Chippewa Herald-Telegram from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin • 1

tft flllTf Af i li i i a U4DI30H 6i SSlot ssrv I r-p ChippeWa $1 VA N-iSS gfe 'GjS) Tl NUmber F0Ur SeCti0nS 28 PaQeS Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Monday, August 1, 1977 I I 4J crunch! Jhis is one of the crushed when big white pines were felled by "Saturday night's fishtailing tqrnado at Birch readers can follow the path of funnels as they ripped through upper Chippewa County as a camera records the destruction on pages 2B and 3B tonight. R5W ro0LS MMS. iELECTil in a narrow path that devastated north Bloomer, Birch Point and Brunet Island and killing a Cornell man after crushing his car, the twisters demolished some structures while virtually ignoring others just a highway apart The funnels, and there were as many as three sighted at one time, dipped down just off State 40 about four miles west of this City and cut a skinny but' destructive" swath northeastward to the Holcombe country before veering up into the Sheldon area in lower Rus County. Killed when his car was battered and bounced into the cemetery south of Holcombe at State 27 and County WW was Dick By HOLLY MEIER Herald-Telegram Editor BLOOMER Those Mack, swirling, fish-tailing funnels that smashed their murderous path across the middle and upper reaches of Chippewa County early Saturday evening were highly selective. Blowing down barns and homes Walters, 35-year-old son of Harold Walters.

The victim was reportedly flung from the wind-whipped, careening car about 300 yards from the cemetery while the vehicle was smashing itself into a crumpled steel clump. TOE TORNADOES, FIRST TO hit this City in 53 years, ruined hundreds of houses in the thickly-populated residential areaon the northwest corner and1 then rammed due east into the canning factory area, tearing into the walls and the rooftops before caroming off into houses on the east side of County SS. Almost miraculously, there were no fatalities in the wrecked residential section, and, only about a dozen reported injuries. An unofficial report late Saturday night, a few hours after the storm had smashed into Bloomer a little after 7: 36, counted 12 people hospitalized with various non-critical injuries, with four of those released almost The twister, unlike others, was turn to COUNTY FUNNELS page 3 put storm damage in millions BLOOMER, Wis. (AP) Damage estimates had already soareoV into the millions Sunday, after federal disaster aid for 1Q northern counties after severe windstorms July 4 caused damage estimated at nearly $50 million.

Acting Gov: Martin Schreiber, noting that some of the same counties were hit by Saturday night's tornados, said the state would provide "all possible assistance" to local governments and residents. He said Federal Disaster Assistance Administration officials were checking damage in the area Sunday. The most severe damage was reported at Bloomer, a Chippewa County city of 3,500, but tornado damage was also reported in the Clear Lake i area of Polk County, in northeastern Croix County and near Rice Lake and Canton in Barron County. At Bloomer, about 100 homes were destroyed and another 50 severely damaged when the tornado hit about 7:30 Police Chief Louis Reetz said. He said a funnel'cloud barely missed the hospital and a building where several hundred persons were attending a reunion.

"We watched it coming and we could see wood and shingles in it," said Mitch Lawin, 16, who was at work in a restaurant east of Bloomer when the storm hit. "it looked like big rolling dustball. It was awesome." Reetz said about a dozen persons were injured, turn to DAMAGE page 4 tornados ripped through northwestern Wisconsin, killing one man, injuring others and destroying homes and farm buildings. It was the second vicious storm to hit the state's vacationlands this summer. State officials have sought.

did Nixon take 1 million from Teamsters? r-, A.B DESTRUCTION LIIE THIS was common after grinding twisters racked north Bloomer Saturday night. irDeKfslbeafr NEW YORK (AP) Justice Department officials believe former President Richard M. Nixon was talking about a $1 million cash payoff he allegedly received from the Teamsters Union when he told White House Counsel John W. Dean III he could get hush money for Watergate burglars, according to Time magazine. Time reported, in its current issue that the Justice Department believes Nixon received the $1 million from Teamsters running the union until March 1980 when his sentence would have expired.

Quoting unidentified government sources, Time said government informers have claimed that in early January 1973, New Jersey Teamster boss Anthony Provenzano ordered that $500,000 in cash be delivered to a White House courier in Las Vegas. Provenzano allegedly told an associate he collected the money at Fitzsimmons' turn to NIXON page 4 Union President Frank Fitzsimmons in exchange for keeping former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa out of office in the union. Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot outside Detroit on July 30, 1975. He is believed- by authorities to have been murdered. Nixon had commuted Hoffa's 13-year prison sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud in December 1971, with the provision that he have nothing to do with disaster help VW KMfm Judge rules part of Simonson transcript can be released tims of Bloomer's tornado are presently being organized, but a location has not been set.

Residents who need assistance are asked to contact the Bloomer Police Chief for information. Case workers will also' be available to assist victims and two camping vans will be touring the area with coffee, sandwiches and soft drinks for persons involved in the clean-up operation. For additional information" assistance, Bloomer residents may contact; the Chippewa County Red Cross Headquarters in Chippewa Falls or the Bloomer Police Chief. warning issued CHIPPEWA FALLS City Police have issued a warning for area businessmen against persons soliciting funds under the name of the Wisconsin Professional Policeman's Association. A department spokesman said today that some Chippewa Falls businessplaces have already been contacted through a phone solicitation.

It was reported that the WPP A doesxnot use phone solicitation. Simonson and five other candidates are running in the recall election, and the judge is predicting that he will win. Dahlberg said his editing removed all references to the names of the girl and boys involved in the case, but that a "potential for great harm" to the victim and attackers nevertheless exists because of the turn to SIMONSON paqe 4 provocative women's clothing and what he referred to as a sexually permissive atmosphere in Madison, Simonson asked, "Are we supposed to take an impressionable person, 15 or 16 years of age, who can respond to something like that, and punish that person severely because they react to it normally?" He ordered the youth to spend a year at home under court supervision. RICHARD WALTERS, Cornell, was thrown out of this car and killed on State 27 south of Holcombe before a funnel compacted it into this ball of crumpled steel. i vehicle fires 'Son of Sam celebrates first anniversary BELOIT, Wis.

(AP) Release of a partial transcript of the hearing at which Dane County Judge Archie Simonson of Madison linked sexual assault with provocative clothing and permissiveness was approved today by Rock County Judge Edwin Dahlberg. Dahlberg said that all but about one page of the transcript of the hearing could be released, but he delayed the release until next Monday to give the district attorney's office and parents of the juveniles involved a chance to appeal his decision. He ruled that the public interest in releasing the transcript outweighs the interests of those involved in the juvenile case in keeping it secret. Simonson, whose remarks touched off such a con-, troversy that he now faces a recall election on Sept, 7, has said his comments were taken out of context and blown out of proportion and that release of the transcript would exonerate him. The controvery began May 25 at a disposition hearing for a 15-year-old boy who had pleaded no contest to delinquency in a second degree sexual assault case.

The youth was one of three accused in an attack on a 16-year-old girl in a Madison high school stairwell last November. After talking about CHIPPEWA FALLS City Firefighters were called to two motor vehicle fires over the weekend. At 12:03 p.m. Friday a 1964 van owned by Terrence Bell, 216 N. Priaire St caught fire.

The engine compartment was damaged and some clothing in the van was burned. The incident took place at 16 Pine St At 6: 28 a.m. a 1972 auto owned by John Lynn, Town of Wheaton, was discovered smouldering in his garage. The interior pf the car had been ignited by. unknown caus.

The car was considered a total loss. A -1 1 "completely shattered" the left eye and exited above the right eyebrow. His left eye was removed and Clark said that while the right eye could distinguish lightness from dark, it would be some time before doctors knew how much ifeny sight he would retain. Police reported they were swamped, with calls today regarding the case. "Everybody knows the killer," a police spokesman said.

Police said several prime suspects had been under surveillance this weekend but that all were accounted for when the Brooklyn shooting occurred. "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," A police official said, "except when you look through a haystack, you know what the needle looks like." "We had 2,000 cops out looking for Sam this weekend," a member of the special task force investigating the shootings said. "We thought for sure he'd strike in Queens or the Bronx but all the publicity must have driven him into Brooklyn." Mayor Abraham Beame ordered the assignment of 100 more policemen to the 70-man task force and promised Police Commissioner Michael Codd, "If you need still more tonight- but Tuesday promises to be pleasant. Lows tonight will be in the 50s and highs tomorrow" in NEW YORK (AP) The killer who calls himself "Son of Sam" marked his first year of terror by pumping slugs into his 12th and 13th victims as they sat in a parked car watching the full moon over New York harbor. One of his victims was near death today.

He struck in Brooklyn, turf untouched in previous forays into Queens and the Bronx and unguarded by the beef ed-up police patrols in those boroughs. Stacy Moskowitz and Robert Violante, both 20-year-old Brooklynites, spent their first date Saturday night seeing a movie, dancing at a popular neighborhood discotheque and walking hand-in-hand in the moonlight. The date ended Sunday morning with the pair in critical condition at Kings County Hospital, both shot in the head. Hospital officials said today they were "very pessimistic" that Miss Moskowitz would survive. She was grazed by one shot, but severely wounded by a second that slammed into the base of her skull, shattered bone and lodged in her neck.

She underwent eight hours of surgery Sunday morning and, late Sunday evening, was returned to the operating room for an additional 30 minutes to drain fluid from her nasal cavity. Her brain continued to swell today, and Ira Clark, assistant hcital administrator, said, "Everything known to neurosurgeons has been done in an attempt to save her." Violante's condition Was improved today. Clark said he was "alert, lucid, stable and talking," and had spent some time with his parents this morning. The bullet which struck Violante entered the left temple, found guilty me us. Yesterday's high was 77 and last night's low' was 50.

The CFWT plant reported 66 at 8 this morning, with the barometer rising from 30.14, the wind blowing at 5 m.pJi. out of the west1 and no new rain. CHIPPEWA FALLS Joseph Warren Ertz, 18, was found guilty in Chippewa County Court of disorderly conduct at the Stanley Hospital on July 29th. Ert2 hadreportedly created a disturbance at the hospital and later over the phone. He was placed oq one year probation but was also placed in jail men you'll have them." Friday marked one year since the killer's fir attack, when 18-year-old Donna Lauria died.

The killer became known as Son of Sam following the April 17 fatal turn to SAM page 4 since be had no otner piace to stay..