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THE SALINA JOURNAL GREAT PLAINS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2001 B3 DEATHS FUNERALS GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS Andrew Gordan Beach LINCOLN Andrew Gordan Beach, 36, Lincoln, died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Ottawa County Health Center, Min' neapolis. Mr Beach was born Aug. 5, 1964, at Philadelphia and was a resident of Minneapolis for one year, moving from Colorado. He was a self-employed contractor and a member of United byterian Church (USA).

Survivors include three sons, Anthony Taylor and Matthew, all of Conifer, a daughter, Catherine Beach of Conifer; his parents, the Rev Allen W. and Jacquelyn Beach of Grand Lake, three brothers, Roy of Milford, Ohio, Allen W. of Lincoln and Glenn of Fort Collins, two sisters, Laura B. Allen of Wichita and Stephanie B. Murphy of Derby; and his grandmother.

Hazel McGee of Rosemont, Pa. The memorial service will be at noon March 10 at Trinity Church in the Pines, Grand Lake, the Rev Allen Ward Beach officiating. Memorials may be made to the Andrew G. Beach Fund, in care of Trinity Church, Box 423, Grand Lake, CO 80447, or Giesendorf-Rush Smith Funeral Home, 401 W. Iron, Salina 67401.

There will be no visitation. The body was cremated. Geraldine Frances Campbell HOXIE Geraldine Frances Campbell, 72, Hoxie, died Friday Feb. 23, 2001, at Hays Medical Center. Mrs.

Campbell was born Geraldine Frances Scheetz on Sept. 1, 1928, at Clayton and was a longtime resident of rural Hoxie. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Frances Catholic Church and St. Frances Sodality both of Hox- I ie.

She taught religious education to third-graders for many years and served as cantor at the church. Her husband, Dennis, died in 1991. Survivors include six sons, Don of Manhattan, Pat of Oak Lawn, Calif, Hugh of Flower Mound, Texas, Paul and Ed, both of Wichita, and Dan of Hoxie; two daughters, Denise Crosby of Wheaton, 111., and Karen Scruby of El Dorado Hills, four brothers, the Rev. Joe Scheetz of WaKeeney, the Rev Dan Scheetz of Ellsworth, Donald Scheetz of Claflin and Ray Scheetz of New Almelo; three sisters, Mary Lee Brooks of Norton, Julie Gallentine of Oberlin and Eileen Mc' Cuistionof Gladstone, and 19 grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Tuesday at St. Frances Catholic Church, Hoxie, the Rev Benjamin Saw officiating. Burial will be in St. Frances Catholic Cemetery Hoxie. A vigil will be at 7 p.m.

Mon, day at Mickey-Leopold Chapel, 1024 Sheridan, Hoxie 67740. Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

James Richard "Jim" Kauffman NEWTON James Richard Today's obituaries SAUNA Dwight S. Tolle KANSAS BROWNELL: Dorothy Anna Roths Stetler EL.LIS: Caroline Bessie Louise Keller HAYS: Paul Murphy HOXIE: Geraldine Frances Campbell LINCOLN: Andrew Gordan Beach NEWTON: James Richard "Jim" Kauffman WaKEENEY: Bernice Matt Saylor Kvasnicka OUT OF STATE Burl Dean Reed, Concord, Calif. "Jim" Kauffman, 63, Newton, died Thursday Feb. 22, 2001, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa, as the result of injuries received in a truck crash. Mr Kauffman was born Nov 30, 1937, at Schickley Neb.

He had worked in the mental health field for 30 years, was a barber and worked as a truck driver for Hehr International for the past 12 years. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Newton. Survivors include his wife, Mary of Newton; two sons, Douglas of Atlanta and David of Hesston; four brothers, Joe of Jackson, Cliff of Oklahoma City Paul of Lewisville, Texas, and Dan of Marble Falls, Texas; and two grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 106 E. Eighth, Newton. A rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Monday at the church.

Memorials may be made to American Diabetes Association or St. Mary's Church Building Fund, in care of Petersen Funeral Home, 215 N. Main, Newton 67114. Visitation will be from 1 to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Caroline Bessie Louise Keller ELLIS Caroline Bessie Louise Keller, 76, Ellis, died Friday Feb. 23, 2001, at her home. Mrs.

Keller was born Caroline Bessie Louise Chakir on Aug. 16, 1924, at Ellis and was a longtime resident of rural Trego County moving to Ellis in 1966. She was a lifetime member of Christ Lutheran Church, Ellis, and a former member of Sunflower Polka Club. She was preceded in death by her husband, William, in 1974; and a daughter, Jane, in 1975. Survivors include three sons, Jerry, Duane and Dale, all of Ellis; a brother, Norman of Great Bend; seven grandchildren; and seven grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Christ Lutheran Church, Ellis, the Rev Lyle M. Knuth officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery A prayer service' will be at 7 p.m. today at Wasinger Funeral Chapel, 400 E.

17th, Ellis 67637. Memorials may be made to National Sarcoidosis Research Center Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral chapel. Bernice Matt Saylor Kvasnicka WaKEENEY Bernice Matt Saylor Kvasnicka, 80, WaKeeney died Friday Feb. 23, 2001, at her home.

Mrs. Kvasnicka was born Bernice Hinds on Sept. 6, 1920, at Culver and was a former resident of the Minneapolis area, moving to WaKeeney in 1999. She was a licensed practical nurse, working at Crestview Nursing Home, Bennington, Minneapolis Good Samaritan Center and Twilight Years at Minneapolis. She also did private nursing for Ottawa County Health Department until retiring in 1998.

She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, and Daughters of the American Revolution, Tourist Club, Presbyterian Women and Trego County Extension Composting Committee, all of WaKeeney. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Walter W. Matt, in 1981; and her second husband, George B. Saylor, in 1994. Survivors include her husband.

Earl of WaKeeney; two sons, John Matt of Pittsburgh and Daniel Matt of Kansas City, three daughters, Marjean Moore of Marengo, Iowa, Marilyn Bhend of Athens, and Margaret Fuller of Culver; a sister, Helen Harper of Salina; 14 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, the Rev Barbara Patton officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery Minneapolis. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the nursing home of the donor's choice.

Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. today at Shields Funeral Home, 405 Argyle, Minneapolis 67467, and before the service Monday at the church. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Paul Murphy HAYS Paul Murphy 86, Hays, died Friday Feb.

23, 2001, at Hays Medical Center Mr Murphy was born March 5, 1914, at Thayer, Mo. He was an Army veteran of World War II and sold welding supplies and oxygen supplies, later owning Leitner Welding until 1973. He later managed Epworth Village, retiring in 1995, and was a member of First United Methodist Church, American Legion and AARR Survivors include his wife, Grace of the home; three sons, Donald of Louisville, Ky, Robert of Hays and Kevin of Oklahoma City; three daughters, Paula Brin of Hutchinson, Nancy Ward of Birmingham, and Linda Tavlarios of New York; 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church, Hays, the Revs.

Delbert Stanton and Bill Miller officiating. Burial will be in Mount Allen Cemetery, Hays. Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church or a charity of the donor's choice. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 20th and Pine, Hays 67601.

Burl Dean Reed CONCORD, Calif. Burl Dean Reed, 75, Concord, died Thursday Feb. 22, 2001, at Concord. Mr Reed was born Oct. 24, 1925, at Oak Hill, Kan.

He retired as an aviation manager from Chevron and was an Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars 15017, Knights of Columbus, Masonic Lodge and Shrine. His wife, Wanda, died in 1994. Survivors include a son, Rich of Bay Point; a daughter, Kelli Reed of Pittsburg; and a brother, Max of Miltonvale, Kan. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Phelps Funeral Home, Miltonvale, the Rev Myron Comfort officiating.

Burial will be in Miltonvale Cemetery Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, 217 W. First, Miltonvale, KS 67466. Dorothy Anna Roths Stetler BROWNELL Dorothy Anna Roths Stetler, 80, Brownell, died Friday Feb.

23, 2001, at Al- terra Sterling House, Salina. Mrs. Stetler was born Dorothy Anna Roths on April 18, 1920, at rural Trego County and was a longtime resident of Brownell, moving to Salina three years ago. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Aloysius Church, Ransom.

Her husband, Ivan, died in 1991. Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Wood of Salina and Janice Leiker of Aurora, two brothers, Howard of Benton and Norbert "Jake" of Ransom; a sister, Irene Hazen of Grinnell; eight grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. The service will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Brownell Cemetery the Rev. Bruce Ferguson officiating.

A vigil will be at 7 p.m. today at Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 207 N. Pennsylvania, Ness City 67560. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association or American Cancer Society, in care of the funeral home. Visitation will be from 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends at 7 p.m. today DwIght S. Tolle Dwight S. Tolle, 90, Salina, died Saturday Feb.

24, 2001, at Holiday Resort Adult Care and Rehabilitation Center, Salina. Roselawn Mortuary Salina, is handling arrangements. Legislators seek to increase pay GAY CAUCUS Gay contingent gets together Democratic chair Sawyer stops by to offer his support By The Associated Press TOPEKA A new Democratic Party caucus will keep two membership lists an "out" list and a "not out" list. A Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender caucus met for the first time on Saturday during Kansas Democrats' annual Washington Days festivities. "It's membership that we need," said Steve Brown, of Prairie Village, who is organizing the caucus.

"This can't be a Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas, Shawnee county organization." He added: "My only condition with membership is if you don't want your name on a public list at the state level, let me know and it won't show up." A dozen people attended the first meeting. U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore and state Democratic Chairman Tom Sawyer stopped by to voice their support for the caucus, which they said encouraged diversity "What this represents is a "These are things the state Legislature does not want to talk about It's awkward." Kathy Greenlee member of Freedom Coalition, a gay organization based in Lawrence show of how our party is one of inclusion, not exclusion," said Moore, who represents the 3rd Congressional District. Brown, a board member of the national gay association called Stonewall, said he was the first openly gay man to represent Kansas at the National Democratic Convention.

He was a delegate to the 2000 convention in Los Angeles. He said he is organizing the caucus because he wants to build on the convention's momentum for gay issues. Kathy Greenlee, of Lawrence, said the caucus agenda should include repealing a state law that makes sex between two consenting adults of the same gender illegal, adding sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination policy and supporting legislation against hate crimes. "These are things the state Legislature does not want to talk about. It's awkward," said Greenlee, a of Freedom Coalition, a gay organization based in Lawrence.

"I think there is strength in this state, it's just not at the capitol." But Democratic legislators' reaction to the first caucus meeting was mixed. Rep. Dennis McKinney D- Greensburg, shook his head and declined to comment when asked about it. Rep. Richard Alldritt, D- Harper, who initially declined to comment, said walking away, "Everyone is invited." Sen.

Jim Barone, D-Frontenac, said he had no objections to the caucus. "We've always said we've got a big tent," he said. "Everybody is welcome." The Democratic tent includes the Rev Fred Phelps Sr, the state's best-known anti-gay advocate. Phelps is a registered Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the party's gubernatorial nomination in 1990,1994 and 1998 and for the U.S. Senate in 1992.

Phelps, pastor at Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, has protested gay people's funerals, and his followers carry signs with slogans such as "God hates fags." He says his message comes from the Bible and people need to heed it, whether they find it harsh or not. About a dozen members of Phelps' church were picketing Saturday's event, and one sign said "Repent Or Parish;" another declared the event to be a "Fag Show." Brown mentioned Phelps Saturday and said that when his name appears on the ballot in primary elections, he receives thousands of votes. Phelps received his highest number of votes in his 1992 race, more than 49,000. He received more than 11,000 votes in his 1990 run for governor; 5,300 in 1994, and more than 15,000 in 1998. Brown said he wants to know who the Phelps voters are, adding, "I want them marked." Ethics committee endorses bill that would soften rules By The Associated Press TOPEKA A House committee has endorsed a bill to ease current lobbyist disclosure rules and create a new commission authorized to increase the pay of legislators and other elected officials.

Many legislators say the current lobbyist disclosure law, passed just last year, is too harsh and burdensome. It requires lobbyists to report the recipients and values of individual gifts and meals they buy for legislators and their aides. And many legislators have complained for years that their compensation is inadequate. The base compensation is about $21,000 a year, but about two- thirds of it covers the expenses that legislators incur from serving. The Ethics and Elections Committee endorsed the bill Thursday, sending it to the entire House for debate.

"The committee's trying to address two issues that members feel very strongly about," House Speaker Kent Glasscock, R-Manhattan, said Friday Committee Chairman Tony Powell, R-Wichita, said the panel sought to make the disclosure law less confusing and easier for the Governmental Ethics Commission to enforce. The bill would end the required reporting of meals or gifts worth less than $15 and would put executive branch employees, who are now under a separate, stricter law, under the same law as legislators. Under the current law, reports are not required on meals at events to which all legislators are invited. bill would expand the exemption to cover ANTI-GOVERNMENT Try, try again Hutchinson candidate has laundry list of unusual political views By The Associated Press HUTCHINSON Phillip Anstine objects to seeing gold fringe on a U.S. Flag.

He supports the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security, social and corporate welfare, public education, farm subsidies, affirmative action and minimum-wage and drug prohibition laws. His Web page includes a photograph portraying Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a Nazi uniform. None of those beliefs can be found, however, in the literature for his City Council campaign. His brochure raises various points, including the need to keep a lid on spending, the community's responsibility to provide infrastructure, and the benefit to the tax base in allowing downtown businesses to convert upper floors into living units.

Anstine, 38, an office manager and accountant for an auto dealership, is trying for the third time to win a seat on the council. He's facing Mayor Patrick McCreary and Jim Dyson in Tuesday's primary with the top two votegetters advancing to the April 3 general election. Anstine, an advocate of gun owners' rights, said his interest in government grew when he served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army, assigned during 1984-1985 to Honduras. He doesn't consider himself a radical or anarchist.

"I love my country I'm an honorably discharged veteran," Anstine said. Weekly members of the Hutchinson City Council open their meeting by rising, turning toward the gold-fringed U.S. flag in the corner of the council chambers and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. On his home page, Anstine wrote that such a flag represents "the usurpation of these united States of America." Anstine intentionally lowercased the on "united" because, he said, that's how Thomas Jefferson wrote it in the original Declaration of Independence. meetings of regional legislative delegations, national legislative conferences and meetings of organizations such as a local Rotary or Kiwanis club.

"1 think we can all live with reporting and we should but it has to be reasonable, and it has to be clear," said Rep. Richard Alldritt, D-Harper But Gov. Bill Graves said he doesn't think the law approved last year was unreasonable. "I think we had gotten to the point where there was almost an expectation that one of the benefits of being a member of the Kansas Legislature was you could be guaranteed a free meal at somebody else's expense every night," Graves told reporters Friday On the pay issue, the bill would create a nine-member commission whose members would be appointed by April 2, make recommendations by June 1 and see its proposal take effect on July 1. After that, the commission would meet every seven years to review pay for legislators, the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer and insurance commissioner Kansas now has a Legislative Compensation Commission, but lawmakers must approve its recommendations before they take effect and haven't.

Legislators say neither the House nor the Senate has the will to seriously consider the pay issue because members are too worried about political fallout. On Friday: The House and Senate praised former Gov. Joan Finney, who is fighting liver cancer, for "extraordinary service" to Kansas. Graves said he's state universities any differently from other agencies in his budget recommendations. ON THE RECORD Animal shelter These animals were picked up Feb.

23 at the locations listed and taken to the Salina Animal Shelter, 329 N. Second. Phone 826-6535. DOGS Gray male Weimaraner with orange collar, 1900 block of North Ninth Street; white, tan and black male sheltie with Nebraska collar, 1200 block of Fairway Avenue; white and orange female Brittany, 700 block of West Schilling Road. CATS Calico female shorthair with purple and white flea collar and declawed front paws, 800 block of Willis Avenue.

Marriage licenses Marcus Vinyard, 39, and Crystal Leigh Cox, 29, both of Salina; I Branch Smith, 35, and Brandie Dawn Rinquist, 27, both of Salina; Jeffrey Curtis Watkins, 23, and Beth Lorraine Davis, 21, both of Salina; Todd William Harder, 21, and Monica Grace Blodgett, 20, both of Salina. SATURDAY'S DRAWIHGS DAILY PICK 3 6-2-4 WINNER TAKE ALL 8-14-23-28-32 KANSAS CASH 9-12-22-26-33-35 Estimated Jackpot $270,000 POWERBALL 29-30-34-41-49 POWERBALL 37 Estimated Jackpot $10 million SCRIPTURE For though I am almiit from you in body, lam present luith you in spirit and delight to see liow orderly you are and how firm your faith in Christ is. Colossians 2:5 (NIV) February 25th Happy Anniversary, Old Man. I miss you so much. I know someday I will see you again.

I bought your rose today We always got each other a rose, i so I will get yours today. Love You and Miss You SO MUCH. Always, Your OU Lady.