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III Hill ii n- 4 Minnesota boxing The sport has withered and some say it's dead 1 They lose apair1D 1A. Metro Thursday August 15, 1985 OACnOnV 25C Sincte copy Minneapolis and LIU LJ tn in Star VotanalV7Nuntoar133 Copyright 1986 Mkinaapolia Star and Tribune Company Sutton APart 1 ad chair in luMngo'i arafo IRaiirdoEni 4 9 1 4 later in the evening and dumped it in a ditch about 25 miles away. The severely decomposed body was found by a farmer July 6, about six weeks after her disappearance. The complaint said that authorities found an awl in Rairdon's tool box and revealed, for the first time, that the medical examiner had found a puncture wound in the girl's abdomen and a corresponding puncture hole In her clothing. Sarah's disappearance had led to extensive searches of the area and prompted a huge outpouring of community assistance.

Underwood residents made a massive effort to disseminate information about her disappearance throughout the country and raised more than $6,000 In reward money In an attempt to find her. John Rairdon was instrumental In that effort At one point, he Issued a public plea for anyone responsible to "spare her from any more harm let her go. "Stop and think," he said, "what you'd feel like if It was your sister or a close friend." Ralrdra continued on page 8A Associated Press Vietnam returns remains of missing Americans American servicemen and women saluted ths flag-adorned boxes names Wednesday In a ceremony at the Hanoi airport Vietnam also saW to contain the remains of 29 Americans listed as missing In ac- Indicated acceptance of U.S. proposal that senior officials visit Ha-tJoA In the Vietnam War. The remains were turned over by the Viet- noi for talks on a speedy resolution of the MIA Issue.

(Details on 13 First Bank System is expected to sell some rural affiliates By Jim Parsons and Jae Kimball Staff Writers John Rairdon was charged Wednesday with killing his 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Ann Rairdon, after police said he told them he had been sexually abusing her for five years but that she had begun to resist him. Sarah was reported missing in June while walking to her rural home from school In the small western Minnesota community of Underwood. After being questioned for five days, according to the criminal complaint filed against him yesterday, Rairdon told of picking up his daughter and driving to an abandoned farm and said that Sarah resisted his sexual advance. Police said that Rairdon told them that Sarah began to resist his advances about two months before her disappearance. Police said Rairdon, 38, told them that the two struggled and that he took an awl from his tool box and thrust the awl into her stomach, then struck her with his arm, knocking her to the ground.

She apparently bled to death. The complaint states that Rairdon hid the body at the site but returned Spectrum to abandon pay-TV service By Colia Covert Staff Writer The Minnesota Twins and Minnesota North Stars have decided not to renew their agreements with Spectrum pay-TV, prompting the company to give up its three-year fight to establish a profitable subscription TV service in the Twin Cities. In October, the station will drop its scrambled broadcasts of local sports and feature films and turn to commercial programming carried on an unscrambled signal available to all area viewers. The decision follows the termination of Spectrum Sports' arrangement with the Twins and North Stars for broadcast rights to the teams' home games. The station's sports broadcasts will cease Oct 6, with the last Twins game of the season.

Movies will be phased out at midnight Sunday Sept 29. Bruce Brisbine, the station's vice president and general manager, said the decision to discontinue scrambled broadcasting resulted from the loss of their broadcast deal with the teams. Spectrum subscribers were offered either the movie package or the sports package (which includes most Twins and North Stars home games) for $19.95 a month, or both for $29.90. An additional package of Spectrum continued on page 17A lip iM i nities suffer when struggling farmers are unable to meet loan payments. Those banks also face difficulty in collecting loans made to local businesses that find themselves struggling for survival when farmers' Income dwindles.

The effect of those troubles on rural banks are demonstrated vividly In First Bank System's earnings for the first half of this year. The company Is making almost all of its money from its Twin Cities banks particularly the two largest The metropolitan division, made up of 15 banks in the Twin Cities area, boosted its earnings to $67 million, a 40 percent Increase over the first First Banks continued on page 11A Popular hair salon's abrupt closing jolts clients, staff By Paul McEnroe StaffWrlter The uptown punkers with drooping spikes went there seeking gel. It was a favorite of Kenwood matrons who needed their roots retouched. Yuppies in south Minneapolis went there to be waxed. But no more.

Entourage Hair Design by several competitors' estimates one of the Twin Cities' top five salons is closed and, as Its telephone recording says, "Steve and Mark have left town all appointments are voided." Closed continued on page 6A Vis' tll ii Mmmm' Staff Photo by Rob Levine Hormel meatpackers at the Austin Labor Center cast their ballots on the company'a final offer Wednesday. In reference to the proposed concessions, one member said it's got to stop somewhere. Austin workers vote to reject final Hormel Copyright 1083 WnnaapoNa Star and Tribune By Joe Blade Staff Writer First Bank System, intends to announce plans today to sell a number of its rural banks, according to government sources. Officials of the Minneapolis bank holding company would not reveal in advance of the announcement Just how many banks will be put on the block, which banks they will be or the reason for the decision to sell. First Bank System owns 78 banks in five states.

However, continuing feebleness In the agricultural economy would appear to be the reason behind the sale. Banks located In farm commu- Almanac Thursday, August 15, 1985 227th day; 138 to go this year Sunrise: 6: 14. Sunset: 8:20 Today's weather Cooling It'll be a bit nippy tonight with temperatures hovering around the low 50s. During the day it will be partly with a high in the 70s. Inside Rate-increase proposal? Mayor Don Fraser is expected to recommend next week that the city property-tax rate be increased for the first time since 1977 In order to offset the loss of several million dollars In federal funds.

Page IB. Index Business 6-1 1B Obituaries 60 Cornice 4.5C Theaters 2.3C Corrections 3A TV, Radio Crossword 8-190 Variety 1-8C Editorial 18.19A Weather 2B Classified ads 8-190 News general 372-4141 Classified 372-4242 1,261 -96 contract Vice President Charles Nyberg said, "So be it We'll do what we have to do." Nyberg said the margin of rejection suggested that union members believe the company will succumb to their demands. "They could not be further from accuracy," he said. "The company definitely is not cav- Hormel continued on page 14A Yuml Ochial liMllPr By Dave Hage and Paul Klauda Staff Writers Austin, Minn. Union meatpackers in Austin threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, rejecting the final contract offer of Geo.

A. Hormel ft Co. 1,261 to 96. Union members could be on the picket line in Austin by midnight Friday, said James Guyette, presi From her hospital bed, Yuml Ochial, 26, an off-duty JAL flight attendant told JAL officials that after hearing the noise, the celling above the lavatories came off, the oxygen masks came down and an announcement came on for people to put on their face masks. She said the plane began to sway and weave wildly add went Into "a dent of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers.

"You gotta stop it somewhere," union member Steve Bartley said in a reference to the company's proposed concessions. "If we don't draw the line now, we're Just going to have problems all along the next few years." When informed of the vote, Hormel steep descent" "It seemed like it was straight down," Ochial said. going The account came as searchers at the crash site found the rear right door that the Pilot in an emergency communication with the control Crash continued on page 10A Crash survivor describes 35 minutes of turmoil bef ore plane hit mountain From News Services Tekye, Japan Thirty-five minutes before a Japan Air Lines Jumbo jet plunged into a mountain with 524 people aboard, there was a "big noise," a sudden drop in cabin pressure, and wild pitching and yawing, one of the four survivors said Wednesday. 372-4343 4 i Circulation.