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0 1 Candid diplomacy continues with administration policy. While in Africa, he repeatedly said Americans should not be afraid of Marxists taking over southern Africa since whatever ideology they espoused, once in power they would have to turn to the West for technology, capital and trade. He did not hesitate to become the first U.S. official to meet with President Agos-tinho Neto of Angola, although Washington has no relations with Neto's Marxist regime, and the Ford administration repeatedly attacked it for using Cuban troops to help fight its foes. Young in London said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had put the burden of Rhodesian negotiations on the British and then "abandoned" them when the Republicans lost the election.

Carter came to his ambassador's defense, saying his comments had been taken out of context and that Young had not meant to criticize Kissinger. '-Mi i1 It 4 ill mis. Andrew Young and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance were reported particularly pleased that he had laid the groundwork for improvement in relations with Nigeria, black Africa's biggest, richest and most powerful nation. But the same candor that won Young praise and friends in Africa has also stirred some debate at home and required "clarifications" from the State Department to bring his pronouncements in line UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Andrew Young believes his candid, low-key style of diplomacy is what American foreign policy needs and what the Carter presidency is all about.

And he intends to go right on "speaking my mind." "When Jimmy Carter said he wanted a foreign policy that was as good and decent as the American people, he was talking about a foreign policy with some open discussion of issues and not a foreign poli-, cy discussed in secret quarters of the State Department," said Carter's ambassador to the United Nations in an interview during his recent trip to Africa. "To me that requires a certain amount of freedom of expression. Maybe I have a problem with reconciling the commitment of the Carter administration not to lie to have government in the open with what is a traditional reserve in the State Department. "But I don't want to give in that easy." MASON CITY, all North lowans neighbors" TUESDAY, FEBRUARY Marksman's suicide ends siege Young said he knew his opinions might not reflect administration policy. But he indicated he believed it is part of his job and the style of the Carter administration to stir up public debate and get the American people involved in the formulation of foreign policy.

"One of the most valuable things in the progress of American foreign policy in the last 100 years was the open debate and conflict over Vietnam," he said. "When you remember the cost in the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam of leaving foreign policy to then I'm not sure we want to go back to that kind of closed decision making. "And because I value openness I'm willing to take flak, to be repudiated, corrected and argued with." President Carter told a Cabinet meeting Monday that Young had brought "notable improvement" in America's relations with black Africa. The President "The newspaper that makes IOWA 50401 other trouble during his 11 years with the firm. "He was a very gentle man who loved children," said a sister-in-law, Mary Ellen Cowan.

Added a neighbor in this Westchester County community about IVi miles north of the New York City line: "He was always a nice boy." But others remembered the hulking, six-foot, 250 pounder, who attended Catholic grammar and high schools and was described as a brilliant student, an avid gun collector and lover of Nazi uniforms. He covered bis body with tattoos swastikas, German crosses, knives, chains, thunder, lightning, lions, and panthers and festooned the walls of his room with swastikas. "He hates blacks," said one neighbor, Roland Lersch. "He hates Jews." eight-year-old assessment error by the late Marvin Wolter, former-city assessor, was discovered almost simultaneously by Armour officials and Mason City Assessor Carroll Halvorsen. The error involved the misplacement of a decimal point.

County Auditor Shirley Easton advised the board it could ask only for back taxes due beginning 1972 because of a state statute of limitations. The error occurred this way: In 1969 Armour's Mason City property (excluding land) was valued at $2,073,429. Its correct assessed valuation (27 per cent under a previous taxing formula) would have been $559,826, but through a bookkeeping error that amount was determined to be The mistake was carried over to subsequent assessments. Only after a change in the taxing system, when taxes began to be computed according to 100 per cent valuation, were Armour's taxes competed using the $2,073,449 valuation figure. As a result, Armour's tax bill was increased about $48,000, causing company officials to question the bill and bringing the long-existing error to light NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.

(AP) "He kept asking people if they knew where I was thank God nobody did," said the supervisor who Nazi-sympathizing sharp-' shooter Fred Cowan was hunting for during a rampage in which he killed five persons. "I heard the shots, and I knew he was after me," said Norman Bing, who dove under a desk Monday when the Army-trained marksman set out to avenge his two-week suspension in a siege that he ended by putting a bullet in his own brain. About 300 police and federal agents had been held at bay for 10 hours. Bing said he suspended 33-year-old Cowan from his job as a trucker's helper at a moving company warehouse because he had "refused to move a refrigerator." But he said that Cowan had caused no ftuV. Thaf barren look Supervisors as king Armour to pay taxes City worker Rich Engleman, 615 8th SE, cuts down some of tne 20 diseased elm trees being removed this winter from Central Park in downtown Mason City, leaving only a handful of hardwood trees for shade in the once-heavily wooded square block park area.

Cowan's victims included two blacks. an Indian, and one white, all fellow employes at the Neptune Worldwide Moving where the gunman worked as a furniture mover. The fifth victim was New Ro-chelle police officer Allan McLeod, 29, married and the father of two children. Five persons were injured, including three other policemen. The siege began shortly before 8 a.m.

at the two-story warehouse in a commercial neighborhood of small industrial buildings, interspersed with filling stations and garages. Cowan was to have returned to work Monday, the end of a two-week suspension caused by a difference with a supervisor. He returned to the warehouse while about 50 others were reporting to work. But upon his arrival, in the words of fellow employe Clint Wynant, "He just started shooting and everybody started running all over the place." He shot the first two employes he encountered and then shot a third co-worker who tried to escape, killing all of them. McLeod was the first patrolman on the scene and drove into the truck loading area.

He was gunned down by Cowan as he made an initial rush toward the warehouse entrance. As more police cars pulled up, Cowan, Story enjoyed, but teller fined TOLEDO (AP) It was all a mistake James A. Royark, 21, Marshalltown, told the magistrate when he 'was taken to court for violating Iowa's hunting laws. Roark said he was strolling through the woods with a couple of friends, and just happened to be carrying a gun. "The gun fires okay when it is pointed down, but jams when it's pointed up," he told Magistrate George Stein.

"To clear it, I shot into the branches of a tree. The gun fired and a squirrel dropped down dead. I didn't even know the squirrel was up there." Amusing said Stein. He fined Royark $112, adding "I don't think we have had the opportunity to hear a story like your in this court before." Clear Lake bargaining Staff photo by Bob Namtell appeals ecision Clear Lake city employes' other than policemen are also in the process of organizing a collective-bargaining unit Application was made early last fall by the tentatively named Clear Lake Public Employment Agency for collective bargaining certification, but no hearing officer has been appointed to the case, according to PER board representative Jackie Miller. The proposed bargaining unit could include public works, cemetery, clerical and most other city employes.

It would number between 15 and 20 persons depending on final eligibility outlined by the PER board hearing officer. As soon as a hearing officer is chosen, a hearing date will be set, said Miller, who did not indicate when that might be. In what might be viewed as a case of a mouse that roared, Cerro Gordo County Supervisors are chasing Armour Food Co. for what appears to be a hopeless tax debt. Despite an opinion from the Iowa Department of Revenue last September that the county has little chance of collecting any of approximately $465,000 in taxes that should have been assessed to Armour, supervisors are trying to have the corporate giant make good on the debt.

Supervisor Chairman Ambrose (Jiggs) Cahalan, D-Dougherty, said Tuesday a letter will be sent to Armour officials asking for the taxes. The tax question resurfaced following constant questioning by area residents on the matter, Cahalan said. "It is the obligation of the board of supervisors to ask," Cahalan observed, adding, "Maybe we can't get one dime, but let's send them a letter." iCahalan directed Deputy County Treasurer Wayne Purcell to make the request in the absence of Treasurer Michael Grandon, who was out of the city Tuesday. The tax debt which is the result of an IS, 1977 Two Sections 20C Fred Cowan an Army-trained sharphooter, retreated to the second floor of the warehouse and began spraying the outside area with his M16 automatic rifle. Shortly before 6 p.m., a task force of 30 New Rochelle, New York City and FBI law enforcement agents, emboldened by hours of silence from within the warehouse, decided to chance a showdown with Cowan.

"In the last 45 minutes we were searching the building room by room, and then we found him," said Police Commissioner William Hegerty. "He was dead in a room in the north corner of the building. He shot himself in the head." Guardrail repairs reflect bridge dangers WASHINGTON (AP) Three Iowa children were killed when a school bus crashed through a bridge guardrail last August. Despite the guardrail's deficiency, state highway workers used the same type rail as a replacement, federal safety officials say. The National Transportation Safety Board feels the incident underscores a growing nationwide problem with deteriorating and unsafe bridges.

The board, in a report released Tuesday, said the guardrail on a bridge near Neola, Iowa, was deficient and "would not offer an appropriate level of protection even to automobiles." The report criticized the Iowa Department of Transportation for not using a stronger rail as a replacement. While the problem of unsafe bridges confronts federal, state and local highway officials, funds to repair the bridges are limited. The Department of Transportation has classified 34,600 bridges on federal highways as deficient, and says replacements would cost $10 billion. Thousands of bridges on local roads are in the same class. Sen.

John C. Culver, D-Iowa, in a Senate speech on the problem last week, called the situation "critical." "Many of these bridges are simply unsafe and should be repaired or replaced immediately, but it is becoming obvious that demands far outstrip the available financial resources," Culver said. He said $180 million is authorized annually through 1978 for work on structurally deficient or obsolete bridges on federal highways. He and several other senators have introduced a bill that would increase the annual amount to $600 million, with 15 per cent of the funds allocated to each state to be used on bridges under county control In the Iowa case, the driver and 29 other children also were injured when the school bus crashed through the rail and over a concrete parapet last Aug. 6.

The bus landed on its roof on an embankment 15 feet below the bridge. Hearing on throw-aways set DES MOINES (AP) A public hearing will be held March 2 on a legislative proposal designed to curtail use of throwaway bottles and cans in Iowa. The hearing will be held in the House chamber at 7 p.m. under the joint sponsorship of the House Energy Committee and a Senate subcommittee on energy. The proposal would impose mandatory refunds on beer and soft drink containers.

The refunds would be higher on'nonreusable containers. IPBN wants equipment funds DES MOINES (AP) The Iowa Public Broadcasting Network (IPBN) Tuesday asked Iowa lawmakers for $2.6 million in new equipment for the coming fiscal year and $2.9 million for the following "There isn't anything here that isn't of an urgent nature," said John Bald-ridge of the public television board. "The list could have been much longer." By JeH Tecklenburg Clear Lake Bureau Chief CLEAR LAKE A state hearing officer's decision to allow police sergeants to be a part of a proposed collective-bargaining unit for the Gear Lake Police Department has been appealed by the city of ear Lake. Charles McManigal, Mason city attor- ney representing Clear Lake, said the city still contends police sergeants are supervisory personnel and therefore are not eli- gible for inclusion in any collective bar- gaining unit. A decision by a state Public Employment Relations (PER) board officer rejected that argument, according to PER board representative Bill Snyder.

However, the city's appeal will be heard publicly before a three-person PER board committee, sometime during the next month. The decision reached by that body could be the final step in state PER board procedure, but Snyder said the appeal could be continued through the state, court system, beginning at the district level. The city's appeal further delays efforts by the Clear Lake police force to unionize. Last July, the department's 11 officers (including two sergeants but excluding the chief and assistant chief), four radio operators, one matron and one meter maid voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 828, the same union now representing Mason City police. However, an appropriate bargaining unit must be certified by the state PER board before a final vote can be taken and contract negotiations proceed.

Clear Lake Sgt. Dean Jamison told the Globe-Gazette the main reasons he and the other police department employes cided last summer to join the Teamsters' were job and health protection, and better wages. Jamison said any Clear Lake officer who becomes disabled on a long-term or permanent basis now would receive sick leave and workmen's compensation benefits. But there is no city economic provision to take over when those benefits run out Jamison also noted that wages for Clear Lake policemen 'have been dropping for "the last four or five years" in relation to other police pay in this area. The maximum salary a Clear Lake patrolman can now achieve is $840 per month, said Jamison, while a sergeant can make up to S42 more each month.

"Our sergeants are making less than Mason City patrolmen," be added. i -V Inside the Area youths take advantage of cardiac clinic: Variety. Mason City girls beat Nora Springs in first round of sectional tournament: Page 14 Hawkeyes beat Buckeyes: Page 15. Handicap Village volunteers recognized: Page 11. Rainbow Girls install officers: Page 8.

News of record 2 Obituaries 10 Metro ....2, 10, Sports 14-16 Editorials 4 Comics 18 Weather OUtlOOK Dr. Thostesoa Horoscope 18 Partly doudy Wednesday with highs in the middle 20s. DearAbby 7 At wit end 20 Weather details: Page 2 Engagements 7. Agribusiness 21 Organizations 8 Classified 21-23 Thanks President Carter shakes hands with Mexican First Lady Carmen Romano Lopez Portillo after she played the piano after a White House dinner. She is a former concert pianist (Related story on Page 2.).