Winchester Star (Newspaper) - February 28, 1985, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 89th Year No. 201 28 SECTIONS VIRGINIA 22601, FEBRUARY 28, 1985 667-3200 15 CENTS Congress Extends Farm White House Threatens Veto WASHINGTON - Congress has moved to extend credit to struggling farmers just in time for spring but the White House says the proposal is too expensive and will likely be Both the House and Senate on Wednesday passed separate legislation offering various forms of credit relief to farmers having trouble getting operating money this They include interest rate subsidies and loan guarantees and advances - all opposed by President Reagan as House and Senate Act Backers of the mostly Democrats and hailed the moves as a way to keep farmers caught in a credit pinch alive for least another But Senate Majority Leader Robert said the action signaled a breakdown in budget discipline early in a year when Con- gress is grasping for ways to reduce the federal budget haven't demonstrated we're willing to face up to the Dole told adding a to our Dole vowed that the credit legislation is going to become and that was backed up by a threat from deputy White House press secretary Marlin who all we'll if the measure reaches Reagan in its present The Senate slipped from the control of its leaders and approved the credit help 62-35 under the pressure of the mounting problems in rural Many particularly highly leveraged farmers in the Midwestern grain have found themselves unable to get planting Ferraro Pushes Diet Soft Drink NEW YORK Ferraro's commercial for Diet Pepsi shows the former Democratic vice presidential nominee talking about making and she says the advertisement gives her a chance to tell the nation can be what they want to In the Ms. Ferraro does not make a direct pitch for the soft drink and does not hold it up in front of a Roger Pepsi-Cola declined today to say how much money Ms. Ferraro got for doing the of the numbers are right that have been put he when asked to comment on a report that the figure was for her and her 22, and 18. Rally Called Alarm for Reagan Iowa - Sporting signs and stirred by high school 15,000 farmers filled a college stadium to express outrage over federal farm with one lawmaker calling the rally alarm clock to wake a sleeping think anyone looking around seeing this place jammed to the would have to call it a Roger Blobaum of the National Farmers Organization said of Wednesday's rally at the Hilton Those who couldn't fit inside the 15,000-seat facility at Iowa State University gathered outside to hear participants in the Crisis Action by American heartland is rising said Jon chancellor of the Minnesota college doing it Republicans and Democrats have let us down and we're tired of are producing corn in a said Darrell a farmer who said he Was facing years of wrong farm policy and now this administration has declared war on the family is an alarm clock to wake a sleeping said Iowa Senate Majority Leader Lowell - Rally organizers brought in consumer advocates and union members to demonstrate the broad base of support for farm order for our government to hear our complaints and do something about all laborers must come said Carlos a United Auto Workers member from Rock 111. are a proud yet our pride has sometimes been a barrier rather than an said Joan who works in a farm counseling office in Eagle silence makes fertile ground for family health risks and As a series of speakers berated federal farm lawmakers in Washington debated measures expanding farm assistance for the spring planting and organizers said they hoped the mass rally would build are good managers and we'll be better in the said Dean head of the Iowa Farm hard But we need a some short-term Taking Off Press An American bald with its wings prepares to take off from an ice floe on the Penobscot River in Eagles have been frequenting the river basin lately because of a plentiful supply of small game and U.S. Trade Deficit Billion in January WASHINGTON - The United States suffered a billion trade deficit in 28 percent higher than the December as a flood of imports swamped a record showing for U.S. the government reported The Commerce Department said the January deficit was far above the billion deficit recorded in December although the United States exported a record billion in goods during the The export total exceeded the old record of billion set last July and reflected increases in sales of office machines and new passenger the 1.4 percent gain in exports over the December total was swamped by a 9.2 percent jump in which totaled billion during The United States posted a record trading deficit of billion last year and many analysts expect the figure this year will could hit The country's poor trading performance has been blamed primarily on the remarkable strength of the which has been headed upward since the end of 1980. After posting almost daily records during most of the dollar has retreated in the last two most analysts say the fundamental forces that have kept the dollar strong have not Those forecasters predict the currency will stay at levels for 1985. The strong dollar means imports are much more attractive to U.S. consumers because they are cheaper and il makes U.S. goods more difficult to sell overseas because they are more The January surge in imports came from increases in passenger telecommunications equipment and iron and steel mill Sales of passenger cars from the leading totaled billion in up 1 percent from the December But the increase in car shipments from other countries was even more jumping 66 to a new total of Oil imports were down 3.3 percent during January as the average number of barrels per day dropped to 4.86 million from 4.96 million in Another Another Win? By TERESA LAZAZZERA Star Staff Writer Cheryn and Wyatt Durrette may be outspoken opponents of but they don't have any qualms about birth They even practice it. just haven't been very successful at it Durrette said with a smile Wednesday The are expecting their sixth natural child in August also have an adopted They admit the pregnancy wasn't But the unexpected news hasn't dampened campaign Far from it. Durrette seems to regard it as a welcome have some renewed confidence with our seventh Durrette told Republicans at a reception for him in Durrette is hoping history will repeat The candidate said that every time his wife has been pregnant during an he has She wasn't pregnant in 1981 and he didn't win that Mrs. whose pregnancy is just starting to says the 18-hour days that come with even in these early are She said she's taking vitamins and making sure she gets enough Mrs. Durrette is 42 and will be 43 when the child is due to arrive the third week of Her age is hard to believe and so is the fact that the slim woman who is three months pregnant can still wear a size 8 She has given birth to five children who now range in age from 8 to 21. It's much easier to believe that the 5-foot-7, 127-pound woman was Virginia's first Junior Miss in 1960. Former U.N. Envoy Lodge Dies at 82 Mass. - Henry Cabot whose half-century in public life included service as ambassador to South a Cold War post at the United Nations and three terms in the U.S. died after a lengthy He was 82. a Republican vice presidential candidate in 1960, died while asleep at his home on Wednesday after suffering from congestive heart said his Lodge's role in South Vietnam stretched from 1963, when he became ambassador just before the overthrow of the Diem to 1969, when he represented the United States at the Paris peace In the United he was known for his biting responses to Soviet He also was envoy to the Vatican under Richard In the White House released a statement calling Lodge very distinguished president regrets his loss and extends his personal sympathy to his the statement Cabot Lodge was one of the greatest statesmen from one of the greatest political families in the history of the said Sen. Edward M. whose late twice bested Lodge at the is also remembered by all of us in the Kennedy family for the warmth and friendship that endured despite our political Kennedy who chose Lodge as his running mate in the 1960 race against John called him of the first indication of his outstanding abilities is that both Democratic and Republican presidents called upon him for top diplomatic Nixon said through a John would rate his service at the United Nations from 1953 to 1960 as one of the most outstanding diplomatic achievements of the War II was beautiful and intelligent and he was concerned about He was a wonderful world said House Speaker Thomas P. a Massachusetts Lodge changed the image of his celebrated family from isolationist to HENRY CABOT LODGE Virginia Cohabitation Laws Struck Down RICHMOND - A federal court ruling that struck down Virginia laws prohibiting cohabitation and sexual intercourse between unmarried people follows a general line of U.S. Supreme Court rulings on similar two constitutional law experts In his decision U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. of Richmond ruled in favor of an unmarried Richmond using the names James and Jane who challenged the legality of the state's fornication statute and a law making it a misdemeanor for two unmarried people to live A. E. Dick a professor and constitutional law expert in the University of Virginia's law said the decision a logical extension of a line of Supreme Court decisions reaching back to 1965." Although the Supreme Court has not directly ruled on the question of sexual intercourse among unmarried Howard said the court's rulings had developed a of personal a zone of personal behavior into which the state Strike Grounds Most Pan Am Planes NEW YORK - Picket lines went up from Miami to Honolulu today as transport union workers struck Pan American World virtually shutting down the financially troubled carrier's domestic service and severely curtailing its overseas think it is going to be a long said Transport Workers Union airline division director John who announced the strike Reebok Glen's Bike Spring 20% ports of 5,753 baggage flight dispatchers and food service workers at 12:35 a.m. EST. Picket lines immediately went up at airports in Los San Francisco and Kerrigan said Pan Am pilots - who settled their contract with the airline Tuesday - have promised to honor TWU picket and other unions have advised their members to stay off the picket lines have already said Matt Popejoy from a TWU strike hotline phone at Miami International have over a hundred out already and they'll be picketing all night until this thing is Pan Am spokesman James A. Arey said the airline will originate 14 flights from airports in the United States two from San three from eight from New York and one from Los The only flight with both departure and arrival in the United States is a New York to Los Angeles Pan Am usually runs 400 flights per day in the U.S. Travelers complained they had been stranded by the didn't know anything until we were standing baggage in waiting to get off the plane said Abbie who was returning home to from with a stopover in said for the the airline is on just stranded us in Orlando said Rose who had been on a flight from New York to got some passengers together and hired a car to drive to And they sent my baggage to Forty night shift workers set up picket lines at Pan Arn ticket counters and at other locations at Honolulu International said Ken vice chairman of Hawaii picket lines are being set up right we don't know if they will be the biggest question right A Francisco flight took off on 15 minutes before the midnight strike but only two of 12 flight attendants were on may not such as contraception and marital Robert D. a law professor at the College of William and is nothing at the Supreme Court level to show that the court would hold these laws Kamenshine Clarke Dear TV i Sunny and Warmer Page 2
