European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 2. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Carter friends get together at Plains reunion Plains a. Up Jimmy Carter invited he White House year5 to a reunion. Ear5 o a reunion a about 250 people showed up to relive the Days of soft Mil games and hanging out at Cousin Hugh s antique store. Carter and his wife Rosalynn met the Early risers at 7 . Saturday to go jogging through the streets of plaint which consists of a pharmacy s Bank a clinic a convenience store a Peanut museum and a Gulf service station. Brother Bill used to own an Amoco station in Plains but it burned Down several years ago while Carter then pf"T8". And his White House cronies were playing 1 the Center of attraction saturday morning was Hugh Carter s antique store where former White House staffers gathered to catch up on what has happened Over the past five years. We be seen seven friends Here from the White House said a woman who ran into former press Secretary Jody Powell outside the antique store. Really i never had any friends in the White House replied Powell. Inside the antique store the visitors former White House staffers members of the press and their families looked through assorted Memorabilia including Amy s colouring Book for $1.25, a Carter Trust me poster for $6.95 and hanging right next to it a King Kong movie poster Foi $5.95. Mix Hightown former director of the Farmers Home  said he came to Plains to find out How much the people he d worked with in washing ton had changed. It s been five years Hightown said. Some of us Are a Little heavier. Some of us Are a Little thinner on  Hightown said he believes that Carter As president gave the nation a Strong sense of values. Also attending the reunion were Rex Granum and Anita Samuels both former White House spokesmen former Carter Campaign official Robert Lipshutz for Mer appointments Secretary Tim Kraft and retired Brig. Gen. Josiah Blasingame who headed the White House communications Agency. Blasingame said he d play in the softball game sat urday afternoon. I m not much of a softball player he said but with that group it won t  americans Back Reagan performance poll says Washington up a majority of americans 62 percent approve of presi Dent Reagan s Overall performance but most disagree with his policies toward South Africa and Nicaragua a Gallup poll showed saturday. The poll taken for Newsweek Magazine last week found that 62 percent approve of Reagan s Overall performance in office 29 percent disagree and 9 percent Don t  the Gallup organization interviewed Regan sees few Summit results Washington up White House chief of staff Donald Regan in an interview published in . News and world report predicted few tangible results from the upcoming soviet-. Summit meeting but Good times ahead for the Economy. Regan the second term chief of staff after moving from Treasury Secretary denied that the administration s recent hard line toward the soviets a a signal that president Reagan u not expecting much Progress in his november Summit meeting with soviet trader Mikhail Gorbachev. This is the first meeting Between the two leaders. I know of no first meeting Between two Heads of state that produced tangible results in the Way of treaties or such. I Don t think we have to expect something like that to have a fruitful meeting he said. The two of them will get to know each other better find things they can agree on to discuss in the future and set up an Agenda for their foreign ministers to carry  Regan was More optimistic about the administration s accomplishments on the Home front and predicted a 3 to 4 percent growth in the Economy during the fourth Quarter. Productivity is Good. Inflation is certainly staying Down. These Are harbingers of Good times ahead Regan said. My own feeling is that the Economy will be Good continuing through the first six months of 1986." the chief of staff praised his new staff and its accomplishments but denied the White House has become More confrontational with  we Don t think it s confrontational to explain the presi Dent s program his philosophy and then stick to both Regan Saidt to give us about a a plus he said. 862 adults around the nation by Telephone. The poll hat a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage Points. Most americans also arc confident Rea Gan who underwent cancer surgery in july is capable of dealing with the Rigours of a second term in office. Thirty three percent Are not at All concerned 27 percent not too concerned 22 percent fairly concerned and 18 percent very  Reagan s handling of the Economy won plaudits from 54 percent of the respondents. But the president is vulnerable on specific legislative issues. Fifty eight percent disagree with the United states giving assistance to the guerrilla forces trying to overthrow the leftist sandinista government of Nicaragua while Only 29 percent favor . Support for the contras. Forty two percent of those surveyed favored economic sanctions against the South african government. Reagan has opposed such sanctions. Forty six percent favor Trade barriers to foreign imports to protect american jobs while 44 percent oppose the idea. Reagan opposes protectionist legislation. And 47 percent oppose Washington s efforts to develop a space based Star wars missile defense system to guard against a possible nuclear attack. Only 17 percent of those interviewed blame the president for the Lack of Progress in reducing the Federal budget. Twenty six percent Point to congressional Dino crafts As being responsible for the logjam. One More time Dar Cdell Johnny Kazan loses his balance momentarily u be crashes through a Wall of Dune during a rehearsal at the cd tend National air show. The show was held Orer the weekend. Cabbage town holding on despite hard economic times Atlanta up the silent smoke stacks of the empty Cotton Mill Tell the sad Story of cabbage town an intriguing pocket of Appalachia hidden from the 1980s in the shadows of downtown skyscrapers. The once thriving Mill has been closed the foundation of cabbage town crumbles stubborn lifelong residents clutch their Hen u we re having a hard time holding on said Joyce by x Shire a Singer and song writer who has lived in cabbage town her entire life. But we re going to hold on. One exactly How cabbage town got its name remains a Point of dispute. Some residents say it came from a produce cart that Over turned in the neighbourhood. Others Trace it to the odor of boiled cabbage wafting from workers kitchens. Cabbage town a neighbourhood covering about six blocks sits in the Southeast Corner of downtown Atlanta. Although the Gran Ite and Glass skyscrapers of modern Atlanta Rise nearby cabbage town always has been shut off from the City by Railroad tracks a cemetery and the Fulton bag and Cotton Mill. For almost a Century the Mill was every thing to cabbage town. In the late 1800s and Early 1900s, hundreds of families left the mountains of Appalachia seeking a better Way of life in the big City. The Mill built neat Frame houses for its workers and provided Nursery care for the children. Cabbage town residents held together by their Strong appalachian Bond retreated into their own Little world As Atlanta grew around them. In the 1940s, workers paid $2 a month to rent a House from the Mill which also took care of All their medical Bills. Life revolved around the Mill until 1974, when economic hard times forced it to shut Down. Cabbage own residents found them selves searching frantically for work on the outside. Many had to leave town. Some were too proud to accept welfare and the Community fell deeply into poverty. The 1980 census found an average House hold yearly income in cabbage town was 16,831 half the citywide average. Once a Community of More than 2,000, the neighbourhood has dwindled to about 1,500 and its face has changed. The once picturesque Community is now dotted with vacant rundown houses paint peels off occupied Homes owned by Absentee landlords. But a flavor of old Appalachia remains. Residents sit on their front porches and shout Howdy to passers by in the narrow streets. One elderly woman spends her Days sewing colourful quilts by hand. A Bull named pee wee wanders through a vacant lot Between houses and roosters still Crow at Dawn