The Daily Republic from Mitchell, South Dakota • Page 2

1 (2) Tuesday, April 27, Daily Republic; Mail: April 28, 1976 Watchdog panel for Wheatland power ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) The Industrial Siting Council on Monday required the backers of a proposed power plant near Wheatland to help fund a group to oversee the impact of the plant and to meet a number of environmental requirements. The council imposed the conditions as it adopted a permit for the proposed megawatt power plant, that would produce electricity for customers in Wyoming and a number of other states. The Missouri Basin Power Project (MBPP), which is backing the plant, will have to pay up to $10,000 a year to fund a coordinating council to study classroom size, housing, law enforcement and other areas that might be affected by construction of the plant in Platte County. Under the condition imposed by the council, the voluntary group would be made up of various county officials and both supporters and opponents of the plant.

The council will have authority to rule on whether communities in the southeastern Wyoming area, where the plant would be built, have sufficient revenue to meet the cost of the increased population construction of the plant would bring. The condition calls on establishment of the council within 120 days after construction of the coal-fired plant begins. Officials have said construction is expected to start sometime this spring, after several other required permits are granted. The council also required the consortium of utilities backing the plant to start development of a system to remove 85 per cent of the sulfur dioxide from New KXON tower ready byj une SALEM, S.D. (AP) -The new television tower for KXpN, Mitchell-Sioux Falls, will be completed in June, according to KXON general managers Errol Kapellusch and Joe Shields.

KXON lost its original foot tower March 27,1975, when the tower site at Salem was hit by an ice storm. An ABC affiliate, KXON is owned by Buford Broadcasting, Tyler, Texas. Station officials said the facility would again be giving coverage on Channel 5 to parts of South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. The station has been operating on a temporary 500- foot tower atSalem. the plant's emissions.

Some opponents of the plant have questioned the effect of the emissions on alfalfa grown in the area of the coal-fired plant. The permit also calls for establishment of a programs to monitor the effects of the plant on groundwater and the local climate, as says all unncessary environmental impact should be avoided. The MBPP is made up of rural electric cooperatives and municipally owned utilities in Wyoming, the Dakotas, Colorado, and Nebraska. SD court upholds dismissal of damage suit PIERRE, S.D. (AP) The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a $6 million damage suit filed by Atty.

Gen. William Janklow and Bernard Christiansen, of the Division of Criminal Investigation, against William Kunstler, Mark Lane and John Keller. The suit charged Keller, Kunstler and Lane with deceit, defamation and libel for statements that Janklow and were drunk in a Rapid City bar in December 1975. The suit was dismissed in Brule County Circuit Court and the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal. The high court said that under the law, an attorney may file false and defamatory information as part of a judicial proceeding, in affidavits or pleadings.

The court said the purpose of the law is to give attorneys the freedom to represent their clients without fear of harassment. And, the court said Kelly, Kunstler and Lane were entitled to that privilege. In a petition for transferring the trial of Custer courthouse defendant David Hill to federal court, Keller, Kunstler and Lane said Janklow, Christiansen and public defender John Fitzgerald were drunk in a bar in Rapid City. District Judge Andrew Bogue said the statements were rejected after Keller admitted that he assumed anyone at a bar at a late hour must be drunk. Bogue said the bar was also a restaurant and that Janklow and Christiansen had had nothing to drink.

Janklow said he would ask the State Bar Association to investigate the case. State law provides that an attorney who seeks to deceive a court or a judge may be disbarred and ordered to forfeit damages. Mitchell and area deaths Francis MONTROSE Funeral mass for Francis (Bob) Donelan, 66, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 28 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Montrose with Father O'Connor officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of the Kinzley Funeral Home of Salem. There will also be a scripture service Tuesday evening at 8 at the church. Mr. Donelan was born Dec. 22, 1910 at Montrose, and he died April 25 at his home.

He married Catherine Wagner at Salem on Oct. 19, 1936. They farmed in the Montrose area. Survivors include his wife; one son, Darrell of Garretson; one daughter Mrs. Rita Gallagher of Burbank, eight grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs.

Herman Warn of Salem and Mrs. Margaret Kuyper of Canistota; and three brothers, Felix and Jerry, both of Montrose and William of Sioux Falls. Phillip Steckley GEDDES Kuneral services for Phillip Steckley will be Thursday, April 29 at 2 p.m. at the Methodist Church at Geddes with the Rev. Henry Allison officiating.

Burial will be under the direction of the Stedronsky Funeral Home at Lake Andes. Mr. Steckley died April 26 at a Yankton hospital. Florence Thompson Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Thompson, 76, of Mitchell are 1:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Miiliken Funeral Home chapel with Elizabeth Stetoe officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Friends may call at Miiliken Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. There will be Eastern Star services at 8 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home. She was born June 1, 1899 at Atlantic, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Worthing and died April 26 at a local hospital. On Oct.

22, 1957 she married Fred- Thompson at Minneapolis, Minn. At the age of five, Mrs. Thompson moved to Mitchell where she was educated. Survivors include her husband and two brothers, Forrest Worthing of Mitchell and Byron. Worthing of Beavertone," Ore.

She was preceded in death by her parents. Donald Ekstrum KIMBALL Funeral services for Donald Ekstrum, 45, of Lancaster, formerly of Kimball, are 2 p.m. Friday at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Kimball with the Rev. Steve Werner officiating. Burial will be in the Kimball cemetery under the direction of Gazer Funeral Home of Kimball.

A memorial scholarship for Antelope Valley College has been established in his name. Survivors' include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ekstrum of Kimball; four brothers, Richard, Duane and John, all of Kimball, and Charles of Philip; and one sister, Mrs. Robert (Karlene) Morris of Pasadena, Calif.

Violet Engelhart BURKE Funeral services Tor Violet M. Engelhart, 66, of Naper, Neb. are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Clausen Funeral Chapel in Burke with the Rev. Levi Louderbach officiating.

Burial will be in Knoll Crest Cemetery at Naper. Friends may call Tuesday evening at the funeral chapel in Burke. She was born April 23,1910 in Davenport, Wash, to Mr. and Mrs. Milford Allen and died April 23 at a hospital in Omaha, Neb.

On Sept. 28, 1949 she married Paul Engelhart in California. Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Dorothy) Neiman of Braham, Minn, and Mrs. Harley (Charlotte) Nicolaus of Naper; four sons, Rubin Karnes of Weiser, Idaho, Lyle Karnes of Spencer, Garry Joe Engelhart of Windem, Neb.

and David Engelhart of Naper; her mother, Antonettie Lattimore of Weiser, Idaho; five sisters, Ethel Kropisky of Concord, Alberta, Canada, Dellia Rathly of Weiser, Idaho, Nettie Sager of Washington, Tina Rozeboom of Winner and Hazel Powell of Oregon; four brothers, Merlin (Andrew Jackson) Allen of Oregon, Ivan Lattimore of Oregon, Melvin Lattimore and Glen Lattimore, both of Weiser, Idaho; 14 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Minot 320 ask for flood relief Home growing Mrs. Sylvia Brandt, wife of a Hanover, West Germany, zoo veterinarian, holds a three-month-old baby brown bear she has raised in her home since the cub was abandoned in the wild by its mother. Found shortly after birth, the bear weighed a mere 1 pound when cast out and was nursed by Mrs. Brandt to its present weight of more than 20 pounds.

(AP Wirephoto) 19 new cardinals named to college VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Paul VI named 19 new cardinals today, including Archbishop William Wakefield Baum of Washington, D.C., further rejuvenating and internationalizing the Church body that elects popes the Sacred College of Cardinals. The names of two additional new cardinals were kept secret. With Archbishop Baum, there will be 12 Americans in the college, more than any nationality except the Italians, who have 36. Speculation that the next pope might be a non-Italian gained mpmementum as the new choices showed non- Italians continuing to outnumber Italians in the college. The new elevations increased the college from 117 to 136, falling far short of the record 145 reached three years ago.

This was the fifth consistory Pope Paul called in his 13-year- old reign. Hospital Report MITCHELL St Joseph Admissions Mrs. Lois Wilson, Wessington Springs; 1 Michael Fox, Fedora; Mrs. John Weidler, Howard; Elner Tuschen, Farmer; Daniel Haiar, Salem; Chad Larson, Lynette Trode, Kerry Koeshall, Danny Dixon, James McGraw, Ann Kewley, Dianne Fox, Randall Ernster, Mrs. Kenneth Kuyper, Mrs.

Marvin Struck and Mrs. Dick Figland, all of Mitchell. Discharges Mrs. Randy Palmer and son, Chamberlain; Nancy Miiller, Mt. Vernon; Mrs.

Michael Jennings and son, Mitchell. Birth Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kuyper, Mitchell, a son, April 26,6 Ib. 15 oz.

Methodist Admissions Mrs. Henry Allison, Geddes; Mrs. Dale Anderson, Pukwana; Leonard Cuka, Wagner; Mrs. Chester Erland, Howard; Mrs. Larry Groeneweg, Corsica; Mrs.

Grace Olson, Fulton; Theodore Pietz, Parkston; Mrs. Craig Schroeder, Spencer; Floyd Bell, Harry Osborne, Mrs. Everett Steele and Mrs. Carl Sudbery, all of Mitchell. Discharges Mrs.

Thomas Kaylor, Mrs. Fred Meier, Mrs. Mary Synhorst and Ransom Wright, all of Mitchell. Birth Mr. and Mrs.

Larry Groeneweg, Corsica, twin boys, April 26, one born at 6:06 p.m. and weighing 6 Ib. 14 one born at 6:45 p.m. and weighing 61b. AREA HOSPITALS Parkston SL Benedict Admissions Clarence Roth, Tripp; Mrs.

John Persson, Stickney; Henry Hoffman, Ethan; Mrs. Viola Van- denHoek, Corsica. Discharge Melvin Schoenfelder, Ethan. Wessington Springs Jerauld County Memorial Admission Mrs. August With Horn, Ft.

Thompson. Discharges Renae Kieser, Wessington Springs; Allen Rencountre, Ft. Thompson. Wagner Community Hospital Admissions Ralph Ellendorf, Marty; Gerald Davidson, Eagle Butte; John Dospal, Leland Stedronsky, Hazel Da vies and Noel Troxell, all of Wagner. Discharges Simon Hartze, Mitchell; Ralph Ellendorf, Marty; Sharon Anderson, Mabel McGuire, John Dospal, Leland Stedronsky, Flora Hall, Noel Troxell, Hazel Davies and Ellen Nider, all of Wagner.

In addition to naming 19 prelates to the purple, making them princes of the Church, the 78-year-old pontiff held the names of two prelates "in pectore" in his breast. In the past such new cardinals had their names kept secret in this manner because they lived in Communist countries. The new cardinals will be installed May 24. If tradition holds true, the Pope may announce the names of the "in pectore" cardinals at that time. The new appointments gave cardinals for the first time to the Dominican Republic, Senegal, Uganda and Nigeria.

The Vatican said in a statement that the Pope made "a significant choice proceeding with his desire of making the Sacred College of Cardinals a faithful image of the entire Church." The Italians drew three additional posts in the college, making their number 36 the in But in keeping with the policy of internationalizing the college, non-Italians have outnumbered Italians, leading to the speculation that the next pope may be a non-Italian. The last non-Italian head of the Roman Catholic Church was Adrian VI, a Dutchman who reigned briefly in the 16th century. Archbishop Baum, the only American on the list of new cardinals, was born in Dallas, on Nov. 21, 1926, and was ordained a priest in 1951. Before taking over the Washington archdiocese, he was bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, in Missouri.

In addition to his Washington church job, he currently is chancellor of Catholic University in Washington. Pope Paul namd him archbishop of Washington following the retirement of Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle 1973. Weather Tables MITCHELL WEATHER Average precipitation for portion of year to date 3.84 Total precipitation for portion of year to date: 4.32 Precipation last 24 hours: None High Monday: 55 Overnight low: 34 8a.m. temperature: 44 Record high April 27: 1952 Record low April 27: 1909 Sunset tonight: 8:30 Sunrise tomorrow: 6:30 South Dakota Aberdeen Huron Lemmon Mobridge Philip Pickstown Pierre Rapid City Sioux Falls Watertown PIERRE, S.D. (AP)-Oahft Reservoir etevation 1,606.00 feet above sea level, up .08 feet in the past 24 hours.

Average discharge rate 33,200 cubic feel per. second; tailwater 1,422.42 feet, temperature 35 degrees. Big Bend discharge 37,200 cubic feet per eecond. 89 in 19 in 44 62 67 55 58 49 52 57 33 58 57 33 30 32 35 42 44 38 .27 37 32 PRECIPITATION Mo. '76 '75 '74 '73 Av, Tway June July Aug: Sep.

Oct. Dec. ,24 .46 .93 LD2 .12 .93 1.79 4.32 .28 2.72 2.89 .87 .93 .08 .19 i 'Vi. 1,45. i.He 2.17 4.98 .90 .30 .11 .54 .09 .11 .54 2.49 2.30 1.17 3.50 1.75 3.63 1.36 ..90 J5Q Ul 2.4$ 2.73 3.98 2.9%, 2.71 2.23 1.25 .69 .50 MINOT, N.D.

(AP)- A total of 320 persons made application for flood related financial and other aid during opening day Monday of the two disaster assistance centers in Minot. according to the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration (FDAA). Requests for temporary housing, unemployment compensation, Mow interest disaster loans and individual and family grants were the major concerns of the Minot area residents who visited the one-stop assistance centers, according to FDAA spokesman Roily Dahlquist. Dahlquist estimated about 2,000 persons in the Minot area will apply for some sort of disaster aid. He estimated total cost of the aid at $6 million.

Officials said more applicants later this week and next as evacuated families move back into their homes in the floodthreatened area About 12,000 persons were evacuated from low lying areas of the city two weeks ago as a precaution against high waters on the Souris River. The rivei Boat tips, comb lake for victim DUNN CENTER, N.D. (AP) Dragging was resumed today for the body of a Killdeer, N.D., woman drowned in a boating accident on Lake Ilo in which three other persons were also drowned, the Dunn County sheriff's office said. Authorities identified the missing woman as Mrs. Keith Bosch.

Earlier, the bodies of her husband and Mr. and Mrs. David Lynch, Dunn Center, were recovered. Dunn County Sheriff Tom Dardis said the victims were all in their late teens or early 20s. He added two bodies were found in search efforts Monday, while one was found Sunday with a capsized sailboat.

Officials said the four were on the boat when it capsized as a strong gust of wind blew across the lake, located between Dunn Center and Killdeer. The search effort had been conducted by the officers from the Dunn and Mercer county sheriff's departments, the Killdeer Fire Department and State Game and Fish Department, authorities said, adding the effort was hampered high winds. More violence during truce BEIRUT, Lebanon Sporadic shelling in Beirut, heavy fighting in northern Lebanon and a rash of political kidnapings were reported today. And the leading newspaper An Nahar said President Suleiman Franjieh was considering a formal request to Syria to order its troops to end the yearlong civil war. The paper, whose publisher is a cabinet minister, said Franjieh wants a six-month mandate for Syrian troops to restore law and order.

Syrian forces already patrol along the eastern and northern borders of Lebanon and are blockading the coast to try to prevent new arms from reaching the warring Moslem leftists and right-wing Christians. at seven feet above Hood stage on Easter Sunday. Dahlquist said the centers will remain open until all affected residents have had an opportunity to apply for assistance. He estimated most registrants will have filed applications within the next two weeks. He said disaster assistance teams are also scheduled to receive applications from rural areas of the nine counties declared disaster areas earlier this month by President Ford.

Teams will be in Tioga Wednesday and Thursday, Mohall Saturday and Sunday, and Rolette and Towner May 45. The nine counties affected are Divide, Williams, Burke, Mountrail, Ward, Renville. Bottineau, McHenry ana Rolette. Meanwhile, Minot officials said about 1,000 of the 4,200 homes evacuated during the siege against the Souris were reoccupled Monday. Officials said all evacuated residents are expected to be able to return to their homes by Saturday.

Officials put out a call for volunteers to help evacuees move some of their belongings back into their homes. They said about 10 trucks from the National Guard were assisting in returning appliances and other heavy furnishings stored in three public buildings during the high waters. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they were phasing down operations as the water levels receded. A spokesman said the 24-hour vigil on the dikes has been curtailed and the barriers are being checked every six hours for seepage and erosion.

The National Weather Service said the Souris River was 3.95 feet above flood stage at 9 p.m. Monday. The Martet In Brief NY Stiek U.S. calls for talks on black rule soon LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) Henry A. Kissinger called today for a rapid negotiated settlement that woum install black majority rule in Rhodesia within two years.

The secretary of state also vowed "unrelenting opposition" diplomatic, economic and psychological to Prime Minister Ian Smith's white Rhodesian government. The Smith regime cannot expect U.S. support at any stage of its conflict with black liberation movements, Kissinger declared at a luncheon hosted by President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. Reports from Rhodesia said Smith would announce the addition of several African tribal chiefs to his cabinet in a broadcast from Salisbury tonight. In a major policy speech of his African tour, Kissinger outlined a 10-point U.S.

program aimed at promoting a "just and durable solution in Rhodesia. The points included: support for Britain's call for black majority rule in Rhodesia within two years. "We hope that the regime in Salisbury and white opinion in Rhodesia will pay very careful attention to Dr. Kissinger's speech," the British Foreign Office said in a London statement. Ford administration will urge Congress to repeal the Byrd amendment authorizing American imports of Rhodesian chrome in defiance of United Nations sanctions.

will be warned that they travel to or stay in Rhodesia at their own risk. economic aid for black refugees fleeing Rhodesia to neighboring countries. They already number 20,000. offer of million U.S. aid for' Mozambique, which is suffering economically because it closed its border with Rhodesia.

Mozambique's president, Samora Machel, arrived today in Tanzania for talks with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere only one day after Nyerere met Kissinger. Means seeks trial move from Rapid PIERRE, S.D. (AP) Attorneys for American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Russell Means have asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to move Means' murder trial from Rapid City to Vermillion. Rapid City Public Defender Lawrence Zastro said Means cannot receive a fair trial in Pennington County. "Means is viewed by the majority of the citizens in western South Dakota (and in fact the state as a whole) as the consummate evil person responsible for all the problems in South Dakota involving Indian people," Zastro said in his petition to the court.

Means charged in the murder of Martin Montileaux last year in a bar at Scenic. His trial is scheduled to begin next week in Rapid City. Circuit Court Judge Marshall Young denied a motion to move the trial to Vermillion, saying that Vemillion did not have the facilities to handle it. Zastro said studies and testimony show that Clay County, in which Vermillion is located, has less prejudice against Indians than the rest of South Dakota. Ford's message Long drug terms sought WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford urged Congress today to provide stronger penalties, including mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug traffickers, to fight the "national tragedy" of drug abuse.

In a special message to legislators, the President warned of a "worsening drug situation" and said it is necessary to take stronger action against the drug traffickers. In addition to more severe prison sentences, Ford called for denying bail to previous offenders, cracking down on tax enforcement against big drug traffickers "to take the easy profits out of drug selling" and permitting the Customs Service to search persons suspected of smuggling drug- profit money out of the country. Ford told Congress "the cost of drug abuse to this nation is staggering." He said more than 5,000 Americans die each year from improper use of drugs and that law enforcement officials estimate "as much as one half of all street crime robberies, muggings, burglaries are Racial quota issue argued before court WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is considering whether a school system must revise its court-approved desegregation plan to keep up with racial changes in population. The court was scheduled to hear arguments today in a case from the Pasadena, school district where extensive crosstown busing has been used to comply with a 1970 desegregation order. That order said no school could have a majority of students from a racial minority.

But within a year after the court-approved plan went into effect, many white families had moved from the area, leaving a black majority in some schools. A U.S. District Court later ruled that the school district must now come up with a new desegregation plan. In upholding that decision, an appeals court said, "It was reasonable for the district court to conclude that full and effective elimination of racial discrimination had not been achieved during the three years following the initial year in which the Pasadena plan was in effect. If desegregation was 'accomplished' after the implementation of the Pasadena plan, such was a transitory and temporary achievement, enduring for a period of the utmost brevity.

The Pasadena school board appealed to the Supreme Court, saying that the original desegregation order did not require a racial balance "to be effective in perpetuity." The school board's brief said it "is in no way responsible" for the 37 per cent decline in white population in the district within four years after the original decision. rORECAST 10 N4TIQNM WUTHH MIV'CI U.t More rain Rain is forecast Tuesday from Montana and Wyoming into the Pakotas and then in a band to Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Much of the remainder of (he country should have fair weather. (AP Wirephoto) committed by drug addicts to support their expensive and debilitating habits." "Drug abuse constitutes a clear and present threat to the health and future of our said. Calling for stronger action against "these merchants of death" the drug traffickers Ford said he would send Congress legislation this week to require: minimum sentences of at least three years for a first offense conviction of trafficking in heroin and narcotic drugs and at least six years for subsequent offenses or for selling to a minor.

of bail for defendants arrested for trafficking in heroin or dangerous drugs if they have previously been Jury out on Soliah bank case SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Deliberation by a jury of eight women and four men continued into a second day today in the bank robbery trial of Steven Soliah, Patricia Hearst's lover. Soliah, free on bond, pitched coins with friends in a courthouse corridor Monday while waiting for word from the jury. In a 90-minute final argument, defense attorney Sheldon Otis described the 27- year-old house painter as "decent, gentle and compassionate." Soliah, a former college track man, is charged with helping in a $15,000 roboery of a Crocker National Bank branch in suburban Carmichael in which a woman customer was killed by a shotgun blast. With his hand on Soliah's shoulder, Otis said, "The prosecution is asking you to believe that Steven Soliah stood in the lobby of that bank with a shotgun, snouting obscenities.

It might be a lot of people, but it's not this guy." But the prosecutor, Asst. U.S. Atty. Richard Nichols, said Soliah is a liar who left behind undeniable evidence of his involvement and fabricated an alibi with the help of a girlfriend in San Francisco. The friend, masseuse Emily Toback, said Friday that she was with Soliah in San Francisco the night before and the night after the robbery.

But she could not remember if he was with her on the morning of the robbery, April 21,1975. San Francisco and Carmichael are 95 miles apart. Said Nichols, "Steven.Soliah was up to his neck in this bank robbery in the front of that bank wielding a shotgun." The shooting victim, Myrna Opsahl, had come to the bank to deposit a church collection. Soliah was not charged with firing the gun. He was the only person charged in the case, although the prosecution said six to eight persons were involved.

convicted of a felony, are free on parole, are nonresident aliens, have been arrested in possession of a false passport or are fugitives or previously convicted of being fugitives. for the U.S. Customs Service to search persons suspected of smuggling drug money out of the country, in addition to the agency's current authority to search for contraband entering the United States. from $2,500 to $10,000 the value of property that can be seized, such as boats and aircraft used to smuggle drugs, and requiring privatelyowned boats to report to Customs immediately upon arrival in port. Ford also called on Congress to ratify an existing treaty for international control of synthetic drugs, saying delay has become an has embarrassment to the United States and is making it difficult to get other countries to tighten controls on narcotics.

Ford said he was also intensifying diplomatic efforts with other governments to help fight the drug problem on ar international level. Pension settlement disputed EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. Monson calls it age reverse. When the International Harvester factory outlet in Grand Forks, N.C.,soldouttoa private dealer in 1975, the cmmpany granted immediate pension benefits to its employes who were over age 55 and had worked 10 years or more. But because Monson was 47 at the time, his pension benefits will be delayed until he turns his 31 years with the company.

"What difference does it make how old you are?" asked Monson. "It should be how you perform your job with the company. 1 Monson was disgruntled with the 111 action and refused to go back to work at his job as a bodyman-mechanic under the new owner. He considered a lawsuit, but decided against that action because his attorney told him it "could cost me too much," Monson said. In addition, Monson was soured with a battle over vacation pay when the cmpany stold the sore.

He took his case to the North Dakota Department of Labor and received $369 in vacation pay, but legal fees amounted to $300. So he's given up the job and it's $135 a week take-home pay to open a fix-it shop in his garage, ich netshim about $100 a week. The Monson's have dipped into savings but have not had serious financial reverses because Mrs. Monson also works..