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Page 2-Friday, December 28. 1979 The BISMARCK TRIBUNE Link Finds Potential Solution To Begin New NDSU Building Name Change to Number Turned Down Again mind when it passed a 1978 law revising name-change procedures. The court suggested lawmakers would have rejected any number-name proposals because the U.S. social and economic system Is geared to identifying individuals by letters rather than numbers. In suggesting a spelled-out number, such as "One Zero Six Nine," the court said in a footnote that the first and last words would be phonetically the same as a name such as "Juan Nyen." The Supreme Court indicated this might not be the last word on 1069.

Otis said he can seek further redress in the courts if any "substantial right" is refused him because of his numeral-name. Up to now, Otis said, Dengler-1069 has suffered only "trivial and self-inflicted inconvenience." To allow a legal name change to a number "would hasten the day in which we all become lost in faceless number," Barbeau said in his decision Feb. 13, 1978. The Minnesota Supreme Court said it tended to agree but said courts probably cannot halt a dehumanizing name change when a person makes that choice. "If he chooses to adopt a name which simply subjects himself to contempt, ridicule and inconvenience, he has a common law and statutory right to do so," said Judge James Otis for the high court.

Otis said there are no constitutional issues, since Dengler can use his name without legal approval. The Supreme Court rejected a legal name change to 1069 because it was not persuaded that the Minnesota Legislature had that in studies teacher, he is divorced and has two children who live with their mother. Dengler began calling himself 1069 about five years ago. He said the numerals have "personal nificance" and relate to a unique philosophy. He's gotten his bank, the Social Security Administration and several state agencies to recognize him as 1069.

But a utility firm and the Minnesota Drivers' License Division wouldn't go along unless the numeral had court approval. When Dengler brought his case to state district court last year, he was rebuffed by Judge Donald Bar-beau, who said it would be "dehumanizing" for any person to be known only by number. Barbeau likened it to the numbers tattooed on prisoners in World War II concentration camps. the Bismarck Town House Motor Inn." (Jim Kusler, the governor's press assistant, said Link has not discussed his idea with any of his staff. Administrative aide George Gagnon said Link isn't discussing the idea because he's considering several options and hasn't decided which will work best.

Link could not be reached for a direct comment. (Kusler said Link has been working with budget analyst Darrell Ohlhauser to come up with the proposal. Ohlhauser said Friday Link asked him not to discuss the matter until the Board of Higher Education has been presented with the ideas. (Ohlhauser confirmed that several alternatives were considered by Link, Director of Accounts and Purchases Dean Conrad and Ohlhauser. The ideas will be analyzed further by the budget office, he said, prior to the board meeting.) The NDSU music building is the first of six building projects in a $10.7 million "Christmas tree" bill approved by the 1979 Legislature.

The first trigger for releasing surplus money into a building fund is a general fund balance of $148.6 million at the end of the 1977-79 biennium. But the Executive Budget Office certified the ending balance as $151 million $600,000 short of starting the music building in Fargo. Link said he has been working with the budget office to help NDSU begin constructing its music building. The governor said he's concerned about a costly delay in starting the project "when every indication assures us there will be ample resources in the construction fund after June 30, 1980, to trigger construction of the building." The second and final building fund trigger is a general fund balance of $110.5 million on June 30, the midpoint of the 1979-81 biennium. Link said he also wants to maintain the "fiscal integrity" of the state accounting system.

ST v. iV ft H3 By The Associated Press Gov. Arthur A. Link says he may have discovered a "sound and reasonable approach" to begin construction of a $3 million music education building at North Dakota State University. However, Link refused to describe his "potential solution which appears consistent with state law and the Constitution." Link sent a letter Thursday to Chairman Geraldine Clapp of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education, requesting a meeting with the board to discuss his proposal.

"I believe we have found a sound and reasonable approach to the issue which will hasten the commitment of state general funds to this worthwhile project," Link wrote. (Link is to discuss his proposal with the board during a regularly scheduled meeting at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 10 at Soviets- Continued From Page 1 Amin's family were killed and that those "responsible for crimes committed against the people by members of Amin's fascist regime will be brought to justice," indicating bloody, mass purges will take place in the next few days in the Afghan capital. Although Soviet troops were already in Afghanistan in force, Radio Kabul said after the coup that the Kremlin swiftly agreed to meet an urgent appeal from Karmal's new government for "political, moral, economic and military assistance to restore normalcy and to repel an external threat." Western diplomatic sources said the "external threat" probably reflected Kabul and Moscow's claim that the Moslem rebels in Afghanistan's 20-month-old civil war are backed by Pakistan, China and the United States, and that Amin and his men were "agents of U.S.

imperialism." U.S. officials in Washington estimated that the Soviet Union airlifted 200 planeloads of soldiers into Kabul this week and that Soviet military strength in Afghanistan had reached 10,000 troops, about double the number previously believed in the Central Asian nation. A recent U.S. intelligence appraisal said although Amin welcomed Soviet help in putting down Afghanistan's Moslem rebels he wanted his nation to remain a truly independent state, and that this led to strained relations between Moscow and Kabul in recent months. The Soviets are widely believed to have fostered the April 1978 coup that ousted Afghanistan's non-aligned government and brought Taraki to power, and they are reported determined to prevent the Moslem rebels from ousting an atheist Marxist regime on Russia's doorstep.

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Ph. 222-4427 ZJ ST. PAUL (AP) The Minnesota Supreme Court says a Minneapolis man cannot legally change his name to "1069," but he can accomplish the same purpose with words as in "Ten Sixty-Nine," or "One Zero Six Nine." The latter is the pronunciation preferred by 1069, whose legal name is Michael Herbert Dengler. In its ruling Friday, the court said Dengler is free to call himself 1069 as a common law right, but must put up with any inconvenience it causes him. The court rejected a legal change of name.

It was the second time Dengler had been turned down. The North Dakota Supreme Court also ruled against 1069 as a legal name four years ago. Dengler is described in court records as a naturalized citizen, born in Germany. A former social Insurance Firm Leaving N.D. FARGO (AP) An Iowa-based insurance company is pulling out of the market in North Dakota and northern Minnesota next year.

State Automobile Casualty Underwriters of Des Moines will not renew its policies after this year. "We just don't have enough business in North Dakota," company president Jim Boone said Wednesday. "We have the same problems in northern Minnesota." Boone said the company wrote less than $600,000 in premiums in North Dakota in 1979, and that expenses for the company were too high to justify remaining. North Dakota Insurance Department figures show the company is the 60th largest insurance company in the state, handling 1,200 to 1,500 policies. State Insurance Commissioner Byron Knutsen said it was unusual for a company to withdraw from the state insurance market.

"There are many more that have asked to be admitted than have withdrawn," he said. "In the past 15 years there hasn't been anything like it." Tree Accident Kills North Dakota Man MINOT (AP) Jerry Berg, 26, Butte, has died after apparently being crushed in a tree-clearing operation. The victim, formerly of Minot, died on a farm in the Voltaire area, about 30 miles southeast of Minot. A working partner brought Berg to a Minot hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The death is being investigated by the Ward and McHenry county sheriff 's offices.

The Weather BISMARCK DATA Sunshines SunsetToday Sunrise Tomorrow 8:28 a.m. Missouri River Missouri River Stage 4 2 ft 24 hour change down 3 ft Missouri River flood stage 16 0 ft Precipitation Total this month to date 22 in Normal this month to date 39 in Total Jan. 1st to date 1181rn. Normal Jan. 1st to date' 16.

10 in. LAKE SAKAKAWEA Pool elevation 1,842 2, no change. Year ago 1,840.0. Discharge Thursday 21,000 c.f.s. Estimated discharge Friday 22,000 c.f.s.

OAHEPOOL PIERRE, S.D. (AP) Oahe reservoir elevation is 1604.81 feet above mean sea level, up 08 feet in 24 hours. Tailwaters 1420.88 feet. Discharge 5,400 cubic feet per second. Temperature 39 degrees.

Big Bend discharge 14,200 cubic feet per second. STATE FORECASTS Minnesota Fog likely Friday night. Lows 18 to 24. Fair Saturday. Highs from the middle 30s to lower 40s.

North Dakota Sunny Saturday. Clear Friday night. Highs Saturday in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Lows Friday night 5 to IS. South Dakota Clear Friday night with lows in the teens to low 20s.

Mostly sunny and coninued mild Saturday. Highs in the mid 40s to low 50s. Montana East of Continental Divide Sunny Saturday with mild temperatures. Cold nights especially in the higher valleys of the southwest. Highs 35 to 45.

Lows 10 to 25, except 5 below to 15 above in the southwest valleys. EX-KABUL GOVERNMENT soldiers aim a 76mm, cannon at a Kabul government position in Chigha Sarai, a provincial capital, during fighting last September in Afghanistan. The defectors are now fighting on the side of the rebel Muslims. I I Boelter Funeral Home 223-1122 200 West Turnpike Bismarck Peace of Mind is Being a Member of Sunset Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum Call 223-2866 BN Postpones Increasing Rate For Barley Export 1 North Dakota Bismarck 42 09 Dickinson 18 Fargo G'd Forks Jamestown Minot 32 18 39 19 41 17 42 27 38 09 Williston South Dakota Aberdeen 41 09 Huron 45 13 48 20 Lemmon Mobridge Philip Pickstown Pierre Rapid City Sioux Falls Watertown 43 11 42 mm 44 21 42 16 44 19 34 26 34 IS Montana Billings Glasgow Great Fails Havre Helena Miles City Missoula 41 21 39 19 Sho.0-. O.jludjd NTIONMmtHI Sl.VlCi NO 111 1 4 4 By The Associated Press The Burlington Northern Railroad will not raise export barley rates into Duluth, at least until June.

The railroad had earlier planned to allow the special export rate to expire Dec. 31, according to the North Dakota Wheat Commission. Attorneys in Fargo representing Kan's City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Mpls St. P. Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklo.

City Omaha Orlando 40 30 56 33 52 35 66 47 Phitad'phia Phoenix Pittsburgh P'tland, Me. P'tland, Ore Reno Richmond St Louis St. P. Tampa Salt Lake San Diego San Fran Seattle Spokane St Ste Marie Tulsa Washington 42 34 58 40 35 26 40 26 44 40 38 19 50 27 36 31 64 42 40 23 65 47 52 45 50 32 32 19 74 59 39 22 31 24 42 36 49 37 58 49 1.0 46 68 38 day through Tuesday. High In the upper 20s northeast to the upper 30s southwest.

Low in the teens. South Dakota: Little any precipitation Sunday through Tuesday. Continued mild. High in the upper 30s to low 40s east, in the mid and upper 40s west. Low in the upper teens to the mid 20s.

OHIO: Ohio favors taxpayers as a whole footing the bill and waiting until Congress acts on public financing for synthetic fuel production. It also opposes the surcharge. In addition, Ohio feels the 13 percent return on equity the FERC allowed the consortium members for their investment is too high and that averaging in the high price of synthetic gas with cheaper existing gas should not be allowed. Instead, Ohio favors the new gas being sold at its value. GENERAL MOTORS: GM also favors spreading the costs among all the taxpayers and waiting until Congress acts.

It opposes the surcharge. The objections that the four groups are raising are essentially the views they presented in testimony before the FERC came out with its Nov. 21 order. The FERC has 30 days until Jan. 20 to decide whether to grant a request for rehearing.

After that, it's uncertain how long it would take for FERC to issue a final order. And beyond that, any party has 60 days in which to appeal through the courts. The consortium still is hopeful of a spring to early summer construction start on the $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion project. Holiday Parties Are More Fun At Our House. We have party rooms.

Call 258-8808. Ask for Rudolph Ar Laserpnoto the commission said the rate is scheduled to go up 25 percent. The railroad postponed the expiration date after the Wheat Commission and the state Public Service Commission complained to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the higher rate would be unreasonable. Nubs of the News BIRTHS Bismarck Hospital Son. Mr.

and Mrs. Lyle Peltz, New Salem, 5:09 a.m. Dec. 28. St.

Alexius Hospital Son, Mr. and Mrs. Allan voegele, Menoken, 10:01 a.m. Dec. 27.

Son. Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Mc Enroe, 1420 E.

Divide 1:12 a.m. Dec. 28. Mandan Hospital Son, Mr. and Mrs.

Roger Rask, Henster, 8:49 a.m. Dec. 27. DEATH Bismarck Hospital Mrs. John (Beatta) Burkhardt.

69. McKenzle, 11:25 p.m. Dec. 24. (Boelter Funeral Home, Bismarck).

BURLEIGH COUNTY COURT (Judge Burt Riskedahl) Forgery Paul Schmidt, age unknown, St. Paul, six months in jaii suspended 18 months. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Carlson Homes Inc. to Arnold W. Stebleton et ux, Wachter's5th Lt.

24, Blk. 3. Max G. Mears et ux to Leonard J. Zoko et ux.

Rolling Hills 2nd Lt. 16, Blk. 7. Carlson Homes Inc. to Joseph C.

Thompson et ux. Meadow Valley 4th Lt. 1, Blk. 22. Rick D.

Johnson et ux to Betty L. O'RIelly, replat Lounsberry's outlots 17 20 24, Lt. 36, Blk. Harold Bruschwein et ux to Amoco Oil Lt. 1.

27 139 75. Russell J. Morris et ux to Adrian J. Fischer, pt. N'i SE'4, Sec.

14 139 80. Raymond Schumacher et ux to David J. Nelson et ux. Park Hill pt. Aud.

Lt. 24. Larry M. Axtman et ux to Anard V. Berg et ux, pt.

Lt. 2, Sec. 2 137 80. Carlson Homes Inc. to Harry J.

Wolbaum et ux, Eastview Lt. 3. Blk. 5. David A.

Olsen et ux to Darby L. Schlichenmay-eret ux, Rolling Hills 6th Lt. 10. Blk. 14.

Carlson Homes Inc. to Gordon L. Wealch et ux. Blk. 2.

Construction inc. to Allen G. Vander Vorsteet ux, North Hills 2nd Lt. 3, Blk. 4.

Ben Klein et ux to Leo Wolf et ux, Flannery Wetherby Lts. 15 16. Blk. 42 Sturgis Lts. 11 12.

Blk. 7. Burnell A. Berg et al to Bernt O. Bellerud et al, Apple Valley Lt.

2, Blk. I. wachter Real Estate Trust to Lyle B. Grueneich etux, Wachter's9th LI. 19.

Blk. 23. Walter D. Kovak et ux to Robert L. Gilbert et ux, Tyler's Western Village subdiv.

No. 1, Lt. IS, Blk. 4. Rosalin Morken to Wayne Kutzer et ux, Park Hill pt.

Aud. Lt. 44. First Federal Savings Loan to Frank J. Bavendick, original plat, Lts.

11-12, Blk. 106. Gordon A. Otteson et ux to Gordon Hougste-ben et ux, Homen Acres Lt. 6, Blk.

I. William Clairmont Inc. to Prairie Builders Country West 2nd Lt 6, Blk. 2. Bodray Schumacher et ux to Syver Vinie et ux.

Rolling Hills 1st Lt. 2, Blk. 4 Lyle M. Dietrich et ux to John J. Orth et ux.

Rolling Hills 5th Add Lt. 25, replat Blk. 11. Dan J. McDonald et ux to Michael F.

Robb et ux. Imperial Valley Lt. Blk. 5. Robert C.

Hartman Jr. et ux to John Tkach Jr. etux, Rivervlew Lts. 10 12, Blk. 9.

Allen A. Rude et ux to Ronald H. Leech et ux, Miriam Industrial Park 2nd Add pt. Lt. 16.

Gate City Savings a Loan to Loren F. Hagen et ux a. Thomas M. Westerholm et ux, Jenning 1st Add Lts 25 26, Blk 2. Construction Inc.

to Ronald Jahraus et ux, Wachter's 3rd pt. Lt. 21, Blk. 29. HOUR OF REPARATION An hour of reparation for abortion will begin at 7 p.m.

Friday at St. Vincent's Nursing Home chapel, Bismarck. It will be open to the public and is sponsored by Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima. CAPITAL CITY AA Capital City Alcoholics Anonymous will hold closed meetings at 8 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m.

and 8 p.m. Saturday at 200 W. Main Ave. Use east entrance. POWWOW SET The Twin Buttes 25th annual feast and powwow will be held Saturday at the Twin Buttes Community Hall, starting at 7 p.m.

London's Big Ben, the world's most famous clock, has a pendulum 13 feet long which weighs 700 pounds. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 310 Avenue A East Invites You To WORSHIP SERVICES Coal Gasification Finance Plan Appealed by GM, Four Others Student Recognition Sunday, December 30, 1979 8:30 a.m. 1 1 :00 a.m. a.m.) Sermon by Steven Nicolai, second year student at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN NEW YEAR'S DAY Tuesday, January 1, 1980 10:00 a.m.

Service with Holy Communion Pastors; J. H. Nicolai H. E. Hendrickson J.

L. Norlie A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO ALL Albany Albuque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic Cty Baltimore Birmingham Boise Boston Brownsville Buftalo Charlstn SC Charlstn WV Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Oal Ft. wth Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth Fairbanks Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Ind'apolis Jacks'ville Juneau 35 21 35 24 Jl 42 35 35 23 50 29 5 36 42 33 46 34 59 35 32 21 43 10 74 67 35 34 61 45 36 24 40 25 54 64 35 26 .09 32 40 30 25 15 -2-14 40 27 37 11 3 70 68 5) 37 25 70 31 40 32 .31 EXTENDED OUTLOOK Minnesota: Partly cloudy and mild Sunday. Low 20 to 25. High In the upper 20s and mid 30s.

Fair and mild Monday and Tuesday. Low 8 to 20 Monday and zero to 16 Tuesday. High in the low 20s to the low 30s Monday and Tuesday. North Dakota: No precipitation expected Sun objections are as follows: NEW YORK: The New York PSC believes the costs of the project should be borne by taxpayers as a whole through public financing or by all the nation's gas consumers through a surcharge levied by all gas suppliers, not just those Involved in the project. New York says that the FERC should wait until Congress has finished acting on a Synthetic Fuels Corporation, which would provide public financing for such projects, before making a final decision.

In addition, New York says, the project is too big for "legitimate research and development needs," there is not adequate protection against cost overruns and the lenders' Interest rates should be limited to no higher than the prime rate. According to an attorney for American Natural Resources Detroit, lead partner in the consortium, tentative loan agreements call for interest at one to two points above the prime rate. MICHIGAN: Michigan's views are quite similar. Its PSC also says costs should be borne by taxpayers as a whole and that there should be tighter cost monitoring. Michigan also opposes a surcharge on consumers' bills during the construction phase.

yyJtMMBaoMMMaBBaniiiii'WiiriaBaMiMMPimgnMw. IX Ik I Ft J7 lmm By GREG TUROSAK Tribune Staff Writer The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's order approving a financing plan for the Great Plains Coal Gasification project has been appealed by five groups. In an opinion dated Nov. 21, the FERC approved a plan for the five-member consortium building the Mercer County project to pass on its costs to its natural gas consumers, who constitute about a third of the nation's consumers. At that time, the FERC also ordered that a certificate of public convenience and necessity be issued.

Last Friday, the deadline for challenging the FERC's order, five requests for rehearing were filed, and the consortium itself filed a request for clarification of tariff procedures. One company asking a rehearing was the Great Lakes Gas Transmission which had proposed building a pipeline to bring the synthetic natural gas Into existing pipelines. FERC denied Great Lakes' request In its Nov. 21 opinion. The other four groups objecting were the public service commissions of New York and Michigan, the Office of Consumers' Counsel of Ohio and General Motors Corp.

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