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July 20, 1971 Mitchell Dally Mall July 20, 1971 Sen. McGovern Calls for Wage, Price Freeze WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Georze McGovern. D-5 called today for an Immediate but. selective ur month freeze on and price: "to end this vicious and destructive cycle" of inflation.

said labor. McGovern economists. and political leaders in berth parties have suggested the action but President Nixon won't act. "And I don't know why, eith. er.

unless his fascination with foreig mpolicy has made him 20k Congress a thorized wage-price" freeze months ago." said Sic Govern, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. In a speech prepared for the International Platform Associ. ation, McGovern said military spending should he cut back. and the war in Vietnam ended. to produce savings of $20 billion 8 year.

With that he said. "we can start rebuilding this' nation and we finally put people back to work instead of keeping them jobless as pawns in the fight against inflation." Sam Karr Rites At Gann Valley By Republic News Service GANN VALLEY Funeral services for Sam KarT. 74, will 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Congregational Church with the Rev. Robert Short of Wessington Springs officiating.

Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery with Lee's Funeral Service in charge of arrangements. Mr. Karr was found dead Mon. day noon by Tony Krebs, who noted Mr. Karr had not made his usual appearance on the street.

He was born in Indiana to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Karr and came to Buffalo County in 1946. Survivors include one brother, Moses, Green Bay, and two sisters. Mrs.

John Grimm, Marshall. and Mrs. Russell Kinser. Chamberlain. He was preceded in death by a brother.

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 his camper trailer exploded. Kenneth Theel, Brandon, S.D., suffered the injuries Tuesday morning. He was taken to a Rochester, arrived hospital.

in the area, with his wife and four children, Sunday. He is employed on store construction project in Rochester. The family members spent Sunday night in their trailer, in! 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 breakfast.I 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 were blown out by the plosion. WEATHER TABLES EXTENDED FORECAST Fair to partly cloudy with a warming trend Friday through Sunday. Lows in the upper and low Friday, and mostly in the upper 50s by Sunday.

Highs in the 70s Friday and 1 the by Sunday, MITCHELL WEATHER Average precipitation for por. tion of year to date 14.97. Total precipitation for portion of year to date 13.03. High Tuesday 86. Overnight low 49.

7 a.m. temperature 50. Precipitation none. Record high 109 in 1935. low 47 1925.

Sunset tonight 9:02. Sunrise tomorrow 6:18. Rapid City 71 41 Pierre 81 48 Philiscen 81 78 41 49 Watertown 76 48 Huron 81 47 Sioux Falls 85 48 Pickstown 50 Valentine 86 Lemmon 73 Mobridge 73 40 Sioux City 84 55 Omaha 58 Norfolk 55 Mo. '71 Jan. .07 Feb 1.32 Mar .78 April 2.48 May 2.16 June 4.17 July 2.14 Aug Sep Oct Nov.

Dec PRECIPITATION 25-Yr Av Av Rec .47 .53 2.10 .60 .66 2.92 1.41 1.24 3.45 2.43 2.50 7.30 2.73 3.21 10.58 3.98 4.03 8.18 2.96 3.06 8.84 2.71 2.60 8.49 2.26 2.12 6.72 1.25 1.48 4.82 69 .67 2.71 50 .49 2.13 MISSOURI RESERVOIR DISCHARGES I PIERRE Oahe Reservoir elevation 1,614.94 feet bove sea level, down .10 feet. Average discharge rate 39,900 qubic feet second: ter 1,123.70 feet, temperature 61 degrees. Big Bend average discharge end. 38.000 cubic feet per sec Union Nixes Request for Board To Settle Strike By MIKE DOA.N WASHINGTON TAP, The union four railroads ha: rejected a Labor Depart ment request that neutral board impose a binding settle. ment in the dispute.

The union said the offer showed plete bias of the government toward the management lion." Secretary of Labor James Hod eson asked Tuesday for responses by today on his arbi. tration suggestion, but the United Transportation reply within two hours "Collective bargaining can never work as long as govern. ment remains slave to agement and interieres when collective bargaining is, begin. hing to succeed." said UTt: President Charles Luna in re. jecting the offer.

The railroad industry has not yet replied. The Labor Department re. cessed joint -industry talks Monday, saying no solu- Sudan's Red Chief Is Hanged; 14th Execution By C. C. MINICLIER KHARTOUM, Sudan The chief of Sudan's Communist party was banged early day in the 14th execution since last week's unsuccessful at.

tempt to depose President Jaafar el Numairi. The government announced that Abdul Khalek Mahjoub, leader of the largest Communist party in the Arab world, was hanged 11 hours after the close of his trial on charges of masterminding the short-lived coup in an attempt to turn Sudan into a Communist state. Numairi's government is hunting Communists, down and all Joseph Sudanese rang, 80 avowed Red and a Cabinet minister until he was arrested two days ago, was hanged Tuesday night. Garang was minister for the South Sudan, the area where black animists and Christians have been fighting the rule of the Northern Sudan's Arab Moslems for 15 years. The coup leaders had promised the South autonomy once order was stored 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 knowl-' edge of the July 19 coup challenged the impartiality of his military judges. "I knew there was a lot of discontent in the country and the armed forces, but I did not know about the coup in advance," Mahjoub testified. Mahjoub's trial at the Sahagara army camp outside Khartoum was the first of the mili-: tary tribunals trying accused coup leaders to be open to the press. But when a key ment witness balked at testifying, the newsmen were led a'out.

The trial lasted for several more hours behind closed doors, according to the officiai Omdurman Radio. The government Arabic press News (Continued from Page 1) held funds withheld from the sale of state surplus property at Brookings in October of 1969. with" the discussing director, this the examin- account ers were informed that the deposits to this account were ceeds from the sale of property which hen believed neither the director nor any other state gency 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 sevenman agency staff. "Expenditures for such purposes are not in the best public interest and, therefore, must he 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 chance of ever being used by any state agency. The agency had purchased jet engine starters and the electrical and hydraulic systems from jet bombers, the 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 replace-.

ment would he announced fore that date. today listed some 30 alleged Communists and urged anyone knowing their whereabouts turn them in. About 400 mili. tary personnel are said to be under arrest along with an known number of civilians. Numairi outlawed the member Communist party because of its opposition to his plans to join Arab Federation that formed.

Libya. Egypt and Syria have Supreme Court Nixes Rehearing Railroad Case PIERRE (P The South Dakota Supreme Court has refused to rehear an earlier decision that will require the State Department of Revenue to assess railroad operating property at the local level in each county. The revenue department assesses railroad property centrally, along with property of other utilities. The department had been assessing, the property at 60 full and true value in compli. ance with state law.

The railroads complained that they were being discrimin. ated against because other property in various counties is assessed at a lower rate that var. jes from county to county. The court ruled in a 3-2 de-! cision that railroad operating property had to be assessed on a county by county The revenue department's legal office had asked for a rebearing of the case. The revenue department said it could not estimate how much revenue would be lost by the ruling, UNICEF Sets Up Centers In India CALCUTTA (AP) To stave off the threat of widespread deaths from malnutrition 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 Andersson, the Swedish director of a new emergency section set up by UNICEF.

Andersson, 35, said two million refugees--children below 9 and expectant mothers-would 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. Anderson stressed that the new feeding centers by them. selves could not save about 300,000 children who already have acute malnutrition.

He said they require special medicines 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. Anderson said the malnutrition problem is aggravated by mothers who are not aware of what malnutrition is. Anderson said 200 tons of food a day would be required for the feeding program. fion in sight.

With the union threatening to strike six more rairoads Fridav. Hodeson recommended a panel of three neutral experts he selected be both sides or by President Nixon to reach a binding sett ement. Despite the increasing prob. lem: White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said.

We have no plans at this time to send legislation to the 10 seek an emergency settle. ment. The U'TU struck the Southern and Union Pacific raiiroads 12 days ago and extended the walkout last Saturday to the Norfolk Western and the' Southern Pacific. Some 120.000 employes have been off work and 20 per cent of rail shipments tied A 5 p.m. strike deadline today against the Long Island Railroad was postponed by the UTC pending developments in Washington.

The six railroads' with 45.000 employer. targeted for strikes Friday are the Duluth. Mesabi Iron Range. the Elgin. Jolie: Eastern.

the Bessemer Lake Erie, the Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe, the Alton Southern Terminal in St. Louis and the Houston Belt al in Houston. On Aug. 6 the has slated walkouts against the Baltimore Chesapeake Ohio: Chicago, Milwaukee.

St. Paul Pacific. and the Missouri, Kansas Texas. The main issue is a change in work rules recommended by a presidential emergency board last fall and accepted by three other rail unions. Management says the rules are needed to help offset a 42-per-cent wage increase over 42 months.

UTU president Luna said in his telegram to Hodgson: "To revert to arbitration at this point when we have established: the right to the exercise of economic strength through court action would be foolish. 'GI Bill' for Policemen Is Proposed WASHINGTON UP Sen. Gerge McGovern, S. proposed Tuesday what he called "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 college studies, up to $2,000 a year, with anyone entering the program obligated to spend two: years in police work for each year of educational assistance. Capitol Has 'Bootleg' Coffee Pots PIERRE South Dakota's: capitol building is filled with bootleg coffee pots, the operator of a cafe in the capitol ment told the state board of finance Tuesday. "My contract says I'm sup. posed to have the concession for coffee in the capitol, but they're making it in all the of. fices and I don't think it's said Bob Page, the cafeteria manager.

"Some of these offices have 75-cup urns, and people come from al lover the building and throw a nickel or a dime in a box for their coffee. But I'm the one who has to pay sales tax and get a health certificate and all the rest of it," Page said. Secretary of State Alma Larson, a member of the board, told Page she thought most of the coffee pots had appeared when he raised the price of coffee in the cafe from 10 to 16 cents a cup. don't think that's sonable. The price cf coffee is pretty well established at 15 cents a Page said, He added: "Besides, you should be interested in building up the patronage at the cafe.

The state gets 9 per cent of the revenue. That's in the contract." The finance board, composed of the governor and most of the state's constitutional took no action, but asked Page to investigate the possibility of delivering pots of coffee to different departments on a regular basis. PREVIEW OF NOAA RATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO.7:00 A.M. 0 EST -29-71 PI WEATHER FOTOGASTO For Period Ending 7:00 A.M. EST July 29, 1971 During Wednesday night, through portions of the mid area.

Clear and pleasant to showers and thunderstorms Mississippi valley, the Ohio partly cloudy skies should will occur from the Western and Tennessee valleys and into vail over the remainder of the Gulf coast Northeastward the vicinity of the lower Lakes nation. (UPI Telephoto) Stickney Couple's' Daughter Dies By. STICKNEY Republic News Service Mrs. Edwin in (Fern) Gomke. 49.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Jensen.

Stickney. July 25 in Sacramento, after a long illness. Mrs. Gomke was a zraduate of Southern State College and taught at Academy. Oelrich and Burke before her marriage.

Her husband had been pastor of the Beresford Congregational Church for a number of years. Survivors include her widow. er: one son, Douglas, San Francisco: her parents. Stickney: one brother. Sherwood Jensen.

San Antonio. Texas. and one sister, Mrs. Lloyd Dean, Pick3town. She was preceded in death by a daughter.

Mrs. Cozard Rites At Chamberlain Republic News Service CHAMBERLAIN Funeral services for Mrs. W. Ruth) Cozard. 78.

will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the United Church of Christ 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. 1832 at Pittsburgh, to Mr. and Mrs. James Barnes and died July 26 at the local hospital. On Jan.

18, 1911 she married W. Cozard at Webb City. Mo. 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. Alcoholism Will Be Treated Like Other Illness WASHINGTON (AP) Alcoholism among federal employes will be treated like any other illness under guidelines issued today by the Civil Service mission. Sick leave will be granted for treatment or rehabilitation un-, der the new rules. And personnel folders will not mention al-, coholic problems unless the employe is disciplined for failing ito improve work performance. In addition, the commission said, "The employing agency is not concerned with an 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 commission to set up alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation programs among civilian employes.

The commission circulated: proposed guidelines in April, took suggestions and issued the new rules today, They go into effect Dec. 1. The report cited a comptroller general's report that said federal, payroll losses alone from alcoholism may amount Ito as much as $550 million per year. Senate (Continued from Page 1) ture. A vote was set for Friday.

Administration supporters say enactment of a bill without preferential treatment for Lockheed would delay aid until the cash company is beyond help. Sensing defeat with five of their number out of town, Lockheed backers blocked a vote Tuesday on the amendment by Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, D- to put the big company on 'equal footing with other firms in seeking government loan guarantees. But Stevenson planned to call up the amendment today.

Following that vote, the Senate scheduled another try at limiting debate on the over- all bill to provide up to $250 million in federal loan guarantees, for any large company whose collapse might endanger the economy. Although broadened from the original White House request to save only Lockheed, the bill nevertheless remains chiefly intended to save the California aerospace firm's development of a 400-passenger airbus. Astronauts (Continued from Page 1) The astronauts used a of vision camera to relay, a picture of the broken glass to ground controllers. The astronauts plan another 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. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING 3 to 5 Day Service Ultrasonic Cleaning Electronic Timing WOELFEL'S JEWELRY Diamonds For Less Finance Board Gives PermissionBoard of Charities and Corrections May Hire Members of Same Family PIERRE The State Board of Finance has given the Board of Charities and Correclions permission to hire bers of the same family at the Institutions under its supervistoPersonnel regulations estab.

lished by the board in June for. bid, this rule practice. states: "no state employe may work in the same division of state government where a member of the late family or the same hold is employed. Exceptions can be made in special circumstances This rule replaced an earlier regulation limited to state gov. ernment offices in Plerre.

Jerald Parkinson, exccutive director of the board of charities and corrections, said instilutions under the board's jurisdiction were not following the regulation. The board supervises the Third Drive Launched In Vietnamese Sweep By HOLGER JENSEN Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) Another 200 South Vietnamese troops joined massive sweep operations in eastern Cambodia today under an umbrella of U.S. helicopter gunships, jet fighter- (Continued from Page 1) not within the scope of the committee's assignment, and his motion was not approved. Huber's motion on financing was passed then. Lime staff committee to research directed the the tent of special education programs in South Dakota school districts to determine which disrict: have problems financing such programs.

State law permits districts to levy up to two mills for special education. and the staff was directed to determine how many districts were making such levies. The Department of Public Instruction was asked to make a detailed study of selected districts to determine how federal funds for special education programs are being used. Department officials told the committee many districts such federal funds as suppleuse mental state aid for general education needs. rather for special education programs.

Trial (Continued from Page 1) Army before the court-martial may proceed. Once a jury is sworn, trial is expected to be recessed for two weeks while nearly 50 prospective witnesses are subpoenaed and arrangements made to transport them here. Col. Kenneth Howard. the military judge, said Tuesday he was gratified by progress of jury selection in the first two days of trial.

Medina is accused of murder. ing 102 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai when his Company of the Americal Division's 11th Brigade swept through the hamlet March 16, 1968, His troops allegedly shot at least 100 civilians. his platoon leaders, Lt. William L. Calley was convicted last month of the murder of 22, If convicted.

Medina faces a maximum penalty of life prisonment. 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 the infantry in and later saw service in Europe, Okinawa, Vietnam, Taiwan and Korea. He may become the first black officer to state's prisons and mental in.

atitutiona. "We have no Intention of biding by this regulation, it just won't work." Parkinson said. "We just can't do it. We'd have to close up tomorrow If we Parkinson said the Board of Charities and Corrections also had a policy of giving relatives of employes preferential consideration for summer jobs. State personnel director Robert Mullally sald he thought the a hiring of relatives.

some guidelines were needed in Attorney General Gordon Mydland, a member of the board of finance, said he thought 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. tion3 to continue its present practice. The finance board said it would look into three other matters Parkinson said would cause personnel problems. Parkinson had told the board its policy on maternal leave and parental sick leave would be extremely expensive. He also urged revision of a policy which allows state employes to accumulate and take an unlimited amount of time off for hours of overtime they have worked.

The board of finance is composed of the governor, the secretary of state, the state treasurer. the state auditor, the attorney general, the commissioner of administration, the commissioner of school and public lands and the superintendent of banks. Tax Tax bombers and B52 stratofort. resses. The new drive was the third by Vietnamese troops in Cambodia in 8 week and the fifth this month, All are designed to push North Vietnamese forces back the border to keep them from disrupting the South Vietnamese elections in late August and early October.

Associated Press correspondent a George Esper reported from the newest Cambodian front that the South Vietnamese and their spearhead of 80 armored vehicles began moving north from Highway 1 between Svay Rieng and Prey Veng, about 25 miles inside Cambodia. They encountered no enemy resistance initially, Esper said. But sharp was reported on Tuesday about 25 miles to the northwest. South Vietnamese headquarters said ground forces and air strikes killed 35 North Vietnamese, while six Saigon troops were killed and 26 were wounded. South Vietnamese hellcopters lifted 1,600 troops to the area between Svay Rieng and Prey Veng for the new operation.

The other 1,600 were already in Cambodia, The U.S. Command confirmed that B52 strikes were flown in support of the sweep, addition to helicopter gunship fighter-bomber operations. The South Vietnamese began: pre-election sweeps Cam-; bodia July 8 with a week push in the Parrot's Beak area east of Svay Rieng. A second sweep by 2,000 Rangers was launched July 19 across the border from South Vietnam's Doc Province, in the Mekong Delta. It is still progress.

A third sweep was made by 10,000 infantrymen from July 21 to July 26 north of Highway 7 and adjacent to the area northeast of Saigon known as War Zone C. Last Monday, 1,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen with another 1,000 in reserve began a fourth drive along Highway 7 south of Snuol. They, are reported to have pushed to within four miles of that rubber plantation town from which South Vietnamese occupation troops were driven early in June a five-day battle that cost them 600 casualties and heavy equipment losses. Commanders of the new operation there said there are no immediate plans to retake town. None of the sweep operations has resulted in significant contact with the enemy.

(Continued from Page 1) of the land is enclosed by land assessed by South Dakota." He said a meeting of the South Dakota Nebraska Boundary Commission would be need. ed to resolve that problem. "That goes far beyond the local assessor's capabilities." He also said there are sibly more than 100 mobile homes in the area that are not on tax rolls. Rep. Oscar Huber, Bow.

die, suggested that the state fits might set a limit on the prothe race tracks could make, with more money returned to local districts." Rep. Mike O'Connor, D-Brandon, said the state should give more of its share from the tracks to the county. "It's not for us to make the track it its its profits, or even to tion profits. The state should provide funds from its own share, if it is going to provide funds at all." Several other members of the committee said it was not within the scope of the committee's interim assignment to handle the specific problem unless the Legislative Research Council's executive board at its meeting Friday approves expanding the education group's assignment. 24-HOUR H.D.

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