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Sunday Vol. 120, No. 126 Sioux City, Iowa Dolls need own home pageBl Bradshaw Grandson carries on -Paged returns 75t Cloudy; high low 20s -pageDl City ecTrtion Black and NOW endorse Mondale jilili ti MOBILE, Ala. (AP) The Alabama black Democratic caucus reached a compromise Saturday and endorsed Walter Mondale for president and the Rev. Jesse Jackson for vice president, despite bitter opposition from some Jackson supporters.

The compromise was recommended on a 43-10 vote by the executive committee of the Alabama Democratic Conference. The full delegate assembly endorsed the Mondale-Jackson slate, 112-35. The conference, the black wing of the state Democratic Party, was torn between its leaders' political ties to Mondale and a rising personal fervor for Jackson. Earlier in the day, Mondale added the National Organization for Women to his lengthening list of supporters. The NOW Board of Directors, meeting In Washington, voted overwhelmingly to issue the former vice president the first presidential en-dorsement ever made by the country's largest feminist group.

"The endorsement of NOW will send a message to the majority of the women of this nation that Walter Mondale is the candidate who will be best for women and who can defeat Ronald Reagan," said NOW presl- -mM. it 1 i V. 1 jL ord 's mira cle 9 will let her talk Meet Sir Nicholas Applause thundered through Oslo University's Aula Hall as Danuta Walesa, her 13-year-old son, Bogdne, at her side, stepped to the dais to accept the medal and to read the acceptance speech in which her husband urged continued non-violent struggle for free labor unions and human solidarity. After one of the most enthusiastically received Nobel speeches in recent years, the crowd rose to its feet, its rhythmic applause bringing Mrs. Walesa back to the dais from her front-row seat Sir Nicholas, 8-week-old purebred Samoyed, Saturday at the Elks Club with proceeds going Is the 1983 mascot of the Order of Little Yellow to the Goodfellow Fund.

See My Turn column Dogs and will be auctioned off at noon next on page A3. (Staff photo by George Johnson) Caucus dent Judy Goldsmith at a news conference announcing the decision. "We are determined to help Mondale mobilize the gender gap." Jackson's Southern campaign director, Lamond Godwin of Atlanta, said the Alabama blacks' decision to give Mondale the top spot was "a highly orchestrated attempt on the part of the Mondale people to steamroll this group." But he said he considered the recognition given Jackson by the conference "a victory." George Dalley, deputy campaign manager for Mondale, said the former vice president was pleased with the endorsement, an early indication of how the Mondale and Jackson campaigns may fare among blacks in the Deep South. ADC officials compared the endorsement to "an Iowa caucus for blacks" a sound. But earlier this year, she read an article published by the International Association of Laryngectomees about Singer and Blom, and a method of voice restoration they had developed.

Singer, an orolaryngologist, and Blom met in 1976 while both worked at the Veterans Administration hospital here. Singer, who was in charge of ear, nose and throat surgery, Blom, head of'speech and hearing, realized- a "very desperate group of people" needed a way to talk, Singer said. They now work in a private practice, Head and Neck Surgery Associates at Methodist Hospital. In 1978, the two developed a voice prosthesis, an Inch-long white silicon tube resembling a cocktail straw that is inserted through a surgically created opening, or stoma, between the windpipe and the esophagus. The esophageal end of the tube contains a one-way slit valve that lets air enter the esophagus from the windpipe for sound-producing vibrations.

Since the two were working for the VA, the government acquired the patent on the device and made it part of the public domain. Later, after Blom and Singer left the VA, they developed a second device, a self-closing valve, to fit In the stoma pn the throat. The valve remains open during breathing, closes automatically with air flow and opens outward with a cough. Blom estimates that up to 3,400 people around the world have been fitted with one or both of their creations. Now that she can talk on the telephone, thanks to the $1,000 operation, Mrs.

Warren predicts -her phone bills will soar. "I think I'll write Ma Bell and ask If I can have a discount," she said. "I've been paying for a phone for 31 years that I couldn't use." hears jammed first signal on how southern blacks may vote. As for Jackson being Mondale's running mate, Dalley said Mondale is not discussing such matters now but "has not closed the door on any person because of sex or color." The group's endorsement Is the first by a major statewide black party group in the South, where blacks will play a key role in the elections. Alabama's March 13 primary is one of the nation's earliest and could help set a trend in the South.

About 1,000 members of the ADC heard Mondale, Jackson and a third presidential candidate, Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina, before the endorsement session. Hollings said, "I don't view it as do or die for me. I did not come here under the illusion that I would get the endorsement." Other Democratic candidates who have campaigned frequently in Alabama are Sens. John Glenn of Ohio and Alan Cranston of California and former Florida Gov.

Reubin Askew. They did not attend the SEE BLACKS continued on page A16 AVOID THE CHRISTMAS RUSH ONlV 13 SHOPPING fe LEFT (i)195B United Feature Syidtcatt, Inc. Walesa GDANSK, Poland (AP) Despite communist radio jamming, Lech Walesa heard a broadcast of his wife accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, Saturday and said the award honored the "unnamed heroes" of the Solidarity struggle. He later told a crowd of 4,000 cheering supporters who attended a Mass in honor of Poland's Nobel laureates that the free trade union movement would eventually triumph. "I ask you for further prayers to uneed up our assured victory," the mini-editorial It's been nearly two weeks since the big snow, but we haven't had weather warm enough to make much of a dent Init.

As a result, there still are too many blind intersections around town. Drivers often have to proceed at their own risk because of tall mounds of snow that obscure vision of approaching traffic. Householders could take care of some of this problem in the residential areas if they would and city crews could "top" the mounds elsewhere. Anything to take some of the scariness out of driving. "The Infantry soldiers, those who did the fighting, are coming back," said Steelman.

"Those who are left will be performing civil duties. They'll include military police, signal corps units, and workers In different types of civilian projects." "A sufficient residual element will remain in the country to provide support and augment the security elements of the Caribbean peacekeeping force," the White House source said. They will be called the U.S. Military Support Element Grenada, and will be commanded by Lt. Col.

Arthur Graves, a military police officer from Fort Bragg. Paratroopers from'the 82nd j. 1 speech for a bow. Mrs. Walesa heard Egil Aavik, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, praise her husband as a champion of human rights dedicated to non-violence.

In his speech, which Mrs. Walesa read in Polish, the Solidarity leader appealed for reconciliation and respect for the dignity of labor. The speech made few direct references to the tactics with which the Polish government has countered his movement, the Soviet bloc's only independent union. "So either the roads are getting a little better or people are staying home," the Plymouth County sheriff's spokesman said. A spokesman for the Nebraska Highway Patrol post at Norfolk said there had been "a lot" of accidents because ot the ice cover.

A few accidents caused minor Injuries, the spokesman said. Travelers advisories were issued for Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The latest winter storm coated Iowa with another layer of drizzle and freezing rain Saturday, spinning armies of cars into roadside ditches and snarling Christmas shopping and athletic contests. Although previous storms have provided ample practice and sober warnings, many drivers were chancing the. conditions.

inssds 7 SECTIONS 86 PAGES Abby A10 Boyd A10 Business B1 Classified Ads C4 Editorials A4 Horoscope A11 Living D1 Movies C2 Obituaries A13.A14 Puzzle A12 Record A2 Sports D1 TV Listings C4 Weather A2 glazes roads INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The children and grandchildren of Stella Mae Warren will hear her speak and sing carols this Christmas for the first time in 31 years because of what she calls the "Lord'1 miracle'' an artificial voice, i Mrs. Warren, 62, of Kirbyville, Texas, had her larynx removed decades ago after she developed cancer. She was unable to speak to her four children, 10 grandchildren and husband, Hollis, until after the operation last week. "She has, In fact, been silent for 31 years," her speech pathologist, Eric D. Blom, said Friday, four days after she was fitted with a voice prosthesis that he and orolaryngologist Mark I.

Singer developed. Her husband said her first words were: "I can speak. Do I sound like Donald Duck?" "I call it the Lord's miracle because it's close to Christmas," Mrs. Warren said Friday during her first interview. Mrs.

Warren, who has mouthed the words to hymns for years at Central Baptist Church In Kirbyville, said, "I'm thinking about trying out for the church choir, seriously. "They could use me; they need a good bass," she said, giving a self-deprecating laugh at her deep, raspy voice which doctors say will Improve over time. "It's been so many years since I had a voice that I've forgotten what my voice is like," she added. After losing her Mrs. Warren was unable to speak through a traditional method esophageal or "burp" speech because the constrictor muscle in her neck went into spasms.

Blom said up to 30 percent of all laryngectomees are unable to use this method of speaking, which takes up to six months to master. And Mrs. Warren chose not to use an electrolarynx, which uses a buzzer In the throat to produce Combat WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. combat troops will be home from Grenada by Monday, 11 days ahead of the Reagan administration's deadline, but about 300 military 'policemen, logistics specialists and-technicians will remain on the Caribbean Island. Pentagon officials and a' White House source confirmed the move Saturday, after an official at Fort Bragg, N.C., said some of the 1,700 U.S.

troops would be returning this week. "We said they'd be out by Christmas. This beats Christmas," said a White House source who spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name. President Reagan's spokesman had said that founder of the outlawed Solidarity labor federation told the crowd at St. Brygida's Roman Catholic church.

British Broadcasting Corp. signals were blocked, but Voice of America and Radio Free Europe overcame the jamming, and Walesa listened to a VOA broadcast in the study of his friend and confessor, the Rev. Henryk Jankowski. Watched by a crowd of SO reporters, Walesa occasionally brushed tears from his eyes as his wife, Danuta, 34, read his Nobel address. Freeze ByJ.W.Huttig Journal staff writer Freezing mist created an invisible hazard that sent many Siouxland drivers off roads' and into ditches Saturday and prompted Sioux City police to ask people to stay off city streets.

The Union County Sheriff's Department reported that a semitrailer truck and about a dozen cars slid off of Interstate 29 at the first curve inside the South Dakota border. The truck jack-knifed and about 3 p.m. and traffic had to be directed around it until just after 5:30 p.m. Many drivers either ignored or Vvere ignorant of the danger created by the thin, slippery layer of ice. "As fast as one would be pulled out, another would go in," Union County Dispatcher Ginny Burrell Airborne Division were flown to (Jrenada on Oct.

26, one day after Army Rangers and Marines began the invasion. The troops returning home this week are from the second battalion, 505th airborne infantry. Although they arrived after the invading troops, they were said to have taken part in the initial phases of the Grenadan operation. The White House source said that Reagan plans "to inform our Caribbean friends of our plans, to reassure them that along with the Caribbean peacekeepers there will be sufficient forces" to protect the island's security. An international said.

Burrell said deputies spotted about three dozen cars in the ditch along 1-29 from the Iowa border to Elk The South Dakota Highway Patrol reported that 1-29 was ice-covered the entire length. Interstate 90 was solid ice from Salem, S.D., into Minnesota. In Iowa, a five-mile portion of westbound Interstate 80 near the 1-29 junction in Council Bluffs was shut down for a while authorities cleared the wreckage caused when two trucks slid off the road. Nobody was injured. A Plymouth County Sheriff's Department spokesman said "quite a few" cars had gone into the ditch near Hinton.

Most law enforcement agencies said the number of calls they received dropped as evening arrived. force is being assembled to serve as a peacekeeping unit on Grenada. "We will brpart of this force, which will keep law and order, and we will assist that force while the Grenadan police force is being recruited and trained," the source said, adding that establishing the local force "will take time." Steelman, the army spokesman, said nine transport planes carrying the 82nd Airborne soldiers would arrive at Pope Air Force Base near Fort Bragg late Monday morning. A brief ceremony is planned there. The soldiers will be reunited with their families at Fort Bragg, Steelman said.

troops to leave Grenada Monday the troops would be home by Dec. 23. The last of the combat troops, deployed on the Island two days after the start of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted a leftist regime, will 'leave Grenada on Monday aboard C-141 aircraft for Fort Bragg, the White House source said. He spoke after Jerry a Fort Bragg public affairs specialist, announced on Friday that 1,000 members of the 82nd Airborne Division would return to North Carolina on Monday and that the remaining 700 servicemen would be flown home In small, groups by Friday. The 700 were said to have provided support for the combat.