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Sioux Falls ARGU In Today's Argus-Leader Editorials Heloise Billy Graham Ann Landers Markets 4 Want Ads 13-17 5 Sports 9-11 21 5 Dr.VanDellen 26 13 Women 5 See Weather Scope pagI Sioux Falls, S.D. A Spcidel Newspaper A Newspaper for the Home 28Pagcs Daily and Sunday Friday, January 24, 1975 Telephone 336-1130 15 Cents g-LEADEB Sioux Falls Named National Site For Litter, Environmental Control Block Hike Debt Bill Democrats Will Try To In Oil Tariffs Through Thomas Distributing, will serve as the ARM coordinator. "With this program, every resident of Sioux Falls will be asked to make a commitment to improving our environment," Knobe said. "This is an opportunity for our city to serve as a model for other communities as we establish our own, year-round, systematic approach to reduce litter." II ii 1 1 1 1 "lrnirirwi i iiTTWiriwrrTiiyrirTTr lmimftjlWiffWWI 'jww' li iimi iwjiwlwwiijjm.11 tHS the public has to have a reassurance, our people, that we are not going to permit America to be strangled to death." He defended his request for $300 million in additional aid for South Vietnam, saying U.S. officials feel that, with additional military and economic aid, "within two or three years, the South Vietnamese would be over the hump militarily as well as economically." He conceded that, if the nation still has inflation above 9 per cent and 7 per cent unemployment a year from now, "those are pretty tough odds" for his 1976 election hopes.

But he said, "I don't think that is going to happen" and predicted, "We are going to rebound from this recession, and I think we will do it more quickly and in a better way than most pessimists say." He said he isn't bothered by the contention he isn't up to the presidency intellectually, declaring his grades in school show "there must be an awful lot of people much dumber than Asked what he would tell young Americans about U.S. justice when so many involved in the Watergate scandal are earning large sums from books about it. Ford said, "I think it will WASHINGTON (AP) House Democrats are hurrying to block President Ford's energy program in the face of his renewed appeals for public backing and continued hard stand against gas rationing. The Democrats are seeking to delay Ford's boost of oil tariffs, and they plan to attach a delaying measure to the bill that raises the legal ceiling on the federal debt. The House Ways and Means Committee opens consideration today of the debt ceiling measure, which Ford wants.

"The odds are probably more than even that the committee would combine the debt ceiling with the import duty bill," Chairman Al Ullman, said Thursday. The debt ceiling bill is considered virtually veto-proof since, without it, the government won't be able to borrow money after Feb. 18. Seated on a yellow sofa in a White House sitting room, Ford made these other major points during the hour-long, televised and broadcast interview by two NBC correspondents He defended his statement that the United States might have to act if faced with economic "strangulation" by oil because "I think Waterworks Is Bombed LONDON (AP) Police suspect that a militant IRA splinter group beyond the control of the Dublin command was responsible for bombing a London waterworks in an effort to sabotage moves toward another cease-fire in Northern Ireland. The bombing came two days after the shooting of a London schoolteacher who police believe was attacked by a local Irish Republican Army unit which mistook him for a retired army major.

The teacher, Alfred Knott, 45, was in satisfactory condition. The explosion in a pumping station at Waltham-stow Thursday night injured two workmen and a woman and interrupted the water supply to parts of East London and Essex county. Meanwhile a Belfast newspaper which has close contact with the IRA, the Andersonstown News, reported that the guerrilla command is prepared to suspend hostilities again so that talks can resume between British officials and the IRA's political front, Sinn Fein. British and Sinn Fein representatives met twice this week, but the British broke off the talks when the IRA did not restore the cease-fire it observed from Dec. 23 until Jan.

17-. Four, persons have been killed since then, and Merlyn Rees, Britain's secretary of state for Northern Ireland, announced Wednesday that his representatives would not be ready to talk again until violence ceased. Robert Huntley, commander of Scotland Yard's bomb squad, said a man with an Irish accent called the Yard with a warning 10 minutes before the ex-plosion. The bomb, estimated at 15 pounds, had been placed, outside a door work. He said another oil boycott, possibly by non-Arab producers as well as Arab states, "would produce the necessity for more drastic action" but made clear that rationing "would probably be the last resort." In the Senate, 51 senators joined in sponsoring a resolution to block the tariff hike for 90 days.

But Republicans have threatened to filibuster to prevent action on it. In another Senate development, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Sen. Lowell P. Weicker introduced their bill to require the President to institute a mandatory rationing program within 60 days. Mansfield has said that, despite growing support for rationing, there are not enough votes to pass it now.

The drive for rationing received a boost, when the general board of the 13.5 million member AFL-CIO voted to use lobbying muscle to win approval of a nationwide' rationing program and a' total embargo on oil importSj from Aral? nations. Prime Rate Dips To 9.5 NEW YORK (AP) Three of the nation's largest commercial banks lowered their prime lending rates per cent today. Bank of America, the largest, cut its prime from 10 per cent fo 9.5 per cent, effective Monday. First National City Bknk, second largest, and MorAN' Guaranty Trust, fifth: largest, 'lowered their primes from 9.75 per cent per cent, also effective. Monday.

Manufacturers Hanover Trust, the Bank of New York, Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and other manks lowered their, prime rates from'10 per cent to 9.75 per cent, the rate now.jield by most large Analysis: Ford's Energy Proposals To Boost Average Family's Bill 18 bother a good many Americans, young as well as old, and I don't have any answer." He added, "I wouldn't buy the books." He said "there have been admissions that there were some indiscretions or potential illegal actions" by the Central Intelligence Agency but he wants to wait for the report of the Rockefeller commission before discussing specifics. In the television interview, he sounded a similar theme, declaring that despite repeated presidential and congressional statements about the nation's energy problems, "nothing has really been done to achieve conservation on the one hand or new supplies on the other." When asked about rationing, which was endorsed Thursday by the AFL-CIO amid indications of increased congressional support, Ford said, "When you look at the impracticability, the inequities, in my judgment, gas rationing would not work." In response to a question about the possibility of a strict allocation system, like the one last winter which resulted in long gas lines, Ford said that was a possibility if his plan doesn't the $572 spent each year for gasoline and motor oil. This would be an 18 per cent increase in the average family's energy bill. While the gasoline portion would increase about 19 per cent, bills for heating oil might rise about 27 per cent and natural gas about 32 per cent. Electricity bills might increase about 6 per cent.

But the average family would also end up paying anywhere from $104 to $174 more each year for other products and services because of increased energy costs. The poor, with average family income around $2,500 a year, now spend about 18.9 per cent of their budget directly on energy. They would see that bite increase to 22,2 per cent, while paying more for other products as well. "Lower-middle" families with about $8,000 a year would see their energy spending rise.from 9.3 to 10.9 per cent, plus- other price hikes. 'Upper-middle' families with around $14,000 a year, whose energy spending is now 7.8 per cent of their budgets, would have to spend about 9.1 per cent.

"Well-off" families with $24,500 a year spend more than others on energy but it amounts to only about per cent of their budgets. Ford's program would make them spend 6.2 per cent, FEA said. Roped In On Circus Life Kathy Martinez who's not even two years old, expresses this view as she hangs from a rope ladder prior to a performance of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey Circus in St. Petersburg recently. Kathy' father, Don, is an aerialist with the circus.

(AP Wirephoto). Scientist Says Lead Film Coats Nearly Everything Sioux Falls has been selected as a national research site for a systematic, year-round rogram designed to reduce itter to manageable proportions, it was announced Friday by Mayor RickKnobe. Called the Action Research Model (ARM), the program which has been accepted by the mayor, Commissioner Earl McCart and Commissioner David Witte, will be launched here this spring. It is currently being tested in Charlotte, N.C., Macon, and Tampa, Fla. Sioux Falls, the mayor said, is one of four ditional research sites where the program will be in operation during 1975.

The others are Reno-Sparks, Miami, and Washington, D.C. "This will not be a short-term cleanup campaign," Knobe said. "ARM is a new approach to environmental management involving year-round lifter-reduction practices by all citizens, individually and in groups. "The program is a positive step to reduce the spread of litter and to bring about behavioral changes that will enhance the quality of life in Sioux Falls, which has traditionally attracted people because of its cleanliness and friendliness," he added. 4 Elements Four major elements comprise the Action-Research Model, Knobe explained.

They include: 1. Updated city ordinances to establish litter-reduction ground rules. 2. Modern technology to aid the ARM system. 3.

Education to gain citizen cooperation and involvement in improving the environment. 4. Law enforcement to make certain that revised ordinances are followed. Created by Keep America Beautiful, supported by municipal government and led by local and national industry, the. initial ARM research was begun in 1972 and was placed in the first community test sites in 1973.

Knobe said there would be no administrative expense to the city. One Of the major findings to date is that more litter comes from five other sources than from pedestrians and motorists. Those sources include household refuse putouts, commercial refuse putouts, loading and unloading operations, uncovered trucks and construction projects. Litter Dynamics Studied Research also studied litter dynamics how wind, water, traffic and animals move uncontainerized trash from its point of origin. "This constant movement results in trapped litter, lodged against fences, curbs and sewer catch basins," Knobe pointed out.

"As such, it represents approximately 75 per cent of all litter a continuing eyesore in the average American community." With those research findings, the ARM program works systematically to eliminate trapped litter, reduce the dynamics and stem the flow of litter from all seven sources. Preliminary, favorable litter-reduction results from the three initial test cities bear out the soundness of the ARM system. Early reductions up to 40 per cent have been reported from Charlotte, Macon and Tampa, Knobe said. An integral part of the program is a measuring method that enables each city to maintain a barometer or index of the progress being made in reducing litter. Citizens Committee A Sioux Falls Citizens Committee, to be appointed during the next few weeks, will spearhead the new ARM program, Knobe said.

"Its members will represent all segments of the city industry, business, education, communications and citizen groups." he added. William Conkling, business manager of poisoning on human health. His associates include Dr. Rob Elias, Dr. Yoshi Hirao and Tod Hinkley, all of Caltech, and Dr.

T.J. Chow of the University of California at San Diego. Much of the lead in bodies is from food. He said by the time tuna reaches the dinner plate processing has added 1,000 times more lead to it than when it was in the ocean. He said industrial lead also gets into milk, flour, beef, orange juice and other foods.

Man's Death Investigated Police were investigating Friday the death of a Sioux Falls man which followed an assault reported at 1 30 p.m. Thursday at the Royal Hotel, 315J2 N. Main Ave. Officers were seeking to determine if the death of Vernon L. Olsen, 56, Soo Hotel; related to the assault.

A 28-year-old man was being held in custody, in connection with the assault. Mr. Olsen died at about 9 p.m. Thursday at a local hospital. Detectives said he suffered head injuries.

An autopsy was to be performed Friday by the Minnehaha County Coroner's Office. WASHINGTON (AP) 4-The Federal Energy Administration says President Ford's proposals would increase the average family's energy bill 18 per cent, witn the price hike showing up most in natural gas. The FEA, in an analysis issued Thursday, said Ford's proposed energy policy a combination of fees and taxes on energy with reductions of income tax would increase consumer prices in general by about 2 or 2.5 per cent. But the governors of 10 Northeastern states who met with Ford claimed that his program would add 5 or 6 per cent to the nation's inflation rate. FEA Administrator Frank G.

Zarb told newsmen his experts would meet with the governors' economists to try to reconcile the discrepancy. Meanwhile, the. FEA stuck to its own analysis, indicating that energy prices as a proportion of family income would put a bigger bite on the lowerincome groups than the upperincome groups under Ford's plans. But the FEA dded that Ford's proposals fer direct payments and reductions would more than Of set energy price increases, for all but those making more than $24,500 a Analyzing regional impacts, the FEA said the Mountain States would feel the largest increase in traditional life," said Yates, a former Montanan who has taught in Stebbins -five years. "We're not saying that the dominant culture is any better than their culture, just that it is different," said Jensen.

"And dominant," Yates added. The clock is an enigma to the young Eskimo visitor, who is accustomed to eating when hungry and sleeping when tired. "He does not see what the clock has to do with his stomach," Jensen said. "And I really have to agree-with him." Eskimo villagers work to supply immediate needs, Jensen said. Children are raised in families which place little emphasis on punishment or discipline.

Adaptation is quick, however. With very few. problems the Eskimo guests have settled into Beaverton life and are busy collecting memories, experiences and attitudes to take back home. average fuel costs, while the lowest increase would come to the East South Central region. Zarb said Thursday that it would take shortages like those of last winter's Arab oil embargo to make the administration consider rationing.

Neverthless, the FEA spelled out how a rationing-system might be set up, to show what it would mean. The agency said the average motorist, who now uses about 50 gallons of gasoline a month, would be limited to about 36 gallons a month if rationing were used to cut consumption one" million barrels daily, the President's goal for 1975. Under rationing, commercial users would be alloted 90 per cent of the 1973 gasoline consumption, while 3 per qent of the ration coupons would be set aside for distribution by state governments- to emergency or hardship cases, the agency added. The system now drafted on paper would allow unfettered buying and selling of coupons. Those needing more gasoline could get it by paying a premium to those who would not need all their coupons.

The FEA estimated that coupons might sell for about $1.20 a gallon added to current prices at the pump; thus gasoline obtained with extra purchased coupons could cost the big-spending or more a gallon. Here are highlights of the FEA's estimate of the price impact of President Ford's energy policies An average middle-income family earning $13,000 a year now spends around $969 a year on energy. Ford's program would add about $171 in direct energy costs, mainly in a $109 increase on top of Survival Crackers Not Very Tasty CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A suggestion that Civil Defense survival crackers be fed to the poor has been rejected on the ground they don't taste good. The chairman of the poverty-fighting Charlotte Area Fund, Peter Gems, had suggested such use before the 540 tons of crackers in emergency bomb shelters spoiled.

But Gems tried a cracker Thursday and said, "It tasted sort of funny, and I would not recommend them for the poor." A restaurant critic for the Charlotte Observer, Jerry Simpson, also tasted the crackers, in comparison with a name-brand dog biscuit. He preferred the dog biscuit. pasadena; Calif. (ap A geochemist here says industrialization has created an invisible, potentially dangerous film of lead that coats the earth and nearly everything on it. "If we had lead-sensitive spectacles we could see the streets brilliantly painted with lead," says Dr.

Clair Patterson of California Institute of Technology. Patterson said in an interview-Thursday that minute particles of lead from leaded automobile gasoline and industry sidewalks, foliage, buildings, automobiles, clothing, food and human bodies. Were the lead visible, "you would see swirling clouds of it hovering over freeways and streets," he said. Patterson noted that most people do not have the classic symptoms of lead poisoning irritability and hallucinations that sometimes lead to permanent brain damage. But he said humans may have symptoms of lead poisoning as yet unrecognized.

Patterson said more than 80 per cent of the lead in grass and mice is of industrial origin. In populous areas, 99 per cent of the lead is from industrial sources. "Man has 100 times more lead in his body than he would if lead technology had never been used," lie said. He said if all the automobiles in the world stopped burning leaded gasoline instantly, lead contamination would drop in 30 days. But he said he believes it would take centuries to get rid of the pollution.

Twenty years' ago Patterson discovered the mathematical formula to determine the age of the earth. Then he calculated the earth's age at 4.6 billion years. Later space exploration confirmed his figures. Patterson and his colleagues are preparing a report on the effect of lead Boy Injured; Dared To Explode Device VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) Eight-year-old Kevin Mark Gilsdorf is in fair condition with a severe hand injury after detonating a military explosive device on a dare, authorities report.

Police said Thursday a 12-year-old companion was arrested for allegedly giving the device to the youngster, then daring him to explode it. at the pumping station six miles irom central London, Violence in Northern Ireland Thursday included the 29th bombing in four years of Belfast's Europa Hotel and the explosion of a 500-pound bomb in a hijacked van that damaged an army post in Newry. Four masked men hijacked a tank truck carrying 2,000 gallons of gasoline and left it in Newry with two bombs in the tank, but the army removed the bomb. KEL0-TV Wins Antenna Award MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) A Hennepin County District Court jury awarded to- a Sioux- Falls, S.D., television station Thursday for losses that resulted from a North Central Airlines plane hitting a guy wire on the station's TV tower in 1968.

The antenna collapsed and the plane landed safely. Midcontinent Broadcasting part-owner of the tower, sued North Central for $2.6 million. The firm claimed KELO-TV lost viewers and money when it was forced to broadcast from a shorter tower for 11 months while the main antenna was being repaired. All were entirely new. The man behind the visit is Dr.

Paul Jensen, who divides his time between teaching at Oregon College of Education and traveling among isolated Alaskan settlements to assess educational systems for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Jensen so far has organized seven trips to Oregon for Alaska's children under a program funded by the U.S. Office of Education. He said he got the idea when he noticed an Eskimo reading a story about an American family who had driven to a warm beach for a picnic. He asked the girl, who had seen neither a car nor a warm beach, what she had just read.

"Words," she replied. "She was asked to understand the book without understanding the corresponding culture," Jensen said. Jensen said exposure to Oregon gives the child a cultural choice. "Many don't want to live a Long Search For Tot Thought Ended; Bones, Clothing Found Eskimo Children From Remote Alaskan Village Sampling Different Life In American Suburbia Four Firms Cut Sugar Prices NEW YORK (AP) Four of the nation's largest sugar companies have announced price cuts for their industrial sugar and say the. reduction reflected the lower cost of raw sugar.

The price drop by $4 per 100 pounds will be effective immediately, the refiners said Thursday. Amstar SuCrest' Corp. and the National' Sugar Refining Co. said. they would charge industrial users $49.90 per 100 pounds for extra-fine granulated sugar and $49 for 100 pounds of bulk granulated and No.

2 liquid sugar. CPC International said it would cut its liquid sugar prices to $49.40 and bulk granulated and No. 2 liquid to $49. wheeled toy with a long face. "Heidi go," said the boy.

Police have, maintained that Heidi probably was abducted. Assistant Police Chief M. D. Wilson said the area where the bones were found was "thoroughly searched several times" after the girl disappeared. Wilson said he finds it hard to believe the bones would not have been found earlier if they had been there all along.

Thousands of volunteers had searched for Heidi. More than 250.000 posters headlined "Where iS Heidi?" were printed and distributed as the search gained nationwide attention. Mrs. Peterson, told a' Seattle television station "Thursday night, "It looks like the story has come to an end. It's not the end we prayed for, but it looks like the end of the story." Mrs.

Peterson also said she wanted express her thanks and those of her husband to Puget Sound area citizens "for all the help that everyone has given us over the past year." SEATTLE (AP) Police believe the 11-month nationwide search for little Heidi Peterson has ended in a brushy area about a block from her home. Park Department employes retrieving a garbage can from a hill Thursday afternoon found bones of a child and clothing matching that of the missing girl. Authorities said there was no indication of how or when the child died. The King County Medical Examiner's Office is scheduled to examine the skeleton today in an effort to make a positive identification. But Police Lt.

Pat Murphy said the clothing indicates that "in all probability, it is Heidi Peterson," Sally Peterson, Heidi's mother, last saw her 4-year-old daughter last Feb. 21 as the girl and her brother Carl, then 2V'2, played in front of the family's modest home. Mrs. Peterson drove to the grocery store and about 15 minutes later her husband Roy stepped outside the house. He found Carl sitting on a three- BEAVERTON, Ore.

(AP) Two weeks ago, 10-year-old Nicky Pete had never slept on bedsprings, climbed a tree, ridden in a car or seen a two-story building. Today, he and 59 other Eskimo school children from the remote northern Alaska village of Stebbins are in American suburbia, sampling a different life for six weeks. His only criticism, so far? "It's too hot down here." Accompanied by their teachers, Steven and Sharon Yates, the Eskimo youngsters left a tiny tundra village supported by fishing and reindeer herds and traveled 3,000 miles to comfortable homes in this Portland suburb. The temperature was 45 degrees below zero when they left Alaska and about 45 degrees above zero when they arrived at Portland International Airport last Friday. With their new homes they got running water, swim-ming lessons, time schedules and symphonies.

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