European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Illinois wins Chrysler Mitsubishi Plant Bloomington Iii. A Illinois has been selected As the site for a $500 million Auto Plant to be built by Chrysler corp. And Mitsubishi motors corp. The Plant to be located on an 860-Acrc site just West of Bloomington and its twin City. Normal will employ 2,500people and build 180,000 Small cars a year. It will create 8,000 More new jobs in related Fields and pump an estimated $100 million a year into the local Economy officials said. The Mclean county trades and labor Council which has been deeply involved in the Effort to lure the Plant was told by gov. James r. Thompson s office that Chrysler and Mitsubishi had selected the Bloomington Normal area for the Plant said John Penn a co chairman of the Council. A congressional source also told the associated pres the Plant would be located in Illinois. John Guiniven a Chrysler spokesman declined to com 16,433 fetuses buried Reagan s Eulogy pleads for end to Legal abortions ment on the Plant site. Mayor James f. Riehle of Lafayette ind., said last week he also considered his City a final candidate for the Plant. Michigan and Ohio had been in the running but Michigan withdrew from the Competition. But Mark Akers. A spokesman for Indiana it. m. Mutz said sunday that Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca telephoned Mutz to Tell him that Indiana consid ered Illinois major competitor for the Plant did not get it. Negotiators for Chrysler and Mitsubishi a japanese company which is 24 percent owned by Chrysler met through the weekend to work out an agreement on creating a joint venture to operate the new Plant. To attract the Plant Illinois and Bloomington Normal offered the automakers about $10 million Worth of free land $20 million in local real estate tax Breaks Over 10 years and various other incentives valued conservatively at More than si00 million. William a ctr director of the local economic development Agency said a 1980 study suggested a project like the Auto Plant could boost local income by at least Siuyu million a year. In addition to bolstering the Economy of the Blooming ton Normal area local leaders have said the Plant would help the economics of neighbouring communities such As Peoria to the West and Decatur to the South Bolh suffering from High unemployment. Mitsubishi acting alone began the search for a Plant More than a year ago when it can Tacud several midwestern cities inquiring about a possible site for a $150 million Plant that would employ 1,000 people. Late last Winter Chr Sylor scrapped a search for a Loca Tion for a minivan factory and joined Mitsubishi in the Small car Plant venture More than doubling the sic of the planned facility. Los Angeles up More than 16,000 fetuses that were aborted in califor Nia and became the focus of a three Yea court Battle were buried sunday and eulogized by president Reagan who called for an end to Legal abortion. Kenyan s Eulogy read by los Angeles Cousin supervisor Mike Antonovich re called Abraham Lincoln s Gettysburg address saying just As the terrible toll of Gettysburg can be traced to a tragic Deci Sion of a divided supreme court Here also can the deaths be three . Marines draped one of the coffins with the american Flag As about 400 onlookers Many of them carrying anti abortion signs crowded around a plot of land where six coffins containing the re Mains were buried. The service for the 16,433 fetuses ended with the singing of the Battle hymn of the Republic and Many of the mourners Laid Flowers and tiny wooden crosses at the grave site. Once again a whole category of human beings has been ruled outside the Protection of the Law by a court ruling which passed with our deepest moral convictions Rea s Eulogy said. Like you i am con Vinced that these decisions cannot Long endure. Let us take increased Devotion to the cause of restoring to our Laws the full Protection they the unborn deserve the Reagan Eulogy read. Reagan wrote a letter in 1982 to or. Philip Dreisbach of Palm Springs calif., Secretary of the California pro life medi Cal association endorsing plans for a religious burial of the fetuses and embryos saying it would be fitting and the fetuses and embryos buried at the Odd Fellows cemetery in East los an Geles were found in 1982 in a storage con Tainer at the Home of a Man who operated a medical Laboratory. The Southern California chapter of the . Abortions in millions of abortions 1974 76 78 80 82 the latest available figures inc ago Tribune or Apoc source Man que Bukher in Kuto Catholic league waged a Long court Battle to reverse the county s decision to incinerate the fetuses without a religious service on the grounds of the constitutional separa Tion of Church and state. A Superior court judge in july ruled the county had the right to authorize the burial of the fetuses As Long As the county did no encourage or discourage a religious ceremony. Breakers cry fowl play As egg King hits Market Washington a worried that someone with a newfangled machine is poaching on their Market the nation s egg Breakers arc scrambling for Protection under the 1985 farm Bill. What alarmed the United egg producers which represents those who break and process eggs fur bulk users like restaurants Bakers and institutional kitchens was a three foot High canis Ter shaped device called the egg King. Developed by Mike Maynard of Tus tin calif., the machine uses centrifugal Force to break eggs and separate out the Shell and membrane at a rate of a Case minute relieving Cooks of the laborious Job of breaking eggs one at a time. But it a so Means the 700 Large egg users who so far have bought the machine can buy fresh eggs to use in their foods rather than the liquid Frozen or powdered product marketed by the egg the egg producers based in deca tur ga., hatched a plan. They persuaded their Home state member of the House agriculture com Mittee Democrat Lindsay Thomas to add an amendment to the emerging farm Bill that prohibits processing of eggs in any manner that does not allow examination of the Content of individual eggs being processed or lets shells min Gle with the liquid during processing. The producers argue that use of the machine opens the possibility of contamination and health problems such As Salmonella poisoning. The agriculture committee agreed and passed the Maynard heard about the action he asked his own congressman Robert Badham r-calif., to come tothe Rescue. Badham plans to offer an amendment this week to the farm Bill that would undo the anti egg King Lan Thomas amendment is patently an attempt by processors of Low Quality eggs to monopolize the marketplace said Maynard who came to Washington to lobby for his machine. He enlisted the help of the retail Bakers of America the National restaurant association and the american hotel & Mote association. They Hope to destroy a competitor through legislation and Force food Mak ing establishments to substitute inferior products for healthful fresh eggs at the expense of the american Public the inventor said. The complaints about the proposed change in the Law have prompted the agriculture department to look More closely at the egg breaking machine including seeking the views of health officials and scientists. The department initially supported Thomas change. Maynard contends the machine is clean and Safe if used Only to break clean High Grade eggs. The liquefied eggs produced by the machine Are restricted for use Only in products that willbe cooked or baked processes he says kill any possible Bucl Cna. He produced a letter from John m. Taylor director of compliance for the food and drug administration stating we have no proof that the machine itself contributes any filth or food Addi Tive to the eggs. While we recognize there is a potential for misuse of the machine by using eggs that May contrib Ute filth to the liquid eggs such adulteration would be caused by the user and not by the Badham pointed out that the House committee had held no hearings on the Thomas amendment but had quietly slipped it onto the Bill. It would be Folly to impose such restrictions on thousands of current an potential users of these egg machines based on unproven claims by competitors that such machines Are a health threat he said. Insurance screening tips on aids draws fire from Gays Dallas a an insurance company has suggested that underwriters try to screen out possible aids victims by exam ining applicants lifestyles prompting a activist to warn that unmarried heterosexual men May be unjustly denied coverage. Lincoln National life insurance co. Of fort Wayne ind., suggested in a memo to health and life insurance underwriters that they use marital status As an indicator of possible homosexuality the Dallas times Herald said sunday. The memo said age and residence also could be used to screen single and divorced men referring to men Between the Ages of 20 and 49 who live in new York City san Francisco los Angeles and probably Houston Miami and Newark. In addition the memo advised underwriters to Flag applicants if lifestyle habits or medical history suggest a person is in one of the aids risk it also discussed the value of using an aids virus screening lest on applicants. Some consumer rights advocates said the extra scrutiny of applications from single men could result in discrimination in the work place because of concerns about group insurance rates. They say some employers May be reluctant to hire heterosexual single men As Well As homosexuals. The heterosexual single male is going to find himself lumped in there said Mike Richards an insurance agent and Board member of the Dallas Alliance. Al Parsons a Lincoln National spokes Man defended the suggestions and noted the High aids medical costs do you personally want to pay for people who have aids Parsons asked. Should it be paid by taxes we Are not a Public organization. We Are a private insurer. Lincoln National said it had paid 56aids claims this year. Rob Bier a spokesman for the american Council of life insurance and the health insurance association said Lincoln s views were typical of the Industry. The 630-Mcm bar Council represents 95 percent of the nation s life insurers. Ron Landsman counsel for the National insurance consumer organization a Ralph Nader consumer advocate group in Washington said the insurance Industry does utterly capricious. Utterly unfair Thingwall the
