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) ( 4, SECTION-2 - PAGE 6 - PL A IN DEALER-HER ALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1985 Stockman runs afoul of mother BySonJi UP! fan By Sonja Hillgren >1 farm editor W A S H I N G T O N - D a v i d S t o c k m a n ' s r e c e n t p r o ­ nouncements, which have drawn angry denunciations from the front office at the Pentagon to the back forty in the Farm Belt, now have bought him real trouble. His mother is mad at him. Carol Stockman, the budget director's mother, figuratively took her son to the woodshed when she told an Iowa radio station this week that recent anti-farmer com­ ments by her son, who grew up on the family tajfti in St. Joseph, Mich., had noi "set too well with me." "So what?" asked Ed Dale, spokesman for Stockman's Office of Management and Budget. "I seem to recall at least once, and maybe even twice, when my mother disagreed with me." Later, Dale said that Stockman and his mother had discussed her comments. "Dave has talked to his mother, and they love each other as always," Dale said. "She told him she didn't mean what came out over the news." In an interview with WHO in Des Moines, Stockman's mother said her son does not seem to realize that not many young peo­ ple are getting into agriculture anymore because they cannot af­ ford it. Later Dale called back to say his first reaction had been hasty. "Dave has talked to his mother, and they love each other as always," Dale said. "She told him she didn't mean what came out over the news." "We've had an abundance of crops and we're just not getting any money at all for our crops," she said. "When I looked at our books last week and found out how much money we lost, I was awed. But, you know, we've chosen this kind of a life." The Stockmans have about 45 acres of vineyards and 150 acres of corn and soybeans on their farm along Lake Michigan near the Indiana border. The nation's wheat growers wrote President Reagan Friday, suggesting it is also time for him to discpline Stockman again. It has been a few years since they last went there together. "In this emotionally charged at­ mosphere, it is unfortunate that farmers are being subjected to statements from within your ad­ ministration regarding steps to protect them from events over which they have no control," wrote Henry Neshem, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers. Neshem said he hoped a search for solutions to agriculture's pro­ blems and a long road to recovery will not not be thwarted by "statements and opinions that prevent constructive progress." Stockman told a group of reporters Wednesday that many farmers will be forced out of business because "that is the way a dynamic economy works" and giving more federal help would be a "very bad signal to all the other groups who have had either a cur­ rent or past crisis for their pro­ gram." With the administration so far refusing to extend more help to farmers, Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb., said he would move as early as next week to attach l e g i s l a t i o n p r o v i d i n g m o r e f a r m debt aid to a request for famine relief funds. He will push for $2.35 billion in farm loan guarantees in addition to $650 million already set aside and federal guarantees of existing farm loans without forcing banks to reduce principal or interest as the administration now requires. He also will seek $100 million in federal aid to help reduc/Viterest rates for farmers. PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL INDUSTRY TRAINING CLASSES START MARCH 11 • 15-week course • Day & evening classes • Over 170 hours of in depth training • Hands on computer facilities Apprawd by Ike Illinois SUtt Bowd tf Educate* •ltd operated bj on* tl the Pitmtet RtUil I A|encxt in Illinois 31 E. Crystal Lake Ave. Crystal Lake, II60014 (815)459 3500 THE PLAINDEALER-HERALD's NEWSSTAND PRICE IS GOING UP MARCH 1st. SO SUBSCRIBE NOW AND BE A PRICE BUSTER 11 I 4 i FIRST INSTITUTE SUBSCRIBE NOW, AND GET 4 WEEKS FREE! AND ANNUALLY, YOU CAN SAVE '10" OFF THE NEWSSTAND PRICE! Subscribe now thru March 1st and get 4 weeks FREE when you start a 12 week subscription. Plus you'll save even more over the newsstand price ot 35<t per copy starting March 1st. So don't delay...and subscribe to your hometown paper today! Get the most in area news, school happenings, sport highlights, community features, advertising specials and coupons galore, 52 weeks a year! Shaw/Fr«« Pr«»j Newspaper Group PLA1NDEALER- HERALD 3812 W. ELM ST. McHENRY, ILLINOIS 60050 SUBSCRIBE NOW...GET 4 WEEKS FREE... AND ANNUALL Y, SA VE$1040 OFF THE NEWSSTAND PRICE! NAME CITY STATE ADORESS PLEASE REMIT *4.00 WITH EACH ORDER OFFER GOOD TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS ONLY IN THE GREATER McHENRY AREA. OFFER GOOD THRU 3/1/85 (