Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 108, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 January 1992 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 9,1992

Bush ‘pretty good’ after bout with bug

TOKYO (AP) A tired and weakened President Bush said, “I feel pretty good” as he recovered from a bout with stomach flu, and wrapped up his visit to Japan while predicting he will win re-election. “All signals are still go,” said the president, who collapsed to the floor from his chair at a state dinner Wednesday night BUSH CANCELED some of his appearances today but resumed talks with Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. He also scrapped a speech on Friday before his scheduled departure for Washington and another at the Commerce Department shortly after his arrival. In his first public appearance since being stricken, Bush said he was “close to back to normal not as strong as I’d like to be.” Seeking to allay concerns raised by the grim TV video of him slumping behind the dinner table, he said his doctors had “totally ruled out anything other than the 24-hour flu.” By evening, he said he was feeling almost back to normal. APPEARING A bit wan, but relaxed and comfortable, Bush told a news conference he’s ready to run for a second term. He hasn’t formally announced his candidacy for re-election, but is expected to do so shortly after his State of the Union address to the nation Jan. 28. Bush had earlier said only a health problem would keep him from running. And this sickness, he said, wasn’t it. “I really have no hesitancy or worry at all,” he said, adding that he had undergone an electrocardiogram test for his health and other tests after falling ill. “It’s all going very well, indeed,” he said.

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WHITE HOUSE press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush’s electrocardiogram test to check his heart checked out ‘totally normal.” Bush sought to allay any notion that his health or age might become a subtle campaign issue for a crop of much younger Democratic candidates. “Do you think only old people get the flu?” the 67-year-old president quipped at his news conference. “I think Democrats get the flu from time to time. So I wouldn’t worry about that.” He predicted it would backfire if any one tried to make health an issue. “I’VE BEEN blessed by good, strong physical condition.” When he met with Miyazawa at midday the first time reporters had seen him since the illness Wednesday night Bush appeared tired and drawn but smiled and joked about the illness that caused him to faint and vomit at the dinner. He said he had not seen the television pictures of his collapse, which presented a grim and scary scene, but he said he “heard it was pretty dramatic.” “I felt so embarrassed, I really did,” Bush said. BUSH ALSO added details to his illness, saying he had first been stricken while standing with the prime minister in a receiving line before the dinner. He said he excused himself and went to the bathroom. “I thought that would take care of it, but it didn’t,” Bush said. “It was just the beginning.” Bush said he would not cut back on his vigorous regime, saying that getting the flu had nothing to do with his fast-paced lifestyle.

Midwest has affordable housing

WASHINGTON (AP) The Midwest clearly is becoming the place to buy a house if you’re on a tight budget Twenty-one of the country’s 25 most affordable housing markets were in the Midwest as summer ended, a new survey shows, including the most affordable Jackson, Mich. JACKSON WAS joined by five other Michigan cities among the Top 25 in the third-quarter Housing Opportunity Index, released Wednesday by the National Association

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President Bush: Embarrassed about illness

THE CONCERN over Bush’s health overshadowed the climatic outcome of the trade talks that had been the centerpiece of Bush’s 12day, 26,000 mile trip through Australia and Asia. As Bush took it easy, subordinates filled in for him at his scheduled events and U.S. and Japanese negotiators reached a final trade agreement after two days of intense talks. The talks centered on U.S. pressure for targeted sales of U.S. autos and auto parts, as well as glass, paper and computer chips.. BUSH AND Miyazawa announced the Japan would increase its purchases of auto parts to about Sl9 billion by fiscal 1994, up from about $9 billion last year. The agreement clearly was not a hit with the chairmen of the Big Three auto manufacturers who were grim-faced as they attended a press conference by Bush and Miyazawa. The two sides also announced

of Home Builders. Illinois had four metropolitan areas among the 25 most affordable markets, including No. 3 Peoria. The index is designed to measure the ability of a typical family to buy a home. The survey included 459,476 home sales in 191 metropolitan areas. MARKET TRENDS varied little from the April-June quarter, with the most affordable new and existing homes centered in smaller metropolitan areas of the Midwest and South.

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the Japanese government would increase its purchase of foreign computers, a market that is now totally dominated by domestic manufacturers. BUSH SPENT his morning resting and talking on the telephone with Vice President Dan Quayle and others, instead of going to a scheduled breakfast meeting with U.S. businessmen, a luncheon speech, and a helicopter trip to a Kodak plant. Bush’s wife Barbara remained at the state dinner and spoke in her husband’s stead after determining that he was not seriously ill. “He made a very funny joke on the floor. He said to Miyazawa, ‘Why don’t you roll me under the table, and I’ll sleep it off until you finish dinner.’ That’s when I knew he was okay,” Mrs. Bush said. TELEVISION broadcasts around the globe showed chilling video of Bush slumping to the floor, his head back and mouth agape. Fitzwater said Bush had

The least affordable were found in larger urban markets of the West and Northeast, where the costs of land, land development and construction have risen faster than incomes in recent years, the Home Builders said. California had 17 of the 25 leastaffordable markets, including the most expensive San Francisco. IN ADDITION to Jackson in the Midwest, the most affordable markets in the other regions were Amarillo, Texas, in the South; Nashua, N.H., in the Northeast, and Greeley, Colo., in the West. The least affordable markets, besides San Francisco in the West, were New York in the East; Little Rock, Ark., in the South; and Aurora-Elgin, 111., in the Midwest. The builders said the lowest mortgage rates in nearly 20 years helped boost the typical family’s home buying power by 13 percent in the last year. “HOUSEHOLDS earning the national median income were able to afford to buy 33.9 percent of the homes offered for sale nationwide, up from 30 percent for the same period last year,” said president Mark Ellis Tipton. “The huge jump in affordability was primarily due to the combination of falling interest rates and extremely competitive home prices,” he said. Jackson, Mich., rose from third place in the April-June index to the top of the third quarter list with an 88.7 percent rating, up from 88.3 percent.

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Headline News came within a breath of reporting Bush’s death

ATLANTA (AP) CNN Headline News came within seconds of reporting that President Bush had died before an editor realized it was a hoax. A caller identifying himself as Bush’s doctor had telephoned CNN on Wednesday and said the president was dead. CNN HEADLINE News anchorman Don Harrison started to read the report on the air at 9:45 a.m. EST during coverage of Bush’s collapse at a dinner in Japan, when he was alerted by another staffer, said CNN spokesman Steve Haworth. Headline News is a sister station of CNN and features condensed versions of CNN reports. “This just in to CNN Headline News,” Harrison said.

recovered enough within minutes to make jokes on the scene. “He joked that he might have a large dry cleaning bill to deal with.” Bush’s physician, Dr. Burton Lee, pronounced the president “in overall excellent health” and said he was expected to recover from the flu “in a normal period of time.” Bush had said last summer, when he began clearly indicating he would run for a second term, that the only thing that might prevent a re-election bid would be any potential health problems. HIS IRREGULAR heartbeat suffered while jogging the previous May was still a fresh memory. That problem was determined to be caused by a thyroid disorder called Graves’ disease, which Mrs. Bush also suffered. Bush was treated with a drug that destroyed his thyroid, and was put on hormone replacement drug. Fitzwater said his collapse at the

Jackson, Mich, rated as most affordable in U.S.

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) Mark Wilson thinks the 45minute commute to his job in Lansing is well worth it, considering he gets to come home each evening to Jackson. “My house is probably half what it would cost me up here (in Lansing),” he said Wednesday after learning his hometown was ranked the most affordable housing market among the nation’s metropolitan areas. JACKSON COMMUTERS such as Wilson aren’t uncommon. According to city officials, people who work as far away as Detroit and Toledo, Ohio, choose to live in Jackson. “All of a sudden Jackson is becoming a focal point between Detroit and Chicago. It sits right at the crossroads,” said state Rep. Michael Griffin, who represents this community of 37,400. One of its biggest selling points is easy access. It’s right off Interstate 94, about an hour’s drive west of Detroit and about 45 minutes from Lansing and Ann Arbor, where Michigan’s two largest universities are situated. THE MAIN employers are the city hospital, Consumers Power Co. and the world’s largest walled prison, the State Prison of Southern Michigan. The National Association of Home Builders said Jackson

“And we say right off the bat, we have not confirmed this through any other source.” At that point a voice off camera said, “No. Stop.” “WE ARE NOW getting a correction,” Harrison said. “We will not give you that story. It was regarding some rather tragic news involving President Bush. But updating that story, President Bush is reported resting comfortably.” Bush fell ill at a state dinner in Tokyo on Wednesday and was diagnosed as having stomach flu. CNN staffers decided “through the editorial process” that the tip was a hoax within moments of receiving it, Haworth said. Haworth said the Secret Service has been notified.

dinner was completely unrelated to that problem. “All the president’s vital signs are normal,” he told reporters on Thursday. BUSH RETURNS from his 12day journey on Friday, and next week has campaign trips scheduled to New Hampshire, state of the first presidential primaries in February, and to Kansas City. Meanwhile, White House officials said Bush also is expected to attend a proposed United Nations summit in New York on Jan. 30 that seeks to chart U.N. objectives for the 19905. Russian officials said Wednesday that President Boris Yeltsin will attend the proposed Security Council summit and seeks a meeting with President Bush to discuss aid to former Soviet republics. White House officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had no official word of Yeltsin’s trip, but that Bush would meet with him if Yeltsin went

jumped from third place to first on its Housing Opportunity Index in the June-September quarter. The index is designed to measure a typical family’s ability to buy a home. The association said the median income in Jackson was $36,800 and the median home price $60,000. ONE DRAWBACK, many buyers have found, is that most of Jackson’s houses are old. Marianne Moller, vice president of The Brokerage House Inc., said many date to the 1920 s and earlier. Gary L. Dickson, Jackson’s city manager for six months, said he found that frustrating when he was looking for a house. “There really just wasn’t much to choose from,” he said. “There are tradeoffs. I like the tree-lined streets.” Other plusses are the numerous lakes and golf courses nearby, said Moller, a real estate agent in Jackson since 1972. “EVERY PLACE you turn we have lakes,” Moller said. “Our cost of living is less here too dry cleaning, groceries, restaurants.” One feature of Jackson neighborhoods is the juxtaposition of homes in all price ranges. A $160,000 home may sit next door to a $70,000 home, and public housing units that could sell for $20,000 are a block away.

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