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115 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 1 988 LINCOLN. NE. JOURNAL fJEBHASKA Anton slayinj Legislative role not seen in dispute over Guard mystifies Lyons' County attorney won't discuss leads 1 From News Wires 1 wf fs lllllila zzi moved Anton into an apartment (in Lyons. Anton apparently had little money and received food stamps. In November, townspeople discovered she could not afford to heat her apartment and was bundling herself in an electric blanket 'I Townspeople obtained fuel assistance and nailed plastic sheets over Anion's apartment windows to keep out the cold.

Townspeople said Anton had told them she was raised by grandparents and was married and divorced. Didn't know anyone Anton apparently knew few people; in town and indicated that only a nun in the Spirit Lake, Iowa, area knew she had moved to Lyons, townspeople said. The nun apparently collected her mail from Anton's former home and sent a bundle occasionally, they said Over the weeks, Anton talked about taking law enforcement training at a school in Winnebago in January. "She was going after drug users, drug pushers, those druggies," a friend said The Rev. Roman Ulrich, pastor of St Joseph's Catholic Church in Lyons, which Anton attended, said "she was sort of a mystery." Ulrich said Anton seemed "quite religious." He said that parishioners look care of her needs when she first came to town.

Kay Appleby, editor of the Lyons Mirror-Sun, said the incident has sparked many rumors but she said residents don't fear for their safety. "I don't feel people are Appleby said "They feel bad about the Anna M. Anton, 34, of Lyons was alive for 11 of the 12 days between her disappearance in Lyons and the discovery of her nude body in a field 20 miles away, said Thurston County Attorney Stuart Mills. "She was either alone, with someone voluntarily or was held captive," Mills said "We dont know what is the scenario." Anton's body was found Saturday in a field near WalthilL Anton had not been seen in Lyons since Dec. 15 and was reported missing Dec.

23. Authorities think she was murdered elsewhere and her body left in the field. Mills said Anton was shot at least three times in the torso with a small-caliber weapon, probably a pistol. autopsy performed Monday by the Douglas County Coroner's office said Anton died of a gun shot wound to her side. "We have some leads, but I'm not going to discuss them," Mills said Mills is asking anyone who saw Anton after Dec.

15 to notify authorities. Mills said he did not think the body had been in the field more than several days. He said he did not know whether she had been sexually molested. Lyons, where the woman had lived for about eight weeks, is in Burt County; the body was found in Thurston County on Winnebago Indian Reservation land Mystery Anton was a mystery to Lyons residents, some said About Oct. 1, unidentified people GAIL FOLOAUNCOLN JOURNAL Copy desk chief Jim Tlsche smiles for the camera the day before his last in the slot.

Mister Tische calls it 30 (what else?) as chief of the Journal's copy desk Penitentiary finds all present after report of possible escape Sen. David Landis of Lincoln, chairman of the Legislature's Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, said he doesnt envision the Legislature becoming involved in the question of whether Nebraska National Guard troops should train in Central America. "I don't see a legislative role at all," Landis said in response to an Associated Press story about Illinois state lawmaker Ellis Levin, who said that he will introduce legislation to stop Illinois Guard troops from being sent to Honduras. "I see the governor as spokesperson for the state in this situation," Landis said. "The governor has the traditional role as state commander in chief." Levin said Tuesday that a planned military exercise in Honduras that involves 4,500 National Guardsmen, 36 of them from Illinois, is an attempt by the Reagan administration to use state troops in support of U.S.-backed Nicara-guan rebels, AP reported The Illinois troops will join Guardsmen from Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico in constructing a 5.5-kilometer road for civilian use, said Maj.

Robert Amett, a spokesman for the Illinois National Guard. The Lincoln Journal last week was told by a source that 53 members of the Nebraska Air National Guard's 155th Civil Engineering Squadron are preparing for training duty in Honduras in April Nebraska Attorney General Robert Spire subsequently said that he will take legal steps to block that action by the Pentagon. Gov. Bob Kerrey had thwarted a Washington request to use part of the engineering squadron in Central America, but a November change in federal law shifted most authority over Guard training assignments from the nation's governors to the Pentagon. In Illinois, meanwhile, Levin has asserted that the purpose behind the use of National Guard troops in Honduras "is very much in line with the Contra-Iranian situation to get around the Congress and to get around scrutiny by the American people.

The states ought to have a say." Sutherland to join sherif Ts staff in Gage County BEATRICE (AP) Outgoing Cherry County Sheriff Tim C. Sutherland will become chief deputy of the Gage County sheriffs department when Sheriff-elect Jerry DeWitt takes office. DeWitt also said Tuesday that Cherry County Deputy Jack L. Bachelor and farmer Burt Searcey of Liberty will join his staff as deputies. County supervisors approved a contract with DeWitt's wife, Sondra, who will replace Kathy Henderson as food service manager for the County Jail Mrs.

Henderson is the wife of Sheriff Ted Henderson, whom DeWitt defeated in the November election. Henderson is joining the Lincoln County sherif Fs department at North Platte as a deputy. Sutherland lost to Melvin Christensen in the Cherry County sheriffs election in November. Cozad man alleges violation of privacy in suit against police Kenneth L. Smith of Cozad has filed an $80,000 damage suit in U.S.

District By Dick Piersol Journal Business Editor During the Second World War, the Slot was a place in the South Pacific where a lot of ships ran the gantlet The slot at a newspaper is a lot like that. It's where a copy desk chief comes under the gun. It's the maelstrom where Jim Tische did his duty day after day through the frenzy of something like 3,000 daily and Sunday editions. "They should award you a few battle stars around here," said the man known affectionately as Mister Tische. He officially retired Wednesday, surrendering his pica pole after more than 30 years of daily journalism.

"I should be crazy by now," he said He could be, but he isn't In the most demanding of jobs in this business, when it hit the fan, Tische was as likely as not to break into a verse or two of a nutty old song with lyrics about Uncle Fud and the Mississippi mud Every day, he made up the front page, helped decide what belonged there, took care of photographs, divvied up fast-breaking copy among a crew of editors, waited patiently for reporters whose sense of urgency was somewhere else and humored the boss. He also did a hundred other things that would take a personally guided tour to explain. Last word He usually had the last word, too, and a kind word for a discouraged beginner, and a patient silence for write for Outdoor Nebraska, the predecessor of Nebraskaland magazine. In 1961 he returned to the Journal and has been on the copy desk ever since. It's unlike any other desk job you ever saw.

For example, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded, the whole Journal newspaper was made over in a couple of hours. When President Reagan was shot one early afternoon, Tische remade the front page four times. "I guess the old adrenaline gets flowing so fast you don't realize till later what's happened, and then you're just drained," he said. Ship's reunion Hell putter around the house for a while this winter, then start several months of traveling: to a place where 4-pound rainbow trout are the only disturbance, to a ship's reunion in the East He also plans to free-lance some outdoor stories. He says he'll miss the newsroom.

"I don't know that I'll miss the day-to-day pressure, but IH miss the people. They're all so different It's just an interesting place to be." So now he's got time, something there's always too little of in the slot And he'll go back to the outdoor places that are everything the slot isn't: soothing and uncongested. And he'll hear the voices of wilder life than the newsroom loons. Goodbye, Mister Tische. Well miss you, too.

some of the lunatics who work at a daily newspaper. Occasionally such as when an assistant managing editor brought him 19 column inches of "bulletin" five minutes after deadline he could be a pretty rough nugget "Do you think anybody has as much fun putting out a product as we do?" he asked. "It's pretty enjoyable. Would you want to go back to an 8 to 5 job? Every day's different I think maybe that's what brings people into this business and holds 'em here." Born 62 years ago, a son of the Cherry County community of Wood Lake, Tische describes himself as "a real hayseed" His dad was a country doctor, but Tische's own vocational interests ran to sportswriting. He wrote for the Wood Lake Stockman newspaper as a high school kid, then went to war on the aircraft carrier Langley.

He behaved as you might expect a sailor to act NU graduate He attended Midland College for a year and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1950. In 1954 he married Pat Guyette in Mitchell; not only are they still married, they're fishing buddies. They live at 518 Skyway Road and have three children: Roxanna Miller and Denise, both of Lincoln; and Kirk, a Sandhills cowboy. Tische first worked for the Lincoln Journal as a police reporter; wrote sports at Scottsbluff lived for a while in Kankakee, ILL, where he worked sports and the city; then returned to Grammer said Apparently, he was dressed in khaki trousers and a dark green or black coat, similar to the garb worn by inmates within the maximum-security prison. Officials still are searching for convicted murderer Patrick Lynch, who apparently climbed two fences topped with razor-sharp wire without setting off any alarms to get away Dec.

4. Tuesday's incident was the second such report to occur during Crammer's 20 months as penitentiary warden, he said Several months ago, an employee spotted someone he recognized as an inmate outside the penitentiary. A head count was ordered and all inmates were accounted for. It turned out that the man the employee spotted had recently been released Nebraska State Penitentiary officials counted heads but nobody turned up missing after a passer-by reported a possible escape Tuesday afternoon. Warden Gary Grammer said an Ashland man traveling along U.S.

77 spotted a man dressed like an inmate walking along the highway about half a mile south of the penitentiary. The man started running as the motorist approached, prompting the motorist to suspect the man was an escapee and alert the penitentiary, Grammer said All inmates were sent to their cells to be counted at 2:25 p.m., Grammer said All of the penitentiary's 651 inmates were accounted for. Although a team of correctional officers and officers from, the Nebraska State Patrol and Lincoln Police Department were dispatched, the individual spotted by the motorist was not found, Continental Express ordered to continue Nebraska service State Canada goose population doubles GERING (AP) The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered Continental Express, formerly Rocky Mountain Airlines, to continue serving Grand Island North Platte and Scottsbluff through Jan. 20.

At the Scotts Bluff County Board's meeting this week, Commissioner Bill Peters said the department's essential air service office issued the order last week. Continental Express intended to suspend its service at Grand Island and reduce service at North Platte and Scottsbluff below essential air service levels by eliminating service from both points to Lincoln and Omaha on Aug. 31. The DOT since has been renewing 30-day orders requiring Continental Ex press to maintain essential service to the communities. Peters said the DOT requires Continental Express to maintain service at the three cities through Jan.

20 or until a replacement carrier is established According to the latest order, the DOT solicited proposals to provide essential air service in the markets from Grand Island to Denver, North Platte to Omaha and Scottsbluff to Omaha to Lin-cola GP Express Airlines of Grand Island proposed serving the three markets with a federal subsidy and AAA Airhnes (Midcontinent Airlines) proposed serving the North Platte-Omaha market without subsidy. Mid-December surveys of the Canada goose population put the number of birds were wintering in the flyway that parallels the Platte River system at 115,000, Gabig said About 10,000 geese were counted around North Platte. For the past two months the geese frequently have blanketed the Cody Park pond or the North Platte Country Club golf course. Two other concentrations stay near Sutherland Reservoir and on a private Interstate 80 lake six miles west of North Platte, Lyman said "There's no question, obviously, that we have more geese," Gabig said. NORTH PLATTE (AP) Nebraska's Canada goose population has more than doubled this year, with a portion of the migrating flock wintering in the North Platte area, state wildlife officials say.

About 115,000 geese were counted this year, compared with 49,000 last year and a record 54,000 in 1984, said Joe Gabig, waterfowl biologist with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Mild weather and an abundant food supply are keeping Nebraska's wild population at an all-time high, said Gabig and Nick Lyman, who works at the North Platte Game and Parks Commission office. Many are between North Platte and Ehders and the Harlan County Reservoir and Kearney, he said Lyman's aerial count tallied about 95,000 geese in that area. Lyman and Gabig are on a three-member team counting geese in Nebraska during the winter. In January an aerial count of the entire wintering waterfowl population will be conducted Gabig attributes much of Nebraska's goose increase to a 1983 migration during a severely cold winter.

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