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Oshkosh Northwestern www.thenorthwestern.com OBITUARIES Saturday, November 30, 201 3 A5 Los blames wjAddi) it cireaite nnsifiDdDiniail paA t7i to Illinois National Guard Spc. Jacob Montgomery with Dexter at the home of a friend near Peoria, III. Montgomery and his 6-month-old puppy were reunited nine days after a tornado destroyed their apartment on Nov. 17 in Washington, III. ap Dog found under rubble 9 days after Illinois tornado This undated image provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory shows the "gun site" where the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was assembled.

The iconic areas scattered in and around the modern day Los Alamos National Laboratory are being proposed as sites for a new national park commemorating the Manhattan Project, ap By Jeri Clausing Associated Press LOS ALAMOS, N.M. Tucked away in one of northern New Mexico's pristine mountain canyons is an old log cabin that was the birthplace not of a famous person, but a top-secret mission that forever changed the world. Pond Cabin, along with a nearby small and stark building where the second person died while developing the nuclear bomb, are among a number of structures scattered in and around the modern day Los Alamos National Laboratory that are being proposed as sites for a new national park commemorating the Manhattan Project. It's an odd place for a national park, many admit. Besides the fact that some of the sites are behind the gates to what is supposed to be one of the most secure research facilities in the world, nuclear critics have called the plan an expensive glorification of an ugly chapter in history.

"It is a debasement of the national parks idea," Greg Mello, co-founder of the anti-nuclear watchdog Los Alamos Study Group said when the Interior Department two years ago recommended creating national parks at Los Alamos; Hanf ord, and Oak Ridge, Tenn. He remains opposed to the plan, saying it will not provide a comprehensive picture of the Manhattan Project, and he notes that extensive interpretative museums concerning development cludes Pond Cabin and the Slotin Building. Pond Cabin had been part of a boys' school and dude ranch that was purchased and taken over to create Los Alamos lab. It was turned into a key Plutonium research office after the first so-called "criticality accident" killed physicist Harry Daghlian, a physicist, prompting officials to move research to the cabin in a more remote area. A few hundred yards away is the Slotin Building, where Louis Alexander Slotin was killed after a slipped screwdriver accidentally began a fission reaction, making him the second casualty of the Manhattan Project.

Legislation to create the parks at the nation's nuclear sites passed the House and one Senate committee earlier this year. If it is passed and signed into law, the parks would be limited to areas involved in the Manhattan Project. But McGehee has also been busy researching and documenting other now closed areas of the lab. For example, during a 70th anniversary commemoration this summer, lab officials took a media tour and workers and their families on tours of what until recently had been secret tunnel where the nation's nuclear stockpile was stored after World War II. "It's a fascinating process and really exciting from a historian's point of view," McGehee said.

"It's a weird hometown history." a statement released by the Illinois National Guard. "As soon as Dexter saw me, his tail started going." The pooch was in relatively good shape. "The vet said he has no real injuries just a few scrapes and cuts," said Montgomery, who got Dexter as a puppy to keep him company when he moved from Champaign. "He was mainour-' ished, but he's going to be fine." The Washington tornado was part of a band of heavy storms that brought rain, high winds and a rash of twisters to Illinois, and left seven people dead in its wake. Montgomery has been a military police officer with the Illinois Army National Guard for more than five years and is trained to respond to emergencies.

But he says he's never been the victim of such a disaster. "All I had in my apartment is gone, but my dog was all I really had to worry about," he said. The Associated Press WASHINGTON, III. A 6-month-old pit bull that was buried under a pile of rubble for more than a week after a tornado ripped through a central Illinois city has been reunited with his owner. Jacob Montgomery, a member of the Illinois National Guard, was separated from the dog, Dexter, when the Nov.

17 tornado destroyed his third-floor apartment in Washington. Montgomery combed through the wreckage multiple times but turned up no sign of Dexter. Nine days after the storm, a neighbor who was looking for his missing cat with the help of a group called Rescuing Animals in Need sent Montgomery a Facebook message to tell him Dexter had been found partially buried in debris where the apartment building used to stand. "He said, 'I've got your dog right here," Montgomery recalled in have no real interest in how it is told. They can tell it from a national perspective." Among the proposed park's biggest supporters are lab workers like McGehee.

She has been working since an act was passed in 2004 to study creation of such parks, to help identify and preserve areas in town and within lab property to include. Potential park properties include some buildings in downtown Los Alamos, a town that was essentially created to support the lab, as well as 17 buildings in six "industrial sites" within the lab's fence. They include the V-site, where the first atomic bomb to be detonated at the Trinity Site was assembled, as well as the areas where the Little Boy and Fat Man nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, were assembled. Also on the list is the Pajarito site, which in OBITUARIES CHARLES W. "CARL" JEWELL Deadline's here: Is Healthcare.gov fixed? Sort of I-1 WIWWWIIWIWptiWM of the nuclear bomb already exist.

Supporters, however, note that good or bad, the Manhattan Project transformed history. And they argue that key sites that have not already been bulldozed should be preserved and the public should be allowed to visit them. "It isn't glorifying anything," says Ellen McGehee, historical facilities manager for Los Alamos labs. "It's really more a commemoration History is what it is. We can't pick and choose what's historically significant." The park service, she said, would help people learn about the controversies, the people and the social, political and military legacy surrounding development of nuclear weapons.

"There are a lot of emotions rolled up in this story," she said. "That's why the park service is the best entity to tell this story. They can approach it as an outsider. They continuing to point to the site's delays and failures. Those include delays in online enrollment for the small business exchange; worries over the security of the site; and the need for the administration to release enrollment numbers, which are not scheduled until later in December.

First month's enrollment in the the federal exchange fell far short of expectations, with only about 23,000 people choosing and enrolling in insurance plans. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took issue with the small business exchange delay, calling it a sign that the health care law's "issues run much deeper than a failing website." He again called for a one-year delay for the federal and state exchanges, as well as for the individual mandate fee people will have to pay in 2014 if they do not have insurance. People who have been using the site for the past week or so have already seen progress, administration officials said. They've been able to move through the site quickly, compare prices and benefits and have been notified about how much their subsidies will be or if they're eligible for coyerage under Medicaid. And they've been able to enroll in health insurance plans, said Julie Bataille, director of the office of communications for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

"So the fixes that you hear us talking about, the hardware improvements that you hear us talking about, those are all designed to improve performance and functionality of the site and the user experience for the consumers that are choosing to access this information online," she said. When the site launched Oct. 1, millions of hits from people curious about the site or eager to enroll in health insurance overwhelmed the site, causing error messages, frozen pages and "come back later" posts. After about a month, government officials began almost-daily briefings with reporters to explain what had been done the night before. Each evening, the site came offline while technicians added servers, updated software and replaced hardware.

They also changed out portions of the site deemed confusing to consumers, attempted to make it easier for those helping consumers navigate the site to find their applications, and began e-mail notification of people who had tried early on to enroll but found their applications permanently stuck. Rather than marketing the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, the administration found itself focused entirely on fixing the website. Steven VanRoekel, chief information offi- OS3ITUIS1EES Charles William "Carl" Jewell, age 81, of the Town of Lion, Waushara County, passed away on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at Omro Care Center where he had resided for the past four months. The only son of Edwin Davis and Margaret Mc-Nutt Jewell, Charles was born July 12, 1932 on the family farm near Pine River, where he resided all his life. He was a graduate of Pine River State Grade School, a 1950 graduate of Wild Rose High School and attended Agriculture Short Course at UW-Madi-son.

On July 18, 1959, he was united in marriage to Adell Lois Brewer at Berlin Methodist Church. Charles was a farmer all his life. He also worked at the Redgranite Pickle Station, Wild Rose Lumber Company, Wells-Fargo Security Company ana delivered the Oshkosh Northwestern and Buyer's Guide papers for many years. He served as a board member for Associated Milk Products, Pure Milk Products, Inc. and Wisconsin Feeder Pig Co-Op.

He was a leader of the Pine River 4-H Club and served on the Waushara County Livestock Committee. Charles was a member of the Waushara County Civil Defense Police ana Supervisor on the Town of Leon Board. He was a member of Pine River Congregational Church where he served on the church board. Later, he attended Waushara Community Church and was active in the Young at Heart group and Monday morning Bible study. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Adell; three daughters, Monique (Jeff) Volden of Mt.

Horeb, Lois Jewell and Carolee (Vaughn) Brooks, both of Redgranite; two sons, Timothy (Monica) Jewell of Auburndale and Thomas i i uairoa By Kelly Kennedy USATODAY WASHINGTON Healthcare.gov has doubled its user capacity and eliminated many bugs in time for today's deadline, when the Oba-ma administration pledged the problematic website would operate smoothly "for the vast majority" of people trying to access the site. Jeffrey Zients, who is leading a technical team charged with fixing the website after its disastrous Oct. 1 rollout, said capacity is being increased to 50,000 simultaneous users and more than 800,000 total consumer visits a day. That would allow about 1.84 million people to "comfortably" sign up for health insurance coverage through the federal exchange by Dec. 23, or in time for Jan.

1 coverage, he said at a White House briefing. Potentially more than 9.5 million people could sign up before March 31, or the end of the 2014 enrollment period. "That said, there could be moments in the middle of the day seems to be the peak where capacity goes beyond that current user level, at which point there will be a customer-friendly queuing system which would notify you when to come back to the site and sort of be first in line," Zients said. In other words, people will receive an e-mail letting them know when to return to the page. That doesn't mean everything's fixed: Technicians are still working on the back-end functions of the site, or the portion that makes sure insurers get their checks when people who will receive subsidies enroll.

As of last week, 30 percent to 40 percent of that work remained to be done. Despite improvements, Republicans are cer for the federal government, said the system is extraordinarily complex because it needs to access but not store Social Security information, as well as criminal background records through the Department of Homeland Security, and then it needs to check income levels at the IRS. And, he said, people need to put the situation in perspective: The website will never be "finished" because they will continue over the years to improve it. As Bill Gates' assistant at Microsoft in 2001, VanRoekel said he helped launch Windows XP. "And here we find ourselves nearly 12 years later, Microsoft is still patching Windows XP," he said.

OBITOilEIES Malaney, Betty Betty Malaney passed away peacefully on Nov. 25, 2013. She was surrounded by her family. Details on the memorial service to follow in February 2014. many aunts uncles, cousins, nieces and nephew.

Jeff was proceeded in death by his loving mother Joan Galetka, stepmother Kim Galetka, grandparents Gerald and Mavis Smith and aunt Terri Galetka. Visitation will be held on Monday December 2, 2013 from 10 to 1 with a private family gathering to follow at 11:30. attheFiss and Bills Poklasny Funeral Home 865 S. West-haven Dr. Oshkosh, WI 54904.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established. Fiss and Bills Poklasny Funeral Home 865 Westhaven Dr. 235 1170 Fissbillspoklasny.com (Dawn) Jewell of Redgranite; fifteen grandchildren, Abrah Annette Volden, Jewel, Carina, Kaitlyn, Esther, Micah and Sackett Brooks, Isabella, Annalise, Charlie and Molly Jewell, and Marisa, Makenna and Mia Jewell; two sisters, Joan Bohn of Hancock and Judith LaFrombois of Fitchburg; brothers-in-law, Fred (Nancy) Brewer of Berlin and Ronald Brewer of Weston; numerous nieces, nephews and his extended church family. He was preceded in death by his parents; his father and mother-in-law, Lawrence and Maxine Brewer; a sister, Jean Glass; three brothers-in-law, Ewan Glass, Ben Bohn and Ed LaFrombois, two nieces. Mary Margaret Glass and Randi Glass; and brother of the heart, Dick Anderson.

Funeral services will be held Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Waushara Community Church, Hwy 21, Wau-toma, the Rev. R. Alan Spitler officiating. Interment will be in fine River Cemetery.

Friends and relatives may call on Sunday, December 1, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the church and again Monday, December 2, one hour prior to the service. Arrangements have been entrusted to Barbola Funeral Chapel of Berlin. Online condolences may be sent to the family at tr ral Chapel runera: Galetka, Jeffrey Allen Jeffrey passed away at Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh on November 27, 2013.

He was born on July 10, 1981, in Neillsville. WI. Jeff spent his early years in Colorado and returned to Oshkosh as a young man. Those who knew Jen will remember him for his dedication and kindness to friends and his good sense of humor. Jeff is survived by father Charles (Victoria) Galetka, dedicated and loving partner, Kasey Gill, siblings; Donovan (LeighAnne), Devonne (Matt) Tucker, Nicholas, Travis (Jaime), Grandparents Charles and Lois Galetka and his special friend Mary Caswell.

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