Daily Journal (Newspaper) - March 1, 1977, Fergus Falls, Minnesota 104th YEAR NO. 50 FERGUS MARCH 1, 1977 SINGLE COPY 15c ICY VEIL A cold fog obscured vision for drivers but provided ethereal views of the morning the railroad tracks seem to vanish into a twilight zone of photos by Harley Workers succumb ATLANTA Two em- ployes of the national Center for Disease Control who worked in the laboratory where virus diseases are studied have died of a mysterious the center said Laboratory tests were under way to try to determine the ture of the ailment from which the warehouseman and nance man Neither man was involved in actual research on or other diseases investigated in the Both victims displayed ilar which the CDC said appear to be related to Don director of the office of sized that only tests would de- termine if it was A man said it may take several days to find the this does not seem to be dis- Berreth we are looking at does not appear to be any illness among the other he Dead are George 49, who died in an Atlanta hospital and Robert 43, a retired military man who Continued on Page 16 Weather roundup Clear low 2 to 10. Partly cloudy high 28 to 30. Wind southerly 5 miles per hour High Monday 21. lavs At a.m. At Noon 21. Precipitation 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Sunrise Wednesday Sunset Temperatures One Year Ago High 25. Low 18. Am in retreats from demands Kenya A 25-year-old New Jersey tourist walked into Kenya Ihe first American to leave neighboring Uganda since President Idi Amin lifted his five-day ban and allowed U.S. citizens to have been in Uganda be- love the people very much and had a fine said ert of Spring Lake N.J. was a happy man when I stepped across the border into Kenya this Most of the estimated 240 Americans in Uganda are working in outlying areas and there was no diate of any mass de- Amin lifted the ban alter postponing for a second lime a meeting to which he had moned all U.S. citizens living in his East African Amin said Americans in Uganda now free to go anywhere they such as going for holidays or going about their normal be it inside or outside Radio Uganda Amin forbade the estimated 240 Americans in Uganda from leaving the country last Friday and ordered them to meet with him on Monday at the inter- national conference center in his During the weekend the meeting was moved to the En- tebbe 19 miles from and postponed until And on Monday Radio Uganda announced the meeting had been put off in- with a new date to be announced Ugandan sources in reached by said Amin keen to improve good relations with the United They said Ihe delay would give the two countries chance to resolve their current Several Arab and African including those Zaire and Saudi were reported to have urged Amin to postpone the It was believed the U.S. government asked them to The State Department celed plans to send diplomatic troubleshooter to Amin's initial orders ably were prompted by con- of bis regime by President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance following reports that the Anglican arch- bishop of Uganda had been murdered after his arrest for allegedly plotting against him and that Amin was massacring members of two Christian Amin also charged that the United Britain and Israel were planning to drop paratroops into Uganda to port a plot to overthrow After the detention order last U.S. officials expressed fears for the safety of the most of them but Amin and his spokesmen gave assurances they would not be Ainin then began backing saying he only wanted lo Continued on Page 16 Proposal for high-rise at decision point By RUTH MORRIS City Editor This week is a critical one for the proposed Lincoln Park Tower Senior A delegation of aldermen and City Administrator Jim Nitchals were to meet with the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency in St. Paul today to find out whether the proposed 120-unit which already has approval for rent subsidies for low-income senior can be moved from the original chosen site at Lincoln and Whilford across the river into Veterans John representing 0. E. the Wisconsin firm that proposed the had asked the council for a resolution stating the council's intent to purchase the site west of the river and sell it to the development firm if they produce a financially feasible The counsil didn't want to commit itself to such a plan because it might put the aldermen in a position of having to use eminent domain la acquire some of the John who owns the Hardware Hank and Red Owl has already told the council his property is not for sale and repeated that position at Monday's A compromise that has been to get the council out of the condemnation was moving the proposed site about 100 feet and putting the building on the other side of the river in Veterans That plan has its Caldwell told the council Monday that any change in site would mean losing the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency Alderman Olaf who also talked to debated that There is also the problem of obtaining consent from the trustees involved in donating the land to the city exclusively for park Caldwell's proposed high-rise is Ihe only housing project currently under con- sideration in the A proposal for family homing by Lyle Anderson was vetoed earlier this The problem threatening immediate extinction of the proposal is set by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Section eight housing projects whose residents will get rent subsidies under that are supposed to be under con- struction by April 28 or lose AJI extension of that deadline is Caldwell told the but only if the city has shown a definite commitment toward acquiring the designated At any construction would have to begin by he Construction could begin almost im- mediately at the Veterans Park which is not in the designated tax Increment district but could be added to it. Properties on the site west of the process of being Appraisals should be ready in about a consultant Clarence If the cily were to go ahead with the first-choice it would take 30 to 45 days to acquire title to unoccupied properties and up to a year on properties where relocation would be don't envision that it it came right down to the legal issue that that delay would mean the end of the Caldwell The council passed a motion designating the committee of aldermen to get straight answers on site selection from before giving Madsen the requested Continued on Page It Carter proposes new U.S. energy department WASHINGTON President Carter today sent Congress his proposal to create a Department of com- bining all or part of at least nine existing agencies with manpower totaling nearly The proposed new ment would have a budget of more than billion in fiscal 1978. Carter's would abolish as independent agencies the eral Energy Administration FEA the Energy Research and Development tration ERDA and the Federal Power Commission And in an unusual it would divide bility for the leasing and agement of offshore oil and ural gas areas between the new department and the ment of Interior which now has that The proposal would also place in the new energy ment Interior's regional tric power marketing programs and the Bureau of Mines fuels data control over the rate of exploration of the Naval Petroleum Reserve in an area to be managed by and jurisdiction over reserves in California and Wyoming and oil shale re- serves in Colorado and now under the authority of the Defense The proposed energy ment would pick up other grams from the Commerce De- the Department of Housing and Urban the Securities and Ex- change Commission and the In- Commerce In his letter transmitting the to Carter with a new Department of Energy problems of inter- departmental coordination will since virtually all activity affects energy to some this will give us one government body with ficient scope be he House Majority Whip John Brademas of Indiana said he and other congressmen with energy interests who were briefed by Carter in the White House state dining room this morning were given no figure for the savings that would crue from the abolition of ing energy Another guest at the House Speaker Thomas P. said there is a unanimous feeling that an gy department is He for the In his message to Carter said his reorganization proposal would offer these ad- would abolish the ERDA and the agencies whose missions over- lap and sometimes and whose specialized perspectives have impeded progress toward a unified energy would allow matching federal research and ment programs to over-all energy policies and ter said this is especially im- portant for development of lar would speed the ment of effective energy con- servation by combining would lodge in one cy the powers to regulate fuel and fuel distribution systems now shared by the the the Securities and Ex- change Commission and the In- Commerce the the secretary of interior and tary of energy would hold joint responsibility for the leasing of federally owned onshore and offshore energy The energy secretary would establish long-term production goals in consultation with the interior with dis- agreements to be decided by the The energy secretary would regulate bidding bility for a rates of duction and disposition of But the interior secretary would regulate land management and lease sale schedules and en- impact While the interior secretary would issue the the Continued on Page IS On the inside On the local Page 3 Choirs to perform songs of the Page 5 Area Page 7 Sports Pages 12, U Mystery route again undertaken by Minnesota Gov. ST. Minn. Gov. Rudy Perpich left for Cleveland today where he planned to meet with off of Reserve Mining Co. and its parent Armco and Re- public Steel The nor skipped the National Conference in D.C. Aides of Perpich were able to shed only a little light today on the governor's mysterious comings and goings of the past several Perpich had said week he planned to attend the Washington conference and newsmen were given a ule showing him leaving A published account today re- that for the second time in a few had disappeared on a mystery He didn't say where he'd been but said he was preparing for the talks with One Perpich Beth said she had known since day that Perpich wasn't headed for She told men of departure for Cleveland this morning but didn't know where he had Perpich was accompanied by 1.1. Gov. Alec Olson and St. Paul Municipal Judge Joseph acting as legal Minnesota Energy Director John Milhone was to join arriving from The governor had sent eral of his top aides lo ington and they apparently were left red-faced when pich failed to join When he failed to his press Bob began railing from Washington in an attempt to learn the governor's late Sunday the nor called Aronson's Beth to say he had celed the Washington trip be- cause he had to attend to somewhere in Aronson and two other Perpich aides had gone to In a telephone interview Monday Perpich laughed as he related how he had sent the aides on to Washington without are they all he asked a they still waiting for He said his mission was to prepare for today's Cleveland Asked where he had been the governor would only say that he been traveling around a little As to today's meeting in Cleveland with officials of Re- Armco Steel and lic the governor don't know that there's going to be any We're just going to Perpich has been searching for some solution to the Re- serve case that would end the company's dumping of taconite wastes into Uke Superior and still preserve the jobs of The stale and Re- serve have been battling in courts over an acceptable on- land dumping month Perpich slipped away unannounced and At that he visited central Minnesota farmers to learn why they are upset with proposed con- struction of high-voltage power lines through their Thai mission was welcomed bv many of whom had been trying gain a meeting with former Gov. Wendell Other developments today in the Reserve matter Arrowhead Regional Commission un- veiled a package of legislative proposals aimed at easing the impact of a possible shutdown of the Reserve The included extending the limit on the time in which a worker can draw ment opening special offices in Silver Bay and Babbitt to administer Continued on Page 16
