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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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vi 1 FOR LAND, BUILDINGS 10 MlNNtAPOU5 1 June 9, 1968 Plan to Speed 'U' to Ask for $100 Million $151 million, about $15 mil new buildings, including $10.1 million for the first phase of an animal science lion, about $15 million more than the 1967-68 but- In appoint- is rnenis niaae yesterday, the facility and $8.8 million for a biological science facility. The requests for Duluth call for $9.3 million for buildings and $650,000 to add 31 acres to the campus. learn told regents the requests fit into their ten-year program, which proposes expenditures of about $300 million through 1977. THE REGENTS also approved a '1968-69 budget of Cases Called Unfair to Poor A proposal to streamline the handling of minor ordinance and traffic violations, proposed before the Minne-' sota State Bar Association, might deny indigents the right to counsel, Douglas Heidenrich said Saturday. Heidenrich, dean of the William Mitchell College of Law, was among lawyers who rejected the proposal at the association's sessions in DSfy I regerts named A.

Roland H. Mmm Abraham di-Abranam rector of the University Agricultural Extension Service, effective July 1. SALES OPPORTUNITY WITH A FUTURE University of Minnesota regents agreed Saturday to ask the State Legislature for $100 million for construction and land acquisition on its Twin Cities, Duluth and Morris campuses during the coming beinnium. The requests, including some $84.9 million for the Twin Cities campuses alone, will be presented to the Legislative Building Commission June 27-28. The university was given about $22 million by the Legislature for building during the present biennium when its requests for the Twin Cities campuses alone totaled $57.3 million.

THE PROPOSALS approved yesterday' included $11.2 million for the Duluth campus. The regents already have $4.4 million for the Morris campus. The requests for Twin Cities campuses include: West Bank $2.2 million in new construction and $1.9 million for land acquisition. Elmer Learn, assistant to University President Malcolm Moos, said that the Minneapolis City Council's recently proposed new approach to the 10th Av. bridge' "will seriously complicate our planning in that area." East Bank $25.4 million for new buildings, including $10.4 million for the first phase of a proposed $20-mil-lion engineering complex, and $1.1 million for land acquisition.

St. Paul $26.1 million for St. Paul Friday. HOWEVER, members approved a resolution to impose fines of $300 instead of the present maximum of $100 on persons convicted of drunken driving, of driving under suspension or revocation of their licenses and of Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Donald Black APPLIANCE STORE MERCHANDISE WAS SOLD AT AUCTION SATURDAY IN ST. CLOUD alter Henn held miction; his brother nnrl the store's owner, Roy Henn disappeared Sept.

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1301 Harmon Minneapolis leaving accident scenes at; which injury or death re- suited. The unsuccessful proposal would have placed lesser traffic offenses and other or-dinance violations in a sepa-j rate category, eliminating jail sentences and jury trials, "My understanding of it is! Possessions of St. Cloud Man Who Vanished Sold at Auction By MARILYN HOEGEMEYER Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Walter Benn, 68, a retired foreman of transportation for Northern States Power Co. in St. Cloud, has no deaP''r Wfc that the resolution would try to avoid the administration problems and expense of a trial," Heidenrich said yesterday.

However, he added, the Minnesota Supreme Court provides for legal counsel at state expense if it is requested by a defendant who can not afford his own lawyer. "I'M NOT completely sure what hap-, pened to his ST. CLOUD, Minn. Everything that ever belonged to Roy Benn, who mysteriously disappeared last September, was auctioned off here Saturday from the door of his appliance repair shop. The building, lone, win- "AFTER ALL, I've been retired three years.

I and the president of Northern States Power are both century babies, you know. I've got too much else to do civic stuff, fishing and hunting." He discounts rumors that his brother may have gotten fed up, too, and just left for Florida or somewhere. "He had a one-man business here. He couldn't be gone over two davs and he brother, suspects foul play. "I 'v cot dowless and weatherbeaten, i posters on his used to belong to ltammsCar and him Brewing Co.

The thick-walled all over the stuff," Walter said, looking at the furniture and appliances stacked around the lot. "He had so much, he couldn't find stuff. There's so much, all the same things. I hauled for two hours (from Roy's St. Cloud apartment to the repair shop) after the van left with a load." He and Roy weren't especially close, but saw each other about eight times a year, Walter said.

"We visited back and forth about like you do he dropped in occasionally and so did I. We were the only ones left out of seven brothers." Walter looked out at the crowd. His wife said she saw a few familiar faces, but many were probably just "curiosity people." THE SALE was going well. A bunch of indoor Christmas lights had sold for a drill press for $70, a set of china bowls for $11. "You know, people thought it was kind of funny having this sale.

I don't need anything that's sold here or the money. That's why I got the bank to handle it," Walter said. The money will be placed in a trust fund in a St. Cloud bank, he said. nrn had that apartment house to United States.

I've got a $500 Benn reward out for finding him. I'm going to add another $500 for the car. We figure if we find the car, we'll find him." WALTER organized the public auction so he could atop paying taxes on the property. "I figured on doing it (holding the auction) all winter. I should have done it last fall but it turned cold and I just left it go." After his brother disappeared last fall, Walter tried to run the business.

Two weeks was enough, he said. structure was used to store ice and beer before the days of modern refrigeration. The building was full of appliances including refrigerators which were moved outside for the auction, BENN, 60, had worked in the shop the day he disappeared, last Sept. 24. He was last seen in his car near a supper club at Sauk Rapids and was believed to have been carrying a large sum of money.

His brother, Walter, said he might have been carrying between $500 and $700, "but his lawyer says up to $5,000." take care of yet besides." Roy Benn had purchased a 12-unit apartment house in Sauk Rapids just six weeks before he disappeared. BUT YESTERDAY Walter was concerned about the sale of the equipment, tools, furniture, household goods, clothing and just plain' junk that Roy had accumulated during his life-time. "He had three other homes, always bought them and everything inside. The last one, up the river, he bought the same way. There's so much whether the proposal would not have been unfair to the indigent the person who could not pay his Heidenrich said.

"It would still be a situation where you would have to provide counsel." The resolution, also opposed by Joseph Summers, St. Paul corporation counsel, would have provided that a person financially unable to pay his fine be required to "work it off" in custody at the rate of $5 a day. Heidenrich had stated that he could see little difference between imposing a sentence that carried an optional jail term or one that required incarceration until the fine was paid or worked off. Rebel Students Point to Tito's 'Action' Belief BELGRADE, Yugo slavia (UPI) Students occupying Belgrade University Friday appealed to President Josi'pj I 3 Rroz lito to support their campaign for widespread reform of Yugoslavia's Communist society. liffllflfliifOl 13 (ipJ) I i 'We have initiated our struggle following your belief that it is necessary to pass from words to action," the told Tito in a letter.

The students said their goals were a "genuine carrying' out and development of self-management in all fields of 6ur society, steady and energetic realization of social an4 economic reforms, improvement of the lot of the working man in our society and strengthening his role." The Belgrade Communist party committee ordered "wprkers' guards" created in all -factories and offices of the Yugoslav capital, apparently as a precaution against student unrest spreading to the workers, as it did in France. Guard Convoys Begin Wednesday National Guard convoys will be on Minnesota highways from Wednesday to next Sunday when advance MM Stearns Foster bedding sets reduced for 2 days only! $70 $OQ Now Dayton's has a copy machine for your home! smoo'l too sp' 995 Because we buy in sets, you get extra savings on a matching Steams Foster mattress and box sprma! Smoofh-top Diplomat. Firm mattress and box scrmq, twm or full Each piece, $46; set, $79 Quilt-top Ambassador. xtro-firm construction, twin or full size. Each piece, $59; set, $99 Hurry in and save at the Sleep Shop, an stores.

units begin moving into Camp Ripley, Little Falls, for; summer training. The movements will be completed at the camp about i 4:30 p.m. Sunday. I The main columns will I move through Taylors from 7:30 a.m. until I 11:50 a.m.

Sunday, arriving I at Camp Ripley from 1:50 to! 4:05 p.m. i Units originating in llli-' nois will enter Minnesota on Mwy 8 at; Taylors Falls, Hwv. 65 Albert Lea and Hwy. 52 -af Harmony. Osceola to Get Loan WASHINGTON, D.C.

(IPI)j Osceola, will receive a $655,000 federal loan from the Department of Housing; Copymote tantns'u. dry phoio-copier from Graphic Products, Simple enough for the whoie family to use, and costs less than 10c a copy! Dupiica'es anything black-and-white reproductions of type, drawings, halftones in a matter of minutes. 29.95 Copymate paper for 33 copies, 2.99 Coll 339-0112, or stop for a dem. onstration nt Cameras, all stores. find Urban Development for hospital accommodations, including 18 beds and improved laboratories, it was announced Friday..

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