The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 6

THI IISMAKCK TBIIUNI I ThMr.d.y, April Flooded Area Toured Burccc Agrees Dikes Needed in Grand Forks a he- BAin THAT the Farco Forum had published yery GRAND FORKS (AP)-Sen. Quentin M. Burdick, D-N. v. 1 I rode the crest of a Red River deceiving arucie city's lack of help for the River.

d.i, Wednesday. The siuc rail iwv. article quoted a number of res '4 flood down Riverside Drive here Wednesday and agreed with Mayor Hugo Magnuson on the need for a permanent dike to protect the area. Burdick, the mayor, and aide to the senator and newsmen rode a police motorboat through the Riverside Park residential V'V- ft the Corps of Engineers for trespass on property on which the dike would have been constructed. A Magnuson pointed out to Burdick that after the 1966 flood, many residents of the area said they did not want another temporary dike built in their backyards If the river started rising again.

The mayor said he held meetings with residents of the area as early ss February, this year, telling them they were on their own, but that if they wished to sign up for another 1966-type effort, the city would cooperate. Not one person contacted him asking for reconsideration of the decision not to build a temporary dike this year, Magnuson said. streets and saw most of the idents ot me area that they had been 'abandoned" by the city. Some of the persons the may. or and Burdick met during the flood tour agreed at least in part with the sentimenU quoted In the article.

Alcot Anderson, 1705 River-side Drive, for Instance, said that he thought the city could have offered more help to residents bv making sand and sandbags more readily available to them. He agreed, however, that it probably would have been rihia ia hnilH a temoorarv 5.t estimated 65 homes which have been flooded or are protected only by homeowners' dikes. The senator also talked to a number of the residents of the Riverside Park area and to an apartment house owner in the smaller flood zone of Central Park. AFTER VISITING the two I dike as was done In 1965 and most seriously damaged sections, the senator rode with the mayor through the Lincoln Dr. area, protected by a permanent dike built after ui disastrous 1950 flood.

There is 1966, because of opposition from homeowners. Magnuson told Burdick that about 65 homes In the River-iH. Pnrlr arp and 22 in tha no water in that vast low-lying Central Park area were serious area mis tune. ly affected by the tiooa. Burdick told Magnuson he TV Canadians Clean Up Aftermath of Flood LUMSDEN, Sask.

of several southern Saskatchewan communities were hard at work with mops Wednesday night, cleaning up in the aftermath, of widespread flooding. At this town of 875 located 17 miles northwest of Regina, 180 men were patrolling sandbag dikes in case the flood-swollen Qu'Appelle River renewed Its assault. And at Moose Jaw, Premier Ross Thatcher and Health Minister Gordon Grant flew in for a look at the southern sector of the city to assess damage caused by the Moose Jaw TROUBLES? agrees that a permanent dike to protect the Riverside Park area is the only long-ranBj solution to the flood problem here. He said he would contact Army Engineers immediately to support the mayor's request for a new cost-benefit study for such a project "Of course we'll support you," the senator told Magnuson. "BUT YOU'LL need commu-nity support," he added.

"People can't be dragging their tails as they did this time." The latter was In reference to failure of Riverside Park residents to sign up for construction of a temporary dike, including absolving the city and Conlin's Furniture Trade-in Sale Ends Tomorrow. Hurry! 201 East Main, Bismarck. Adv. We Service All Makes TVs BLACK or COLOR RADIOS STEREOS PLAYERS 1. We service in your home 2.

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Hater is now flowing over the Lake Darling tolllway in about a ten-inch flow. The Corps estimates that the river crest is five miles long. AT LEFT, boys in the neighborhood a neighbor keep watch over his sandbag dike. They've been building 'em higher and higher these days. ELAN GALLERY and STUDIO i 1 07 'a North 4th Street Is offering a new series of lessons in ARTS and CRAFTS all ages" starting April 21st.

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By The Associated Press As flood waters began to recede in many rivers across Minnesota and the Dakotas one of the items left behind was a new lake along the Minnesota-North Dakota border. The lake 120 miles long and to 12 miles wide is actually the Red River. The brown waters of this north-flowing, stream have The governor added that the information gathered on the trip will aid in justifying his request for federal disaster aid for the flood-stricken communities "Holy smokes!" the governor exclaimed as he looked out of begins to narrow before entering Canada. Army engineers who flew over the area Wednesday described it as more like an inland sea than a river. "Literally thousands of farms are under water and some farm of Minnesota, wtuie the water was going aown in most rivers, residents of Minot, N.D., were preparing for one more crest on the bouris River.

Minot Zoo Loses Two Animals to the Flood Some 12,000 persons about one-third of the city's cumulation the window of the Air National Guard plane as It flew near Fargo. ''I see what they mean about the water up here." The main channel of the swollen river was visible only as a winding line of trees now well within the flooded area. On the ground, LeVander rode and walked near areas of Moorhead, across the river from Fargo. The governor took time to praise the efforts of high school and college students who have turned out by the thousands in the three states to battle flood waters. have already been evacuated in anticipation of a new crest from waters delayed by an ice jam near tne stream onein in canaaa.

That crest, predicted at 21 feet, is now expected April 24 habitants of the Roosevelt Park Zoo bad been evacuated. Michael Nilpon, assistant park superlndendent, who requested that people stay away from the stockyards, said the emu, valued at about $400, died Tuesday night, apparently from shock over the change in MINOT (AP)-Two Minot zoo animals apparently died from the flood. A large Australian bird and an elk were reported dead Wednesday by Minot zoo officials. An australian emu and a bull elk were found dead at the Great Northern stockyards east of the city where they and -obher in by weather experts. fee LutKeran BrolJierhood ROGER HAVE A LOT OF KIDS HAVE TO AGREE, FRED, Y0lT I AND I REALLY CANT AFFORD AS I SURE HAVE A LOT OF KIDS.

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