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NORTH DAKOTAREGIONAL Monday, October 28, 1985 The Bismarck Tribune Pog5B 1 if Governor getting little smorter' in Garrison talks A. ment, but the meeting was canceled at Audubon's request. INSTEAD, THE conservation group offered a counterproposal that state officials say represents a "hardening" of Audubon's position. No new negotiating sessions have been scheduled, and Sinner sounds less confident of success. "I've gotten a little smarter as I've gone along," Sinner said.

Sinner says he "misread" the status of the negotiations after the Oct. 2 meeting with Berle. "We were not as close as we thought," he said. House Majority Leader Earl Strinden, chairman of the Legislature's Garrison Diversion Overview Committee, did not criticize Sinner during his appearance before the panel last week, but said later he believed the governor had been unrealistic. "HE REALLY believes if you can talk things out long enough you'll have everybody agreeing," said Strinden, R-Grand Forks.

Audubon's latest proposal contains several provisions to which the state cannot agree, say offi Lt. Gov. Ruth Meiers and members of the Capitol Grounds Planning Commission toured the new Capitol Grounds Arboretum Trail after a ribbon cutting ceremony that formally opened the trail this morning. Arboretum trail almost done, but panel almost out of cash Judge: Man must sell his horses A Bismarck man, charged with mistreatment of animals, has been ordered by a Burleigh County judge to sell his remaining horses and not to buy any more horses in the future. Clyde S.

Eagle, 36, 2424 LaForest was also sentenced in Burleigh County Court by Judge Burt Riskedahl to 18 months probation and payment of $200 in court costs. Eagle had been charged with a class A misdemeanor, for which the maximum penalty is a $1,000 fine and one year in jail, according to an official in the Burleigh County state's attorney office. His sentencing stems from the discovery earlier this month of a dead colt and three other weakened horses in a farmyard five miles north of Bismarck. Burleigh County Assistant State's Attorney Charles Whitman indicated before the sentencing that Eagle had not deliberately mistreated the animal, but rather lacked knowledge in how to feed them properly. Employees to work on King's birthday By The Associated Press Gov.

George A. Sinner appointed a commission to coordinate North Dakota's observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday but decided against giving state employees the day off, he said. Congress last year set the third Monday in January as the official federal holiday in honor of the civil rights activist.

"After reviewing a number of factors, including the activities planned by other states, I have decided that schools and all state offices will remain open on the day honoring Dr. King," Sinner said. Public Service Commissioner Bruce Hagen was named chairman of the temporary commission. Bismarck peace activist Brian Pala-cek will be vice chairman. 1 1 encourage all citizens to participate in the activities and ceremonies commerorating Dr.

King and his contributions to American society," Hagen said. By PHILIP BRASHER Associated Press Writer Gov. George Sinner once was confident enough he would get an agreement with conservationists on the Garrison Diversion Project to schedule a news conference to announce it. But months of fruitless negotiations have left him "a little smarter," he says. The first-term governor has flown to Washington several times for face-to-face talks with National Audubon Society officials.

On two occasions he returned sounding confident he would soon get the agreement necessary to pry funding for the massive water project out of Congress. Now he and other officials acknowledge they have made relatively little progress on the major issues. "I GET the perception on major issues that we're not any closer and probably farther apart," said Murray Sagsveen, a special assistant attorney general for the Garrision Diversion Conservancy District. "I'm not really optimistic that an agreement will be reached in the near future," said Michael Dwyer, executive vice president of the North Dakota Water Users Association. "I'm not even optimistic that an agreement will be reached." Sagsveen and Dwyer have accompanied Sinner on his negotiating trips.

Sinner and Audubon officials have been working on language in legislation that would redefine the scope of the water project, which would divert Missouri River water for irrigation and municipal and industrial use. So far, they have disagreed on how to interpret the recommendations of a special federal study commission on Garrison, which issued its report Dec. 31. AN AUDUBON representative did not return telephone calls asking for comment on the negotiations. Sinner met with Audubon representatives again in Washington in June without success.

But after he returned from talks there in July, at which time state officials claim they made several key concessions, his staff scheduled a news conference July 11 in hopes of announcing an agree ment that never came. Sinner returned from a meeting in Washington with Audubon President Peter Berle Oct. 2, saying they had made progress toward an agreement. He then asked Sens. Mark Andrews, and Quen-tin Burdick, to delay filing their own Garrison authorization bill for at least two weeks.

Sinner scheduled a trip to Chicago Oct. 9 to work out the agree ByGREGSELLNOW Tribune Staff Writer The long-planned arboretum trail on the grounds at the Capitol is almost complete. But the commission responsible for paying the bills for the project is nearly broke. The trail, which meanders throughout the north half of the Capitol grounds, will be finished in a couple of weeks when workers attach plaques identifying plants, trees and shrubs to posts along the trail, according to consulting architect Warren Tvenge. Gov.

George Sinner dedicated and officially opened the trail during a ceremony this morning. The project will be completed on schedule and on budget, Tvenge said. That's all good news to the members of the Capitol Grounds Planning Commission, who are responsible for overseeing Capitol grounds improvement projects. The bad news is that the arboretum has sapped the commission's budget almost dry. The commission's counsel, John Walstad, told commissioners today that after all of the arboretum bills are paid, the commission may not have enough money in its budget to hold two more meetings during the current biennium.

"We could have two more meetings," Walstad said. "But it would be tight." The commission last year was forced to turn back to the state's general fund most of the $30,000 appropriated for the start of construction of the trail after a change in the governorship and a subsequent change in the membership of the commission delayed approval for the letting of bids. State law requires that the commission turn unspent money back to the general fund at the end of the biennium. The new commission voted several months ago to appropriate up to $54,300 of its $60,000 budget for completion of the arboretum trail. Tvenge said the final cost of the trail will be about $54,000.

According to Walstad, when expenses of the commission which is chaired by Lt. Gov. Ruth Meiers and includes lawmakers and lay members are deducted, the commission will have about $3,000 leftover. According to Tvenge, all that will remain to be done in regard to the trail at the end of next month will be the planting of about 50 plants or trees that cannot be planted until spring, he said. About 60 plantings have already been completed, Tvenge said.

Plane lands safely after fire JAMESTOWN (AP) A Mesaba Airlines flight with two passengers and a crew of two aboard returned to the airport this morning after one of the aircraft's two engines caught fire, authorities said. "I was sitting on the left side of the plane and I saw sparks and smoke coming out of the engine by my window," said Bruce Karstens of Jamestown, one of the passengers aboard the flight. "The pilot turned off the engine, turned the plane right around and headed back to the airport." The two passengers aboard the Beechcraft 99 bound for Minneapolis were uninjured in the incident, which happened about 10 minutes after takeoff, said Douglas Fulton, director of public relations for the Minneapolis-based airline. "The aircraft was leaving the By JERRY ANDERSON ot The Tribune failure of the one engine was contained within that engine and its exhaust system," Fulton said. "The engine was secured by the flight crew and the plane returned safely to Jamestown, where it landed without incident." Bob Voight, pilot of the plane, declined to talk about the incident.

The 15-passenger aircraft remained in Jamestown this morning, according to Fulton, who did not know if there would be an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. The airline was sending out its own inspection team to examine the plane, he said. Karstens, an employee of Western Gear Corp. in Jamestown who was traveling on business, said he had not flown in five years but was not scared by the incident. He planned to catch a later flight to Minneapolis.

Compact issue issue is. "There has been so much misinformation that people don't know of they are voting on the compact, or voting on Chem-Nuclear, or cancer, or nuclear bombs. "What I see expressed in this poll is that 40 percent of the people are confused and that's a shame," said Corpstein. Chem-Nuclear is the company that wants to build a low-level nuclear waste site near Edgemont. Corpstein said he plans to keep Chem-Nuclear's five speakers working overtime until the election.

In Sioux Falls, a majority of the 91 respondents said they were opposed to the compact. Forty-four percent said they were against the compact, 15 percent said they were in favor of it and 41 percent were undecided. Alice makes do without electricity or running water, proud to be able to manage on the cash rent from her 317 acres of land, spurning Social Security and farm programs. "I WAS brought up to earn my own way," she says. "Mother wouldn't take a pension for us minor kids after Dad died.

I pay all my taxes, but I do not use a Social Security card. I don't want to take what belongs to the other feller." She promised to tell a recent visitor when her newest stone comes in, one she just dreamed of with a bird of paradise on one side and four human faces on the other. Waking visions and sleeping dreams, "As soon as my eyes are closed, I'm showing something," Alice says. Bismarck plead innocent to prostitution cials. It would repeal legislation, passed in 1944 and 1965, that authorized the project, and would mandate the construction of the Sykeston Canal.

The state wants Sykeston's construction left optional, to allow for possible eventual construction of the Lonetree Reservoir. Lonetree, which supporters have called a key feature of the Garrison project, was shelved by the federal commission's report. Its completion is opposed by environmentalists. Under Audubon's proposal, the state also would have to contribute to a wetlands trust fund and lose mitigation credit for 30,000 acres of land acquired for Lonetree. STATE OFFICIALS have offered a counterproposal to which Audubon has not replied, Dwyer said.

The negotiations have taken on an increasing sense of urgency as a deadline for getting an agreement looms closer. Congress has approved a $41.3 million approporiation from the water project for fiscal 1986, but that money will be lost if a bill defining the scope of the project does not pass by March 31, 1986. Rep. Byron Dorgan, has said the authorization measure, which was introduced in the Senate last week, has little chance of passing the House unless the state can reach an agreement with the conservation groups. "I think we're going to get (an agreement), but I don't know when," said Sinner.

Splonskowski's attorney, said, "All I can say is, he said he couldn't ethically comment further on the case. Dyk, who is accused of prostitution in the same case, also sat in the courtroom. She earlier had entered her innocent plea and jury trial motion in the form of a written request through an attorney. Both have been released on their own recognizance. The two were arrested last Tuesday in a Mandan motel in an arrangement set up by Mandan police and Morton County deputies.

Authorities had undertaken a weeklong investigation after a Bismarck man tipped police about possible prostitutes working in a Mandan bar. A one-year jail sentence and $1,000 fine is the maximum penalty for a class A misdemeanor; a class misdemeanor could result in a penalty of up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine. project. Soon afterward, she began to find the stones whose descriptions she had carefully noted down from her dream, her excitement increasing when she learned the gravel had been taken from a former school section. THIS TOLD Alice that her mission was to use the stones "to educate the world about the truth of God." First she had to educate herself.

Armed with dictionaries, history books and an ancient annotated Bible that had "worn my grandparents out," she went to work. A typical bit of detective work traced a stone bearing the likeness of a lion, along with the Roman numeral IV, to Genesis 49:9 and Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and a "lion's whelp." airport at approximately 6:15 this morning when one of the engines caught fire," said Jamestown Fire Chief Melvin Kachel. "The aircraft turned around and came back to the airport and they managed to extinguish the fire themselves." Smoke did not enter the cabin, and the crew was calm during the incident, Karstens said. However, the airline would not confirm that one of the plane's engines caught fire. "Our Flight No.

1042 experienced a minor problem after takeoff," Fulton said. "I cannot confirm any type of statement that the fire chief made." Fulton said one of the engines may have had a "combustion problem" that involved a small flame but he would not call it a fire. "Any flame due to the internal was haspfi nn DODulation. People first were asked if they were registered voters and whether they planned to vote Nov. 12.

If those answers were yes, they were asked, "Do you plan to vote yes, that the state should join the Dakota Compact?" Nick Meinhardt, coordinator for the Nuclear Waste Vote Coalition, the group opposed to the compact, said the results of the poll were encouraging. "We're getting Vk no votes for every single yes vote they get," he said. "That means that as voters are making up their minds, we're getting their votes." He said the poll will not change the coalition's campaign. Paul Corpstein of Chem-Nuclear Systems said the large undecided vote shows how confusing the Many voters undecided on Dakota BySTANSTELTER Tribune Staff Writer Two Bismarck women charged with prostitution have pleaded innocent. Both Patricia K.

Splonskowski, 33, and Carta G. Dyk, 32, asked for jury trials on the misdemeanor charges filed against them. Splonskowski appeared this morning in Morton County Court in Mandan, entering innocent pleas on two charges filed against her: prostitution and facilitating prostitution, which is a class A misdemeanor. She asked for the maximum 12-person jury during the trial on the charge of facilitating prostitution. By law, only a six-person jury is allowed on the other charge, which is a class misdemeanor.

Judge L.J. Schirado appointed the Vinje law firm of Bismarck to represent Splonskowski, who requested court-appointed counsel. Contacted later. Ralph Vinje, Ill Legai 1 Notices PUBLIC HEARING Vocational Education Public meetings for input into amending the State Board tor Vocational Education's State Plan for FY '66 will be held at the following locations: November 4, 1985 Harold Shaff Memorial Meeting Room, 7:00 p.m. OS.T.

-Grand Forks Public Schools, Buildings and Grounds Facility, 724 North 3rd Street, Grand Forks, North Dakota; November 6, 1985 -Dickinson High School Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. M.S.T. Dickinson, North Dakota. This meeting is to afford all segments of the public, and interested organizations and groups the opportunity to present their views and make recommendations for the amendments of the FY '86 State Plan. 1028 40991 SHERIFF'S SALE Civil NO 365B9 State of North Dakota County of Burleigh In District Court South Central Judicial District Metropolitan Federal Bank, fsb, formerly known as Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan Association, a corporation, of Fargo, North Dakota, Plaintiff, vs.

Elmer W. Krieger and Henna b. Kneger, Defendants. BY VIRTUE OF A SPECIAL EXECUTION to me directed and delivered and now in my hands issued by the Clerk's office in the South Central Judicial District, State of North Dakota, in and tor the County of Burleigh, upon a judgment in foreclosure rendered in said Court in favor of Metropolitan Federal Bank, fsb, formerly known as Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan Association, a corporation, of Fargo, North Dakota, and against Elmer W. Krieger and Hertha E.

Krieger, upon the following described real estate, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I shall on the Wth day of November, 1985, at the hour of 2:40 o'clock p.m. on said date, at the front door of the Courthouse in the County of Burleigh, State of North Dakota, proceed to sell the following-described real estate: Lot Fifteen (15), Block (20), and Fourth (4th Addition to the City of Lincoln, County of Burleigh, North Dakota, to satisfy said judgment ad costs amounting to $43,592.26, together with accruing costs of sate and interests on the principal sum at rate of $14.06 per day from July 26, 1985, at public auction to the highest bidder tor cash. Dated this 10th day of October, 1985. 1014,21,28 41460 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that by virtue of a judgment and decree in foreclosure, rendered and given by the District Court of the South Central Judicial District, in and for the County of Burleigh and State of North Dakota, and entered and docketed in the office of the Clerk of said Court, in and for said County, on the 11th day of September, 1985, in an action wherein Jiran, Valeu Whitman, Partnership, is the plaintiff, and Valeu Associates, Robert Valeu, Metropolitan Federal Savings Loan Association, F-M Forkiitt Sales Service, Electric, Shimmin Lumber, Metric Construction, Edwin C. Becker, Supply, and Bauer Plumbing Heating, are defendants, in favor of the said plaintiff against the said defendant Valeu Associates, tor the sum of twenty two thousand seven hundred rwenty seven dollars and seventy six cents plus interest from September 11, 1985 at the rate of ten 10M percent per annum, plus costs and disbursements taxed by the Clerk of said District Court, which judgment and decree, among other things, directed the sale by me of the real property herein described, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy the amount of said judgment, with interest thereon, and the costs and expenses of such sale, or so much thereof as the proceeds of such sale applicable thereto will satisfy.

And by virtue of a writ to me issued out of the office of the Clerk of said Court, in and for said County of Burleigh and under the seal of said Court, directing me to sell said real property pursuant to said judgment and decree, Bob Harvey, the Sheriff of said County, and the person appointed by said Court to make said sale, will sell the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder, tor cash, at pubhc auction, at the front door of the courthouse in the County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakota, on the Wth day of November, 19B5 at 2:00 P.M. ot that day, to satisfy said judgment, with interest and costs thereon, and the costs and expenses of such sale, or as much thereof as the proceeds ot such sale applicable thereto will satisfy. The premises to be sold as aforesaid pursuant to said judgment and decree, and to said writ, and to this notice, are described in said judgment, decree, and writ as follows, to wit: Tract 2, Lot Block 2, North Hills Seventh Addition to the City of Bismarck, North Dakota, aka Lot 1, Block 2, North Hills Seventh Addition to the City of Bismarck, North Dakota, less Auditor's Lots 1 through 3, Tract 1, Lot Block 2, North Hills Seventh Addition to the City of Bismarck, North Dakota. sBob Harvey, Sheriff of Burleigh County, State of North Dakota By: Fay Hill, Deputy sLyleW Kirmis Attorney tor Plaintiff ZUGER BUCKLIN P.O. Box 1695 Bismarck, ND 58502 1695 41579 She's made it her mission to share message SIOUX FALLS.

S.D. (AP) Forty percent of South Dakotans polled by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader last week were undecided in how they would vote in the Nov. 12 special election on joining a nuclear waste compact with North Dakota. The poll surveyed 506 people who plan to vote in the election, the newspaper reported in a copyright story Sunday. The poll that 202 people had not made up their minds, 218 people or 43 percent said they will vote no, and 86 people or 17 percent said they will vote for the Dakota Compact.

The interviews were conducted Wednesday and Thursday evenings in random telephone calls to South Dakota communities. The proportion of calls to each community Four other stones showing a calf's head, another lion, a man, and a flying eagle were identified as the beasts cornerstones, if you will) around the throne of God mentioned in Revelation 4 7. AND ON and on. Revelation 2:17 taught her never to bypass a white stone (a gift "to him that In a key-shaped stone bearing a perfect letter on a tiny inlay of white Alice recovered the "key of knowledge" of Luke 11:52 that had been "taken away" by lawyers. The intricacy of this last piece is Alice's pride and joy: "How he was in that small a business, that's what gets you!" Piece by piece she has been recovering what she sees as the neglected truth about God, as well as uncovering alleged distortions in the Bible itself.

She is no fan of the apostle Paul, whom she sees as "a lawyer" who misrepresents Jesus. "IF YOU don't keep the Ten Commandments, how can you 'Believe in me' and make everything all right?" she asks. "They cannot pour that down my throat." In letters and tape recordings, Alice regularly shares her findings with public officials and media people, who rarely respond. She will keep on trying, encouraged by such signs as a 325-foot rainbow, of which she has convincing pictures, that began and ended in her own farmyard. What was God telling her with that rainbow? That 'I've got you Alice says with a laugh.

couldn't bring it out." FINALLY, IN 1965, she was given the key in the form of another dream. In this one, she received stones, instead of coins: highly individual stones, marked with faces, symbols, letters and numbers, picked up on the driveway to her farmstead. She wasn't bothered when her family and neighbors pointed out that the drive did not even have gravel on it. Her dictionary had shown her that one of the meanings of "coin" is "cornerstone." "Almighty God will deliver the stones," she confidently predicted. Working through the county, he did, too seven years later, when Alice's approach was graveled as part of a road-improvement.