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Nearly $1 million in bogus money Find counterfeit bills on sandbar Wilson for many months. Wilson had circulated $35,000 and possibly up to $100,000 in bogus $20 bills in the Midwest area, according to Schaefer. The Secret Service agent added that the counterfeit money was made in St. Paul. Under the direction of Alma Chief of Police Fred Glander the barrel was taken to the sheriff's office, where It was pried open with a chisel and then cut open in order to remove the water soaked rolls of money, security negatives and plates.

Hoch then called in Schaefer, the secret service agent, who conducted the investigation. All of the barrel's contents accompanied Schaefer on his return trip to Milwaukee late Friday afternoon. SCHAEFER said that Robert R. Burke, U.S. Secret Service, head agent for the Department of Treasury in Wisconsin, and Myron Weinsten, Secret Service, who has charge of the Minnesota area, had been trailing By VI BENICKI Sunday News Area Editor ALMA, Wis.

Nearly $1 million in counterfeit $10 and $20 bills and security checks, believed to have belonged to Mel-vin Luther Wilson, 43, Brainerd, have been found on a Mississippi River sandbar by Thomas Rciter, 17, son of Mrs. Nora Reiter, Alma. Wilson was arrested two any announcement of the "find" until they received clearance from the investigating Secret Service officer, Friday about 3 p.m. The 2-by-24 foot, heavy tin barrel, commonly used for packing lard to wholesalers, and stuffed full of money and plates, weighed about 125 pounds, according to Myron Hoch, Buffalo County sheriff. 1 i i i i i i i ib.

iniiaiv ii lam in. i V. i i '-VV i I Ir 1 111111 weeks ago in Janesville, for possession of counterfeit money, pleaded guilty to the Alma youth's fishing trip 'pays off ALMA, Wis. "It was my biggest and best catch on the river so far, said Thomas Reiter, 17-year-old son of Mrs. Nora Reiter.

Alma, referring to his find of nearly $1 million in bogus) bills. charge and is being held in a Madison jail in lieu of $5,000 bond until completion of a presentence investigation ordered by Federal District Court Judge James Doyle. When he was picked up he had $2,280 in counterfeit money in his possession, said Special Agent Thomas L. Schaefer, Department of the Treasury, U.S. Secret Service, Milwaukee.

Wilson told authorities he threw the barrel into the river at Wabasha, some 12 miles north of Alma, a few weeks ago. Schaefer said Wilson had dumped the money because he was "frightened when he heard a cohort had been arrested and because the bills were imperfect." However, Schaefer said that the average person would not have noticed any imperfection. THE BARREL full of money was found by Reiter Thursday evening about 7:30, while ha was fishing on the Mississippi River. Local authorities withheld The youth spotted a barrel on a sandbar in the Mississippi River, just across from Alma, while fishing Thursday evening. When investigating, he discovered that it was full of money and plates.

"I was pretty shocked." he added. "But it made me feel kinda good. Too bad it wasn't real money." AFTER THE unusual find. on a sandbar, just across from Alma (background) where he found the heavy tin barrel packed with bogus bills, while fishingjn the area. The spot is nearly midpoint between the Alma Dam and Dairyland Power Cooperative.

(La Croix Johnson photos) FROM WHENCE IT CAME Pointing toward Lock Dam 4 at Alma, to show the direction from which the barrel full of counterfeit money floated down the Mississippi River, is Thomas Reiter, 17, son of Mrs. Nora Reiter, Alma. The youth stands and $20 bills. The Secret Service agent conducting the investigation said the average person could not have noticed that the bills were counterfeit. (Sunday News photos by La Croix Johnson) NOT THE REAL THING This close-up shot shows the open tin barrel on the left, with the rolled up bills and others printed on paper that has not been trimmed.

In the boxes in the foreground are phony. $10 Reiter and his friends were told not to say anything until after the investigation. Then on Friday afternoon a Secret Service WW agent looked up Reiter in school 3a Liberal versus Conservative Winona Sunday Newt Winona, Minnesota and informed him that the amount of cash found was in a excess of $500,000 and that it could be $1 million. District 2B votes Tues day Events leading up to the find: While fishing from a boat Thursday about 7:30 p.m., Reiter saw a barrel lying on a sandbar near the shoreline. He pulled his boat onto the shore and walked up to the barrel, which was lodged In the sand among the willows.

ent 70-64 margin by which Conservatives dominate the Liberal minority. Although the biennial session is now in its final weeks, the great bulk of legislation is still to be acted upon and the vote of each legislator becomes SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1971 Woman from St. Charles is killed in Iowa ST. CHARLES, Minn. A 45-year-old St.

Charlesr woman was killed in a one-car accident about 6:30 p.m. Friday at the junction of State Highways 3 and 150, two miles north of Oelwein, in Fayette County. Mrs. Virgil Rossow, rural St. Charles, was pronounced dead on arrival at Meroy Hospital, Oelwein.

She died of a broken neck and crushed chest, according to the attending if 1 In a rare special election voters of Minnesota House District 2-B Tuesday will select a state representative who will barely have his seat warmed before the Legislature- adjourns on May 24. There is more than passing interest in the election's outcome since it is a straightaway Liberal Conservative battle. The winner will take the position left vacant April 1 by the death of Rep. Charles Miller, Wabasha Liberal. He will assume an eminence not usually accorded a late-arriving freshman legislator because he will either widen or narrow the pres critically important when factions are so nearly equal.

Conservative hopes of regaining the Wabasha-Winona County seat ride with cis Kottschade, 49-year-old Kellogg farmer. Liberals expect to extend their three-term control with Richard Lemke, 40, who farms near Lake City. Although Lemke ran ahead of the field of seven in the April 20 primary, Kottschade has received the blessing of at least two of the candidates, Arthur "Doc" Carlson of Wabasha, who ran third in the primary, and James N. Enga, rural Stockton; who was third high in Winona County. Legislators are elected on a technically non-party basis but Lemke has the DFL endorsement and Kottschade is the choice of Republicans who did not, however, call an official endorsing convention as did the DFL'ers.

District 2-B comprises all of Wabasha County and 10 northyest townships in Winona County. There are 35 precincts in Wabasha County and 19 in Winona County. Polls will be open Tuesday for the same hours as they were in the primary. While all must close at 8 p.m., some precincts with sparse voter populations do not keep polls open for the entire day. -1 ft HERE'S THE SPOT! Pointing to markings in the sand where the tipped-over barrel was lodged, with its cover down, are Thomas Reiter, 17, right, son of Mrs.

Nora Reiter, Alma, who found the barrel and Steven Parks, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Park, Alma, who helped load the barrel and its contents into a boat. Kottschade Lemke JAMES Ehresman, Iowa State Highway patrolman in District 10, said that as Mrs. Rossow was traveling east on the rain-slick Highway 3, she NSF official speaks here Warns of scientist oversupply apparently became confused as she was about to negotiate a turn onto Highway 150.

She applied the brakes, said the patrolman, causing the vehicle to He tried to pick up the tin barrel, but it was so heavy he could not budge it. So he kicked at it and it rolled over, with the wired-on top opening a little and exposing several metal plates with imprints of $10 and $20 bills. Reiter dug down In-side the barrel and found a $20 bill that had printing on one side. ONCE MORE he tried to lift the barrel, but to no avail. So he went back to get a friend, Steyen Parks, 17, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Parks, Alma. The two of them went to the sandbar, picked up the barrel, placed it in the boat, and rowed to Alma. Upon arrival they ran lnte Chief of Police Fred Glander on the street, showed him one of the phony plates, and related what they had found. Then Glander, Reiter, Parks, Mike Abts, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Darrell Abts and Hal Goldner, 24, all of Alma, started digging through the barrel's contenU and found it was three-quarters full of money. The rolls of cur-rency were hard to get out of the barrel since they were swollen from being in the water. The barrel was placed In Glander's car and taken to the sheriff's office. "I HAD NO idea there was that much money in the barrel "men 1 "aw the $20 bill with printing on one side, I figured it was counterfeit.

Too bad it wasn't the real thing. "But then I did catch a pike that day, too," he concluded. by 1980 undergraduate enroll ments in toto are likely to in slide on the wet pavement and strike the curb on the median, and then causing the car to roll several times within the medi doctorate degrees in the past two years. Added to this, he said, are "projections which indicate that neers at the beginning of 1971, noting a "significant" increase in the number of unemployed or underemployed persons wtih crease by 55 percent; graduate enrollment to science and engi an. Mrs.

Rossow was thrown neering by 45 percent, and doc torate production in science from the vehicle, which apparently came down on top of her. The car was a total loss. and engineering by approxi mately 65 percent." Falk said projections by his Employed as a printer at Camera Arts, Lewiston, the former Marjorie Louise Brigg- man was born Sept. 2, 1925, in Manchester, Iowa to William and Gladys Little Briggman and was married Dec. 2, 1947, at Oelwein.

The couple had lived on the St. Charles farm office and by other agencies indicate that the least hard-hit field will be the physical sciences, while "the analyses show a much more pessimistic picture for engineers and social scientists, with possible significant oversupplies." By STEVEN P. JOHNSON Sunday News Staff Writer C. E. Falk, director of the Division of Science Resources and Policy Studies of the National Science Foundation warned of a coming surplus of scientists and engineers in an address to the annual meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Science Friday evening at St.

Mary's College. The academy's annual meeting began here Friday morning and concluded Saturday. Falk warned of a "likelihood of some oversupply in certain areas" of science and engineering by 1980 if current trends continue, urging a "re-examination by universities and colleges of their curricula and degree structures." "IT IS a vital necessity that our institutions of higher education respond positively to the new challenges posed by our present times," he said. The noted scientist pointed out that there were 45,000 unemployed scientists and engi- OFFSET PLATE Holding a plastic offset plate for 400 scientists attending meeting The 39th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Science concluded here Saturday after two days of meetings, lectures and discussions at St. Mary's College.

Attended by 400 scientists from around the state, the conference concluded Saturday afternoon after an address by 3-M Company executive Dr. Robert Adams on "The Economic and Scientific Climate for the 70's Local and Industrial." Included in the scientists' activities Saturday was a bird-watching hike, a planetarium presentation, a nature walk and a visit to the SMC Hydrobiology Station at Homer. The academy meeting also broke down into section meetings in the fields of anthropology, biochemistry, botany, environmental education, geography, physics, chemistry, political science, science education and zoology. Separate meetings in all fields also included the presentation of a number of original research papers on a variety of topics. a $20 bill up to the fluorescent light in the Buffalo County sheriff's office in Alma, is Special Agent Thomas L.

Schaefer, Department of the Treasury, U.S. Secret Service, Milwaukee, Wis. Looking on is Sheriff Myron Hoch. HOPING TO head off the problem before it becomes a major one, he said, would primarily involve the colleges and universities. He warned them not to dis courage students from careers in science and engineering, but Cancer unit will meet at Whitehall WHITEHALL.

Wis. fSnorian urged them to include more diverse and interdisciplinary as well as problem-oriented undergraduate courses." the past 14 years. SURVIVORS her husband; two sons, Robert Ross, and Scott Rossow, both of St. Charles; her father, Manchester, and three brothers, Willis, Chicago; Dale, Alexandria, and Dean, Manchester. Her mother has died.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Bohnen-kamp Funeral Home, Manchester, Paul Elliott, Gospel Hall, Manchester, officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Manchester. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening and Monday until time of services. Plainview man still critical "On the graduate level," he Executive board members said, "work-study programs and internships should be consider ed to provide students with the ilpilpiillili fill opportunity to obtain first-hand experience." Doctorate programs "for two- and four-year college teachers and practitioner degree programs for those planning careers involving non- research and development ac tivities should be made more readily available," Falk said.

He noted, however, that the "whole issue of unemployment and under employment has in of the Trempealeau County unit of the American Cancer Society will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Trempealeau County courthouse here. Professional education, and recruitment and training will be discussed. Reports will be given by Mrs. Herbert Lyon, town of Caledonia, on public education; Mrs.

Aldred Sexe, town of Ettrick, service; Mrs. Donald Severson, Arcadia, finance; William Thomas, Frenchville, president, crusade, and Mrs. C. A. Brye, Ettrick, public information.

A report of the Cured Cancer Assembly, which was attended by Mrs. Basil Tenneson of Blair, will be given. A nominating committee will be elected and the unit budget will be voted upon. Plans for the final meeting of the year will be discussed. James Smith, La Crosse, area executive, will be present.

been greatly aggravated by a mismatch of aspirations and opportunities," urging more care ful career counselling of first- year students. Whitewater Park gets federal grant SORTING BOGUS BILLS Separating about $1 million in counterfeit money are Myron Hoch, Alma, left, sheriff of Buffalo County, and Alma Chief of Police Fred Glardcr. The 2-by-2V2-foot, heavy tin barrel, the kind in which wholesale lard is sometimes packed, was cut open in order to get to the water-soaked, rolled up bills and security checks. WASHINGTON. DC.

A federal grant of $2,297 for im WABASHA, Minn. Rxhard L. Loppnow, Plainview, 34, was still in critical condition Saturday afternoon at the Methodist Hospital, Rochester, where he was admitted following an accident Thursday at a lumber company here. A bundle of steel fell on him. Loppnow, manager of United Centers, Wabasha, had his left leg amputated above the knee during a 10-hour operation.

He also has a fractured right leg, fractured pelvis and infrnal injuries. The1 bundle of 20-foot lengths of steel, used for pole buildings, was bing unloaded frcm a truck at the time of the provements at Whitewater State Park was approved today by aiv mmtt 'mi ItmmmJi' nniinniiiiii -iimnm mi mi i LOCAL 246 SCIENTIST TO SCIENTIST Mem- discuss manpower needs in science and engi neering at a Friday night banquet during the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation according to Rep. Albert H. Quie. The grant, to be matched by the state will be used to remodel a dining hall on the picnic grounds.

A refreshment stand operated by park personnel will be provided also. INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. LOCAL 244 will hold lis Regular Meeting at the Winona Labor Tempi MONDAY, MAY P.M. Look for This Lobel on Printed Products TENNIS COURTS CALEDONIA, Minn. (Special) A vote will be taken on the construction of tennis courts when the Loveless-Eikens American Legion Post 191 meets Tuesday at 8 p.m.

bers of the Minnesota Academy of Science and representatives of St. Mary's College listen to C. E. Falk, left, director of the Division of Science Resources and Policy Studies of the National Science Foundation, the academy's annual meeting which concluded Saturday at SMC. At far right is SMC president Brother George Paul.

(Sunday News photo).