Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 18

18-The Sioux City Journal. Tuesday, July 18, 1978 Dole says farmer inflation victim 'TS Siouxland v- possible sale of Nebraska corn. Exon said he hopes congress will pass the pending Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, which he said "would greatly enhance agriulture's sales efforts." He noted the Midwest Governors Conference recently approved a policy statement urging President Carter to reverse .1 i-i n( (W.1t.lllM IIMIHII IIIHILOJ1. are involved, or don't care as much about you as they do industrial users of sugar." He predicted that Congress and the administration would be "locked into a major confrontation" In the near future because of the sugar import controversy. "We're on your side," Dole told the corn farmers.

"We have to break this down that if the farmer makes a profit it's bad for the American consumer." American agriculture must aggressively seek foreign markets and overcome continued problems with "unneeded, unwanted and irresponsble Interference from a misinformed federal government," Gov. J.J. Exon told the convention. Exon noted he recently appointed a state corn board and said one area of Its work will be evaluating international markets for resulting from inflation should be excluded from income tax, because "all you're getting Is a cost of living increase and farmers don't even get that." He also called for a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced federal budget. Dole attacked the administration for increasing beef imports, saying, "it seems every time you start to make a profit the government steps in and stops it.

Sugar imports, too, are costing corn-growers millions of dollars, Dole said. With some 10 percent of the cash corn crop going to corn refineries to produce sweeteners, huge Imports of sugar cost corngrowers $160 million last year, Dole said. "Frankly, many of us (in Congress) don't understand it," Dole said. "The administration seems to either forget you corn producers LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) The Carter Administration is trying to blame the American farmer for inflation because, it's' easy to "pick on a small group with little political muscle," Sen.

Bob Dole, told the National Corngrowers Association Monday. "I don't find the farmer to be the cause of inflation," Dole said. "He's a victim of inflation." Dole told about 250 delegates to the convention that the agricultural credit bill is nearing final passage in Congress, and that provisions of the measure would help farmers and ranchers in the age of inflation. He also pressed for support of his own tax relief proposals, which he said would curb government spending. The Kansas Republican said income from Increased wages Dakota will woo foreign tourists Exon noted some foreign governments guarantee subsidies to their farmers, while American farmers have sometimes had difficulty meeting production costs.

Exon cited the conference position that governments in Europe and Japan must understand that "free trade Is a worthy goal but must be practiced in fact, and Is a two-way street." overseas advertising campaigns in the Orient, according to Bill Honerkamp, state tourism director. The Sons of Norway has been looking at South Dakota as a site for an international get-together. Representatives from South Africa are interested In setting up agricultural tours of the state, he said. "There is an ever-growing love affair with cowboys, Indians and Old West In Germany and France," he added. To help that 'love-affair' along, the Old West Regional Commission has opened an office In Frankfurt, Germany, to promote travel and trade In Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and the Dakotas.

In anticipation of more foreign tourists, some arrangements for tour guides and Interpreters tnay have to be made, said Mark Young, assistant state travel director. Even without the foreign promotions, state travel officials have been noting increases in the number of foreign tourists this year as the traditional tourist season enters Its busiest months. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) If Japanese Airlines has its way, (amities in that country will see images of Mount Rushmore, the Badlands and cowboys from the Old West beckoning from their television sets later this summer. The airlines is trying to lure Japanese tourists to South Dakota via its planes with an advertising campaign designed to promote the state as a vacationland, according to state tourisn.

officials. Besides tempting tourists with images of the Old West, the promotion is capitalizing on economic conditions. The beating the American dollar is taking on the world market is making travel in the United States a bargain for foreign visitors. South Dakota tourism officials are waiting for an increased influx of foreign tourists with open arms. Figures from 1976 showed that less than 1 percent of the tourists in South Dakota were from foreign countries other than Mexico and Canada.

The Japanese Airlines' promotion of South Dakota may be just the start of a series of Tests ordered for mother who stabbed her children fainted on the front porch. When police arrived, they rushed the blood-covered Mrs. Trait to the Erie County Medical Center where she was treated for minor cuts. It was not clear how she was cut. Inside the apartment, police discovered the four children's bodies on the living room and kitchen floors.

One youngster had been Dartiallv dismembered and an anatomy book BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A young mother accused of stabbing her four children to death was held for mental examination Monday. One child's body was found partially dismembered near a book on human anatomy, police said. Gail Trait, 26, was charged with second-degree murder and fourth-degree possession of a weapon in the deaths of her son Demario, 2, and her three daughters, Kylia, Amina, 6, and Inez, 4. "We don't really know why she did It," Police Lt.

John Rooney told reporters, "but family members told us she thought she was under a voodoo curse. However, Leo J. Donovan, chief of the homicide bureau, said the report of the voodoo curse was "unfounded." "So far we have no motive," Donovan said. "All we know is there are four children dead." Relatives told police that Mrs. Trait had been separated from her husband, Charles, for about two years.

Neighbors reported hearing a disturbance in her apartment late Sunday night and called police. Before they arrived, Mrs. Trait stumbled out of the apartment and down the stairs and New 'team' announced at Channel 4 Television station KTIV-Channel 4 has a new team for its 6 and 10 p. m. newscasts.

The new anchorman Is Terry Zahn, a Wisconsin native with television experience in Hawaii and Florida, and the new sports director Is Bob Hogue, a California native who comes to Channel 4 from KFBB-TV in Great Falls, where he was the sports director. EVERY ITEM EVERY DEPARTMENT I YES, YOU CAN STILL SELECT GREAT BUYS IN STEREO, CARPETING, FURNITURE. APPI ii iff SPORTING GOODS, AUTOMOTIVE. HOUSFUarfs daimt Jl was lying open on a table, police said. Donovan said the children apparently had been killed with a kitchen knife and a paring knife.

During the Monday arraignment in Buffalo City Court, Judge Alois Mazur asked Mrs. Trait: "Did you understand anything I said to you, young lady? Did you hear me?" She stared straight ahead and did not answer. The judge then directed that she be held for examination by the Erie County Forensic Mental Health Service. He adjourned the arraignment until Wednesday ana" said he would hear the mental report at that time. Defendant takes stand PIERRE, S.D.

(AP) Attorneys for William Cody Monday opened their defense by saying Cody was not In Winner the night a businessman there was killed. Cody, 32, is charged with the murder of oil company owner Edmund Brown, whose body was found Feb. 10. Brown is a former Sioux Cityan. The prosecution rested Its case at noon Monday.

Later, Cody took the stand to give testimony on the events that led to his arrest In Las Vegas Feb. 29. Cody's testimony was to continue today. Defense attorneys said they expected to call one more witness before the case is turned ov er to the jury of seven men and five women. In his opening statement for the defense, attorney William Day said the defense expected to show that the "web of circumstantial evidence" promised by prosecutors was not completed.

He said a number of events, including worries about a girlfriend and concerns resulting from undercover narcotics work, led Cody to leave South Dakota. Day said the defense would show Cody had nothing to do with Brown's death. Assistant Attorney General Marc Tobias, who was among the investigators for the state, testified Monday that Cody had indicated he was present at the time of the killing. Tobias said he had a private, untaped conversation with Cody in which the nightclub hypnotist said he was innocent. Tobias said Cody thought it might be better for him to go to jail than to reveal those responsible.

He said Cody had cooperated on one undercover narcotics arrest with state officials late last year. Tobias said Cody told him that while doing work on a cocaine investigation Feb. 9 a fight resulted, Cody beat two men and fled with a large amount of cocaine. Day said defense witnesses would testify that Cody sold the cocaine in Omaha for a large sum of money. Cody also said he left a clear trial because he wanted to be caught, Tobias testified.

South Sioux fire under investigation The cause of a fire Monday which did considerable damage to a South Sioux City home is still under Investigation. Ed O'Shaughnessy of the South Sioux City Fire Department said he had no estimate of the dollar loss to the Woodrow Arrington home at 416 W. 17th St. but said there was considerable damage, mostly from smoke, to the home. One bedroom was gutted, he said.

The Arringtons were at work at the time the fire was reported, but their three children were at home. The children were not Injured. Zahn Hogue GARDEN SUPPLIES, OUTBOARD MOTORS, TRAILER HITCHES, GIFTWARE, OnI-THIRD OFRR F0R MEN' women and CHILDREN, ALL AT SAVE 40 ON FINE JEWELRY, WATCHES, CLOCKS, TIRES, RACING WHEELS, BOWLING BALLS. SAVE 50 ON TOYS. SAVE 75 ON TRIM-A-HOME SAVE 40 TO 60 ON HOURLY SPECIALS ill mi Carver Sewell VISA SHOPPERS CHARGE TIME PAYMENT PLAN I I NO.

From the south follow Hlway 75 north right to Goldfine's. TAKE THE HIGHWAY 75 DETOUR TO GREAT SAVINGS! GOLDfJNES FOUR WAYS TO CHARGE! ALL SALES FINAL NO EXCHANGES NO RETURNS NEW HOURS! OPEN DAILY 10 A.M.-10 P.M. SUNDAY 10A.M.-6 P.M. The third member and weathercaster of the on-air team is Peg Carver, who has been the weekend weather rerporter as well as a news reporter for the station. She replaces Jane Sewell, who has been promoted to the position of producer for the 6 and 10 p.m.

news. Zahn has worked in both commercial and public television. He has a master's degree from the University of Hawaii and taught broadcasting there as well as at Leeward Community College in Hawaii. He was the anchorman at WSRE-TV in Pensacola, before coming to Channel 4. Hogue played baseball while a student at the University of Southern California where he was graduated.

Carver (is a journalism graduate of Iowa State University and worked at WOI-TV In Ames, Iowa, before joining Channel 4's news staff. Sewell, who has been weathercaster at the Sioux City station for four years, Is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and was a news reporter at KWWL-TV In Waterloo, Iowa. She will serve as the host of the "Let's Talk" feature on the noon news In addition to being the producer of the evening news. jl I 4 From the north follow Hlway 75 south to Transit Ave. Turn right on South Alice to Glenn turn right on Glenn to Goldfine's.

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