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~ ~ " ...... J;- 'f · RUAell's, blUest event in 33 Hospital, at one. or both Russell Russell's mayor, Roger W. ·11loiltha; ~ pefb:aps·!&r that nu~lng homes, ailif at Cole & Williams, .appointed a committee accompanying the RlliSell High Roge rs. Dawson Drug'·Store, a a few weeks ago to work out loca I School Broncos' winning the ·. gathefing place for Ioeal political angles of the Dole visit. · iitate title, tooll: ,ciff with • bang l~ad ers'where the senator. work· ea~iy t)ldii· u U.S. Sen. Robert ed when he was a youngster. "Our major purpose will be the Jd;lepb Dole, 56, chose a spot at 'Bob Dole Day' ceremonies," .he 'the aO\Itliwat comer. of the-City · The senator and his wife spent said.- · Mother's Day Sunday at the ~~ulldlng lei announce that he Is a The mayor signed a procla· candidate for the.J9110 Republican home of his mother, Mrs. Bina matlon May 2 declaring Mond&y, preiildentlal nomiJ.iatlon. Dole, at 1035 Maple St. · May 14, as "Bob Dole Day" In

"I:IJe .only event to rival the homecoming celebration hon­ ·orlng Dole here today w~uld .be that of Aug. :m, 1978, when ... .ihen-Presldent Ger.ald R. Ford '· . and vice-presidential . nominee Dole come} o R11881!11, the day after Fol'lihad plck!AI the Russell native as his running mate at the .GOP Convention in Kansas City, .Mo. They ·c:&Ji)e here to begin .their canip\ign. The pair .was .then narrowly defeated In the November. general election by ,Jimmy Carter and Walter MOll·) dale.

forced ·aside Landon Kassebaum, " lenge by, the feat~d by RoOsevelt In 1936', I Gov. "Jerry" Brown .or· Massa· race. Eisenllower.defeated Adlai (1) The key element In Sen. Yet it . wiii ''J?ro:vl~e f~. rmers with chusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy. Stevenson to win bOth In 1952 and , Thus, farme,rs are caught in · a 1956. time for the federal govern· vicious cost-price squ~eze , and Dole's bill is designed to support ~:nuch more flexlb)bty In their Republicans who have already ment to recog:tize that farmers unlike manufacturers and em· the family farm by bringing farming operations and It should "anriciunced" for 1980 are John Dole, wlm played the political are the victims, not the CI!USe , of ployefs, are unalile to pass along about hicreased market prices also imprQve the market price of Connally and George',Bush, both \, tough guy as· the GOP candidate Inflation. While the.costs of farm' their increased costs to pur­ farm commodities by reducing Robert Dole, after graduating Following 'his sophomore year lor farm products while keeping current over-supplies. of Texas, Sen. Lo'f.~.U:Welcker of for vlce1>,i'~ldent ,ui )DiG, . says machinery and other productS chasers. enough supplies of food products Connecticut, Rep. Phillip Crane from Russelllligh School in 1941, at KU, Bob enlisted In the U.S. this t)nie '!J,s, C8D)pal~n will be used' by farmers · has risen dra­ on hand to supply our domestic (2) Sen. Dole's bill also pr&­ of llllnols, Los Angeles business­ entered The l'nlversity of Kansas Army. He was in the Army five better organized becaiise-"We'll matically, the prices received for Sen. Dole has introduced The where he was enrolled In pre· and a half years, and suffered a Food and Agriculture Act of 1979, and foreign markets and human!· vides that price supports for man Benjamin· Fernandez ,and be setting the tone. I'll be the agriculture products has declined tarian food export programs. the· ' ' profes s ional, perennial" . medicine. His goal was to become critical, almost fatal, Injury in candidate." or, at best, remained steady. s. 1: milk be no less than 80 i>ercerit of a medical doctor. At KU he battle. He was released in 1948 Sen. Dale believes that a variable parity. J:bis level has·pro ved an candidate, 'Harold Stassen of target price program should be Minnesota. waited tables to help finance his and enrolled at The University of acceptable level to' maintain education. He also played' fool· Arizona at Tucson. 197~~~=l~a:~~uc:e::o: N e. w Po 1·.·· s"· h.G ned established which empowers dairy prodlic~on without stlmu· a··· the Secretary of Agriculture to latin~ ;':'After the formal announce­ ball, basketball, and participated The injury, he -received during plaints even froin some in his own . . . .' over-production. formulate a set-asld~ program ·~ent, comp)ete with fanfare and in track: World Wa~ If ended h~ plans to party. Since : then Dole has /F. '. •t. Q 1d ,, o!{fi. b D I . ? under which a farmer can choose (3) A third provision of Sen. ~ds pJaylng, Dole held a news G. B. "Bub" Dawson, Russell, become a doctor, so ~e turned his attempted to change his "hatchet 0 ·r . '8 0· . 0 e the price he needs for his crops Dole's bill would require the conferen~ In-the fire station sec· so'n of Dole's former employer at attention to law. He enrolled at man" itnage. ' 1 • ' • i tion of the City Building. Dawson Drug, said, " Bob rpade and then Set aside the required Secretary of Agriculture to set ·' Washburn Municipal University, His presidential campaign, An Iowa ·publisher sees a "ne,;; understand the problems of New percentage of acreage. the price s,upport loan for sugar Sen. Dole. and his wife, Eliza­ Phog' Allen's freshman basket­ Topeka, and received bath his Dole says, wiD be positive and Bob Dole'' · as. reported in a '· York City as we ll as those of the ball team on sheer work and A.B. and LI .B. degrees in 1952. He for a percentage of parity equal beth Hanford Dole, a member will emphasize his own quallfl· column carried iii The Hutch· Iowa farmer or the Kansas Thus, farmers who agree to to 18.5 cents per pound. .ilntil recently ·of. the Federal determination. He wasn't that was graduated magna cum cations. inson News in February this farmer." good in basketball. However, laude. voluntarily set aside more acre· ( 4) ·A fourlh provision of the blll Trade Commission, then flew to year. The publisher quoted Dole ' This is probably true of anyone age will be guaranteed a higher Des ·Molnes, Iowa, for an 11 :30 his freshman year he earned He was the recipient of an All lour streets leading to the directly: · involved in a good-sized job; target price by the government. would establish a National Agri­ a.m. pre~~~ conference and a 12:30 numeralS in football, basketball honorary Doctor of Laws degree City Building were roped off "[ think you start off with a when the worker takes hold or it, cultural Production Cost and and track, and earned a letter in from Washburn University In It will allow farriiers to set' aside P·!n· lunc!M!on with Iowa business within a black of the ceremony parqchial view, you represent a it takes hold of him. different percentages of their Statistical Standards Board for Ira~ hiS sophom~re year." 1969. today. and polltl~ lea!lers. district and you don't think much The publis¥r , said that he 'croplahd, depending an their the purpose of Implementing and standardizing the cost of produc- . Tonight 'the senator will be in beyond ~e district boundaries. remarked th3t Dole sounded like costs of production and their own Then, when you move to tile Jimmy Caner and Dole then said management decisions about tion information as It relates to Fredericksburg; Va., to keynote agnculture production. This Is an a district GOP fundr.aiser honol'>' Senate, you put the emphasis on be thought Carter was in a strong how to maximize farm Income . the sjate. _!'m not suggesting position. This publisher thought important part of the act, since It lng Congidsman Kenneth J . . th~t suddenly you take an mterest m Dole had become more moderate Cost - The variable target is very 'Important to have accu· . Robinson.- On Tuesday Dole will , rate cost-pricing Information In be in Concord, N. H.; for an 11 ' lhlr country, . b_ut It seems that and c'aullous, " making an price program will not be. costly. when 'you've been there, as I've obvious effort to be more states­ It should not cost any more than order to run a · successful fann a.m. EDT campaign-organiza­ program. tion meeting, followed by a 12:30 been for 18 years, you begin to man than politiCian." present farm set-aside programs. p.m. address to the Concord l,lotary Club. The cwulldate opened his tw&­ day ·formal announcement tour early today with traditional ' &ijpa l·t():H8Ja Klulb~nll campaign stops at R11881!11 City Her surpri5ell . reacliC!f~ to this beth Dole. A pubf::_rvani dur- In a bureauCI'!icy poclaJIIIrked by sugges\ion only proves that liber- ing the. admhlistrations of patronage and bloated with ation has come just so far. Has It J ohnsoq,·Nixon, Ford arid Carter, bungle"'- , Liz ;Hanford proved Ord!al of Leadership never crossed her magna cum this 42-yeaf-old learned-long ago competent·and qualified - U not , II laude njlnd then? to separate the fact from the over.(juallfled - women could As Bob Doli Sies The background and career fluff, the peanut from. the shell. reach the top. In a Ught ·spot, Bob Dole development of Liz Dole will !Jooklng back toJ 96JI, one. sees But this February, Commis Inclines toward action r.alher inspire th(/.Se who still believe the start of a well-plotted profes- sloner Dole cut'shcii-t her term b) than passivity, advance r.ather that a good ,education and ha~ slonal climb, almost· tOo upward- a 'year and a ·hlilf •.In , ber round than retreat, courage rather than work pay off. Being born m ly mobile to be true, It was .-~en upright handWJ;Iting, W. ended : Umidlty. Slillsbury, N. C,, does not bestow she joined the Presl