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Hand, foot, mouth disease Lifestyle, B3 Former Nebraskan wins Open Sports, B1 i' i' ComicsM LifestyleB3-4 LocalA3 MarketplaceBW OpinionA4 Public NoticesB8 RegionalA SportsB1-2 U.S.-WorldA5 remont Inbune Humid Tuesday; high in the 80s Monday, July 24, 1989 Fremont, Nebraska HHMoawivmi Single Copy 35 Home Delivery 30 122nd year No. 61 '-'--'i nsgmaom Murder clues TV crew films in Lyons Heres some clues for those who want to get a head start on solving the Anna Anton murder in Lyons: Anton, 34, was found naked in a field near Walthill on Dec. 27, 1986. She had been shot three times. Gregory J.

Webb, 36, police chief of Lyons for nine years, is the prime suspect in the case. He lived in the apartment below Antons. Anton had lived in Lyons for four months before her death. Investigators think that Anton and Webb knew each other before she moved to town, and also that they may have been romantically involved with each other. Anton was a native of Milford, Iowa.

Webb was a native of the Sioux City area. Webb told Investigator Jerry See MURDER, Page A2 sented by the very people originally involved in the case. Lyons residents were used as extras in the segment. One of the scenes shot locally was a meeting between Webb, Burt County Sheriff Leonard Carnarsky, Thurston County Attorney Stuart Mills and Investigator Jerry Kreiger at Lous Hiway Cafe on U.S. 77 in Lyons.

The meeting occurred Dec. 27, 1986, the day Antons body was found and three days before Webb disappeared. I had received a coroners call and went out to look at the body. Then we came into Lyons to investigate Antons residence. I wanted something to eat so we all went to the Hiway.

I had a hamburger and everyone else was drinking coffee, said Mills, who at that time was Thurston county attorney as well as county coroner. When we were talking to Webb, I noticed some discrepancies in the responses he had given at the apartment and ones he gave in the restaurant. See LYONS, Page A2 Unsolved Mysteries looks at 1986 murder BY ABBIE GAFFEY Staff Writer LYONS Television viewers nationwide will take a crack at solving the mystery of Anna Antons death this fall. Anton, who was found dead in a Wal-thill farmers field in December 1986, and the mysterious disappearance of her neighbor, then-Lyons Police Chief Greg Webb, will be the subject of a segment of the NBC television show Unsolved Mysteries. A crew from Cosgrove-Muerer Productions, the Los Angeles company which produces the series, was in Lyons Friday to conduct interviews and to film a couple of the crucial scenes to be used in the portrayal of the crime.

Two professional actors from the Omaha area were hired to play the two main characters, Anton and Webb, but all of the other characters were repre Staff PhotoAbbie Gaftey Mary Piper, mayor of Lyons, plays herself in an upcoming episode of Unsolved Mysteries which was filmed in Lyons Friday night. Cork Ramer, a professional actor from Lincoln, is portraying Greg Webb, prime suspect in the Anna Anton murder of December 1986. Cars lined the streets in downtown Lyons to see Mrs. Piper recreate the last encounter with Webb. NEIGHBORS Student questions school motivation School meeting Fremont Board of Education meets at 7 tonight at the Central Office Building, 957 N.

Pierce St. To motivate students, she suggested that grade weighing, the process which places higher credits on harder courses, would encourage students to enroll in such classes. In response to Miss Gibbons address, Dr. Roger Rohlfs, assistant superintendent of curriculum, said the district will look at grade weighing in the future. The problem with the process is how to determine which classes are more difficult than others.

Rohlfs said that Fremont Public Schools is a comprehensive district trying to meet the needs of all its students. Mary Winterstein, board vice president, said Miss Gibbons had legitimate points that should be considered in the fu ture. Mrs. Wintersteins son, Brad, a 1989 graduate of the high school, also pgreed. The education part was fine, Winterstein said of his years spent in the system.

The grading part was the problem. If advanced placement could have been a part of the system, students would take harder courses, he said. The decision of grade weighing is a difficult one, according to Jason Pinkall, another recent graduate. Teachers will take personal offense to a decision that one class is better than another, Pinkall said. Brett Leiss, also a 1989 graduate, said that teachers salaries are very low and are teaching according to what theyre making.

The school budget also is too low, he said. Attending Fremont Public schools since the fifth grade, Leiss said his education could have been better but that he is happy with it. He advises students currently enrolled in the school to take what they want and do it their way. Responding to Miss Gibbons remarks on student motivation, another former Fremont stu- See SCHOOL, Page A2 European schooling opens eyes' Two Fremont students returned home last week after spending the 1989-90 school year with European families as participants in an American Field Service program. a i a Strasburg lived and went to school in Straaburg Austria, while JiH Thomsen stayed with a Belgian noble family and going to school there.

Both students, who will begin college in the fall, applied for the trips during their senior year in high school. After being accepted, they traveled to Europe in August 1988. As part of the program, both went to schools in which the native language was spoken. Thomsen said it was quite a challenge to learn French, which is spoken in Belgiums Liege province, where she lived. Strasburg said she took four years of German in high school, but still had difficulty at first adjusting to the dialect spoken in the Austrian province of Styria BY LORNA BETTS-ROTHANZL Staff Writer A Fremont Senior High School graduate questioned the school boards awareness of the apathy and boredom she says students in the school system feel.

Darcy Gibbons told the board at its recent meeting that it didnt understand, how many problems the students faced because they were not motivated but rather mainstreamed through the system. Miss Gibbons attended the Fremonts public school system from kindergarten through graduation. I have gotten the impression that you are not interested in the students but in the new building fund, for example, she said to the board. Farmers scour fields for engine parts SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) Investigators stepped up a hunt for pieces of the rear engine from Uniteds ill-fated DC-10, training infrared cameras on cornfields 60 miles from the crash site and asking farmers to search their land. At Sioux Gateway Airport, officials on Sunday were painstakingly reassembling the tail section of Flight 232 in hopes of determining what caused the jet to lose hydraulic power and tumble out of control across the runway.

In Denver, meanwhile, a United official told about 200 people at a service for survivors and victims that it was time for healing after Wednesdays crash. There is little to say to ease the sadness. We at United feel deeply your pain and loss. We have lost members of the United family. And we offer thanks for those were spared," said Capt.

William Traub, Uniteds vice president of flight standards in Denver. Authorities were beginning to return home the bodies of crash victims. A spokesman for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said more than 20 bodies had been sent home by Sunday. According to a list compiled with information from United, relatives and employers, 105 people were confirmed dead and five were still listed as missing.

Another 186 passengers survived the crash, United said. Hospital officials said 40 people remained hospitalized. Fremont teen killed in Colorado A 17-year-old Fremonter was killed early Sunday when the vehicle he was driving collided with another vehicle 6 miles southeast of Loveland, Colo. Erik Johnson, 908 N. I was pronounced dead upon arrival at Lovelands McKee Medical Center after the vehicle he was driving was hit by a vehicle driven by James Schmitz, 30, of Loveland 12:35 a.m.

Sunday. According to Colorado State Patrol reports, Schmitz was driving east on County Road 16 at a high rate of speed and ran a stop sign at the east service road to Interstate 25 when his vehicle broadsided Johnsons car, which was crossing the road heading north. After the impact, Johnsons vehicle spun completely around, slid backwards off the left side of the road and hit two parked vehicles before coming to rest. Two passengers in Johnsons vehicle, Brian Vyhlidal, 17, 2025 E. Eighth and Trevor Smith, 18, of Arvada, were injured and were taken to McKee Medical Center.

Vyhlidal who was seated in the back seat was reportedly thrown from the vehicle through the rear window. Schmitz also was taken to the medical center. Funeral services for Johnson are pending at Ludvigsen Mortuary in Fremont. Bush wants defense budget to stay intact WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush, defending the half-billion-dollar B-2 Stealth bomber and saying the Star Wars missile defense system is critical, appealed today to senators to keep his defense budget intact. The president, meeting with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and other leading senators, also said an espionage investigation at the State Department doesnt help U.S.-Soviet relations.

Bush said the B-2 and the Strategic Defense Initiative, both of which are threatened with deep cuts on Capitol Hill, are essential to the U.S. defense and to arms talks with the Soviets. "We need the utmost flexibility in terms of arms control, said Bush. Asked by reporters how he could justify the expense of the B-2, costing $70 billion for 132 planes, or $530 million apiece, Bush replied, "I justify it because I think the prime responsibility of the president Is the national security of the United States. On Sunday, Bushs budget chief said the president has ruled out any suggestion from Democrats that he accept future tax increases In exchange for an immediate cut in the capital gains tax.

Darman said the president was not willing to agree to exchange a lower capital gains levy now. Associated Prsss Wednesday afternoon. More than 100 people died when the jet tried to make an emergency landing. Two investigators look into an engine Friday afternoon that was part of United flight 232 which crashed at Sioux Gateway Airport pieces apparently fell in areas where corn is up to 6 feet high. "We basically plan on being alert.

Were concerned about our machines getting a flat tire and so forth, said Tim Anderson, on whose farm several Nebraska Air National Guard jets photographed those fields with infrared cameras in a search for metal fragments thrown from the engine when it exploded. Burnett said the search had Jim Burnett, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said farmers in a 16-square-mile section about 60 miles northeast of the crash site were being asked to look for parts, including the missing engine fan. been hampered because some pieces of the plane fell. again if given the chance. It was difficult leaving the Austrian family, she said, because she became very attached.

Thomsen said she would encourage other Nebraskans to join the program. Club's project has residents swinging The Three Rivers Club, of the Telephone Pioneers of America made residents of the Fremont Care Center happy earlier this month with the dedication of a wheelchair-accessible swing on the centers lawn. The swing is a project that past president Ruth Tarvtn began last year. She said a lot of volunteer labor, cooperation and donation of materials made the project possible. Some residents of the care center enjoyed watching the construction almost as much as the finished product.

One retired concrete worker tested the swing as it was being hung and another resident, 92-year-old Emma Sohl was the first swinger." Officials zip lips about spy Coming Tuesday in the Tribune News Fremont 4-H Club Fair opens with dog, dairy shows. Residents learn CPR. Spoils Area athletes prepare for Shrjne Bowl. Larry Voecks writes about the outdoors. Food fortedly was filmed by U.S.

of-icials earlier this year passing a briefcase to a known Soviet KGB agent in a European capital. The State Department and the FBI are "pursuing the inquiry thoroughly in order to identify the compromised security which has occurred and the appropriate steps, the State Department said. Blochs building pass and security clearance have been lifted. and law enforcement officials skirted questions Sunday about the probe of Felix S. Bloch, the former second-in-command at the U.S.

Embassy in Austria for seven years. Bloch is the target an Intelligence probe, making him the highest-ranking U.S. official ever implicated in an espionage investigation involving the Soviet Union. Bloch, who has not been charged with any crime, re- Former No. 2 man in Austria probed WASHINGTON (AP) With U.S.

officials remaining tight-lipped about the investigation of a top diplomat suspected of passing information to the Soviets, the emerging picture Is one of a frustrated bureaucrat who may have aroused intelligence doubts a decade ago. Administration, legislative I Jam recipes "beny" good. -fi.