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Woman trucker forms group Rites Friday for Xavier Walz, El LOSANGELESiAPl-Bilzy Gomez to keep on truck- ing, but she feels too many Vnights of the road are still slobs when it comes to sharing a cab with a woman. After 10 years of fighting off passes in the sleeper beds of tractor-trailer rigs, the dimin- utive divorcee has formed the IJDS Angeles Coalition of Wom- en Truck Drivers to counter- attack male-dominated unions and employers who regard them as prostitutes on wheels. "There are so many women out there who think they're the IJXK Ranger 1 just fel; it was time we organized for some said Mrs. Gomez. Her efforts are being assisted by the National Organization for Women, which is providing legal help, advertising and ini-.

tial financing. Mrs. Gomez said she doesn't know how many women truck drivers there are in the United States. But she said she be- lieves there are thousands "be- cause so many truck stops are installing hair dryers and shower facilities for women." NOW advertised the coalition for a week in Los Angeles newspapers while Mrs. Gomez posted notices in truck stops.

She said about 100 women driv- ers from all over the country responded. "All complained of dis- crimination in finding work and sexual abuse once you get the job," said Mrs. Gomez. "Some union locals just don't want women to join because the men don't like competition. So they tell you to gel a letter of hiring from a company.

Then the company tells you they only hire out of the union hall." Women on road tests often find that it becomes a "sleeper test," she added. "You get 20 miles cut of town and the guy tells you to put out or get out." On the management side, she contended that many firms try to discourage women truckers by placing them with male partners and using them as "sexual rewards" for drivers with good performance records. Mrs. Gomez charges women truckers also have to fight discrimination in state and federal agencies. Two of her three children were pjaced in foster homes in Bakersfield, because welfare authorities termed truck driving "an unfit occupation for a mother." "1 am now fighting to get them back," she said.

Now 34, Mrs. Gomez has had a Class I iruck driver's license for 10 years but has spent much of that time unemployed and on welfare because of what she sex discrimination. Xavier Walz, 61, Perham, died Monday at the Perham Memorial Hospital. The funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at St.

Stanislaus Catholic Church, with the Rev. Eugene Meemken officiating. Burial in the Church cemetery. Mr. Walz was born June 13, 1914, at Frazee to Joseph and Valeria Walz.

On Aug. he married Barbara Nitz at Perham. He was a life-tune resident of Perham, and was employed by Bauck Chevrolet since 1941. Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Para, Fargo; three sons, Mark and Brian, both of Perham, and Tim, serving in the Army at Heidelberg, Germany; two grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Paul (Eugenia) Rosenthal, Perham; Mrs.

Henry (Euphrosine) Phoenix, and Mrs. Margaret Heltne, Greenbush. Friends may call at the Schoeneberger Funeral Home, Perham, Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m., and 7 to 9 p.m. A wake service will be held at the fuiieral home at 8 p.m. Thurs- day.

Norman Kelson, Evansville, dies Norman Nelson, 74, Evans- ville, died early this morning at Douglas County Hospital, Alexandria. Funeral services are pending with Nilson Funer- al Home, Evansville. Viewpoint ByJayShaibull NEW YORK (AP) The Ko- rean war will continue on "M- A-S-H" next season. But the CBS series, which already has lost Col. Blake and Trapper John, will be minus another important figure then.

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The State Patrol said the car she was driving collided with a semi- trailer on Minnesota 14, then was struck from the rear by a pickup truck. The other drivers weren't injured. Edward Manley, 57, Mur- doch, was killed when the car he was driving left a slippery Minnesota 9 near Murdock and rolled over several times Mon- day morning. Farmers outline strategy ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (AP) A coalition board claiming membership from Minnesota's major farm organizations will meet in late March to begin coordinating a statewide farm policy.

More than 400 farmers at- tending a meeting here Monday selected 30 farmers to serve on the board. 'Ihe meeting was attended by representatives of the National Fanners Organization (NFO), Minnesota Farm Bureau arid Minnesota Fanners Union. State Agriculture Commis- sioner Jon Wefald will be mem- ber at large of the coalition board, which will attempt to coordinate farm activities on the county level throughout the state. Much of the discussion re- volved around grain prices and government farm policy. The coalition board, spokesmen said, would try to formulate a statewide policy for Minnesota farmers.

Fanners Union President Cy Carpenter called for a central policy, but did not mention spe- cif ic goals, He said the ability of farmers to use and control their' products "is greater now than ever before." Rep. Donald. Fraser, D- attended the meeting as an observer and did not speak. Lairel H. LillMoen dies at Elbow Lake laurel H.

Ullemoen, Elbow Uke, died March 1 al the Elbow Lake Community Hospital at the age of 60. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 5, al the United Lutheran Church of Elbow Uke. The Rev. Allen Hagstrom will officiate and burial will be in Union Cemetery, Elbow Lake.

Mr. Lillemoen was born April 6, 1915, at Wendell, a son of Christopher and Gina I jllemoen. On March 6,1938, he married Thelma Miland at the West Elbow Lake Lutheran Church. In 1W2 they moved into Elbow Lake where they had since lived. He was employed for 22 years at the Elbow Lake Creamery, and later owned and operated the Short-Slop Drive-In at Elbow Lake, and the Cannon Drive-In, Cannon Falls.

He was also employed at the Mineral Springs Chemical Center, Cannon Falls. Survivors include his wife; Uiree sons, Richard, Cheyenne, James, Cannon Falls, and Douglas, Osakis; eight grandchildren; one brother, Norval, Colorado Springs, four sisters, Mrs. Kenneth (Myrtle) Pletan, Wendell; Mrs. Merville (Corrine) Soliah, Fergus Falls; Mrs. Jack (Viola) Townsend, Torrance, and Mrs.

Fred (Vivian) Schmidt, Portland, Ore. Friends may call at the Erickson Funeral Home, Elbow Uke. Fergis Falls (Mr.) Journal Tues, March 2,1976 2 William loerzel funeral pending William Loerzel, 74, Barnes- ville, formerly of the Perham area, died Monday at Fargo. Funeral arrangements are pending with the Schoene- berger Funeral Home, Perham. LAUREL LILLEMOEN Fire deaths reported By The Associated Press Two elderly women perished in separate fires in Minnesota Sunday.

Margaret Schepcr, 73, was burned to death in her Morrill home after her wood stove ex- ploded as she tried to start a fire in it with gasoline, the Morrison County sheriff's de- partment said. A deputy said the woman ap- parently poured gasoline in the stove and il exploded. She was atone at the house, which was destroyed by the the 3 a.m. blaze. Hilda Sladen, about 80, was killed when a fire destroyed her mobile home at the Sugar Loaf Trailer Court in vVinona, said a Winona Fire Department spokesman.

Nixon anti-crime goal not reached WASHINGTON (AP) Vio- lent crime has "considerably worsened" in eight cities that the Nixon administration chose for a multimillion-dollar anti- crime program in 1972, a gov- ernment-funded study reported today. Evaluators from the Mitre a private research firm, The evaluators said it's diffi- cult to judge precisely what im- pact the program had on the cities' crime rates. They based their conclusions on FBI fig- ures for crimes reported to po- lice in those cities, but they cautioned that those statistics "are highly fallible as meas- ures of crime." Most studies concluded that the "high im- show that many crimes are pact ant icrime program" failed never reported. Based on the FBI figures for 1968 through 1974, the research- ers found: generally se- vere crime-rate increases in Atlanta and Portland." or generally stabilizing trends in Dallas and Denver" except for rape in Dallas and burglary in both cities. --An increase in murder rates in all cities except Dallas.

--The burglary rate doubled in Portland but remained rela- lively low in Cleveland. was the only city to show steadily decreasing rates for rape." to fulfill the Nixon adminis- tration's promise of a 5 per cent reduction in street crimes and burglary within two years in the target cities. The cities are Atlanta, Balti- more, Cleveland, Dallas, Den- ver, Newark, N.J., St. Louis, and Portland, Ore. They have received $140 million in federal funds for 233 anticrime projects since the program was launched in January 1972.

The' Law Enforcement Assistance Administration operated Ihe program, which ends in December, and paid Mitre (2.4 million to evaluate the results. The report suggested that it rates increased" was foolish for administration in all eight cities, officials to launch the program crime rates had with the claim that il would considerably worsened over- bring about an aclual per- all: whereas in 1970, four cities centage reduction in the crime had rates under 4M per 100,000, rale. The promised reductions by 1974, all rates were above were not "based on any empi- that figure." rical evidence that could be at- lained," the report said. Political pressures to achieve the goal and to get specific projects started quickly ham- pered the program by dis- couraging adequate planning, the report said. But some cities were able to overcome the handicap, the researchers noted.

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