 

BISMARCK, N. D., Aug. 28 (P).—
Gov. A. G. Sorlie, of North Dakota
died here this morning. .

. Death was caused by heart disease

from which the governor has been

critically iN for the past three days.

Arthur Gustave Sorlie wes born
April 26, 1874 near Alderta Lea, ‘Minn.
His parents were Iver and Mary Sor-
lie, natives of Norway. When he was
19 years old he came to North Dakota
where he worked in a mbank, oper:
ated a general store and’ later be-
came a traveling salesman.

In 1907 he éntered the fuel, seed
and feed business at Grand Forks as
A. G. Sorlie and Company. The en-
terprise was successful and was the
basis for a considerable fortune
which he later 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 gubernatorial election. He
was reelecte® in 1926, but did not
seek renomitiation this year saying
that he desired to retire to private
life at the end of his term.

Governor Sorlie's death brings to
the executive's chair Walter Mad-
dock, the Heutenant governor, who is
a real dirt farmer, and is rated es
a self made man. He was educated
in the common schools and business
college. Later he studied Jaw and
civil engineering, taking mail cours-
es in those subj

 
 
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 White House also disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who
helped the President buy his San Cle-
mente, Calif,, retreat, has been getting
Some money back in the form of rent
associated with Nixons Key Biscayne,
Fla,, place.

A moath ago the White House had
listed $39,000 in federal funds for
improving the.Western White House
at San Clemente since Nixon baught

aa See
 —Ht-in-1960,

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

On Thursday, General Services ad-
ministration GSA, the government's
housekeeping agency, said a still more
‘wextensive. audit put .the.totalfedaral
expenditure at San Clemente at $703,-
367 over four fiscal years beginning
July 1, 1969, ‘This included only the re-
Sidence there, not the White House
office space, °

GSA listed for the first time the
federal expenditure for improve-
ments, equipment, operation and main-
tenance at the White House complex
at Key: Biscayne, including both resi-

 

dence and offlcé space - $1,180,522,
spread over five fiscal years begin-
ning July 1, 1968,

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

The White House sald 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 re-
lated improvements and that all work
was done at the request of the Secret
Service, not the President,

. THE GSA data showed items such as
$53,644 in fiscal year 1970 for interior
security and communications at San
Clemente, It also included $3,303 in
fiscal 1970 for golf carts for the Se-
eret Service patrol at Key Biscayne,
- ‘Two years later there appears ano-
ther item of $5,230 for. three Secret
Service golf carts there.
 