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PAGE 2B-CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI-64601 CHILLICOTHE CONSTITUTION-TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19M Kleenex heir's wife denies having encounters with Roxanne Pulitzer Dawn Items WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) The young wife of Kleenex-fortune heir James Kimberly strode into court in the Pulitzer divorce trial and called accusations that she had lesbian encounters with Roxanne Pulitzer "an absolute lie." "It's unfair. It's cruel and malicious," Jacqueline Kimberly said, her' soft Southern drawl growing louder with each word. "Yes, ma'am. I understand," said Palm Beach Circuit Judge Carl Harper, who is hearing the divorce-child custody case of Peter and Roxanne Pulitzer without a jury.

Mrs. Kimberly, 32, a dark- haired woman wearing a white tweed suit, appeared on the arm of her attorney Tues- day as Mrs. Pulitzer's lawyers began calling witnesses in the 10-day-old i a which resumes today. Pulitzer, 52-year-old grandson of publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer, seeks a divorce from his wife of 6 years and custody of their twin 5-year-old boys. His wife, a 31-year-old former secretary, wants to keep the kids as well as a share of her husband's fortune.

Pulitzer owns hotels in Miami Beach and Amsterdam, as well as orange groves and a bowling alley, and claims he is worth $2.6 million, $1.5 million less than when he met and married his wife. Mrs. Pulitzer's attorneys say Pulitzer's property, including a 73-foot yacht and a Palm Beach home with a half- dozen servants, is worth $25 million. Allegations of incest, affairs, lesbianism and three- way sex, as well as cocaine abuse and occult practices, have been bandied back and forth in the tiny hearing room. Only nine reporters and a television camera are allowed in each day.

In tense testimony Tuesday, Mrs. Kimberly took the stand for 35 minutes, much of the time taken by numerous objections by attorneys in the case. "Have you ever had sexual intercourse in a lesbian way with Roxanne Pulitzer?" Robert Scott, Pulitzer's attorney, asked. "No," Mrs. i replied.

"Have you ever been in the Pulitzer bed naked with Mrs. Pulitzer naked at the same time? "he persisted. "You're disgusting," she retorted. In pretrial depositions, Pulitzer testified that his wife and Mrs. Kimberly "jump into bed" together when their husbands leave town.

Mrs. Kimberly and her 76-year-old husband, of the Kimberly- Clark Kleenex family, are Palm Beach neighbors of the Pulitzers. Kimberly has not testified in the case. Pulitzer's wife has denied liaisons. She also denies her husband's claim she had affairs with four men, inc i a real estate salesman, a French bakery owner and Grand Prix race driver Jackie Ickx.

Government, manufacturers hope consumers pull nation from recession NEW YORK (AP) To. those struggling to keep abreast of bills, often without a job to help finance the effort, it must seem incredibly naive to hear it said again and again: The consumer will spend us out of the recession. The Reagan administration, promising recovery, says it. Manufacturers pray for it. Brokers assure their customers it will occur.

Economists proclaim it in their seemingly erudite but often revised analyses of the marketplace. Why? Because, it is admitted by many of those who continue to make the forecast, the consumer offers the only immediate possibility for recovery before the end of the year, remote as that possibility may be. Other candidates for lead- ersliip have bowed out. The federal government is seeking to hold down spending. Business is loaded with debt and dares not spend for expansion.

State and local governments just haven't got the money. On the other hand, some sets of statistics suggest that the consumer segment is in the best position of all to spend, having reduced its installment debt, raised its savings rate, and benefitted from more disposable income. Not by much, to be sure, but enough to give hope. In the consumer there is hope, and hope, therefore, has become the basis of many forecasts, especially those made by political figures and by those who otherwise are seeking to sell something, such as carmakers and stock brokers. But now the suspicion is growing that, despite the apparent statistical evidence, the consumer may have neither the means nor the willingness to comply with the expectations.

A breakdown of the statistics reveals weaknesses. While disposable income has risen, for example, not all has gone into the pockets of consumers, and so is not available for spending. Much interest income is tied up; it cannot be used for spending without incurring penalties. Aggregate numbers for savings or income, for example can also be skewed by extremes. Wealthy consumers have the ability to earn large amounts of interest.

But the unemployed, those working reduced hours, and those who have given up looking about 17 million may have little or no interest income. Some consumers also have enjoyed other additions to their assets that cannot be touched. Into this category fall employer contributions to pension and insurance programs and more rarely, delayed compensation plans. Moreover, while many families have enhanced their assets over the past few years they have done so by stretching their budgets to the limit. And many of these are the same people that Detroit had hoped would buy automobiles.

Besides ability or inability to another consideration is getting renewed attention. That is, many consumers have expressed their lack of willingness to spend regardless of their financial position. They insecure. Operation's success leads doctor to predict wide-spread use of procedure COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -The success of two operations using a catheter and a balloon to enlarge an abnormally narrowed heart valve has caused a doctor to predict that the new procedure will gain wider use.

"I predict that this will be a routine procedure in opening most obstructed valves and arteries in patients at any age," said Dr. Zuhdi Lababidi, director of pediatric cardiology and professor of child health at the University of Missouri-Columbia Hospital and Clinics. "Even if the valve is not open fully, we can buy time before open-heart surgery is required," Lababidi said. Two children a 2-year-old boy and a 1-year-old girl became the first patients in the Midwest to undergo the procedure. Hospital officials say the operations last month spared the children significant risk, time and expense.

"We were very frightened, but we felt it was a risk we had to take," Deborah Frank, the mother of 2-year-old Casey Frank of Jefferson City, said Tuesday during a news conference at the hospital. Casey underwent the procedure Sept. 21. Six days later, 1-year-old Ashley Creason of Columbia underwent a similar operation. Both now lead normal lives and will not face open-heart surgery in tne future.

Lababidi became the first person to use the.new technique Johns- Hopkins University in Baltimore, where the procedure was attempted for the first time earlier in September. The procedure balloon valvuloplasty is an alternative to surgery on the heart. One out of every 100 children is born with a congenital heart defect. Pulmonary valve ste- nosis, an extreme narrowing of the valve leading from the heart to the lungs, is the cause of seven percent of such heart defects. The mortality rate for newborns and infants undergoing open heart surgery is nerly 50 percent, while the rate for older children is five percent to 10 percent.

The four-hour' operation can lead to a two-week hospital stay and cost up to $30,000. The balloon catheterization technique, however, requires only 45 minutes and overnight hospitalization at a cost of up to $2,000. Using the new technique, Lababidi inserts a needle in a large vein in the child's right leg. He then threads a fine 3-foot-long wire, through the needle, into the child's heart and through the constricted valve. A specially designed catheter is passed over the guide wire and the deflated balloon, is positioned in the narrow valve.

The balloon then is inflated to a length of IVfe inches and a diameter of one-half an inch. The balloon is inflated six times for five seconds each time because it completely obstructs blood flow from the heart to the lungs. Pressure in the heart chamber drops significantly following the procedure to a near- normal level. Unemployment becomes issue in November election WASHINGTON A With new unemployment figures due Friday, Republicans are trying to limit the political damage from the high jobless rate while Democrats scramble to turn the statistics to their advantage in next month's elections. President Reagan has tried to pin the blame for the nation's soaring unemployment rate on the policies of previous Democratic office-holders.

Democrats have been just as relentless in trying to paint the administration's economic policies as the villain. The tempo of charges and countercharges is expected to reach a crescendo when the September figures are released, the last set of statistics before Nov. 2. Unemployment stood at 9.8 percent in August, but many experts predict the new figures may top the politically sensitive 10 percent mark. MHOS GOOD OCT.

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John Busby returned home having spent four days of sightseeing in the area of the Bad Lands and Mount Rushmore. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Busby and family of Blue Springs spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.

John Busby. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Pratt spent the weekend in Ames, guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Clemens. Mrs. Fannie Wisely spent from Friday until Sunday in the home of Mrs. Era Shields. Mrs.

Novella Robinson joined the ladies for lunch on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Anderson and Mrs. Margaret Ewing were afternoon callers on Sunday in the home of Mrs.

Era Shields. Larry Fields, Brookfield spent the weekend with his mother Mrs. Winifred Fields. Natalie Lewis, Warrensburg was a weekend visitor in the parental home of Mr. and Mrs.

John Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Woods of Meadville spent Sunday afternoon in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Ted Bealer. Mrs. Sophia Austin and Mrs. Anna Bryan were among those who attended a quilt show sponsored by the Quitters Guild. The showing was at Crown Center in Kansas City and is a yearly event.

Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Morse spent Saturday with Mrs. Carrie Garst. The "Wildcat Express," a bulletin for the Southwest families, was in the mail last week.

Everyone is appreciative for the work involved in compiling the issue. Even though some families have no children in school, this is a means of keeping abreast of the different activities at Southwest. Thanks from all of us to all of you. Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Bon- a i were weekend visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bondurant and family. Mrs. Don Jones of Kansas City has visited in the home of Mr: and Mrs.

David Jones, getting acquainted with the new grandson, Cohlby Jones. Mrs. Florence Stephenson spent a few days last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Damerell.

On the afternoon of Oct. 2 the basement of the Ludlow Community church was the setting baby honoring baby Cohlby Jones, small son of Mr. and Mrs. David Jones. There were 71 present for Sunday School at Ludlow Communtiy church.

Special recognition was given Timmie Smith, Cade Thompson, and Mrs. Helen Hughes who were celebrating birthday anniversaries. Pastor Joe Brown brought a good message with text chosen from Romans. Bible study was held at 2 p.m. Childrens Church was held with 17 in attendance.

Director Mrs. Jan Brown was in charge. All children are invited to attend. There were 17 present for Sunday school at Ludlow Baptist Chapel with Bro. Ralph Tomak, District Missionary, serving Linn-Livingston counties, bringing the message.

Bro. Larry Reeter is on vacation. There were seven present for evening services, with Bro. Tomak in charge. Texts were chosen from Acts and Peter I.

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He says let's stay to the course. Any wise 'mariner would try to get out of the storm and salvage the ship of state." With House Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas and Whip Thomas S. Foley of Washington looking on, O'Neill said he wanted to use the occasion to make clear that the training bill "will not provide a single job," as would a public works jobs bill that Democratic leaders have been pushing. For more than 100 yean, the speaker of the House and the presiding officer of the Senate sign in a routine fashion -all legislation which Congress sends to the White House.for the president's signature. Veteran House aides said they, could not recall to much fanfare surrounding the chore.

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