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TH MARCK TRIBUNE iimrck-MMdM Partly eloutfv ThwrvMy nigiw nd Friday wim a titgnt cnanc of Mmm, Low Thursday mgnt, 35 to 4); ttignt Friday. it62 Light winds Thursday night. Chanca of moisture 34 per cant Thursday night and Friday. FINAL. A'orii Dakota's Oldest Newspaper Established 1873 Bismarck, N.D., Thursday, October 22, 1970 VOLUME 97 NUMBER 249 Copyright 170 Tha ismarck Tribm Company Price Ten Centi The Weather BIS CitV Asked I18OO Palestinians Cross Syrian Border I jfT! Afin mm mm Browsing m- jmu mm mm mm lowodle To.

ODD Around With Jock E. Case To Expand School Area The question for today "What variety of flower would you most appreciate receiving as a favor from the grand opening of a new store?" The answers- Move Linked To Pressure By LUCILLE HEXDRICKSON Tribune Staff Writer The Burleigh County school district reorganization committee is putting pressure on the districts are attending school in Bismarck, 79 in the high school and 89 in elementary schools. The figures do not include 84 parochial school children attending schools outside those districts. Committee spokesmen said talks with representatives of the outlying districts indicate their willingness to come in by an Bismarck School Board to con From Syria MOGIIAYER, Jordan (AP) sider attachment of outlying school districts to the Bismarck School District Supt Robert Miller and Mrs. J.

O. Wigen, Bismartk school board president, met informally 3 iL About 1,800 Palestinian guerrillas have crossed into Jordan from Syria and taken up positions near the frontier village of nexation, provided they are as Wednesday afternoon with the sured transportation for the school children. "These people are in a sad Moghayer, the Jordanian army county committee at the latter said Thursday. Brig. Atta Gasib.

who com. request state of affairs, both financially and to a large extent in the it i mands Jordanian forces in tha north, said the advance was backed by 14 tanks from tho 1 1 St 1' Palestine Liberation Army which moved on Torra, a town three miles west of Ramtha. They were told by the committee that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss an interim plan for absorbing the surrounding districts into the Bismarck district. The plan, drawn up by the committee as a "feeler" for the Bismarck board, would incorporate all of Apple Creek, Lincoln, Gibbs and Naughton Dis kind of education their children are getting," said Bismarck at-t Alfred Thompson, member of the committee. Miller told the committee that while the Bismarck School Board recognizes the problem, its main concern is the cost of transportation.

He estimated that to provide transportation Ramtha is the main border tit crossing point on the Damascus-Amman highway. ft 1 uasib said the commandos are members of the Syrian-backed Saika group and entered -If tricts and two-thirds of the would require about 10 buses at a cost of $50,000 a year and Glenview district into the Bis Jordan because of pressure put on them after Gen. Hafez As. marck School District. At the present time, 168 of that at the present valuation of the districts, "we'd be spend-(See SCHOOLS, Page 2) sad, the Syrian defense minis, ter, seized control of the govern- the 251 school children in those ment in Damascus and began cracking down on Saika.

1 I JORDANIAN OFFICERS estl. mate there are 20,000 Saika guerrillas in Syria who are try. ing to flee to northern Jordan and southern Lebanon. There was more fighting in lliis nrpa nf nnrllmrn 3 Nixon Meets With Gromyko WKSHilKtoiai. 4 is, -s I i iM 11 WASHINGTON (AP) Presi ItUil Jr ill iP liP I Wednesday and Wednesday night.

Two rockets fell on Mog-hayer, where the Jordanians have set up a headquarters in a battered school to watch guer. rilla movements across the valley in Torra, Shajara and two other villages close to the Syrian border. Residents are jittery because of the repeated clashes and dent Nixon talked with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko for two and a half hours Mrs. John Nicola, Denver, Colo.

''Sweetheart roses." Mrs. Clayton Wolt, Sterling "A red rose." Mrs. Grant Kalbfleish, 1405 Ave. "Pompons." Mrs. Don Stuart, Rt.

2, Bismarck "Roses, they're my favorite flower." ONLY IN AMERICA Only in America would you see a group of overweight women frantically pushing the buttons on an elevator which would lift them one story to their appointment at the reducing salon. SIZE WISE Osco Drug's new store In Kirkwood Plaza is an example of Bismarck's expanding retail facilities. The store has a selling space of 13,600 square feet, which slightly exceeds the main floor area of the World War Memorial Building and is 2 times the space occupied by Osco's Fourth Street outlet. In addition, the Kirkwood store has another 4,500 square feet devoted to storage, offices, rest rooms, etc. GRID GRIN Jimmy Porter, 4, and his brother Steve, 6, are devoted football fans, spending the early part of Sunday afternoons watching the Vikings and then going outside to emulate the activities of their heroes.

Last Sunday they were observed running through the Vikings" repertoire of plays, and Steve directed, "Let's run through that same play again, but this time do it slower." "Why should we do it again?" demanded Jimmy. "That's for instant replay." TOILET BOWL Area football fanSt-have been Invited to the second annual Toilet Bowl scheduled at Ft. Lincoln's parade ground Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. The flag-ball game will match the Indians enrolled at the United Tribes Employment Training Center against staff members of the Bendix who direct center operations. Bendix won last year 12-6, and are favorite? to repeat since their squad includes two former professional football players, Ed Thorne who competed in the Canadian pro leagues, and recreation director Ambrose L'Eagle who at one time played end for the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and for the Chicago Cardinals in the old American League.

At stake is a highly prized trophy an essential part of that facility for which the contest is named. SWEATERS SOUGHT Sister Clarice Carroll is still seeking means to aid her needy neighbors who live near her mission in the African country of Tanzania. She is seeking 150 used sweaters for the school children there and can use virtually all serviceable sizes. discussions were helpful," Ziegler said. "It is felt that the meeting was helpful for laying the basis for improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union." And "we also believe that the want the guerrillas to leave the area.

The army blasted its way 1 1 Thursday in a meeting which the White House termed "helpful for laying the basis for improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union." "A major part of the President's address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York Friday will deal with U.S.-Soviet relations, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler added. The White House spokesman Proposed' Urban Renewal Project declined to say directly whether The intent agreement accepted by the Bismarck Urban Renewal Agency calls for the construction of the Motor Capital Inn to be located on Sixth St. between Broadway and Main which would be 19 stories high with a banking facility, retail rental space and office rental space on the first level.

The two-level parking area Is designed to accommodate alwut 180 automobiles. The 14-story tower will be 90 feet In diameter with 16 rooms on each floor. The top level of the tower would have a restaurant, lounge and kitchen facility. A swimming pool is proposed on the third floor. meeting was useful from the standpoint that it allowed the President to give the Soviet foreign minister his personal and direct, expressions on the subjects discussed," he said.

U.S.-Soviet relations, general problems of European security, U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation talks (SALT), the Mideast and Vietnam were the topics Ziegler listed in today's conversations. Exchanging cordial chit-chat before getting down to serious issues such as the Mideast, the U.S. and Soviet leaders first conferred for some two hours in the President's oval office in the White House, aides said. Nixon then escorted Gromyko to the Executive Office building. Nixon business session with Gromyko his first with such a high Soviet official since taking office had eased U.S.

doubts about Kremlin interest in negotiating on various East-West differences. But he portrayed the talk today as having been "conducted in a friendly atmosphere throughout." "For our part I can say the into the village last Saturday, driving the guerrillas across valley to Shajara. Fighting began in the area Saturday, the day after the government shakeup in Syria as reported. The clashes, usually exchanges of artillery and rock-et fire, have continued this week. THE COMMANDOS chargn that the Jordanian army is" trying to cut off their supply routes from Syria and prevent their free movement on the country'! roads in violation of the peace agreement guerrilla leader Ya-sir Arafat and King Hussein signed nine days ago.

Senior members of the inter, national Arab peace mission supervising the agreement went north to Ramtha Wednesday to investigate several shooting incidents in the town. One officer said there was intense move-ment of Jordanian tanks outsido Ramtha. Gasib said he is convinced tliti guerrillas have a master plan, backed by the governments in Syria and Iraq, to split north Jordan from the rest of the country to make It the Middle East equivalent of Vietnam or Korea. Arafat has said he wants Amman to be the Hanoi of tho Arab world." Redeveloper Selected For Renewal Project attorney representing the group said that it proposed to could enter into an "intent agreement" at this time, Briefs Net Thief reminding the corporation, and Officials Seeking Special Jury for Two Drug Cases A special grand jury to investigate two drug cases was being sought in a petition filed with District Judge M. C.

Fredricks after indictments charging two individuals with drug offenses were quashed in district court proceedings Wednesday. The petition was filed by the Burleigh County State's Attorney's office with Judge Fredricks after the judge quashed drug indictments against Randall and Scott Perry. The two Bismarck brothers had been indicted for drug violations by a Burleigh County grand jury which met in 6ep- (See DRUGS, Page 2) the agency members, that they do not have the actual funding for the project at the present time. Pearce said that if the agency decided his group would be the By BILL McCOMBS Tribune Staff Writer A West Coast development firm has been designated as the redeveloper for Bismarck's initial urban renewal project. At Wednesday's meeting of the Bismarck Urban Renewal Agency, the Grand Pacific consisting of William Smith, Floyd Arndt and William Mendenhall of Portland and Spokane, presented the only proposal for downtown redevelopment and entered into an agreement of intent with the agency.

William Pearce, a Bismarck redevelop three-quarters of the Sixth Street site into a hotel, office and retail complex and a department store would be the primary development on the Fourth Street site. Financing, according to Pearce, would be done through industrial development bonds. Pearce said cost of the project would be approximately $5 million, "which may or may not suffice, depending on what the sites cost." John R. Sakariasscn renewal agency chairman, questioned whether the agency LONDON (AP) Elaine Williams and her neighbors got so fed up with having their underwear stolen from their washlines that they booby trapped some of their scanties. A pair of panties and a pair of tights were stitched together on the line, and a jam jar was put inside.

"As soon as the thief grabbed them, the jar fell to the ground," Mrs. Williams told the judge Wednesday. "Another neighbor heard the noise, and her husband grabbed him." Jack Emerson, a 20-year-old salesman, was fined $28. "I don't know how I came to have the tights," he told the court. "They came at me through the air." developer, the agency could at least enter into an intent agreement, even if the final decision rested on the promotion of the money.

"This may even help in springing the money loose," Pearce said. The renewal agency hesitated (See RENEWAL, Page 2) The Catholic Nurses here are Along the Campaign Trail Bur dick Bears Down on Farm Issue coordinating the collection and you can either drop your contribution off at Corpus Christi Center or call Mrs. Clarence Fischer at 223-7809. GIVEAWAYS Female police dog, and female shepherd-collie, each IVi years old. Call Mrs.

Hil-sendeger, 221662, Playful, mostly beagle dog, six months old, call Alfred 6teinke, 223-4732. Two male pet mice, call Ron Kemmet. 223-3474. Tiny white female pup, part schnauzer, three months old, call Don Richardson, 223-0687. By BILL TILLOTTSON Special Assignments Editor GARRISON Sen.

Quentin N. Burdick, is hitting the farm issue hard. And in an af Missouri Bridge Hearings Friday A U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing is scheduled hero Friday to accept testimony concerning the construction of two Missouri River bridges. One of the structures would cross the Oahc reservoir lo provide a more direct route between Bismarck and Mobridge, S.D.

The other would span the river in the area of Charging Eagle Bay on the Garrison reservoir. It would link Dunn and Mercer counties south of the reservoir with Mercer County to the north. The hearing is to begin at 9:30 a.m. In the Slate Highway Department auditorium. Kub-commiltec memlcrs scheduled lo attend are Sen.

Quentin N. Burdick. Sen Jennings Randolph, chairman of the committee on public works; and i Sen. Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio.

The subcommittee was in Walhalla Thursday to conduct a hearing into the proposed I'embilier dam project. The two bridge proposals are contained in separatf bills (wilding before tho public works committee. Both hills were introduced by Hurdick. Burdick said he expects more than 50 persons to testify. ternoon of cam- 1 paigning infc -2 i McLean County Wednesday got help from some farmers.

In an Under Bulletin wood cafe, Bur ivy ness here. Out of 100 people, 85 are for Burdick becfiu.se Burdick is for tiie poor man and Kleppe is for his millionaire friends." He said he considers himself a Democrat "but I'm going lo vote for McCarney." This was a reference to Republican West District congressional candidate Robert I McCarney, who is running against State Rep. Arthur A. Link, the Democratic candidate. Ixm; Jones, operates the (toast to Coast store at Garrison, voluntarily brought up the level of the Kleppe campaign for the Senate.

"What may I ask why Is it all the things that can be said and all the nasty things he's said and all the things you have asked him to do that the courts can't do anything about it?" Jones asked. Hurdick told him courts are (See POLITICS, Page 21 But the issue, and Kleppe's pressing for quick approval of the Nixon bill, has inflamed some North Dakota farmers. Nathan said, "We can't take less this time. Kleppe acts like it is a last resort. I don't know why we always have to take less." State Rep.

Donald Giffey, D-Roseglen, who was House minority leader in the 15 Legislature and who campaigned along with BunLek Wednesday afternoon, told the senator: "If you run your Congress like we run our legislature you aren't risking too much," Giffey said. "You can try to improve and if you can't you can Mill get the conference bill." Giffey also said, in reference to Sen. Milton R. Young. "I think our Mr, Wheat got kind of tired on that conference report." Young was a member of the Senate-House conference com mittee which worked on the farm legislation and who said that while he wouldn't sign the conference report he would support the bill in the Senate ns the best which could be obtained.

McLean County farmers indicated they were afraid that if the Nixon Administration's set-aside theory is adopted that wheat product ion would increase because it is the best cash crop on reduced acres and the nation would go back into the wheat surplus cycle of the Fifties and early Sixties. A better feed grain program is an irreducible minimum in their opinions. Campaigning in old Nonpartisan league country Wednesday, Burdick ran into many sympathetic supporters. At Coleharbor, Tony Stum-voll, who runa a tractor parts shop, said, "I talk to all my people who trade In my busi handed Burdick what he consideres his prime and winning issue. Prior to Monday, the farm Issue, which Burdick had dragged out, had been pretty much neutralized in North Dakota.

It was generally conceded that the Senate version of the bill was better than the Nixon Administration backed House version. But Monday at Beach, Kleppe forced the issue by accusing Burdick of playing politics with the farm issue by blocking Senate action on the conference report of the farm bill and urging Burdick to get speedy Senate approval of the conference report. Burdick denies published reports that he, in league with 6en. Stuart Symington, DMo blocked Senate action on the bill. "I wasn't even there," Burdick said.

dick asked a group of farmers who had gath ered there to Riirrllrk WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration ended its holdout Thursday and agreed to spend the full $4.4 billion appropriated by Con-gress for education aid. Elliot Richardson, scretary of health, education and welfare, announced his department will allocate the entire $453 million increase voted by Con- Sess in excess of the Pres. eot'i budget request for meet him what they considered to be the primary issue of the 1970 campaign In North Dakota. "I think farm income," Herbert Coleharbor farmer said. The others nodded in agreement.

Ironically, Bu rdick's opponent, Rep. Thomas S. Kleppe, LOCALir OWNtO and OPERATED 3SS-3105 -113 N. 6th St. Vi 600M r1 www una v'umwi noting rim coons mimwhmw BIANCO'S REMODELING EXPANSION SALEIg 0BI FABRIC-LAND FABRIC-LAND DISCOUNTS TAKEN DAILY ACROSS FROM THI PARKING RAMP ON 6th THI PUCI TO GO FOR THOSE WHO SEWt OPEN 9 TO 9 MONDAY THRU FRIDAY ANOTHER THOUSAND YARDS JUST REDUCED!.

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