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6-WAUSAU DAILY RECORD-HERALD-MERRILL DAILY HERALD- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1974 Obituaries Richard M. Connor, 75, Laona, chairman of the board of Connor Forest Industries, died Thursday in a Stevens Point, hospital. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday in Laona. A memorial service will take place at 4 p.m. Monday in the Laona Grade School gymnasium.

Mr. Connor, one of Wisconsin's pioneers in selective logging practices, was born May 24, 1899, in Auburndale. In February 1922, he married the former Florence Brown of Rhinelander, who survives. Mr. Connor was one of the last surviving railroad loggers who made the transition from pioneer logging practices to sophisticated modern foresting techniques.

Starting with the former Connor Lumber and Land company in 1922, he became president in 1944. Under his leadership the firm expanded into a national organization. Mr. Connor was a former officer of the Laona and Northern Railway, in which he inaugurated Lumberjack Special steam rail trips in 1965. served as past president of thee Laona Public Service Company, past president of the Maple Flooring Association, former president and secretary of the Laona school board, past Ward Paper Co.

until his Richard M. Connor, retirement in 1960. He was a member of Christ United forest industrialist, dies Methodist Surviving, Church. besides his wife, are two sons, Leonard and Ralph, both of Milwaukee; 10 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Schwartz services Funeral services for Hugo O.

Schwartz, 77, Waukesha, who died Wednesday morning in a Waukesha hospital, took place this afternoon at St. Stephen Lutheran Church, The Rev. Ben Elger of St. Luke Lutheran Church, Waukesha, officiated and burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery, Wausau. Pallbearers were Walter Wendorf, Willard Broadrick, Steven Conway, John Tetzlaff, Le Roy Waldburger and Milton Teige.

Traffic toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fatal accidents in Jefferson and Chippewa Counties brought Wisconsin's 1974 traffic toll to 730 today, compared with 933 on this date a year ago. A young La Lake Mills woman, Jean Hanson, 19, was killed early today in a one-car crash on Wisconsin 89 in Jefferson County, just south of Lake Mills. Raymond Hebert, 82, of rural Chippewa Falls and Dale Schwingle, 36, of Eau Claire lost their lifes Thursday afternoon on U.S. 53 about three miles north of Eau Claire. William Eiting, 19, of rural Kaukauna died Thursday of burns sustained early Wednesday when his motorcycle collided with a tractor on a Calumet County road and exploded.

UW records subpoenaed in John Doe probe MADISON, Wis. (AP) A truckload of University of Wisconsin purchasing records have been subpoenaed for a John Doe investigation in Brown County Court, UW officials said Tuesday. UW Purchasing Director R.L. Farnsworth said purchasing records for the fiscal years of 1971 through 1974 were subpoenaed, and the ones not pertinent to the case will be returned after an audit. The inquiry being presided over by Judge 1 Donald Gleason in Green Bay reportedly involves possible conflicts of interest in purchases of videotape and electronic equipment by the university.

The hearings have temporarily adjourned so the mass of evidence can be studied, but are to reconvene sometime next month. Asst. Atty. Gen. Paul Gossens declined comment on the investigation.

9 expelled from Horlick RACINE, Wis. (AP) Seven boys and two girls have been expelled from Horlick High School as a result of two racial incidents at the school Oct. 9- 10. The action by the School Board followed closed hearings for the students and their parents. Leland Johnson, director of pupil personnel 1 for the Racine school district, said all were involved in fighting at the school 1 cafeteria and some were also involved in fights on other school property.

No racial breakdown was provided on those expelled but Johnson said it was about evenly distributed. Lucey ill MADISON, Wis. (AP) -Gov. Patrick J. Lucey, 56, stayed in bed Thursday after contracting a virus and canceled his scheduled appearances through today.

Lt. Gov. Martin Schreiber was named to speak in his place at the League of Wiscon- sin Municipalities meeting today in Green Bay. 903 East Third St. Data From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, NOAA, U.S.

Dept. el Commerce 30 40 COLD VARM Rain Shewers FORECAST I 60 70 Flurries Snow Figures Show Law Temperatures Expected Until Saturday Morning 70 Isolated Precipitation Net Indisated- Consult Losel Wirephoto WEATHER FORECAST There will be rain will be cold in the Central states and the Saturday over much of the Southeast. There Northeast and warm in the Southeast. will be snow flurries in Northern Maine. It Wisconsin forecast Sunny, cool Saturday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fair and cooler conditions with to upper 50s south Sunday.

Wisconsin remained under lows in the 30s, while Satur- Highs dropping to low 50s south the pleasant influence of brisk day's weather should feature Monday and Tuesday. northwesterly winds in the up- more sunshine and highs rangper atmosphere today, and ing from the mid 50s to mid Wausau weather forecasters said state residents 60s. The extended outlook for FAA temperatures at Wausau could expect sunny, slightly Wiscool weather to continue at consin showed cool weather Municipal Airport, courtesy Grimm Flying Service: least halfway through the week- Sunday through Tuesday with a end. chance of showers in the north TEMPERATURES and since yesterday afternoon Pleasing autumn weather Sunday over the entire 3 70s state Monday. p.m.

61 12 mid. 45 6 a.m. 38 sent the mercury into the Thurs- 6 p.m. 57 3 a.m. 40 9 a.m.

43 over parts of the state from State forecast 9 p.m. 52 11a.m. 47 day, while skies ranged YESTERDAY partly cloudy to cloudy and a Sunny and mild in the west few light sprinkles hit the ex- today, sunny and turning a midnight to midnight Low, 37; High, 63; Mean, 50 treme south. little cooler east. Highs from The high temperatures the low 50s northeast to the mid 0 TODAY reached 75 at La Crosse, 72 at 60s southwest.

Low, 38 Verona and Hudson, 71 at Fair and cooler tonight. Lows Madison and Port Edwards, 70 in the 30s. Continued sunny Sat11 a.m. Wind, NW at 6 mph at Eau Claire, and from 11 a.m. 30.28 rising Stoughton urday.

Highs the mid 50s 11 Dew Point Beloit and 68 in the Milwaukee northeast to the mid 60s southa.m. 30 0 area. They ranged to readings west. WAUSAU SKIES of 58 at Eagle River and Land O'Lakes. Extended forecast Sunset tonight 5:58 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow 7:28 a.m. The overnight lows ranged Cool Sunday through Tuesday YEAR AGO TODAY from 30 at Rhinelander and with chance of showers north High, 65; Low, 49; 0 Spooner to 50 at Milwaukee. Sunday and over the state MonToday's highs were expected day. Clearing Tuesday. Lows to range from the low 50s in the Merrill weather mid 20s north to upper 30s northeast to the mid 60s in the south Sunday.

Lows in the High Thursday: 59 southwest under sunny skies. south falling to mid 20s by Low today: 34 Tonight's forecast called for Tuesday. Highs mid 40s north Precipitation: 0 New bomber unveiled, price causes concern By RICHARD SALTUS Associated Press Writer PALMDALE, Calif. (AP). The prototype of the newest U.S.

bomber, the swing-wing B1, rolls out amid ceremonies and speech-making Saturday. But the plane may be sidelined because of soaring costs. Advocates say the B1 will be superfast and hard to destroy and that armed with a potent load of missiles it will help deter World War III. Critics say it will be a flying dinosaur not worth its ever-rising price tag. The long-nosed test plane, coated with a special white paint to reflect nuclear radiation and powered by four jet engines tucked close to its fuselage, will emerge Saturday from a hangar at the Rockwell Plan screens children for lead poisoning MADISON, Wis.

(AP) Plans to screen children for lead poisoning in four Wisconsin areas were announced Wednesday by the state Division of Health. Children in Grant, Lafayette and Oconto counties and the city of Racine will be tested during the next nine months in a pilot project funded by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. If a significant number of children in the test areas have high levels of lead in their blood, a statewide program may be considered, the Division said. Project coordinator Carol Gannon said there is special concern for children in Grant and Lafayette counties because lead once was mined there.

Extreme blood poisoning could result in mental retardation, blindness and death. KRUEGER. Dial 536-4411 FUNERAL HOME Merrill Norbert Krueger Milton Wistein Surtax is still part of Ford's inflation fight By DON WATERS Associated Press Writer The Ford administration still considers a proposed 5 per cent surtax an essential part of its anti-inflation program, Treasury Secretary William E. Simon says. But House Speaker Carl Albert says the levy will never be Auto workers are laid off DETROIT (AP) About 000 workers at four General Motors plants are being laid off because of decreasing auto sales, according to a company spokesman.

The spokesman said Thursday that GM is dropping second-shift production at three plants and is slowing the assembly line at a fourth. It is the first time in recent history that layoffs have come so early in the model year. GM revised its 1975 model year industry sales estimate down from 10 million to 9.5 million cars and is adjusting production accordingly, the spokesman said. He said on Nov. 11 GM will lay off indefinitely 1,500 workers at Leeds, 2,000 at Tarrytown, N.Y.; and 1,650 at Van Nuys, Calif.

On Dec. 2, 700 employe layoffs at Willow Run, will slow down assembly lines from 70 to 60 cars per hour on each of the two shifts. Highway deaths show decline WASHINGTON (AP) Deaths on the nation's highways declined in September for the 11th straight month, and the Transportation Department says traffic accidents this year may take 10,000 fewer lives than in 1973. The department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that the September death toll of 4,173 was some 725, or 14.8 per cent, below that reported in the same month a year earlier. The decline started late last year when the energy shortage forced a reduction in driving and lowered speed limits.

Commercial fishing MILWAUKEE (AP) State financial assistance to Wisconsin's ailing fishing industry was suggested Thursday by Lt. Gov. Martin Schreiber. "We're talking basically about looking very closely to the precedent that has been set about helping a farmer in time of disaster," he told a Department of Natural Resources hearing on proposed changes in Lake Michigan commercial fishing regulations. Plane explodes TOWNSEND, Wis.

(AP) Wilbur Briggs, 51, of Norwood, was killed Thursday afternoon when the light plane he was piloting apparently exploded in midair and then plunged into John Lake near this northeastern Wisconsin community. Oconto County authorities said Briggs was on a business trip from Norwood to St. Paul, when he was killed. Clerk retires IRON BELT, Wis. (AP) Eleanor Trione, 82, believed to be the oldest woman officer of a town in Wisconsin, has retired as clerk of the Town of Knight in Iron County.

Mrs. Trione, who is to be honored at a party here Sunday, was first elected in 1920 after women obtained suffrage has been re-elected since. She undertook the clerk's duties after her husband, who had the job, became ill in 1917 and continued doing them when her brother was elected following her husband's death in 1918. Schram-Buettner Funeral Home 212 Pier Street BERNDT, Otto, W. Services Saturday, 10:00 A.M.

at Schram-Buettner Funeral Home. Now in state at funeral home. passed by Congress as submitted because it would work an undue hardship on middleincome taxpayers. Simon, in a dinner speech Thursday night in New York City, took note of congressional opposition to the proposed surtax on corporations and on individuals earning more than 500 and families with incomes of $15,000 or more. "Many congressmen have already written off the surtax because they think it is unpopular, but I submit that the surtax is a supreme test of our will to fight inflation," he contended.

Speaking with reporters in Tulsa, earlier Thursday, Albert said: "I can tell you one thing that Congress, as it sits now and it sits next year, is not going to make the man who makes $15,000 pay 5 per cent and the man who makes 000 pay 5 per cent. That's minimal as far as any effect on him (the richer man) is concerned." Meanwhile Thursday, the Labor Department released figcomparing the average first-year wage increases in union contracts to the 9.7 per cent inflation rate registered thus far in 1974. The government said wage boosts negotiated during the January September period averaged 9.6 per cent during the first year of the contract and 7.2 per cent annually over the life of the contract. RICHARD M. CONNOR director of the Laona State Bank, charter member of the Laona Lions Club, and 1 member of the Presbyterian Church, Nicolet Country CLub and Wausau Club.

Surviving children are 1 Richard M. Connor Laona, and Mrs. Frederick Connor Roth, Jenkintown, the former Mrs. Roy Evans of Wausau. Surviving brothers and sisters are Mrs.

Melvin R. Laird Sr. and W.D. Connor, both of Marshfield; Gordon R. Connor, Wausau; and Mrs.

J.R. Modrall, Albuquerque, N.M. Thirteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive. Eugene R. Means Victor Eugene R.

Means, 60, 207 Francis Rothschild, was dead on arrival at a Woodruff hospital at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. He had been vacationing at his cottage on Birch Lake. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Peace United Church of Christ in Schofield.

The Rev. Vernon G. Doelde will officiate. Friends may call at Jansen Funeral Home in Schofield from 3 p.m. Sunday until 10 a.m.

Monday, and then at the church. Mr. Means was born in Schofield Dec. 15, 1913, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Means. He was married to Vernette Hintz in Schofield Oct. 12, 1935. Mr. Means was a retired employe of American Can Co.

and a member of its Quarter Century Club. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Darrell, West Simsbury, and Rodney, Tempe, a daughter, Mrs. James Clinton, Shreveport, three sisters, Mrs. Randley Wendorf, 1005 Grand Schofield, Mrs. Marvin Buss, 307 Weston Rothschild, and Mrs.

Kenneth Hanson, 202 LeRoy Rothschild, and 10 grandchildren. Joseph V. Wirkus Joseph V. Wirkus, 49, Edgar Route 3, died Thursday afternoon in a Marshfield hospital. Funeral services will take place at 10:30 a.m.

Monday at the Kraemer Funeral Home and at 11 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church, both in Edgar. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. The Rev.

Oscar Kramer will officiate. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, where a parish rosary is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. that night. Mr.

Wirkus was born March 18, 1925, in the Town of Cassel, the son of the late Anton Wirkus and Mrs. Cecelia Wirkus, who survives. On April 2, 1945, he married the former Miss Dorothy Meyer in the town of Edgar, who died April 5, 1969. Mr. Wirkus was a farmer and lifelong resident of this area.

He was a member of St. John's Catholic Church. Surviving in the immediate family are 17 children. The eight daughters are Mrs. Lyle Heckel, Marshfield; Mrs.

James Streveler, Brule; Mrs. John Schilling, Edgar; Mrs. James Nowak, Stratford; and Misses Rosemary, Joan, Jane. and Betty, all at home. The nine sons are Robert, Stratford; James and Donald, both of Marshfield; and John, Charles, Joseph Frank, Michael and Patrick, all at home.

Besides his mother, who resides in Edgar, three sisters also survive. They are Clarence Karlen and Mrs. Andrew Knetter, both of Edgar; and Mrs. Merlin Schumacher, Marathon. One brother, Willis, Edgar, and 10 grandchildren also survive.

Extortionist threatens dams PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Three large hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River have been closed to the public and security patrols beefed up because an extortionist-bomber remains at large, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says. The extortionist, in a threepage letter delivered last Saturday to the Portland FBI office, 26 treated in disaster exercise MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) Twenty six persons were treated for smoke inhalation Thursday night when an abandoned hospital, being used in a mock disaster exercise, filled with smoke.

"This one backfired on me," said Donald Fleeter, 48, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County emergency government director, who was one of three persons still in St. Joseph's Hospital today. The others, also employes of the emergency government, were Ted Wendt, 30, Marshfield, and Robert 25, Route 3, Marshfield. All three were described as in good condition. Seventeen persons who volunteered to act as patients in the exercise were treated for smoke inhalation and released as were five Marshfield policemen and one fireman.

Thirty-five persons were inside the abandoned Norwood Hospital at the start of the exercise. Fleeter said the wind was blowing when two smoke bombs were ignited outside the building but that the wind suddenly died and the smoke quickly seeped into the structure. "We could hear people yelling, 'Help, help, get me out of here. We're not Fire Chief Verlyn Zieghan said. "We could have had a real bad disaster." He said the building was SO filled with smoke that police and firemen could hardly find their way.

HANKE, Edward C. Services Saturday, 11:00 A.M. at Peterson Funeral Home. Now in state at Peterson Funeral Home. WARNER, Helen Services Saturday, 9:00 A.M.

at Peterson Funeral Home. Now in state at Peterson Funeral Home. V.F.W. Auxiliary Service 7:00 P.M. tonight at Peterson Funeral Home.

KORDUS, Richard Arrangements Pending. PETERSON Funeral Home Ph. 845-6900 claimed responsibility for dynamiting 11 Bonneville Power Administration transmission line towers around Portland in recent weeks. He threatened to sabotage more towers and cut off power to the Portland area unless a $1-million ransom was paid according to specific instructions. "While there was no direct threat to the dams themselves, they are part of the BPA system and we felt that if there was a threat to part of the system, it would be prudent for us to take extra security measures," said Col.

Neil Saling of the corps' Portland division headquarters. He said Bonneville Dam, The Dalles Dam and John Day Dam have been closed to visitors, about 3,000 of whom tour the three facilities daily. The FBI reported no leads on the extortionist. BPA director Don Hodel has said no extortion money would be paid. Victor Maltbey, 57, 2624 Elmwood Wausau, died this morning at his home.

Funeral services will take place at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Wesley United Methodist Church, Wausau, with the Rev. Jerome Nagler officiating. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m.

Sunday at Helke West Chapel, Wausau. Mr. Maltbey, who had worked for Sneider Dairy Wausau, was born Feb. 17, 1917, in Shawano, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Alonzo Maltbey. On April 24, 1937, he was married in Wausau to the former Miss Dorothy Joss, who survives. The three daughters who also survive are: Mrs. Robert rt McCabe, 1304 Pansy Lane, Wausau; Mrs. Marvin Schael, 320 Moreland Schofield; and Mrs.

Richard Pingel, Appleton. The two sons who survive are Timothy, N. Fifth Wausau, and Thomas, at home. One sister, Mrs. Raymond Schuster, Shawano, also survives, as do five brothers: Harold, 281 Grand Schofield; Eugene, George, Clifford, all of Shawano; and Alonzo, Clintonville.

Twelve grandchildren also survive. Carl O. Schieb Funeral services were held today for Carl O. Schieb, 68, Minocqua, who died Wednesday afternoon at his home. Services began at 11 a.m.

at the Bolger Funeral Home, Minocqua, with the Rev. Eugene Koch from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Woodruff. Mr. Schieb was born June 7, 1906, in Chicago, shortly after which the family moved to Merrill.

On June 11, 1929, he married Viola Taylor, who survives. Mr. Schieb was employed by the Wisconsin Public Service for 25 years, after which he opened an accounting and income tax preparation office in Minocqua. Survivors, besides his wife, include his mother, Mrs. Charles J.

Schieb, Antigo; three daughters, Mrs. E. Marsolek, Milwaukee, Mrs. Neil White, Cudahy, and Mrs. John Paulson, Sun Prairie; a son, Charles, Minocqua; a brother, Martin, Antigo; and 12 grandchildren.

Otto W. Berndt Funeral services for Otto W. Berndt, 86, 606 E. Third Merrill, who died Thursday morning, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Schram Buettner Funeral Home in Merrill.

The Rev. John Eldred, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Merrill, will officiate and burial will be in Merrill Memorial Park. Friends may call now at the funeral home. Mr. Berndt was born Dec.

7, 1887, in Milwaukee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Berndt. He was married in Milwaukee April 15, 1916, to Minnie Schumacher, who survives. Mr.

Berndt was employed as a machinist at International plant here 50 miles north of Los Angeles. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger and Air Force Secretary John L. McLucas will speak. The four-year-old B1 program has so far cost $1.6 billion.

By 1983 two years before the last of 247 planes, including three prototypes, are scheduled to be built the cost is expected to reach $18.6 billion, or about $76 million per plane. That's $7.4 billion higher than estimated in 1970. Congressional critics, stunned by the dramatic hike which the Air Force attributes mostly to inflation, will be watching the flight tests in December with a "this had better be good" attitude. The Pentagon will make a decision by November 1976 on whether to put the B1 into production. "The flight tests will be absolutely crucial to the fate of the program, and very quickly," says a high Air Force official.

Air Force officials bewail the escalating costs. "Inflation I have no control over," Maj. Gen. Abner B. Martin, B1 program director, told an interviewer.

"The unfortunate aspect is that we are measuring future costs of the B1 in terms of today's references, quoting costs for the 1980s which are based on an escalation factor." The B1 is intended to replace, in the early 1980s, the fleet of aging B52s which form one arm of the U. S. Triad defense (land-based missiles, submarine-launched missiles and manned bombers). B52s are now more than 20 years old. Madison newspaper endorses Lucey MADISON, Wis.

(AP) The Wisconsin State Journal, which had traditionally supported Republican candidates, today endorsed Gov. Patrick Lucey and his fellow Democrat Sen. Gaylord Nelson for re-election. The newspaper supported Republican Jack Olson in his 1970 race against Lucey, and endorsed the Republican candidates in the last two U.S. Senate elections in Wisconsin-Jerris Leonard against Nelson in 1968 and John Erickson against Sen.

William Proxmire in 1970. William Dyke, the former Madison mayor who is Lucey's Republican opponent this year, had the State Journal's endorsement for re-election as mayor when he lost to Paul Soglin last year. The newspaper said Dyke, "hampered by restricted campaign funds and plagued with organizational problems," was not able to mount a significant attack on Lucey's "impressive first term record." The State Journal said State Sen. Thomas Petri, running against Nelson, could be one of the Republican party stars of the future, but said it could find "no overriding reason to oppose Nelson in his bid for re-election." Earlier this week, the Milwaukee Sentinel, which had also traditionally supported Republican candidates for statewide offices, endorsed Lucey for governor, but favored Petri in the Senate race. Brainard-Gerlach-McCunn FUNERAL HOME 522 ADAMS STREET WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 54401 HELKE EAST CHAPEL Midtown 413 Jefferson St.

GUST, Irene Services Saturday, 1:30 P.M. at Helke East Chapel. Now in state at Helke East Chapel. Our 100th Year 1874 1974 HELKE WEST CHAPEL N. 3rd Ave.

at Spruce Street CONNOR, Richard M. Sr. Memorial Services Monday 4:00 P.M. at the New Grade School Gym, Laona, Wisconsin. No Visitation.

MALTBEY, Victor Services Monday, 1:30 P.M. at Wesley United Methodist Church. Friends may call after 3:00 P.M. Sunday at Helke West Chapel and after 10:30 A.M. Monday at the church.

FORMERLY RITTER DEUTSCH PHONE 845-5525.