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feifetefl McGovern CiKt for Wage, Freeze WASHINGTON 'AP) Sen DS.D- r. for an imme but fi and Union Nixes Request fcr Board To Settle Strike have suggested the action but President Nixon act. "And I don't know why, either. unleiM his fascination with forftig npolicy has Wtn that authorized freeze ago." laid MrGovera, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. In a speech prepared for the International Platform Association McGovern said military spending be cut back, and the war in Vietnam 'ended, to produce of 120 billion a year.

with that money, he said, By MIKE DOAN WASHINGTON The union striking four a Labor Depart ment that a neuirai board impose a binding settle ment in the dispute. The union laid the offer showed "complete bias of the government toward the management position." Secretary of Labor James Hodgson asked Tuesday for re- iponm by today on his arbitration suggestion, but the Trampjr'aUrm Union reply came within "Collective bargaining can never work as ions? as government remain? a slave to management and intenerei when collective bargaining is beginning to succeed." said UTU President Charles Luna in re jecting the offer. The railroad indujtry has not yet replied. The Labor Department recessed joint union-industry Monday, saying no soiu- "vtf can start rehuildin? this auuaii people bickto Jjf' them joblai fi? bl 14U ii Sudan's Red Chief Is Hanged; 14th Execution By C. C.

MINICLIER today listed tome 30 alleged Sudan (AP) Communists and urged anyone 'ion in sight. With the union threatening to stnke more Friday recommended a pane! of three neutral experts both or by President Nixon to reach a binding sett'ement. the increasing problem- White House press iary Ronald L. Ziegler said. We have no plans at this time to send legislation to the Hill" t.o seek an emergency settlement The struck the Southern and Union Pacific railroads 12 days ago and extended the walkout last Saturday to the Norfolk Western and the Southern Pacific.

Some 120.OCO employes have been off work and 20 per cent of rail shipments tied up. A 5 p.m. strike deadline today against the Long Island Rauroad was postponed by the pending developments in STICKNEY EJwin cFern) Gomke. 49. Elk Grove, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. E. T. Jensen. Stickney.

died July 25 in Sacramento, after a long iliness. Mrs. Gomke was a graduate of Southern State Collese and taught at Academy. Oelrich and Burke before her marriage. Her husband had been pastor of the Beresford Congregational Survivors include her widower: one son, Douglas, San Francisco: her parents.

Stickney: one brother, Sherwood Jensen, San Antonio. Texas, and one sister. Lloyd Dean, Pickstown. She was preceded in by a daughter. Mrs.

Cozard Rites At in the fight against inflation." i Sam Karr Rites if mat ADQUI ivnaieK At Gann Valley of the largest inist party in the An last week's unsuccessful at tempt to depose President Jaafar el Numairi. The government announced that Abdul Khalek Mahjoub, Commu- parly in the Arab world, hanged 11 hours after the of his trial on charges of turn them in. About 400 military personnel are said to be under arrest along with an unknown number of civilians. Nnmairi outlawed the member Communist party last Frebruar. because of its oppo- Arab Federation that Libya, and Syria have formed.

the sington Springs officiating. Burial will he in Spring Hill Cemetery with Lee's Funeral Service in charge of arrangements. Mr. Karr was found dead Monday noon by Tony Krebs, who noted Mr. Karr had not made Communist state government is hunting down all Sudanese Communists, and Joseph Gaan avowed Red and a be was 3, was hanged Tuesday night.

Garang was minister for the Supreme Court Nixes Rehearing Railroad railroads' with 45.000 employes, targeted for strikes Friday are the Duluth. Mesabi Iron Range, the Elgin. Jo'ie' Eastern, the Bessemer Lake Erie, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, the Alton Southern Terminal in St. Louis and the Houston Belt Terminal in Houston. On Aug.

6 the union has slated walkouts against the Baltimore Ohio; Chesapeake 4 Ohio; Chicago, Milwaukee. Gt. Paul Pacific, and the Missouri, Kansas Texas. The main issue is a change in work rules recommended by a presidential emergency board By Republic News CHAMBERLAIN Funeral services for Mrs. W.

Cozard. 78, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the United Church of Chris? with the Rev. Lewis Winter officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery under the direction of the McColley Funeral Home.

She was born Aug. 19. 1892 at Pittsburgh. to Mr. and Mrs.

James Barnes and died July 26 at the local hospital. On Jan. 18, 1911 she married W. G. Cozard at Webb City.

Mp. They had lived in Chamberlain for 59 ydars. Survivors include her widower and one brother, James Barnes, Pasadena, Calif. She was preceded in death by two sons. says the rules are needed to help offset a 42-per-cent wage increase over 42 months.

Survivors include one brother, Mo.ies, Green Bay. and two sisters. Mrs. John Grimm, Marshall. and Mrs.

Russell Kinser, Chamberlain. He was preceded in death by a brother. Alcoholism Will Be Treated Like Other Illness SD Man Injured In Explosion in Camper-Trailer ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) A construction worker was in; critical condition Tuesday after-! noon after suffering first, second and third-degree burns when bis camper trailer exploded. Kenneth Theel, 39, S.D., suffered the injuries TUM- day morning.

He was taken to a Rochester hospital. Theel arrived in the area, with his wife and four children, Sunday. He is employed on a store construction project in Rochester. The family members spent Sunday night in their trailer, a campground seven miles southeast of Rochester. Monday night they moved into a tent pitched near the camper.

Theel went into the camper! this morning to fix Authorities said the explosion' apparently occurred as he sought to light the stove. They said a loose coupling might have permitted the escape of bottle gas into the camper. Both sides of the camper wore blown out by the explosion. autonomy once order was restored in the country. Garang, a black, published a weekly newspaper in English, the Nile Mirror, which had criticized Numairi's government for failing to make good on old promises to grant the South autonomy.

Mahjoub, at his trial denied that he had any advance knowledge of the July 19 coup and! challenged the impartiality of his military judges. "I knew there was a lot of discontent in the country and the armed forces, hut I did not know about the coup in advance," Mahjoub testified. Mahjoub's trial at the Sana- gara army camp outside Khartoum was the first of the military tribunals trying accused coup leaders to be open to the press. But when a key government witness balked at testifying, the newsmen were led out. The trial lasted for several; more hours behind closed doors, according to the official Omdurman Radio.

The government Arabic press other utilities. The depart ment had been assessing the property at 60 per cent of the full and tme value in compliance with state law. The railroads complained that they were being discriminated against because other property in various counties is assessed at a lower rate that varies from county to county. I The court ruled in a 3-2 de-i cision that railroad operating property had to be assessed on a county by county The revenue department's legal office had asked for a rehearing of the case. The revenue department said it could not estimate how much revenue would be lost by the ruling.

nomic strength through court action would be foolish. UNICEF Sets Up Centers In India Bill' Policemen Is Proposed WASHINGTON Sen. 1 Gerge McGovern, S. proposed Tuesday what he called a "GI Bill" for policemen, creating a $50 million program of educational loans. Under his bill, the loans would be available to police officers and to anyone else seeking to enter law enforcement work.

The loans would be offered for year, with anyone entering the to spend two will be treated like any other illness under guidelines issued today by the Civil Service Commission. Sick leave will be granted for treatment or rehabilitation under the new rules. And personnel folders will not mention alcoholic problems unless the em- ploye is disciplined for failing to improve work performance. In addition, the commission said, "The employing agency is not concerned with an em- ploye's use of alcohol except as it may affect his job performance or the efficiency of the service." A law passed by the last Congress ordered the to set up alcoholic and rehabilitation civilian commission Finance Board Gives Parrfiittlon- Board of Charities and Corrections May Hire Members of Same Family PIERRE i The State Isle family or the same house- prisons and mental la- Board of Finance hat given the hold employed. Exceptions stitutiorm.

Board of Charities and Correc- can be made in special circum- "We have no intention of a- tians permission to hire mem- itancei biding by this regulation, it Just her? of the same family at the This replaced an earlier won't work," Parkinson said, institutions under its supervi- regulation limited to state gov- "We just can't do it. We'd have sion. ernment offices in Pierre. to close up tomorrow 11 we Personnel regulations estab- Jerald Parkinson, executive did." Hshed by the board in June for- director of the board of chart- Parkinson said the Board of bid this practice. ties and corrections, said insti- Charities and Corrections also The rule states: "no state tutions under the board's a policy of giving relatives employe may work in the same diction were not following of employes preferential conskl- division of state government regulation.

eration for summer jobs, where a member of the immed- The board supervises the State personnel director Robert Mullally said he thought some guidelines were needed in the hiring of relatives, Attorney General Gordon Mydland, a member of the board of finance, said he thought it was bad practice for administrators to hire relatives In their own department. However, the finance board voted unanimously to allow the board of charities and correc- By HOLGER JENSEN and B52 stratofort tionj to continue its present Associated Press Writer i resses. practice. SAIGON (AP) Another The new drive was the third The finance board said it 200 South Vietnamese troops by Vietnamese troops in Cam- would look into three other mat- joined massive sweep oper- bodia in a week and the fifth ters Parkinson said would cause ations in eastern Cambodia to- this month. All are designed to personnel problems, day under an umbrella of U.S.

push North Vietnamese forces Parkinson had told the board helicopter gunships, jet fighter- back from the border to keep its policy on maternal leave them from disrupting the South and parental sick leave would Vietnamese elections in late be extremely expensive. He al- August and early October. so urged revision of a policy Associated Press correspond- which allows state employes to ent George Esper reported accumulate and take an unlim- from the newest Cambodian ited amount of time off for was not within the scope of the front that the South Vietnamese hours of overtime they have committee's assignment, and and their spearhead of 80 ar- worked his motion was not approved, mored vehicles began moving The board of finance is com- Huber's motion on financing north from Highway 1 between posed of the governor, the see- was oassed then nnancmg svay Rieng and Prey Veng, retary of state, the state treas- was passed tnen. about 2g miles statfi auditor( the at committee directed bodia tornev general, the commission- LRC staff to research the ex- encountered no enemy er of administration, the corn- tent of special education pro- resistance initially, Esper said, missioner of school and public grams in South Dakota school But sharp fighting was reported lands and the superintendent of districts to determine which on Tuesday about 25 miles to banks, disricts have problems financ- the northwest. South Vietnam- ing such programs.

ese headquarters said ground, State law permits districts to forces and air strikes killed 351 levy up to two mills for special North Vietnamese, while six I education, and the staff was Saigon troops were kilted and directed to determine how many 26 were wounded. districts were making such South Vietnamese helicopters tne land enclosed by land levies. lifted 1,600 troops to the area assessed by South Dakota." The Department of Public between Svay Rieng and Prey He a meeting of the Third Drive Launched In Vietnamese Sweep Tax (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) a detailed study of selected districts to determine how federal funds for special education programs are being used. Department committee many funds as supple- aid for general ed programs iuc Department of Instruction was asked to make Ven for th new operation. South Dakota Nebraska Boun other 1,600 were already in dar Commission would be need" 'ia.

ed to resolve that problem. U.S. Command con- "That goes far beyond the lo- firmed that B52 strikes were cal assessor's capabilities." flown in support of the sweep, 1 He also said there are DOSI in addition to helicopter more than 100 mobile ship fighter-bomber operations. I homes in the area that are not The South Vietnamese began on tax rolls. SSItai to eps in cfm-j Rep.

Oscar Huber, Bow Beak area east of Svay Rieng. fits the race tracks could make, A second sweep by 2,000 with more money returned to Rangers was launched July 19 local districts." mm across the border from South Rep. Mike O'Connor, D-Bran(Continued from Page 1) Vietnam's Chau Doc Province, don, said the state should give Army before the court-martial in the Mekong Delta. It is still more of its share from the ay proceed. in progress.

Bracks to the county. "It's not Once a jury is sworn, the tn ir wee ma bv or us to make the track lim- trial is expected to be recessed 0 000 lnfantry "I en fr 21 jt its profits, or even to ques- WEATHER TABLES EXTENDED FORECAST Fair to partly cloudy with a warming trend Friday through Sunday. Lows in the upper 40s and low 50s Friday, and mostly in tho upper 50s by Sunday. Highs in the 70s Friday and the 80s by Sunday. MITCHELL WEATHER Averagft precipitation for portion of yc.hr to date 14.97.

Total precipitation for portion of year to date 13.03. Tuesday 8fi. Overnight low 49. 7 a.m. temperature 50.

Precipitation none. It cord hifih 109 in 1935. Record low 47 in 1925. Sunsftt tonight 9:02. Sunrise tomorrow 6:18.

(Continued from Page 1) held funds withheld from the sale of state surplus property at Brookings in October of 1969. "In discussing this account with the director, the examiners were informed that the deposits to this account were proceeds from the sale of property which he believed neither the director nor any other state agency or institution was being held directly responsible," the audit said. The audit added that $88.89 had been withdrawn from the Huron savings account for a Christmas dinner for the seven- man agency staff. "Expenditures for such purposes are not in the best public interest and, therefore, must be considered improper use of public funds," the audit said. Testimony before the interim appropriations committee also revealed that the agency had purchased quantities of equipment which had a remote CALCUTTA To stave off the threat of widespread deaths from malnutrition among refugee children from East Pakistan, the U.N.

Children's Fund is opening 1,000 centers in eastern India on Aug. 15 to dispense high protein foods. "The situation is very serious," said J. Gullmar An- the Swedish director of a new emergency section set up by UNICEF. Andersson, 35, said two million below 9 and expectant be given about ounces of high protein food a day, including food made from a milk powder, a special high protein flour preparation and soya milk.

Called Operation Life Line, it will administered by the Indian Red Cross. UNICEF and the World Feeding program will provide the food and equipment. Anders.spn stressed that the new feeding centers by themselves could not save about children who already have acute malnutrition. He Capitol Has 'Bootleg' Coffee Pots The report cited a comptrol-, 'ler general's report that federal payroll losses alone' from alcoholism may amount! ito as much as $550 million per year. V- A --i vfm for two weeks while nearly 50 to Jul 26 I 0 1 1 Hl 7 tion its profits.

The state should They go into prospective witnesses are sub- and adjacent to the area funds from Us own poenaed and arrangements 351 Sal known as War share, if it is going to provide made to transport them here. Tne A fund5 at alL Col. Kenneth Howard. tte'vtetaJmeM? infantrvXen wUh 1 members of military judge, said Tuesday he anohef 1000 ta 01 11 66 said was not. with- irrahfiori hv tho nmtrrocc nf an iner 1 1 reserve negan the scope of the was gratmed Dy tne progress of a fourt drive along Highway 7, interim assis fAnftwf Al jury selection in the first two Senate PIERRE (JPi South Dakota's; capitol building is filled with) (Continued from Page 1) bootleg coffee pots, the opera- fnr rrif 4 a tnr nf a rafo in thp ranitnl ture.

A VOte W3S set tor triaay. lur OI a Ldle All tile CapllOl OaSe- enrtvtsivtAre 8 ard fi a "My contract says I'm sup- preferential treatment for, posed to have the concession Lockheed would delay aid until for coffee in the capitol. but he cash-starved company is they're making it in all the of- beyond help, fices and I don't think it's Sensing defeat with five of said Bob Page, the cafeteria number out of town, Lock- manager ed backers blocked a vote "Some" of these offices have Tuesday on the amendment by 75-cup urns, and people come Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, D- from al lover the building 'HI- to put the big company and throw a nickel or a dime in'equal footing with other firms, a box for their coffee.

But seeking government loan the one who has to pay sales guarantees. tax and get a health certificate But Stevenson planned to call and all the rest of it," Page up the amendment today. said. Following that vote, the Sen-, Secretary of State Alma Lar-'ate scheduled another try at: son, a member of the board, told limiting debate on the Page she thought most of the bill to provide up to $250 mil- coffee pots had appeared when lion in federal loan guarantees, he raised the price of coffee in for any large company whose; endanger the TEMPERATURES R-ipid City Pierre Philip Aberdeen Watertown Huron Sioux Falls Pickstown Valentine Lemmrn Mobridge Sioux City Omaha Norfolk 'cp II 77 41 81 46 81 41 78 49 Tr 7B 48 81 47 85 48 Tr 86 50 86 45 73 40 Tr 73 40 Tr 55 .08 83 56 Tri 84 55 anv state agency. The agency had purchased jet eng'ne starters and the electrical and hydraulic systems from jet bombers, committee was told by Auditor General Eldon Stoehr.

The board of finance spent most of Tuesday afternoon interviewing seven candidates for Kyle's job. Kyle's resignation is effective July 31, and the finance board said his replacement would be announced before that date. the cafe from 10 to 16 cup. "I don't think that's and infusions to make their bodies strong enough to absorb proteins. Plans are being worked out to set up special "sick bays" near all refugee camps to treat the children with advanced malnutrition.

Andersson said the malnutrition problem is aggravated by mothers who are not aware of what malnutrition is. Andersson said 200 tons of food a day would be required for the feeding program. i a collapse might i economy. Although broadened from the well established at 15 save only Lockheed, the bill a cup." Page said. nevertheless remains chiefly inadded: "Besides, you tended to save the California be interested in building aerospace firm's development up the patronage at the cafe.

a 400-passeneer airbus. The state gets 9 per cent of the revenue. That's in the contract." The finance board, composed of the aovernor and most of the a e's constitutional officers, took no action, but asked Page to investigate the possibility Medina is accused of murdering 102 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai when his Company of the Americal Division's llth Brigade swept through the hamlet March 16, 1968. His troops allegedly shot at least 100 civilians. One of his platoon leaders, Lt.

William L. Galley was convicted last month of the murder of 22. If convicted, Medina faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Col. Robert E.

Nelson, 41. a Korean veteran, and Lt. Col. Clarence Cooke, 44, an American adviser in the early day of the Vietnam war, were seated Tuesday without challenge. Nelson, who was severely wounded in Korea where he was a platoon leader, later served in Vietnam as a staff of.

ficer. Cooke enlisted in infantry in 1945, and later saw service in Europe, Okinawa, Vietnam, Taiwan and Korea. He may become the first black officer to sit on a My Lai trial. to handle four miles of that rubber olan-v board at its tation town from which South Vietnamese occupation troops were driven early in June group a five-day battle that cost them 600 casualties and heavy equip- rnent losses. Commanders of the new operation there said there are no immediate plans to retake the town.

i None of the sweep 9perations has re lteld in significant con- 6 neiT1 24-HOUR H.D. Wrecker Service Complete Anto Tnne-np Center Phone 996-3S41 1-90 STANDARD While Boating STOP at DRIVE INN Lake Mitchell Astronauts Mo. Jan. Feb Mar April May June July Aug get Nov. PRECIPITATION 25-Yr '71 '70 Av Av Bee .07 .29 .47 .53 2.10 1.32 .04 .60 .66 .78 1.28 1.41 1.24 2.48 4.27 2.43 2.50 2.16 1.50 2.73 3.21 4.17 3.38 3.98 4.03 2.14 1.28 2.96 3.06 1.20 2.71 2.60 2.00 2.28 2.12 2.18 1.25 1.48 2.19 69 .67 ,48 50 .49 2.92 3.45 7.30 10.58 8.16 8.84 849 672 4.82 2.71 2.13 Yl '42 '42 '20 '15 '44 '01 '02 MISSOURI RESERVOIR DISCHARGES i PIERRE (in Oahe Reser uoir elevation 1,614.94 feet above sea level, down .10 feet.

Average discharge rate 39,900 qubic feel per second; (ailwa- fer 1,423.70 feet, temperature 61 degrees. H'm Bend average discharge Mate 38,000 cubic feet per sec- dad. (Continued from Page 1) astronauts used a tele- iu investigate me ui rolav a nip delivering pots of coffee to dtf-1. vlslon 1 ferent departments on a regular ture of thf r0Bken ga to hasis ground controllers. visit to the lunar module tonight for additional inspection and cleanup.

Otherwise, they plan a quiet day today, setting an hour aside to conduct a scientific experiment concerned with mysterious light flashes in space. Wearing eyeshields in their darkened cabin, they are to attempt to see light streaks that have been reported by other Apollo crews. Some scientists believe they are cosmic rays passing through the spacecraft walls and through the eyes. Others think they might be neutron and helium atoms. For Period Ending 7:00 A.M.

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