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41 CtS MOINES KtClSUW THwM Ml 1979 Twisters hit Minnesota, N. Dakota BEANS, CORH CLOSE HIGHER CHICAGO. ILL (API S)bw and corn oord food ud Ik Ckicsge ber Trade w'vdiMadty. Tit IVjvsrtrre of Ardi-re1 rvport tnat com ipw an all urn record of iM miiUoa bU -t S- I I Grief after Minnesota tornado towa. Tare art kwn dead la Gary aid hav died la aa El ft.

N. tonad. UNUSUAL MEMO SENT TO BELL ON BAKKE CASE ostrow Carter. la onus! riTordum. direct Allans General GrUfia ft IWU Utt withhold comment oa th Ssprew CoM' Bssh deflSIOS Blll Bell bnM uuii ii Irtrnrd Jnrd Admiruruo officials dmb4 Ik presidential direciiv aitmp to fcsv lb rieouliv branch tpra with oa voice lh alfirmUaclioa rithrr than In th seversi voice heard earlier th government drafted IU kg! brief Nevertheless.

Carters personal Interest in bow th govenweot rpoodpd to th kg awaited wllng. and bii participation Is Justice Department matter, seemed to d-partur from th diitanc Whit House ha maintained from moat activiue of nation's law-enlorvrment unit At result. Hell briefed Carter on the lit pl ruling befor discussing it with reporters 'hit press room amal hours alter the decision June It. -Not Gearing Anything" "It certainly was not clearing anything with the president." ld Terrene Adamaon. special assistant to Bell and director ol public Information for the Justice Department Adamson would not confirm or deny the existence of the presidential memo, laying he could "not comment on confidential discussion between the preiident and the attorney general." But other administration sources described the memorandum.

Adamson, who attended the briefing with the president, said that Bell discussion with reporters mirrored what he had told Carter and that the president had not asked Bell to phrase anything differently. Another administration source theorised that the Carter memo-randum had been written for people other than the attorney general and had been designed to prevent oficlals from commenting before the ruling had been studied and digested. Bell, on receiving copies of the ruling, closeted himself at the Justice Department for more than two hours, studying the decision before discussing it with other department officials involved In the case, and then going to the White House. Latest Signal Carter's request for a briefing is the latest signal of high-level White House interest in the affirmative action issue. Last September Carter told the Los Angeles Times that Vice President Walter Mondale had been largely responsible for persuading the Justice Department to clarify the administration's commitment to affirmative action in the brief it filed with the high court on the Bakke case.

Carter said then that he originally had been inclined to let the Justice Department handle the case without White House intervention. "But Friti was persistent in saying this would be interpreted accurately as the philosophy and expression of purpose of the administration. I had not seen the significance of it," he said. Carter said Mondale bad thought the department brief as originally written had defects, "and in as forceful a way as possible induced me to take another look at it" -f In addition to the Carter memorandum to Bell, Walter Wurfel, White House deputy press secretary, directed press secretaries for Cabi- Toreadura that rtr twwii mU Urm town Mimw NurU DoU kfl riM per and lttrtr4 borne nd buildm Into pile of ltt4 ntbU WedflcwUy. More thaa 84 per met injured.

-AU of a wddea tb kous was said Jm till, ranching and firming of I 609 about 71 mil Kmihwwrf of IlUmwrt Hiwoe, lb administrator of lb community bWi car nit at Jacobsoa Memorial Hospital, was huddled with ki wif and tarn In a corner of their born when tb twiner ilrch Tsdy eight, touching don about $0 south of hospital Th storm ripped through 17 blocks of a residential ara. leaving five dead. Crant County Coroner Arnold Meyer taid J. and Martha NlrkUus. 72 and Odell and Martha Hawk, $8.

died Tuesday night. Mid th Haucks lived In a senior cltUn bousing project that was destroyed by th tornado. The Nicklausea wer killed when tb twister blew apart their pickup truck. A spokesman at St. Alexius Hospital In Bismarck Identified tb dth fatality as Henry Neber, 77.

who had previously been listed in critical condition. Thirty-five to 40 persons suffered minor Injuria as a result of th storm. Water, Power "This is going to a real serious thing for us," said Elgin's fir chief. Clarence Werner. Th town was left without water or power, and Werner Mid authorities wer trying to book up an emergency generator to pump water out of its well field and into water lines.

Three persons an Infant, a teen-ager and aa elderly man were reported killed in Gary, about 350 miles from Elgin. Authorities said 25 persons were Injured In Gary and five persons were injured in nearby Fosston. Gov. Rudy Perplch ordered out a 30-man unit of the Minnesota National Guard to help search for missing persons. The storms leveled buildings, overturned trailer homes and snapped off power poles, leaving temporary blackouts behind.

The tornado struck Gary, a community of 265 persons about 260 miles northwest of Minneapolis, about 3 a.m. Wednesday. Carried Aloft Police chief Myron Adkins, 45, was sitting in his squad car and tried to sound an alarm but was carried aloft by the powerful winds. "I was trying to get to the fire hall to trip the alarm," Adkins said. "I never made it I didn't see it (the tornado) coming.

It started shaking my car and picked it up. It went maybe half a block before everything went black." When Adkins came to, he was lying on the floor of his car, with pieces of building flying by. He escaped Injury. Adkins' wife, Ruth, a volunteer at the town's emergency center, said the tornado hit without warning, badly damaging homes and trailers. "I would say It took probably a third of the town," she said.

Deputy Sheriff Ed Retzer of Fosston, about 30 miles northwest, was in his patrol car and had just learned of the trouble in Gary when the tornado hit him. "It was dark and raining It just hit like that," he said. "It tried to suck me up. I felt I was going to take off any minute. It felt like at times I was completely off the ground." 4 A The twister apparently touched down a few miles south of Gary, snapping off power poles along a two-mile section of Minnesota 32 before hitting the southern outskirts of town.

It stripped the metal siding from a huge grain elevator, sheared the roof off a nearby service station and heavily damaged an elementary school. Wallace LuchaU, 64, a bar operator, said his two-story frame home was damaged beyond repair. "I heard it coming," he said. "I didn't have a chance to get out. It blew the kitchen door open, and everything in the house was coming at me, glass, flowerpots." Rock Island man charged in death tptcM DtUMtdi to Th Rtalttor ROCK ISLAND, ILL.

Jesse Drew, 25, of Rock' Island, was charged with murder Wednesday in connection with the Tuesday night beating death of his father-in-law, Clarence Hosklns, 50, also of Rock Island. Hoskins died of bead injuries suffered when he was beaten repeatedly with a 2-by-4 board, authorities said. Th incident occurred outside Hoskins home during a family argument, police said. Hoskins' wife, Jeanie, 46, was in fair condition Wednesday at a hospital here with injuries she suffered during the disturbance. The couple's daughter, Ernice, 17, was treated for injuries and released irora a iuci iuhu- taken into custody by police at the Hoskins home.

He was k.u arithnut bond Wednesday in WUIg Uiu jail here on the murder charge. He also faces two cnargra vi battery In connection with the beatings oi jeanie nau daughter. m-i aw Mm Uft vr mor than offset th nrisUv Impart of fu crop weather InUMMidweM. Ei ports of soybeans and wheal also wer hefty, and traders responded to an artiv demand for US. grain overseas market.

Aa unconfirmed report that Brazil had lifted Ks Import UI oa soybean Ml added impetus to th uptur. Weekly bulletin issued by major producing stales said that com crop wem In mostly good shap. an Improvement from earlier. Soybean crop wem rated fair to good. At th close, soybean wem to II tauis higher, wheat was to II cents higher, com was to I cents higher and oats wem 2v to I cent higher.

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Etl. takn: 7,200. Church added to 'historic' list Tha Datritor't Iowa Nawt Sarvlco ROCK RAPIDS, IA. The United Methodist Church here has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places, according to Adrian Anderson, director of the Division of Historic Preservation in Iowa City. The church, formerly the First Methodist Church, is now owned by the Iowa United Methodist Conference.

It was nominated to the Register by Nadine Pettengill of the Lyon County Historical Society. Completed in 1896, the church is primarily significant for the interesting combination of blue-gray and red granite used in its construction. The red granite is principally used for details, in window arches and decorative coursing on the bell to wer. The architect was Joseph Schwartx of Sioux Falls, S. D.

The first Methodist congregation was organised in Rock Rapids in the U70S. si a i I ws the remalas after tormad kit Obituaries JAMES ROC ERS Services will be at 10 30 a.m. Saturday at St. Lukes Episcopal Church for James L. Rogers, 52.

a Des Moines attorney who died of a heart attack Sunday while vacationing at Lake OkoboJI. The body will be cremated. Mr. Rogers, who lived at 870 Fifty-ninth was a member and former chairman of the Des Moines Water Works Board of Trustees. He was installed in May as president-elect of the Polk County Bar Association.

A graduate of Beloit College and the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Rogers was senior partner In the Rogers Phillips law firm. Survivors include his wife, Nancy, three sons, Barry, Robert and Peter, all of Des Moines; a sister, Mrs. Betty Hughes of Bakersfield, a brother, Robert L. of Waysata.

and his mother, Mrs. Zeda Rogers of Minneapolis, Minn. The family suggests that any memorial contributions be made to the Easter Seal Center of Des Moines. Dunn's Funeral Home on Grand Avenue is in charge of service arrangements. LILLIAN NORTHINGTON Lillian Northlngton of Davenport, a former Des Moines resident, died Wednesday at the Americana Health Care Center in Davenport of a kidney ailment.

Services are pending at the Hill and Fredericks Funeral Home in Davenport Mrs. Northington was the widow of Carr Northlngton, manager of the Fort Des Moines Hotel until moving to Davenport in 1934. Survivors include a niece, Mrs. Melvin Lalor of Des Moines. praised by President Carter's government reorganization team as "a center of excellence." Yet, some administration officials have said publicly that they would like to replace Forest Service Chief John McGuire with someone who would provide more "creative leadership." Environmentalists, who often are upset with the Forest Service and not great fans of McGuire, nevertheless have interpreted that to mean someone might be appointed who is more agreeable to administration desires to increase commercial logging in national forests.

Hartzog himself was a career Park Service official who rose to head the agency, but was dumped during the Nixon administration. Former Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman, in his book, "The Ends df Power," quotes Nixon as saying Of Hartzog, "Interior Secretary Rogers Morton won't get rid of that son-of-a-bitch. But he's got to go." Hartzog was replaced by Ronald Walker, whose only governmental experience was as a political "advanca man" for the Nixon campaign. Walker's short tenure as Park Service director was generally regarded as a failure.

The conservation leaders protest-ins what thev re sard as the potential politicizing of the resources agencies intend to lobby key members of Congress working on the civil service legislation. I 0 a eoraer at th flv are kw to A Gary, Mlna, womaa weep as tb her elgbborbeod Wedaetday mraUig net-level agencies to bold off on commenting for their bosses until Bell spoke for the administration. But Wurfel said Wednesday had not known of the Carter memo to Bell when he issued the Instructions. Intervention Adamson said the Carter memorandum did not represent a departure from the White House practice of not intervening in Justice Department activities. "What Judge Bell considers imnmwr In interference at lower levels in the department) by White House aides," Adamson said.

An example of such an attempt was call last year from Margaret Costanza, assistant to the president for public liaison, to arrange a meeting between lawyers for the de partment's criminal division and former isew vor uiy councilman Samuel D. Wright As reported by the cnicago inoune and confirmed by the department, Costanza made the call after bearing complaints that a federal Investigation of Wright was being handled unfairly. Bell was so angered by the call that he considered giving a unit In the Justice Department authority to investigate White House interference, but later decided against it. Wright eventually was convicted of extortion in a kickback scheme. Adamson drew a distinction between that kind of interference and Carter's directive that Bell discuss the ruling with him before commenting on it publicly.

He cited a natural and "healthy" tension between policy and law and said that the president is constitutionally responsible for executing the laws faithfully. 2 found stabbed Mw Yw Tlmw NORWALK, CONN. The bodies of two young women who had been subbed several times, were found Tuesday in a secluded wooded area here. of many professional disciplines," their letter said. Yet, under the administration proposal, the president would be given the power to place political appointees at the helm of the Soil Conservation Service, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, they said.

William H. Greiner of Ankeny, executive vice president of the Soil Conservation Society of America and one of the signers of the letter, said, "We're terribly opposed to this sort of thing. "It would stifle management at the agencies, and it wouldn't be good for the country. It takes professionals to do these jobs," said Greiner. The letter, urging Congress to amend the administration bill so as to limit political appointees to secretaries and assistant secretaries of cabinet-level departments, was drafted by Daniel A.

Poole, president of the Wildlife Management Institute. It was signed by him, by Greiner, and by representatives of the American Forestry Association, the National Wildlife FederationMhe Society of American Foresters, the American Fisheries Society, the Wildlife Society, and the Sport Fishing Institute. Praised for Excellence In a memorandum to the organiza tion leaders, Hartzog said it is "no accident" that the Forest Service, traditionally headed by a career gov ernment forester, was recently EMBEZZLERS ON PROBATION By PAUL LEA VITT MriMIM A Newton bank teller and a former Grlswold postal clerk were placed on federal court probation Wednesday after they pleaded guilty to scperate embezzlements. Deborah Kay VanGorp, 18, was placed on probation for two years by S. District William C.

Stuart She pleaded guilty May SI to four counts of making false entries in bank records In connection with an alleged embezzlement of $15,248 from the virmt Nowtnn National Bank where she was a teller and bookkeeper in the Installment loan department, ti nistriet Attorney Roxanne Conlin said the money was insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance and the bank did not suffer a loss. Harley Forrest Jarvis, 81, of Griswold, was placed on probation for three years in connection with the alleged embezzlement of $790 from the U. S. Postal Service. Jarvis was indicted Feb.

28 on two counts of embezzlement by a postal employee. He was accused of taking the money from' a stamp fund. He pleaded guilty June 2. Conlin said he no longer is employed by the Postal Service. Michael Jay Blair, 19, of Center-ville, pleaded guilty to the May 8 armed robbery of the Citizen's State Bank at Corydon.

Blair is to be sentenced Aug. 7 by Stuart. The $8,318 theft was the first bank holdup in Corydon since the Jesse James gang hit a bank there in 1871. Kidnapping trial set for Aug. 21 BOONE, IA.

The trial of Michael Tim Rinehart of Manson on a charge of kidnapping has been set for 9 a. m. Aug. 21 in Boone County District Court here. Rinehart, 30, was charged with first-degree kidnapping in the alleged abduction, assault and attempted rape of a Fort Dodge woman last March 7 near Fort Dodge.

Rinehart's attorney requested a change of venue, and the trial was ordered shifted from Webster County to Boone County. The kidnapping charge was filed seven weeks after Rinehart was freed following a long legal battle against a life sentence Imposed when he was 15, for the slaying of a Manson beauty operator. Rinehart pleaded guilty last January to a reduced charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $100. He was given credit for the nearly 15 years he had already served, and was released last Jan. 15.

Epilepsy group to clean bike trail Members of the Greater Des Moines Epilepsy Society will stage a clean-up operation along the Birdland Park Bike Trail Some 20 members will do the work, starting at 10 a.m. The group will break at noon for a picnic. Glenn Wells, president of the organization, said the purpose of the activity Is to show the public that people with epilepsy are interested in the city and are able to perform various work tasks. The organization covers an eight-county area. 1S3 YietJ rescued SINGAPORE (AP) The French freighter Chavalier Paul arrived here Wednesday with 180 Vietnamese refugees rescued from an un-sea worthy boat in the South China Sea, immigration officials said.

Conservationists fight Carter plan to 'politicize' resources agencies By JAMES RISSER WASHINGTON, D.C. Conservation leaders are organizing a fight against provisions of President Carter's civil service reform bill, which, they fear, would turn key natural resources agencies into political havens. As the bill now is written, the top officials of such agencies as the Soil Conservation Service and the National Park Service would become political appointees, rather than career employees who have worked their way up through the ranks. "All you've got to do is look back through the history of Teapot Dome and other scandals to see that you have to have trained professionals running these agencies," Washington lawyer George B. Hartzog Jr.

said Wednesday. "Once you've given away a national park or a national forest it's pretty hard to get it back," he added. Replaced by Campaign Worker Hartzog, a former director of the National Park Service, who was booted from his job by President Nixon and replaced with a Nixon campaign worker, has been providing legal advice to eight conservation organizations concerned about the administration bill. The organizations have sent a letter to ail members of Congress protesting what they termed "a serious weakness" in the civil service legislation. "Successful natural resources management requires skilled coordination.