The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 6

THE KANSAS CITY STAR Monday evenipg January 25 1982 State Edition 30 pages 25c Congress convenes amid speculation about tax increases Snow parking zone An aerial photograph of a parking lot in Norfolk about 300 miles from Kansas shows the foot of snow the Nebraska community received But Rep Jack Kemp a New York Republican has led a vocal lobbying effort to get the president to reject the advice that increased taxes are necessary to cut deficits Mr Reagan reportedly has settled on $31 billion in spending cuts for 1983 more than half of that to come from domestic programs But after he initially accepted a plan last week to raise excise taxes administration sources said the president had the next day Republican leaders in Congress contend the president has cut all he can expect from hundreds of domestic programs and have warned Mr Reagan against expecting a replay of last budget cuts partly because it will be tougher for him to hold the support of moderate and liberal Republicans whose districts have been hit by the recession Mr Baker said Sunday it was his impression after a telephone conversation with the president that Mr Reagan be leaning requesting higher excise taxes I do think that we owe the obligation to look around and see if some way to reduce those Mr Baker added taxes on the necessities of life but to look around for some sort of luxury tax concept some loopholes to close Mr Baker emphasized however that major elements of the tax cut enacted last year will remain intact "The House and Senate finally will agree to some loophole closing perhaps some revenue enhancement but I do not expect tljat going to change in a fundamehtal way the tax package adopted last Mr Baker predicted on the Mr Reagan is expected to unveil a flan to carry out his having the federal government swap major social welfare programs with the states and turn over as many as 40 smaller programs to state governments Although Congress is again set to grap- Kle with economic issues Mr Baker said will try to schedule debate early in the session on the emotional like abortion busing and prayer in public schools during the weekend part of a major winter storm that skirted the Kansas City area Rel a lated story on page By The Associated Press mm The 97th Congress mMm returned to work today with its WW optimism drowned in red ink and legislators reluctantly talking of election-year tax increases to trim projected deficits That painful prospect comes within weeks of final votes on record tax and spending cuts that President Reagan and ms followers in Congress had hoped would lead to a balanced budget the economic theory would say with the country in recession you need new Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr of Tennessee said Sunday also every fiber of my politcal body says that when facing a $100 billion deficit you ought to try to do something about it Republicans and Democrats agree that election-year concern over an economy mired in recession rising unemployment and projected record budget deficits will make it more difficult for Mr Reagan to get this session of Congress to do his economic bidding That atmosphere also could make it difficult for Congress to take any substantive action likely to be a very highly partisan volatile said Rep James Jones an Oklahoma Democrat who is chairman of the House Budget Committee a condition like that responsibility and substance usually take a back The House and Senate were to convene at noon today ending a six-week recess But the first major event will be Tuesday evening when legislators gather in the House chamber for a joint session to hear the State of the Union address during which he will outline his plans for the coming year Mr complete budget plan is to be submitted to Congress Feb 8 and many top Republicans in Congress have urged him to seek higher taxes to trim deficits deficits in fiscal years 1983 and 1964 are just not acceptable economically or Sen Bob Dole the Kansas Republican who heads the Senate Finance Committee warned 10A (Associated Press) At hotels near airport hard times check in By Deborah Singer rooms Parker said he never saw anything quite possibly have gone ahead like 1981 with the expansion with the economic cli- year was the pits he said staff writer and were what call your bumper crop Mr Parker the only hotel operator to speak disparagingly of the situation the airport hotels are facing unhappy the way business has said Maurice Bluhm president of the Hilton Airport Plaza Inn and the Hilton Plaza Inn He said after KCI was built all had great expectations Jean OyLear manager of the Best Western Airport Motor Inn said business is off there too She said hotel operators expected the 1980 pennant-winning Roy- See Hotels pg 5A col 1 mate the way it said Bruce MacLel-lan general manager of the Marriott Hotel the only hotel located on KCI grounds would have done us absolutely no good to build a hotel we In an unhappy parallel to the plight of the automobile industry and the businesses it sustains firms that depend on the slumping air travel industry are struggling to keep ahead of the recession are tough out at Jerry Parker general manager of the Holiday Inn said is no business I would consider this a In his five years as hotel manager Mr Cows were pushed aside a decade ago to make room for an airport in the rolling Platte County hills and hotels were built to make room for the hordes of travelers expected to descend on Kansas City But for all the business these days at the five hotels near Kansas City International Airport the cows might as well come home As an example of problems that have befallen the luxury hotels the City Council earlier this month agreed to release the Marriott Corp from part of its contract with the city that called for the 265-room hotel to expand ultimately to 650 tests faith of freed man in system Reagan judicial appointments on trial Conservatives say administration misses opportunity But they made it clear their opposition went well beyond Sandra whose appointment as the newest Supreme Court justice angered some Reagan supporters Howard Phillips national director of the Conservative Caucus faulted the Justice suggestions as being a disappointment" no administration stamp on the he said last week not taking advantage of the opportunity they have to undo the damage the Carter administration did to the federal judiciary would characterize it as a missed said Paul Weyrich head of the conservative Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress The growing conservative dissatisfaction with Mr judicial nominations was reflected recently in Missouri when conservative Republicans were credited with halting the imminent nomination of Judith Whittaker a Kansas City corporate lawyer to the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals But not just conservatives who are unhappy with Mr first-year record of 41 judges The record also has been attacked from the left from special-interest groups who say that too few women and minorities have been nominated Of 41 confirmations at the district and appeals court levels one judge was a woman one a black The Carter administration had the unprecedented opportunity to appoint more than a third of the federal bench Aided by Congress which authorized 152 new federal judgeships it named 265 of the 648 judges As in previous administrations most of the judges reflected the Slitical in the Carter case imocratic And more than ever before more of the appointees during the Carter years were women and blacks Five months after Mr Reagan took See Judges pg 5 A col 5 most detectives is accustomed to the altar-boy behavior and halos some burglars put on when arrested kept trying to get me to admit Mr Blanton said made it seem like I was trying to fool him We really get along too well After an hour or so he was returned to the paddy wagon and delivered to the city jail atop police headquarters Jailers took his fingerprints They stood him against a wall and photographed him The afternoon slipped into evening He slept on an unadorned steel-frame bed Guards rousted him at 5:30 am Breakfast was cold cup of coffee and a cold hard He was handcuffed to two other prisoners and marched past rush-hour crowds into Jackson County Circuit Court where a judge told him he was being charged with second-degree burglary Bond was set at $3000 Then he was taken to the county jail In the jail that afternoon he was getting ready to put on an inmate uniform when See Rap pg 5A col 3 By Andrew Miller The Washington corespondent A year after it rewrote the Carter method of picking federal judges the Reagan administration has angered some of its most stalwart conservative supporters with its judicial appointments Conservatives look at the first 41 confirmations of federal district and appeals court judges and see too many new judges who conform to President vision of The old-line and New Right conservatives solidified their concerns last week at a meeting in Washington charging that the Justice Department is suggesting nominees to the White House without regard to "the themes enunciated by the president in his Conservatives say which judges conservative enough By Gregory Reeves stall writer The jail inmates all laughed at Charlie Blanton when he told them he didn commit the burglary They laughed more when he said he was sprawled on the floor of a home at 5607 Garfield Ave fixing her television set when a policeman entered the room and asked him to step outside And they laughed again when he said a man he had never seen then pointed at him and told the officer 1 the one Mr Blanton 23 a high school graduate and trained electronics technician who works 11 hours a day as an attendant at a Downtown parking lot had never been arrested previously His neighbor with the defective TV set Gloria Hudson vouched for his presence But he was spread-eagled searched handcuffed loaded into a paddy wagon and hauled to the 63rd Street police station There he was interviewed by a burglary detective Andrew Braden who like Different selection methods used in Missouri Kansas Cuts may have ill effects on hospitals officials say tional route of talking to persons around the state and meeting top GOP leaders before sending the administration two picks for one judgeship Aides to Mr Dole and Mrs Kassebaum said the Carter administration never really was interested in Republican judges even when the Kansas panel recommended one an attempt to get away from politics was just turned by the (Carter) adminstration and the Justice Department into a political said Mike Harper Mrs Kassebaum chief Kansas aide The aides said that Sam Crow the nominee eventually picked last year already had been a top pick of the Kansas panel but had been passed over by the Carter administration He is now confirmed as a federal judge in recommendations Sen Jack Danforth a Missouri Republican took the opposite stance once the political pendulum swung his way He said federal judges should not gain their seats by virtue of a and formed a commission Mr Danforth commission generally recommended three names for each judgeship leaving it up to the senator to make the final recommendation to the Justice Department By contrast the Kansas congressional delegation during the Carter administration formed a merit selection panel Republican Sens Bob Dole and Nancy Landon Kassebaum and Democratic Rep Dan Glickman fought only to take credit for establishing the panel With the new administration however the two Republican senators form a panel They took the more tradi By Andrew Miller The Star's Washington correspondent jt When the Reagan lMf administration reduced the WW emphasis on encouraging senators to use citizens panels to help them select district court judge nominees there were different results in Missouri and Kansas Senators from 31 states used so-called selection during the Carter administration which heavily lobbied senators to use the panels Although no one is keeping records today that number apparently has dwindled to fewer than 10 states Missouri is an exception to the rule During the Carter administration Sen Tom Eagleton a Democrat from Missouri refused to appoint a citizens panel He called them and said he would stand accountable for his hospitals we can do tjiat with but others need to be reviewed annually not Some programs like home health care agencies ana renal dialysis facilities will not be inspected at all unless they have just opened or a complaint is filed against them he said Inspectors ensure that institutions have enough qualified staff that facilities and equipment are in good shape and that good heath care procedures are be-ing followed On Tuesday officials from Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Iowa will meet with federal officials in Kansas City to See Hospitals pg 5 A col 3 By Brant Houston stall writei Robert Gillilan is worried more than usual about the health of hos pitals As director of the Missouri Bureau of Hospital Licensing and 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