Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 109, Number 31, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 25 December 1985 — Page 2

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valuables, etc., and personal and group equipment. The meeting room has no kitchen facilities, however, light refreshments may be served. A fee of $lO will be charged if refreshments will be served. No alcoholic beverages may be served. No smoking is allowed in the library, which includes the meeting room. Users are responsible for arranging tables and chairs, and for leaving the room in a neat and orderly condition. The person making the reservation is responsible for making sure the lights are off and the door locked when they leave. The use of any library equipment at the meeting must be requested in advance, by the applicant, and approved by the director. If a meeting is .cancelled; the

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library should be notified at the earliest possible date. The director is authorized to deny permission to use the meeting room to any group that is disorderly, objectional in any way, or violates these regulations. This statement of policy is subject

Local woman works for county clerk candidate

Kathy Oesch, 407 Kansas Drive, Goshen, Democratic candidate for county clerk, filed her committee Monday morning, at the Elkhart County Courthouse, for the 1986 county election. Kathy’s committee includes Mary Jo Pratt, chairperson, of Goshen; Debbie Kartheiser, co-chairperson, of Elkhart; Holly Mason, cochairperson, Nappanee; Linda Odiorne, treasurer, Elkhart; Jean Gaffer, secretary, Goshen; Karen McGlasson Martin, co-chairperson, Dunlap, and Grace Huber, cochairperson, Millersburg. Kathy is a lifetime resident of Elkhart County. She is married to Gary Oesch, a chemist at Western Rubber, and they have two children, Marc and Sara, She is a member of the First English Lutheran Church in Goshen. Kathy has been active with the League of Women’s Voters in Goshen and worked on updating some of the outdated juvenile justice laws in 1976. In 1981, she became involved with the task force for battered women in Elkhart County, where she worked with other organizations to try to establish a shelter for battered women. She was also a volunteer and a representative on the Women’s Resource Center Committee at the YWCA in Elkhart. In 1982, she became involved with the Big Brother and Big

to amendment at any time by the Nappanee Public Library Board of Trustees. A group reservation form is available at the library, for use by persons wishing to make use of the meeting room.

Sister Program, through Goshen College. Kathy has worked with Bridgework Theater for two years, with their EPSA project, education for the prevention of sexual abuse. She interviewed community leaders in the county, regarding their attitudes towards the project, and the results of the study were sent to Washington, D.C., for confirmation of a two-year grant for Bridgework Theatre. In 1983, she was a candidate in the Goshen City election, for city council in the first district, and in ( 1985, she was a watcher in the recount for the 1984 county election. Her work experience includes a position at Salem Bank and Trust Company, Starcraft Boat Company, Goshen General Hospital and Meridian Marketing, Inc. Kathy is a 1967 graduate of Goshen High School, and attended Manchester and Goshen Colleges. She is currently involved in 4-H in Elkhart County, the Social Ministry Committee at her church, is president of the Association for Democratic Women in Elkhart County, and is employed in Elkhart. College sends help for victims Goshen College faculty and students wrapped up their campaign for earthquake relief in Mexico City by sending a $2,300 check to Mennonite Central Committee, a relief and service ft-ganization which provides aid to the earthquake-stricken country. The funds came from a series of offerings during morning chapel services and from a work day organized by the campus’s Peace Society. The Peace Society of Bethany Christian High School in Goshen also contributed $240 to the GC fund. More than 50 students donated time Nov. 9 to work for members of the Goshen community, raking leaves, chopping wood, washing windows and performing other tasks at a $4 per hour minimum wage. They, in turn, donated their earnings to GC’s Mexican earthquake relief fund.

"Shaping Up Santa"

Students in grade* 1-2 at Central Elementary School presented a Christmas qwcial “Shaping Up Santa”, last Thursday afternoon, In the school gymnasium. The theme of the program was to get Santa la dupe for Christmas, and. In spite of the many attempts-it Is believed that Santa will remain his fat, jolly self, at least through this Christmas season. (AN photos by Sheri Bradway)

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Congressman John Hiler...

Instant debt- an unfortunate American heritage

Like all a bout-to-be new parents, my wife and I are eagerly anticipating the birth of our first child early next year. Also, quite typically, we already are thinking down the road about how to provide an environment that will lay the groundwork for his or her happy, prosperous future. We are very proud of the American legacy our child will inherit-with one exception, our national debt. A baby bom in America in 1986 comes into this world already In debt to the tune of $7,585, an individual’s share of our current national deficit. That’s the result of years of a Congress stuck in the tax and spend mode. In recent years, however, the public outcry over Congress’ free-

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spending ways has forced the hand of the federal government. Last week the House took a giant step towards putting some downward pressure on the deficit. We passed the controversial and possibly historic Gramm-Rudman bill, legislation I co-sponsored back in September. Although the latest incarnation of Gramm-Rudman is not exactly the bill I first signed onto, it does show that Congress has finally recognized the need to bring our astronomical public debt back through the stratosphere and down to earth. Essentially the bill requires Congress to balance the budget in five years. Starting with an estimated target 1986 deficit of SIBO billion (as opposed to the current projection of S2OO-plus billion), Gramm-Rudman sets maximum deficit ceilings for each fiscal year. In other words, disipline is imposed on the Congress to throttle the deficit down to zero by 1990-meaning my child could be out of debt by the time he or she goes off to kindergarten. Under Gramm-Rudman, by 1987, Congress must cut spending and reduce the deficit to $144 billion; by 1988, the deficit must be no greater than SIOB billion; in 1989, $72 billion; in 1990, $36 billion, and in 1991, Congress should pass the first black ink budget in nearly thirty years. If Congress cannot agree and submit a budget within these parameters by the end of each fiscal year, October 1, the President is required by law to administer a uniform percentage budget cut across the board Tbefe would be some programs protected by the

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cuts, but generally both domestic and defense spending Increases would be cut equally. Those programs exempted from the cuts are Social Security, Supplemental Income, Medicaid, Aid to Families Dependent Children, Feeding Program for Women and Children, Food Stamps, Child Nutrition, Veteran’s Compensation and Pensions, and Interest on the national debt. In addition, Medicare, Veteran’s Health, Community and Migrant Worker Health, and Indian Health programs would be subject to cuts of only 1 - 2 percent. Detractors worry that the bill hands too much authority to the President. Actually, the reverse Is true. It legislates exactly what the President must do if Congress does not make the appropriate spending reductions on schedule. In effect, the President becomes the administrator of an automatic program to reduce spending. Only in the case of recession or war would the President be able to by-pass the prescribed cuts. -V- --- ii As exciting a prospect as this bill is, it is not a substitute for the selfdiscipline of Members of Congress voting for restrained spending. Gramm-Rudman, line-item veto, the - Constitutional amendment to balance the budget -these are all tools to assist Congress in what it * ought to be doing anyway, namely; casting responsible votes that limit; spending. Gramm-Rudman will re- ‘ quire cuts to go into place early next; year. Hopefully Congress will not; turn its back on deficit reduction by; ignoring or repealing this new law • when the going gets tough!