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Journal Times, Saturday, January 6, 1990 Racine, Wis. Cit Racine County Broken hip sidelines Thomsen Longtime Racine Unified School District board member Bernice Thomsen has been hospitalized with a broken hip since New Year's Eve, when she slipped on a rug. Thomsen, who is at St. Luke's Hospital, said doctors have said she will remain in the hospital for one to two months, depending on how quickly her hip heals. And while that means Thomsen will be absent from school board meetings, she said she plans to continue participating in school business.

"They won't get me down like that," Thomsen said. 'They are going to bring my (board information) packets right up Mary McAvoy Flynn dies Mary McAvoy Flynn, wife of former U.S. Rep. Gerald T. Flynn and mother of Racine County Judge Dennis J.

Flynn, died Friday at St. Mary's Medical Center. She was 77. Flynn was active in Democratic Party politics and served many years on the Board of Directors of the Racine Democratic Party. Prior to her marriage in 1938, Flynn had been a teacher in the Racine public school system.

Her husband served in Congress from 1958 to 1960. Survivors include her husband, Gerald; a daughter, Ellen Kozich; two sons, Dennis and Gerald R. and two sisters, Ellen Fliss and Jane Johnson. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Agnes M. Knodel, in June 1988.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m., Monday, at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1100 Erie Street. Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the MareshMeredith Funeral Home.

Knife-wielding man robs store A man who displayed a knife to a store clerk robbed a Mount Pleasant food store Friday night, taking a small amount of cash from the register. The man entered the Juarez Food Market store, at 2135 Racine around 9:40 p.m., showed the clerk the knife and then ordered her to open the cash register, police said. After the clerk opened the register, she stepped back and the man grabbed about $40 in cash. The clerk ran to the back room and did not see the suspect leave, but it was thought that he fled on foot, police said. Second 'Tea and Symphony' set The Racine Symphony Orchestra has added a second "Tea and Symphony" concert at 8 p.m., Feb.

3 in the Racine on the Lake Festival Hall. The concert was added because ticket sales were going so well for the original concert, to be at 2 p.m., Feb. 4, a symphony spokesman said. Patrons will be seated at round tables of 10. They will be able to purchase tea, coffee and pastries.

Tickets can be obtained by calling the symphony's office at 636- 9285 and at Heritage Bank Trust, Bank of Racine and Bank One Racine starting Jan. 23. Advance tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for children. Tickets at the door will be $10 and $7. Children under 12 will be admitted free, when accompanied by an adult.

Season ticket holders can exchange their Sunday afternoon tickets for the Saturday afternoon performance by calling the symphony office, the spokesman said. Great Lakes forum scheduled The public is invited to a forum on the Great Lakes from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Racine Labor Center, 2100 Layard Ave. The forum is sponsored by Great Lakes United.

Playboy twins plead innocent MILWAUKEE (AP) Twins Lynette Harris and Leigh Ann Conley pleaded innocent Friday to federal charges that they evaded taxes on about $1 million they allegedly received in return for sexual favors from an elderly businessman. They were allowed to remain free without cash bail, but Magistrate Aaron E. Goodstein ordered the two to report to the federal probation and parole office here biweekly and to submit to any urine tests the office requires. A bail review report not made public but discussed in open court indicated that Harris and Conley have had drinking problems. The twins are models who have appeared in Playboy magazine.

Alcohol use monitored The report urged weekly courtordered urine tests for the sisters, but Goodstein left urine tests to the discretion of the probation and parole office and ordered Harris and Conley to refrain from excessive drinking. He allowed them to remain free on $20,000 recognizance bonds, which do not require them to post cash or capital assets. A jury trial is scheduled to begin March 5 before Federal Judge Thomas J. Curran. Conley and Harris, 35, allegedly did not pay taxes on money they received from the late Shorewood businessman David Kritzik.

Harris claims she was the elderly millionaire's mistress and that the Garber resigns United Way post By Katherine Esposito Journal Times John H. Garber III ruled out a challenge to the Racine Area United Way board by resigning Friday as executive director in a three-paragraph letter. Garber, 37, was suspended by the board and asked to resign Dec. 20 after Board President Ronald Halvorsen accused Garber of professional improprieties, including altering board minutes, violating the confidentiality of an allocations panel and offering extra office space to a United Way tenant. Garber has denied the charges.

He said Friday that he had asked for a written copy of the charges and for a transcript of a taped session with a committee investigating the allegations, but he received neither. In his letter of resignation, Garber said the polarized condition of the United Way board ates a situation in which it is impossible for United Way and its executive director to tion effectively. "Given the existing situation, it is in my interest for me to resign," he wrote. Before coming to Racine, Garber had for two other United Way agencies one in ginia, the other in Ohio. He had served on United Way national advisory committees had attended 11 courses from the United academy.

the terms of an agreement with board, Garber will receive full salary and fits until March 31 and a $5,000 allowance for search and relocation expenses. Garber had been paid $52,000 a year. Garber said he decided not to fight for his because the board was too divided to him. Funeral services held for slain nun MILWAUKEE (AP) Mourners said farewell Friday to a nun killed in a Nicaraguan ambush, saying her life was forfeited to violence in a world that needs peacemakers. Nearly 300 friends and family members attended a memorial service for Sister Maureen Courtney at the slain nun's home church.

They wept as a coffin draped in red roses was borne between two rows of women parishoners. Sister Courtney, 45, a Milwaukee native, and Sister Teresa Rosales, 24, of Nicaragua, were killed Monday, evening when their assailants pickup truck was attacked by in northeastern Nicaragua. Fond du Lac order The nuns were members of the Fond du Lac-based Sisters of St. Agnes. Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Schmitz of Bluefields, Nicaragua, a native of Fond du Lac, and Sister Francisca Colomer, 24, of Nicaragua were wounded in the attack.

Sister Courtney's body flown to the United States Thursday night. Another service was planned Friday evening in Fond du Lac, about 50 miles north of Milwaukee. The Rev. Tom Wittliff, a Roman Catholic priest and family friend, told mourners in Milwaukee that Sister Courtney was a victim whose sacrifice would become a eucharist for others. Inmate admits to scam money she got from him was a gift, Kritzik's son, Stanley.

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On' work release while serving a federal mail fraud sentence, Michael Klopf masterminded a scheme that bilked business executives in Wisconsin and two other states out of nearly $37,000, according to court documents. Thursday, he pleaded guilty in Palm Beach County Circuit Court to the new fraud charges and received 32 months in prison and five years probation. "I can't believe that he could get away with it," said Jim Pappas, president of trucking company in City, Ill. "I'm out $5,000, so how can I be happy about the sentence?" The work-release assignment in West Palm Beach was a privilege for Klopf, 30, who was serving time in a federal prison after a 1987 mail fraud conviction in Chicago. Klopf, working at a Salvation Army halfway house, advertised around the nation offering help to companies in need of leasing heavy equipment.

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"crethe func- best worked Virthree and Way the benejob job support "I think the situation has gone too far now for me to be able to work with it anymore," Garber said. He also has ruled out asking to address the full board in his defense, he said, because he considers the matter to be "a moot issue." Garber said he has talked with executives of United Way of America, Racine's parent agency based in Alexandria, about finding a new job with another United Way agency. He has not received an offer, he said. Ronald Halvorsen, board president, said a search committee will be formed soon to find a successor to Garber. Finding that successor through a national search might be tricky, Garber said.

"If I were coming in and saw what happened here in Racine, I'd think twice' I'd think a lot more than twice about taking on that posi- "On that road in Nicaragua, whatever traps were set, whatever shots were shot, the spirit of Christ was being Wittliff said. "The world has enough of the military, it has enough clowns. What the world needs now is people who will give." Peacemakers Sister Jean Salchert, a member of the order, prayed: "Give us the courage to put our life on the line. Where there is war and violence, may we be peacemakers." Two protesters carried signs outside. One said, "Stop the bloodshed and Contra aid." Another read: "Contra Aid, Murder by Proxy." Sisters of St.

Agnes in Nicaragua said evidence at the scene implicates Contra rebels in the ambush. Group investigates blamed the ambush on Contras for the Sister Sharon Polinowcsa hugs Frances Courtney of Milalthough a spokesman rebels on Wednesday denied any waukee, following funeral services for Frances' daughter, involvement in the killings. Sister Maureen Courtney, who was killed in Nicaragua. WRJN AM Country 92. WHKO' presents the 1990 1st ANNUAL Bridal EXTRAVAGANZA THE FASHION EVENT OF THE YEAR January 6th and 7th Festival Park Racine FREE 11:00 AM 8:00 PM ADMISSION SATURDAY PM PM 11:00 PM 8:00 you Special Day, form Worlds largest formalwear renter Sister Collette Hartman, Sister Courtney's friend, said members of International Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights were in Nicaragua Thursday to investigate the ambush.

Sister Hartman said she expected more definite information from the human rights investigators Friday. The Nicaraguan government has Associated Press Waugh and thus was not reportable as income. She has said her sister received cash gifts from Kritzik to compensate her for lost The twins had appeared in two films together, but Harris says their joint movie careers were sidelined by her seven full-time relationship with Kritzik, who died last June at the age of 89. Harris and Conley also have modeled -together. Payment, not gifts The government charges that the money, which ranged from $60,000 to $257,000 per year from 1984 to 1987, represented direct payments for services and could not be construed as gifts.

Harris, formerly of Arlington, Texas, and now of Mukwonago, is charged with two counts of tax evasion and two counts of failure to file federal income tax returns. If convicted, she could face a maximum prison sentence of 12 years and fines totaling $625,000. Suits filed Conley, of the Milwaukee suburb of Glendale, is charged with four counts of failure to file income taxes. She could be sentenced to as many as four years and fined as much as $325,000 if convicted on the charges. Harris, who was not.

"named in Kritzik's will, has filed a $5 million claim in Probate Court against his estate. She also has filed a slander suit in Federal Court against.