Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 January 1983 — Page 2

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Auto companies recall workers

c. 1983 N.Y. Times DETROIT Prospects for the beleaguered domestic automobile industry continued to brighten Thursday as an influx of orders for new cars prompted the auto companies to increase production schedules, call back thousands of laid-off workers, announce new projects and, in one case, reopen a closed plant. General Motors Corp. said it would call back more than 21,400 workers from indefinite layoff over the next three months and would reopen its assembly plant at Framingham, Mass., which has been closed since October. GM officials said this was its largest single callback announcement of recent years. It amounts to almost 13 percent of the 168,000 GM workers now on indefinite layoff. F. James McDonald, president of GM, said, “The assembly plant schedule increases are being made in reponse to current dealer orders.” Auto analysts had expected a sharp production increase, requiring a big callback of workers, because few cars were in dealers’ showrooms at the end of the year to meet the steady rise of sales that started three months ago. Production cuts in 1982, the weakest output year since 1958, shrank dealers’ inventories, forcing them to order more cars to replace the

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ones sold. Chrysler Corp. said Thursday that it would renovate a closed assembly plant in St. Louis to produce its larger, rear-wheel-drive cars, which will result in the hiring of 1,400 to 1,700 workers. These cars had been produced at Chrysler’s plant in Windsor, Ontario, but that plant will be shut down in June for conversion to production of a small, front-wheel-drive van. Earlier this week, Ford Motor Co. announced it would add a second shift at its Wixom, Mich., assembly plant in the spring, adding 900 production jobs, because of growing sales of the large luxury models produced there. The number of production workers on indefinite layoff in the whole auto industry, including suppliers of parts to the car makers, has been estimated at 300,000. Dealers entered 1983 with 1.25 million cars in stock, compared with 1.47 million at the start of last year. Automotive News observed that “the inventory situation must be considered one of the brighter spots” in the auto industry’s outlook. “Any sudden outburst of sales would quickly result in shortages in a number of lines,” the trade journal continued, “but that is the kind of problem that would clearly be welcomed by the industry.” Xs this year began. 12 auto assembly plants were on temporary or indefinite shutdown

Unemployment issue in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) - Double-digit unemployment is quickly emerging as the No. 1 issue in the new Congress as Republicans and Democrats compete to produce jobs legislation with or without President Reagan’s blessing. “The question is not whether you’re going to have a jobs program,” Sen. Dan Quayle, RInd., declared Thursday. “The question is what it is going to look like,” Quayle said as he unveiled a plan including $2 billion for public service employment. Quayle said his program was needed to combat “radically high unemployment.” But with the new Congress only a few

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days old. there is no shortage of competing plans: - House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., D-Mass.. called for a program of $5 billion to $7 billion to counter joblessness that now stands at 10.8 percent of the work force and is expected to remain in double digits well into next year. "We can certainly afford to have a $5 billion or $7 billion jobs program this year, when you take in the fact that we are going to have a military budget between $230 billion and $245 billion," said O’Neill. —Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia said he and O'Neill would attempt to work together on the

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plan. —Democratic Rep Gus Hawkins and Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston. both from California, introduced legislation of their own providing $5 billion for public works jobs, targeted at the hard-core unemployed. —Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee said he expects Congress will approve a jobs bill, and said he hoped it would be of “reasonable size" and go into effect quickly. Quayle’s plan calls for $2 billion to create an estimated 250,000 jobs through existing programs either run or sponsored by the government, such

Committee questions Adelman qualifications

WASHINGTON (APi President Reagan’s nomination of Kenneth L. Adelman to head the arms control agency is running into difficulty in the Senate, where some members question the 36-year-old diplomat’s qualifications. Adelman, who appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday, was criticized by both Democrats and Republicans. The panel asked Adelman to return Feb. 3, along with Eugene V. Rostow, who

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as day care workers, forestry programs and Census Bureau jobs. In addition. Quayle wants to permit unemployed workers to take vouchers equal to 75 percent of their jobless benefits. The vouchers would be turned over to private employers who gave the workers a job Another provision of Quayle’s plan would increase funds for retraining for workers in industries that have been hard-hit by the recession Based on past statements. Reagan would probably object to most of the plans under discussion, including the $2 billion element in Quayle’s legislation.

resigned Jan. 12 as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency at the president’s request. Rostow said elements within the administration and in Congress were trying to undermine his agency's efforts to negotiate arms reductions. Adelman, deputy to United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, was nominated to succeed Rostow. At the hearing. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-111., the committee chairman, said he was “not in-

Reagan committed to finding Ml As

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan will not abandon his efforts to find out what happened to 2,500 Americans still missing in Indochina 10 years after the Vietnam War. one of his aides says. The president has a “personal and abiding commitment to our missing men and to you, their families,” national security adviser William P. Clark told the National League of Families of POWs and MIAs on Thursday. Reagan was addressing the group today. About 550 league members gathered at a suburban hotel Thursday, a decade after the United States signed the Paris Peace Accords ending its role in the nation’s longest war. In 1975, North Vietnam overran South Vietnam. The relatives of the missing men were flown by the Air Force to the nation’s capital for tw'o days of briefings, speeches and emotional reunions. “It’s kind of a show' of strength.” said Patti Sheridan, a spokeswoman for the league. “The issue is back on the front burner, where it should have

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15 dead in wake of Pacific storms

By The Associated Press Two California counties were declared disaster areas after towering waves from the week’s third punishing storm washed away swank homes and smashed famous piers as if they were toys, while broken levees and a record high tide forced almost a thousand families to evacuate. Nine deaths were directly blamed on the violent storms, and six people died Thursday in a twin-engine airplane crash in Scottsdale, Ariz. that officials said could be weatherrelated. Another storm was forecast to crash in late today on the central and southern portions of the state, where damage estimates have already reached tens of millions of dollars. Meanwhile, Thursday’s harsh weather moved inland today extending from southern Idaho to Arizona, with a foot of snow forecast for higher elevations in Colorado, said Hugh Crowther of the National Weather Service’s Severe Storms Center in Kansas City. Mo. Tidal charts showed the seas would normally be at their annual peak now, even without the high winds that led to the current damage. On Thursday, the pounding surf inflicted serious damage on Southern California beachfront homes owned by such film stars as Bruce Dern and Burgess Meredith. “I knew it was all over when I saw the hot tub sail by into the ocean,” said Becky Ilagan, who fled from her bungalow in posh Malibu just before it broke up in the boiling high tide. Gov. George Deukmejian declared Los Angeles and San Diego counties disaster areas. The declaration entitles the counties to money to repair damage to public property. Deukmejian’s press secretary. Larry Thomas, said in Los Angeles late Thursday. Damage from the storms was expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars, and emergency services spokeswoman Anita Garcia said at least 998 families had evacuated their homes. “The counties and cities are so busy dealing with emergencies, they haven't had time to get any damage estimates together.” she said. The storm whipped up 90 mph winds, dropped 3 or more inches of rain on some towns in a day and sent 20-foot breakers crashing over coastal roads. It plastered parts of the Sierra Nevada with 4 inches of snow’ an hour as it

dined to vote for confirmation” until Adelman clears up the administration’s intentions regarding a pair of nuclear test ban treaties that have languished since the mid-19705. Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., said flatly he would vote against confirmation of Adelman, whom he said is “clearly a novice in the arms control field.” And Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said he had not made up his

been for years. Now it is no longer an embarrassment to talk about it.” After the peace agreement, Hanoi returned 591 American prisoners of war. But 2,494 men remain unaccounted for. Many were pilots whose planes or helicopters were shot down in the jungles and most of them have been declared legally dead. Reports of sightings of live Americans in the jungles of Southeast Asia still trickle back. And Clark said the government had information that "disallows us from ruling out the possibility that Americans are still being detained against there will.” Clark said all the reports are checked out with the “highest priorities and necessary resources.” The United States has no diplomatic relations with Vietnam. But Vietnam’s “past refusal to cooperate is the primary obstacle to progress on the accounting issue,” Clark said.

moved inland toward the Rockies. Some areas got several feet of fresh snow. Eleven thousand homes and businesses remained without power Thursday night, and during the storm at least 400,000 customers temporarily lost power, said Marilyn Beret, a spokeswoman for Pacific Gas and Electric. A family of five in the Marin County town of Novato, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, escaped being buried alive when a mudslide crashed into a bedroom of their $300,000 home before dawn Thursday. Two homes slid down Fitch Mountain in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco on Wednesday night. Part of the landmark Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach fell apart, and several others across Southern California were damaged. At Redondo Beach harbor, near Los Angeles, waves crashed through windows and flooded a dozen businesses and four restaurants. As many as 100 beachfront homes in Aptos. about 90 miles south of San Francisco, were under siege with the surf knocking out windows and eroding underpinnings. A single wave smashed 10 swank homes, according to the sheriff’s office, which estimated area damage at S3O million. Richard Denny, a mining engineer whose home was smashed by the Novato mudslide, said the hillside “just got liquefied and came down.” “There was a tremendous hissing sound and then...l jumped out of bed and there was mud coming in," said his wife, Jacqueline. No one was injured The 200 miles of shoreline from Santa Barbara to San Diego in Southern California was especially hard hit by high tide and high surf. In San Diego, some residents used surfboards to get dowm flooded streets. The record tides were recorded in the north at the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that feeds into San Francisco Bay. The water reached 10.34 feet at 1:15 p.m.. the highest level in 58 years. A tractor driver drove his vehicle into a break in a levee at Golden Island to plug it. About 300 feet of the 1.700-foot-long Santa Monica City pier was severely damaged. The harbormaster’s office fell into the sea.

mind on how he would vote. But he added that Adelman "would not appear to bring as much experience as I would like in arms control to an administration already very thin in that area.” The nominee also got into trouble for his answer to a question by Sen. Jesse Helms. R-N.C., about how' Adelman would respond if the Soviets proposed total elimination of nuclear weapons. “It is an idea I have just never thought of,” Adelman replied. He said the current

Reagan bar stop ends FBI stakeout BOSTON (AP) President Reagan surprised more than the clientele when he stopped in a Boston pub for a quick beer. The impromptu visit broke up a stakeout in the barroom by armed FBI agents, the Boston Globe reported today. Six undercover agents were waiting Wednesday inside the Eire Pub for a suspect, unaware of the president’s unscheduled detour from his one-dav trip to Boston, the newspaper said. The agents had spent several weeks on the case and visited the pub regularly in various disguises, the newspaper said, quoting federal sources who asked not to be named. The FBI hoped to arrest a suspect Wednesday, according to the Globe. It was not known why the suspect was being sought. Minutes before the president’s arrival, FBI agents watched in astonishment as a carload of Secret Service agents from the Boston office came through the doors, the newspaper said An FBI agent asked what they were doing there, and a Secret Service agent echoed the question. Seconds later, the FBI contingent hurried out the door as the presidential motorcade approached, according to the Globe. If FBI agents had failed to recognize the Secret Service and tried to make an arrest when the president was in the bar, the Secret Service agents could have reacted drastically at the sight of armed men, officials told the Globe. The FBl’s only official comment was, “There were no FBI agents in the bar when President Reagan arrived.” Asked if agents were there before the president arrived, a spokesman said, “The bureau is not allowed to comment on an ongoing investigation.”

goal is to negotiate sharp reductions in numbers of nuclear weapons. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, RMinn.. said he was “almost flabbergasted by the answer. He said elimination of nuclear weapons is the objective of arms talks and “if you say you have never considered it. I’m somewhat alarmed. ” Boschwitz expressed reservations about the nomination, saying Adelman “has not gained the stature that I would hope would come.”