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2B DES MOINES REGISTER Fri Mar. 16, 1979 to, Md-r TX House votes to increase temporary debt ceiling EPA RULES THAT AIR STANDARDS COVER DUBUQUE By RICHARD PAXSON Reenter StM Wrlwr The city of Dubuque apparently will not get a pardon from federal air pollution requirements, despite Hurries Lt I p. VspA.S.KSi I ,1 temperaturei ESED rt)- I IplifN loin I "LkLnWLiiF oVvNViJ tssstaeaeasss Skewer Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WtATMIt SCI VICf. SSS NOAA. US Dept el Commerce Temperatures temperature! Brownsville Thursday Buffalo I): Burlington, Vt.

(L) (M) (P) Casper 17 0.00 Charleston, S.C. 10 34 0.00 Cherleilon, W.V. Ot 17 0.00 Chartelte, 10 3 0 00 Cheyenne 10 30 0 00 Chicago 03 100 Cincinnati 00 36 0.00 Cleveland 02 72 0 00 Columbia, C. 00 30 0.00 Columbus, O. 10 40 0.00 Delia! Dayton OS 13 000 Denver 10 3 0.00 Detroit 09 34 0 00 Duluth 03 77 0.00 El Pese 09 2 0.00 Fairbanks Fargo Greet Fait! la 71 000 Hartford 33 000 Helena 0.04 Honolulu 12 34 007 Houilon 3e OX Indieneeeili 3e 9 0.00 Jackson, 20 37 0 00 JacksomWe 47 94 0 73 Juneau 21 39 0 00 Kansas City 31 03 0.00 Us Veges 31 tt 0.00 Little Rock 09 17 0 00 Lei Angeles Jt 64 0 00 Loulivitte 2 17 0 00 Memphli Republicans Charles Grassley, James Leach and Thomas Tauke In voting against the measure to raise the debt limit.

Iowa Democrats Berkley Bedel and Neal Smith voted for the higher ceiling. Deficit Forecast In a related matter, the Carter administration Thursday forecast a $4.2 billion reduction in the deficit for this fiscal year because income-tax withholding collections are running higher than expected. James T. Mclntyre director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the deficit was expected to drop from $37.4 billion to $33.2 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.

He said the red-ink total would be lower because Americans had been paying substantially more income taxes in recent months. The lower deficit tends to relieve pressure on interest rates because the government will be borrowing about $4 billion less than it otherwise would this year. This means interest rates may not rise as much as they otherwise would. Mclntyre told reporters the strong growth of the economy in the fourth quarter of 1978 and the opening months of 1979, plus inflation's effect in pushing taxpayers into high brackets and higher withholding tax payments accounted for the increased revenues. Other Revisions The budget office also revised its estimate of the deficit for fiscal year 1980, starting Oct.

1, from $29 billion to $28.4 billion, a decrease of $600 million. Higher government outlays, mainly related to the costs of the Israeli-Egyptian peace settlement, will be more than offset in fiscal 1980 by an increase in federal revenues, the agency said. The United States will spend $4 billion over the next three fiscal years for military and economic aid to Egypt and Israel, Mclntyre said. He said reports that the outlay might reach $5 billion were not correct. The new estimates also show a hairline surplus of $300 million in fiscal year 1981 which will begin about a month before the 1980 presidential elections.

The January budget projected a $1.2 billion deficit for fiscal 1981. President Carter promised in his 1976 election campaign to present a balanced budget before his four-year term was over. Nixon and PBS Recently released papers from the presidential administration of Richard Nixon show good cause for paranoia among employees of the nation's non-commerical radio and television system in the early 1970s, the president of the Public Broadcasting Service said Thursday. "The papers prove that the Nixon White House did everything possible to suppress public television's public affairs programs," said Lawrence Grossman at a meeting of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The papers showed, among other things, ties between Henry Loomis, then president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Clay Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy.

Fight to the Finnish The Finns are trying to upstage the Irish. Gov. Dixy Lee Ray has made Washington the 10th state to commemorate St. Urho's Day on the day before the Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Although St. Urho is not listed in "The Book of Days," the official calendar of saints' days, believers say he drove the grasshoppers out of Finland by shouting "Hei-nasirkka, heinasirkka, mene taalta hiiteen" thus saving the wine grapes. In addition to Washington, the other states that honor St. Urho's Day today are Minnesota, Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Montana, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Ohio. Different drum Fifteen-year-old Ed Henderson of Griffin, took on the Reserve Officers Training Corp at his school and won.

Henderson, who wants to be a politician, has been exempted from ROTC classes at Griffin High School. And he was instrumental in the decision of the Griffin-Spaulding County School system to require girls as well as boys to take ROTC in the 10th grade and to allow all students to take another course in lieu of the military training. "The reason I fought this thing is not because I didn't want to get my hair cut or didn't want to march," Henderson said, "but because one mold is not for everyone." Music to his ears It was nearly three weeks ago that violinist Alexander Schneider accidentally left his 250-year-old Guar-nerius violin in a taxi. But virtuoso and violin have been reunited, thanks to fellow musicians. Night Flight trumpeter Larry Sims and singer Butcher Cheatham said they found the $200,000 instrument one of only 70 in the world after hailing a cab Schneider apparently had just left.

They returned the instrument this week and received a J13.500 reward from an insurance company. Buzz off A lone buzzard glided over a field in the northeast Ohio town of Hinckley on Thursday, thrilling about 40 spectators awaiting the annual return of the flock. The official watcher, Metroparks Ranger Bud Burger, proclaimed the buzzard a pilot bird. Tradition says that the birds return every March 15, and the 5,500 citizens of Hinckley and its Chamber of Commerce host annual celebrations highlighted by a Sunday pancake breakfast. Sentenced in slaying Pizza deliveryman Lionel Williams was sentenced Thursday to at least 51 years in prison in the murder of actor Sal Mineo and the commission of 10 robberies.

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34 Btorltri CoteMance Coeeiiheeen Madrid Peril Tokyo Warsaw RECORD TEMPERATURES FOR MARCH It Record Des Moines high 77 If Record Des Moines low 4 In 1900 Moon The schedule of the moon rising end letting was provloed by Dr. Lewrence Staunton, assoclete protestor, Drake University Department of Physics and Astronomy. f-ue moon rvwen iei quiwr Uarrtl 91 ft Tha moon ritat at ft: St o.rn. The moon sets et 7:90 e.m. Planets Menem Low, west, dusk; talrty bright eartv month; loo close to sun to see lele month Verwv Eest-soulneesl, down; Quite Orient.

Mart: Too dose to Sue to see. jueeMR Rises east-nermeesi early evening; very bright. Saturn: Rises norm of east, lele eventne; quite bright. Forecasts FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1979 LOCAL Incrnuno. cloudiness today.

High around 50. Good chance of showers toregM and Saturday. Low loreohl around 40. Htgft Saturday In upper AOs. IOWA Increasing cloudiness today with chance of showers developing southwest and spreading over state tonight and Saturday.

Highs today around 40 north, low 50s south. Lows toeght k) md-30s to low 40s. Highs Saturday mostly in 40s. 10WA LAKES ZONE Increasing cloudiness today. Highs in upper 30s to around 40.

Good chance of showers tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight In mid-30s. Highs Saturday In low 40s. ILLINOIS Motttv sunny today. Hlght In 40s north and 49 to 99 south, increeiino ctoudineu tonight, chance of showers northwest end weil central.

Lowt moilty 30s. Mostly cloudy Saturday wtm chance of showers. Hlgns 49 to 93 north, S3 to tl south. MINNESOTA Increaslne cloudiness today. flen In 30s.

Chance of showers developing south and west tonight, over south half on Saturday Lows tonight In 70s end low X. Hlgns Saturday In upper 10s and 40s. MISSOURI Chance of showers over much of slate today. Highs 90s. Good chance of showers lonignt and Saturday.

Lows tonight around 44. Highs Saturday around 44. NEBRASKA Increasing cloudiness, windy and mild today with scattered showers developing central during afternoon. Highs today In mid-tOa wast, low 90s east. Mostly cloudy tonight end Saturday with showers mainly central and eest.

Lows tonight In 30. Highs Saturday In upper 40s end 90s. SOUTH DAKOTA Clear to parity cloudy today. Hlgns In upper Ms to low 40s eail, 90s end eOs extreme southwest. Increasing cloudiness tonight with chance of showers east, low! In 30i.

Chance of showers Saturday, mainly east. Highs In low 40s northwest, low 90s south From The Register's Wire Services WASHINGTON, D.C. The House voted Thursday to raise the temporary federal debt ceiling to $830 billion, a level the Carter administration says is needed for the government to pay its bills. The House approved the higher debt level 212-195 after narrowly defeating an effort to tack on a requirement for a balanced budget by 1981. Only three Republicans voted to approve the higher debt ceiling.

The attempt to link the increased debt limit to achieving a balanced budget was rejected 201-199. Later, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd abandoned an effort to take up the debt limit bill immediately when Minority Leader Howard Baker announced Republican plans to offer amendments. Byrd said the bill might be considered Monday or Tuesday. Target of Conservatives The temporary debt limit, currently set at $799 billion, has become a frequent target of fiscal conservatives who oppose red-ink spending and members of Congress who simply want an anti-spending vote on their records. Two weeks ago, a bill to raise the debt limit to $836 billion was defeated 222-194.

Last year, the House voted on the debt limit seven times before finally raising it. "For the last 10 years, we have been on a drunken spending spree," said Representative James Jones a co-sponsor of the proposal to link the higher debt limit to achieving a balanced budget. "The only way for an alcoholic to become sober and stay sober is to put a cork in the bottle." Serious Consequences However, Representative Richard Boiling Mo chairman cf the Rules Committee, argued that the House would have other chances to vote on a balanced budget this year and warned of serious financial consequences from delaying action on the debt limit. "If we do not increase the debt limit, we're going to lose money and maybe get in trouble ail over the world," Boiling said. Administration officials have claimed failure to increase the government's borrowing authority would force costly emergency steps, such as using money in federal trust funds, and damage efforts to stabilize the value of the dollar.

Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin joined OCTAVIA JOHNSON The Register's Iowa Ntwi Service KNOXVILLE, IA. Services are pending at Williams Funeral Home in Knoxville for Octavia Johnson, 86, who died Thursday at Griffin Nursing Home here. Mrs. Johnson was a resident of Knoxville for 8 years, moving here from Minnesota. She was a chief yeoman in the U.S.

Navy during World War I. Survivors include a daughter, Phyllis Paine of Des Moines; a son, Robal Jr. of Lake Forest, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The family suggests that any memorial contributions be made to the Arthritis Foundation. LESTER L.

JACKSON The Register's Iowa Ntws Service OTTUMWA, IA. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Reece Funeral Home here for Lester L. Jackson, 68, Wapello County assessor, who died Wednesday at an Ottumwa hospital. Mr.

Jackson had worked in the assessor's office 32 years, the last six as assessor. Survivors include his wife, a daughter, two grandchildren, and a brother. their favorite methods of cooking liver and what you have to do to kill the taste, but I've never converted. Even in my fantasies, I can't see Sophia Lor en, Jaclyn Smith or Cheryl Tiegs having liver breath even for hipbones. I've done a lot of compromising during my diet years, which began the year after I was married and my knees began to blouse.

I pretended to crave lettuce, sneaked carrot sticks into my bedroom and ate them under the covers and even layered cottage cheese and pretended it was cake but liver! I have done a lot of thinking on the subject as to why liver is thinning. Some people think it is because food ha3 to taste bad to make you look good. This is an old wives' tale and is simply not true. The reaon why liver makes you thin (and why two percent of the dieters polled refused to even try it) is because liver goes a Jong way. Not only will a pound of it feed a city the size of Seattle for an entire month, but a single spoonful of liver into the mouth of a dletec will be chewed for three days, thus eliminating all the fattening food you might have eaten.

Obituaries Figure! thaw it MOW Miami 42 74 0 00 00 10 014 Milwaukee II 74 0.00 11 li 0.01 Mlnneeoollt 21 0.00 21 St 0.00 Nashville 20 44 0 00 44 01 0.M New Orleans 91 09 000 J3 39 la New York 23 0.00 41 91 0 00 Norfolk 34 42 0.00 29 99 0 00 North 21 12 24 0.00 Okiehamo City 17 SJ 0 00 It 39 0 02 Omaha 10 0 14 27 0 00 Orlando 51 74 0 00 36 a 0 00 PhUadetphle 27 33 0.04 14 24 0 03 Phoenix ft 7 000 44 90 0 91 Pittsburgh 12 24 0 07 19 11 0.00 Portland, Me. 17 20 0.00 2t tl 000 Portland, Ore. 41 92 0 39 10 10 0 00 Providence 20 27 000 -07 23 0.00 Raleigh 14 49 0 00 34 77 0 00 Rapid City 000 -01 It 0.00 Reno 17 49 0.77 Ot 23 0 00 Richmond 11 49 000 30 t9 0 00 SI. Louis II 40 000 30 29 0 00 SI. Petersburg St 74 0 00 24 44 0 00 Sail Lake Cltv 17 tl 0.00 tv 11 000 San Antonio 4f 99 101 99 tl O.m Sen Diego 97 at 0 00 If 39 0.00 San Francisco 92 St 0 02 13 42 0.00 Sault St.

Marie 03 19 004 44 at 000 Seattle 4t 49 it 2 49 001 Sioux Feds 00 0.00 17 41 0.00 Spokane 11 5J 000 47 72 0.00 Syracuse 10 10 0 04 34 40 0.00 Topeka 2V 43 000 49 tl 0 00 Tucson 47 79 0 00 22 39 000 Tutu SO 99 0 00 I It SO 0.00 vVesHnglon 20 3t 000 Wlch.a 92 0.00 DES MOINES WEATHER DATA FOR THURSDAY MARCH 15, 1979 BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Des Moeies Airport Sutton HOURLY TEMPERATURES: 1 a 2 it 2 e.m II 3 3am II 4 e.m 37 4 e-m 10 9 P.m 30 9 a m. 09 14 a.m. 09 7 am 12 7 a 09 I p.m 11 e.m 11 9 p.m 11 9 a.m 14 10 p.m 10 10 a.m. It 11 Mi 2 11 a m. 21 II mid.

29 11 neon 29 1 a.m 20 1 p.m 29 iim 27 TEMPERATURE ACCUMULATION Highest at 9 P.m Lowest et 9 e.m. 09 Mean 74 Normal Deficiency tor the day 09 Deficiency for the month 27 Deficiency since first of veer tl PRECIPITATION Up to I Thursday 0 00 Total this month to dale 0 92 Normal since Jen. 1 to date 1 33 Deficiency since Jan. I 17 A VEAR AGO MARCH 15 High temperature in Des Moines 17 Low temperature Dei Moines 29 There wet no precipitation. DAY'S RECORD Des Moines deaths YOUNG Lee, 9t, of t9 Fortieth died Thursday et Mercy Hospital Medical Canter.

HAILETT Clifford ot 4719 Fourth Si died Thursday at Veterans Adminlstreilon Medical Center. FOSTER Margaret, II, of Wesley Acres, 1920 Grend died there Thursdev. HIATT Wayne, 9t, of 2414 Sevtor Rood, died Thursday et Iowa Lutheran Hospital. ROCHE Ida Mae, 7i, of Redfletd. died Thursday at Mercy Hospital Medical Center.

BOOTH Edne, 40, of 4412 Hlckmon Reed, died Thursdev et tewa Methodist Medical Center. Des Moines births STANLEY Joy end Steven, el Eorthem, son, Thursday at Dai Moinei General Hospital. VAN MAANEN Sherry end Bruce, of 1304 E. Sheridan daughter, Thursdev el (owe Lutheran Hospital. GIESLER Mary and Gary, of 191 Etghtv-second a daughter, Thursday et Iowa Lutheran Hospital.

MILLS Deeieno and Robert, of 201 Grend Weil Dei Moinei, daughter, Thursdev at Mercy -Hospital Medical Center WEISS Donne and Howard, of Mertensdaie, a daughter, Thursday et Mercy Hospiiei Medical Center. PAUL Gayle and Richard, of tOX Fltty-slxth a daughter, Thursday el lowe Methodist Medical Center. PARMLEY Feme and Robert, 1 Mil Mary Lvnn Drive, a daughter, Thursdev el Iowa Methodisl Medical Center. Fire and rescue calls AJW. 1:27 1423 Ninth dwelling.

7:33 1 1 It Twenty-first rescue. 142 2423 Center no fire 21 2172 E. Thirty ninth rescue. J9 1000 E. Grend rescue.

1:44 1910 E. Capitol rescue. PJVL 11:97 1471 Ninth trash 1 34 901 Cottage rescue. 2:20 1207 HeroM rescue. 2 1779 Grand rescue.

3 24 1929 iwnols paint mters, nre oul on arrival. 4:47 leOO block of Harding Road, trash. 4 SI 1990 John Lynda Rood, investigation. 9:14 Second and University evenues, rescue. Set Eighteenth street and Hickman Road, cooking fire.

5 57 1010 Oxford rescue. i-Ot 2000 E. Forty-second rescue. 4 71 Eest Fourteenth Street and Seneca Avenue, rescue. 4 31 1202 Army Post Road, no fire.

444 MacVlcar Freeway and Guthrie Avenue, no Are. 7:44 Das Moines Munlclpel Airport. McKlnlev Avenue and Army Post Road, rescue. It 1477 Fourth rescue. a E3 ti Office: -SEW.

ft claims that the method of testing there was faulty des Moines) because it took place 'bi during a period of 6 200 hint, aillflll- lUiiuuflMj in 1. nuiw dioxide emanations. Tom Gillard of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Kansas City office said Thursday that Iowa officials must take steps to reduce sulfur dioxide in Dubuque's air.

Gillard testified at a public hearing on changes proposed in the Iowa Air Quality Commission's plan to meet 1983 federal clean air standards. The plan did not include Dubuque because the sulfur dioxide level there exceeded federal maximums during one monitoring period, in October 1977. The pollution level recorded then has not been repeated in testing since, and a Department of Environmental Control investigation failed to find the pollution source. In the absence of any other explanation, DEQ officials have blamed the measurements on freak weather conditions that are unlikely to happen again. That was their rationale for leaving Dubuque out of the plan, which attacks air pollution in a dozen Iowa cities.

Approach Sound Gillard called Iowa's plan "a sound approach," one likely to get EPA approval. But he insisted that it will have to include measures against sulfur dioxide in Dubuque. Listening in the crowd of about ISO persons was Arthur Roth, director of Dubuque's city health department. His later testimony questioned the accuracy of the pollution monitoring. On the day when the high sulfur dioxide level occurred, several pieces of diesel -powered heavy equipment were doing construction work at the city's water plant, where the pollution monitoring equipment is located, he said.

Their presence on that "Black Friday," as Roth called the October 1977 day, caused the testing equipment to record high sulfur dioxide levels not representative of the usual air quality in Dubuque, be said. (Sulfur dioxide most frequently is produced by the burning of high-sulfur coal and processing of sulfur products. It irritates the human eyes, nose and throat, and can damage metals and plants.) As a result of that single measurement 17 months ago, Dubuque has been "blacklisted" (as one DEQ official put it) by the federal government. The Air Quality Commission must develop plans to reduce the pollutant, even if the source is unknown. And if Dubuque does not follow the plan and sulfur dioxide is not reduced, the EPA can cut off federal funds to the city for highways, sewage treatment and other projects.

Iowans from other cities also were there for the three-hour hearing in the Filibuster Room of a Des Moines motel. Ozone Reduction Tom Alter, an assistant to Cedar Rapids Mayor Donald Canney, said businesses there will have to install anti-pollution equipment to reduce ozone pollution by the federal mandate of 9.9 percent by 1982. The requirement stands, even though federal figures indicate ozone in Cedar Rapids will be cut 15 8 percent before the deadline by new federal auto emissions standards, he said. Charles Pelton of Clinton Corn Processing said Clinton does not meet federal standards for particulate pollution (mostly dust) only because of faulty monitoring. Not enough blame for the pollution is being placed on unmanageable dust from construction and unpaved roads, he said.

"The problem of total particulate air pollution is not being managed but Industrial sources are being overemphasized and overregulated," Pelton said. "The (state and federal) agencies greatly overemphasize industry's ability to pay." Dale Harrington, representing the Polk County Board of Supervisors, said the dust rules could force the county to treat 75 miles of unpaved roads with oil or chemicals each year at a cost of $250,000. The state should provide the funds if it mandates the program, he said. of I professor gets federal duties IOWA CITY, IA. (AP) A professor of business administration at the University of Iowa here has been named a regional research director for the 1980 White House Conference on Small Business.

The Small Business Administration said it has appointed Clifford M. Baumback as research director for Region VII, which includes Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. The conference will be held Jan. 14-17, 1980, in Washington, D. C.

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION (R-4S4) NOTICE Of REPORT FOR PRIVATE FOUNDATION TOWHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice Is hereby given thai the annual rtoort of LIM Foundation li evailabie for Iniptctkxi it principal office during regular business noun tor ttw next mjht principal office ol men foundation It located at 113 Enl Mam, Clarhda, Iowa 91432. Ill principal manager Efm Llile. paled at Clerlnda, Iowa, thli Itlh day of March, Edwin Line Erma Bombeck ELIZABETH TREANOR Services for Elizabeth Treanor, 80, of the Karen Acres Nursing Home, 3605 Elm Drive, who died there Thursday, will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at Grandview Funeral Home. Burial will be at Glendale Cemetery.

Mrs. Treanor was born near Manning and lived in Iowa Falls several years before moving to Des Moines in 1931. She was a member ELIZABETH TREANOR of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Survivors include a daughter, Irene Treanor of Des Moines; two sisters, Lilas Sturdivant of San Diego, and Melissa Foresman of Blackwell, four grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren, and four great-greatgrandchildren.

A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Friends may call between noon and 9 p.m. today. DONALD OREN SHAVER Services were Monday In Greeley, for Donald Oren Shaver, 28, of Greeley, a former Ankeny area resident who died Mar.

8 in a construction accident in Denver, Colo. Burial was at a Greeley cemetery. Mr. Shaver was born in Iowa City and lived in the Ankeny and Alleman areas most of his life. He moved to Colorado about 4tt years ago and was employed by the Hansel Phelps Construction Co.

He was a member of First Evangelist Free Church and the International Order of Foresters in Greeley. Survivors include his wife, Gayle; a daughter, Gwen of Greeley; a son, Daniel of Greeley; his parents, Charles O. and Rita Shaver of Ankeny; and three sisters, Janet Bowers of Ankeny, Lois Kopaska of Des Moines and Marilyn Prall of Lake Alfred, Fla. GRACE C. SCHLEISMAN Tne Register's Im Mmrt Same LIDDERDALE, IA.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Holy Family Catholic Church in Lidderdale for Mrs. Grace C. Schleisman, 78, of Lidderdale, who died Wednesday at her home. Burial will be at the church cemetery.

She was a telephone operator at Lidderdale for 50 years before retiring. Survivors include four sons, including Vernon of Des Moines, a daughter, two sisters, 17 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren. bwtvL At wit's end The Diet Workshop recently came up with a survey that didn't hold too many surprises. The most hated food among dieters is liver. Anybody's.

Personally, I don't like to eat anything that moves when I cook it, excites the dog, or inflates on impact with your teeth. I used to go to a weight-control group that preached the gospel of liver. I think the slogan they used was "Drink a liver malt with someone you love." We all tried to disguise liver by working our quota of it into other parts of the diet. I did everything but put a dress on mine. It didn't help.

Liver is not like any other food I know. It's the kind that when you drop it, you find yourself apologizing to it. I have met a few pro-liver people in my time, although I try not to cultivate tbem. They are usually people who sit around and make ridiculous statements like, "Can you get any rhubarb in this town?" or "I didn't like eels either until I tried them in butter." Tbey will regale you for hours on Des Moines Register avJ Circulation Ft P.O. Box 957 Des Moines, Iowa 50304 Please send the paper(s) I have checked below by best available delivery service, aj The Des Moines Register fc (Monday through Saturday mornings) Des Moines Sunday Register 1 Name Address, City State tl If RFD, tell miles from Post 13 4).