The Daily Inter Lake from Kalispell, Montana • 6

A 6 Judge served as honorary Thomas Photo by Dave Knadler German citizen relates prison story Pair escape injuries election slated for Tuesday Area resident sang with Setgio Mendes Ex singer seeks return te The Little Dog vehicle clipped the left rear portion of the pickup and veered into the left lane in front of oncoming traffic The Little Dog vehicle collided Michael Ryan East Glacier totaling both vehicles Both Ryan and Little Dog were transported to Kalispell Regional Hospital where they were treated and released after she began working with a group in Colorado where she was attending college in the mid sixties received a telephone call from Los Angeles and was a singer was needed for the Andy Williams Show Somebody had heard me sing ing and I was recommended tor tne she said crease toward those who have the higher and reduce levies on lower and middle income tax payers Republicans claimed Carter was advocating higher taxes for half the American people The Republican interpretation was denied and denounced by Carter campaign of ficials In the interview Carter was asked to explain what he meant about shifting the tax burden "That means people who have a higher income would pay more taxes at a certain he said What are you thinking of as COLUMBIA ALLS' Voters here will decide whether the city will dis incorporate or keep its present form of government when they go to the polls this Tuesday At issue is a proposal by the Columbia alls Government Study Commission to disincorporate the city Voters will be asked to vote for the present form of government or the alternate And if there is one thing for certain about the proposal that is most city and county officials like it saying if approved disincporation would further burden the taxpayers in that area The two county commissioners said Columbia alls residents could end up paying more taxes to receive the same' amount of service now provided by the city But that charge was countered by study commission chairman Ray Sorenson who said the burden the county commissioners talked about could turn out to be tax relief I he was asked Carter replied would take the mean or median level of income and anything above that would be higher and anything below that would be i median family income to day is somewhere around $12000 Somebody earning $15000 a year is i not what people commonly think of i as i Carter: understand I I answer that question because I haven't gone into it I know how to write the tax code now in I specific terms It is just not possible to do that on a campaign Stuart Eisenstat chief i adviser on issues said increases i would apply to the wealthy and cer tainly not to people earning $12000 to $15000 a year PRACTICING UP She not only sings but plays the piano bass and drums But despite criticisms from those officials Columbia alls study com missioners have backed their proposal even though a poll con ducted by the commission showed that only 9 per cent of those inter viewed favored disincorporation That same poll showed 42 per cent favored a council manager form of government while 36 per cent were satisfied with the present city government lathead County cbmmissioners Joe DeLong and Mel Wollan took the proposal to task earlier this year By MARY PICKETT Inter Lake Staff Writer Sigrun Petry protests tired because expecting her first child soon But the fatigue she claims to feel show As she jokes about the look on faces when they see her taking a daily dip in Lake her laugh is hearty and a twinkle never leaves her eye Living in Kalispell with her husband David Sigrun was born in East Germany and now is a West German citizen Since coming to Montana about 10 months ago she has free lanced an article about Blackfeet Indians and taught at lathead High School as a sub stitute Both are logical pursuits for someone naturally con templative and interested in ideas ideas which lead to years in an East German prison story seems to repeat that of Ernst Moritz Arndt a 19th Century German poet of whom Sigrun is a direct descen dent Arndt was forced to flee Ger many after publishing a tract en couraging his countrymen to rebel against Napoleonic troops Like her ancestor Sigrun was born on the North Sea island of Rugen Her passage from east to west began early in high school I like saying something I believe she said In 1964 she left the island to study German literature for five years at Humbolt University in East Berlin The closeness of the Berlin Wall impressed her It made her feel in some way responsible for its presence and compelled her to speak out about With these ideas perculating in 'her head she decided to leave East Germany you start Debate sponsors clash with nettybrk executives But although she says she is rather the urge to sing and start a group in the area is surfacing I can find somebody who loves to play I might get into a group again Singing is a fantastic outlet and it can serve as a creative outlet too she said The tours of the nation singing with Sergio are just a memory now for Ms Klinger But area residents and Sergio Mendes fans who fail to femember the petite voung woman may yet get to hear her in person if she realizes her goal now of startingsinging group shows even more because she was able to meet the different guests When' we on the road we were doing television she said and added the group appeared on all the major talk shows such as Johnny Carson SINGING AWAY Belting out a song on stage is old stuff for Janice Klinger Sunday September 19 1976 The Daily Inter lake Kalispell Montana By tSOClATHl) PRESS Democratic vice presidential A dispute over coverage of the nominee took the day off presidential debates flared into an In an interview with The As angry confrontation between televi sociated Press Carter urged a tax sion executives and the debate spon overhaul shift a substantial in sors Saturday as the candidates themselves clashed over taxes an is sue sure to come up in the verbal duel After a 212 hour meeting with the League of Women Voters ex ecutives of the CBS NBC and ABC TV networks continued their threat to boycott the first of the three up coming debates between President ord and Democrat Jimmy Carter The network threat was made ri day to get the league to relax its ban on televising audience reaction Public television said it will cover the debates regardless of'who wins the dispute Carter spent the day at home in Plains Ga boning up on debate is sues with four thick black loose leaf notebooks crammed with posi tion papers statistics possible ques tions responses and suggested follow up questions ord met at the White House with his running mate Sen Robert Dole' The manager said last week the vice presidential campaign has been a rough spot in the Republican effort citing problems with such things as ad vance planning and liaison Sen Walter Mondale the cial assistance to lathead Industries Thrift Store chairman project Ray Rohrer was local chairman for the event religious newspaper Buying bi bles in East Germany she and others on the newspaper staff smuggled the books into the Soviet Union and Lithuania Distributing the bibles through contacts in Lutheran and Baptist churches Sigrun remembers one woman openly weeping with joy when she received one of the books Eventually Sigrun was expel led from East Germany and lived with relatives in Northern West Germany before coming to teach at Whitman College at Walla Walla Wash Politically divided but united by language and culture and West Germans have a special love hate Sigrun said family members from both sides get together there is family love But there's a jealousy on the part of East Germans for the Western Materially East Germany nearly is equal with West Ger manysne says but tne iron Curtain country lacks the per sonal freedoms of the West which make it attractive to East German residents irm with those expecting her to become an American citizen Sigrun said West Germans have the same freedoms as do Americans not giving it up" she said of her German citizenship One misconception many Americans have about East Ger many Sigrun would like to change is that of all the youth of the country spewing forth Com munistic doctrine like robots more you are told to do something the more you rebel The younger generation in East Europe is rebellious not in doctrinated like it is Anyone wanting further proof of that need look no further than Sigrun Hundreds of lathead Valley residents walked jog a hi La diirlnn Qaturdflu's HikR Blke for retarded citizens It was the fourth year for the event raised in the Hike Bike will be used to continue ex By JIM MACKNICKI Inter lake Staff Writer Thirty three year old Janice Hansen Klinger wants to sing But she isn't like other aspiring singers No it her age The attractive Bigfork resident and mother of two could pass for 25 perhaps younger Rather it is her qualifications and level of aspiration which set her apart from other lathead Valley aspiring songsters The fantasy of being and making the big time isn't in eluded in any of Ms television show? She was Some years SergioAfter another successful ago and gone is the longing for per Audition Klingef packed her Pedaling for retarded citizens and the lathead County Department Istlng programs and projects and to provide finan while Gov reported no difficulties from participants The funds Biit the road trips and singing the same type of songs got old after a while In 1968 she quit the group and began doing commercials for ord Motor Co About that time too she said she met Richard which made the road trios even less desirable After getting married and while That telephone call and the follow living in Los Angeles the influence of ino audition changed her Hie had planned to finish college and then go on for a higher Ms Klinger said Rather she ended up singing on the Andy Williams And then came the opening with i Klingef packed her forming in the largest cities bags and hit the road with the group before the masses or unaer tne not tor two yearst glare of television lights The native Montanan already has been to the singing with Sergio Mendes Brazil 66 While with Sergio the group went on a nation wide tour with the all time crooner of them all rank Sinatra Montana apparently stayed with her for the couple were raising chickens and had an orchard Tiring of the big city life the cou ple moved to Helena in 1973 whereKlinger: was employed by the state Last month they moved to the Bigfork area An avid gardener Ms Klinger said sne also loves to sew cook ana ft ft Currently is writing a cookbook had some really wonderful tours and toured with rank Sinatra for three weeks playfig in almost all the big concert halls in the she said Ms Klinger also had a hit songSinging the of which And that tour is well remembered gained the No 2 spot in the nation tour with Sinatra Wasthe She Said she enjod the television zenith of my career Ms Kiujger recalled in a recent interview at" the' modest home she and her husband Richard an attorney recently purchased along the Swan River near Bigfork Ms break came shortly Two cars were totaled in a three car accident four miles east of Columbia alls on US 2 riday evening An I ft i'v fic 1 a i a Mnritana Highway Patrol officer said a pickupMith'1 anothe' vehicle driven by driven by James Harvey Colum bia alls and another vehicle driven by Kenneth Little Dog East Glacier were westbound about 6 pm when Harvey attempted to make a left turn onto Vista Lane SIGRUN PETRY I 4 thinking about leaving you she said She and a friend made an at tempt at escaping through Hungary but were stopped in Yugoslavia and sent back to East Germany Sigrun waited for her trial for six months in solitary confine ment broken only by question ing about the identity of those helping her during her aborted escape She tortured "but it was punishment enough to sit in a tiny room with no win dows no books nothing" After her trial while serving her sentence she met wives teachers and intellec tuals "but never workers which proves the people who had time to think about life were the ones who tried to After her release from prison she began working as a jour nalist in East Berlin for a 'IWIIH nwini a Trjm BmnjTirLrx7Jiijrxx2r nr iir 1 ra 111 li 1 ihiw iuiuu mi ii inn m' 'cwsr arr ft Twm: 2 MR0K1' ran war 5 i ft 1 1' iw jA ir wv itmt jnm rarjn jW! 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