The Sunday News and Tribune from Jefferson City, Missouri • Page 2

Page 2 THE SUNDAY NEWS AND JEFFERSON, CITY, MISSOURI Sunday, Afrrll 2, 1972 ection 72 Town more interested in sauerkraut plant stink than in smell of political battle UNION GROVE, Wis, (A?) Here in small-town Wisconsin, the smell of the political battle is much less an issue than the stink from the sauerkraut factory which dumps its tanks into the lagoon every three days. Not that most of the 2,970 residents of this grain-elevator town a few miles inland from a Michigan are disinterested in Tuesday's presidential primary. "We know the election is an important event," said Earl Bruinsma, owner of the town's luncheonette. "But it is tough to relate what the candidates are saying to Union Grove." Of immediate concern to the descendants of German and Danish farmers who settled Union Grove 132 years ago is the granting of drinking privileges along with voting rights to the town's 18 year olds. "They drink during school hours," complained Harmon H.

Swantz. "I am not in favor of them going into the bars," But other residents said it keeps the kids in Union Grove and not in the teen-age bars of nearby Kcnosha City. And Bcr- nic Theigs, 18, a welder, was joyful. "The Palm Gardens sold out of beer last Friday night," he said. What about voting? "I'll exercise my right to drink," said Bernie.

"But not to vote. I'm too busy." Union Grove has been attracting small industry and is growing. New schools are required, along with a new fire house. And a new sewage-disposal system has to be built. All of these issues are figuring in the election for three-man trustee board that will bo run in conjunction with the primary on Tuesday.

The editor of the weekly Union Grove Sun, Carl Kruger, said the local election was stirring little interest. "In truth, with hog prices up and school taxes down slightly, the farm- around here are pretty contented. You measure people here by what they don't do. They are not up in arms about anything this year." Union Grove is a typical tiny Wisconsin community which has a modicum of ahea fame because it houses the Great Lakes Dragway, popular in summer with the young. The residents see the primary candidates' on their television screens.

Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey made a brief speech at the American Legion headquarters. And Sen. George S.

McGovern had some workers in. the town. "How will they vote? People here tend to vote against something rather than for it," said Kruger. And in Union Grove it is Ala- bama Gov. George C.

Wallace who is getting most of the attrition. "I will vote for Wallace even though I am a Republican," Said hardware-store owner Swantz. "I would hate to live under his presidential regime, and I'll vote for Nixon later. But Wallace did have the guts to speak out." Ray Hogan, who organized a "Citizens for Better Government" in Union Grove, also will go for Wallace, "I will vote for him just to go against the others. They had their chance.

Let a Southerner try it," he said. Donald A. Conrad, a computer technician running for a trustee post, explained, "Wallace struck a chord here with his talk of taxes. The one thing Union Grove has common with the rest of America is high taxes. Mine will be a protest vote.

I'll go lallace to show Nixon we mean business." The other issues in the campaign--such as "'the Vietnam war, law and order, busing- are so far from the reality of Union Grove that they seem virtually meaningless. As the stench from the a a factory wafted across the cool evesing, tba residents of Union Grove who had struggled to explain their indifference to the distant primary took up the issue closest to their hearts. "That damn factory is just outside the town limits," Ray Hogan said. "We can't control it. Show me the candidate who will clean up that place, and Union Grove will make him president." Acquitted chaplain remaining in Navy Mrs.

LaGarce JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Chaplain Andrew F. Jensen, acquitted by a Navy court-martial of a charge of misconduct by adultery, said Saturday his only interest now was "to put this behind me" and continue as a Navy officer. In Philadelphia, Victor Tu- pitza, director of communications for the American Baptist Convention Home Missions Society, demanded that the Navy make restitution to Jensen for 812,000 in legal fees and give assurances that such a court-martial would not happen agate. Jensen's adultery court- martial was the first of its kind in U.S.

Navy history. "There are questions which need to be raised and examined because of the severe damage to Chaplain reputation and because of the embarrassment it has caused the denomination," Tupitza said in a statement, The Sunday News and Trite MM. AND MRS. ROBERT C. OOSHORN PuWlihers 1M7-1953 and MR.

AND MRS. WILUAM H. WELDON PuBIUhers R. L. ROSE, Board Chtlrmtn ROBERT BLOSSER, PrwWenl JOSEPH 0.

MAJERSKY, Editor C. C. SWARENS, MB. Editor -Published every Sunday by ttn Newj Tribune 210 Monroa Strwt. Second- Class postage paid at Jefferson City, Mo.

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press i exclusively entitled to the use for republlcgtlon of all news credited to this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches nereln are also reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier Delivery Service In Jefferson City, Missouri 60c per week dally and Sunday 85c per week combination of rhornlng evening and Sunday. MAIL RATES (Does not Include towns with carrier delivery service.) Cole and adlolnlng counties $20.00 per year. All other within the United States 127.00 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Dial 634-3131 For All Departments A member of Congress has asked the convention whether a congressional investigation is warranted, Tupitza said, and a decision will be made next Tuesday.

Jensen is a minister first and a Navy officer second, Tupitza said, and the Navy "should first have made protocol calls to acquaint us of the charges. Representatives of all denominations will be meeting with Navy officials May 1 to decide whether men to serve as chaplains in the Navy. We are withholding our endorsement." "At this stage, I don't know what assignment the Navy will give me," Jensen said. The 43-year-old minister holds the rank of commander and was recommended for promotion to captain at the time Mary Ann Curran, 24, and lora Gudbranson, 38, signed complaints against him Aug. il, 1971.

Mrs. Curran--pretty wife of a tall, handsome Navy flier- detailed 17 dates on which she said she had sexual intercourse with the chaplin, Mrs. Gudbranson, wife of a commander end neighbor of the Jensens, testified to four liaisons with him. denied allegations on every count. His defense lawyer, Jack R.

1 a called the chaplain's accusers "sick and conspiring" He described Mrs. Curran as "a sick and disturbed lady" and Mrs. Gudbranson as "a pathological person and not an adultress." Jensen was described in testimony as a devoted, hard working chaplain during the more than two years he served at Cecil Field Naval Air Station. His two accusers were leaders in chapel activities until they turned against him. The chaplain expects to be a out of the Jacksonville Navy complex.

The three chaplain posts at Cecil Field are filled, and he has been on an unassigned status the past eight months. "I've planned to stay in the Navy, at least until I have 20 years," he said. He entered the service Sept. 23, 1955. "We'd like to go on a little trip and get some rest," he said.

"But immediate plans, like long range ones, are indefinite." Road district (Continued from return monies to the taxpayers of the city for the City Council's use instead of it to a firm which may even be out-of-state," the court said. i to recent statements by the group against abolition, the court said it has no intentions for a "power grab" or "overthrow" of the district. Coll 636-3131 Delivery Will Be Made Until 7:30 p.m. Weekdays 12:00 Noon Sundays Emergency Calls Police Sheriff Fire 636-6161 6367158 635-0191 Missouri State Highway Patrol 636-5171 Volunteer Fire Department 635-0715 FISH 635-8639 Ambulances Hospitals 635-5171 St. Mary's 635-8141 636-8163 Still 635-7141 636-6940 Memorial 635-6811 Jefferson City News-Tribune 636-3131 "No court has the power to overthrow a district.

Only the people of the district can vote for or against the question," Hiesberger said. Answering the citizens' group question on whether the court would next encourage the dissolution of water districts, Hiesberger said, "Again, only the people in such districts can make such a decision and the county court has nothing to do with the formation or ending of water districts." Commissioners the district said they were never contacted by the county court and never invited to i procedures for establishing and maintaining roads. i called the charge an "outright lie," recalling that the court met with present commissioners in person in the county courtroom for that purpose. "Such a meeting was reported by press and praised editorially," he added. The citizens group also charged the court was trying to make retaining the district difficult with a misleading ballot.

The court agreed the ballot is confusing, but stressed it merely followed the wording as required by Missouri statute. "The court did not devise the wording on the ballot," Hiesberger said. Polling places for city voters will be in all designated city precincts. Polling places for persons outside the city but in Jefferson Township will be at Freshman High School and road district residents from portions of Marion and Osage Townships will vote at the Elston Church. Votes will be tabluated at the Cole County Courthouse.

Mrs. Bessie LaGarce, 85, Hope, died Friday at Charles E. Still Hospital. She was born Sept. 13, 1886, in the state of Illinois, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob She was married in St. Louis on June 10, 1907, to Charles LaGarce. He survives at the home. Other survivors include: Three sons, August LaGarce, Fenton, Charles LaGarce, and Oliver LaGarce, of the home; one brother, Otto Cannan, St.

Louis; six grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at J. B. Smith Chapel, Maplewood.

Local arrangements are by Morton Funeral Home, Linn. Pat Snorgrass dies at age 66 Glova C. (Pat) Snorgrass, 66, of Versailles died Saturday at his home. He was born in Morgan County on Sept. 30, 1905.

the son of George and Willie Adair Snorgrass. He was married June 14, 1936 to Ella Morris, who survives. Snorgrass was a retired employe of General Motors and a member of the United Methodist Church in Versailles. Other survivors include: His Mrs. Willie Snorgrass, Fortuna; two stepdaughters, Mrs.

O.L. Dick, Coon Rapids, Minn, and Mrs. Deloris Rogers, Lavasy; and five step-grandchildren. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Kidwell- Garber Funeral Home in Versailles, with the Rev.

Frank Ebright officiating. Interment will be in the Versailles Cemetery. Mr. McClanahan dies Friday Gordon 'Buck' McClanahan, 62, a lifelong resident of Prairie Home, died Friday morning following a heart attack. Mr.

McClanahan was bom Oct. 14, 1909, at Prairie Home, the son of James W. and Gussie Oakman McClanahan. He was married Jan. 20, 1937, at Boonville, to the former Miss Josephine Langkop, who survives.

Mr. McClanahan recently retired after 36 years with the Texico Cities Service Co. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Other survivors include: One son, Donnie McClanahan, Jefferson 'City; one daughter, Miss Donna McClanahan, Camdenton; and one grandson. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m.

today at the Trinity Lutheran Church, near Prairie Home, with the Rev. David Fechner officiating. Burail will be in the Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville. NOW HAVI A STEAK AND EAT IT TOO IN LESS THAN 33 MINUTES GD STEAKS 923 CAPITOL Remember MONDAYS Are Steak SALE DAYS All With Salad, Bikod Texas Toast- Drinks Arc Extra $146 1 Freeburg resident dies Saturday Mrs. Margaret Rienkemyer Dudenhoeffer, 73, of Freeburg died Saturday at a Jefferson City hospital.

She was born on Jan. 20, 1899, in Linn, the daughter of a a A Mengwasser Rienkemyer. She was married Oct. 5, 1921, at Linn, to Peter Dudenhoeffer, who died in May 1971, Mrs. Dudenhoeffer was a member of the Married Ladies Sodality of Holy Family Church in Freeburg.

Survivors include: One a Mrs. Norbert Frank, Wardsvilte; four sons, Ignatius (Bud) Dudenhoeffer, Jefferson City, Raymond Phillip Dudenhoeffer and Hubert all of Freeburg; three brothers, Matthew i a i a Hienkteyer, St. Louis and Leo Rienkemyer, Linn; five sisters. Mrs. Henry Krieg, Mrs.

Sophia Krieg and Mrs. Alex Fick, all of Rich Fountain, Mrs. August Brune, Freeburg and Miss Helen Rienkemyer, Linn; 20 grandchildren: and three great grandchildren. Services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Family Church, Freeburg, with the Rt.

Rev. Msgr. Bernard Timpe officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Six arrested in school fire probe KANSAS CIT Y-- Six youths ranging in age from 13 to 16 have been arrested and turned over to juvenile authorities in connection with the fire March 19 that caused S1.6 million damage to the a Harmon Weeks Elementary School in Kansas City.

Police said a seventh youth is being sought in connection with the lire. Sgt. Dan Breese of the police arson unit said the arrests resulted from two weeks of investigation. The investigation revealed the intruders entered the building by forcing open a door on the basement level. Three fires were started in the basement between 5 p.m.

and 6 p.m. and the flames spread to the first floor. The 1,017 students in the school are being bused to three locations in eastern Kansas City for the remainder of the school term. Bland youth killed in one-car accident A Bland youth was killed early Saturday morning in a one-car accident near Belle. Daniel Eugene Rose, 20, Bland, driver of the vehicle, was dead on arrival at Phelps County Hospital in Rolla.

According to highway patrol reports, the accident occurred at 1:40 a.m. Saturday on Route 28, two and one half miles west of Belle in Maries County. The patrol said the vehicle ran off the right side of the road, swerved back across and off the left side and struck a tree. i The victim's body was I taken to Sassmann Funeral 1 Home, Belle. Voters (Continued from paje l) serves on the Council's i a Police, Public Health, Public Utilities, Ways and Means and City-State Relations Committees.

First Ward voters are assured of a new representative after Tuesday's election a incumbent Democrat Kenneth V. Wildhaber decided not to seek re-election. He Is seeking the a i nomination lor State Senator of the 23rd district. Two newcomers to politics a seeking the seat. Democrat Gilbert "Gibby" Ortmeyer, a concrete contractor, faces Lynn Steele, a Lincoln University business student.

The men have staged their low key campaigns based on their, concern to expand city services to newly annexed areas of their ward. Virtually assured of election are two i Democratic councilman and the two Jefferson City Board of Education candidates. Only one Democrat and one Republican filed for the two board positions. a i a for the Democratic nomination is Mrs. Lawrence E.

Giffen, 1915 Hayselton Dr. She seeks the seat held by incumbent Mrs. Harold Nolle, 423 Capitol View who did not seek reelection. a i a for the Republican nomination Is Dr. Byron E.

Watts, 2112 Forest who seeks the post to be vacated by John L. Hearne, 1913 W. McCarty St. a school board president, also decided not to seek re-election. Incumbent city touncilmen, Harvey Hager of the Second Ward and Richard Nacy of the Fifth Ward have no Republican opposition for Tuesday's election.

Hager, owner of Hager's Standard Service, is seeking his second consecutive term on the council. He previously served five terms between 1951 and 1961. He presently serves as mayor pro tern and chairs the Public Health and Public Building and Grounds Committees. Nacy. general counsel for the Missouri -Department of Revenue and the Missouri State Tax Commission, is seeking a second term.

He chairs the Council's Rules, Public Utilities and State-City delations Committees, tie also chairs the mayor's special River Marina Committee. Fire kills five persons, destroys frame house FARRELL, Pa. (AP) Five persons from a single a i including three children, were killed Saturday when fire destroyed their frame home, authorities said. The County coroner's office identified the dead as Glen Nicholson, 36; his wife, Margaret, 31: and their children, Christine, Robin, 4, and Glen 3. Viei Cong drive swe (Continued from page 1 was the same one that American and South Vietnamese officials both here and in Washington had been saying was coming since last December.

Although the officials had been emphasizing an offensive in the central highlands, some predicted major assaults in the northern sector. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the U.S. commander, was known to feel offensives might be launched about the same time in both regions.

There was fighting in the highlands but on a much smaller scale. Scores of American warplanes at bases in South Vietnam, Thailand and aboard car- riers of the 7th Fleet were waiting. clearing weather, which isn't expected until late Sunday or Monday, informants said. Heavy vs.is likely would have br-i: curried out sooner, U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders about the deteriorating situation in Quang Tri Province.

It was believed that the South were pressing for Imore air support. handle of North Vietnam to central South Vietnam. The ntum a provincial capital reported forecasts called mjmy more of the same during the next 24 to 48 hours. Intelligence analysts were said to be studying aerial re- offensive highlands. One fight raged only a mile outside Kontum, and 25 North Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed at the cost of connaissance photographs se- two government soldiers killed lecting targets.

Pilots said like- and nine wounded, ly targets would include long- range artillery that has been battering the South Vietnamese An enemy tank was destroyed by South Vietnamess Weatker report Local data forces, supply depots, troops of bombers in the triborder region a North Vietnamese. division' where the frontier meets with poised in reserve just north of the DMZ and surface-to-air missile sites. Laos and Cambodia, about 25 miles northwest of Kontum, pilots said. Other enemy troop buildups Only if the North Vietnamese were detected eight miles north back off is it likely that the and 12 miles Kon- American air strikes would and U.S. B52 heavy bomb- called off.

were called in to attack THE THERMOMETER 41; Low yesterday 28; High past 54 years 89 In 1946; Low past 54 years 17 in 1W6. PRECIPITATION News Tribune Weather Bureau Read- Ing 0 for past 24 hours ending at midnight; heaviest rain same date In 54 years 1.82 in 1927. Total to date this month Normal this month to date .14. This year to date 7.00; Normal 6.96. WEATHER BOOK Barometer 30.02 rising; Relative humidity 62 per cent.

THE SUN Sunrise today 5:53: Sunset today 4:33. RIVER STAGES Missouri River at: Jefferson City 10.1 rise Hermann 9.2 (all .1. Five children die in Florida fire TAMPA, Fla. (API Five children burned to death Saturday in a fire that destroyed a row of three one-story frame homes. In one house, Demetrius Nelson, 2, was killed: his sister, Sara, 5, critically burned.

The mother, Monica Nelson, was hospitalized hi shock. Disclosure of the marshaling of U.S. air and naval forces came shortly after Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, deputy com- them.

A U.S. helicopter was shot 'down in the central highlands, mander of U.S. forces, flew to near Fire Base 5. One crewman Da Nang. He conferred with was wounded.

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