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2B DES MOINES REGISTER Jan. 2, 1979 AP PHOTO Murder eiienprf (Znov At Ti I i l-v Wt ft A rodeo cowboy nament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Monday. The parade consisted of 60 floats, 22 bands Wonderful World 90th annual Tour official savs :1 only 12 dental charts from.Tet of missing persons. "We are urging people to come forward with dental charts if tbey have missing sons or brothers," Stein said. Stein noted that six of 24 bodies remain unidentified after they were unearthed in a similiar homosexual mass murder in Houston in 1973.

FIRE DESTROYS 2 BUSINESSES Tht RMDtr't lowi Ntw tarntat oj CLARINDA, IA. Fire destroyed two major businesses and damaged a third on the square in this Page county seat uia southwest Iowa Monday. DES MOINES ciifindi About 35 firemen from four depart ments battled the flames for more than three hour in blowing snow as the temperature hovered just above zero. Destroyed were Watkins Tru Value Hardware It Appliance at the southeast corner of the square East Main Street, and Graham's Dei partment Store, just west of tM hardware store. Art's Shoes, just west of Graham's, received water and smoke damage.

Several other stores on the square were filled with smoke. Initial estimates put the loss -at hundreds of thousands of dollars, but no firm figure could be obtained Monday afternoon. The fire is believed to have started in the basement of the hardware store. No cause was known. The fire was discovered about 11:31 p.m.

Sunday by Clarinda police. They had been alerted by members of the city's rescue squad who smelted smoke while making an emergency run. Firemen from Shenandoah, New Market and the Mental Health Institute helped Clarinda firefighters battle the blaze, which was brought under control about 2:30 a.m;. Monday. No one was injured.

Officials of the burned out stores could not be reached Monday for comment N.D. electric power gets boost WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus has announced the approval of a water service contract between the Bureau of Reclamation and Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck, N.D. It will allow the withdrawal of water from Lake Sakakawea for use in a proposed electric power generating facility. TODAY SHOP DOWN TOWN 10 to 5:39 2 congressmen oppose planned USDA changes acted alone, CHICAGO, ILL.

(AP) Suspected mass murderer John W. Gacy Jr. acted alone, an Illinois assistant state's attorney said Monday. News reports during the weekend said police were looking for a former employee of Gacy's as a possible accomplice or witness to some or all of the 32 murders Gacy has reportedly confessed to. Twenty-nine bodies have been found, including 27 unearthed at Gacy's brick ranch home In an unincorporated area just northwest of Chicago.

Gacy reportedly told authorities he also threw the bodies of five others into the Des Plaines River. Two bodies found in the river have been linked to the investigation. Gacy is charged with murdering 15-year-old Robert Piest of Des Plaines. Gacy reportedly told police he threw Pleat's body in the river, but the body hasn't been found. All Leads "At this point in the investigation there is nothing to indicate that Gacy acted in concert with anyone, however the police and our office continue to follow up any and all leads," said assistant State's Attorney Terry Sullivan, who Is in charge of prosecuting the case.

The reports of a manhunt for an accomplice or witness began after a victim of an alleged assault involving Gacy, Jeff Rignall, 27, said he was convinced Gacy had an accomplice. Rignall has charged in a police complaint that he was chloroformed and raped by Gacy last March. He was then driven back to near his home on the north side of Chicago and dumped out of the car. He has told reporters there were indications a second person was in the home during the alleged rape. "If there was an accomplice or at least an observer when Gacy was abusing me, why couldn't it have happened in other cases?" Rignall said.

One investigator, who asked not to be named, said "there have been several reports of persons surviving sexual attacks, like Rignall Maybe there was somebody else in the house. Maybe that's why they survived." Digging the yard at Gacy's home was to resume today. Excavation of the crawl space where 26 skeletal remains and bodies were found was completed Saturday. A 27th body, identified as John Butkovich, 18, of Lombard, who disappeared 3tt years ago, was removed from beneath the detached garage. His body was the first to be identified.

Identification Difficult Dr. Robert Stein, Cook County medical examiner, said be may have difficulty identifying the rest of the skeletons unless relatives of missing persons help. Dental charts of the 26 unidentified skeletons were completed over the weekend. But he said he has received ON (33 to 34). Now 6.80 styles.

Plain or stretch 38. Now J.47 Panty Y'n Talmadge said: "As we indicated previously, we wish to cooperate with you in every possible way to make government better." But, they added, the blueprints for the Agriculture Department "only accomplish a moving of organizational boxes" within government. "They will not save money," the Senate and House committee chairmen said. "They will not improve service. They will not be acceptable to ruftl America.

We respectfully urge, in the strongest possible terms, that you decide to reject these proposals." Thus, they said, a stronger Agriculture Department will be required, not one that is weakened by removal of some of its most important functions. Carter was told that the transfer of FmHA rural development programs to "an urban-oriented department would hamper efforts to develop rural areas" and that Congress provided the agency with a $12 billion mission "precisely because other agencies were not serving rural needs." A Calgary, Alberta, float entitled "The of Rodeo" travels feet first during the PAIR CHARGED WITH MURDER Tlw Rttitttr't law Ntwi Strvlc CHARLES CITY, IA. Two Nashua men were arrested on murder charges Monday in connection with the death of a woman whose frozen body was found along a Floyd County road Sunday afternoon. They were identified by Floyd County Sheriff L. L.

Lane as Shealy Wiles, 44, and Robert Hull, 28. The name of the woman was being withheld pending positive identification, Lane said. Investigators believe the woman had lived in Minnesota before moving to Iowa this summer. Lane said positive identification may be completed today. Lane said the cause of the woman death had not been determined.

The body was found southwest of the Floyd County community of Floyd shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday by a farmer. The victim, described as about 60 years old with a medium build and relatively short hair, was fully clothed. She was believed to be an acquaintance of Wiles and Hull. Lane said an autopsy would be performed.

Wiles and Hull were arrested about 3 a.m. Monday, and were arraigned in magistrate court at Charles City later in the day, where bond for each was set at $200,000. They are being held in the Floyd County Jail. Severed leg reattached for girl run over by train CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) A team of doctors worked eight hours to reattach the severed right leg of an 11-year-old Long Island girl run over by a train.

One of Elizabeth McFadden doctors said prospects for recovering use of the leg were good. THE ISSUES IN SOUTH AMERICA'S 'BEAGLE' DISPUTE BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (AP) Pope John Paul II has sent a Vatican diplomat to South America to try to prevent war between military governments in Argentina and Chile over 10 desolate islands and dozens of islets at the tip of the continent. Three of the islands are inhabited by eight Chilean families and their sheep. But the century-old quarrel also involves 48,000 square miles of Atlantic Ocean off their shores, the rich fish resources and possible oil deposits in those waters, conflicting claims in Antarctica to the south, national pride in two nations that never lost a war, and the threat of a wider conflict in South America. Here in question and answer form is the background: Question: What is the legal basis of the dispute? Answer: An 1881 border treaty gave Chile all islands south of the Beagle Channel to Cape Horn.

An 1893 protocol limited Chile's offshore claims to the Pacific and Argentina's to the Atlantic. Part of the dispute is over the length of the channel. What are the conflicting positions? Chile says the Beagle Channel, named for the vessel of the 19th-cen tury naturalist Charles Darwin, flows eastward into the Atlantic and that all 10 disputed islands lie directly south of it. They are Picton, Nueva, Lennox, Evout, Barnevelt, Freycinet, Deceit and the eastern parts of Wollaston, Herschell and Hornos. Argentina contends the channel does not flow directly north of these islands because it stops to the west of them at a place called Punta Navarro, near the Cape Horn Meridian.

This north-south line, at 67 degrees latitude west, divides the two oceans and forms the western edge of Argentina's claim. How does Chile justify territori' al claims in the Atlantic? Chile says the two-oceans clause of the 1893 protocol applied only to the two countries' border along the highest Andean peaks, and not to Tierra del Fuego where the oceans converge. What economic benefits are at stake? Disputed sea and undersea rights 200 miles south and east of the islands include access to protein-rich krill and other fish. The zone lies just south of Argentina's continental shelf which geologists believe holds the promise of oil production comparable to that of the North Sea. Tierra del Fuego's land wells produce 30,000 barrels of oil a day.

But the sea is so rough that it will take years to perfect the know-how to fish or drill in it economically. What about Antarctica? Argentina and Chile claim over lapping slices of Antarctica on the basis of their asserted continental boundaries. Along with the five other Antarctic claimant nations, they have agreed to hold off tapping the polar region's vast mineral wealth at least until 1991. Any joint decision on those claims after then will be affected by the current dispute. So why the urgency to settle it now? A 1967 gunboat incident in the Beagle Channel prompted Chile to seek binding British arbitration over ownership of Picton, Nueva and Lennox, inhabited by Chilean shepherds since 1892.

After several years of haggling, Argentina and Chile named international mediators who assisted the British crown in six years of study. The ruling made in May 1977 held that the islands were Chile's. Stunned Argentine leaders, expecting a compromise, declared the award "null" last January and began negotiating and sabre-rattling in an effort to get Chile to give it up. Why? The ruling upheld Chile's rationale for claiming the other islands, and Chile used the ruling to extend its claims 200 miles into the Atlantic. This was unacceptable to right-wing nationalists in Argentina's military administration, who claim Chile has expansionist designs and must be stopped.

What are the chances of a war? Both governments have sent their battle fleets to the Cape Horn region and bought new weapons Chilean military leaders, outmanned and outgunned 2 to 1 but favored by international law, say they will not start a war. However, Argentina accused them in December of putting artillery on some disputed islands in an effort to provoke one. The Argentines, apparently seeking to budge Chile from its legalistic position, have publicized their air-raid drills and massive troop movements to the border and have openly suggested armed occupation of the islands. Zcaring man killed by power line The tutor's lwa Ntwt Sarvfct ZEARING, IA. Dean B.

Jones, 18, of Zearing was killed early Sunday when he came in contact with a power line near here. A spokesman for the Story County sheriff said the car in which Jones was riding hit a utility pole, knocking down the power line. As Jones attempted to push the car from the scene, he tripped and fell, falling on the line. He was dead on arrival at a WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Chairmen of Congress' agriculture committees arc urging President Carter "in the strongest possible terms" to abandon reorganization plans that would transfer some key functions from the Agriculture Department.

Senator Herman Talmadge Ga.) and Representative Thomas Foley Wash.) told Carter that such a shift "would reduce the effectiveness of government service to the people and hamper efforts to meet the nation's growing needs for food" and other resources. The two commented in a letter to Carter dated Dec. 28 and made public Monday. They referred to reorganization plans reportedly under review that would strip the Agriculture Department of the Forest Service and some conservation and rural development programs. One plan calls for parts of the Soil Conservation Service to be put into a new Department of Natural Resources.

Another would transfer some rural development programs from the Farmers Home Administration, or FmHA as the agency calls itself, into a new Department of Community and Economic Development built around the existing Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sources said late last week that all or key parts of those proposals had been cleared by top members of the reorganization task force but had not yet been submitted to Carter. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said that the earliest the president is expected to announce any reorganization proposal is in his State of the Union address to Congress later this month. In their letter to Carter, Foley and panelist volvement in the assassination by the Secret Service, CIA and the FBI The committee believes the Soviet government and the Cuban government were not involved in the assassination. We also believe that anti-Castro Cuban groups and the national syndicate of organized crime were not involved." Myounkers JJ BUDGET STORE 1 SAVE 18 to 25 Investigate individuals, M1 GIRDLES AND BRAS FROM OUR REGULAR STOCK Sale ends Jan.

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This is an area which we believe further investigation is most warranted by the Department of Justice," said Representative Richardson Preyer N.C.), chairman of the Kennedy subcommit tee of the House assassinations committee. The committee is pressing the de partment to investigate what it says is evidence that both Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King were slain as a result of conspiracies. There was no response from the de partment over the New Year's weekend, "but Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti told the panel earlier that his agency was reluctant to reopen the two cases. In the synopsis of a final report to be issued this spring, the committee said Saturday that scientific evidence shows Kennedy "probably" was murdered in a crossfire of conspiring gunmen and that circumstantial evidence indicates a "likelihood" that King's murder also stemmed from a conspiracy. Referring to Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on Nov.

22, 1963, Preyer said in a statement: "Our committee believes that it was not a political conspiracy in the broad sense of the word. We exculpate all major groups and conclude that changing the institutions of government was not the goal of the possible conspirators. "We find definitely that there is not a scintilla of evidence implicating in- Budget Corsetry, Basement, Downtown, Estgte, Sioux City and Burlington Ftirwty. Phone 244-1112, ext 608, 455. On mail orders tdd 3 tax in Iowa, 754 postage tor one item, 15t each additional.

Please give charge account number. tS I i But, he added, the panel "does not preclude that individual members of organized crime or anti-Castro Cuban groups were involved." Delegate Walter Fauntroy D.C), chairman of the King investigation subcommittee, asserted Sunday that the Justice Department could prove in six months whether the two assassinations were conspiracies. Fauntroy told reporters the department has an obligation to make up for what the committee called past failures in both investigations. Representative Louis Stokes Ohio), chairman of the full assassinations panel, said he hopes the department will investigate new evidence that acoustics experts testified establishes "beyond a reasonable doubt" that a second gunman fired at Kennedy from a grassy knoll. The Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's death, had concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the killing.

Stokes said the Justice Department also has an obligation to Investigate circumstantial evidence that a $50,000 bounty led James Earl Ray to murder King in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Noting that the FBI misplaced evidence in 1974 of the possible King conspiracy involving the bounty, Stokes said: "I think they have an obligation to go back in and conduct the kind of investigation they should have conducted In the first place." Nevada hospital. A-.