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national Warped by Scott McCull^r 'THE mOTIOV" PART 7 OF 1 WELL, GOOD HORNING, CAROLINE,HOW ARE YOU AND 10UR UNIQUE EMOTION? how do you FEEL?JDOCTOR,is THERE unique, OF COURSE, AND ITS GETTING \DN W NERVES] REMOVED? that's RIDICULOUS/ VJE HAVE TO STUDY IT, LEARN ALL ABOUT IT, WHY WOULD YOU WANT IT'S MORE TROUBLE BUT WE COULD THAN ITS WORTH. EVERVONE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT it is; AS IF BY KNOWING ABOUT ANALYZE IT, TEST IT SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND IT BETTER... YOU CANT UNDER STAND IT AT ALL IF 0NL1 X FEEL IT, AND X DONT WANT TO FEEL IT ANY MORE. WILL you SET RIP OF IT FOR HE? r WELL, YES, WITH SOME MINOR SUR6ERY AND PsycHOTHERAPI, BUT... CAROLINE... THINK... WHAT IF you FEEL DIFFER ~ EA/TLY AFTERWARDS^ y NO, THAT'S JUST IT, 1 dont mm TO FEEL DIFFERENTL1 AFTERWARDS Filibustering slows proposed gas tax Steelworkers struggling Christmas survival tough United Press International WEI RTON, W.Va. — “HeTl get something for Christmas,” said John Burdette, fondly tousling the hair of his 5-year- old son, ‘‘but it won’t be like it used to be.” Burdette, 29, earned $26,000 in the last full year he was a steel worker. Jobless for the past 14 months, he has made up his mind to re-enlist if the U.S. Army will accept him. “It’ll be a steady paycheck coming in,” said Burdette, whose eligibility for unemploy ment compensation expired months ago. His wife supports the family with a minimum- wage job as a diner cook. Burdette sat on the steps of the front porch of the modest house he began buying for $24,800 three years ago and tried to explain the economics of survival. “We haven’t missed a mort gage payment yet,” he said. On top of the $283 monthly house payment, the Burdettes somehow also have managed to meet car payments of $116 a month and utility bills that aver age $150 monthly. “The wife’s a worrier,” Bur dette said. “She used to worry even when I was working.” Now Mrs. Burdette worries because she has been told she earns too much at her job to qualify for government help in paying the fuel bills. The Bur dettes have been told they are not eligible for food stamps be cause the family car is worth too much. “We can’t get on welfare be cause the wife’s got the job and we still have the house,” Burdet te said. The couple gave up their medical insurance because they could not afford the monthly premium of $190. If anyone gets the Burdettes’ house, it probably will be the bank that holds their mortgage. “I’d rather sell it than give it to the bank,” Burdette said, “but who could buy it in this town?” Only about half of the 13,500 people employed two years ago at Weirton Steel Co., a division of National Steel Corp., are working. To make matters worse, National announced last March that most of the factory would be closed within five years unless the workers would like to buy the facility and run it them selves. Since the plant is the life’s blood of this town of 25,000, the offer was taken seriously. If Weirton’s Independent Steelworkers Union votes to buy the plant, the price could be as much as $200 million and work ers would be forced to accept big cuts in pay and benefits. Some workers with the most seniority are wary of jeopardiz ing their pensions, but the town and the majority of the steelwor kers evidently favors the takeover. United Press International WASH INGTON — President Reagan’s proposed nickle-a- gallon gasoline tax hike breezed through the House, but it has been stalled in the Senate by three filibustering senators. A vote was scheduled Mon day to end their filibuster, but even if suppporters of the bill win, as they did on Friday, another filibuster is likely dur ing the actual debate of the mea sure. The bill would raise an esti mated $5.5 billion a year to re pair roads, bridges and mass transit systems and would create an estimated 320,000 jobs. Sens. Gordon Humphrey, R- N.H., Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Don Nickles, R-Okla., however, oppose provisions of the bill that would extend the influence of labor unions over all federal contracts. They also fear it may short change rural areas. The truck ing industry is also against the measure because it would great ly increase taxes on their vehi cles. Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Sunday the gas tax measure will, “pass in the Senate. It may not be until New Year’s Eve. But it will pass.” The lame duck-Congress be gan Nov. 29 and was to end Friday. But congressional leaders, cit ing the filibuster and Reagan’s struggle with the MX missile, now say the session may last through Christmas. and water distribution. It would be fundedbJ ing the 1983 tax cutfel earning more than $51),i eliminating it for tbotl $65,000. The House Democtal attached a $5.4 bill ram to the crucial towJ funding resolution that J passed by Friday tom ties operating. Democrats largely supported ;. They also the gas tax increase, have proposed their own jobs bills, raising the prospect of a veto confrontations with the White House. Senate Democrats proposed a $9.7 billion plan to create 600,000 jobs, including $6 bil lion for public works such as highways, bridges, and sewer Its major itemsareSli for community dev™ block grants for areasd unemployment, andjlij for emergency jt targeted to persons vbj been unemployed fotii period of time. Buttbra rious doubt whether ffl can get through Conpal competing legislative pin THIS CHRISTMAS WE HAVE A LOT , IN STORE FOR TOUl IMAGINATION. CHRISTMAS RECORD CLEARANCE! i Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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