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The Sioux City Journal, Wednesday, August 8, 1973 A5 Interior Secretary, Governor Hail New EROS Data Center Potential I i i A sr SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton said Tuesday the tools of the space age can be used to fashion "a new American lifestyle." Speaking at the dedication of the Earth Resources Observation System (EROS) Data Center near Sioux Falls, Morton said the change is necessary if the earth's environment is to be preserved. Discarding his prepared remarks entirely, Morton recalled that as a child he visited Washington, D.C., and looked out over the city from the top of the Washington Monument.

He said he saw only the beauty of the scene then, but wished now he had seen the struggle of wildlife to escape pollution in the Potomac River and the struggle of blacks to overcome discrimination in the city. Morton said those who climb Harney Peak, the highest point in South Dakota, can look east and see the green beauty of the land on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. But he asked whether they could also see into the hearts of those who live there. "There is in the hearts of our fellow man a burning frustration a feeling of failing to be a part of it," Morton said. He told his audience a hawk has the proper perspective when looking from a high place.

"He looks for movement, for anything abnormal. He is constantly analyzing the environment below him," Morton said. New American Lifestyle Morton said this attitude is needed "for a new American lifestyle. We need a new ethic in managing our finite resources." The secretary said the EROS program could be a valuable tool in preserving the earth's natural resources, but added: "EROS will only provide us with data. Human judgment will still dominate the quality of our environment in the future." The EROS program involves the use of delicate sensors on aircraft and satellites to compile information about the earth.

The main building of the data center, built amid cornfields northeast of Sioux Falls, was named after former Sen. Karl Mundt, crippled by a stroke in 1969 and confined to his Washington apartment. He was praised at the dedication ceremony Ik. 1 i would draw several ancillary enterprises from the private corporate sector to the Sioux Falls area. Most NASA Data Officials of the EROS program visualize the data center as a major recipient and user of data supplies by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellites.

Data will be channeled to the site near Sioux Falls from Earth Resources Technology Satellites (ERTS) and the Skylab satellite. The center will serve as a central repository where remote-sensor data is received and processed. The center will also provide professional and instrumental assistance to governmental and private users of the data. Operating under the aegis of the U.S. Interior Department, the EROS program is still considered in an experimental stage, and is being implemented primarily as a research tool.

The first ERTS satellite was launched a little more than a year ago and weighs nearly a ton. The satellite travels on a polar orbit from pole to pole. While the satellite is passing over an area its sensors relay data from a swath about 115 miles wide running north and south to several collection centers which enable a composite image to be constructed. The satellite returns to the same position every 18 days, providing a complete global composite. According to NASA, the satellite's remote sensors record the shape and color of an object by its reflected light which varies according to differing physical and chemical properties.

This differentiation provides a gross representation of various environmental and physical characteristics. This data helps scientists plot environmental changes, and could monitor crop diseases, identify geographic characteristics, detect air and water pollutants and assess flood damage. as the driving force behind locating the center in South Dakota. Limitations of Earth In his remarks to the dedication audience, Gov. Richard Kneip said the limitations of the earth's resources are starkly apparent.

"If we are unable to manage those resources in a more prudent manner, and find new ones, the future of human habitation of this planet is in doubt," said Kneip. "The knowledge that will be disseminated to the world from this location is critical to the future of all the world's peoples," said the governor. In an interview, William E. Fischer, EROS senior scientist, said EROS may bring about substantial changes in the state's economic complexion. "I see a large movement of scientists coming to Sioux Falls to work with the center," he said.

Fischer said the space age has drawn the center of discovery and information away from the nation's shores, where it has resided since the time of oceanographic exploration, to the nation's heartland. Industries Seen Fischer said he expects several industries eventually to locate near the EROS center. He said corporations would purchase data from EROS and then sell it to individual or corporate consumers with specific needs. "I think you'll see a fairly significant change in the state. I think the state will begin to depend more on research and technology and less on agriculture," the scientist said.

The center currently employs about 100 persons, Fischer said, but that number will increase to 200 within a year, and ultimately the center will employ a total of 500 scientists and tecnicians. He sees the South Dakota EROS center becoming a hub of scientific activity which oins Vermillion Guard Miss Tera K. Dangel, 20, of Viborg is sworn into the South Dakota National Guard by Lt Charles Terry, commanding officer of Del. 1, 730th Medical Co. (Clearing) of Vermillion.

New Guard enlistment policies opened training opportunities tl women this spring, which will permit women to work along with and receive the same pay as men in all but a few military specialties. Miss Dangel will train at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas to become a clinical specialist, the military equivalent of a licensed practical nurse. Thereafter she will be required to meet the regular Guard training sessions with the Vermillion unit. No Consumer Group at Insurance Airing Dissolutions Le Mars Hospital Endorsed set, personal items; married May 9, 1951, Belden, Neb.

Arthur L. Lowery, 39, 309 Cook vs. Ila Rue Lowery, 923 First South Soux City; marriage breakdown; married Oct. 23, 1965, Pipestone Minn. business, suggested the committee consider limiting the commissions that mail order firms can take.

He said they have no fixed costs such as those involved for companies with field agents and should be limited in their profits. the contents of a policy than a mail-order group," he said. "But an agent can also do a worse job, like when he sells a policy a person doesn't need and shouldn't have." Rep. Robert Kelly, D-Rapid City, who is in the insurance Dennis McCloud, 26, 1515 Summit vs. Nedra McCloud, no age listed, Denton, marriage breakdown; husband granted 1962 automobile and ordered to pay attorney fees and court costs of dissolution action; wife granted 1969 automobile; each ordered to pay own debts; married July 7, 1968, Corpus Christi, Tex.

Kay M. Hammers vs. Edwin H. Hammers; marriage breakdown; wife granted custody of three minor children, $28 child support per week, $750 as share of federal income tax refund, title to real estate at 2901-2903 Edmunds ordered to pay her own attorney fees; husband granted houshold goods and furnishings accumulated during marraige, including washer, freezer, stove and refrigerator, title to two 1965 cars, a 1968 pickup truck and 120 acres of land at Allen, ordered to pay own attorney fees, and maintain medical insurance for chidren; married July 11, 1969, Elk Point. Donald E.

Thompson, 48, 3009 Iowa vs. Romelda M. Thompson, 43, Martin's Evergreen Village; marriage breakdown; husband granted household goods, title to home in Hedges Table Addition, 1964 and 1970 vehicles, custody of one minor child, ordered to pay costs of dissolution action; wife granted custody of one minor child, $15 per week child support, record player, dinette The board of directors of the Siouxland Health Planning Council endorsed the recommendations of the planning committee for the new 44-, bed Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars, Iowa at a meeting Monday evening in Sioux City. The proposed 44-bed structure, which will cost an es- timated $1 million, will replace the present 52-bed facility. The council's endorsement of the plans is required before the hospital can receive the 'necessary reimbursement for capital investment for patients under the federal health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, reported Peter M.

Brown, executive director of the council. The plans now will be sent to the Iowa Office of the Comprehensive Health Plan-r ning in Des Moines for They then will be forwarded to the regional office of the Department of Health, Educa-; tion and Welfare in Kansas City, Mo. for approval. The facilities section of the State Health Department also will study the plans to determine if they meet construction standards, Brown said. Solve Three Break-ins; Arrest Two Three recent break-ins, two at Wheelsport, 1926 U.S.

75 North, and the third at a residence, have been cleared with the apprehension of two Sioux City youths, Sgt. Robert Bean of the police department youth bureau said. The boys, one 13 years old and the other 14 years old, have been referred to the probation officer, according to Sgt. Bean. Some of the stolen articles were recovered.

Investigating the break-ins were Lt. Joe Long and Sgt. Jon Morton of the Youth bureau and Sgt. Paul Armstrong of the police department detective bureau. Cuba Aided BUENOS AIRES (AP) -Argentina granted Cuba a $200-million loan Monday to be used by Fidel Castro's regime for buying Argentine-produced trucks, tractors, agricultural products and other items.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) Sen. Charles Donnelly, D-Rapid City, Tuesday criticized consumers organizations for not attending the South Dakota's Legislature's Interim Commerce Committee hearing on insurance. The committee was holding a hearing on problem in main-order insurance and was gathering testimony on compulsory automobile insurance. Donnelly, committee chairman, said representatives of the state Consumers League and the South Dakota office of Consumer Affairs were invited.

"Invitations went out, but I note regretfully that the Consumer League did not send a representative," Donnelly said. "And I am sorry that the attorney general's office or the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, whichever is in charge of consumer protection, is not represented." Donnelly apparently was referring to a legal question involved in reorganization of state government. Atty. Gen. Kermit Sande said in an official opinion that the consumer affairs function could not be moved from his office to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, headed by James Guffey.

Van Johnson, commissioner of consumer affairs under Sande, attended the afternoon session following Donnelly's remarks. State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Nauman said irresponsible insurance agents present a bigger problem in the state than mail-order health insurance does. "The biggest problem we have is the insurance agent who is not responsible enough to fill out insurance application forms properly," Nauman said. "The guy has a family and needs that premium, also he hurries through the process without going into medical background and history of the applicant. That's an even worse problem than mail order insurance policies.

"Another problem is the applicant who suspects that something might be the matter with him and wants to get all the insurance he can while he can still hide the ailment from the company," he said. "The big problem we find with mail order policies is that the insured doesn't realize how little the policy pays," Nauman said. "An insurance agent can do a much better job of explaining Electricity Retailers Unit Raps Power Rate Hike Plan A I i QUEEN SIZE Ladies' Polyester 7 VAX teej PANTY HOSE siss rnn tK fi. Seamless stretch ny- 4.99 I 1 5i2 lon' nude hee1, Save' s' M-L SWEATERS MISSeTbWUSES SWEAT SHIRTS NO-IRON BRAS Mff4 I Reg. 3.88 4188 Prints and Solids.

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To date we have not received answers to these questions. We have no way of knowing if the rate increases are justified until these questions are answered. "Mid-West will not be a part of a meeting with government officials when its only purpose seems to be to dignify and ratify decisions made in Washington with no input by the people the preference customers of the bureau in the DENVER, Colo. Special A meeting scheduled by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for Wednesday in Sioux Falls to discuss proposed rate increases for federal hydroelectric power was descrbied Tuesday as "a nice piece of window-dressing, but in reality a deliberate attempt by the bureau, acting under Department of Interior orders, to sandbag its preference customers in the Missouri Basin," by Fred Simonton, executive director of the Mid-West Electric Consumers Association.

Simonton, whose organization represents 270 consumer-owned electric systems in nine states, said "The Sioux Falls meeting is a useless repeat of an earlier Former Yankton Man Covers White House discussed all the pertinent information relative to the proposed rate increases, including what may be changes in basic power marketing policies. "We are experiencing great difficulties in securing factual information and arranging any useful discussions. For this reason we are beginning to believe that the consistent refusal of the Department of Interior to be candid with the preference customers leads only to one conclusion that the rate increase is based on phony figures and the department's evaluations will not stand up to critical review," Simonton concluded. Yankton, is a former Miss South Dakota. She and the couple's three daughters will be moving to the Washington area Sept.

1. The family has rented the home of NBC newsman John Chancellor. Royal Man Is Cycle Fatality EVERLY, Iowa Special: Lyle Steinbeck, 50, of rural Royal was killed instantly when the motorcycle on which he was riding was run over by a semitrailer truck Tuesday evening on a county road four miles south of Everly. The driver of the truck was Al Vandermeulen, 42, of Ochcyedan. Officers of the Iowa Highway Patrol who investigated the accident said that Steinbeck was apparently swerving back and forth in his lane.

They have not determined whether or not Vandermeulen was passing the motorcycle at the time of the accident. YANKTON, S.D. Special: A former Yankton resident, Tom Brokaw, 33, has been named White House correspondent for the NBC television network. His position was effective Monday but he will not be seen on the air until later this month. He will also broadcast the NBC Saturday night news from New York City beginning Aug.

25. Brokaw, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Brokaw of Yankton, was graduated from Yankton High School and the University of South Dakota where he studied government. He worked for television station KTIV in the early 1960's while he was still in college.

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