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Saturday September 24, 1994 Vol. 97, No. 282 35 j. Iola. KS 66749 Eight Pages Tfta EeMsteir Dole: GATT vote is possibility i GATT as a last opportunity for legislative victory before the November elections.

This is sort of the way he wants to end the year, Dole said. I dont think it will hurt to wait until next year. It could pass. Its going to be close. The 123-nation GATT accord is touted by supporters as a way to cut tariffs worldwide, open markets to U.S.

products and slash the prices paid by American consumers for foreign goods. To take effect, each nation must act on the treaty by June 30. Several obstacles must be overcome if GATT is to pass in the next couple of weeks, Dole said. Dole, whose home state of Kansas is vitally concerned with agricultural and aviation exports, said questions about GATT include whether agriculture cuts will help pay for it, how to resolve a dispute in the (Continued page 8, column 3) WASHINGTON (AP) Congress could still vote on a new international trade treaty sought by President Clinton before adjourning next month, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said Friday. But Republicans have a lot of questions about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

There are a lot of problems with GATT. Nobodys even looked at it, said Dole, R-Kan. If they send it up here and a lot of these issues arent resolved, theres going to be a lot of opposition. Last month, Dole suggested a vote on GATT be postponed until next year, a sentiment echoed by Democratic Rep. Dan Glickman of Kansas and other lawmakers.

With health reform, campaign reform and other major domestic issues bogged down and unlikely to pass before Congress leaves for the year around Oct. 7, Clinton has focused on RegisterBruce Symes James Karen reads the Buster Keaton marker in Piqua Friday morning as Clyde Toland, a member of the Buster Keaton Celebration Committee, looks on. Eleanor Keaton, Busters widow, is preparing to take a photograph international Keaton society, Keith Goering watch. while Patty Tobias, founder of an and Keaton Committee member birthplace revisited Buster Keaton Celebration Today at Bowlus Fine Arts Center Changes made in Clinton staff ms i a1 1 i ton society 2 p.m. Sherlock, Jr.

3 p.m. Wes Gehring, Ball State University 4 p.m. Panel discussion by Tibbetts, Gehring, Tobias and Kenneth Mars, moderated by Krebs 5:30 p.m. Dinner break 7:30 p.m. Short film Frozen North and feature film The Cameraman, piano accompaniment by Paul Fredrocks Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

They were accompanied to Piqua, birthplace of the late Buster WASHINGTON (AP) Moving to put a sharper edge on President Clintons message to the American people, the White House announced a major sha-keup on Friday involving two dozen of its key players. Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said the realignment was intended to impose discipline on the staff, end a series of embarrassing mistakes and ensure greater focus and greater long term planning." Panetta himself was in an mbarrassing spot: It had been cost lawmaker Taxman calls on Kansas drug dealers 9 a.m. Registration 9:20 a.m. Welcome and introductions 9:30 a.m. Fred Krebs, Johnson County Community College 10 a.m.

John Tibbetts, University of Kansas, The Playhouse 11:15 a.m. Eleanor Keaton and James Karen Noon Lunch break 1 p.m. Patty Tobias, founder of international Kea ren, the day before to take part in the second annual Buster Keaton Celebration today at the Strengths WASHINGTON Quiz Show, the masterful Robert Redford movie about hypocrisy in television and American life, ends with a shot of the U.S. Capitol and an idealistic young congressional investigator being told that the politicians he works for are no better than the 1950s TV executives he has just exposed as cheaters and fixers. It was ironic that at the very hour Tuesday evening when Redford was joining a Washington round table about the 1990s implications of his film, votes were being counted in an Oklahoma runoff primary that ended the Capitol Hill career of Rep.

Mike Synar (D), a legislator who is the antithesis of everything the Redford film suggests is characteristic of the corporate boardrooms and political back rooms. The Synar story could be the subject of the next Redford movie, if he wants to provide an antidote for the cynical sleazes of Quiz Show. Keaton Eleanor Keaton recalls 1957 stop in Piqua By BRUCE SYMES Register Wire Editor It had been some time since Eleanor Keaton visited Piqua. But as she rode into the Woodson County town Friday she was greeted by many smiling faces that would be welcomed at any formal homecoming. Come back again, Eleanor, Bill Linde of Yates Center said after Mrs.

Keaton toured the Buster Keaton Museum. You have friends here. She arrived in Iola, along with longtime friend James Ka- Inside Local news Society, court, miscellaneous, calendar of events and other news. Page 2. Dear Abby How should travel expenses be shared among friends? Page 8.

Sports Area high school football results are reported. Pages 4 and 5. Weather: cloudy Today, a 30 percent chance for showers. Cloudy with a high around 60. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.

Tonight, a 30 percent chance for showers. Cloudy with a low 45 to 50. Sunday, mostly cloudy. High 70 to 75. Monday, a chance for showers.

Highs in the upper 60s. Iola, its Last Saturday I mentioned that John Hall, Columbia, is putting together a history of the old KOM (Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri) League. Iola was a member of tbe baseball minor league for several years. Don Riley, who keeps a nifty tavern in the north part of town, saw the article and remembered a fellow who had stopped by his place with some information about his father, who pitched for the Iola Indians in 1952. Some older baseball fans likely will remember Bill Wigle.

Wigle, who died in 1984, was quite an athlete and a highly respected community member in his hometown of Amherstburg, Canada. In 1952, his only year in Iola, Wigle won 20 of 25 decisions. The southpaw worked 213 innings, gave up 188 hits, walked Keaton, by a host of others associated with the weekend event. Earlier, Mrs. Keaton had related the story of her previous visit to the town where her late husband was born in 1895 and lived the first two weeks of his life.

The Keatons had performed at the 1957 Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson and were traveling to Missouri to do another state fair show. He was asleep and I was driving, she said. All of a sudden I hit the brakes. He said, My God, did you hit a Mrs. Keaton turned the car around and drove back to the just-passed city.

I said, Look! and it was the (Continued page 3, column 1) mittee, said, Above all, Mike was willing to take on the powerful interests, the folks who are going to come after you if you cause them trouble." Synar was also a consensus-builder. On environmental issues, on product-liability legislation, he and Dennis Eck-art, an equally youthful Ohio Democrat who retired voluntarily in 1992, were often the brokers who negotiated agreements among polarized Energy and Commerce members. Synar was intensely partisan, tough in debate. He had a sideline vocation recruiting candidates for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. A committee aide who traveled often with Synar on those trips recalled last week that, Mike was an ideal recruiter, because he was what almost every young Democrat wants to be intelligent, idealistic and vibrantly enthusiastic about (Continued page 3, column 1) leagues in Amherstburg.

He was an outstanding bowler himself. During the 1956-57 season, for example, his bowling average was 191.4 pins per game. Wigle served on the Amherstburg town council for seven years and was, his son said, one of the most well-known and respected men in town. After his death, the Amherstburg park was named Wigle Park. EVERY CALLING is great when greatly pursued.

And better we are if we remember to respect that which each person holds dear. CONSERVATIONISTS have derailed efforts to mount a huge telescope on a high spot in a national forest. They fear the construction would disturb a rare widely reported that he had recommended replacement of press secretary Dee Dee Myers. She made a successful 11th hour appeal to the president Thursday night to avoid being unceremoniously brushed aside. Myers, 33, is known to have told friends she intends to leave the White House staff by the end of the year.

Myers had been widely expected to be replaced by State (Continued page 8, column 3) is a moneymaking business, its part of the underground economy. And just because its illegal it should not be exempt from taxation, said Dean Reynoldson, criminal fraud unit manager at for the state ABC. Failure to pay for the stamps can result in both civil and criminal procedures against drug dealers. Prosecutors can seek a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for failure to pay the tax, a charge frequently dropped during plea bargains. Despite that, as of Sept.

1, 99 inmates were serving time, in part, for violating the states drug tax. The state Department of Revenue also can place liens (Continued page 8, column 1) rents carried the lead throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Tests on deeply buried ice in Greenland revealed high levels of lead. The vanity of the Greco-Roman gang is partly responsible then for the levels of lead in humans being 1,000 times greater today than in early days of mankind. ONE LAST NOTE on world news.

Fossilized remains found in Ethiopia suggest that man had his start 4.4 million years ago. If the dating is accurate, that means the dawn of nun has been pushed back four-fold in the last decade or two. And, if it is true that life on earth developed 3.5 billion years ago, our influence has been but a blink of an eye on the good planets timeline. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Even drug dealers cant escape the tax man.

The Kansas Legislature created a drug stamp tax in 1987, requiring those who sell illegal drugs marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD to buy stamps and affix them to containers holding the drugs. Enforcement was sporadic until about 1990, when the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control criminal fraud unit was created. But since then, the Department of Revenue has sold almost $3,000 worth of drug stamps, state auditor Dixie Smith says. The state also has collected back drug taxes from 1,200 people almost $1 million worth last year alone. The philosophy behind the drug tax is drug dealing red squirrel.

That reminds me of the spotted owl controversy in the Northwest. Logging has been stopped or delayed to preserve the habitat of the endangered owl. One lumberjack, I heard, said he was sympathetic to the spotted owl cause and proposed a way to preserve the feathered nocturnal hunters. Put them in a vat of formaldehyde, he suggested. ANOTHER STORY making the rounds on the wire services this week noted that lead pollution of the atmosphere started much earlier than had been thought.

About 500 B.C. the Greeks and Romans began smelting operations to refine silver. A byproduct was the discharge of lead vapor into the air. Air cur residents impressed minor leaguer Literally an Okie from Muskogee, who came to Congress at 28 by beating a notably un-distinquished Democratic incumbent, Synar quickly earned a reputation as a workhorse who was ready to take on the toughest issues a congressman from a conservative, rural district could tackle. In his first year, 1979, he led a fight to strengthen the open housing civil rights law.

He supported gun-control legislation. He pressed relentlessly for tighter federal regulation of cigarettes. He battled cattle interests to raise the grazing fees on public lands in the West. Rep. Ron Wyden who served with him on the Energy and Commerce Com numerous towns and cities and none can reach the standards of your Iola.

The friendliness and the home-like spirit paid me in Iola will always find a warm spot in my heart. Wigle was a highly-regarded prospect in the early 1940s in Canada, but, like so many others, his shot at the bigs was dimmed by World War II. He served in the Canadian army and pitched for it in Europe in 1944-45. After the war Wigle signed a professional contract with the Detroit Tigers and pitched with minor league clubs in Jamestown, N.Y., Hagerstown, Danville, Fort Lauderdale and Iola. In 1954 he opened a sports shop in his hometown and later a bowling alley.

He was instrumental in starting both youth baseball and junior bowling At Weeks End Bob Johnson 83 and struck out 141. In the league with Iola that year were Independence and Pittsburg and Blackwell, Ponca City and Miami in Oklahoma. In other years teams in Missouri including Carthage where Hall was a batboy in 1951 were members. Wigle was impressed with Iola during his stay and corresponded with friends he made. One New Years greeting, sent to Earl Sifers, owner of the Indians, made its way into The Register.

Wigle wrote: In my baseball experience I have played in I.