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l Wednesday, May 9, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 11: entennial Joint session honors Truman United Press International Harry S. Truman is 12 S sIntemaiWf arS bUL WlS PW 61 ? ^ spirit, public courage and pri- — Gunmtii pte compassion were re- American d :alled Tuesday as llie town itside his hoi vhere he came from and the Beirut Tm :ity where he made history Litburstoffiji felebrated the 100th anniver- tiamen and iary of his birth. pS in the ha 5 In ceremonies both in Washington, where Truman Weir, a Pis served 10 years as a senator from Salt ind nearly eight years as lived in Ltk resident, and in Indepen- d his wife,(i lence, Mo., where he lived icir housein tand died, the former hab- ira neighbor! [rdasher who vaulted from nmenconfn punly politics to leadership lid. of the free world was praised. • struggled p Early in the day at the hill- but they skEtop Truman Library in Inde- forced him ( pendence, about 150 people autoinobilfKp 1 licipated with Missouri r’s wife ra Luov. Christopher Bond in a station and! bl 'ef graveside service and military wreath-laying honor ing the former president, who served as a combat artil lery officer in World War I. Later, there was a White Blouse luncheon with Presi- was the .icted since jslem mill of the ca| i n sector id 10 immediatt som and no laimed resd cling the Ptij dent Reagan as host and a |ala community party in In dependence, as well as other events in Washington. J| The most formal tribute iwas in the form of a Joint Ses- Amin Gemlion of Congress in honor of h former hwhe Truman centennial. The i Franjieh I highlight of the 90-minute ladehimtoil;gathering in the cavernous ilive, AbdiBlouse chamber was the rec- Prime Minlolleclions of Margaret Tru- i’s new Cablftiaii Daniel, the former presi- porters. ; dent's only child. “When as a child you walk beside a good man, a warm hearted man, and find com fort, love and protection in his embrace, you never think of him as a great man. He’s just your dad, and you love him,” she told the lawmakers, diplomats, government offi cials, family members and former Truman associates seated in the chamber. “My father was a great man,” she said, “and his greatness grows with lime.” Mrs. Daniel, whose hus band and four sons were sealed in the audience, re called her own days as a schoolgirl exploring the Capi tol and her father’s love for congressional service. Her brief talk was given a stand ing ovation. She said her father jok ingly called the White House “the great white jail” during nearly eight years in the pre sidency, but, “He felt a sense of liberation, a sense of ex pansiveness in the halls of Congress,” she said. “He loved the work and reveled in the comradeship he found here.” Clark Clifford, Truman’s White House counsel, said one of Truman’s toughest de cisions was to recognize Israel over the objections of many advisers. He said Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion brought tears to Tru man’s eyes at a meeting “be cause (Ben Gurion) had fought ... for a deep prin ciple” and that Truman came to think of crealioti of Israel as “a question of basic human policy.” Rep. Alan Wheal, D-Mo., a black Democrat who rep resents Independence, praised Truman’s order de segregating the armed forces. “This courageous act nearly cost him the (1948) election," Wheal said. Sen. Mark Hatfield, R- Ore., said Truman had “left a legacy of reconciliation” and recalled that as presidenl Truman invited Herbert Hoover to the White House, the first visit the Depression- era president had made since 1938. The two men, Hatfield said, became close friends. Much of the program in the House chamber was musi cal, which Mrs. Daniel said her father, a piano player, would have enjoyed. The Army band and chorus, res plendent in dress whiles, blared out a series of tunes, including “The Harry Tru man March.” Pianist Daniel Pollack played two Chopin se lections on a huge grand pi ano that occupied much of the House. Truman is only the second president to be honored with a centennial Joint Session of Congress. Franklin D. Roose velt, whose 100th anniversary was similarly observed in 1982, also was so honored. House approves conservation bill United Press International WASHINGTON — The House approved a major soil conservation bill Tuesday that would pay farmers to lake frag ile land out of production and deny farm program benefits to those who plow up fragile grass lands. The measure, approved by voice vote, would deny govern ment price supports and other farm program benefits for farmers who plow up grass lands for crops. The so-called sodbuster provision was ap proved in response to the plow ing of millions of acres of grass lands in the West for wheal production. nothing in the bill restricts what farmers or ranchers can do with their land. He called the mea sure a “modest step forward.” Another provision, which has not been passed by the Senate, also would authorize $225 mil lion over three years to pay farmers to take highly erodible land out of production under contract with the government for seven years or 15 years. The administration, operat ing an experimental conserva tion reserve program this year, has asked Congress to delay ap proval of another reserve and to consider longer-term acreage idling as part of 1985 farm bill consideration. Rep. Ed Jones, D-Tenn., key sponsor of the bill, said the measure is the “most significant step we have taken in this gen eration to improve our conser vation programs.” It also would require a study of how farmers who use crop rotation as a conservation tech nique could designate the ro tated land as cropland so they are not discriminated against in crop acreage reduction pro grams. Rep. Ed Jones, D- Tenn., key sponsor of die bill, said die mea sure is die “most sig nificant step we have taken in this genera tion to improve our conservation pro grams. ” Moving Yourself? Before you decide to move yourself, check out North American Van Lines' WE-DRIVE program. The concept is simple: you pack, you load, and a professional North American Van Lines' driver moves your belongings to your new home in a custom-designed "air ride" van. You can still save money by doing part of the work yourself, and leaving the hard part to us. It's the worry-free alternative to a rent-a-truck move. Nixon Transfer & Storage 779-6333 (Sv notthArnericanoi The Senate last year ap proved a less stringent sodbus- ler provision that would deny farm benefits for the actual fragile land that was plowed up, not a farmer’s entire farm as stipulated by the House bill. The House and Senate are expected to work out differ ences between the two measures to come up with final legis lation. House Agriculture Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, said unman kills three in Quebec i native wtioi ’, Cal., isap jyterian wife, alsoai ;en with hirl banon. Thtfc United Press International daughters 4’ q y E 3 E c — A gunman mbuling “Where are the poli- ticans? I want to kill them” shot / i , his way with a machine gun into the Quebec legislature Tues- Dvembersa j i n- r. 1 mmittedtoT’ kllll,1 S three P eo P le < 1 , wounding 14 others and holtl- ' ' ing a hostage for more than < " u , four hours before surrendering ,n l , l ,ared! to police. c anger waiBphe 4 14 hour siege ended 1 when the gunman released his ) S, J l j lt< " hostage, put down his weapon " and was arrested, Quebec Police Force Sgl. Pierre Bourgeaull paid. jPoiice said they freed Ser- ise of Revtffmt-at-Arms Rene Jalbert, a that he iM' Wired major with the Royal ,itarianacii22nd Canadian Regiment, held f the peof- tosiage near his office in the basement of the provincial leg- slature. icans abdis |[Jn Con fi r med reports said this year :he gunman had identified him- ean of iht jeK as a meni ber of the Royal ng departim^ Canada’s famed “Van- 1 Univeisi*Q S) y an e |i le paratroop unit 1 William BB distinguished itself in com- n newsmary during World War II. Nei- ier police nor military authori- 6s wduld confirm the nfificalion. IBefore the siege, the gunmen Studying? No Worry... S Just Call Us. sealed tiilia grou|)!| left a tape cassette with a Que bec radio station that said in French, “I have weapons and I will use them. I don’t like the government.” “They do bad things. Politics is a real circus. I will destroy them before they do more bad things,” he said on the tape. “They have done a lot wrong to the French people in Quebec.” In the morning, the gunman dressed in combat fatigues, with bandoliers of ammunition strapped across his chest and a 9mm machine gun slung over his arm, drove up to the build ings in a beige car bearing On tario license plates. He sprayed the outside of the building with bullets, then ran into the ornate, powder blue main chamber of the legislature shouting in French, “Where are the politicians? I want to kill them.” Once inside the main cham ber of the Quebec National As sembly, where a legislative com mittee was in session, the man “simply opened fire,” police said. He told one of the wounded, “I’m sorry I had to shoot you — but that’s life.” Police said one man was pro nounced dead at L’Enfam Jesus Hospital and a man and a woman died at Hotel Dieu, where two of the five most se riously injured underwent emergency surgery. At least 14 people were wounded in the shooting. Neither Premier Rene Leves que nor any of his Cabinet min isters were in the room at the time of the shooting. Levesque was en route to Quebec City from Montreal when the inci dent began. The Yjuilding was evacuated and hundreds of provincial, municipal and military police surrounded and sealea off the area. Sharpshooters were sta tioned around the entire legis lative complex and military heli copters hovered overhead. 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