Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 30, 1977, Fergus Falls, Minnesota Leaders confer in Warsaw WARSAW Poland President Carter met with ish leader Edward Gierek day after placing floral wreaths at national monuments under somber snowy skies First lady Carter meanwhile paid an unscheduled visit to Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski land's Catholic primate Carter conferred with the Communist Party chief before holding an unprecedented news conference at which the tive subject of human rights was expected to come up In a surprise development White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said Carter was considering an unscheduled stop in Cairo Wednesday to dis- cuss Middle East peace talks with President Anwar Sadat for several hours Asked about this in the midst of his round of ceremonial ils Carter told reporters only I don't know yet Powell said a final decision would be made Saturday Such a stopover would be in line with U.S interest in furthering peace talks lately strained by stands taken by the leaders of those two countries as well as by statements made by ter himself Mrs Carter accompanied by Zbigniew Brzezinski White House national security ad- viser met with Wyszynski at the cardinal's Warsaw office for more than an hour zinski a native Pole acted as translator The Roman Catholic church has the allegiance of up to 90 per cent of the Polish people and is a powerful force in national life Carter and wearing a blue topcoat paused for a ment in silent prayer and placed a gloved hand to his fact in a gesture of humility at the Warsaw Ghetto monument a black stone memorial to the thousands of Jews who held out in the walled ghetto against the Nazis during a short-lived rising in 1943 The president then walked over to shake hands with Poles many of whom shouted ter Carter Commenting on the ghetto uprising Carter told the crowd They died alone but they live in our conscience At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier remnants of an century colonnade Polish and American flags whipped in the chill wind under gray skies and the muffled drums of a Polish honor guard sounded a cadence as Carter placed the wreath Rain turned to snow during the ceremony Two Marine guards from the U.S Embassy carried the wreath up to the monument for Carter Hundreds of Polish spectators were on hand as the national anthems of the two countries were played Carter accompanied by his wife who was bundled in a white raincoat boots and scarf shook hands with Polish ans after the ceremony and signed a guest book just as Presidents Ford and did on their trips to Poland Coal mining taught Gierek determination WARSAW Poland AP Edward Gierek the Polish leader President Carter holds talks with today is a big spoken man who began his rise to the top post in his nation on the strength of bitter ex- in a coal mine Gierck who turns on Jan 6 has headed the Polish Com- munist movement since 1970 when he succeeded Wladyslaw Gomulka as first secretary of the Polish United Workers Party Gierek says the turning point in his life came in 1926 when at the age of 13 he had to go to work in a French coal mine He was a miner for 18 years It was cruel he told The Associated Press day Those years have molded in me a determination to struggle to overcome he said in an interview in his office hours before Carter arrived for a three-day visit Gierek was bora to a mining family in the Silesia area of southern Poland and emigrated with his mother to France in 1923 after his father was killed in a mine accident If you start working at a very early he said you cannot have respect for those for whom you are working Mine conditions then were much worse than they are day he said and European coal mines were more primitive than their American West Virginia compared with French mines was like a sanitorium Gierek became active in bor unions and in 1931 joined the French Communist Party Three years later he was de- ported to Poland for in- volvement in a strike In 1937 he started work as a miner in Belgium where he spent World War 11 as a ance fighter against the man occupiers Gierek Continued on Page 14 French working on new missile WASHINGTON AP France which maintains an in- dependent nuclear striking force is reported moving ward development of its own cruise missile U.S intelligence sources mate French research probably could produce such a missile in from five to 10 years Reports of French interest in developing a cruise missile come while the United States and the Soviet Union are dis- cussing possible formulas for controlling cruise missiles within the framework of an overall agreement to curb strategic nuclear weapons A number of North Atlantic Alliance member nations have indicated an interest in oping cruise missiles for NATO but these hopes may hinge on whether a SALT agreement will permit the United States to share such technology with its European allies The French formally broke with NATO militarily in the and have gone their own way in developing and ing land-based and siles and nuclear weapons for bombers Gen Charles deGaulle France's leader in those days questioned whether Western Europe could rely on the U.S nuclear umbrella in a crisis of the Soviet Union and his have followed the pendent nuclear policy he charted As a result U.S intelligence specialists believe France has the necessary technology and expertise to achieve a cruise missile which is essentially a small pilotless jet bomber that its backers say would add a new dimension to nuclear de- terrents According to American in- analysts the French government has not yet made a final decision on the scope of cruise missile research to be pursued However these specialists say French scientists already have done a considerable amount of work applicable to cruise missiles and that French industry could produce most of the components YEAR NO 304 FALLS FRIDAY DEC 30 1977 SINGLE COPY It was the year when By PEG KALAK and PAT WALKUP The best and the worst news in 1877 was the weather The year brought a parade of bad bitter cold plagued the area in the early months of the year summer tornados destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property and zards almost became a miserable way of life in November and December But the good news in this agricultural area was moisture and concerns about another year of drought were washed away by the spring and summer rains But weather wasn't the only subject in the headlines for was also the year of the energy emergency the con- power line dispute and the threatened strike by farmers On the national scene Jimmy Carter took the presidential oath of office on Jan 20 and voters locally voiced their opinions on a Seventh District representative four new city councilmen and the split liquor issue Fanners entered 1977 under the shadow of the 1975 drought with fears that the new year would bring more of the same Hay shortages spurred extensive culling of beef and dairy herds although some emergency programs did provide some hay and drought assistance A special emergency program provided 32 jobs for Otter Tail County farmers hard-hit by the drought But in April the rains came and kept coming and by the middle of that month it appeared that 1977 would not be a second year of drought Topsoil moisture improved quickly although subsoil moisture was extremely short even by planting time By April 18 the year's rainfall had reached 5.86 inches compared with the average of 4.5 inches and the 3.06 inches that had fallen by that date during 1976 By year's end 1977 precipitation totaled 31.46 inches compared with the average of 25 inches and with only 8.64 inches in 1976 By September drought relief payments were almost forgotten as the demand at the local office was for Commodity Credit Corporation o n the bumper crops being stored for the most part in bins on farms because of low grain prices In the fall talk began of a farm strike to begin Dec 14 Demonstrations supporting the strike were held in Perham and Parkers Prairie In June the Fergus Falls city council was ready to prohibit lawn and garden sprinkling in the city but it was never necessary to actually put the ban in effect Concern that the Otter Tail River wouldn't be able to supply the city's water needs spurred the city to drill a new well but the well wasn't needed during second larger well also began late in the year In the first half of January the temperature didn't top zero for 10 days and blustery winds did their share to make life unpleasant Along with the cold came a state energy emergency Minnesotans and many other Americans were asked to turn down their thermostats and wear extra sweaters in an attempt to save fuel Almost all schools in the area decided to stay on a class schedule but the community college did cut classes to four days a week The Chamber of Commerce asked businesses to trim their shopping hours and state employees switched to a week A string of six tornados cut through Otter Tail County on the evening of Friday Aug 26 leaving a path of damage from Buse Township to Deer Creek One of the hardest hit areas was the Country Manor Trailer Court where the storm injured ten people and destroyed eight trailer homes Power outages were common caused by broken branches and trees tossed by the winds Numerous lake cabins and barns were damaged along with many fields of crops County Sheriff Carlton Mortensen said the morning after the storm that in the Battle lake area it seemed more trees WEATHER IN TOE dominated tte news in 1977 zard Shown here an the remains of a trailer at Silver Lake after There was extreme cold an end to the drought and a major tornadoes rampaged through the area Aug M were lying down than standing up There was an unwelcome preview of winter in early Oct- ober when snow disrupted traffic power and football schedules The city police reported six property damage accidents caused 1 by the weather on Get 7 The state highway patrol reported seven accidents the same day including one collision in which a Parkers Prairie An snowfall was dumped on the area in early November and most people spent days digging out from the wind-blown drifts Countless vehicles were stalled and stranded during the storm and almost all area roads were impassable Fifty cars were stalled on a stretch of I- M Perkins Big Chief Skelly Holiday Inn and Country chen became storm homes for hundreds of travelers and the Red Cross set up a temporary shelter Less than two weeks later a second storm hit the area and another eight inches of wind-whipped snow fell Businesses and schools weren't things affected by he the city spent for snow removal between Nov 1 and Nov 20 and the city council had to transfer money from one fund to another to bolster the snow removal budget Po wer I ine disputes continued ui 1977 with opponents o f the line steadily losing ground both in the courts and along the survey route In late October opponents blockaded some construction vehicles on a farm near Wheaton in an attempt to delay the pouring of concrete footings for the towers A district court injunction was issued banning further in- with construction and the blockade was removed The same order banned any attempts by opponents of the line to stop construction efforts At issue was and is a transmission line being built by United Power Associates and Cooperative Power Associates that would carry electricity from a generating in Underwood N to Die Twin Cities area and to the Mankato area As the year ended the a science court proposed to study the safety and potential dangers of the line was in doubt Governor Rudy Perpich had asked the opponents and the power cooperatives to agree on such a court but the two sides could not agree on along the route wanted all construction halted until the science court an- its findings while refused to agree to that condition For the first time in many years Fergus Falls residents approved split by a slim margin The referendum vote only gives the city council the authority to grant liquor licenses and the council has already promised it won't be easy to one of the licenses In the same election Aldermen Olaf and Black were elected to their second terms on the council and Leighton Erickson was elected to the council for the first time Curtis Nyman defeated incumbent Al Haagenson for inn Egypt visit rumors played down WARSAW Poland AP President Carter said Friday he will consider visiting Egypt during his current trip if it's mutually convenient and but has no plans to go there now At a news conference in a Warsaw hotel Carter thus played down the suggestions of White House aides that he might head for Cairo as an added stop on his journey Carter said we have no in- tention and no desire to impose County employees get pay hike The county commissioners voted to give employees a 5 percent across-the-board wage increase in 1971 at their Thursday meeting Besides the percentage in- crease employees will get minimum wage adjustments and merit raises win be given according to workload The salaries agreed on are those recommended by the wage commission nude up of Roger Bengtson veteran's services director Malcolm Let of- ficer George Nelson County an Helen dcr a settlement between Israel and her Arab neighbors but will help when possible to their negotiations The president answered questions from Polish and American newsmen in the session at the Victoria International Hotel It's a great honor for me to be here in Poland to reaffirm and strengthen the historic and strong ties of friendship and mutual purpose which exist be- tween our two ter began He said he had conducted very fruitful discussions with Polish leader Edward Gierek on issues including NATO for force reductions in Europe strategic arms tations and general com- to peace in the ture Questioned by a Polish man Carter said the United States and the Soviet Union have made great progress in dealing with a long list of im- portant chief among them an agreement to control strategic nuclear weapons de- ployment He said once again that he expects to see a new SALT agreement concluded in 1978 I would say that in mary I am very encouraged at the new progress that 1 have witnessed on that and other points under negotiation be- tween Moscow and Washington Carter said Then came the question of a visit to Cairo raised after Press Secretary Jody Powell had said it was a possibility Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had objected to Carter's statement Wednesday night in opposition to an independent homeland for Palestinians At that time Carter also had said that Israel's insistence on currently Arab territory was a reasonable negotiating position I have a standing invitation from President Sadat to visit Egypt Carter said We have had no discussions with President Sadat on that visit to Egypt while I'm on this trip We will try to keep our schedule he added If it is mutually convenient and desirable we will certainly consider it But he said there are no plans now for such a visit Carter said Die United States does not back any Israeli tary settlement of the dispute over the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River but does vor a Palestinian homeland tied to Jordan rather than eign Once again however he said the administration is not trying o impose any Middle East settlement but to age agreement among the tions involved The president announced that the United States is providing another 5200 million worth of Carter Continued rm Page H Mrs Carter visiting Old Town On the Area Page 3 MMes with after K years Page S OK tke teal scene Page 14 WARSAW Poland AP Carter's planned visit to Warsaw's Old Town this afternoon is to be a walk through an 18th city just over 29 years old Painstakingly rebuilt from the ruins of World War II the district is a restoration piece which has earned its builders a worldwide reputation as reconstruction experts We had 910 buildings fied as historical town planner Stanislav M kowski says of prewar Warsaw More than were razed to the ground Others were blown up Others were burned Hardly any were left By war's end almost 90 cent of Warsaw's buildings had been destroyed city officials say Many systematically demolished by German troops after the crushing of a rising by resistance fighters Old Town was shattered by street fighting during the rising Afterwards German troops blew up the remaining ruins The district has origins in the century and was rebuilt in its 15th century form an area of colorful houses and shops centered on an open market square Interiors were modernized with penthouse floors turning into artists studios and some of Warsaw's best apartments Art galleries moved into shops and cabarets into cellars some of which had been forgotten for years Later the area was closed to traffic and made into a trian zone We had no plans no en- says After the war everything was pre- fabricated and we even had to train bricklayers gathered old plans paintings drawings and photographs and trained not just bricklayers but workers who made bricks by hand We were never a rich says Jankowski a year-old former resistance fighter who himself was cap- tured in the uprising and sent to a concentration camp For the first two years after the war Warsaw took up W percent of all the money we had for rebuilding the whole country The question was asked is it possible to make a capital in the he says There were many Poles against it But on the other hand there was a strong argument for it as a psychological compensation for the crime Many stone doorways and window frames in Old Town still bear bullet and shrapnel scars And as elsewhere in Warsaw Old Town walls bear plaques marking the sites of more than 220 public executions during the occupation years The Old Town area was a poor neighborhood before the war Jankowski says and its reconstruction has changed its character in some pated ways When we started it was just a normal residential area it's a terribly snobby place where everybody wants to live The only way you can get an apartment here is to marry a girl who lives he says man arraigned on arson charge An Erhard man was arraigned in county court this morning on charges connected with the Dec 12 fire at Public Finance 106 S Union Theodore Arnold Juenke 28 was charged with arson in the first degree and possession of a chemical igniting device Juenke is scheduled to appear in district court at 10 on Jan 9 Bond was set at and he was remanded to custody According to State Fire Marshal Rusty Tallman the fire was started by a Molotov cocktail a bomb made from a quart fruit jar It was thrown through a side window into the back of the office where filing cabinets are kept The fire caused extensive smoke damage but no records were destroyed Tallman directed the arson investigation assisted by city police and a state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Weather roundup Clear to partly cloudy tonight Increasing cloudiness Saturday with a few snow flurries possible tonight 10 to 20 below Highs Saturday zero to 10 above Winds easterly 5 to 10 mph Saturday High 20 0 At 11 Year 4 -S
