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VW A N. r1k-'to6'pw TP (I i 1' Jr i -ei ssr IP -u, Succumbs at Ago 71 16 THE CAPITAL TIMES, Tuesday, July 29, 1969 Obituaries Clarence M. Fose Dies Oscar Mayer Co. Pioneer Visited City for Baby Doe Douglas Stuart Moore, 75, Folk Opera Composer Dies Surviving, besides his wife, are a daughter, Mrs. Robert Collins, 4912 Winnequah two sons, Dale, Minneapolis, and Duane, Wauwatosa; one sister, Mrs.

Marion Schmaling, Whitewater, and 11 grandchildren. Friends may call at the Schroeder Funeral Home, 3325 E. Washington Ave. here, on Wednesday from 4 to 8:30 p.m. The rosary will be recited there at 8:30 Wednesday night.

The family said memorials may be made to the Wisconsin Heart Association. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in St. Patricks Catholic Church, with Msgr. Francis E.

Doherty officiating. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery. Pallbearers for Mr. Fose will be Roy Boberschmidt, Joseph Cox, Robert Fletcher, Harold Jaeke, Allan Mayer, and William Murray. Clarence M.

Fose He was born at Whitewater in 1894. He served in France in World War I. In 1922 Mr. Fose was married to Dorothy Lang of Columbus, Ohio. Mr.

Fose was a member of Maple Bluff Country Club, the Madison Elks Club, and the Knights of Columbus. He was a longtime former member of St. Bernards Catholic Church here and its Holy Name Society, and was currentlya member of Madisons St. Patricks Church. FiudBodiesof State Couples In Air Crash Lori Polizzano, 18-year-dd Brooklyn, her apartment due to New York Citys wild N.

housewife, has pet problems. After animal laws. Rather than give up the animal, some embarrassing situations caused by her the Polizzanos moved to Selden, Long Island, puma Puss Puss, she was forced to leave far outside the city limits. (AP Wirephoto) OK Tax Hike Monona Grove School Budget over $3 Million LAGUNA BEACH, Calif, tat -bodies of two Wisconsin couples, whose private airplane vanished a month ago on a vacation flight to Los Angeles, have been located on a moun-t a i i near this California beach-resort community. Orange County officials said Monday night the small aircraft carrying the four Wisconsin victims crashed against an isolated mountainside at high speed, but that the wreckage did not immediately yield any further clue to the cause of the accident.

The occupants were identified as Richard A. Olson, 33, and his wife, Lucy, of rural Columbus, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Po-tenberg of Rio.

Olson was presumed to have been the pilot when (he plane was last reported to havesaI-touched down at Yuma, Loesser, 59, who wrote the June 24 on the flight from Rio to Broadway shows, Guys and Los Angeles. The airplane had Dolls, Wheres a 1 Frank Loesser NEW YORK (UPI) Frank Loesser, who gave America 1,500 songs to sing, died Monday of lung cancer. His body will be cremated today and the ashes scattered over the Atlantic Ocean. There will be no funeral service. He didnt believe in things like that, a family spokesman Clarence M.

Fose, 74, of 1529 Morrison who retired in 1961 as vice president and general provisions manager of Oscar Mayer and with which firm he had been associated for 45 years, died early today in a Stoughton hospital. He had resided at Nazareth House, Stoughton, for the past several years. Mr. Fose, who started with Oscar Mayer as a salesman in the Madison plant, became the companys first sales manager, and was instrumental in opening up numerous new sales territories throughout the United States in the concerns early years. Subsequently he became byproducts manager for the firm and, in 1954, was named Oscar Mayer and Co.

vice president and general provisions manager. Mr. Fose was a director of Security State years. Bank here for 25 2 State Soldiers Listed Among Vietnam Dead WASHINGTON The names of two Wisconsin servicemen were included in a Vietnam casualty list released Monday by the Defense Department. The Pentagon said that Army Spec.

4 Dennis Eitel. husband of Mrs. Shirley Eitel of rural Catawba, Price County, was killed in action. Listed as dead from hostile causes was Army Spec. 5 Darrell E.

McGee, husband of Mrs. Rose McGee of rural Berlin. He had been previously listed as missing. Frank Killerlain Dies at Age 79 OREGON Frank Killerlain, 79, died Monday in a Madison hospital. He married the former Lillah Sorenson in 1919.

She died in 1966. He was a retired employe of the North Western Road. He was a member of the Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church, Oregon, and its Holy Name Society. Surviving are two sons, Robert and Francis, both of Oregon; two daughters, Mrs. Lyle Her-fel, Belleville, and Mrs.

Ray Lawry, rural Brooklyn; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Flood, White-water, and Mrs. William Lalor, Janesville, and nine grandchildren. The funeral will be at 9:30 a. m.

Wednesday in Holy Moth er of Consolation Church, with the Rev. Charles Monroe officiating. Burial will be in St. Marys Cemetery, Oregon. Friends may call after 4 p.m.

today at the B. L. Booth Funeral Home here, where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight. Watertown Man Killed in Crash KASSON, Minn, wi Henry Blanke, 74, of Watertown, was killed Monday in a two-car collision near Kasson. Two Athens, residents, Fred Blanke, 71, and Martha Blanke, 58, were hospitalized in serious condition at Rochester.

Airport Meet The Madison Airport Commission will meet Aug. 5 at 7:30 p. m. in the City Council Chambers, Room 201. 1 Douglas Stuart Moore, 75, teacher, writer and widely known composer of American folk operas, including the well-known Ballad of Baby Doe, died Friday at Greenport, Long Island.

Mr. Moore endeared himself to Madison music lovers last February when he came here for the production by the Madison Civic Opera of his Baby Doe. He was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Brown, who were personal friends of the composer.

The composer expressed delight at the Madison performance of his opera, based on the exploits of a native of Oshkosh who went west and wooed and won the hand of Horace Tabor, a silver baron. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1951 with his opera Giants of the Earth, based on the novel by O. E. Rolvaag, dealing with Norwegian pioneers in the Dakota Territory. Mr.

Moore retired in 1962 as MacDowell Professor of Music and chairman of Columbia Universitys department of music, after 36 years on the faculty, Baby Doe, which had Its premiere in 1956. became a part of the repertory of American opera companies. Funeral services were held Monday at the Cutchogue, L. Presbyterian Church. City Woman Is Killed in Crash Of Cycle, Auto A 42-year-old Madison woman was killed early today when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger was involved in a collision with a car at the intersection of Melrose Street and Sherman Avenue.

She was Nora Weger, 726 E. Johnson St. She was dead on arrival by fire department ambulance at Methodist Hospital. The operator of the motorcycle, Lynn E. Washburn, 28, of 1402 Northport was taken to Madison General Hospital with a possible fractured jaw and other i i s.

His condition there was described as satisfactory. Driver of the car was Linda K. Larson, 21. of 10 N. Franklin who was treated for shock at Methodist hospital after the mishap occurred at 2.55 a.m.

today. Coroner Clyde Chamberlain said he was withholding a ruling on the cause of Mrs. Wegers death pending further investigation. City Man Injured In Fatal Crash DELAVAN Mrs. Marilyn R.

Heath, 30, Spring Grove, 111., was killed Monday morning when her car apparently crossed the center line and struck a semi-trailer truck on highway 50, 4 miles east of Delavan. She was alone in the car. The truck was driven by Richard A. Mickelson, 38, of 4709 Leo Madison, who was taken to St. Marys Hospital in Madison, where he is in satisfactory condition.

Another vehicle, driven by Raymond Tetzlaff, 59, rural slid into the rear of the truck after the crash. Tetzlaff was not injured. checked in by radio at El Paso, Texas. Middleton Rate Hiked Middleton School District voters reluctantly Monday adopted a 2.96-mill school tax increase for 1970. The tax increase will help finance a $3,027,715 budget for 1969-70.

The school budget is up $753,628 over the 1968-69 level. An attempt, by Middleton Mayor Walter Bauman to cut the tax hike by one third was defeated on a voice vote. rejected was a plan to use in surplus accounts to reduce the tax increase. In the annual election of school board members, District Four Incumbent David Witmer was defeated by Dale N. Gill-ings and A1 Matthews.

Katri-leen Wirth (District Two) and Stanley W. Woods Jr. (District Five) were re-elected without opposition. The district voters learned that a bond referendum for an elementary school in Middleton and a junior igh in Cross Plains will be held in late September or early October. The two schools are expected to cost about $2.5 million.

An a i 1 1 a 1 300 pupils, teacher increases and new programs were cited in the budget increase by School Supt. John Stofflet. Negotiated salary increases cost $220,000 and an additional 30 teachers will be hired for the 1969-70 school year, Stofflet said. Stofflet warned that no end is seen for the increasing Middle-ton budgets. He predicted that the 1970-71 school budget could be up $500,000 above the level approved Monday.

The craft vanished shortly uc ed in Business Without thereafter, and the Civil Air Pa- Really Trying was admitted to trol sponsofed a Search which Mount Sinai Hospital four weeks stretched from Texas to the Losjago. Angeles area. Laguna Beach is Frank Loesser, Songwriter, Dies Of Lung Cancer Most Happy Fella, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to He was working on a new song or show at the time. A family spokesman said, He was always working. Mrs.

Mary Stack JANESVILLE Mrs. Stack, 87, died Monday Janesville hospital. The former Mary Dooley was married to James Stack in 1913. He died in 1945. She was a member of St.

Williams Catholic Church. Surviving in a i is a daughter, Mrs. Jerry Hevey. Other survivors include another daughter, Mrs. John McCarthy, Janesville; a son, James, Janesville; a brother, Arthur, Brodhead; four sisters, Mrs.

John Murphy and Mrs. Harry Townsend, both of Janes- ville; Mrs. J. J. Griffin, Chicago; and Mrs.

Fred Menne, Quincy, eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a m. WednesdayinSt. Williams Catholic Church. Friends may call after noon today at the Whitcomb Funeral Home.

ville who declined renomi nation. The 1969-70 school budget of $3,223,527 was approved. It includes an increase of $177,000, of which taxpayers will pay at least $173,000. Most of the increase is due to higher teacher salaries, according to M-G school treasurer Glenn G. Onsager.

School Taxes In Monona to Go Up 2 Mills School taxes in the city of Monona will rise an even two mills under the budget adopted Monday by electors in the Monona Grove school district, M-G Supt. of Schools Edmond F. Schwan said today. The increase of .97 mills on the a 1 i valuation will mean more than two mills in other municipalities in the district, Schwan said. The difference is due to the method of assessment.

The city of Mononas share of the district taxes dropped 1.1 per cent to 86.317 per cent for 1969-70, Schwan said. The town of Cottage Grove an Blooming Groves shares will be higher in 1969-70, Schwan said. The town of Cottage Grove comprises 9.3 per cent of the value while the village of Cottage Grove has 3.63 per cent of the districts value, according to state tax officials. IsadoreRubin Store Owner, Is Dead at 69 Isadore Rubin, 69, of 605 Sprague owner of the Badg er Furniture 203 King St. here, died Monday night in a Madison hospital.

He had been a resident here since 1920. Mr. Rubin was married in 1927 to Bertha Kusher. He was a member of Beth Israel Synagogue. Surviving, besides his wife, are two sons, Dr.

Edward Rubin, New York City, and Robert Rubin, 5901 Mayhill Dr, here; one daughter, Mrs. Leonard Kahn, Larchmont, N. two brothers, David Rubin, 4222 Manitou Way, and William Rubin, 2209 Chadbourne Ave, both of Madison; two sisters, Mrs. Aaron Scher, 202 S. Randall and Mrs.

Paul Skur-nik, Fond du Lac, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p. m. in the Frautschi Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway Rd. here, with Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky of Beth El Temple officiating.

Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. There was to be no visitation. Memorials may be made to the Wisconsin Heart Association or to Beth Israel Synagogue. Ramon Grau, Former Cuban President, Dies HAVANA (UPI) Former President Ramon Grau, San Martin, died Tuesday night at the age of 87. Grau, a doctor by profession, occupied the presidency twice.

He served as provisional president in 1935 after the overthrow of Carlos Manuel De Cespedes but was himself ousted four months later. He w5s later elected and served a four-year term beginning in 1944. Mrs. Kringle Dies at Age 48 Mrs. Kenneth E.

Kringle, 48, of 4114 St. Clair died today in a local hospital. Prior to her illness, she had been employed in the nursery at Schwoeglers Bowling Lanes. Mrs. Kringle was bom at Rice Lake in 1920, and was married on Sept.

30, 1939.She had been a Madison resident since 1951. She was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church. Surviving, besides her husband, are a son, Scott, and a daughter, Crescent, both at home; her mother, Mrs. Olaf Dillan, Rice Lake; a sister, Mrs. Elaine Floan, Minneapolis, two brothers, Harold Jackowick, Milwaukee, and Marshall Jackowick, Waukesha, and a stepbrother, Percy Jackowick, Logansport, Ind.

Funeral arrangements are pending at the Frautschi Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway Rd. There will be no visitation. The family said memorials may be made to Bethel Lutheran Church or the American Cancer Society. Frank Christenson Frank M. Christenson, 74, of 313 E.

Sunset died Monday in a Madison hospital. Born in Marsh Rapids, he married the former Esther Buss in 1933. He was a Madison resident since 1942 and was a former electrician at the University of Wisconsin and at Truax Field during World War II. He was a World War I veteran and a member of the i 1 American Legion Post No. 275 and Our Lady, Queen of Peace Catholic Church.

Surviving is his wife. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the church. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at the Frautschi Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway where the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m.

Burial will be at Wisconsin Rapids. Lester Wilson Lester H. Wilson, 70, Route 2, Poynette, died today in a Madison hospital to which he was admitted July 14. The Schroeder Funeral Home, 3325 E. Washington Madison, is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Nets Olsen Mrs. Nels Olsen, 26, McFarland, died Monday in a Madison hospital to which she was admitted Saturday. Funeral arrangements were to be made at the Nlnneman Funeral Home, Tomah. A tax hike and a call for spring elections were approved Monday at the annual meeting of the Monona Grove school district.

The tax increase, based on the equalized or full value, will represent about an average of a 2.45-mill i a in the assessed taxes, according to school district estimates. Monona Grove officials warned taxpayers that the school estimate is the best that they could expect in 1970. Adverse action in the Legislature on school aids could force the board to raise taxes beyond the level. Supt. of Schools Edmond F.

Schwan noted today the school board has the power to increase, but not decrease, the tax level voted at the annual meeting. Election of school board members at the spring election rather than the annual meeting in July was endorsed by a 112-to-70 vote. Three of the seven posts on the Monona Grove school board will be decided at the spring elections in 1970. At Mondays meeting Prof. Donald Johnson, of 1407 Basker-ville and Richard Nicke-son, of 4402 Winnequah were elected.

They succeed Cy Vale, Cottage Grove, and Dr. James Skiles, of 1305 Basker- 5 Air Controllers Face Suspension In Mass Sick-In WASHINGTON (UP) The Federal Aviation Administration says it has notified at least five air traffic controllers they face suspension because they took part in a sick call boycott in June. An FAA spokesman said two others were given five-day suspension notices and 18 others were cleared. The professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization has said the FAAs attempt to discipline the controllers could lead to mass resignations but there was no immediate PATCO reaction to the FAA action. southeast of Los Angeles.

The mountain on which the wreckage was found Monday is about two miles inland from the Pacific. The cause of the crash was under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. Albert Krauss Albert B. Krauss, 87, Moorland Road, Route 3, Madison, died Monday in a Madison hospital. His wife died in 1965.

He was a former Oscar Mayer and Co. employe. Surviving are three daughters, Florence and Lillian, at home, and Mrs. Floyd Gage, Binghamton, N. six sons, Forrest and Melvin, both of Route 1, Brooklyn; Harry, Route 1, McFarland; Richard and Robert, both of 4537 East Buckeye and Albert at home, and five grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Gunderson Funeral Home, 5203 Monona Dr. here, after 4 p. m. Thursday. Funeral rites will be held Friday at 2:30 p.

m. in the funeral home, with Rev. Richard Krenz of the Middleton Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. FOR SALE: AIR CONDITIONED '67 FORD A well equipped tor that you'll really eiioy driving air conditioned, 8.

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Baxter Established 1906 the Madison Dance Council, which also offers classes in ballet and modern dance for young people and adults. More information about the sessions is available from Dance CouncU president Mrs. Peggy Baime, 222-2928. (Staff Photo by Bruce Fritz) Bringing harmonies out of diverse instruments are these pre-schoolers in a class in Orff rhythmics at the Madison Art Center, and their teacher, DeWayne Caddock. The Orff method, nsed widely in Europe, treats music as a language with its own basic vocabulary.

Orff classes win be taught again in the fail at the Art Center, tinder the sponsorship of 1.

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