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Gov. A. G. Horlie, of North Dakota
died here today.

Death was caused by heart dis
lease from whirh the governor hed

been erltieally ill for the past three

 

     

 

Sorlie was born April fA. ists.
near Alderta Gea, Mian. When 1
he came te North Dukota where
he worked in a hank, aperated +
keneral store and buer beetme a
travellne salesman

In 1947, he enteres the fuel,
and feed b mess at trand Ber’
A. G. Sorlie and voumpany. The en
lerprise was surcess( tl and was the
asic for a considerable fortune
whith he later accumulated in other
business endeavors.

Despite his extensls+ interests, the
Non-Partisan leasne selected hina its
its standard-hearer in 124. and he
won the Gubernatericl election after
a hot fight w
publican incumbent. Ue wa
Elector In 1928, but did sot seek
nomination this wear, saying he dl
sired wo retire te private life at th
end of his term.

The first important art of office
came to Sorlie when in h th
term he appointed ‘era ,
to the United Stare s
ceed Senator E. KF. Land, w
In office.

Sartie's death brings to the exacts
tive’s chair Waller MLaidileck,
tenant 2novernor.

 

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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The federal
government says it has spent nearly $2
million improving President Nixon's
homes in Florida and California, all of it
relating to “security.” The expenses
ranged from fire sprinklers to golf carts
for the Secret Service.

The White House also disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who
helped the President buy his San Clemen-
te, Calif., retreat, has been getting some
money back in the form of rent associated
with Nixon's Key Biscayne, Fla., place.

A month ago the White House had listed
$39,000 in federal funds for improving the
Western White House at San Clemente
since Nixon bought it in 1969.

Last week, after a further search of
record, it raised this figure to $460,302.

On Thursday, General Services
Administration (GSA), the government's
housekeeping agency, said a still more
extensive audit put the total federal ex-
penditure at San Clemente at $703.367 over
four fiscal years beginning July 1, 1969.
This included only the residence there, not
the White House office space.

GSA listed for the first time the federal
expenditure for improvements, equip-
ment, operation and maintenance at the
White House complex at Key Biscayne,
including both residence and office
space-— $1,180,522. -pread over five fiscal
years beginning July ', 1968

Included in the Key Biscayne figure
was $161,463 for renting two heuses in the
complex for the Secret Service and White
House communications staff.

The White House said one of these
houses is owned by Abplanalp and the
other is owned in the name of Edwin H.
Underwood, trustee for the Indiana
National Bank, Indianapolis.

The White House said all of the tax-
payers’ money spent in San Clemente and
Key Biscayne was for security-related
improvements and that all work was done
at the request of the Secret Service, not the
President.
 