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Nov. 6, 1976 3B Sioux Falls Argus-Leader For mail delivery, Nov. 8, 1976 Ruling Allows Nonresident Attorneys To Handle Cases Without State Lawver PIERRE, S. D. (AP) South Dakota's Supreme Court is making it easier for nonresident lawyers to work with legal aid or public defender agencies in the state.

Greg Lewis of Black Hills Legal Services in Rapid City says the change should help poorer people get better legal help. The high court adopted a rule that allows a nonresident attorney to handle legal aid cases without being accompanied in court by a South Dakota lawyer. Before the rule change, nonresident attorneys had to have a local co-counsel who was supposed to actively participate in the case. "If the legal aid system is to be of any use, this change was necessary," high court Chief Justice Francis Dunn said. "The main reason for it is to give Legal Aid lawyers a chance to spread themselves a little thinner and to practice in the state as soon, as they come here.

"If you require them to be accompanied by a resident lawyer, you might as well have i vet? I --it-" i vc I --AX 1 4 i I Vwn A SI vj Vtf Sex Discrimination Suit Filed Against 3M The Violinist School in Mashpee, getting a full measure of help from her teacher Lavada Studley. (AP Wirepnoto) Becky Curtis, 8, struggles through her second week of violin lessons at the Samuel G. Davis Funding System "If some misguided people had not opposed this principle in 1967, we might not have had the Watergate scandals in 1972. The outcome of the 1968 and 1972 elections also might have been different." The presidential campaign fund is fed by taxpayers who earmark MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A class-action suit alleging nationwide sex discrimination on a large scale was filed Friday against Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Co. (3M).

The suit was filed by two female employes of 3M's plant at Fairmont, Minn. Lona Sokolosski and Patricia Railsback contend the company has discriminated against women in hiring, job assignment and classification, compensation, promotion and maternity benefits. The plaintiffs claim that women employes of 3M have been more susceptible to layoffs because of company policies and that the company has not provided training to women for better-paying jobs. The suit also claims that women are systematically denied information concerning high-paying jobs available with the company and that, as a result, "upward mobility of women presently employed at 3M is almost nonexistent. -Tex Inc.

Hopes the other lawyer handling the case and save one of them's time." he said. "This should make it possible for Legal Aid people to handle more cases." Lewis said he thinks the change will make more attorneys available who have expertise in poverty law. "There isn't much poverty law expertise by most attorneys in this state," he said. "It's very difficult to get qualified, experienced attorneys into reservation areas especially, because of living conditions and the isolation. "The experienced private attorney in South Dakota wouldn't be drawn into legal service," Lewis said.

"The best bet is to go out of state. "The court's change should give legal services bureaus in-creased recruitment capabilities." The Supreme Court will keep the power to decide whether an out-of-state lawyer can be admitted to legal aid practice under the rule and under what conditions that permission may be withdrawn. Pressler Expresses Interest In Senate HUMBOLDT, S.D. (AP) Rep. Larry Pressler said Friday he is interested in a senate term, but stopped short of saying he will run in 1978.

Pressler was a landslide winner Tuesday in his bid for a second house term. Pressler said the circumstances would have to be just right before making a senate bid. He said he is involved now in programs involving the elderly, agriculture! water development and congressional reform, and that those projects are his major concern. But Pressler also noted that a senator would have more power in working for those goals. Doland Man To Attend Meet By The Associated Press A Doland man will be one of five representing the United States at the World Conference on Agricultural Education and International Ag Olympics next week.

Scott Thompson, 21, a student at South Dakota State University, will be among 150 represenatives of 22 countries at the Kansas City, conference. He will participate in a symposium on agricultural education and will compete in livestock judging and farm mechanics contests. Lawyers To File Documents Requesting Execution Delay Aided Carter $1 apiece from their federal in come tax for that purpose. Long said Treasury figures show that the $1 checkoff is. gaining widespread public ac ceptance.

A total of $33.6 million' was contributed to the fund this year. The fund has collected million since it began. in the minority, said he was not'1 sure of its implications. A courf clerk said it had the effect of rejecting an appeal by Gilmore's, fired lawyers while leaving the'' door open for an interested party to appeal. Snyder disagreed.

He said it means he and Esplin could; continue to participate in the-' case, pending a court ruling. Th decision did not address itself Mr Gilmore's request that the court' reject all appeals on his behalf. It said only "It is the opinion of the following Justices that any legal problems as to the conviction and the death sentence pronounced upon Gary Gilmore should be resolved. Wherefore, if an application for a stay of, execution is made, it should be granted pending adjudication ori' any such problems." 'n The minority opinion said there1 has been no authorized appeal in' the case and "no issue is before 100 At Its New Brookings Factory SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Lawyers say they will file documents with the State Supreme Court on Monday to delay the Nov. 15 execution of convicted killer Gary Mark Gilmore, who says he wants to die before a firing squad.

The announcement by two lawyers who were fired by Gilmore was made Friday after the Supreme Court agreed it would grant a stay of execution if an application is made. The court had received a letter from Gilmore which said any appeals on his behalf should be considered null and void. Craig Snyder, a court-appointed attorney, said he and lawyer Michael Esplin would file a certificate of probable cause with the high court, asking for the stay. There was some confusion over the court's 3-2 opinion. Chief Justice Henri Henriod, who was Firm Charged With Negligence In Plutonium Contamination The suit asks that 3M be ordered to pay several million dollars in back pay and interest from 1972 to the present.

No specific amount is named. Attorneys for the women say an estimated 12,000 women among the company's 45,000 employes nationwide are affected by the suit. The suit excludes two groups of women who are involved in another class action case brought earlier by the National Organization of Women The case was heard Friday before U.S. District Judge Donald Alsop. He must still decide whether to certify the new suit as a class action motion.

In another sex-discrimination case against 3M, a Ramsey County district judge ordered the company to pay $111,557 in back pay to 10 women employed at the company's Chemolite plant in Cottage Grove, Minn. A 3M spokesman had no comment concerning Friday's suit. To Employ which will accomodate an m- creased production level. It will also provide additional space for new products anticipated in the coming year. Occupancy is expected early in 1977.

About 100 persons are expected to be employed. Mid-Tex has operations in North Mankato, Water-town, S.D., Glendale, and Seoul, Korea. The Brookings factory will not affect the operation of the Watertown operation, according to operations manager William Elleson. Wollman's Hopes Diminished PIERRE, S.D. (AP) Lt.

Gov. Harvey Wollman said Friday he is not as optimistic about his chances as Agriculture Secretary because Jimmy Carter failed to carry South Dakota. Part of Carter's agriculture campaign theme called for a family farmer in the agriculture department, and Wollman, a farmer near Hitchcock, was among those mentioned for the post. Wollman said he has not been personally contacted about the job, but that efforts are being on his behalf through the Midwest Carter office. Wollman said he would accept the position if offered to him.

"It would be hard to turn the President down," he said. Black Hills Coed Places In Rodeo SPEARFISH, S.D. Black Hills State College's Mary Vro-man, Belle Fourche, won the girls' Ail-Around honor at a North Dakota State University rodeo. The Black Hills girls team took second place in the meet. Miss Vroman placed second in goat tying and breakaway roping.

Lorita Melvin, Pierre, placed third in goat tying and sixth in barrel racing. Tony Chytka, Lake Andes, took second in bull riding and fourth in bareback riding. Ron Chytka.Lake Andes, placed third in bareback. Leon Etzkorn, Pierre, placed thrid in saddle bronc and Ron Floyd, Kennebec, placed fifth. John Highmore placed fourth in steer wrestling.

Disaster Status Asked In Iowa DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Designation of nine western Iowa counties as drought disaster areas was requested by Gov. Robert Ray. In a telegram to the acting Agriculture Secretary, Ray said corn and soybean losses in the nine counties are estimated at $285.2 million because of this year's drought. The counties are Carroll, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Monona, Plymouth, Shelby, Sioux and Woodbury. New Campaign WASHINGTON (AP) The new system of public funding of presidential elections was a great equalizer that benefitted Jimmy Carter this year, says the man who authored the law.

"For the first time in recent years," Sen. Russell B. Long, said Friday, "the Republicans were not able to outspend the Democrats with a deluge of money in the final month am convinced this was a key to Mr. Carter's victory over President Ford." Moreover, said Long, the outcome of the previous two presidential elections might have been reversed if, as he had proposed, the law was in effect then. The Carter-Ford campaign was the first financed with tax money rather than private contributions.

The candidates received $21.8 million each from the government for the general election and were barred from taking money from other sources. Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, began the drive for tax-financed campaigns in 1966 but was unsuccessful until 1971. In the face of a veto threat from then-President Richard M. Nixon, the effective date was delayed until after the 1972 presidential election. "This year's election shows that we are able to remove the corrupting influence of major campaign contributions from the presidential race," Long said in a statement.

had a relationship with the FBI, is named as a defendant in the conspiracy charge, Ikard said. Silkwood said he filed the suit "to find out the truth." He charged that neither the Justice Department, the FBI nor congressional committees had adequately investigated his daughter's contamination and death. The suit alleges that there was a conspiracy "to infringe on the constitutional rights of Karen Silkwood and her co-workers" by preventing them from organizing a labor union, Ikard said. He said the suit also alleges the defendants used "illegal surveillance, wiretapping (and) burglary" as part of their conspiracy and were also responsible for "prohibiting them (Miss Silkwood and her co-workers) from reporting violations of the Atomic Energy Act to proper governmental officials." State Tornadoes Number Four MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A record 52 tornadoes hit North Dakota this year to date, but other Upper Midwest states fared much better in the twister parade. The National Weather Service said a preliminary survey showed the total nationally through October was 830, compared with an annual average of 660 in the past 20 years.

Eighteen were reported in Iowa, 12 each in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and South Dakota had only 4. Fatalities from tornadoes nationally numbered 44, or fewer than 50 per cent of the 20-year average. Minnesota's single fatality was the sole one that occurred in the 10-month period in the Upper Midwest. The Midwest drought put a damper on tornadoes, and the 14 in Kansas were the fewest the state has reported at least since 1946. Texas led the nation with 173 twisters, Florida was second at 65 and North Dakota's 52 ranked third.

in" ITS WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) Mid-Tex Amico Division, announced Friday it has contracted for a 20,000 square foot factory in Brookings, S.D., with construction to commence immediately. The facility represents a general expansion of manufacturing and warehouse space Cranes Leave Before Season PIERRE, S. D. (AP) South Dakota's Game, Fish and Parks Department predicted a "washout" for crane season which opens Saturday.

"There were 22,000 cranes in the state Monday," a department spokesman said. "Now there are none." A waterfowl biologist checked with North Dakota and found that state had no cranes either. "What it means is that the season probably will be a washout for hunters," the spokesman said. He said the chilly, windy weather at midweek apparently caused the birds to continue their southward migration sooner than expected. Rapid City Man Dies Of Injuries WICHITA, Kan.

(AP) A Rapid City, S.D., man died in a hospital here Thursday of injuries sustained in a two-vehicle collision Aug. 27. Authorities said Earl F. Wa-terson, 71, died of head and internal injuries he received when his car was struck by another at a marked intersection of U.S. 166 and Kansas 15, about four miles south of Dexter, Kan.

Another person in the car, Ethel L. Stephens, 59, also of Rapid City, was killed outright. Bob Odell, Cowley County undersheriff, said the driver of the other vehicle, Victor C. McCoy, 76, Glendale, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the accident. Harless Pleads Guilty To Reduced Charge OMAHA, Neb.

(AP) An escapee from the Federal Youth Center in Englewood, pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge of fraud by wire in connection with the alleged abduction of a South Dakota girl. The U.S. Attorney's office said Martin Dean Harless, 25, had been charged with kidnaping and extortion in the July abduction of a 13-y ear-old Flandreau, S.D., girl. He pleaded to the reduced charge before federal Judge Albert G. Schatz.

A date for sentencing, which could be a maximum of five years and a $1,000 fine or both, was not set. Authorities said the girl was released unharmed after a $1,000 ransom was paid by her mother. They said Harless had escaped in December, 1975 from the Colorado institution, where he was serving a six-year sentence for kidnap and rape. McDonald's OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An Oklahoma corporation has been accused of "willful and wanton negligence" in the plutonium contamination of a young nuclear plant employe who later was killed in an automobile crash. William Silkwood, father of Karen Silkwood, made the allegation in a $160,000 damage and conspiracy suit filed here Friday against the Kerr-McGee 23 of the company's officers and employes, three Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and a former Nashville journalist.

Silkwood's attorney, James Ikard, said the suit charges the company and the individuals named in the suit with conspiring to violate Miss Silkwood's civil rights. In a prepared statement, Kerr-McGee said, "We are aware that a lawsuit has been filed. The matter is now in the hands of our legal department and, since a legal proceeding has begun, we will have no comment to make on the subject." Miss Silkwood died in a car wreck in November 1974 while en route to a meeting with a New York Times reporter and a union official to discuss her contamination at Kerr-McGee's Cimarron nuclear facility hear Oklahoma City. The facility since has been closed. Miss Silkwood, a lab technician who previously had criticized safety conditions at the facility, was contaminated by plutonium about eight days before her death.

Union officials alleged that the crash in which Miss Silkwood was killed was not an accident, but the FBI and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol both said their investigations indicated no foul Play-Named as defendants in the damage suit are all members of the Kerr-McGee board and 11 employes of the plant where Miss Silkwood worked. Ikard said those named on the civil rights charges are FBI agent Lawrence J. Olson, who investigated Miss Silkwood's death; FBI agent Theodore Rosack, who was in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma in 1974, and a Washington FBI agent whose name is unknown. Jacque Srouji, a former Nashville journalist who NOW OPEN on 41st ST. SHIRLEY 8th Indiana West 12th Williams 40th South Minn.

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