The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 18

DAKOTA Pag 2C Sunday, May 21, 1989 The Bismarck Tribune tm MAIN STREET N.D. message carried to Japan Meantime. James Kusler. North TOKYO (AP) A group of North Dakotans arrived in Tokyo Saturday eager to promote business with Japan and fight the state's low visibility on this side of the Pacific. The Japanese know the eastern of that," he said in an interview.

Minton said the state is endowed states and California, but few know where North Dakota is, said Jack Minton, a trip organizer and and representatives from the U.S. Embassy during their seven-day Visit. Sinner is scheduled to arrive today. The purpose of the visit is to promote increased exports from North Dakota to Japan and to encourage Japanese investment in the state, Minton said. Although many North Dakota firms export to Japan, not one Japanese firm has yet invested in the state, a representative of the Japan External Trade Organization said.

Dakota secretary of state, returned Friday from an expense-paid trip to Taiwan. He was with a group of six secretaries of state from around the country. During the two-week trip, Kusler said the group met with nine high-ranking Taiwanese of ficials. He returned with no specific agreements but said the trip was worthwhile. Lt.

Gov. Lloyd Omdahl also visited Taiwan with a separate group. with many natural resources, and with the implementation of the U.S.-Canada free trade agreement, North Dakota will become the geographic center of a unified North American market. Gov. George A.

Sinner is to lead the group, which consists of 18 businessmen and state officials. Members will meet with Japanese government and business officials managing director of North Dakota World Trade, a non-profit trade promotion group. He said not many people know that North Dakota has consistently rated among the five most favorable states to Invest in according to one survey. "People haven't taken advantage Car auction attracts spectators, speculators By MARY LAWIN Tribune Correspondent i IMMlnii.mmn,,i,miii,,i, inn mmm MIJmjBIUJM to Zap' reunion souvenirs sell well ZAP Zip to Zap II was a success lor souvenir sellers, but some food vendors were stuck with leftovers. The community club expected a $1,000 profit and the Zap Athletic Association cleared $900 from its fleischkuechle booth.

Elevator manager Greg Kovarik sold only a couple of hot dogs downtown, but dispensed 700 of them during the evening of music just outside town. "The souvenirs was the big thing," said community club treasurer Ray iEngbrecht. "My estimate is that it brought $5,000 into town." New Salem woman stitches for 100th I- GARRISON Clara Ferderer played a big part in local women being able to comply with the centennial dress code. Ferderer, who lives in New Salem, has sewn 56 centennial dresses and is work on another dozen. Sister-in-law Eva Kokeler of Garrison got I interested Garrison dress buyers together with Ferderer, In January, Ferderer helped a few elementary teachers pick patterns.

-When she finished the dresses, 30 more women were waiting to be "measured. I The Garrison Job is her second-biggest order after the 100 dresses she made for New Salem's Diamond Jubilee in 1983. wins fourth in national contest MOTT Debbie Hertz of rural Mott has won fourth place in a nationwide poetry contest. Her poem, "Tangible Time," will appear in Great Poems of the Western World, to be published by the World of Poetry Press, sponsors of the 'contest. Nursing home's oldest resident is 100 WATFORD CITY A woman who filed on a homestead in McKenzie I County in 1910 recently celebrated her 100th birthday in a Watford City I nursing home.

Lillie Christiansen, the first deputy superintendent of McKenzie County schools, celebrated her birthday on May 12. I- Christiansen can remember when Schafer was the county seat and the mail came by stage. Back in those days, Schafer had a hotel, two grocery stores, a drugstore, a hardware store and two banks. She also remembers living with two teachers in a shack that was heated only a laundry stove. The three took turns getting up every two hours to add coal to the stove.

She's the oldest person in the Good Shepherd Home. Hebron superintendent moving east HEBRON Hebron's school superintendent, Donald Herbel, has resigned to become superintendent at Midway, a consolidated country school north of Grand Forks. Herbel's contract at Hebron was to have run through June 1990. Also, two School Board members, George Raber and Elton Schatz, aren't running for re-election. Strasburg school's days are numbered STRASBURG The closing, after this school year, of St.

Benedict Catholic elementary school was announced last winter. But Sister Richarde Wolf, principal and teacher there, said the reality didn't sink in until John Kinney came to town recently for a dinner with school 'parents. "That's when it really hit us. When the parents and children were 'together, and the children saw their parents actually shed a tear." But, she said, not everyone feels so strongly. "Interest in Catholic 'education has dwindled.

Young families just don't see the value of a 'Catholic education as their parents did." St. Benedict's is still in the black and offering quality education she but the handwriting was on the wall in the form of declining fenrollment just 23 projected for next year. The decision to close was made by Kinney. The school, which dates from 1910, had as many as 300 students in the 1920s. She came to our Plains from home in sunny Spain 'By MARY LAWIN, Tribune Correspondent BEACH The autombiles that dad and grandpa used to proudly drive down the road will be on display in Beach June 16-18.

More than 100 antique cars have been registered for the city's second annual Collector Car Show Auction, said Harry Zachmann of Golva, organizer of the show and auction. Sponsored by the Beach Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, the event will include a car show from 4 to 6 p.m. MDT June 16, an auction June 17 and a parade and picnic June 18. Collector cars are becoming increasingly popular, Zachmann said. "Collector cars make people think of their first date or the first car they ever owned.

They help people recall old memories. They are also a good investment, Zachmann said. "This past year, all Chevrolet Corvettes went up 30 to 40 percent. And the '57 Chevrolet convertibles went about the same amount." About 3,000 people are expected to attend the show, 50 percent more than last year, Zachmann said. Inquiries have been received from car buyers in several states, including North Carolina, Oregon, New York and Pennsylvania.

Buyers like cars from western North Dakota because they are usually well cared for and haven't By MARY LAWIN for the Tribune Harry Zachmann plans to sell this car at the auction in Beach. been exposed to ice-melting chemicals, Zachmann said. Vehicles already entered include a 1957 Chevrolet Belair, 1962 Olds-mobile Starfire convertibles, 1955 Chevrolet pickups, 1955 Ford Ranch Wagon, 1937 Chevrolet, 1938 Packard and 1966 Corvette hard-tops. For more information, call Harry Zachmann at West Plains Implement in Beach at 872-4154. Ad that was run on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday should have read 0 financing 24 months, or up to $2000 rebate on select new cars and trucks.

GOP in western district elects officers "YOU CAN ALWAYS Of Al WTH mfff and Gene Hamilton, both of Beach; Joe Whalen, Bowman; Tom Se-crest, Hettinger; and Joe Steier, Reeder. District 39 includes Golden Valley, Slope, Billings Bowman and Adams counties. MEDORA District 39 Republicans recently chose new officers. Mary Lawin, Beach, was elected chairman; Bill Bowman, Bowman, vice chairman; and Don Meyers, Beach, secretary-treasurer. The district's executive committee now includes Ken Thompson MAY IS BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH MONTH Nearly 24 million Americans have communication problems.

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Tony was there for his college's year-abroad program. Spain is a Catholic country with priests, not ministers. Thus ihere were no models for Aurora's job as minister's wife. Even in New Town at their first church there were no ministers' wives, only a Catholic priest, a widowed JLutheran minister and a husband and wife who were both pastors. Tony and Aurora have decided jshe won't teach a Sunday school class like previous ministers' wives, but will help her husband in other ways and take part in the social life of his church.

She enjoys the relaxing lifestyle in North Dakota, and wishes her family in Spain could visit "to see my life here." She also would like to show off her 6-month-old son, Christopher. Aurora had not seen snow before jnoving to North Dakota. Near her hometown of 20,000, crops are get her pharma-aaaptmg. cist iicense to United States someday, but would have to study English more before testing. Since Christopher's birth, Aurora speaks mostly Spanish at home because the couple hopes to raise him bilingually.

Tony is a language major, with French, Spanish and sign-Aurora and Christopher recently spent an afternoon with a woman from Chile who is married to a local man. Their language difference is about the same as that of England and the United States. Aurora also has become a friend to an exchange student from Brazil who attends school in nearby Golva. Portuguese, not Spanish, is the language of Brazil, but the young women relate well on a cultural level. jj I IVnimist I 111 11 $50 Off asses Strasburg readies park, musical Purchase a complete pair of eyeglasses and save $50! Order any frame from our collection, and any lens including single-visiqn, bifocal, or progressive power.

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timers ball game, carnivals, arts and crafts show (July 7-8), square dancing, house walks of sod and clay homes, community worship July 9 and a community potluck. As the city's logo says, "Discover your past your heritage." Companies merging SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A South Dakota bank holding company is merging with a Minnesota company in a move that will produce the largest bank holding company to be located in South Dakota. Shareholders of Community First South Dakota Bankshares approved a merger with Community First Minnesota Bank-shares a sister corporation, on Thursday. STRASBURG Strasburg will celebrate the state's 100th year July 7-9.

To start the celebration, the Veterans of Foreign Wars will dedicate a centennial park at 10:30 a.m. July 7. The VFW purchased and is turning them into a park. The mainstay of the celebration Iwill be the Beaver Valley Rodeo at p.m. July 8 and 9.

A "Bulla iRama" is set for 8 p.m. July 7. Another major event be a musical, "I Love America," depicting history of our country. The schedule includes bandstand entertainment July 7 and 8, parade at 10 a.m. July 8, minirod pullers pull 1-4 p.m.

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