The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 39

,1 STAR h'' Aug. 2, 1073 -variety' -5C Tighter' keeping close eye on Reserve 1 keeps me going," she ald. forts, though. By STAN STRICK Minneapolis Star Staff Writer this tremendous natural resource will! be saved. I can't believe there can be any other outcome." Reserve's wastes on her window sill at home.

"I look at them every morning and get mad. It's what I believe that jus-be done here and She feels the trial might "I do signal the end of her ef- tice will I ip-'BOlOGNk 1 0LDGNA esse DupnnioR. UPOMOB i I It i4 MILD 'N' FRESH AS A COUNTRY MORN. DOrJT 7 men, chambers of commerce, newspapers, conservation groups anyone who would listen and could help. The most she got from officials were polite responses, she said.

A turning point came in 1970 when she was hoping to get 100 signatures on a petition to the President against Reserve's disposal method. She told a man in an airport waiting room about her crusade, others heard and by the time she, had flown to Green Bay, all her fellow passengers had signed. In 10 days she collected 5,182 signatures. When Reserve officials went to Washington to seek congressional support on the inside, Verna Mize was right behind them. She carried a bottle of taconite tailings which contrasted greatly with the samples left by Reserve, she said.

Soon after, six Great Lakes area senators urged the EPA to file suit against Reserve, she said. Recently, she's been working to get Michigan's congressional delegation, to urge that the government seek an injunction to -halt Reserve's dumping before the trial ends. So far, 15 of 21 Michigan congressmen have written letters asking just that. Mrs. Mize is a government secretary.

Her husband is a retired Marine. She fights nights, weekends and vacations, she says. She keeps a bottle of Verna Mize of Potomac, carried a picket sign in front of the Federal Courthouse yesterday morning. Then she spent the rest of the day in the fronfl row of the courtroom where the case against Reserve Mining Co. was getting underway.

Mrs. 1 has been waging a one-woman lobby against the dumping of taconite minings wastes Into Lake Superior for six years. The start of the trial was like her own day in court. She followed the testimony closely, sitting on edge of the bench. She sighed quietly in disagreement when a Reserve attorney made an objection.

"I don 't know why those people don't wear masks," she said during a recess. "I think they'd be ashamed to come in and show their faces." Her fight against Reserve began in 1967 when friends interrupted her bragging about the purity of Lake Superior water to tell her it was really polluted. "At that time, I didn't even know there were taconite tailings there," she said. All she knew were girlhood memories of the Up-p Michigan peninsula where she came to love the lake and its beauty, she said. She spent the next couple of years learning about the lake quality and writing letters to congress Good-tasting Wilson's Corn King Bologna is mildly seasoned, the way you like it best.

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Minneapolis Star Photo by William Seaman VERNA MIZE BEFORE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE One-woman lobby against Reserve STATION GIVES AWAY 3,642 GALLONS OF GAS CROMWELL, Conn. A service station owner ordered by the Internal Revenue Service to "return to the marketplace" $1,729 in overcharges has given customers 3,642 gallons of free gasoline. An IRS spokesman said Donald Gilletti had been charging two cents a gallon more than allowed under Phase Three price controls and was ordered to refund $1,729 to his customers. Gilletti put "free gas" signs in front of his station yesterday. For 15 minutes there was no response, he said.

Then customers poured in and in two hours he gave away $1,535 worth of gasoline. Gilletti said it would cost too much and take too long to lower prices by two cents until the amount was refunded, so he deciced to give the gas away. Gilletti said that if he gets more gas he will give away the $194 In no-charge gas he still "owes'1 the marketplace. (r -I it mm- Seal! Elizabeth Hawk GIVE YOUR HOME A NEW LOOK MOW! TW 1' Kaf-" Former Cuban President Carlos Socarras said in Miami that he and his politcal party "can't see a way of overthrowing the present government (of Cuba) by force." Lawyer Richard Hawk, counsel for convicted mass murderer Juan Corona, yesterday in San Francisco was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $3,000 for failing to file 1968 and 1969 tax returns. "When I was a Scout I could follow a trail for miles-depending on the wind and the perfume," Bob Hope told 30,000 Scouts and leaders at the National Scout Jamboree-West in Farragut State Park, Idaho Schorr, publicity director for Columbia Pictures who began her career in the silent movie era, announced yesterday she is leaving the company.

John Scali, who became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in February, yesterday started his first one-month term as president of the U.N. Security Council Former Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty has returned to law practice and says he will specialize in international law. Exiled Greek King Constantine and Queen Anne Marie will be guests of honor Aug. 23 at a banquet of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association in Hollywood, Fla.

Joanne Chesimard, a reputed member of the Black Liberation Army, which has been linked to several police killings, pleaded innocent yesterday in New York to charges of robbing a bank of $3,700. INTERNATIONAL Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese Politburo member who negotiated the Vietnam cease-fire with Henry Kissinger, yesterday in Hanoi called the agreement a "very great historic victory for our people and one of the biggest setbacks in the history of the United States." Queen Elizabeth, on an official visit to Canada, offered a personal tribute to Lester Pearson, the late prime minister and Nobel Prize winner, She described him as "considerate, tolerant and fair." Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako of Japan welcome President Nixon's invitation to visit the United States next year, according to an imperial (spokesman in Tokyo. But the three largest opposition parties In Japan they will fight to prevent the proposed exchange of late visits by Nixon and Hirohito. President Nikolai Podgorny of the Soviet Union has received from American Embassy officials small rork ample from the moon. -3 You will be pleased with what Olson's is offering during their August Sale.

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