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Personal Injury Suit Dismissed SIOUX FALLS CAP) Judge FfSd 3. Nichol dismissed Friday personal injury suit filed in If; s. District Court against an Ariz6na man, Phil E. Glasser by willafd Bfaulletle, of union County, uport the agreement of the patties involved. Bfouikitte had sought aafnaies for injuries incurred When a blast from a shotgun held by the defendant struck the plantiff.

Broullette alleged negligence. Major Manufacturer of NTA Stops Production of Chemical Used in Soap fiy JAY PERKINS Associated Press writet WASHINGTON Draft Records Damaged, Stolen ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) Vandals have damaged draft board records In Elizabeth and stolen records from a Union City board IS miles away, Selee- live Service officials say. Police said peace symbols and slogans in red paint covered the walls of the Elizabeth draft board. Among the slogans were "Love Your Neighbor" and "Stop Killing People in the Cities." The vandalism was discovered Fricby by draft board em- ployes as they arrived for work at the two offices.

The FBI has entered the investigation. Police said there have been no arrests. Anonymous tips to news media, including The Associated the announcement that an antipoliution phosphate substitute in soap may be ful has prompted its developef to halt production. Officials of the Monsanto C6. in St.

Louis said Friday there is no more market for the 100 million pounds of the detergent ingredient NTA it makes every year. Federal officials announced Friday they have persuaded the detergent industry to quit using the acid, At least 13 wash products contain NTA as a partial substitute for phosphates, officials said. Phosphates are considered undesirable because they promote the rapid growth of algae and cause premature aging in some lakes and streams. The government acted after a Public Health Service ment showed that rats and mice Great-Nephew of Mikhellife Is Mishap Victim fed NTA, mercury and miuffi were io times more likely to have stillborn or deformed offspring. The experiment showed that NfA combined with the two metals the combination across the placenta to the embryos.

Since both mercury and cadmium occur naturally as tants, the findings raised the possibility, officials said, that pregnant women might be harmed. Exposure to the chemical cou'd come from drinking water contaminated by sewer runoff, they said. Health officials said there is no present hazard except in some rural areas where septic tanks seep into airless well water supplies. Use of NTA products in those areas should be stopped, they said. Surgeon General Jesse L.

Steinfeld and William D. Ruck- elshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a joint statement there is no evidence so far to Indicate anyone has been harmed by the NTA combination. "However, prudence dictates not permitting a situation to ROSCOE (ffi S. Sgt. Raiphjvelop in which harm, may occur s.

Guck, in a plane nam, according officials. Man Faces Child Desertion Charge SIOUX PALLS (AP) A 40- year-old Davenport, Iowa, man faces a felony charge of child desertion in Sioux Falls. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled Dec. 22 for Clarence Kerschenman being held under $500 bond, A complaint signed by AJverna Klfschenman charges him with abandoning his three children- age 13, 9 and 8 since May 14, 1969. S.D, Soldier Killed in Vietnam Nixon Holds Christmas Eve At White House By FRANCES LBWNE Associated Pfess Write? WASHINGTON (AP) President and Mrs.

Nixon gave the highlight social event of the Christmas season at the White House, a warm program featuring British actor and television star David Nixon not only turned the spotlight over to the, popular performer during an hoaMong "Christmas Evening at the White House" show in the East Room Friday but helped recruit some officials for Frost's interview show. Many of the 190 guests were longtime personal and political friends and key administration appointees of Nixon's who danced and had a late; buffet featuring what Nixon called ap propriate liquid refreshments and champagne. Nixon was in a jovial mood and FfOSt quipped: "Christmas has come to thVWhite House. Santa Clatls came down the chimney and met Walter Hickel Guck, 27, Roscoe, has man from the effects of the a plane crash in South Viet- protected uses of NTA," Hhey projected to Air Force sa He was reported missing since Procter and Gamble Co. alone has Invested $6.8 million for Nov.

29, when an air force plane conv ersion to NTA In its deter he was in crashed in bad I genls an has placed orders for weather. million worth of the chemi- Word has been received here His wife and son live with her' i comnanv officials said. Press, attributed the vandalism i of the death of Batis Fa her, parents, Mr. and Mrs. to the "Early Hoover Vacuum 37, Sturgeon Lake, killed Klrschenmann, Roscoe.

Conspiracy," an antiwar group last Sunday in a hunting acci- whose name contains a refer- dent near Sturgeon Lake. He is ence. to FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoo- the grandson of the late Harry ver. Faber of Mitchell and mewphew of Mitchellite He his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. R. E. Faber of Carthage; his widow and four children; and two sisters and Yacht With Of 4 Missing SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A former steeplejack who said he had logged more than 40,000 miles with 85 women as crew members was missing today with three young women yacht- mates on a Pacific voyage. The Coast Guard said a search started Tuesday has failed to turn up any trace of Lee Quinn, 43, and the three women sailing the 48-foot Neophyte Too from Japan to San Francisco.

A Coast Guard spokesman said a search would continue along the entire West Coast for the yacht, which left Aburatsu- bo, Japan, Oct. 11. The voyage was expected to last about 45 days, the spokesman said, making the vessel about four weeks overdue. Reported with Quin, of San Francisco, were Pat Seedsman, 27, an Australian; Chozo Saeki Yonko, 18, and Jaruko Kume, 29, Japanese, the Coast Guard said. Quin began sailing with women crews in December 1962, in the 45-foot ketch Neophyto-re- placed by the Neophyte Too in 1965 after the ketch was cut in half by a freighter just outside Sydney harbor in Australia.

two brothers. Mr. Faber's funeral was held at Moose Lake, Minn. Elmer Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending word from the air force. Digest WASHINGTON (AP) The government's announcement Cheerleader May Become TV Star SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(AP) Terri Buck, pretty cheerleader for the University of Notre Dame, appeared' before a televi- years" of interstate sion audience of 52 million peo- highway construction has pie when the Irish played South- cleared the House as the lame- em California in football Nov. 1 duck Congress attempts to freeze its calendar before Now the 19-year-old brunette Christmas. WASHINGTON (AP)-A Senate subcommittee, closing its books on an eight-year probe of the TFX warplane, has accused Secretary Rob- President Howard Morgens said In Cincinnati Friday his firm would eliminate NTA from Its products, even though it felt there was no danger. "In the quantities in which we have used NTA in certain of our products," he said, "we are absolutely confident in their safety Morgens said the government study used "an extremely high concentration of these metals and NTA, a concentration that does not exist in nature and that has no relevance in our opinion to what could happen in the natural environment," The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said an EUVUl IlIllUUl dUUUUlll-ClUKIH. J.I fhat an antipollution phosphate (incomplete Us products con- substitute in soap may be harm- taining NTA includes: Arnvvay ful has prompted its developer, SA-8, Cheer, Gain, H.L.D., K-50, to halt production.

Laundri-Mald. Liquid All Loft, WASHINGTON (AP) A bill authorizing 'nearly $10 billion for 28. junior at St. Mary's College, ad jacent to the all-male Notre Dame, may be headed for a television career. Terri became a charter mem- Phos-Free, Roundy's, Sav-Us, Ultra, and Valley-Dew.

ber of the Notre Dame cheerleaders when she joined Mary's girls three ert McNa mara of wasting bil- of dollars and damaging Minicar Is Hurting Big Ones DETROIT (AP) Auto sales figures indicate Detroit's new subcompacts are hurting their domestic big brothers more thsn small imports. While the U.S. ca generally depressed on his way out." The President appeared lighted at his choice fof the Senate Will Attempt To Halt Debate on SST Bill ing to unravel in theisibft of the Senate Friday flight, legislative tangle it wave ttub- and urged his colleagues to take He, Senate has tuffied to ne gdtiatibfiS in ati effdfi 16 unds a thfeatenid epidemic 6f lets. Aft attempt today to halt bate 6ft ofis the issuer bloskin Christmas adjournment was expected to fait. That would keep alive a talk session by opponents of a $210- million appropriation for the su- persdnlc trattsport of at least six major issues on which filibuster of parliament tary tieup is threatened.

In that situation, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield Christmas social Nixon said the East Room had seer many memorable events, but Frost provided "an evening wi'l be very hard to equal." the order was Nixon added an on an Intelligence report Intelligence Report of My Lai Said Incorrect FT. McPHERSON, Ga. (AP) A lawyer fof Capt, Ernest Medina says nobody questions that the officer ordered his troops to "level" the village of special attraction, "The 'Little Angels" the touring South Korean national folk ballet. The 30 young girls aged 8-18, not only serenaded the arriving guests for a half hour before Frost ap- neared but each kissed the indicating no civilians would be there. That the intelligence report was Incorrect, said lawyer F.

Lee Bailey on Friday, was not discovered until Medina's troops were already in the village the President when their appear- morning of March 16, 1968. anee was ended. I Medina is charged with re "I was absolutely knocked out sponsibllity for all civilian Frost said of the deaths that allegedly occurred an attitude of eompromise of give and take. The executive session produced no specific plan for an end te the tiettp. But the opposing sides on majflf, stalled legislation agreed to meet in small groups in an effort to negotiate compromises.

Mansfield and Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott were to meet today with House Sneaker John W. McCormack to discuss the Senate situation and the outlook for adjournment. "1 wouldn't say there is light at the end of the tunnel, but the prospects are brighter," Mansfield said. "If there Is any light at the end of the tunnel, It is not a Chfistmas light," said Scott. He said there is not a particle of hope Congress might adjourn before Christmas.

It must, by law, quit by noon, Jan. 3, since the 91st Congress goes out of existence It was Scott who, with 18 supporters, proposed the Senate halt debate on the Department of Transportation appropriations bill, with its $210 million for the SST. The Senate voted two weeks ago to strike the SST funds from the bill after'the House narrowly approved a $290-million appropriation. mended by Houss'Senate con. ferees is hardly a compromise.

One suggestion advanced in the closed senate session was that no flew legislation be aeted upon in the balance of the siofl, leaving ftniy conference ports, the final versions of passed by both House and Sen. ate. That would scrap a bill ing in the Sedate providing Social Security increases, trade restrictions and the lion's welfare reform proposal. controversies over provisions restricting use of U.S. troops in Southeast Asia outside South Vietnam threaten in connection with the defense appropriations bill, and three foreign aid measures.

evening at the executive man sion. House OK's $10 Billion Hiqhway Building Bill By JOHN STOWELL Associated Press VVriter WASHINGTON A bill authorizing nearly $10 billion for two more years of interstate highway construction has cleared the House as the lame- duck Congress attempts to unfreeze its calendar before Christmas. In a flurry of action Friday, the Senate sent to President at the village wlien'his troops swept through, the hamlet on a combat operation. One of his platoons was commanded by Lt. William L.

Galley, of Miami, whose court-martial at Ft. Benning, on charges of killing 102 civilians during the operation is in holiday recess. Bailey's comments came during a brief news conference at Ft. McPhersOn, where hearings are being held to determine if the Medina case will be moved to court-martial. One round of the hearings had been completed but they were reopened at the request of Bailey, who said he had new evidence.

"No one has ever questioned that Capt. Medina ordered his We Feature QUALITY SERVICE ONLY cf Whdf WE SELL TAPLIN'S 66 Mitchell, Dak. Nixon troops to leave the Slate outside activities of one- said Bailey. But, he said "the uuu 0 --i bank holding companies and sent to the House a compromise he House, meanwhile, to have shelved the ad question of what to do with civil- ians was raised in the intelli gen'ce briefing and they were ap told they were not going to find any. SlbiUion school marVot desegregation legislation.

ir market is Th highwav bill, approved ri 319 to 11 and sent to the Senate, types of small cars are soaring lwould extend the dead i me rom the expense of the mg moa to June 30, 1976. for finish- els. Sales of imports remain at xosnn.mile interstate cheerleader, called her and ar ranged a screen test. ft Torrl dauchter of Mr and WASHINGTON Sen- ferri, daughter of Mi. and sources say the Nixon ad Buck of Kicn- go far thls yeari industry sources said Friday, American ing the interstate system at an additional cost of $9.775 billion.

The $12-billion compromise measure earmarks $1.1 billion "on I didn't tell too many people. I didn't want anybody to think I acting ike a little movie Hay Furniture Owner Dies ABF.RDEEN Hay, 73, owner of Hay Furniture, Grand Island, after suffering a heart attack last week. He was senior vice commander of the state World War I veterans organization and a past grand counselor of the United Commercial Travelers in South xerri said she wasn't Dakota. swagen. long the top selling sentiment for the measure.

RIO DE JANEIRO The kidnapers of Swiss Ambas- star" ehn ufliri ine Kluuiipers "I owiss ttiuuas- Her father, a Pan American "dor Giovanni Biicher have nlint flvine nut of New York submitted a list of 70 prisoners ff EV'-w Ne herSf-' they want released as ransom, ever ever, 11 Ul LV (i n-M i Tnrrl salH aHdlne that her and Brazil's president met with mother was verV excitedt about, his cabinet today to consider its was a WEATHER TABLES EXTENDED FORECAST A chance of snow mostly in the north Monday and in the northeast Wednesday. Quite cold Monday with only slight moderation by Wednesday, Lows 5 about to 18 below Monday, 10 above to 5 below Wednesday. Highs zero northeast to 30 southwest Monday, 5 northeast to 35 southwest Wednesday. IllVSVtIVl II the possibility of a television ca- authenticity. told' SAIGON (AP)-The Viet Cong when to expect word on the re- marked the 24th anniversary of suits of her test.

start of the Indochina war "If they would like me to today with two attacks on U.S. model that's fine, but I am troops and the first rocket at- trying not to get my hopes too, tack in Saigon in a month and a high." half MITCHELL WEATHER Allmon Will Resign As Mayor of RC MERCURY, Nev. (AP) Baneberry, the code name for the Atomic Energy Commission's 230th announced underground nuclear test here since 1963, went off normally and "As it turned out, that intelligence report was most Incorrect, something -Medina didn't know until well into the morning," said Bailey. Webster Rites At Woonsocket By Republic News Service WOONSOCKET Funeral services for Stephen J. Webster, 88, will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at the United Methodist Church. The body will lie in state Sunday afternoon and evening and Monday morning at the Basham Funeral Home and on Monday tne inirouuLiiou at ch ur ff 0 1 P-m. until minicars? were down, accused of attempting to influ-jservice time. Burial will be in Eventide Cemetery. Mr.

Webster was born Feb. 25, 1882 at Cuba City, to time' regulate more than 900 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Webster companies controlling about 40 and died Dec. 19 at the Wes- per cent of all commercial bank 1 sington Springs hospital.

On deposits, according to the Nov. 19, 1913 he married Jessie Treasury Department. Taylor. Companies would have 1QJ Survivors include his widow; years to carry out divestitures two sons, Arland, Belle Fourche, under the eye of the Federal Re-; and Merritt, Alpena; one sister FABRIC CARE LAUNDROMAT Dry Cleaning Pressing MEN'S SUITS $1 101 Cleaned Pressed each MEN'S TROUSERS OR QO- LADIES' SLACKS for 'Ofc LADIES' $1 1Q DRESSES each BUNDLE CLEANING 10 Ibs. or more lb.

A No Minimum, No Maximum Electric Appliance Repair Sewing Machine Sales-Service-Repair Fabric Care Center 9th North Main, Mitchell bill, which attracted sales in October and November, attention when the Bankers Po- the introduction of the litical Action Committee was Volkswagen of America, how- ence senators and congressmen V01K the drop in VW sales by donating to their election production and campaigns, would, for the first shipping problems, domestic competition. QQt Hardin Has Nixon's Vote Of Confidence AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. serve Board. Education (Continued from- Page 1) Hardin has received a warm vote of confidence from 1 created a spherical cavern 900 dent Nixon. The move is expect- feet below the desert sand.

ecl to quash rumors that Hardin attend RAPID CITY WARSAW (Ap) quell said Friday, morning he will ten- mobs wlthttneTe tribute came Thurs- a two-year junior college. Average precipitation for por- dor his resignation as mayor of nation biggesl shipyards, DO- day at a carefully staged "com Robert Asheto, president 01 lion of year to date 22.30. (Rapid City to the city council lice and tr ps in Poland have) blight conference" for repre- the Rapid City KiPL ta for rllon 0 nda a 1 8k hat ll be Placed another darkness curfewUenWves of 23 farm and alternate i lhe lons earby Belt en 0 dation the'master Mrs. Arthur Mitchell, Brookings; four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one son and a daughter.

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Overnight low -3. 7 a.m. temperature -4. Precipitation none. Record high 56 in 1923.

Record low -24 in 1901. Sunset tonight 4:57. Sunrise tomorrow 8:04 Mo, Jan Feb Mar Apr M8V June PRECIPITATION Yr '69 Av Av Rep Tr, come effective Dec. 31. Ho said that almost inv mediately following the on northern cities.

Rioting spread to re- city Md JgJJJW plans for an ideal opportunl- which would re "were" no to tell farm groups leavAlScTK of new violence Anany of which have disagreed sehoo eave 3HS a tow with administration 'V 6 vi natir.n owes a debt of; P', Jo nn B' DD Try-' gratitude to U.S. the leg. The meeting 47 .53 2.10 '97 tact with the three new com- 60 .66 2.92 '62 missioners, and is hopeful they 3.45 '06; will he able to join him in Aug Sep Oct. Nov Pec Rapid City Philip Pierre Aberdeen Watertown Huron Sioux Falls Pickstown Valentine Lemmon Mobridge Sioux City ,29 59 .04 1.78 1.28 .39 1.41 1.24 4.27 1-30 2.43 2.50 7.30 1.50 4 41 2.73 3 21 10-58 '43 3.38 1.71 3.98. 4.03 8.16 '20 1.28 3 12 2.96 3.06 8.84 '15 1.20 1.62 271 2.60 8.49 '44 J.OO 2.05 2.26 2.12- 6.72 '01 2.18 2.68 1.25 1.48 4.83 '11 .48 69 67 2.71 H7 .44 .92 .50 .49 2.13 '02 3 -7 9 tlntions in an effort to undo speakers pointed ou -no one epidemic of filibust- knows how ers.

ease may Perre Dec 29 at the alternate recommfindations, ho located at SDSU- not done, blight-resistant seed will 11 12 17 15 14 13 21 18 14 9 13 24 Wilbur Creech Rites Funeral services for Wi'bur L. Creech, 62, Mitchell, will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Millj- ken Funeral Home with the in the 1970s" and critics could shut down the auto industry. the agenda. an engineering school at SDSU Awn GARDEN CITV, Walter Weber's car was parked the house when it nd development of tl as a low-keved low- He said the proximity of secretary of agriculture SDSU was a major factor in who rareytnt publicly selection of Sioux Falls as Sfics a and dissident farm or- he took this position," Shock not recom- WJSSOUBr RESERVOIR DISCHARGES Oahe Reservoir elevation 605.28 above sea level, down 1.5; Average discharge rate 34,500 cubic feet per second; 1424.85; temperature 39 degrees.

Red the WANT ADS jal chapel from 7-9 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Graceland Tr Cemetery. 02 Mr. Creech was born Sept.

5, at Walthill, to Mr. and Mrs. William S. Creech and Tr died Dec. 18 at a Mitchell hos- .09 pital.

Survivors include two sons, Dale, Mitchell, and Gordon, El Cajon one brother. Wen- 1,. deU, Hollister, six sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, Sioux City; Mrs. Dean Boland, South Sioux City, Mrs.

Thelnia Harris, Mrs. Mildred Maxwell and Mrs. Beulah Lusk, Portland, and Mrs. Vera Kelly, Lewistown. and five grandchildren.

rived the burning car started rolling "We just followed it down the street and squirted water on it," Fire Chief Tommy Thorn- 1 Bys.ine$s, EVERETT, Wash. (AP) Business is so good at one place here that trailers have been set i up in the parking lot to provide jmore office space. The local office of the Department of Employment Security said it handled 9,329 unemployment claims the week of Dec. 5 and that the trailers were called in to help handle the rush of business. lar secretary of 4griculture.

I told him that congressmen and senators, Democrats and Republicans, for years got elected by running against the secretary of agriculture, and that 1 hoped he avoided that." Some farm spokesmen and tbta National Farmers i a claimed that the GOP lost a number of political races this year partly because of farmer dissatisfaction. "There are many interpretations of the. last elections, 1 Nixon said, "but I don't know anybody that ran against Secretary Hardin. So, I congratulate him Iwj tiat particular point." Mines. He recommended keeping the engineering programs at both schools.

Dr. Keith Thompson, of the language arts department at pakota state urged the regents not to consider closing the school on the basis of its classes with few students. He said the national average was 13 students per faculty member. He said also that reducing Dakota State to a junior college would result in the loss of many faculty members. IN Shop Tonight, 'Til Penney's will be open every night til 9 'til Christmas (including Saturdays) Say Merry Christmas with a Penney Gift Certificate! V-" ffU 3 tm I Can't decide? Choose a Penny Gift Certificate in any amount, and let them choose their favorite gift.

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