European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine a photo Pilot and now senator Gordon Humphrey of new diversity in Congress by Margaret Scherf associated press Don Young keeps his fur trapping License current in John Melcher recently determined a Calico cat was a rare Bob Young always looks for the pipes in Public although Congress has enough lawyers for a bar convention to be exact it also harbours members with occupations As diverse As these three a trapper and riverboat a veterinarian and a each brings a special perspective to the i think theres too Many lawyers Down de clares Don a Alaska Republican whose Home is eight Miles above the Arctic most members Are lawyers or Bankers or worked in insurance or other i truly dont believe they can represent the general population because they dont have the experience of living close to the Young said in an he certainly has that at the time of his election to Congress in a 1973 special Young was running a River boat in the summer and trapping in the Winter while also serving in the state which met a Short time in the he tells one Story that illustrates just How close to the Earth and the water he my youth and exuberance darn near Cost me my life he Young was running his partners trapping line and didst follow his crossing the River to a he fell through ice with the temperature 40 below i went straight Down but was Able to come Back up and crawl it was 10 Miles to the i got on the Toboggan and drove toward my clothes i was like a i  move or i was scared to death id fall off the but he made it to the where it took him two hours to get out of his Frozen i Learned an important lesson if you get get your clothes and make sure you follow the Young thinks a member of the House should be a weather vane of the of the area you senators Are to be the a Montana refers to himself As the of a he had a couple of Here Fords endorse him in an and during his last reelection he was called on recently to confirm the sex of a Calico Melcher confesses hed never heard of a male Calico and has since been told the chances Are about one in the senator sold his veterinary practice after he was elected to Congress in a special election in i would be really fudging if i said i could keep up with developments in the he veterinary Medicine is part of the Broad Field of says who has also served As a City Council member and state Bob a Missouri Democrat who is a Mem Ber of the pipe fitters Union in Calls himself a bricks and mortar Young says there was a Blue Collar caucus in the House from when he was first to with about nine but when the for mered a lost reelection along with several other members our ranks dwindled Down and the caucus broke Young was Able to practice his occupation during 20 years in the Missouri but no this is a full time he As chairman of a subcommittee Over seeing Public he finds his pipe fitting ence helpful in spotting Asbestos a staffer says that whenever Young inspects a he Al ways looks at the also in the current freshman class of Congress Are two former county sheriffs and an Tommy got a reputation As a hardheaded Lawman by leaving six prisoners hand cuffed to a state prison Fence in 1981 when officials delayed transferring inmates from his crowded Pulaski county i understand that to a certain degree you have to sacrifice the Way you feel about but i wont go along to get Robinson James was once jailed himself for after he refused to process mortgage foreclosures against hardhat factory workers and Farmers in his i May be a classic example of a on term Congress Man because in not going to join the group and he in not against but if the end result is that nothing then i dont Tom found his fingers itching when he saw cockroaches crawling up the Walls at the just looking at the House office i could make a Fortune Here if it want a conflict of says an Ron says the most Radical change in going from dentistry to Congress was a significant Cut in i dont see How a Young family can manage having to maintain two says who was elected to his second term last Bob an says he probably got More professional satisfaction in practising optometry than he does in congressional serv the primary difference is that i very much enjoyed being Able to see the results of my labor i had the personal gratification of knowing 1 was truly helping says who is serving his fourth term in the House of in politics you often dont have tangible evidence of your he its a very Rich and varied work envy unlike the routine of seeing patients every 45 Mary Rose trained As an actress at the Royal Academy of dramatic arts in Lon she taught drama and Fine arts at a Cleveland Community College and was the paid director of Little theatre while the arts Are not her Only priority in she is indignant that were the Only country in the civilized world that Doest have a minister of arts or she plans to introduce legislation to remedy theres a need for a few so called poets in con she de May not be a but he was into philosophy before coming to Zschau graduated from Princeton with honors in he became a computer impresario after teaching in business there we rent Many jobs for philosophers in the he Zschau believes in the concept of the citizen representative rather than the professional he its important to have people from various professions taking time out for Public service rather than viewing it As a longtime Congress needs new new a certain degree of naivete and enthusiasm that a newcomer for that he he plans to serve no More than six years in the another member who knows something about entrepreneurship is Berkley be fore coming to he invented a new Type of fishing Leader and a fishing line that led to a Multi Mil lion Dollar fishing tackle Bedell loves to fish and spends about half the Nice weekends doing just but he grew restless in business after 35 my wife and i looked at our lives and decided wed get More personal satisfaction out of doing something about the problems in the he Gordon thinks that As an airline Pilot he has a special you have an unusual perspective on the nation when flying around at he decided to run for he because i Felt blessed with so Many advantages and i didst like the Way the country was being he what do lawyers know the stars and stripes Page 13