mm Cedar Rapids Tuesday October 1 3, 1 981 3a OOQb People road to abuse of presidential power can be and has been paved with good intentions. It is hard to understand why Reagan is letting himself go down that road, and letting himself be associated with the figure of his fallen predecessor. Anthony Lewis, Page 6A. allowance, were part of the demands made Monday by Linn County employees in their initial bargaining proposal to county negotiators. Page 5A.
A motion filed in Linn County District Court Monday revealed Gregory Petoskey could not have been the rapist involved in one of the "circuit rapist" cases in 1978. Page 7A. The Nation Fewer than 1 2 percent of the tens of thousands of people suspected of defrauding the federal government are criminally prosecuted, a report to Congress showed Monday. Administrative actions are used in about 69 percent of fraud cases, said the report by the General Accounting Office. That includes firing suspected bureaucrats or establishing a formal loss recovery plan.
Page 4A. President Fidel Castro feels very well, he announced Monday as he launched a campaign against obesity, sedentary life and tobacco. He said he doesn't plan to quit smoking, but he will refrain in front of cameras, "even though that is good for Cuban tobacco exports Page 68. Financial Sports Opinion At one Cedar Rapids plant a number of workers, including some with high seniority, are taking 4r voluntary furloughs so some with low seniority wilt not face layoffs. Page 4C It's official: Iowa football fans will be able to see the Hawks play Michigan on closed-circuit television.
PageIC The AL and NL championship series begin today. Page 3C. Cedar Rapids There he was Richard Nixon among those representing the United States at a solemn international occasion, and everyone acting as if he were respectable. We really have come to accept anything. Even more disconcerting than Nixon's personal presence is the Reagan administration's accelerating revival of an attitude toward presidential power that was a Nixon trademark.
Reagan has attempted to bypass Congress in domestic as well as foreign affairs. There is also a major swing toward secrecy, and the relaxing of CIA restraints. Nobody would ever confuse Reagan with Nixon. There is nothing furtive or sinister or sick about him. But the Nearly 100 people gathered at the Washington High School Little Theatre Monday night to argue against senior high school boundary changes in the Cedar Rapids Community School District.
Page 8A. Farm Three prominent Republican women stood on the steps of the i incoln Memorial in Washington Monday and attacked President Reagan's position on the Equal Rights Amendment. One said it was as though Lincoln had proposed freeing the slaves "plantation by plantation." Betty Ford, the former first lady, Helen Milliken, wife of the governor of Michigan, and Mary Crisp, former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, denounced the piecemeal state-by-state and law-by-law approach advocated by Reagan, who has said he believes in "the and the but not the of ERA. Page 4A. Linn County The dairy lobby and friends in the House last week taught the administration a lesson in how to play politics in Washington a lesson that might cost the administration hundreds of millions of dollars over the remainder of its term.
Page 7C. Wage increases of 1 5 percent, plus a cost-of-living 'Send us money, keep your noses out' Workfare message Treatment near for depression? CHICAGO (AP) Scientists may be on the verge of developing treatment for the nation's most prevalent mental illness1, a form of depression that strikes one of every 10 Americans, says a researcher at the University of Chicago. Dr. Herbert Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago's Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, said scientists have uncovered what they believe to be chemical marker, located on ceUs in the blood, for clinical depression. Meltzer is head of an experimental program.
at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, where researchers are developing a blood test that may enable doctors to accurately diagnose clinical depression and predict which people are most likely to develop it. Researchers believe clinical depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. The blood test discloses clinical depression by revealing the chemical imbalance, Meltzer said. Clinical depression is marked by dramatic changes in mood and behavior with suicidal tendencies. It differs from psychological depression, which is a result of setbacks, losses, insults, humiliation or anything else that makes a person feel bad.
"There is strong evidence that the marker is reliable, which would give us a relatively simple chemical means to diagnose certain serious depressive illnesses that have biological causes," Meltzer said in an interview Monday in the Chicago Tribune. While depression caused by life's adversities usually lifts in a few Jays, clinical depression may last a long time. Meltzer said two new drugs for treating clinical depression are in the final stages of development. He said the drugs restore the chemical balance in the brain, confirming the researchers' conclusion that the chemical imbalance is responsible for the clinical depression. He said the next phase of testing will determine if the blood test that reveals the chemical balance also can be used to determine susceptibility to clinical depression.
Meltzer noted that researchers believe clinical depression is hereditary and testing will include 100 relatives of patients who have suffered clinical depression. j. iPQjyjpj tefLR sHffli sflsVi JfcV wL' "i M'SkS ffffJfl EEb BSSSSSB I BS By Judy Daubenmler Qatett Dot Moines Bureau DES MOINES The state should give counties money to run work programs for welfare recipients and leave administration of the programs up to local officials, a Linn County official told a legislative interim subcommittee Monday. "Send us the money and keep your hoses out," said Linn County Supervisor Joe Rinas at a meeting of a social services appropriation subcommittee. The subcommittee was discussing establishing a "workfare" program in the state that would require welfare recipients to work in order to receive benefits.
Rinas told the subcommittee about the Linn County program, which requires those applying for county general relief or veterans' relief to register for work. Rinas said 163 recipients have performed work projects for the county in the first six months of the project, earning $37,053 in welfare wages. The jobs have ranged from clerical tasks to custodial, carpentry and demolition work. People applying for county general relief and veterans relief are "informed that if they are able-bodied, they will be required to take employment. If they refuse, they are axed from the program," said Rinas.
"We are getting a little more hard core. Our budget is rapidly approaching $1 million and as a result, it's required us to take some drastic steps." Rinas said the state should not get involved in workfare programs at the county level. "We have 99 different jurisdictions. Depending on the jurisdiction, you're going to have a different type of program," he said. He urged the lawmakers not to repeat the practice of last spring, when lawmakes dropped welfare benefits for families with both parents unemployed.
Substituted for it was a program that allowed such families to receive three months' rent assistance of up to $150 a month and medical care for their children. "That was a boondoggle," said Rinas. "When they run out after three months, they end up on county relief or divorce and go on ADC. Why they (lawmakers) didn't put the money to work through county relief offices and why they created that hybrid, I'll never know. We could have picked up the same people without any administrative costs." Rinas said the $150 in rent assistance was not adequate to begin with.
"Where are they going to get the rest of the money? They come up to us and they exhaust their benefits with us at the same time," he said. The lawmakers also heard from officials of Warrren County, which has a voluntary workfare program. Duane Onstot, coordinator for the work alternatives program, said 12 people i have been given work through their program, 11 have had valid reasons for not working and 1 1 refused to work. "I think that's 11 people that if we made them work, they'd be getting off welfare," said Onstot. Onstot's secretary, Les Schwarz of Indianola, was receiving general relief and signed up for the program.
"I was unable to find work after 27 years in the work force. When I had used all my available resources I applied for general relief. I have a wife and two daughters. It was a very humiliating experience to go down and ask for help," said Schwarz. "I look at the welfare department as a bank where I make withdrawals.
It's my intent to pay it back." Schwarz had been out of work for several months and had filled out between 100 and 150 job applications before turning to welfare. "Workfare has been a great psychological impact and an opportunity to do what I feel is a great service," he said. "It's a blessing. It really is." Season's first major snow hits Rockies one of the mildest winters in history and snowpack accumulations of record low levels. Heavy rain in Texas has been a problem for about a week.
In Mineral Wells, about 150 people were evacuated from their homes after thunderstorms dumped almost 7 inches of rain, according to police Capt. Leonard Ayres. "There was water in some of the homes," Leonard said. "In low areas, it did get as much as three or four feet deep in some of the streets." Some motorists had to be rescued from stranded automobiles, Lt. Kenneth Gillilan said.
Residents also had to be evacuated from a trailer park near Kool in Parker County as the water rose. There was some flooding of low-lying areas in Dallas and Fort Worth. Archer City reported more than s. IT McDonald's UPI photo LONG-DISTANCE CALL A would-be caller is faced with a tall task as she tries to reach a pay telephone at a rest area on Interstate 96 near Detroit. The phone was placed so high intentionally, to be used from the cab of semis.
The rest area has other phones that are more down to earth. mMmmmm- Associated Press The season's first major snowstorm blocked Columbus Day travelers in the northern Rockies Monday and contributed to at least one death, while waist-deep floodwaters surged through the streets of some towns in soggy Texas. Rains of up to 8 inches in North Texas forced scores of residents to evacuate their homes and floated a school bus off the road. No injuries were reported. A man was killed when his car skidded out of control on an icy mountain pass west of Great Falls, Mont.
The Montana Highway Patrol said Earl Meeks, 66, of Seattle, was fatally injured when his car skidded out Of control at Rogers Pass on the Continental Divide. Meek's wife, Christiana, 65, escaped serious injury. The Going-to the Sun Highway over the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park was closed by four-foot drifts as heavy snow fell over much of western Montana, northwestern Wyoming and the mountains of Utah. Snow was coming down at the rate of an inch an hour in Great Falls, and the National Weather Service predicted accumulations of up to a foot in the higher regions. In Wyoming, several passes leading to Yellowstone National Park also were blocked.
In California, about 15 vehicles belonging to hikers had to be towed out of snowpiles Sunday and rangers closed Tioga Pass, where 16 to 19 inches of snow, fell. It was 14 degrees Sunday night at Norden in the Sierra Nevada and 16 at Sequoia National Park. A heavy October snow in the same region last year gave way to an Indian Summer that was followed by A BEST BUY HAPPY MEAL THIS WEEK PREMIUM Sippy Dippy Straw eight inches of rain. The city's fire department sent a crew to pump water out of a nursing home Sunday night, said spokesman Jack Shep-pard. About 90 band students from Jacksboro High School escaped injury when one of their two buses floated into a ditch near Boyd, officials said, The students were taken to the town's gymnasium, according to Boyd High School Principal Jerry Howard.
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