v - v | Q n r ■ ; ry y k ^ IIT iTTS^63 77th y ear, J* Twin Falls, Ida , N o. 57 laho FridIday, Februaty 26■6,1982 J25^ Infkatiorn easses t:ol8i-mo>nthlow ] recession could pork, popoultry, seafood, fnill, sugar, ^■ByNew York Dally News * -consider it (obe aI tettemporary reaction to the rc<recession." Popkin wametned thal only a prolonged n gar, cereal and baked said economist Joelocl Popkin, form er assistantIt commls- produce this result.rcj goods. BlBul beef and eggs were lower.cr. : .•WASHlNGTOTT^nnalllatisiranhcTSCTiibook levelle' sloner of the Bureatreau o( Labor Statistics. HeIe said the "Kwehavetlethe mid-year recovery the‘ adadministralion is McdlciIcal care continued io bc Ihe(h< most Inflationary ry In (he Index, rising 0.8 o( i ensed Jn January, the goveru'ernmentrtpwW rrHawtey.f.i f • underiying Innatlon>n r;rate was still 9 percent, predicting, thebe Inflation rate will s^tle aroiiround 9 perccnl.” category o( a perccnt tor a 12.1 - Post-Christpias clothinglg «sales and lower gasoline prk)rices The 0.3 of a percentrent January hike In the consurlumer price hesaid. percentiit Increase over the year. iTtafnment prices cllmbcd O.'i held the consum er price indiIndex to an advance of only 0.3 of Index. foUowing increicreases of 0.4 of a percent In D<December, Aside fromn clothing,( which fell 0.1 o( ia pcrcent. and. Enlert I 0.7 of a pcrcenl^and ss were up 0,6 of a perccnt. Th( a perccnt. thcsm ^est incrccrease In 18 months, 0.5 of a p ercent In1 November,No 0.4 percenc in Ocl)ctober and transportation,on, o(( 0.2 o( a p e r c ^ t, (hele JJanuary report sewlces The Increases lo bealtb Itertalnment were higher thai . W hite House WK>lOTgnanlin U r r y ^ leak es hailed tbe oedews i . l percent In Septemtember. worked out to an annuQual annual show^ Inflatloitlon running at a brisk level1 In most spending and ente than In December; the . ehard^iit housing servlcefe Sector was unchanged, as evidence of "a continuinging trend of Improvement” In Ithe ra le of 3.5 percentt - the lowe&l since 1972. Lastst year, the categories. Th«rh e m ain exception w M the h; s 5 helped case the Overd]rdll, th e government said,d, cconsurfier prices in ' R eagan adm inistration’s(campaign ca: against inflation.a. IBut lndexrosc9.4percent sector, wherere lower oew bome pnces hi hd hold the overall Januaryry w ere 8.4 perccnt higher lhatlhan a' year eariler. The 'private analysts said thehe g i ^ reflected the-damejaage Acknowkd^if^ Sthi lt*it does not expect Janliailary’s price pinch bt higherier taxes and be^ting^Ul&ahd I . Index Ataobd al 282.1, which meantil thatU it took $282.10 to caused by the re ^ e ^ D .- wiiiwidcbhM pushed unemproymi?ment- perform ance to bebc repealed, the admlnistnlralkm*has Increase to0.3(i.36(ii^rrent.V‘‘"* 5roent,power«(ijay purchas«^ a basket o( goods and scrviimvlccs ^ a t sold for SlOO close to its postw4riit^.' officially predictedd thattf consumer prices at theic <end of the Food and be\beverage^rose by 0.7 of a perc< higher prim tor in 1967; _ *'It’s clearly ;a:J»Uer^nir^nunU>er^but^l=inor6 -or-r- liless— year-wUl-be 6.6 perc•ercent higher than a year caisarller. But a 16.6 pcrcentMifHse in-vegetables and hil f f l U . JS. IIIR I cle.jans K/.'; X'. •: I tic 1 i L a n d sales I - m a yiGutdebt c 1 1 .’.'. ByKnlghl-Riddbidder Newspapers ........... WASHINGTCETON — The Reagan ' ^H jH administrationlion unveiled a broad new program Thunhursday aimed at selling o(( tens ofr thousands111 of acres of unneeded federidcral real estate, Under Increscreasing pressure to re- ■ ■ ducc the $1(1 ttrillion national debt, ___ I \ \-rnr.-- budgei directore to r David Stockman out* ■■MB * lined the planlan before a Senate sub* committee chalchaired by Sen. Charles H. .V'.- / ■ K P ercy . R-Ill.1. Percy hass inIntroduced a resolution ■ H i calling on theJie Ifederal government to reduce its -vastvs land holding — estim ated atII 74474^ million acres. ‘‘They're up in the attic, and we’re >'i r i P going to moVinove them down to the y . garage andd hhavc a garage sale," ;^ai4esfteccy*R-IIW.*W-.: ■ • B aj^ chnl'-Mlthcheahearing. An' aggressfesshve land sell-off pro* B H .Cram,Stockmaicmaa said, could brins$l<2 blilion in feder•deral-revMiie' lo 1983 and ^ H | $2.2 bililon moimore In each sub^uent ^■ 1 As a first:l ststep to Implement the sell-off prograigram. President Reagan H r signed an execixecullve order Thursday BODDOAaWUTT/TVnrvm«N.wi establishing! a new federal property review board•d slstaffed by senior White ^— WrappedAi » r f c - — --------^----------------- -=------------ — House-personntjnnel'find-modeled^flere----------- falls simUar group•up formed by President oame-tag deter him (romI ssUlUully directing traffic; tersectlon of Blue LabAkes Boulevard North aod Fal S g t.JlJim Mildoa of tbe Twin Fall'alls Police D raartm eot oi Nixon in 1970.0. didn’tA’t let tbe fact tbat h it wfalsUettlek^tcatc^oohis TThursday atten»oon. Tbes 'trafflc lights at tbe lo- Avenue were out for sevseveral hours. ______ 1 • SeeSeeSALEPage2 Schoo3ls’ let!:ter-wri1iting caimpaigijn souns someI lawmaakers By BRUCE HAMMOND Appropriations Commltlelee he will next year, whwhich is better than simply ialso (ree to oppose the incricrease, and While Impreiprcssed by most of the Ihe lettors were left 1In sealed letters’ conlenilenls, Rep. Tom Slivers, Times-News writer TT* ‘ ' isupport as much fundingg Ifor schools keeplnglipwl•with Inflation.” i envelopes to ensure privacycy.” R-Twln F alls,lls, said s he was alarm ed by as anllcloated revenue willlli allow. The letterer drive, which received ' Of the 90 to 100 letters} Sen.S Laird some threatenltening comments m ade by i e ^ s i a t u r e om the school b o ^ , the But the 14.6 percent ln<increase the support from Noh, R-Twln F alls, recelvet^ed, only two som e parenUents seeking addiUonal BOISE - A drive by>y 'Twin Falls ssoclatlon and parent orga- 1letters request probablbly Is un- teachers assc ncrease. school funding, School District residentsmts to solicit wos not m eant to appear as! opposed the 14.6 percent Inc Ilng. realistic,t said Sen. John1 1Barker, R- niZatlons, wa by the effort -l don’t mindmln the school contacting more state (unding supporiport from area lo entice parental response, "B ut I was im pressed by Buhl, the chairman-of tthe Senate a schem e toe and th o u ^ l p ut Into the lelielters. Each the patrons3 ofthe o( I district, but Iklndef legislators m ay have baclcfickfired. each parenentQl response. The class nd Welfare commentedd iassistant superintendent jHealth, Education and one was done individuallally, unlike dislike themm usingi the youngsters as T ho six Twin FaUs Count;unty delegates bringing inIn the most letters won a ^ GaryPlller.r. C om m ittee. ;ns," h esaid. m essagers; andam offering a party as a have received about 100W iiletters each skating panlarty at a Twin Falls roller many organiZed campaigns le additional "All these:se groups wanted someway illverssaid. from parents encouraglniging them to rink, "Unless we gel some ' "It had to take some of tbthese people rew ard ." Stive ly lo gel the to show supsupport for the statowide :gesl question facing the support a 14.6 percent■ ti t a r c i ^ l n revenues, (here's no way • an hour to sit down and writrite them." The blggesi ad a bliZZard of maU,” said ! ” he said, coalition fai^favoring the 14.6 perccnt rs proposed legislators nowno' is how to re^n d to public school appropriatior 14.6 percent increase.” t Many of Noh's letters vrence Knlgge, R-Fller. "I . sirong ns we increase,”' h(he said. "But there had lo . Noh said he hopes his wife ; -But the way the letterssrsweresollc- "About 10 pcrcent is as sli ^ budget cuts for non-educacallonal pro- the letters. No approve of iStersto support , be som e wayray to encourage tbe kids to lg additional' "hasalolofs{of spare tim e for typing this Itied apparently has soun can get. > grams as a way of raising for education, but wben a “ But 10 percent wouldI leleave public m ake sure\ ththe letters got bom e to the essed lhat weekend.” the legislators on the slnc^ ' revenue. Others stres ivolved------” ,schools at the percentagage of state parents andid ithen for tlie letters lo bc {ranted, they "1 don’t; knowkn how I’m going lo ' i r e s t a . ’ w hatever increases are gr< sl year. Thai reluriied toothe tl scbool for mallins.. es and main- respond to1 all all of Ibem," Stivers said, Students carried requequests for the Knlgge saidsj the letter campai^ Ifunding they received lasl should be put into salaries 111 classes o r “ I started to.to. bulI I've hardly had Ume letters bome to their par«larents, and In had no effe<Tect on his stand, since as a ' would amount to aboutt !$19 million "T he pareirents were encouraged onlyI lenance, and not into "(rill to read themm aa ll." turn, each c l ^ gainedi oione point for member ofof the Joln( Finance and ’• im ore being allocated to puljubllcschobis torespond,”1." Plller said. "They were5 athlellcs." Legislatoi»rs hope toy ]parlay Senatee f a t J b rrs meetiting lawD ofMtigl agency fum ds into tatax cash T i g h t e rr :rules p ass) di e s p i t e G ODP ’ oppositicl o n ^ BOISE (U P I)-F u n d inng g (or tighter breaker relieflUef on Uiclr property tax M «.