Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 3, 1977, Fergus Falls, Minnesota Fergus Minnesota 54537 celebrities pay tribute to Humphrey WASHINGTON AP Vis toasted in song by actor Urne ibly weakened by his long fight who said the three Hs against Hubert H Humphrey was hailed by Presi dent Carter and a celebrity au of as a man who lost the presidency but gained the nations My knees shake a little but my heart is my spirit is the medical reports are encouraging and I have un bounded taith Humphrey said Friday night as the au at a benefit gala gave him a long standing The senators talk was the emotional high point of the four dinner sponsored by Carter Vice President Walter F Mondale and the The affair brought to the IS million level a campaign to build the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Political Affairs at the University of I have been through ten days of chemotherapy and it just about knocked me for a said Humphrey who has inoperable But I was determined to gain enough strength to come here tonight to be with His voice was heard to break and he himself admitted he felt Humphrey was kissed by actress Elizabeth and in his name stand for hope and Frank Sinatra sang and so did Helen President Carter recalled the years when Humphrey sought and failed to win the presiden Of Humphreys losing 1968 presidential Carter I think he felt then that he was trying to be loyal to his and unfortunately many people were not loyal to His loss was our nations Analysts have said that in 1968 he lost to Richard Nixon in part because as vice pres ident he continued publicly to support the Vietnam War dur ing President Johnsons final months in Carter said that Humphrey has earned a permanent place in the nations affections and his own deep Ive called him on the phone when I was in Carter Ive gotten his quiet and private and sound Im proud to be the presi dent of a nation that loves a man like Hubert Humphrey and is loved so deeply by Carter When Humphreys chance to respond he was ab is no secret that I am a very senti mental Its difficult to even And for me thats Fundraising efforts are to continue to reach the mil lion goal set for Die Humphrey The dinner was not the days only tribute to For tyone state governors pro claimed 2 as Hubert Humphrey And in his native education officials announced that the states school children ivill be given an opportunity o contribute nickels and dimes to the institute so that not all of the funds will come from wealthy Carter brings down the house WASHINGTON AP President Carter brought down the house Friday night with two anecdotes with surprise punch lines about Hubert The President spoke at a fundraising dinner that launched a drive to raise million for the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of the senators alma In the first Carter said Humphreys wife on a 1968 campaign swing through south paused outside the door of a reception and said she would not enter unless the party were The President said his stepped in to check and returned shortly to say the event was indeed racially When Humphrey en tered she saw several black women seated among the Muriel never knew until now that the maids just look off their aprons for the Carter adding That was the first integrated reception in south In his second the President said that when he met Humphrey a few years he was impressed to find that Humphrey knew Continued on Page 4 Smuggling fines total million AP Fines totaling more than million were assessed Friday against three men who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the smuggling of All four men were also given prison sentences ranging from two to 10 Fines of each were levied against two brothers un der the Currency and Monetary Reporting Act of A spokesman for the Cus toms Service said it was be to be the first time the fine had been A third man was fined 000 and a fourth was sentenced to two years in with no Six persons were arrested May 22 in the Minneapolis one in Canada and two in India Queen has car trouble LONDON AP When Queen Elizabeth Hs car chugged to a a patrolmen in the royal party messaged thusly The Queen has blown a gasket on Topless The Automobile which aids drivers in said it received the telephone call Friday and within minutes had a man on the near Thruxton Village in Hampshire But the sovereign did not have to wait on the She continued her journey in a backup car to Romsey to see her Lord The green Rover sedan which had the engine failure was tak en 60 miles back to Bucking ham as the result of a yearlong in by the federal Drug Enforcement Royal Canadian Police and Indian Nearly pounds of hash a euphoric drug formed from resin in Indian was seized at a townhouse in the Minneapolis suburb of Apple Authorities estimated its street value at Another 600 pounds of hashish was seized at New Four of the six persons ar rested in the Minneapolis area pleaded guilty last August to charges against them and were sentenced Friday by Dis Judge Donald They were hashish conspiracy to smuggle hashish and viola lion of the currency fined Russian grain purchases lead to hearing requests year of an agreement com change of information on crops and grain By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON AP Two senior farm belt senators have asked for a hearing early next year into the latest surge of grain purchases by the So viet George D says the Russian pur chases are strongly cent of when it bought huge quantities of American wheat at bargain of six million tons annually for five In the first year of the agree which ended the Soviet Union bought about the minimum of wheat and The United States has given Russia permission to buy up to 15 million tons of wheat and corn this year further negotiations and department say that the full amount probably will be and grain coupled with the se cret agreements between the Sonets and our private grain continues to spell bad particularly for the wheat growers who continue to be amongst the hardest McGovern and sentenced to 10 years in Win same counts as his brother fined and sentenced to eight years in Pradeep Min hashish currency fined 000 and sentenced to five years in Engle hashish sentenced to two years in no A customs official said the Solomons or were buy ing at the time of a large portion of property in downtown All four face deportation at the end of their prison A fifth person also has plead ed guilty in the but has not been Charges against the sixth person were The currency law requires persons transporting more than to or from the United Slates to report to Ihe Cus toms Its purpose is to disrupt large criminal organ by eliminating their profits through assessment of large Under the sentence imposed by the men must serve onethird of their sentences be fore they become eligible for If their fines are not parole cannot be an official in the Attorneys office Karen Svendsgaard and Terry Auseth talk with a friend Getting together Twelve sixth graders at Lincoln Elementary School are involved in a unique program with conversational sessions called the student resident involvement IJn coin teacher Bruce Pederson started the program on The students go to the hospital each Friday morning and talk to the residents about different such as personal photography and Pederson said students also discuss reality subjects such as weather and out Kathi occupational therapist and program coordinator at the said the students and residents enjoy Ihe and she hopes the students will continue Student volunteers participating are Dacia Field Ray Karen Kathy Svendsgaard ferry Rachel Kevin Pankonin Debbie Ward Donna Manderud Terry Smith and Risa Journal photos by Harley Ray Cole looks at a photo exhibit Man questioned in California series of killings and rapes LOS ANGELES 24 yearold clothing store worker has been questioned about a series of killings and rapes of young authorities Police said Bennett of a desert commu was booked for investiga tion of robbery Friday in a case separate from those attributed to the socalled Hillside Strangles An unidentified woman said she bad been raped and robbed on The robbery case turned up when a special learn was in the strangulation of 20yearold Yolanda Washing believed to be the Hillside Stranglers first The bodies of 10 strangulation victims have been found dumped beside freeways and under bushes during the past six There were sim in all the killings the victims were young they were left nude or semi their clothes have not been found and most were Miss Washingtons body was discovered by the side of the Ventura Freeway near Griffith Park on Police said the Hillside Stran gler Task Force was called in lo question Merrett because when he vras driving a black and gray Cadillac and womens clothing was found in the The Hillside Stran glers latest fiae was re ported to have been seen being taken away in a black and white or black and gray Asked whether the arrest of Merrett was considered a breakthrough in the stran gulation Ed Hender head of the task re plied No Killer probably venting rage ANGELES AP A psychiatrist has speculated that Ihe strangler of ID young women in the Us Angeles area does not show the psychotic tendencies exhibited by the Son of Sam killer in New Edward pro fessor emeritus of psychiatry at Ihe University of Southern Cali McGoverns request for a hear ing into the Soviet grain buying was made this week in a letter they say that much to Herman D more than that could be sold to chairman of the Senate Agriculture an aide said Robert made a similar request for a hearing on 5 after it was McGovern told Talmadge that experience indicates there is little reason to doubt that the Soviets had secretly ar Cambridge hospital may add 200 to staff Die Soviet Union without trig gering higher American food because grain sup plies are the largest since the disclosed that the Agriculture Department and the CIA had overestimated the 1977 Soviet grain harvest by 10 The two agencies had esti mated grain output at 215 met ric slightly more that goal Soviet President Brezhnev announced on 2 that pro duction would be 194 million Dole said the Senate should find out more about the Agri culture Departments ability to predict predict foreign crop production a factor has an important bearing on grain exports and prices that farmers the Soviet Union has been buying wheat and corn at a pace to help make up for the harvest the Soviets hive bought about million Urns of wheat and com for de in the second Minnesota Department of Public Welfare is considering the addition of more than 200 staff positions at Cambridge State Welfare Com missioner Edward ger said Friday The proposed additions would be part of an agreement to make improve ments in the care of retarded patients at the If ratified by all concerned the improvements would end a law suit brought against the welfare department by the Legal Aid The society filed the class action suit in federal court on behalf of the mentally retarded patients at Cam The proposal also commits the welfare department and Rudy to seek an additional million to million per year lo make sim staff improvements al oth er state Up to half of that additional amount would come from fed eral funds and the rest from the if approved by the Dirkswager District Judge Earl I ar son ruled in July of 1976 that the care of the retarded at Cam bridge was inhumane and He ordered major improvements and as Staff Continued on Page 4 ranged with private grain com panies or their intermediaries for the grain before harvest The chain of events is strongly reminiscent of when the Russians took tage of low grain prices at the expense of producers and McGovern Five years the Soviets secretly bought huge quantities of including about 12 million tons of wheat or approximately one fourth of the harvest that year at prices well below those that developed after the deals became McGovern said the Soviets largely ignore agreements with the United States made since 1972 that call for an ex Wild dogs hunted in New Jersey API The scraggy starving and dazed from weeks in the cold pine stared into the muzzle of Guerdan Smiths Here come Smith But the collie back ed The collie was blown on his yelping and wag ging its tail Smith quickly reloaded and fired again It was We love but what can we do Its wit of control right he In the farm and pine country of southern New mans worst enemy is the wild One farm was raided m October by a pack of dogs that killed two seven goats and 13 The officials may have been made up of as many as 20 a gentle paint contractor and recently depu tized wild dog warden of the today leads a posse of about 15 experienced hunters in an effort to thin out the popu lation of wild The its not their Smith cruising the back roads in his pickup truck Its those folks who are topping then dogs off They get rid of And dogs have to I even caught a Philadelphia cop doing it Everybody thinks this is a game for but youve got to know what youre he Theyll turn on Just as soon as theyll turn on Smith knows his wild He was last called to duty 10 years ago when a dog pack killed half a dozen I got em that same he I left one carcass out there and they came back at night to kill some I got em The wiM dog warden timed his truck into an old gravel I dont wish anybody any but I hope theres no one in here dropping off a Two hounds bounded out of the barking Smith stepped out of the cab and took The dogs looked up theyre coon theyre Some bodys hunting in he Wild they look friend but then theyll rip you he We all love Every one of us has he refer ring to the dog But at the same we know if we dont do something about these wild theyll kill our dogs or maybe some said in an interview Fri day that news accounts of the recent Los Angeles stran allow experts study ing human behavior to make some predictions about the kill But he cautioned that such predictions based on reports of the assailants behavior rather than studies of the man himself are speculation rather than a psychological My speculation is that hes not said Stain I think hell have a lot of past history of assaultive hating aggressive He never learned to impose behavioral controls on him Stainbrook added like Son of Sam has al tered the ordinary conception of He feels that some outside force is making him do these He may feel guilt and anxiety but feels It is not I who is responsible for this A psychotic may not be too aware of therefore he manages to get he On the other Stainbrook said an under controlled which the las Angeles strangler may just doesnt give a He simply hasnt learned concern about other The strangulation some of which were were found nude or seminude and were dumped into bushes after their police have Stainbrook says this in a iety person youve used killed now throw it Stainbrook said the killer if in fact one person is responsible for the strangulations probably is somebody in his early between about 20 and somebody who is get ling despairing enough lo He probably had a lot of insults from and now as a young adult has despaired of his ability ever lo grow up and become a He noted that all of the vic tims were indicating that the assailant might have specifically selected women about his own age lo vent hi own Most Stain brook traditionally are younger men unable to CODE with the end of adolescence and the growth inlo Weather roundup A chance of snow by Snow likely and five above to Highs Sunday 15 o Winds east to southeast at 15 mph tonight and 15 to 20 mph Probability of measurable precipitation 70 percent tonight ami 50 percent High Friday At Al Noon 7 Precipitation 24 hours ending 8 Temperatures One Year low Sunrise Sun clay Sunset Sunrise Monday M Sunset
