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4A March 20, 1976 For mail delivery, March 22, 1976 Food, Mineral Research Advancing Ford Carries Campaign To North Carolina; Carter Predicts Victory In Tuesday's Race Parmpr. the party's The search for new food and mineral supplies moves forward energetically and imaginatively. Time was when scientific research centered upon the possibilities of converting salt water into fresh water for irrigation in stricken regions. Now the idea is being reversed. Instead of changing sea water to suit crops scientists look to changing the crops to suit the water.

The developing of sea crops in an effort to solve the world's food shortage is already at the stage where seaweed is being farmed in a plan to turn it into a main food source. The U.S. Navy's Ocean Food and Energy Farm Project has set up farms on plastic mesh rafts off the California coast. Seaweed has already been converted to animal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Ford headed for North Carolina today for some last minute campaigning before Tuesday's Republican primary, while Jimmy Carter, acting and sounding like a frontrunner, left the state with a prediction he would win the Democratic balloting. Ford was expected in Charlotte for a breakfast today with supporters and a speech to the Future Homemakers of America.

From Charlotte he was to travel to Asheville, Spruce Pine and Hickory. Ronald Reagan, the former California governor, spent a good part of the week in the state waving off forecasts that his challenge to Ford is near an end. Trying to reverse losses in five previous GOP primaries, Reagan scheduled campaign stops today in North Wilkesboro, Lenoir and Hickory. On the Democratic side, Alabama Gov. George Wallace was to campaign in High Point state Friday and did not plan to return before the primary, while three others on the Democratic ballot, Washington Sen.

Henry M. Jackson, Arizona Rep. Morris K. Udall, and former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris, concentrated their work elsewhere.

There was other activity on the political front today Gov. David Boren sought support for Carter as Oklahoma's Democrats prepared today to pick 28 of the 37 delegates the state will send to the national nominating covention. Boren announced his support for Carter Thursday, predicting the ex-Georgia governor would win a majority of the delegates. Carter, Wallace and Jackson were to learn how many delegates they will get from the March 9 Democratic primary in Florida. The, state party's rules committee makes the official apportionment of Florida's 81 convention delegates based on an accountant's application of certified election returns.

Falls MOUX feed, and studies have shown that cattle can get as much benefit from consuming it as they can from alfalfa. Which means that seaweed can indirectly furnish meat, milk, butter and cheese. Space mining is probably the most dramatic plan ever conceived in the quest for minerals. Asteroids orbiting beyond Mars are being eyed as a rich source of valuable minerals. They are said to be rich in iron and nickel.

The undertaking, incredible as it may seem, would be technically and economically possible, according to two Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, Thomas B. McCord and Michael J. Gaffey. They have worked out a scenario of colonies of miners digging on the asteroids and shipping the metal to the earth in rocket-powered That may sound like the most fanciful science fiction, but let's not forget that the airplane and submarine were once considered wildly impossible. From ocean farming to space mining, we can be certain of at least one thing: The inventive and resourceful mind of man is still very much on the job.

Bicentennial Flashback March 20 On this day in 1776, General Washington ordered his troops entering Boston to be on their best behavior and promised punishment for those who abused the people of the city. Favorite Bible Thought Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matthew 26:41. The mind has power over the body when the mind is committed to Christ: ARGUS-LEADER A Newspaper for the Home 200 S. Sioux Falls.

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But he acknowledged the National Election Service breakdown of 34 delegates for Carter, 26 for Wallace and 21 for Jackson was "pretty accurate." Confident of his strength in North Carolina, Carter campaigned only two days during the final week while Wallace, his principal opponentarrived in the state Tuesday and was to continue seeking votes up to election day. Carter, in his speeches made little mention of Wallace. But Wallace blasted away at Carter, accusing him of lying and changing his stand on issues. Firemen Battle Paint Blaze SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) A fire in a painting area of the North American Manufacturing Co. plant five miles east of here Friday caused an undetermined amount of damage.

Fire fighters from six communities battled the blaze, which broke out about 4:45 p.m. An employe in the painting area said he heard a small explosion and saw a fire on a conveyor line. The blaze then spread to barrels of paint and paint thinner. Fire damage was confined to the painting area, which is in a metal addition- to the plant. The rest of the building was extensively damaged by smoke.

Units from Moville, Lawton, Bronson, Kingsley, Pierson and Sergeant Bluff fought the blaze. One person was treated at a Sioux City hospital for minor burns and released. Law Enforcement To Be Upgraded FORT THOMPSON, S.D. (AP) The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe will use a $74,000 federal grant to upgrade law enforcement activities. The grant, from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is for salaries and equipment for a staff of four police officers, two dispatchers and clerks.

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If you do not receive your paper on a 1130 before 7:00 p.m.; It you do not receive your paper on Sunday morning call 336 1130 before 11:00 a.m., and delivery will be made. Member of The Associated Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations Second Class postage paid at Sioux Falls, South Dakota Vol.91 No. 80 Larry Pressler Accused Of Plagiarism "vont rlarnner" and DreventS times and twice voted quietly for "There may be several reasons. Last year we had the tax rebate, the economy is not as good as last year and many are finding refunds lower than expected because withholding tables were changed last he said. "There will be a hugh crunch for all of us, even bigger than last year," he added.

Common complaints from taxpayers this year, said Toevs, concerned the complexity of the 1040 tax form. "The IRS doesn't write the tax laws. Our belief is that any new direction will be towards simplicity," he said. "We did some research into it a year and a half ago and the general reaction was they would like to see it more simple. "Then again they felt they would loose equity.

They thought complexity was required for equity," he said. Block handles about 10 per cent of all tax returns, according to Toevs. There are four offices in Sioux Falls, about 75 in the state and 7,500 in the U.S. and Canada. is being more generous this year, but not many people are noticing.

Low income earners are getting a break through a form of a negative income tax, but there are not many taking advantage, according to Bill Toevs, director of public affairs with Block in Kansas City, Mo. If households earn less than $8,000 excluding such things as social security and welfare, have at least one dependant under the age of 18 and file a joint return, they can earn a credit or rebate of up to $400. "It is designed to help the working poor," Toevs said. "Many will miss out if they don't act." He added. "Many (in this low income group) don't have to file a return ordinarily but will have to claim the credit.

In plain terms, it is a gift." Returns are coming in slower than normal, according to Gene city manager or Block in Sioux Falls. Toevs agreed. "Filings are way behind last year and even farther behind in South Dakota. It is not just us, but IRS has re- heat from going up the flue. In 1972 we revealed how the industry-run American Gas Association (AGA) had successfully thwarted its widespread use to keep sales of natural gas from dropping.

But Memphis, among other cities, tried to give the vent damper a fair trial. The subcommittee has now obtained correspondence which shows that the AGA's industrious president, F.D. Hart, "called (Memphis officials) "three or four times and was applying pressure" to prevent the vent damper test. Explains Success A subcommittee staff report explains AGA's success; "For approximately ten years, a small company attempted to have the AGA promulgate standards" which are necessary for the device to be widely, installed. "The AGA refused As a result, only about 5,000 of the vent dampers are in use, although there are 30 million gas furnaces.

The subcommittee has also determined that the devices are safe. Staffer John Ray was sent to West Germany to study the devices first hand. He found that in 43 years, there have been only 14 accidents, all due to improper tampering with the mechanism. Copyright. 1976, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

the White House line. Last July, Pressler voted against a White House proposal to remove price controls on crude oil, then switched his stance nine days later. Also in July, he voted the pro-labor position on the controversial 'common "common situs" picketing bill, then reversed himself in December. Footnote: Pressler told us our inquiry was "the first I've heard" of the plagiarism. His article was "written by an intern," he said, but "it's under my name so I'm responsible for it." The lawmaker staunchly defended his voting record but admitted there was "an inconsistency' in his common situs Gas Pressure I The natural gas industry has quietly blocked use of a simple device that would save $200 million in heating bills during each winter month, according to confidential Senate memos.

The mechanism, costing only a few dollars, would decrease use of natural gas in furnaces by up to 30 per cent and save the equivalent of a half million bar-1 rels of oil a day. The device has been used in Germany for 43 years. In hearings next week by the Senate Anti-Trust subcommittee, the natural gas industry will be asked why it's not being used in the U.S. The fuel-saver is called Belle Fourche Family Moves Back To Farm After Being Evicted Ms Pit tj I 7 1 i a hm a Household Moving and Storage of Rapid City was assigned the task of moving the property from the farm in January by Butte County authorities. The firm charged $16,000 for the move and a month's storage.

"Some people have questioned the moving and storage charges," said Norman Peterson, owner of household moving, pointing to 50 large wooden cartons, files of materials and trailers filled with items from the far "We could have charged more than $20,000 without being unreasonable. We had 10 to 13 men working for more than 10 days and didn't charge overtime for two weeks," he said. Butte County took tax deed to Stark's farm in 1971 after the rancher refused to pay property taxes for 10 years. The farm was sold to an area development corporation for $51,000. Attorneys for Stark asked the high court to look into the case, contending that Stark was not competent to handle his affairs and that a guardian should have been named by the county during the legal process.

BELLE S.D. (AP) The Alex Stark family has begun moving its property back to the farm from which the Starks were evicted last January. The state Supreme Court this week ordered the property east of Belle Fourche put in the care of a neighbor, Manuel Kindsfater, temporary guardian for the family. Stark was evicted and had his furniture, machinery and 323 head of cattle seized for failing to pay several years' back taxes, totalling $8,700, to Butte County. The Supreme Court said it will assign a judge to hear the case, dealing particularly with whether Sark is competent to handle his own affairs.

The move began Thursday when the family's household goods were loaded from a Rapid City warehouse. "We are beginning to move the family back on the farm," Kindsfater said Friday. "It'll be first things first the furniture, farm equipment, then livestock. We want to get them back so they can resume normal livestock feeding and farming operations as soon as possible." Jamie Farr Needed Reform Actor Jamie Farr Assisting Telethon Merry-Go-Round By JACK ANDERSON with LES WHITTEN WASHINGTON In just one year on Capitol Hill, Rep. Larry Pressler, the dapper young Republican from South Dakota, has mastered art of being everything to everyone.

Indeed, we have discovered, he has even plagiarized published articles to enhance his image as an agricultural expert. It is hardly surprising that the polished Pressler would lack expertise in agricultural affairs. He is a Rhodes Scholar and a Harvard Law School graduate. He spent almost three years as a legal advisor to the Secretary of State. Potomac Fever Smitten with Potomac Fever, he shucked his striped pants, rolled up his shirt sleeves and ran for Congress, as a South Dakota farm boy.

In his largely rural district, he emphasizes the fact that he grew up on a "family farm near Humboldt." Even his State Department experience has been neatly, tailored to his new image. He worked on "international agricultural trade," he says. Pressler has further refined his "farm boy" facade by writing an occasional piece on agricultural problems for the local press. One such article recently appeared in the South Dakota High Liner, a tabloid published by the state Rural Electric Association. Pressler lifted whole paragraphs, sometimes word-for-word, from a series which appeared in the Washington Post in January.

Lifted Paragraphs The Post story, for example, contained this paragraph: "When the senior executives of some of the most powerful firms fly off on grain-selling missions, their whereabouts often are kept secret even from their own senior employees so that an untimely leak won't tip off a competitor to some impending grain sale coup." In his story, Pressler wrote: "When the senior executive of some of the most powerful firms fly off on grain-selling missions, their whereabouts are often kept secret even from their own senior employees so that an untimely leak won't tip off a competitor to some impending grain sale coup." Reported the Washington Post: "The grain firms are a handful of companies engaged in moving an essential commodity from the few countries that have more than enough to the many that have far too little." Wrote Pressler: The grain firms "are a handful of companies engaged in moving an essential commodity from the few countries that have enough to the many that have too little." At least a third of the Pressler article so closely resembles the previously published material that it could be construed as plagiarism. But this isn't the only evidence of Pressler's duplicity. He has amassed a voting record so jumbled that it would confound a computer. Voting Record Last month, for example, Pressler held a full-dress press conference to complain that White House lobbyist Vern Loen had "threatened" him because of his votes against deregulation of natural gas. The record clearly shows, however, that Pressler switched his position several We would hope that action will be taken soon it is action which is needed and certainly justified by today's economic levels.

We suspect that when petitions now being gathered reach the desks of congressional leaders, they will move reasonably fast on this matter. Happy 8th Of July! Tulsa World The Viking spacecraft won't get to Mars in time to mark the Bicentennial on July 4. Mars will be the only place in the universe celebrating the Glorious 8th or 9th. -by Ned Riddle The Lyon County Reporter President Ford and congressional leaders seem to be agreed that the inheritance tax exemption should be raised. Ford suggested that it be upped from $60,000 to $150,000..

Some congressmen are suggesting that it shold be raised to $200,000. A strong drive is now going on among farm groups to have the exemption boosted to $200,000. This would be possible, in many cases to keep farms in the family, rather than make it necessary that they be sold, just to pay the inheritance tax. Inflation, since that $60,000 exemption was written into law makes a much higher figure only common sense. MR.

TWEEDY Ray Joins Effort To Get Reagan Out election of President Ford." Reagan, who has suffered five primary losses to Ford, said earlier this week he would remain in the race even if he lost to Ford 3-Zo in North Carolina on 1 uesday. The nine GOP governors who signed the statement included Ray Holshouser and Evans; Mills Godwin of -Virginia; Arch A. Moore Jr. of West Virginia; Otis Bowen of Indiana; William J. MilliUpn of Michigan: Robert F.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Gov. Robert Ray was one of several Republican governors -who asked former California Gov. Ronald Reagan to step out of the presidential primary race Friday. Ray said GOP Govs. Daniel Evans of Washington and James Holshouser of North Carolina organized the drive to ask Reagan to quit his presidential bid "in the interest of party unity," Ray said Evans approached him "the day of the Illinois primary or the day before," but he didn't know whether all GOF governors had been contacted.

"When I was asked, I said 1 would join them if that is the action going to be taken," Ray said. In the statement, the governors said they "now call upon Ronald Reagan to withdraw from the presidential race and with us and all other Republicans work for the ttRnneii ui Halloas auu iay Jamie Farr, who plays the eccentric draftee, Cpl. Klinger on TV's MASH, will be in Sioux Falls, April 3-4 to assist the United Cerebral Palsy Telethon, according to an announcement by Peter Hassenstein, 1976 telethon chairman. A veteran actor, Farr has appeared in a variety of roles, both serious and comedy, on stage as well as in the movies and on television. The 1976 telethon will be broadcast live from the Coliseum over the KELO-land network.

Committee Recommends Buying Borglum Ranch RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) citizens committee is recommending that the Gutzom Borglum studio and ranch near Hermosa be purchased by the state and federal government. Borglum is sculptor of Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills. The committee said Sen.

George McGovern, is preparing a bill to provide for purchase of the farm along South Dakota 36 east of Custer State Park by the U.S. Department of Interior and the state. Purchase price is estimated at $500,000, of which the federal government would provide up to $300,000. The state would be responsible for the remainder and any further purchases, as well as administrator, development and protection of the site. James Gillihan, state director of cultural preservation, said the site had been operated by the Borglum family as a tourist attraction.

The family had planned to close the ranch and sell it in the fall because of declining revenue. Hammona oi AiasKa. Rapid City Man To Be Charged RAPID CITY (AP) -Pennington County Deputy State's Atty. John Konenkamp said a charge of second-degree manslaughter would be filed against Ralph Amundson, 23, of Rapid City in the death of a companion Monday. Tom Rezac, 23, was shot behind the right ear with a 9 millimeter pistol at a bar Monday night.

The two men were sitting with other persons when the weapon, being handled by Amundson, discharged. Amundson was charged Tuesday with assault with a dangerous weapon but Konenkamp said the charge Youth To Be Hired PIERRE (AP) South Dakota's- Youth Conservation Corps is recruiting young people for summer work. John Cournoyer, state recruitment officer, said the program is for persons 15 to 18 years old and offers summer jobs in national parks, forests and other public land. WEO RIDtL would be changed after Rezac died of his wounds on Thursday. "HEY, SAM- DO YOU WANT TO CATCH A FEW.