The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • 7

La Crosse Tribune, Saturday, March 14, 1981-7 obituaries FM facility on way; TV station next goal By DOUG RAINEY Of the Tribune Staff With Rochester an FM radio station nearing completion, Terry is setting his sights on a third commercial television station for La Crosse. of Rochester, a former television group investors known as the FM radio station should be on the air by late spring or early summer, depending on when broadcasting equipment is delivered. A television station is at least a year away, even though another group headed by Rochester has received Federal Communications Commission approval for the only remaining 3 television channel in La Crosse. Rochester's group received the green light for the radio station late last year from the FCC. The newsman who heads a Everybody's Mood said Terry Rochester approval came despite a request for the frequency by Hilltop Radio, a group that wanted a station with a religious format.

Following the FCC approval, Everybody's Mood began remodeling a former ranch style home across from Valley View Mall into a studio and offices. The home formerly housed Deal Realty which has moved back to its old downtown office at 516 State St. The transmitter and tower for the station will be on a bluff near West Salem, with the signal covering La Crosse, Onalaska, Holmen, Sparta and West Salem. Still pending are the call letters for the station, which will occupy the 100 spot on the FM. band.

Everybody's Mood is seeking the call leaders WISQ and anticipates no problems in getting the call letters approved by the FCC, even though WISV, a Viroqua radio station with similar letters, is objecting. Another question is the format. Rochester said Everybody's Mood will consider the 5,000 petitions from rock fans who want a format similar to the one used by WSPLFM. which last year converted from album rock to a beautiful music format. Along with the petitions are two market surveys being taken to determine the wishes of the radio station's audience.

Working against the rockers is the increasing age of radio audiences, said Rochester, who cited figures showing that the average age of the American population is increasing. Further down the road is the television station. Quarterview another group headed by Rochester, passed one regulatory hurdle when it was assigned channel 25, the only frequency left in La Crosse. Next will be a permit for construction, which Rochester said he hopes to receive in the next few months. If all goes well, channel 25 could be on the air next spring, Rochester said.

Getting the station on the air will be an expensive undertaking. The cost of the station is estimated at more than $1 million. This compares to a cost of $150,000 for the radio station, Rochester said. Rochester is bullish on the prospects of both the radio and television station, despite the presence of six radio and two television competitors. "This is a better market than Rochester.

or Eau Claire," he said, in reference to the radio station. Eau Claire has eight commercial, stations. Rochester, has seven. In the case of the television station, he said the channel 25 signal could be picked up by more than 100,000 households, or more than 200,000 persons in the La CrosseWinona area. With a market of this size, plenty of room exists for three stations, he said.

Another advantage would be local ownership, said Rochester. The city's other two stations, WKBT and WXOW are owned by out-of-state companies. Rochester's group is made up of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota residents. Network affiliation remains a question mark, he said, although he added that National Broadcasting Co. is a likely prospect, since it is the only one of the three networks not represented in La Crosse.

Shopping center expected in '82 Developers of a proposed shopping center near Valley View Mall now estimate the project will not be completed until 1982. A release from the Center Companies estimates the center would be completed in 1962. Officials of the company had earlier said the center might open this year. The center would house a discount store, a grocery store and several smaller stores. Probable tenants are Target, the discount store arm of Dayton Hudson, or mart.

If the name Center Companies does not sound famillar, it is because Dayton Hudson Properties, developer of Valley View Mall, was sold in October to its former executives and renamed Center Companies. Center manages the Valley View Mall and has plans for malls in Oshkosh, Green Bay, Wausau and Eau Claire. Valley Vjew is now owned by Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York City. Trains arriving on time Train: service is improving in the La Crosse area, If figures from Amtrak are any indication. The trains still come in the wee hours of the morning, but when they do arrive, they are usually on time.

The Amtrak figures show the "Empire Builder," Chicago-Seattle train that stops in the La Crosse, was on time 96.7 percent in November and 90.9 percent in December. This compares to an on-time record averaging 35 percent, during November and December 1978. The better on-time record brought on a 79 percent reduction in complaints from "Empire Builder" passengers from 1978 to 1980 and an increase in the number of passengers. The better service and improved passenger traffic coincides with the introduction of new equipment on Amtrak, which has been plagued by a variety of problems since it was started in 1971 as a federally-backed rail passenger corporation. The statistics were released by the Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers, which fears Reagan Administration budget cuts will kill Amtrak.

Administration officials have testified Amtrak service is not needed outside of the Northeast. Nightclub becomes a restaurant The old Loading Dock nightclub has reopened as a restaurant specializing in barbecue items. Known as Piggy's on Front the restaurant near the La Crosse Center at 328 Front will feature smoked ribs and other specialties. Owners of the restaurant are Gary Roberts and Narcelle Schneider, wife of import auto dealer Carl Schneider. Roberts, along with the Schneiders, operates the popular Third Street Restaurant, a few blocks away.

Manager is Dennis Wright, formerly of the Nob Hill supper club in Onalaska. Bank company says income is up A decision to raise fees on checking accounts and encourage high balances has paid off for the stockholders of the parent company of First National Bank of La Crossse. Northwest Bancorporation, Minneapolis, in its annual report, said the decision to raise fees and minimum balances for free checking to cover the costs of maintaining checking accounts helped boost income and resulted in a less than 1 percent loss in business. The fees were accompanied by moves to attract customers with high balances with what Banco calls "Interest Plus Checking," a combination savings checking that allowed with high checking account balances to earn interest. When interest on checking accounts became legal late last year, Interest Plus became a simple checking account.

Northwest reported $427 million in the Interest Plus accounts at the end of 1980. Net income for Northwest during 1980 was $113.5 million, up from $106.6 million during 1979. William Roth, chief executive officer of the Trane is on the board of directors of Northwest and the First National Bank of La Crosse. Onalaska gets more new homes The town of Onalaska continues to get the lion's share of new home construction. Figures from the La Crosse County Zoning and Planning Department, show nine homes with a building permit valuation of $368,000 were built in the town.

Only one other permit for a new home was taken out in the other towns in the county. The city of Onalaska reported no permits for new homes during February. Auto production up, layoffs down DETROIT (AP) Indefinite auto industry layoffs dipped slightly this week, but temporary furloughs dropped sharply, according to reports from the major U.S. automakers. Meanwhile, an industry journal reported Thursday that planned auto production by the major U.S.

manufacturers increased 4.5 percent this week from last week but remained 9.6 percent behind production for the same period in 1980. Automotive News also reported year-todate car production lagged 17.2 percent behind production through the same time a year ago. A total of 186,450 workers are on indefinite layoff, down 1,700 from last week's 150, according to the industry reports. Temporary layoffs dropped to 8,450 from 24,750 last week. General Motors Corp.

accounted for the largest number of indefinite layoffs with 83,000 workers on openended furlough, the same as last week. GM said its Janesville, auto assembly plant and the heavy-duty truck line at the GMC Truck and Coach Division plant at Pontiac, will be closed a week, for a total of 5,700 temporary layoffs. That is down from 9,800 indefinite layoffs reported at three GM plants last week. Ford Motor Co. reported 52,300 indefinite layoffs, YOU Be THE JUDGE: you can pay you can drive farther you can wait longer OR you can bring your tax returns to: INCOME TAX CENTER Montgomery Ward Courthouse Square Call La Crosse 785-1050 Elroy inventor killed in tractor accident ELROY, Wis.

Thomas R. Martin, 32, an electrical engineer, inventor and former Royall High School teacher, was killed early Friday when his tractor overturned, pinning him to the ground on his farm 1 near Elroy. Juneau County Chief Deputy Richard Giese said Martin was pulling a large pine log with a chain up a hill when a branch became entangled with another tree causing the small tractor to flip over backwards. It landed on him. Martin had left his home about 6 a.m.

to cut a tree for firewood, telling his wife, Judy, he would return before she had to leave for work, Giese said. When he failed to show up, she went looking for him and found him in the woods about .2 of a mile from their home. She found him pinned under the tractor. Martin, a graduate of the University of WisconsinStout at Menomonie, was an electrical engineer and operated his own firm, Martin Design which makes electronic teaching devices for schools. George F.

Johnson ONALASKA, Wis. George F. Johnson, 90, N4966 Thomas Road, Onalaska, died Friday, March 13, in Lutheran Hospital, La Crosse. He was born Dec. 24, 1890, in Prentice to Nils and Hilda (Westberg) Johnson.

He married Ethel Gear on April 14, 1913, in Winona, Minn. Prior to his retirement, Johnson was a stonemason. Survivors are five sons, Francis, Willard, Thomas K. and Everett, all of Onalaska, and Earl of Fond du Lac; three daughters, Mrs. Paul (Bernice) Meir of Tempe, Mrs.

Joe (Ila) Killilea of La Crosse and Mrs. Howard (Lorraine) Hockett of Norwalk, 25, grandchildren; and 43 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death He had invented a circuitry board to teach electricity in vocational classes and patented two pieces of electronic equipment. Following his graduation from Stout, he taught industrial arts at Royall from 1971 to 1973. He worked in a machine shop in Green Bay and later taught at Mid-State Technical Institute, Wisconsin Rapids, before returning to Elroy in 1976.

He served board chairman for the United Methodist Church of Christ in Elroy for four years and was chairman of the church's goals committee for church expansion at the time of his death. "He was a number 1 person in our said his pastor, the Rev. David McRoberts. Survivors are his wife, the former Judy Jensen, a lifelong resident of Elroy; two daughters, Cheryl and Amy, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Martin of Aurora, and a brother, Robert Martin Jr. of Naperville, Ill. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Zenner Funeral Home, Elroy. by his wife and a sister. Services will be Monday at 10:30 a.m.

in the Fossum Funeral Home, Onalaska, with the Rev. Charles Gavin officiating. Burial will be in Mormon Coulee Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. Helena Boberg ARCADIA, Wis.

Mrs. Helena Boberg, 85, Arcadia, died Thursday, March 12, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Arcadia. She was born Sept. 21, 1895, in Arcadia to John and Elizabeth (Haines) Rohn.

She married Bernard Boberg on June 12, 1923, at Arcadia and they farmed in the Arcadia area until retiring in 1955. Boberg died in 1967. She was a member of St. Ann's Society of Our Lady of Special services set at Baptist church The Rev. Louis Crawford, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Boyd, Texas, will be the main speaker at a weeklong Spring Awakening which begins Sunday at Island Baptist Church, 2548 Lakeshore Drive.

Services will be at 7 p.m. through Sunday, March 22, and at the 11 a.m. worship services on Sunday, led by the Rev. George Shick, pastor. Steve and Sharon Earp and Spirit, Onalaska, will provide Minnesotan killed when hit by train COON RAPIDS, Minn.

(AP) Anoka County authorities say a Coon Rapids woman was struck by an Amtrak train and killed Thursday night. Officers said the victim, Gail Marie Norquist, 30, apparently had been running along Crooked Lake Boulevard and was hit as she sought to cross Burlington Northern tracks. Authorities said the westbound train traveled about mile after the woman was hit. need printing in a hurry? yes we can. the "RED is out at instyprints the wiz of the printing Low Cost Cash Carry INSTANT LITHO PRINTING SPECIAL OFFER Just bring us your typeCOUPON written, hand-drawn, or printed black and white copy.

500 COPIES $11.50 Offer expires April 30 Present coupon when ordering. insty- 2 Copeland Ave. prints La "On Crosse the Causeway' 782-1866 Perpetual Help Catholic Church. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Michael (Bernadine) Walch of Altura, four sons, Norman of Dodge, Ralph and Elden, both of Arcadia, and Merlin of Savage, 27 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; brother, George Rohn of Arcadia; and a sister, Mrs.

Arvella Dorowa of Rollingstone, Minn. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two daughters, a brother, two sisters and four grandchildren. Services will be Monday at 11 a.m. in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Arcadia, with the Rev. Bernard Schreiber officiating.

Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call at the Killian Funeral Home, Arcadia, Sunday after 4 p.m with a rosary to be recited at 7:30 p.m. by St. Ann's Society and a Christian wake service to be at 8 p.m. Emet E.

Parrish WONEWOC, Wis. Emet E. Parrish, 83, of R.2, Wonewoc, died on Thursday, March 12, in his home. He was born Dec. 10, 1897, in Ontario to Jasper and Susie (Greenfield) Parrish.

He married Hazel McCracken and they farmed in the Wonewoc area. Parrish also was a monument salesman. Survivors are his wife; three sons, Theron of Cazenovia, Vincent of Port Charlotte, and Lorenzo of Grove, 31 grandchildren; 52 greatgrandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Frieda) McCracken of Kendall and Mrs. Nora Kingslein of New Lisbon; and four brothers, Arthur of Hillsboro, Melvin of Tomah, Leonard of Union Grove and Willard of Kendall.

Services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the Zenner Funeral Home, Elroy, with the Rev. David Brown officiating. Burial will be in Burr Cemetery, rural Hillsboro. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday after 3 p.m.

Olive Berendes SPARTA, Wis. Mrs. Olive Berendes, 60, a resident of Morrow Memorial Home, Sparta, died Friday, March 13, in St. Mary's Hospital, Sparta. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the PageSmith Funeral Home of Sparta.

Correction Incomplete information given to the La Crosse Tribune for Thursday's edition resulted in omission of the following from the obituary of Lydia Kemske, 87, of 1811 Ferry She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond, and one daughter. mchu eLLIS 788-7100 REALTY TOP SALESPEOPLE FEBRUARY 1981 TOP LISTER TOP SELLER WALLY KENIMER JAY RAMSBOTTOM Whether you're selling a home or considering a new home, our salespeople will give you every reason to put your trust in REALTY WORLD McKy Ellis. Congratulations Wally and Jay We'll cover it you. REALTY mchy eLLIS 2303 State Road, La Crosse, Wis. NOBODY IN LA CROSSE OFFERS A HIGHER RETURN ON A 6-MONTH CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT THAN LA CROSSE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION We Will PAY YOU 13.827% EXAMPLE: A $10,000 6-Month Certificate of Deposit will bring you a return of $10,691.35 If you were to reinvest your principal and interest at the same rate, the effective annual yield would be: 14.305% We Will Pay 12.827% on a $5,000 6-month Certificate of Deposit.

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Wednesday night's service will present a special emphasis on youth, and Friday night will be family night and will include a potluck supper. down from 53,500 last week. Ford said it had 2,050 temporary layoffs this week, down from 9,650. At Chrysler indefinite layoffs dipped to 46,600 from 47,100 reported last week, but temporary furloughs rose slightly from 300 last week to 700 this week. American Motors Corp.

reported 4,550 indefinite layoffs, unchanged from last week, and no temporary layoffs, down from the 5,000 reported idle last week. Workers at Kenosha, returned to the job this week. Volkswagen of America has no layoffs. Automotive News said au- FLAD ASSOCIATES Bookkeeping Personal Business Taxes 10th State Streets, La Crosse (608) 782-2689 tomakers planned to build 140,039 cars this week, up from 133,968 a week ago but down from 154,857 during the 1980 week. For the year, automakers have built 1,217,326 cars compared to 1,469,810 through the 1980 period.

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