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Robert Ojard, a St. sheriff's deputy, searches Thursday of a lakeshore luth. Two women in 1 the SCHOOL TRACK PLEA REJECTED BULLDOZER- Continued from Page One when he sent Altoona's road equipment to the home of Supervisor B. E. Newell in rural Altoona to grade Newell's driveway.

Charged $7.50 Wise charged Newell $7.50 for the job and commented that "in this particular case, we get a lot of co-operation from the county and, of course, we get it through Bill (Newell). This would be a matter of returning a favor." Newell could not be reached for comment on the use of a bulldozer from his road crew at the Altoona pool. He is on vacation in Canada on a fishing trip with L. J. Peters of Altoona, who sells Polk County most of the gravel used on county roads.

Mayor Wise was out of town and unavailable for comment on the Altoona swimming pool construction arrangements with the county. The matter received the cursory attention of county supervisors Thursday morning in a meeting with the county's road department. Cinder Track Gavin, who is chairman of the board, told Voss, the county engineer, that the principal of the high school at Johnston has requested help from road crews to build a cinder track by the school. The project, Gavin said, would "only take a little work with one of our machines all they need is three inches of top soil to be removed." Voss said that it is "absolutely illegal" under Iowa law for road crews and equipment to work at anything but county road construction and maintenance. A county attorney's opinion states that exceptions may be made "only in matters of life and death." Voss then was asked about the legality of the Altoona swimming pool deal.

"Didn't Know" "I'm not the county attorney," he replied, "I really couldn't say. I didn't know anything about that. They'd finished using our equipment before we knew they had it. "I've only heard that it even happened I didn't see it." MYSTERY VEILS CATTLE DEATHS By Thomas (Register Staff LA PORTE CITY, are being made the cause of deaths near, here of 62 topgrade Herefords owned by Wellman Farms, Inc. Curtis Wellman, of the corporation, inarians from Iowa versity at Ames into the case "found disease and suspect mals were somehow He said tests are at Iowa State.

Wellman said were kept in the between here where the deaths "Two weeks ago denly and two died. Five became covering," Wellman "It's a real "Someone must poison or He said the cattle about $14,000. 1 Aftermath of Multiple Twisters in Minnesota Des Aug. Moines 8, 1969 Register Page Louis County, Minnesota, through the wreckage cabin 24 miles north of Duframe structure on Boulder Rescue workers near Outing vehicles line top Lake's south shore were were injured when a tornado late Wednesday. It was that smashed northern search water in front of Thursday looking for more of hill where stripped and killed and several others ripped through the area one of a series of twisters Minnesota resort areas.

Bethany Fellowship Camp storm victims. Emergency broken trees cover slope. Hunt 2 Children Missing After Minnesota Tornadoes Kill 13 OUTING, MINN. (AP) Search crews picked through wreckage of a missionary camp near here Thursday, looking for two children missing in the wake of tornadoes that ripped eight locations in northern Minnesota on Wednesday. Thirteen persons were reported killed.

Ten of the victims were killed north of Brainerd, two died some 100 miles to the northeast, north of Duluth, and one died at Jacobson in Aitkin County when his home collapsed on him. Forty-one persons were in hospitals. Scores of others had been treated at the scene or at clinics. Missing were Paul Brokke, 13, Bloomington, son of the Rev. and Mrs.

Harold Brokke, and Sharon Dugan, 5, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Richard Dugan, Huron, S.D. Thrown in Lake Six cabins at the Bethany camp were thrown into the lake, located 30 miles north of Brainerd. Mrs.

Lavonne Dugan, Bloomington, who is nearly blind, recalled that she was lying on the floor of a cabin as the tornado struck. "I felt the cabin being carried through the air," she said. "Then I was under water and reached for things until I got to the top. I grabbed onto a tree trunk and managed to stand on the lake bottom." Once on shore, Mrs. Dugan tried to revive the lifeless body of her daughter, Rebecca Ann, 19.

In the midst of ripped trees and logs, the marauding storm left mangled cars, canned goods, swamped boats, mattresses skewered on tree branches, tangled power lines. Recalled Roar Three of the victims were the Rev. and Mrs. Arthur S. Olson, Richfield, retired missionares in their 70s, and their WIREPHOTOS (AP) Dale Rauvola views damage to his parents' widespread property damage throughout the home at Floodwood, after the storm which took Minnesota lake region familiar to many vacaseveral lives, injured scores of others and caused tioners.

Iowans Pressure Hardin To Leave Lab at Ames By James Risser (Register Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, D.C. Representative Neal Smith la.) not put to pressure the on federal Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin Thursday move Veterinary Biologics Division laboratory away from Ames. Smith reminded Republican Hardin in a letter that the Agriculture Department is seeking approval from the Democratcontrolled House Appropriations Committee to build a new $26- million veterinary vaccine research complex somewhere in the U.S. NEAL JACK Smith wants the new complex SMITH MILLER built at Ames and said a number of his fellow members of scheduled to meet with Hardin the Appropriations Committee in Washington today to discuss support him. the matter.

Ray said late Once the new complex is Thursday that "Mr. Hardin is built, the 100 employes of the going to know how we Iowans present biologics division logi- feel about moving this facility cally will become a part of the from our state." new facility, he said. Ames officials, and an Vaccine Lab "I urge you not to move the Veterinary Biologics personnel from the Ames area pending congressional action on the location of the vaccine lab complex, and assure you that there will be a vigorous effort made at the appropriate time in the House Appropriations Committee to designate the Ames area as the location for the vaccine lab," Smith told Hardin. Meanwhile, Senator Jack Miller la.) issued a statement Thursday denying that Hardin is trying to move the Veterinary Biologies lab out of Ames and to Hardin's home town of Lincoln, Neb. Miller said the task of finding new facilities for the division, now spread out at three locations in Ames, was begun under prior administrations.

He said Hardin has assured him that the division "will not be moved from Ames if the additional facilities required to expand the division's operations can be provided competitively." Miller said the Agriculture Department's main concern is finding good facilities which it can lease for the division on: a long-term basis. Cost Guidelines Ames, along with other interested cities, will be given the opportunity that offer facilities meets Agriculture Department specifications and lease-cost guidelines," he said. Miller said Secretary Hardin was not even aware of the situation until Miller told him Thursday. He added that Hardin, an agricultural economist and former chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, "understands very well the advantages afforded by Iowa State University, which has the finest school of veterinary medicine in the world." Iowa Gov. Robert Ray is SALE! For 3 Days THRU FRIDAY, SUNDAY, AUGUST I AUGUST 10 HONG KONG TAILORS CUSTOM Representing LIZA'S HOUSE OF FASHION There is nothing like CUSTOM TAILORED CLOTHES to make a person look and feel important.

See our New selection of fabrics, colors and styles. Ladies Custom Made Suits $45.00 to $65.00 Mens Custom Made Suits $49.00 to $78.00 IN DES MOINES SAT THE HOLIDAY INN, NORTH, $1. 245-2541 ASK FOR MR. JIMMY CHATLANT We Welcome Submission of Patterns if You Prefer Your Own PARKS SPURNS MICHIGAN POST By a Staff Writer AMES, IA. Iowa State University President W.

Robert Parks has turned down a chance to be considered for the presidency of Michigan State University, it was learned Thursday. Dr. Dale Hathaway, chairman of the committee W. ROBERT to select a new PARKS M.S.U. president, revealed in East Lansing, that Parks was among those who were under consideration.

Parks confirmed he had been contacted by Michigan State but said he has no intention of leaving Iowa State. "We have a fine institution at Iowa State, and I wouldn't be interested in any other job at this time," said Parks, who has been I.S.U. president since 1965. His salary is $37,500. Michigan State is an institution similar to Iowa State, but with 46,000 students it is more than twice as large.

John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State, was appointed by President Nixon to be director of the Agency for International Development. PRINCE TO U.S. BEIRUT, LEBANON (REUTERS) Saudi Arabia's second deputy premier and interior minister, Prince Fahd Ben Abdel Aziz, will make an official visit to the United States in October, the Saudi Arabian raIdio reported Thursday. Drug Charge for D.M.

Woman, 35 A 35-year-old Des Moines woman was ordered bound over to the Polk County Grand Jury Thursday on charges of illegal possession of narcotic drugs and leading the life of a prostitute. Mrs. Betty Jean Diggs, who listed her address as 937 Sixteenth was ordered to pay bonds of $1,000 after a preliminary hearing before Municipal Court Judge Harry B. Grund. Patrolman Richard Kail testified that police found a large quantity of pills containing a substance believed to be heroin July 24 when they searched an apartment at 926 Twenty-sixth st.

where Mrs. Diggs had been living. A charge of simulated intoxication against Mrs. Diggs, which was filed when she was arrested on the drug charge, is pending in Municipal Court. Mrs.

Diggs was charged July 17 with leading the life of a prostitute. Ames contractor who has offered to build and lease a new biologies division laboratory to the federal government, said last week that the chances of Ames keeping the division are slim. The division tests veterinary drugs. The planned new $26- million research complex cited by Smith would be for expanded studies on veterinary drugs. Smith's letter to Hardin implied that moving the present facility out of Ames might jeopardize congressional authorization of the new complex.

If the complex is built in Ames in 1971 as Smith hopes, the ployes of the biologies division would have to be moved back to Ames, he said. Waterloo G.I. Killed in Viet Winnibigoshish 2 Grand Rapids Leech Lake Walker Outing 0 Brainerd Mille Lac Lake MINNESOTA St. Cloud River St. Minneapolis daughter, Mrs.

Harold Carlson, in her 50s. Elsewhere on Roosevelt Lake, two women who lived through tornadoes that hit suburban Minneapolis four years ago recalled the "freight train roar" of the storm and scurried with six youngsters to the basement of a lake home moments before it was leveled. After an all night hunt searchers recovered the body of 2-year-old Susan Marko at Reservoir Lake, 35 feet from a demolished cabin. Her mother and three other children in the St. Louis Park, family were injured.

Youth Fined $100 In Accident Case Larry La Mar Wilson, 18, of 6706 S.W. Sixteenth was fined a $100 Thursday after he was found guilty by Municipal Court Judge Ray Harrison of failure to have his vehicle under control. Wilson was charged in connection with an accident July 22 at S.W. Ninth street and Maxwelton drive. (The Register's lowa News Service) WATERLOO, IA.

Army Spec. 4 Samuel W. Walthour, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W.

Walthour, of Waterloo, has been killed in action in Vietnam. A member of a Special Forces unit, Specialist Walthour was killed June 30. He previously had been listed as missing in action. He was a 1967 graduate of West High School here and entered the Army in November, 1967. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Frederick: a sister, Kathy Ann, both at home; and maternal grandfather, Frederick S.

Wright of St. Petersburg, Fla. Lake One of Superior hardest hit Duluth spots when torn a does med through Superior northern Minnesota vacation areas ed esday was small River town of Outin g. The Croix storms also struck hard at Fl Hibbing, dwood and Duluth areas. Ryder Writer) IA.

Tests to determine the mysterious La Porte City 1 DES MOINES Miles 200 vice-president said veterState Uniwho were called no signs of that the anipoisoned." made 130 Herefords yard situated and Brandon occurred. 14 died suddays later, 48 ill but are resaid. mystery," he said. have put out were worth Home Gutted in Midnight Blaze A fire of undetermined origin gutted the home of Harold Collins, 68, at 2504 Twenty-fourth st. early today.

Collins and his son, Paul, were at home when the fire broke out but escaped without injury. The elder Collins said he lost his hearing aid in the blaze. Firemen said flames broke out about midnight at the rear of the one-story frame structure, but said they could not immediately tell what caused the fire. offers Capitol NEWEST STYLES! OPTICAL HIGHEST QUALITY! LOWEST PRICES! FOR SINGLE VISION GLASSES ONE LOW PRICE COMPLETE OUR COMPLETE PRICE INCLUDES: SINGLE VISION LENSES, CLEAR OR TINTED YOUR CHOICE OF FRAME FROM OUR LARGE SELECTION OF FASHIONABLE STYLES AND COLORS AN ATTRACTIVE CARRYING CASE CONVENIENT CREDIT AVAILABLE NO INTEREST, NO CARRYING CHARGE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 2 DOWNTOWN DES MOINES OFFICES: DES: MOINES 'HIGHLAND PARK 8TH and LOCUST 411 6TH AVENUE 214 W. EUCLID DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN DAVENPORT DOWNTOWN CEDAR RAPIOS 314 JEFFERSON 216 WEST 2ND ST.

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