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Heart boats Implant patient awake and talking 3A Basketball Castlewcod-Salem girts will play for title 1 A smash Tommy Heams over Wilfred Benitez 1 3 USPS 030240 1982 Argus Leader 25C if I if i Saturday, December 4, 1982 Sioux Falls, S.D. A Gannett newspaper Good thrifts i 0.8 peieoiiS my morning Forecast WASHINGTON (AP) The national unemployment rate jumped to 10.8 percent in November as the ranks of the jobless climbed to 12 million. President Reagan called the Friday report a "continuing tragedy." The 0.4 percentage point jump from October's 10.4 percent jobless rate went beyond even the most pessimistic forecasts of Reagan's chief economics adviser and private analysts and dimmed even further prospects for a post-Christmas business recovery. The labor market, which has been in steady deterioration since the recession set in during August 1981, eroded even further last month as severity of the recession. Some 440,000 people joined the jobless rolls in November as the unemployment rate went up for third consecutive month.

Since February, the jobless rate has risen each month except August, when it held steady at 9.8 percent. Since July 1981, the unemployment rate has surged by 3.6 percentage points and the number of people officially categorized as unemployed has swelled by 4.1 million. People who have lost their jobs, rather than those listed as unemployed simply because they searched in vain for work, account for 62 percent of all unemployed, compared with about SO percent in July 1981. Democrats propose jobs bill. 2A post-Depression unemployment highs were established across virtually the whole spectrum of the U.S.

population. Joblessness was the highest in four decades for adult men and women, whites, teen-agers, Hispanics and full-time workers. Only blacks were spared from further rises in joblessness as the unemployment rate among this group held steady at a record 20.2 percent last month. One administration official said the jump in the jobless figure caught economic planners by surprise and produced new worries about the In his statement, Reagan said that "unfortunately, unemployment has traditionally been one of the last indicators to fall, but as the recovery comes on stream, we can expect to make progress on that front too." "Yes, it is a lagging indicator," Allen Sinai, vice president and chief economist of Data Resources, a Lexington, forecasting firm, said Friday. "But when the figures are so high, it says something.

It casts a shadow over a recovery." AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland called the latest unemployment report shocking and said it "should finally silence those who have been painting rosy pictures of recovery." raw 1 1 1 Weather, 2A Stocks Market retreats Dow Standard Jones and Poor's Janklow blames McAlister 1 1,031.36 1 138.69 I DN I DN 1.75 0.13 i 30 L7 50OSTOCK INDUSTRIALS 00MPOSITE Marketplace, 4B Today President Reagan gives a radio address today. In Sioux Falls, it can be heard on KSOO radio at 12:10 p.m., followed the the Democratic rebuttal. Sunday television listings are now in Saturday's Argus Leader. -8A 1 4VT' rV( fir A f- ii i 1 -v v'; -4- i 5 1 if i i. ft 4 1 j.

At iniii i Inside. I Britain has expelled the Soviet naval attache in London for espi onage activities. 4A A man thought dead surrendered to authorities seven years after the FBI began hunting him. -5A RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) South Dakota Cement Plant President Robert McAlister and a cement consultant misrepresented themselves during a visit to a Minnesota cement terminal, Gov.

William Janklow said Friday. In addition, Janklow said an employee of a consulting firm misrepresented herself at the same terminal two weeks ago while doing a marketing survey. The incidents led to the sudden resignation Wednesday of McAlister, has led the state-owned plant on a spectacular sales ride, doubling the plant's income to the state. According to Janklow, McAlister and consultant Clayton Williams of San Fransisco visited the Dundee-St. Lawrence Cement Co.

terminal in Du-luth, in late August. While there, "they allowed themselves to be introduced as two other people," Janklow said Friday. "It was not Bob's idea, but he didn't correct it. In effect, Bob McAlister allowed that to happen." McAlister confirmed that he made the trip, but said, "I have nothing to say about Clay Williams and I never misrepresented myself." He would not comment on whether he was introduced as someone else. Thursday, McAlister had said there was no direct relationship between the incident and his resignation.

Janklow praised McAlister, saying he has "absolute admiration" for the cement executive. But Janklow said government employees have to operate under higher standards than are commonplace in the corporate world. "The post-Watergate mentality is still with us. We have to live up to the government standard," he said. McAlister said he was in Duluth to look over the terminal.

"If you are running a candy store, wouldn't you Cement PlantSee 2A AP photo The funnel cloud of a tornado approaches Little Rock, Thursday air, saw the tornado approaching, and used her operating room in this photo taken by Dixie Knight, 29, a medical photographer at the camera to take the picture. University of Arkansas. She said she had stepped out for some fresh Storms pound the nation a second day Newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch has bought the Boston Hearld American. 5A Anne Gorsuch, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, has been threatened with a second contempt citation. 6A A scuba diver whose identity was withheld died when he dove into a small storm retention pond on private property in Poulsbo about 15 miles northwest of Seattle to unclog a blocked drain.

The man was sucked into the drain pipe by the force of the draining water, said Bruce Alton, a paramedic who tried to rescue the diver. High winds knocked an 80-foot hole in the wall of a company in Lowell, that makes storm doors and windows and a tornado tore the roofs from several houses Friday morning in Eunice, La. StormsSee 2A wetness records, too Michigan got more than 3 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, breaking a record for December. There were blizzard conditions in Montana: Winds howled at 90 mph Friday, one day after three people died in accidents on icy roads. Oregon and Washington were soaked by a Pacific Ocean storm that carried 70 mph gusts and knocked out power lines.

Washington Gov. John Spellman declared a state of emergency in the western part of the state Friday night after high winds and flooding caused widespread damage. By.The Associated Press Three more tornadoes slammed into Arkansas on Friday and a child drowned in swirling floodwaters on the second day of storms that have killed at least 10 people in the Mississippi River Valley. One man was killed in rain-drenched western Washington when he was sucked down a drain pipe, and as many as four people were reported missing in Illinois. Temperature records toppled in Michigan and Florida as a heat wave reached from the Gulf of Mexico to Canadian border states that are more used to snow this time of year.

The weather set Baby sitter admits killing children PERRY, Fla. (AP) Baby sitter Christine Falling pleaded guilty Friday to murdering three children entrusted to her care and was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for III parole in 25 I Mrtim nt I I Ithiti 'in 1 rT m. I I Jrvrri i fit T'v JZ ri- 4 -P Comedian Marty Feldman has died of a massive heart attack. -10A Indians have decided to cut the size of the proposed permanent community they want to build on federal land in the Black Hills. 1C years.

Had the 19-year-old defendant gone to trial and been found guilty, she could nave been sentenced to death in the electric chair. Falling, who dropped out of ju-1 i i nior high school, I 1 was given three concurrent life sentences for Argus Leader photo by FRANK KLOCK Commissioner Harold Wingler's Vega. played a recording of a confession in which Falling admitted strangling all three children, plus two from Lakeland who died in February 1981. Falling said in the confession, obtained in July while she was a patient at a Tallahassee mental hospital, that she killed three of th children children because they made her mad. She said she "just got the urge" to kill the Spring boy and didn't know what compelled her to kill the Coleman infant.

"I just picked him up off his pallet and choked him," she said in the confession to Calhoun County Sheriff's Deputy Ronnie Stone. Falling was arrested July 22 in Blountstown and charged with killing the Johnson girl and Coleman baby. Prosecutors said she "strangled and-or suffocated" the youngsters. Three weeks before Falling's arrest, Travis Coleman had been found dead in the ramshackle trailer Falling shared with her boyfriend, Robert Johnson. He had become the fifth child in 2'j years to die in Falling's care or after being baby-sat by her.

His death sparked a new round of publicity about Falling and renewed speculation about a link to the first four deaths, which had been attributed to natural causes. Falling had told reporters she was the confused victim of a grim coincidence. Medical experts were stumped. On July 13, she voluntarily entered a psychiatric unit in Tallahassee after a psychiatrist found she was suicidal. Her three private defense lawyers later contended Falling was tricked into entering Goodwood Manor so the state could question her about the deaths.

She was released a week later, driven back to Blountstown in a sheriff's cruiser, arrested and ordered held without bond in the Calhoun County Jail. Earlier this month, Falling was linked publicly to the death of a 77-year-old Perry man, Wilburn Swindle. He died Jan. 4, the day she began work as his housekeeper. Inside that small car rides a big-car man United Way nears goal The United Way has reached 93.1 percent of its goal and is 10.6 Eercent ahead of last year's giv-lg from the same accounts.

Some $1,412,638 is reported in. strangling and-or Christine Falling suffocating 2- year-old Cassidy "Muffin" Johnson of Blount-stown in February 1980, 8-month-old Jennifer Daniels in July 1981 in Perry and 2-month-old Travis Coleman of Blountstown in July 1982. In exchange for the guilty pleas, the state agreed not to prosecute Falling in the 1981 deaths of two Lakeland boys she had been hired to look after or in the January 1982 death of an elderly Perry man. "The bottom line is, the state made us an offer that we could not refuse," said Baya Harrison III, one of Falling's lawyers. "Christine was facing six potential death sentences." Falling pleaded guilty in Blountstown on Friday morning to two murder counts, then was driven about 100 miles southeast to Perry, another rural North Florida county seat, where she made the final admission.

Falling earlier had pleaded innocent to all three charges. "I have no Falling said when reporters asked why she decided to plead guilty. At a news conference later, prosecutors Harold Wingler is an avowed big-car man and always will be, he says. But he's made one concession to a world increasingly dominated by compact cars. The public works commissioner has taken to driving a 1976 model Vega to City Hall and on errands around town.

He's had it for about a year. In December 1978, when bid specifications submitted by city commissioners for automobiles were criticized for being drawn to luxury-car standards, Wingler staunchly defended his preferences. "I'm a big car man," he said then. "I'm against these little cars, you just don't get the ride." The commission had ordered cars with specifications that could only be met by luxury cars, critics said at the time. Extras included vinyl top, cruise control, air conditioning, tilt steer-, ing, electric door locks, and a 350-cubic-inch engine.

The stir that resulted led to an end of the practice of supplying cars to commissioners and the adoption of a car allowance. "I did say I like big cars, I drove big cars," he says. "I still do." He drives his Lincoln Continental often, especially when he goes out on the highway. He has a fleet of vehicles in a motor-pool that he maintains with his two sons and the family auctioneering business. "You get what you pay for.

I don't personally feel I get my money's worth for buying a little car." Why did Wingler buy a little car, then? "I got a good deal on that one I've got," he says. He's not impressed with the gasoline mileage he gets with the Vega, or it's performance. Still, he admits to one advantage. "The main thing I can see about a little car is parking. You can park them in small places." Index 24 pages Amusements 4-5C Opinion 2C 8A Siou Empire Sec.

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