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a a Sioux Falls In Today's Argus-Leader ARGUS-LEADER Ann Billy Want Heloise Editorials Landers Graham 16-21 4 5 Dr. TV, Sports Women Comics Van Movies Dellen 13-16, 11 22 00 A Speidel Newspaper Sioux Falls, S.D. A Newspaper for the Home "See Weather Scope page: 22 Pages States Air Force spy jet has flown the Atlantic in less than two hours, more than an hour faster than any previous crossing. The sleek, black Lockheed SR71 flew from New York to the south coast of England, a distance of 3,490 miles, in 1 hour 55 and 42 seconds Sunday. Flying as high as 15 miles, it averaged 1,817 miles an hour, a spokesman said.

The plane, known as the Blackbird, overshot the runway at the Farnborough International Air Show 20 miles southwest of London, raced on to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, wheeled sharply and flew back to Farnborough. miscalculation One. slight we would have made it a New York-Paris record," one of the two crewmen, Maj. Noel F. Widdiefield, told President Ford when the President telephoned "to congratulate him and Maj.

Jim V. Sullivan on their a gnificent achievement." The Air Force said it was asking the Federation Aeronautique I n- ternationale, which accredits all aviation records, to certify the Blackbird's time as the New York-toLondon record. The fastest previous crossing of the Atlantic was 3 hours 9 minutes from Boston to Paris, flown last June by the Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic jetliner. The previous New York-to-London record was 4 hours 46 minutes, set five years ago by a British navy Phantom fighter. Sullivan, the plane's 37- -old pilot, is from Widyear Wheel, and difield, 33, is from Anderson, Ind.

Widdiefield is the reconnaissance systems officer and operates the Blackbird's intricate spying equipment. had no problems," Sullivan reported. were on automatic pilot for two thirds of the way." Sullivan and Widdiefield took off from the U.S. Strategic Air Command's base at Beale, crossed the United States at subsonic speeds, and slowed down to 500 miles an hour to refuel twice over the Atlantic, near Newfoundland and south of Greenland. Sullivan's English wife, Maggie, was at Farnborough to meet her husband.

The Blackbird's achievement was marred by the crash at the airshow of a stunting American Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter in which the pilot, Stewart Craig, 34, of Guilford, was killed and the copilot, Kurt Cannon, 40, of Seymour, was seriously injured. The big helicopter was making a low pass when a rotor struck the ground. The helicopter hit the ground, bounced 50 feet and exploded. Maj. Jim Maj.

Noel Sullivan Widdifield U.S. Jet Sets Mark FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) A- United, Mitchell Jail Escapees Captured MITCHELL (AP) Four prisoners escaped from the Davison County Jail here Sunday evening, but all were. recaptured before midnight. The Davison County sheriff's office identified the four as Ed Krause, Randy Bucholz, John Crow, 16, and Steven Patino, 19. Crow was recaptured at Plankinton, and the others in Mitchell.

The four were awaiting trial on a variety of charges. Krause was charged with burglary, Bucholz with parole violation, Crow with grand larceny and burglary, and Patino with burglary. The sheriff's office said Patino had escaped from the state training school at Plankinton several weeks ago. Daily and Sunday Monday, September 2, 1974 Telephone 336-1130 15 Cents Man Arrested In Sniper Deaths Has History Of Drug Addiction, Violence INDIO, Calif. (AP) Authorities say a history of drug addiction and sporadic violence haunted the man charged in connection with three sniper deaths that turned a desert highway into a corridor of terror.

Dr. Thomas Cox, former direction of rehabilitation the Hope clinic Center in Tucson, said Richard Harold Hicks, 34, voluntarily sought aid there nine months ago for his addiction to heroin. Cox said Sunday that Hicks was dropped from a methadone program after wielding a gun in a waiting room. Cox said that Hicks returned day heavily armed, was arrested, released on bail, then failed to appear in court after being charged with assault with a deadly. weapon.

Authorities said Hicks later moved to the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Fe Springs, and got a job as a foreman in a plastics plant. A sheriff's spokesman said Hicks was fired trom that job last Friday, but he declined to say why. Hicks was booked Saturday for investigation Presley. "Hicks is not saying anything, so it's difficult to establish. a motive.

There nothing done to provoke him by any of the victims." Deputies said Hicks left his apartment two weeks ago and it appeared he had been his old Rambler wagon. inflation Dirty clothes, blankets, shaving gear, food and a sawed-off rifle and expended cartridges were found in the car, authorities reported. Killed by the roving sniper, each shot once in the left side of the head as they drove, were Jose Borjan Romero, 50, of Pasadena; Billy Gene Tegarden, 41, of Bell Gardens; and Herman Ronald Edge, 27, of Long Beach. Dorothy Furguson, 43, of Buena Park, the most seriously hurt of the wounded, was reported in fair condition at a Palm Springs hospital. Cox said Hicks underwent psychiatric treatment briefly.

Authorities in Tucson. in Tucson reported that Hicks had been arrested there several times in the past, but declined to disclose details. Meany Raps Guidelines For Wages And Prices After Brennan Says They May Have To Be Used WASHINGTON (AP) AFL CIO President George Meany denounced wageprice, Labor guidelines shortly Peter Secretary Brennan said the administration may have to employ them in the fight against inflation. 4T would look on guidelines as completely unfair to the worker and I would resist them very Meany said Sunday on ABC-TV's "Issues and Answers." One hour earlier, Brennan said such guidelines, under which workers and businesses would voluntarily keep and price increases below. a government-suggested limit, "may be the way we have to go" in combating inflation.

Speaking on CBS-TV's "Face the program, Brennan said guidelines were definitely going to be discussed by the new Council on Wage and Price Stability, which President Ford obtained from Congress to monitor the inflation fight. Meany contended that such guidelines are enforced on wages but not on prices. "I think wage and price guidelines would be just as unfair as wage and price Wreck Toll Is Lowered ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) Officials have lowered the toll in the wreck. of the Belgrade-Dortmund express train to 121 dead and 97 injured, but workers are still sifting through the wreckage. Earlier reports estimated that 150 persons died Friday night and 150 more were injured when the train carrying vacationing Yugoslav workers back to their jobs in West Germany ran off the rails and overturned as it approached Zagreb station in northern Yugoslavia.

Railway sources said Sunday that rescue teams had dug from the wreckage the bodies of 15 children ranging in age from six months to 10 years. Anxious parents hurried to the morgue, but the government said the bodies of only nine children had been found so far. A government commission blamed the crash on excessive speed, saying the train was traveling at 50 to 55 miles an hour, almost twice the permitted speed for that section of the track. The commission said the engineer reported the brakes failed, but the investigators checked them and found they were working properly. The engineer of the diesel locomotive and his assistant have been arrested along with a station switchman and the duty officer, but no charges have been filed.

A blood test showed that none of the four was drunk at at the time, the commission reported. Ford Signs Measure Protecting Retirement Benefits Of Workers WASHINGTON (AP) A landmark bill designed to protect the retirement benefits of 30 million American workers enrolled in private pension plans became law Monday. President Ford chose Labor Day to sign the Employe Retirement Income Security Act, the culmination of several years work in Congress. He invited 194 business and labor leaders, congressmen and administration officials to attend the ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Among the labor leaders who accepted the invitation were presidents George Meany of the AFL-CIO, I.W.

Abel of the Steelworkers and Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers. Ford himself was interrupting his first weekend visit to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, to return to the White House for the signing. The pension bill for the first time guarantees workers rights to some retirement benefits if they change jobs after a certain length of service. It also seeks to assure that the money for pensions will be there when workers retire. Some 300,000 to 400,000 existing private pension plans and those that may be set up in the future are affected by the law.

But the law does not require employers without pension plans to establish them. Only about half the U.S. work force has such protection. Nor does the bill necessarily increase pension benefits, which now average about $141 a month for retired workers. But the legislation contains so-called "vesting" provisions, which guarantee the employe all the pension benefits to which he is entitled after no more than 15 years of service.

An employer may pick of three options for vesting: The first would provide a worker at least 25 per cent of his benefits after five years on the job and 100 per cent after 15 years. The second would give total rights to accumulated benefits only after 10 years, but nothing if the employe left the job before then. The third option provides for 50 per cent vesting when an employe's age and years of service equal 45. The final 50 per cent would come in the next five years. The bill requires that each company put enough money into its plan so that it is fully funded and able to pay all the pensions when the Around The World Carmen Threatening MIAMI (AP) Hurricane Carmen, with sustained winds of 150 miles an hour and gusts to 175 m.p.h., turned toward the westnorthwest Monday as it beared down on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Officials at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the eye of the hurricane was expected to pass over or just to the north of Chetumal, Mexico. A forecaster said the change in direction meant that Carmen was now threatening land along the southern and western Gulf of Mexico and offered a potential threat to Texas. Archbishop Still Held TEL AVIV (AP) The Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, Msgr. Hilarion Capudji, is being held for another 12 days on suspicion of aiding Arab terrorists. The archbishop was arrested Aug.

18 on suspicion of smuggling Arab terrorist weapons from Lebanon to Israel and ordered held for 15 days. Police said a search of the prelate's limousine revealed a large quantity of weapons and explosives hidden in various parts of the car. Rebels Driven Off KAUSWAGAN, The Philippines (AP) Philippine troops on the island of Mindanao Monday recaptured the coastal town of Balabagan from Moslem rebels who had held it for nine days, military sources reported. In driving off the rebels, the government troops freed about 1,500 civilians from a farm near the town where they had taken refuge, the sources said. Ford Gets High Marks PRINCETON, N.J.

(AP) three per cent the American public disapproves of the way President Ford has taken over leadership of the nation, according to the latest Gallup Poll. In interviews conducted between Aug. 16 and 19, 71 per cent of the 1,590 adults interviewed said they approved of Ford's performance and 26 per cent were undecided. Only three per cent disapproved. Somoza Far Ahead MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Nicaragua's perennial dictator, Gen.

Anastasio Somoza, headed for his expected landslide victory as vote counting continued after Sunday's presidential election. Early returns showed Somoza leading Conservative party candidate Edmundo Pagagua by at least 20 to 1, a top official of Somoza's Liberal party said. benefits come due. A Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. is established under the Labor Department and funded by employer contributions to pay benefits if a pension plan fails or a company goes out of business.

The act a voluntary portability program under which an employe could carry with him his pension rights from one job to another. It offers tax incentives to individual not in pension up their employes, own retirement programs and to self-employed persons to improve their programs. For the first time, the law fixes tough standards of conduct and accountability for persons administering pension plans. Plans must be certified by an actuary at least every three years. Finally the bill requires that all employes be admitted to a pension plan when they reach age 25 and have at least one year of service with a company.

The new pension regulations are effective immediately for newly established retirement plans. Plans already in existence would be allowed until Dec. 31, 1975, to put the new vesting rules into effect. Richard Hicks of murder and attempted murder in connection with a shooting spree earlier that day that left three motorists dead and seven injured along a 105-mile stretch of Interstate 10. Hicks surrendered about 25 miles from the Arizona border after a truck driver trailed his car for nearly an hour, relaying information to police on a citizens band radio, authorities said.

"This is one. of those senseless type said killings Riverside with County Undersheriff Robert controls because our experience shows prices are not controlled But wages are very, very definitely controlled because every employer becomes an enforcer," Meany said. Guidelines would have to rely, on governmental "jawboning" for their effectiveness, Brennan said, and would have to be established an industry by industry basis. Meany said that guidelines were tried during the Johnson administration and "became sort of a laugh in the industrial complex on both the union and the employers' side." The only equitable situation would be no controls at all or the creation of an enormous federal bureaucracy to control wages and prices at every level of the economy, Meany said, but he said he was not in favor of such controls. Brennan declined to offer specific guidelines for labor contracts but said unions should try to keep wage demands within the increase in the cost of living.

He said he favors contracts which provide wage increases the cost of living rises but also acknowledged that some workers particularly hard hit by inflation should be allowed larger pay increases to catch up. Meany said he expected to see a tax increase after the November elections although Ford's spokesmen have ruled out any tax hike requests before the end of the year. They have not divulged what the President might seek 1975. The labor chieftain repeated earlier remarks that the country is headed for a depression unless the administration makes a quick reversal of its economic policies. Ford "is not going to turn this around by following the same policy that's been a disaster for the last years," Meany said.

Asked if the Labor Department was equipped to handle a depression, Brennan outlined federal plan to increase public service employment in response to increases in unemployment. If the present rate of 5.3 per cent were to go as high as 7 per cent, the federal government would create some 800,000 public service jobs, Brennan said. Meany called for an end to tight money policies, saying high interest rates are the "most inflationary factor in our economy." Woman Lost On Mountain Uses Long- Known Survival Means BRIDAL VEIL, Ore. (AP) Seventy-one-year-old Frances Hodge, lost for four days on the rugged slopes of a mountain, kept herself alive by eating berries, sleeping on a fern bed and using survival techniques learned years ago. But when she was rescued, she apologized for the wild huckleberry stains on her hands and shooed away photographers and reporters as she was carried to safety.

Miss Hodge disappeared Wednesday when she left a group of picknickers from a Milwaukie, retirement home find a rest room. When she did not return to the party, the group conducted its own search, then called authorities. She was found Sunday by a forest ranger just over a mile from the headquarters of a 100-member search party. was sitting in a trail, holding two sticks she used said David Kiser, the ranger at Mt. Hood National Forest east of Portland who found Miss Hodge.

"I was surprised that 'she looked in as good condition as she did. She looked almost as neat as the pictures carried in the newspapers, except her dress was a little soiled." said, 'I'm lost, said. Searchers, who had called in helicopters to bolster their efforts, shook their heads in disbelief when they were told she had been 6-Year-Old Aberdeen Girl Has Arm Sewn Back On To Pick New Leader WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) The 54 members of the Labor party in Parliament will meet Friday to choose a prime minister succeed the late Norman Kirk. Kirk, 51, who died Saturday from a heart seizure, will be buried Thursday, where at he the was country born, Waimate, near Christchurch. Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, is expected to represent Queen Elizabeth II at the funeral.

President Ford is sending Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan. Gales Lash Channel lashed the English Ca Channel LONDON YE (AP) Gales overnight and coast guard officials reported at least 20 small boats sunk in and around the Thames estuary. The gales struck shortly after the Golden Hinde II, a reproduction of the ship in which Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe' four centuries ago, set out Sunday from London on the first leg of a voyage to San Francisco where it will be permanently moored. The v- essel sought sanctuary in the River Medway estuary 30 miles down the Thames waiting for the storms to subside. 14 Killed In Buses BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Fourteen persons were killed and 20 others were seriously injured Sunday night in a headon collision in south Thailand.

The buses were owned by the same pany and were loaded with holiday travelers en route to the beach to celebrate Chinese All Souls' Day. Typhoon Inflicts Death And Injury TOKYO (AP) Four persons were dead, five were missing and 41 were injured as Typhoon Polly brought torrential rains and floods to southwest Japan and other areas as far north as Tokyo. The typhoon roared across the Sea of Japan with 90-mile winds Sunday and strack Shikoku Island and the states of Hiroshima and Shimane. Police said 26 homes were destroyed, another 8,511 were flooded, 31 bridges were washed away and 163 roads were made impassable. In Tokyo, a 150-yard stretch of embankment along the swollen Tamagawa river collapsed, and the river swept away six homes.

The army blew up sections of a small irrigation dam to divert the river; and 7,000 people were evacuated: from homes in the area. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Surgeons reattached the severed right arm of a 6- year-old girl in a four-hour operation that ended early Sunday, after the child injured in a car-train accident was flown from Aberdeen, S.D., to Minneapolis. The arm was packed in a box with ice during the 270- mile trip in a small airplane. Doctors at Aberdeen sent chilled liquid through arm to aid chances that the operation would successful. Surgery by seven doctors at University of Minnesota Hospitals began about 010 p.m.

Saturday in Minneapolis, and by 2 a.m. Sunday the arm was again receiving a strong blood flow. Warmth, a pulse beat and pink coloration had returned to the arm. The child, Stacey Reder, was injured along with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Reder of Aberdeen, at a rail crossing about 6 p.m. Saturday night. Reder suffered a broken leg and Mrs. Reder sustained minor injuries. Stacey was reported in critical but stable condition Sunday.

She also suffered head injuries and lost some fingers on her left hand. "Without the quick efforts by doctors in Aberdeen," Dr. Arnold Leonard said of the arm, "there would have been almost no chance to reattach it." Leonard, chief of pediatric surgery at University Hospitals, said that neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons also were involved in the operation. The arm had been severed just below the shoulder, but it was not a clean cut, so about inches of bone had to be cut away by orthopedic surgeons. They were able to use a metal plate to reattach the arm, Leonard said.

Neurosurgeons used tiny wires to link the severed nerves, and further surgery will be necessary later to repair nerve damage, Leonard said. It will be several months before it is known how much use the child will have of the restored arm. The first successful reattachment of a severed was performed in Boston in 1962, involving 12-year-old boy. The American Medical Association estimated last year that there had been about 50 successful operations throughout the world to reattach severed limbs. Gale B.

Braithwaite, 79, Dies; Prominent Attorney, Churchman found just a short distance from the boundary of string they had set a few days earlier. Clad in a housedress and sturdy oxfords, the former biology teacher and medical librarian told Kiser that she had kept herself survival techniques learned years ago in a hiking club. "She was in pretty wild country," the ranger said. "If she would have gone north she would have hit the steep bluffs overlooking the Columbia River. Otherwise, she would have continued in the rolling terrain with some pretty steep slopes and canyons." Kiser said he had a brief conversation with Miss Hodge, determined that she was in good condition, and left her so he could alert the search party.

"She didn't seem alarmed at being left again," said Kiser. "She just asked for something to sit on, so I gave her my vest." When a team of sheriff's deputies and Explorer Scouts arrived with a litter, Miss Hodge asked for a drink of water or orange juice. Later, at Gresham Community Hospital, she had another request no more huckleberries. "She said she'd. just had huckleberries to eat and she didn't want to see another one," a nurse said.

Today's Chuckle The best way to enjoy beautiful, productive garden is to live next door to one and cultivate your neighbor. Gale B. Braithwaite, 79, veteran Sioux Falls attorney, was dead on arrival at a local hospital Sunday morning. Memorial funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church.

Commital services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Hills of Rest Memorial Park. Engaged in law practice in Sioux Falls since 1926, Mr. Braithwaite served twice as president of the Minnehaha County Bar Association and also served a term on the Board of Governors of the State Bar of South Dakota. In October 1954 he was elected moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of South Dakota, the highest office in the synod and one not usually held by a layman.

He also had served as an elder of the First Sioux Presbyterian Falls and Church president of the Council of Presbyterian Men of the Synod of South Dakota. He was a leader in many men's activities of his church. On a national level he had been member of the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., and also a member of the Permanent Committee on Interchurch Relations. Mr. Braithwaite received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Huron College on June 7, 1954, while serving on the institution's Board of Trustees.

He was general chairman of the Sioux Falls YMCAYWCA joint finance campaign to handle the 1947 budgets of the two associations. A past president of the Sioux Falls Lions Club, he was the Lions' district governor of South Dakota from July 1, 1937, to July 1, 1938. After completing his term as district governor he became an international councilor for the service organization. As representative of the Sioux Falls Toastmasters' Club, he won the Area 5, District 6, Toastmaster speech contest here in April 1946. A year later he was elected governor of District 19, Toastmasters International at Waterloo, Iowa.

Born April 17, 1895, in Manti, Utah, Gale Benson Braithwaite was graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1920. He was admitted to the, Bar of Minnesota in. that year and to the Bar of South Dakota in the year he began practicing in Sioux Falls. He came here 1926. Enlisting in the Army June 23, 1916, in Minneapolis, Mr.

Braithwaite served on the Mexican border and in France during World War I. His marriage to Elizabeth Bailey, a native of Ypilsanti, took place June 30, 1925 in Minneapolis. The Braithwaite home is at 408 E. 31st St. Mr.

Braithwaite was senior member of the law firm of Braithwaite and Cadwell. Survivors include the widow; a son, Circuit Judge Richard Braithwaite, and a daughter, Mrs. Betty Lou Handy, both of Sioux Falls, and six grandchildren. Gale B. Braithwaite.