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A 10 The Sioux City Journal, Thursday, January 8, 1987 LiteM dy ion lit By Paula Damon Journal correspondent "ELK POINT, S.D. One year ago today, the Elk Point community was stunned by the tragic deaths of the Bruce Litchfield family. On the morning of Jan. 8, 1986, Litchfield, supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration office at Elk Point took the lives of his wife, Laura, 42, and children, Christine, 13, and Allan, 9, before fatally wounding himself. Emerging from what generally is considered to be Elk Point's most violent tragedy is a more viable community, according to the Rev.

Donald Greenough, pastor of the Elk Point United Parish. "There has been an attitudinal change within the community," Greenough said. "There is a feeling among the people that we want to work together, that we want to do more socially and spiritually." The tragedy set the community's agenda for the first three months of 1986, Greenough countinued. A crisis committee was formed in late January of last year to assist the community in dealing with the shock of the deaths. Community leaders along with the Elk Point Ministerial Association held a meeting and agreed to use the James Dobson film series, "Focus on the Family," as a community Lenten study.

A workshop about communication within the family was sponsored by the school for students and adults. A picnic in the park last summer, a "Unity" service in November and another one planned for Jan. 18, all display the town's "need for togetherness and its concern about reaching out to one another," Greenough said. Since September, the Elk Point School has held three workshops for students and adults "dealing with feelings, self concepts and taking risks in communicating," explained Steve Griffith, school guidance counselor. The workshops are an attempt to heighten the awareness "of some of the decisions students and families have to make and some of the problems they encounter from day to day' Griffith said.

At the request of community leaders and church groups, Marcene Moran, director of mental health services at Marian Health Center in Sioux City, conducted discussions dealing with ways people in a community can support each other and detect signs of serious levels of stress. Praising the city for the manner in which it responded to the tragedy, Moran said, "What I saw with my visits there was a real cohesiveness that really doesn't usually happen in communities experiencing similar tragedies." Hurt and puzzled by the triple murder and suicide, Elk Point residents took a hard look at themselves and how they relate to one another. Many people wondered whether this tragedy could have been prevented. "They (Elk Point residents) couldn't have prevented it," Moran said. "If he (Bruce Litchfield) had asked for help, maybe," she continued.

Signs of Bruce Litchfield's stress "were not recognizable to the lay person and sometimes not even to professionals," Moran explained. She said Litchfield's symptoms of stress were probably hidden. When asked whether Elk Point has changed as a result of the tragedy. Mayor Mike Fokken said, "This community did change. People pay more attention to each other.

We are a more open community." Although praising the community and the school for their efforts in handling reactions to the crisis, Elk Point businessman John Curry said, "The incident impounded this city. I'm still not over it yet." Immediately following the tragedy, the Litchfield Memorial Fund was established by relatives of the deceased family to help support activities and projects dealing with family-related stress. "The contents of the Litchfield home were given to the United Parish which netted approximately $2,000 from their sale. The interest earned from that amount is used to support crisis committee projects. irage PODGlt Kerry says leaving office to become 'more humble' I 'id If serve in a way that enabled me to be a bit more humble.

And it's not an easy thing to do when you're a politician." Kerrey, a Democrat, said he doesn't regret his decision to leave office after one term. "I've got some mixed feelings have since the first day but no regrets." The governor said he'll miss "the opportunity to be able to speak about things that I care about and work for things that I care about." Kerrey said he'll stay in politics and will be surprised if he doesn't become a candidate for office again. "I really don't have any particular office that I've got in mind that I'm going to run for," he said. At the news conference, Kerrey said he'll return as chairman of the board of Grandmother's Corp. and will work to expand his restaurant chain in Nebraska and other states.

He also will re-establish his partnership in Kerrey Holdings, based in Lincoln which features three or four businesses. Kerrey said he also will teach a class on the Vietnam War at the University of California at Santa Barbara and will teach an American government class for a five weeks next semester at Omaha Central High School. The governor said he hopes to live in Lincoln, but hasn't found a house yet. He said his belongings have been put in storage and he will stay with his brother until he can find a house. imJL II III 1 1 tat Jjm Gov.

Bob Kerrey holds a cake given him by members of the media. (AP Laserphoto.) "I expect it will be something that will benefit the state of Nebraska through employment, and I expect that it will be something that will benefit me as well," he said. Earlier Wednesday, Kerrey told a national television audience he isn't burned out. "(I've) got a bit more fire today than when I started," he said on NBC's "Today" show. "I had to try to find some way to Ml be toUAViw Lj Callers threatened bombs at seven San Juan made at a hospital treating injured in the fire, sites Wednesday in the aftermath of the Du- Three hundred people evacuated the hospital, pont Plaza Hotel fire.

One of the threats was No bomb was found. (AP Laserphoto.) Bomb threats force evacuation of inn, hospital in San Juan group to purchase Bank and Trust SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Bomb threats Wednesday forced evacuation of hundreds of people from a hospital treating hotel fire survivors and an inn where officials of the ruined Dupont Plaza Hotel had set up a temporary office. Seven sites in all were threatened but no bombs were found, and police said they found no connection between the threats and the hotel fire. One building threatened was this U.S. commonwealth's Department of Justice.

The department is coordinating the investigation into the New Year's Eve blaze that killed 96 people and injured more than 140 at the 22-story, 439-room Dupont Plaza, a fire officially termed arson. Justice Department workers stayed put, but at the Industrial Accidents Hospital, a few miles from downtown San Juan, about 300 people, including patients, doctors and nurses, were evacuated for about three hours. Among six Dupont Plaza survivors evacuated was Kenneth Nuevo, a store-Warehouse in Carolina, the city hall in Trujillo Alto, and the metropolitan bus headquarters in Rio Piedras, all San Juan suburbs. "It was no big deal," said Frank Ramos, managing editor of the San Juan Star. "Somebody called the operator downstairs and said there was a bomb in the building.

Just as a precaution, we evacuated the premises and police searched the building." He said he had no idea if the bomb threat was linked with the hotel fire or the English language newspaper's coverage of the investigation. "The person who called didn't make any link," he said. Meanwhile, investigators reviewed evidence taken from witnesses and found in the hotel rubble, trying to determine how the fire started, how it spread, and who set it. Laboratory analysis of evidence by the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohdl, Tobacco and Firearms was expected to be completed this week.

erected a new building at 4301 Sergeant Road' in 1981. Morningside State Bank had been in existence in Morningside since it was founded in 1912. After last year's announcement that the parent company was going to sell off some of its properties, Hawkeye Bank and Trust closed its real estate and mortgage operations, sold its insurance business and moved out of the new building. It is now operating out of the building on Morningside Avenue that has been in use since it was built in 1964. The Sergeant Road facility, which has leased office space on the second floor, is not involved in the purchase and will remain under the ownership of Iowa Bancorporation, Johnston said.

He said no management changes are planned until the transfer of ownership has been approved. At that LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Gov. Bob Kerrey said Wednesday he's leaving office partly to become "a bit more -humble" and will become a partner in a New Jersey-based investment banking company. Kerrey, whose term ends today, said he also will re-establish his business ventures that were put in trust about three years ago and will 1 teach at Omaha Central High School and on the West Coast.

At a news conference, Kerrey said he felt gratitude for the opportunity to serve as governor. He has enjoyed a high popularity rating throughout his four-year tenure. "I am more in love with the people of Nebraska than I was when I started," Kerrey said. "I intend to stay here in the state of Nebraska, hope to grow, hope to stay happy and hope to be able to always say mat I've given as much as I've taken out of this great state." Kerrey said he'll become a partner in the investment banking firm of Printon, Kane in Short Hills, N.J., to-satisfy his interest in public finance. The investment company wants to expand in the western part of the United States, and already has opened an office in Lincoln.

Former Kerrey aides Don Nelson and Cathy Danahay will work in the Lincoln office, the governor said. "I see it as an opportunity for me to explore an area of interest that I have, which is public finance, and see if the interest can be translated into skills," Kerrey said. Papillion Hawkeye Hawkeye Bancorporation has signed an agreement to sell its Sioux City bank to a group of Papillion, Neb. investors, it was announced Wednesday. The announcement of the proposed sale of the Hawkeye Bank and Trust 1901 Morningside was made by one of the purchasers, Baryle Johnston of Papillion.

Johnston, who represents a group of five investors in the Papillion area, said the agreement was signed last week, but is subject to approval by federal regulatory authorities. It could take 60 to 90 days before the sale becomes final, he said. Hawkeye Bancorporation, one of the largest banking organizations in Iowa, announced last year that it was selling off 17 of its Iowa banks because of financial difficulties. Hawkeye acquired the former Morningside State Bank in 1977 and protection. Following Anna's disappearance, it was reported that Greg took care of the dogs for a few days.

They have since been removed to an animal control operation. About a month before she disappeared, Anna delivered an envelope to her neighbors to be given to a close friend "in case of my death." Ray and Shirley Edgecomb, neighbors and friends of Anna's, said she never indicated to them, that she was afraid for her life. Harris, who knew Greg through law enforcement work, said the man had an interest in guns that was "kind of hard to explain." "He was interested in guns like I'm interested in guns. It's part of my business and it's part of his business too," he said, adding that Greg was a gun collector and had owned many different guns over the years. apartments And although Thurston County Attorney Stuart Mills said Anton had been dead less than 24 hours after her body was found, Mock would not give an opinion on time and date of death.

"I do not have the results of the autopsy, nor of the toxicology tests being conducted by the state," Mock said. Autopsy results reported by The Associated Press late Wednesday confirmed Anton died of a small caliber gunshot wound to the side. Mock admitted that Webb was known to have a cache of weapons at the duplex, and said those weapons were not found when Webb's apartment was searched. As to reports that Webb had the weapons including a machine gun and explosives when he left Lyons Dec. 30, Mock said "I think we are hearing a great deal of media Johnson, 61, of Winthrop, listed in critical condition with burns over 50 percent of his body.

Johnson was put in an ambulance. Other patients were tranferred to University Hospital in the same state medical complex or rested outside in wheelchairs or on stretchers. "This is preventive medicine. I don't want to bury anybody else," said Health Secretary Luis Iz-quierdo Mora, who has worked for the last week with relatives of those killed in the fire on this Caribbean island. He blamed the morning bomb threat at the hospital on a mentally disturbed person.

Dora Ramirez, telephone tor at the Dutch Inn, said police searched every floor before letting people return. The first floor, one block from charred, beachfront Dupont Plaza in the Condado tourist district, has been the operations center for Dupont- Plaza management and the FBI since the fire. Other telephoned bomb threats were received by the San Juan Star newspaper office in Puerto about that to me," Hively said. Greg's parents were Randall (believed to be deceased) and Gladys Webb, both instructors in the Sioux City School system. Gladys Webb, when contacted by The Journal, refused to comment about her son.

A news article written about Greg when he joined the Lyons police department in July 1977 states he previously worked on the Oakland police force for about a year, later worked as a Burt County Sheriff's deputy, and had recently spent 10 weeks in Africa. When he moved to Lyons, Greg was i married, but he and his wife, Karen, have since divorced and she has remarried and lives in formanv friends said. Most recently, Greg had been dating Linda Wells, who formerly lived in the apartment occupied by Anna, but now resides in nearby Webb former African mercenary Assassins fail to kill ex-head of Lebanon time a new executive officer will be put in charge of the bank, but no other changes are contemplated at the present time. Meanwhile, Larry M. Hutchinson will remain on as president.

He has held that position since coming here from Newton, Iowa, in 1981. Johnston said the bank's name likely will be changed, but that no decision has been made. He said the group he represents is in the real estate development business in Papillion and decided recently to acquire a bank as an investment. It selected the Sioux City bank from several other possibilities and had been been working on the agreement for the last few months. "We would like to assure Morningside that the bank will maintain its high quality service and remain a valuable asset to the community," he said.

The three slain bodyguards were in an escort Mercedes that took the brunt of the explosion, the police spokesman said. A pedestrian also died. A Moslem-controlled radio station in west Beirut put the death toll at six, but police discounted that figure. Five other' vehicles in the motorcade were unscathed, but 26 other cars in the immediate area were destroyed, the spokesman said. The white-haired, bespectacled Chamoun said in a steady voice over the radio, before leaving the hospital with Gemayel and being drivenhome: "This is the fourth or fifth time, that criminals have tried to assassinate me.

I believe in the Virgin Mary, whose icon I always I wear on my chest. She protects me." Police said a blue Peugeot 504. car laden with 165 pounds of explosives blew up as Chamoun's motorcade passed, en route to a meeting of the Lebanese Front, police said. The front is a coalition of rightist Christian groups involved in Lebanon's civil war, now in its 12th year. At a news conference in his east Beirut home later, Chamoun called the attempt to kill him was "an act of terrorism." He urged 1 "Western nations to do something on the ground against terrorism.

He did not accuse any faction of responsibility for the bombing. Chamoun has been an outspoken critic of Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization and pro-Ira--nian Shiite Moslem militant fac- tions. Blood found in both from page one participated in basketball and track. After high school, Anna attended Estherville Junior College and later married Tom Anton. The couple had been separated for a number of years and divorced last October, about the same time she relocated from Lake Park, Iowa, to Lyons, Neb.

The divorce, Hively said, was partially responsible for Anna's move to Lyons. "I really don't know why she picked Lyons, but I know she wanted to get away from her ex-husband and didn't want him to know where she lived. Somebody has told me since that Anna met Greg a while back at Okoboji, but she never said anything Dow nears 2,000 level NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices rose Wednesday for the fourth consecutive session, and the Dow Jones industrial average flirted with the 2,000 level in setting its third closing high in three days. The Dow Jones average of 30 blue-chip stocks rose to within about two points of the 2,000 late in the day before slipping back to close at a record 1,993.95. On the New York Stock Exchange, stocks rising in price led declining issues by a nearly 3-to-l margin.

Despite the advance, many people on Wall Street have speculated that the rally might have trouble carrying past the level. Oakland. Although Greg hasn't been heard from since Dec. 30, Wells was working at the Oakland Heights Nur sing nome earner tnis weeK. Neighbors said Anna's move to Lyons was directly linked to Greg, but said there are no indicatations they were involved romantically.

Investigators said Wednesday that they believe the pair were "more than just casual friends," but refused to elaborate. Neighbor Don Francis said, "She seemed awful fearful of her past and she told us that she had moved to Lyons because she didn't like living alone in the country (near Lake Park). We thought she moved into the apartment below Greg because, as chief of police, he would be good protection." Anna also kept three dogs two Irish setters and a mixed breed as Francis on Dec. 15 getting out of a car of a woman friend. Both women had been shopping, Francis said.

He also noticed that after Dec. three dogs had been let out periodically, and dog food had been kept in a back porch dish. Presumably, Webb had been caring for the animals, a point confirmed in part by the county attorney He also said Webb knew Anton before she moved to Lyons, and "at some time they were more than casual friends." He said Wednesday that state crime laboratories had done tests on blood found in both apartments of the duplex. He said he had theories about where Anton was held between Dec. 15 and Dec.

27, when her body was found in a Thurston County farm field. However, Mock would not divulge the theories. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Assassins wounded former President Camille Chamoun and 35 other people and killed three bodyguards and a passerby with a remote-controlled car bomb as his motorcade drove through Beirut Wednesday. Chamoun, 86, a Christian who was the architect of the first U.S. military peacekeeping mission in the Middle East and now serves as Lebanon's finance minister, suffered minor shrapnel wounds in the face and both hands, police said.

The 9:30 a.m. blast tore out a hole 6 feet deep and 14 feet wide and hurled Chamoun's gray, bullet-proof Mercedes-Benz about 60 feet off the road in the Mat-tahen industrial district of Christian east Beirut. "But it (Chamoun's car) miraculously landed on its wheels and he survived along with his driver," a police spokesman said. It was the fifth time in 19 years that assassins tried in vain to kill Chamoun, a respected political figure to whom Christian government officials and militia commanders turn for advice in times of crisis. "God is protecting us," Cha-V moun said in an interview broadcast by the Christian Voice of Lebanon radio.

He made no accusations, and no group claimed responsibility for the bombing. The station taped the interview after Chamoun left Hotel Dieu hospital, where his wounds were bandaged and where President Amin Gemayel, like Chamoun a Maronite Catholic, rushed to see him. from page one The other was driven by Webb. Piper said Tuesday she had spoken with Webb briefly on Dec. 30 just after he had directed traffic at a funeral.

She said Tuesday he had been considering some vacation time. On Wednesday, Piper said the squad car Webb had been driving had been parked in front of his house since Dec. 30. Anna Marie Miller Anton moved to Lyons from the Iowa Great Lakes area last October shortly after her divorce from Tom Anton. She moved after a friend of hers and Webb's told her Lyons was a safe, friendly place to live, and that Webb was a good man.

She was last seen by neighbor Don.