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Glasgow man killed in crash WOLF POINT The crash of gren, 20, Pelican Rapids, a quarter-ton pickup truck into with Gary Supennois, 27, Fergus the rear of grain-loaded semi- Falls, Minn. The truck was loadtrailer Monday night near Oswe- ed with 73,000 pounds of grain, go Bridge 11 miles west of Wolf they said. Point was fatal for a Glasgow Construction has been taking man. place at the bridge. The roadway The Montana Highway Patrol has loose gravel, and is posted said Kenneth L.

Tonjum, 39, with a 35-mile-per-hour speed Glasgow, driver of the pickup, limit. The speed of the pickup was dead on arrival at Wolf was not determined, the patrolPoint Trinity Mospital. The driv- man said. er and passenger in the grain The owner of the semi-trailer truck were not injured. is Ray Anderson of Underwood, The driver was Eugene Nor- the patrolman said.

Hearing scheduled in suit on libel CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP)-A A jury returned a verdict hearing on defense motions for April 8 awarding Vogan $55,000 a directed verdict and for a in the suit. The new hearing new trial in a libel suit by for- which was put on the schedule mer helicopter pilot James Vo- Tuesday will be on motions by has been scheduled for the Woolgrowers and Mau in gan U.S. District Court at Casper connection with that trial. April 25.

Vogan claims he was libeled Vogan, who made headlines by a letter written by Mau that in 1971 with his testimony be- appeared in the "Wyoming fore a Senate committee in Wool Grower," in 1972. Washington concerning the al- Vogan's suit claimed that as leged killing of eagles in a result of the letter, he lost his Wyoming and Colorado, filed a job and was unable to obtain $2.2 million suit against the empoyment as a pilot. Vogan Wyoming Wool Growers Associ- now lives on a ranch west of ation a and its former president Salem, Ore. William Mau of Rock Springs. U.S.

District Court Judge Ewing T. Kerr presided at the trial on the suit and is to be on Hearing the the bench motions. for the hearing on on pipeline scheduled Wolf Point Capitol News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. Federal Power Commission Judge Max L. Kane has tentatively set May 15 for a public hearing in Great Falls on a proposal to pipe natural gas from Montana to Colorado.

"As far as the people in Montana are concerned, we would like the right to enter protest (to the project)," said Robert E. McTaggart, a member of the Montana Public Service Commission. Colorado Interstate Gas Co. has applied to the FPC for permission to construct a pipeline from the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming 216 miles north to an area south and west of the Bear Paw Mountain. Through its subsidiaries, the company has leases of 986,000 acres and an intensive drilling program under way.

Bank Boston 60 Buffalo Charlotte Charleston Brownsville 49 67 73 70 25855 Chicago 48 Cincinnati 58 Cleveland 53 Denver 64 Des Moines 62 Detroit 59 Duluth 52 Fairbanks. Fort Worth 70 Helena 63 Honolulu 73 Houston. 76 Ind'apolis 61 Jacks ville 75 Juneau 43 Kansas City Las Vegas 83 Little Rock 61 Los Angeles 77 Louisville 57 Memphis 65 Miami 82 Milwaukee. 54 Mpls-St. 59 New Orleans 74 58 New York 62 Okla.

City 61 Omaha 59 Orlando 85 Philad' phia 63 Phoenix. 90 Pittsburgh 57 36 P'tland, Ore 61 P'tland, Me 53 Rapid City 72 Reno 70 Richmond 67 St. Louis 57 Seattle 56 45 Spokane. 53 Tampa 83 68 Washington 62 46 Vitals -weather BIRTHS Boy Mr. and Mrs.

James Ormsby, 224 S. 29th St. Girls Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bentz, 824.

Main Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wuest, 11 Ave. E. Mr.

and Mrs. David Asay, 2099 Hollowell Mr. and Mrs. Kent Loveland, Worland, Wyo. Mr.

and Mrs. Steve Adams, Big Horn CITY DEATH Peter Boukas, 76, 831 Parkhill Drive. AREA DEATHS Arthur Mohland, 45, Missoula Elma May Christinson, 86, Glasgow Delcy P. Biesheuvel, 38, Melstone Harriet Whittington, 69, Powell, former Red Lodge resident Mrs. Anna Kuni, 85, Miles City Joseph Schindler, 86, Glendive Kenneth Lee Tonjum, 39, Glasgow FIRE CALLS 10:48 a.m.

Tuesday (City) 27th St. and Montana, false alarm. 12:04 p.m. Tuesday (City) 928 State FROM PAGE 1) nide, strychnine and the chemical 1080. Department officials contend that coyote attacks on cattle and sheep is by far the greatest concern to Montana's livestock industry, valued at $1.2 billion.

The impact statement said bear are involved in some sheep and cattle losses and that fox, bobcat and other small predator species take poultry and other small farm animals. U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife studies indicate that from 1972 to 1973, coyote populations in Montana increased approximately 21 per cent, according to the impact statement. The department cited a December 1973 survey conducted by the Montana Wool Growers Association to which 17 per cent of Montana's sheep raisers responded. "They indicated a 58.5 per cent increase in predator losses from calendar year 1972 to 1973 and estimated 1973 lamb losses due to predation as high as 20 to 40 cent of their total lamb crop." The impact statement said a Department of Fish and Game survey of fur trappers revealed a 400 per cent increase in the number of coyotes taken in Montana i in 1973 compared to the coyote take in 1970.

The impact statement concedes that scientists have been unable to determine the effects of coyote abundance in relationship to livestock losses. A 1973 Department of Livestock survey of sheep raisers was noted in the impact statement. That survey showed that since 1960, regardless of flock size or type of operation, sheep growers listed predators as the No. 1 economic drawback to their industry. Department officials observed that nonlethal controls, including fencing and the use of repellents, frightening devices and antifertility agents, have been proven effective controls.

The impact statement said the proposed predator-control programs would be applied where there is unacceptable River studies to be discussed OMAHA, Proposals for studies of the Yellowstone River Basin and the Missouri River flood plain will be discussed May 8-9 in Omaha at a quarterly meeting of the Missouri River Basin Commission. Scheduled to be presented at the session is a report on the commission's review of federal water and land resources programs in the 10-state Missouri River Basin. Other topics of discussion are to include an appraisal of saline seep problems and reports by the Department of Agriculture on the Rural Environmental Assistance Program, and the Rural Environmental Conservation Program. Judge in Helena heads Law Day HELENA (AP). The Montana Supreme Court Monday appointed Helena District Court Judge Gordon Bennett as state chairman of Law Day 1974.

Bennett is a judge of the 1st Judicial District. Law Day is based on the theme "Help Preserve Good Laws, Help Change Bad Laws, Help Make Better Laws." Tonjum GLASGOW Kenneth Lee Tonjum, 39, died Monday night of injuries received in an automobile accident about 11 miles west of Wolf Point. He was born April 3, 1935, in Glasgow, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Mons Tonjum.

As a small child, he moved with his family to Scobey. He graduated from Scobey High School in 1954. He attended Eastern Montana College in Billings and moved to Poplar, where he was employed by the Montana Highway Department until 1965, except for two years he spent in military service. He married Vera Johnson on June 29, 1958, at Poplar. In 1965 he went to work for Murphy Oil Corp.

From 1968 to 1971, he owned and operated Argonaut Men's Clothing Store in Poplar. In 1971 he was employed by Construction and in 1973 he went to work for Whitlow Steel, Inc. Mr. Tonjum was a past elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Poplar, a past member of the Poplar Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Poplar Jaycees, past vice president of the Montana Jaycees, a member of the United Methodist Church in Glasgow and the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. Survivors include the widow; one son, Dennis, three daughters, Kenda, Stacey and JoDell, all of the family his mother, Mrs.

Anna Tonjum of Scobey, and one sister, Mrs. R. L. Whitlow. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church in Poplar, with the Rev. Gene Harbaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar City Cemetery. Clayton Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point is in charge of arrangements. Biesheuvel MELSTONE Delcy P.

38, wife of Harlin Biesheuvel, died Tuesday in the Roundup hospital a week after surgery. The family moved to Melstone about 10 years ago. She was born Jan. 30, 1936, in Britton, S.D., a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Brown. She was married on Sept. 12, 1953, in Sturgis, S.D. Survivors include the widower and seven children at home, Dan, Terry, Karen, Roberta, Sherri, John and Jody; stepfather, Oscar Sjoberg, Sisseton, S.D.; four brothers, Orrin Brown of Lexington, Orville Brown of Peever, S.D., and Ervin Brown and S. D.

Calving, both of Watertown, S.D.; and a sister, Mrs. Jim Carlson of Dawson, Minn. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Melstone Congregational Church with the Rev. Harold Tannehill and the Rev.

Lewis Coon officiating. Burial will be in Melstone Cemetery, with Wier Funeral Home of Roundup in charge of arrangements. Kuni MILES CITY Mrs. Anna Kuni, 85, died Monday at the Custer County Rest Home after a lengthy illness. She was born March 4, 1889, at Montgomery, a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Pikal. She married Franklin E. Kuni on July 11, 1905, in Minneapolis. They lived in Oregon and Medora, N.D., before coming to Miles City in 1919.

They lived on a ranch for five years, and then moved into Miles City. Survivors include a son, Gordon of Roundup; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Prahl of Miles City; two brothers, James of Stewart, and Fred of Hutchinson, four sisters, Mrs. Emma Jensen of Osseo, Mrs. Rose Foctor of Fergus Falls, Mrs.

Sylvia Severson of Minneapolis and Mrs. Lillian Boe of Buffalo, six grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Stevenson's Funeral Home, with the Rev. Glen Mickel of the Foursquare Church officiating.

Burial will be in Custer County Cemetery. Incumbents file WOLF POINT Incumbents Wallace Edland, D-Scobey, and Glenn Jacobsen, D-Reserve, have filed for state representative. Edland, a veteran of three legislative sessions, is running in District 2 and Jackson in District 1. Farmer files WOLF POINT Farmerrancher John Toavs of Wolf Point, a Democrat, is running for public office for the first time. He has filed for state representative of District 3, which includes parts of Daniels, Valley and Roosevelt counties.

LWV to meet GREAT FALLS The Montana League of Women Voters will open its state council meeting at 1 p.m. Friday in the Ponderosa Inn. The dinner speaker will be Dr. Larry Elison of the University of Montana staff, on administrating justice in Montana. The Billings Gazette Wednesday, April 17, 1974 W5 Broadwater, car fire, damage to battery cable.

MARRIAGE LICENSES David Keith Roth, 19, Laurel, and Susan Elizabeth Robertus, 19, Laurel. Richard Dennis Frank, 20, Billings, and Wanda Ann Bender, 19, Billings. Garry George Anderson, 20, Billings, and Judith A.C. Turcotte, 21, Billings. Leo Franklin Jackson, 37, Billings, and Carol Joyce Hofmann Mocabee, 30, Billings.

John Mitchell Strecker, 27, Billings, and Arlene Marie Rolando, 28, Billings. DIVORCES ASKED Richard Schwarz vS. Carole Schwarz. Colene A. Piret vs.

Michael Piret. DIVORCES GRANTED Marlene Sandra Steffans VS. Robert George Steffans. Teri Foster vs. James Leo Foster.

Paddy Scott Baker vs. Linda Joyce Baker. MONTANA AND OUT OF STATE DATA: Max. Min. Albany 56 Albu' que 79 34 Amarillo.

65 Anchorage 44 32 Asheville 65 36 Atlanta 69 39 Asheville 65 36 Birmingham 70 40 Bismarck. 69 Boise 63 40 conflict between man and predators. "The program will not permanently reduce target or nontarget species numbers to the point of eliminating human enjoyment of these species," the impact statement said. The impact statement said the control program is planned for an indefinite period. Department officials discounted allegations that the removal of predators will cause a population explosion among rodents, a staple in some predator diets.

"When conditions are right, prey species multiply regardless of the number of predators present," the impact statement contended. Ten alternative control programs were listed, including elimination of controls. The only current use of poisons is in Montana's emergency rabies control program that has the blessing of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. In 1974, the department will spend $451,421 on predator control. Of that total, $240,000 is from taxes levied by the state and counties on the livestock industry.

Another $165,600 is from the federal government, $40,000 is from the Department of Fish and Game and $5,000 is from the state's general fund. The impact statement said the most serious economic threat from predators is on Montana's $38.5 million sheep industry. About 90 per cent of the present control programs are aimed at protecting sheep. U.S. gag FROM PAGE 1) who risks his job by testing the limits of the statute, many will choose the cautious more path and not speak at all," he said.

In another segment of the decision, the court held 5-4 that employes not entitled to a trial-type hearing before dismissal. The present requirement for such a hearing after dismissal is sufficient, the court said. Clyde M. Webber, pre: dent of the American Federation of Government Employes, said the decision did not "serve the dictates of equity for federal workers." Webber said he had hoped that the court would demand a pre-dismissal hearing as established already under the policies of nine federal agencies. Various agencies had no comment on the decision.

Some 90 per cent of federal employes are under Civil Service. Their numbers reach into policy-making areas of government. Tuesday's decision was prompted by a suit launched by Kennedy, who was fired from his Office of Economic Opportunity job in Chicago. Kennedy was dismissed after accusing two other employes of offering an OE0 grant as a bribe in return for a statement from a community action program official against Kennedy and another employe. Joining Rehnquist in finding that constitutional requirements were met by a post-dismissal hearing were Justices Harry A.

Blackmun, Potter Stewart, Lewis F. Powell Jr. and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. On the free speech question, Justice Byron R.

White joined the majority as the sixth member. Whittington RED LODGE Harriet Whittington, 69, a former Red Lodge resident, died Monday in a Powell, nursing home where she had been for a year and a half. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Olcott Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Orville Zimmerman officiating.

Burial will be in Sunrise Cemetery near Red Lodge. She was born Oct. 29, 1904, in Panoka, Alberta, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bierman.

She was married to Charles A. Whittington in Red Lodge Dec. 31, 1921. They farmed near Red Lodge Creek until 1942 when they moved to Tacoma, Wash. They returned to Billings in 1952 and resided in Fromberg, Red Lodge and Cody, Wyo.

Survivors include the widower of Powell, three daughters, Mrs. Helen Jones of Freedom, Mrs. Betty Jean Anderson and Mrs. Mary Lou Hunsaker both of Apache Junction, two sons, Robert of Cheyenne, Jerry of Billings; a brother, Charles of Tacoma, four sisters, Mrs. Olive Darnell and Mrs.

Florence Scholl both of Tacoma, Mrs. Margaret Crawford of Melford, and Mrs. Nellie Hobart of Yelm, 17 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. Mohland MISSOULA Arthur Mohland, 45, a Missoula construction worker and former railroad employe in Laurel, died Monday of cancer in a Missoula hospital. Services will be at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday in Missoula, with Squires-Simmons-Carr Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Survivors include five brothers, including John W. Mohland of 2545 Lewis Billings; five sisters; and an uncle, Fred Mohland of Laurel. Boukas Peter Boukas, 76, of 831 Parkhill Drive, a retired realtor, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack in Deaconess Hospital. He had lived in Billings since he was 20, except for two years spent in Chicago.

He was born Aug. 17, 1897, in Greece, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Boukas. He married Velma Fennell on July 29, 1930, in Crown Point, Ind.

Mr. Boukas was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include the widow; three daughters, Mrs. Vernon Miller of Great Falls, Mrs. Darrel Fenter of 1322 Howard and Mrs.

Dennis Franklin of Route two brothers, Gust and Alex, and a sister, all in Greece; and seven grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, with Alfred L. Neal of the Church of Christ officiating. Cremation is planned.

Christinson GLASGOW Services for Elma May Christinson, 86, who died Sunday in the Glasgow hospital, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in First United Methodist Church. Mrs. Christinson had lived in Glasgow since 1909 and was the widow of Otto M. Christinson.

The Rev. C. Fred Crowe will conduct the service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with Bell Mortuary in charge of arrangements. Mrs.

Christinson was a member of Eastern Star, Rebekah Lodge, White Shrine, Montana Federation of Women's Clubs, Hospital Guild and was active in Red Cross volunteer work. She was a Methodist. She was born Jan. 16, 1888, in Ontario, Canada, and lived in Canada and North Dakota before coming to Montana. She married April 7, 1910, in Glasgow.

Survivors include a son, James Christinson, Glasgow; a daughter, Mrs. John Rusher, Glasgow; 18 grandchildren; 27 great -grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Schindler GLENDIVE Joseph Schindler, 86, died Tuesday at Glendive Community Hospital. He was born Jan. 1, 1888, in Germany.

He married Susanna Sterhan in 1913 in Rumania. They came to Glendive in 1919 and he worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad until retiring in 1960. Survivors include four sons, Joe of Glendive, Charles and Henry, both of Seattle, and John of Portland, three daughters, Mrs. Richard Theise of Glendive, Mrs. Margaret Macomber of San Francisco and Mrs.

Willard Banks of Bellflower, and 16 grandchildren. Reqieum mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Rosary will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Silvernale Mortuary.

Burial will be in Dawson Memorial Park. 100 Card of Announcements Thanks Learn to paint on anything from Gramma's Old teakettle to Bread boards. Decorative Tole Painting Class, Marge Hoite, teacher. American Handicraft. Class begins April 24th.

Ph. 656-2478. FREE GLAUCOMA CLINIC Apr. 17, 1974 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Billings Senior High Cafeteria -Adv. Laurel Kindergarten registration. Friday, April 19, 1974 p.m. at 616 6th Ave. $5.00 deposit toward 1st month payment of $22 required.

Contact Mrs. Keith Thompson. 1-698-4508 or Mrs. Ron Massey, BI-CENTENNIAL WEEK LEVEL 3 4, 12-4 p.m. Daily 'Public Welcome! -Adv.

OIL PAINTING CLASSES: Wealthy 303 Reda Lane- -Ph. 245-4458-Adv. Dahl -Brown FUNERAL 10 Yellowstone Ave. Phone 248-8807 SMITH'S Funeral Home Established in 1896 CANADIAN CITIES Edmonton 49 27 Montreal 45 Toronto 54 32 Winnipeg 53 31 Precipitation Brownsville .02, Honolulu .16, Jacks ville .01, Miami .11, New Orleans .10, Omaha .02. Orlando .23, St.

Louis .35, Tampa .31. AIRPORT WEATHER DATA From United States Weather Bureau for 24 hours ending at 5:30 p.m. April 16, 1974. Maximum 67 Minimum 38 Precipitation so far this month, total for same period of April 16 a year ago, total since Jan. 1, 3.39; total for same period a year ago, 3.60, normal for April 16.

77; normal for Jan. 1 to April 16, 3.12. Hourly temp. 6 p.m. Mon.

5 a.m. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 5 60 56 52 50 47 48 44 43 40 40 40 39 Hourly temp. 6 a.m. Tues. 5 p.m.

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 5 39 41 44 50 56 60 62 64 65 65 66 66 Sunrise 6:25 a.m. Sunset 8:03 p.m. Billings Today Billings West Kiwanis 7 a.m. at 4-B's. Al-Anon 10 a.m.

at 510 Cook Ave. Advertising and Sales Association at noon at Elks Club. Zonta Club at noon at Northern Hotel. Civitan at noon at Northern Hotel. Rimrock Chapter NSA 6:30 p.m.

at O' Hara's. West Billings Lions Club 6:30 p.m. at 4-B's. Billings Jaycees board and committee meeting 7 p.m. at Clubhouse, 3421 Montana Ave.

Traffic Club 7 p.m. at Belnap Broiler. Weight Watchers 7 p.m. at Broadwater Shopping Center. Rimrock Lodge 149, AF AM.

7:30 p.m. at Masonic Temple. Scout Roundtable 7:30 p.m. at First English Lutheran Church. High Ditch City Water Users 7:30 p.m.

at First Congregational Church. YSA 7:30 p.m. at First Methodist Church. Alcoholics Anonymous Intertribal Fellowship 7:30 p.m. at 3123 8th Ave.

S. Loyal Order of the Moose 8 p.m. at Moose Hall. Eagles Auxiliary 8 p.m. at Eagles Hall.

Duplicate Bridge Club 7:45 p.m. at 10th and Lewis. AA 8 p.m. at 510 Cook Ave. Alcoholics Anonymous 8 p.m.

at 204 Grand Ave. Visiting hours FORT SMITH Yellowtail Visitor Center will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends beginning Saturday and daily after May 25. FROM PAGE T) graph taken by a bank security camera.

A police investigator said Tuesday the robbery may have been staged to show Miss Hearst as a "converted" member of the SLA. "We are discussing the bility very thoroughly that this was a staged job to show off Patty Hearst as a member of their ranks," said Police Capt. Mortimer McInerney. A federal warrant issued Monday night identified Miss Hearst, 20, as a carbine-carrying member of a heavily armed gang that robbed $10,960 from the Hibernia Bank's Sunset District branch Monday and shot two passers-by. The warrant seeks her arrest as a material witness and set $500,000 bail.

Warrants on robbery charges were issued for three other women who burst into the bank. Police said the robbery involved about nine persons in all, including others in a getaway car. Reached Tuesday in La Paz, Mexico, Miss Hearst's mother, Catherine, said: "It's all so bizarre I can't believe it." The Hearsts were scheduled to return to their home in Hillsborough later from a 10-day rest in La Paz. "We are not ruling out the possibility that she (Miss Hearst) was a willing participant," said Charles Bates, FBI special agent in charge here. "On the other hand, there is evidence she was not." Bates said an automatic camera in the bank which pictured Miss Hearst holding a sawedoff semiautomatic carbine also showed that "there was a gun held by another person on her." U.S.

Attorney James L. Browning agreed, adding that he thinks this is "the first time in the annals of legal history that a kidnaping victim has shown up in the middle of a bank robbery." In the SLA's last communique, on April 3, Miss Hearst renounced her family and announced that she was joining her kidnapers as an armed comrade. The SLA, described as a multiracial group of about 25 persons, has claimed responsibility for abducting her from her Berkeley apartment Feb. 4. SETTERGRENCAREY Funeral Home Serving the Community Since 1906 721 N.

29th Ph. 252-2888 WIER Funeral Home Roundup, Montana BIESHEUVEL Funeral services for Delcy Biesheuvel will be held Friday, 2 p.m. at the Melstone Congregational Church. Burial will be in the Melstone Cemetery. okays levies WOLF POINT Both the $157,303 elementary and the $130,840 high school special levies were approved by voters of Wolf Point School District.

Marvin Bartel and Burk Taylor were returned to three-year terms and Mrs. Jack Shumway and Roy Kessler elected to oneyear terms on the school board. Voters of District 3 elected Thomas Heidner to a three-year Early FROM PAGE 1 elections this year in which the Democrats captured three seats that long had been held by the Republicans. The White House hoped a Sparling victory would demonstrate popular support for the President and ease pressure for his impeachment. Both candidates voted early in the day, Sparling near his home just outside Saginaw, Traxler in the Democratic stronghold of Bay City.

Election officials reported a heavy vote in both Bay City and Saginaw, while in some of the rural areas visited by Nixon, earlier vote forecasts were increased on the basis of a- large early turnout. The vacancy, was created when Harvey, who had held the seat since 1960, was named a federal judge. Two years ago, the GOP lawmaker won 59 per cent of the district's votes while Nixon carried it with 64 per cent. In other special elections this year, similar GOP majorities have vanished as many Republicans and independents voted Democratic to show their disapproval of the President's handling of the Watergate scandal and other issues. Traxler, a Bay City attorney before his election to the Michigan House, has been campaigning for the seat since Harvey said last September he would accept a judgeship.

He called the election "a referendum on Nixon's policies and moral leadership," describing Nixon as "the real, the only issue." He cited Sparling's 10 weeks as a White House liaison man as evidence he is "Nixon's candidate." Sparling, a political writer for the Saginaw News before he became Harvey's top aide, said the issue is who will make the best congressman. He attacked Traxler for missing 1,313 roll calls in the Michigan House and contended his Democratic rival favored school busing and abortion, which Traxler denied. The day after Nixon's visit, Sparling sent out a letter urging the district's voters against venting their "disappointments and frustrations" at the polls. Each candidate spent in the neighborhood of $100,000, and each had substantial outside assistance. The state's top Republican leaders, led by Sen.

Robert P. Griffin and GOP Chairman William McLaughlin, worked hard for Sparling, while organized labor threw its resources in for Traxler. Besides Nixon, outside campaigners included Sen. Charles H. Percy, for Sparling and Sen.

Henry M. Jackson, D- for Traxler. Serving all faiths with dignity 1001 Alderson Phone 252-3417 Mortuary Parking Adjacent FLOREY Dorothy Florey, age 58, wife of Paul F. Florey, of 823 Bench Blvd. 1.

The funeral mass will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Church. Interment will be in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Laurel.

BLANK Lloyd Rudolph Blank, 53, of 2241 Hillner Lane. The funeral mass will be offered 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Patrick's Church. Interment will be in Mountview Cemetery.

Friends will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary to recite the rosary. BOUKAS Peter Boukas, age 76, of 831 Parkhill Drive. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday at the MichelottiSawyers Mortuary with Mr.

Alfred L. Neal, of the Church of Christ officiating. Cremation will follow. GEISZLER John E. Geiszler, age 22, of Knoxville, formerly of Billings.

Funeral services. will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, with Pastor Paul T. Seastrand officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

McInerney said another piece of evidence that the holdup might have been arranged to show off Miss Hearst was the fact that the robbers didn't shoot out the bank cameras. Bates said the cameras took pictures during the fiveminute robbery. Federal bank robbery warrants were issued Monday night for the arrest of three women: -Nancy Ling Perry, 27, said to be. the writer of a lengthy communique explaining SLA philosophy and goals. -Patricia Michelle Soltysik, 24, also known as "Mizmoon" and previously identified as an SLA leader.

-Camilla Christine Hall, 29, a former social worker and close friend of "Mizmoon." Bail for the three was also set at $500,000 apiece, and the FBI said about 100 agents are working on the case with additional police support. Miss Hearst, three other women and an unidentified man entered the bank, disarmed a guard and ordered 20 customers and employes to lie on the floor, police said. Two women scooped money from cash drawers and the five fled. As the robbers headed for a getaway car, McInerney said the unidentified man shot Peter Markoff, 59, a neighborhood liquor merchant, and Eugene Brennan, 70, a local resident. Both were hit in the stomach and were reported in "serious but stable" condition at San Francisco General Hospital Tuesday.

Police said the five jumped in a green Ford station wagon and took off, followed by a red American Motors Hornet sedan with four white male accomplices who watched the robbery from a bus stop across the street. Both cars were found abandoned about a mile from the bank. McInerney said a tall brunette who had a driver's license identifying herself as "Janet Cooper" rented the Hornet last Thursday from the Continental Rent-A-Car office in downtown San Francisco. A girl with the same name rented the station wagon from the nearby Pacific Car Rental office Monday morning. MONUMENTS See the Actual Memorial You Buy! PRICES RIGHT Billings Monument Co.

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