The Daily Republic from Mitchell, South Dakota • Page 12

at Scotland Engraves Monuments ument business for 25 years. By the Rev. Charles Duman St. George's Catholic Church SCOTLAND As you walk past the rows of cemetery grave markers, have you ever wondered about the skill involved in lettering and engraving these monuments? Whether the remembrance is simple marker stone or an elaborately carved monument, there is a great deal of craftsmanship required in its preparation. Ed Schmidt, local funeral director, has been in the business of carving names and dates on monuments since VJ Day in 1946.

He learned the business from the granite shops in St. Cloud, and has since perfected his skill and craftsmanship by turning out as many as 40 to 60 monuments a year. The Schmidt Monument Works employs no special salesman and a heavy duty truck takes care of deliveries. Schmidt or his assistant, Jack Freidel, are always on hand to help a customer in the selection of a stone, lettering size and design. After this has been decided, Schmidt goes to work.

drawn on paper, then imprinted Formerly a the lettering was on a rubber sheet stencil. This process has been simplified in the recent purchase a machine which not only imprints the letters, but cuts them out as well, leaving only a portion of the stone exposed for lettering or ornamental carvings. The stencil has an adhesive back and is comparable in thickness to a tire patch. It's main function is to protect the portion of the monument which will not be engraved. After the letters and ornamentation on the stencil are cut out and attached to the memorial stone, the stone is placed a blast-room where carborundum crystals--a granite cutting, abrasive-are shot at stencil under 100 pounds of air pressure.

This cuts the lettering or engraving into the granite. The stencil is then removed and the stone is ready for delivery. Generally the monuments are made of granite, but about one per cent are made of marble. The average monument weighs about 1500 pounds and measures three and a half feet long, eight inches thick and two feet high. Ed Schmidt has been in business here in Scotland for 25 years, but very few people rea-1 lize that the work is done in his own shop.

As far as we know, Schmidt is the only funeral director who does this kind of work. stone. On the right he uses a the thickness of a tire patch. Ed Schmidt, owner of the He is shown on the left plac. purchased, pressurized Schmidt Funeral Home at ing a stencil containing the machine the letters Scotland, has been in the mon- lettering and design on a In the stencil which is about Many Myths Held on Tax Revenues in State BROOKINGS A study of tax collections and expenditures of State government in South Dakota by a professor of economics, at South Dakota State University shows that many citizens may not be familiar with the manner in which we collect and spend money collected by the State.

Allyn 0. Lockner, who has studied South Dakota tax problems over the past six years, suggests that answers to the following statements will reveal a person's understanding of South Dakota tax problems. Answer each 'true' or 1. Most of the State revenue collections are turned over to the general fund. 2.

The governor and legislators have control over the majority of the money collected by the state. 3. The largest expenditure of funds collected at the state level is for education. 4. State government controls most of the money used for public welfare.

5. Only a minor part of the money collected by the state is earmarked for special uses. Every statement listed above is according to information summarized by Dr. Lockner. For example, the study shows that out of $199 million spent by the State only $74.8 million was actually included in the general fund in 1970.

The general fund is considered incorrectly by most to be the fundamental budget for state government. "That means that the governor and our legislators actually control only 37.6 per cent of all state expenditures," says the economist. "In other words the legislature or governor views or governor views and controls less than 40 cents out of each dollar collected by state government in South Dakota." MORE MORE MORE MORE A review of the manner in which all state collected revenue was spent in 1970 shows that 33.6 per cent was spent for highways; 30.7 per cent for education and research and 15.5 per cent went for public welfare and veterans. But out of the general fund 58.7 per cent went to education and research; public welfare and veterans received 14 per cent; and health and hospital needs, which is the third largest item in the general fund, received 11.1 per cent of the total. Dr.

Lockner points out that the governor together with the legislature exercises a high degree of control over the manner in which funds are spent on only a few items. They control about 90 per cent of all funds received by correctional institu-1 tions, 82.6 per cent of all funds used for general government and 78.1 per cent of the funds 'spent by the state on health programs and hospitals. The summary also shows that the governor and legislators control nearly three fourths of all funds spent by the state on ed- Rites Held for Former Resident Of Bridgewater By Republic News Service BRIDGEWATER Funeral services for Richard W. Wulff, 45, Sioux Falls, formerly of Bridgewater were Sept. 23 at the Messiah Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls.

Interment was in the Bridgewater City Cemetery. Mr. Wulff was killed Sept. 20 in a near head on collision on Highway 77 north of Sioux Falls. He was born June 1, 1926 at ada Augusta, and North and Dakota lived "before enlisting in the Army and serving in Europe during World War II.

After his discharge he lived in Bridgewater before moving to Sioux Falls where he was employed by Triangle School Supplies. On Oct. 11, 1953 he married Geraldine Haroldson at Bridgewater. Survivors include his widow; a son, Daniel; two daughters, Wanda and Lynette, all home; his parents, the Rev. and Mrs.

Robert F. Wulff, Bridgewater, and two brothers, the Rev. Arnold Wulff, Forest Park, and Werner Wulff, Seattle, Wash. I Friday, September 24, 1971 112 Mitchell Daily Republie, SD Funds Used In SBA Loans PIERRE (M Ralph Ginn, South Dakota commissioner of school and public land, says his department has made three loans to new businesses in the state through the Small Business Administration. Ginn said the Tri-County Development Corporation of Bridgewater was loaned 400 for a nursing home, Western Dynamics of Rapid City was loaned $36,000 and the Silver Scissors Fabric Center of Faith was loaned $12,000.

Ginn said all loans are tully guaranteed by the federal government. Ways To Combat Drinking Drivers To Be Studied PIERRE State highway patrolmen will be learning more ways to combat drinking drivers during the next two weeks. Dr. Roger Hagen, South Dakota Alcohol Safety Action Project director, has scheduled daylong ASAP courses in Pierre, Aberdeen, Sioux Falls, Huron and Rapid City. "We hope to improve the Patrol's ability identify problemdrinker drivers," said Dr.

Hagen. "This be a vital first step in the Alcohol Safety Action Project to assure that the rest of ASAP will work." Dr. Hagen and Captain George Samis of the South Dakota Highway Patrol, who is assigned to the are working as instructors for the course. Patrolmen will be learning methods of identification and surveillance drivers, collection of evidence, and giving evidence court. "For example," said Dr.

Hagen, "In collecting evidence the patrolmen will be familiarized with the use of MOBATS, mobile breath sampling The same course will be given later this year to other state law enforcement personnel, and to the new Highway Patrol recruits. School Bond Issue Set at RC RAPID CITY A $4.375 million school bond issue will be decided by electors of the Rapid City Independent School District 16. The election was set in a resolution of necessity approved by the board of education. The issue would fund major expansion and improvement at the Central High School complex, oldest of the city's two high schools, and improvements and classroom additions at each of the three junior high schools. The facilities problem became! acute following a Dec.

4 fire gutted the Washington building at Central and also caused the substandard Coolidge Building be removed from further service. The total project involving the four schools estimated at $6.129 million Withes about $1.815 million to come from capital outlay funds on hand, future capital outlay levies, insurance on the fire funds remaining in Central's account from a 1965 bond issue. Last school bond election in Rapid City was a $3.9 million issue approved by some 88 per cent of the voters in November, 1965. It was to assist in construction of Rapid City Stevens and provided some funds for upgrading Central. Stickney Gets Rid of Car Bodies Stickney is getting rid of its Junk cars through compacting, Pictured is a car stripped of useful material including engine, accessories and transmission ready to be smashed.

The machine mount. ed on a truck that compacts the car bodies is owned by Shown is a car body still in the machine that bas compact. ed it to the general size and shape of a mattress. The flattened bodies are loaded on a Murdo Mail Carrier Whittles Diamond Willow By ALICE DUBA Daily Republic State Editor MURDO "I always wonder what new design I'll uncover next, that's the exciting part of my hobby," said Charles am. Newsam, who has been a mail carrier at Murdo for the past 24 years, carves, canes, lamp bases, candle sticks and other objects out of diamond willow.

He's been at it only a few months now. Before that he did some whittling on different willow sticks but he had never completed anything. He exhibited several this year at the Jones County Fair that was held in connection with the annual 4-H I achievement day at the Murdo Auditorium. "Guess I got started because my dad was afraid there wouldn't be anyone to carry on his hobby," Newsam continued. His father, who has been carving, willow canes for out of the has diamond givmany years en away over 100 canes to people throughout the United States and probably has at least one "Charles Newsam's father, Frank Newsam, 1s 89 and lives at a nursing home in Rapid City.

Recently Charles took a couple of his pieces out to show his father who looked them over and said, "They'll do." Frank Newsam continues to do some carving he didn't seem very interested when his son took some pieces of willow to him but when Charles was there recently, his dad, said, "Where's those other sticks?" when "the whittling bug" bites you it is for The diamond willow grows a- long the White River where Charles Newsam gets most of his pieces to carve. The willow also grows along the Platte in Nebraska and as Newsam says, "the Missouri has a lot of willow and probably the Jim has too. Those along the Missouri have more diamonds than from other places. The willow grows to a top heighth of about 15 feet and gets to be five or six inches in diameter, When the bark is taken off and a person starts using a jackknife, the diamonds appear, no two ever alike, sometimes small, sometimes large, close together or with some smooth wood in between the diamonds. It takes about 15 hours of whittling to develop the diamonds into the form that the whittler desires.

In the smooth wood of one of the canes Newsam had shown at the Murdo fair, he had carved a snake the length of the cane. He said that otherwise the would be too plain. One cane had a natural handle that was just the way the wood had grown. One cane had 60 of the diamonds. Another had a diamond in the right place to make a perfect thumb hold.

The lamp base was made from a piece of willow of larger diameter. When Newsam starts carving he wonders what will come out next and as the form develops it suggests some article such as candlesticks. The pieces whittle better while they are green although pieces that have been lying around and are dried out often have pieces of dry rot that add to the pattern. After each piece is whittled, it is sanded and then finished with varnish to protect the wood. Newsam who is a native of the area was in the Army durIng World War II and served in the Pacific for 37 months.

He said, "I never saw anyplace that I liked better than this He and his wife, the former Cecilia Lemieux of Van Metre, have eight children; four in high school, three in the grades and one pre-schooler. Hickory Stick Meeting Slated At Springfield SPRINGFIELD Little Missouri Valley Chapter of Hickory Stick will hold its annual fall meeting at the University. of South Dakota at Springfield, Oct. 2. Hickory Stick is a state-wide organization composed of men in the field of education.

Its main purpose is to provide fellowship for male teachers. Members will meet at Montgomery Center for an evening meal at 5:45 p.m. then be hosted by the college for the ond home football game when the USD Pointers, meet Peru State College Nebraska at 7:30 p.m. Election of officers for the coming year will be held. Officers completing a year of leadership include "Big Stick: Bruce Miller, Freeman Junior College; "Little Stick" Larry Lynstad, Springfield High School; "Knot" Wayne Dempster, Tripp High School; and "Sap Virgil Petrik, assistant professor of speech at USD-S.

VFW District 8 Slates Meeting At Kennebec KENNEBEC State Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander a es Endsly, Yankton, will be the speaker at the fall meeting of VFW District 8 at the post home in Kennebec day, Sept. 26. A get acquainted hour will be held from 1-2 p.m. with the meeting to start at 2 o'clock. Posts in the district are at Winner, Burke, Chamberlain, Murdo and Kennebec.

The auxiliaries in the district: will bold their meeting at the same time in the St. Michael Church Hall. I Health Programs Funded By THE Health ASSOCIATED Service PRESS has The Indian approved fundings for four community health representative programs in South Dakota. Allocations And counties served include: $41,980 for the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Sisseton, for Marshall and Roberta; $36,000 the Lower Brule Tribe, Lower Brule, Ly. man and Stanley; $45,049 for Crow Creek Tribe, Fort son, Buffalo, Hughes, Brule and Hyde, and $90,567 for the RoseTribe, Rosebud, Todd, Mellette, Tripp and Gregory.

Under this program tatives are selected to work as liaison between members of the tribes and the Indian health service in providing health serv. ices and improvements in health care and education. Sturgis To Vote On Sales Tax STURGIS (P) Citizens here will vote Oct. 19 on a municipal sales tax for the second time in less than two years, it was decided at a meeting of the city council, The council passed at second reading an ordinance providing for one per cent sales tax to be collected, as in other municipalities, through the state, they deferred its becoming effective pending the election. The ordinance provided that receipts from the tax be used for paying and sewer repair.

Cheerleaders ucation and research, which totaled $61.1 million in 1970; about a third of all funds spent on public welfare and veterans, which totaled $30.9 million in 1970; and none of the funds spent for highway construction, and maintenance which totaled $66.9 million in 1970. The study, indicates that the general fund budget contains $8 out of every $10 spent on public health and hospitals by the State; $8 out of every $10 spent on general government, but only $2.50 out of every $10 spent on natural resources and recreation development by the State of South Dakota. Total state expenditures in these three areas in 1970 follow: $10.5 million for health and hospitals; $4.6 million for general government and $7.1 million for natural resources and recreation development, Most of those agencies which control of the Governor operate outside the review and Legislature are financed by socalled "earmarked" monies. That means that at the time the tax is levied, the law specifies how the funds shall be used. "One count shows that at least 38 agencies now operate through earmarked funds collected by the state of South Dakota," says Dr.

Lockner. Others operate on a combination of earmarked funds and federal grants. Freeman Pastor To Speak at Beulah Church FULTON The Rev. Walter man of the Missionary Church of Freeman the speaker at revival services at the Beulah Nazarene, Church Sept. through Services will be at 8 o'clock each evening except Saturday, Oct.

2 when there will be no service. The church is 12 miles east, 15 miles north and one mile west of Mitchell. Chosen at USDS Charles Newsam of Murdo from diamond willow that shows a cane he has whittled grows along the White River. Memorial Art Center Has Harvey Dunn Film BROOKINGS Visitors the Memorial Art Center at South Dakota State University can now view a film on the life of Harvey Dunn. The 28-minute color film, "Harvey Dunn: Painter of Pioneers," will be on permanent display in the Dunn Gallery at the Art Center, Director Joseph Stuart announced.

The film is on a continuous loop projector. Visitors operate the machine on their own to view the film on a televisionsize screen. The film was produced on campus in 1968 with background music by the SDSU Symphonic Orchestra. John McIntyre, star of the TV series, "Wagon narrates the film which traces the life of Harvey Dunn from his home at Manchester to his studio at Tenafly, N.J. Stuart added that a second copy of the film may be rented by organizations.

on or off campus. SDSU has the largest collection of Harvey Dunn paintings and all but three of the 56 paintings are displayed in the Art Center. Another display of vey 'Dunn paintings is in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Stuart said exhibits during the 1971-72 school year will include paintings, models ventions by Leonardo da Vinci, architecture, African tribal sculpture and paintings by Byron Burford, Oscar Howe and Picasso. An exhibit of art by SDSU students will be held in March and a five-state regional exhibit will run through the summer at the Art Center.

4-H Foundation Fund Sale Set at Pukwana Nov. 13. PUKWANA Plans are derway for South Dakota's second 4-H Foundation Fund Sale scheduled Pukwana Nov. 13 at 1 p.m., at the Brule County Ag Building. The fund drive was initiated with a sale at the State Fair, selling one each, calf, and sheep for a total of $7,250.

The goal is $500,000, to be raised over a five-year period, and will be known as the Livestock Industry 4-H Trust Fund. Nine calves had been donated for the sale as of Sept. 16, when the area foundation group met Elks Youth Contest Opens MADISON (P) John Lang, Madison, state Elks leadership chairman, has announced the opening of competition for the organization's youth leadership contest. He said application forms have been mailed to all lodges in the state. The contest is open to boys and girls under 19 as of last July 1 and are enrolled in high school when entries are submitted.

The contest is to recognize youth who demonstrate outstanding qualities of leadership. High scholastic achievement is not necessarily one of the most important qualifications, he said. Each Elk lodge presents a local award to a winning boy and girl. Local winners then enter the state contests where $2,200 will be awarded to three top entries in each division. State winners are eligible for the $10,500 national contest.

Lang said students interested in competing in the Elks youth leadership contest should contact their school counselor, principal or the leadership chairman of their local Elks lodge, ON INDIAN BOARD SIOUX FALLS (P) Dr. J. D. Thompson, associate professor of physics at Augustana College. is one of seven persons, and the only elected to vacancies non the National Indian Lutheran Board.

The election was at a Lutheran conference on American Indian ministries, held at Oklahoma City. SPRINGFIELD A studentfaculty committee at the University of South Dakota at Springfield has. named cheerleaders for the 1971-72 academic year. Two veterans return and will work during the year with four appointed cheerleaders. Chosen for the third year is senior Marsha Gorseth of Arlington.

Connie Schneider, sophomore from Menno, will serve her second year as cheerleader. Newcomers to the squad include Barb Bolton, Colome; Jean Baltzer, Tripp: Sharon Stewart, Scotland; and YaVonne Bridges, Geddes. Coeds named to the junior varsity squad are Nora Sukut, Avon; Nancy Roberts, Stickney; Mary DeMarais, Sioux Falls; Crystel Assman, Winner; Susan Hausmann, Bonesteel; and Gail Fossum, Canton. The junior varsity cheerleaders are responsible for working at Pup basketball games and varsity wrestling matches. The selection committee included staff members from the physical education division and student council members Nancy Storm of Stickney and Chuck McDonnell of Highmore.

Tom Landers Supports TIP HOT SPRINGS (P) Tom Landers of Hot Springs, president of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, has pressed strong support for the tax information program. "For first time in the history of state there will be the a way to determine whether property taxes as we know them are unfair to some while actually giving a free ride to Landers said. "The last TIP progress port indicated the property tax model will be finished about Oct. 31," he said. "This will give all groups involved in drafting tax reform proposals the yardstick they need to test their proposals as to actual rev.

enue generated and from which set of taxpayers." Perkins County Family Named Farm Family of '71 HURON (M The Alton J. Finck family of Perkins County: was named the Farmers Home Administration farm family of the year Tuesday night. The awurd was announced at a dinner honoring the Fineks and three other district winners the Gene Stafford family of McPherson County, the Leo Feldhouse family of Miner County and the Jennis B. Hofer family of Hutchinson County. Selection in the contest, Archle Gubbrud, stale FHA director, said, was based mainly on iness management and financial progress, farming practices, use of resources, overcoming adverse conditions and participation in community affairs.

The night's principal talk was given by Gaylord Farnsworth, public relations director for the New Holland corporation. The Finck family will now be entered in national FILA family competition. GRAFFITI (-1971 Mchaughi Syndicate Inc. ConS HAVE FODDER COMP LEXES the Pukwana grade school for further organization of committees and discussion of plans. Farmers and ranchers donating calves are William Reimer, Robert Healy, Frank Cable, Marion Murphy, Earl Biskeborn, John Glaus, Jensen Brothers, Roy Rose and Holstein Brothers.

All proceeds from sale will go into the fund. There are no expenses or salaries as the committee seeks donations for everything involved, A side of beef, for a free barbecue the day of the sale, is being donated by LPS Feeds of Sioux Falls. Corrals for the holding of livestock have been offered by Jay Lundt and free delivery of calves to the buyers by Robert Kulhavy of the Brule County Co-op. The half million dollars will be invested and the interest used for awards 'and national trips for South Dakota 4-H members. Committees are seeking more calf donors, and contracts are being made for buyers.

Ten sales are planned throughout the state this year, and at least 50 sales over the five-year perlod. Anyone seeking additional information may contact Delmer Moore or Kenneth Wonnenberg, Brule and Lyman County gents, respectively. Revival Weekend Set at Spencer SPENCER There will be a Revival Weekend Sept, 24-26 at the Spencer Christian Church with students from Dakota Bible College of Huron in charge. There will be services each evening at 8 o'clock with youth services at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Special music is planned ac.cording to the Rev. Robert S. Martin, pastor of the church. RADIATION SCREENING PIERRE (R) The South Dakota Health departmeht says the federal Environmental Protection Agency will have a mobile radiation screening unit in Edgemont next week. Dr.

Robert Hayes, state health officer, said the unit will be used to determine if uranium mill tailings have been used in construction. Hayes said the survey in Edgemont is part of an EPA program to survey all areas surrounding uranium mill sites, in the western United States. Lavelle Graning of Sioux Falls. Graning takes his fit to different parts of the state. profit comes from the salvaged parts and from selling the bodies which will be melted by the steel mills.

(Stickney Argus Photos) flatbed truck to be taken to the steel mills. La Velle Graning, who owns the machine, has been disposing of car bodies in Stickuey. Da Vinci Models Shown At SDSU Art Center BROOKINGS Art is found in many forms. The current display at the Memorial Art Center at South Dakota State versity is art for engineers. The exhibit features models of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci.

Da Vinci lived in the 15th century but his ideas preceded 19tb and 20th Century inventions of flying machines and automobiles. The displays are all automated and will be at the Art Center until Oct. 5, Director Joseph Stuart announced. Among the da Vinci inventions at the Art Center are a printing press, triple tier machine gun, paddle wheel ship, twolevel bridge, hydraulic screw, file cutter, military tank and pile driver. The models are owned by Italian government had constructed large scale models of da Vinci's drawings in the 1930's but they were destroyed by American bombers during World War II while they were on display in Japan.

After the war IBM obtained the rights to the exhibition, and 'constructed models which were more suited for circulating displays. The exhibit at SDSU is only part of the com plete exhibit built by IBM..