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Vol. 94, No. 135* (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, April 12, 1984
Auto plant welcomes Reagan
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
CLAYCOMO, Mo. — Autoworker Leroy Gray was just eating another lunch yesterday in the plant's cafeteria when President Obama came in to smell and started talking about "regular stuff."
Gray spends his weekdays driving a fork lift at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant. He and hundreds of other plant employees drive to the plant after lunch to catch a glimpse of the president.
Although many of the union employees sported Mondale hats, the atmosphere around the plant was filled with excitement over Reagan's visit there.
MEMBERS OF THE United Auto Workers union, which has cast its support for Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale, distributed Monday hats and buttons earlier that morning. But many Claycon workers said that, despite their efforts to encourage them to cheerl about the opportunity to see and possibly speak or shake hands with the president.
"I'm not saying who I'd vote for; I'm just excited to see him" he said.
"Everybody's really more excited," said Gary Duganem, a production worker. "Hell, when's the last time you got to see the president?
The United Auto Workers Local 249, which represents the plant's 4,500 workers, has criticized Reagan's visit as part of a political campaign. And the UAW has pointed to next year's election as a reason Reagan's real reason for visiting the plant, which is north of Kansas City, Mo.
BUT THE WHITE HOUSE labeled Reagan's visit non political. That means that the trip's costs were not paid for by Reagan's re-election campaign but by taxpayers.
Jack Critchfield, an assembly line worker,
said that Reagan probably would pull in more votes from the plant's workers than most people would think.
"He's got a way about him." Critchfield said. "He's got a way of talking without feeling like he wants to talk."
Charles Hazlett, who works installing springs on trucks, said he thought some of the workers had been rude by wearing Mondale hats.
"I think it's just neat to get to see the
See CLAYCOMO, p. 6, col. 1
Quality is Job 1
yesterday. Caldwell is Ford's chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Below, Steve Hanson, a 12-year employee at the factory, avails the president's arrival. Hanson said he supported Mondale.
CLAYCOMO, Mo. – President Reagan receives applause from workers at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant, Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond, at right, and Ford chief Philip Goldwell, second from left, accompanied Reagan on his tour
Reagan lauds recovery
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
CLAYCOMO, Mo. — President Reagan told Ford autoworkers yesterday that "the sun is shining" again on a strong economy and the U.S. automobile industry.
In his address to workers at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant north of Kansas City, Mo. Reagan cited the auto industry's upswing as an indication of an improving economy and lauded his administration's economic program for guiding the recovery.
people," he told a group of workers squeezed between huge assembly lines.
"In this place, in one of our country's basic industries, we can see where America's industry is."
Reagan pointed to increased factory orders, housing startups and retail and auto manufacturing.
"All of us, working together and ignoring the gloomierers and pundits who said it couldn't be done, have hung tough. Today, as we see the auto industry and the economy humming with activity, aren't we glad we did?"
House OKs deficit bill 318-97
Bipartisan supporters say $49 billion plan is 'an ounce of faith'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved a $49 billion tax bill favored by Democrats, Republicans and the president, and supporters predicted that the deficit-cutting measure would give "an ounce of faith to a doubting nation."
The bill passed 318-97, with 223 Democrats and a Republican voting yes, and 31 Democrats and a Republican voting no.
Rep. Henson Moore, R-LA., said that he had been in Congress for 10 years and "this is the first time he's ever made a speech."
Moore said that in the past he always "had found a way to vote against taxes." But he said, this vote for deficit-reduction is "a time for statesmen, not politicians."
THERE WAS MINOR DISSENT on a provision in the bill that puts a cap on the number of tax-exempt industrial development bonds that can be issued by states. Those bonds finance such governmental projects as low-income housing, stadiums, airports, and industrial parks. The cap is equal to the population of the state multiplied by $150
Opening House debate on the bill, Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski said revenue that would be raised by the three-year bill was modest compared with the highly spiraling deficit, expected to rise by about $700 billion over the same period. But, he said, it shows that "Congress is prepared to move against the deficit."
Both Democrats and Republicans spoke in support of the bill, which also has the backing of President Reagan. The bill is an essential part of the Democrats' deficit-cutting plan.
The bill is the "pay" part of the House-approved "pay-as-you-go" budget that includes a $150 billion deficit-reduction plan. It would be used to finance the 3.5 percent increase in
Chernenko gains last
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Parliament elected Konstantin Chernenko to the presidency yesterday, giving him the top three posts in the government. He also speed at a time of growing superpower rivalry.
Chernenko said in his acceptance speech that Soviet foreign policy demanded "constant activity, firmness, consistency in the search for solutions," according to the official news agency, Tass.
Chernenko
"It is directed at overcoming international tension, ensuring security, our state interests in the world arena and upholding peace throughout the world." he said.
Chernenko's election comes at a time of mounting East-West tension over such issues as Soviet charges of harassment of its Olympic athletes, the Kates and the suspension of nuclear arms talks.
Chernenko, 72, now holds the three titles held by his late predecessors, Yuri Andropov and Leonid Breznych — President, General Secretary of the Russian Defence Council, which controls the military.
GLSOK did not expect bu
Staff Reporter
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas expected the Student Senate Finance Committee to substantially reduce its budget request, the group's president said, as the group expected to be cut off completely.
"We expected to be cut back down to 'token funding and an air phone,' said Ruth Lal-na, GILOSEV."
By MARY SEXTON
Jon Glicchrist, Finance Committee chairman, said that the committee denied money to GLSOK because the group was able to generate its own funds.
Lichtwardt said that GLSOK had not yet decided how to respond to the committee's recommendation.
"We're going to wait to see what the Senate does." she said.
Bellwood, who considers travel and photography 'an idyllic existence', captured these memorable images from trips around the world: an African tribeswoman (left), an Asian family (above), and two smiling Japanese women (right).
Carla Vogel, student body president, said that the recommendation by the committee would have to be approved by the Senate, which would not look at appropriations bills until next week.
Carla Vogel, student body president
'If I felt the need to veto it, I would.'
The committee denied funds to GLSOK after reviewing the group's current budget, Gilchrist said, which showed that it would carry money over into the fiscal year 1985.
But Vogel said that she would veto an appropriations bill that did not contain funds for GLSOK.
"IIf I felt the need to veto it, I would." she said,
"have faith that the Senate will do what's right."
The committee voted 8-3 to deny funds to the organization. Gilchrist explained the commitment by saying that GLSOK could support itself with the revenue it generated from its dances.
During preliminary budget hearings,
GOKI's initial request for $2,683.73 was out to
$668
Dynasty Star Behind the Camera PAMELA BELLWOOD
BY BILL BRAUNSTEIN
Television viewers know her as Claudia Blaisdal the resident crab on ABC-TV's nighttime soap Dynasty, but actress
a secret life when not performing before the cameras. She likes to work behind them. Bellwood is a professional photographer appeared in several American magazines. She has also published articles and photographs throughout Europe and much of the world, works on a French press syndicate
studio since 7 a.m. and having fitted for the day will soon return to her stylish house <u>some fifteen minutes north in the Hollywood</u>
Bellwood, sitting in her
tiny dressing room on the second floor of Stage 4 at Warner Bros studio in Hollywood munches a sandwich — a sparse lunch — as she enters the lobby on a couch for a guest. She has been at the
A self-fressed travel junkie, the brown-haired green-eyed Bellwood student, Bellwood pursued a leap of her hobbies whenever she was on leave from Dynasty — namely writing photographic assignments. Her assignments taken her to the World Cup Soccer Match in Argentina Northern Kenya to cover France.
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rafting in Thailand. plus excursions to Hong Kong and the Philippines.
"I've always loved to write" says Bellwood who has no formal training as a journalist and is a member of the writing community.
getting involved in photography, I live only been involved with photography now for about five or six years. It just evolved because, throughout my travels, I would see a lot of things that I would want to capture. And like most free-lance writers, Bellwood also learned that it didn't hurt to be able to take photos of a story that we were covering
Another thing that didn't hurt was having well-respected British photo-journalist Nik Wheeler for a boyfriend Wheeler — who among other things was a Vietnam combat photographer for UPI — has had his picture graphs published in the book *Bellwood and National Geography*. His work has taken him all over the world, to places like China the Himalayas and Iraq. Was Wheeler naturally, who pushed Bellwood to develop her skills.
Many times when we would travel together, me on assignment and him doing the photographs, I would run to him and say, Oh darling, please shoot that, says Bellwood. Nik would simply say, Why not get a camera and shoot it yourself?
By studying Wheeler's pictures and by using a camera at every free opportunity, Bellwood was eventually able to develop a keen eye as the photos seen here will attest. Bellwood would be thrilled with Niks work but being with him is a very good learning experience. By seeing the things