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10-A Sunday, Dec. 5. 1982 The Billings Gazette Obituaries Continued stories heriff the way the press likes him? Not necessarily. Stories about him over the years have been slanted and sensationalized, he says. He doesn't blame the reporters.

"Reporters take down what you give them. But by the time it's edited and rewritten, it can bring out an entirely different meaning," he told a Gazette reporter last week. "It can make you took like a dumbbell or a no-good so-and-so. "But nobody knows what's inside of us except One Being in this universe. If I do what I think is right, I'll take and face Somebody on it someday." quotable remark, and he knows it.

"Being a public figure is like being a flying duck with a hundred hunters shooting at him," he told a Gazette reporter last week. "I say what I think, and sometimes I say things people don't want to hear. If that's being controversial, I'm proud of it." He's through with taking flak in the press, though. He'll go on saying and doing as he pleases, but he's going to take it easy now spend time with his family, do some fishing, think about things. Does he leave office liking the press From Page One But always at the center of the firestorm was Dick Shaffer.

One reason for that besides Shaffer's personality is that the city's press likes Shaffer and likes to write about him and broadcast what he says. Dick Shaffer can turn "no comment" into a colorful, Justice From Page One Blackmun said he mischievously said nothing until another justice saw him brush the device during courtroom arguments. "Then, of course, the secret was out and we all laughed about it." Blackmun also said he was not disturbed by efforts in Congress to strip the courts of jurisdiction in controversial issues like busing. "Any congressman just as any citizen is entitled to that point of view. And it just might be that some of us don't believe in school busing as an ultimate remedy for everything," he said.

Blackmun noted Mrs. O'Connor appears to have joined the conservative wing. "The justice is able, articulate," he said. "She gives no quarter, she asks no quarter and she's a fine justice." Blackmun recalled accidentally brushing his hearing aid and causing a beep to go off during the court's secret weekly conference. "I did it a second time and Justice O'Connor said, 'I think the oom is And Justice (John Paul) Stevens immediately supported her." Clifford I.

Huckins BROADUS Longtime Broadus resident Clifford I. Huckins worked as an electrician until 1975. In 1981 he and his wife moved to Powder River Nursing Home. Mr. Huckins, 81, died Friday in Holy Rosary Hospital.

Born in Moorhead, Powder River County, a son of Charles and Lenora Huckins, he attended Sweeney Auto College and married Alyne Merei-dith in Sheridan, Wyo. in 1925. Survivors include his wife; three sons, D. of Palatine, K. of Miles City and Larry of Man-daree, N.D.; a daughter, Lucille Kray of Hardin; two brothers, Charles of Dayton and F.F.

of Broadus; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday in Our Saviour's Lutheran Church with burial in Valley View Cemetery. Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home is in charge. Arthur D.

Pitsch LEWISTOWN Arthur D. "Art" Pitsch, formerly of Hardin, retired from work at Berg sawmill three years ago because of ill health. He had worked 15 years for Holly Sugar in Hardin. Mr. Pitsch, 54, died Friday in a Great Falls hospital of cancer.

He was a member of Moose Lodge and Hardin Christian Church. Born in Garryowen, a son of Anna and David Pitsch he attended school in Crow Agency and Hardin High School. In 1949 he married Marilyn E. Bellon in Hardin. Survivors include his wife; a son, Steve of Livingston; nine daughters, Deanne Robertson, Shar-ron Green and Charlene Pitsch, all of Forsyth, Joan D'Hogge, Tammy Pitsch, Tina Michaeison and Gina Pitsch, all of Lewistown, Eileen Schilling of Havre and Laurie Cleveland of Choteau; four brothers, Andrew of Worden, Rueben and Theodore, both of Ryegate, and Victor of Hardin; four sisters, Dorothy Koch of Yakima, Ruth Muhlbeier, Delores Blair and Rita Ruff, all of Hardin; and 10 grandchildren.

Services will be 2 p.m. Monday in Bullis Funeral Chapel, Hardin. Kenneth R. Wilkerson Kenneth Raleigh Wilkerson, who had worked for Anaconda Copper Co. in Butte, died Saturday in Fort Harrison VA Hospital, Helena.

He was 60. Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Cemetery with Dahl Funeral Chapel, Billings, in charge. Mr. Wilkerson was an Army veteran of World War II.

Born in Bismarck, N.D., a son of Raleigh and Rose Wilkerson, he attended schools in Sacramento, Calif. Survivors include his aunt, Mrs. Mar one Vin-ing of 79 Gold Strike Drive, Billings. Blackmun, 74, was appointed by Richard Nixon in 1970. He has been edging toward the liberal wing of the court.

In recent months Blackmun has clashed with Justice O'Connor, appointed by President Reagan as the court's first woman and newest justice. AREA DEATHS Dorothy A. Reisdorph, 46, Laurel Harriett L. Jacob, 84, Powell, Wyo. H.R.

Cook, 90, Broadus Arthur D. Pitsch, 54, Lewistown, formerly of Hardin Loren K. Glass, 85, Broadview Kenneth R. Wilkerson, 60, Butte Clifford I. Huckins, 81, Broadus Gerald W.

Barber, 63, Denton H.R.Cook BROADUS H.R. Cook ranched on Powder River since 1940, and was the first to develop an irrigation system to pump water from the river. He had the first barber shop in Broadus and later operated a cafe with his wife. Mr. Cook, 90, died Thursday in Powder River County Nursing Home.

Born in Bryant, S.D., a son of Tom and Tillie Cook, he married Ella I. Cant there in 1915 and they homesteaded on Bear Skull Creek near Biddle. She died July 21, 1982. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Walter (Ella Mae) Ferguson of Broadus and Mar one Bottoms of Billings; two sons, Milo and Leland, both of Broadus; a sister, Ruth Brattebo of Long Beach, six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in Powder River Congregational Church with burial in Valley View Cemetery. J.E. Graves Funeral Home is in charge. Harriett L.

Jacobs POWELL, Wyo. Harriett L. Jacobs, a Powell resident since 1940, enjoyed flowers and cooking, and was a devoted mother and grandmother. She died at age 84 Saturday in the Powell hospital. Born in western Nebraska, a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Hosea Fogg, she married Harry G. Jacobs in 1914 in Daykin, Neb. Survivors include her husband; three sons, Kermit D. and Jewell both of Powell, and Larry L.

in the Navy in Honolulu, Hawaii; four daughters, Gwendolyn F. Baxter, Mrs. Donna Belle Jones and Mrs. Patricia I. Jones, all of Powell, and Barbara L.

Werbelow of San Jose, Calif. 21 grandchildren; and 32 great-granchildren. Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Union Presbyterian Church with Easton Funeral Home in charge. Dorothy A.

Reisdorph LAUREL Dorothy A. Reisdorph, 46, died in her home Saturday after a long illness. A daughter of Frank and Mamie Otto, she was born in Frederick, S.D. In 1954 she married Richard R. Reisdorph in Webster, S.D.

Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Mrs. Richard (Jolene) Worsley of Sheridan, Mrs. Donald (Peggy) Furu of Pocatello, Idaho, and Mrs. Ronald (Rhonda) Croll of Laurel; a sister, Mrs. Frances Signs of Laurel; a brother, Randy Reisdorph of Watertown, S.D.; and four grandchildren.

Services will be 2 p.m. Monday in Our Saviour's Lutheran Church with burial in Laurel Cemetery. Smith-Cashmore Memorial Chapel is in charge. Cuts rently has fewer employees than the city division. Both the idea of eliminating the city detective unit and a plan for closing a fire station have been offered before as ways to save the city money.

Earlier this year the City Council backed off on a plan to consolidate two fire stations on the South Side after residents protested. Fifth Ward Councilman Wally Per-soma said he would strongly oppose drastic cuts in fire and police funding, because these departments directly affect public safety. "If cuts have to be made, we'll start at the top," said Persoma, a former Billings police officer. "There's a lot of department heads sitting behind desks and not out protecting the public." He also noted that eliminating the newly hired assistant city administrator's salary would save about $31,000. Williams said it takes 13Ms budgeted firefighting positions to man one station.

A minimum staff of 20 is on duty at all times in the city. If 18 firefighters were cut, the remaining crew would be inadequate, Williams said. "I don't think that would be enough to protect the city from fire," he said. Riser declined to discuss what proposals are being considered for the Police Department. "It would be untimely," he said.

Other Police Department sources who have seen his memo, however, said it calls for eliminating the Detective Division. Responsibility for investigating all crimes except city-ordinance violations would be shifted to the Sheriff's Department detective unit. The county Detective Division cur From Page One Although the hotel-motel room tax approved in the Nov. 2 election would net an estimated $650,000 per year, a court challenge to the tax must first be settled and it could leave the city empty-handed. Fire Chief Bobby Williams said his staff is brainstorming to come up with budget-cutting alternatives, but his proposal will not be ready until Dec.

20 the date Thelen asked for a reply. Ideas under consideration include closing a fire station and paring the number of men on fire crews. Serving all faitns witl dignity Reagan mum on report of CIA infiltration Michelotti-Sawvers Mortuary 1001 Alderson Ave. Ph 252-3417 Mortuary Parking Adjacent MEMBER INVITATION NATIONAL SELECTED MORTICIAN HOFFMAN Mabel 64, of 220 Tarn O'Shanter Road, wife of Harry E. Hoffman.

Funeral services 10 a.m. Monday, First United Presbyterian Church. Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens. Casket will be closed at church. BAKKO Henry age 87, of Fargo, N.D., formerly of Billings.

Services were Friday, Peace Lutheran Church, Fargo, N.D. Graveside services 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 6, Mount-view Cemetery, Billings. Memorials to the charity of one's choice.

The Times said the CIA's operations in Central America have grown into its "most ambitious paramilitary and political action operation" in nearly a decade. The Times said quoted intelligence sources as saving that in addition to more than 150 agents in Honduras, dozens of others are stationed in neighboring countries. Fewer than a dozen were assigned to the area a year ago, it said. Officials in Honduras and Washington told the Times the CIA has been indirectly providing money, training and equipment to paramilitary groups seeking to overthrow the government in New York Times can." When pressed further, he said, "I don't know where they get such ideas." The Reagan Administration has consistently refused to discuss reports that it is seeking to destabilize the leftist Nicara-guan government and that the CIA is training former Somoza guardsmen on Honduras' southern border with Nicaragua. Joint U.S.-Honduran maneuvers scheduled for this weekend were postponed in deference to Reagan's Latin American tour and in the past few days, some anti-Nicaraguan forces reportedly have been dispersed inland into SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (UPI) -President Reagan Saturday refused comment on a report that 150 or more CIA agents are in Honduras working with a paramilitary operation to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Reagan was asked about The New York Times report before he began a meeting with Costa Rican President A1--berto Luis Monge. "I never discuss matters of national security or things of that kind," Reagan told, reporters at the Costa Rican presidential palace. Asked if he would confirm the re port, he said, "No, and I doubt if The Wyoming GOP picks leaders CASPER, Wyo. (AP) Republican state legislators have selected Eddie Moore of Douglas as the president of the Wyoming Senate for the upcoming state Legislature. About 60 GOP lawmakers met in Casper Saturday to select leaders, who although they still must be approved by the full House and full Senate, are not expected to have trouble since Republicans have a majority in each house.

Also named speaker of the House was Casper representative Russ Donley. Others named were Gerald Geis of Worland as Senate majority floor leader and John Turner of Moose as Senate vice president. In the House, Jack Sidi was named speaker pro tem and Pat Meenan was named majority floor leader. Representative Bill Mcllvain of Laramie County was named House majority floor whip. Also elected to the rules committee were Rep.

Rory Cross of Douglas and Mcllvain. The selections mean Natrona County representatives will occupy three of the four top positions in the House. Smith Funeral Chapels Health insurance next GOP tax target? Card Of Thinks The family of Mrs. Florence L. 2 Location in Billing 245-6427 TERRACE GARDENS-304 34th St.

w. GLASS Loren 85, of Broadview. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, in Smith Terrace Gardens Chapel, 304 34th St W.

Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens. DOWNTOWN-120 N. 26th (pHin.ic.i) WEGNER Wilhelm "Bill" Wegner, 68, of 25 miles north of Shepherd. Funeral services 2 p.m. Monday, Dec.

6, in Trinity Lutheran Church, Billings. Interment in Mountview Cemetery. EIDE Harry 80, of Minot, N.D., father of Mrs. John R. Lovell of 3215 Laredo Place.

Service 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Lutheran Church of Good Shepherd. Interment in Mountview Cemetery. LAUREL 1-628-4821 REISDORPH Dorothy 46, of Laurel. Services 2 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 6, in Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. Interment Laurel Cemetery. Memorials: Big Sky Hospice, 310 N. 27th Billings, Mont.

59101. COLUMBUS-Smith-Caihmore 1-628-4821 RED LODGE oicott Chapel 1-446-1121 1 JLEjlUajS Lapp wishes to express sincere thanks and appreciation for the beautiful floral offerings, cards, food, memorials and kind deeds extended to us during the recent loss of our Wife, Mom, Sister, and Grandmother. A special thanks to Dr. Benjamin T. Marchello and the staff at St.

Vincent's Hospital. Jack Lapp Dorothy Bob Repac Sally Bill Hotchkiss family Mrs. Laura Merila creased by an average of $148 each, according to a study by the National Center for Health Services Research, an arm of the Public Health Service. If the employers' entire contribution was taxed, the study said, workers would have to pay $20 billion in additional income taxes and $6.5 billion more in Social Security payroll taxes next year. But the administration is considered unlikely to propose such a drastic change.

Reagan has said he would not seek a tax increase next year. But administration officials say the proposal to tax health insurance could be defended on the ground that it would help control the cost of health care. In the first 10 months of this year, the cost of medical care rose 9.2 percent while the overall Consumer Price Index rose only 4.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Feldstein, a pioneer in the field of health economics, contends that the current system gives employees more insurance than they need and encourages them to use more health care than they require. "Eliminating the special tax subsidies of health insurance premiums should be a high priority subject for tax reform," Feldstein wrote in the Journal of Public Economics in 1977.

"The current law encourages an excessive purchase of insurance, distorts the demand for health services and thus inflates the prices of these services." dustry and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States all oppose it, and a number of Democrats in Congress have spoken out against it. Most health insurance in the United States is provided by employers as a fringe benefit. Under current law, an employer who pays health insurance premiums for his employees may deduct the payments as a business expense on his tax return, but the payments are not counted as taxable income for the employee. This tax preference, according to the Treasury, is the main program of "government assistance for the purchase of medical care by the non-aged, non-poor population." The proposal under study by the administration would require a worker to pay income tax on employer contributions to health insurance premiums above a certain level. The precise ceiling has not been set.

Administration officials said that it would probably be in the range of $1,200 to $2,400 a year for a family and $900 to $1,200 a year for an individual. Employers spent an average of $1,100 in health benefits for each employee last year, according to a survey by the Chamber of Commerce. If the ceiling was set at $1,800, the Treasury could get $3.4 billion a year in additional federal income taxes, with the tax liability of 23 million taxpayers in The New York Times WASHINGTON Senior administration officials have urged President Rea-gamto propose that employees pay a tax on part of the health insurance benefits they receive from their employers. Proponents say the tax would not only generate several billion dollars of revenue but would also help control health costs, which have been rising twice as fast as the Consumer Price Index. Richard S.

Schwedker, the secretary of health and human services, has recommended such a tax, and Martin S. Felds-tein, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, strongly supports it. David A. Stockman, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, proposed such a tax when he was a member of the House of Representatives. According to officials at the budget office, the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services, a tax on a portion of the health insurance provided to an employee is likely to be included in the budget that Reagan sends to Congress in mid-January, though the president has not made a final decision.

Congressional action would be needed to impose such a tax. Sen. Bob Dole, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Finance Committee, indicated last summer that he was receptive to the idea. Organized labor, the health insurance in AiMOwicaments The Family of TOM FRYE wishes to thank all FASHION 220 Cosmetics again available. Call Thelma Gallagher, morns.

8. eves. 252-8954. Heart memorials may be mailed to Security Bank, PO Box 309)8, Sheila Sharkey, Bigs, 59107 or call 657-3946 Looking for a gift for someone special or running out of ideas for Holiday decorating? Luvit Ceramics has the answer. Christmas open house Sat.

Dec. 11, 1-6, 147 West South, Powell, WY (north of Linton). WilliamG Ensign, O. has retired from the practice of Medicine. For transfer of records please contact the office before December 30th, 1982.

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6 00 til Noon Sat Fve and Sun LyAprO'itfne' WILKERSON Kenneth 60, of Butte, nephew of Mrs. Marjorie Vining, 79 Gold Strike Drive. Graveside services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Rockvale Cemetery. LOVE Thomas 91, of Route 3, Shepherd.

Funeral services pending. 708 S. McGillen RedlMdge M6-1800 GAARDER Margaret 79, of Red Lodge. Memorial funeral Mass 10 a.m. Tuesday, St.

Agnes Catholic Church. Cremation will take place. Memorials: Gregorian Mass Services, co Benedictine Fathers of Mount Angel Abbey, St Benedict, Ore. 97373. CO's members to aiding less developed countries in improving news coverage through training, better distribution and improvement of facilities.

One section of the "new world information order" had contained a phrase giving states the power to regulate "content" of news, but Western nations won its removal. They also succeeded in adding recognition of the role of the press to scrutinize abuse of power. Third World nations and the Soviet Union had argued the UNESCO program should endorse some control over the content of journalists' reports in the interests of raising levels of knowledge, but they accepted the program nonetheless. Western countries wanted to retain emphasis on individual liberties, rather than supporting the Third World and East Bloc nations' preference for greater recognition of collective rights. Western nations finally agreed to wording saying the "interplay" between collective and individual rights should be "studied," rather than equating the two.

Agreement on the human rights issue followed an accord on a communications and news policy in the UNESCO program for 1984-89 the other contentious issue of the conference which delegates debated in sessions lasting up to 16 hours. The five-year plan commits UNES PARIS (UPI) Two major issues that threatened to divide UNESCO were resolved Friday in the closing session of a two-week confereifce with delegates agreed to compromises on human rights and Third World news coverage. Delegates from the 158 member nations debated the wording of a section on human rights until late on the final day of the conference of the U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. There was tough negotiating between the Soviet Union and East Bloc countries on one hand, and the United States, Switzerland, Britain and other Western nations on the other.

Bllff IS CfoAtUOAlj 885-1207, Hardin PITSCH Funeral services for Arthur "Art" Pitsch of Lewistown, 2 p.m. Monday in Bullis Funeral Chapel, Hardin. 300 Swihler Bozeman 586-5298.