Evening Tribune, The (Newspaper) - December 29, 1975, Albert Lea, Minnesota LOCAL TEMPERATURES High Sunday low Sunday VOL. No. 305 THE EVENING TRIBUNE ALBERT DECEMBER 29. 1975 SINGLE COPY 19 CENTS 12 PAGES Top US Diplomat in Africa Seeking Angola Truce Help WASHINGTON A high-ranking U.S. diplomat is in Africa seeking support for a truce in the newly independent country of a State De- official William E. secretary of state for African is to visit live countries on his trip to the department spokesman said He said Schaufele was quietly dispatched to Africa on mas Day by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in an effort to achieve a negotiated ment of the civil war in newly freed by The spokesman said ele is to visit government ers in Ivory Cameroon and hoping to drum up support for Kissinger's plan for removing all outside forces from All five countries are friendly to the United The mission by Kissinger's new African affairs assistant coincides with the upcoming Jan. 10 meeting of the ization of African Unity where there probably will be an effort to block recognition of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of which controls much of tne trip to Africa lowed by two days Kissinger's statement at a news conference that are going to make a major both ically and on the to make do with what we despite a Senate vote to cut off funds for covert military aid to anti-Soviet factions at war ia A high State Department cial said following the news conference that Kissinger's re- marks signaled the continuation of covert arms shipments to the anti-Soviet factions in Despite the Senate the ad- ministration still had some million in funds for that Information Values in Government Employe Trips Snow Artist James 21, of St Clair puts the finishing es on his snow statue of Abraham a former com- artist now employed by was visiting at the home of his in-laws when he decided to make a It ended up as a sculpture of A relative says he made the sculpture without reference using only his memory of Lincoln's ment employes are permitted to claim virtually all of their expenses from attending and sessions to which value is assigned for several They are explained in this compiled from reports by Tribune Staff Writers Jim Petroski and BUI and written by City Editor Mike of two improving increasing professionalism and sharing ideas are among the reasons listed for attendance at seminars and conventions by government While the training value is obvious in meetings designed exclusively for housing managers or arson in- other values of distant meetings are more City Manager John said he believes conventions News Highlights Women's Rights in Britain LONDON Britain entered a new era of women's rights today as laws came into operation banning sex discrimination in housing and services and establishing the right to equal pay for equal Crewmen in Moscow MOSCOW Three Soviet ter crewmen held in China for 21 months arrived in Moscow the official Soviet news agency Tass The brief an- gave no indication of the tio of the three Capt. Alexander Lt. Alexander and Jr. Lt. dimir G. US Sends Pumps to India To Help Clear Flooded Mine FDA Pushes Quality WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is planning to begin a program to improve quality control on research of new its director Pillagers Get Poison Lebanon The ment warned looters today that they carried off poison food and deadly gas from a warehouse they The an insecticide was in metal ers marked that were stolen ing the looting of the warehouse the government Postponement Urged NEW India Leaders of In- dia's ruling Congress party today urged Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to postpone the March election of a new parliament for a Nuclear Test Reset Nev. The Energy Re- search and Development Administration has announced a 24-hour delay in today's scheduled underground nuclear test The test is to have a of between 200 and one of the strongest of the By MYRON L. BELKIND NEW India The U.S. government is ing pumps to help pump out the flooded coal mine in northeastern India in which at least 372 trapped miners are feared Minister of Mines Yadav announced But it was doubtful that any of the missing men would be found Yadav said the pumps were being flown from the United States by Air India's In- He did not announce how many were being sent or when they would Earlier he said it would take the pumps on hand at the mine at least 10 days to remove the 110 gallons of water he estimated were in the flooded Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said humanly sible is being and will be done to rescue the trapped Saturday by an explosion and subsequent flooding in the colliery 160 miles northwest of Officials said Mrs. Gandhi has asked several other tries to send rescue and ing But they knowledged it would be a acle if any of the men High-powered pumps sucked water from the mine Sunday while ths grieving wives of the trapped men remained at certain their husbands were The attendance register at the mine in- that 372 miners were in the shaft at the time of the ex- But officials of mine union said men from the previous shift may still have been and that as many as 700 workers might be Officials said the 1.290-feet- deep shaft was filled with wa- ter to within 150 feet of tihe and most of the miners would have been working in the lower But Yadav said some might have been saved by air assist in improving supervision and as well as building morale because it indecisive ness of people that are in working roles and then are pushed into He acknowledges that the city spends a lot of money on travel to such but indicates he feels it pays for Without the information from the mistakes of per capita operation would be wouldn't he Michael executive director of the Housing and Redevelopment was asked his thoughts on the value of attending all questioned some of the things on the national Kelly said noting they're often oriented to large metropolitan But he sees two things as being Kelly not so much the conference itself as the chance to talk to in the same business that proves can pick out people with ideas you're interested One gets an to experience from somebody who's been down the road already Both staff and the com- missioners a better feel for your own project after you see what somebody else is he contacts made at national meetings can be used for reference and in- formation after listening to the problems and complaints of bigger Kelly said one gets a good feeling about Albert Lea and a realization that tiw problems here are not as insurmountable as they may sometimes On a state and regional tne conferences are much more oriented to and problem he New Policy During the 1976 budget the city of Albert Lea is making changes in a couple of its travel In the department heads had been allowed to attend national conventions every other they may go The reason for the according to is that city has reached the point of professionalism where it's The second change directly involves the Beginning with 1976. the department head's attendance at a national convention has been included in the and thus has already been approved by city In past each trip was approved as it came Elwell that will still be the practice for other employes for other Prior Approval The standard practice of all governmental units is prior approval by the governing either through the budget or on a trip by trip In some the chief administrator is authorized to approve travel by but in he often asks the council or board attending meetings Is allowed only for ad- with little done by other employes outside of sessions designed purely for on Page 2) The administration already has spent about million in supplying arms to the anti-Soviet National Front for the Liberation of Angola and the National Union for the tal Independence of Schaufele had been at his State Department post for only a week before beginning his rican He replaced Nathaniel who resigned in a dispute with Kissinger over the secret arms shipments to The State Department spokesman said Schaufele is scheduled to return to ton on Jan. 25. Kissinger said U.S. to resist can lead other tries to conclude that their ation is becoming more pre- He also said that if the House upholds the Senate's ban on funds for future arms ments the consequences for U.S. foreign policy would be Three in On Interstate 90, Austin By The Associated Press Three persons were killed and a fourth person was cally injured today when a car and semitrailer truck collided on Interstate 90 just inside the Austin city limits in southern police Authorities said the truck driver escaped injury in the headon The milk truck was owned by Conger Coop of Minn. Names of the victims were not immediately The deaths raised the Minnesota highway toll to 750. compared to MS tost A collision between a plow and a tow truck Saturday afternoon on Crookston's main street took the live of Mark Re- 19, the mobile Two other were killed in out-of-state traffic Dana 19, died in a crash early Sunday on U.S. 34 in Henderson 111., about six miles east of Franklin 46, was fatally injured in a crash Saturday on U.S. 8, seven miles northwest of Wis. Ha died en route to a St. Paul Celebrating Mill Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and his Turkish counterpart Suleyman Demi- ret wave to a crowd at the opening ceremony of the steel mill built by viet technical and financial aid in southern Planning from Faulty Information Official Employment Statistics Under Fire tmi mil Inside The Tribune Comics 8 Crossword 8 Daily Record Editorial Page 4 Bridge 9 Family Pago 5 Markets Deaths 6 TV Guide 8 Horoscope 9 AREA FORECAST ing and colder tonight Clear to partly cloudy Lows tonight 16 to 20. Highs Tuesday in lower or mid 30s. By JOHN AP Business Analyst NEW YORK cism of the government's cial employment statistics is growing among the who use with some openly claiming ex- tent of job distress is under- stated by many hundreds of even If the consequences are almost immeasurably dis- economic policy cal revenue sharing and prospects for the jobless The statistics have but the claims by critics appear to be so telling that the general credibility of the monthly figures could be severely Strong sentiment exists among economists for a high-level review of concepts and and tt appears b Although he defends the ures as Julius the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor is among those seeking a He said the matter is now at the White House for Also seeking a review is Prof. Robert A. who headed the most recent study of the job figures the Committee to praise Employment and It was by President John Kennedy in 1961. who completed today his term as president of the American Economic observes that hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue sharing k distributed on the basis of local job figures that cannot be fully Much of the general criticism Is centered on interpretations used in formulating the official Jobless rate but H ex- tends far beyond that to include techniques employed and the accuracy of the raw The BLS itself notes that In most of 1975 more than lion jobless Americans were ex- cluded from both the labor force and the unemployment figures because they were dis- and not actively ing jobs at survey In many hundreds of thousands of people in government work who would have been counted as jobless a decado were considered employed because of changes in one of which in 1965 appears never to have been an- These and one other definitional would have pushed the 9.2 per cent peak of reached last to near II per and November's 8.3 per cent rate close to 10 per cent. Prof. Charles C ingsworth of Michigan an esteemed on contends that even some experts are statistical thus compound unaware of and the One common for ex- is to attribute a ing jobless rate during the late 1960s to the effect of fiscal and monetary when in fact much of the decline resulted from definitional changes and other of factors was a military draft that took 900.000 young men out of the labor force says thousands between 100.000 and at one point into Econometric model who construct numerical tions of the economy and how it erroneously assumed the changes were caused solely by and thus reached misleading con- Similar errors are being again he From a recession tow point last work has ex- by 1.5 million academics and ment officials tend to think of these jobs as The says Killings In that one-third ol the ment has been m work grams supported by federal funds to help provide work for unemployed during ically difficult jobs nothing to do with economic recovery and but they are inter- that he More distortions occur in sonally critics Shiskin concedes there have been difficulties with the seasonal de- signed to remove effects of re- curring as from the overall Critics also claim the larly used jobless rate doesnt really measure the fuH extent of which in- cludes those working temporarily or beneath theif The common that unites all critics is that if the jobless figures do not in fact re- flect then neither do very important business and government decisions made wnh them as the A VERY HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR front The Classified Staff of The Albert Lea Tribune
