European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 10, 1986 stars and stripes Page vandalized portrait of Reagan a photo Julie Baird a visitor to the California state Capitol building in Sacramento stands beside a portrait of then Cali fornia gov. Ronald Reagan. The por trait last week was slashed from the face to the Belt line by a Vandal. The painting has been removed from the Capitol building for repair. Farm credit crunch expected to get worse this Spring Washington a agriculture officials Are saying this year s Spring credit crunch will be somewhat worse than the one Farmers lived through a year ago when it took a frenzied last minute scramble to get Loans in time for crop planting. Last year about 5 percent of producers who wanted to Plant crops were unable to get the financing they needed. Money for the most risky borrowers will be much tighter this year than in 1985, financing spokesmen say. To meet the demand a year ago Farmers borrowed from relatives states put Money into emergency lending programs and Many commercial Banks gritted their Teeth and threw Good Money after bad. Whether the same sources can be tapped again is in doubt. As a crisis situation continues you get backed further into a Corner said Bob Jolly. The Iowa state University agricultural economist recently surveyed Farmers in that hard hit state about their credit needs. Weldon Barton a lobbyist for the inde pendent Bankers association of America said conditions have really deteriorated further in terms of the prices of commodities and the ability of Farmers to Many Banks Likely will decide to go along denies mismanagement at Atlanta Penitentiary with their borrowers for another year deciding that loaning More Money to a Farmer protected by Federal subsidies and crop insurance is less risky than forcing the Bor rower into liquidation and taking Over land and equipment whose values still Are drop Ping. The farm credit system the nation s largest farm Lender says 20,000 or so of its 309,000 customers for operating credit Are severely delinquent and at risk of not being Able to get the Money they need for this Spring s crop. There is no similar estimate for Commer Cial Banks which hold about $37 billion in operating debt but analysts have said they expect 6 percent to 8 percent of Farmers to come up empty in their search for planting Loans. Those Farmers traditionally turn to the government for help. The Farmers Home administration the lending Arm of the agriculture department is known As the farm Lender of last resort. There is no Way the Agency can absorb All of the Farmers rejected by other lenders says Omha administrator Vance Clark. Demand for Loans has been heavy. The Agency has about $3.2 billion available half for direct Loans half for guarantees of Loans made by other lenders. That compares with $4.7 billion that flowed out last year three fourths of it in direct lending. Warden says scrapped supplies were outdated Atlanta up thousands of dollars Worth of office supplies machines and bearings have been thrown in the garbage at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary where former baseball Star Denny Mclain claimed waste was rampant unidentified sources said. N Warden Jack Hanberry says All the material was out dated and was discarded or sold to scrap dealers As part of regular inventory control methods. This thing is crazy he said of complaints the Penitentiary is mismanaging government funds. Two Independent sources who asked not to be identified said office supplies were piled on top of typewriters in a 20-foot-Long dumpster when a new manager decided to clean out a warehouse rather than do inventory on it. They had no explanation for the trashing of new Bear Ings still in their wrappers but estimated the parts were Worth As much As $100,000. Complaints about the office supplies and machine parts followed a published report that $120 Worth of pornography including the videotape Little miss innocence and the Book erotic aerobics and $700 Worth of football films were included on prison Library Purchase orders. You be got the Fox guarding the Hen House one source said of prison administrators. Where is the Fri sources also said there was no Way for the prisoners mainly cuban refugees waiting to be deported could watch videotapes because the Only videocassette player is kept locked up in the prison s education department. They also said cubans do not watch american football. What the Library was doing it was in the process of beginning to set up a tape Library Hanberry said. They wanted to try and save enough Money in the budget to buy four Vars in addition to what they have. Then they would be assigned to the Mclain who won 31 games while pitching the Detroit tigers to the world championship in 1968, complained recently about fraud and waste at the prison where he was serving 23 years for cocaine dealing extortion and racketeering. Illinois convicts to get healthier meals Chicago a it May never achieve the popularity of the Scarsdale or Cambridge diets but the Illinois prison diet is becoming Standard fare for the state s 18,000 inmates. This new diet is simply a reflection of what s happening in society at Large an emphasis on fruits and vegetables and lean meats said or. Ronald m. Shansky health administrator for the department of corrections. The diet which reduces the number of calories consumed daily by each inmate from 3,400 to 2,700, is being phased in Over several months for inmates at the state s 17 prisons by Shansky and corrections director Michael Lane. Every prison system has a master menu and what we be done is change the guidelines for our master menu which used to be a High fat High Salt diet Shansky said. Fewer calories Don t mean lower food budgets because healthier food May Cost More Shansky said but healthier inmates mean fewer illnesses and lower medical costs. Prison puts a person in a High risk category in Many cases he said. For exam ple he is More prone to heart diseases be cause of the hypertension involved in being officials must be careful not to leave inmates hungry Shansky said because a hungry prisoner is More a typical lunch menu under the new diet eight ounces of Chicken Noodle soup four crackers two slices of bread four ounces each of hamburger Steak potatoes and Green Beans a pineapple and Carrot salad chocolate pudding and 10 ounces of coff Eeor Tea. This is a healthier menu than two or three years ago but not As Good As the one Well have when the new diet is in full Force this july Shansky said. Inmates Are still allowed to go to prison commissaries once a week but Are cautioned not to buy too much junk food Lane said. The inmates Are junk food gourmets Shansky said. With better eating habits he said it is hoped the inmates can go from a healthy body to a healthy this is part of our Overall Effort to get inmates to better comply with social More Sand Mclain was held in solitary confinement before being transferred to a Federal prison in Talladega ala., last week after he told a prison disciplinary panel that it should look into complaints that machinery parts working parts in motors still sealed in original boxes were All shipped out of Here As either garbage or Hanberry said he has a Complete inventory of the office supplies and machine parts that were discarded. That stuff had been Here 10 or More years he said adding he knows of no typewriters or other office machines being thrown away. Some of it was old typewriter ribbon that was dry not usable in any machine i know of. We put out a memorandum to All departments saying can you use this stuff this was not maliciously done As far As we were one source disagreed. They were afraid to Tell the government they did t need any More because they were afraid they would get their budget Cut the source said. Some of it was just buried in the dump in Back. Some stuff was shipped out. It s a lot. It s a substantial Law Volkswagen announce pact Detroit a the United Auto workers and Volkswagen of America have announced a tentative settlement in negotiations for a new contract for vow workers in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Texas. Details of the proposed agreement were withheld sunday pending ratification meet Ings to be scheduled by the three locals involved vow said in a statement. About 3,300 Volkswagen workers in new Stanton pa., Charleston w.va., and fort Worth Texas would be affected. Contracts expired Midnight sunday at the Pennsylvania car Assembly Plant where 1,800 of the 4,000 Law represented work ers Are on indefinite Layoff and at the West Virginia stamping Plant scheduled for phase out
