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For msH delivery. April 22, 1975 i ft Sioox falls Argus-lender April 21,1975 Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Floodvaters Draining; Michigan Waters Overflow I-. of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control program for the lower Mississippi Valley. Cochran said he also In the delta.

Flooding occurred along the Yazoo and the Red and Black rivers in Louisiana because tributaries, have Lansing. Two young Lansing men drowned in the Grand River after they headed out in a small vinyl raft and were jsucked. under the flooding, current. No other injuries were reported. Some 471 National Guardsmen were dispat-.

cbed to help people in the Lansing and Lapeer areas 'evacuate water-filled Lansing director of Emergency Relief Jim Holcomb estimated damages at $50 million after authorities counted "700 homes and 50 to 100 businesses" damaged by the spring flooding. The weather bureau said the flooding was the worst since 1947, when water levels were about a foot higher. The flood stage is 11 feet Officials said the rivers crested at 1S4 feet. SAILIE! By The Associated Press Backwater that flooded hundreds of thousands of acres in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta continued to drain through flood gates today and officials said they planned to seek an in- vestigation of flood control in the area. In Michigan, meanwhile, the rain-swollen Red Cedar and Grand rivers which flooded over the weekend buffeted the capital city of Lansing.

The flooding forced 800 to evacuate their homes and caused an estimated $50 million damage. Gov. William G. Milliken asked President Ford to declare 14 storm-wrecked counties federal disaster areas. Rep.

Thad Cochran, said he would seek a congressional investigation wanted to talk with corps' officials about the Steele Bayou flood gates and their regulation of backwater from the Yazoo River. The corps said Sunday that it had opened the flood gates to allow the backwater to start draining. The gates separate the Yazoo from several hundred acres of its flood plain. The gates were closed several weeks ago to prevent the Yazoo, dammed up by the high level of the Mississippi River, from pouring into the backwater area. Several hundred thousand acres, including crop lands, are flooded and an estimated 800 persons have had to evacuate their homes 1 1 iii Sears 16 feet above normal damaging several hundred house seriously affecting over 1,000 families.

(APWirephoto). These houses along 1-496 in Lansing, Mich, take on water up to the windows Sunday afternoon. The Grand River rose i Nixon Says He Will Donate Watergate Tapes' Only Problem Vietnamese Orphan Has Adjusting To Lifestyle Of Gregory Involves 'Jet Lag' Library If Courts Permit Add Work Saving Soft Water to Your Home and Save! i I By LARRY ELIASON Mitchell Daily Republic GREGORY, S.D. (AP) The only apparent problem an eight-year-old Vietnamese orphan has adjusting to the lifestyle of Gregory is "jet lag." Mary Beth Meier was recently adopted by the Rev. and Mrs.

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Janklow said the Indian-white situation has created damaging misinformation both in South Dakota and in other parts of the country. He added that crimes of violence and those related to drugs and slot machines are statewide and are not restricted only to certain populated areas. And be said the media have a responsibility to keep from being used by groups seeking attention. Earlier Saturday. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Francis Dunn said problems have been encountered during court reorganization in South Dakota, but he said most employes of the court system are adapting well.

One problem, he said, is that a few persons find it difficult to change and are I to determine if she should enter the first, second or third grade next fall. Mrs. Meier said Mary Beth is accustomed to American food and eats everything the rest of the family eats. She also has no trouble using a knife and spoon, even though chopsticks are commonly used in the Orient. The Meiers said there were no last-minute emergencies while Mary Beth was leaving Saigon.

She was born in northern South Vietnam to a Vietnamese woman and a Negro U.S. serviceman. For the last two years she lived at a Holt Adoption Center in Saigon. Consistent with the Oriental Custom, Mary Beth does not speak to adults unless she is spoken to first. "Up to this point, she will not enter into discussions 'with people outside the family," said Meier.

"But 6he is beginning to add her comments during family discussions. "She has apparently made the determination that she's going to be an American and is consciously trying to adopt our customs," added Meier. Just before she falls asleep at Beth' will frequently sing Vietnamese songs, but this fs the only time she uses her native language, the Meiers said. "Mary Beth and our other get along as though they have known each other all their lives," said Meier. The Meiers have three other children, Paul, 16; Ann, 12, and John, 9.

Ann and John are also adopted. The Meiers made a formal application for adoption through the Holt Adoption Program in October, 1973, and all the paper work had been completed by the end 1974. The U.S. Im-, migration Service issued Mary Beth a visa on March 5. "The only problem that remained was to get enough children who had homes in the U.S.

so the adoption agency could fill a whole plane and find social workers to accompany the children to their destinations," said Meier, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Gregory since 1970. "The Holt Adoption Program is the most thorough, professional adoption program we've had the pleasure of working with," said Meier. "I think it's probably a good thing that the good adoption agencies are so thorough that it takes 13 months to two years to adopt a foreign child. It would be catastrophic for the child if the parents found they were unable i to cope with the Meier said.

Motions Granted In Banks Hearing CUSTER, SJ5. (AP) Circuit Judge Marshall Young of Rapid City has -granted several motions a pretrial hearing here for American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks. Banks was indicted by a grand jury on eight counts in connection with a Feb. 6, 1973 demonstration in Custer that left three buildings damaged or destroyed by fire. He is free on $13,500 bond.

Young said he granted motions Friday that primarily sought copies of photographs, film and testimony. He added that he denied some motions and continued the hearing until May on others. The Custer incident occurred during an AIM-led demonstration against the filing of manslaughter, instead of murder, charges against a Custer man later acquitted in the fatal stabbing of an Indian. The South Dakota Supreme Court has delayed the start of Banks' trial until at least June 16. 1 been unable to drain into the swollen Mississippi.

Army engineers have estimated flood damage in Louisiana will exceed $50 The engineers said the backwater would drain' 6lowly into the Yazoo, which has fallen 0.3 feet below the backwater. The National Weather Service predicted the Mississippi would fall to 47.5 feet today, 46.2 feet Tuesday and 43.5 feet Wednesday in Vicksburg. The river crested at 49.7 feet April 12. The National Weather Service said the Grand River would be at crest level until Tuesday, while the Red Cedar began to fall Sunday. Both rivers converge in was a tiny laser neam transmitter called "Easy Chair." He said the device was so sophisticated it relayed even conversations made over scrambler telephones, permitted identification of every individual voice in the room, and could separate several simultaneous conversations.

The magazine said the recorded material was relayed to an undisclosed remote recording center. The device was removed in August 1970 without ever having been detected by the Secret Service, Szulc wrote. When it was revealed in October 1973 that Nixon had paid less than $1,000 in income taxes in 1971, there was no attempt to cover up Nixon's underpayment of his taxes, Geiblel claims. He told The Associated Press, "We just put the information under a little better security than it had been on the microfilm." The McCall's article deals in part with the aftermath of Nixon's operation on his left leg last Oct. .29 to remove blood clots resulting from phlebitis.

Nixon was in shock. His doctor, John Lundgren, said Nixon had been near death. i Nixon is quoted as saying: "When I came out of and I'm told I was more' dead than alive, was; there the weeks after' that, if it hadn't been forj her, I might not have sur-1 vived best decision ever made was choosing Pat to be my wife, my partner in life." Reporter Trude Feldman, who visited Casa Pacifica, said the! presidential trappings are! gone: there is a volleyball, net on what used to be the! helicopter pad and weeds growing on the golf course. She said "Pat andj Richard Nixon seem closer; today than ever They are spending more; time together, eating meals together and swimming; daily in the pool. Oc-i casionally they watch a ball! game together.

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The acquisition of presidential materials by the library is contingent upon a successful challenge to legislation requiring that all Nixon's presidential materials remain in Washington, D.C. Penthouse magazine says that for several months in 1970 a government em-, ployed, foreign-born house painter, "apparently controlled by one of the intelligence agencies," bugged the Oval Office in the White House, perhaps without Nixon's knowledge. A former Internal Revenue Service auditor, Ralph F. LaCross, says Anderson Criticized At Luverne Gathering By The Associated Press The Minnesota Legislature has been forced by Gov. Wendell Anderson to assume the burden of leadership in Minnesota.

state Republican Chairman Robert J. Brown told a Rock, County GOP convention Saturday. Brown told the convention at Luverne that a Republican-controlled legislature would have met the challenge better. "There is simply no way in which a Republican legislature would allow a $1.3 billion budget increase to pass," said Brown, a state senator from Stillwater. "A Republican-controlled legislature have already exempted your federal tax rebate from state taxes." The GOP chairman urged Republicans to work for election victories in 1976.

KneipToJoin In Water Meeting WASHINGTON Gov. Richard Kneip will moderate a panel dealing with the role of federal, state and local governments in water resource planning at the National Conference on Water Tuesday through Thursday in Washington, D.C. The objective of the conference is to examine the role of water in national affairs through 1985. Eight panels at the conference will cover issues and concerns surrounding water energy; food and fiber; transportation and commerce; municipalities and industries; environment and outdoor recreation; flood damage reduction; water laws, water rights and institutional arrangements, and the roles of federal, state and local government. Pressler Urges Party To Open Caucuses WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional Republicans should open their caucus meetings to public scrutiny, Rep.

Larry Pressler, has urged. "I am urging the caucus to not only adopt open rules, open committee meetings and support open conference committees, but also to endorse efforts to broadcast floor proceedings," said Pressler in a prepared statement. Pressler cited the example of the South Dakota Legislature's Republican caucus which was open to newsmen, and said a move is underway to open the Republican caucus in Washington of crossing the international date line. The Meiers plan to introduce Mary Beth to the Gregory school system gradually, but say she will be enrolled full time before the end of the current school term. In Saigon, Mary Beth attended five months of kindergarten and approximately one year of the first grade at her orphanage.

She already knows about 95 per cent of the sounds of the English language. A series of tests will be administered this summer clinging to the old system. But Dunn said the transition between the new and the old systems was fairly smooth. "we nave probably gone through our worst period. be added.

In other action at the SDPA convention. Dr. H. M. Briggs.

retiring president of South Dakota State University at Brookings, was given the first annual SDPA Distinguished Service Award. Outgoing SDPA resident Gene Cham-erlain. publisher of the Mobridge Tribune, made the presentation. Three awards were presented earlier. Chamberlain received the Past President's award.

The Master Publisher award went to Preis Farenbacher of the Burke Gazette. South Dakota Press Women president D. J. Cline presented that organization's Woman of Achievement award for 1974' to Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Flandreau. A panel on professional ethics, sponsored by SDPW, was also Panelists included Phyllis Justice, editor of the Milbank Grant County Review; Alex Johnson, editor of the Watertown Public Opinion, and Kay Carlson, (independent) SDPW member.

college credit and enrolled in summer sessions at the college to gain his speedy degree. He has been awarded a graduate fellowship to work on a doctorate degree at Northeastern University in Boston, following completion of his undergraduate work. "I started my spring semester last year as a sophomore and this year I started as a senior," said Mottle. He maintained a 3.9 grade-point average on a scale of 4.0 and will graduate with a major in chemistry and a minor in mathematics. He's also been involved in research.

Earlier this month Mottle presented a paper to the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, on the synthesis of nylon derived from crambeseed oil. The paper concerned research he completed at Northern under the director of Andrew Woo, assistant professor of chemistry at the college. Woo and Mottle made a special kind of nylon that is highly resistant to moisture using oil from the seeds of the crambe plant, a Mediterranean relative of flax and wild mustard. They think the crambe plant, which was grown experimentally near Brookings, can be grown abundantly in the United States. Although Mottle hurried through his undergraduate degree in record time, he says he plans to take it easy and work at a normal pace his doctorate.

Nixon's name was expunged from tax records to cover up his underpayment of income taxes. But the former chief of IRS internal security, Francis I. Geibel. says he ordered Nixon's name removed from tax records because of leaks to the press about Nixon's returns. Nixon gives his wife credit for saving his life when he was desperately ill last October, according to the current issue of McCall's magazine.

Mrs. Nixon credits God and the doctors. Final negotiations for the presidential library took place Saturday when Nixon met with USC trustees at the Palm Springs estate of Walter H. Annenberg, ambassador to Great Britain during the Nixon administration. Originally, the Richard Nixon Foundation was to build 'the library but it turned its assets over to Whittier College.

Nixon's alma mater, when the foundation was dissolved. Last week. Dr. Thomas W. Bewley, chairman of the Whittier board of trustees, said Nixon had promised to locate at least some of his papers there.

There was no explanation. Sunday about what Whittier might get. In the Penthouse magazine article, reporter Tad Sztilc said the device used to bug the Oval Office City Brief Marilyn Cox won the traveling trophy as a guest speaker during a meeting of Yawn Patrol Toastmasters Club Monday. Secretaries were guests of the club. Fred Masek "was named outstanding toastmaster of the day.

Matt Gates and Donna Kowalke shared honors as best table topics participants. Collin Kollars was the best evaluator. Assignments included toastmaster, Fred Masek; topicsmaster, Tom Molohon. and master evaluator, Ron Mielke. Elizabeth Doyle.

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