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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Backup Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13733 Folder ID Number: 13733-007 Folder Title: [Tom] Tauke / [Terry] Branstad Fundraiser 10/16/90 [OA 6896] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 26 20 7 7 2:20- Est. TAUKE-BRANSTAD RALLY \ DES MOINES, IOWA curis Pube TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1990 \ 10 A.M. SENATOR GRASSLEY, TERRY AND CHRIS BRANSTAD, ToM AND BEVERLY TAUKE, CONGRESSMEN LEACH AND LIGHTFOOT. CONGRESSMAN FRED GRANDY -- REPRESENTING THEIR DISTRICTS so WELL. ((AND TO THINK, FRED, THERE WERE SOME WHO WONDERED WHAT MADE YOU THINK AN ACTOR WOULD HAVE ANY FUTURE IN POLITICS " (SOON-TO-BE CONGRESSMAN JIM NESSLE. 11) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. III Rich Schwarm Gol SIS Gcarge vitgraf - 2 - THANK YOU, ToM, FOR THOSE KIND WORDS. IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK IN DES MOINES. LAST DECEMBER, I SPOKE HERE ON BEHALF OF YOUR NEXT U.S. SENATOR -- ToM TAUKE. // IN JUNE, I RETURNED FOR YOUR CURRENT AND FUTURE GOVERNOR -- TERRY BRANSTAD. // ((I've SPENT so MUCH TIME IN IOWA, WHEN I'M AWAY FROM HERE A FEW DAYS, THEY PUT OUT A MISSING PERSONS REPORT ON ME.)) // - 3 - ((TODAY REKINDLED OLD MEMORIES. I ENJOYED AGAIN HAVING BREAKFAST AT THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM. / I'M TOLD THAT'S WHERE IOWA DEMOCRATS' IDEAS ARE KEPT. )) // YET MY WARMEST MEMORIES ARE INDIVIDUAL. SPENDING COLD EVENINGS BY LEE AND DOROTHY HOLT'S FIREPLACE. OR LEARNING ABOUT SOYBEANS AT Roy KEPPY'S FARM IN ELDRIDGE. OR SHOOTING BASKETS IN ANY NUMBER OF BACK YARDS. ((WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I COULD DRIBBLE A BALL WITH EITHER HAND, BEHIND MY BACK, AND THROUGH MY LEGS. WHICH GOT ME THROWN OUT OF A LOT OF BOWLING ALLEYS)). - 4 - I'VE COME TO KNOW YOUR PROBLEMS, AND PRIORITIES. PERHAPS, MOST OF ALL, I KNOW WHAT YOU VALUE IN YOUR LEADERS: HARD WORK AND HONESTY, CREATIVITY AND INITIATIVE. No ONE EMBODIES THOSE QUALITIES MORE THAN ToM TAUKE AND TERRY BRANSTAD. // EACH SHOWS WHAT A GREAT REPUBLICAN, ALF LANDON, MEANT WHEN HE SAID: "THERE ARE SOME INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON. THERE ARE MORE OF 'EM" IN THE MIDDLE WEST. - 5 - BOTH HAVE FOUGHT FOR THE FAMILY, THE TAXPAYER, THE FARMER -- THE WORKING PEOPLE OF IOWA.// PEOPLE WHO ARE THE ESSENCE OF AMERICA -- LEADING ONE WRITER TO SAY OF IOWA'S LAND AND PEOPLE: "I WOULD MATCH THEM AGAINST THE WORLD." // YOUR REPUBLICAN TICKET -- ESPECIALLY ToM TAUKE AND TERRY BRANSTAD -- SHOWS THAT WHEN IT COMES TO DEFENDING MAINSTREAM VALUES, NO ONE DOES IT BETTER THAN THE GOP. // - 6 - WE BEGIN WITH EDUCATION -- WHERE TERRY BRANSTAD, SUPPORTED BY ToM TAUKE, HAS HELPED IOWA STUDENTS RANK FIFTH IN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION -- AND FIRST IN SAT AND ACT SCORES. // I WANT TO DO NATIONALLY, WHAT YOU HAVE DONE LOCALLY. So 18 MONTHS AGO, WE PROPOSED OUR NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE Act TO ENCOURAGE FLEXIBILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND INCREASED EDUCATIONAL CHOICE FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS. // Tom's THEME IS, "TALKING STRAIGHT." - 7 - THE STRAIGHT TALK IS THAT WE NEED TO ELECT REPUBLICANS WHO WILL END THIS DELAY -- AND PASS A BILL WHICH WILL HELP MAKE AMERICAN EDUCATION No. 1. // NEXT, TAKE CRIME AND DRUGS. FOR 16 MONTHS, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE SABOTAGED OUR VIOLENT CRIME BILL. EVIDENTLY, THEY THINK WE CAN SOFT-PEDAL THE NEED TO BE HARD ON CRIME. // ToM AND TERRY DISAGREE -- BACKING A WORKABLE -- A REAL -- DEATH PENALTY FOR THOSE WHO KILL FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. - 8 - IF YOU WANT TO GIVE COP-KILLERS JUST PUNISHMENT, ELECT REPUBLICANS: THEY'LL SHOW MORE SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIM -- AND LESS FOR THE CRIMINALS. FINALLY, LET ME TALK ABOUT AGRICULTURE. // FIVE YEARS AGO, ToM HELPED PASS AND TERRY BACKED A FARM BILL TO HELP A COMMUNITY IN CRISIS. IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT FARM INCOME HAS HIT NEAR-RECORD LEVELS -- OR THAT TERRY BRANSTAD HAS CREATED OVER 300,000 NEW JOBS -- MANY OF THEM AGRICULTURAL -- SINCE 1983. // - 9 - OUR JOB IS TO MAKE GOOD NEWS STILL BETTER. How? BY RECALLING THAT WHEN IT COMES TO FARMING, WASHINGTON DOESN'T KNOW BEST. IOWANS DO. // So AS, THIS YEAR, WE DRAFT OUR NEW FARM BILL, LET'S SEE THAT IT EMPHASIZES MARKET-ORIENTED POLICIES. WE DON'T NEED MORE GOVERNMENT IN MIDDLE AMERICA -- WE NEED MORE MIDDLE AMERICA THINKING IN GOVERNMENT.// AND THAT GOES DOUBLE WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING A FEDERAL BUDGET. - 10 - You KNOW THE STORY: I'VE MADE COUNTLESS PROPOSALS TO CUT THE FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT BY $500 BILLION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. You KNOW, Too, THAT PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE DEFICIT HAVE BEEN SIMMERING FOR YEARS AS THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS CONTINUED ITS SPENDING BINGE. THIS YEAR, IT REACHED THE BOILING POINT. You ALSO KNOW THE REASON. CONGRESS HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY UNDER LAW TO PASS A BUDGET. YET YEAR AFTER YEAR, THE DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED CONGRESS GOES DOWN TO THE WIRE AND FAILS. - 11 - THIRTY-SEVEN TIMES IN THE PAST TEN YEARS CONGRESS HAS MISSED ITS DEADLINE. WELL, I'VE HAD IT. THIS FRIDAY, THE TIME'S UP. FOR EIGHT MONTHS WE'VE WRESTLED WITH THE PROBLEM. FOR EIGHT MONTHS, I'VE NEGOTIATED IN GOOD FAITH. Now, CONGRESS MUST FULFILL ITS DUTY AND PASS A RESPONSIBLE BUDGET -- ONE THAT CURES THIS DEFICIT PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. // THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH THE BIPARTISAN BUDGET AGREEMENT REACHED TWO WEEKS AGO. - 12 - IT MUST SPUR THE ECONOMY. IT MUST DELIVER REAL SAVINGS THROUGH REAL AND ENFORCEABLE SPENDING CUTS. AND ANY BUDGET I SIGN MUST INCLUDE THE BUDGET PROCESS REFORMS HAMMERED OUT IN THE BIPARTISAN BUDGET AGREEMENT. LET ME REITERATE: I COULDN'T BE MORE SERIOUS ABOUT THE OCTOBER 19 DEADLINE. ELEVEN DAYS AGO, WITH NO BUDGET AGREEMENT, AND CONGRESS FAILING TO GET THE JOB DONE, I HAD NO CHOICE BUT To SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON. // - 13 - IF CONGRESS DOESN'T SEND ME A SOUND BUDGET THAT ENSURES LONG-TERM GROWTH, I WILL USE MY VETO PEN AGAIN. // THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXPECT MORE FROM THEIR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. CONGRESS HAS A RESPONSIBILITY -- IF THIS IS THE BEST "THE SYSTEM" CAN DO -- THEN IT'S TIME TO BUILD A BETTER BUDGET SYSTEM. Now, I'VE TAKEN SOME HITS ON THIS. ANY TIME YOU MAKE TOUGH CALLS, THAT'S THE PRICE YOU PAY. BUT I TRUST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. - 14 - THEY'RE SMART -- AND THEY WANT A BUDGET THAT MAKES SENSE. ((HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF THEIR WISDOM FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES. IT'S A LETTER TO ME FROM LISA LILLA, A 10-YEAR-OLD FROM CLEARWATER, FLORIDA. LISA WRITES THAT SHE WANTS US TO SOLVE OUR BUDGET PROBLEM SO THAT SHE "WON'T HAVE TO PAY 5 MILLION DOLLARS" WHEN SHE GROWS UP. - 15 - THEN, SHE ADDS THIS P.S.: "I REALLY THINK YOU SHOULD ... NOT ENLARGE [THE TAXES] BECAUSE WHEN I'M 18 I'LL HAVE TO PAY $500 TAX ON A CAN OF PEAS!")) // LISA'S FACTS MAY BE OFF A TAD -- BUT HER LOGIC COULDN'T BE BETTER. EVEN 10-YEAR-OLDS KNOW FISCAL INSANITY WHEN THEY SEE IT -- AND KNOW WHERE IT STEMS FROM -- A DEMOCRAT CONGRESS THAT IS MANIC-DEPRESSIVE. MANIC ON SPENDING, DEPRESSIVE FOR THE ECONOMY. // - 16 - THEY KNOW, Too, THAT CONGRESS APPROPRIATES EVERY DIME -- TELLS US HOW TO SPEND EVERY DIME -- THAT THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS -- AND THAT THE BLAME RESIDES RIGHT THERE. // So ON NOVEMBER 6, LET'S SEND CONGRESS A WAKE-UP CALL. LET'S REJECT THE DEMOCRATS' TAX AND SPEND POLICIES THAT GOT US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. AND TELL CONGRESS TO REMEMBER KIDS LIKE LISA. - 17 - KIDS LIKE HER DESERVE TO INHERIT MORE THAN AN AVALANCHE OF UNPAID BILLS. NOR DO THEY NEED HIGHER INCOME TAX RATES -- AND I WILL HOLD THE LINE AGAINST ANY INCREASE. FINALLY, I WILL VETO ANY PLAN WHICH DOES NOT ENSURE CRUCIAL FUNDS FOR OPERATION DESERT SHIELD. ALL OF US KNOW WE MUST STAND UP To AGGRESSION AS WE DEFEND CIVILIZED VALUES AROUND THE WORLD -- ESPECIALLY, THE ACTS OF BRUTALITY WE HAVE SEEN INFLICTED BY IRAQ. X - 18 - THERE ARE REPORTS THAT AT A HOSPITAL, IRAQI SOLDIERS UNPLUGGED THE OXYGEN TO INCUBATORS SUPPORTING 22 PREMATURE BABIES. ALL DIED. THEN, THEY SHOT FIVE HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES. AT ANOTHER HOSPITAL, TROOPS REPORTEDLY CUT OFF OXYGEN SUPPORTING THE 75-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF A KUWAITI CABINET MINISTER. HERE'S SOME STRAIGHT TALK FROM AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT: - 19 - IRAQI AGGRESSION WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND. SADDAM HUSSEIN WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THE LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF KUWAIT WILL BE RESTORED. AMERICA WILL REMAIN IN THE PERSIAN GULF NOT A DAY LONGER THAN IS NECESSARY -- BUT IT WILL STAY FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO COMPLETE OUR MISSION. WE WILL KEEP UP THE PRESSURE -- AND WE WILL KEEP THE FAITH. FAITH WITH MEN AND WOMEN LIKE THE MEMBERS OF MASON CITY'S NATIONAL GUARD UNIT WHO ARE CURRENTLY EN ROUTE TO THE PERSIAN GULF. - 20 - WE WILL STAND BY THE FINEST SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, AND MARINES ANY NATION COULD HAVE. // ((THE GREAT HUMORIST, WILL ROGERS, ONCE SAID, "A MAN IN THE COUNTRY DOES HIS OWN THINKING -- BUT YOU GET HIM IN TOWN, AND HE SOON WILL BE THINKING SECOND- HANDED. ")) // IN IOWA, COMMON SENSE HAS NEVER GONE OUT OF STYLE. // You KNOW THAT WHILE OUR FORCES ARE DEFENDING US ABROAD, WE MUST DEFEND THEM HERE AT HOME. - 21 - AND THAT IOWANS WANT POLICIES WHICH EMPOWER PEOPLE -- NOT BUREAUCRACIES. // ToM TAUKE AND TERRY BRANSTAD WILL ENACT THESE POLICIES. So LET'S GET OUT THE VOTE. LET'S ELECT ToM TAUKE YOUR NEXT U.S. SENATOR -- AND KEEP TERRY BRANSTAD AS YOUR GOVERNOR. // LET'S MAKE NOVEMBER 6 A GREAT DAY FOR IOWA AND OUR NATION. AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. # # # # (Smith/Garmey) October 11, 1990 4 P.M. IOWA PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TAUKE/BRANSTAD RALLY DES MOINES, IOWA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1990 10 A.M. Senator Grassley, Terry and Chris Branstad, Tom and Beverly Tauke, Congressmen Leach and Lightfoot. Congressman Fred Grandy -- representing their Districts so well. ((And to think, Fred, there were some who wondered what made you think an actor would have any future in politics. )) // Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Tom, for those kind words. It's great to be back in Des Moines. ( (I know that you wanted a speaker today who is beloved in Iowa // a man known for his popularity, quick reaction, and grace under pressure. Unfortunately, Hayden Fry couldn't make it -- so I'm here instead.) ) // Last December, I spoke in Des Moines on behalf of your next U.S. Senator -- Tom Tauke. // In June, I returned for your current and future Governor -- Terry Branstad. // ((I've spent so much time in Iowa, when I'm away from here a few days, they put out a missing persons report on me. ) ) // ((Today rekindled old memories. I enjoyed again having breakfast at the Historical Museum. / I'm told that's where the Iowa Democrats' old ideas are kept. // Nor will I ever forget how this Civic Center hosted the Iowa Primary debate. // Which is why I'm here to give my support -- but after what happened in 1988, not necessarily my political advice. )) // every oy. Dorathy + 2 Yet my warmest memories are individual. Spending cold afternoons by Lee Holt's fireplace. Or learning 1 about soybeans at Ray Keppy's farm in Eldridge. or shooting baskets in any number of back yards. ((When I was younger, I could dribble a ball with either hand, behind my back, and through my legs. Which got me thrown out of a lot of bowling alleys) ) // I've come to know your problems, and priorities. ((Jim Lightfoot says I've spent more time on your roads than Charles Kuralt. )) Perhaps, most of all, I know what you value in your officials: Hard work and honesty, creativity and initiative. You've heard the slogan, "The time is right for Iowa." Well, here's a prediction: On November 6, Iowa is going to say to Tom Tauke and Terry Branstad: The time is right for you. // Look, first at their background. Terry Branstad: Served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives then, a term nations as Lieutenant Governor -- then, elected Iowa's youngest-ever Governor Attorney farmer educator leader 111 Then, there's Tom Tauke: Elected to the Iowa Legislature and six times to the House of Representatives. Reporter/ lawyer / a superb Congressman who will make an even greater U.S. Senator. // Let's look, next, at their qualities. Both of these candidates are family men: Tom -- wife Beverly, and their son, Joseph. Terry -- wife Chris, and their three kids, Allison, Eric, and Marcus. Each candidate shows what that great Republican, Alf Landon, meant when he said: "There are some intelligent people in Washington. There are more of them" in the 3 Middle West. // Both have fought for the family, the taxpayer, the farmer -- the working people of Iowa. // It's these people who form the very essence of America -- leading one writer to say of Iowa, "Its land and people -- I would match them against the world." 11 So let me suggest how the entire Republican ticket -- especially Tom Tauke and Terry Branstad -- reflect the ideals that make this America's heartland. Showing that when it comes to defending mainstream values, no one does it better than the GOP. // We begin with education -- where Terry Branstad, supported by Tom Tauke, has helped Iowa students rank fifth in high school graduation percentage -- and first in ACT +SAT scores // I want to do nationally, what you have done locally. So 18 months ago, we proposed our National Educational Excellence Act to encourage flexibility, accountability, and increased educational choice for parents and students. // Tom's theme is, "Talking Straight." The straight talk is that we need to elect Republicans who will end this delay -- and pass a bill which will help make American education No. 1. // Next, take crime and drugs: Here, too, the time is right for a GOP sweep. For 16 months, liberal Democrats have sabotaged our Comprehensive Crime Control Act. Evidently, they think we can soft-pedal the need to be hard on crime. // Tom and Terry disagree -- backing a workable -- a real -- death penalty for those who kill Federal law enforcement officers. // If you want 4 to give cop-killers just punishment, elect Republicans: They'll show more sympathy for the victim -- and less for the criminals. Finally, let me talk about something which embodies Iowa to the Nation, and the world. Agriculture. // Five years ago, Tom helped pass and Terry backed a farm bill to help a community in crisis. It's no coincidence that farm income has hit near- record levels -- or that Terry Branstad has created over 300,000 news jobs -- many of them agricultural -- since 1987. 11 Our job is to make good news still better. How? By recalling that when it comes to farming, Washington doesn't know best. Iowans do. // Tune in to Tom's debate tonight against his liberal opponent. You'll hear straight talk // at least by Tom // on the need for the new farm bill we're now drafting to be even-handed. And level-headed. Enhancing American competitiveness while increasing choice for farmers and consumers. // We also need to get the most from the grain agreement President Gorbachev and I signed at this summer's summit. // Here's one more way to keep agriculture strong. Remember who supported government controls all during the 1980s. / A hint: It wasn't Tom and Terry. / As we draft our new farm bill, let's see that it emphasizes market- oriented policies. We don't need more government in Middle America -- we need more Middle America thinking in government. // ( (These are critical issues -- and critical issues can sometimes divide us. I'm reminded of Tom and Beverly Tauke. While Tom was supporting me in the 1988 primaries, Bev was supporting Bob Dole. // Tom knew politics make strange 5 bedfellows -- but he didn't know it meant he'd be sleeping in the garage.)) // Over the last few weeks we've seen politics that make that division seem like a disagreement over "less filling / tastes great.' You know the story: I've made countless proposals to cut the Federal budget deficit by $500 billion over the next five years. Time after time, I've told politicians on both sides: Let's get with it. Let's complete the job we were sent here to do. // What's been the response? You know that, too. Partisan bickering that puts all of us to shame. Well, I've had it. America has had it, too. Today, I call on the Congress to send me a comprehensive budget plan that will cut spending, help lower interest rates, and create new jobs. In short, a budget plan that will bring this deficit down. // The test comes three days from now: Congress' budget bill must be passed by both houses no later than October 19. Here is what I will accept. This agreement must be consistent with the Bipartisan Budget Agreement reached two weeks ago -- produced on a bipartisan basis. And include pro-growth incentives. It must deliver real savings through real and enforceable spending cuts. And any budget I sign must include the significant budget process reforms hammered out in the bipartisan budget agreement. // Let me reiterate: I couldn't be more serious about the October 19 deadline. Eleven days ago, with no budget agreement, I shut down the government to keep the pressure on. If Congress doesn't send me a sound budget that ensures long-term growth, I E 6 Tale isser will use my veto pén again. Two more things: This budget must not mess with Social Security. Cour senior citizens have earned their retirement: Anyone who attacks their savings will be retired by the voters -- and I'll help do it. Finally, I will veto any plan which does not ensure crucial funds for Operation Desert Shield. // All of us know that we must stand up to agression as we defend civilized values around the world -- especially, against the acts of brutality we have seen inflicted by Iraq. At one hospital, Iraqi soldiers unplugged the oxygen to incubators supporting 22 premature babies. All 22 died. Then, they shot five hospital employees. // At another hospital, troops reportedly cut off the oxygen supporting the 75-year-old mother USNWR of a Kuwaiti cabinet minister. // Eyewitnesses have told of Iraqis turning 250 mental patients, drug addicts, and others into the street. // Here's some straight talk from an American President: The crimes of these barbarians will not go unpunished. We can't say how long our objectives will take. We don't know what sacrifice will be demanded. This, we do know: America will remain in the Persian Gulf for as long as it takes to complete our mission. // We will keep up the pressure and we will keep the faith. Faith with Iowans from the banks of the Mississippi to the bluffs of the Missouri. Faith with men and women like the members of Mason City's National Guard unit who left last week for the Persian Gulf. We will stand by the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines any Nation could have. // 7 ( (The great humorist, Will Rogers, once said, "A man in the country does his own thinking -- but you get him in town, and he soon will be thinking second-handed.")) // In Iowa, common sense country thinking has never gone out of style. // You know that while our forces are defending us abroad, we must defend them here at home. And that Iowans want policies which help people up -- and keep bureaucracies down. // Tom Tauke and Terry Branstad will enact these policies. So let's let's get out the vote. Let's win a majority in the Iowa Senate -- and House of Representatives. Let's elect Tom Tauke your next U.S. Senator -- and keep Terry Branstad as your Governor. // Thank you for all you've done, and will do in the future. Let's make November 6 a great day for Iowa and our Nation. And God bless the United States of America. # # # # 10/06/90 12:24 NO. 003 002 To: Ted Garmey From: Anne Zimmerman Governor Branstad's Office RE: IDEAS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH REMARKS Am faxing you several items: 1. Ideas for the President's remarks. 2. A piece on Governor's opponent for background .don't suggest you use, but it'll give you an idea of what we're up against. 3. How the budget stuff played in Iowa toward the end of the week. Since I'm faxing this on Saturday, 10/6, I want to be sure you receive it. Call me at (515) 281-3523 to let me know you got it. aval 2. 10/06/90 12:24 NO. 003 003 IDEAS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH REMARKS IOWA, OCTOBER, 1990 ON JOBS AND GROWTH: * Terry Branstad took the reins of government in Iowa on the eve of the worst ag crisis in the nation's history. * He showed his mettle and his leadership brought the state back over 300,000 jobs since 1983. * This is a state that values hard work and productivity that's what Terry Branstad is all about and that's what leadership is all about. There's no magic in leadership. It's setting goals, working hard and getting results. That's what Terry Branstad is all about ON BUDGETS: * I know something about budgets And, I know something about Terry Branstad and budgets this is a Governor who has balanced the budget every year he's been in office. * This is a Governor who's still sensitive to the needs of people and the environment and the other important issues that we face today. * He's balanced this sensitivity with the realities of living within the state's means an extraordinary feat, especially given the severity of the farm crisis. He's promoted economic growth and stability, along with a strong education system. * I believe governors are a step ahead of us at the federal level states know something the feds don' Governors, and especially this governor, understand that if you want programs, you've got to be willing to pay for them, to make the tough choices and then to stand up in front of the people and take responsibility for them. Governors are innovators, creators there are great things going on in our states, especially in Iowa An education system that sets the pace for the rest of the nation Welfare reform program that in three short years has 6,000 families moved from dependence to independence Governor Branstad's Project PROMISE welfare reform program gave us some ideas for ours * And, I can tell you that Governor Branstad is an advocate for rural America and small communities he's fought for farmers in my town on more than one occasion. 10/06/90 12:25 NO. 003 004 PAGE 2 ON ANECDOTES: * During the Presidential campaign in 1988, I mentioned that I wanted to get together sometime with the governors. * As President-Elect, Terry Branstad reminded me that I wanted to get together with the governors. * The spring after Inauguration, he reminded me again * Long story short Terry Branstad didn't let up and the result was what turned out to be an historic Summit with the governors at Charlottesville, Virginia a summit about education, one that will have major implications for education in this nation ON PARTY AND OPPONENT: * We need Terry Branstad in the Governor's chair his leadership is critical to Iowa and to the nation. * I encourage each of you to do as much as you can in the waning days of this campaign 10/06/90 12:25 NO. 003 005 OPPONENT Don Avenson: On Don Avenson "I'm the most partisan Democrat. I'm an activist liberal. I am the most liberal Democrat in the state." "We need a governor to unleash state government." Don Avenson, the self-proclaimed most partisan Democrat, activist, liberal in the state is seeking the highest office of Iowa with the determined purpose of unleashing government upon its citizenry. Listening to his view of governance, stirs a mental picture of Don Avenson releasing a great floodgate of government upon Iowa until we are engulfed in it, surrounded, and left completely at its mercy. But this man-made disaster need not happen and, in fact, insurance against it is simple. There are twenty days until election day and each and every supporter of Governor Branstad is a volunteer in a cause to prevent this onslaught of big government. And, of greater import, is the knowledge that our cause goes beyond the issues being debated this year. We wage a campaign not only against Don Avenson's corrupt views, but most significantly against his liberal activism, his tax and spend philosophy, and his special interest mentality. This is a campaign to determine if Iowa will continue to enjoy government of the people or whether it will suffer under government of special interests and backroom power brokers. Each of us, as individuals, are empowered with the ability to shape our government. As Don Avenson is counting on big special interest groups for his victory, Governor Branstad is counting on you and all his supporters across Iowa to see to it that those narrow groups don't take over our state. We ask you to dedicate yourself for the next 20 days to talk to your friends and neighbors about Governor Branstad and to work hard in your town and county to encourage people to support and vote for Governor Branstad. "All Joe Six-Pack cares about is whether they let me bet on horses, whether they let me bet on the lottery, whether they make me wear a seat belt, whether they increase my taxes." "I want to get my hands on this state." Don Avenson 10/06/90 12:26 NO. 003 006 "Joe Six-Pack," Avenson vernacular for the working men and women of Iowa. His view of you - his view of your concerns. If you find this insulting and if you find the thought of government unleased upon you unnerving, than take a stand. Don't let someone who thinks so little of you take control of your state. Take a stand against him for your sake and the sake of Iowa's future. Enclosed is a sheet which defines and contrasts the record and opinions of Governor Branstad and Don Avenson. Use this information to point out to others how much is at stake on November 6th. If possible, make copies and distribute this information so that as many people as possible know the views of both candidates. Also, as a leader in the Governor Branstad campaign we ask you to volunteer for the following projects during the next 20 days: Advocacy phone calls to undecided voters Identifying locations and placing yard signs Election Day get-out-the-vote activities If you haven't done so, contact your local GOP Headquarters or the Governor Branstad Committee at 515-284-1990, to find out how you can get involved. Volunteer your time to reelect Governor Branstad and, as important, volunteer your time to keep your voice in state government. Other Avenson Quotes of Note: On the legislative process: "We kind of act like prairie chickens; we puff out in posture and strut and take runs at each other. It is all sort of a mating ritual that happens annually." The value of money in trading for votes in the legislature: "it only cost me a couple hundred thousand dollars for something we should have done any how." Referring to his son being involved in a riot: "I've always said that you are not nominating angelic people or a group of Cinderellas." On making a point: "Quite often you have to exaggerate to get your point across." 10/06/90 12:27 NO. 003 007 eyister The Des Moines DEPENDS UPON Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, October 4, 1990 Price 35e DARY FANDEL/The Register Budget lobbying blitz to get first test today The Register lowans face How Date delegation A tough sell, hard choice but backers The House plane to vote today on an outline of the $500 billion deficit-reduction package of tex in Congress becate and spending cuts agreed on by congressional leadors and are confident President Bush. The Senate will take up the question today or Friday. A final vote on the By JANE NORMAN agreement was not expected until From Register Wire Services the middle of the month. or The Resister's Washington Burden WASHINGTON, D.C. - Liberal WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deluged by Here's how the lows members of House Democrats Wednesday re- telephone calls from unhappy Iowa Congress stood Wednesday: belled against the $500 billion defi- farmers, senior citizens, beer drink- cit-reduction package as President AGAINST: Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot ers and truck drivers, members of the Bush and congressional leaders and Rep. Tom Tauke, both Republic- state's delegation in Congress today cans; and Sen. Tom Harkin, a Demo- pushed hard for the plan on the eve of face one of the most unpleasant votes crat. its first vote. of their careers. Leading House Democrats and Re- FOR Reps. Fred Grandy and Jim They must decide whether to back publicans expressed confidence that Leach, both Republicane. an unpopular $500 billion deficit-re- a majority of votes would be rounded duction package that raises gasoline NOT SURE Sen. Charles Gressley, up by today, when the full House taxes and Medicare premiums, trims a Republican. plans to vote on an outline of the tax farm spending by $13 billion and in- Rep. New Smith, a Democrat. boosts and spending cuts. creases taxes on alcohol and ciga- "That is my Intultion, that when the POSITION UNKNOWN: Rap. Dave rettes. The five-year plan was shaped Nagle, a Democrat, Could not be vote comes there will be a majority and endorsed by President Bush and reached for comment. of both parties," said House Speaker congressional leaders, but the rank Thomas Foley, D-Wash. and file is in wide-open revolt. Conflicting Views "I've never seen members so an- guished," said Rep. Jim Leach, An 'Luxury tax': Bush, Foley and House Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-Ill., worked ia eastern Iowa Republican. "No Good Choice" Retailers see furiously behind the scenes, meeting privately with rank-and-file mem- the harvest would be à bin- Supporters. including Leach, con- bers and dispatching top lieutenants ID, 10, headle some of their tend there is no alternative but mas- much to lose to do the same. Democratic leader- a two miles west of Pella sive spending cuts and the nation's- ship aides, speaking privately, of- Jantorn time be for away? possible aconomic collapse. "There is fered conflicting assessments of the no good choice here." said Rep. Fred By RICHARD BRACK plan's prospects. Grandy, a northwest Towa Republi- Register Business Wher "To cut $50 billion from Medicare Iowa can who will also back the package A proposed federal tax that could means a lot of low-Income elderly are when it comes up in the House today. take the glitter off some big-ticket going to be faced with difficult But opponents frustrated with items is raising the ire of jewelers, out-of-pocket expenses," said Rep. 5 years being shut out of closed-door budget furriers and luxury car dealers, who Henry Waxman, D-Calif. "These peo- negotiations and offended by White are questioning the wisdom and ple didn't create the deficit." House tactics to stir up rally-round- effect of the so-called luxury tax. After a day of White House lobby- the-president sentiment, argue that "I think It's stupid." said Toby ing Republicans, spokesman Marlin Congress can and must do better. Joseph, vice president of Joseph's Fitzwater said the needed votes were "It's just & cop-out," said Rep. Jim Jewelers. "It's just A token thrown in not In hand, and he declined to say Ve have a Ross Lightfoot, & western Iowa Re- to give the impression that they are how many votes the White House had publican who will be in the "no" col- taxing the wealthy." mustered. umn. Retailers' responses to the pro- tively low rate Keeping Score Despite Bush's appeal Tuesday posed levies range from charges of night for Americans to call their ren- discrimination against wealthy cus- Bush kept close tabs on the lobby- Ing efforts. checking in with Extended Page 7.1 rime, but on night for Americans to call their rep- tomers to those who think the real ing etsorts, checking in With Fitzwa- resentatives in Congress and express other hand, burden would be borne by manufac- ter at the end of the day for a reading support for the package, Iowans re- turers and retailers who would be of what Congress members were tell- ported only a trickle of such phone 'ent crime has forced to cut profit margins and use ing reporters. Fitzwater told him that calls Wednesday. Lines into Washing- working capital to pay for additional "most say they are considering It, ton and district offices were they're listening and they're sympa- 7 going up bookkeeping to keep track of the tax. swamped - with protests. thetic to the argument." dily. " "Some people are just plain upset 2 Percent of His Business Twenty-seven more Republicans about new taxes, and it doesn't mat- Joseph estimated about 2 percent met with Bush at the White House, the - Mike Coveyou ter if it's a luxury tax or gasoline," of his company's sales would be af- third straight day on which GOP law- il Department of Public Safety said Jackie Dailey, a spokeswoman fected by the tax, which would levy a makers were summoned by the presi- for Rep. Tom Tauke, who reported 46 10 percent charge on the purchase dent for his sales pitch. One White calls opposing the deal and 20 in price of jewelry and furs in excess of House official called the operation ar - is 48th among the 50 favor. "We got one call from an Iowa $5,000. the Bush administration's biggest lob. Iowa was second from the mink farmer who was concerned Also hit by the levy would be auto- bying effort yet. in the number of rape cases about the tax on furs." mobiles in excess of $30,000 and "I was leaning against before. Now ir. Only North Dakota report- Lorraine Voles, press secretary to yachts in excess of $100,000. The I'm firmly undecided," said Rep. Bob T rapes per 100,000 residents. Sen. Tom Harkin, said there were taxes, if approved, could begin taking Livingston, R-La., after one meeting. :heft rate was fourth lowest in only a few calls to the senator's Wash- effect Jan. 1 as part of & federal Reps. Susan Molinari and Sher- on. :an Wright, A Drake Universi- IOWANS LUXURY BUDGET essor of sociology, said he be- Please turn to Page 8A Please turn to Page 8A Please turn to Page 3A the rise in violent crime in 10/06/90 12:28 NO. 003 008 ure, 231-192. The House version would rulse the yearly influx from 590,000 HIGHLAVA sws A conference committee will try to resolve differences to 776,000. in other action Wednesday, between the bill and a Senate-passed version. Morrison expressed hope that the final product of the confer- Gave final congressional (In the Iowa delegation, Republicans Fred Grandy and Jim ence committee would find favor at the White House despite reversing the effects of a Supr "Roes" Lightfoot voted against the bill, while Democrats Dave veto threats. He said lawmakers were "in a position to narrow employers to limit job benefi Nagle and Neal Smith and Republicans Jim Leach and Tom down the administration's problems." voted 406-17 to approve the $8 Tauke voted in favor of it.) He said he expected House and Senate conferees to hold their by the Senate Sept. 24. Supporters say the bill would reunify families currently kept first meetings next week-at the latest but added they will be Opened debate on a maj asunder by immigration law while bringing in skilled workers talking Informally this week. Congress is heading toward ad- presidential veto threats The and sharpening U.S. competitiveness in global markets. The journment at mid-month. for offenses ranging from pr Bush administration and other critics say it would open the The bill would provide Immediate families of permanent nage. It also Is aimed at endi rates too wide and create AD overflow. residents of the United States with the same unrestricted right carrying out executions. Associated Press Close vote seen in budget plan's initial test BUDGET Continued from Page One wood Boehlert, both R-N.Y., said they were more inclined to vote with the president after the meeting, but they wanted an unpopular 2-cents-per- gallon home heating oil tax dropped. "It was not any arm twisting. He based all his arguments on facts," Molinari said. "Tough Decisions" "There comes a time when you have to simply make tough decisions, give a little. to get what is best for the country," Bush told reporters in a message clearly designed for con- gressional consumption. He urged members of Congress to vote for the package and then "blame the president" when they talk to vot- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, left, and WII- Corp., prepare to testify Wednesday before & House com- ers. liam Seldman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance mittee on the budget deficit-reduction package. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said at a Greenspan replied: "Most certainly." other luxury items, and on the in- longer sure. congressional hearing that he sup- Investors took heart from his com- comes of the wealthy. Gingrich, R-Ga., said, "I've had ports the package. Greenspan's views ments, with both the stock and bond It would cut military spending by members walk up to me and say are important since supporters of the markets buoyed by the promise of close to $200 billion over the next five they'v gotten so many phone calls plan are looking to the Federal Re- lower rates. years while reducing spending on from their districts against the pack- serve to lower interest rates to offset Awaiting a Signal benefit programs such as Medicare age that they don't know if they can any negative economic effects. The markets have been watching and farm subsidies by $105 billion- stay with it" "The budget summit has crafted the Fed closely for signs of lower in- Opposition continued from conser- Whatever the outcome in this what appears to be a. credible, en- terest rates in order to ward off a re- vatives unhappy with the plan's $134 week's preliminary votes, lawmakers forceable reduction in the hudget def- cession. But the Fed has been cau- billion in new taxes and with spending from both sides said they would not icit," Greenspan told the House Goz- tious about lowering rates because of cuts they consider insufficient. Rep. vote for the package itself - a vote ernment Operations Committee. the inflationary pressures from the Newt Gingrich, the chamber's No. 2 expected in two weeks - unless "Failure to enact the agreement recent jump in oil prices. Republican leader and a leading op- changes are made. At a meeting of would be a grave mistake." The budget package would raise ponent, who Tuesday said Bush's lob- House Democrats, leaders begged the Asked If the package would have a taxes on gasoline, home heating oil, bying would ensure the package's rank-and-file to vote yes today and to downward effect on interest rates, alcohol, tobacco, expensive cars and success, said Wednesday he was no see about alterations later. GOP senators urge defeat of Duke 10/06/90 12:29 NO. 003 009 e lette and on life. the le any use any Id ats, the :ea the its Th in," id states of tary TI her -to iki es for- il 188 hat ILH ne" 111 W ea de ? A salesperson at Dave Ostrem Imports in downtown Des Molnes looks at a Mercedes-Benz brochure. aid a red 'Luxury tax': Retailers not pleased If 11," the LUXURY its. He said the tax could be the other $500," said Ben Sholar, general 4a- Continued from Page One weight that sinks many dealers strug- manager of Plumbs Jewelers. "Our budget agreement reached over the gling to stay afloat. bread and butter is under the $5,000 and weekend. Mall Stores Hurt price." is Mark Ginsberg of M.C. Ginsberg Figures from the Jewelry Market- "This tax could be the death blow Jewelers in Iowa City predicted the ing Institute show that 90 percent of 15- to dealers all across the nation," said national sales involve items with a by Dean Howard, general sales manager tax would close some jewelry stores. price of less than $5,000. 4 at Dave Ostrem Imports, where 90 "I think It's going to scare some percent of sales would be affected by people out of business," he said. "It's The For Information Council of he the tax. "Then you are looking at no going to affect the mall-store owners. America said the Industry estimated in net increases In (tax) revenues be- They already pay a lot on their gross only about 20 percent of sales come cause you have displaced workers sales to the mall owners, so this will from furs worth more than $5,000. 15- It's silly." amount to a double tax." Negligible Effect Seen 00 Howard said car sales have Craig Wallace, a sales representa- ds dropped during the past two years tive at Ramsey Motors, said the tax Tom Manolidis, owner of Furs by Manolidis in Des Moines, said about and with sales have gone dealer prof- would primarily affect not wealthy customers, but "the marginal high- 10 percent of his sales would be in the new taxable range. line buyer." "That is, those people who have to "I don't think a few hundred dollars E scrape to make the car price. They extra will change a customer's mind. may decide not to buy the expensive If I like something, I'm going to pay models," he said. the extra anyway," he said. Others echoed Wallace's senti- Rich Jacobs, director of the Iowa ment. Department of Revenue and Finance, "The people who can afford the said his office is in the process of cal- $5,000 price won't be affected by an- culating how much the proposed taxes would cost Iowans annually, but It would be several days before the information would be available. CORRECTION Bill Reichardt, owner of Reich- ardt's Clothing in Des Moines, said: "It isn't just what It would do to the On page 6 B-1 of Sears consumers, it's the bureaucracy. That October 4th preprint, would be an incredible bookkeeping we incorrectly priced expense with no compensation." Joseph agreed: "The cost to keep Cellular Telephone track of it, to collect the tax, is going OFFER ENDS SOON! SEE Item #34605. The to be far more than what they col- GREEN'S FOR DETAILS lect." correct price is Some of the big-ticket dealers said $329.99. We regret the tax could be good for business in Refrigerator any inconvenience this the short run as customers rush to make purchases before the taxes take Model ET18PK may have caused. effect. "If it does pay us, it would be in 18cu.ft. @IE De spurring a big Christmas" as people Extended Page 9.1 frost free SEARS make purchases before the new tax IS implemented. Adjustable glass shelves CALLING ALL BEAR Textured Penni Bears COLLECTORS steel doors DI TAILED NO. 003 010 IS remains 'a massive whodunit' 15-year study G suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey at the three crime scenes and still a massive whodunit. This is pointed to someone else. clearly defines BE mae progress," he said. Humphrey, jailed in lieu of $1 million ball on a charge he beat bout 5,000 tips logged since the his grandmother, goes on trial Monday in Melbourne on that cholesterol risk strin dark charge. As Task-force members say they Register said investigators have not ruled out the possibility ROYM 1 that might be needed for a suc. that more than one person committed the crimes, but he seemed Philaseiphic Enquirer proti to put no emphasis on that theory. PHILADELPHIA, PA. - In one of tear about laboratory tests. He said Increased police patrols will continue and Galnesville rest- the most physically demanding and peop 1 searches are being analyzed by dents should maintain safety measures, he said. carefully controlled studies of its So Enforcement. The bodies of the five college students were found in their kind, scientists have shown that large with ek that lab tests failed are campus apartments Aug. 26-28. reductions of cholesterol can slow the mor rogression of heart disease, help here vent heart attacks, sharply reduce eed for cardiac surgery or angio- Incl Iowans face plasty and save lives. Held? Data from the 15-year-long study the a hard choice of heart-aitack victims clearly dem- initia onstrate that controlling cholesterol Worl is an effective way to retard heart M. in Congress disease, the researchers said, espe- soily cially in patients with advanced dis- ease. spel IOWANS By using intestinal surgery to pre- add Continued from Page One FRED JWA vent absorption of cholesterol, the re- car GRANDY LEACH searchers were able to permanently ington and Iowa offices backing the reduce the level of cholesterol by the candidates in the race for U.S. Senate, budget package. Harkin and Tauke. The Senate will 23 percent and apparently cut the "The majority of the calls in this office are about Medicare and agri- take up the proposal after the House risk of a second heart attack or death culture," she said. "In Des Moines and vote, perhaps not until Friday. by as much as 35 percent. rescription Sioux City, it's Medicare. And the e Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republi- The data is the most dramatic ne is FREEI* truckers are calling." can, is "leaning opposed" to the deal, proof yet that cholesterol reduction but was still holding out the remote - whether achieved through surgery, ellection. Necessary Evil? possibility he could vote for it. "He drugs or diet - is effective in reduc- MINATIONS has to hear from an awful lot of ing death from heart disease, though In Leach's office. the phone was Iowans" who back the proposal several other major trials in recent already ringing when press secretary Joe Pinder arrived for work at before he'd vote yes, said press secre- years have come up with similar find- tary Caran McKes. ings. 7:30 a.m. - that's 6:30 a.m. in Iowa. Pinder said some of the callers op- She said Grassley got his very first This study "lays to rest" any ques- phone calls in support of the budget tions about whether treating choles- posed the deal without being hostile, package Wednesday, but not many. terol is worthwhile in patients with while others viewed it as a necessary evil. Rep. Neal Smith, a Democrat heart disease, said Henry Buchwald, a second "They weren't thrilied by it and from central Iowa, said he "may" a general surgeon at the University of vote for the budget resolution. He Minnesota in Minneapolis and princi- they knew It was going to cost them tails.) said It was clear in is Democratic pal investigator of the Program on some money, but they thought the rance Accepted pragmatic choice was to vote for it," caucus meeting Wednesday that Surgical Control of the Hyperlipid- Pinder said. some changes will have to be made to emlas. 842-2020 Of the five Republicans and three soften the impact of the increases in Though the study followed only Clinic Democrats who represent Iowans in the gasoline tax and Medicare fees, people who already had a heart Washington: although it's not apparent how that attack, Buchwald said he believed Three will vote to turn down the could be accomplished. that the results could be applied to 1971 "I'm unsure," Smith said. "Pm go- most people with high cholesterol pact - Lightfoot and the state's two levels. ing to watch and see what happens between now and tomorrow." Cardiologist Henry Sawin of Lan- He also said that if this proposal kenau Hospital in Philadelphia, one falls, the next one will almost certain- of four centers participating in the ly cut back on cost-of-living increases national trials. said the study showed for Social Security beneficiaries. that cholesterol should be treated ag- "People won't like that much," he gressively In anyone at risk for heart disease. said. Rep. Dave Nagle, a northern Salim Yusuf, an expert on clinical Iowa Democrat, could not be reached trials, said Buchwald's study provid- for comment. Nagle had said Sunday ed no surprises, but was important in that the package was unattractive assembling and verifying the findings but perhaps preferable to spending of many other studies that had shown the value of cholesterol reduction. cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rud- man law. Thomas Chalmers of the Harvard Grandy and Leach are the lone School of Public Health said this "was Iowans who said with certainty they by far the most convincing study" yet will back the package. Leach said if to show the value of cholesterol re- duction. someone came up with an alterna- tive, he would look at it, but the pro- Funded by the National Heart, posal is the only one on the table. Lung and Blood Institute, which con- 158 4 ducts and oversees most of the heart "It offends the elderly, it offends to the young, it offends the rich, it research supported by the federal DO offends the poor, it offends conserva- government, the study was started in tives and it offends liberals," said 1975 and cost $52 million. low- Leach "But it is head-in-the-sand pol- The study's results, reported in itics to ignore the deficit." today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, were based on & study of 838 people who had suffered NO. 003 011 10/06/90 12:32 ear-like How they voted The House early Friday rejected a Both parties compromise budget plan. osives in Total Rep. Dem. For 179 71 108 sink plan in 0. S? Against 254 105 149 254-179 vote nus arsenal its. For Against ISFRANTZ Fred Grandy (R): From Register Wire Services WHEALY Jim Leach (R): WASHINGTON, D.C. - Handing President Bush his biggest domestic TON, D.C. - Iraq has Jim Ross Lightloot (R): policy defeat, the House early today low type of high-explo- David Nagle (D): rejected the budget that Bush had ;capable of delivering a called "the last, best chance" to get blast similar to a small Neal Smith (D): the deficit under control. Ission over an area sever- Tom Tauke (R): The vote was 254-179, with a ma- kie, Pentagon officials jority of both parties voting against the deal. Democrats rejected It pa, known as a fuel, 149-108, and Republicans turned 1 particularly effect double hit TED side Bush's pleas for party solidari- uses, oil fields and troops ty, 105-71. IS silitary experts said. Un- In rejecting the $500 billion pack- nus renal of chemical and bi- sons, there is no ready seen for elderly age of tax boosts and spending I to its slashes, the rebellious House ignored E this type of device. pleas by Bush and congressional lead- your garden-variety I Henry Sokoiski of the if Medicare cut ers that the alling economy needs relief from massive federal deficits. international security Five-Year Plan 1"These are blast-affect (what you can't see can By WALT SHOTWELL Breakaway Republicans, led by Register Staff Writer Georgia's fiery Newt Gingrich, held If Congress accepts the federal def- out against an all-out White House seern icit-reduction budget as proposed, lobbying effort in which Bush let it be mounting about the Medicare recipients would be hit with known that his leadership was at 1188 Research #c explosive, which the a double whammy, some Iowa insur- stake. шор 1 does not have in its ance company executives said Thurs- "I don't think that I am defeating Joys STU.L. its American troops in day. this package," Gingrich said earlier on of pasion If deployment: Many elderly persons carry pri- in the day. "The American people are said the teen- (ors, including John vate insurance to pay the difference defeating this package." ways Apoisno b and Jesse Helms, R- between Medicare coverage and the The lawmakers turned down the Police said # a letter to Secretary amounts of hospital and doctor bills outline of the five-year budget com- 1 148nom L Chenny asking for an actually owed, explained Robert Ray, promise that Bush and congressional. the size and sophisti- president and chief executive officer leaders had chiseled during four con- "WIT papunos supply of fuel-air ex- of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa. tentious months of negotiations. Taylor said. mether U.S. technology If Medicare benefits are cut, the Votes on specific spending cuts and M 20019 and 10 be weapon's develop- gap between Medicare payments and tax increases were planned in two Three people amounts to be paid by supplemental weeks. TED E uo WIOM vis have indicated that policies would widen, Ray said. The defeat came despite a week of cy Taylor resid for building these Higher premium rates will be re- intense lobbying by the president and about 2:50 p.m. plied to Iraq indirectly quired to justify the increased pay- his most powerful aides, the biparti- at up **** phone #man arms industry, ments from private policies, Ray pre- san leadership of the House and Sen- Robinson had C ional investigator said dicted. ate, and three former presidents. iseaus Pollce plogy may have been If Medicare benefits are cut and "If this thing cured cancer, I'd vote bullet remained 4. private insurance rates rise, "those against it." said Rep. James Trafi- Thursday night toxives, also known as people will be the losers either way," cant Jr., D-Ohio. "My people have in fair condition id of gas bomb involv- Ray said of the elderly. been taxed to death." up expense Rens dions. The principle is "The feds are adding one more It was unclear what Bush and con- nocent bystander x a room with natural pressure to spiraling health-care gressional leaders will do next. Delland # in a match. costs, especially to senior citizens," At midnight today, the govern- Innocent Bystal missile warhead con- said acting Iowa Insurance Commis- ment's authority to spend money will ally propane or ethyl- sioner David Lyons. expire and the rules of the budget law dealers. Initial explosion dis- setting across-the-board spending area that at time Potential Effects Into the air. A second, cuts are to go into affect. King Park on the latonation Ignites the He cited three potential effects of Bush has promised to block any ex- The shooting 01 I and air, creating a the proposed federal budget: tension of the deadline If Congress did The bullet misst id shock wave. The gap between Medicare and not pass the budget resolution, the neck. private insurance payments will In- By first step in the overall budget pro- intended for some deed widen, foreing insurance com- shock wave is similar cess. mom SUM squar PIO panies to increase rates quickly or suclear weapon and face "immediate dramatic losses." Opposed from Both Sides IM secujoy sad Y - MMS assissed across a wide area. Elderly Iowans will be quick to With all 435 House seats up for By ToM ALEX is capable of flatten- recognize a more dire need for sup- grabs in next month's elections, the BOM MEDICARE BUDGET Stray use turn to Page 6A Please turn to Page 104 Please turn to Page 10A Register 10-5-90 NO. 003 10/06/90 12:33 BUDGET Continued from Page One measure was the subject of intense criticism. Liberals and conservatives were angry over cuts in Medicare, higher gasoline and cigarette taxes, and other painful actions. Supporters responded that the package was needed medicine for the ailing U.S. economy. "It is the best thing that we could do at this point," Rep. James Quillen, R-Tenn., said as debate began. "If we have to hold our nose and vote for this, let's do it." David Rienow of Americans Against Tax Hikes rallies calling for the resignal The Senate planned to vote on the motorists in Washington, D.C., Thursday. The group is who support the badg measure today, and passage there seemed likely. our president," Atwater wrote. Kennedy Center. "We're going to have a majority Maverick Republicans spoke of He and his wife had planned to take ally when we get there," said Senate Ma- getting phone calls at home from two couples from his Canton, Ohio, M jority Leader George Mitchell, D- Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle, district, who had won a trip to Wash- $661 Maine. White House Chief of Staff John Sunu- ington at a charity auction. hall Bush brought 60 GOP lawmakers ou and even former Presidents Ger- House Speaker Thomas Foley, D- due to the White House Thursday morning ald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Rich- Wash., and others emphasized that for to press for votes. He sent a letter to and Nixon. lawmakers could support the outline can House Republicans asking them "in "The president called me at a quar- now and work for changes in details A the strongest terms possible" to sup- ter to seven in the morning, and Sunu- during the next two weeks. has port the measure. nu called two hours later." said Rep. Opposition within Bush's own party exp "I am absolutely sure it is the right Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., who op- came from conservatives who com- item thing to do for America," he wrote. posed the plan. "They're not threaten- plained about the package's $134 bil- A A second letter was sent to GOP ing me, and they better not." lion in new taxes and spending cuts can lawmakers by ailing Republican Na- Rep. Ralph Regula. R-Ohio, said they consider too shallow. fros tional Committee Chairman Lee At- that because be opposed the measure, But the package, which would save $71 water. the White House took away six tickets $40 billion In the new fiscal year, has bei "For the sake of your country and he was going to use Wednesday night something for all lawmakers to dis- that your party, I urge you to stand up for to sit in the president's box at the like, including tax increases and X Ink Elderly face rising costs for health-care insurance hap ria and MEDICARE - and he presumes most others in the second (to Florida) in number of Was Continued from Page One Medicare supplement field - will elderly citizens. D continue to offer "top line" policies "To confront this, we have to look pre plemental coverage as Medicare ben- that will bridge the entire gap as they for more aggressive ways to contain con efits are reduced, but many will find do now. But those policies, he added, costs in all areas of health care," he ing private insurance to be too expensive probably will have larger premiums said. "At state level, we must make por as rates are increased to accommo. than they do now. better use of state dollars - make bith date Medicare cuts. Iowa's Aging Population the dollars we do have go further." tim With cuts in Medicare benefits, Von Ebers said Blue Cross-Blue Von Ebers said he expects many busi many of which already are below ac- Shield actuaries already are wres- companies, including Blue Cross-Blue me tual hospital and doctor charges. tling with a potential rate increase, Shield, to continue offering Medicare 4 more costs will be passed along to but have not arrived at any specific supplements that may pay lesser was private insurance, adding a second figures. It was not yet known how amounts of the total owed. Dos pressure to force up rates. much Medicare benefits might be cul Any rate increases must be submit- mai Paul von Ebers, a Blue Cross-Blue or deductibles increased. ted to the Iowa Department of Insur- Am Shield senior vice president for health Lyons said Iowa would be hit espe-_ ance for approval, a process that tax care management, said his company cially hard because the state is takes about 30 days, Lyons said. that Cashmere China's hand 10/06/90 12:34 NO. 003 013 1990. "He said that he represented the Das Moines schools and that he settlement before It became final. Base with a dozen key felt there might be an embezzie- Now some school officials are In a repudiation of the whole ment problem at Lincoln High trying to divert attention from their tative government, they cobbled School. He was told by [Assistant own mistakes. Mistakes are under- mise package. At the last possi County Attorney] Mark [Sandon] standable. Refusing to own up to loaded their agreement. If the on the Capitol Hill in the next tv that before we could ever do any- them isn't. thing will happen: The blunde under the Gramm-Rudman act Better idea? Let's see it Members should not be int imaginary horrors. Let us pan Romans' fearless defense of jus With B storm of protest gather- away by saving paper clips. ruat caelum. Let sequestration ing from the elderly angered over In fact, the deficits are so gar- heavens fall. For the heavens Medicare cuts, from farmers fear- gantuan that they can't be even president retains authority to e services as meat Inspection and ing subsidy cuts, and from motor- dented without cutting popular federal government suddenly ists incensed by a gas-tax increase, programs and without raising sential services could function the easiest course is to oppose taxes significantly. The president's President Bush's budget deal. plan is generating screams of pro- Iowa Senators Tom Harkin and test, and it may not shrink the defi- Charles Grassley have taken that cits at all, just prevent them from ANNA QUINDLEN easy path, following the opposition getting worse. Imagine the howls if quickly declared by Harkin's oppo- it actually got rid of the deficits. nent, Congressman Tom Tauke. People will have to suffer cuts in Success Heaven knows, there's plenty programs, and people will have to worth opposing about the plan. It pay more taxes. Politicians who doesn't cut military spending pretend otherwise either don't enough, its tax hikes fall unfairly They were t grasp the magnitude of the prob- on middle-income families, and it know have lem or are misleading the voters. retro, Arma is only a temporary patch, not a so- lution to the budget deficits. Opponents of the president's free weight But what is the alternative? That plan have an obligation to offer sion, who t specific alternatives, including niture in till is the relevant question. numbers showing where and how lamps by & None of the opponents has of- graph of Jai much would be cut, what taxes fered a credible alternative. Oh, let. She ha would be raised and by how much had hair lik sure, platitudes and generalities are offered about cutting waste or And, oh yes, the plan must be po- him in the shifting priorities. Such talk de- litically achieveable. said: "You know, we're compl If the president's deal is so bad, "How did that happen?" ceives the public, for it gives the "I don't know how it happe impression that the deficits are a let's hear the alternatives. With you that there is not a drop of little problem that can be waved specifics, please. If Benjamin Braddock W today, that family friend woul side and give him the key to The new justice water. Not the kind of water tap, that gurgles in the plumt For three days last month David amounted to a free pass. let tank. Cool water. H. Souter went through a grueling The Senate's overwhelming ap- Cool water comes in bottl proval of Souter was in part a re- where - to the office, the gyr job interview before the 14 mem- bers of the Senate Judiciary Com- flection of the masterful job the You would not drink tap W mercury, lead, zinc, plutonis mittee. It was, as Iowa Senator nominee did in concealing his and myrth. Besides, you WENT Charles Grassley put it, "political opinion on the constitutional right Cool water is made by for theater, where nominees are now of a woman to choose abortion, pretending to be foreigners. forced to show allegiance to cer- and in portraying himself as a Scandinavian with umlaus tain pet theories of senators." warm and thoughtful human who in plastic bottles. It is second has no agenda to reverse course on First came cool water with Souter's performance paid off Tuesday when the full Senate vot- civil-liberties decisions. ed 90.9 to confirm his appointment Some groups urged a rejection of because Ince refused to en- CAL THOMAS Register 10-4-90 10/06/90 12:23 NO. 003 001 OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR STATE CAPITOL DES MOINES, IOWA 50319 915 291-9211 TERRY E. BRANSTAD TELECOPY MESSAGE GOVERNOR DATE: 10/6 TIME: 145p.m. TO: Ted gamey FROM: anne Juimer NUMBER OF PAGES SENT FOLLOWING THIS COVER SHEET: 12 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR COMMENTS: NOTE: If you did not receive all of the pages, or if any of the pages are illegible, please call our office at (515) 281-8318. Our telecopy machine, a 3M EMT 9165, is automatic and operates 24 hours a day. The telephone number is (515) 281-6611. OCT 5 '90 16:14 PAGE. . 001 Lauta Des Smith Mainesyn. Congressman Tom Tauke 55 2244 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 1800 202/225-2911 TO: Ted Garmey FROM: Finch DATE: PAGES: 2 (Not including this cover) COMMENTS: Alan Finch lowans fan Tanke College-Dobane Loras U.af lover Canadegree. 90 OCT 5 9.0 OCT 5 P4:24 P4: 24 OCT 5 '90 16:14 PAGE. 002 MEMORANDUM TO: Ted Garmey FR: Iowans for Tauke RE: Speech Prep in form of suggested iv DT: October 5, 1990 On the day of the President's visit to Des Moines, Harkin and Tauke will be debating Farm Issues and Budget policy. This debate will air on Iowa Public Television at 7:00 p.m. that night, and it would be great for the President to plug both the event and the issues that morning. SPENDING Senator Harkin and Congressman Tauke take very different stands on spending the tax dollars that Washington takes from your paycheck each week. In six years, Harkin has voted for every spending bill but one -- $800 billion more than Senator Chuck Grassley. The Congressional Quarterly reports that on "key tax votes" during that past ten years, Tom Harkin voted for eight out of eleven tax increases, and against four out of five tax cuts. Tauke has worked to hold the line on spending -- and has led a group of Democrats and Republicans fighting for budget and tax control. Washington has enough of your money, and should do a better job of spending what it already has. Tom Tauke won't spend your tax dollar unless he can look you in the eye and tell you its well spent. Earlier this month, we in Washington tried for a concensus on the budget. Now it's time for the voters to decide. If you're for higher taxes and more spending, vote for Tom Harkin. That's what he'll give you. But if you want someone to help hold the line on spending, and hold down taxes, then send Tom Tauke to the Senate. We need him there. (See attached flyer for particulars on spending record) AGRICULTURE/SMALL BUSINESS We would also like the President to hone in on agriculture/small business policy differences between Tauke and Harkin, particularly relative to the current farm bill debate in Washington. OCT 5 '90 16:14 PAGE 003 Senator Harkin and Congressman Tauke have very different views about farm policy. Tom Harkin vigorously fought the 1985 farm bill that rescued many family farmers. Instead, he proposed mandatory production controls -- where government would tell every Iowa farmer how much to grow -- and then set the price. Tom Tauke opposed government controls. And he supported the 1985 Farm Bill and has worked hard on the 1990 Farm Bill. Tom Tauke doesn't want a bunch of Washington bureaucrats running the nation's farms. (See attached flyer for particulars on spending record) ANNECDOTES (STRAIGHT -- TALK) Tom Tauke's campaign theme is straight talk. Nothing could say more about Tom Tauke, or what we need more of in Washington. I remember when Tom was just finishing his first term in Congress, back in 1980. I needed support in Iowa It was a tough decision for a freshman Congressman to make, but Tom came out for me. And it was the margin I had in Tom's second district that put me over the top. (ASIDE) Though I will say, Tom, the crowds you draw now are sure bigger than the ones you drew then. I think we could have competed for who was least well known in Iowa. At any rate, the point to my story is that Tom made a commitment to me, and he was there. He told me where he stood, and he stood where he told me. That's straight talk -- that's what we need in Washington. In fact, sometimes he tells me what I don't want to hear, like ealier this month on the budget agreement. But like I say, Tom emobides the best about Iowa. The views and values of thrift and compassion that make this state great. Tom Tauke and Iowa. Straight talk. OCT 5 '90 16:17 PAGE. 006 OCT 5 '90 11:40 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE. 002 Quo fes on TT What Others Say About Tom Tauke "He has done an outstanding job in recognizing the needs and desires of our district and trying to do something about them." The Clinton (Iowa) Herald "Tauke, a work horse in a world of show horses, instinctively knows where the heart of an issue is and how to lead the key players in his direction." The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette "Tauke brings a fresh light to representation for Iowa in Congress." The Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republica "[Tauke's] record clearly shows he votes for what he thinks is right." What [he] offers "is an experienced and realistic assessment of the problems facing his constituents, other Americans, and even citizens of other countries." The Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald Tauke "has created a very positive image in his district for the good work he has done as its representative." The Davenport (Iowa) Quad City Times Clearly, Congressman Tauke is mindful of his constituents' pocket- books while representing them in Washington. If there were more representatives like [him], we wouldn't be. faced with such a massive federal debt right now." Jill Lancelot, National Taxpayers Union "Only 36 years old and already serving his fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Tauke has emerged as a key player in a wide range of issues and a force to be reckoned with among both Republicans and Democrats." The Des Moines (Iowa) Register Congressman Tauke is a "rising star" in Washington because of "his grasp of legislative substance. He is bright, hardworking and persuasive.. He's well respected even by members who disagree with him.. People always want him on their side." The National Journal "Congressman Tom Tauke is pushing to correct the 'notch' problem in Social Security. We are flad to see our congressman pushing to bring the matter up for action in the House [and] applaud his efforts to get the ball rolling." The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette OCT 5 '90 16:18 PAGE. 007 OCT 5 '90 11:41 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE. 003 RUG 23 '90 15:18 TO CAMPAIGN PAGE. 003 Quotes on π MEMO wor RE: DEMO QUOTES PRAISING TT o "I want to pay tribute to Tom Tauke who has been there on the legislation in the subcommittee trying to figure out the practical way to accomplish the important environmental and societal goals. Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California), Full Committee, April 5, 1990. o "We wouldn't have has such a good acid rain provision except for your determined support." Congressman Henry Waxman (D- California) in a letter dated April 10, 1990. o "I want you to know how much I deeply appreciate your meaningful support and hard work to finally put an end to acid rain." Congressman Gerry Sikorski (D-Minnesota) in a letter dated Awa12 14. 1000. o "You've been a good ally and we have a better bill because of your involvement." Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California) in a letter dated October 16, 1989. - "Your vote restored balance to the single remaining provision in the Clean Air Act Amendments that would have weakened existing Clean Air law. It was a big step forward in ensuring that the number one source of urban air pollution, the automobile, runs cleaner and that major emission control equipment works properly Special thanks!" Congressman Gerry Sikorski (D- Minnesota) in a letter dated May 24, 1990. 0 "This is a brief note to tell you of my high regard for your courage in voting on the contra aid issue. Difficult -- I know -- all the more admirable." Congressman Tom Foley (D-WA) in a hand written letter dated 4-8-86. o "After a long struggle and a lot of hard work we've finally accomplished what all the doubters thought was impossible: a significant improvement in our nation's welfare system. Thanks for your help." Congressman Tom Downey (D-NY) in a letter dated 0 "As usual, Tom -- You are an able and gallant fighter and I'm always pleased when we can fight side by side." Congressman Billy Tauzin, (D-LA) in a handwritten letter dated June 30, 1988. "I want to express my deep appreciation for your support in securing passage of House Joint Reselution 3. I believe our positive action on this legislation to be a major arms control victory for the American people Thanks, Tom!! This was an Iowa victory." Former Congressman Berkley Bedell in a letter dated February 27, 1986. OCT 5 '90 16:18 PAGE. 008 OCT 5 '90 11:42 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE. 004 AUG 23 '90 15:19 TO CAMPAIGN PAGE. 004 DEMO QUOTES -- PAGE 2 o "I am writing to thank and commend you for your leadership efforts you can take pride in having promoted a budget that would be good for the country and foreshadows exactly what everyone agrees will be the essential outlines of next year's budget debate. The serious commitment to deficit reduction and political courage you showed once again in working to develop and offer this fair, common-sense budget plan are appreciated." Congressman Charles Stenholm (D-Texas) in a letter dated March 24, 1988. 0 "(Your) vote took courage. I appreciate that instead of taking the path of least resistance or voting your emotions, you were willing to look at the implications and the details underlying the bill. The bill promised more than it could deliver with the proposed financing, and because of the costs involved would have slowed the Congress in it efforts to meet other important health care goals, such as nursing home care, health insurance for the 37 million uninsured Americans, or combating the AIDS epidemic." Congressman John Dingell (D-Michigan) in a letter praising TT for his "ng" vote on the older Americans Act Technical Amendments. June 13, 1988. 0 "I want to express my thanks for the support you gave the Nation's National Guard and Reserve forces (by restoring) $285 million of unauthorized appropriations which had been designed for our reserve forces. There is indeed a critical need for these funds. I know the Guard and Reserve community considers you a true friend." Congressman Sonny Montgomery (D-MS) in a letter dated April 24, 1986, 0 "I know that your recent vote against providing an additional $100 million aid to the contras must have been a difficult one. I want to let you know how much 1 appreciate the courage it took to cast it." Congressman David Bonior (D- Michigan) in a letter dated April 2, 1986. "Thank you for supporting my surplus crops amendment to the Garrison project bill. The surprisingly narrow margin strongly signals that, in a time of budget deficits and agricultural glut, there is widespread feeling in the House that it makes no sense to subsidize irrigation to produce more of the same surplus crops that we are already paying farmers not to grow. This close vote will help to bring about a more rational federal water policy in the future." Former Congressman Berkley Bedell (D-Iowa) in a letter dated April 25, 1986, o "I wanted to say thanks again for your help and support on the acid rain bill. It wouldn't have happened without you. You've been a great ally -- and I appreciate it." Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) in a letter dated May 21, 1986. OCT 5 '90 16:19 PAGE. 009 OCT 5 '90 11:42 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE. 005 AUG 23 '30 15:19 TO CAMPAIGN PAGE. 005 DEMO QUOTES -- PAGE 3 o "We appreciate your Friday vote to restrict nuclear testing. Together, we won a major arms control victory. We protected our deterrent and encourage serious negotiations with the Soviet Union." Joint letter dated August 14, 1986 from Congressmen Les Aspin (D-Wisc.), Dick Gephardt (D-Mo) and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder (D-co). o "We are writing to thank you for your vote yesterday in support of our amendment to limit the rate of increase in funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative. We are positive that our position is at step in the right direction." Joint letter dated August 13, 1986 from Congressmen Charles Bennett (D-FL), Vic Fazio (D-CA) and Nicholas Mavroules (D-MA). 0 "The consumers and the shippers of America and this Member will long remember your courageous vote today. You have my thanks and my great respect. Merci Beaucoup!" Congressman Billy Tauzin (D-LA) in a letter dated September 16, 1986. 0 "I want to thank you for your votes on my amendment to the Conrail sale legislation. These amendments are crucial in establishing a more equitable public offering and in providing a better financial return for the taxpayers. Special Thanks!" Congressman Dennis Eckart (D-Ohio) in a letter dated September 19, 1986. o "It was a pleasure to be your colleague in the great halls of the House of Representatives in the past and I look forward to the opportunity of serving with you again in our quest to help resolve the many critically important issues of concern to our people." Congressman Robert Roe (D-NJ) in a letter dated November 24, 1986. 0 "Thanks so much for supporting the Immigration bill when it came before the House. Yours was a courageous vote and, I firmly believe, a correct vote as well." Congressman Romano Mazzoli (D-Kentucky) in a letter dated October 17, 1986. © "Thank you for your support during Monday's South Africa vote. our bipartisan stand on this issue reflected the spirit of American, and your vote was very important." Congressman Bill Gray, III (D-PA) in a letter dated October 1, 1986. 0 "It's said that the secret to success in life is to be ready when opportunity knocks. Your sincerity, honesty and hard work helped earn you this triumph." Former Senator Edward Zorinsky (D-Nebraska) in a letter dated November 10, 1986. 0 "We are one step closer to acid rain control because of your support. Your courage and concern for the environment made our victory possible. Thanks!" Congressman Gerry Sikorski (D- Minnesota) in a letter dated March 3, 1988. OCT 5 '90 16:19 PAGE. 010 OCT 5 '90 11:43 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE.006 AUG 23 '90 15:20 TO CAMPAIGN PAGE.006 DEMO QUOTES -- PAGE 4 amendment to H.R. 4567 to strike funding for the Davis Creek Dam o "Thank you for your support of the Gejdenson-Petri-sharp in Nebraska. Although the amendment was not adopted, I believe that a strong message was sent that scarce federal dollars should not be spent on irrigation projects that increase crop production at a time that there is a hugh surplus of agricultural commodities, Your vote in favor of the amendment was an important first step toward rationalizing our nation's agricultural and water development policies." Congressman Sam Gejdenson (D- Connecticut) in a letter dated May 27, 1988. o "Yours were much-appreciated and responsible votes for reducing, not increasing, unnecessary costs, bureaucracy, and regulation, when the government seeks to build bridges, provide livable housing, or support community development." Congressman Charles Stenholm (D-Texas) in a letter dated May 31, 1988. 0 "I want to thank you for your help in getting the Appropriations Committee to consider favorably the $20 million for Trade Adjustment Assistance. with your assistance we were able to attract the attention of the Appropriations Committee members. Hopefully, this will eventually mean the laid off workers in our districts will receive the training benefits they have already qualified for. Thank you again, Tom, for your assistance. It was good working with you. Congressman Bob Wise (D-WV) in a handwritten letter dated 4/1/87. 0 "I am looking forward to working with you during these hext two years as, together, we seek solutions to the problems facing our nation. With your wisdom and leadership, I am confident this Congress will produce effective legislation which will benefit the people of America.' Congressman Tom Bevill (D- AL) in a letter dated November 14, 1986. 0 "Thank you for your support of my amendment to cap spending authorized by the NASA bill at the level assumed in the budget resolution. While it is true that the budget resolution does not impose binding limits on bills providing authority for discretionary spending, the burden and responsibility of making the tough decisions required by the budget should not rest with the Committee on Appropriations alone. The authorizing committees should be encouraged to make choices that are real and have an impact on the appropriations process." Congressman Bruce Morrison (D-Connecticut) in & letter dated July 14, 1987. 0 "Thank you for your support for the Satellite Television Fair Marketing Act of 1987. The 13 to 11 vote speaks for itself - - you were critical, and I deeply appreciate your being there when it counted. As usual, Tom -- you are an able and gallant fighter and I'm always pleased when we can fight side by side." Congressman Billy Tauzin (D-LA) in a letter dated June 30, 1986. OCT 5 '90 16:20 PAGE. 011 OCT 5 '90 11:43 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE. 007 AUG 23 '90 15:21 TO CAMPAIGN PAGE.007 DEMO QUOTES - PAGE $ 0 "I want to thank you for your vote today on the wireless cable section of the "Satellite Television Fair Marketing Act" in the Telecommunications Subcommittee markup. I realize that this was not an easy vote. Consumers deserve better choices in the video marketplace. And they certainly deserve fairer prices. The wireless cable provision helps achieve both goals by promoting competition and free trade by preventing discriminatory behavior by cable programmers." Congressman Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee) in a letter dated June 30, 1988. o "Please accept my sincere gratitude for your assistance with my amendment to H.R. 4604, the extension of Title 2 of the Energy Policy Conservation Act. on June 29, Congress passed this measure and thereby affirmed the United State's participation in the International Energy Agency. My amendment proposing a study of Pan American Energy Security passed as part of that measure. Your assistance with this study at the Energy and Commerce Committee markup was instrumental. By examining all available options, we can enhance the United States' energy security.' Former Congressman Mickey Leland (D-Texas) in a letter dated July 0 "I am writing to thank you and commend you on your leadership efforts on behalf of the Penny-Tauke Substitute offered as an amendment to the FY 1989 Budget Resolution. you can take pride in having promoted a budget that would be good for the country and foreshadows exactly what everyone agrees will be the essential outlines of next year's budget debate. The serious commitment to deficit reduction and political courage you showed once again in working to develop and offer this fair, common-sense budget plan are appreciated." Congressman Charles Stenholm (D- Texas) March 24, 1988. o "On the 3rd of February, you cast an historic vote for peace in Central America. This has been one of the most divisive and difficult issues in Congress. But through the toughest of times, you have been there as a voice of reason and decency. I deeply respect your steadfast commitment to ending the war in Central America. Your willingness to take a personal risk for peace is a political inspiration. It represents the very best in government. I appreciate your courage." Congressman David Bonior in a letter dated February 18, 1988. "I want to thank your personally for voting in favor of my bill, H.R. 5064, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Act, on the floor yesterday. DARE is a unique drug aducation strategy that is working and I appreciate your support to extend DARE to more schools and communities. Once again, thank you for DARING to say YES! " congresswoman Jolene Unsoeld (D-Washington) in a letter dated July 11. 1990, OCT 5 '90 16:21 PAGE. 012 OCT 5 '90 11:44 FROM IOWANS FOR TAUKE TO TAUKE -DC PAGE. 008 AUG 23 '90 15:22 TO CAMPAIGN PAGE.008 DEMO QUOTES --- PAGE 6 o "I have said before that if we had more Tom Tauke's in the Congress, we could get a lot more done around here and do less growling and shouting at one another." Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Mich) on the House Floor during consideration of the Head Start Reauthorization of 1990, May 16, 1990. 0 "I was pleased to see that the final version of the Omnibus Drug Initiative Act (CASA) included language on the Court- Appointed Special Advocate program. I deeply appreciate your help on this matter. The inclusion of this language will help ensure that the National CASA Association can continue its important work in behalf of neglected and abused children in the courts. Many thanks." Congressman Romano Mazzoli (D-Kentucky) in a letter dated November 2, 1988. TOM TAUKE A Hardworking lowan TOM TAUKE TOM TAUKE A "Rising Star" U.S. Senate Representative Tom Tauke is recognized as one of ** TOTAL ** OCT 5 '90 16:15 the nation's most gifted political leaders. Much of the towan's political strength stems from his reputation as a national leader in child care, rural health care, budget policy, telecommunications, and agricultural issues. After analyzing the performance of all 535 members of the U.S. House and Senate, the respected National Journal in 1987 named Tem Tauke one of 13 "rising stars" in Washington. The Journal said Tauke won the distinction because of "his grasp of legislative substance. He is bright, hardworking and persuasive He's well respected even by members who disagree with him People always want him on their side." A few months earlier, U.S. News & World Report also cited Tom Taute as one of the nation's "rising stars," One of Us listing him among 30 national feaders described as "a A filelong resident of lowa, Tom Tauke was born in bright, organized problem solver." ubuque on October 11, 1950. He graduated from Congressman Tom Tauke was the only official, ubuque Wahlent High School and received a B.A. from Republican or Democrat, cited in both the Journal and pras College in Dubuque, where he served as student the U.S. News performance ratings. ady president and received the O'Connor award for the utstanding graduate. He received his juris doctorate om the University of towa College of Law, where he as selected a Murray Scholar. While in college, Tom Tauke worked as a political porter for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald and as a idwest correspondent for the New York Times. After advation, he was a member of a Dubuque law firm. In 174 Tom Tauke was elected to the lowa Legislature and as reelected in 1976. He has served as lowa's Second strict Congressman since 1978. An active leader in community affairs, Tom Tauke is member of the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce di the Rotary Club of Dubuque. He is a trustee of Mt. ToM TAUKE arcy College in Cedar Rapids, a trustee of the Herbert Dover Presidential Library in West Branch and a "Tauke, a work horse in a world PAGE 004 ember of the Loras College Alumni Board. He is a of show horses H Hong member of Nativity Church in Dubuque. Tom and He Puts lowa First i wife Beverly have one son, Joseph, bom October 8, The Cedar Rapids Gazette 86. Paid for by The Repoblican Party of lews OM TAUKE TOM TAUKE Ag and Industry Champion "Taxpayers' Best Friend" Won the Farm Bureau's "Golden Plow" award for leadership on agriculture and rural health issues. Earned the National Taxpayers Union "Taxpayers" Worked to establish a job-training program for Best Friend" award. displaced workers and a loan program for beginning farmers. Opposed tax on Social Security benefits and fought the Catastrophic Health Care tax. OCT * 50 16:16 Championed measures to develop and market new uses for agricultural products, such as com-based Organized the Bipartisan Budget Task Force in 1987 plastics. to help hold the line on federal spending. Named "Guardian of Small Business by the nation's Selected for the "Golden Bulldog" award by the leading small business organization. Watchdogs of the Treasury. TOM TAUKE Advocate for the Elderly Named to "Who's Who in Senior Citizen Health Care Policy for feadership on Medicare issues. Passed legislation to ease "spousal poverty" for seniors whose spouses enter nursing homes. Sponsored the only "notch" bill to win approval in either House. Authored bill to correct inequities in the Social Security system that result in smaller benefit checks for women. TOM TAUKE TOM TAUKE A Strong Voice for Children Health Care Leader Served on the Infant Mortality Commission and Received the lowa Hospital Association's F.P.G. co-authored the Healthy Birth Act to Improve prenatal Lattner Award for his Trutstanding contribution" to and infant health care. health care policy and won the National Rural Health Strengthened the Head Start program to help Association's Public Service Award. disadvantaged children. Founded the bipartisan Rural Health Care Coalition Led the successful fight to give severely ill children consisting of over 140 members of Congress. access to home care under Medicaid. Led the successful fight to develop a fair Medicare 500 PAGE Proposed the Choices in Child Care Act to help low payment system for rural hospitals and doctors. and moderate income families meet their child care Passed legislation providing for Medicare and needs. Medicaid coverage for the working disabled. 71 IOWA Cearge Ralph Brawn wittgraf 712 225 - 6481. 10/09/90 16:38 '515 242 5578 1AU TOMA - INJUTANT SEPARE HEADQUARTERS IOWA NATIONAL GUARD OF Office of The Adjutant General SHAL OFFICE Camp Dodge IOWA 7700 Northwest Beaver Drive Johnston, lowa 50131-1902 October 9, 1990 515-242-5011 gis- Public Affairs Office White House ATTN: Wendy Gale Vohn Smith Washington D.C. 20310 $ 0192 Dear Ms. Gale: 6979312 The following articles reference the items we talked about concerning the activation of the 1133d Transportation Company, Iowa Army National Guard, to support Operation Desert Shield. The support and send-off of this unit by the Mason City community was magnificent. We are convinced it was the textbook solution to how a community should stand behind their local military & organization. The newspaper items group together as they come out of the FAX. Please contact me if I can be of further assistance. Sincerely, you Enclosures Robert C. King Lieutenant Colonel, Iowa Army National Guard Public Affairs Officer Day Grans-O 675-04-21 04-21 Mason City Dept. Public 01921 Affairs Des Manus OSD 6951 10/09/90 16:40 T515 242 5578 IVEA R Copyright 1990, lowa Farmer Today CIRCULATION 73,000 1 SECTION SWEDITION VOL CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA OCTOBER 6, 1990 WHEN DUTY CALLS By Gene Lucht lowa Farmer Today ASON CITY - The calendar says its M time for Carl Jungbluth to fire up his combine and steer It into the field. That won't happen this year. Jungbluth, 42, is one of six Iowa farmers who are members of a National Guard unit that was called to active duty in the Army last week. As a member of Staff Sgt. Carl Jungbluth deft), a New Hampton farmer and lows National the 1133rd Transportation Company, he now is preparing to go to the Persian Gulf. ment preparations with Lt. Col. Robert King, a public affairs officer with the I Somebody else must harvest Jungbluth's crop. He doesn't have the time - and he would rather not FARM PROGRESS SHOW think about it. "You know that feeling you get in the fall when you go by other people's fields and see combines Yeutte Farm bill hould running." he says. "I'm going through that now." John Brandau, also with the 1133rd, knows how Jungbluth feels. Someone else now must harvest Brandau's corn and soybeans, too. Someone else must take care of his feeder pigs. Someone else must keep the books. "I spent most of the week (before reporting for duty) getting the last of the farm records entered on Life our new computer bookkeeping system," he says. One major concern is just making his family aware of all the business transactions which must be handled while he is gone, Brandau says. They must know about the grain contracts and the hog options and other such items. ricul He won't be around to remind them. Brandau and Jungbluth both say they were copy prepared for the call-up and left their farm Ing operations in good hands. Brandau, 42, explains as soon as he heard about the United States deploying troops to Saudi Arabia, he knew his unit, a transportation company with 170 soldiers and a collection of heavy trucks, might be orch called up. The president can call up 200,000 troops for 90 days, he says, and the 1133rd was going to get called if the number went to 200,000. So he began preparing Farm Progr See page 3: Guard bout 300 10/09/90 15:41 242 5578 TAG TOWA Mercantile Exch times a day: 9:31 Forturren market, o and ftegc Iowa Cary, the areas brmanic C Rapids Iowa City Waterloo/Ce Dubuque Staff Sgt. John Brandau is leaving his farm tractors for the tractor trailers of the 1133rd Transpor- tation Company of the lowa National Guard. The unit is now in Fort McCoy, Wis., and could be transferred overseas in a matter of weeks. The rear echelon trucking unit is the first lowa National An The Go Guard Unit to be called to active duty since the U.S. began sending troops to the Middle East. Several lowa Army Reserve units were called to active duty. Guard SCO From page 1 Farmer-guardsmen could That means Brandau and Jungbluth will be away from home until late December, date March miss spring planting or even later. A medium truck unit, the 1133rd R would work as a terminal-io-terminal transpor- tation unit, King says. They will be truckers for the Army, transporting supplies or equipment. His brother-in-law, Gary Pearson, has promised to There has been no official word on their desti- take responsibility for the farm work this fall. nation, although King says they are preparing for V Some of the work also will fall to his wife, Christie, the possibility of going to the Persian Gulf. They and the three children: Jennifer, 19; Cara, 15; and would not be a front-line unit if sent there, be says. Ben, 13. For Jungbluth and Brandau, they assume they All it takes is one choi "All of them are good farm help." he says. probably will be shipped to the Middle East. and you'll ask yoursel That may be important this fall as they work to For now, they have been sent to Fort McCoy in how you ever got alon harvest the 560 acres of corn and soybeans on the Wisconsin for several weeks. Fort McCoy is near without it. The SCOO) Brandau farm near Little Cedar, not far from the Sparta, Wis., about 40 miles east of La Crosse. HAUL is one Minnesota border in Mitchell County. By the end of October they should be en route to hired hand that For Jungbluth, the call-up meant hiring some- their final destination. never quits one to help run the combine through his 350 acres An estimated 7,000 people early Sunday of corn and soybeans near New SCOOP-n-HAUL afternoon lined Old Highway 106 Hampton in Chickasaw County. to watch and cheer as the compa- lets you convert His father also is planning to "Everyone's been ny pulled out of town. your tractor work on the farm through har- into a rugged. vest. If more help is needed, it supportive. I just AS STAFF sergeants, Jungb- versatile back- probably will fall upon the don't want anyone to luth and Brandau each will be in end loader and neighbors. get hurt getting the charge of nine trucks and 18 dump truck crop out. " men. They expect the task to ready to tackle "EVERYONE'S BEEN sup- keep them busy. the toughest portive," he says. "I just don't want anyone to get hurt getting Staff Sgt. Carl Jungbluth The two Vietnam-era veterans chores The many use the crop out." New Hampton farmer are old friends. They met during SCOOP-n-HAUL is In active duty oversees in the late only by one's Imagina Jungbluth has two children: 1960s. Neither served In Eric. 12; and Sue, 10; who live with his ex-wife. Vietnam. Both have been in the guard for about It's perfect for any size Both men say they will miss their families much five years. operations. You'll save more than the farm work. They also say neighbors, Each wonders about the harvest. And they both friends, and area businesses all have helped. wonder about their date of return. For example, the Security State Bank in New "My real concern is if we don't get back in time Hampton lowered the interest on all Jungbluth's for spring planting,' Brandau says. "Depending on loans to 6 percent while he is on active duty. the spring weather, if we get back in March it "I didn't ask for it," he says. "They just did it." might not be too bad." Jungbluth agrees the spring schedule is more For more than 65 THE UNIT has been called up for 90 days, worrisome than missing the fall fieldwork. quality produc according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert King, a But, he says, there is a point where he just has to public affairs officer with the Iowa National forget the farm because he can't do anything about Guard. President Bush could keep them on active it. Hwy. 5 South, P.O. -800-24 duty for 180 days without specific Congressional "I'm really not too worried about it, he says. approval, King says "I've got other things to WORTY about." 10/09/90 16:43 515 242 5578 TAG TOWA Last-min te budget p DAVID.FETERSON/The Recltier Cheers with tears as Iowa troops leave By GENE RAFFENSPERGER Rodister Staff Writer MASON CITY, IA. - It was a flag-waving, thumbs-up, pat-em-on- the-back kind of day here Sunday as the 1133rd Transportation Company of the Iowa National Guard went off to federal service and a probable overseas assignment. In fact, the 1133rd's departure might have been written in Holly wood On a blue and gold autumn at ternoon about 170 helmeted troops, including about 10 women, reared away from their armory in semitrall- et trucks, air horns blatting. The trucks drove about nine miles west to Interstate Highway 35 along a route that was lined on both sides by an estimated 10,000 cheering. flag-waving civilians who shouted en- couragement. flashed the thumbs-up sign and blew kisses. It was 2 crowd that was not ashamed to be proud. "We're Behind Them" "This is the way to do it, let them know we're behind them," said Wil- bur Smiley, 60, of Mason City, whose eyes welled with tears as he stood beside the road as the trucks and troops rolled past. Indeed, tears mixed with cheers on a day when emotions rode a roller coaster. Spouses, mothers, fathers and chil- A flag-waving crowd hear ar Lake gives send-off Sunday to a convoy carrying members of the 1133rd National Guard unit to a Tany 10/09/90 16:44 515 242 5578 TAG IOWA Members of the 1133rd Transportation Company of the lowa National Guard Wiscossin and likely service in the treebled Persian Galf. One soldier stand in formation Sunday in Mason City before leaving for training in a bunch of ministure American flage in his left hand. Tears, cheers mingle as Iowa troops depart trip to Wisconsin. TROOPS The big diesel engines c Continued from Page One " guess if she's in the National Guard life, sending blue smoke ost dren. even some along the route who and they call up the Guard, she has haust stacks. A young drit were not direct kin of the departing his air horn to the tune of troops, wept as the troops moved out. The 1133rd, made up of men and to go." a hairent, six bits" and the family members laughed 1 women whose ages range from the -Doug Fullerton themselves. teens to the 50s, was called to federal a Rockford farmer whose girlfriend may be going to the Persian Gulf Then the convoy moved C service last week as part of the build- obviously excited young 20 up of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf. Word is that after transportation is So does Cindy Spurlin, 25, of Clear than an hour early. ing two to a truck waved to ing crowd. The horns blast Lake. She's a nurse in a Mason City They sat in their cars or on lawn arranged, the 1133rd will be sent to chairs. They carried tiny American the flags waved and the P the gulf. But on Sunday, at least, their hospital, but in the 1133rd she's a sup- ply clerk and now admittedly pursied flags or big ones, mounted on poles weren't wiping their eye destination was Fort McCoy, Wis. that they stuck in the ground or tied handkerchief yelled and di Sunday began with a morning over her future in Saudi Arabia, a country that has starkly different to their cars. They looked on from One of the trucks had church service at the National Guard rules for women and men. seats on farm tractors and from the message on its bumper: Armory. Troops attended in battle dress and with their families. Many beds of pickup trucks. Thousands just. back." "We have to keep our sleeves rolled down, and we can't wear shorts and stood. took communion. Each woman and child was offered take physical training exercise with Richard Houstman and his wife, a carnation. The Army set aside 11 the other troops," said Sparlin. "I Peg. from Charles City, were there. a.m. to noon as time for the troops to guess my feeling is that If we're not They said they wanted to show sup- spend with their relatives. Some going to be treated equally, we port to four people from Charles City walked about the parking lot; others shouldn't go. I think if the Army were who were among the troops in the sat on the grass, some sat on chairs in told that meh couldn't roll up their 1183rd. "We hope they don't get into sleeves, they would not obey It." combat," said Richard Houstman. the armory auditorium. Doug Fullerton, 26, a farmer from "But if they do, I know they'll do their Wife, Children Left Rockford, and Spurlin's boyfriend, best." Sgt. Orville Anderson, 31, of Mason came to the armory to see her off. "I Richard Clauson, 55, of Mason City City said his wife, Nancy, couldn't guess if she's in the National Guard said he was amazed at the crowd bear waiting out the final minutes at and they call up the Guard, she has to along the road. "I think the general the armory. So, he said, she took the go," said Fullerton. consensus has been that people don't couple's three children. Robert, 8, care. I think this shows-we do care," and twins Jordan and Nicole, 2 ½, Some Arrived Early he said. and went home. City officials, the newspaper and Margaret Drake, 64, of Mason City "She's upset about my leaving," radio stations asked northern Iowa had two flags. "This is great," she said Anderson. "I told her I'd be home residents to show up Sunday to give said. "It shows them we love them when they get done with us. I don't the 1133rd a good send-off. Some ar- and we appreciate what they are do- mind going. I just hope we can do rived along S.W. 19th Street, the ing." something good." street in front of the armory. more Time for Formation DAVID PETERSON/The As time drew near for the troops to get into a formation in front of the armory, troops and civilians began to drift in groups toward that spot. A gray-haired man, vintage World War II, reached over and tightened a strap on a young soldier's back. Then the older man turned away and wiped his eyes. A female solder walked to the for- mation with & white carnation in her helmet. Earlier, the troops, although in battle dress, were wearing soft hats and no packs or belts. Now, they put on cloth-covered steel helmets, flak Jackets and packs. The helmets and flak jackets seemed to turn the mood from com- pany pienic to a troop movement. Fl- nal embraces. Final whispered words. Then the troops headed for their 50 or so trucks (some stayed back to wait for a bus to take them) and the 10/09/90 16:40 515 242 5578 TAG IOWA 004 R Copyright 1990, lowa Farmer Today CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA OCTOBER 6, 1990 CIRCULATION 73,000 1 SECTION WEDITION VOL WH IN DUTY CALLS By Gene Lucht lowa Farmer Today ASON CITY - The calendar says its M time for Carl Jungbluth to fire up his combine and steer it into the field. That won't happen this year. Jungbluth, 42, is one of six Iowa farmers who are members of a National Guard unit that was called to active duty in the Army last week. As a member of the 1133rd Transportation Company, he now is Staff Sgt. Carl Jungbluth (left), New Hampton farmer and lowa National preparing to go to the Persian Gulf. ment preparations with LL Col. Robert King, a public affairs officer with the I Somebody else must harvest Jungbluth's crop. He doesn't have the time - and he would rather not FARM PROGRESS SHOW think about it. "You know that feeling you get in the fall when you go by other people's fields and see combines Yeutter Farm bill should running." he says. "I'm going through that now." John Brandau, also with the 1133rd, knows how Jungbluth feels. Someone else now must harvest Brandau's corn and soybeans, too. Someone else must take care of his feeder pigs. Someone else must keep the books. "I spent most of the week (before reporting for duty) getting the last of the farm records entered on our new computer bookkeeping system," he says. lation One major concern is just making his family aware of all the business transactions which must be handled while he is gone, Brandau says. They must know about the grain contracts and the hog options of.go and other such items. ricul He won't be around to remind them. Brandau and Jungbluth both say they were copy prepared for the call-up and left their farm ing operations in good hands. Brandau, 42, explains as soon as he heard about the United States deploying troops to Saudi Arabia, from he knew his unit. a transportation company with 170 soldiers and a collection of heavy trucks, might be orch called up. The president can call up 200,000 troops for 90 days, he says, and the 1133rd was going to get called if the by bian number went to 200,000. So he began preparing. Farm See page 3: Guard 300 10/09/90 16:41 2515 242 5578 TAG IOWA 1005 Mercantile Exch times a day: 9:31 For curren market, o and atego Iowa CATY, the C areas; der Rapids Iowa City Waterloo/Ce Dubuque Staff Sgt. John Brandau is leaving his farm tractors for the tractor trailers of the 1133rd Transpor- tation Company of the lowa National Guard. The unit is now in Fort McCoy, Wis., and could be transferred overseas in a matter of weeks. The rear echelon trucking unit is the first lowa National An information Se The Go Guard Unit to be called to active duty since the U.S. began sending troops to the Middle East. Several lowa Army Reserve units were called to active duty. Guard SCO From page 1 Farmer-guardsmen could That means Brandau and Jungbluth will be away from home until late December, date March miss spring planting or even later. A medium truck unit, the 1133rd R would work as a teriminal-to-terminal transpor- tation unit, King says. They will be truckers for the Army, transporting supplies or equipment. His brother-in-law, Gary Pearson, has promised to There has been no official word on their desti- take responsibility for the farm work this fall. nation, although King says they are preparing for V Some of the work also will fall to his wife, Christie, the possibility of going to the Persian Gulf. They and the three children: Jennifer, 19; Cara, 15: and would not be a front line unit if sent there, be says. Ben, 13. For Jungbluth and Brandau, they assume they All it takes is one choi "All of them are good farm help." he says. probably will be shipped to the Middle East. and you'll ask yoursel That may be important this fall as they work to For now, they have been sent to Fort McCoy in how you ever got alon harvest the 560 acres of corn and soybeans on the Wisconsin for several weeks. Fort McCoy is near without it. The SCOO] Brandau farm near Little Cedar, not far from the Sparta, Wis., about 40 miles east of La Crosse. HAUL is one Minnesota border in Mitchell County. By the end of October they should be en route to hired hand that For Jungbluth, the call-up meant hiring some- their final destination. never quits. one to help run the combine through his 350 acres An estimated 7,000 people early Sunday of corn and soybeans near New afternoon lined Old Highway 106 SCOOP-n-HAUL Hampton in Chickasaw County. to watch and cheer as the compa- lets you convert His father also is planning to "Everyone's been ny pulled out of town. your tractor work on the farm through har- into a rugged. vest. If more help is needed, it supportive. I just probably will fall upon the AS STAFF sergeants, Jungb- versatile back- don't want anyone to luth and Brandau each will be in end loader and neighbors. get hurt getting the charge of nine trucks and 18 dump truck crop out. " men. They expect the task to ready to tackle "EVERYONE'S BEEN sup- keep them busy. the toughest portive," he says. "I just don't want anyone to get hurt getting Staff Sgt. Carl Jungbiuth The two Vietnam-era veterans chores The many use the crop out." New Hampton farmer are old friends. They met during SCOOP-n-HAUL is Iim active duty oversees in the late only by one's imagina Jungbluth has two children: 1960s. Neither served in Eric. 12; and Sue, 10; who live with his ex-wife. Vietnam. Both have been in the guard for about It's perfect for any size Both men say they will miss their families much five years. operations. You'll save more than the farm work. They also say neighbors, Each wonders about the harvest. And they both friends, and area businesses all have helped. wonder about their date of return. For example, the Security State Bank in New "My real concern is if we don't get back in time Hampton lowered the interest on all Jungbluth's for spring planting, Brandau says. "Depending on loans to 6 percent while he is on active duty. the spring weather, if we get back in March it "I didn't ask for it," he says. "They just did it." might not be too bad." Jungbluth agrees the spring schedule is more For more than 65 THE UNIT has been called up for 90 days, worrisome than missing the fall fieldwork. quality produc according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert King, a But, he says, there is a point where he just has to public affairs officer with the Iowa National forget the farm because he can't do anything about Guard. President Bush could keep them on active it. Hwy, 5 South, P.O. 1-800-24: duty for 180 days without specific Congressional "I'm really not too worried about it, he says. approval, King says "I've got other things to worry about.' October 9, 1990 MEMORANDUM TO: Ted Garmey and Curt Smith FROM: Wendy Gale RE: Iowa Soldier Stories Contact: Lt. Col. Bob King Public Affairs, Iowa National Guard Johnson, Iowa (515) 242-5582 FAXes: 1. Letter to Lt. Col. King from a local (retired) National Guardsman. 2. Article from Iowa Farmer Today about local farmer/sgt. The same man was covered by Anne Kurry on the NBC nightly news last Monday (Oct. 1) The story was about a couple being deployed (the Hilliakers). Although not mentioned in the article, the wife told Lt. Col. King that a stranger knocked on their door and shoved an envelope in her hand. It contained a $130 gift certificate to J.C. Penny's. 3. Article from the Desmoines Register about the "big time" send off for newly deployed soldiers in Mason City, Iowa. There were an estimated 10,000 people lining the streets at the event. OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST: 1. A radio station held a pizza party for local servicemen, family and friends. About 2000 people attended. 2. Subway shop donated 170 sack lunches for the soldiers on their way out of the country. 3. One company donated 1000 little flags. 4. Florists donated 150 long stem carnations which were handed out at a ceremony for the service men and women. BRANSTAD, TAUKE, ENGLER INFO: 10-9-90 -Branstad: wife Chris, children Eric (15), Allison (13), and Marcus (6) -Tauke: wife Beverly, and son Joseph (4) -Engler: divorced -Des Moines: -Shooting baskets in Janet Metcalf's backyard. -running around the track with the students of Dowling High in West Des Moines. -eating ice cream out at Charlotte Mohr's farm -more stories to arrive tomorrow morn. 12/4/89 Tonke Personal stories re: compaign time \ George Wittgraf (712)225-6481 April" '87 addressing form leaders of college CR.s GB visited ID in 78 Compaigned for Tanke in 78 foll '79 risiting from Jon in Town once P month 1st presidential test -- - come in DJ pn unknown Mary houise Smith former RNC Chrimo his immediate Sweaser - introduced him to Jowa Here I bearned what oD soybean plant looks like (Everybody recognizes corm) Flying in single engine jets through Town - - now AFA 1st trips was to campaign for Tanke's 1st term Congressmen who sluck his 7$ campaign nuck at to endorse the Prus. early Jon. 80 - - before CALCUSES met mony students mony mony homes, mony mony schools Mornin lived in IA for -burth months in foll of '79 Nuil d Jeb spend time there Morie hospitality in ID than in time other state b/c he spent so Big Mo" after conchous Roy Keppy's stood in corn cribe of had corn chaff rain upon him while holding one of birs his Dr sipping Jemonade on Charlotte Mohr's front lown Held more baby pigs than other Ridden many tractors Loke okoboją (i) visited mony times Cuntur in the mud. getting the plane stuck MAY 79 running of runny in Sionx G.B. A David Botes setting off plane G.B. w/ briefcase in hand of hand free, D.B. w/ 2 Switcoses Shooting hoop Jonet Deb Moines - Urbandole) Metcalf's neighborhood (suburb of IOWA industry. Tourists love them. They are also home to "In those crop field IOWA the Amana companies which grew from the experi- ankle-high and fin_ menters' ideals and which today rank among the plants are Kelly 2's country's leading appliance manufacturers. better wish them While Iowa's population is generally older than there to keep the his that of the United States in general, lewans have earnest, complicated never been a sleepy folk. Pionecrs found Inva topsoil your kid can triang: almost two feet deep, a thickness now dwindled to an memorize two lines average depth of eight inches. Today barely one- tenth of one percent remains of the original tall grass prairie that once covered the state, but these portions Capital: Des Moines are carefully preserved. Until John Deere's heavy Became a territory: June 12, 1838 plow came on the scene in 1837, most farming was "Without ostentation Entered the union (with rank): Dec. 28, 1846 (29) confined to the wooded river bottoms; but about 94 nization and solid achi State motto: Our liberties we prize and our rights we percent of Iowa's present surface is farmland, a greatest and most repr. will maintain higher proportion than for any other state. "If you're State flower: Wild rose talking com and beans, you're talking Iowa." From State bird: Eastern goldfinch the development of hybrid corn during the 1920s, State song: "The Song of Iowa" early promoted by native Iowan and future vice- State tree: Oak president Henry A. Wallace, lowa's most profitable "Iowa, Nickname: Hawkeye State energies have been devoted to raising corn, mtated Her affections. like the Origin of state name: From Indian for "beautiful with nitrogen-restoring soybeans. Today the state an inseparable union place" leads in national production not only of corn, but also .owa has always suffered from false impressions. A of corn-eating hogs. Accordingly. agribusiness and Iowa's inscription National Geographic Society study of the place be- food processing are Iowa's primary industries. gins, for instance, by noting how Iowa's name is often confused with those of !. ho and Ohio, other THE STATE "If you consider (1', states whose names are jumbles of vowels. Some- Iowa's the most avenue how, Iowa doesn't stand out. It's just the flat place "And if you think they grow only com in Iowa, lation and twenty-low out there in the middle somewhere that's covered consider a few of the American originals to spring Mike with com and pigs. out of this rich earth: from Buffalo Bill to Lillian In actuality, Iowa is a state of much greater accom- Russell to John Wayne, from Bix Beiderbecke and plishment and diversity than it has been credited Glenn Miller to Bob Feller and Johnny Carson (sorry with. To begin with, Iowa isn't flat. It's rather hilly. about that, Nebraska). from John L. Lewis and Grant From the bluffs of the Mississippi River palisades to Wood to Herbert Hoover and Mamic Doud Eisen- "lowa has neighbor the green swells around Council Bluffs, it's difficult hower. This is top-choice America, America cut I know a terrific bar to drive for an hour in the state without passing thick and prime." in a retired bank." through some hills. Harvey Arden Also, while Iowa is certainly an agricultural engine National Geographic Washington 1'. of incredible potency, most of its residents live in May, 1981 urban or suburban areas. The capital, Des Moines, is an active educational center where some of the most modern educational video techniques have been pio- "This [Iowa] is top-choice America, America cut "You people in low.: neered. Meredith Publishing, one of the country's thick and prime." marvelous state. low biggest magazine publishers, is headquartered there, Harvey Arden know how awful thing as are many major insurance companies. The Univer- National Geographic sity of Iowa in Iowa City houses a Writer's Work- May. 1981 shop where Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey and other notable talents have cut their literary teeth. "If Iowa were to secede with its similarly maligned The state has seen its share of social experimenta- neighbor, Illinois, the rest of us would have to import "While there is econ tion as well. The communal Amana society created a grain, like the Russians." network of small communities in eastern Iowa where Harvey Arden [in] its cities of an: National Geographic almost unto death all all property was shared and all work parceled among May, 1981 little hamlets which the fellows of the society. Today the towns retain their unique old-world charm and sense of selfless for surrounding 198 IOWA home to "In those crop fields, beside this pasture. the corn is the remaining farmers who speed on good roads to the experi- ankle-high and finger-flat, the fist-sized soybean larger retailing and supply centers." among the plants are Kelly green against black dirt. We had Neal R. Peirce better wish them well. There's a tithe growing out The Great Plains States of America older than there to keep the big State University moving on its 1972 Lewans have earnest, complicated mission-for a cup of soybeans, *** how. topsoil your kid can triangulate a star, for an car of corn, "One American image holds true: the placid streets maled to an memorize two lines of Lermontov." of quiet little Iowa towns with their houses of neat barely one- Vance Bourjaily white clapboard, surrounded by carefully tended nal tall grass Now Playing at Canterbury lawns. shaded by towering elms (that is. wherever are portions 1976 Dutch Elm disease has not yet worked its ravages.)" cere's heavy *** Neal R. Peirce tarming was "Without ostentation and fanfare, and by good orga- The Great Plains States of America an about 94 nization and solid achievement, lowa is one of our 1972 farmland, a greatest and most representative states." *** If you're Pearl S. Buck "[Iowa is] more a demonstration farm than a place; wa." From America more some cosmic public-relations project designed the 1920s. 1971 to prove that God's in his heaven and all's right with future vice- *** the world." .1 profitable Richard Rhodes "lowa. orn. rotated Her affections, like the rivers of her borders flow to The Inland Ground :> the state 1970 in. but also an inseparable union." Enoch Eastman *** asiness and istries. lowa's inscription on the Washington Monument "But Iowa [the land and people]-1 would match it 1850 against the world." Harrison Salisbury *** Travels Around America "If you consider only population and land area, 1976 Iowa's the most average state-twenty-fifth in popu- n in Iowa, *** lation and twenty-fourth in land area." Is to spring Mike Feinsilber and William Mead "What would he [Kh ushchev] have given to annex I to Lillian lowa to the Soviet Union?" American Averages rbecke and 1980 Harrison Salisbury uson (sorry Travels Around America sand Grant *** 1976 oud Eisen- "lowa has neighborhoods; it has neighborhood bars. merica cut I know a terrific bar in Deep River, for example. It's THE LANDSCAPE in a retired bank." evey Arden Donald Kaul "lowa isn't a flatland at all. Even in the relatively Geographic Washington Post from Des Moines Register level north central section of the state there's a subtle May, 1981 July 5, 1981 tilt and roll to the land Most of Iowa, in fact, is emphatically hilly. The landscape curves almost sen- *** merica cut suously, the horizons unduiate, the hills roll in and "You people in Iowa have to recognize this is a out of each other like ocean swells." marvelous state, Iowa, but it really doesn't begin to Harvey Arden mey Arden know how awful things are outside." National Geographic Geographic Norman Mailer May. 1981 May. 1981 Speech in Iowa *** 1969 maligned "Morning Sun. Stone City, Boone. What Cheer: *** 10 import In the hysteria of history "While there is economic health on lowa farms and These names for home rang in the homesick car, "} Arden [in] its cities of any substantial size. a sickness With the warm sound of friend and family, cographic almost unto death afflicts many small towns. the Of lowa. where winter cracks your skull. fay. 1981 little hamlets which first sprang up as supply points Where summer floats on fields. green river flow- for surrounding farmlands but are now skipped by ing. 199 IOWA Where autumn stains your hand with walnut hull. cooperative soil from the bleak border towns near the you come fro Spring shakes the land with a loud gust of grow- Missouri line. Indeed, in some minds, south-central as you live and ing." low a and Missouri are one place. and both are mostly if you come 1: Paul Engle populated with hillbillies, people quite relaxed with Heartland (cd. Lucien Stryk) their timeless poverty and sure to bring it into any 1967 new settlement." Douglas Bauer "Corn is the greatest of all American crops; it grows Prairie City, Iowa WAY OF 1.11 in every state, and in both value and production it 1979 outranks wheat, oats, rice. and ryc combined. *** " everyone 1. Glance at a Department of Agriculture map, showing "lowa is graced by absolutely maryclous people. I town] has his idea the total American acreage of corn. with a black dot know you hear that all the time, h S true. They and close and hold for every thousand acres. Parts of the map look like are clean. brave. thrifty. reverent. loyal, honest and in the skies. and 1: the ink blot tests used in psychiatry. The central able to brush after every meal." economy. rely on puddle is lowa-Iowa is so solid with black that you Donald Kaul particularly cond cannot see where the state begins or ends." Washington Post (from Des Moines Register) merchants, seemy John Gunther July 5. 1981 no escaping them Inside USA *** water is needed. 1947 [On the first lowan to come ifornia]: "So he drowning rains, 11 sent a Picture Post Card back with the Picture of a minding." "lowa winters were : cold and I well remember Man Picking Oranges off the trees in January ... seeing the coal oil frozen in the lamps in the morn- Now in the short space of five years look what has happened. The whole of the state of Iowa is here. Catharine Ann McLollum The only ones left back there are the ones who can't Journal of American Folklore read the Post Cards, or People who don't care for 1943 Oranges. and now I see where they have put in "It's like cating Schools to teach those others to read so that means wonton, mustand .!. "There are few more beautiful sights in America we will eventually have them all. with the exception It holds the batter. than Iowa's farmlands in early autumn, the glistening of the One. who don't like Oranges." to the taste." fields of eight- and ten-foot-high hybrid corn, deli- Will Rogers cately tassled, billowing in the wind over softly The Illiterate Digest undulating hills, the patches of dark green sorghums, 1924 the beef cattle and pigs in corral or pasture, occa- *** sional clumps of trees, the farm houses bright white "By virtue of her protected frontiers and peaceful or red on ordered grounds often abundant with "She specializes Indian settlement. her monotonous and heavy tasks. flowers, the neat silos, a place where every inch of creamed chicken her stable and rising wealth. lowa appealed more ground seems to radiate fertility." and soup beans will than any other state to the cautious. prosaic, industri- Neal R. Peirce chicken served ous. and mediocre." The Great Plains States of America potato salad, Johan Smertenko 1972 naise. I've oftent These United States menu, with her 1924 Side storefront and "No state is SO consciously aware of its tic to the *** land. which has always been and remains its greatest Cather, she'd h. "V states in America have been settled with as sidewalks of Cl.: resource." percentage of foreign-born. For so uniformly : Neal R. Peirce not was the soil that nothing remained here for the The Great Plains States of America land-starved European who in other middle western 1972 states was permitted to take the leavings of the PEOPLE natives." Johan Smertenko "Men and wome "[A southern lowan] has met the historic discrimina- These United States hope." tion, especially against those from southern lowa, 1924 where Pleasantville and Knoxville latitudinally lic, *** barely below that arbitrary mind-drawn line that "I would have liked to have seen Iowa. Carl and central lowans trace across the state, separating their Cook came from Iowa. You are brilliant and subtle if 200 MITTED FROM 515 225 5419 05.25.90 13:57 P.02 * IFBSPK MISCELLANEOUS FACTS ON IOWA AGRICULTURE Iowa ranked third in the value of 1989 farm crops with $5.5 billion -- 19 percent more than the 1988 value of $4.6 billion. Corn accounted for 56 percent of the total crop value, soybeans for 32 percent and hay for 10 percent. California with $9.5 billion was first in crop value and Illinois was second in 1989 with $5.9 billion. *** Iowa's cash receipts of $2.4 billion from hog marketings in 1988 equalled the total for the next three largest states in total hog marketings Illinois ($1.0 billion), Minnesota ($.7 billion) and Indiana ($.7 billion). *** Iowa's cash receipts from crop and livestock marketings in 1988 totaled $9 billion. The top five commodities in cash receipts and their percentage of the total were: hogs, 27.0 percent; soybeans, 23.0 percent; cattle and calves, 22.0 percent; corn, 19.0 percent; and dairy products, 5.0 percent. *** The 1987 Census of Agriculture shows the average age of Iowa farmers at 49.3 years -- compared to 47.6 in 1982, 47.5 in 1978, 49.7 in 1974, 48.5 in 1969, 48.5 in 1964 and 47.6 in 1959. *** The Iowa farmer is able to feed himself and 278 other persons -- about 21 times the food producing capability of the average U.S. farmer who produces enough to feed 123 people, about one-fourth of those living abroad. - 30 - ITTED FROM 05.25.90 13:57 P.03 * IFBSPK Cash farm receipts in Iowa in 1988 totaled $9.0 billion. Cash receipts from livestock and livestock products totaled $5.0 billion -- 55.6 percent of the total. Crops accounted for $4.0 billion -- 44.4 percent of the total. *** Iowa led all states in harvested acres with 24,097,000 acres in 1989. *** Iowa ranks second in cash farm receipts for all commodities. It ranks first in hogs, first in corn, second in soybeans, fifth in cattle and calves, sixth in sheep and lambs, ninth in turkeys, tenth in dairy products and fifteenth in eggs. *** In 1989 Americans consumed (boneless trimmed equivalent) an average of 65.0 pounds of beef per person; 44.1 pounds of pork; 46.5 pounds of chicken; and 13.3 pounds of turkey. - 31 - CCD 5419 05.25.90 09:07 P.02 * IFBSPK FACTS ON 10WA AGRICULTURE 1980 Iowa population: 2,915,197 State capital: Des Moines Number of counties: 99 Total land: 35,802,240 acres Land in farms (1988): 33,500,000 acres Number of farms (1988): 105,180 Average farm size (1988): 318.5 acres Acres harvested (1988): 24,097,000 Average age of operator: 49.3 VALUE OF PRODUCTION (1988) Crops: $4.81 billion Livestock: $4.42 billion RANKING IN FARM CASH RECEIPTS (1988) All commodities 3rd Value $9,074,000,000 All livestock 3rd Value 5,045,000,000 All crops 4th Value 4,029,000,000 Corn 2nd Value 1,734,000,000 Soybeans 1st Value 2,121,000,000 Hogs 1st Value 2,416,000,000 Cattle & calves 5th Value 2,007,000,000 TOTAL FARM ASSETS (1988) $46,936,000,000 Real estate 33,231,000,000 Livestock 3,837,000,000 Machinery 5,119,000,000 Crops 2,774,000,000 TOTAL FARM DEBT (1988) $9,450,000,000 Real estate 5,634,000,000 Nonreal estate 3,816,000,000 FARM INVESTMENT $ Million, % Change All Farms Per Farm From 1987 Land and buildings $33,230.6 $310,566 +17.0% Crops on hand 2,773.8 25,923 +51.1 Livestock on hand 3,836.5 35,855 + 5.3 Farm machinery 5,119.5 47,846 - 0.2 Financial assets 1,975.9 18,466 + 1.1 Total Assets $46,936.3 $438,656 +14.6% Total Debt $ 9,449.8 $ 88,316 - 2.6% Equity $37,486.5 $350,340 +19.9% AVERAGE 1989 LAND VALUE: $1,139 per acre, an increase of $85 or 8% higher than 1988 F-FACTS 3-31-90 War I and a refusal, for security rea- labor leaders Sept. 20 for a heated "rely mainly on submarines." sons, to permit him to visit the Disney- discussion of the U.S. & Soviet ways In an address later Sept. 21 at a land amusement center. of life. UAW Pres. Walter P. Reuther San Francisco civic dinner, Khrush- reported after the dinner meeting that chev said San Franciscans had (Soviet Amb.-to-U.S. Menshikov conceded Sept. 23 that both Soviet & Khrushchev & the labor leaders had "charmed" him by their reception. U.S. security officials had been respon- found their positions "irreconcilable" "But," he said, "you have charmed my A sible for what he described as the ex- and unable to support any statement heart, not my head. I still think that cessive protective cordon surrounding of agreement. Khrushchev was said our system is a good system." "You Khrushchev. But he said security to have been intensely angered by may not agree with us, but we are provisions should have been substan- questions about Soviet policy on dis- guided by noble aspirations in our tially reduced after Khrushchev's armament, Hungary & the right to struggle for communism, and we are complaints in New York & Los Ange- strike. Khrushchev asserted that So- going to wage this struggle not by les that he was being prevented from viet workers had the "juridical right" force of arms but by our words," meeting people.) to stop work but that none had done Khrushchev pledged. Khrushchev threatened to break off so in years because they were content Des Moines-Khrushchev flew to and in agreement with the Soviet his U.S. visit and return to Moscow Des Moines, Ia. Sept. 22 and was Govt. He accused the AFL-CIO lead- after listening to a critical speech by greeted by enthusiastic crowds after ers of being "agents for capitalists" Mayor Poulson at an L.A. civic dinner being welcomed by Iowa Gov. Her- B and of "peddling the Dulles line" in later Sept. 19. Denouncing Poulson schel C. Loveless & Des Moines Mayor foreign policy. for referring to his "we will bury Charles F. Iles. you" remark, Khrushchev said he had The 7 labor leaders, all AFL-CIO vice presidents, Khrushchev toured Des Moines in were: Reuther, James B. Carey of the Intl. Union "answered the statement before. of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, Emil an open car under relaxed security In Russia, a provincial mayor would Rieve of the Textile Workers Union, Paul L. regulations and visited factories of Phillips of the United Papermakers & Paper- not be reelected if he didn't keep up the John Deere Farm Machinery Co. workers, O. A. Knight of the Oil, Chemical & with the news." "It took us only about Atomic Workers, Karl F. Feller of the United & Des Moines (meat) Packing Co. 12 hours to get here," Khrushchev Brewery Workers & Joseph Curran of the Natl. He told a sidewalk radio interviewer warned, "perhaps it would take us Maritime Union. (A resolution approved Sept. that he favored "one meeting or a 21 by the biennial convention of the AFL-CIO, only about 10½ hours to get back." meeting in San Francisco, denounced Khrushchev couple of meetings a year" at the sum- Poulson, chiding Khrushchev for his as 'more truculent & demanding in his aggres- mit level. Introduced to the American prediction of capitalism's "burial," sio than Stalin," particularly with respect to hot-dog during his visit to the packing Soviet policies on Berlin.) C had said: "We tell you in the friend- plant, he conceded laughingly that "we liest terms possible we are planning Khrushchev protested Sept. 21 have beaten you to the moon, but you against a remark by Reuther that he no funerals-yours or our own." have beaten us in sausage-making." (Khrushchev) had described himself as Khrushchev, in an address later Khrushchev, in his address, appealed "the dictator of the working class" Sept. 22, challenged Iowa to compete for serious study of his total disarma- in the USSR. A summary of the din- with the USSR's Krasnodar area in ment proposals. Asserting "that the ner meeting issued by the labor leaders corn production. He cited the USSR's First [sic] Commandment of the Sept. 21 said that Khrushchev had recent agricultural successes but ad- Christian religion says "Thou shalt not categorized himself as "head of the kill,' Khrushchev said: "It is a ques- mitted that "your output per person [Soviet] working class." It also con- employed in agriculture is much tion of war or peace between our firmed that Khrushchev had rejected countries, a question of the life or higher than on our collective farms." suggestions that the U.S. & USSR death of the peoples." He attributed this disparity to the remove the stigma of political motiva- USSR's collective farm system in D Taken on a tour of the 20th Cen- tion from their programs of aid to which labor was determined by area tury-Fox studios, Khrushchev was underdeveloped nations by establish- population, not solely (as in the U.S.) shown a can-can dance from the forth- ing a joint foreign aid program. by an area's economic need for labor. coming film "Can-Can." (Commenting (Pres. Eisenhower, in a personal Khrushchev's major exhortation: "Let on it, he told newsmen Sept. 20 in message read to the AFL-CIO con- there be more corn & more meat and San Francisco that "it was immoral." vention Sept. 18 by Labor Secy. James no hydrogen bombs at all." "A person's face is more beautiful P. Mitchell, had noted that "one of the Khrushchev drove 70 miles to Coon than his backside.") most important reasons" for the Rapids, Ia. Sept. 23 to visit the farm San Francisco-Khrushchev travel- Khrushchev visit to the U.S. "was to of Roswell Garst, wealthy hybrid corn led to San Francisco by train Sept. 20, give him a chance to see our working grower who had met Khrushchev dur- breaking his trip from Los Angeles to men & women." The President's mes- ing several visits to the USSR. mingle with friendly crowds in Santa sage was dispatched after AFL-CIO Khrushchev inspected Garst's farm, E Barbara & St. Luis Obispo, Calif. Pres. George Meany, who had refused argued with him about corn-planting Welcomed by the most enthusiastic to meet Khrushchev, had denounced techniques and was mobbed by news- crowds of his trip thus far, Khrush- the Soviet leader Sept. 17 for efforts men and photographers until Garst chev contrasted this with Los An- to enslave the world through "deceit, employes & police cleared them from geles' criticism. He told San Fran- treachery & inhuman ruthlessness.") his path. Khrushchev met with Adlai cisco Mayor George Christopher, Khrushchev took a brief walk E. Stevenson and told him that he however, that he never had "refused through San Francisco streets Sept. believed an East-West agreement any political disputes" on "the ques- 21, toured the Bay area aboard the would be reached on a multi-stage dis- tion of our opposing ideologies" be- Coast Guard cutter Gresham and armament plan under strict controls. cause "it is in argument that the visited the Intl. Longshoremen's & Khrushchev also visited the Iowa truth is born." But he warned against Warehousemen's Hq., where he talked State College in Ames, Ia., Sept. 23 any recriminations that would make with ILW Pres. Harry Bridges, term- and agreed to act on a personal appeal "more profound" the differences be- ing him less hostile than other U.S. from Mr. & Mrs. Paulius Leonas of F tween East & West. labor leaders he had met. Khrushchev Chicago to permit their 2 children to (The N.Y. Times reported Sept. 20 later toured a shopping center near leave Soviet Lithuania & rejoin them that U.S. Amb.-to-UN Lodge, Khrush- San Francisco & an IBM electronic in the U.S. chev's escort on his U.S. tour, had computer plant near San Jose. He told Pittsburgh-Khrushchev arrived in been instructed to shield Khrushchev IBM Pres. Thomas J. Watson Jr. that Pittsburgh late Sept. 23 and was from ideological arguments with local his talks with U.S. businessmen had greeted by Acting Mayor Thomas J. politicians. He was ordered to permit produced "no conflicts" but that his Gallagher & small crowds attributed legitimate debate but to prevent any meetings with "trade union leaders or to the late hour. The city's "Golden deliberate taunting of Khrushchev. A politicians" had been "not so Triangle" downtown area was illu- White House statement warned Sept. smooth." minated for Khrushchev to substitute 21 that "discourtesies" shown Khrush- Khrushchev told Capt. B. P. Clark for the absent flare of furnaces in chev would not serve the purpose of of the Gresham that the USSR was strikebound Monongahela Valley steel G "constructive meetings" between him "scrapping 90 to 95% of our cruisers, plants. Khrushchev toured downtown & Pres. Eisenhower.) including some that were just on the Pittsburgh in an open car amidst Khrushchev met with 7 American verge of being commissioned," to friendly crowds Sept. 24 and visited FACTS ON FILE 1959 311 A Profile Of Governor Terry E. Branstad S ince beginning office in 1983, Governor Terry E. Branstad has had a goal to make Iowa a state that has a strong and diversified economy; a state that is ready to compete in a global economy; a state that is ready to enter the 21st century. It hasn't been easy. The Governor began his first term during the worst ag crisis an Iowa Governor has ever faced. Many would have withered under the severe strain, but Branstad stood up and faced the challenge head on. The Governor has spearheaded a broad set of initiatives and Iowa has experienced a dramatic comeback in its economy. Today, Branstad is skillfully guiding his state into the 90's, with a vision for the year 2000. As chair of the National Governors Association, he is guiding his colleagues from 49 other states in an ambitious agenda for education and the environment. Highlights of Governor Branstad's accomplishments Sweeping educational reforms in 1987 with the passage of an Educational Excellence program focusing on performance-based pay for teachers. A revised school aid formula including focus on at-risk kids in 1989, along with new school standards and an innovative open enrollment plan. Transportation 2000, a comprehensive system designed to bring a commercial highway within 10 miles of every Iowan, will upgrade air, rail, barge and recreational trail facilities throughout Iowa. The Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) program in 1989, a major commitment to clean up Iowa's environment and protect the state's valuable natural resources. Welfare reform in 1988. More than 3,000 welfare recipients have come off assistance in less than two years. Appointed a Drug Policy Coordinator for the State of Iowa in 1989, and launched a statewide SAFE (Substance Abuse Free Environment) Community program to address alcohol and drug abuse in Iowa. Major reorganization and downsizing of state government took place in 1986, cutting the cost of state government by $60 million and eliminating over 1,000 positions from the state's payroll. In 1985, to improve the business climate, eliminated sales tax on machinery and equipment. The top tax rate was cut 25% in 1987. PAID FOR BY THE GOVERNOR BRANSTAD COMMITTEE GOVERNOR TERRY E. BRANSTAD BIOGRAPHY PUBLIC SERVICE Elected Governor of lowa, 1982, Re-elected 1986 Elected Lt. Governor of lowa, 1978 Elected to lowa House of Representatives, 1972, District 8 Re-elected 1974 and 1976 PROFESSION Attorney-at-Law/Farmer EDUCATION Drake University Law School, Juris Doctorate, 1974 Univers of lowa, B.A. Political Science, 1969 Forest City Hich School, 1965 MILITARY United States Army, 1969-71 SERVICE (Recipient of Army Commendation Medal) PROFESSIONAL National Governors' Association, Chairman 1989-90 ASSOCIATIONS Midwest Governors' Association Republican Governors' Association PRESIDENTIAL Board of Trustees, Harry Truman Scholarship APPOINTMENT Foundation POLITICAL Chair of lowa Delegation, Republican National Convention, 1988 INVOLVEMENT Chairman of the Rules Committee, Republican National Convention, 1984 Delegate to 1980, 1984 and 1988 Republican National Conventions, Alternate delegate to 1976 Republican National Convention, Delegate to District and State Republican Conventions, 1968-1988 CIVIC Earth Day 1990 Board of Directors INVOLVEMENT Honorary Member, Des Moines Rotary American Legion Farm Bureau Lions Club Sons of Norway Knights of Columbus Ducks Unlimited HONORARY Doctor of Humane Letters, Marycrest College DEGREES AND Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health AWARDS Sciences, Des Moines Doctor of Humanities, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake Doctor of Laws, Clarke College, Dubuque Associate in Applied Science, Northeast lowa Technical Institute, Calmar Associate in Arts, Marshalltown Community College Future Farmers of America Distinquished Service Award State 4-H Alumni Recognition Award RELIGION Member, St. Augustin's Catholic Church, Des Moines PERSONAL Governor Branstad was born November 17, 1946, and is formerly of rural Lake Mills, lowa. He and his wife, Chris, have three children, Eric (7-8-75), Allison (5-29-77), and Marcus (1-22-84) 05/28/90 12:09 NO. 005 003 GOVERNOR TERRY E. BRANSTAD During the past eight years, we have accomplished a lot in education and we did it by working together. We have shown that improvements in education must come from the "bottom up," that teachers will respond like professionals when we treat them like professionals, and we have shown that we can get results when we work together. Working with people like Fred Comer, Keith Geiger, Ken Tilp - and now Angie King has made the difference. I looking forward to continuing our strong working relationship. School Funding Last year we worked together to establish a new school finance formula. This initiative will provide equity in funding which is unparalleled in any other state, and we did it without having our educational system declared unconstitutional as has happened in some other states. This year, I approved an increase in funding for community colleges by nearly $50 million over the next decade. I intend to maintain this commitment to funding education, and will continue to making funding for education a priority. Recently, I made some tough decisions on the budget, which will prevent an across-the-board cut in funding for Iowa schools. Faculty Salaries The Educational Excellence Act in 1987 provided substantial increases in salaries for Iowa teachers. The $92 million appropriation raised Iowa's rank in comparison with other states. Our rank is now 30, including funds provided under Phase III, 80 more progress is needed to reach the national average. With your help, we raised salaries without a tax increase, maintained a reasonable pupil-teacher ratio and didn't call for a reduction in the number of teachers as others have suggested. We also provided increased salaries for community college faculty, and significantly improved IPERS benefits. We can working toward the goal of reaching the national average by: Maintaining our commitment to the new school funding formulas. Protecting Phase III from raids by the General Assembly. Increasing funds for Phase II & III (over $4 million if allowable growth is 5%). Increasing the minimum salary for teachers. Providing additional pay for any new initiatives such as extended year programs. 1 NO. 005 002 GOVERNOR TERRY E. BRANSTAD Summary of Education Initiatives Faculty Salaries Phase I. Minimum salary of $18,000 for Iowa teachers 89 million. Phase II. General salary increases for Iowa teachers $38.5 million. Phase II to increase by allowable growth. Phase III. Supplemental pay plans, performance based pay plans, and comprehensive school transformation plans. $44.5 million. Phase III to increase by allowable growth. $2.1 million for faculty salary increases at Iowa's community colleges. Establishment of a professional development program for community college faculty. Significant, long-term improvements in the IPERS system. School Funding Established a new school finance formula, providing an additional $19 million to Iowa schools in fiscal 1991-92. Authorized an Instructional Support Levy which may be used to supplement a school district's budget by as much as 10%. Increased funding for community colleges by nearly $50 million over the next decade, including funds for the establishment of quality instructional centers. The Teaching Profession Established an autonomous Board of Educational Examiners to govern the licensing of Iowa teachers. Member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. School Inprovement on a National Scale Co-hosted the Education Summit with President Bush As Chair of the National Governors' Association established national education goals. Developing a process for monitoring progress on the goals. National recognition for Iowa's quality teachers and education system. Initiating a process for making Iowa schools "world-class." average $37,339, and increased standards. Of all our reforms, this one is doing the test, half the tenth-graders scored at least New teachers serve under experienced men- most for education." 18, close to the national average. Inspired by tors. Veterans have to take 90 hours of pro- Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer Taylor's kids, Roemer pushed a bill through fessional development every five years, at learned the same lesson from a generous oil- the legislature that puts state money behind state expense. man. Two years ago Patrick F. Taylor of- a similar statewide program. fered to pay college tuition for 180 poor Still, all the opportunities in the world EW JERSEY eliminated its short- seventh- and eighth-graders-most of may not be enough to help the student age of quality teachers through an whom had repeated two or more grades-if whose family life is abusive, who sleeps on alternative certification process they stayed out of trouble and graduated the street, or who is addicted to drugs or al- launched by Kean. Applicants from high school with a B average. Today cohol. This is not a negligible number: New without traditional education degrees have 150 are still in high school (19 moved, 11 York City School Chancellor Joseph A. Fer- to pass a test and agree to a year of supervi- were dismissed). On the precollege ACT nandez says 28 babies a day are born to sion and after-hours training. drug-addicted mothers, the Says Kean: "It means engineers equivalent of 365 kindergarten from Bell Labs can teach com- THE TEN EDUCATION classes a year. Schools are not puter science, jazz musicians can equipped to solve such problems. teach music, and former private- GOVERNORS But to succeed in their mission, school teachers can work in the they will increasingly have to help public schools. The profession is students and their families get revitalized, and there's a great JOHN ASHCROFT (R-Missouri) the help they need. big teacher surplus." Twenty-sev- By providing tutors for some lagging first-graders, In Albuquerque, New Mexico, en states are following New Jer- Missouri has dramatically cut the number of children the New Futures School is tack- sey's lead. repeating that grade, ling the problem of teenage A number of states are also ex- TERRY BRANSTAD (R-lowa) pregnancy. Founded by volun- perimenting with financial incen- Branstad is building the first two-way video network so teers 20 years ago in the base- tives. Eight offer teachers and teachers can reach students statewide. ment of a YWCA, New Futures schools financial rewards for out- combines on-site health and standing performance. In South CARROLL CAMPBELL JR. (R-South Carolina) child care, nutrition advice, per- Carolina the money can be used His partnership with business to improve literacy and sonalized counseling, and job to buy instructional materials and job training is the nation's most extensive placement for 500 young women computers or to train teachers. Last year 265 of the state's 1,100 BILL CLINTON D-Arkansas) a year. While more than half of One of America's most articulate reform advocates, teen mothers nationwide. drop schools won over $4 million in in- out, about 75% of those in the centive money. he has pioneered new approaches to early childhood development New Futures program graduate States also must be greater fis- and go on to jobs or higher edu- cal equalizers among school dis- GARREY CARRUTHERS (R-New Mexico) cation. Honeywell Chairman tricts. The Congressional Re- This former economics professor will give New Mexicans James Renier was so impressed search Service reports that during an annual report card on the state's 88 districts. that he flew two planeloads of the 1986-87 school year, over half Minneapolis-St. Paul city leaders the states spent twice as much per BOOTH GARDNER (D-Washington) to Albuquerque to see the pupil in some school districts as in Gardner was one of the first to take a hard look at what school firsthand. Convinced, others; a third spent three times; students will need to know in the 21st century. they are now trying to build their New York, eight times. The courts MADELEINE KUNIN (D-Vermont) own New Futures schools. have already required ten states to Instead of relying on standardized tests, Vermont Who will pay for such promis- implement more equitable financ- is pioneering the use of a portfolio of student work to ing reforms? Ideally; all levels of ing formulas, and lawsuits have assess math and writing skills. government. But given Bush's been filed in ten others. no-new-taxes posture, the reality Another key is higher student RAY MABUS (D-Mississippi) is that state and local govern- expectations and opportunities. To ensure that children start school ready to learn, the ments will have to pick up the That's what Minnesota Governor state screens 3-year-olds. Those who need help get it. check for most of them. That's Rudy Perpich learned from his pioneering program that gives RUDY PERPICH (D-Minnesota) not necessarily bad. Many gover- 11th- and 12th-graders a state sti- Parents can choose among schools statewide, and high nors, like Carruthers, have had school students can take courses in state colleges. the courage to raise taxes. And if pend to attend classes at state New Mexico is a bellwether, vot- colleges and universities. Says TOMMY THOMPSON (R-Wisconsin) ers have grasped a truth that still Perpich, who also started the na- Wisconsin is experimenting with choice and with escapes many politicians: Either tion's first statewide choice pro- cutting welfare for parents whose children are truants. America pays now for education- gram: "A number of students al excellence, or it pays more, drop out because they are bored. much more, later. 62 FORTUNE/EDUCATION 1990 6 89 16:21 PAGE. 003 Victories and Accomplishments of Iowa Congressman Tom Tauke Highlights of the 101st Congress January through August 1989 Award Winning Performance Jobs Creator Taxpayer's Friend Agricultural Leader The U.S. CHAMBER OF COM- The NATIONAL TAXPAYERS The AMERICAN FARM BUREAL MERCE presented Congressman Tauke UNION (NTU) said in July that taxpayers FEDERATION (AFBF) awarded Con- its "Spirit of Enterprise" award in June for only have 23 friends in Congress. Further- gressman Tauke with its "Golden Plow" compiling a pro-jobs voting record of 85 more, only one of them is an Iowan - award in June for "his many contributions percent based on key business votes during Congressman Tom Tauke. to U.S. agriculture and rural Americans." 1988. Tauke not only Cast more votes to In presenting the award, AFBF Presi- Congressman Tauke's votes to limit reduce taxes, government wastc and dent Dean Kleckner described Tauke "as government intrusion in the workplace, spending during 1988 than anyone in the a coalition builder and a legislator instru- promote economic development and cre- lowa delegation, he compiled a better mental to ensuring agriculture's interests ate jobs won him approval as a Congress- record than 96 percent of his House and are represented in Congress." Tauke was man "whose legislative skills and diligence Senate colleagues. heralded for his "innovative leadership have been instrumental in allowing our As a result, the 150,000 member NTU on such issues as health care, food safety. free enterprise system to produce this named Tauke it "Taxpayers Best Friend," Farmer Mac, generic animal drug legisla- record period of sustained (economic) the sixth year in a row the Iowa legislator tion, cthanol and biodegradable plastics. growth." has been singled out for the award. - Continued Other Side Victories For Seniors, Women, Children, And Taxpayers Medicare Reform spares the state from having to administer as the program is called, to improve exist. a testing program to 14,000 nurses aides ing programs and increase the number of Inequities in Medicare payments that who work in Iowa nursing homes. lowa participating children. In 1988, Head Start have forced many doctors out of rural already has a comprehensive training and helped more than 3,600 children in lowa. arcas and left many scniors without access testing program. to health care would be corrected under a The testing program would have cost Rural Health Clinics plan approved by the House Energy and the state more than $100,000, and state Commerce Committee in July. officials feared many aides would rather Legislation sponsored by Congressmar Rural Iowa doctors who are being leave than undergo additional testing. Tauke and approved by the Energy and short-changed by skewed federal policies Commerce Committee in July, would would receive as much as a 70 percent Child Care expand the Rural Health Clinic program increase in Medicare payments under and increase the availability of prenatal Congressman Tauke's proposal. The U.S. House in March approved a and mental health services offered through proposal cosponsored by Congressman those facilities. Health Professionals Tauke that would expand a program pro- lowa currently has 12 rural health clin- viding children from disadvantaged fami- ics, but at least 36 areas in the state are The House Energy and Commerce lies with health, education and social scrv- eligible for the medical facilities. Committee approved legislation spon- ices before entering school. sared by Congressman Tauke in July that The legislation would allow Head Start, - Consinued Other Side Victories For Farmers, Agriculture Workers, And Rural lowans Anhydrous Ammonia ment of Agriculture issued new regula- any sanctions against China, including a tions for the importation of swine semen grain embargo. lown farmers were spared a sharp from China which will help reduce the By 2:(X) p.m., Congressman Tauke IOWA 437 mental health programs. His 1988 coalition with Democrat Tim Penny and 12,746 (61%) 71,280 ($218,707) Republican Dick Armey for across-the-board budget cuts mostly failed. But the moderate (38%) ($59,204) Republican 92 Group budget he helped draft in 1985 was closely followed by Budget Chairman 86.834 William Gray. (66%) ($231,937) 43,985 Tauke does have his cheap shot issues. He makes a point of turning down the congressional (34%) ($23,526) pay. increase and champions the cause of the Social Security "Notch Babies" (numerous in I.wa). From 1980 to 1984, Tauke won by wide margins. As Iowa has become more Democratic, he has been pressed by Democrat Eric Tabor; if Tauke is Iowa's biggest House fundraiser, Tabor is the best-financed challenger. Tauke's percentage declined from 64% in 1984 to 61% in 1986 and 57% in 1988. That was the lowest reelection margin of all six Iowa congressmen, and while it orth and south," annourices the may not be danger territory, it evidently got Tauke thinking that the 1990 Senate race against all but jut out over the business Tom Harkin, while certainly not a risk-free proposition, might be worth making. In early 1989 que, in supposedly monotonously Tauke was raising money and speaking around the state, and while he insisted "I have never which was once the largest city in been into political suicide," he looked as if he hoped to run. ancestral preferences) the largest is New Yorker was not edited for The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 474,400, dn. 2.3% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 485,708, up 2.9% 1970-80. as heavily for liberal presidential Households (1980): 74% family, 41% with children, 65% married couples; 25% housing units rented: idy Manhattan. The 2d Congres- median monthly rent: $180; median house value: $43,200. Voting age pop. (1980): 338,272; 1% Black. of the state, is a combination of g counties with smoother rolling 1988 Presidential Vote: Dukakis (D) 113,993 (567) ty of Cedar Rapids, now Iowa's Bush (R) 86,874 (43%) igo was Quaker Oats, its biggest firm with big (and Iowa's only Rep. Thomas J. Tauke (R) If as a high-tech manufacturing Elected 1978; b. Oct. 11, 1950, Dubuque: home. Dubuque: Loras ility, which will draw on the corn Col., B.A. 1972, U. of IA, J.D. 1974: Roman Catholic; married : lowa's highly-educated, highly- (Beverly). Career: Newspaper/reporter, 1969-71; Editor, The Daily lowan. heavily Catholic population was 1973; Practicing atty, 1977-79; 1A House of Reps., 1975-79. igo), Cedar Rapids is marginally Offices: 2244 RHOB 20515, 202-225-2911. Also 698 Central strict about the same leanings as Ave., Dubuque 52001, 319-557-7740; 176 1st Ave., N.E., Cedar ested seriously in almost half the Rapids 52402, 319-366-8709; and 116 S. 2d St., Clinton 52732. 964 to 1978 and has been held by 319-242-6180. already a veteran of four years in Committees: Education and Labor (7th of 13 R). Subcommittees: Human Resources (Ranking Member); Postsecondary Education. ue, and one of those instinctive Energy and Commerce (7th of 17 R). Subcommittees: Health and an the Republicans. Tauke spent the Environment; Telecommunications and Finance: Transporta- een a first-class fundraiser since; tion and Hazardous Materials. Select Committee on Aging (6th of ressively that he puts ceilings on 26 R). Subcommittee: Retirement Income and Employment tive and thou: htful if not, in this (Ranking Member). n is the Ener.:y and Commerce I environmental issues. He serves Group Ratings ADA ACLU COPE CFA LCV ACU NTLC NSI COC ACA nt action, but he usually backs 1988 45 61 19 55 50 67 87 50 85 69 itiatives that entail less spending 1987 36 - 19 29 - 50 - - S0 75 : would prefer to let broadcasters advertising. He is dubious ab it National Journal Ratings di care plan. pushing instead for a 1988 LIB - 1988 CONS 1987 LIB - 1987 CONS 1 care than federal regulators. I Eco mic 0% - 93% 11% - 83% and looks to patching up holes n Social 31% - 69% 35% - 64% itent extension bill and to get Foreign 48% I 51% 48% I 51% 438 IOWA Key Votes 1) Homeless $ FOR 5) Ban Drug Test FOR 9) SDI Research FOR 2) Gephardt Amdt AGN 6) Drug Death Pen AGN 10) Ban Chem Weaps FOR 3) Deficit Reduc AGN 7) Handgun Sales FOR 11) Aid to Contras AGN 4) Kill Plnt Clsng Notice FOR 8) Ban D.C. Abort $ FOR 12) Nuclear Testing FOR Election Results 1988 general Thomas J. Tauke (R) 113,543 (57%) ($581,514) Eric Tabor (D) 86,438 (43%) ($258,106) 1988 primary Thomas J. Tauke (R), unopposed 1986 general Thomas J. Tauke (R) 88,708 (61%) ($387,840) Eric Tabor (D) 55,903 (39%) ($170,816) THIRD DISTRICT To look at "the wild plum trees-a white mist of blossoms in the spring on the hills and by the roadside," as the American Guide did five decades ago, or at the wild crab apple blossoms that "fill the air with fragrance," you would not have guessed that Floyd County, in north central Iowa, was one of the nation's most productive farm counties-and had been buzzing with innovation. In 1896 two local college graduates hooked up a gasoline engine to a farm machine and called it a "tractor"; in town lived the suffragist Carrie Catt; down the road were nurseries whose owners developed new breeds of apples and evergreens even before Iowa State got into that work. Two counties south on the Cedar River is Waterloo, which grew rapidly after 1900 as the John Deere tractor and Rath meatpacking factories expanded. Waterloo and Floyd County are at the geographical and political heart of Iowa's 3d Congressional District. It extends southward to Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa, and the Amana colonies nearby. Historically, this is Republican country. But in the early 1970s Iowa City became a liberal bastion, and in the 1980s, as the Rath plant was taken over by workers and then shut down, and as John Deere had big layoffs, Waterloo moved to the Democrats. So did Floyd County: it voted 59%-41% against John Kennedy in 1960, 57%-43% (about the same as the 3d District) for Michael Dukakis in 1988. The switchover in House elections was in 1986, when Democrat Dave Nagle was elected. For 26 years the 3d was represented by conservative curmudgeon H. R. Gross, then by Charles Grassley; after 1980 it was held by Cooper Evans, a Republican expert on farm programs until his retirement in 1986. Democrat Dave Nagle, the party's state chairman during the 1984 Jowa presidential caucuses, won the seat in part by ridiculing his opponents' proposal that farmers tackle their storage problem by leaving crops in the fields over the winter and has held it in part by working on the Agriculture Committee on farm credit bills. The brashness and salty tongue that made him a favorite of the national press in 1984 were turned to inside-the-House work, mostly on farm issues, but also on one of Jim Wright's contra aid compromises. He is willing to take stands-voting for a tax increase to cut the deficit and backing flagging tankers in the Persian Gulf-unpopular in thrifty, dovish Iowa. He opposed Republican Robert Walker's bill to cut off all funds to any non-drug-free workplace. And he joined Republican Robert Dornan to ban testing depressed trajectory missiles, which they say are a first-strike weapon. Nagle's record, plus the Democratic trend here enabled him to make big gains in rural counties and win reelection in 1988 with a whopping 63%; the 3d now seems a safe Democratic seat. The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 468,900, dn. 3.4% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 485,529, up 3.9% 1970-80. Households (1980): 72% family, 38% with children, 64% married couples; 28% housing units rented; median monthly rent: $185; median house value: $43,500. Voting age pop. (1980): 352,455; 2% Black. TICKETUASTER SUBSCRIBE TO THE TICKETLASTER. VOL. 3 NO. 10 OCTOBER 1990 ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE TICKET CENTERS For only $12.00 a year you can have The Guide mailed to your home or place of business. As a subscriber you'll enjoy discounts to various events just for TICKETLASTER OCTOBER 1990 TICKETLASTER VOL. 3 NO. 10 being an Entertainment Guide Subscriber. 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HAMMER SESAME CTW STREET LIVE is banging his way up the East Coast heading into NATALIE COLE LAKANSAS EXPOCENTRE 10/6-1/20 KS 10/7 VETERANS AUDITORIUM 12th Street Jazz Series Canada and then it's back down into the Midwest by the DES MOINES, IA end of the month. The Deep South and Southwest are 10/8 KANSAS EXPOCENTRE Modern Jazz Quartet on the books for November ROBERT PLANT and the TOPEKA, KS BLACK CROWES are working their way down the East PARAMOUNT THEATRE, IA 10/5 PERSHING AUDITORIUM SIOUX 11/12 MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM Tickets for entire Series LINCOLN, NE Coast before jumping cross country to finish at the end 10/3-7 KANSAS CITY MUSEUM KANSAS CITY, MO available now thru of the month in Los Angeles Deadheads will have to watch TV or something since the GRATEFUL DEAD are Iowa State Football KENNETH FELD 27 in Europe this month. The band's new keyboardist is CHIEFS 14 CIRCUS18 19 26 former Tubes member Vince Welnick JOE SATRIANI DINGLING Cyclones with Eric Johnson in support tour the West Coast thru ARNUM mid-month KISS with WINGER and SLAUGHTER are Kansas RBROS BAILEY blazing their way thru the mid-American heartland and CIRCUS Home Games now on sale thru TM! Canada, followed by Northeast dates on into City including November BILLY IDOL with FAITH NO MORE are Chiefs lowa State vs. Nebraska 10/27 currently touring the Southwest. They hit the West Coast the second half of the month Look for AC/DC VS. Detroit Lions 10/14 LowaState to hit these shores in November. Other fall and spring ARROWHEAD STADIUM MERICA'S outings to keep your eyes peeled for will come from the KANSAS CITY, MO BIG TOP GIANT. ALABAMA CLINT BLACK 10/19-21 HILTON COLISEUM AMES, IA Plus Entire Home Season 10/18-21 10/23-24 10/26 Dolly KEMPER Kenny QTY, Rogers MO NE likes of ZZ TOP, STEVE WINWOOD, ROBERT PALMER, WHITNEY HOUSTON, INXS, PAUL SIMON, and DEF LEPPARD We join with the rest of the On Sale Now Thru VETERANS AUDITORIUM SIOUX FALLS ARENA FIVE SEASONS CENTER DES MOINES, IA SIOUX FALLS, SD CEDAR RAPIDS, IA CYCLONE STADIUM, AMES, IA 10/27 music world in mourning the passing of STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN. Although the average fan would not have 28 UPCOMING EVENTS ON SALE NOW THRU Tm realized it, the loss of Eric Clapton's agent, BOBBY BROOKS in that same helicopter crash also cast a deep sadness over the relatively small fraternity of agents and ZTOP American NUFFEY Theater promoters: Brooks was voted booking agent of the year ALLAGHER by his peers in three of the last seven years. He was a 11/2-17 one man campaign to improve the image of agents and he will be missed See ya in the aisles! KEMPER ARENA KANSAS CITY, MO Draft Horse Invitational 11/2-3 Dinni The Vienna This Civic Center performance was made possible by a grant from Thoir the Target Stores. Friday, October 12 Rogs 7:00 p.m. Entertainment for the whole Tuesday, October 23 family. Pippi Longstocking, presented by the Children's Theatre company of 8:00 p.m. Minneapolis, is the headstrong The World's most beloved choir. heroine from Astrid Lindgrens Performs a program of sacred songs, popular children's books. secular and folk music, and the $10.00/8.00/6.00 costumed operetta, "Old Vienna." by Carl Michael Ziehrer Adults $17.00/15.00/11.00 12 & Under $11.00/9.00/5.00 Tickets available at the Civic Center Box office. All Ticketmaster outlets. live CENTER By phone at 243-1888 or 1-800-869-1414. All tickets subject to handling charges. 221 WALNUT DES MOINES IOWA 50309 UPCOMING EVENTS Box Office Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 A.M.- 4:30 P.M. Saturday & Sunday Open on days of show only from Noon through intermission TicketMaster Phone Hours: Call TicketMaster to reserve tickets by phone Phone orders subject to $1.50 $2.25 per ticket ser/charge Telephone: (515) 243-1888 in Des Moines (515) 233-1888 in Ames (800) 869-1414 all other areas (TicketMaster does not give seating locations over the phone) TicketMaster telephone lines are open 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM Monday - Saturday Noon - 6:00 PM Sundays Customer parking available for ticket pick-up in the Civic Center loading zone on 3rd Avenue in front of the West Lobby Doors PUBLIC DATE EVENT TIME PRICE SALE DATE* 9/22 SAT RUSH LIMBAUGH / 8:00 PM / Call 242-3500 for a listing of sponsors who are distributing Rush Limbaugh tickets 9/29 SAT SHOWTIME! / By Des Moines Sweet Adelines 8:00 PM $9.00 NOW 10/12-14 OSCAR WILDE 8:00 PM TBA 10/1 10/18-21 presented by Drama Workshop in the Studio Theatre / Charge by phone by calling 243-1109 (10:00 AM-4:30 PM) 10/12 FRI PIPPI LONGSTOCKING 7:00 PM $10.00 / $8.00 / $6.00 NOW 10/13 SAT LONDON BRASS 8:00 PM TBA TBA presented by The Civic Music Association 10/20 SAT DES MOINES SYMPHONY 8:30 PM $16.25/ $14.25/$12.25/ $8.25 (Adults) 9/24 10/21 SUN DES MOINES SYMPHONY 3:00 PM Discount on Sundays for Students and Seniors Citizens 10/23 TUE VIENNA CHOIR BOYS 8:00 PM $17.00 $15.00 / $11.00 (Adults) NOW $9.00 / $5.00 (Children 12 & under) 10/27 SAT LA SYLPHIDE 7:30 PM $25.00/$20.00/ $18.00/ $15.00 /$12.00 TBA 10/28 SUN LA SYLPHIDE 3:00 PM Discounts available for students through high school presented by the Ballet lowa Student Tickets are available for both performances 11/7 WED GALLAGHER "Death by Melon" 8:00 PM $18.50 9/17 11/9 FRI THE NYLONS 8:00 PM $18.50 10/8 11/20 TUE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET 8:00 PM TBA TBA presented by The Civic Music Association 11/23 FRI MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 8:00 PM $18.75/$16.75/$14.75 9/24 11/24 SAT MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 2:00 PM $18.75/$16.75/$14.75 9/24 11/24 SAT MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 8:00 PM $18.75/ $16.75/$14.75 9/24 11/23-25 OTHER PEOPLES MONEY 8:00 PM TBA TBA 11/29-12/2 presented by Drama Workshop in the Studio Theatre / Charge by phone by calling 243-1109 (10:00 AM-4:30 PM) 11/28 WED MONTOVANI ORCH. CHRISTMAS SHOW 8:00 PM $18.50 $16.50 / $12.50 (Adults) 10/22 $14.50 / $12.50 / $8.50 (Children 12 & under) ON SALE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE / The letters TBA in the PUBLIC SALE DATE column indicates the sale date is TO BE ANNOUNCED" ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL / Refunds can only be issued in the event of a performance cancellation, and all tickets must be returned to the Box Office for the mentioned cancellation refund. Ask about CIVIC CENTER MEMBERSHIPS if you are interested in purchasing tickets before the scheduled public sale dates on any performances being held at the Civic Center. Memberships may be charged by phone by calling 243-1109 between 10:00 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. Members can order tickets for all performances directly through the box office by calling their own "special" member telephone line CIVIC CENTER GIFT CERTIFICATES are available for any amount needed. To order Gift Certificates by phone with MasterCard, VISA or American Express call 243-1109 between 10:00 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. They make perfect gifts for Weddings, Birthdays, Graduations, Christmas, and other special occations. Ticket reservations can be made by phone with Gift Certificates, directly through the Box Office. GROUP DISCOUNTS Are available for some preformances For more-information Call Stephani at 243-0766 Monday Thru Friday 10:00 AM -5:30 PM. CIVIC CENTER OF GREATER DES MOINES 221 WALNUT DES MOINES, IOWA 50309 T H E METRO SCENE DESMOINES OCTOBER 3-9, 1990 0 COPIES DISTRIBUTED METROWIDE PRICELESS RENOVATING PRIORITIES WHAT'S INSIDE? OCTOBER 3-9, 1990 OPINION City Beat 4 PECS PICS Rick & Carroll Michalek are BETS Cule Kids In Coals 6 PAGE 10 PAGE 19 COVER Home Hunters 7 currently pursuing the American Dream STORY Preparing For Winler 8 in a unique, chaotic but passionate manner. PICTORIAL Amiell 10 Profile on pg. 7. CHOICE Recycle Rag 14 CALENDAR What's Down Uptown 15 Photo by Paul Gates MOVIE "GoodFellas" 19 Photo Copy Preservation live STARLIGHT EXPRESS AA SEPTEMBER.OCTOBER 1990 UNDER THE UMBRELLA Dear Civic Center Members, Autumn is just around the corner and with it comes a Civic Center calendar brimming over with exciting entertainment possibilities to fill your season. We look forward with anticipation to the Broadway musical, Starlight Express. This Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway hit promises to dazzle and amaze audiences. Following this, school children of all ages will be enthralled with the travels and adventures of Pippi Longstocking. Then over five centuries of tradition is brought to the Civic Center when the Vienna Choir Boys enchant audiences with their classic music-making. And to ring in the holiday season we offer you an array of festive programs. A modern classic, Mannheim Steamroller offers it's popular eclectic style of holiday music. And the elegance of Montovani's Orchestra adds to the spirit with their Christmas Concert. Adding to this wealth of events are the talents of the Des Moines Symphony, Ballet Iowa, Civic Music and Drama Workshop. As always, each offers high caliber, quality entertainment. The list goes on The Nylons, Gallagher, Sweet Adelines - we have something for everyone! I know you will be pleased with the variety and quality of events the Civic Center offers. I look forward to seeing you soon. Best regards, Gardon D. Gordon D. Smith General Manager SPOTLIGHT STARLIGHT EXPRESS TRIVIA By now most of you have purchased your tickets for Starlight Express and are looking forward to a dazzling evening of enjoyment. In preparation for this Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway skating musical spectacular we thought we'd fill you in on some interesting facts that you can share with your friends and family the night of the show. THE ENTIRE STARLIGHT PRODUCTION WEIGHS 50 TONS. IT IS THE BIGGEST SET IN THEATRE HISTORY. IT REQUIRES 60 PEOPLE WORKING 20 HOURS TO LOAD-IN THE SET. THE COSTUMES COST BETWEEN $10,000 AND $22,000 EACH. SOME COSTUMES WEIGH UP TO 35 POUNDS. 75 PAIRS OF SKATES IN TOTAL (each actor has 2-4 pairs) 192 TOE STOPS ARE USED PER WEEK. EACH PAIR OF SKATES IS COMPLETELY OVERHAULED AFTER EACH PERFORMANCE. THE ACTORS REACH SPEEDS UP TO 20 MILES-PER-HOUR. 22 MILES OF FIBER OPTICS CREATE A STAR-FIELD OF 10,000 POINTS OF LIGHT (a phrase coined by Starlight Express prior to the 1988 Presidential campaign). We look forward to seeing you at Starlight Express - this autumn's premiere theatre event in Iowa! SPOTLIGHT Mannheim Steamroller presents a Christmas Concert The perfect start to the holiday season - a night of Mannheim Steamroller! Join us when the ever popular group Mannheim Steamroller makes a return engagement to the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines November 23 & 24. Mannheim Steamroller is credited with sparking renewed record industry excitement in Christmas music. They received a Grammy Award nomination in 1985 for the platinum-selling Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album which has become a holiday classic with more than 1.3 million copies sold. Mannheim's platinum-selling (1.1 million copies) 1988 holiday album, A Fresh Aire Christmas, prompted talk show host Larry King to call the founder of the group, Chip Davis, "the man who brings Christmas music to America." The recording features Mannheim Steamroller, prominent members from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, brass players from the Eastman School for Music and England's Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter. Mannheim Steamroller's series of six Fresh Aire albums have sold more than two million copies. Fresh Aire V and Fresh Aire VI feature Mannheim Steamroller with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Cambridge Singers. These albums and their predecessors epitomize the refreshingly original style that distinguishes the groups unique talents. Mannheim Steamroller's nationwide concert tours are consistent sellouts from Los Angeles to Chicago to Washington, D.C. Because their music is so refreshingly unique, Mannheim dominates a new category of contemporary music best described as "eclectic," a creative method of blending cross-related music genres within a single yet dynamic format. Eclectic has been described as capturing the diversity that characterizes the sound, energy and spirit of the 1990s. "DEATH BY MELON" G allagher, the original "Master of Mess" debuts at the Des Moines Civic Center, Wednesday, November 7th at 8:00 p.m. His concerts are as unforgettable as his wielding trademark - the Sledge-O-Matic. Gallagher showers his audience with the pulverized remains of apples, oranges, lettuce and cottage cheese, fruitcakes and Big Macs, and any other edibles that happen to suit his fancy. Most of all, Gallagher loves to "Say it with watermelons!" Audiences come "Gallagherized", wearing plastic rain- coats, firemen's helmets, umbrellas, even sunglasses with windshield wipers. Keeping a skilled team of craftsmen busy full-time, Gallagher is the inventor behind the hilarious props with which he delights his audiences. Arriving on stage in a motorized school desk, he is the master of ceremonies for a circus of remote-control watermelons, microphone stands with minds of their own, flying seagulls which do to the audience what seagulls do best, and all manner of things that squirt. Gallagher's humor makes people think, and see things with "new eyes." "I want people to look more closely at this country and their lives - to see the humor and absurdity in it all, and to look beyond their sense of limitations into how things might be" says Gallagher. His humor is original, thought-provoking, and as funny as it comes! CENTER STAGE SEPTEMBER TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 4 MICHAEL 12 STARLIGHT 13 STARLIGHT 14 STARLIGHT 15 STARLIGHT WARNKE EXPRESS EXPRESS EXPRESS EXPRESS 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Suggested donation of Tickets: Tickets: Tickets: Tickets: $3.00 at the door. $35.25/33.25/31.25 $35.25/33.25/$31.25 $35.25/33.25/31.25 $33.25/31.25/29.25 Offering will be taken. RELIGIOUS COMEDIAN SATURDAY SUNDAY 15 STARLIGHT EXPRESS 16 EXPRESS STARLIGHT 8:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Tickets: Tickets: $35.25/33.25/31.25 $35.25/33.25/31.25 SATURDAY SATURDAY 22 RUSH 29 SHOWTIME! LIMBAUGH Sweet Adelines 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $15.00 Tickets: $9.00 Call WHO-1040AM at 242-3500 for a listing of sponsors who are distibuting tickets. OCTOBER FRIDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY WEDNESDAY 12 PIPPI 13 LONDON 20 DES MOINES 21 DES MOINES 23 VIENNA Longstocking BRASS SYMPHONY SYMPHONY CHOIR BOYS 7:00 p.m. CIVIC MUSIC JEFFREY SIEGEL, PIANO JEFFREY SIEGEL, PIANO 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $10/$8/$6 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Tickets: member sale: 9/4 Tickets: TBA Tickets: Tickets: Adults $17/$15/$11 0/10 $16.25/$14.25/S12.25/88.25 ADULTS Children 12 & under Students of Senior Citizens member sale: 9/4 $13.25/11.25/9.25/6.25 public sale: 9/10 SATURDAY SUNDAY 27 LA SYLPHIDE 28 LA SYLPHIDE BALLET IOWA BALLET IOWA 7:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Tickets: Tickets: ADULTS ADULTS $25/$20/$18/$15/$12 $25/$20/$18/$15/$12 Students(H.S & under) Students(H.S & under) $20/$15/$12/$10/$8 $20/$15/$12/$10/$8 NOVEMBER FRIDAY SATURDAY WEDNESDAY 9 THE 17 DES MOINES 7 GALLAGHER NYLONS SYMPHONY "Death by Melon" 8:00 p.m. with the DES MOINES 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $18.50 CHORAL SOCIETY Tickets: $18.50 members sale: 10/2 8:30 p.m. member sale: 9/5 public sale: 10/8 Tickets: public sale: 9/17 $16.25/$14.25/$12.25/$8.25 SUNDAY TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY WEDNESDAY 18 DES MOINES 20 MODERN JAZZ 23 Mannheim 24 Mannheim 28 MONTOVANI SYMPHONY QUARTET Steamroller Steamroller ORCHESTRA with the DES MOINES CIVIC MUSIC 8:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. CHORAL SOCIETY Christmas Show 8:00 p.m. Tickets: Tickets: 3:00 p.m. Tickets: TBA $18.75/16.75/14.75 $18.75/16.75/14.75 8:00 p.m. Tickets: Tickets: members sale: 9/18 members sale: 9/18 ADULTS Adults public sale: 9/24 public sale: 9/24 $16.25/14.25/12.25/8.25 $18.50/$16.50/$12.50/ Students & Senior Citizens Children 12 & under $13.25/11.25/9.25/6.25 $14.50/$12.50/$8.50 members sale: 10/16 public sale: 10/22 The Drama Workshop presents, "OSCAR WILDE by Lester Cohen October12-14 &18-21. A wonderful view of the literary genius of turn of the centruy England, the scandal-laden court trial, his two years in Reading Gaol and two years later - a broken man. UNFORGETTABLE! SPOTLIGHT The Nylons unlikely lineup teaming three former actors and one A former Platter is only one of the unorthodox elements in the saga of The Nylons. Since their formation in 1979 The Nylons have built their musical identity by ignoring most of the rules, starting with their commitment to a cappella vocal performance. Although unaccompanied vocal music has been virtually absent from the pop landscape since the '50s heyday for doo-wop, The Nylons have concentrated on perfecting their high-wire vocal acrobatics with only the occasional drum machine to augment their voices. As the group recalls, the group's formation was never designed to conquer the market. Instead, the four singers had gathered simply out of their shared love of vocal music: As members of the small but flourishing Toronto theatre scene, the four would sing together at parties thrown by fellow actors. When a guest at one such bash proved to be the owner of a new club, they were invited to appear at the cabaret's official opening. Even before the club actually opened, word spread through Toronto that an exciting new vocal group would appear, and the ensuing flurry of media attention transformed one-night That was over ten years and five hit albums ago and now the stand into the first chapter in what has since proven to be an group that was called an enigma of the 80's music scene has enduring affair. "We played there for six weeks," recalls Marc, proved they have vast appeal and staying power. They have one of The Nylons, and it was instantaneous. We had an started off the 90's performing to standing-room-only crowds audience, we had rave reviews, all the attention that you could throughout the country with their unique form of Rockapella have." music. Mantovani ORCHESTRA When Mantovani retired in 1975 he had become a household name in the field of popular entertainment, heard by tens of thousands when he took his orchestra on tour and by millions around the world via his recordings. Over the course of a lengthy career Mantovani amassed a vast music library not only of arrangements prepared for concerts and recordings, but of original material as well. Late in 1981, one year following his death, the library was made available to symphony orchestras for their pops series; shortly thereafter, successful events were presented by the Dallas Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Kansas City Philharmonic and Hamilton Philharmonic. The next step was inevitable; why not form an orchestra? Today you will find forty-one performers on stage in a program such as the current touring "Italia", musicians dressed as Mantovani wished them to be - formally, in white tie and tails. The Mantovani Orchestra attributes it's success to never losing sight of Mantovoni's belief that success is not measured by financial gain but by how well and effectively he could reach out to move ordinary people and touch their lives with music. SPOTLIGHT Vienna Choir Boys or nearly five centuries the Vienna F Choir Boys have enchanted millions with the charm and excellence of their music-making. The Vienna Choir Boys were founded by imperial decree on July 7, 1498 by the humanist Emperor Maximilian I to fulfill his wish to have choristers in the Imperial Chapel. From its inception, this organization has attracted the finest musicians in the west: Mozart spent his most creative years as composer to the Hapsburg Court in Vienna and wrote for the Imperial Chapel. Josef Haydn was a choirboy and many of his works are to be found in their repertoire. The greatest prodigy, and without a doubt the most famous choirboy, was Franz. Schubert, who sang as a choirboy from 1808 to 1813. In 1918, however, it seemed that the collapse of the Hapsburg dynasty and the dissolution of the Austro- Hungarian Empire would mean the end of the world-famous institution. Fortunately, Joseph Schnitt retained the chaplaincy of the Imperial Chapel in 1924 and he decided to refound the boys choir. It was felt that the boarding school method was the only practical one of ensuring the musical training necessary for the choristers. Those who wish to be considered for entry attend a special preparatory school where they receive a thorough education with special attention paid to the theory and practice of singing as well as instruction on one musical instrument. At the examination, which the candidates take at the age of nine, musical ability is the decisive factor, irrespective of creed or social standing. More often than not two choirs are away on tour at the same time, with each tour lasting an average of three months. On such a tour the 24 choristers are accompanied by a choir master, a tutor and a nurse, who are entrusted with their care and welfare. Since their first United States tour in 1932, the Vienna Choir Boys have visited America no fewer than 45 times, have completed numerous tours of Asia - travelling as far as Japan -- and have toured Australia. They have also appeared in South America and South Africa. They have been received by innumerable heads of state, and have had audiences with Popes Pius XI, Pius XII and Paul VI. The time lost on concert tours is more than compensated for by an intensive program of teaching and study in classes that seldom exceed more than 10 students. In the private school, which conforms to the standards set by the Austrian Ministry of Education, there is a staff of 30 fully qualified secondary school teachers. Anyone who has seen the boys soon realizes the secret of their fascination: they have managed to combine the naivete of childhood with artistic maturity -- something that can only be achieved through serious work. In return for their dedication, the Vienna Choir Boys have become one of the world's most beloved choirs delighting millions in every corner of the world with their programs of sacred songs, secular and folk music. ENCORE O TARGET PROVIDES GRANT FOR CHILDREN'S SHOW hat child wouldn't like to live as Pippi Longstocking W. does? She doesn't go to school, nobody tells her when to go to bed, she carries a suitcase full of gold and possesses enough strength to balance a live horse in the palm of her hand! Now thanks in part to a generous $10,000 grant provided by Target Stores, this raucous and headstrong heroine, from author Astrid Lindgren's popular series, will delight children of all ages this fall at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines. Target is a big company with even a bigger heart. This year, Lonnie Jensen, Target Store Manager (left) presents Target will donate $7.2 million (5% of their taxable profits) to Gordon Smith, General Manager of. the Civic Center of community organizations. Over $250,000 of this amount is Greater Des Moines (right) with a $10,000 check. contributed to organizations here in Iowa. "Our mission in grant making is to strengthen and enrich family life in communities where we have stores and facilities, "stated Lonnie Jensen, Store Manager of Target South here in Des Moines. Target gives to the community in numerous ways ranging from social services to the performing arts. According to Mr. Jensen, 40% of their annual grants budget is allocated to the arts and the focus in this area is to bring professional arts to families and children. This is certainly the case with Pippi Longstocking. This unique production is performed by the nation's premiere theatre company for young people, the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company. Pippi Longstocking, which was performed for sold-out audiences during both its Minneapolis premiere in 1981 and its revival in 1989, has been hailed by critics as "a celebration of every child's dream of independence mesmerizing, fanciful (the Twin Cities Star Tribune); "Boisterous, madcap Pippi is a lot of fun.' (St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch). Upon presentation of the check to Gordon Smith, General Manager of the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, Mr. Jensen voiced the following feelings on the arts and Target's support of them. "The pleasure I get from seeing people enjoying professional arts, especially for the first time, is immeasurable. Knowing that our company was a major factor in the event makes me extremely proud." CIVIC CENTER OF GREATER DES MOINES Non-Profit Org. 221 Walnut U.S. Postage Des Moines, Iowa 50309 PAID Des Moines, IA Permit No. 1141

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