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the Rapid City Journal 5 Saturday, February 23, 1980 Wyoming news Mild earthquake jolts Yellowstone corner of the nation's oldest and largest national park. Don Finley, a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, placed the epicenter three miles deep in the southern Gallatin Range, fault-block mountains in which quakes are common. It was about 20 miles from the nearest settlements. Mammoth Hot Springs and West Yellowstone.

Finley said the earthquake registered 4.75 on the Richter Scale, making it a relatively mild earthquake. An aftershock registering 3.0 on the Richter Scale was reported at 9:45 a.m. Friday by Edmund Williams, a geologist at Ricks College In Rexburg, Idaho. Williams said he recorded two 3.0 quakes Wednesday. Geologists noticed increasing seismic activity in the earthquake-prone sec Prisoner escapes for third time RAWLINS.

Wyo. (AP) All-points bulletins were Issued Friday for a Wyoming Penitentiary inmate who "doesn't like" prison and escaped for the third time in less than three years, prison officials said. Warden Duane Shlllingcr said the prisoner tied sheets into a makeshift rope and shinned down a building to escape before dawn Friday. A hitchhiker matching the escapee's description was seen at sunrise near Lander, but Fremont County sheriff's deputies were not aware at the time he might be the escapee. Shlllingcr identified the man as George Kulund, 30.

of Flushing. N.Y., who was serving a 2-5 year sentence for aggravated assault. Kulund might have been tabled a model prisoner except for his penchant for escaping. His first escape came in September, 1977; his second in July. 1978.

Since then, he had stayed out of trouble, the warden said. "He just doesn't like it here, and he spends a lot of time trying to get out," Shillingcr told The Associated Press. "We suspect he'll head back to New York that's where we picked him up before." Kulund was described as 5-fect-10, 140 pounds, wearing a green fatigue jacket, denim pants and carrying a small green duffel bag. He was reported missing at 3:30 a.m. Friday.

"He made a rope out of some sheets and attached it to a dormer and came down the front of our administration building," Shillinger said. "The tower officer saw him, but we couldn't respond quickly enough to apprehend him." Kulund was believed not armed when he escaped, the warden noted he could have acquired a weapon after his escape. Rifles commonly are left in cars and trucks in Wyoming. "Any time an Inmate escapes and attempts to avoid apprehension, we consider him dangerous," he added. approves bill to limit spending tion of the park during the past two weeks, Mebane said, but the quake Friday was the first to be felt.

"It woke a lot of people up. but many of them didn't know why they woke up," he said. "Most people slept through it, including me." Park officials said there were no Immediate plans to check the quake center for damage. "Wt probably wouldn't find anything but some snow slides," Mebane said But he said geologists would monitor Yellowstone's famous geysers and geothermal features carefully for changes, because they are often affected by quakes. Geysers are more susceptible to change than hot springs, he said.

It was the strongest quake in Yellowstone since June 30, 1975, when a quake registering 6.1 on the Richter "If you are going to control the growth of government in this country, you have to throw a net over all the units of government." he said. He cited statistics saying that in 1970. It took 33 percent of all income in the United States to pay for government, but that it took 42 percent in 1979. And he said with the 8 percent of the income it takes for rules and regulations, "half of the total costs of operating this country goes to government." he said. Rep.

Doug Chamberlain, R-LaGrange, opposed the measure because he said it indicated the threat Kenneth Tipton FRANNIE. Wyo. Services for Kenneth Howard Tipton. 28, Frannic, are scheduled Monday in Liberty Center, Iowa. Tipton, formerly of Rapid City, died Sunday in a motorcycle accident at Blythe, Calif.

He was born May 25, 1951, in Liberty Center, Iowa. He served four years in the Air Force at Ellsworth Air Force Base and worked six years in civil service as a refrigeration mechanic. Tipton married Ronda Sorenson April 22, 1978. in Rapid City. He began working for Sorenson Inc.

in September that year. Survivors include his wife Ronda and 1-month-old son Bryan Kenneth of Frannie; a son, Eric, 6, of Dickinson, N.D.; his father and stepmother, Howard and Sue Tipton of Liberty Center, and three sisters, Mrs. Jerome (Connie) Renger of Rineyville, Mrs. Jim (Cathy) Konrad of Davenport, Iowa, and Mrs. Dan (Carol) Nash of Milo, Iowa.

His mother died in 1974. Marlin Dean White Sr. LEAD Services for Marlin White Sr. will be held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Fidler Funeral Chapel with Dr.

De-wayne F. Knight, pastor of the United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Black Hills National Cemetery. He was born at Wakonda, on May 25, 1924 to Fred and Mable (Sweeley) White. On May 1, 1947, he married Lucy Ellen Slowey at Vermillion.

They moved to Lead in 1952, when he worked for the Homestake Mining Co. until moving to Arizona after his retirement in 1973. Scale caused minor damage. Yellowstone's worst earthquake In recent years occurred In 1959, when a mountain slid onto unsuspecting campers. That quake registered 7.1 on the Richter Scale.

Both were In the same general area of the park as Friday's quake. The Richter Scale Is a measurement of ground movement recorded on seismographs. Every Increase of one number represents a tenfold Increase In magnitude, so the 1959 quake was 10 times as great as the 1975 quake. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter Scale can cause slight local damage. 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage.

A 7 Is a major eathquake, capable of causing widespread damage, and an 8 is a "great" quake capable of tremendous damage. of more big government, and that the bill didn't leave control of local budgets in the hands of local people. But Donley said there was more at issue than spending. "It's not so much a spending limit at issue," he said, "as it is freedom. If we don't control spending we'll not have the kind of society we were privileged to grow up in.

"We're so close to being totally socialist it's scary," he said. The bill still faces action by the full House of Representatives, and if it passes there, would be considered by the Senate. He died Thursday morning in the VA Hospital at Tucson. Ariz, after a lengthy illness. Survivors include three sons, Marlin Jr.

and Brian White, both of Tucson, and Randall of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; seven grandchildren; one brother. Vince White of Wakonda; and two sisters, Mrs. Max Alberson of Vermillion and Marge Nelson of Klamath Falls, Ore. He was preceded in death by his mother, his wife Lucy and an infant son, Timothy Joe. Mrs.

Anna Zoric LEAD Mass of Christian burial for Mrs. Anna Zoric will be 11a.m. Monday in St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Lead with Rev. Raymond J.

Deisch officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery under direction of the Fidler Funeral Chapel. She was born July 21, 1389, in Austria. She and her husband, Anton, lived in Central City for many years and while he worked for the Homestake Mining Co. He died in 1949 and seven years ago she moved to Denver.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Anitra Upton of Forest Hills, N.Y., Marye Robinson of Charlotte, NX-Mrs. Sophia Bauernfeind and Elizabeth McDowell, both of Denver; two sons. Anthony Zoric of Bremerton, Wash, and William Zoric of Lakewood, 12 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Mary Barber PHILIP Mary Barber, 92, died here Friday at a local hospital.

Services are pending with the Woodall Funeral Home. If you buy glasses any place else, you get only half the glasses you should! SPARE PAIR Automatically with purchase YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Wyo. (AP) Old Faithful Geyser erupted as scheduled Friday, despite a mild earthquake that rattled windows and woke some sleepers in Yellowstone National Park. Park officials said the quake, which registered 4.75 on the Richter Scale, caused no damago but was felt by residents of Mammoth Hot Springs.

Gardiner, and West Yellowstone, 20 miles away and at least one person at Old Faithful, 35 miles to the south. Park naturalist Alan Mebane said geologists would monitor thermal activity closely in the Norris Geyser Basin this week to determine whether geysers and geothermal activity were affected. The quake occurred at 3:13 a.m. Friday In the unpopulated northwestern Committee CHEYENNE. Wyo.

(AP) Wyoming's own version of Proposition 13. a legislative move in California to hold down government spending, has earned approval of the House Committee of the Whole. The bill. Introduced by Rep. Russ Donley, R-Casper, and titled Spending Limitation, was approved Thursday by a 31-23 vote in committee action.

And it would do just what it's title says. It would be for "limiting government expenditures during any fiscal year to the amount expended during the fiscal Deaths Mark F. Hartwell WALL Funeral services for Mark F. Hartwell, 76, will be 2 p.m. Monday at the Wall Methodist Church with Rev.

Vernon Morrison officiating. The body will lie in state at the Woodall Funeral Chapel of Wall Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. Additional services will be at the Isburg Funeral Chapel in Pierre 2 p.m. Tuesday with Rev. Orland Sloat officiating.

Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery at Pierre. Hartwell died Thursday at a Rapid City hospital. He was born Feb. 27. 1903.

at Wall Lake, Iowa to James and Minnie Hartwell. He moved to Pierre with his parents in 1905, and later graduated from high school there before attending college at Brookings. He also lived in Owanka, Wasta and Wall. On Nov. 20, 1922, he married Kathryn N.

Sheren at Rapid City. She died in 1964 and on June 12, 1965, he married Mollie Wyant at Rapid City. The couple then moved to Wall where they have lived since. He worked for the Chicago and North Western Railroad for 42 years as a bridge foreman until his retirement in 1962. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Brotherhood of American Railroad Employees.

Survivors include his wife, Mollie of Wall; four daughters, Louise Stephenson of Pierre, Gwen Williams of Arizona City, Ariz. Nancy Stirling of Highmore and Judy Ove of Freemont, Calif; two stepsons, LeRoy Wyant of Wall and Norris Wyant of Tempe, two stepdaughters, Doris Pigsley of Rapid City and Loretta Thomas of Amarillo, Texas; 23 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Alice Richter of Fergus Falls, Minn, and Myrtle Hansen of Richmond, Ind. He was preceded in death by one brother, one sister, one infant son and one infant daughter. 111 5 Refinery workers returning to jobs CHEYENNE. Wyo.

(AP) Striking Husky Oil Co. refinery workers have agreed to return to work In Cheyenne and Cody, leaving only Husky workers In Salt Lake City still on strike. Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union members ratified new contracts In Cody Friday and Cheyenne late Thursday, and union officials said they think agreement Is "close" in Salt Lake. The strike has affected more than 300 oil workers at Husky's three American refineries, including about 150 in Cheyenne. Husky spokesman George Dibble In Cody said the contract calls for a wage Increase of 3 percent, plus 55 cents an hour.

It also improves medical and dental insurance and vacation plan. Workers have agreed to return to work at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, he said. Cheyenne workers ratified the contract Thursday night by a 4-1 margin, and Elvin Steward, president of the Cheyenne OCAW local, said workers "got what we went after." The contract was ratified by an 82-23 vote, he said. Injured driver files $7.5 million suit GILLETTE, Wyo.

(AP) A personal Injury suit asking 7.55 million has been filed in district court here against AMAX Coal Co. and seven of its employees by a former truck driver at the Belle Ayremine. Pamela Sue Koenig filed the suit Wednesday against AMAX, Don Van Dyke, Joseph J. Meyer, Joe "Big Joe" Meyers, Steve Youngbauer, Donnie R. Haney, Dale Saathoff and Dan Muirhead.

The suit asks $30,000 for past and future medical expenses, $500,000 for loss of wages and earning power and $2 million for pain and suffering, disfigurement, scarring and the loss of use of her legs. The suit also asks $5 million in punitive damages. According to the suit. Ms. Koenig was employed by AMAX November.

1977 when a dump truck driven by Muirhead i dump truck driven by backed into the truck she was driving, the impact pinning her in the truck and pausing injuries to her legs and the rest of her body. The defendants had been notified of the dangers of a dumping procedure that required "blind backing," the suit adds. Other charges include that a safe workplace was not provided, the driving pattern was unsafe, trucks were equipped inadequately and drivers were not well-trained. truck Wyoming man gets life term COUNCIL BLUFFS. Iowa (AP) -Tommy Dale Cross.

24, of Bairoil, was sentenced Friday to life in prison for first-degree kidnapping. Cross was found guilty Feb. 8 by Pottawattamie County District Court Judge Paul Sulhoff in the abduction of Sally Cole, 29, of Council Bluffs Oct. 26, 1979. Ms.

Cole said she was abducted from a Council Bluffs truck stop after a man later identified as Cross forced his way into her car in the early-morning hours and beat her on a trip that crossed four state lines. She testified that Cross forced her into the trunk of her car where she rode for 20 to 30 minutes. She escaped when she and Cross stopped at a Grand Forks, N.D., service station for gasoline. Ms. Cole said Cross told her he was on his way to Canada.

Cross was later arrested in a Pembina, N.D., bar. Under the Iowa Criminal Code, first-degree kidnapping conviction requires proof that the victim was intentionally subjected to torture or sexual abuse. Cross said he would appeal the conviction to the Iowa Supreme Court and Sulhoff appointed Pottawattamie County Public Defender Gary Anderson as Cross's attorney. Tax on gasoline rpay rise a nickel CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) The House Transportation and Highways Committee approved an amendment late Thursday that could mean a five cent per gallon increase in state gasoline taxes.

The amendment also calls for a tax increase of about five cents a gallon on diesel fuel. Rep. Douglas Chamberlain, R-LeGrange, said, "I don't like it but we have to come to grips with the problem." Committee chairman Rep. Rory Cross, R-Douglas, said, "It's high it's hard to bite the bullet, but we didn't do anything on the severance tax. "We're supporting the principle that people who use the highways have got to pay for them." It took the committee three meetings in two days to hammer out the amount of the tax increase.

The final version of the bill is not expected to reach the House floor before Saturday. About three of each five cents collected under the tax increase would be earmarked for the state Highway Department for road repair and maintenance. The counties would get about 1.6 cents of the remaining two cents and the cities would get about .4 cents. year commencing July 1, 19S2. plus a limited annual increase." it said.

As Donley explained it, it would "let government grow at a rate set by inflation and population growth." It would allow state government to spend money only to those specified limits, except for emergencies or for capital construction projects. The bill had included counties and cities, but an amendment Rep. Walter Urbigkit, D-Cheyennc, introduced and implored his fellow representatives to support, deleted them. Donley had included them in the bill because he said it was the only way to hold down government spending. Nancy B.

Pearson BELLE FOURCHE Services for Nancy B. Pearson, 93, Belle Fourche, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Congregational Church in Belle Fourche. The Rev. Sam Cushing will officiate.

Burial will be in Pine Slope Cemetery under the direction of Frost and Sons Funeral Home. Mrs. Pearson died Friday at the Belle Fourche Long Term Health Care Center for which a memorial has been established. She was born Aug. 11, 1886, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to John and Mary Pat-ton.

In 1892 she moved with her parents to St. Francis, where she attended school. In 1902 she moved by covered wagon to the Hulett, area. She married Charles Pearson June 22. 1910.

They lived in the Aladdin. area. Mrs. Pearson was a member of the Aladdin Homemakers Club. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1961.

She moved to the Dorsett Memorial Home in Spearfish in 1975 and in 1978 to the Belle Fourche center. Survivors include a son, Frank A. of Aladdin; a daughter, Mrs. Ivan (Mary) Moore of Alzada, six grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and one sister, Zera Dewing of Dale, Ore. She also was preceded in death by two brothers, two sisters and a daughter-in-law.

Edward W. Lynch Services for Edward W. Lynch, 55, are pending with the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home in Rapid City. He died Friday afternoon at a Rapid City hospital. Corrections Two obituaries in Friday's Rapid City Journal contained errors or omissions.

The obituary for LuEtta M. Weber should have said she lived for a time in Fort Sheridan, 111., and was preceded in death by her parents and one son, David. The obituary for Greg A. Kellem, Rapid City, should have listed his sister, Sherri Kellem, Rapid City, among survivors. 4 -xs Aaencv ordered DrOClUCe t)OOkS VM CHEYENNE, Wyo.

(AP) Laramie County District Judge Alan Johnson has ordered the president of AAA Collection Agency of Casper to produce the company's books and records by Tuesday. Johnson issued the order this week in connection with an investigation by the Wyoming Collection Agency Board. The board had subpoenaed the records in January, but AAA President Tom Sutherland apparently had failed to produce the correct records. Wyoming Secretary of State Thyra Thomson, who is the chairwoman of the Collection Agency Board, said the board received two complaints in December of the agency collecting fees from debtors but not forwarding them to creditors. She said a hearing date was set on the allegations, but it was postponed because, "Mr.

Sutherland didn't produced any records until two weeks after the deadline in the subpoena, and those books were imcomplete." Legislators pass tax relief plan CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Wyoming state representatives, meeting as Committee of the Whole, have decided to fund a property tax relief program for elderly people for two years. The committee, meeting during the 1980 budget session of the Wyoming Legislature, voted Thursday to allow $20 million for the program. The move was sponsored by Rep. Tom Jones, R-Powell, who said the state had the money available, and perhaps it should be used to help Wyoming citizens.

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