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Sioux Falls Argus-Leader Laird Discloses Mammoth Cost Overruns On Weapons Burglars Overlook Portion Of Liquor Store Safe Loot 4 I WF IT" "3R 26th Street Interchange Opened the $16.2 billion figure to grow higher. E. C. "Red" Stangland, 909 Gift Suggesfisns Fr Year aiaOppiiig HOLIDAY 4M IDEAS Burglars missed part of the loot in a rifled safe discovered last week in the Sioux River. The safe was removed from Spot Liquor Store, 1320 N.

Cliff on Oct. 25, Owner, Ver non Bauer, 2304 E. 18th reported at the time that his loss was $1,000. Police officers said currency, checks, two watches and a ring were found in the safe. A cutting torch has been used by the burglars to open the safe.

Amount of the currency found in the safe wasn't disclosed. The contents are being al lowed to dry out. The safe was found in the water near the Northern States Power Co. St. Lawrence plant by two men hunting for turtles.

An assortment of other thefts and burglaries has been report' ed to the Police Department as follows: Ernest Harris, 918 W. 10th 1955 Chevrolet, $350 loss. Helen Christensen, 1712 S. 8th 1960 Buick, $500 loss. Lloyd Griffith, 2700 S.

Western clothing from auto, $206 lost. J5tn amplifier from Western Mall. Si 25 loss Forseth's Garage Wrecker service, 601 N. Main four rims and tires from an auto owned by Daryl Oltmans. Len nox, $165 loss.

Robert Spain, 315 N. Main burglary of room at Rov- al Hotel, $41 cash. Larry Lottman. 1405 E. 24th four hub caps from auto, loss $eu.

John FitzGibbon, 93i E. 8th storm window and coDDer wiring, $50 loss. Frances Konda, 1009 N. Hudson saber saw from garage, $24 loss. John Rueb, 1109 S.

Blaine model 94 Winchester 30-30 from auto, loss $94. Dick Muller, 2112 E. 11th radio from auto, $75 loss. Bicycle thefts and losses: Donald Jensen. 830 W.

9th $60; Dan Dummermuth, 1900 S. Willow $60; Mrs. R. R. Rodriguez, 1313 S.

Walts $28, and Larry Van Emmerick, 1414 W. 12th loss unknown Darrell Law, 2401 S. Jefferson WASHINGTON (AP) Mam-moth cost overruns of $16.2 billion in the military's 34 major weapons programs have been reported to Congress by Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. The figure includes the C5A cargo plane and Minuteman missile overruns disclosed ear lier this year and overruns in the Navy shipbuilding program that Secretary of the Navy John H.

Chafee said could top $1 billion. Those three items make up only a small part of the total. And Laird, disclosing the ov erruns in House appropriation subcommittee testimony re leased Monday, said he expects brief case from car, $10 loss. William Pitts, 3021 N. Lewis tools from pickup, loss unknown.

Harold Chapman, 209 E. 14th attempted burglary of resi dence. Marvin Shogren, 6705 Valley View Road, reported damage to auto paint, $30 loss. it-. "I am still not convinced that we have uncovered all the defi ciencies in our current pro grams," Laird told the subcom mittee, "and we will continue to examine them and keep the Congress informed." But while subcommittee members referred to the figure as cost overruns, Laird used the term "cost growth," saying much of the cost increase is the result of inflation and changes ordered by the military, rather than poor estimates and other avoidable increases.

The C5A's $1.5 billion and Minuteman's $478 million overruns disclosed at congressional hearings this year were dwarfed by the two largest items on Laird's list: $4.46 billion for the Fill swingwing jet bomber and $3.2 billion for an MK48 torpedo program that has been accumu lating overruns since it started in 1964. Other weapon programs on Laird's list exceeding $1 billion in overruns are $1.66 billion for an Air Force F15 jetfighter, $1.2 Dec. 2, 1969 For mail delivery, Dec. 3, 1969 billion for the submarine-fired Poseidon missile, and $1.05 bil lion for the Short-Range Attack Missile, an air-to-ground mis sile. Laird called the shipbuilding program "one of our major problem areas." Navy Secre tary Chafee told the subcommittee the deficit now is estimated at $800 million to $850 million and said an undetailed potential problem could add $350 million more.

Chafee and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, chief of naval operations, said the deficits cover 125 ships authorized over 13 years and money must be found to meet shipbuilders' claims. To meet the deficit, Chafee said, the Navy has canceled $200 million worth of projects, deferred $10 million worth of shipbuilding to later years and is asking an appropriation of $167 million. He said the remaining deficit can be put off to later years.

Chafee and Moorer attributed the ship overruns to factors in cluding inflation, Navy-ordered changes, higher than expected labor and material costs and some poor contract estimates. MALL The E. 26th Street interchange to Interstate 229 was opened to traffic in Sioux Falls Tuesday. State Hiehwav DeDartment of ficials reDorted the nroiect is 95 per cent complete. J.

L. Healy Construction Sioux aiis, Degan work on toe SZ73 417 project in spring. Temporary traffic signs have been installed by the Maintenance Section of the Highway Department. Remaining work can't be Droo erly accomplished during win ter months. It consists of installing permanent traffic signs, seeding, fertilizing.

mulch ing, installing chain link fencing and seal-coating bituminous surfacing. This work will De completed spring. The E. 2fith Street inter change in southeast Sioux Falls provides the citv with th sixth entrance-exit along the Inter state 229 bypass. The others are Western Avenue, Minnesota Avenue.

Cliff Avenue. 10th 5treet and Rice Street. Tires Fail 24 Per Cent Of Tests WASHINGTON (AP) -Tires certified by four more leading manufacturers as meeting government safety standards failed 24 per cent of federally sponsored tests conducted by independent laboratories, the De partment of Transportation said. A 25 per cent failure rate was reported by the department last week in another batch of tests on major tire brands. This week's test results in volved Armstrong, Mansfield, Sieberling, and Uniroyal.

Addi tional Armstrong brands were included in the earlier report, along with tires manufactured by Firestone, Goodyear and B. F. Goodrich. The new data showed 22 fail ures in 90 tests of various brands and sizes of Armstrong, Mansfield, Seiberling, and Uniroyal tires. Each test involved five sep arate machine measurements of these government tire safety standards: endurance, highspeed performance, strength, rim adherence, and accuracy of labelling.

The department counts a failure in any of the five separate standards as a failure for the entire test. The 24 and 25 per cent failure rates compared to 6.1 per cent on all 1,470 tire tests conducted by independent laboratories conducted for the government to date. The department emphasized the test reports are only one factor in determining compliance with the 1966 auto-safety law. A favorable report does not establish safety, and an unfavorable one does not mean violation. Committee Studies Speech Curriculum A study of the K-12 speech program, with the goal of rec ommending methods of updating and improving it, was undertaken by the K-12 Speech Curriculum Committee of the Speech Association of South Dakota.

Meeting on the campus of Sioux Falls College were members of the committee including L. R. Washington High School; Ed Meyer South Dakota State University; Ken Pickering, Clear Lake High School; Don Mendel, 1 a High School; Ray Novak, West Central High School; Francis Serr, Parkston High School; Mary Alice Patterson, Sioux Falls College, and the committee chairman, Harold M. Jordan, University of South Dakota. SchockSets Engagements Al Schock, president of Terrace Park Dairy, will be banquet speaker Dec.

12 at the 21st annual convention of the South Dakota Livestock Feeders As sociation. He will also address the an nual convention of the Upper States Water Users Association in Huron, Dec. 16. His topics are expected to include the means for bringing prosperity to rural America, and the need for the federal government to increase invest ment funding for water re source projects. Schock, as director of South Dakota's chapter of the Nation al Water Resources Association, also arranged a meeting Dec.

16 between delegates from the Lower James and Fort Randall Conservancy Sub-districts and Ellis Armstrong, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, and Harold Aldrich, regional di- rector of the bureau. Spacemen To Be In Parade PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The Apollo 12 astronauts will be grand marshals of the 81st Tournament of Roses Parade on I New Year's Day, officials say. ruK everyune on yuor a Magazine Subscription. For rates and suggestions, uaoia news 336-7271.

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