Beatrice Daily Sun (Newspaper) - December 24, 1977, Beatrice, Nebraska BEATRICE DAILY SUN 2425 1977 J 15 Cents 4 Tabloid an the before a ait tke not a creature wad not even a for 4uearold a peek in kid stocking to 6ee if ant a had PHOTO BY DEB TORRES OVERVIEW Holiday swim The Beatrice YMCA swimming pool will be open Wed and from 23 for an open Youngsters of the community are invited to come swim during those A lifeguard will be on Stowaways HOUSTON AP Two young AWOL soldiers say it wag Christmas homesickness that prompted them to climb into a cargo container where they were trapped apparently without food or water during a two week transAtlantic trip on a cargo Dennis and a Randy were reported in fair condition at Ben Taub Hospital Friday after being rescued from the container early Good Show good will toward According to commander of the Nebraska State those few words are all thats necessary to ensure safe holiday Karthauser stated the message may be the shortest ever released by the Patrol in its 40year history in his is the most It takes the place of pages of holiday safety tips and messages that could have been released before the Christmas and New Years holiday but he concluded that nothing more need be Todays cogitation It is when the holiday is over that we begin to enjoy English Hi an I a Thoughtful employes Heres a gift for the man who has including slightly zany See Page Classified 1617 Comics 10 Deaths 3 Local Page 15 Market 3 Opinion Page I People Page 6 Record 14 Sports 45 TV Log 10 killed rural was killed in a one car accident near Tecumseh sometime between 1 and 2 according to the Johnson County Sheriffs The sheriffs office did not have any details Saturday morning on how the accident but a spokesman said it occurred on a county road five miles west and one and onequarter south of Funeral arrangements are pen Nearer to goal The Salvation Army Tree of Lights didnt quite make its goal before Saturday morning the fund stood at or 92 percent of its according to Patricia The annual campaign raises money to aid local needy families at Food baskets and toys were distributed Thursday and Kimmons said it was possible more money would come in on to bring the fund closer to its Carter interrupts holiday to listen to farm leaders By RICHARD MEYER Associated Press Writer Carter met today with striking farmers and said afterward that farm prices will have to go up but meeting their full demands would jeopardize American agricultural I sympathize with them theyre good Carter said after talking for more than 30 minutes with a delegation of four farm strike leaders at his Theyre trying to do things peacefully It was a good meeting Theyve got a really serious problem and were working in sympathy with He said his secretary of agriculture will meet with leaders of the farm strike from all 50 states on 4 or It will be the second meeting with farmers demonstrating for higher I think farm prices will have to go up in the years ahead as land becomes less available and the population of the world Carter The farmers are demanding full which they define as price guarantees that would give them a minimum Asked what was wrong with 100 per cent Carter replied It would make it difficult for us to compete internationally on farm exports if prices are much higher than they are But the president said he understood the demand for higher prices that the farm leaders presented as they sat on the sofa and chairs in Carters living The president said the cost of some items farmers buy has increased up to 500 The same fertilizer I used to sell for now costs to said who once ran a peanut warehouse and sold some farm Its the same with He said he told the farmers that the beneficial aspects of his 1977 farm did not go into effect until and that some of those benefits will not be felt until next Carter said he thought the farm leaders were satisfied with the meeting and that they will take his advice to keep on planting He also said he warned them against violence in their he consumers sym with the but I told them that violence and interfering in other peoples business will have an adverse effect on FEDERAL JUDGE The farm leaders are Carter that a few of the more radical ones who join the parade might disrupt it and discredit all of Attending the meeting with Carter were Georgia strike leader Tommy Kersey Plains farmer Harold a personal friend of the president Carl a farmer from Lake and a farmer from In the Carter has cited passage of the 1977 farm increases in loan levels and target establishment of grain linking income support levels to cost of production and increasing farm who is spending Christmas with his family in his south Georgia refused a speech request from about farmers who dem for higher prices Friday by blocking Main Street with pickup trucks and Many wanted Carter to climb onto a flatbed truck outfitted with a microphone and loudspeakers and address the Carter telephoned Harold a Plains farmer and personal Granum said the president considers Israel to be a very well respected member of the protest Carter asked Israel to set up todays meeting at the presidents rambling brick He invited Kersey and strike leaders from Florida and Segregation of retarded By LEE LINDER Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA AP A federal judge has ruled that it is discriminatory to segregate retarded persons from the rest of the population by placing them in In a 72page District Judge Raymond Broderick held that all admissions to state court ordered or infringe on funda mental rights and freedoms of retarded He said Friday that the state must use the least stringent practicable alter natives to confinement of retarded in But he did not specify what alternatives might be used or say no immediate word on state would appeal the residents should be There was whether the The ruling resulted from a suit filed in 1974 by parents of some residents of the states Center in Spring The Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens and the Justice Department later joined the suit as plaintiffs on behalf of all Attorney David who filed the original suit in What it means is that must be Not only but every institution for the retarded in Pennsylvania will have to They all subject the residents to the same Another of the plaintiffs Thomas said the decision strikes down the 19th century in which segregated retarded just as the courts struck down segregation by race 25 years Gilhool said he had sought a ruling that would guarantee that the retarded who live in crowded under regimented frequently be permitted to live in the in as homelike a setting as Broderick said such segregation violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and a 1973 federal law requiring state and local governments to take action aimed at ending such
