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Trade policy control aired WASHINGTON (AP) State Department officials say they are winning their fight to keep the Commerce and Treasury departments from taking over the major role in U.S. foreign economic policy. Already faced with the loss of much decision-making power in international political matters, the State Department has been hard-pressed by the Senate as well as Commerce and Treasury to hang on to its con- trol over overseas-trade policy. But officials at State now say they are much more relaxed and indicate confidence a study nearing completion by the Of- fice of Management and Budget will recommend a major deci- sion-making role tor the department in economic af- fairs. The OMB review began six months ago after Sen.

Warren Magnuson, in- troduced a bill to establish an "International Commerce Service" within the Commerce Department that would ef- fectively take all trade matters out of State's hands. In addition, the Treasury De- partment, particularly when run by John Connally, indicated it wanted control over foreign economic policy. And there was a sign the White House was interested in possibly setting up an in- dependent agency to operate in the trade area much as Henry Kissinger's National Security Council now runs foreign policy generally. In the face of these cross-cur- rents, all the interested agencies sought the OMB study and Magnuson agreed to hold up action on his bill until the review is completed. The reasons behind the new State Department optimism stem from several factors.

For one, Connally is no longer in the government. Regarding the Commerce Department, sources at State say the initial drive came from the then-Secretary Maurice H. Stans who, they maintain, was dogmatic in his belief that the State Department was in- capable of handling economic matters. The new Commerce secre- tary, Peter Peterson, is de- scribed on the other hand as pragmatic and cooperative in seeking a genuine solution to the problems facing American trade and overseas economic policy. There is no doubt, the experts say, that there was a lack of direction as well as divisions of responsibility, interagency ri- valry and not enough emphasis on economic policy in State.

The most-promising foreign- service officers fought to stay out of the economic sections. But now, particularly since the department was awakened by the Connaliy-Stans attacks, the emphasis is shifting, the sources say, and economics is fast becoming a very important area. Architect establishes office in city Roger J. Keiser, AIA, an architect-planner, has opened an office at 103 N. Cascade in Fergus Falls.

He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where he received his bachelor of architecture degree. He was selected a member and officer of Tan Sigma Delta, a national honor society of architecture and the allied arts. Keiser is a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects, the Minnesota Society of Architects and the Construction Specifications Institute. He is a registered architect in Min- nesota and is certified for reciprocal registration in all states and foreign countries. Keiser was one of the project architects for the million Cedar-Riverside housing project on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota.

He specifically designed the car parking ramp there, the largest ramp in the state. He was also project architect for Chrysler City, the largest automotive agency in the nation, and has designed schools, a library, post office, recreation complex and several other housing, shopping and residential projects in the Twin Cities area. His firm in Fergus Falls will offer full architectual and engineering services for all types and sizes of projects. He, his wife, Judith, and children Paige and Stephanie are now at home at 821 W. Laurel.

ROGER J. KEISER Enemy Situation rough for food retailers By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Co. released its quarterly state- ment a few days ago. While the results weren't what a food shopper might have guessed, they were exactly what com- petitors had forecast: A big This isn't the only food chain casualty either. The red ink is showing on the hides of a few other retailers also, as they too become caught up in the con- sumer-business-government battle to restrain rising food prices.

Few shoppers are aware of the vicious price competition that has now enveloped many food retailers and, fur- thermore, they hardly care except when it means a bargain to them. Most shoppers feel the bargains are too few. This may be so, but the fact is that most chains now make less than one cent on each dollar of sales, and some earn less than one-half cent. AP last year made one-quarter cent on each dollar. Now the political ads start coming By JAY SHARBUTT AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) The opening round in the time-buy- ing presidential campaign on network television began at NBC the night of Sept.

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Republicans with a fine sense of irony launch their first 30- minute salvo for President Nix- on Wednesday night at ABC. Network officials say the time was bought by "Democrats for Nixon." Regardless of who buys what, it marks an escalation in the election-year barrage of paid political ads. After Nov. 7, the usual blandishments for soap, beer and cars may actually ap- pear soothing. A spot check of NBC, CBS and ABC last week showed that the Democrats and Republicans already had bought or com- mitted themselves to buying more than seven hours of net- work time by election day.

It may not sound like much, but most of the ads are five- minute spots 38 for the GOP, 37 for the Democrats and have been liberally sprinkled throughout day and evening viewing schedules. You can't miss them regard- less of which way you turn. Tonight, for example, those tuned into NBC's Monday night movie will see a five-minute McGovern ad when the show is over. It'll happen again Tuesday with a five-minute Nixon ad after CBS' Tuesday night movie and a McGovern spot of equal duration after NBC's "First Tuesday." If you miss that, Wednesday offers Nixon's 30-miimte paid campaign on ABC at 10 p.m., backed up by the OOP's pur- chase of five minutes on CBS after "Cannon." It goes on and the advertising time figures compiled in a spot check of the networks are only preliminary; they'll grow like Topsy. Right now, the figures show the Democrats neck and neck with the wealthier Republicans in paid network ads three hours, 45 minutes for the GOP and only two minutes less for the Democrats.

Both sides appear to have in- vested the heaviest at CBS; the GOP has bought two hours and 10 minutes there so far and the Democrats two hours and 45 minutes, including McGovern's Sunday show. ABC is in second place with 61 GOP and 37 Democratic minutes. NBC is third, with the GOP committed for 34 minutes and the Democrats for 21. The poor showing of AP didn't develop overnight. For several years it has been caught in a sales-profit bind that it couldn't break.

Outdated and poorly situated outlets, combined with hidebound ways, contributed. The annual reports tell the story. In the fiscal year ended Feb. 28, 1970 the chain reported sales of $5.75 billion. A year later the figure was million lower.

And on Feb. 28 this year it fell to $5.51 billion. Profits went the same way, from $53.3 million in 1970 to $50.1 million in 1971 to $14.6 million this year. Since Febru- ary it has lost $41.6 million. Not all chains have had the same poor fortune, and this fact has much to do with the fierce competition.

Safeway Stores, Inc. pushed its profits up to $0.2 million in 1971 from $68.9 million a year earlier. Safeway's sales volume prob- ably is even more significant. In 1970 it reported sales of 54.9 billion. Last year the figure jumped to $5.36 billion.

Volume this year is soaring, and Safe- way has already made ten- tative claims to being Amer- ica's No. 1 food retailer. Thus goaded nationally and locally, AP is counter- attacking. While its profits are down, it sales have turned. In the six months through August they rose 12.3 per cent to $3.1 billion, largely because of WEOs.

In May 1971 AP opened an outlet in Pennshaugen, N.J. that it called a Warehouse Economy Outlet, otherwise known by the acronym WEO. It was designed to sell fast-mov- ing items at a low markup. The lessons learned there were quickly applied to many other stores. The acronym was borrowed too, although it is now applied to the label "Where i i a Sometime this year all AP stores will be WEOs.

In effect, AP seems to be- lieve it has magically derived wisdom from the absurd that you can lose on every sale but make it up in volume. It is los- ing heavily, and doing so with enthusiasm, vigor and an un- swerving dedication. Clearly, it feels that imme- diate losses will be insignificant in comparison to long-term Continued from page 1 Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnamese diplomats. Haig is due to return to Washington Wednesday to re- port to Kissinger and Nixon on his conference with Thieu, sources said.

North Vietnamese insistence on ousting Thieu from a future coalition govern- ment in South Vietnam is one of the stumbling blocks at the Paris talks. The enemy attacks occurred during a 24-hour period ending Monday evening, South Vietna- mese military headquarters said. A spokesman, Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien, said it was the highest number since last July 25 when 103 were reported.

Hien said he was unable to explain the sudden uprsurge of attacks after a week in which Communist-led action fell to its lowest level since the start of the offensive last March 30. Striking in an arc ranging from 60 miles north of Saigon to 20 miles east and 40 miles southeast, Communist-led forces heavily shelled a govern- ment ranger unit, attacked a convoy moving on a secondary highway and blew up a fuel tank and pipeline. Moving south into the Mekong Delta, the Communists cut Highway 4, the rice supply line to Saigon, by blowing up a small bridge 15 miles southeast of Can Tho, the capital of the delta. Can Tho is 80 miles below Saigon. U.S.

bombers kept up their raids in the Saigon region, hitting within 17 to 30 miles of the capital against troop posi- tions and staging areas. Hien said the bodies of 40 enemy sol- diers were found only 17 miles east of Saigon after a B52 raid In Cambodia, government troops Sunday cleared Highway 2 all the way down to Takeo, 40 miles south of Phnom Penh, but Communist troops again cut Route 5, Cambodia's vital "Rice Road," the high com- mand reported Monday. Command spokesman Maj. Chang Song said an airborne brigade from Phnom Penh linked with the defenders of be- sieged government positions along an 18-mile strip of High- way 2 beginning at Samrong Yong, lifting the pressure and clearing the road at least to military traffic. gains.

If stores are made more efficient, if they accommodate critical consumers, if they offer real bargains, then customers should flock back. And they are. AP can afford to wage such a battle because, despite its troubles in recent years, its debt structure and cash posi- tion are extremely healthy. Quite likely it can absorb losses that would destroy smaller companies. It is that latter possibility that could spring some reper- cussions for AP even before it can completely carry out its plans.

Some competitors are all but claiming AP's practice constitutes unfair, maybe ille- gal, competition. One, the Bohack based in New York, has called the big chain's moves desperate and it placed blame for its own losses on the larger chain's "cut- throat" practices. Authorities seek slayers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Authorities were continuing their search today for two men suspected in connection with the shooting death of a veteran Minneapolis police lieutenant Saturday night. Police said Lt.

Inno H. Suek, 42, was killed by a gunshot in the chest fired by one of two men who were in the process of robbing Hum's Liquor Store in South Minneapolis. Suek was in an off duty ca- pacity but in uniform at the time of the incident, authorities said. Police described the two men being sought as white males between the ages of 25 and 30. John Wayne gives funds TUCSON, Ariz.

(AP) Actor John Wayne, who won a bout with cancer, has to the University of Arizona's cancer-detection fund. Wayne made his donation during a brief trip to Tucson last week where he watched a friend, Chic Iverson, receive a masonic degree. N. Viet Continued from page 1 ed as many as 40 trucks. They seemed extremely vul- nerable, but Charles com- mented, "We could never see those things from the air.

And the moment someone comes down to get a better look them blam, man." This simple roadside cover hid ammunition caches up to 000 cases in size, according to my fast counts from the moving automobile. Particularly no- ticeable were concentrations of supplies at bombed-out railway crossings. In the evenings as the trucks began to move south loaded with supplies, the whole oper- ation reminded me of a huge glacier forcing itself slowly but surely down a mountain valley. Reflecting on the scenes one evening at a rest house in Ninh Binh province, Gartley said, "I used to fly over this place and it seemed uninhabited. But look, it is teeming with life." Gartley later said, "All the pilots really have for targets are the cities, the bridges and the railways.

Yet the North Vietnamese move out from the cities and use these back roads." Ellas said, "It is technology against ideology. I just wonder how far technology can go be- cause the Vietnamese habit- ually beat it." He mentioned that Hanoi has found a partial answer to the threat of the la- ser-guided "smart" bombs that can zero in accurately on targets. "The North Vietnamese put up smoke around the target. If you don't see it you can't hit it," Elias said. The North Vietnamese glorify in their ability to outwit the U.S.

planes. "You have to fight this war with intelligence, not with com- puters," Prime Minister Pham Van Dong told the antiwar ac- tivists who went to Hanoi to pick up the released pilots. "The computers merely multi- ply man's stupidities thousands of times," he said, rocking for- ward in his chair with a know- ing smile. I was wondering how a com- puter could determine the num- ber of handfuls of mud required to fill a bomb crater, or the manpower needed to load and unload supplies that are leapf- rogged from train to train across the bombed out portions of track each night on the way south. But all those bombs raining on North Vietnam are dropping somewhere, and in interviews with top officials I got the im- pression that severe damage is being done.

"Whole cities have been de- stroyed. Hospitals, schools, churches have been destroyed. There have been so many vic- tims," said Premier Dong, when the antiwar activists asked if the American people could help contribute to recon- struction. "Ifear that no city will be left intact in the North if President Nixon is re-elected. Mr.

Nixon's war is ten times more bar- barous that his predecessor's," the editor said. But as our old sedan bucked and rocked across filled-in bomb craters and careened by the ammunition boxes stacked like cordwood along the road- side, I got the feeling that the world of the cities and the world of the countryside supply routes were separate. We were given no informa- tion about where these supplies originated, but we presumed they came down the highways from China to the north. I got the impression that as long as those supplies were pumped down through the arteries of North Vietnam the war would go on even if the cities were destroyed. And the North Vietnamese can rationalize anything.

Standing on one of the broad, treeline thoroughfares in the Hanoi that the French took so much pride in building, one of my guide-interpreters com- mented, "This is just a remnant of colonialism, anyway. If it is destroyed we will build a new, better city. Our city." Fergus Falls (Mi.) Journal Oct. 2, 1972 Northwest Continued from page 1 Dakota and Montana without major east-west air service and generated criticism in those two states. "Public convenience and ne- cessity have been all but ig- nored" during the strike, Mon- tana Gov.

Forrest Anderson charged. He said the lack of east-west air service in that state was "generating some significant adverse economic problems." North Dakota Aeronautics Commissioner Harold Vavra estimated that his state was losing $1.5 million in revenue each month because of the strike. In announcing the end of the strike, Erickson said NWA ticket offices will be reopened in all system cities "imme- diately." He said reservation offices already were open and accepting reservations for fu- ture flights. Benjamin Barr lindsey, a judge of the Denver juvenile court for 26 years, was disbarred in the state in 1929 for his views and writings on trial marriage. The panda bear in its natural home in China eats nothing but bamboo sprouts.

CORNERSTONE LODGE No.99 A.F. A.M. Tuesday, Oct. 3 Regular Meeting LUNCH Charles Odness, W.M. A A MINN.

STARTING IN OCTOBER WE WILL BE OPEN FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS ONLY! Doors Open at 5:00 p.m. Dining Room Open at 6:00 p.m. HAKE RESERVATIONS NOW FOR SPECIAL PARTIES MONDAYS THRU THURSDAYS EFFORTLESS LAYERING done with no layers all. Act III devises the look of componenls in this one-piece dress divided only by color and texture contrast. Clever, yes? It's crepe-knit collar and bib are inset in the ribbed U-necklined top of interlock-knil Dacrpn 1 polyester, belted above a plealed swing of doubleknit polyester-plus-silk plaid.

Very together in burgundy-'white, navy while or chestnut'white Sizes 6 to 16. Almost Everyone Shops At THE DRESS TAKES A BLAZER a plaid blazer, of course for the newsiest look this Fall. Act III gets it all together in doubleknil Dacion' polyester wool, wilh the jacket sheltering a sleeveless ribbed bodice above a swing of pleats. Perfec- tion, to the last detail, even to the choice of the belt with its bold intricately-scrolled buckie. In black 'woodspice black, or navy.

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