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p.ilij KKmw.mmmmmmm I Ssntfy ksahYw up said he spoke to the player Thursday, and "he said he had a good time a very nice time, in fact." One of those at Riggins' table, People's Washington bureau chief Garry Clifford, confirmed that Riggins told O'Connor, "Come on Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too tight." Clifford said the justice laughed and appeared not to be insulted. "It was a very funny evening No one was dying of embarrassment," she said. Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds said he stepped over somebody sprawled on the floor at the end of the evening, not recognizing the person as Riggins. "They took him out the VIP WASHINGTON (AP) While many people may be tongue-tied when they meet a Supreme Court justice, not so Washington Redskins fullback John Riggins.

"Come Qn Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too tight," he admonished Sandra Day O'Connor. The 240-pound football plaver also slept on the floor for 3B hour as Vice President George Bush spoke to the crowd of 1.300 at the Washington Press Club's annual salute to Congress on Wednesday nieht. Riggins was later helped from the room by two editors of People magazine who had been seated at his table. Douglas Woloshin.

Riggins' agent, door," said Edmonds. "They were' dragging him, feet behind." He said the person being dragged was mumbling incoherently. Virginia Gov. Charles Robb, who was also at the table, said it was "definitely a memorable evening." But in a statement issued by his office he declined to comment further. Clifford said that earlier in the evening, Riggins, who has chronic back problems, had said he was in pain.

"He was in a back brace At one point, the chair had to be adjusted because he said it was bothering him," she said. Later, as eight freshmen members of Congress were being introduced, Riggins fell asleep, said a witness who asked not to be identified. The witness said Riggins slept for about an hour next to her table. "He appeared comfortable He was lying first on his back, then rolled over and was on his stomach," she said. But Clifford said Riggins "was just taking a rest on the floor for a few minutes." Redskins spokesman John Konoza said the team would have no comment on the incident.

O'Connor's secretary, Linda Blandford, also said the justice would have no comment. O'Connor and her husband. John, left the banquet before Bush spoke. Sandra Day O'Connor John Riggins 35t HHMMHaHMMMHHHHMHMMH ahead with North Iowa and you Mason City-Clear Lake, Iowa Friday, Feb. 1, 1985 'Moving to ro Prizes start Sunday Page 13 budget panel, suggesting that too many hearings might be counterproductive.

"They will be more extensive than anything we've had before," said Wilson Morris, a spokesman for the House Budget Committee. He said that at least one of the hearings will be held in the Dallas-Fort Worth. Texas, area. lic hearings on the Reagan plan before going forward with a Democratic alternative. Republicans on the committee greeted the road-trip idea with guarded acceptance.

"I think it's a good idea. Of course, it depends on how extensive the hearings will be." said U.S. Rep. Delbert Latta of Ohio, senior Republican on the I I I I I I II I I I I iffPlf I-H Hawks humble Hoosiers 6 It's new, it's TGIF! 11 City doctor recruits team to aid starving Ethiopians WASHINGTON (AP) House Democrats, in an effort to see whether President Reagan's programs are as popular as he is, will take the president's budget plan on the road with a series of public hearings around the nation in mid-February, leaders said Thursday. instead of moving ahead with a budget alternative, majority-party Democrats in the House plan to give a full airing to the Reagan plan, due to be submitted to Congress on Monday.

"We want to go out and see what the people think," said House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas. "We want the American people to understand what it (the president's budget) contains. We have the responsibility to the American people to show them what is proposed." He said that as many as five or six hearings would be held. Newly elected House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray III. said details on the panel's committee schedule are still be worked out.

He said he hoped public hearings could be finished by the end of February. Gray, who had earlier claimed that Reagan's budget would be "dead on arrival" on Capitol Hill, on Thursday moderated that claim, saying that until the president's budget is in hand, "we think it's just inapproprate to respond to that which has only been trial balloons from December to early January." In another budget-related development, U.S. Rep. Les Aspin, newly elected chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, announced that the panel would be taking a hard look at Reagan's massive military buildup over the past four years. "We're saying (to the administration), we've spent a trillion dollars.

Before we give you a few hundred billion more, tell us what you did with the trillion," Aspin said. He said that after Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger goes before the committee next week to formally present the Pentagon budget, the House panel will begin a more critical examination of the administration's military spending program in mid-February. Wright, emerging from a caucus of committee Democrats after the public session, said Democratic leaders had decided to hold the pub rif I AM Bird feeder below zero, according to the airport's Flight Service Station. Today temperature is expected to creep above the zero mark, but by tonight it's back to the deep freeze with 5 below to 20 below temperatures forecast.

(Staff photo by Barb MASON CITY Dr. William Rosenfeld. 919 3rd SW. is organizing physicians, nurses and other health professionals for the Ethiopian relief effort of the Iowa Cares Medical Project. Rosenfeld.

chairman of the recruiting committee, said he is seeking people who are willing and able to leave on short notice. "We've had a lot of applicants." Rosenfeld said. "We're in the process of putting together the first team. Hopefully, they will leave the last part of February or the first part of March." Rosenfeld said the team will spend about three months in a refugee camp, and that a second team will replace them, if recruiting is successful. "We hope it will be an ongoing thing for as long as we have the support." he said.

The medical teams will enter Ethiopia through Sudan, in association with the American Red Cross, Rosenfeld said. Rosenfeld himself volunteered to work in Cambodian refugee camps on two trips in 1980 and 1981. In addition to the cost of the trip, the Iowa Cares Medical Project is raising money for therapeutic multivitamins, antibiotics and other medical supplies needed to aid the sick and starving Ethiopian refugees. The project needs to raise about $4,000 for each person it sends to the famine-stricken area. Thursday's below zero weather wasn't too cold for Mason Cityan Todd Peterson to take time out to feed this duck, a resident of the city's East Park.

The duck wasn't too cold to accept the offering, either. As the frigid spell lingers across North Iowa. Thursday's low temperature was 24 lows Senate fcts idn of separate lottery agency Dr. Rosenfeld Each team should consist of eight health professionals, including at least two physicians, Rosenfeld said. Donations may be sent to the Mercy Hospital Medical Center Foundation.

Sixth Ave. and University. Des Moines. Make checks payable to the Iowa Cares Medical Project. The Iowa Cares Medical Project is administered by two Des Moines hospitals, the Iowa Hospital Association, pharmaceutical companies and interested physicians and civic leaders.

For more information, contact Rosenfeld at 423-3720. DES MOINES (AP) Leaders of the Democratic majority in the Iowa Senate failed Thursday in their effort to create an independent agency to handle a proposed state lottery. By a 28-20 vote the Senate refused to amend a section of its lottery bill Gannett to buy Register mutuel racing for gambling dollars. "We have a choice of either mediocrity or expertise," Welsh said. "If you want expertise, we should have a commission to deal expressly with the lottery." Hutchins said that the five part-time members of the Racing Commission have their hands full overseeing Iowa's new pari-mutuel industry, which has yet to see a track opened.

He said administrators of a lottery will also face a large task. But Sen. George Kinley, D-Des Moines, argued that the issue was government growth, not lottery expertise. "I don't care if you put it under the Development Commission," Kinley said. "I guess all I'd like to do is just stop government from growing." Another Des Moines Democrat, Sen.

William Palmer, said a single agency needs to be in charge of all gambling activities in Iowa. which gives the Iowa Racing Commission responsibility for the state lottery. The action highlighted opening debate on the lottery bill. Debate will continue today. "We're not in a position to be creating all kinds of commissions." Sen.

David Readinger, R-Des Moines, said on the Senate floor as he argued against the amendment. "Now's the time to hold the line a little bit and use what you have in place." The amendment was supported by a number of key Democrats, including Sen. Majority Leader Lowell Junkins of Montrose, Assistant Majority Leader Bill Hutchins of Audubon and State Government Committee Chairman Robert Carr of Dubuque. The amendment was offered by Appropriations Committee Chairman Joe Welsh of Dubuque, who argued that the Racing Commission members are not experts on a lottery, which will compete with pari- Inside Mason Citv 3 Opinion 4 Nation 5 Sports 6, 7 Records 9 Obituaries 9 TGIF 11 Dear Abbv 13 Comics 14 FarmBusiness 15 You Asked for It 16 Cold outside Sunny and very cold today. High around zero.

Wind light and variable. Continued very cold with a partly cloudy sky tonight and Saturday. Low tonight around 20 below zero. High Saturday zero to 5 above. Weather details: Paee 2.

DES MOINES (AP) The Gannett Co. Inc. announced Thursday it will buy The Des Moines Register and the Jackson (Tenn.) Sun, both owned by the Des Moines Register and Tribune for $200 million. The announcement was made by Allen H. Neuharth.

chairman of Gannett, who said he was proud to buy a newspaper that was "as good as its reputation." He assured editors and reporters that there would be no wholesale changes in the 240,000 circulation morning paper, now the biggest of 87 Gannett "There are certainly no plans for any basic changes from a statewide, prize-winning newspaper," he told a news conference. David Kruidenier, chairman of the Register and Tribune which is owned primarily by members of the family of the late Gardner Cowl-es. declined to give details of the bids except to say that he was "pleasantly surprised" that the offers were so large. There were five offers for the paper, he said. Last fall, the board rejected an IPlease turn to Paee 9) 0 nn COMING Loan subsidy to create 40 Jobs Cabinet plant to be built In If you're a rural Globe-Gazette subscriber, whatever else you do Sunday do not forget to check your mailbox.

In it, you'll find the new Sunday Globe, thanks to the creation of more than 50 new motor routes to insure same-day delivery to all our subscribers-even on Sunday. It wasn't an tasy task, but we knew it had to be done. And it was done by the newspaper that's "Moving Ahead With North Iowa and the-new trial Park, located on Northwood's east edge. He said construction of the new plant could begin as early as April, in which case a completion date of late summer or early fall may be possible. Lewerke said the plant will specialize in the manufacture of moderately priced cabinets to reach an estimated 40 percent of the cabinet market.

For his part, Mayor Lunde said the announcement comes at an op By Kristin Buehner Staff Writer NORTHWOOD A loan subsidy of $141,177 announced for the city of Northwood will go for construction of a Northwood Cabinet Co. plant which is expected to create 40 jobs at the outset. Northwood was one of a dozen Iowa communities to receive a loan subsidy through the recently created Economic Development Set-Aside Program. The program was established with federal money available under the Community Development Block Grant program administered by the Iowa Office for Planning and Programming. In announcing the use of the loan subsidy Thursday, Northwood Mayor Einer Lunde said the cabinet company's plant has a growth potential of an additional 10 jobs by the end of the first year.

Speaking on behalf of his brothers and co-owners of the new plant, Curtis Lewerke of Clear Lake said the plant will be built in the city's Indus portune moment. "For once we have some good economic news to deliver to our community." Lunde said, adding he hoped the creation of needed jobs would help some of the city's out-of-work employees, especially farmers, "through these difficult economic times." The set-aside program provides interest rate reduction and in some cases loan principal reduction to business and industry that cannot afford the prevailing market rate..