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I Minneapolls Tribune Dec. 23, 1972 Frugal maid wills $36,500 to five charities Staff Writer me that she had about $20,000, and she asked me for help in settling her fiscal affairs. A. Norwegian immigrant who worked most of her life as a maid and cook in Minneapolis left more than $36,500 in "But she didn't talk much with the other residents. She savings to her five favorite charities when she died last wasn't warm and friendly." year.

Her application at the nursing home on Portland Av. said "She worked. She saved. And then she gave," said a that her husband, Clarence Tippey, had died in 1946, that great 1 niece of the woman, Ragnhild Tippey, who was 87 they were childless and that she retired in 1954, when years old when she died. she was 71.

Donna Kolochuk has different memories. By Bob Lundegaard very difficult time preparing her meals. She indicated to But a great niece living near Winnipeg, Canada "I met her in Winnipeg when 40 years ago," she recalled, her. I admired her for her mism. She treated each day cious a gift to be made idle passage of time.

I was a high school student "and I thought the world of broadmindedness and optiof her life as something preinto something more than the "She left me a tea towel with a Norwegian inscription embroidered on it: "Morgenstund har guld i mund." It means "Morning is like gold in the mouth." "But she was frugal. Everything she owned was worn to the last thread." A month after she entered draw up her will. She gave two nephews and more than of the estate to the ble Institute, the American ners Hospital for Crippled College. the home, she had a lawyer $500 each to three nieces and $7,300 each the balance Ebenezer Home, the Lutheran BiLutheran Church, the ShriChildren and Northwestern Panel favors legalizing use of marijuana United Press International The Minnesota Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Friday recommended legalizing marijuana for adults. The council said that "the private use and possession of a small amount of marijuana by an adult should no longer be a crime or prohibited offense." It said persons serving prison terms for such violations should be released.

The council was appointed in September by Gov. Wendell Anderson. The governor personally, however, does not support the council recommendation for legalizing marijuana. He has opposed similar reports in the past. The council recommended easing the penalties for in state latest MPIRG report by yesterday.

"If they'll give us the information, we'll follow up on these (banned toys) too," Goers said. Goers said the FDA had followed up on the earlier MPIRG report and took action "where things were out of line." He added that policing dangerous toys is difficult because "it would be hard for us to have someone stationed in every store every day." Children's calendar This would suggest that she must have received some of the $35,000 through her husband. But he was a day laborer for the city of Minneapolis, and Thayer said she told him that she and her husband were always poor. "She said she earned most hard," said William R. Thayer, the.

Ebenezer Nursing Home, her last years. of the money working very director of operations for where Mrs. Tippey spent But just how she accumulated that much money and why "She indicated to me how hard she and her husband she made the bequests she did are mysteries, Thayer ad- worked in life, and she regretted that she had to give mitted. He said he probably knew her as well as anyone him a meager funeral," Thayer said. in her late years, and she talked very little about her early years.

A possible explanation was provided by another relative a niece who received a $500 gift in her aunt's will. "When she came to us in December 1969," said Thaver, "She was very stingy," the niece said. "she was living in an apartment by herself and having a 010 CUS CLOTHING STORE Staff Photo by Powell Krueger Model railroad on display in St. Paul Robert Daniel, 9, of 891 Conway St. Paul, and David E.

4th St. in downtown St. Paul. No admission is charged Norman, of the. Twin City Model Railroad Club, admired to view the 40- by 50-foot layout, which includes workan electric trolley that is part of the model railroad lay- ing hand-made scale models of steam and diesel locoout the club is displaying in the St.

Paul Union Depot, on motives. Group says dangerous toys still sold Dangerous toys, including some banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), still are on sale in Minnesota stores, it was reported Friday. In a follow-up of a study By Jim Fuller Staff Writer released Dec. 2, the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) said that A-banned toys found in state stores in the earlier study have been removed from the shelves.

However, MPIRG reported, three other banned love A catching her under the mistletoe. CAs 12-27 Margaret Morris Mrs. Iantha LeVander has been named state coordinator of the committee planning the inauguration of President Nixon. J. Willard Marriot is national chairman.

Festivities will begin Jan. 18 President takes the oath of be held at the Kennedy and at the Smithsonian ington hotels. "The theme is 'Spirit of Mrs. LeVander said. "We schedule of functions, but to the ethnic groups who The plans are just beginning and end Jan.

20, the day the office. The inaugural ball will Center for the Performing Arts Institution instead of in Wash- but it is not based on war," have not been told the we think they will be related have made the U.S.A. great. to take Mrs. LeVander, wife of former Gov.

Harold LeVander, is Republican national committeewoman for Minnesota. She has a five-member committee helping with arrangements for the Minnesota delegation, including Mrs. Russell T. (Rhoda) Lund and David Krogseng of Minneapolis; Robert Orr Baker, Herbert Johnson and Earl Seldon of St. Paul.

Holiday wedding Patricia Rea and Stephen the Christmas season for Mark's Catholic Church, St. dresses and old jewels, The bride is the daughter of Bursik are taking advantage of their wedding today in St. Paul. There will be velvet stroller coats and string music. Dr.

and Mrs. Charles E. Rea. "We're taking advantage of the season," said Mrs. Rea.

"That's the bonus of a Christmas wedding. The church will have poinsettias and candelabra. For the reception in Town and Country Club, we don't have to decorate." The groom's father is president of the Federal Savings and Loan Association in Faribault, Minn. Whitney: Businesses should pay for stadium Wheelock Whitney, part owner of the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota North Stars, Friday suggested his own plan for a proposed downtown Minneapolis football stadium. In a letter to city aldermen, Whitney urged that Minneapolis business firms not the city ensure the financing of the stadium by buying revenue bonds to cover the estimated cost of the stadium.

He recommended that the city sell general obligation bonds to finance the parking-ramp portion of the project because the ramp's main function would be to alleviate parking problems in the downtown areas. Whitney told the aldermen that "I don't think the downtown stadium is a good idea. I think it's a giant step backwards for the metropolitan concept many of us have fought for. The Vikings, after all, are the Minnesota Vikings and a statewide asset." The business community, which would benefit economically from a down- Wheelock Whitney town stadium, should pick the cost, he said. That up "the only way know of is to fully protect city taxpayers." City CoordinaHowever, tor Thomas A.

Thompson has said that to move fiof the stadium nancing from the public sector to private financing would cause economic problems and cost about $2 million more a year in bond payments. Thompson said the stadium could not generate enough money to pay the interest of about 7 percent on revenue bonds, but could pay the 5-percent interest on general obligation bonds. "small amount" violations but it urged stronger penalties for pushers for anyone selling illegal drugs for a profit. The council did not consider the political impact of the marijuana question in making its recommendations. Sam S.

Grais, St. Paul, the chairman, said in an accompanying letter, "'The council made no attempt to look at its recommendations from the perspective of political realities." The Democratic-FarmerLabor Party, of which Anderson is a member, adopted a platform plank calling for legalization of marijuana at its state convention in Rochester in June. But most party leaders and many candidates for the Legislature later voiced opposition to the plank. However, the issue was used against DFL candidates in many races. The report said members "agreed unanimously that Minnesota should discourage the indiscriminate use of marijuana, which like alcohol and many other chemicals, is subject to abuse, but they all felt that the measures used to discourage such use should not be more damaging to the individual than the drug itself." The council said, "Thus reduced penalties for marijuana which can be uniformly enforced were felt to be a stronger deterrent than more severe penalties which are sporadically applied." "This principle is already recognized by our courts as evidenced by the disposition process in actual cases." Three of the nine council members issued a minority report opposing legalizing the possession and use of small amounts of marijuana.

Hopkins Library, county system to merge officially The Hopkins Library will be merged officially with the Hennepin County library system in ceremonies at 10 a.m. Thursday at the library. County Commissioner Thomas L. Olson will present Hopkins Mayor HenPokorny with a check for $388,000 for purchase of the library. County service actually began in August, but the title will not be transferred until Thursday.

The Hopkins Library is the last of the suburban libraries in Hennepin County to be drawn into the county system. Patient killed Donald Hannaford, 57, a mental patient at St. Cloud, Veterans Administration Hospital, died Thursday of injuries he received Tuesday when he fell under a train at the Burlington Northern freight yards. He had been out of the ho spital on a pass for the day, a hospitalof ficials aid. Whitney is the former chief executive officer of Dain, Kalman Quail, a Minneapolis investment firm.

Winter wheat crop record is forecast Associated Press Washington, D.C. Winter wheat farmers, encouraged by the highest cash prices in a decade, will produce a record crop next year of 1,277,848,000 bushels, the Agriculture Department forecast Friday. The estimate, based on fall plantings and field conditions as of Dec. 1, would mean a crop 8 percent larger than in 1972 when winter wheat totaled 1.186 billion bushels. The previous high mark was more than 1.2 billion bushels in 1968.

Winter wheat is planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. It is grown in nearly all states but primarily in the Great Plains. Winter wheat also is the most abundant type, accounting for about three-fourths of the nation's bread grain. There was no estimate for 1973 spring-planted wheat and none will be made by the Agriculture Department until farmers firm up acreage plans next year. But if farmers harvest no more than the 359 million bushels of spring, wheat produced in the total for all wheat next year could be around 1.6 billion bushels, compared with 1.54 billion bushels this year and the record for all wheat of 1.6 billion bushels in 1971.

Wheat prices, reported at a national average of Deaths Harold R. Searles Memorial services for Harold R. Searles, retired University of Minnesota extension dairyman and former superintendent of cattle at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa, will be at 10 a.m. today at St. Anthony Park Congregational Church, 2129 Commonwealth with private burial.

Mr. Searles, 81, 2279 Folwell St. Paul, died Thursday at his home. A native of Elgin, he was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1917. He joined the staff as extension dairyman in 1922 and held that job until he retired in 1960.

Early in his career, he helped organize cooperative creameries which eventually grew into a federation and Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc. He also helped organize the Minnesota Purebred Dairy Cattle Association. Surviving are his wife, Maude, and a sister, Helen Weaver, Mason City, Mich. The family asks that memorials be directed to the University of Minnesota. Evald C.

Bank memorial service will be held next week for Evald C. Bank, 68, a former Edina village official who died Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Services were held Friday at $1.97 per bushel last' month, have soared this year as the result of export sales which included. one of more than 400 million bushels to the Soviet Union. The November price was the highest in nearly 10.

years and was up onethird from the average of $1.32 per bushel last July before the size of the Soviet sales became widely known in the market. In projecting the 1973 winter wheat output, the Crop Reporting Board said. farmers planted 42,793,000 acres this fall, up 1.3 percent from plantings a year, ago for the 1972 crop. toys were found in Twin Cities stores during the recent follow-up survey. They are the Busy Surprise Box 609, manufactured by Kohner; the I.C.U.

Mirror Rattle No. 810 by Staglwood Toy Manufacturing and "Pup Squeak" Accordian Squeaker Toys, made by Louis Marx and Co. The squeaker toys were found in an F. W. Woolworth store and bore a Woolworth label pasted over the Marx brand name, MPIRG said.

A number of other toys which were on a list of items MPIRG considers dangerous still are being sold in stores around the state, the organization said. "While 12 of the 36 stores surveyed (for the Dec. 2 report) have removed all or most of the toys that we indicated were dangerous, and three have removed some of them, 18 did not remove any of them, and many of these toys will probably be found under Christmas trees on Dec. 25," said Sue Kline, MPIRG research associate. She noted that among stores that have not removed the reportedly dangerous toys from their shelves, some have added more such items.

She particularly warned against Cox model car fuel, being sold at Holiday Village South, and Cox model airplane fuel, sold at Dayton's in downtown St. Paul. Both fuels are extremely flammable and lack a "flash-back arrester" that could prevent explosions, she said. Ms. Kline also warned that an exposed lightclub socket with a sharp rim in the Easy Curl Quick Hairsetting Kit No.

900, sold at Montgomery Ward in Apache Plaza, poses a danger to both children and adults. She maintained yesterday that the discovery of more FDA -banned toys in area stores "highlights the failure of the Food and Drug Administration's efforts at enforcement of the Child Protection and Toy Safety Act." "'The only way to insure that unsafe toys are not being sold is to require pre-clearance of toys before they are allowed onto the market," Ms. Kline said. She added that MPIRG "demands" that the FDA "take strong measures to insure that all banned toys stay off the shelves of Minnesota stores." George Goers, chief inspector for the Minneapolis FDA office, said that his office had not seen the A daily column of activities for children during the school holidays. Today "Doctor Dolittle," 11 a.m.

and 2 p.m., Minneapolis Public Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, admission. "The Steadfast Tin 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Minneapolis Institute of Arts auditorium, admission and reservations. Kata Novak Dancers, 2:30 p.m., Pierre Bottineau Library, 1224 NE. 2nd St.

"Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates," 2 and 8 p.m., Chimera Theater, 30 E. 10th admission and reservations. Holiday movies and puppet show, "'The Shoemaker and His Elves," 2 p.m., North Regional Library, 1315 Lowry Av. N. Skate to live music, 2 to 4 p.m., Lake of the Isles skating rink, speed and figure-skating demonstration at 3 p.m.

Planetarium show, "The Christmas Sky," 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m., Minneapolis Public Library, 300 Nicollet Mall. St. Paul Council of Arts and Sciences, 30 E. 10th St. Paul, white-tailed fawns in the Sculpture Gardens, 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m.; Trading Post, 9:30 a.m. noon, and 1 to 4 p.m.; Room of Discovery, 9:30 a.m. noon, and 1 to to 4 p.m.; film program with "Squeak the "Steadfast Tin Soldier," and "The Friendly Beasts," 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., auditorium. Toys and games from throughout the world, 10 a.m.

and 12:30 p.m. Model railroad display with steam and diesel locomotives and passenger and freight trains, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., St. Paul Union Depot. Gibbs Farm Museum, 2097 Larpenteur Av. Falcon Heights, farmhouse and rural schoolhouse decorated as they would have been 100 years ago, 2 to 5 p.m.

Christmas program and party, 7 p.m., Marie Sandvik Center, 1112 E. Franklin Av. "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," 2 p.m., Minneapolis Institute of Arts auditorium, admission and reservations. St. Paul Council of Arts and Sciences, 30 E.

10th Paul, Trading Post, 1 to 4 p.m.; Roomn of Discovery, 1 to 4 p.m.; toys and games throughout the world, demonstrations and explanations, 2 to 4 p.m.; white-tailed fawns in the Sculpture Gardens, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Film program, 1, 2 and 3 p.m., "Elephants and Hippos of Africa," "Fishing on the Niger" and "Bozo Daily Life," St. Paul Council of Arts and Sciences auditorium, 30 E. 10th St.

Paul. Visit the Como Park Conservatory to see a Magnolia tree in bloom and the poinsettia show, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice," Christmas ry, 7 p.m., KS.JN-FM radio. St.

Paul rules on snowmobiling: go into effect A new snowmobile policy in St. Paul is in effect today, permitting snowmobiling only in parts of Phalen Park. Under the policy, snowmobiling is permitted from dawn to 11 p.m. by. persons age 14 and older.

Persons between 14 and 18 must have a snowmobile safety certificate issued by the state. The vehicles may not be operated within 50 yards of a fisherman, pedestrian, skating, rink or sliding area. Phalen Park also has areas set aside for crosscountry skiing. Scottsdale. He moved there in October.

Memorial service arrangments have not been completed. Mr. Bank was an Edina councilman village clerk in the 1950s and was Minneapolis Aquatennial commodore in 1951. He also was president of the Minnesota Rotary Club in 1954-55, district governor in 1957-58, member of the Rotary International Board in 1961-1963. Mr.

Bank had been president of Minneapolis Wrought Washer Co. until he moved. to Arizona. Sunday He is survived by his wife, Pat; a son, Kent, Edina; and a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Dow, Arlington, Ill.

Elsewhere James S. Wallington, 65, who was the radio announcer for programs by Eddie Cantor, Fred Allen and Lowell Thomas and for some of. President Franklin D. Roos-: evelt's broadcasts, died in Fairfax, Va. Mrs.

Ella J. Lucey, 83, mother of Wisconsin Gov. Patrick J. Lucey, died in a hospital in La Crosse, Wis..