Friday, October 7, 1983/The Battalion/Page 15
Reagan to be welcomed by GOP women
United Press International
LOUISVILLE — “Closing the
tap” is the subtitle of the Na-
|onal Federation of Republican
Women’s biennial convention
land leaders of the group hope
President Reagan will do just
nat when he addresses them
today.
^ Reagan will appear before
liore than 2,000 GOP women,
Jiost of whom feel he has done
In excellent job for women in
America, and they plan to de-
nonstrate to the nation that the
gerider gap” is only Democratic
betoric.
“I don’t think there is a gen
der gap,” Susan Collins, 32, a
delegate from Dallas, said
Thursday. “I think we have let
the Democrats say there is and
set an agenda. But that will
change with this meeting. Amer
ica will see there is a great deal of
support for the president
among women.”
Joan Collins, 39, of Col
umbia, Md., said she is a staunch
supporter of the Equal Rights
Amendment, women’s rights,
and President Reagan.
“He may be wrong on ERA,
but he’s 99 percent right on ev
erything else,” the unsuccesful
1978 candidate for House of De
legates said. “I think he has got
ten a bum rap. I think women
should look at his record. I think
the country is much better off
today, I know I am. I feel it in the
pocketbook.”
Many of the leaders of the
convention said, however, there
is a problem of perception
among the nation’s women vo
ters, and it must be tackled by
the Republican Party.
“I think the gender gap is
very real, and I don’t think peo
ple realize how severe it is,” said
Wren McKemy, 52, of Huntsvil
le, Ala., the president of the Ala
bama chapter of the federation.
We’ve always been told that ac
tions speak louder than words,
but now we’ve are going to have
to tell everyone just how good
his actions have been.”
“President Reagan has done
more for women than any other
president,” said Jeannine Lin
coln, 48, of Denver and the pres
ident of the Colorado chapter.
“What we Republicans need to
do is get the facts out.”
Barbara Murphy and Connie
Zimmerman of Glenellyn, Ill.,
both said they also supported
the ERA and Reagan.
“I think there is a perception
that is erroneous that President
Reagan is an enemy of women,”
Ms. Zimmerman, 52, said. “Peo
ple expect things to happen very
fast, but they take time. I’m not
sure a (former Vice President
Walter) Mondale or a (Sen.
John) Glenn would be able to
make any changes either.”
Both said while they did not
agree with Reagan’s stand on the
ERA, they still believed his poli
cies were best for the nation.
“We were unhappy about it,
but you can’t vote for someone
on a single issue,” said Ms. Mur
phy, who described herself as
between 45 years old and 50.
A younger representative to
the convention, Holly Hall, 22,
of Bradenton, Fla., said she also
believed that women needed to
pay more attention to the presi
dent’s overall policies, and not
single issues.
“I think the president is deal
ing with it the best he can,” she
said. “He is taking care of the
economic problems, and that is
what is most important.”
Some older convention dele
gates believed the whole issue
was “nonsense.”
“They are just trying to dis
credit the president,” Dorys E.
Ward, 62, of Kilgore, Texas,
said.
“They got off Reaganomics
and know all they can talk about
it this thing,” said Kathleen L.
Jackson, also of Kilgore.
“The women in America
have always had rights if they
asserted themselves. But I think
men will always be preferred for
some positions, no matter what
laws you pass.”
“But you know, we’re prob
ably voicing a different view
point than most of them here.
We’ve grown up in an era when
the man provides for his fami
ly,” Mrs. Ward said. “I think you
take something away from fami
ly life when women work. For
most women, the home comes
before a job.”
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa
A top U.S. Agriculture De-
;artment official said Thursday
any Iowa farmers will receive
ayment-in-kind entitlements
month, but they may not get
e PIK corn at their preferred
evators.
Merrill Marxman, deputy
ministrator for commodity
erations of the federal Agri-
Itural Stabilization and Con-
irvation Service, said most far-
icrs will receive PIK bushels
om designated elevators with-
their counties or an adjacent
unty.
However, he said counties
ill not be allowed to arrange
staff photo by EricE^swaps to match farmers with
preferred elevators rather than
designated warehouses. He
added that county ASCS offi-
raals will attempt to match far
mers with their preferred eleva
tors whenever possible.
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the USDA allowed farmers to
designate the elevator where
Jpey preferred to receive their
^ PIK entitlements. However,
IMarxnian said the unexpectedly
high PIK participation “made it
impossible nationwide to match
Biventory with every producer.”
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ter Mondale of Minnesota and
Sen. John Glenn of Ohio came
into the forum as front-runners
in all the polls, which also show
both would be strong enough to
beat President Reagan right
now.
And Mondale has had a big
week, during which he won the
coveted endorsements of the
AFL-CIO and the National Edu-
; cation Association and captured
Maine’s “straw vote” with a sur
prisingly strong 51 percent ma
jority.
For the others, the forum
provided a unique opportunity
to start moving up in the stand
ings in advance of next winter’s
caucuses and primaries. New
York’s primary is in April.
The five other candidates are
Sen. Alan Cranston of Califor
nia, Sen. Ernest Hollings of
South Carolina, Sen. Gary Hart
of Colorado, former Gov.
Reubin Askew of Florida and
1972 Democratic standard-
bearer George McGovern of
South Dakota.
Missing will be Rev. Jesse
Jackson, the charismatic black
leader from Chicago, who has
taken a leave of absence as the
head of Operation PUSH to de
cide whether he will join the pur
suit of the nomination.
The format of the forum pro
vides a final segment during
which each candidate will ask
one other candidate one ques
tion.
wouldn’t have asked that (for
farmers to list their preferred
elevators),” he said. “We tried it
with the wheat program and
found ourselves chasing our
tails — it became a nightmare for
us to tie it to the particular
house.”
...counties will not be
allowed to arrange
swaps to match far
mers with preferred
elevators rather than
designated ware
houses.
Marxman met with about 50
Iowa elevator operators and
farm officials in hopes of
allaying fears concerning the
distribution of PIK entitlements
to farmers.
Marxman, who was described
as “fired up” about the USDA’s
PIK distribution plan at the out
set of the meeting, left with “con
siderable concern” about the
transfers when grain is made
available on Oct. 15.
Part of the reason for his con
cern was a myriad of questions
from disgruntled state grain
warehousers concerned about
“gray areas” in the USDA’s plan
to exchange grain in state with
surpluses with those unable to
meet farmer demand.
Among the gray areas were
concerns over fees, “load-out
charges” and other costs associ
ated with the transfer of PIK
corn from Iowa to other states
with deficiencies in corn sup
plies; determining the weights
and quality of corn shipments;
the arbitration of disputes
among warehouses or between
warehouses and farmers; and
problems posed in situations
where farmers will not receive
corn entitlements at the elevator
with which they normally trade.
At one point, Marxman told
the group: “I’m less confident as
when I got here. I’m beginning
to sense that we may have a real
donnybrook within the ware
house industry. I don’t think
that’s going to happen.”
Iowa Farm Bureau President
Dean Kleckner, whose group
sponsored the meeting, warned
the warehouse operators that
the distribution of PI K corn “has
the potential of putting us all at
each other’s throats and that
won’t solve the problem.
“This is going to be a massive
undertaking for the federal gov
ernment,” Kleckner said. “It’s
just going to take a vast amount
of patience, understanding and
just plain good sense” to make it
work smoothly.
Marxman said the Commodi
ty Credit Corp. will attempt to
arbitrate disputes over grain
transfers, but he urged the indi
vidual warehouse operators to
work out the details among
themselves.
Marxman said it was much
more cost effective for the gov
ernment to set up “exchange
lists” to assure that areas with
short corn supplies could meet
their PIK entitlements. About
280 million bushels will be hand
led — mostly through paper,
rather than physical, transfers
— under the exchange
program.
Marxman said much of the
corn surpluses were in Iowa,
Nebraska, Texas, Minnesota,
Texas and Illinois. He added
that farmers in Iowa and other
Midwestern states are much
more fortunate than producers
in New England and southeast
ern states — whose PIK entitle
ments may be available at eleva
tors many miles away.
“We’ve failed miserably in
areas where inventories are defi
cient” in paring down the dis
tance between the producers
and the elevators designated for
their PIK entitlements.
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