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The Salina Journal Monday, October 16,1995 AS DEATHS AND FUNERALS Luke Matthew Adams 1 CLAY CENTER Luke Matthew Adams, 5, Clay Center, died Saturday, Oct. 14,1995, at the Clay County Hospital, Clay Center, as the result of an accident on the family farm. Luke was born Feb. 16, 1990, at He was a kindergarten student at Wakefield. Survivors include his parents, Darren and Karen Adams of Clay Center; a brother, Lance Michael of the home; a sister, Lindsay of the home; his grandparents, Carroll R.

and Mary Adams and Marvin and Delores Sherbert, all of 'Clay Center; and his great-grandparents, Mary Breen and Walter and Ruth Kemp, all of Clay Center. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church, Clay Center, the Rev. Nancy McAdams officiating. Burial will be in the Mizpah Cemetery, Clay Center.

Memorials may be made to the Luke Adams Memorial Fund. Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. today at the Neill- Schwensen-Rook Funeral Home, 918 Seventh, Clay Center 67432. Earl Ashby CONCORDIA Earl Ashby, 85, Concordia, died Sunday, Oct. 15, 1995, at his home.

Mr. Ashby was born Sept. 29, 1910, at Hildreth, and was a longtime Concordia resident. He forked at Fairmont Foods in Corcordia. He was a member of the 'American Legion Post 76 of Con- 'cbrdia and served in the U.S.

'Army during World War II. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Roberta Jean. Survivors include his wife, Marjorie of Concordia; a daughter, Janice Marie Ashby of Topeka; and a sister, Ruby Morell of San Bruno, Calif. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Chaput-Buoy Funeral Chapel, Concordia, the Rev.

Bill Eisele officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Concordia, Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association or Trinity United Methodist Church, Cbrcordia. Visitation will be after 1 p.m. today at the funeral home, 325 W. Sixth, Concordia 66901.

Betty J. Howe OSBORNE Betty J. Howe, 74, Osborne, died Sunday, Oct. 15, 1995, at the Parkview Care Center, Osborne. Mrs.

Howe was born Betty Snyder on Aug. 9, 1921, at Soldier and was a longtime Osborne resident. She was a cashier at the former First State Bank and Trust, Osborne. She was a member of the United Church of Christ, the Upsilon Tau Delta Sorority, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and the American Legion Auxiliary, all of Osborne. She was also on the organization committee for the Senior Center of Osborne.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Quinton Woolley in 1974 and Charles Howe in 1986. Survivors include two daughters, Jayne Polcyn of Lawrence and Marcie Wolters of Omaha, a brother, Milton Snyder of Dodge City; and two grandchildren. 'The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Clark-Gashaw Funeral Chapel, 238 N. First, Osborne 67463.

Burial will be in the Osborne Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Osborne Senior Citizen Center or the charity of the donor's choice. There will be no visitation. The casket will be closed at the service. Paul Lund OSBORNE Paul Lund, 78, Osborne, died Sunday, Oct.

15, 1995, at the Osborne County Memorial Hospital. Clark-Gashaw Funeral Home, Osborne, is handling arrangements. Michael Scott Slayden DALLAS Michael Scott Slayden, 23, Dallas, died Saturday, Oct. 14,1995, as the result of a automobile accident in Dallas. Mr.

Slayden was born July 19, 1972, in Dallas. He was a student and an exterminator. He was a member of the National Adult Baseball Association. Survivors include his parents, McDonald and Ruby Hedrick Slayden of Roxton; two sisters, Susan Miller of Garland and Pamela Woodard of Caddo Mills; a grandmother, Hassie Slayden of Roxton; and his fiancee, Jennifer McNay of Louisville. The funeral will be at 2 p.m.

today at the Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home, Paris, with Jessie Williams officiating. Burial will be in the Restland Cemetery, Roxton. Visitation will be at the funeral home, 730 Clarksville, Paris, Texas 75460. Mildred Stinson OSBORNE Mildred Stinson, 83, Osborne, died Sunday, Oct. 15, 1995, at the Downs Nursing Center.

Clark-Gashaw Funeral Home, Osborne, is handling arrangements. Mabel M. Thaete DOWNS Mabel M. Thaete, 86, Downs, died Sunday, Oct. 15,1995, at the Mitchell County Hospital, Beloit.

Mrs. Thaete was born Mabel Gier on Dec. 25, 1908, at Sylvan Grove and was a longtime area resident of Downs. She was a homemaker and a member of the Zion Lutheran Church and Lutheran Women's Missionary League, both of Downs. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin in 1994; and a great-grandson.

Survivors include three sons, Leland of Downs, Gale of Ochelata, and Garry of Lombard, three daughters, Dee Noffsinger of Clay Center, Carol MacLean of Northglenn, and June Oliver of Downs; two brothers, Arnold Gier of Filer, Idaho, and Fritz Gier of Buhl, Idaho. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zion Lutheran Church, Downs, the Rev. Ronald W. Fricke officiating.

Burial will be in the Downs Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the church. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Domoney's Funeral Home, 817 Morgan, Downs 67437. Steven K.

Tromble Jr. ASSARIA Steven K. Tromble 17, Assaria, died Saturday, Oct. 14, 1995, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Wichita, as the result of an automobile accident. Mr.

Tromble was born Feb. 16, 1978, at Beloit and was a resident of Assaria since January, moving from Lincoln. He was a student at Southeast of Saline High School and attended the Salina Area Vocational-Technical School. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Lincoln, and a former member of the Lincoln football and wrestling teams.

Survivors include his father and stepmother, Steven K. and Ruth Tromble Sr. of Lincoln; his mother and stepfather, Deborah and Dan Manion of Assaria; a brother, Stuart of Lincoln; a half-brother, Clint Kelly of Caldwell; two stepsisters, Becky Hillegist of Beverly and Diane Mann of Salina; his grandparents, Richard and LaWanna Tromble of Lincoln and Delbert Murphy of California; and two great-grandmothers, Leta Wright of Concordia and Rena Darby of Lincoln. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St.

John's Lutheran Church, south of Lincoln, the Rev. Gerald Radtke officiating. Burial will be in the Lincoln Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Southeast of Saline High School or the Steven K. Tromble Jr.

Memorial Fund. Visitation will be from noon to 9 p.m. Tuesday and 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Hall Memorial Chapel, 111 E. Elm, Lincoln 674552003, and after noon at the church.

Voice from the past Wax cylinder bears first known recording of Edison By The Associated Press WEST ORANGE, N.J. Curators cataloging the millions of documents and devices that Thomas Alva Edison left behind have turned up the earliest known recording of his voice. Researchers believe the 154-second recording was among many used to demonstrate the new technology to prominent people. On it, the inventor talks about an around- the-world trip beginning and ending in New York, ticking off cities, ships and trains and joking about being "a little off on my geography." In a high-pitched voice, Edison addresses someone named Elaine, apparently James Gillespie Elaine, a congressman, two-time secretary of state and perennial presidential candidate. He signs off with the words: "Goodbye, Edison." The wax cylinder recording was apparently made in 1888, when Edison was 41.

Previously, the earliest known recording dated to 1906, when he was 59. Edison, who accumulated more than 1,300 U.S. and foreign patents, died in 1931. He invented the phonograph in 1877 but shelved the device for a decade while perfecting the electric light bulb and other contraptions. Bearing the unrevealing label "No.

3 Edison New York-Chicago Buffalo the recording was recently found among 10,000 similar cylinders, 25,000 plastic discs and several tinfoil recordings at Edison's sprawling laboratory, now the Edison National Historic Site. "There are other recordings of him speaking, but what's exciting about this one is it's so full of energy," said Jerry Fabris, the site's curator of sound recordings. "When he's very old, he sounds weak and not as energetic as you'd expect Edison to be." The Associated Press Jerry Fabris, curator at Edison National Historic Site, looks over three wax cylinders at the facility in West Orange, N.J., that were recorded on the first perfected Thomas Edison phonograph of 1888. Also found was a recording of Edison's voice. Controversial German scholar honored Professors writing on Islam criticized By The Associated Press BERLIN A pre-eminent scholar of, Islam accepted Germany's top literary prize Sunday saying that critics who claim she condones Muslim extremism have only hurt her efforts to bridge a dangerous cultural divide.

Since Annemarie Schimmel was named the award recipient in April, hundreds of German intellectuals have signed petitions or letters in protest, primarily for her apparent sympathy for Iran's 1989 death threat against British author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" was deemed blasphemous by Islamic clerics. Rushdie has been living in hiding ever since. At Sunday's ceremony, Schimmel, a 73-year-old Harvard University professor emeritus, accepted the Peace Prize saying that she rejects "the sinister holy war" against Rushdie, but also PAGE A1 simplistic Western preconceptions that equate Islam with intolerance. Her critics' attacks have been so fierce "that it seems to me my life's work, which was devoted to an understanding between East and West, has been destroyed," said Schimmel, who has written more than 40 books.

Outside the ceremony in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt, several dozen black-veiled women carried banners reading "Peace Price '96 For A Call To Murder." The audience of 500 invited guests inside was undisturbed. The private German Book Trade Association awarded Schimmel the prize Germany's equivalent of the Nobel for "her life work understanding and explaining Islam." Association president Gerhard Kurtze said giving Schimmel the prize endorses "a philosophy of cultural coexistence. President Roman Herzog, who gave the ceremony's main speech, called for greater understanding of Muslims to prevent "the fright' ening prospect of a global culture clash." The newsweekly Der Zeit observed last week that the prize controversy has focused attention on the clash of "Eastern religious fundamentalism with the universal human rights of the West." In a May radio interview, Schimmel said, "I believe that an author who consciously insults the prophet and Rushdie understands how highly Mohammed is revered in the Islamic world is committing sacrilege." An August letter signed by 200 intellectuals called Schimmel "a welcome guest in totalitarian Islamic states." A separate protest petition was signed by 500 critics. At the ceremony Schimmel said she too has been shocked at how demagogues and ideologues in the Muslim world have mobilized masses of unemployed, rootless people under Islam's banner over the past few decades.

But she noted a perilously wide communication gap between the Muslim and Western worlds. Western media presents a simplistic picture of Islam that evokes fear and makes it nearly impossible "to become familiar with the positive aspects of Muslim life," she said. "For me, people like the Solingen Turk Mevlude Gene, who has forgiven the murderers of her family, embody the sort of Islamic tolerance that I came to know over decades," she said. Four neo-Nazis were convicted Friday in the 1993 firebombing murders of five members of Gene's family, one of postwar Germany's worst hate crimes. About 2 million Turks live in Germany.

Schimmel, who lives in Bonn, is donating the $15,000 prize to a Bonn University foundation that will enable youths from Muslim countries to study in Germany. Born in Erfurt in 1922, Schimmel had mastered Arabic by age 15 and received her first doctorate four years later. She taught at Harvard from 1967 until 1992. Girl's skull expected to grow normally The girl's doctor, plastic surgeon John M. Hiebert, said an operation then was ill-timed, because by then, her brain growth had pushed the edges of the skull opening outward.

"To operate at that time would have required enormous amounts of bone," Dr. Hiebert said. "We weren't certain at that point if we could control the growth of the rest of the skull." Skull development and shape are driven by brain growth. It was hoped that the helmets, applying pressure to the opening, would allow front and side portions of the skull to form normally. "Her head shape was very long, front to back," Hiebert said.

"The lateral dimension wasn't being formed." Fitting Ashley quickly with the first of the series of helmets was crucial. Hiebert said that 80 percent of the human brain develops the first year and is 95 percent of its eventual size by the second year. The helmets worked, and by October she was ready for the surgery. By now, Hiebert had become the clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and director of the Pediatric Cleft and Cranial Facial Program at St. Luke's Hospital, where the surgery was per- formed.

In the six-hour operation Oct. 2, two of Ashley's ribs were split and used with a titanium sheet to bridge the opening. In time, the skull bone will knit with the rib bone and around the titanium, completely closing the hole. "Nature has a way of filling it in," Hiebert said. "The titanium reinforces it to give it strength." Today Ashley goes back to St.

Luke's to have the stitches and staples removed from her incisions and to be fitted with another skull-shaping helmet. "In another year her head will be normal," Hiebert said. As for her ribs, her age again is an advantage. Hiebert said in about six months they will have completely regenerated. Dole plays up his reliable image in New Hampshire By STEVEN A.

HOLMES New York MANCHESTER, N.H. The 75 people gathered at Scott and Michelle FlegaPs tidy, three-bedroom house here had quaffed white wine, munched on hors d'oeuvres and donned Bob Dole buttons. Now, they listened to the candidate tell them why he thought he would be the Republican presidential nominee. "It's because people have confidence in Bob Dole," he said, using hip trademark third-person reference. "They know I'm not going to take you over the edge.

I'm a stabilizing force. I'm not a polarizer. "You have to work with people in this business. Yes, with Democrats, yes, with independents and, yes, with Republicans. The American people want us to get things done; get things done." 'For a party whose modern icon, Ronald Reagan, was a larger-than- File photo With reassuring presence, Bob Dole popular in New Hampshire.

life invigorating leader and for an electorate that pundits arid polls say yearns to be excited and inspired, Dole is providing a different image: steady, solid, almost boring, less a blazing star than a persistent day-in-day-out performer. "I'm the Cal Ripkin of American politics," Dole said during a campaign stop in Manchester last week. "I never miss a game." So far, it is working. While much of the country has been fixated on speculation about Colin Powell, the retired general, and whether he will jump into the Republican contest, Dole has quietly amassed a formidable lead in fund-raising, organization, endorsements and voter support over the Republicans already in the race. A poll released this week by WMUR, a local television showed that 35 percent of the 483 likely Republican voters surveyed in New Hampshire favored Dole, far ahead of his closest rival, Patrick J.

Buchanan, who was supported by 9 percent. At the moment, the Dole campaign is so confident of the candidate's position as front-runner, that its strategy is to concentrate less on the other Republican contenders, and more on President Clinton. Yet, even as he has built his big lead, there are some troubling signs for Dole. Recent national polls show him running behind Clinton in a two-man race and behind both the president and Po'well in a three-way contest. And 31 percent of the respondents in the WMUR poll said that if Powell were in the race they would vote for him.

Some Republican strategists say that Dole's commanding lead over other Republicans is less a measure of his popularity, and more the result of the party's sense that Dole's time has come. With more than a year to go be- fore the general election, Dole's aide says the Dole strategists are not worried about his standing in the polls vis-a-vis Clinton. "Where was George Bush in the polls a year before the election?" said Scott Reed, Dole's campaign manager. "Where was Bill Clinton in the polls?" As for Dole's insider, Mr. Fix-it appeal, officials also say they are not worried because they don't believe there is a grand ideological battle inside the GOP.

And with the conservative direction of the party firmly established, Republican primary voters do not need inspiration, but a sense that the nominee can carry through on an agenda that has already been set. "The direction which the party is going is not in dispute; less government, less taxes, less regulation," Reed said. "Under those conditions, people are looking for someone who can implement the program." In taking, or "harvesting," her ribs, Hiebert left the periosteum, the fibrous membrane covering bones that contain ingredients for bone formation. Ashley seems to have taken the ordeal in stride, said her parents, who admitted to feeling "very stressful" the past two years. "We worried every time she fell down," Doug Lillie said.

Ashley's older sister, Courtney, 3Vz, has tried to be careful around her sibling. "She did pretty good," Abbe Lillie said. "We've talked to her (about playing rough.) told they can't run and play like they did for a while." F.Y.I Hospital admissions Salina Regional Health Center PENN CAMPUS Mildred E. Gault and Oscar E. Wood, both of Salina.

SANTA FE CAMPUS Reuben A. Bennett, Deanna R. Cross and Melanie Miller, all of Salina; June A. Hill, Simpson; Elizabeth Hlad, Sylvan Grove; Michelle L. Tarpy, Bennington.

Hospital dismissals Lisa M. Bogart and baby boy, Tracy L. Brent, Joe C. Gibson, Robert L. Kasselman and Carrie A.

King, all of Salina; Joshua Troy Anguiano, Abilene; Reinhold H. Choitz, Ellsworth; Crumbaker twin boys, Beloit; Jones baby girl, Minneapolis; Joyce A. Whelchel, Solomon. Births BOYs Jarrod and Melanie Miller, Salina, 10 Ibs. 12 born Oct.

15. GIRLS Randall and Elizabeth Hlad, Sylvan Grove, 7 Ibs. 1 born Oct. 14. Michael and Michelle Tarpy, Bennington, 7 Ibs.

10 born Oct. 15..