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football in PREVIEW Bloomington 16 Urbana 6 NCHS41 S. Southeast 14 High 14 St. Bede 8 Central 31 Monticello 0 "ParmigianaV delights Gourmet osts and ghouls: a Halloween primer 3 irn.it fje gaily anlt arap I) 1 1 1 JkrU Twin Cities Final 25c Bloomington-Normal, Saturday, October 30, 1982 52 pages, 3 sections cosmic iimdex sloaht shows WASHINGTON (AP) The government's main gauge of future economic health rose a modest 0.5 percent last month, officials said yesterday. President Reagan quickly seized on the report as "another patch of blue" proving recovery from the recession, but private economists were not so sure. The new increase in the Index of Leading Indicators following a 0.2 percent August decline was the fifth gain in six months, the Commerce Department report said.

It also said the accompanying Index of Coincident Indicators showing where the economy actually was in September rather than where it might be going dropped 0.8 percent to a new low point for the recession. The president, whose economic jSf I I il J' Hot dogs recalled, razor blades found photoMARC FEATHERLY Guitarist Paul Kantner, left, of Jefferson Starship and the Rev. Wesley Ates, pastor of First Pentecostal Church, Bloomington, squared off yesterday. The rocker vs. the preacher policies are a main issue in Tuesday's congressional elections, embraced the first part of the report without mentioning the second.

In remarks prepared for a campaign stop in Salt Lake City, Reagan said: "This morning, Americans awoke to see another patch of blue. The leading indicators, which measure the vital life signs of our economy to forecast its future direction, were up in September. "Pretty soon, even the die-hard doom-peddlers will have to admit it: America is on her way back, and we will lead the way out of this worldwide recession." Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige was a bit more restrained in his comments back in Washington, but he did say the index in In Peoria Heights, Police Chief Mike McCoy, said a darning needle was discovered Thursday in a tube of diaper rash ointment by a babysitter. McCoy said the sitter received a scratch from the needle about 2Vi inches long which protruded from the end of the tube. The child in her care was unhurt.

McCoy said the ointment was purchased about three weeks ago at a Peoria drugstore, and a further check of other such tubes at the store failed to produce any sign of tampering. Nationwide, 36 confirmed cases of food and drug tampering and hundreds of false alarms have been reported since the seven Tylenol killings a month ago in Chicago, raising new concern about the celebration that makes fun of fright. The president of Carnival Products Inc. yesterday ordered the recall of more than one million of its caramel apples in the Dakotas, Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin after a child found the pin in it while eating the candied fruit. The youngster was not hurt.

Peggy Lawton Fudge Brownies were removed from store shelves and emptied out of vending machines in four New England states yesterday because of a white Demerol pill that fell out of a brownie purchased Thursday by Mrs. Valley. In Washington, Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, pledged that emergency legislation will be introduced next month, when Congress returns, to make it a federal crime to tamper with food, drugs or cosmetics. Associated Press rise crease "strengthens the prospect that recovery is near." The president concentrated on the overall leading indicators increase.

But private economists noted that a main reason the index went up was that stock prices had soared in September. "That reflects a growing belief in American business that some kind of recovery is in fact out there," and therefore is indeed a positive sign, said Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources Inc. The index is designed to forecast trends in the overall economy. And in the past, several months of gains have heralded the ends of recessions. However, those monthly increases were usually much bigger than the ones recorded since March.

Anacin removed in Fairbury By SCOTT RICHARDSON and DON THOMPSON Pantograph staff Authorities from McLean and Livingston counties said yesterday irregularities have been found in five bottles of Anacin Maximum-Strength Capsules at a Fairbury store, but they said the discovery should not cause undue concern. The irregularities came to light after a McLean County resident purchased a 36-count bottle of maximum-strength Anacin from lot number 2C03 this week at Dave's Supermarket and discovered 41 capsules inside. The protective cotton stuffing usually found in medicine bottles was missing. The bottle was turned into McLean County sheriff's police Thursday, according to Sheriff Steve Brienen. Livingston County sheriff's police then went to the store and checked other bottles, including those with the original lot number and lot number 2C05.

They found four more containing more capsules than the 36-count. Three of those did not contain cotton, Brienen said. All were in sealed boxes, Liv-inston County sheriff's police said. See ANACIN, next page Salvador is making progress in human rights as a condition for continuing the aid. The next certification is due in January.

"El Salvador must make substantial progress in bringing the murderers of our citizens, including those who ordered the murders, to justice; in advancing human rights; and in controlling the abuses of some elements of the security forces," Hinton said. Hinton took care not to attack specifically the government of President Alvaro Magana or blame it for what he called wanton murder by extremists of the left and right. But his remarks clearly chided the government for failing to live up to commitments on human rights. w.thieon Post shag style. "I don't believe in Satan any more than I do God," Kantner said.

"Jesus works for a lot of people have seen many lights but not that particular one. I'm an open person. I write about what's going on around me. I don't believe in marriage. In my case, yes, I condone the use of drugs.

But, I've given them up. I learned a lot from drugs." On the other hand, there was the Rev. Wesley Ates, pastor of First Pentecostal Church, Bloomington. Michel By MARY ANN FLICK Pantograph staff Their appearances were as different as their views about Christianity and rock'n'roll. On the one hand, there was Paul Kantner, lead guitarist of and spokesman for music group Jefferson Starship which performed at Illinois State University last night.

He was wearing blue jeans, boots, a troubadour-type shirt and rimless glasses. His blond hair was cut in a f0)AY 146th Year. 303rd Day THE WEATHER Partly sunny today. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Partly cloudy tonight.

Lows in the low 40s. Mostly cloudy and cooler Sunday. Highs around 60. Complete weather on B5 job, says Ford With the Halloween weekend fast approaching, authorities yesterday reported seven separate incidents of apparent tampering with products in six Illinois towns. No one was reported injured in any of the incidents.

Meanwhile, a Michigan processor has Voluntarily recalled all Hygrade Ballpark Franks from at least five states, including Illinois, after two consumers found razor blades in frankfurters, the Agriculture Department said yesterday. The blades appeared to have been put in the franks by a "misguided employee" who has not been caught, officials said. The packages were intact when they reached the consumers, the agency reported. The franks were produced by Hygrade Food Products Corp. of Livonia, a suburb of Detroit, and were distributed in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, "with probably subdistribution to other states," officials said.

The hot dogs can be identified by a yellow "12M" on the edge of the package. In Chicago, an 18-year-old South Side woman was taken to a hospital last night after she bit into a razor blade hidden in a popcorn ball, police said. Lori Kilgore was in good condition at St. Bernard's Hospital and it was a "good possibility" she would be treated and released, said a nursing coordinator who asked that her name not be used. Police in Ottawa said Thursday that a woman found a broken needle in a package of candy bars purchased from a local store.

U.S. gives SAN SALVADOR U.S. Ambassador Deane R. Hinton, departing from the Reagan administration's "quiet diplomacy" on human rights abuses in Latin America, warned Salvadorans in sharp language yesterday that unpunished murders and kidnappings tied to "some elements of the security forces" are endangering U. S.

support for their government. Hinton's warning came in a speech to the U.S.-Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce. U.S. officials said the speech had been cleared by Washington, and it seemed designed as a particular expression of concern over the arrest of eight leftist activists and the abductions of others over the last two weeks. "Neither internal confidence nor His attire consisted of a three-piece suit, a crisp shirt and a tie.

His short hair had been carefully combed in place. "Rock'n'roll alienates youth from their parents. Paul Kantner and Grace Slick (a vocalist for the group) advocate broadening the gap between youth and their parents. They advocate the use of drugs. They perpetuate the spread of ven-eral disease.

They're raping the See DEBATE, next page knows Ford, looking younger than his 69 years, spoke to about 1,500 people at the gymnasium at the Pekin High School east campus before attending a reception and answering questions from the press at the Dirksen Center. In both appearances, he gave Reaganomics his solid approval. Ford lost an election to Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976, and he said Carter left President Reagan a country with economic "pneumonia" which needed "strong medicine." He said that since Reagan took office, interest rates for business and consumers have come down, inflation is under control, and "they're going down further because the medicine applied by President Reagan was basically right." Ford predicted that if the Reagan course is adhered to, unemployment, now at 10.1 percent nationwide and 12.5 percent in Illinois, would show "discernible improvement" in "the next month or two," and he further predicted a downward trend "in the next six to 12 months" which should take the nationwide figure to 8 percent or below. It was 7.5 percent when Ford left office in 1977. Some of the 18th district, which in part includes Peoria, all of Tazewell Sm FORD, next page Salvador warning By BERNIE SCHOENBURG Pantograph political writer PEKIN Having served as U.S.

House Minority Leader himself for 9Vi years, former President Gerald Ford yesterday campaigned for the man now in that position, Robert Michel, saying the 18th Congressional District needs him. "Inevitably when you're the leader, you're the focal point of all kinds of attacks," said Ford. "Bob's going through the same problem." Being blamed for national as well as district-wide problems is a burden, Ford said, but it is outweighed by the advantages. "Bob Michel can get more things for this area than anybody in the whole state of Illinois. He has access to the White House; he has access to every department," Ford said.

Sitting next to Michel at a press conference in the Diiksen Center in Pekin, Ford told Michel that if his Democratic opponent goes to Washington, "he won't know how to cross the street from the office building to the Capital." Michel, a Peoria Republican running for his 14th two-year term, is being challenged by 31-year-old G. Douglas Stephens, a Peoria lawyer running for his first elective office. The race has come to be thought of as a test of Reaganomics. INDEX Abby A6 Bridge BIO Classified B6 Comics B14 Deaths B5 FarmBusiness A9 Focus A6 Sports B1 Opinion A8 Freebie B9 external support can long survive here in the absence of an effective system of criminal justice," Hinton said, adding later: "The 'mafia' must be stopped. Your survival depends on it.

The gorillas of this mafia, every bit as much as the guerrillas in (the provinces of) Morazan and Chalatenango, are destroying El Salvador." The ambassador's reference to external support clearly meant U.S. military and economic aid, which he reminded his audience amounts to more than $230 million this year and includes about 50 U.S. military advisers for the Salvadoran army in its fight against leftist guerrillas backed by Nicaragua. Under U.S. law, the Reagan administration must certify to Congress every six months that El OlOTTXIY Daily: Pick Fourt (79 37H CwyrlfM Iwri" Cmnwlcttwn IM..