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1 IRflaftro imws IS18 ancl QsCTs Marketplace section inside lb. I I Tl oggiebagV pet ordinance gets final OK "TO -V ft 1.S a i'Mt'i'mmn ft. m.vmn 1 The new language does not specify what kind of equipment must be carried by the dog owner. The park board reduced the maximum penalty for a violation to a petty misdemeanor, which carries the $100 fine. It had been a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum fine of $500, 90 days in jail or both.

Judges have been fining violators about $33. But because a misdemeanor carries a possible jail sentence, the process of handling misdemeanor charges is costlier and more complicated. Minneapolis is also considering reducing its penalty provision for violations of its license and leash ordinances to a petty misdemeanor. Alderman Walter Dziedzic said It costs the city about $75 to process a misdemeanor for a dog violation, even though judges impose fines of less than halfthat amount "It's costing us twice as much as we're collecting every time we enforce the law," he said. By changing the violation to a petty misdemeanor, tags can be issued similar to traffic tickets.

Dziedzic said the ordinance will speed the process and reduce costs. By Robert Wbereatt Staff Writer Dog owners will have to carry "a device or equipment" to pick up their animals' feces on park land under an ordinance given final approval by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Wednesday. The ordinance, which may give new meaning to the term "doggie bags," carries a fine of up to $100 for a violation. The ordinance is expected to become effective July 16, but dog owners will be given a few days to familiarize themselves with the requirement, according to Commissioner Naomi Loper. The requirement is an 1 amendment to the board's domestic-animal ordinance that already requires dogs to be leashed and bans them from swimming beaches, park waters and some other areas.

It applies to all domestic animals, but dogs "have presented the most frequent" and noticeable problems. Loper, who helped write the new provision, said she hopes it will work. "It made a difference in Edina," she said. "We hope by signs and handing out informational sheets that people will become aware of (the requirement)." 'V-- Park board appeals to schools to help coordinate services curtain rod Javelin-style at the wreckage of his home in Andover. Storm area residents warned on repair bids Jim Klobuchar Public confessions are usually messy and should be shunned as a matter of taste and breeding.

There are days, however, when the demands of dignity crumble before more powerful urges and the heart must release a primal cry of stress and subjugation. I don't know whether you have heard of Better Cheddars. Better Cheddars arrived on the supermarket shelves some time in the last year. This is an extraordinary feat in itself because no mathematics or principle of decency I know should have yielded room for yet one more box of junk food in America. I suppose I should apologize to the Nabisco bakers for calling Better Cheddars junk.

I use that language only as a form of self-flagellation, which is why I come to you today with my breast exposed toryour harpoons and your peanut shells. Wednesday I brought a box of Better Cheddars to work, acting under the thin deception that I was going to perform some research. I carried it in a plain brown bag, and I think both of us know why. If there were another way to fight my way out of this, I would spare you. Believe that It is a cyclical thing that began more than 15 years ago with taco-flavored Doritos.

It graduated to Cheese Nips, and I know now that open contrition is the only recovery. The psychologist has no trouble explaining my syndrome up to a point The sequence is this: In the late 1960s I removed 50 pounds of weight, sculpted a new physique and persona, and evicted almost all bad habits that could be identified. It was an absolute eruption of wholesomeness. Naturally I rejoiced, but you can't fool the shrinks. They would tell you this was compulsive behavior, that I cut a deal with my psyche and there would have to be some payout for it A few months later I began prowling the supermarkets for Doo-Dads.

You're not looking at a schlump here in basic psychology. I'm not so innocent that I would fall to recognize this as a simple outlet You -can take just so much sacrifice, and then you have to throw yourself into the flames of hedonism. For giving up fats, sugars, dripping butter, cigarettes and the wastrel life, my reward was a daily box of Doo-Dads. Never mind that Doo-Dads lacked nutrition and protein, and balanced these deficiencies with foodless calories. I just ran an extra mile at night It was a fair trade.

I didn't get fat and I didn't get hungry. Gradually I tired of Doo-Dads and my compulsion for junk subsided. Taco-flavored Doritos re-vived it and the orgy was on for another 18 months. Since that time I have consorted with Triscults, Wheat Thins, artificial onion rings and Screaming Yellow Zonkers. I saw them all for what they were.

Phases, a time of testing. I never felt really caged, though, until Better Cheddars. Nabisco describes its Better Cheddars as snack thins baked with sourdough. Did you hear it, Ole Dan? San Francisco style sourdough. They look like Rltz Crackers, but they're thinner and cheezy.

By the time I took my bike trip a couple of weeks ago, I was casing the Tom Thumb's and Kenny's, glowering at the clerks who said they never heard of Better Cheddars. At the Super One in Two Harbors, I noticed a tall and serious young man, one of the people's bicycle riders, observing me Klobuchar continued on page 4B The mill, open every day from May 15-Oct. 15, houses art photo and handicraft exhibits; the Terrace store reopened this year to sell the work of area artists. A site manager was hired Rogers George, a University of Minnesota graduate (In classical Greek, another distinction for Terrace). George's attention Saturday night was divided between the concert and wife Johellen, who was supposed to be having a baby right then.

(As of Wednesday morning, the baby bad not checked in. Just like those ticket- Batson continued on page 4B By Robert Whereatt Staff Writer The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board threatened briefly Wednesday to forbid the city's public school system to use park facilities unless the two systems agreed on ways to coordinate youth athletic programs and services. But park commissioners took a more conciliatory approach after they told that the lack of cooperation was not the fault of school board members, but of reluctant school administrators and staff members. The commissioners also were told that if they flex their muscles too much, the school board could shut school gymnasium doors to the park board's basketball program. School desegregation case won't be appealed The near collision arose from recommendations by a park board citizens advisory committee that the school and park boards "coordinate athletic programs in order to eliminate duplication of services and competition for participants and facilities." The park board adopted the recommendation.

But to. get action, said commissioner Dale W. Gilbert, the Minneapolis School Board would have to adopt a similar policy and direct its staff to work on it Meetings with the park board staff and school staff members have not resulted in discernible progress, according to Charles D. Reite, a member of the citizens advisory commit- Parks continued on page 12B made no mention of the other original plaintiff, the Committee for Integrated Education. But that group has not played a strong role in recent years, said Attorney Charles Quain-tance who has handled the case for the plaintiffs since It began in 1971.

The defendants, officials of the Minneapolis School District, made it clear that they had no intention of appealing because the judge granted what they wanted dismissal of the case. The court case did not begin desegregation. The school board had begun a limited desegregation effort a few months before the case was filed. But after Larson decided In 1972 that the board was guilty of Intentional segregation, there were many subsequent actions to expand busing and rearrange students to achieve raclal balance. 1 Staff Photo by Charles Bjorgen Jason Gauthler, 6, tossed aside a New standards of building blamed for storm damage By Randy Furst Staff Writer Dan Gustafson, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, viewed the devastation in Andover Wednesday, and said he thinks that some of the houses would have sustained less damage if they had been built by industry standards of 40 years But building officials In Andover and Champlln, which received some of the heaviest storm damage Sunday, say construction is just as good as it ever was.

"I'm not criticizing the workmanship," said Gustafson, the former head of the Minneapolis Building Trades Council, "because a worker can only perform with the materials he's given." Dave Almgren, a building official for Andover, said the powerful winds that went through the city would have caused damage regardless of the weight of the bouse. "I don't know what's going to stand up in that particular wind," he said. Buildings continued on page 4B City, county and state officials will meet today to seek a solution to the Prior Lake flooding problem. Page 4B. He was the official keeper of the rain gauge.

At one concert somebody set up the rain gauge upside down. This time sponsors wanted a reliable man. They picked Morris, the Pope County extension agent I was his assistant, in charge of shooing kids who sneaked up behind him. We felt deeply honored. Concert time was 7:30 p.m.

half an hour away. If Morris measured five-hundredths of an Inch of rain by 8 o'clock, the rain insurance would pay off. With that sky It looked like a sure thing. wrecked have been taken in by friends or relatives, Wojack said. The Red, Cross reported 20 homeless families checking in to its emergency service centers in Ham Lake and Andover.

They advise others needing -emergency assistance to call 434-5522 or 757-4226. The Red Cross also has been operating mobile vans in the storm area to distribute food to people working on their homes. The National Guard is operating water trucks in three of the hardest hit areas: Andover, Hiawatha Beach in Ham Lake and Coon Lake Beach in East Bethel. Since Sunday night the trucks have dispensed 1,200 gallons of water, mainly to residents with no electricity to draw water out of their wells. The Anoka Electric Coop, which serves Andover and Ham Lake, reported 3,000 customers still were without electricity yesterday.

Most of these will have their power restored by Friday night, but some families in more remote areas might have to wait until next week, accord- ting to Kirby Posthuma of Anoka i Northern States Power Co. reported about 2,000 customers without electricity, but their service would be restored by this morning. The company has been slowed down by "jungles of downed trees," said spokesman Wayne Kaplan. By Kevin Diaz Staff Writer V''- Officials presiding over the recovery from Sunday's storm are warning owners of damaged homes to be wary of unlicensed contractors soliciting work. Dave Almgren, a building official in Andover, said "roughly half a dozen contractors" who have solicited work there are not licensed.

"I've talked to some contractors and told them they must take out a license and certificate of Insurance." Almgren said. "All in all, I believe it will work out alright" To make sure, Anoka County workers distributed flyers Wednesday to storm-hit residents warning them to deal only with people who have adequate references. Champlln officials in Hennepin County plan to mail a newsletter to residents this week with a similar warning. Persons with questions are advised to contact the Consumer Division of the state's Attorney General's Office at 296-3353, or the Better Business 1 Bureau of Minnesota at 646-7700. For the most part, residents, local governments and volunteer groups have united to recover from the esti-' mated $20 million of storm damage, said Bruce Wojack, Anoka County civil defense coordinator.

"The cooperation has been unreal," he said. Most of those whose homes were All around Terrace all over Minnesota, in fact winds were blowing, clouds were boiling and thickening, lightning cracking, thunder growling, picnics breaking up in soggy despair, boats twisting at their moorings and filling with water. So ferocious bad the weather been, so hair-raising the incessant radio bulletins, that only about 3,500 concertgoers had come, a couple of thousand fewer than last year. (The count was still unofficial Wednesday because some ticket money still had to be dropped off at the store. People holding it were catching up on haying.) The plaintiffs in the Minneapolis school desegregation case have decided not to appeal last month's decision by UJS.

District Judge Earl Larson that ordered an end to the 12-year-old lawsuit statement from one of the plaintiffs, the Minneapolis branch of the National. Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said the branch had decided against an appeal to the Eighth US. Circuit Court of Appeals, which would have kept the case open. But It added that the branch would "continue to monitor the Minneapolis Public Schools' efforts and progress toward achieving and sustaining quality, integrated education and will take whatever future measures, Including legal action, to accomplish these goals." The statement from the NAACP Keeper of Larry Batson the rain gauge got orchestra through the evening Terrace, Minn. For a man about to make his debut with an internationally renowned orchestra, Jack Morris was remarkably cool.

Seventy-five members of the Minnesota Orchestra were warming up. Morris sat on a bale of hay, leaned back and checked the sky. His instrument was behind him on a tree stump. Last year Morris and Palmer Arness had rassled hay bales into place in the reserved seating section right up till concert time. For this, the third annual Terrace Mill Concert, Morris had been promoted.

In three years the concerts have made Terrace, pop. 31, as well and widely known as any hamlet in Minnesota. Saturday there were visitors from eight nations and 18 states. In 1979 a group headed by Bruce Boraas formed Terrace Mill Foundation, bought the old mill and began to restore it But they realized that it Is not enough for a town to have a history. It needs a present too.

To attract visitors, something has to be happening. There are spring and fall festivals, a Christmas celebration, other events. X. I.