Bismarck, N. D. Aug. 27 (AP)
~—Gov. A. G. Sorlie, of North Da-
kota died here this morning.

Death was caused by heart

disease from which the governor
has been critically ill for the past
three days.

Arthur Gustav Sorlie was born
April 26, 1874 near Alberta Lea,
Minn. His parents were Iver and
Mary Sorlie, natives of Norway.
When he was 19 years old he
came to North Dakota where he
worked in a bank, operated § a
general store and later became a
traveling salesman.

In 1907 he entered the fuel,
seed and feed business at Grand
Forks as A. G. Sorlie and com-
pany. The enterprise was success-
ful and was the basis for a con-
siderable fortune which he late
accumulated in other business
endeavors.

Despite his extensive interests.
the non-partisan league selected
him as its standard bearer in
(1924 and he won the = guberna
| torial election after a hot fight
with R. A. Nestos, the republican
incumbent. He was reelected in
| 1926, but did not seek renomina-
‘tion this year, saying that he de-
sired to retire to private life at
‘the end of his term.

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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS it has spent
nearly $2 million improving President Nixon's humes in
Florida and California, all of it relating to “security.” The
White House also disclosed that businessman Robert H.
Abplanalp, who helped the President buy his San Clemente,
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 Ilouse at
San Clemente since Nixan bought it in 1969,

THE HOUSE LATE THURSDAY VOTED (to create an
independent corporation to handle the free jegal services
program fur the poor, but added a series of restrictions on
what lawyers can do for their poverty clients. ‘The measure,
as passed and sent to the Senate, would bar the attorneys
from engaging in cases involving school busing, school
integration, abertion and governmental lobbying. Final
passage came on a 276 to 95 roli call vote.
 