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i 0 PtutlUttcra lb U4 Pily Ctl rfwofi caifi ri Itnt. crs c. rn In IK uj ill ci a a i fii UTTU (X1CUE i (V. i I CA VALES E. Itajy (AP) An earthen dam hi.h in the mountains of northern Italy collapsed today after recent thunderstorms and sent a huge wall of water crashing through houses and tourist hotels.

Civil Defense Minister Giuseppe Zamberietti said in Rome that at least 220 people were killed in the disaster in the Val di Fkmme region of northern Italy's Dolomite mountains. Rescue workers and soldiers brought in by helicopter struggled through mud and debris hunting for victims of the disaster, whkh occurred near the wl'igc of Suva in the Dolomite About 50 bodies were reported recovered so far, and 20 houses and four hotels were reported hit. Film taken from the air and telecast by the state-run RAI television network showed an empty artificial lake and 3'mile-long stream of mud into the valley. The dam was completely washed away. RAI said the wave of water, mud, trees and debris had reached as high as 130 feet.

RAI said the dam was built to filter wastewater from a local mine for fluorite, a mineral used in glass making. Janklow seeks to modify YTC lowered the monthly fee to a flat rate of 400. Costs varied before and the June fee was $534 She added that the service will take everything during city cleanup and that anything it wont pick-up can be moved by residents to the transfer site at no cost. Martin reviewed the test method for spraying weeds. He said that too strong a formula was applied initially.

The pores of the plants never opened to accept the poison and subsequently the poison was washed off during a rain shower. "With the correct formula, we're safe to go ahead." The board gave second reading of an ordinance renewing the Montana-Dakota Utilities franchise for maintaining, operating, and constructing a gas distribution system in Central City. The special election, costs of which will be covered by MDU, is set for September 17. The board is still waiting for public comment on a Sunday liquor license application for the Casino Bar. Martin said that the board might have to get more aggressive in gathering public input.

Larry Heinbaugh reported that cement will be poured for the city playground today. Sometime next week, the fence will be stretched. The board briefly discussed the first town meeting last week conducted by Homestake Mining Company. The program featured the Open Cut project Pengra noted the good turnout the event received, adding it was very informative. The Fourth of July celebration in Central City drew a "pretty good crowd" observed Martin.

The board is looking at September as the month to stage its logging festival Martin explained that there will be no mechanized competition, however, there will be some old-fashioned events such as wood pitching. Lastly, Pengra reminded residents that "Central City is a town and we have speed limits 20 miles per hour -that must be observed." Larsons recognized RCSIN McMACKEN Staff Writer CENTRAL CITY Speed bumps and whether they be implemented in town, what kind is best, and where to put them were the questions asked last night at the Central City Township Board of Trustees meeting. During the regular meeting, residents in the trailer court complained of vehicles speeding through the area and requested speed bumps to control traffic. Trustee Dan Martin said that portable speed bumps would be better since snow and ice buildup the winter around permanent speed bumps are a great inconvenience. He added that the City of Lead is currently investigating the option of portable speed bumps and that they are sending him material on the portable bumps.

"I really feel that permanent speed bumps would give you more trouble during the winter months" as far as maintenance of the roads. One resident suggested speed bumps that are recessed but Martin said that the ditches around the bumps can spread. "I really do feel that permanent speed bumps are going to cause more problems than they will solve." 1 One woman noted in the summertime motorists "come flying down' there." A mounting system for the portable speed bumps was discussed. Martin said that if the devices are handmade they could be bolted in the street. In other business, the board named Harold Davis as the newest trustee.

Davis will replace Kathy Shockey who recently resigned. The garbage contract with Northern Hills Sanitation, a wholly-owned sub-sidiary of Waste Management, was reviewed. The nine-year contract is renewable each year at the option of Northern Hills Sanjtatlbnr The contract is not up until 1991. Chairperson Dixie Pengra said that the business has Flint Hills fire RAPID CITY (AP) The huge Flint Hill fire which has burned out of control east of Edgemont, S.D., for about a week is the biggest forest fire in the Black Hills in almost 50 years. The blaze was contained Wednesday and officials hoped to have it controlled by 6 p.m.

today, Mary Sue Waxier, an official of the U.S. Forest Service in Custer, said. In 1939 the McVey Burn charred 21,857 acres north of Hill City. By today, the Flint Hill fire had burned 22,000 acres. "By the end of today, we will have released 15 (20-person) crews.

Ten will remain," Ms. Waxier said. A fire is considered contained when fire lines have been built around it. Controlling a fire means all fires have been extinguished within 300 feet of the fire line, said Al Braddock, fire management officer for the Black Hills National Forest. Only a few miles east, the Seven Sisters fire was still smoldering near Angostura Reservoir.

It was under control and crews were putting out hot embers and smoking stumps to prevent it from flaring up again. The Seven Sisters fire was moving toward Hot -Springs earlier this week before hundreds of firefighters managed to stop it. If in RODNEY and LYNN LARS EN Thursday were recognized for their participation in the Deadwood Youth League baseball program. Rodney has been president of the league tor three-years and Lynn has served as secretary on the board of directors. Rodney is oftan see cleaning the grounds at Richard Gordon Field with his litter picker, a stick with a rvjll op the end 'The next guy can make his own," Rodney said firing rounds at the all-star game.

"Besides, the nail's getting dull." i-nuay July 19, 12S Dsnd concert DEADWOOD The Northern Hills Community Band will present a concert in the Dead wood Gordon Memorial Park tonight at 7 p.m. This is one of several in a series of concerts given throughout the Northern Hills area this summer. These concerts are sponsored in part by the South Dakota Arts Council. The public is invited free of charge. Work delayed DEADWOOD Scott Randolph, head of parks, playgrounds and cemetery maintenance for he City of Deadwood, today announced volunteer work nights at the Days of '76 grandstands will be postponed until next week.

Evening work will resume Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings next week. Peck's costs DEADWOOD Fire fighting costs for last Friday's fire in Peck's Gulch on the edge of Deadwood will cost between $20- and 530,000, according to Rich Holmann. The state forester of the S.D. Division of Forestry office in Lead said that man is still believed responsible for the fire that burned about 10 acres. Hermann and State Fire Marshal Jim Flippin walked the burned area yesterday.

Exact cause is still not known. Holmann said onlookers gave "sketchy" information about motorcyclists in the area, but 1 investigators wont know if the fire was intentional or' accidental "until we talk to those particular motorcyclists." And said Holmann, "We'd be glad to talk to anybody" who has knowledge of the fire. The S.D. Division of Forestry number is 584-2300. Holmann said the blaze involved mostly private land.

"There was very little inside the 1 city limits and about 10 to 20 percent on BLM land." Reagan return WASHINGTON (AP) -President Reagan will return to the White House on Saturday from Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he is recuperating from cancer surgery, a White House spokesman announced today. Reagan's doctors today gave him the "green light" to leave the hospital after he makes his weekly radio address from his suite at the military medical center outside said spokesman Larry Speakes. It will be one week after the president had part of his colon removed because of a cancerous tumor discovered during an examination the day before. Miller named WASHINGTON (AP) James C. Miller III, a conservative economist who toned down the pro-consumer stance of the Federal Trade Commission, is in line to take over from David Stockman as President Reagan's budget director, congressional and administration sources say.

Presidential spokesman Larry Speaker said he was sure White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan would talk with Reagan today about who should fill Stockman's job, a Cabinet level post, but that it was uncertain if a decision would be announced. At a briefing Thursday, Speakes denied that any decision had been made. state's largest in nearly fire ruling SIOUX FALLS. S.D.

(API U.S. Attorney Phil Hogen says another conference telephone call was scheduled for today in an attempt to change fire restrictions imposed on ceremonial Indian fires in the Black Hills. About one-half doen phone calls have been exchanged since Gov. Bill Janklow asked U.S. District Judge Donald O'Brien of Sioux City, Iowa, to modify his decision to allow Yeftow Thunder Camp members to use open camp fires for religious sun dW-e ceremony under way this weekend.

Officials have banned fires on state and federal land in the Black Hills because the drought has caused a high fire danger. Hogen said he talked with camp lawyer Bruce Ellison Thursday night but that the camp mem ben insisted on open fires. Janklow wants the Indians to put screens over their fire pits to prevent ashes from flying out and accidentally causing a forest fire. When asked Thursday about the camp's reaction to his suggestion that screens be used, Janklow said, "I think it's fair to say that they were insistent that there be no obstruction over the mouth of the fire, and I just said that with all due deference to theirs, mine or anybody else's religion, there are certain circumstances that can make things unreasonable." The camp is in rugged terrain in the Black Hills National Forest southwest of Rapid City. The governor said if a fire broke out in the Yellow Thunder Camp area, it would be virtually impossible to get fire equipment to the scene because of the terrain.

Open fires at Yellow Thunder would create "an incredible potential for danger Janklow said. O'Brien issued an order Wednesday allowing residents of the camp to light fires during a five-day period. He also imposed four restrictions for their use: Pits must be dug for the fires, and the flames cannot rise above the fire pits; only nine fires are allowed, and each fire can bum only up to an hour; a water tank or truck must be handy, and 10 able- bodied fire wardens must supervise the fires; the federal government will not pay for the fire supervision. The federal government and the camp are locked in a legal battle over the camp's future. Indians occupied the federal land in 1981 and the government has since been trying to have them evicted.

Janklow said he contacted O'Brien Wednesday after learning of the order. "I told him that I knew it was irregular, however as governor of the state, I had to express as strongly and as seriously as I could the significant potential for danger." He said he told O'Brien that the restrictions on the ceremonial fires were laudible, "but that I had gone to the extreme of even outlawing smoking in public on any state-owned land in the Black Hills. I told him once a fire started, it didnt know a state tree from a federal tree and that the area where they were at was some of the most rugged country in middle America; that tf a fire started, we couldn't get equipment in there." 50 years Rapid City. To get to small fires before they get big, the Forest Service has a helicopter stationed in Hill City that can quickly fly a three-man crew to a fire. But in some places, like the two southern Hills fires, the terrain is so rough the fires spread too quickly and crews cant get there in time.

"Lightning fires in the Black Hills frequently start on ridge tops and they are the most difficult to put out," Ms. Waxier said. PHOTOPat Dobbt lot of smoke." Firefighting experts are still worried about more big fires in the Black Hills this summer because it's very dry. Professional firefighters who have been putting out fires all over the West say the Black Hills is the driest place they've been. "If it doesn't rain, I would say we more than likely will have another one that may not be quite as big, but bet you we have' some that come close," said Don Kopp, a state forester in Throwing hard The U.S.

Forest Service now estimates the Seven Sisters fire cost $400,000 to $425,000 to put out. There are no estimates on the Flint Hill fire yet, but it was more than twice as large as the Seven Sisters Fire. Braddock said rough estimates are that the Flint Hill fire has burned 40 percent Forest Service land and 60 percent private land. No other fires were out of control in the area today, Ms. Waxier said.

About 23 small, lightning-caused fires were reported during the last three days, but all either were extinguished or are under control, she said. Approximately 100 people were released from the firefighting crews Thursday, said Braddock. He said overcast skies, cooler temperatures and higher humidity aided the fire-fighting effort Thursday. Light rain early today helped fire crews at Flint Hill, Ms. Waxier said.

Fall River County Agent Ed Bowker thinks 15 to 20 ranches might have had land burned in the fire. "People are still looking for animals. it is real severe and they got cornered that, the heat would get them or they would run out of oxygen to breath. "Some of them that went through it, according to one rancher, were wheezing and you could tell they breathed a director of the board. The board met Friday in Custer State Park, ending a two- day retreat to plan and discuss the future of public higher education in South Dakota.

Now, high school seniors with averages can enroll at South Dakota State University, the University of South Dakota and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology even though they didn't finish in the top one-half of their graduating class or achieve minimum scores in ACT tests. Some regents said Friday the exception for allowing students with averages should extended since high school students who want to go to a state- run college in South Dakota now are being forced to take more academic classes. Regents consider extending college entrance exception CUSTER STATE PARK, S.D. (AP) The state Board of Regents may consider extending an exception to entrance requirements at three state-supported colleges that allows high school seniors with averages to enroll at the schools. The exception, one of seven allowed by the regents, is set to expire in the fall of 1987.

At the urging of some regents, Chairman Dennis McFarland of Sioux Falls said the issue should be discussed at the board's August meeting. He had suggested that no discussion on the matter be held until the fall of 1987. Studying the exception now could involve changing the entrance standards, said Gordon Foster, executive Deadwood Pioneer-Times Vol. 110, No. 34 Lead Daily Call Vol.

91, No. 284 RYAN NASH of the Yellow Jackets started on the mound for the 'B-Team' in Thursdas all-star game, the prelude to next week's season-ending playoffs. Nash eventually was relieved of his pitching duties in the 6-inning contest, but scored the winning run on a past-ball. The B-Team' beat the 'A-Team' 14-13. That left the A-Team wondering; "Where was BA Baracus?.