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2 3 4 tf 4 444 WWW 4 44 'k 51 'v nsvvs Was FPL Researcher 42-THE CAPITAL TIMES, Thursday, July 31, 1969 Causing Further Relay on Compromise Chicago Girl, 10, Killed in Car Mishap at Lodi Obituaries Dr. Margaret Seihel Noted Organic Chemist, Is Dead Budget Committee Musters Only 2 Members for Meeting JVear Family Farm John Andreas 10, Verona Dies in Farm Tractor Mishap By DAVE ZWEIFEL (Of The Capital Times Staff) With the state budget hanging in the balance, only two of the six members of the Senate-Assembly Conference Committee showed up for a meeting at 10 this i and everything was delayed until later today. have been passed by June 30, but a stalemate between the two houses has delayed it for a full month. At the rate the conference committee is going, it could be several weeks before a compromise is accomplished. State departments are carrying on business on a schedule based on the old 1967-69 budget.

But continued delays could create a budget crisis for several departments, especially in the University system. The state schools are also having problems attempting to determine their own budgets for next year because they cant determine the amount of school aids they will receive from the Besides Hollander only Assemblyman Byron Wackett (R-Watertown) was on time for the scheduled meeting this morning. The other members are Re-, publican Assemblymen Paul Al-fonsi of Minocqua and John Sha-baz of New Berlin and Republican Senators Alex Meunier of Sturgeon Bay and Reuben La Fave of Oconto. The State Senate has passed a budget of nearly $1.7 billion, but the Assembly turned it down and passed its own $1,531 billion measure. The conferees are supposed to hit upon some middle ground, but as yet have failed to reach any agreement.

It seems were having a little problem with attendance, announced State Sen. Walter Hollander (R-Rosendale), one of the six conferees. I guess well have to try a little later today. Dr. Margaret K.

Seikel, 57, 2202 Kendall internationally known organic chemist at the United States Forest Products Laboratory in a 1 died Wednesday in a Madison hospital. She was a world authority on the chemistry of plant phenolics, her main field of research during -the eight years she spent at the laboratory here, Dr. Seikel came to Madison from Wellesley College, where she was chairman of the chemistry department and a teacher for 21 years. She did her undergraduate and masters work at Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

Her Ph.D. was from Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Dr. Seikel traveled widely to teach and do a h. She taught throughout Europe and did a year of research in Australia two years ago. She also spent two years doing research at the University of California at Los Angeles.

LODI A 10-year-old Chicago girl, Kim Hnizdor, was killed in stantly late Wednesday afternoon, when a car slid into the ditch and struck her as she stood near the scene of an accident between a gravel truck and her fathers station wagon, three miles southeast of Lodi on Townline Road. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bazil Hnizdor, 2202 Beldon Chicago. The driver of the car was Roger Wipperfurth, 19, Dane.

He was ticketed by Columbia County authorities fcr driving after revocation of his drivers license. He was freed after posting bond of $207, Mrs. Hnizdor, standing in the ditch with her daughter, suffered only minor injuries. The girl was dead on arrival at a Portage hospital. The pair had left the station wagon after a truck had stalled on a steep hill on Townline Road, and rolled backwards into the Hnizdor vehicle damaging the left front end.

Driver of the gravel truck was Ronald Clemens, 19, Dane. Hnizdor, 44, was driving the station wagon. John Andreas ildi Dr. Margaret Seikel The six members three senators and three assemblymen are supposed to develop a compromise budget bill which will satisfy both the conservative and moderate factions of both houses. The budget was supposed to Miss Schroeder Dies; Longtime City Resident Only One Misused Out of 264 Fatal Crash on Motorcycle Is Rilled Accident UW Case Cited In.

College Loan Probe Festge, Reynolds Named as Interim Mayors by Dyke David Ackerman Killed in Vietnam Miss Schroeder WASHINGTON (UPI) investigators looking into the federal cost of student college loans said Wednesday they found one case in which a University of Wisconsin student received a $1,000 loan and the next day he and his wife went to Canada to live, VERONA John Andreas, 10, was killed and two of his brothers, Patrick, 13, and Michael, 32, were badly Injured shortly after noon Wednesday in a farm tractor accident on Ridge Road near their farm home 4 miles southwest of Veorna. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. John E. Andreas, Schaller Road, Route 1, Verona, who operate the Verona Torque Tour Center restaurant.

Patrick, the tractor driver, and Michael were both reported In serious condition at Madison General Hospital, but responding to treatment. Both boys have arm and leg fractures, possible internal injuries, and multiple cuts and bruises. County Traffic Police Sgt. Gordon Behnke and Officer Arnold Qualo said the youngsters lost control of the tractor in loose gravel on Ridge Road while driving home from raking hay. All three boys were pinned under the tractor when it landed In a ditch.

Coroner Clyde Chamberlain said John was killed instantly. He ruled the death accidental. Michael freed himself and summoned a neighbor, Ed Schaller, who used his farm tractor and an earth moving machine to upright the Andreas tractor and rescued Patrick. Young Johns traffic death was the fourth in Madison and Dane County in two days and the 31st this year. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Joyce Funeral Home in Verona.

John finished fifth grade this summer at the Valley View School and was a member of St. i 1 1 i a Catholic Church, Paoli. He also is survived by three other brothers, Anthony and Thomas, at home, and Edward, Mt. Horeb; seven sisters, Mrs. Daniel Vincent and Mrs.

Richard Norton, both of Hillside Heights, Madison; and Christine, Corrine, Irene, Maureen, and Jacquelyn, at home; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Andreas, Verona. The funeral will be held Saturday at 9:15 a. m.

in the Joyce-Verona Funeral Home. Services are scheduled for 10 a. m. Saturday at St. Williams Coroner Clyde Chamberlain Jr, Wednesday ruled accidental the death of Mrs.

Richard (Nora) Weger, 42, of 726 E. Johnson who was killed in an early morning motorcycle-car crash Tuesday. Lynn E. Washburn, 28, 'of 1402 Northport operator of the motorcycle on which Mrs. Weger was a passenger, was reported Jn satisfactory condition at Madison General Hospital.

The mishap occurred at Sherman Avenue and Melrose Street. The coroner still has under investigation the crash in which Stuart R. Hagen, 34. of 3409 University and Sylvester Wopat, 49, Route 1, Ridgeway, were killed late Tuesday on Highway 14. Morris Ackerman, 29, Route 1, Mt.

Horeb, driver of the car involved in the accident with a truck carrying the two men, is still in serious condition at Madison General Hospital. Mayor William Dyke has appointed his two predecessors to be his Emergency Interim Successors in the event of massive disaster striking the city. As authorized by the citys Joint Action Civil Defense Ordinance, Dyke named former mayor Otto Festge as his first emergency interim successor. In the event that Festge was unable to function as mayor, former Mayor Henry Reynolds would take office as the second emergency successor. The succession in office would only take place if the mayors constitutional successors, the council President and the President pro tem 19th Ward Aider-man John Morris and 14th Ward Alderman Harold Rohr, respectively were also unable to act as interim mayor.

Pfe. David F. Ackerman, graduate of Madison East High School and a 1968 graduate of Wisconsin State University at Eau Claire, was killed in Vietnam July 6. The young soldier is survived by his father and mother, Air Force Lt. Col.

Donald G. Ackerman and Mary Jane Ackerman, both of Air Force Base, Westover, Mass. A Donald, of Tucson, also survives. Mr. Ackerman was engaged to Sylvia Puhl, of Colfax, a student at WSU in Eau Claire.

We have no evidence to support that. Mrs. Green said she has asked the GAO to make a separate investigation of abuse of loans along with other items at six universities which she would not identify. Ahart cited the Canada case on promting by Mrs. Green who asked: Did you find any other instances where funds were used for anything than what they were intended, like buying cars? Our investigation was not designed to review use of loans or to follow the funds to determine how they were used, Ahart replied.

Earlier, Rep. Albert H. Quie, ranking Republican on the subcommittee, said he had been told by some bankers that in some cases kids took the loan money and bought cars. He did not elaborate. Her research contributed much to the study of phenolic constituents of wood.

She was also one of the founders of the American Phytochemical Society and a past president of the Plant Phenolics Group of North America. She was author of many scien tific papers and recipient of several research grants, including two from the National Science Foundation. She was a Sarah Berliner Research Fellow of the American Association of University Women in 1948. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the American Chemical Society, the American Asociation for the Advancement of Science, and the Appalachian Mountain Club. She was chairman of the Outing Section, John Muir Chapter, Sierra Club.

Surviving are her father, Hugo B. Seikel, South Orleans, and a brother. Robert West Concord, Mass. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the Frautschi Funeral Home, 3610 Speedway Rd whore friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m.

Sunday. The family asked that there be no flowers and that memorials be made to the John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club. Gregory J. Ahart, representing the general accounting office, indicated before a House education subcommittee it was the only case of abuse of the loan program they came across in 264 loans they examined, although they were not investigating for abuses. Ahart did not say when the loan was made to the University of Wisconsin student.

Was it your understanding that the student took his wife and fled to Canada to escape the draft? asked Chairman Edith Green Ahart said, Miss Marie D. Schroeder, 2020 Kendall died Tuesday. Miss Schroeder was formerly assistant manager of Tiede-mans Drug Store and Grill, University Ave. and N. Lake and a familiar figure to University of Wisconsin students and alumni and area residents.

1 Born in Middleton, she was the youngest daughter of pioneer residents, August Schroeder and Mary Schenck. After graduation from Wisconsin High School, she became associated with the Tiedeman Drug Store and made her home with the Rudolph Tiedeman family. The late Mrs. Tiedeman was her sister. Surviving are her nieces, the four Tiedeman daughters, Mrs.

Burns A. Cash (Rosetta), Mrs. Rumelia i 1 a Evelyn Tiedeman, and Mrs. Victor R. Bemus (Margaret), all of Madison.

Friends may call at the Fitch-Lawrence Funeral Home, 626 University from 5 to 9 p.m. today. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday in St. Johns Lutheran Church, 322 E.

Washington Ave. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Patterson Dies at Ace 44 Truck Rolls into Tailor Shop; Set Damage at $2,20 For Impacted Areas City Schools Would Get Aid Under House Bill James E. McCloskey James E.

McCloskey, 70, of 419 W. Dayton died Wednesday in a local hospital. He is i by a son, James of 1314 Iowa and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He had lived in Madison almost 50 years. He worked in numerous city restaurants as a chef before retiring two years ago.

He was a member of St. Raphaels Cathedral and the Eagles Lodge. His funeral will be Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at the Ryan Funeral Home, 2114 Sherman and at 9 a.m. at St.

Raphaels church. Burial will be in Resurrection cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday after 4 p.m. A rosary will be said at 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

Mrs. Ollie Patterson Catholic Church in Paoli. Burial will bei the church cemetery. Friends are asked to call at the funeral home after 4 p. m.

Friday. The back tailor shop and storage room of Dizons Mens Wear, 402 E. Wilson was damaged early Wednesday evening when a semi-truck broke loose from its parking place on South Hancock Street. The truck, which rolled downhill 140 feet, caused about $2,200 damage to the property, exclusive of clothing stock, according to an estimate. Driver of the truck, Paul D.

Garfoot, 2350 Rimrock said the air brake of the vehicle may have been loosened by vibrations of the running engine. Impacted aid is paid to school districts which have a substantial number of children from families of federal employes. Last year Madison schools enrolled 1,147 children of federal employes, Ritchie said. Madison stands to reap substantial federal funds under a measure passed Wednesday by the U. S.

House of Representatives, Supt. of Schools Douglas S. Ritchie said today. The action was an $894 million addition to funds requested for the U. S.

Department of Health Education and Welfare by President Nixon. Madisons major benefit will be in a continuation, and possibly an increase, in federal aid to so-called impacted aid areas, Ritchie said. Under the measure passed by the House, the Madison school district could receive between $170,000 and $227,000 in federal impacted aid. Seized for The Nixon measure would have sharply curtailed impacted aid funds. The amendment passed by the House would restore and possibly increase this assistance.

In the current year Madison received an estimated $170,000. Ritchie spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington lobbying for the measure with members of the Wisconsin delegation in the House, Lawrence F. Wilson Lawrence F. Wilson, 71, of St. Petersburg, a resident of Madison between 1926 and 1955, died Wednesday in a Madison hospital.

A member of the Madison Eagles lodge, he is survived by his wife, Florence, of St. Petersburg; a son, Cedric, of 2413 Dahle a daughter, Mrs. Paul MacFarlane, also of St. Petersburg; a step-daughter, Mrs. Kennedy, of 3350 Ridgeway two i Mrs.

Guy Allen, of Viroqua, and Mrs. Roy Burr, of LaCrosse; a brother, Merrill, of LaCrosse; there are eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A brother, Lester, died here Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Gunderson Funeral Home, 5203 Monona Dr.

Burial will be in Rose-lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m, Friday. The Eagles lodge will conduct services Friday evening at the funeral home. Stoning Canoe Mrs. Ollie Patterson, 44, of 125 Bradford Lane, died Tuesday in an Ogden, Utah, hospital.

Mrs. Patterson was visiting her parents, and W. H. Todd, of Ogdenj Utah, and her son, Todd, in -the U.S. Air Force, when she died.

She was a Madison resident for 18 years and was active in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. She was a teacher aide at Schenk Junior High and president of the PTA for several years. Mrs. Patterson was also a member of White Shrine, the Monona Chapter of the Eastern Star, secretary of Amaranth, and a piano teacher. Surviving besides her parents and son are her husband and another son, Mark, at home, two sisters, and one brother.

The funeral will be Friday in Myers Funeral Home, Ogden, Utah, where the burial will be. Memorials may be made as music scholarships to the Schenk PTA. James F. Dedrick James F. Dedrick, 72, of 540 Olin died Wednesday in a Madison hospital.

He was a cheesemaker in the Madison area until he came to Madison 25 years ago. He was an electrician and a cab driver in Madison. Surviving are his wife, the former Helen Kosa; three sons, Clarence, 9 Arizona Circle; Joseph, 801 Pulley and Robert, Maple Rt. two daughters, Mrs. Leonard Liefke, Eau Claire, and Mrs.

Dennis Schmirler, Rl. 1, Waunakee; a sister, Mrs. Rudolph Holak, Hillsboro; 13 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at St.

Wen-ceslaus Catholic Church in Yuba. Friends may call at the Ryan Funeral Home, 2114 Sherman after 4 p. m. Friday. A rosary will be said at 8 p.

m. Friday in the funeral home. Rites Set for Sylvester Wopat Funeral services for Sylvester Wopat, 49, who was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday, are scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Ayers Funeral Home, Ridgeway. A disabled World War II veteran, Wopat was a member of the Eveland Trainer Post 433 of the American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Norma, of Hyde; his mother, Mrs. Erma Wopat of 1134 Northland Madison, and a sister and brother, Mrs. William Hunt and Earl Wopat, who live at their mothers Madison address; a sister Ethyl Begalke, of Verona; and four step-children: a son, Marvin Zander, of Ridgeway, and three daughters: Mrs. Leslie Yapp, of Ridgeway; Mrs. Robert Morgan, Ridgeway; and Mrs.

Thomas Elmer, of Oregon, Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Hyde Madge Kleinhans Madge Kleinhans, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kleinhans, 341 N.

Sherman died Wednesday. Surviving are her parents and grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Dray, 2209 Sommers and Mr. and Mrs.

Marshall Kleinhans, of Chicago. Funeral services will be Friday at 3 p.m. in the Schroeder Funeral Home, 3325 E. Washington Ave. Burial will be in the Bloom City cemetery.

Helps Police Catch Thief Three juvenile boys, two of them 13 and the other 10, were picked up by police Wednesday after they threw stones at a canoe containing an 11-year-old boy and his instructor on Murphys Creek near Baird Street, Police said the youngster suffered a cut oirlhe top of the head from one of the stones thrown at the canoe. The youth and instructor were paddling up the creek from the Olin Park Day Camp when the incident Judge Sachtjen Switches His Lai Enforcement Role Circuit Judge William C. Sachtjen found himself at the other end of the law enforcement business Wednesday when he watched a 25-year-old, unemployed Madison man take a bag of corn from a parked car. Yugoslav Train Potenberg Services COLUMBUS Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs.

Lloyd Potenberg who were killed in a plane crash In California, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Zion Lutheran Church. Among their survivors is Mrs. Potenbergs sister, Mrs. Douglas Sellers, 3802 N.

Sherman Madison. Crash Kills 20 Sachtjen watched the men try the door handles, then called police to the scene. When police arrived, he directed them to East Johnson Street where the man with the bag of corn was found. The companion disappeared, police' said. The arrested man told police he had bought the corn a few moments earlier from someone on the street.

A check with the mans mother by police revealed he had no money, nor does he have a job. Mrs. Harry Colton JANESVILLE Mrs. Harry Colton died Tuesday after brief illness. The former Marie Madden was a member of St.

John Vian-ney Catholic Church. Her husband died in 1957. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Lyman Donahue, Chicago, and Mrs. Thomas Cronin, Janesville; a brother, Dan, San Francisco, a sisier, Mrs, Katherine Davidson, Hillside, and two grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 9 a.m, today in the church. The judge was waiting at the comer of Dayton Street and Wisconsin Avenue for his wife at about 3:30 p.m., when he saw the man and a companion looking into cars on Dayton Street and the avenue. EELGRADE (UPI) A passenger train collided in southern Yugoslavia Wednesday night with two runaway tank cars, killing more than 20 persons, Belgrade Radio reported today. Eighteen were injured, some seriously. They were taken to a hospital in Tetvo, a Macedonian town near the Yugoslav-Al-banian border.

Policewoman Quits Force Mrs. Nellie Him Mrs. Nellie Hinz, 77, Mt. Dora, a longtime Madison school teacher, died Wednesday in an Orlando, hospital. She taught second and third grades for 42 years at the Old Brayton School and at Randall School until her retirement in 1958.

In Madison, she lived at 4222 Mandan Crescent. She was a member of 'the American Legion Auxiliary, the Eastern Star, and the Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband, W. Otto, a retired employe the First National Bank; and a brother, Robert White, Lyons, 111. Burial will be in Mt.

Dora 1 Mrs. M. K. Thompson Mrs. Melvin K.

Thompson, 81, of 1801 Winnebago died Wednesday in a Madison hospital. The former Lulu K. Knorr was bom in Blanchardville. Her husband died in 1935. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.

Betty Woertz, 3317 Thorp and Mrs. Amos Droes, Bay City, three sons, Lester, Rio; Fred, at home; and Willard, Poynette; a brother, Joe, Lancaster; six grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Friday in the Schroeder Funeral Home, 3325 E. Washington where friends may call after Policewoman Mary K.

Strong, 420 Castle PL, has 1 from-the-d-e-p-axt Wp effective Sept. 30. In her es i a i Mrs. The accident occurred when the uncontrolled tank cars rolled down a steep incline and slammed into the oncoming passenger train, the news agency Tanjug said. Strong told Police Chief Wilbur Emery that she was returning to School to study for her masters degree.

fnitoXVrflfc Hli 'iiejifc' Mrs. Elsie Zeier LODI Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie M. Zeier, 82, formerly of Lodi, who died Wednes day in a Verona nursing home, will be Saturday at 10 a.m. in St.

Patricks Catholic Church here Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Friday at the Hamre Funeral Home, Lodi, where vigil services will be held at 8 p.m. Friday. Mrs.

Zeier, also formerly of 2510 Coolidge Madison, was bom in Philadelphia, in 1886. She a i Lawrence Zeier in Chicago in 1925. He died in 1951. She moved to Madison in 1956 to live with a daughter, Mrs. Herbert Warrens, 2510 Coolidge St.

She was a member of St. Olafs Catholic Church, De-Forest; a life member of the Grand Lodge Ladies Society of Local Firemen and Engineer-men, and the Eureka Lodge in Philadelphia. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Warrens and Mrs. Theodore Dohm, Milwaukee; a son, Albert Columbus; three sisters, Mrs.

A. E. 1 1 i Woodlyn, Mrs. Wayne Hagerty, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Willis Eby, Arlington, Va.

three brothers, George Helker, Drexell Hill, H. Helker, Woodland, and Frank Helker, Haverford, and 18 grandchildren, Mrs. Joseph W. Harris Graveside services for Mrs. Joseph W.

Harris, 52, of 2622 Myrtle who died Monday, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Forest Hill Cemetery. Surviving are her husband; two a Mrs. Vivian Strickland and Mrs. Alice King, both of Atlanta, here mother, Mrs.

Sarah Hopkins, Atlanta, two brothers, Harold, Chattanooga, and Frank, San Francisco, and four grandchildren. in p.m. today. Burial will be Roselawn Memorial Park. i Stuart R.

Hagen Graveside services for Stuart R. Hagen, 34, formerly of 616 Brearly who died in an auto accident Tuesday night, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in Forest Hill Cemetery. Mr. Hagen was a Sparta na tive and a Korean War veteran He was a laborer in Madison.

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Verna E. Hagen, a brother, James, Kenosha; and a sister, Marcia, Milwaukee. There will be no visitation. The Ryan Funeral Home, 235 King SL, is in charge of Sperry Infant OREGON Graveside rites will be held today at 2 p.m.

in the Lake Delton cemetery for the inianl daughter of Dennis Sperry who was born and died Tuesday in a Madison hospital. Survivors include the grandpa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Davis of Oregon, and Mr. and Mrs.

Gaylord Sperry, of Madison. The Booth Funeral Hume, of Oregon, is in charge of the funeral arrangements. ife" SI zl Mrs. Norma Weger The funeral for Mrs. Norma Weger, 42, of 726 E.

Johnson who died in an auto accident Tuesday, will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Ryan Funeral Home, 2114 N. Sherman where friends may call after 4 p.m. today. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.

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