Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 42, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 October 1982 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 25,1982

'Family farm'

Constitutional amendment on the ballot in Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska is a place where the words “family farm” stand right alongside “amber waves of grain” when it comes to touching the hearts of the citizens. In what is officially the “Cornhusker State,” residents will vote Nov. 2 on a constitutional amendment which proponents say would help preserve the family farm by limiting future acquisition and operation of farms and ranches by non-family corporations. “To suggest that someone is against the family farm is like suggesting they don’t love the flag,” said state Sen. John DeCamp, who opposes Initiative 300 the Family Farm Preservation Act. “The problem is that love of the flag or the family farm doesn’t necessarily mean you know what is best for either one,” he said. Neil Oxton, head of the Nebraska Farmers Union which led the effort to place the amendment on the ballot, said its provisions are needed to keep corporate operations from “gobbling up” agricultural land and, with it,

Only one death has ever been attributed to tainted candy BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Adults’ fears of a repeat of the Tylenol murders, not witches and ghosts, are endangering children’s enjoyment of Halloween this year, an Indiana University folklorist warns. “People really believe that if they send their children out to trick or treat, something bad will happen, so kids don’t go,” said folklorist Sylvia Grider in a recent address at lU. Much of the fear is unwarranted, Ms Grider said. Only one death has ever been traced to tainted Halloween candy. Ms. Grider said Halloween paranoia began around 20 years ago when “isolated newspaper reports” about contaminated candy were printed. Those reports led to warnings from police and other officials about the dangers of Halloween. Each year, Grider said, the warnings became more widespread. Ms. Grider said that the only documented case of a taintedtreat death occurred in 1974 when an 8-year-old died after eating cyanide mixed with candy. Americans still have a vivid memory of that one death in Houston, Texas, Grider said, and it has destroyed a large part of the Halloween tradition. “It has made Halloween a very ominous time because it is no longer ghosts and witches and supernatural that children are afraid of at Halloween. Now, they are afraid of us, adults,” Ms. Grider said. “Never again will children be able to trick or treat with that sense of fun and abandon because there is the very real possibility and very real threat and the very real legend that every time a child goes to the door to trick or treat, he’s in danger of being murdered by what he receives in his trick or treat sack.” Ms. Grider calls the anxiety the “Razor Blade in the Apple Syndrome,” a reference to a common fear that a sinister person might try to harm children by placing razor blades in apples.

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the traditional family farm operation. Oxton acknowledges that critics, including some lawyers, contend the amendment contains vague definitions and potential loopholes that could guarantee years of legal tests if it were adopted. “If there are problems, they can be addressed in due course,” Oxton said during the initiative campaign. “We have attorneys who don’t think there will be constitutional problems.” DeCamp, who faces a tough re-election bid in his rural district, said Oxton and other supporters “are missing the point entirely.” “There are questions about when and how and who could inherit agricultural land, under what circumstances, questions about the impossibility of enforcement... “The problems farmers face are low commodity prices, high interest rates and high production costs and those things won’t be altered one bit by our telling Prudential (Insurance Co.) or someone else they can’t own

No voter stampede likely

Lack of cures to hurt Democrats

WASHINGTON (AP) - For 10 minutes, Democratic and Republican legislators at a League of Women Voters forum on Capitol Hill traded rhetorical flourishes and little else about unemployment. The desultory dialogue last week prompted the moderator to interject: “I don’t think the unemployed listening to us tonight really can take much comfort from this discussion so far.” The comment appears to reflect wide sentiment among American voters as the 1982 election campaign draws to a close. The lack of specific cures for high unemployment and a sluggish economy has kept voters from displaying any inclination to stampede toward either major party on Nov. 2. As a result. Democratic and GOP officials say neither side will have a landslide to savor in congressional elections, nor humiliating losses to spent the next two years trying to forget. Democrats still hope to remove enough Republicans from President Reagan’s working coalition in the House to effectively derail the economic program that his critics blame for the 10.1 percent unemployment rate. This would provide a solid foun-

farm land all we will do is dry up capital, and drive down land prices by limiting the number of people who can participate in agriculture,” DeCamp said. Oxton has acknowledged that large corporations hold only a small part of Nebraska’s farmland, but that the amendment looks to the future. “Corporations have no soul, they’re just a beast of the state,” Oxton said in a recent interview. “They don’t owe anybody anything.” In June, Farmers Union spokesman Drey Samuelson said large corporate farm operations “don’t need rural America because they don’t need local banks, local implement dealers, local anything ... they make their money and thqy export it to wherever they think it will do them the most good ... they want the land but they don’t much need the people.” The 1978 federal census of agriculture, the latest figures available, showed non-family corporations owned or rented about 238,000 of the 46.3 million acres of Nebraska farmland.

dation on which the Democrats could build a presidential campaign for 1984. Republicans, meanwhile, are fighting to minimize the historic tendency toward midterm congressional losses by the president’s party. In the last 28 off-year elections, the president’s party has suffered an average net loss of 39 House seats. A good showing by the Republicans would allow Reagan to stick with his economic and legislative agenda. Despite some hotly contested races across the country, the consensus among political professionals is that there most likely will be a net Republican loss of eight to 15 seats in the Democratic-controlled House this year. Nonetheless, while the overall

Two dead, nine injured in cult-police confrontation

c. 1982 N.Y. Times MIRACLE VALLEY, Ariz. - A tense confrontation between members of a church and local police units was resolved Sunday afternoon after the church posted bond for two members sought on traffic violations. Efforts to arrest the fugitives Saturday culminated in a bloody melee that left two church members dead, including the son of the church’s leader, and nine persons injured, including seven Cochise County deputies. Two bonds totaling $638.50 were posted by the church, the Miracle Healing Center and Church, after a day of negotiations involving about 25 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and state police and other lawenforcement officials. Meanwhile, the FBI agents,

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House lineup of 241 Democrats and 192 Republicans, with two vacancies, may remain virtually the same, there will be plenty of new faces when the 98th Congress convenes. On Nov. 2, there are 216 Democrats and 167 Republicans seeking re-election to the House. Of that number, 12 incumbents are facing each other in six races. Of the43s members: —l2 retired to run for Senate —5 retired to run for governor. —1 retired to run for other state office. —22 retired and are not seeking other offices. —lO were defeated in primary bids for renomination —1 died in office. —1 resigned. Both sides have spent a lot of

led by John Hinchcliffe, special agent in charge of the agency for Arizona, were investigating whether the church members’ civil rights had been violated. The State Department of Public Safety was investigating Saturday’s shoot-out, in which William Thomas Jr., 33, and Augustar Tate, 52, were killed. However, by afternoon, calm had settled over this tiny community, set among fields of crab grass and mesquite in southern Arizona, not far from the Mexican border. The State Highway Patrol removed roadblocks it had mounted along Highway 92 to keep outsiders away from the community. It was not immediately clear when the 50 or so families, most of them white, who had been evacuated Saturday would be returned to their homes. They

Family-owned corporations, which presumably are protected by the amendment, owned or operated more than 5.89 million acres. A majority of the people queried by two statewide newspaper polls favor the amendment. It has also won wide bipartisan support, including endorsements from Republican Gov. Charles Thone and his opponent in next month’s election, Democrat Bob Kerrey. Eight farm states in the central United States lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin regulate corporate land purchases for agricultural use through statutes, but not through constitutional amendment. Oxton and other amendment supporters said the “No On Initiative 300 Committee” wouldn’t have been organized to fight the amendment if corporations didn’t fear it. The committee has said it might spend up to $500,000 to defeat the amendment.

time and money pressing the economic issue. Reagan recently told a campaign audience that the Democrats had nothing to offer on the economic front except a “blind return to big spending, big taxing, more regulations, meddling and make-work, more government coming through the windows, under the doors and down the chimney.” Trying to pin the blame for the nation’s economic ills on past Democratic administrations, Reagan has declared: “I didn’t cause this recession.” Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill reiterated the Democratic bill of particulars against Reaganomics when he gave his party’s response last Saturday to Reagan’s weekly radio address to the nation.

had been staying at the Arizona Army National Guard armory in Bisbee, the county seat. Unresolved, however, was the future of the all-black church, whose 300 members make up the majority of this community of 450 people. The group, which believes in faith-healing, came here about three years ago from Chicago, led by the Rev. Frances Thomas, and had been the source of repeated local clashes with other residents and the authorities. On previous attempts to serve warrants here, sheriff’s deputies had been confronted with club-wielding groups of church members and were forced to retreat. Mrs. Thomas and other church members refused to be interviewed Sunday, but in the past they have asserted that they have been harassed.

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JIM DAVlS:'Garfield'creator

People in the news 'Garfield'hopes for special a year LOS ANGELES (AP) “Garfield,” that self-absorbed feline seen in the comic strip syndicated to 1,200 newspapers, makes his television debut Monday night in an animated special on CBS. But will the creation of Hoosier cartoonist Jim Davis have the nine lives necessary to become a long-running TV feature like “Charlie Brown” and the “Peanuts” gang? “I hope we can do at least one show a year,” says Davis, a Marion, Ind. native who created the comic strip and wrote the TV special. “I wouldn’t want to do it too often or it will dilute the impact.” Lee Mendelson, who guided the “Peanuts” specials to their long and successful run on CBS, is producer of “Garfield.” “It’s really difficult for another ‘Charlie Brown’ to happen,” he says. “The television special, live and animated, has become an endangered species because the ratings have dropped off in the last four or five years. “We have a shot at it. But there was only one ‘Pogo’ show, one Doonesbury,’ one ‘B.C.’ Either because they got a poor time period or whatever. That’s the gamble you take each time. We hope it’ll be another ‘Charlie Brown,’ but the record shows you get only one shot. “One silly little cartoon can have a lot riding on it,” Mendelson says. “It can affect a whole section of television. If specials don’t start performing better, I think they might become extinct like the variety show. That would be a great loss for television. Having spent almost my entire adult life in specials, I hope it works. This one little cat has a lot on his back.” The voice of Garfield is provided by Lorenzo Music, who was the voice of Carlton the Doorman on “Rhoda.” Davis calls Garfield a man in a cat suit. “When I combined an animal and a human,” he says, “I assumed I’d come up with a personality that would be selfish. We’re all out for ourselves. But even though we all feel those things, Garfield has the courage to express them. He works well as an animal, but as a human he would be obnoxious.” Says Music, “I interpret him just the way he is in the comic strip. Let’s say he doesn’t forget who’s No. 1. Let’s say he’d rather do it the easy way or not at all. And let’s say if it’s not fun you must be doing it wrong. And there are certain necessities in life, like a roof over your head, a nice warm bed, and plenty of lasagna.” ‘ • NEW YORK (AP) Christie Brinkley says she doesn’t worry about getting “old and wrinkled” because she always will have things to do besides modeling. Aging “is not my nightmare,” she said in an interview in the Nov. 1 issue of People magazine. “It’s just happening, little by little, day by day. It doesn’t bother me because I have so many other things I want to do and those have nothing to do with the way I look.” Miss Brinkley, 27, who has been on more than 150 magazine covers and is working on a beauty and health book, said, “I can be a photographer and be old and wrinkled. I can be an artist, old and wrinkled: I can be an actress, old and wrinkled.” e UNITED NATIONS (AP) Conductor Zubin Mehta and his New York Philharmonic brought a little harmony to the United Nations, where discord has been a frequent visitor. Mehta observed the irony. “One thought crosses my mind that on such an auspicious occasion, you consider that we can play harmony and you can’t,” he told the cheering audience at the end of Sunday’s “U.N. Day” performance, celebrating the 37th anniversary of the charter that established the world organization. HOLLYWOOD (AP) A new story line on the NBC soap opera, ‘The Doctors,” will have a physician struggling to kick the nicotine habit. NBC is launching a no-smoking campaign through “The Doctors” and will dramatically weave it into the show. The campaign will culiminate with the American Cancer Society’s “Great American Smoke-Out” the week of Nov. 18. NBC will also distribute 100,000 Viewer’s Guides, campaign buttons and encourage other tie-in promotional activities by the affiliated stations. • THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: She is 41, hear her roar as Helen Reddy celebrates Monday. Minnie Pearl, meanwhile, is 70. Tuesday’s cake and candles go out to actress Jaclyn Smith, 34, and actor Jackie Coogan, 68. On Wednesday, it’s 60 years for Nanette Fabray. Track starturned TV personality Bruce Jenner, 33, heads Thursday’s list, with Jonas Salk, 68, and actresses Jane Alexander, 43, and Elsa Lanchester, 80, also adding another year. Sharing Friday birthdays are actor Richard Dreyfuss, 35, and actress Kate Jackson, 33. “The Fonz,” Henry Winkler, 37 actress Ruth Gordon, 86, and baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, 64, are in the spotlight next Saturday.