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Page 2 Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, Thursday, June 11, 1987 Obituaries Donn J. Nichols ROCHESTER Donn J. Nichols, 83, Rt. 2, Rochester, died at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Canterbury Manor Nursing Home, Rochester.

He was born Aug. 17, 1903, in Fulton County to William L. and Maude Barr Nichols. He was married May 17, 1926, in Femdale, to Madelon Cams, who survives. He was a lifetime resident of Fulton County.

He was a retired farmer. Also surviving are two daughters, Nancy Alt, Columbia City, and Betty Crissinger, Rochester; a son, Donn Fort Wayne; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Four brothers, four sisters, a stepbrother and a granddaughter preceded in death. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Zimmerman Brothers Funeral Home, Rochester, with the Rev.

Brice Casey officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Athens. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 11 a.m. until the hour of service Saturday in the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart Fund or American Diabetes Association. W. Smith DELPHI Gerald W. Smith, 60, Rt. 1, Delphi, died at 12:29 p.m.

Wednesday in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette. He was born May 28,1927, in Rockfield to Walter and Doris Smith Smith. He was married Jan. 29, 1949, in Lebanon to Bertie Wamsher, who survives.

He retired in 1986 from Globe Valve, Delphi, where he had worked more than 24 years. He was a 1945 graduate of Rockfield High School and a World War II U.S. Army Air Corps veteran. He attended Pittsburg Church of the Brethren. Also surviving are his mother, Doris Smith, Delphi; two daughters, Neta Daniels and Penny Soper, both of Delphi; five grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Horn Funeral Home, with the Rev. John Nalley officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF Memorial Gardens, Pittsburg. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m.

Friday in the funeral home. Sarah I. Baker ROCHESTER Sarah I Baker, 87, formerly of Rt. 1, Rochester, died at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday in Rochester Nursing Home, where she had been a resident four years.

She was born July 17,1899, in Fulton County to Jerry J. and Ida Miller Estabrook. She was married Jan. 24, 1925, in South Bend to Ray Baker, who survives. She was a lifetime resident of Fulton County.

She was a member of Rochester Church of Christ, and Pleasant Hour Club and Mount Zion Club, both of Rochester. Also surviving are three sons, Oris and Jerry, both of Rochester, and Philip, Glendale, six granddaughters; two stepgrandsons and four great-grandsons. Three brothers and a sister preceded in death. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Zimmerman Brothers Funeral Home, Rochester.

Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery, Rochester. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. until the hour of service Saturday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Mini-Bus Fund, Rochester, or Rochester Church of Christ.

Margaret M. Crimm Continued From Page 1 Marine Corps, he began to check into Abbott's statements about when and where the murders took place. His private investigation led Mm to Indiana State Police investigator Herbert E. Clear who made the arrests on Abbott, Geier and Hinman. Procecuting attorney Jeff Smith asked Abbott if he thought it was "pure chance," that Treadway would would begin an investigation into statements Abbott made about two murders and "lo and two bodies just happen toshow up? Abbott replied he sure that it cftahce" Weigle, a former live-in girlfiend of Abbott's, said Abbott had said that, "The only thing hanging over my head," was knowledge of a body buried in rural Pulaski County, the area where Cynthia Geier's body was recovered.

Smith asked Abbott if he denied the statements made against him by Geier and Hinman regarding the discussions the three allegedly had in regards to Cynthia Geier's death. "Do you know that by saying the three of you talked about killing Cindy Geier that John Geier and Rick Hinman have implicating themselves in the crime? And cam you think of any reason-why. they'd involve themselves like that without reason?" Smith asked. thai-he 'and the other two defendants had never discussed killing Cynthia Geier and tee did not know why Geier and Hinman would implicate themselves in the crime. Firefighters wondered about station Firefighters in the Logansport Central Fire Station thought that Wednesday was the day the building was going to fall.

An architectural firm from Indianapolis that is designing the new fire station reported several months ago that at least one of the walls at the Central Fire Station building is slowly pulling away from the rest of the building and it is only a matter of time before the building could collapse. Fire Chief Joseph Casalini said some firemen thought "today is the day," when the earthquake hit Wednesday evening. Casalini said firemen began moving out of the building as the tremor was felt, but they soon realized what was happening. The fire department received no alarms during the tremor. Casalini said a check of the building today revealed no new cracks.

The Logansport police dispatcher was busy answering telephone calls after the quake hit. Logansport police received a number of calls from people wanting to know what happened. Phone service taxed by quake Wednesday evening's earthquake caused some intermittent delays in phone service in the Logansport area and accounted for some interruptions in service which customers believed were quake-related. Gerry Landis, district manager of General Telephone in Lafayette, said this morning that the quake caused a volume of phone calls equal to that of Christmas or Mother's Day. Winning Lottery SMumfoers CHICAGO (UPI) The winning number drawn Wednesday in the Illinois Lottery daily game was 0-6-0.

The Pick Four number was 2-1-4-2. The Lotto-7 winning number was 6-13-18-19-20-32-33. The estimated Lotto-7 grand prize was $2 million. The estimated grand prize in Saturday's Lotto drawing is $7.5 million. (USPS 317-780) PHAROS-TRIBUNE Daily and Sunday (excepl Saturdays and holidays) $1.60 par week by carrier In all cities and towns; Prepayment In office 13 26 52 $6.95 per month by motor route: 3 6 1 By mail In Indiana where no carrier or motor route service maintained: 3 6 1 By mall outside Indiana: 3 6 1 All mail subscriptions payable in advance.

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Second class postage paid at Logansport, Indiana, under the act of March 3,1897. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ALL DEPARTMENTS PHONE 219-722-5000 Continued From Page I tershocks, but they wouldn't be severe. Experts have been predicting the New Madrid Fault near the southern border of niinois and western border of Kentucky will someday produce another severe earthquake. Braile described the Wabash Fault as a "Fault zone or a zone of faults, more than one. It's a series of faults that occurs approximately parallel to the Wabash River both in southern Indiana and southern Illinois, extending approximately 80 to 100 miles, from the southern most tip of Illinois to the area around Vincennes." Prof.

Braile said it is not really known if this quake was on the Wabash Fault or not. "We don't have an accurate location, only an approximate Prof. Braile said the New Madrid Fault, further south, "looks somewhat the same in terms of geology as the area around the Wabash Valley Fault, but it is certainly different in the level of quake activity. The New Madrid Fault has much more activity," he said. Kathertae Price, an assistant geology professor at DePauw University, said Indiana and the Wabash River basin are "overdue" for an earthquake, but said there are no accurate ways of projecting when a quake will happen.

Braile, too, said it is difficult to predict when the next major New Madrid quake will occur. "This is probably linked to some weaknesses in the Earth's crusts in southern Indiana and niinois which is called the Mount Carmel Fault Zone," said Price. "On Dec. 31, 1811 and New Year's Day, 1812, there was a quake which scientists generally believe was much worse than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The general rule of determining when quakes will occur again over major fault areas is 150 years." Spokesman Don Finley of the U.S.

Geological Survey said the temblor was the strongest earthquake in the area since a magnitude 5.3 quake was centered near Norris City, HI, on Nov. 9, 1968. That quake also caused minor damage. Experts agreed the strongest earthquakes in U.S. history were not in California, but along the lines of the areas hit Wednesday.

But there is disagreement as to when those quakes occurred and which fault was to blame. The Wabash Fault runs along the Illinois-Indiana border while the New Madrid Fault runs for about 200 miles al.ong the Mississippi River from junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to near Memphis, Tenn. The 1811 and 1812 quakes on the Wabash Fault are believed to be the strongest in U.S. history, measuring an estimated 8.5 on the Richter Scale, said David Tribble of the seismographic station at Loyola University in Chicago. Ray Anderson of the Iowa Department of Natural Re- sources'said the largest earthquake ever recorded to the United States occurred on the New Madrid Faultto Southern Illinois in the 1840s.

The Richter scale measures the inherent strength of an earthquake at its center. Every increase of 1 on the Richter scale means the ground motion is 10 times greater. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 is considered capable of causing considerable damage. MONTICELLO Margaret M. Crimm, 68, of 201 S.

Park died at 3:45 a.m. today in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette, after an extended illness. She was born Dec. 5, 1918, in Sidney, Ohio, to Mr.

and Mrs. Ferdinand Wentz. She was married in 1939 to Gordon E. Slemmer, who died in 1966. She was married July 27, 1974, to Edward E.

Crimm, who survives. She had lived in Monticello 14 years, coming from Sidney. She had lived most of her life in Anna, Ohio. She was a member of Monticello Christian Church. Also surviving are a daughter, Connie S.

Dean, Fort Wayne; a stepson, Marvin Crimm, Anderson; a stepdaughter, Judith Biggs, Arcadia; two brothers, Russell Wentz, Anna, and William Wentz, Sidney; two grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren and six stepgreat-grandchildren. A son and three brothers preceded in death. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Cromes Funeral Home, Sidney, with the Rev. Douglas McGinn officiating.

Burial will be in Pearl Cemetery, Anna. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. E.D.T. Friday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Monticello Christian Church.

Miller-Voorhis Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Mollie B. HickSe KEWANNA Mollie B. Hickle, 82, Kewanna, died at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday in Canterbury Manor Nursing Home, Rochester.

She was born July 27, 1904, in Winamac to Fred and Mable Nichols Blanchette. She was married Oct. 25, 1921, in St. Joseph, to Elmer B. Hickle, who survives.

She was a retired secretary for Kewanna Lumber Company. She was a member of Kewanna United Methodist Church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary, Logansport. Also surviving are two sons, Jack, Frankfort, and Robert Logansport; two brothers, Willis Blanchette, Fremont, and Leonard Blanchette, Milwaukee, two sisters, Marie Swater, East Troy, and Affa Semrau, Milwaukee; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and two great-great- grandchildren. A brother preceded in death. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday in Harrison-Metzger Funeral Home, Kewanna, with the Rev. Dennis Ingle officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery, Kewanna. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 8 a.m.

until the hour of service Saturday in the funeral home. Police Reports Wednesday 9:39 a.m. Vandalism. Jamie Phillipy, 2130 Erie reported the top on a vehicle cut. Logansport Police Department investigated.

4:35 p.m. Hit and run. Patricia Clem, Rt. 1, Macy, reported damage to the rear bumper of her vehicle while the vehicle was parked in the First National Bank parking lot. LPD.

8 p.m. Hit and run. Edmund Morning, 91 11th reported damage to the left side of his vehicle. LPD. Thursday 12:45 a.m.

Personal-injury accident, Cass County Roads 225S and 600W. Vehicle driven by Johnson Werst, 15, 720 Biddle struck a utility pole and corn. Two passengers in the vehicle were injured. Lisa Mace, 20, no address listed, complained of arm pain. Goldie Mace, 9 months, suffered minor head bleeding.

Werst was charged with operating a vehicle without a license. CCPD. Fire Calls 11:45 p.m. Property-damage Wednesday accident, Cass County Roads 250N and 600E. Vehicle driven by Donald p.m.

Car fire at 22nd and Ulery, 26, 1400 Spear struck a George St. Vehicle owned by Dean deer. Cass County Police Depart- Riley, Rt. 1, Royal Center. Hood area ment investigated.

and wiring damaged. Funeral Notices MENTHORN FLORA Services for Naomi Jean Menthorn, 75, Chase Convalescent Center, Logansport, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Reinke Funeral Home. Burial will be In Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m.

today in the funeral home. MOPPINS Services for Wilbert D. Moppins, 73, of 608 E. Wabash will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Marocco Funeral Chapel.

4 Burial will be Mount Hope Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral chapel, where a Masonic Lodge service will be conducted at 7 p.m. NICKELS Services for Elige Nickels, 76, of 1109 Erie will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Kroeger Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Mount Hope Ceme- tery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home, where a Jordan Masonic Lodge service will be conducted at 8 p.m. There will be no visitation Friday. RICHARDSON Services for Lenard L.

Richardson, 59, Rt. 3, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in McCloskey-Hamilton- Gundrum Funeral Home. Burial, with military graveside rites, will be in Ever-Rest Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call to 9 p.m..": today In the funeral home.

WITTER FLORA Private services for. Bessie J. Ewing Witter, 98, Milner Healthcare Center, Rossville, will be held Friday. Burial will be in Maplelawn Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m, today in Baker Funeral Home.

Hospital Notes Logansport BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McGee, North Port, are parents of a son, Michael, born Sunday In Port Charlotte, Fla. Maternal grandparents are Larry Cross, Naples, and Janet Cross, Sarasota, Fla. Paternal grandparents are Mr.

and Mrs. Everett McGee, North Port, formerly of Logansport. ADMITTED Gladys Roller, 1537 Erie Ave. Phyllis Jameson, 809 Stanley St. linquency of a minor.

A 17-year-old intoxicated. CCPD. girl was also arrested on a charge of illegal possession of alcohol. LPD. DISMISSED Jim Collins, Knox.

Catherine Conn, Walton. Vera Hatt, Rt. 2. Mrs. Dean Johnson and son, Rochester.

Patrick Jordon, 104 Columbia St. Martha Leeman, 8 Parkwood Dr. Montlcello DISMISSED Debra Fiores, Monticello. Henry (Jack) Curbox, Monticello. Timothy Breedlove, Monticello, Robert Haskins, Monticello.

Peru BIRTHS Robert and Vickey Sanders, 376 Jackson a son. ADMITTED Brian Burns, Macy. Rhonda Gadd, Twin Bridges. Paula Johnson, 32 Center St. Joyce Kirkwood, E.

Canal St. DISMISSED Gerald Shanabarger, 64 S. Wayne St. Elizabeth Evans, Bunker Hill. Christopher Schroll, 51 Shields Ave.

Rochester ADMITTED Lena Floyd, Rt. 5. Melissa Plumlee, Akron. Jaclyn Rice, Argos. Edward Scott, Tippecanoe, Richard Rose, Burnettsville.

DISMISSED Thelma Jones, 343 Indiana Ave. Edward Scott, Tippecanoe, transferred to Memorial Hospital, South Bend. Treva Whittenberger, Akron. WSnamac ADMITTED Bonnie Zimmerman, North Judson. Gerald Scheffer, Star City.

Sarah Trusty, Denham. Markets Grain The mldmorning cash prices, at Indiana Grain, Logansport: Wheat(cash) no bid Wheat (new 2.48 off V4 Corn (cash) 1.73 unch Corn (new crop) 1.77 up 2 Beans 5.59 up BVi Beans (new crop) 5.5BV4 up PIK Certs Buying 106 percent Selling 108 percent Casa County PGP 1.60 off 3 NEW YORK (UPI) Following are mid-morning prices for the 20 most widely held stocks listed on the New York! stock E.xchange: Am El Power 271-2 up 1-4 Amerltech 84 7-8 up 1-4 26 Bell All 871-2 off 1-8 BCE 307-8 off 1-8 Bellsouth 395-8 Exxon 87 3-4 up 3-fl Gen Elect 53-1-2 up 1-4 Gen Motors 841-4 up 1-4 GTE 383-6up 3-8 IBM 1587-8 up11-B Nynex 67 5-8 up 1-2 197-8off 1-8 Pac Teles 25 5-B up 1-8 PhllaEI 205-Soff 1-8 Sears South Co ...24 up 1-8 SowstBell 38 up 1-2 q-Texaco. 381-2 US West 50 7-8 up 1-4 q-in bankruptcy NEW YORK (UPI) The stock market advanced In moderate trading early Thursday, boosted by firm bond prices and a steady dollar. The Dow Jones Industrial average, which rose 0.91 Wed- nesday, was up 13.05 to 2366.66 at 11 a.m. EOT.

The New York Stock Exchange Index was up 0.63 to 188.16 and the price of an average share was up 15 cents. Advances led declines 760-476 among the 1,722 Issues crossing the NYSE tape. Big Board volume amounted to about 46,960,000 shares at 11 a.m., compared with 58,000,000 In the same period Wednesday. Traders said equity prices drew Support from strengthening prices and a stable dollar. The dollar slid early Thursday when President Reagan said the dollar could fall further but recovered most of the lost ground when the 'White House clarified the President's remarks, saying he favored dollar stability.

"The market wants to go higher, and Ihe Dow should reach new records for the near term," said Alfred Goldman, director of technical analysis at A.G. Edwards Sons. "A lot of the negatives the market had been dealing with fear of inflation, a dollar free- fall and uncertainty about who would be the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board have been removed," said Peter Furniss, a managing director In the listed trading department at Smith Barney, Harris Upham Co. But Michael Mete, portfolio strategist at Oppenhelmer maintained there are no external developments to justify a market rise. "It's a frothy market benefiting from Itchy portfolio managers, "said Metz.

"There's plenty of cash around looking for games to play, and takeover speculation Is the only game that offers any thrills," Metz said. "There's nothing like a hot tape to attract buyers." Gold NEW YORK (UPI) Foreign and domestic gold silver prices quoted In dollars per troy ounce Thursday: London Previous close 455.75 up 2.50 Morning fixing 458.40 up 0.65 Hong Kong 458.35 off 0.90 New York Comex spot gold open 456.70 up 0.10 Comex spot silver open 7.825off0.02 London morning fixing change Is based on the previous day's closing price..