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Deaths To Date '72 '71 COINWORD Sioux Falls 44 0 49 2 Sioux Falls Prize $400 South Dakota COLDER 22 PAGES 3 Killed, 9 Hurt When Bus Leaves Road MITCHELL, S.D. (AP)-Two Wisconsin students and a Roman Catholic priest were. killed and nine others injured late Thursday when a panel bus crashed off Interstate 90 near the Emery exchange 17 miles east of Mitchell. All 12 passengers in the panel bus were either students or faculty members at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, authorities said. The South Dakota Highway Patrol identified the dead as the Rev.

James Farrell. 33, Milwaukee; Gregory Movroydis, 17, Menominee Falls, and John Frisch, 17, Milwaukee. The nine injured, eight students and one priest, were either hospitalized at two Mitchell hospitals or treated and released. Two of the injured were listed in critical condition Friday. They were identified as the Rev.

John O'Brien, 46, and Steven Haberman, 17, both of Milwaukee. Conditions of the others hospitalized included: William Griesbach, 18, Brookfield, fair; Peter Homsey, 17, Milwaukee, fair; Michael Baldzikowski, 16, La Crosse, satisfactory; William Bleil. 17. Elm Grove, satisfactory, and James Giese, 17, Milwaukee, satisfactory. Paul Kosewski, 18, and Timothy James, addresses unknown, were both treated and released from a Mitchell hospital.

The Highway Patrol said Rev. O'Brien, who was driving the vehicle, apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Investigating officer Bernard Hickenbotham said the panel bus traveled into the ditch along the interstate, slammed into an embankment, flew 160 feet through the air, and flipped end over end three times before stopping. He. said impact ripped the roof off the vehicle, throwing most of its occupants out.

The students and clergymen were reportedly on a field excursion to points of interest in South Dakota and were headed for an Indian mission near St. Francis. 2 Gary Youths Die When Car Hits Bridge GARY, S.D. (AP) Two rural Gary youths were killed late Thursday when their car went out of control in heavy rain and crashed into a concrete bridge abutment. The Deuel County Sheriff's Office identified them as Jan Pedersen, 18, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Jens Pedersen, driver of the car. and Mark Simonton, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Simonton.

Pedersen was dead at the scene and Simonton died a short time, later in a Clear Lake hospital. The two were heading west out of Gary when the car hit the bridge head-on at the south side of the road. Roads were starting to become icy, authorities said. 5,000 See Floren Show At Arena A lot of nostalgia, a pinch of patriotism, a smidgen of schmaltz and a lot of great entertainment were ladled out at the Sioux Falls Arena Thursday night. Cook of the night was Sioux (Falls' own Myron Floren.

Serving generous helpings of entertainment were the orchesta and entertainers featured on the Lawrence Welk TV Show. For the approximately 5,000 who watched the nearly persons three-hour show, it was come Home" night with every performer and every number greeted with applause, In addition to the Welk group, a 200-voice chorus from Sioux Falls and area high schools and Augustana College performed. The show was presented by the Fellows of Augustana College the proceeds to be "strengthen Augustana's capability, this for region." service to Floren the is an alumnus of Augustana. Joday's Chuckle Gossips are just like blotters -they absorb a lot of dirt but they usually get it backward. ARGUS-LEADER Newspaper for AND SUNDAY SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1972 TELEPHONE 336-1130 10 CENTS In Editorials Heloise Billy Ann Markets 4 Want Ads 17-21 6 Sports 15, 16 Graham 12 TV, Movies 12, 13 Landers 22 Dr.

Van Dellen 6 9 Women 6 Reds Open 4th Front In Mekong Delta Area SAIGON (AP) North Viet-1 namese troops captured a district town 75 miles north of Saigon Friday and opened a fourth front in their nine-day-old sive with more than a dozen attacks on towns and bases in the Delta to the south. U.S. warplanes meanwhile hammered North Vietnamese forces in North and South Vietnam and neighboring stretches of Laos with more than 600 strikes. Two Navy fighterbombers and a big rescue helicopter were shot down, the U.S. Command said, and six Americans were missing.

The district town of Loc fell after fighting so close that an air spotter overhead, reported the defending Vietnamese were calling artillery fire in on their own positions. The spotter reported eight to ten North Vietnamese tanks attacking the town, and later the South Vietnamese command, announced that Loc was abandoned during the morning after four days of heavy attack. The Viet Cong radio claimed that the South Vietnamese garrison surrendered after Communist forces killed, wounded or captured 400 of defenders. But Lt. Col.

Trung thee Hien, the chief spokesman for the Saigon command, said the government troops "moved out to an area outside the city." Casualties on both sides were reported heavy. Government forces also abandoned Fire Base Hung Tam, five miles southwest of Loc Ninh and 10 miles below the Cambodian border, to the enemy. Field reports said elements of four North Vietnamese divisions had crossed the bodian border in force and penetrated at least 20 miles into South Vietnamese territory. Small enemy units slipped within 20 miles of Saigon and damaged bridge on Highway 13, the no road from the border. A bypass was being used.

Enemy forces were reported to have cut the highway temporarily in nine places south of An Loc. the capital of Binh Long Province 60 miles north of Saigon. Government troops were making sweeps in an effort to keep the route open to suoply convoys. An Loc itself was threatened. and positions all around it were under rocket and mortar attack.

But the Saigon command said the government still held the town. Squadron Of Kansas-Based Bombers En Route To Asia WASHINGTON (AP) A squadron of Kansas-based fighter-bombers is en route to Southeast Asia as U.S. officials consider whether to commit still more planes to counter the new North Vietnamese attack. As further evidence of the U.S. air buildup in Southeast Asia, it was learned that a number of air units in several states have been alerted for possible deployment.

But apparently the only unit to get flying orders Thursday was the 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing at McConnell AFB, which dispatched one squadron of F105 all-weather jet attack planes across the Pacific. A squadron normally numbers 18 planes. Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird called a news conference today with every indication he was prepared to discuss the course of the war. He would be the first senior administration official to do SO since the Communist sive began a week ago.

The Nixon administration has emphasized a number of times this week that although it is keeping its options open, the battle action will not stop American troop withdrawals. But expanded air and naval support of the South Vietnamis another matter. Twenty B52 bombers were flown from their American bases to Southeast Asia earlier this week, and two additional aircraft carriers steamed into the area. all the U.S. planes in Southeast Asia were thrown into the massive aerial attack against North Vietnam Thursday before the Pentagon ordered still more ments.

The Pentagon refused to Today's Paper SOUP A An old Vietnamese peasant carries his other civilians flee fighting below the detwo grandchildren in baskets suspended militarized zone. from a pole over his shoulder as he and (AP Wirephoto) Committee Wins Testing Of New Budget Provision: By TERRY WOSTER Associated Press Writer PIERRE (AP) The South Dakota legislature's joint appropriations committee has won the first legal test of a 1972 budget provision committee members said was aimed at requiring more accountability in state spending. The committee used a lineitem procedure in appropriating money for personal services and supplies to state agencies in the general appropriations bill, which provides the funds for general operation of state government. In past years amounts for these two categories had not been separately listed in the general bill. The bill included a provision that said: "The expenditure limits established in this act for personal services and supplies may not be changed except upon recommendation of the governor and majority vote of the entire membership of the special committee established in this act." The special committee referred to is the interim appropriations committee, which meets between sessions and consists of members of the standing propriations committees of the, House and Senate.

Gov. Richard Kneip vetoed the provision. saying it would give the legislature too much involvement in the executive branch and in administration of government agencies. But Atty. Gen.

Gordon Mydland, responding Thursday to a request from Rep. Otto Stern, R-Freeman, co-chairman of the appropriations committee, said in an official opinion that Kneip's veto was of no effect and the language was valid. Mydland said the governor could veto individual amounts in the appropriations bill but did not have the authority to veto restrictions on spending. It is possible that the veto power could be tested in the courts, but Kneip has given no indication of plans to pursue the issue. Members of the appropriations committee had said they line-itemed personal services and supplies to prevent situations in which agency heads ingoled their appropriated funds.

requesting a set amount for sunolies. for example. and then using part of that money to give raises. Eddie Clay. R- Hot Springs.

said during the closing days of Funeral Set For Monday For E.F. McKellips, 84 ALCESTER, S.D. E. F. McKellips, 84, president of the State Bank at Alcester, died Friday morning at a local nursling home.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the United Church of Christ. Mr. McKellips was a former mayor of Alcester. From 1959 to 1961 under Gov.

Ralph Herseth he served as director of highways. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for governin the June 1954 primary. He also had unsuccessfully run for lieutenant governor at one time. Mr. McKellips was born Sept.

19, 1887, on a farm northwest of Beresford in Lincoln County. He graduated from Beresford High School, attended the ated from Dakota Wesleyan. AfUniversity of Iowa graduter graduation from high school and at intervals while in college he taught in rural schools in Lincoln County. He banked in Alpena before, entering. the Army during After his discharge banked in Dante and later he moved to Alcester.

In Alcester he was a former of the Masons and he president was a 50-year member of the organization. He served 25 years on the Alcester Board. He founded the Calf Club in Union County in an attempt to interest club young later people bein feeding. The county's 4-H Achievecame ment Days. Mr.

(McKellips founded the bank in Alcester in 1919. When the bank failed in 1926 the depositers were refunded 100 per cent on the dollar. The bank was reorganized in 1927. Mr. McKellips had been named Outstanding Farm Banker and he had been named to the Agriculture Hall of Fame.

the Home DAILY Few details were known of the attacks in the Mekong Delta, but the command said 40 of the enemy and 10 government troops were killed and 23 government men were wounded. The threat was not considered immediate, senior officers said. but the urgent need for reinforcements drained the capital region of its reserve forces. Military sources said the paratroop battalion that forms President Nguyen Van Thieu's palace guard was alerted for field duty, and an infantry battalion was assigned to the palace. Thieu met with U.S.

Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, to review the, situation. On the northern front the DMZ, official sources said that North Vietnamese attacks had dropped to their lowest level since the offensive was launched last Friday. South Vietnamese tanks and marines battled enemy forces west of Dong Ha, keystone of the northernmost government defense line 10 miles below the DMZ.

South Vietnamese officers reported 60 of the enemy and seven government troops killed and 26 South Vietnamese wounded. "Two other clashes were re.ported four and five miles southwest of Quang Tri City, the northernmost provincial capital which is believed to be a target of the North Vietnamese. Twenty-three enemy were War Continued on Page 2, Col. 1 Sioux Falls Jaycees Name Boss Of Year, Educator the 1972 session, allowed enough money for salaries and raises in each department and added a cushion. The committee worked hard to give each agency enough money SO it could live within the set limits, and we have the contingency fund available if the agencies find they cannot make it for some reason." Other committee members said most agencies have a cushion of their own built into their budgets, and the legislators said they did not expect the new provision to create severe hardships for the various state departments.

If a department this year had $250,000 appropriated personal services and $100,000 for supplies and finds that its personal service needs are greater than the budgeted amount, it could seek the governor's approval to ask the interim committee for permission to use supplies money, or contingency funds, to meet emergency. Clay said, "if the agency can get the governor's approval and the committee's okay, you know there was indeed a problem." But the agency cannot shift money from its supplies appropriaton to its personal services fund without going to the governor and then the interim committee. Two Sioux Falls men were honored by the Sioux Falls Jaycees at the Annual Bosses Night awards banquet at Minnehaha Country Club Thursday night. Honored were John D. Parker and Daniel D.

Hansen. Parker, president and general manager of Parker Transfer Storage, was named Boss of the Year. Hansen, a teacher, at School Mark since Twain 1963, was Elethe recipient of the Jaycees Outstanding Young Educator Award. Parker is a former Jaycee, past president of the Sertoma Club and past chairman for the Sertoma Charity Races. He is on the Board of Directors of the Crippled Children's Hos-, pital School, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, past chairman of the Pledge Drive, a member of the Pulpit Committee, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Industrial Development Foundation, Chamber of Commerce the U.S., Sioux Falls Chamber, Junior Achievement, River Improvement Society, March of Dimes, United Way and has been on the Sioux Falls Recreation Department Board for 12 years where he had served as chairman.

Parker, 58. has contributed more than $1.000 in cash donations, materials and labor to many Jaycee projects over the past year. Mr. and Mrs. Parker, parents of five daughters and one son make their home at 716 Park Drive.

He has been with Parker Transfer Storage for the past 41 years, the last 32 as general manager. Hansen, 32, his wife and three children live at Renner. He was graduated from Parker High School and from General Beadle State College in 1962. He also taught at the Huron Public School from 1960-62. Hansen was nominated for the Young Educator Award by Milton R.

Simons. principal Mark Twain School. "He is a seeker of land thereby creates curiosity in his students," Simons said. "'He is a good technician and pays careful attention to method, thereby fostering sound work habits in this pupils. He takes a personal interest in each child and is respected for his fairness, his courtesy and honesty," he concluded.

Speakers were John Brinkman and Buddy Haney from Success Motivation, Inc. (SMI) of Waco, Tex. SMI put together the Jaycee Leadership in Action Program, a prime education tool to improve a Jaycee's leadership abilities, for both Jaycee activities and day-to-day Southwest Crops And Rangelands Browned By Drought I Posing Serious Fire Threat LOS ANGELES (AP) A winter drought is drying the air and ground in the Southwest, browning crops and rangelands and posing serious fire threats to forests and brush land. Since a heavy rain in late December, only a barely measureable amount of rain has fallen on Southern California and vada and none in Arizona during the normal winter rainy season. Only .13 inches of rain was recorded in Los Angeles in February and none in January or March.

"By this time of year we should have had nine inches," said Joseph Vederman, the Weather Service's chief meteorologist for South-, ern California. "I think the erage would say we're in a drought." storms that normally hit Southern California have been diverted into Northern California, Oregon and Washington, he said. In the high mountains, where thick snowpacks are needed to replenish the rivers and reservoirs in the spring, snowfall is below normal. Some irrigation districts have already cut back water deliveries. Nevada Agriculture Director Thomas W.

Ballow said the brushland has suffered from the dryness but it is not yet a drought. He said if rain does Local Scouts To Display Skills Saturday Exhibits from 58 local scouting organizations will be on display Saturday from 1 to 9 p.m. at the Sioux Falls Arena. The annual Scout-0-Rama is sponsored by Council, Boy Scouts of America, Displays have been by 28 Cub Scout packs, Webelos packs and 23 Boy Scout troops. John D.

Parker not come soon farmers will have to supply other feed to cattle and sheep, driving up the cost of meat. "It all adds up to a total crop failure for our dry land grain," said Bob Howie, agriculture commissioner of California's Riverside County. "Possibily 20 per cent of the barley, wheat and oats was saved through irrigation. but all the money spent on water." Howie said the irrigation had substantially drained the county's water reserves. Grain crops and pasture grass also were reported destroyed in San Benito, Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties in California.

In California's Central the driest March since record keeping began in 1888 was made worse by a two-day freeze late in the. month, severely damaging raisin grapes, plums, peaches, nectarines, walnuts and almonds. Wine grapes In the Napa Valley Daniel D. Hansen cuss the latest aircraft move. ments because of "security purposes." But some.

officials hinted that even more American-based air units may be sent to the war zone in the next few days. "We will take whatever precautionary measures are necessary to protect remaining U.S. forces in Vietnam," said a Pentagon spokesman. Meanwhile, the Nixon administration is retaining a cautious stance in estimating, the success of the South Vietnamese defensive effort. But some high sources in Washington are saying Saigon forces are showing they can and will fight.

Some administration analysts say the increasing capability of Saigon forces has allowed the United States to carefully measure its response. This means, they indicated, that President Nixon has been able to avoid' the politically dangerous decision of full-scale air attack ordering, al North. In a speech Thursday to the Overseas Writers Club, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the initial U.S.

air strikes penetrated 40 to 50 miles north of the demilitarized zone dividing the two Vietnams. The bombing, he said, "will be laid on against those targets supporting the battle and they'll be laid on until the support is terminated." Asked if the current offensive fight be the decisive battle of survival for South Vietnam, Moorer replied that because of the large percentage of Communist troops committed to the struggle its outcome will be "very significant." north of San Francisco also were hard hit by the freeze. The U.S. Forest Service imposed early restrictions on campfires and smoking on half of its land in Arizona. A hundred fire fighters and 25 supporting tankers were sent from California to aid in fire.

prevention and suppression. Banky Curtis, a wildlife biologist with the California Game and Fish Commission, said, "It's having a severe effect on wild game. I have no doubt that some animals are dying. but the most severe effect is on population George Taylor, battalion chief with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said, "There's little moisture left in the. vegetation and grass.

The fire danger is going to come sooner this year and last longer. The fire season usually doesn't start until July, but we're already starting to experience small E. F. McKellips Surviving Mr. McKellips are his widow; a daughter, Mrs.

Oren Purdy, Sioux Falls; a son, Roger Alcester; five grandchildren; great-grandchjldren; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Rudbeck ands Mrs. Alice Heeren, both of Minneapolis, and: a brother, Fredell, Flandreau, Wass Funeral Home in is in charge of arrangements. LBJ Hospitalized CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Former President Lyndon B.

Johnson was admitted to the University of Virginia Hospital's cardiac unit early Friday suffering from chest pains. Dr. Richard Crampton, associate professor of internal medicine at the hospital here and Johnson's physician, said the former president is comfortable, his condition stable, and he is undergoing tests. Dr. Crampton declined to say specifically that the 63-year-old ex-president had suffered a heart attack.

Ranger Mauled To Death Saving Wife From Lioness WANKIE, Rhodesia (AP) A woman married 12 days told Friday how her game ranger husband was mauled to death trying to protect her from a lioness which leapt through the window of their hut in the vast national game reserge here. Jean Harvey, 48. recovering from minor injuries and shock in a hospital, said she and her husband Len, 58, were sleeping early Tuesday when the beast jumped through the window and sank its claws into her side. "I screamed and Len reached over and grabbed the lioness and pulled it towards him and away from Mrs. Harvey said.

As the lioness ripped her husband's throat, killing him, she ran to a neighboring hut to arouse two other game rangers. The two men, armed with rifles, also were attacked by the lioness. One was slashed across the face when he tried to shoot through the window, and the other fought hand-tohand with the animal before it was shot to death. Both rangers were reported in satisfactory condition in a hospital. The lioness was old and probably had lost the ability to catch game, parks officials said.

Harvey, who was in charge of the game culling unit at Wankie about 200 miles north of Bulawayo, was a leading member of the Operation Noah team which rescued thousands of animals from drowning when Lake Kariba was flooded by a dam in 1959..