newly elected club officers are Dean Rees, president; James Barnes, vice president; and Beth Dismant, secretary-treasurer. Additional board members are George Adams, Freda Fiegel, Anita Morland, Dale Rees, Bonnie Sheperd and Emery White.

Lincoln school single parents to hold meeting The Lincoln Park School Single Parent Support Group will meet at noon Thursday at the Mesa County Federal Teachers Credit Union, 536 Ouray Ave. It is a group for single male and female parents. There will be an additional monthly recreational activity for parents and children. For further information, call 243-5236 or 242-011. For more information on events and meetings, please check items in the Calendar.

-I 'Y 7-i A'Uarty Snonol sue the sale because they wanted to solidity the stations Anancial base, said Jack Olsen, pastor of the free church. The bible college decided to buy KJOL to ensure a continued radio Please check KJOL, page 3B Its difficult for people to admit there is hunger and poverty here, she said. Its Ainny how we can live side by side and not run into each other unless we do it on purpose. But if you sit in a Lift-Up office for very long, youll meet and talk to them, and discover that they may live just a few blocks away, she added. In 1984, Lift-Up shared food, clothing and job leads with 3,700 people, Fitzsimmons said.

About three-quarters were Garfield County residents, while the rest were transients passing through. Without the good will of the communities, we couldnt do this, Fitzsimmons said. She said Colorado Mountain College donated the cottage for the new Glenwood Springs office, asking Lifl-Up only to pay for the utilities. tion Computers isnt a part of that market Being an Value Added Reseller means that we can sell IBM products, but we have to add something to the product," said Rucker. We add a graphics board to the IBM machines we sell.

It's just like being a sales agent for any big company. IBM wants to sell as many computers as they can, and they have different sanctioned programs for their sales. We can sell IBM products and cover the warranty work. Rucker said that Grand Junction Director Jackie Fitzsimmons and volunteers Ruth Pickard and Carla Pronto share food, clothing and job leads with the needy and unemployed. Rifle-based Lift-Up reaches out to help Garfield Countys poor approve rezohing Council to decide on firms request Jam T.

SmBi Daily Sentinel The Grand Junction Planning Commission Tuesday night approved the controversial rezoning of the southeast corner of Patterson Road and 12th Street requested by a Utah grocery chain. Tuesdays 6-1 vote is the second time the commission has approved Smith's Food Drug Management Corp.s request to change the corner residential zone to a business zone. The firm plans to build a store there this spring. Previous approval was given in December, but the Grand Junction City Council heeded the protests of residents and voted down the proposal Jan. 16.

The council told the commission, store representatives and residents to come up with a plan agreeable to all concerned. Residents just south and east of where the store is planned say it will be too close to their properties, and they want the structure farther out toward 12th and Patterson. While many residents simply dont want a grocery store on that corner, proponents say the area has become business oriented. The Village Fair shopping center is across the street to the west of the proposed store and Centennial Plaza is on the northwest corner of the intersection. The areas just south and east of the proposed store remain residential.

City Planning Department Director Karl Metzner, who attended Tuesdays meeting, said a partial compromise was reached. They (store representatives) moved the building 30 feet to the west and agreed to an 8-foot-high berm wall and a 6-foot-high (screen) fence, Metzner said. Please check Rezone, page 3B especially in large cities like Denver, he feels that IBM is causing the problems. IBM isn't all that concerned about how they sell their product, said Rucker. In my estimation the gray market is caused by IBM.

They have requirements on how many computers an authorized dealer can buy. If a dealer buys too much, and can't sell them, IBM wont allow them to tranship the computers to another authorized IBM dealer. So to get rid of them the authorized dealers put them out on the gray market lluSwr MoOfgof Daily Sentinel RIFLE Liff-Up is spreading out, expanding its fight against unemployment and poverty in Garfield County. It makes sense to help people closest to where they live, said Jackie Fitzsimmons, director of the Rifle-based Life Inter-Faith Team against Unemployment and Poverty. Last week, Lifl-Up opened its third branch office, in Glenwood Springs.

And with no publicity, 23 people walked in the door asking for help that first week. There must be a need for this, said Fitzsimmons, who started the organization in 1982 with the help of several Rifle pastors who saw people slipping through the cracks because of the red tape. market at all." Dave Brach, owner and manager of ComputerLand, 644 Main SI, an authorized IBM computer dealer, said both Grand Junction Computers and the Computer Room, 1450 N. 12th SI, are selling IBM computers on the gray market, a term used to identify unauthorized sales of any type. Rucker and Mike Nevins of the Computer Room took exception to a story published Sunday in Dmay Mantini.

In the story, Brach complained of local unauthorized gray market computer sales of IBM products. Rucker said Grand Junc Computer sellers say dealer claims unfounded few Computers is affiliated with Electronics Distributing Co. and has received IBM computers for the last two months from the Sioux City, Iowa, firm. Nevins said the Computer Room is not an authorized IBM dealer, but his company can and does sell and service IBM products. He said the Computer Room offers its own warranty on IBM computers.

Both Nevins and Rucker are authorized dealers for several other brands of computers. Rucker said that while gray market sales are serious in some areas. Sntlfi staff Two Grand Junction computer dealers accused of selling IBM computers on the unauthorized "gray arket" by a local authorized IBM deJaler claim that they are legitimate IBM dealers who can sell and service IBM computers. We are as authorized as anybody, said Chris Rucker of Grand Junction Computers, 2923 North Ave. has a number of different sanctioned sales programs.

We are a Value Added Reseller, and we are de.aler-affiliated. Our sales aren't cons idered to be on the gray i 1.