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The Daily Tribune from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin • Page 11

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it Killer tornado rips Cheyenne CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Stunned by Cheyenne's first tornado In history, residents today resume searching the rubble of more than 200 homes in affluent sections of the city. The twister injured 37 persons, five of whom were hospitalized. A 14-month-old boy, David McKinnon, died of head injuries when his family's mobile home was torn apart, authorities said. "No one ever thought we would ever have a tornado In Cheyenne, Wyoming," Mayor Don Erickson said, "but we had one." The twister bounced across Cheyenne about 3:40 p.m.

Monday, departing the city about half an hour later and leaving what Erickson estimated to be more than 200 damaged homes. The mayor said his estimate of the damage was "a very wild estimate. It's not scientific In any regard." He said the funnel cut across a two-block wide area for 4 to 5 miles within the city limits. "It hit more than once," he said. "It might have hit half a dozen times.

As the twister came close, Norma McClellan urged her two teen-age children to get in the car and outrun it, but her son disagreed. The family took shelter in their basement, and when the sound ended, came upstairs to find their home destroyed. Nearby, three children alone in their home took the same action. "The Lord was good to us," said their mother, Diana Coles. Gov.

Ed Herschler asked President Carter to declare the ravaged blocks disaster areas, qualifying residents for emergency federal relief, Erickson said. About 300 National Guard troops were assigned to the area 'rjf-'M1 m4 'tei-; Deadly storm m'kM Its funnel blackened by dust, a tornado (left photo) roars into the Buffalo Ridge section of Cheyenne, Wyo. Monday afternoon. More than 200 homes in the area (above) were dumaged by the storm, which killed a 14-month-old boy and injured 37 other people. It was the first tornado in the, city's history.

(AP Laserphoto) 3 "32. Dreyfus to announce pardons Union about sentiment for a strike, particularly at institutions. In his travels around the state, Dreyfus said he did not get the Impression that a strike was "an option that's been preferred or expressed" by employees. Negotiations on a new two-year contract for the WSEU, which represents about 24,000 state employees, currently are stalemated. Congress begins work on new energy program The Daily Tribune Tuesday, July 17, 1979 Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.

Page 11 MADISON, Wis. (AP) Gov. Lee Dreyfus said Monday he will soon announce his first pardons since taking office in January, and a Dreyfus aide said the pardons would be issued without the advice of the pardon board. Paul Swain, Dreyfus legal aide, said two of five spots on the clemency advisory board remained unfilled, thus the governor would decide the pardons alone. At his news conference, Dreyfus said he sought a pardoned criminal to serve on the board because of that person's "There's an experience and an involvement there that could be a very real value," the governor said.

Dreyfus said he gave President Carter "about for his speech Sunday setting new energy directions for the nation. The governor noted that Carter had set a "whale of a goal" for the nation, and apparently sought to inspire the people in much the same way as did Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. A former university chancellor and speech professor, Dreyfus said he would have suggested that Carter stand, preferably before an audience, while delivering the talk, thus allowing gestures with his hands to be seen. The governor Indicated that he hoped the speech would serve to convince more Americans that the energy crisis is real, but declined to speculate on how the speech might aid Carter's politcally plummeting fortunes. On another energy-related matter, Dreyfus said the state is getting almost $140,000 in federal funds to enforce the 78-degree limit for aircondltioning that went Into effect Monday.

He said officials might have to develop new ways of enforcing the U.S. Department of Energy set regulation for all public and commercial buildings. On the question of the state's proposed $12.1 billion budget, Dreyfus said he may soon reach a decision on provisions he wishes to veto and sign the bill before the end of the month. The governor said he had not decided whether to veto a $13 million provision Increasing state payments to recipients of Supplemental Security Income. "I have not decided on specific vetoes," said Dreyfus.

Some aides have indicated Dreyfus might reduce the two-year spending package by about $30 million through the use of line vetoes. The governor said the Insertion of $8 million in highway funding by the state Assembly was the "crucial difference" in his decision not to veto the entire budget and let the Legislature begin work on a new one. Dreyfus said that despite fuel shortages, he remains convinced "the highway system Is part of the economic lifeblood" of the state's economy. In response to a question, Dreyfus said he was surprised by talk among officials of the Wisconsin State Employees mi and other Carter-backed measures already before Congress on an express track. Emerging from the strategy session, House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, said, "We hope to get four or five pieces of the mosaic through Congress quickly" before the month-long recess that begins Aug.

4. Leaders said a rush effort will be made to complete Senate action on legislation to launch a new multlbilllon-dollar synthetic fuel industry and impose the president's windfall profits tax on the oil industry. Both measures already have passed the House. Carter hopes to use revenues from the tax to finance his entire $142 billion program to decrease U.S. reliance on Imported oil in what he has called one of the largest and most expensive peacetime efforts ever undertaken.

Senate action is also contemplated on legislation to set up a National Energy Mobilization Board such as the one proposed by the president to oversee major energy projects and to cut federal red tape. Similar legislation is before the House Interior Committee but It would expedite decisions on such projects through existing agencies instead of by creating a new board. WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional Democratic leaders are beginning an all-out effort to get as much of President Carter's new energy program as possible through Congress before the August recess. The task may be easier than it sounds because many of the proposals the president put before the nation Sunday and Monday are not new, but variations on measures already progressing through Congress. First up is the president's request for authority to order gasoline rationing in times of severe shortage and to set state-by-state energy-conservation goals.

Backers predicted easy approval of the measure by the full House Commerce Committee today, setting up expected floor action later in the week or early next week. The House rejected the president's own standby rationing plan in May. But leaders quickly went to work on another plan that would give the president the standby rationing authority he wanted as well as the power, to impose mandatory fuel-saving steps in states' failing to meet specified conervation targets. House and Senate leaders met privately Monday afternoon to put the rationing bill the BIG APPLE Tourism groups seek funds 1 September 7, 8, 9,1979 plans for a $100,000 advertising campaign, to be paid for from the anti-recession funds, MADISON, Wis. (AP) -Tourism groups are jumping at the chance for a portion of $140,000 in federal anti bolster tourism, a state official said Monday.

Robert Green, acting director of the Division of Tourism, "I've been on the phone all morning," Green said. "The money is going to be given on a first-come, first-served basis." recession money Gov. Lee that will promote Wisconsin said he expects the money to Friday-Sunday This Program Includes: Round trip Airfare from Central Wisconsin Airport to New York (based on 10 people) The state is also mapping as a place to vacation. Dreyfus has ordered spent to be gone within a week. FOUR DAYS ONLY Round Trip Transfers from European parliament holds initial session WEDNESDAY Airport to Hotel THRU SATURDAY JULY 18th-21st ft Three DaysTwo Nights at was held in June.

About 60 percent of the 180 million voters in Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and Ireland participated, a low percentage by European standards. The Parliament has authority over the Common Market's $21 -billion budget and can dismiss the commisson that administers Common Market policy and directs the bureaucracy, But It has no power over national governments. the Deluxe DRAKE LOEWS HOTEL -u Broadway Show two orchestra tickets, one each to an evening or matinee performance to a musical, comedy or drama ft Choice of: Full day sight-seeing tour, sightseeing cruise around Manhattan Island OR box seat ticket to a Yankee or Mets regular season baseball game ft Dinner at choice of sel- Progressive Democrats. On the left, there are 111 Socialists and 44 Communists. There are also 24 independents ranging all the way across the political spectrum, from ultra-right to ultra-left.

The European Parliament grew out of the parliamentary Assembly of the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community established in 1952, the forerunner of the 1958 European Economic Community or Common Market and European Atomic Energy Community. When the Coal-Steel, Economic and Atomic communities united in 1967 to form the European Communities, the Assembly became the European Parliament, with its members chosen by the parliaments of the member nations. In 1976, a summit meeting of the member nations agreed to direct election of the Parliament members. After a year's delay, the first election STRASBOURG, France (AP) The first popularly elected European Parliament holds its inaugural meeting today with Simone Veil, a French advocate of liberal abortion laws, favored for election as president of the 410-member, nine-nation assembly. Mrs.

Veil, a 52-year-old member of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's center-right Republican Party, was challenged by Italian Socialist Mario Zagari. But her election appeared assured when a caucus of the 108 Christian Democrats In the assembly endorsed her Monday night despite the objections of some Italian and Irish Catholics because of her sponsorship of the liberal French abortion law adopted when she was health minister. Parliament has a total of 210 center-right members, including Christian Democrats, Conservatives and Liberals, plus 21 rightist European ected restaurants The first to welcome you Braun's Charge Visa Master Charge Shoppers 'ft Ticket for choice of selected, tours ft Big Apple Visitor's welcome American Express packet ft Room taxes and gratuities and tax included meals PRICE: $33800 based on double occupancy single supplement your carpet GAMBLES APPLIANCE SERVICE Service On AU Makes All family members brwg the outdoors indoors as Ihey track dirt and soil onto the carpet These tootpnnts damage carpet libers and shorten its life Call Ser-vtceMasler to dean, beautify and extend the life of your carpets. CALL MIDSTATE TRAVEL REFRIGERATION FOR YOUR RESERVATIONS! LIMITED SPACEI rapids mall me ckaitiitgpeopU who care AND APPLIANCES 'FROMPT SERVICE 'PARTS (715) 421-1350 vyj BRAUN'S Bob Engl 421-2660 NEKOOSA.WIS. 886-3831.

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