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MINNEAPOLIS STAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1966 1B Blind, He Fishes, Skates and Instructs EQUIPMENT DRIVE CHIEF As the second Minneapolis People-to-People rive for medical equipment was winding up, its chairman, Joe Paulsen, 2112 Pillsbury took time out for some weekend ice-fishing at Mille Lacs and caught six walleyes. Lots of campaign chairman have done the same thing. But Paulsen's case is a bit different. He's blind. Paulsen, 35, -ray darkroom technician at Swedish Hospital, lost his sight when he was 14 as the result of a hunting accident with some friends when he was living in Webster, S.D.

20 Tons Collected Under his chairmanship, the People-to-People Drive this time has collected approximately 20 tons of medical equipment for transport to Minneapolis' sister-city, Santiago, Chile. Two years ago, Paulsen headed up a similar drive which collected 30 tons of equipment for Santiago. For things he's done, he was given the Jaycee-of-theMonth Award for November. He not only serves the hospital as the darkroom X- ray technician; he serves as an instructor to other blind men who can qualify to take a hospital X-ray course. The course extends for six months.

The fact that he is sight- Jailed Again, 2 Burglars' Bail Raised Two men, freed on $2,000 bail after pleading guilty to a Minneapolis burglary Dec. 15, were given a tenfold bail increase after police arrested them in a Richfield restaurant early Friday morning. District Judge Stanley Kane raised the bail of Jerry H. Saliterman, 19, 9749 Penn Av. Bloomington, and Mark Andrew Hollingsworth III, 29, 330 Oak Grove, to $20,000 each at a hearing Friday.

The men freed on the lesser bail after pleading guilty to burglarizing the Blue Ox Restaurant, 918 3rd Av. on Dec. 12 were awaiting Jan. 16 sentencing when they were apprehended in Richfield. The suspects were taken from Nelson's Restaurant, 6430 Nicollet Richfield, about 5 a.m, yesterday.

Officers said they found a door forced open and the men hiding inside. Patrol to Keep Traffic Watch United Press International About 60 members of the Minnesota Highway Patrol will spend Christmas Eve watching for traffic offenders in 10 areas in the state picked for this weekend's "saturation" campaign. The areas are Freeborn and Mower counties; Worthington; Dakota County, (Hwys. 13 and 55); Ramsey and Anoka Counties (Hwys. 10 and 51); Zimmerman, Elk River, Monticello; Cokato-Dassel Annandale; Carlton County; Detroit Lakes; Hibbing, Virginia and Bemidji.

less doesn't stop him from the many normal pursuits. Besides ice-fishing there is camping, skating, night classes in wood-working, and participation in activities of the Toastmasters Club, of which he recently became a member. JOE PAULSEN Takes date skating Paulsen does a lot of walking, using a white cane, and walks without hesitation. He skates the same way, but in skating he concedes he's accompanied by a "date." The young woman, he says, serves as his eyes. And then he offered an observation: "You know, a seeing-eye 'cat' is better than a seeingeye dog." Associated Press GOING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS -Four buckled by Virginia Dika (left), 7, of Greek youngsters who came to the Uni- Athens, and Paraskevi Lianou, 18, of versity of Minnesota surgery prepared for Greece Friday.

The four in time for Christmas tagostis Kontongnis, 2, NEW DELHI, Contraband Seized ters) Bombay authorities have seized gold and silver ingots, uncut diamonds and other contraband goods worth about $1.4 million in one of the biggest smuggling hauls ever made in the city, press reports said here to- AT NURSING HOMES Health Care Confusion Exists By MAURICE Minneapolis Confusion over nursing homes was the order of the day today, a week before the newest phase of Medicare goes into operation. Nobody knows how many persons will be served, where they will be served or whether there will be enough ties to serve them. On Jan. 1 Medicare, the federal health insurance for persons over 65, will begin paying bills incurred in extended-care facilities. Medicare will pay the cost of covered services for the first 20 days in an extendedcare facility and all but $5 a day for 80 additional days in a spell of illness.

Homes Inspected authorities in the field are the extended-care office, said hosafraid there will not be for continued treatment of asking nursto facility pitals are which enough. the condition for which he ing are making qualified SO homes facility they can begin plans Security was hospitalized. to transfer patients. how many people are in that situation. Nor is there a valid estimate of how many persons now in hospitals may be ready for treatment in an extended-care facility.

That's a decision for the physician to make. The shortage of extendedcare facilities that some authorities predict may mean that an unknown number of patients will have to pay costs for hospital service when they could be in nursing homes with Medicare paying most of the bill. Nor does any one person know how many or which nursing homes are now certified. Edward P. LaBrosse, assistant district manager of the Minneapolis area Social Security Hospitals for heart the flight home to will be back home festivities.

Penhad his seat belt Lamia. Enjoying all the homegoing laughter from the three was Olga Koouftis background), 18, of Macedonia. The children were brought to Minneapolis for the surgery by Mrs. Joseph Gales Ramsey III. Auto Crashes Kill 2 in Cambridge Area Two persons were killed it went out of control at 4th in separate traffic accidents Av.

S. and Lake hitting in the Cambridge, area three parked cars and pushless than two hours apart ing the third car into a fourth Friday night and early today. parked car. They were: Police said he may have suffered a stroke or a heart Daniel C. Torgeson, 27, adattack before the collisions.

dress unknown. An autopsy was to be perGunndard Oberg, 54, Cam- formed to determine the bridge. cause of death. Torgeson was killed at Charles Wilhite, 21, Bird 10:50 p.m. in a head-on col- Island, was killed lision with a car driven by about 12:30 a.m.

today in a Lynn A. Gould, 23, 3509 two-car collision five miles Emerson Av. on Hwy. 65 north of Bird Island. The about six miles south of driver of the other car, Paul Cambridge.

Ehlers, Hector, was hospitalized. Oberg was killed about 12:05, a.m. in a two-car collision with a car driven by Gary L. Behrendt, 23, Rush City, Minn. Each of the four drivers was alone in his car.

Gould and Behrendt were hospitalized Cambridge, 43 miles north of the Twin Cities. In other accidents yesterday, a Circle Pines man was killed in a car-truck collision near Garrison, and an elderly St. Paul man died after his car hit three parked cars in Minneapolis. Darwin Griffith, 29, Circle Pines, was driving a car that collided with a truck driven by Archie O'Brien, Deerwood, a mile east of Garrison. William Amacher 80, 563 W.

Wheelock St. Paul, was driving a car when Early 'U' Graduate in Journalism Dies SOUTH BEND, Ind. (P) Margaret (Peg) Boland, 60, author and one of the first journalism graduates at the University of Minnesota, died Friday of a heart attack. She was the widow of Joseph M. (Joe) Boland.

Mrs. Boland's books included one about her late husband, "Joe Boland, Notre Dame" and another titled "Don't Panic, Mother." The funeral will be Monday in South Bend. Wreaths Too Big a Bargain; Boy, 14, Held One youth enjoying the holiday traffic in stolen wreaths cut his prices too far. The 14-year-old took an obviously costly wreath to the door of a South Minneapolis home and offered it for about $1. homeowner was a Minneapolis policeman who turned the bargain-bearing salesman over to juvenile authorities.

Some wreaths, decorations for trees and trees from vendors and front yards all have been reported stolen this year, said Capt. Joe Rusinko, head of the city police forgery and larceny division. Most difficult are the juveniles who steal wreaths and sell them a few blocks away from the original purchaser's home, he said. Although some children have been selling wreaths legitimately, he said, one tip-off to stolen wreaths is their low price. HOME LOOTED HOME LOOTED Mrs.

Vern Pearson, 3818 Lyndale Av. told Minneapolis police that burglars entered her home Friday afternoon and took $57 in cash and two rings. Msgr. Baskfield Rites to Be Monday at Church Services for taught philosophy and theGerald T. Baskfield, 67, pas- ology for 29 years.

tor of the Church of St. Thomas the He was assistant pastor at Apostle, will St. Paul Cathedral from 1927 be at 10:30 to 1931 and was appointed a a.m. Monday monsignor in 1957. He was at the church pastor of St.

Anthony of with burial in Padua Catholic Church beFoley, Minn, fore going to St. Thomas the Apostle. Msgr. Baskfield, who died Msgr. Baskfield is survived Friday, was by his brother, William, Folordained in, Baskfield ey.

Reviewal will be at 2 p.m. 1927 at the St. Msgr. Sunday at St. Thomas the Paul Seminary where he Apostle.

Jim Klobuchar HE WAS blubbering and smiling; it was tinguish which. He wore an oversize hospital sweat socks and high-backed leather slippers vintage that suggested a curled toe and an impending squeak. Three weeks ago he was nearly dead. Now he was shuffling about the corridors restlessly, only 15 per cent of his stomach left but with all his consonants and vowels out of place as usual. He was an old tailor who seemed to belong in a world of gingerbread men and spinning wheels, candy canes and plump shoemakers.

P. Noodleman A wisp of white hair rimmed his bald head and gave him the droll appearance of an animated figure romping about the cartoonist's drawing board, bent on good works but prone to fumble. A funny old man, P. Noodleman, the Tailor, but I think a pretty important piece of humanity for all that, an obscure little man touched by a stubborn and baggypants nobility. They feared for his life when they took him to the hospital discovered a tumor that had to be removed.

It was, and within a week Noodleman was sizing patients across the hall, speculating on the amount of cloth to shear from the garment to make it wearable. His scrambled speech and gentle admonitions convulsed the nurses at Mt. Sinai Hospital, he started getting footloose this week. Friday the hospital released him and said it was all right to reopen his shop in two weeks, thus relieving the anxieties of customers who had darkly contemplated a winter of sagging drawers. His workshop at 7th and Portland in the Sexton Building has been there for decades, and so.

have his 50-year-old steam iron and foot -pedal Singer sewer. I do not know whether, at 74, his self-authorized age, Noodleman retains all his old craftsmanship. I don't think it really matters, and I have grounds to suspect that his modest prices and Goldwynesque language appeal to customers at least as much as his old immigrant skills. Blissfully, the little rascal scoffs at rulings from the custom-house tailors that a man losing number of pounds simply cannot be retailored. "I weel feex you," Noodleman announces.

"A leetle off the collarner and lots off the soldier." His methods horrify new-schoolers among the tailors. His daughter, Mrs. George Black, with whom he lives, suggested that I remove two of my suits from his racks three weeks ago when it appeared that the tailor would be hospitalized for months. I SHOPPED the white-threaded shreds around Minneapolis for a week before getting a taker in Northfield, who contended that trying to pick up in midstream from Noodleman was like trying to break the CIA code. Absent-minded, he has been known to lose a pair of pants (mine) between the pages of a two-year-old calendar hanging from some forgotten back wall.

For all this, he dreads misplacing clothes and once, fearing that a customer had taken the wrong trousers, dashed eight blocks into an office building. "Have you seen a pair of pants come through here?" he asked the elevator operator urgently. "Only those," the man replied, "with somebody in them." True, his fingers have lost a little of their old dexterity and I will acknowledge that a month ago he not only pinned my coat cuff and shirt at a fitting but also lacerated my left arm and scored a near miss on the skin of my seat. "Ah," he laughed at this, "once in a leetle while I get too close, no?" I asked whether he awards Purple Hearts, depending on the location of the wound, but Noodleman had run a tape measure around my neck now and had induced a pale purple glow from my cheeks. YEARS AGO he emerged as the unpublicized hero of one of the season's major society weddings by getting up at 2 a.m.

to tailor a $300 suit for the father of the bride, working six hours nonstop while the agitated father plied him with coffee and threaded his needles. But he is back home now and pining for a return to his shop, which for more than five decades has been his life, his solace and, apart from the synagogue, his sanctuary. And so it seems to me that this old man, a Russianborn Jew, is as much a man for the season of tomorrow as any I know. He is an amusing little fellow but graced by the dignity of his work. And, thankfully, he has not allowed himself the luxury of growing old calmly.

For Your Sunday Enjoyment IN TOMORROW'S MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE BLUE EARTH--The ecumenical movement in Blue Earth, will be described by Irv Letofsky, Tribune staff writer. You'll learn about joint Catholic-Protestant meetings that have each attracted up to 1,600 young persons. You'll also find out why religion is one of the town's main topics of conversation. CHRISTMAS Ever spend a real old-fashion Christmas? A Minneapolis family will spend Christmas on a farm near Milaca, where they will Miss Stocking cut a tree from the pasture, trim it with popcorn, cranberries and candles, and cook dinner on a wood stove. You can see a report by Susan Stocking on this special Christmas on the Picture Page.

MARINE- Ronald Ross, Tribune Far East correspondent, spent a "night on the line" with a Minneapolis marine stationed in South Vietnam to see how the marine feels about being away from home for Christmas. Ross' report about this rifleman in the Fourth Marine Regiment will appear in the news section. -For the first time in 12 years both houses of the Minnesota State Legislature and the Governor's office will all be controlled by the Republicans. How will they try to develop legislation? What role will the DFL minority play? These and other questions will be discussed by Tribune writers Frank Wright and Frank Premack in articles on the News in Perspective Page. Minneapolis To order the Sunday Tribune, ice route salesman, call your see your carrier or farm serv- Tribune dealer or write us.

In MinneSUNDAY apolis or St. Paul, call 372-4343. hard to disrobe, white of an old HOBBS Star Staff Writer that might be interested in certification. Of those, 291 had filled out the applications, 236 had been surveyed and 17 applications had been forwarded to Kansas City. McCarthy said all the homes that have applied would be certified by Jan.

1. A "very few" have been certified, with more certifications expected next week, he said. Ray Marquardt, regional Social Security representative, said he expects 70 homes to be certified by Jan. 1. But there is no estimate, he said, of the number of beds available.

And many 'Right to Service' "A lot of people will feel on Jan. 1 that they have a right to service," said Gerald Dokka of the staff of the joint hospital planning councils of the Twin Cities" and they will have. "But the service just isn't going to be there." Phillip Newberg, president of the Minnesota Nursing Home Association, said there are about 23,000 nursing home beds in the state. He estimated that only a minority of persons now in nursing homes would qualify for benefits. To qualify, a person enrolled for Medicare benefits must have been hospitalized for at least three consecutive days, be admitted to the extended-care facility on his doctor's orders within two weeks after discharge from the hospital and be admitted An extended-care facility is, according to the Social Security Administration, "a special kind of nursing home, or a special part of a hospital or other institution, that provides the continuous skilled nursing care and other health services that are often needed following the acute phase of an illness that required hospitalization." "This isn't the kind of place where you would send Aunt Minnie when you don't know what to do with said Dr.

Donald McCarthy, director of the Medicare services unit in the State Department of Health. A team from McCarthy's office inspects nursing homes that want to be certified under Medicare and recommends to the regional Social Security office in Kansas City, whether a facility should be approved. Figures Given Early this month figures released that said Mcwere Carthy's unit had sent 403 application forms to homes Man Sentenced for Petty Theft A man found loading bathtubs and plumbing fixtures from a vacant house onto a truck was sentenced Friday to 90 days in the workhouse, with one year's probation. The man is Lyle Quick, 22, 705 117th Av. Blaine, who was arrested Dec.

7 at the rear of 251 21st Av. N. and charged with petty theft. Persons already in certified extended-care facilities can qualify if they meet the conditions, but no one is sure But so far, said LaBrosse, there has been no word on which homes have been certified. a Minneapolis Star Photo by Jack Gillis DRAFTED This golden eagle from the asked if they could have the bird.

Zoo Como Park Zoo in St. Paul is going to be loaned to the U.S. Army for a while. The bird will go to Ft. Leonard Wood, where it will become the mascot for Combat Support Training Brigade.

Members pany 1st Training Battalion, Fifth of the company, contacted the zoo and Director John Fletcher said okay, as long as the bird was well cared for and it was on a lease basis only. Under fish and wildlife regulations the bird can be sent to the soldiers. Eagles are protected by the law. Holding the bird was Bob Duerr of the zoo staff..