Pepper rallies senior citizens
By Michael Clapp
CM the Kmerald
Rep. Claude Pepper, D
Florida, summed up the posi
tion of senior citi/.ens in the
1984 election with a Chinese
proverb in a speech Thursday
afternoon.
“Cheat me once, your fault;
cheat me twice, my fault," Pep
per said referring to President
Ronald Reagan’s administra
tion’s broken promises to the
elderly.
Speaking at Eugene's Olive
Plaza Apartments, Popper asked
senior citizens to accept an ap
peal from an 84-year-old man to
vote for Democratic candidates
Walter Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro.
Pepper pointed out that in
1984 Mondale co-authored
legislation setting up Medicare
to reduce the cost of health care
for elderly people. In four years
we face a problem of financial
solvency of that program. Pep
per said.
The Reagan administration’s
solution is to have people pay
more and raise the age for
benefits from 65 to 67, “and I
reckon they’ll probably raise it
to 68,” Pepper said. t
"Yes. they can save money by
doing that ; 1 wonder if they can
save any lives,” Pepper said.
Pepper also talked about Fer
raro’s commitment to America’s
elderly. Ferraro, who sits on the
House Select Committee on Ag
ing and on Pepper’s Health and
Long-Term Care subcommittee.
Rep, Claude Pepper
invited Pepper and actor Jason
Kobards to speak at a conference
she organized to deal with the
problem of alcoholism for'
seniors in her district.
• When questioned on the age
issue in .the presidential elec
tion. Pepper stressed that per
formance is the issue, not age.
“Age is not an accurate
barometer of a good president,”
Pepper said.
He then recounted Reagan’s
closing comments in the recent
presidential debate as an exam
ple of the president’s
performance.
“He wound up out on a
highway in California
somewhere and had to get cut
off,” Pepper said. He accused
the president of bu/nbling
around and said a good leader
would have used those four
minutes more to his advantage.
After the speech, Mary Lynn,
a resident of Olive Plaza apart
ments, sat methodically work
ing on the blue sky of a jigsaw
puzzle near the back of the
room.
“Yes, we voted for Reagan
last time,” she said of senior
citizens like herself, "and 1 feel
we got fooled. Wouldn’t you?”
She said she isn’t sure if
Reagan is trying to fool the
elderly again, or if he will cut
Social Security if re-elected. “It
would Certainly be scary until
we found out,” she said.
“I don't know what we'd
do.” Lynn said. “That’s all we
live on.”
police beat
The following is a list of area
crimes reported over the last
week to the Eugene Police
Department:.
A 5-year-old girl was sexual
ly abused in the EMI) game
room at 9 a.m. on C3ct. 12. The
victim is the daughter of a
Recreation Center employee, ac
cording to Sgt. Chuck Tilby of
EPD. The suspect is described
as a white male. 38-40 years
old. 5 feet 6 inches tall, 140
pounds, with short, brown, cur
ly hair.
An alarm clock and a wallet
with $75 cash were stolen from
a dorm room in Douglas Hall
between 9 p.m. and midnight
on Oct. 19. Two suspects who
were seen in the hall during the
time of the robbery are being
sought.
Steven James Krieger, a
University student, was cited
for pulling a false fire alarm on
the seventh floor of the Univer
sity Inn at around midnight on
Oct. 18.
A wooden plaque listing the
names of University athletes
with a 3.5 or better grade point
average, valued at $55, was
stolen from McArthur Court bet
ween Oct. 19 and Oct. 22. The
plaque was removed from the
wall outside offices there.
Two automobiles collided at
the comer of 13th Avenue and
University Street at 8:05 p.m.
on Oct. 17. There were no in
juries and no citations were
issued.
Michael I.etto, 29, was cited
for urinating in public during
the Dr. Helen Caldicott speech
at the EMU Ballroom on Oct.
18.
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