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Returns Cook, 7, of Boone, other Iowans were forced on heavy coats again morning after Thurswarm temperatures to below freezing across the state. EST Data From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE U.S. Dept, of Commerce 2 1 1 1 1 1 a a a MOON PHASES DECEMBER 1970 First Full Last New Quarter Moon Quarter Moon Dec. 5 Dec. 12 Dec.

20, Dec. 28 (This schedule, of moon rises and sets has been, provided by Prof. Philip S. Riggs Astronomy Department of Drake University.) The Moon Rises 12:32 p.m. Saturday Sets 12:23 a.m.

Sunday The Sun 4:45 p.m. Friday Rises 7:25 a.m. Saturday COOL Iowa High Low Inch. City Thurs. Prec.

Boone 15 .00 Burlington 22 .00 Carroll Average COLD Cedar Rapids Council Bluffs. Davenport 69 30 Des Moines 20 Showers Dubuque Estherville 2288 Knoxville 60 Lamoni Flurries 59 Mason City 50 40 40 50 Low Until Temperatures Expected Red Sioux Oak City 59 15 FORECAST Saturday Mering Spencer Waterloo Winterset .00 LOCAL--Partly cloudy, Increasing winds. Low Friday night. in 20s. High Saturday in upper 30s to lower 40s.

Precipitation chances 10 per cent Friday night, 5 per cent Saturday. I0WA-Partly cloudy south and mostly cloudy north through Saturday with slight chance of snow north Friday night. Lows from upper United States teens northwest to 20s southeast. Highs Saturday from 30s northwest to lower 40s southeast. Precipitation chances 20 per cent north and Low High Friday: Thursday: -10, 87, Devils Brownsville, Lake, N.D.

Tex. 10 per cent south Friday night, 5 per cent southwest to 20 per cent City 6:30 Fri. a.m. Thurs. High Fri.

Low northeast Saturday. Albuquerque Clear 72 56 58 27 Bismarck 5 Boston Rain 43 EXTENDED -Sunday through Tuesday: Mostly fair with Brownsville 65 Chicago Snow 36 warming trend. Highs from 20s to low 30s Sunday, warming to middle Denver and upper 30s by Tuesday. Lows In low teens Sunday, warming to Fairbanks Snow Cloudy 30 middle and upper teens Tuesday. 83 International Fails.

Cloudy Juneau Clear Kansas City Los Angeles Clear Road Conditions Memphis Minneapolis Clear Clear 75 39 Here are telephone numbers, by areas, that you can call for New York. Rain Fog road-condition, Information gathered by the Department of North Oklahoma Platte City Public' Safety: Omaha Phoenix Clear Portland, Ore. Clear Des Moines: 288-1047 Rapids: 366-1884 Rain St. Louis Atlantic 243-4892. Denison: 263-4880 Salt Lake City San Francisco Rain Belmond: 444-5288 Fairfield: 472-5194 Seattle Tampa Clear 86 Cedar Falls: 266-7575 Maquoketa: 652-2434 Washington 62 Storm Lake: 732-1563 Perishables- Prepare for Friday night lows of 17 degrees northwest, 24 degrees southwest, 22 degrees northeast, 27 degrees southeast.

Outside United States DES MOINES MOISTURE: No precipitation since Dec. 1, .12 of an Inch below normal; 32.80 Inches since Jan. 1, 3.45 Inches above normal. City and local time Temp. Aberdeen, Midnight 41 Berlin, a.m.

36 DES MOINES RIVER STEADY: Stage 7 a.m. Friday at Second Cairo, 2 a.m. 55 Copenhagen, 1 a.m. 34 Avenue in Des Moines: 13.55 feet (bankfull, 23). Geneva, 1 a.m.

Midnight London, Madrid, 1 a.m. Fog RED ROCK POOL RISING: Stage 8 a.m. Friday at dam: 725.00 Moscow, Montreal, 3 1 a.m. Cloudy feet (normal, 725). New Paris, Delhi, a.m.

5 a.m... Cloudy Clear Rome, 1 a.m. Saigon, 8 a.m. Cloudy On This Date, December 4: Stockholm, 1 a.m. Toronto, 1 a.m.....

Snow Warsaw, 1 Rain Winnipeg, Midnight November SUD 1970 December 8970 1971 January THO TUB WED THO 3 Eleto 22.23 24 25 26 021 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 1. 25 26 27 28 29 30 In 1851, a workers' rebellion history as the "Dec. 4 Massacre." In 1875, the New York later was recaptured in Spain. In 1942, in World War II, time. broke out in Paris.

The Tammany leader, Boss Tweed, American bombers hit the event is known in French escaped- from prison. He Italian mainland for the first Today's Birthday: Spanish Chief of State Francisco Franco is 78. Thought for Today: "Husbands are like fires: They go out when $8,500 LOW BID Hire Chicago Firm For Polk Job Study By Timothy Kent The Polk County Board of a non-profit Chicago firm to classification study in six years, cone said Friday. The new study, to be made by the Public Administration Services, of Chicago, will cost the county about $8,500, Sarcone said. The study is to be completed before June 1.

The first study, made in 1965 by the J. L. Jacobs consulting firm of Chicago, drew heavy criticism by courthouse office holders. Early this year, Sarcone said the Jacobs plan was "unused" and "dead for all practical purposes" by Sarcone. All courthouse offices have deviated from the "Jacobs Plan" in some way, according to Sarcone, and such as the Polk County Home and the Polk County Juvenile Home have either completely discarded the plan or are involved in only parts of the original plan.

Sarcone called the "death" of the Jacobs Plan "natural a result of time." "After five must years be things change plans dated and new studies must be made," Sarcone said. 600 Jobs Craig and to put Friday day's dropped readings 'The proposed study, which will require a vote of the board for formal approval, will survey "about 20 per cent of the jobs in Polk County" and set job classifications and salary levels for all of the 600-odd jobs in county government, Sarcone said. All five of the board members have agreed to vote for the study by the nonprofit Chicago firm. Supervisor Ralph Tapscott First District) said nine firms submitted bids that ranged from the Public Administration Services' bid of about $8,500 to $17,200. The Jacobs Des Moines Tribune Dec.

4, 1970 3-S THE IOWA ALMANAC Des Moines Births RUSHTON Mr. and Mrs. Clifford, of 1406 Cutler a Thursday lowa Methodist. Hospital, rid, ADAMS a Mr. daughter, and Friday Clyde of was: Hospital.

1200 SHIPLEY E. Thirty Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Friday at Des Moines General Hospital. McDUFF Logan Mr.

a son. and Mrs. Friday Keith, Iowa of 3020 theran Hospital. Marriage License Applications Polk County Roger L. Reints.

33, Ackley, and Viola J. Wilts, 24, Des Moines. Steve J. Sonnenburg, 21, Grimes, and Nanette D. Bricker, 21.

Des Moines. Dwight M. Loomis, 19, Des Moines, and Leanna K. Vert, 18. Des Moines.

Kim Alan Reagh, 23, Detroit, and Mary Louise Chader, 21, Slater. Marlin D. Salyers, 29, Des Moines, and Hazel R. Wallace, 26. Des Moines.

Arthur F. Burns, legal, Des Moines, and Ann R. Davis, legal, Des Moines. James D. Andrus, 21, Des Moines.

and Barbara Jane Sanderman, 28, Des Moines. Divorce Granted The followina divorce was granted petitions filed on or 30. Under a new divorce law, "dissolutions of marriage" Instead of divorces are granted under petitions filed after June 30. Esther Irene from William D. Smith.

Meetings Cosmopolitan Club International Noon Monday at Younkers Tea Room, joint meeting with Economics Club; speaker, Owen Cunningham, commentary and film of Pearl Harbor. Iowa Deaths BLOOMFIELD George W. Smith, 77; Clara Hinkle, 737 Helen P. Frady, 54; Donna G. Johnson, Phillip A Merrill, 94; George C.

Johnson, 71. CENTERVILLE Mrs. Maria Lamantia, 917 Mrs. Hattie Parker, 92; Ross Brown, 68; Zimmer Hayes, 78. DELHI Grace E.

Wilson. DOON Mrs. Jacob Mann, 87. DUMONT Florence I. Dohlmann, 66.

EARLVILLE Frank A. Heirina, 89. ELKADER Kathryn FARMERSBURG Marvin J. Klinkenbera, GEORGE Dewey W. Jennings, 72; William Klingenborg, 79.

IDA GROVE. Clarence L. Marsh, 83. INWOOD George M. Thompson, 87; Christ Hetletvedt, 86.

LAKE PARK Martin Jacobsen, LITTLE ROCK Mrs. Tiark Ennenga, 46. McGREGOR Leo Ertz, MONONA Mrs. William I Hubacher, 89. MOULTON Glen Wallace, 82; Mrs.

Otis Horn, 75. PLANO Glen D. Davis, 58. SPIRIT LAKE Robert L. Browning, 67, STRAW Sarah POINT 96 Katherine Heddleson, 99.

Dorothy Hanlon, 70. WAHPETON William Christensen, 79. Driver's Licenses The following motorists have been sent notices of suspension or revocation of their drivers' Division of licenses the State by the Department Drivers of License and length of suspension revocation Safety (names, ages, addresses, cause are those on SUSPENSIONS Thomas Lee Lematty, 17, of Montrose; six months; driving while under suspension. Veryl Dale Huisman, 21, of 735 E. First Sioux Center; 60 days; driving while under suspension.

Pleasant; Stephen 60 Scott days; Miller, driving 22, of Route 3, under Mt. suspension. David Lynn Hasley, 26, of 1325 Seneca Des Moines; one year; driving while under suspension. Thomas John Des Leto, Molnes; 17, of 38 3401 Fortyeighth Place, days; ing while under suspension. REVOCATIONS Wilford G.

Loden, implied 47, of Crab Orchard, 180 days; consent. Joseph Walter Lage, 50, of Route 1, Kingsley 180 days: implied consent. Lloyd Eldon Phillips, 29, of Route 3, Indianola; 180 days; implied consent. Lloyd Eldon Phillips, 29, of Route 3, Indianola; 180 days; implied consent. Edward Orville Johnson, 52, 1224 S.

Paxton, Sioux City; 180 days; implied consent. Harold Butler, McCune, 54, of 1508 N. Illinois Bedford; 180 days; Implied consent. Peter Rodriguez, 43, of 614 Central Ave. E.

Clarion; 180 days; Implied consent. William Junior Buck, 42, of. 1210 S. Quincy, Ottumwa: 180 days; implied consent. Morris Clelland See, 43, of 408 Mitchell Waterloo; 180 days; Implied consent.

Raymond Frederick LeClere, 56, of 811 Tenth St. S.W., Cedar Rapids) one year; implied consent. Ronald L. Dawson, 26, of Route 1, Baxter; one year; Implied consent. Valley, Harold Burlington; Robert one Wearmouth, year; 47, Implied of sent.

Live Yule Trees 'On Way Out' In Schools Here The use of live Christmas trees in Des Moines Public Schools is being phased out in an effort to make life more pleasant for those who are allergic to them. In a letter to school principals, Dr. Robert R. Denny, assistant superintendent of schools, urged that permanent, artificial trees be purchased instead of live trees for holiday decorations in the schools. Dr.

Denny said parents have been making requests in increasing numbers during recent years that artificial trees be used in the schools because their children are allergic to the live trees. Dr. Denny said the Des Moines district has no policy regarding Christmas trees. In some schools, he said, trees are erected in corridors, and teachers who wish to do so are permitted to set them up i in their rooms. In some instances, he said, teachers have youngsters study the ways various ethnic groups observe the Christian holiday.

'The Phantom' Takes Two Clothes Dryers A thief who stole two electric clothes dryers from a truck parked at Sidles Distributing 2205 Bell left a note signed "the phantom," police said Friday. Officers said the two had been placed on the truck to be delivered to Minor Refrigeration Co. in Sigourney on Friday. The thief took the appliances sometime Thursday night. take Officers said automatic the thief did which not an washer, also was on the truck.

Social Security Checks Stolen Two Social Security checks amounting to a total of $158 were reported stolen from the mailbox of Mrs. Hilda Mercer of 1800 E. Twenty first police said. Mrs. Mercer told police the checks, made payable to her and her mother, Mrs.

Emila Faust, were taken from the mailbox during the day Thursday along with other mail she received. Police said she found some of the other mail on her lawn. Says Young Are Taught Violence By Eleanora Tate The executive director of the Dr. Martin Luther King Family Center in Chicago said here Thursday that parents teaching American children how to grow up too often teach them "how to be violent." Manuel L. Jackson, addressing the annual meeting of the Des Moines Child Guidance Center here Thursday night, said that parents anxious to "humanize" their children force their youngsters to conform to controls they themselves impose.

"As we try to humanize the child, we're telling him to be unequal" to his youthful peers, said Jackson. He said that many parents urge their children to "be better, richer and smarter," to "get ahead" and to "be aggressive," and at the same time remind the child that "all men are equal." This way of teaching the child how to grow up is a said Jackson. "We're teaching our children how to be violent" by "stressing the importance of material gain rather than the importance of human values." Throughout American history, Jackson said, violence has played a major role. "This suggests a national 1 involvement in violence," said Jackson. "And in view of the assassinations of national figures as John F.

Kennedy, Medger Evers and Martin Luther King, it becomes clear, too, that there is an individual involvement of violence." "We must ask ourselves," Jackson said, "why are we so concerned with violence? Why are we so uptight about violence? Are just the blacks and the Weathermen violent, or are the police and hard hats violents, too?" He said perhaps too often "we confuse change and protest with disorder and violence. We all know that change upsets the status quo. "Blacks, Chicanos, the poor, the young, all demand perogatives not demanded before, And many are talking about a reordering of American priorities, a redistribution of wealth and power. To some of us they're talking about violence," he said. Despite America's wealth, Jackson continued, many of the nation's children are growing up in deprived environments.

The response to he said, "is that we'd like to forget it." This is being done in the uproar over air pollution. "We're hoping to clean up the air rather than trying to clean up what it is in our society that can destroy us," he added. "These are the seeds of violence we have to look at," continued, Jackson. Jackson met with a group of black residents Friday morning at Soul Village, and Friday afternoon was to participate in a panel discussion on violent behavior and community action with social workers, school officials and Des Moines Police Chief Wendell Nichols at the Child Guidance Center meeting in Iowa Methodist Hospital's nurses' residence auditorium. Skyscraper Fire Kills 3 in N.Y.C.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) A four-alarm fire 1 filled a Third Avenue skyscraper with smoke Friday, killing three persons and injuring 14, including five policemen and three firemen. Hundreds of persons trapped in the 50-story building were evacuated by firemen. Firemen smashed windows on all sides of the glass-walled structure and smoke poured from the building. Fire Commissioner Robert O.

Lowery said the blaze started in the fifth-floor offices of a carpet company. All the dead were apparently building service employes who had gone to fight the blaze. Michael J. Maye, president of the Uniformed Fire Fighters Association, called the modern building a "glass menagerie." Maye charged that during fires such buildings become "dutch ovens." He said the building, which is air-conditioned and has no windows that can be opened, confined the heat to the interior. Blast Kills Youth In Manila Protest MANILA, THE PHILIP.

PINES (AP) An explosion killed one Filipino youth and wounded at least two others Friday during a student demonstration against school authorities, police said. Several hundred youths marched to the Department of Education offices and several schools to demand reinstatement of student activists they claimed were blacklisted and ousted from schools. Police said an explosive was lobbed from a downown school building and killed a 16-year-old student. Future Sal AT OAKRIDGE STORE SITE operate in the Oakridge Urban Renewal area at Oakridge Drive and Keosauqua Way. Paris Williams, his wife and sons, Mike, 14, and Steve, 9, were on hand for groundbreaking ceremonies Friday at the site of a new supermarket Williams will construct and Egypt Sees Big War If Truce Fails (By the Associated Press) The authoritative newspaper Al Ahram said Friday Egypt is launching a global diplomatic effort to warn of a major conflict in the Middle East if the extended cease-fire, which expires Feb.

5, ends without concrete movement toward peace. Representations will be made in Washington and Moscow and delegations will be sent to Africa, Asia and Latin America during the remaining two months of the truce, the paper said. King Hussein of Jordan, it added, will serve as the Arab spokesman during his current tour of Western capitals. The paper said Hussein, who visited Cairo on Wednesday and now is in London, is carrying a message from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to President Nixon and other Western leaders. "Egypt is determined to resume fighting if the current cease-fire ends without serious movement" toward peace, Al Ahram said.

"An all-out military effort will be made by Egypt in this connection within the coming months." In another development, Al Ahram's editor, a confidant of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, said in his weekly editorial that Nasser deliberately stalled in accepting a U.S. peace initiative to gain time for installing anti-aircraft missiles in the Suez Canal zone. "At Any Cost" Muhammed Hassanein Heikal wrote that Nasser had anticipated a military standstill clause in peace proposals made June 19 by U.S. Secretary State William Rogers, but that before responding affirmatively on July 23, he issued an order to install Soviet-made SAM2 and SAM3 missiles in the canal zone "as quickly as possible at any cost." Heikal said Nasser attached great importance to proving the existence of the missiles before the cease-fire formally went into effect Aug. 5.

This was done, he said, by shooting down a number of Israeli Phantom jets. Heikal added that the Egyptians succeeded in installing the missiles, but at a considerable cost in lives. In Tel Aviv, a military spokesman Friday denied an Egyptian charge that Israel had violated Egyptian air space. Egypt accused Israel on Thursday of violating air space south of Suez City. Shell Settlement Arab guerrillas in Lebanon, meanwhile, fired a salvo of Katyusha rockets at an Israeli settlement in upper Galilee ly Friday, injuring an Israeli soldier, Israeli spokesmen said.

The rockets caused no damage to the settlement. In Amman, Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian troops clashed for two hours Thursday night. The guerrillas said 12 civilians were killed or wounded in the clash. Department Of Red Tape WILLIAMSPORT, PA. (AP) A $1 mistake in a federal grant to the Williamsport Redevelopment Authority has cost the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development $500. William Miller, executive director of the authority, said the department discovered it had allocated his agency $1 more than the $1,127,222 contract. Miller said he send the department the dollar to avoid drafting a new contract at a cost of about $500. But HUD insisted the new paperwork had to be drawn up. Oakridge Store Gets Under Way Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Friday for a new supermarket in the Oakridge Urban Renewal area.

The market will be on Oakridge Drive, near Keosauqua Way and will be operated by Paris Williams, who formerly operated a food store at Thirteenth Street and Jefferson Avenue. The $300,000 development, which has been in planning stages more than a year, will include space for two or three small shops or offices and will be erected on two levels on the hilly site. American Republic Insurance Co. of Des Moines is providing the construction loan and the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) is guaranteeing repayment of up to 90 per cent of the loan. The foot site was purchased from the Des Moines Urban Renewal Board for about $65,000.

Parking space for 81 and landscaping will be included in the development. T. Harold Welch, appraiserengineer for said this is the first minority enterprise loan of this type and scope to be guaranteed by SBA in Iowa. He said it also is the first time an insurance company has provided a loan for a minority business of this size in Iowa. Williams initially will employ six persons, eventually about 12.

Fine 'Kicking Woman' $25 A Pleasant Hill woman who allegedly kicked a policeman several times when he attempted to question her about an 1 auto accident was fined $25 for intoxication by Municipal Judge Ray Harrison Friday. The woman, Sandra 1 Romar, 21, of 4494 E. Oakwood Drive, was arrested Nov. 13 after her auto went out of control and traveled about 175 feet through three front lawns, damaging trees and turf before coming to rest on an embankment near Forty-fifth Street and Urbandale Avenue. Patrolman Jerry Viers, who arrested Miss Romar, testified that she kicked him in the arms, stomach and ribs and called him a "pig" as well as obscene names when he attempted to question her about the accident.

Harrison found the woman guilty and levied the fine, which she paid. Sue Chicago For Fatal Raid CHICAGO, ILL. (AP) Two suits seeking damages totaling, more than $9 million have been filed in U.S. District Court by seven survivors of a police raid in which two Panthers were killed one year ago Friday. Illinois Panther Leader Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, a Panther from Peoria, were shot to death in the riad on a West Side apartment.

Police said they made the raid in a search for illegal weapons. The suits, charging civil rights violations, were filed Thursday against the City of Chicago, Cook County, Mayor Richard J. Daley, State's Atty. Edward V. Hanrahan, Police Supt.

James B. Conlisk, and all the members of the raiding party. The suits charge that the survivors were "imprisoned falsely and prosecuted wrongfully and maliciously in an attempt to conceal the true nature of the occurrance of Dec. 4." 'Birthright': Alternatives To Abortion An organization called "Birthright" is being formed here to counsel married and unmarried pregnant women who don't want their babies on the alternatives to abortion. Mrs.

Ralph Tapscott of 3310 Henry president of the local unit, said that Birthright is against abortion and is establishing consultation service MRS. RALPH MRS. BETTY TAPSCOTT LOECHER Supervisors has decided to hire make Polk County's second job Budget Director James V. Sar- firm offered to do the study for $9,000. Co-operation At a meeting Wednesday current county office holders agreed to co-operate with the salary planners.

However, several most notably Treasurer Carl Bogenrief expressed reservation to the idea of strictly following a new job classification plan. "These people come in here from Chicago," he said, "give us the once-around and then go back to Chicago. I want to be sure that I have something to say about the classfication of my people and how their salary is scaled." Four departments, established since the 1965 Jacobs survey, will be classified for the first time, Sarcone noted. They are the Building Inspection, Friend of the Court, Highway Director and Data Processing Departments. Mother, 2 Sons Hurt in Crash A Des Moines woman and her two sons were treated at Broadlawns Polk County Hospital for injuries they suffered in an auto accident Thursday night, police said.

They were Mrs. Melody K. Burkhead, 19, of 5255 N.W. Fifty seventh Ave. and her sons Michael, 3, and James, 10 months, who suffered bumps and bruises when their auto struck a utility pole in the 1500 block of E.

Thirty-third Street about 10:15 p.m. Police said the accident occurred when Mrs. Burkhead, the driver, attempted to help Michael climb over the back of the front seat. Officers said no charges were filed. 'Car Hood' Snow in Wisconsin (By the Associated Press) A wind-driven autumn storm dumped heavy snow into the northern Great Lakes region Friday and ended a three-day spell of springlike mildness in much of the midcontinent.

Six to 12 inches of snow piled up from northeastern Minnesota across northern Wisconsin and through Upper Michigan. Drifts of car-hood height blocked roads in some northern Wisconsin counties bordering Lake Superior. Heavy-snow warnings were in effect during the night for additional accumulations of 4 inches in the hardest hit areas. More snow and rain fell into the Pacific northwest and ranged south into central California and east into Montana. Powerful gusty winds up to 70 miles an hour whirled around the storm system.

Gusts of 69 miles an hour swept Chicago's downtown lakefront Thursday night. One person was injured slightly late Thursday when winds hurled debris from atop a 50-story building under construction in downtown Chicago. Meanwhile, temperatures hit record December highs in 11 states Thursday from Texas and Florida to Illinois and Indiana. At Chicago 71 was the warmest reading ever recorded there in any December. Recall 10,000 '71 Volkswagens Leased Wire From Dow Jones DETROIT, MICH.

Volkswagen of America, said Friday it is recalling about 000. of its 1971-model Volkswagen station wagons, trucks and campers in the U.S. for inspection and correction, if necessary, of a possible braking defect. The company said there's a possibility a flaw in a casting used in a brake pressure regulating system might allow leakage of fluid and a possible loss of braking efficiency. here partly to offset state-wide service that refers Iowa women to ou clinics or physicians to obtain abortions.

She was referring to Iowa Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, a group of some 30 clergymen across the state that reports it helps some 10 to 15 women each week get abortions in other states or in Mexico. A Birthright chapter has been active in Minneapolis since the middle of September. That chapter's president, Mrs. Betty Loecher, was in Des Moines Friday meeting with members of the Des Moines group representatives of social and welfare agencies. She explained in an interview that Birthright serves two main purposes: "We offer emotional and practical support on a one-toone basis.

"We offer a referral service. Brithright has resources which include physicians, psychiatrists, social workers and clergymen in addition to the community services which support a woman through her pregnancy." A phone referral service was set up by Birthright in Minneapolis Sept. 15, Mrs. Loecher said, and despite a lack of funds for advertising the telephone number, 200 calls were received and 50 referrals made the first month. A similar phone service will be set up here, Mrs.

Tapscott said, though no starting date has been set. Birthright's stated philosophy is that "it is the right of every pregnant woman to give birth and the right of every child to be born," said Mrs. Loecher. "We will never at any time counsel for abortion." Mrs. Loecher said the organization would refer requests for birth control information to the proper agencies.

"We want to help women," she said, "but we stop at abortion. One main alternative to abortion when the baby isn't wanted is adoption, Mrs. Loecher said, adding that Minneapolis couples are now waiting two to three years to adopt babies because of heavy demand. Mrs. Tapscott said the situation is similar here.

If the reason a baby isn't wanted is financial or psychological, Mrs. Loecher said, referrals to the proper agencies may be a solution. "With the kind of knowledge and technology we have," Mrs. Loecher said, "there are better ways to solve overpopulation than abortions." Tool Burglary R. A.

Lundgren of 1259 E. Thirty-seventh St. reported to police Friday that someone broke into his home stole $580 worth of tools and boat equipment. Lundgren said the items were stolen while he was lout of town this week..

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