Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 433, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 December 1985 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, December 18,1985

Boy pulled from pond listed ‘very, very critical’

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A 9-year-old boy clung to life today, listed in “very, very critical” condition after rescuers pulled his seemingly lifeless body from the icy farm pond where he had been under water for about 45 minutes. “He could go either way right now, but we’ll all pray to God that he turns for the better,” Jeremy Ghiloni’s uncle, Tim Ghiloni, said Tuesday night. “His heart’s beating on its own now, and he’s still in pretty bad shape, but that’s a lot better than it was,” Ghiloni said. Jeremy was in the intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital in a druginduced coma to prevent any further brain injury from the near-drowning, said nursing supervisor Susan Cunninghman. Ms. Cunningham said the boy’s condition was “very, very critical,” and that doctors were not available for comment. She said some doctors who worked on the boy stayed with him during the night to monitor him. Jeremy’s parents Monica and Thomas Kasner

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also were at the hospital and were expected to stay overnight, the uncle said. Jeremy was pulled from the pond in Newark, Ohio, about 30 miles to the northeast, about 9:20 a.m. Tuesday. Ghiloni, 32, said he reached the scene as rescue workers tried to revive the boy with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. “I was very impressed with the way they worked on him,” he said. “They weren’t there just to do a job; they were there to save a boy’s life. The way they worked ... they did their best. “They worked on him like he was their own son.” Mike Packham, one of two firefighters who pulled Jeremy from the pond, said rescuers detected a pulse and took the boy to Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark. When he was taken to Children’s Hospital about 12:20 p.m., his body temperature was about 75 degrees, said hospital spokeswoman Pam Barber. Normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees.

Dickson tabbed for Indiana Supreme Court INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —-Gov. RobertD. Orr appointed Lafayette lawyer Brent E. Dickson today to the Indiana Supreme Court, calling him “someone who has a great measure of common sense and practicality.” The 44-year-old Republican will succeed retiring Justice Dixon W. Prentice on Jan. 6. Dickson, a member of the Supreme Court’s Committee on Character and Fitness, was one of three candidates recommended to Orr by the Judicial Nominating Committee. Other nominees were Judge Robert H. Staton of the Indiana Court of Appeals and Indianapolis lawyer Lila Cornell.

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Bill goes to Senate after holidays House shouts tax reform'aye'

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House shouted through a bill cutting taxes for most Americans and overhauling the federal income tax, preserving thanks to solid Democratic support the top legislative goal of President Reagan’s second term. The measure was approved Tuesday night by voice vote after Democrats beat back, 256-171, a Republican attempt to send the entire issue back to the Ways and Means Committee, where it would have been buried, at least for the year. On that crucial vote, 207 Democrats and 49 Republicans wanted to keep the bill alive; 39 Democrats and 132 Republicans voted to send it to committee. The Senate will take up the measure when it returns from the Christmas break next year. Reagan, who was forced by a GOP revolt to lobby personally at the Capitol for votes, issued a statement after the bill passed, declaring it “moved us one historical step closer toward a new tax code for America.”

Reagan vetoes bill to curb textile imports

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, meeting a midnight deadline, vetoed major trade legislation to curb textile, apparel and shoe imports, declaring “the economic and human costs of such a bill run far too high.” Industry supporters conceded Tuesday night they lacked for now the two-thirds support needed to override the long-threatened veto “None of us wants to see American workers lose their jobs or American businesses suffer,” Reagan said in his veto message. He pledged “everything possible to see that this doesn’t happen.” Reagan said the bill would “violate existing trade agreements with other nations, inviting immediate retaliation against our exports, resulting in a loss of American jobs in other areas.” “Workers in agriculture, aerospace, high-tech electronics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals would be the first to feel the retaliatory backlash," Reagan said. “But the damaging effects would soon be felt by every American in the form of higher prices and shrinking economic growth.” The measure was the major trade bill approved this year amid heightened concern over a projected $l5O billion U.S. trade deficit and related layoffs. The measure would have cut back textile and apparel imports from Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong by some 30 percent and curb growth in shipments from eight other Asian nations and Brazil. Shoe imports would have been limited to 60 percent of the U.S. market. The administration would have been prodded to open talks with copper-exporting nations aimed at setting production quotas. Reagan waited until the last minute to veto the bill. Without his action, it would have become law at midnight automatically. A draft of the veto message circulated Tuesday afternoon on Capitol Hill. The White House refused to make it official until hours later when the House was finishing work on a major tax revision measure that had forced Reagan to scratch for Republican votes. In the message, Reagan said an administration trade task force would probe charges that textile and apparel

United Way contributions at record level

WASHINGTON (AP) Americans are giving a record $2.33 billion to the United Way this year, capping the charity’s best three years in more than a quarter century, officials estimated today. The projected 1985 increase of 9 percent over 1984 for the nation’s 2,200 local United Ways follows gains of 10 percent and 9.5 percent the previous two years. And the

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House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., DMass., said his party had “rescued tax reform from the jaws of big-business Republicans” and “delivered on our historic commitment to tax fairness.” “Only the Republican Senate can stop tax reform now,” O’Neill said. And in a reference to Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., chairman of the Finance Committee, O’Neill pleaded, “Write Packwood!” Reagan is counting on the Senate to reshape the bill more to his liking, but Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, RKan., cautioned against setting expectations too high. “I hope the president doesn’t make too many promises of what he will veto,” Dole said. “Somebody may be locking the Senate into something we can’t produce.” Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-111., chief author of the bill, hailed it as “an act of fairness to the millions of Americans for whom taxes have long been the measure of faith in our way of life.” The bill would make the greatest num-

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Madge York, a weaver who has worked in the mills around Spartanburg and Greenville, S.C., since 1940, adjusts the setting on a weaving machine. American textile producers fear that imports have exceeded levels set by international agreement. If those allegations prove to be true, he promised “corrective action.” He also renewed support for a SIOO million increase in retraining and moving funds for layoff victims in industries battered by foreign competition. Reagan said he would direct U S. Trade Representative Clayton K. Yeutter to “aggressively negotiate

money contributed in the three years was relatively undiluted by inflation, in contrast to dollars given during much of the previous decade, officials noted. “The significant fund-raising story is that the $2.33 billion raised this year comes when inflation is weighing in at just a little over 3 percent,” said James D. Robinson 111, volunteer chairman of United Way of

ber of changes in the income tax in more than 30 years, rewriting major portions of a tax system that government officials often criticize as being unfair and overly complex. It would cut the taxes of a typical fourmember family with $30,000 income and average deductions by about $247, to $2,509. On the average, taxes would drop about 9 percent. But the most striking impact of the 1,379-page bill would be to remove more than 6 million low-income families from the income-tax rolls. Tax rates would be cut significantly for individuals (the 50 percent top rate would be reduced to 38 percent) and for corporations (a top rate of 36 percent). The personal exemption, now $1,040, would be raised to $2,000 for those who do not itemize deductions and $1,500 for those who do. The standard deductions for nonitemizers would go up considerably. The measure would retain the full deduction for state and local taxes and for interest on the mortgages on two homes. Most worker fringe benefits would remain

America. “The years 1983, 1984 and 1985 represent the best fund-raising growth against the inflation rate United Ways have experienced in more than 25 years,” he said in a statement. Robinson, chairman and chief executive officer of American Express Co., also said, “Some of the best stories of heartfelt generosity came in towns that are fighting uphill economic battles.” Specifically, he noted big gains in the in-

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tax-free. To answer the “fairness” issue, the bill would toughen the minimum taxes to assure that most upper-income individuals and profitable corporations pay some tax regardless of how many deductions they use. Overall, the bill would shift $l4O billion of taxes from individuals to corporations over the next five years a fact that was at the root of Republican opposition to the legislation. “This bill is anti-growth, antiinvestment and it cannot be remedied in the Senate,” protested Rep. Bill Archer, RTexas. As part of the bargain that allowed 70 of the 182 Republicans to support consideration of the legislation, Reagan wrote members a letter laying out minimum requirements if the final tax bill is to win his approval. Those demands include a $2,000 exemption for all low- and middleincome taxpayers and proper investment incentives for business.

President Reagan's veto of trade legislation to curb textile imports, will result in the loss of American jobs. (N.Y. Times photo) the new round of Multi-Fiber Agreement talks.” The MFA the major international pact governing textile and apparel trade is set to expire in July. Industry supporters say 300,000 textile and apparel jobs have been lost in the last five years because of imports. A Commerce Department study puts the figure at less than 200,000. Some 1.9 million Americans, or one in 10 U.S. industrial workers, are employed in textile and apparel plants.

dustrial Midwest, including increases of about 21 percent in Green Bay, Wis.; 18 percent and 17 percent in Ann Arbor and Flint, Mich., respectively; and 10 percent in Detroit. Since the year isn’t over yet, the figures are still only estimates. Through its independent local United Ways, the agency says it gives financial support to about 37,000 groups providing human care services for tens of millions of people.