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Virginia Graham: aging rebel By SALLY SAUNDERS Tribune Staff Writer "This is what the second wife wears," said Virginia Graham, slyly, as she slipped a silver fox fur from around her shoulders. Before the laughter of her Tuesday morning audience of mostly women subsided, she peeled off a pair of long, grey gloves and began a discourse on the "brown spots" advancing age causes on the skin. "I believe in good taste, but be edited." "I just hate brown spots," she said, then announced in feigned earnesty, "I've found a terrific cream that takes away brown spots But it may give you an infection." With these get-acquainted one- the actress, author and television personality perhaps best known for her seven-year stint as the emcee of ABC television's "Girl Talk" began telling her bittersweet life's story to a packed house at the Fox Holiday Theater. She was here as the fourth speaker in the Junior League's Celebrity Series. With platinum hair, courtesy of Clairol, shaped into a tight bouffant; a wrinkle-free face made that way by a face lift; impeccable make-up, and stylish mid-length gray dress and boots, Graham is a reminder of old-fashioned Hollywood glamour.

She comes across as a genuine lover of life, people, conversation and food, especially bread and butter. my last day I hope to go to the house of God with bread in my mouth." she said, with a slight smack of her lips.) She jokes a lot, about her Deaths and Marilyn Schultze Mrs. Dale (Marilyn Ruth Wellensiek) Schultze, 42, 612 Beth Drive, died Tuesday in a local hospital following a long illness. She was born on her family's farm near Tecumseh, Neb. The family moved to Blue Springs, in 1945 and she graduated from high school there in 1953 before attending Westmar College in Lamar, lowa.

She taught one year in a country school, and then worked as office manager in an insurance office before her marriage to Dale H. Schultze Aug. 30, 1957. The couple lived in Fremont and McCook, Casper. Wyo.

and Spokane, before coming to Great Falls six years ago, where he is executive director of the YMCA. She enjoyed working with children and was pre-school teacher in the Little Y's Acres pre-school day care center until her illness forced her to quit. Her husband survives along with children Mrs. Daniel (Beth) Young, Spokane, Kathy, Julie, Doug-: CONNOR funeral Home 2425-8th AVENUE NORTH 453-7257 McDUNN Services 9 A.M. this Wednesday at St's.

Peter Paul for Rosemarie McDunn, 47, Rt. South, Cascade. Burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. MATSKO Services.

11 A.M. this Wednesday at St. Gerard's for John J. Matsko, 72, Big, Sandy. Burial in Mt.

Olivet Cemetery. Memorials are suggested 10 the St. Margaret Mary Church in Big Sandy. BESTON Services, 2 P.M. this day in the O'Connor Memorial Chapel for Peter Beston, 78, Wire Mill Road, Black Eagle.

Burial in Olivet Cemetery. CALDWELL Services 3:30 P.M. this Wednesday in the O'Connor Memorial Chapel for Eve Caldwell, 90, 1200 5th Ave. with the Rev. John M.

Kading officiating. Cremation will follow services. Viewing until Service time. GEORGE CO. funeral Home P.O.

BOX 1713 453-4404 CROXFORD SONS Funeral Directors 1307 Central 453-0315 SCHULTZE Services for Mrs. Dale H. (Marilyn) Schultze, 42, of 612 Beth will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Christ United Methodist Church, 2900 9th Ave. with Rev.

Conrad Himmel Rev. Jack Severns, officiating. Burial will be in Blue Springs, on Monday after services there. Memorials preferred to the church, the YWCA. free casket will be open for viewing at the mortuary but not at the church.

SURFACE Graveside services for Mrs. Grace R. Surface, 83, of 1 1623 2nd Ave. So. be held Thursday at p.m.

in Highland Cemetery with Rev. Roland R. Strutz officiating. The cortege will leave the mortuary at 12:45 for the cemetery. Memorials are preferred to the Evangelical Church of No.

America. Chime 13th St. 13th Ave. S. 452-3131 FUNERAL HOME "A truly personal service" Wednesdav.

March 7. 1979 Great Falls Tribune 7 Fire chief to retire face-lift ready for a re- tread now: and I'll do it again and and about her full figure men love me. They think they're mountain climbers trying to get to the top of Mount Yet she has had considerable tragedy i in her time. A bout of uremic poisoning caused her great pain as a teenager. When she was 18, doctors wanted to give her a complete hysterectomy but her father sometimes my mouth needs to persuaded them otherwise, explaining her great love for children.

Doctors said she'd never have a baby but in the late forties she gave birth to a daughter, Lynn. The birth was complicated and a blood specialist had to be called in to save the baby. Pregnant again in 1951. she miscarried in her fourth month and doctors diagnosed cancer. "I know what it is serk," she told 'her audience, 110W visibly moved by her frankness.

was told 'I was terminal. I shook the doctor. screamed at him. I felt like an animal trapped in the futility of life." Her husband, Harry Guttenberg, had a nervous breakdown at the news of her cancer. She suicide" and went so far as to walk out on a hospital window ledge.

Before she could leap, some childhood advice of her father came to her "Have faith in God." So she climbed off the ledge and got on with life, driving herself to the hospital for radiation treatments and her husband for "shock to combat his break- funerals las and Russell, all at home; her sister, Mrs. Wilbur (Lois) Carey, Oakview, and brothers Richard, Blue Springs, Neb. and Warren, Golden, Colo. Services will be Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Christ United Methodist Church with the Rev.

Conrad Himmel and the Rev. Jack Severns officiating. Services will also be held Monday in the Blue Springs United Methodist Church, Blue Springs, followed by burial there. Croxford and Son's Mortuary is handling local arrangements. Grace R.

Surface Grace Reed Surface, 83, 1623 2nd Ave. died Monday evening in a local nursing home. She was born in Bozeman and grew up there. After coming to Great Falls, she worked for a short time in the alterations department of the Paris. She was a member of the Flowergrowers and the Evangelical Church of North America.

She and Basil Surface were married in 1950 in Great Falls. He died in March of 1978. Surviving are a stepson, Donald D. Surface, Great Falls; a stepdaughter, Joyce L. Bowen, San Carlos, and sisters Tressa Gebhardt, Great Falls; Irene Rawles, Spokane and Amy Bailey, Juno, Alaska.

Graveside services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. in Highland Cemetery with the Rev. Roland R. Strutz officiating. Here's what's happening Today: Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce planning and transportation committee will meet, 3:30 p.m., conference room of the chamber office, 926 Central Ave.

Friends need to know you care. Send flowers. For Sympathy flowers and plants, call your FTD Florist. Your Extra Touch Florists down. Her cancer was eventually cured but more tragedy came.

A few months after the cancer was diagnosed, the building housing her husband's business was destroyed by arsonists, leaving the family with no income. Friends helped out financially and her television career began blossoming with a show called "Food for Thought." More recently her husband of 44 years suffered an incapacitating stroke and her son-in-law died 14 months ago at age 46, leaving her two grandchildren fatherless. She has pulled through trouble, in part, she said, by rejecting worry is interest on trouble before it's and on the strength of her father's teachings. One of her credos is her father's "Eleventh Commandment." which states, "Thou shalt feel thy neighbor's pain." The "greatest kindness" is to understand someone else's suffering, she said. Following through on the thought, she "shared the mother lived by what makes THEY important?" of two friends with children afflicted with cerebral palsy by helping found the women's division of United Cerebral Palsy.

She's also headed such service agencies as Mental Health, Kidney Foundation and Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America. During the 27 years since her cancer scare, she raised $200 million for the American Cancer Society. Pointing at her audience of mostly middle-aged women, she said, "You people, you're the generation rebuffed, made fun of by the younger generation. Coder denies of redeve redevelopment Judge H. William Coder Tuesday denied a request by city officials for a rehearing of a civil suit involving zone changes made under the downtown redevelopment plan.

Coder's ruling leaves the plan's status, in question since late November, up in the air. During a Feb. 16 district court hearing city officials, represented by city attorney Dave Gliko, asked the judge to grant a new trial so the city might have an opportunity to present oral arguments. Gliko said city officials assumed the judge would entertain oral arguments after the attornevs submitted their final written briefs. Ruling in the original case, Coder ordered city officials to issue building permits to five residents who were deprived them as a result of the redevelopment program, which was adopted Dec.

22, 1977. Coder also ruled the existing zoning cannot be amended by the revitalization plan because the City Commission adopted by resolution when it should have proceeded by ordinance. City officials argue that adopting I see by the Tribune BIRTHS CHRISTENSEN Son to Mr. and Mrs. Christian Christensen, 5215-B Pecan St.

MUZZANA Son to Mr. and Mrs. Muzzy Muzzana, 2308 9th St. S. LICENSE APPLICATIONS HITE-FOREMAN Daniel Jon Hite, 31, and Joanne Marie Foreman, 25, both of Great Falls.

BENNETT-EMRY Howard Arthur Bennett 20, North Fort Myers, and Vonda Lynn Emry, 19, Edinburg, Texas. 'CRESSMAN-LAMAR Ronald Hall Cressman, 19, and Julie Marie Lamar, 19, both Great Falls. DEATHS SCHULTZE Mrs. Dale (Marilyn Schultze, 42, 612 Beth Drive. SURFACE Grace Reed Surface, 83, 1623 2nd Ave.

S. Where's the fire? Monday, 9:23 p.m. 406 14th St. fire in boxcar. Tuesday, 4:39 p.m.

North Junior High School teachers' lounge, false alarm. 7:31 23 Countryside Village, smoke in bedroom. But you've heard your neighbor's cry of pain You're the volunteer. And your time, interest and effort has sustained every health agency." At a brief press conference, she said her lectures are aimed at showing that "life's problems are no different at 1025 5th New York City, than a place like Great Falls. I try to help people manage, survive." She'll be making a pilot for a new talk show soon but before that she'll be heading to Lisbon to entertain passengers on a European cruise, presumably dispensing such commentaries as: "My Aunt Celia didn't believe in sex and she controlled my mother.

If Aunt Celia had a headache, my father had to read." "My mother lived by what THEY say. Who are THEY? What makes THEY important? I've always been a rebel I believe in good taste, but sometimes my mouth needs to be edited." "The ERA needs investigating. I like to have a man say. Who are THEY? What open a door for me. I like to be pampered I don't understand why women want to go to West Point, drive trucks, be firemen.

don't know why men put up with it. But for a cerebral job, all an application should require is first initial, last name and qualifications. Sex, race, religion are non-essential." "I'm at the age where I'm rubbing Geritol on my skin But I thank God for letting me live long enough to hear my grandchildren talk back to my daughter." city appeal ruling the plan's zone changes by resolution is permitted through a provision in the state Urban Renewal Act, under which the plan was enacted. In requesting a new trial, city officials charged the absence of oral arguments represented "an irregularity in proceedings and an abuse of discretion" which denied them a fair hearing. Coder ordered the city to issue the building permits to the five residents after listening to oral testimony during a hearing Nov.

22 and later reviewing written briefs submitted by both attorneys. Representing himself and the other plaintiffs was Richard Dzivi, who maintained that the city had no legal right to call for a rehearing since under state statute a new trial can be held only to re-examine facts presented in a trial. "The city will have to take another look at the case." Gliko said Tuesday. Filing an appeal with the state Supreme Court is one option which has been considered, he said, but he added that the final decision must come from the City Commission. City Manager Chris Cherches declined to comment on the decision late Tuesday afternoon, saying, "I haven't heard a thing about it." Ubiquitous thieves rob all over city A home, a car, a restaurant and a college were all recent scenes of crimes in the Electric City.

Most costly was the theft of $1,700 in stereo equipment taken during a Monday break-in at the residence of Richard D. Hovey, 1019 2nd Ave. N. In the other crimes: Clothes worth an estimated $955 were taken from a car parked at 1411 10th Ave. S.

during the night, Larry Sutton of Bruce, told police Monday. At the 3-D International restaurant and tavern in Black Eagle, a break late Monday night yielded at least $30 from a stamp machine. The student building at the College of Great Falls, 1301 20th St. was entered and money was taken from a cigarette machine late Monday or early Tuesday. A bookstore was entered but nothing apparently was taken.

BOILERS--FURNACES CONTROLS OIL -GAS-STOKER COMBUSTION SERVICE COMPANY Phone 453-8372 NOW LOCATED AT 1012 26th AVE. SW. MOBILE SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL Wayne H. Martin DVM 761-2223 24-HOUR SERVICE Fire Chief Ken Lindstrand will retire from the Great Falls Fire Department March 31. Joining the Fire Department in 1954.

he was promoted to fire captain in 1962 and later to battalion chief in 1967. He became fire chief in 1971. in plan stage Little has been done so far, but Cascade County commissioners will continue to plan for fire escapes at the courthouse, Commissioner Franklin H. Steyaert said Tuesday. main consideration the County Commission has in this Steyaert said, "is, safety of courthouse workers the general public which uses the courthouse and this is why we are pushing forward with the All three commissioners said space problems will result from installation of fire escapes, a safety program mandated last week by a directive from the State Fire Marshall's office.

Two offices of court reporters, located on the third floor, and the offices of the clerk of the district court and clerk and recorder, on the second floor, will be eliminated when fire corridors to the fire escapes are established. Civil rights group will meet Saturday The Montana Advisory Committee 10 the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will meet Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Ponderosa Inn. There will be orientation for new members, including Dorothy Bohn of Great Falls, during the session and discussion of future work.

Augustine Lopez, Billings, heads the group which helps the federal commission collect information and assess civil rights matters within the state. Bohn, a former language professor at the University of Montana, has worked with Sister Providencia to help the poor in the Great Falls area. She is currently involved in a study of the Great Falls jail by the criminal justice committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. Other new committee members are state Sen. Robert Brown, Whitefish; Charles Chattin, Helena; Gay Holliday, Roundup, and Lois LaCroix, Helena.

Reappointed members are Ernest Bighorn, Miles City; John Board and Geraldine Travis, Great Falls; Angela Russell, Lodge Grass, and Marie Sanchez, Lame Deer. NFO to hear lobbyist FORT BENTON Terry Murphy, Cardwell, lobbyist for several farm groups at the state Legislature, will report to a meeting of Eastern District National Farmers Organization Friday at 10 a.m. at First State Bank here. Ken Lindstrand During his tenure as chief, the department has undergone some changes," he said. Greater emphasis is now placed on training fire fighters and preventing fires.

Over the years the department has become "more scientific" in its use of equipment and personnel, the chief said. The use of steam as a method of combatting fires has been perfected 'and modernization programs have added superior equipment, he said. Since Lindstrand became chief the department has carried out a home and commercial fire inspection pro gram, as well as fire training and physical fitness programs. Recently Lindstrand implemented an investigation program aimed at combatting arson in the city. In a letter to City Manager Chris Cherches announcing his decision to retire, Lindstrand, 57, said, "fire fighting is a young man's occupation.

Even in an administrative position a person continually faces the possibil-, ity of extreme physical exertion." Recruitment plans for a new department head have not been made. SILENT KNIGHT MUFFLER will be closed today until noon in memory of Mrs. Roy McDunn NEED A MUFFLER If you want it done right, take it to SILENT KNIGHT! Annual GIGANTIC RUMMAGE SALE March 8, 9 and 10 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Holy Family School Gym 2520 Central Ave.

Old school maps, folding chairs and lots of miscellaneous. Y.M.C.A. Will Be Closed THURSDAY, MARCH 8 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. In Memory of MARILYN SCHULTZE BOAT SHOW PRICES EXTENDED! Dualit PORTLAND, a million for overwhelming response to our Boat Show last 34 boats weekend.

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