Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 260, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 July 1984 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, July 10, 1984

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FTC still kicking tires of long-debated used car regulation

WASHINGTON (AP) The used car rule, which has been under consideration longer than most of the cars it is to regulate, is undergoing another tune-up at the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC scheduled an afternoon meeting to consider changes proposed by its staff in the rule designed to protect used-car buyers, if and when it finally goes into force. The commission is considering dropping a requirement in the rule that dealers disclose to the buyers any defects they know of in the cars. That section of the regulation drew fire from the industry in 1976, when the commission first sought to regulate used-car sales, and has been the center of controversy, litigation and legislation ever since. On June 26, the commission’s staff recommended deleting the section, arguing that the requirement would be hard to enforce and might confuse the public by causing them to rely too heavily on disclosure statements. But the staff recommendation drew an

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immediate rebuke from Rep. James J. Florio, D-N. J., chairman of the House subcommittee on commerce, transportation and tourism. Dropping the regulation would leave consumers at the mercy of the unscrupulous, Florio complained, charging that the current administration “is the devoted champion of the special interests against the consumer.” Consumer advocacy groups have also complained about the proposal to drop the requirement, and scheduled a demonstration outside the commission offices prior to the meeting today. The initial plan was to require used-car dealers to inspect cars and disclose defects to the buyers. In the face of dealer opposition, the inspection regulation was dropped, but the rule still said dealers must disclose of any known defects. Congress vetoed that idea under pressure from used-car lobbyists. But the Supreme Court overruled Congress, concluding that its method of overturning the rule was improper.

Blacks who backed Jackson prefer Mondale over Hart

c. 1984 N.Y. Times Although three-quarters of the blacks who voted in Democratic presidential primaries this year voted for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, black Democrats prefer Walter F. Mondale to Jackson as the party’s presidential nominee by a margin of 5 to 3, according to the latest New York Times-CBS News Poll. The poll indicated there would be little effect on the Mondale vote if Jackson did not support Mondale in a race against President Reagan in November, a step that over the weekend Jackson again hinted he might take if the party convention did not satisfy him on positions he advocated. Only 4 percent of Jackson supporters indicated they would be less likely to vote for Mondale or less likely to vote at all if

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Jackson did not endorse Mondale. Politicians interviewed by The Times said the poll findings meant that blacks were putting pragmatism ahead of pride, believing Mondale had a better chance than Jackson to defeat Reagan in November. That view was confirmed in follow-up interviews with some of the blacks who were questioned in the poll. “I just don’t think that Jackson could win in November,” said Diane Gaddy, a 31-year-old typist who lives in Manhattan. She said she voted for Jackson in the primary here April 3 but believed Mondale should be the Democratic nominee. “I do feel that a black man might eventually get that office, and that makes me proud,” Mrs. Gaddy said. “But if those people, all those people who turned out for Jesse Jackson, will help Mondale win, that

14,000 acres ablaze in Sequoia

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. (AP)- A stubborn fire racing across 14,100 acres of steep, rocky brushlands in blistering heat defied 1,400 firefighters and 15 air tankers today as it burned for a fourth day in the remote southern Sierra Nevada. The blaze roared to within a half-mile of about 50 homes in the Hillview area southeast of Lake Isabella, prompting firefighters to ask people to evacuate on Monday. But many remained until the fire raced eastward in Sequoia National Forest, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Mary Bradley. The blaze, which has caused an estimated $250,000 in damage, might not

'Homesick' fugitive lawyer surrenders

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) Stephen Bingham, the fugitive lawyer accused of aiding in San Quentin Prison’s bloodiest escape attempt, said he surrendered after 13 years because of “homesickness” and his belief that he now can get a fair trial. Bingham, 42, turned himself in to authorities at the Marin County Jail on Monday after a San Francisco press conference in which he denied smuggling a gun to prison revolutionary George Jackson. “I’m happy to be back and begin my life again and to end this nightmare,” he told reporters. He was wanted on a no-bail warrant, but

Study shows slight decline in abortions

NEW YORK (AP) The first decline in the nation’s abortion rate since a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling setting forth a constitutional right to abortions may be partly due to women “becoming more careful about contraception,” a researcher says. The number of abortions performed in 1982 decreased by about 3,400 over 1981, according to a national survey published Monday in Family Planning Perspectives, the magazine of the Alan Guttmacher Institute. The decrease from about 1,577,300 to 1,573,900, was "statistically insignificant as a downward trend,” according to Bar-

Sam tired too quickly. Then one day the dog hopped on the back of the bike at a stoplight and he's been a regular passenger ever since. (AP Wirephoto).

would be enough for me right now I’m for the Democrats as opposed to the Repudlicans.” Roy Bradford, an unemployed electrician from Chicago, also said he voted for Jackson in his state’s primary in April but would rather see Mondale challenge the president in November. “I thought, if a black man wants to run, then I oug t to give him the benefit of the doubt and give him that channe,” Bradford said. “But I just don’t thine Jesse is experienced enough to be president. Mondale has the experience.” In the Times-CBS News Poll, 411 blacks were questio ed’ about four times the usual number of blacks in a nationwide sample. The polling was begun June 23, before Jackson went to Central America and Cuba. This was also before the most recent

be contained until Thursday, officials said. The fire may have been started by someone illegally burning debris, said forest service spokesman John Louth, adding that further investigation was needed. The blaze scorched an area 120 miles north of Los Angeles and five to 15 miles south of Lake Isabella. Most of the national forest and Sequoia National Park with its majestic redwood trees are more than 80 miles to the north in Tulare County. Three other blazes were brought under control Monday in Los Angeles, Riverside and Orange counties, but summer heat and tinder-dry brush combined to pose one of the worst fire threats in recent history.

attorneys were expected to ask for bail or a bail hearing during his arraignment later today before Superior Court Judge David Menary. Bingham faces five counts of murder and one count of conspiracy stemming from the violent breakout attempt in August 1971, which ended with the deaths of Jackson, two other inmates and three guards. “I can only say that I never smuggled a gun nor anything else into San Quentin, and I intend to testify under oath to that effect,” he told reporters. Bingham, the scion of a wealthy and politically prominent Connecticut family,

bara Parks, an institute spokeswoman. But the decrease did show a continued stabilization of the abortion rate that began in 1980, according to the article. The abortion rate had risen steadily from 16.3 in 1973 to 29.3 in 1980, held at 29.3 in 1981 and then dropped in 1982, the survey said. Stanley K. Henshaw, co-author of the survey and senior research associate at the institute, theorized a reason for the drop was that more women may be using the birth control pill, a relatively effective means of contraception. In general, he said, “There’s always the

Survey, USDA opinions vary

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A recent survey of Midwest bankers indicated the number of farmers going out of business in 1984 will be two to three times greater than normal. The figures are in contrast to statistics cited by a U.S. Agriculture Department official last week. Several Midwest agricultural officials said they disagreed with Kathleen Lawrence, USDA deputy undersecretary, when she testified at a House agriculture subcommittee meeting in Indianola, lowa. She said the number of farmers going out of business this year wouldn’t be “significantly different from the normal turnover... Economists for the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Mo., and Minneapolis said in telephone interviews Monday that their surveys indicate most bankers disagree with the USDA official’s statement. Marla Borowski, research associate for the Federal Reserve Bank’s 10th district in Kansas City, said bankers estimate farm liquidations to be at 4.2 percent in 1984, compared with a 1.6 percent rate they would consider normal. The figures have risen since last October, she said. Bankers surveyed then estimated liquidations at 2.6 percent, with a nine-tenths of 1 percent rate considered normal. The 10th district includes Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado, western Missouri and a small portion of New Mexico. Dick Todd, agricultural economist for the reserve bank’s 9th district in Minneapolis, said, “The number of farm liquidations isn’t something easy to prove

controversy developed about his relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of a Black Muslim sect,, and Farrakhan’s attacks on the Jewish religion. The registered Democrats were asked, “Who would you like to see the Democrats nominate for president in 1984 Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson or Gary Hart?” Among black registered Democrats, 53 percent said they preferred Mondale, as against 31 percent for Jackson and 7 percent for Hart. The rest had no preference. The poll showed that three-quarters of registered blacks disapproved of the way Reagan was handling the presidency and that 82 percent said they would vote for Mondale and 5 percent for Reagan if the two men faced each other in November. In 1980, Reagan won 11 percent of the black vote in the general election and President

Eight firefighters have suffered minor injuries battling the elusive Sequoia blaze since Saturday, said Ms. Bradley. “The terrain is real steep and rocky,” she said. The fire “can jump” over containment lines and precipices that might be expected to halt it. The fire destroyed two mobile homes, a car and two unidentified structures as it burned in the Piute miles south of Lake Isabella in Kern County, said Forest Service spokeswoman Ginny Adams. About 1,400 firefighters from California, Arizona and New Mexico fought the fire, aided by 15 air tankers, nine helicopters and 10 bulldozers, said Ms. Bradlev.

talked with a cracking voice of being haunted by loneliness, “a permanent homesickness for family and friends, which you can never imagine,” during his years underground. He said he had settled in a city, which he declined to name, “where I learned construction skills, went to school and continued to engage in progressive political activity.” However, he said he was not part of any underground activity. “I wanted to come back since the day I left, but it has taken all this time before I feel I would get an open and fair trial in America,” Bingham said.

hope that women are becoming more careful about contraception.” The survey, which covered hospitals, clinics and and physicians’ offices that provide abortions, found that abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 fell from 29.3 in 1981 to 28.8 in 1982. Last week the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported a small increase in the number of abortions during 1981. The Guttmacher survey for that year also noted a small increase. Both the center and the magazine article agreed that the increase in the abortion rate had leveled off since 1980.

one way or another, but our surveys show the majority of our district’s bankers believe liquidations will be two to three times greater than normal.” lowa and Illlinois are included in the bank’s 7th district. But Gary Benjamin, ag economist for the bank in Chicago, said district policy isn’t to reveal results of the liquidation questions on the survey. Marlin Aycock, a Farmers Home Administration spokesman in Washington, said it’s important to remember that the survey results meassure the severity of the Midwest agricultural problem and don’t reflect nationwide statistics. Mrs. Lawrence used FmHA statistics to back up her statement at the Indianola meeting, he said. The statistics indicated 2.7 percent of the federal agency’s borrowers were liquidated in fiscal year 1983, which ended Sept. 30,1983, compared with 3 percent in fiscal year 1982. In addition, statistics for the first seven months of the 1984 fiscal year put liquidations at a 1.6 percent rate, compared with 1.7 percent for the first seven months of 1983, Aycock said. On the basis of those statistics, Aycock said Mrs. Lawrence is correct in her statement that the number of farmers going out of business won’t be significantly different in 1984. But Todd said the 1984 FmHA statistics aren’t complete. A court-ordered nationwide moratorium on farm foreclosures that lasted about six weeks kept numbers down and a political emphasis on forebearance in dealing with ag loans also is artificially keeping the 1984 statistics down, he said.

Carter won 85 percent, according to an Election Day poll by The New York Times and CBS News of voters who had cast their ballots. Black politicians who have worked in the presidential campaign this year said they were not surprised by the poll’s findings. Many said the strong Jackson vote in the primaries, as John Lewis, the longtime civil rights activist, remarked, was “symbolic.” “A great many people wanted to be identified with Jesse Jackson’s candidacy as a protest and as a message and as a matter of pride,” said Lewis, an Atlanta city councilman who is a Mondale supporter, “and a great many wanted him to do well. Now they must play in the real world, and they know that the real fight is between the Democratic party and Reagan.”

Sect asserts generation lost if not spanked ISLAND POND, Vt. (AP) - Leaders of a reclusive church sect that called a public meeting after allegations of child abuse told angry townspeople that a “lost generation” will result unless youngsters even babies are “properly spanked.” The 3V 2 -hour gathering Monday was called by the Northeast Kingdom Community Church to discuss its religious beliefs, but degenerated into a shouting match between Biblequoting church elders and more than 150 townspeople demanding to know whether members of the fundamentalist Christian sect beat their children. ‘‘You say our children are possessed by the devil,” said resident Theresa Desbiers. “They’re not possessed by the devil, they are good kids. And I don’t beat them.” The meeting came two weeks after the state seized 112 children from the church commune to have them examined for signs of physical and psychological abuse. However, the youngsters were released within a few hours after a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to warrant the emergency detention. Ex-school teacher Mary Hare asked the elders at what age sect members begin disciplining their children. “If you wait until a child is able to reason, then you have waited too long,” church elder Charles “Eddie” Wiseman replied. "Even little babies have a fallen nature ... and need to be disciplined. “We are going to raise a lost generation of children ... unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked,” he said. The 400-member group, under investigation for two years by state officials because of reports of alleged child beating, had never held a public meeting since it moved to Vermont six years ago.