Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - September 11, 1977, Winona, Minnesota Area Editor Miss I feel like a queen i NJ feel like a Id Miss Jennifer Woychik Miss Wisconsin im following Friday evening Muss America Pageant preliminary competition in Convention Hall here Everyone has been treating me royally Atlantic City is great The ocean Is something Wisconsin doesn't have and I It I have meus girls here who are beautiful botn inside and out No way am 1 going to feel I'm a she said I've seen so much and have learned what I can and can't do You learn a lot when you're tired Nobody loses wen if you don't wear the crown All the girls are wearing crowns in their home states Just being here entitles you to carry a crown I still can't believe It when they call me Miss Wisconsin Cathy U Belle Miss Florida won the talent preliminary Friday night with the same song thai Anne used to become Miss America In Catherine Amelia Miss South Carolina walked away with award for an additional news report more photos set page Miss La Belle stunned the crowd with He Touched Me Irom the Broadway play Oral the Cat Miss Hinson who wore an aqua is the only blonde this week to win a preliminary She played the saxophone for her talent presentation Thursday night Sunday News year o publication Winona Minnesota September U 1977 70 Pages 4 Sections night was Miss Wisconsin opened the Friday evening talent contest with a number from Sesame the renowned educational television series for children With a trash can on stage she sang and danced her way through I Love one of the program's original numbers and a favorite with the Convention Hall crowd The University of Wisconsin-Stout sophomore was dressed in a flowered dross and musty jacket white striped socks oversized sneakers and hat with a flower Her props were a tattered umbrella broken clock rusty trombone fish wrapped In newspaper and feather fans With perfect control Miss Woychik displayed in song and eye-catching stage motion her lave for anything dirty and dusty Following the performance she said she wasn't at all nervous My latent presentation was the one I was not worried she said I really feel comfortable doing it It makes m e laugh a nd I hope it makes the audi once la ugh too Commenting on the 130 rooters from the Arcadia area who arc here to cheer her on she said They're great Everyone Miss Wisconsin Sunday's at Compromise farm clears Senate hurdle A compromise farm which will increase price supports and revamp the food stamp program has cleared the Senate and now goes lo the House The includes a provision for a record SI 2 billion in payments to wheat growers and forces up the cash price of corn bv 10 lo 20 cents a bushel The Senate passed the billion a year t and House consideration is set early this week President Carter is expected to sign the measure Amin taking heat off? Suspicion continued to grow Saturday that reports of an operation on Ugandan President Idi Amin and that he subsequently fell into a coma were a hoax possibly to head off peals for the lives of 15 men who were shot by a firing squad Friday Amm did not attend the executions of the men who were accused of plotting against the leader and no mention was made of his condition or whereabouts in radio broadcasts Of those executed 12 were convicted last month of plotting to overthrow Amin on Jan 55 the sixth anniversary of his accession to power The other three were sentenced in July on charges of treason and murder Lance day in to get court Beauty queen Miss Claire Ford an would-be lawyer from Memphis Tenn Friday was crowned Miss Black America in Santa Monica Calif Miss Ford a statuesque English major at Memphis State won over a field of 30 other candidates from U.S and Puerto Rico She measures Burger traveling U.S Chief Justice Warren Burger ended a visit lo the Soviet Union by meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev According to Western diplomats Brezhnev lectured Burger on the international arms issue Burger loid Brezhnev Americans are just as concerned world peace as Soviet residents Car invades picnic We were just getting started and bringing out he said Beverly Cook about picnic for residents of the Americana Health care Center Indianapolis Ind Suddenly people were laying all over Without ning a car driven by Leo Schulle Indianapolis who police say was soon to enter a nursing home himself jumped a curb and plowed into Die crowd of about 100 picnickers many in wheelchairs Two were killed and 21 injured one critically and four seriously Schulte was released after questioning The case will be sent to a grand jury Nudity called a phenomenon of the wealthy Die summer of 1977 saw more topless sunbathing than ever before on Italy's beaches but the Vatican maintains that nudity is a phenomenon more or less of the wealthy class The editor of the Vatican daily newspaper predicted the little and middle class people did not respond and will not respond to this deafening invitation to the striptease The partially sometimes totally nude sunbathing this summer resulted in arrest of dozens of people for offending public decency Leo Schulte The inside Course by Newspaper Summer calendar Daily Youth The Cloudy today be cloudy and showers or are today will be near 70 I he extend is much more pleasant and cool Wednesday WASHINGTON AP Budget Director Bert gels his say this week in the controversy over his finances that has embarrassed banking regulators Congress bankers President Carter Lance a former Georgia banker insists he did nothing wrong and wants to tell the country his side of story a a Senate hearing on Thursday Carter said Saturday he will discuss the Lance rascal a news conference Wednesday Carter disclosed his plans when reporters asked for his reaction to Majority Leader Robert C Byrd's statement that Lance's resignation was inevitable because bis effectiveness has been destroyed nnd he has lost credibility Carter said he respected Byrd's opinion but noted that Byrd also had urged that Lance get a chance lo have his say at the hearings Thursday Meanwhile every available detail of personal financial affairs is being picked over daily hy congressional witnesses federal investigators and reporters The Democratic chairmen of three congressional panels investigating affairs have said he should step down But While House officials are said lo believe that Lance must at least have his day in court or it would appear that he was admitting the charges against him While many of lire issues in the Lance case are complicated tanking transactions the aspect getting the most attention has been the relatively simple problem of overdrawn checking accounts by Lance and his family at a bank where he was chairman At times their accounts were as much as in the red The Lances paid interest on these overdrafts after But bank examiners view such overdrafts as same thing as personal loans Bankers are supposed to borrow only limited amounts from their own banks The office of the Comptroller of the Currency which regulates federal banks was so alarmed by the Lance family overdrafts imposed a agreement on Lance's Calhoun First National Bank in December 1975 Jenny Miss Wisconsin 1977 fer Woychik poses outside the Sheraton Deauville lei in Atlantic City her home during the Miss America Pageant Miss Woychik is pride of Arcadia Wls Sunday News photo Lance on way out Carter shouts J By RETTY ANNE WILLIAMS WASHINGTON AP Budget Director Bert Lance's resignation is inevitable because his effectiveness has been destroyed and it's impossible for liim to regain his credibility Semite Majority Leader Byrd said Saturday assessing the political impact of disclosures about Lance's finances also said that any slippage in Carter's standing with the public or with Congress because of the Lance be repaired unless the situation is allowed on Mr Lance's effectiveness has been he snid during his regular Saturday news conference The of suspicion is continuing to broaden and it will not be possible for him lo regain his credibility It is inevitable that he will resign 1 think he should have his say before the Senate Governmental Affairs committee on Thursday and then resign Carter campaigning Saturday in New Jersey Gov Brendan Byrne said he respects Byrd's opinion But agree with liim that Bert also should have a chance to explain his position Carter sairi The President also said he was unaware of most of Lance's affairs before he nominated Lance to he budget director The only tiling that 1 knew was that he had a problem in the 1974 campaign and it had been Carter said This apparently referred lo checking account overdrafts incurred by campaign committee during Lance's unsuccessful run for governor of Georgia Carter said he will hold a news conference Wednesday to about the Lance case Lance will appear before committee to explain financial transactions described in reports by the Comptroller of the Currency the Internal Revenue Service arai in other investigations The same committee confirmed his nomination last January as director of of Management and Budget tank examiners have been looking into Lance's overdrafts of checking accounts at banks he headed and at loans Iw from large banks Dial received deposits from Lance's banks Byrd declined to Lance's finances said allegations that the news media have treated Lance unfairly are inevitable I think the press has a responsibility to investigate and report ami I il has fulfilled its responsibility in this in- sUiner Bruised battered Emmy finally will get show on road LOS ANGELES AP Bruised and battered Emmy finally is ting her show on the road night with Roots expected lo sweep the national prime lime television awards NBC is televising he annual awards after a four-month delay caused by internal turmoil in the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences most popular of programs in TV history seems sure to take the lion's share of Emmies Alex Haley's history of slavery in America captured a record 37 nominations President Jimmy Carter and New Jersey Gov Brendan Byrne are all lUli lU I smiles during a campaign trip Saturday Carter arrived in Newark to boost Byrne's reelection bid AP Minimum wage plan to be considered over hecklers in stump NEWARK AP Jimmy Carter on his first campaign trip as President outshouted hecklers upset about New Jersey's new stale income lax and en- Byrne for as governor of the Male The jeering from the crowd estimated at eventually faded as the President persisted and raised his voice over the public address system at the rally at a predominantly Mack medical school near the heart of a Newark area scarred by rioting years ago Some of the demonstrators in crowd waul special Carter declared saying dial the poor blacks surrounding tlie school would from lower properly taxes resulting from the New Jersey income lax Byrne who sponsored income tax last month acknowledged the probable accuracy nf an early poll showing Mm 10 points his challenger Sen Kay Bateman Carter whose own popularity has slumped by 17 points in the Harris Survey since April said after his U the was kind of an organized thing They are against the lax He said lie wasn't disturbed by the heckling Carter told the rally outside New olios of Medicine that more black students were training to be physicians at the school than al my integrated medical college in the country hi a style reminiscent of his campaign a year ago for presidency Carter strode up lo crowds at an earlier fund-raising breakfast al Newark Airport and behind the medical school and shook outstretched hands two and three at a lime hand over hand tike picking cotton At he medical school the crowd surged against a rope nearly pushed him down and was restrained by police and Secret Service God bless you Mr one woman said Brendan Byrne is the man who will fight for you if you're a working-class family Carter loid the crowd He is a mnn ol competence and one who is completely honest By JIM ADAMS WASHINGTON AP Congress is about half finished wilh President Carter's energy proposals and will lake up legislation would increase he minimum wage The following is status of other major legislation in Canal A Senate vote on ratifying the new treaty is not expected until next year But an ad- ministration source says Carter and Senate leaders would press a vote anytime this year they thought they couldwin There may be hearings on Carter's welfare overhaul proposals But with less than months of scheduled session left no votes are likely this year even in House or Senate committees Costs Carter's proposal lo prohibit hospital costs from rising more than 9 per cent a year is ready for floor action but is si ill in committee in House Security Committees in both the House and Senate are considering ways to bolster Social Security which is threatened with bankruptcy in two years No more than temporary measures are lo be approved this year Carter won final congressional approval lasl week of his decision lo halt production of Bl strategic bomber which had been proposed to replace the present A effort in House to save plane was by only voles 202 to 199 The House and then Senate then approved a Jl defense appropriation Carter's answer to the energy crisis still dominates the energies of Congress Most of his package has passed the House without controversial increase in the gas lax that he wanted and now is in Senate committee The only part of Carter's energy package Dial has passed both House and Senate in some form is coal conversion intended to encourage power plants and industrial plants lo switch to coal conferees must work out a com- promise version of thai The Senate is expected week lo approve President's energy conservation proposals including new standards for cars appliances and buildings Carter's energy lax proposals which would discourage use of gas-guzzler aulos are slill in Senate committee The House has already approved both the lax and energy packages Two major energy bills already enacted will require cleanup of strip mines and create a new Department of Energy The House is to vole next week on Increasing the national minimum wage lo an hour starling in January from the Panamanians celebrate new treaty on canal Thousands of Panamanians danced the in the streets of their capital to celebrate the return of Gen Omar Torrijos the head of government from Washington with a newly signed Panama Canal The celebration into Die early hours Saturday as Caribbean musk blared from scores of bars and from loudspeakers mounted on Automobiles weaved among revelers with horns blaring U was an said a Panamanian
