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Chicago Tribune, Saturday, June 6, 1998 Section 1 19 ALMANAC OBITUARIES Sam Yorty, L.A.'s mayor in 1960s Ni jsw i i i was bring these suburbs together where togetherness made for strength and made for love." "The real work on the infrastructure in the city of Los Angeles was done by Sam Yorty," said former Police Chief Daryl Gates. Former Yorty press deputy Yet Lock remembered his one-time boss for being the first Los Angeles mayor to have an integrated staff that included Hispanics, blacks and Asian-Americans. Mayor Yorty also was the first to appoint a woman as deputy mayor, Lock said. A Democrat who would turn Republican, Mayor Yorty alienated Democrats by endorsing Richard Nixon over John Kennedy for president in 1960. He drew the ire of the right wing early in his career by authoring legislation that was pro-union and advocating state-owned utilities.

Samuel William Yorty was born in 1909 in Lincoln, Neb. He came to Los Angeles after graduating from high school, enrolling at Southwestern University and later studying at UCLA. Associated Press LOS ANGELES-Sam Yorty, the fiery mayor who baffled liberals and conservatives as he steered Los Angeles through the turbulent 1960s, died Friday. He was 88. Mayor Yorty, whose tenure spanned such tumultuous events as the Watts riot and the assassination of Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles as well as years of tremendous growth, died in his sleep at home. He died of pneumonia, a complication of a stroke suffered May 24. Also a state assemblyman and a congressman in a 37-year political career, Mayor Yorty emerged as a national figure at the helm of the city, earning nicknames such as "Travelin' Sam," "Mayor Sam," "Shoot-From-the-Lip Sam" and "Maverick Mayor." Some said he led a city whose name he couldn't pronounce. He always used the idiosyncratic Los Ang'-gah-lees.

"He was the one who recognized that L.A. was thought of as a bunch of suburbs in search of a city," said Richard Riordan, the current mayor. "What Sam did After brief service in the Assembly, he left politics to serve in World War II. Returning to Los Angeles after the war, Mayor Yorty served in the U.S. House of Representative for two terms in the early 1950s.

He passed up a bid for re-election in 1954 to run for the Senate but lost. He had better luck when he ran for mayor in 1961, despite opposition from Democrats still incensed about his N-ixon endorsement. As mayor, he planned to revise Los Angeles' charter. Those plans hit a roadblock when rioting erupted in the city's Watts neighborhood in 1965. When federal and state officials blamed his administration for refusing to cooperate with plans to improve conditions in black neighborhoods, Mayor Yorty accused them of raising the hopes of blacks without fulfilling them.

Tom Bradley, then a city councilman, ran unsuccessfully against him in 1969. Mayor Yorty angered blacks and liberals when he accused blacks of usually vot- KNAPP Beth H. Knapp. 72, ol Highland Park, loving mother of Georgia Knapp; beloved mother-in-law ol Richard Crook; dear grandmother of Douglas Crook. Funeral service will be held 2 p.m.

Monday. June 8, at the Kelley Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Highland Park. IL. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, 208 S.

LaSalle Suite 900. Chicago, IL 60604-1197. For info, 847-831-4260. K0UK0S See Betty Kardoff, nee Koukoe. notice.

L0BUS Michael J. Lobus. beloved son of Edward and Evelyn; loving brother of Edward, John and James. Funeral Mass Saturday, 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Victory Church.

Interment St. Joseph Cemetery. 773-545-2115 MATUCK May E. Matuck, nee Palm, of Darien, formerly of Bellwood. beloved wife of the late Robert loving mother of Merle E.

(Albert Ariola. Michael J. (Janell A and Mark A. (Susan Matuck; dearest grandmother of Kimberly Thomas. Michael Ariola and Margaret Matuck; Eeat-grandmother of Erica; dear sister of Grace le late Ben) Krakowski and Ted Palm.

Funeral onday. June 8 9.30 a.m. from Rosewood Funeral Home, 4000 St. Charles Bellwood, to Sacred Heart Church for Mass at 10 a.m. Interment Oueen of Heaven Cemetery.

Member of Forest Park VFW Post 7181. Ladies Aux. Visitation Saturday, 5 to 9 m. and Sunday, 3 to 9 p.m. 708-544-6667 NICKL i Joseph M.

Nickl, 84. of Glenview. formerly of Chicago, beloved husband of the late Maybelle; i loving father of Patricia (Ronald) Butkus and James (Elizabeth) Nickl; dear grandfather of Michael (Krlsti), Steven (Linda), Suzanne and Karl; fond great-grandfather of six; close friend of Marge Neumar. Funeral service Monday 1:30 p.m. at Forest Glen Chapels Zldek a Son, 5265 Elston Ave.

Visitation Sunday 3:30 to 9 m. Interment Ridgewood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the First Congregational Church ol Forest Glen, 5400 Lawler, Chicago, II 60630 appreciated. 773-777-2552 OLSON Marie A. Olson, beloved wife of the late Harold loving-mother of Harold (Vivian and the late Robert; dear grandmother of Thomas, Chris (Mary Ann) and Doug; great-grandmother of Alexis and Paige.

Visitation Saturday. 3 to 9 p.m. at The Original Rago Brothers Norrldge Funeral Chapels, 7751 W. Irving Park Rd. Interment private at Irving Park Cemetery.

773-276-7600. POLLACK ta-s, George T. Pollack, retired from the Chicago Police Department, beloved husband of the lr late Margaret; loving brother of Francis; 1 cherished father of Connie Wilson, Thomas Pol- lack, Jeanne (Judge Kenneth) Abraham, Patricia (Rolf) Roth and Robert Pollack; devoted grandfather of eight. Funeral Mass held Monday, June 8. 1998, 10 a at St.

Terrance Perish, 4300 119th Place, Alsip, IL. In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Information, 847-427-1233. RENTAS See Betty Kardoff, nee Koukos, notice, ROSEN Dr. David Rosen, beloved husband of Dr.

Harriet, nee Kaplan; dear brother of Ruth Rosen: loving uncle of Myrtle (the late George) Chill; fond cousin of Max (Frieda) Chill; and second cousins in Israel and Service Sunday, 9:30 a.m. at Ridgelawn Cemetery, 5736 N. Pulaski Chicago. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Jewish National Fund, 360 N. Michi-; pan 1111, Chicago, 60601-3806, Information: The Piter Chapel, 773-561-4740 RYAN Marcella Jane Ryan, nee McLaughlin, wife of the late Rex Ryan; fond mother of Ron (Kathy) Ryan, Penny (Vic) Shogren, nee Huebner, Chris (Yvonne) Huebner, Tracey Ryan, Jay (Tracy) Ryan; loving grandmother and great-grand-: mother.

All services private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Les Turner, ALS Foundation, 6142 Lawndale, Skokie, IL 60076 SALEY William Saley. 61, beloved husband of Diane; loving father of Erick (Jeannie), Cheryl, Russell and the late Catherine Saley; fond brother of August, Robert, Roger Saley, Judy Voorhess. Mary Volden, Jean Happle. the late John.

Clifford Jr and Gerry; dear son of the late Helen and Clifford Sr. Funeral Saturday 12 noon at Emman-' uel United Methodist Church, 1401 Oak Avenue, Evanston. Interment Monday. Lower York Cemetery, Thomson, IL. Funeral info Donnellan Family Funeral Services, 647-869-2900 SULLIVAN Anita Sullivan, nee Bertocchi, beloved wife of the late William P.O.; loving mother of Marion (the late Edward) Herbold, William (Ethelreda), James (Mary Grace) and the late Michael Sullivan; dear grandmother of 13; dear great-grandmother of 19.

visitation Sunday, 2 to 9 p.m. Funeral Monday. 9:15 a.m., from the Robert J. Sheehy A Sons Funeral Home, 4950 W. 79th Burbank, to St.

Thomas More Church. Mass 10 a.m. Interment St. James De Sag. 708-857-7878 or 773-582-4400.

SYUEBECK Mildred Syljebeck, 81, of Hebron, passed away on June 4, 1998. loving mother of sons Richard (Carol) Syljebeck and Robert (Sally) Syljebeck: proud grandmother of Michael. Susan, John and Shirley Povich, legendary Washington sportswriter -7 I t'W. was a tribute from BoswelL "It's about baseball," Boswell wrote. "His first love.

In it he needles me. Mark McGwire comparable to Babe Ruth? Such apostasy cannot be allowed to stand! Perfect Shirley Povich died setting the record straight" Mr. Povich wrote more than 15,000 columns in seven decades with the Post. His column, "This Morning," ran six days a week from 1926 to 1974. "Shirley Povich was why people bought the paper," said Ben Bra-dlee, retired executive editor.

"For lot of years, he carried the paper, and that's no exaggeration." Mr. Povich was front and center at some of the biggest sports milestones, including Cassius Clay's stunning defeat of Sonny Listen in 1964 and, in 1995, Baltimore Orioles inflelder Cal Ripken's breaking of. Lou Gehrig's streak of consecutive games played. In his unobtrusive manner and with a quiet New England way of speaking that the Maine native never lost, Mr. Povich also was disgraced in Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas David Walsh, founder of the disgraced Bre-X Minerals Ltd.

that attracted thousands of investors with tales of the greatest gold find of the century, died Thursday at age 52. Mr. Walsh, who was living at his estate, died in Nassau, a spokeswoman for Doctors' Hospital said. He had suffered a stroke Sunday, two days after the Bahamas Supreme Court froze his assets at the request of trustees handling the bankruptcy of his Canadian company. Mr.

Walsh's death leaves questions about his role, if any, in one of history's biggest stock frauds. The Montreal native was the toast of Canadian entrepreneurs Sam Yorty in 1981 ing for members of their race. He switched his party affiliation after the Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in 1972. Bradley defeated Mayor Yorty' the next year, becoming the city's first black mayor, and the unseated mayor left public life for good, retiring to his hilltop Studio City home. Top officer at My Lai massacre New York Times News Service LEBANON, Pa.

Col. Oran K. Henderson, the highest-ranking officer to be tried as a consequence of the killings of Vietnamese civilians in My Lai in 1968, died Tuesday in a Lebanon hospital. He was 77 and had pancreatic cancer. A career officer, he was acquitted in a court-martial in 1971, leaving Lt.

William. Calley a platoon leader, as the only soldier to be found guilty and punished for the massacre. CoL Henderson's death came less than a month after that of Ronald Ridenhour, a 52-year-old New Orleans journalist who, as a young helicopter gunner serving in Vietnam, had heard what had happened at My Lai and brought the atrocity to public attention after leaving the military. At least 350 civilians were killed at My Lai, including women and children. The day of the massacre, March 16, 1968, was Col.

Henderson's first as the commanding officer of the newly formed 11th Infantry Brigade, which included the company whose soldiers attacked the hamlet. Col. Henderson was watching from a command helicopter circling over My Lai. Ultimately, the Army was to charge 25 officers and enlisted men with having taken part in the massacre or of having covered it up. Charges against 19 were dropped and six came before courts-martiaL Of those, CoL Henderson was the highest-ranking officer, and his case at the end of 1971 was the last one to be heard.

He had been charged with willful dereliction of duty for not having carried out an adequate investigation. The Indianapolis native spent much of his adulthood in combat He served and was wounded Jin three wars World War IL Korea and Vietnam He was awarded four Purple Hearts for combat wounds, five Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for valor. i He retired in 1974. Frank Miller 1 In 1976, J. Paul Getty, believed to be the richest man in the world, died at the age of 83 near London.

On June 6, 1660, the Peace of Copenhagen ended the war between Sweden and Denmark and opened the Baltic Sea to foreign ships. In 1755 Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, Conn. In 1784 John Carroll, who would become the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, was appointed supervisor of Catholic missions in the U.S. In 1844 the Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London. In 1884, meeting in Chicago's Exposition Hall, Republicans nominated James G.

Blaine for president and Gen. John Logan for vice president. In 1925 the Chrysler Corp. was founded by automaker Walter Percy Chrysler. In 1933 the first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden, N.J.

In 1934 the Securities and Exchange Commission was empowered to police the stock exchanges and investment markets in an act signed by President Franklin Roosevelt. Also in 1934 civil-rights activist Roy Innes was born. In 1942 Japanese forces retreated in World War ITs crucial Battle of Midway although their navy had sunk the aircraft carrier Yorktown. In 1944 Allied forces launched their invasion of Europe, landing on the beaches of Normandy, France, on what became known as D-Day. In 1966 James Meredith, the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, was shot and wounded on a Mississippi highway on the second day of a voters' rights march from Memphis to Jackson, Miss.

In 1972 427 of 464 miners trapped underground died in a coal mine explosion in Rhodesia. In 1973 West Germany ratified a treaty normalizing its relations with East Germany. In 1979 the FA A grounded indefinitely all DC-10 jet airliners operating in the U.S. in the wake of the May 25 American Airlines disaster in Chicago when inspections revealed at least half of the jets had problems with engine-mount assemblies. In 1982 Israel invaded southern Lebanon by land, sea and air to destroy Palestine Liberation Organization bases.

(The Israelis withdrew in June 1985.) In 1984 the Indian army attacked Sikh extremists at the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine, in Amritsar, Punjab. (More than 600 people were reported killed.) In 1985 authorities in Embu, Brazil, exhumed the body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "angel of death" of the Holocaust. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. In 1991 jazz saxophonist Stan Getz died in Malibu, at the age of 64.

In 1994 a Soviet-made jetliner crashed on a domestic flight in China, killing all 160 people on board, including two Americans. (It was China's worst air crash.) Ever seen a sunset in Key West? Ever gone in Hong Kong? Ever dined in Hew What are you waiting From Tribune News Services WASHINGTON-Shirley Povich, who covered every World Series since 1924 and other major sports events in a long career with The Washington Post, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack. He was 92. Although he officially retired in 1974, Mr. Povich continued to write columns for the newspaper.

His last one appeared Friday. It was about baseball and was vintage Povich, skewering fellow columnist Tom Boswell's suggestion that St. Louis Cardinals home run hitter Mark McGwire's recent feats outshine even the fabled Babe Ruth. "Whoa there. Give McGwire the last four years but don't confuse him with the guy who inspired such sobriquets as the Sultan of Swat and the King of Clout," Mr.

Povich wrote. He sent the column to the Post's sports desk Wednesday from home after a six-week absence due to illness. Right alongside the final column David Walsh; David Walsh Frank Miller; By Meg McSherry Breslin Tribune Staff Writer Frank Miller, a Chicago native who had a 30-year acting career in film and TV, died Tuesday after apparently suffering a heart attack in his Zeeland, home. Mr. Miller, 54, was raised in Dol-ton and received his bachelor's degree from the Goodman School of Drama.

He had small parts in the movies "Innerspace" and "Ricochet" He also appeared in numerous television programs, including "MacGyver," "Designing Women," "Life Goes On," "Murder She Wrote," "The Untouchables," and soap operas such as "General Hospital," 'The Young and the Restless," "As the World Turns" and "Santa Barbara." He recently had a window shopping Orleans? for? Exercise your options pre Travd a Shirley Povich considered one of the finest gentlemen in the sometimes inelegant world of sports. A teenage stint as a caddy got him invited by Post publisher Edward McLean to come to Washington to work for the paper as a copy boy in 1922. Two years later, he registered his first byline. He is survived by his wife, Ethyl, and three children, including Maury Povich, the television talk-show host. stock scandal in the early 1990s when he built his company from a penny-stock operation with reports of a $26 billion gold find in Busang, Indonesia.

Bre-X stock was selling at $206 a share when the news struck that samples from the mine had been doctored with gold bought from local miners. The company collapsed in May 1997. Mr. Walsh apologized to investors and professed his innocence. Shareholder lawsuits have been filed against Bre-X and its senior officials, the Toronto Stock Exchange, securities regulators, and several brokerage firms that promoted the stock.

Lawsuits also have been filed in the United States, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. appearance, tall and very attractive. And he was a congenial man, simple and outgoing." His mother, Mildred Rodeghier, said he was a charismatic child who was drawn to acting. "He just loved it," she said. "I think it was born in him." Mr.

Miller worked in Hollywood for several years before returning to the Midwest in 1993. He regularly commuted to Chicago lfrom Michigan. Recently, he also took on a second job as co-owner with his wife, Kathy, of Animal Crackers Christian Child Care Centers in the Grand Rapids, area. Mr. Miller is survived by his wife, Kathy Poeder; two daughters, Nicole and Alaina; three sons, Jake, Jared and Alexander; his mother, and a brother, James.

Ann byijeDeck. visitation bunaay, June 7, iswo, from 2 to 6 p.m., at the Schnelder-Leucht-Merwln 4 Cooney Funeral Home in Woodstock. Funeral services Monday, June 8, 1998. 11 a.m., at the funeral home. Interment will be in the Oakridge Cemetery in Hillside, IL.

Info, 615-338-1710. WITWICKI Irene Witwickf. nee Wllant. dearly beloved wife of the late Joseph: loving mother of Frances (Donald Witt, Thaddeus (Linda) and Stephen (Susan); devoted grandmother of five. Funeral Monday, June 8.

9 30 a m. from DeNlcolo-Lesnlak Funeral Home, 5734-40 W. Diversey corner of Mango, Chicago. Mass 10 a m. at SS.

Cyril Methodius PNC Church, 5744 W. Diversey. Entombment private. Visitation Sunday 4 to 9 p.m. 773-889-0115 WYRICK H.

Lee Wyrick. beloved husband of Ellen: dear father of Robert, Richard (Pat), Cheryl (William) Naedler and Alicia Wvrick and stepfather of Joseph Anoman; grandfather of 22: great-grandfather of 23; dear brother of Dorothy Posch and Ruth (Charles) Scott: many nieces and nephews. Former Alderman and Police Commissioner of City of Palos Hills and founder member of Palos Hills Horseman's Assoc. Please omit flowers. Visitation Sunday 4 to 9 p.m.

at Lack ft Sons Funeral Home, 9236 S. Roberts Rd, (8000 W), Hickory Hills. Interment private. 708-430-5 7 00 0 Standing out. Speaking up.

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Miller was often cast in tough-guy roles, said Lynn Hamilton, his Chicago agent "He looked like he should have been a general or a colonel in the Army," she said. "But he was the biggest, softest teddy bear in the world. He usually played the heavy or a CIA guy or some other very commanding role. But he was very soft-spoken, almost to the point of being shy." Early in his career, Mr. Miller took on several theater roles in Chicago.

Tony Mockus, a Chicago area actor, worked with him in "Freedom in the City," at the Goodman Theater two decades ago. "He was a very good actor," he said. "He had a very commanding every Sunday. Cruise Upper through the Caribbean. Dogsled through the Peninsula.

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