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4A DCS MOINES REGISTER Jan. 12, 1978 koto Cremation on the rise, sales of CB radios drop 8 ARRESTED IN MINNESOTA LINE PROTEST U.S. BRACES FOR ANOTHER WINTER STORM TREND Continued from Page One LOWRY, MINN. (AP) Five men month or six weeks between haircuts and three women protesting construction of a high-voltage transmission line in west-central Minnesota were arrested Wednesday afternoon when they blocked the view of two i The rising number of single-person households and working wives has led to a surge in business for dry cleaner and laundries, particularly the coin-operated self-service variety. Even death rituals are changing, the Commerce Department Mid.

In reporting on the 13.6 billion-a-year funeral industry, it saw a trend toward the unconventional. "Such funeral modifications may range from the reading of a grandchild's poem at older people's traditional funeral services to such funeral activities as a discussion of the deceased's way of life by individual relatives and friends," it said. Average cost of an adult funeral i Approximately 17S state troopers because of popular long hair styles. The agency reported a "dynamic rise" in the sale of disposable diapers, now a $700 million-a-year business with 50 per cent of the diaper market A related item, multi-ply toilet tissue, has become a best seller because of a heavy advertising campaign stressing "softness, absorb-ency, fragrance, strength and better value through expanded roll size." One of every five new homes is a mobile home. In recent years, mobile homes have accounted for 96 per cent have been guarding work crews since Monday.

The only other arrest in that period was Tuesday, when a young man was accused of spitting on a surveyor. Leading Wednesday's peaceful parade before surveyors' transits placed in a snowy farm field east of Lowry were the owners of the land, Dennis Rutledge, 35, and his wife, of the market for homes under 120,000 and 76 per cent of the homes without casket or cemetery lot was 11,348 last year. Cremation is in selling for under $30,000. Nina, 34. Citizens band radio sales have TIM MMCMM4 Nu A new winter itorm system shoved eastward Wednesday, threatening mure misery fur the already-frozen northeastern quarter of the nation.

At least 23 persons died as a result of two days of temperatures dipping well below freeiing. Two others died in storms that are lashing California. Louisiana reported the first death of the new storm a man killed when his car skidded on a patch of ice during freezing rain and slammed into a bridge. Power Demand Eases Meanwhile, the heavy demand for electric power eased Wednesday as temperatures rose some and voltage cuts made during Tuesday's cold weather were restored. Ohio was hardest hit by the cold wave with weather-related deaths during the two days of sub-freezing temperatures.

Three died in Illinois, another three In Alabama, and one each in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. As the new storm system moved eastward, travelers' advisories went into effect in Texas, Oklahoma, northern Louisiana, Kansas and Missouri. A winter storm watch was issued for northern Arkansas and parts of Tennessee. Forecasters said it would continue east. More Rain on Way On the West Coast, California had a creasing and now is used in 7.3 per cent of all funerals.

The cremation Rutledge said he is a 1967 graduate dropped sharply but the sale of Mopeds motorized bicycles is of the U.S. Naval Academy and his rate is 25 per cent in the Pacific coast wife is the daughter an Army states and Hawaii. increasing. officer. Others arrested by state troopers A Winterset man identified themselves to reporters at the site as: Earl Hauge, 37, of if Glenwood, a farmer, Reed Holt, 22, of St.

Cloud, a zoology student at St. arrested in gunshot death Cloud State University; Richard 1 Hanson, 27, of Glenwood, a student at the University of Minnesota-Morris; Grant Hanson, 28, brother of Richard Hanson, and owner of a farm near FUNDS REFUSED FOR NON-PUBLIC SPECIAL ED. By RANDY EVANS KtwiiHr Staff Wrfftr DAVENPORT, IA. The directors of the Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency refused Wednesday night to change a two-year old policy that denies special education services to eastern Iowa children who attend private Glenwood; Mary Stackpool, 44, of Glenwood, and Amy Lee, 46, of By NICK LAMBERTO Rniitar staff WrHtr A 19-year-old Winterset man was arrested and charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the "1 i Glenwood. Lee said she is the wife of Dr.

Gordon Lee, a physician. Stackpool gunshot death of Randal A. Kujaczyn- said her husband. Jack, is a high MS mchnes ski near nea noes MOINES school teacher and basketball coach. day of sunshine, but more rain was on Its way.

Heavy rains earlier in the week drenched the state and a Pacific storm pounded the shore causing widespread damage and at least two dam last month. The eight did not resist arrest and Heat wave in a barrel Construction workers warm themselves with a fire in a barrel on a street in Atlanta, Wednesday. Much of the nation remained unusually "cold. walked across the snowy field to state Owen LeRoy Beem, 19, of deaths. patrol squad cars.

They were taken to the Pope County sheriff's office to be rural Winterset, was being held on the murder charge Wednesday under barged formally with obstructing $50,000 bond at Marion County Jail in In Michigan, where Detroit Edison Consumers Power Co. and Indiana Michigan Power Co. had reduced voltage by 5 per cent legal process. Knoxville. Area farmers oppose plans to Saudis warn they can't meet projected oil demand Beem was charged with murder at stretch a 400-kilovolt, direct-current Tuesday, full power was restored transmission line from Underwood, 5:15 p.m.

Tuesday at Knoxville before Magistrate Norman Hays, who set Earlier, Indiana Michigan broadcast appeals to customers in both states to reduce power usage N.D., to Delano, on grounds it could be hazardous to people, as well 10:30 a.m. Jan. 19 as the time for a preliminary hearing. as crops and livestock. after the utility lost about 45 per cent schools.

The agency, one of 15 such bodies in Iowa, is the only one that has refused to provide any special education help to non-public school children. The law that created the area education agencies allows, but does not require, that the services be provided to private school students. About 100 persons attended Wednesday night's meeting, and several urged the board to change its policy. Donald Miller, principal of Assumption High School here, a Catholic institution, told the board that although Iowa law does not require the agency to provide special education help, the board has a moral obligation to help all children, regardless of the school they attend. There are about 5,500 children in Magistrate Hays said he was called from his home by Marion County of its generating capacity.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (AP) Saudi The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld state agency decisions granting construction permits to Detroit Edison spokeswoman Peg Arabia cannot meet the projected American demand for oil in the 1980s Sheriff Lee Shives and went to the courthouse for the arraignment of Furlong said: "It's warmed up a bit, United Power Association and Coop Beem. with existing production facilities erative Power Association. and also, there's less wind, which reduces heat loss from buildings. Additionally, companies to the south are Saudi sources say. Terry Wilson, a Knoxville attorney, was named to represent Beem after Unless Americans cut back on oil Gov.

Rudy Perpich announced plans for a mass deployment of state troopers to construction sites late last not buying as much power from us. consumption, they will require from Beem said he didn have funds to employ an attorney, Magistrate Hays Indiana Michigan, though still 14 million to 16 million barrels a day week, after a shoving match between demonstrators and 10 troopers who having trouble handling frozen coal, said. from Saudi Arabia by 1985, the was "back to where we have the The murder charge against Beem notified of plans to raise production and ruled out any immediate increases "because we lack vast surface facilities." Surface facilities include storage tanks, sea water injection wells and water-oil separation units. "I'm confident that Saudi Arabia can attain the 14 million barrel a day rate," said a Saudi petroleum engineer who decliged to be identified. "We even can go up to 16 million.

But we will have to get to work on that at once." Current Facilities Saudi Arabia's existing surface facilities are sufficient for handling, about 118 million barrels a day, with 30 million barrels in maximum sources said. They added that despite were assisting local authorities. capacity to serve our load," said was filed by Marion County Atty. assurances from the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) that daily spokesman Phil Carl.

private schools in six counties the Warren A. Reiter, Hays said. Announcement Delayed output could average 14 million barrels, Saudi Arabia found last year agency serves. Warren Stump, assistant director Full power was also restored in Illinois and Ohio after a day of widespread Voltage reductions because of heavy demand and lack of generating The Mississippi Bend agency does it could not raise the figure much of the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Inves loan films and books to parochial beyond 12 million barrels. tieation (BCD, said Beem's arrest capacity due to frozen coal stockpiles.

Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed zaki schools. The board rejected a recommendation from agency administrator Clark Stevens that the services be Tankers Driven Ashore was not announced until 17 hours after the charge had been filed because "statements had to be taken Yamani is reported to have ordered a new assessment of production expanded to include among other Two tankers, two barges and a Coast Guard patrol boat were driven ashore earlier in the week by high from other individuals in connection capacity and Aramco has made what things, curriculum consultants, data storage capacity. Limited storage capacity forced a production drop to with the case." it calls a study of "option programs" processing and in-service training Iowa man held on murder charge SptcM DISMtch To IK Register BROOKINGS, S. D. Tommy Edward Downs of Sioux City, is being held in Brookings County Jail here in lieu of $250,000 bond on a charge of murder.

Authorities said Downs and Roger George Flitte of Brookings have been charged in connection with the 1975 slaying of Flitte's mother, Ruth Flitte, at her home here. Law enforcement officials said the woman was killed so Flitte and a brother could share her estate. Flitte is serving a sentence in the South Dakota Penitentiary at Sioux Falls. "winds and pounding waves along the Stump said it was feared that in session for teachers. for raising daily production above the current 8.5 million barrel ceiling.

The Atlantic Coast from New England to Although the agency does not Maryland. options were not disclosed. six million barrels a day in the second quarter of 1977 when oil tankers were diverted to Iranian terminals because of adverse weather conditions in the Persian Gulf. dividuals from whom statements were to be taken might flee the state if news of Beem's arrest got out pre receive money specifically for special One of the tankers, the Achilles, A Beirut newsletter, the Middle which grounded Sunday near Prov maturely. education services for non-public school children, the money it receives to provide all the other services is based in part on the number of We needed these statements for Saudi Arabia is the world's largest East Reporter, said the study envisions up to 16 million barrels a day, requiring an added outlay of $22 billion by the end of 1978.

idence, R.I., was freed Tuesday without spilling its cargo of heating oil. But another tanker, the Coast corroboration," Stump said. exporter of crude oil, and Aramco manages about a quarter of proven In court papers filed Tuesday with private school students in the area. the murder charge against Beem was Schlesinger's Visit global reserves. Miller pointed out Wednesday tnat "probable cause statement from Arab production capability is "Raising production to 16 million the board has received more than $100,000 earmarked for private BCI Agent Robert Pontious.

certain to be discussed during U. S. barrels per calendar day would require beefing up our surface facili Pontious said he and BCI Agent Energy Secretary James Schlesing school services but has spent that money instead on public school help. Charles Wood had interviewed Beem and that Beem had admitted pointing er's meetings this week with Saudi and Aramco officials. ties to handle 24 million barrels," the engineer said.

Following the board decision, gun at ftuiaczynsKi ana snooting The Saudis have used their high According to the Beirut newsletter, him, according to the statement of Miller said the only recourse left to parents of private school children is to file a lawsuit against the Mississip the production options study was a major reason why Saudi Arabia probable cause. output potential to control oil prices. During the first quarter of 1977, they increased their daily production Red Rock Dam delayed taking over 100 per cent ownership of Aramco. Saudi Arabia pi Bend agency. Some parents were meeting late Wednesday night to average to n.t) minion oarreis to keep an oil price increase to 5 per King memorial service planned at Iowa State Tlx Rxisttr' lew Nwi Strvict AMES, IA.

An interfaith memorial worship service commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall on the Iowa State University Memorial Union here. Dedicated to non-violence and racial justice, the service will be sponsored by the Black Cultural Center, the Campus Ministers Association and the Y. W. C.

A. A reception will be held following the worship service. discuss that alternative. owns 60 per cent ot Aramco. ine remaining 40 per cent is shared by four U.

S. companies Exxon, Standard Oil of California, Texaco SSWllHBMMNaWiiiaHiiiHHSSMMMMi Hearing scheduled cent. The majority of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had insisted on a 10 per Guard boat and two barges remained ashore Wednesday as crews attempted to refloat them. A fuel barge grounded and partially sank in Long Island Sound about 20 miles east of New York, spilling 75,000 gallons of oil when one of its tanks was ruptured by the savage surf. The vessel was carrying about a million gallons.

Duck Hunter Rescued On the other side of Long Island, the Coast Guard was trying to refloat one its 40-foot patrol boats, driven ashore Monday while trying to rescue stranded duck hunter. The hunter was later picked up by a helicopter. Another fuel barge was aground in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Susquehanna River. The barge is carrying 500,000 gallons of heating oil and 50,000 gallons of kerosene, according to the Coast Guard. In Delaware Bay, the 918-foot Liberian tanker Alabama Getty was blown aground from its mooring at the Big Stone Anchorage about 13 miles west of Cape May, N.J.

Efforts were under way there to refloat the vessel by unloading about 160,000 on nude dancing and Mobil. cent increase with another 5 per cent rise later in the year. John J. Kelberer, Aramco's newly COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA. (AP) A Petroleum engineers who operate elected board chairman and chief executive, insists the study had hearing has been scheduled today on a motion to dismiss the temporary in the Ghawar oilfield, the world's largest, have said they were not 'nothing to do with the takeover." The body of Kujaczynski, 19, of Iowa City, was found Sunday morning, Dec.

11, in a public restroom near the Red Rock Dam. Dr. Emmanuel Lacsina, assistant Polk County medical examiner, said Kujaczynski had received eight bullet wounds from a handgun, one of which killed him. The fatal bullet entered the rear of Kujaczynski's left leg and exited from the right front stomach area, causing him to bleed to death, Lacsina said. Other bullet wounds were in the left buttocks and right ring finger, and there was a right to left cut just below the chin, Lacsina said.

The body was found lying face down near a toilet in the restroom. Kujaczynski and his brother, junction that halted enforcement of Iowa's new cover-up law at two rural Council Bluffs lounges featuring nude entertainers. Defense ministers discuss fate The motion was filed by the Pot tawattamie County attorney's office. It alleges the issuance of a permanent injunction will interfere with the per of Sinai's Jewish settlements formance of lawful duties by law enforcement officers. The motion said the injunction barrels of the tanker's 923,000 barrel Donald, 26, had been working on con request lacks supporting affidavits.

CAIRO, EGYPT (AP) The cargo of Arabian crude oil, according accuse him of seeking a separate peace with Israel. Israeli sources close to Weizman struction jobs in Iowa City since last fall. They returned to Knoxville on weekends to visit relatives and to Lt. Tom Morse of the Coast Guard's regional headquarters in meeting earlier Wednesday with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The meeting took place at the Nile city of Aswan, about 600 miles south of Cairo, where the president has been mapping his Mideast strategy in the wake of his historic journey to reported the ex-fighter pilot in good spirits and quoted him as saying he friends.

Philadelphia, Pa. Neither the tanker nor the Chesa peake barge was leaking oil. The dead man's stepfather, Robert expects the negotiations to be "long Dodds, and his mother, Frances, two but not long-winded. sisters and a twin brother, Danny, "I hope the last battle with Egypt live in Knoxville. will be the battle for peace.

A automatic rifle has Man escapes cold, but breaks law Weizman told reporters in Israel. He also underlined the Israeli bar been seized by the BCI, said Asst Director Stump. ROCHESTER, MINN. (AP) gaining position stipulating that withdrawal from Sinai must be phased over three to five years. Egypt is A hearing on the permanent injunction request has been scheduled for Jan.

31 by District Court Judge J. L. Larson. The petitions were filed by the Two-R operator of the Lusty Lady, and the Three-KC Corp. and Ron Bergeron, operators of the Bittersweet Lounge.

Nicaraguan mourners burn businesses MANAGUA, NICARAGUA (AP) -Mourners left a procession carrying the coffin of murdered newspaper publisher Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Wednesday night and burned two businesses linked to dictator Anastasio Somoza, Chamorro's longtime foe. Witnesses said a branch of the Bank of Central America and a building that bouses a blood-plasma-manufacturing company were set defense ministers of Egypt and Israel took their "battle for peace" to a Cairo conference table Wednesday to seek agreement on Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula and to determine the fate of Jewish settlements that have blossomed in that wasteland. The meeting was seen by Egypt as a key barometer in advance of parallel but wider-ranging talks between Israeli and Egyptian foreign ministers set to open Jan. 16 in Jerusalem. According to an Israeli source, the Cairo talks began on an awkward note with Egypt demanding that an opening statement prepared by Israeli defense chief Ezer Weizman be withdrawn, apparently because it conflicted with Egyptian opposition to Jewish settlements in Sinai.

The source, who asked not to be Madison County Sheriff Rex Rouse said he arrested Beem with the aid of Gordon E. Brooks, 36, of Waterlop, a deputy sheriff and a BCI agent demanding a one-year withdrawal timetable. pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage to property after he broke into a mobile home to escape Jerusalem that brought Arab and Jew together after three decades of war. Negotiations between Weizman and Egyptian War Minister Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy will focus on the future of a score of Israeli Sinai settlements in a peace settlement The controversial issue became the target of a war of words, with Sadat vowing that no Israeli, soldier or civilian, will remain in a Sinai returned to Egyptian control Israel's Prime Minister Menahem Begin, speaking with equal passion, declared: "The Israelis do not burn settlements. They build them and keep them." The negotiators also planned to the subzero cold Sunday.

discuss demilitarized zones, interna Brooks was left stranded along tional peacekeeping guarantees and the balance of forces on respective U.S. Highway 52 about 12:30 a.m. Sunday by two companions. The tem sides of the agreed frontier. Palestinians about 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday. He said Beem was taken before District Judge Robert Frederick for the issuance of an arrest warrant. Sheriff Rouse said Beem's father and stepmother live about 10 miles northwest of Winterset and that it is believed his mother lives at Knoxville Stump said be is proud of the agents who worked on the case, and he praised the sheriffs of Madison and Marion Counties, and their deputies, As the talks opened here, the overall Egyptian-Israeli dialogue identified, gave reporters copies of ablaze. College cets $2503 MOUNT VERNON. IA.

Cornell the text In it Weizman said Israel and Egypt will "examine arrangements for continued maintenance of the Israeli settlements." appeared deadlocked over the crucial issue of Palestinians and their demand for a homeland. Sadat is adamant in his support for self-determination for the 1.1 million Palestinians now under Israeli rule on the West Bank of the Jordan River for their cooperation. perature was about 20 below zero. He was charged with breaking down the front door of a mobile home owned by Karen Held about 13 miles north of Rochester. Brooks was given a 90-day sentence on the misdemeanor charge.

The sentence was sUyed for one year provided he make restitution. Pet monkey kills man KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (AP) A man died here Wednesday after being btttea in the throat by his pet monkey, hospital authorities said. There was no immediate Egyptian College has received a $25,009 bequest from the late Gladys Madren Smith of Des Moines, a Cornell graduate. Mrs. Smith died Dec.

It comment on the flap. Critical Controversy Before leaving Tel Aviv, Weizman defined the settlement controversy as "a critical one" and said Israel's overall aim was "to achieve security measures." Egyptian officials say they will be watching Israel's response as a test of the Begin government's willingness to reply to Sadat's solo peace initiative. The Sadat dnve is anathema in much of the Arab world where critics Shootout in Spain PAMPLONA, SPAIN (AP) Two The joint military committee and in the Gaza Strip. He sees this as leading to a Palestinian state linked convened at the Tahra Purity 1976. willing the remainirg interest alleged Basque guerrillas and a itta Jordan.

Begin has offered palace in a Cairo suburb. Weizman, Sadat Spanish policeman died in a shootout an 80-acre farm in Dallas County to Cornell. Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, and the Dea self-rule with a continued Israeli military presence and sovereignty to Wednesday in this city in nortnern Weizman entered the palm-lined Spain, police reported. be decided later. Moines Art Center.

palace compound after a 55-minute.

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