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House rejects Reagan's bid for contra aid
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected President Reagan's appeal for $100 million for the Nicaraguan rebels battling the Sandinista government, slapping aside his offer to hold back some military aid during a new bid for peace talks.
In a statement read by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Reagan said the 222-210 defeat must be reversed.
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Wednesday to withhold all but crucially needed military supplies for 90 days while pursuing peace talks with the Sandinistas.
Alan Cranston of California, the assistant Senate Democratic leader, forecast the House vote could spur anti-aid sentiment and reported votes had begun shifting within hours.
From an initial tally of 49 for, 40 against and 11 undecided on the initial $100 million package. Cranston of the aid, with 11 undecided. 48-41 for the aid, with 11 undecided.
Cranston's count showed 43 Republicans and five Democrats supporting Reagan, with 34 Democrats and seven Republicans opposing the aid. Among the undecided, he said five were leaning against.
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Neon artists glow at glass
By Leslie Hirschbach
Kansan Magazine writer
Gordon Eder eats very, little. Instead, he feeds his creative appetite with a steady diet of cosmic oatmeal.
Eder is a local neon sign sculptor searching for a way to connect individual pieces of stained glass with neon tubing. This, Eder said, would be a discovery of cosmic importance to artists.
"Nobody on earth mixes the two." he said.
To fuse the neon to the stained glass is a tricky and somewhat dangerous process because Eder is experimenting with electricity.
First, however, Eder must find a way to incorporate the neon into the stained glass without damaging the tubing — a feat Eder can describe only as cosmic oatmeal.
It's cosmic, he said, "because it takes a lot of mental energy figure out what is going to bond all of the materials together."
"I could smell my hair burning once," he said.
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Eder, as thin as the glass tubes he bends, said his employers at Neon Tube Light, a neon sign store in Topeka, to had remind him to eat because he often got caught up in the folds of his tube bending.
Even so, Eder said, it was sometimes hard to be creative at his 8:30-to-5 job, where he makes signs that say "Open" and other signs common to many stores.
Eder's specialty is a small box made of colored glass illuminated with a coil of neon inside. He has at least a dozen of them scattered on his home.
Eder, 32, said he began making neon signs, or tube bending, one year ago after he completed a 10-week course at a neon sign shop. Paris Neon, in the Kansas City area.
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"I mean, how boring," he said. At night, Eder works in his home neon factory — a room behind the kitchen where he creates.
Neon, he said, was the principal form of streetscape in the early part of the century until plastic signs, which are easier to make, drove tube benders out of an obsolete profession.
Now neon is making a comeback,he said,and a beginning
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tube bender can earn as much as $12 an hour.
But Eder is by no means a rich man. He has spent a personal fortune on equipment and training. The course he took at Paris Neon cost $3,000.
"All of my money goes into glass," he said.
Eder said he considers himself primarily a glass sculptor. With the aid of library books, he started making stained glass in high school.
Eder said he particularly loved the colors he could produce when a gas such as neon was combined with electricity. Neon gas is red, but other gases, such as Argon, can be substituted to produce other colors.
He said he later realized that neon was the medium that would make his stained glass creations different from other artists' work.
Tracy Stielow, another tube bender in Lawrence, enjoys the final product of his labor so much that he is willing to stand for hours in a room with no natural light.
The beauty of neon, he said, is that it has no limitations. It can be sexy, sophisticated or fun.
Steilow said he has made everything from pink flamingos to 50 standard Jayhawks that the company sells to businesses for about $285 each.
Tracy makes bends in the narrow glass tube by simultaneously heating it and blowing into one end with a small rubber hose to prevent the glass from fusing together.
Instead, he makes light for others in the basement of Art & Sign Graphics Corp., 619 Vermont St.
Tracy's brother Tim, vice president of Art & Sign Graphics, said, "Neon is still being done today the way it was done 50 years ago."
After he makes his bends, he extracts the air, measures the gas in and seals the ends with metal terminals. The terminals are wired to a transformer.
"Everyone says neon is expensive," he said. "Over a period of time, I'd say it's cheaper than other forms of illumination."
"People don't understand neon today," he said. "It's a safe, beautiful product, and through
The neon sign in the front window of Art & Sign Graphics, he said, costs about 10 cents a day to operate.
education, you'll see a lot more neon in unusual places.
"It's almost getting to the point where you're going to see neon at Wal-Mart."
Stielow said he had no trouble finding a market for his neon signs. Lawrence architects were including it in interior design and local companies wanted signs for store windows.
Even college students have been buying small neon names or geometric shapes, he said.
But Eder said he couldn't get the prices he felt he deserved. He sells most of his work in Kansas City or St. Louis.
Stielow said that the price of neon signs would fall soon but that more tube benders were needed.
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