Daily Journal (Newspaper) - April 26, 1977, Fergus Falls, Minnesota FERGUS FALLS THIS IS CLEANUP WEEK Ferg as Falls residents are cleanup as well K spring this week since the city offers free estra trash pickups Jack Andrews tackles winter debris in the alley at the rear of Andrews and Melster Dan Jensen 333 E Beech adds to a pile of bagged refuse from a lawn cleanup Free are scheduled north ol Avenue Thursday and south of Lincoln on Friday Journal photos by Harley Gale winds postpone well capping STAVANGER Norway APt iho rio STAVANGER Norway AP equipment onto the rig The team of American Plans to cap the well were blowout killers Monday by gale cap a runaway oil well in the force winds North Sea today decided to postpone the operation one more day in order to lift more Meanwhile the Norwegian government appointed a blue Hayden hearing scheduled UTTLE FALLS Minn AP A pretrial hearing was scheduled today on a defense motion to amend the charge against a Parkers Prairie man in the death of Sandra Karnes 17 Alexandria The trial of Harley Hayden Jr 25 had been scheduled to start today but was postponed by District Judge Gaylord Saetre Hayden 25 has un- dergone psychiatric examination He was brought to the Morrison County jail at Little Falls Monday and will be held thereuntil the trial is over other men two from Adair's crew and two from Phillips also inspected the rig today They said they need more time to bring up special ment from the barge Choctaw ribbon panel to investigate the TU first blowout in Norway's and serving frequently shore nil m the North Sea m the spring We still feel confident the leakage can be dosed fast as soon as all equipment is able and the work can begin maybe within the next 24 said Dag Mayer Web who OUa the slick said they fell sure shore Ekofisk oil field The blowout is developing into a major issue for the fall general and oil com- panies were worried that the minority Labor government would cancel plans for test drilling off northern Norway which is to begin nest year Since the well blew last day the Phillips Petroleum Bravo rig has been ing between and 1.05 million gallons a day into the The Phillips Petroleum Co which operates the well said a drilling rig was en route to the scene and a new well would be drilled to divert the flow if the capping operation failed Waves of 20 feet and wi hour the well fire fighter Red Adair sea forming a slick six miles wide and 15 lo 20 miles long At current oil cartel prices the well was throwing away about worth of crude a day About 40 to 60 per cent of crude oil can be refined into gasoline experts said meaning the oil lost so far could run about cars for a year The two American experts Boots Hansen and Richard of the team of Texas oil well fire fighter Red Adair made the decision to postpone capping operations after boarding the rig for the third time since they arrived on the scene last Saturday Four the slick said they fell to clean up around down before reaching coastlines if the blowout killers The carrying oxygen masks and sen For ift fast between 3.16 million and 3.78 sen spokesman tor ik million gallons of oil had gushed from the well by noon Monday It estimated the con- flow at between and 1.05 million gallons a day Phillips said the rough Monday might have scattered and broken down of slick which the company said covered an area six miles wide and 15 lo 20 miles long Southwest were pushing it in the direction of Norway's southern coast 170 miles away But the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said even gale winds would only move it about 15 miles a day A task force of 11 ships was assembled to try lo clean up the spill laying two protective lines of six nautical work in a shower of red oil that is spurting hieh and water from a down the platform to surface More booms mers and pumps were expected The Norwegian the geyser of fuel Perpich blasts talk show guest When the weather permitted Hansen a work crew were going to hoist a orological Institute said shutoff valve from the barge to er forecasts for the next 24 the platform with a crane and try to bolt it over the wellhead to stop flow IE that first step was ful more valves were to be added and then mud was to be pumped down the deep well to check the pressure Civil defense passed by House U A CUI ADi Art I I R WASHINGTON AP lion by the House of would channel an extra million into civil defense in response lo Soviet emphasis on civil defense In approving a billion weapons for fiscal the House boosted the civil defense budget by 50 per cent to 5134.8 million Pentagon had re- quested only million The action Monday came after Rep Ronald V Dellums attacked any spending for civil defense as a wasle ludicrous insane It makes me feel I'm sitting on the door of the House in a dream II s the height of insanity But backers of the move cited a need for American pre- particularly after the recent Soviet rejection of a U.S strategic arms proposal Rep G William Whitehurst said construction of civil defense shelters could cut American casualties to 20 million from 100 million three days notice of a viet nuclear attack Whitehurst said it would be destabilizing for us to do ing in response to the growing Soviet defense gram It's criminal to say there's no hope of saving lives in a nuclear war Whitehurst added However the million is not for a massive new shelter program but rather primarily to correct what the House Armed Services Committee called deficiencies in the gency operations centers gram The committee said in a re- port that il is concerned with a lack of clarity in the U.S civil defense program and said it hopes the budget increase will spur planning for precise goals for the program The procurement which is million more than ident Carter requested passed Separate bills are ex- peeled lo bring the 1978 defense budget up lo a record lion Inc Senate has not yet on the If Congress actually ends up spending the money after authorization separate votes are needed to appropriate the funds it would be Die most spent on civil defense since fiscal 1962 when on Page 16 Proposal made for downtown office area slick One section stretched southeast toward Denmark 180 miles away while a second took a more more northeasterly course toward Norway 167 miles away and the slick is expected to drift attempts to cap me well for several days and perhaps day also stopped efforts to weeks before reaching shores contain the growing oil slick with floating booms and skimming equipment The oil company estimated By RUTH MORRIS City Editor The City Council this morning promised a decision in a month or so on proposals for com- development in the downtown development district The feeling among the aldermen seemed to be that any project that requires sub- stantial city investment or changes the downtown parking plan will not get council port The council meeting as its own park planning and development heard a presentation from Louis R Lundgren the St Paul architect who holds the only developer contract still in force outlined three an office building above the Mill Street parking lot a grocery store at Mill and Cavour and a complex on the site of the Minnesota Motor parking lot The grocery store proposal was scrapped because the request included shutting off part of Cavour Avenue for additional parking which drew Lyle Anderson parking The lot built just last The U.S Postal service holds fall is part of a package for an option July 1 on the Barkley Hotel Annex If they decide not to exercise that option the properly could become available for parking or other purposes If Anderson's application to Minnesota Housing Finance Agency for rent subsidies for the high rise he proposes at Friberg and Summit is not granted the council then has of going to Lundgren for elderly housing Anderson and one other firm have made applications for funding for high rises The plan which the council seemed to favor most is a level office building to be erected on stilts or columns over parking lot south of Minnesota Norby's Prospective tenants lateen promised for the my building would be to lhat a restaurant shops and Prospects at the moment professional people Lundgren seem guarded Lundgren does not have any agreements weeded that the development with prospective tenants and of a shopping center outside of would request a change in the cause short-term city's liquor law lo entice a in the downtown restaurant Hs plans to hire o in lerm local real estate agent to solicit however the increased which bonds are standing Assessments have been made against downtown businesses but those assessments would probably not be recoverable if the parking lot were lo give way to a building The building proposed for that site is a square foot commercial area which would probably be occupied by a financial institution A somewhat smaller total area would be allotted to housing One option lhal may make the million complex more palatable to the council would be moving it and using a portion of lot 1 across the streel JOBBING Minn air got hot Monday night as Gov Rudy Perpich talked back to a radio talk show guest ing the man the worst possible liar in this state to a had made who also appears on a television program has long been a critic of Former Republican state said Perpich Carl Hibbing ported a sponsored by House Speaker Martin Sabo Minneapolis which would hike the taconite production tax im- pose a lax on tailings not hours were favorable for operation Heavy seas and winds on Monday thwarted plans to plug the well The storm suddenly faded away to a southern breeze early today allowing Hansen and ana nora me ou ana gas Gown berg to move the This could bring the well taw into position under control in two or The storm also broke up the days experts said naming which drew local real estate agent to solicit the increased violent opposition from tenants if the project proceeds probably be good for the businesses in the area The city's obligation in terms of downtown area he said Of his Of the two proposals that project would be a lease project he said Given enough remaining of entitling Lundgren to the can be tone aldermen are interested only in space above the parking lol the one that involves airspace The other project across the above the Mill Street parking tot A suggestion to eliminate consideration of the housing package had some support but the delay will give Lundgren a chance to look for an alternate site or resolve the opposition to the Minnesota Motor lot site His proposal is to replace parking lost by erecting a building where the lot is now by constructing a ramp on City lot 1 across the street The ramp would be constructed at city expense which presumably would be covered by the tax increment gained on the property across the street Among reasons for delaying a decision are un- certainty about plans for post office expansion and about the housing complex proposed by river from city hall would require a more substantial commitment Lundgren asks an option for all the land from the first alley south of Lincoln lo the river from Court Streel annex Since the city already owns the land there would be no purchase cost involved The problem is more in the area of Chamber of Commerce manager and development district administrator Burke McCormick offered a slightly more pessimistic view I think within two years we're going to have a lot of empty buildings in downtown Fergus he said It seems unlikely to me that any investors are going to be too eager lo make an investment in downtown Fergus Falls at this lime On the inside On the local scene Page 6 Area happenings Page 7 Up with People performance set here Page 8 and hold the oil and gas down Turkey profits gobbled up by higher soybean meal price was a guest on radio Candid Comment when the governor who was spending the day in Hibbing ull nui called to take sharp exception dumped on land and raise the property tax on unmined nite Perpich blasted and denied supporting the He called the Hibbing businessman the worst possible liar in this and added thai if had the best interest of the Range at heart he would on water builds momentum Weather roundup Highs Wednesday uppe lower Winds light and -o variable tonight Probability of are going to believe that and the measurable precipitation 30 Sabo bl through percent Wednesday anv changes High Monday 66 Low 37 D in lne At At noon 62 in lale MOs He Precipitation 24 hours ending 8 the a m today none nor had pr Sunrise Wednesday Sunset Capitol Correspondent A to gather information on Minnesota's ground water supply has only one more committee to pass before the House votes Farmers who want to irrigate are still dissatisfied according to Rep Dave Fjoslien IR- Brandon The sponsored by Orv Birnstihl moves water for irrigation purposes from first lo third It also allows two extra months for the ment of Natural Resources lo approve water pumping permits Editor was disastrous for the turkey industry reports Newhall procurement and sales director at West Central Turkeys Pelican Rapids Rising soybean prices are good news for the farmers who grow soybeans but for the turkey producers who use soybeans as a major source of protein for feeding the soybean prices of more than HO per bushel mean higher prices for soybean meal The futures market shows soybean meal at over a ton for May about twice the price of a year ago Soybeans used to be about the cheapest way of making sure the young turkeys or poults were getting enough protein Newhall at West waste S feathers and are Wo a tins period an extra 60 supplement can te added bacX feed Meat scraps and fish can also be fed as can corn We're considering wheat barley oats and millet as substitutes too Newhall adds The problem is getting the high percentage of planning said rner Farmers deserve the courtesy of getting fast response Today water permits not acted upon within 30 days are days Birnstihl feels that unless extra time is granted the DNR will not be able to properly galher on state's ground water supply The DNR is swamped with said They just don't have enough lime to gather the in- Birnstihl opposed attempts to for feed drops slightly as the turkeys mature Newhall says We're quite concerned about the cost of he says Because about two-thirds of th e cost of producing turkeys involves cost of feed higher teed prices contributed to the estimated cents per pound that was lost for each turkey marketed last year In 1976 2.6 billion pounds of turkeys were sold which Temperatures One Year Ago High 62 Low M a sensible study to sec tesi interest of the in pounds of turkeys were sold which Ground tests would also be amend the arguing that the represents a loss of several million dollars I'm sure there are required for some permits and had to be passed in its people who lost more than three cents form don't want to lose the original intention of the said Birnstihl That is to I Perpich Continued on Page 16 farmers would have to pay for them out of their own pockets Farmers need prompt proval of water permits cording to John Bohmer president of the Minnesota Irrigators Association The farmer has complex the only problem for the 61 1 turkey producers gather information on the ground water supply Water Continued on Page 16 Energy costs have crept up Newhall notes Turkey production for those who are not involved in year-round operations starts in March and get underway in April The poults must be protected from the chilly environment in heated shelters and the heating costs are rising During the fuel shortage a couple of years ago there was quite a scramble to make sure there was enough heating oil Newhall recalls and producers simply didn't buy poults unless they were sure they had enough oil to keep heating shutoff the heat in the middle of process he It's putting a lot of caution in he says of the mostly upward of soybean meal and prices and rising fuel costs We're well into the production season he adds but it's a little difficult to assess how the prices are affecting pro duct ion Certainly planning has been on the cautious side and there were delays in starting up he reports Because of Hie cost of healing through the winter and because the main lurkey market is in August through November most producers don't start until March or April The seasonal market is in fart another problem that turkey producers are trying to solve Newhall explains The recent in- of turkey hams turkey wieners and as well as the turkey loaves are attempts to encourage consumers to stop thinking of turkey as the Thanksgiving bird We've made great strides in lias direction We're shooting to keep turkey m from of the public all year he saw Most of the turkeys at West Central are still sold as whole carcasses but has also market turkey products through Turkeys Inc Salt Uke City a cooperative marketing venture with other We're trying lo get a fresh parts program adds the op official Newhall flic turkey producers problems affect people because turkey production is a sizable portion of farm production in Otter Tail County Many people are dependent on it for a livelihood Newhall reports that Otter Tail County is currently ranked second among Minnesota counties in turkey production
