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The Courier from Waterloo, Iowa • 5

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July 16, 1976 Waterloo Courier mu u-r-i-rr -m tmf frnfm-m urn Metropolitan deaths Deputy demoted after altercation Waterloo man pleads guilty in possession case A Waterloo man arrested in January after he was found in possession of a quantity of illicit drugs has pleaded guilty in district court. Steven L. Entringer, 24, of ISIM W. Third will be sentenced at a later date 'following a pre-sentence investigation. He was arrested Jan.

28 by members of the Metro Narcotics Division after they obtained a search warrant and found mescaline at Entringer's home. Entringer was charged with possession of a controlled substance with Intent to deliver. mm (CT; 'A demotion and a pay-cut has been ordered for a Black hawk County Sheriffs detective accused of hitting a fellow deputy with a flashlight. Gehrig Lavelle, 32, one of the department'! two detective sergeants, was demoted Thursday by Sheriff Wendell Christeases. Lavelle struck Deputy Jerome Mater in the face with a metal flashlight "without provocation," Christensen said.

TJIK INCIDENT occurred after sheriff's officers apprehended a suspect July 8 following a 90-minute gunfire siege al a rural residence. The suspect, Steven R. Vogt, 23, gave himself up after hold-' ing deputies at bay by shooting from a window of his home at 4142 Wells Rd. No' one was injured. Christensen said the assault stemmed from a dispute later among deputies over handling of the incident.

Uvelle allegedly confronted Mater after the siege at the courthouse and accused Mater of "talking behind his back," Christcascn said. Mater was struck twice in Glenn M. Cohn Services for Glenn M. (Slits) Cohn, 77, of 810 W. Sixth will at I p.m.

Saturday at the Community Church Christian and Missionary Alliance, 110 Byron with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Mr. Cohn died at 3:25 p.m. Wednesday at Schoitz Memorial Hospital of emphysema. He was born March 24.

1899. in Waterloo, the son of Ralph and Nellie Cohn. He married Mildred Mary Boose. May 29, 1959, in Waterloo. He was employed with the Yellow Cab until his retirement in 1961.

Survivors include his wife, and a step daughter, Mrs. Donna Jones. Pasadena. Calif. Friends may call at the O'Keefc Towne Funeral Home until 11 a.m.

Saturday. William E. Kimmelshue Services for William E. Kimmelshue. 87.

of Russell, formerly of Waterloo, will be at I p.m. Saturday at the Locke Funeral Home, with burial in Arlington Cemetery, Waverly. Mr. Kimmelshue died Wednesday evening of complications of age. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 am.

Friday. Mrs. Margaret E. Burgi Services for Mrs. Margaret E.

Burgi, 70, of 533 Conger will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Burton Avenue Baptist Church. Mrs. Burgi died Thursday morning at the Americana Health Center of complications of a stroke. She was born Oct.

30. 1905. in Lebanon, the daughter of Dawson and Anna M. Slrohm McCaully, and married Henry Burgi Sept. 18.

1929, at Van. Pa. Survivors Include a daughter. Mrs. Anna Schulcr of 533 Conger, and a son.

Philip of Wheat Ridge, Colo. Friends may call at the Chapel of Memories West after 11 a.m. Sunday and from 9 a.m. to service time Monday at the church. Mrs.

Frank Jacobs GAHNAVll.LO Services for Mrs. Frank (Alberta) Jacobs. 73. a former Waterloo resident, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Hitesville Gospel Hall near Keslcy with burial in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Jacobs died Thursday morning at Memorial Hospital, Pariric du Chien, Wis. Survivors include two daughters. Mrs. Harvey (Shirley) Wirkler.

Farmersburg, and Mrs. Otto (Donita) Freicnnuth, Imperial Beach, a son, Highland. Friends may call at the Tucke-Allenstein Funeral Home here after 7 p.m. Saturday. Bernard (Ben) Demuth GII.BKKTVILLK Services for Bernard (Bern Demuth.

69, of Ciilbertville. will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Church in Gilbertiville with burial in the church cemetery. He died at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at St.

Francis Hospital in Waterloo. Friends may call at the Oppold Funeral Home, Waterloo, where there will be rosary services at 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday. Memorials may be given in his name to Immaculate Conception Church.

Moving day headaches This is Dick Anderson's house, shown Jiere on its way to a new location Friday on St. Albans Street after residing for many years on Vaughn Street. Alas, its odyssey through downtown Waterloo was not an easy one. Here it is blocking traffic on University Avenue near Highway 63 while it waits for a city crew to lift stoplights high enough for it to pass beneath. There have been other problems on the route approved by the city electrical lines too low for the stoplight poles which had to be loosened and swung out of the way.

About 11 a.m., housemover Sveo Hansen from Cedar Falls was snarling because the Chicago and North Western Railway had not given permission for the bouse to pass over its First Street tracks. Waterloo police were trying to get the permission while Hansen stewed and swore that if he never has to move a house through Waterloo Again it will be too soon. (Courier photo) Motorcyclists collide; youth's leg broken Two motorcyclists riding on a dirt path collided nearly head-on Thursday, sending one to the hospital with a broken leg. Jon L. VanDyke, 14.

of $15 Easton was listed in fair condition Friday at Schoitz Memorial Hospital with a leg fracture and a knee injury. The other cyclist. Walter A. Senchina. 26, of 1707 Bertch was not seriously hurt.

The two collided on an off-road path in the 2100 block of Easton Avenue. A hill crest and trees obscured their view of one another, police said. Metro briefs Word has been received of the death of David S. Gratke. 77.

the brother of Iva Leonard of 2608 Fairlane Ave. He died July 4 of a heart attack at a South Lake Tahoe, ing home. Mary Jane Girsch, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William J.

Girsch, 433 Kingsbard graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland. Ohio. She will return in the fall to begin work on her master's degree in music. Reigri of terror told in Uganda Say few questions answered GCI 'dissatisfied' on housing issues the face and once in the chest. He sustained facial and mouth cuts, bruises and nosebleed, the sheriff said.

1 "REGARDLESS OF what Mater may have said, the assault is unacceptable," Christensen said. "We just can't have supervisory personnel react-, ing that way," Christensen added. The sheriff said he considered firing Lavelle but feels such punishment would be too steep considering his past record. "It's uncomfortable because he's been a good officer in a lot of ways He just lost lost his head, and we can't have that." LAVELLES RANK will be dropped from sergeant to deputy, and his annual pay cut from $13,000 to $12,000. Lavelle joined the sheriffs department in September 1968, and was promoted to detective sergeant when Christensen created an investigative department last Sept.

1. Christensen said Lavelle has 10 days to appeal the action to the Black Hawk County Civil Service Commission. rested and interrogated for two "I heard" people screaming with agony," -he said. "They were crying out. it was horrible, yelling for help and begging their captors to stop.

They gave me a couple of punches before releasing me." British Prime' Minister James Callaghan, speaking in the House of Commons, in effort told the 500-550 British citizens still living in Uganda not to expect his government to rescue them; i "You know the risks and the limitations of our capacity to assist you, as you are dispersed throughout the country," he said. "Assess these risks and take your decision." THE BRITISH government called on Amin Thursday to account for Dora Bloch, a hostage the Israelis could not rescue because she had been' taken to a Kampala hospital two days before the raid. Mrs. Bloch was a 75-ycar-old widow with dual British-Israeli citizenship. Amin said she was returned to the airport before the Israelis landed, and he expelled a British diplomat who reported seeing her in a Kampala hospital after the raid.

She is believed to have been killed by Ugandan security police. Callaghan appointed a new acting high commissioner to Uganda to replace James whom Amin charged with complicity in the Israeli raid and ordered out of the country. Britain denied the accusation but said Horrocks would leave Kampala today. He is being replaced by Eustace Gibbs, a Foreign Office inspector already in Kampala. Executive Shop, and Women's Fashions.

The three stores are adjacent to the Sycamore Street address. The expansion also include the addition of a young men's department called "Mr. D's." The department will be incorporated into the Executive Shop. The project, will be completed in early August and will add about 1,500 square feet of shopping space. Heasley, 15, of Waterloo, when he disappeared into the water.

The drowning occurred up' stream from the dam at Independence. Perry, a senior at Buena Vista College, was the son of Rev. and Mrs. John Perry. homeowners could save money by purchasing materials with the federal funds and doing their own work, although elderly applicants are "less fortunate." THE CITIZENS group also asked that more members of the Advisory Board live in low income neighborhoods, since they say 14 of the 22 board members live "in two of the most affluent census tracts in Waterloo." Mrs.

Allen said the group will submit five names to the Advisory Board, but added they received no 'assurance any of them will be added to the board. She said the group has also requested the maximum, grant amount of $5,000 be raised to the level of maximum loans, which is $7,500. Many homeowners, she said, can't afford to pay back loans for improvements needed over the $5,000 grant level. She noted that from August 1975, to January 1976, only one Auto workers ask guarantees NAIROBI. Kenya (AP) -Foreigners fleeing Uganda report that President Idi Amin has unleashed a reign of terror follow ing the Israeli commando raid that freed more than 100 hijacked hostages.

Kenyans returning to their homeland reported that Amin's soldiers were slaughtering Kenyans living in Uganda, Kenya's official news agi-ncy reported. It said John Owino, one of 200 refugees who arrived in the border town of Bungoma Thursday, reported that troops shot seven Kenyans last Sunday at Namango. a village outside Kampala, the Ugandan capital. ALREADY TENSE relations between the two East African neighbors were strained further by Amin's charges of Kenyan complicity in the Israeli raid. The lxmdon Daily.

Express jeported that the British government agreed to beef up Kenya's defenses with shipments of guns, ammunition and bombs. The paper, giving no source for its information, said President Jomo Kenyatta assured the British his forces would not attack the Ugandans, whose army is about twice as large as Kenya's. 1 Patrick Morris, a Canadian who flew from Kampala to Nairobi with 18 Britons, said many whites who wanted to leave were afraid to go to the airport. "THE SOLDIERS are so rough they don't give you any chance to explain," he said. "They beat you and drag you to their torture chambers." Morris, 38, said he was ar Detroit doctor runs his own Peace Corps DETROIT (AP) Dr.

Harris Mainster and his family operate their own peace corps. Since 1971. the 39-year-old osteopathic surgeon, his wife and four daughters have spend their vacations doing volunteer work in some of the world's most remote areas. They first went to Nicaragua because a colleague of Mainster told him he had a brother in a religious order there and knew medical help was needed. Upon return, another colleague told Mainster his medical services would be more than welcome in Liberia.

So they went there for their next vacation. They went to India in 1973. tired or preparing to retire. "WITH THE cost-of-living going up, we don't want to be relegated to beans and potatoes. 'We want a little meat, too." The union's top officials in Detroit have been saying all year that shortened work time will be the union's main thrust in talks on new contracts covering 700,000 U.S.

workers. Current three-year pacts with GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors expire Sept. 14. But member demands for cost-of-living allowances for retirees could pose a thorny problem for UAW bargainers. Six-year pension agreements were negotiated in 1973 without such allowances, and the' companies say they are opposed to discussing pensions at all until 1979.

Industry officials say the union would be reneging on the pension agreements if it tries to reopen them now. CURRENTLY, workers with 30 or more years of service are eligible for a maximum pension of about $625 a month, including Social Security benefits. Benefits go up to $650 this fall and to $700 in 1978. UAW President Leonard Woodcock has Said the union will improve pension benefits without reopening the agreements, but he has not indicated how. Other union officials say they may win increased retiree benefits but not with cost-of-living allowances.

BAMBOO FILAMENTS Thomas Edison used bamboo for filaments in his early indacescent light bulbs. home in Waterloo was rehabilitated under the program. "Will you tell me what these (Community Development Office) people were doing, what they were drawing their salaries for?" Mrs. Allen said. SHE SAID out of 250 current applications.

45 have been accepted. Grants were approved fur 35, loans for five, and grant-loan combinations for another five. Another eight applicants withdrew their requests because they didn't want to pay federal loan interest rates, Mrs. Allen said, and 40 were turned down by the Community Development Board. Fifty-seven applications are in the acceptance or refusal process now.

citizens group representatives say, and another 100 have had no word yet on the status of their applications. Dale Mercer, Community Development administrator, had no comment after Wednesday's meeting. machine at Crossroads Center. Sentencing will be later following a pre-sentence investigation. Two-year-old boy liit by car A two-year-old boy was hospitalized for observation Friday after he ran into the street and was hit by a car.

Lawrence R. Weber, whose parents live at 627 W. Seventh was listed in fairly good condition at Schoitz Memorial Hospital with cuts and scrapes. Police said he ran between two parked cars and as hit by an auto driven by a 59-year-old woman shortly before 11 a.m. They said no citation would be issued.

No further details were available immediately. Woman gets suspended term in forgery case Northeast Iowa deaths Roy Thomas Perry INDEPENDENCE Services for Roy Thomas Perry, 21, who irowned Thursday in Independence, will be 1:30 p.m. Monday at Calvary Evangelistic Center in Independence; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery; survivors include his parents, Rev. and Mrs. John F.

Perry of Independence; a brother, Forrest of Burlington; a sister, Mrs. Kenneth (Sharon) Holmgren of St. Paul, paternal grandmother, Mrs. B.C. Wolcot of Conneaut, Ohio; White Funeral Home in charge where friends may call after 7 p.m.

Saturday and at noon Monday at the church. Mrs. Laura (Belle) Miller POSTVIIJ.K Services for Mrs. Uura Bellci Miller, 83, who died Wednesday at her home in Postville, will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Schutte Funeral Chapel in Postville; burial in Postville Cemetery: survivors Include a daughter, Mrs.

Page Wirkler of Iostville; and a sister, Mrs. Everett Cook of Postville. i Mrs. Helen Schultz ACKLEY Services for Mrs. Helen Schultz, 83, who died Wednesday in a nursing home in lndianola, will be 11 a.m.

Saturday at St. John's L'nited Church of Christ in Ackley; burial in Oakwood Cemetery; survivors include a son, Chester of lndianola; Brandt-Fritz Funeral Home in charge. Roland C. Reko CHARLES CITY-Holand C. Reko, 75, formerly of Charles City, died Thursday at the Osage nursing home; services will be 10:30 a.m.

Saturday at the Hauser Funeral Home with burial in Riverside Cemetery in Charles City; survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Madison Freeman of Lincoln, two sisters. Mrs. Lucille Sekandar of Charles City, and Mrs. Beatrice Ratliffe of Kansas City, Mo.

Orville Spurgeon DYSART Services are pending at the Overton Funeral Home in Dysart for Orville Spurgeon, 57, who died Thursday afternoon at Veterans Hospital in' Iowa Representatives of the Citizens for Community Involvement (CCI) organization said they got "little satisfaction" Wednesday as they took ideas for improving federal housing rehabilitation programs to Waterloo's Community Development Board. Beatrice Allen, 615 Cottage a representative of the citizens group, said only one of five major areas the group questioned was resolved at Wednesday's meeting. The group had asked that low income and elderly persons applying for grants and loans under the Community Development Act for housing rehabilitation be supplied a "sequence of events sheet" explaining the steps which should follow their applications. THE GROUP pointed to the recent conviction of a former Community Development Board employe who bilked applicants out of illegal "fees," through false pretenses. They added that some persons filing applications in January still had not heard from the Community Development office.

Community Development of-, ficials said Wednesday the information will be provided to applicants in the future. OTHER REQUESTS by the citizens group got less positive responses. The group had asked that the Community Development Advisory Board be allowed to review all applications and to gather supportive information on action taken in each case. Mrs. Allen said some decisions by the Community Development Board make little sense to the citizens group.

She pointed to one man's application for money to put up a chain link fence. That application was approved, she said, although a widow's application for money to support a porch "sitting on rocks" was turned down. She added that since bonded contractors must do work approved for grants and loans, homeowners are bound by con- tractor estimates. In her own home, she said, a contractor estimated to "secure a register" would cost $10, although that means placing two screws into the wall. She criticized Community Development officials and city inspectors for supporting what she called "unreasonable" contractor estimates.

In many cases, she said, Cedar Falls, Iowa Stephens9 enlarged store to include new shoe line, A 24-year-old woman ac-1 cused of forgery after she attempted to pass a stolen Aid to Dependent Children check at a Waterloo bank has been given a suspended jail term. Dorothy Jean Ross, of the Carlton Hotel, pleaded guilty in district court to forgery on March 29. She was arrested Dec. 11 after she attempted to pass the check at the National Bank of Waterloo. She has been given a one-year suspended term in the county jail and has been placed on probation to the Department of Court Services.

PLEADING GUILTY to larceny after he stole $41.50. from a vending machine was Rick Ronald Rolfs, 2827 Crestline Ave. Rolfs was arrested June 14 after he took the money from a DETROIT (AP) Auto workers across the country are hoping to win job security guarantees and improved pensions as the United Auto Workers opens contract talks with the nation's car makers next week. Interviews by The Associated Press with local LAW presidents and rank-and-file members show new priorities have emerged after the massive layoffs in 1974 and 1975 which put 200,000 blue collar auto workers out of work. Unlike past years, no widespread demands for big wage increases have surfaced unlimited cost-of-living protection was included in the expiring three-year pact.

Instead, the talk is about ing working time to create new jobs and keep current ones. "THE WHOLE theme of the contract is job security," said William Novotny, a commit-, teeman at Local 879 at Ford's Twin Cities car assembly plant in St. Paul, Minn. "We're losing our shirts due to automation, smaller cars take less parts, and many people have" been laid off because of the gas shortage. At tfte same time, older workers want the same kind of cost-of-living protection for retirees that active workers have.

John D. Melton, a 59-year-old toolmaker at General Motors' assembly plant in Van Nuys, agreed that job security will be the union's No. 1 priority. But Melton also is two years away from retirement under a 30-years-and-out plan written into current contracts. "To me personally, the main thing would be the cost-of-living al- lowance," he said.

"That's one extra-large item all over the country to people who are re Another store is contributing to the new downtownlook in Waterloo. Part of the expansion and renovation project at the Stephens' stores, 620 Sycamore will include a new women's shoe store. Mrs. Donna Stephens said the store will feature lines of shoes that have been unavailable in Waterloo. She and her husband, Don, own Stephens' Tots to Teens, Roy R.

Randall Buchanan man drowns OSAGE Services for Roy R. Randall, 75, who died Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Osage; burial in Osage Cemetery; survivors include his wife, Minnie; five daughters, Mrs. Dean (Ruth) Molstad of Mason City, Mrs.

Charles (Mildred) Moore of Riceville, Mrs. Dale (Doris) Erickson of Minneapolis, Mrs. Rose Tobin of Albert Lea, and Mrs. Ed (Beverly) Boehmer of Osage; three Ransom of Cedar Rapids, Earl of DeQueen, and Dave of Osage; two brothers, Ralph of Cumberland, and Seth of Oakland, two sisters, Mrs. Delia "Archambaldt of Hampton and Mrs.

Bill (Jenny) Easley of Mason City; Champion Funeral Home in Osage in charge. Mr. Randall was a longtime general contractor in Osage until his retirement. Mrs. Katherine Andersen HAMPTON Services for Mrs.

Katherine Andersen, 98, of rural Coulter, who died Thursday at Franklin General Hospital, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. John's Lutheran Church, southwest of Hampton; burial in Hampton Cemetery; survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Hedvig Hackbarth of Dows and Mrs. Verle Easton of Coulter; Greene and Sietsema Funeral Home in charge of arrnagements.

Courier News Service INDEPENDENCE Roy Perry, 21, of Independence, drowned Thursday afternoon while swimming in the Wapsipinicon River at Independence. His body was recovered near the scene of the drowning by Independence firemen at 5:31 p.m., an hour and a half after he disappeared. Police said Perry was swimming with a companion, Tim Head the Courier DGFAST FOR054 A one-minute call to anyplace in the Continental United States except Alaska is just 35C or less, plus tax. Just dial without operator assistance after 5 p.m. and weekends.

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