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Argus-Leader, Sioux Falls, SD Humphrey dies Continued from page 1A breathing for a long time, well and His face, his voice and his marathon speaking style were Democratic lexpotis, to, a generation his appearance Ameribut not the familiar voice or the torrent of words. "They only took out my bladder, not my guts or my heart or my mind," Humphrey said. He was an emotional politician; as the Democratic presidential nominee in 1968, he said his were the politics of joy. Lyndon Johnson once said Humphrey cried too much. Humphrey burst on the national scene as the brash, liberal mayor of Minneapolis, battling for a civil rights plank at the 1948 Democratic National Convention.

He was a man to reckon with at every convention that followed, although, usually in defeat. Humphrey entered the Senate in 1949, and became a leading spokesman for the liberal cause. He played a major role in Senate efforts that led to civil rights laws, fought against nuclear weapons testing, pressed for medical care for the aged, and took up countless quests on issues great and small. His long, unrequited quest for the presidency led him away from the Senate for six years, four as John- The politician Continued from page 1A audiences "actually want to hear a speech of sizable length." He said the late John F. Kennedy once gave a 15-minute speech in Minneapolis and left his audience wondering why they had been virtually ignored.

If there is a single word to described Humphrey, it might be "resilient." He did battle with Kennedy and his money in the primaries of 1960, with the violent antiwar demonstrators of 1968, and with the insults of Lyndon Johnson, the man he served as vicepresident. South Dakota Continued from page 1A stateman of the Democratic Party "Pinky." Some say the name came because of his rosy-cheeked look when he moved to Doland. Others say the family housekeeper pinned the name on him because his mother always dressed him in Buster Brown outfits, complete with fancy pink trimmings. Whichever is closer to the fading truth of those early years, the nickname didn't hold him back in action. Born in Wallace, Humphrey's family moved to Doland five years later, in 1916.

In 1931 the family settled in Huron, where the Humphrey Drug Store was started. The drug store is still in Huron, and Humphrey never missed a chance to drop in to visit the customers when he was passing over the state on an Air Force jet assigned to the vice president. Huron area newsmen remember the time he kept a planeload of dignitaries waiting at the airport while he asked the local reporter if the interview he had just granted was enough or if more time would be needed. Sioux Falls Argus-Leader Published daily and Sunday by Sioux Falls Newspapers 200 S. Minnesota Sioux Falls, S.D.

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14 Jan. 14, 1978 son's vice president, two as a professor and free-lance politician. He was elected again in 1970 and re-elected in 1976. Humphrey's big show as a presidential contender came in 1968, as the nominee of a Democratic Party divided by the war in Vietnam and the violence that wracked its convention in Chicago. He started far behind, but steadily closed the gap and almost caught Richard M.

Nixon. Nixon won by about 510,000 votes out of 73 million cast. "The longest day of my life," Humphrey recalled in his autobiography. to lose to Nixon. Ye Gods.

No warmth, no strength, no emotion, no spirit, no heart we could have won it. We should have won it." If that was his most bitter disappointment in presidential politics, it was only one in a series. He tried in 1960 and lost to John F. Kennedy. He tried in 1972 and lost to George McGovern.

He held himself available for a call that never came in 1976, to when Carter took command in the presidential primaries and foreclosed the nomination while Humphrey shunned active candidacy but said he'd love to run if drafted. Johnson chose him for the vice presidential nomination in 1964, and Humphrey left the Senate to become a faithful lieutenant in times that be, Yet, he could call Johnson "my friend." His view was always forward, never back at what might have been. He ran for the presidency in 1968 and lost, and for the Democratic nomination in 1960 and 1972. Never quite able to quell the notion, he flirted with still another bid in 1976 but quit in the face of certain defeat. In Wisconsin, in the 1972 primaries, he said, "I am going to make my presidency, if I am permitted, one in which America once again stands proud." There is nothing to be gained from "wringing our he said.

He told another interviewer in 1969: "I must say there are times when I think about what we should have done and could have done in different states. But I don't dwell on it too long because it just ruins you. Really, it can make terribly morose and very upset." Humphrey was seldom morose, but there was an occasional lament at what might have been. In 1972, he withdrew, giving the Democratic nomination to Sen. George McGovern.

Said Humphrey: "There's no use pretending. It was a tremendous goal in my life and it's one that I'm not going to achieve. I really felt that if I was president, I could do great things for this country and that's why I ran again." "I understand this country and its people and I have a great love, a deep affection for them. It's not cheap sentimentality." There were tears among supporters at Miami Beach, in 1972, as his last presidential bid came to an end. While Minnesota was the starting point for his political career, South Dakota was in many ways his home, as he said in his autobiography "The Education of a Public Humphrey wrote in his book of an early adviser, Fred Gates, who told him always to channel contributions through a campaign committee and never handle political funds himself.

Humphrey was never accused of personal knowledge of campaign mis- to deeds. Humphrey ran for mayor of Minneapolis and lost in 1943 but ran again and won in 1945. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948, the same year President Harry S. Truman won an upset election nationally.

Humphrey was in 1954 and 1960, but left the Senate late in 1964 after being elected vice presi- MILLER nad Home MR. JOHN B. BERGHORST Since 1902 Humboldt The funeral service will be 1:30 P.M. Saturday in the First Reformed Church 19th St. Grange Ave.

with Rev. Henry Schoon officiating. Interment will be in Christian Reform cemetery, Hills, Minn. MR. WILLIAM WILKENS 2105 S.

Willow Ave. Rev. Dennis Griffin will officiate at the service 11 A.M. Monday in the First Lutheran Church 12th Dakota. Interment will be at 2 P.M.

in Greenwood cemetery, MR. ROBERT HEEGEL 2105 S. Kiwanis Ave. Services have been scheduled for 1 P.M. Monday in the Asbury United Methodist Church 2412 S.

Jefferson Ave. with Rev. Richard Fisher officiating. Interment will be in Acacia cemetery, Minneapolis. MRS.

LORRAINE PEASE 300 S. West Ave. Service will be 1 P.M. Monday in Millers chapel with Rev. John Foss of First Presbyterian Church officiating.

000 came ever more difficult. "Except for the president, I had been the administration's primary defender of the increasingly ugly and unpopular war," he reflected later. Because of that, Humphrey lost the support of the party's liberal wing, which once had idolized him. He was years repairing the damage, although he held the support of labor leaders and the party establishment during 1972 and much of the campaign for the 1976 nomination. While Humphrey never made it to the presidency, he saw more than a few of his ideas implemented by men who did.

Among them: the Peace Corps, early efforts to limit nuclear testing, -employment plans culminating with his co-authorship of a bill to make the federal government the employer of last resort, which kept up the pressure even though it didn't become law. He was born in Wallace, S.D., son of the local druggist, and became a pharmacist himself. Humphrey had to withdraw from the University of Minnesota and go back to work in the drug store, then in Huron, S.D., during the Depression. At 26, he went back to college, was graduated, earned a master's degree at the University of Louisiana, and became a professor at Macalester College. He married the former Muriel dent.

Humphrey ran again for the Senate in 1970 after failing in his 1968 presidential bid, and won easily. He was re-elected in 1976 even though he was forced off the campaign trail by cancer surgery in which his bladder was removed. He was the first Minnesotan to serve as vice president but was followed in 1977 by Minnesota's Walter F. Mondale, elected with President Jimmy Carter in 1976. Oddly, Mondale had been appointed to the U.S.

Senate in 1964, succeding Humphrey. Humphrey, in 1970, ran for the Senate seat vacated by Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesotan who had opposed him for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. McCarthy had not sought reelection in 1970. Humphrey graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1939. He attended Louisiana State University for a year, completing his course work for a master's degree in 1940.

He had earlier taken a six-month course in pharmacy in Denver, in order to assist in the family drugstore. Humphrey claims credit for initiating the merger in 1944 of Minnesota's Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties into the powerful DemocraticFarmer-Labor party. He was the keynote speaker at the first DFL convention. Dorm fire not caused by arson Arson has been ruled out as the cause of a fire which destroyed a dormitory under construction at Sioux Falls College last weekend, according to Pat Harrington, deputy state fire marshal. Harrington said the fire started in the area of a portable furnace used to partially heat the building.

"The furnace was located in an open area where sheet rock had not been applied to the walls or ceiling, leaving open studding and plywood flooring exposed, causing a rapid spreading of fire," Harrington said. Open plumbing chases from the first to third floors also caused the fire the spread rapidly, said. Harrington said further testing is being conducted to determine the exact cause of the fire. "The reason we are being very careful about this is we have parts (of the furnace) being checked out by a he said. The dormitory, which was to have housed married students, was nearly two-thirds completed when the fire occurred.

Loss has been estimated at $250,000 to $300,000. Fire Calls Firemen were called to McKennan Hospital Friday afternoon when grease in a kitchen spilled and ignit- ed. The fire was out on arrival. About 4 p.m. Friday, firemen answered a smoke alarm at the Tower of David apartment house adjacent to Fawick Park.

The smoke came from a fry pan which overheated. Paper in an ashtray at the Downtown Holiday Inn, 100 W. 8th ignited about 10 p.m. Friday. EPISCOPAL Calvary Cathedral 500 South Main at 13th St.

PHONE 336-3486 8:00 AM Holy Communion 10:00 AM Holy Communion SERMON: 'The Lord's Prayer" NURSERY, CHURCH SCHOOL 11:00 AM Coffee Hour Large Parking Lot Warm Fellowship Buck in 1936, and no couple in Washington was closer. She campaigned with him and for him. In a moment that was pure Humphrey, he went to the television screen to kiss her image during the 1968 convention, while demonstrators and police battled on the streets below his hotel room. A 4-F diagnosis kept him out of World War II, so Humphrey went to work for the War Production Administration in Minnesota, then ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Minneapolis in 1943. Two years later, he was elected mayor, and after a bruising internal fight, reorganized and built a unified Democrat-Farmer-Labor party that was to become dominant in what once was a Republican state.

He defeated Republican Sen. Joseph H. Ball in 1948, and got off to a bad start as a freshman with a brash attack on the Senate's conservative establishment. But Humphrey made his amends and began the course that made him a leader of the new establishment. Prisoner reported loose on jail roof A prisoner at the Minnehaha County Jail was reported loose on the roof of the Public Safety Building Friday evening, according to unconfirmed reports.

Sgt. Ed Sherry, who reported the incident, said could not comment unless given permission to by Sheriff Les Hawkey or Chief Deputy Jack Benefiel. He was unable to reach either Hawkey or Benefiel at home. Sherry said he wouldn't want to lose a couple days of pay by commenting without permission. Deputy Carl Grassl also tried contacting Hawkey, but was unsuccessful.

Grassl said Hawkey was "riding around." Sherry tried contacting Hawkey on the radio without success. The Sioux Falls Police Department log notes that at 5:44 p.m.., Sherry reported a prisoner loose on the roof of the Public Safety Building. That was followed by a note that the alleged culprit was apprehended. Sherry said the prisoner was not actually on the roof and that the matter wasn't that big a deal. He said he shouldn't comment because charges might be brought against the prisoner.

Optimist president to speak in city Optimist International President Don L. Arnwine will speak to Optimists in Sioux Falls today. Arnwine, Charleston, W. will visit with group members of the Dakotas-Manitoba-Minnesota District at the Westward Ho Country Club. More than 200 people are expected at the event, according to Ken Haan, governor of the DMM District.

Curt Volz, Sioux Falls, is in charge of arrangements. Also today, there will be a combined meeting of Optimists in zones five and eight of the district, to be held at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge. William J. Wilkens William J. Wilkens, 80, of 2105 S.

Willow died Thursday at a local hospital. He was born in Winona, and was a World War I veteran. He married Hazel Girch on June 6, 1921, and they moved to Brookings in 1934. His wife died in 1961. He retired as Federal Land Bank appraiser in 1962 and married Myrtle Richardson on April 28, 1962.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Robert Huron; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Hodgson, Sioux Falls eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Linda Strelow, Winona. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at First Lutheran Church.

Robert E. Heegel Sioux Falls Harold McDowell, Dayton, Ohio. Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Asbury United Methodist Church. A Masonic service will be 7:30 p.m.

Sunday at the Miller Funeral Home. Emmett McKeegan Emmett McKeegan, 88, of 624 W. 8th died Friday at his residence. Services are pending at Barnett Funeral Home. William J.

Wilkens Robert E. Heegel Robert E. Heegel, 47, of 2501 S. Kiwanis died Friday at a local hospital. He was born in Minneapolis, married Merlyn Hanson on May 7, 1949, and came to Sioux Falls in 1956.

He had been associated with Nettleton College and for the last 10 years had been assistant vice president of Dain, Kalman Quail, Inc. He was a director of the Shrine Ritualistic Unit. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Bradley and Joel, both of Sioux Falls; a daughter, Mrs. James Schultz, Sioux Falls; one grandchild; a brother, William Yermo, and two sisters, Mrs. Zada Hoffman, Barstow, and Mrs.

Sandhurst arraigned on 4 robbery counts Brian W. Sandhurst, 18, Sioux Falls, was arraigned in Magistrate's Court Friday on four counts of robbery in the first degree and one count of from the county jail. On the escape charge, he is accused of a Dec. 6 escape from the Minnehaha County Jail. He is accused on the robbery charges of robberies at Vine Garden Liquors, 1323 E.

Rice Jim's Liquor Bottle, 329 S. Minnesota the Shop 'N Cart, 1029 N. Minnesota and a 7-11 Store at 41st Street and Elmwood Avenue. A man armed with a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun held up each of those businesses. In the robbery complaint, Sandhurst is accused of taking money from Wayne Thurman, James Mathison, Laura Jean Brown and Cindy A.

Hayes by means of force or by putting them in some immediate fear of injury. The four were attendants at the Sioux Falls businesses at the time of the robberies. Mocamba liquor license to be operative Monday One of the two new retail liquor licenses awarded by the Sioux Falls City Commission in December will be operative the first of next week, according to Leo J. "Bud" Brown owner of the new license. Brown said the license for the Mocamba, 305 N.

Main was approved Tuesday by the state Department of Revenue, and that "we are going to start serving liquor Brown's license was one of two granted by the three commissioners in a controversial luck-of-the-draw method. For Weather Dial 339-2222 Courtesy of your Weatherball Banks Mrs. Lorraine E. Pease Mrs. Lorraine E.

Pease Mrs. Lorraine E. Pease, 64, of 300 S. West died Thursday at a local hospital. Lorraine Kriens was born i in Sioux Falls, was married to Merel Olson on Dec.

22, 1933, and he died in 1954. She was married to Lawrence Pease Sept. 22, 1956, and he died in February 1975. She had been employed as a clerk at Shriver's department store from 1954-1977. She was a past worthy matron of Eastern Star.

Survivors include a son, Richard M. Olson, Kansas City, a daughter, Suanne Olson Bird, Sioux Falls; a grandchild, and a brother, Richard Kreins, Boise, Idaho. Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at the Miller Funeral Home. Area Carl L.

Bauman VERMILLION, S.D.-Carl L. Bauman, 68, a lifelong resident, died Thursday at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born in Vermillion, and married Verle Black on Nov. 25, 1936. He was employed by the city in the electrical department.

He. was a deacon of the Assembly of God, and was a teacher and the superintendent of its Sunday School. Survivors include his wife; two sons, William, Lakeland, and Donald, Bartow, a daughter, Mrs. Gary Cunningham, Carmichael, five grandchildren; a brother, W. Hemet, and four sisters, Doris Anderson, Elko, Mrs.

Chris Schaeffer, Sun City, Virginia Harris, Madison, and Mrs. Herbert Jockhack, Redfield. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Assembly of God. There will be a scripture service at 8 p.m.

Sunat the Wagner-Iverson Funeral Home. Vernon Neiers BERESFORD, S.D. -Vernon Neiers, 64, died Thursday at a Viborg hospital. He was born in Platte and worked as a farm laborer from 1931-1938 before coming to farm in the Beresford area. Survivors include a sister, Carlyn Neiers, O'Neill, Neb.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at St. Theresa Catholic Church. A wake service and rosary recitation will be 8 p.m. Sunday at the Wass Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lena Smallfield ELKTON, S.D.-Mrs. Lena Smallfield, 91, died Friday at a Flandreau rest home. Lena Heesch was born in Manning, Iowa. She married Albert Smallfield on Nov.

16, 1910, and they farmed i in the Elkton area until his death in 1952. Survivors include four sons, Elmer, Herb, Lloyd and Harold, all of Elkton; a daughter, Mrs. Leona 01- son, Humansville, six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Henry and Louis Heesch, both of Elkton, and two sisters, Mrs. Carl Jensen, Elkton, and Mrs. Ella Knuth, Renton, Wash.

Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at the Peace United Church of Christ. (Skroch) A circuit court ruling last week upheld the legality of the drawing after one of the seven unsuccessful applicants challenged the city's right to use that method of selection. The unsuccessful applicant, Dorothy I. Ecker, had wanted a liquor license for a proposed restaurant and lounge at 501 N.

Phillips Ave. Gatsby's, located in The Empire, had received the other license, but owner Robert Larson said he doesn't anticipate serving liquor until February. Winter is Coming! Have Your Furnace Checked Now CALL 338-2692 Waterbury Heating Service 5005 W. 12th MONTGOMERY WARD The which Credit was Flexie mailed Mailer to our Sioux Falls Customers will be extended through January 15, 1978. The Home Furnishing Sale Section of this Credit Flexie will end January 19..