Portage Daily Register from Portage, Wisconsin (2024)

December 23, 1968

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Portage Daily Registeri

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Portage, Wisconsin

Issue Date:

Monday, December 23, 1968

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3

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Accused murderer turns OBITUARIES Edward Lauth PORTAGE DAILY REGISTER the small society Mon Dec by Snow slows stops life in Midwest patched to the motel where Newberry checked in early Friday morning and brought him back to the Madison jail Newberry had been missing since he add Miss Mondragon left the trailer home of his parents Mr and Mrs Austin Newberry late Thursday Sheriff Scheskie said the Zion Benton high school graduate would not talk with authorities until he was given a lawyer He refused to return to Zion with a Lake County 111 sheriffs policeman who went tot Madison to talk with him Scheskie said Madison showed that asphyxiation caused her death- He said he did not know whether the girl was strangled or whether she was choked to death when grass was stuffed down her throat Scheskie said Dane County authorities told him Newberry telephoned the Dane County sheriff office early Sunday morning and said want to talk about a When questioned about the location of the murder Newberry replied of Scheskie said a Adams County sheriffs policeman was dis Flu tug Richard NEW YQRK (UPI-Having formed a cabinet given away his daughter and caught the flu Richard Nixon decided today it was about time he started his vacation The oniy thing standing between the president-elect and 10 days in Florida was the possibility his doctor might not let him leave until he was fully recovered from the illness Emerging Sunday night from the Plaza 5 Hotel after his daughter Julie's wedding ecep- tion Nixon told reporters he was hit hard Saturday night by a case of low-grade" influenza but that he felt better Earlier Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Dr Victor Deluc-cia Nixon's personal physician had treated Nixon in his Fifth Avenue apartment and detected slight fever" Nixon his wife Pat and older daughter Tricia planned to leave New York City and fly via an Air Force Jetstar to Homestead AFB outside Miami From there the Nixons were to bend toll in as area feom MIAMI The spotlight in the Mackle kidnaping swung today to Ruth Eiseman Schier 26 a petite Hondurus-born blonde biology researcher The FBI listed Miss Schier as the second half a kidnap team of that botched and bungled one of the most twice collecting and twice letting slip through their fingers a half million dollars in ransom With the arrest of Miss Schier and the recovery or accounting for about $700 authorities could stamp as closed a stranger-than-fiction kidnap ransom and chase that began early last Tuesday The' FBI found about $17000" Sunday when they arrested Gary Steven Krist accused abductor of heiress Barbara Jane Mackle on a muck-covered bit of land near here known as Hog Island About $480000 of the $500000 in $20 bills paid as ransom for the 20-year-old Emory University coed was abandoned in a boat Krist had bailed out of in favor of the dense underbrush that hid him for about 10 hours (Beem) iwmmi Agents figured he had used another $2300 of the ransom paid by millionaire land developer Robert Mackle to buy a 17-foot boat late Friday for his unusual escape attempt Krist was arraigned Sunday before a US commissioner as he lay in a hospital bed in Fort Myers Fla He later was transferred to the Dade County Jail here His bond was set at $500000 The FBI directed its attention to Miss Schier Her associates at the University of Institute of Marine Sciences where Krist worked as a marine technician and she conducted biology research as a graduate student were still stunned to think she apparently had a part in the kidnaping A secretary who worked with Miss Sphier remembered her as a and charming girl one who took her work Dr Sual Broida of the Physical and Chemical Oceano- Pat That Extra Frosting On Her Christmas With Love And A Special Cologne From WALGREEN GREAT SELECTION Find Exciting Christmas Cosmetic Sets Gifts For Everyone! 23 1968 Page 3 Brictt man graphy deb Miss Schier seemei just after two-week September artment in which was enrolled felt i to be meeting Krist on a ruise to Bermuda in talked to her about it and she said she was going to study proida said studying She doing her 1 Now she and Krist known as George Deacon at the University face kidnaping charges in the predawn abduction of Barbara Jane from an Atlanta Motel Miss Mackle was found by FBI agents Friday buried in a coffin-like box about 20 miles northeast of Atlanta Krist was finally tracked down byj Charlotte County Deputy Richard McLeod and -part time fington deputy Milton 1 Buf- Montello Theatre CHRISTMAS DAY THRU DEC 31 PNWMOUNT PK1URES pmnls Jssk Jand XMtsr Mstthsa are Tfc2 Odd Ceufcs pmmsottichncixck PARAMOUNT PICIURt 7:30 NITELY! homes share in Will to All show i Edward Lauth 79 Beaver Dam died unexpectedly Friday at home after an apparent heart attack I Born in the Town of Beaver 7'Dam he married Olga Schindel -in 1912 and lived in the Beaver Dam area all his life He was a retired employe of vthe Wayland Academy and a mem- ber of St Evangelical Lutheran Church Surviving are three sons Raymond Beaver Dam Clarence Portage and Lloyd Menomonee Falls two daughters Mrs 'Elmer Hoffman Juneau and Mrs Gilbert Weber Fall River a sister Anna Juneau 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren The funeral was held at 2 pm today in the Briese Funeral Home Luther Stamford Luther Staniford 71 North Freedom died Saturday in a Madison hospital 7 Staniford was a retired farmer Surviving are his wife: the former Sarah Austin two sons Gordon Waterloo and James Baraboo four daughters Mrs Theodore Brandt Hillpoint Mrs Lester Small Wisconsin Dells Mrs Allen Lau Reeseville and (Mrs Donald Vethe Oshkosh four Vernon Janesville Hugh Beloit Edward LaCrosse i Land James Davenport la five sisters Mrs Wilna Ooton Colorado Springs Colo Mrs Bern-adine Potts Janesville and Mrs Ruth Kroener Mrs Bessie Wood and Mrs Mary Woodruff1 all of Sparta 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren The funeral was held today at 2 pm in the Gant Funeral Home Reedsburg MrslH Dieckhoff Mrs Harry A Dieckhoff 82 Columbus died Saturday in St Hospital at Columbus af-1 ter a long illness The' former Matilda Adam was married in 1908 and with her husband farmed in the Columbus area until 1943 when they retired She was a member of Columbus Methodist Church 1 She is survived by her husband a daughter Mrs Lester Deglow Columbus a foster son 1V alter Nieman Randolph a sister Mrs Arthur Deglow La Grange 111 three grandchildren and a great-grandchild The funeral will be at 1:30 pm Tuesday at the Jones Funeral Home at Columbus where friends may call after 3 pm today Mrs O'Meara Mrs Joseph 65 of 103 Langdon St Madison a -former resident of Portage died Saturday in a hospital after a brief illness The former Frances Rock was born in Williamsburg la! and was a Madison resident since 1951 Her husband died in 1963 She was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Surviving are a daughter Mrs Rose Fryer Washington DC two sons the Rev Frank OP Dubuque I la and Capt John Denver Colo two sisters Mrs Floren Peters Independence la and Mrs Bert Grahm Scottsdale Arizj two brothers Dr Emmett Bettendorf la and Donald New York City and two grandsons The funeral will be at 11 am Tuesday in the churchy Her son will officiate 1 Friends may cll after 3 pm today at the Joyce Funeral Home 540 Washington Ave Madison where the rosary will be said at 8 tonight Burial will be in Verona Mrs Hanson Mrs Harry Hanson 83 Beloit died Saturday in a Beloit Nursing home The former Alida Thompson was born in Fairchild and lived in Beloit 55 years' She was member of Second Congregational Church She is survived by her husband a son John Beloit a daughter Mrs Robert Moore Portage a sister Mrs Alma Beck Beloit seven grandchildren and two great-grandchil- dren The funeral pm Tuesday Uehling-Kinzer at Beloit where friends call after 7 tonight will be at 1:30 at the Rosman-Funeral Home may By United Press International In Nebraska the National Guard was called out In South Dakota and Iowa church services were canceled In Minneapolis a pro basketball game was postponed And in part of the Midwest the cause of it all snow stood 20 feet deep Besides the mountainous snow drifts in Nebraska South Dakota and Minnesota there also were winds of more than 60 miles an hour sub-freezing cold and icy rain in the blizzard that struck the heartland Sunday i The day-after-winter attack which stretched from Kansas to Wisconsin tore down power lines and jmade highways and roads impassable in hard-hit Nebraska where Gov John Everroad declared a state of emergency and ordered out the National Guard to help stranded motorists Snow was 24 inches deep in Duluth Minn 15 inches at Minneapolis where the American Basketball Association Minnesota Pipers and Kentucky Colonels were to play Sunday night but because they were stranded In Chicago total snowfall included eight inches of fresh flakes in 12 hours The cold Christmas-season blanket of white strewn from the southerri Rockies northeastward across the Central Plains to the Midwest measured 27 inches 1 at Marquette Mich 22 at Eau Claire Wis 14 at Sioux City Iowa and 18 at Sioux Falls SU blow carried by winds of 62 miles an hour at Norfolk Neb continued today but with less than blizzard ferocity in most Midwestern states Two storms- however lashed the Northern part of the nation one spreading heavy snow and rain into the Northwest the Other sending 69 mph winds through Cape Blanco Qre i it jt Heavy! 'wet snow turned to rain in much of the Northeast where travelers warnings were posted for another day Windsor locks near Hartford Conn received four inches of new snow in a six-hour period that ended early this morning Strike leads to limited i(i: mail embargo Because of a work stoppage by Long Shoremen at Atlantic and Gulf Ports and loss of shipping facilities the Post Office Deparmtnet has placed an embargo on certain surface foreign mails Effective at once an embargo1 is placed on the acceptance of all surface mails for Europe Africa the Middle East and the Caribbean Islands This embargo does not apply to military mails The embargo does not apply to airmail in the international service The only exception on surface mails is the first class mails for the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico will be accepted according to Portage Postmaster Julius Sarafolean Any mail subject to the embargo which is erroneously accepted or is deposited in the mails after the embargo has been evoked shall be returned to the sender if otherwise it will be held at the office of mailing Office Equipment AT BHYME SUPPLY 122 Cook Portace SALES SERVICE that knows coming off ism Yellow Pages v- so Iff in at MADISON Wis (UPI) A Zion 111 grade school teacher was held in Dane County jail today on a murder charge! in the slaying of his fiance I Eugene Newberry 23 turned himself in to authorities here early Sunday Het had been sought in the death of Miss Anna Louise Mondragon 22 Zion whose beaten anb partially clothed body- was found last Friday in a patch of high grass at Illinois Beach State Park The two had planned to this Friday Newberry is a sixth grade teacher and Miss Mondragon taught third grade In Zion Lake County Sheriff Harold Scheskie said a clerk at the Madison motel where Newberry checked in said the teacher had blood on his clothing and hands when he signed the motel register The clerk said Newberry signed in for himself and a woman but no woman was with him i Scheskie also revealed that: an autopsy preformed on the slain girl a native of Santa Fe NM Public invited to view Durward's Glen The public is invited to visit Glen to view 1 the Christmas decorations a spokesman there said today i Brother Eddie of the Glen has artistically decorated the chapel Huge green wreaths plus an unusual construction at the back of the altar depicting the journey to the stable and the Christ Child highlight the scene Colored spotlights offset the decorations while soft carols weave their way through the atmosphere 1 The chapel will remain open and decorated throughout the holidays Fenders ice take A rash of minor weekend! accidents crowded the Columbia County Patrol log most of them involving single cars ditched at curves on icy highways At 6 pm Friday on i the Bolte Road three miles west of Columbus the right front fender of a 1954 International driven by Jim Wood 16 Columbus was smashed as the vehicle slid into a road marker At 8:02 pm on the Schaffer Road two iniles southwest of Columbus a 1965 Volkswagen received an estimated $75 damage when Charles Kohlmeyer 29 Columbus slid into the ditch Kohl-meyerj who told County Patrolman Ken Manthey he was trying to case a loaded gun when the i accident happened was ticketed for inattentive driving At 10:35 am Saturday six miles northwest of Pardeeville at the intersection of Highway 44 and CTH Arnold Hade 44 Rio drew a ticket for operating over the center line when his 1966 Rambler collided with a 1960 Chevrolet driven by Lila Hare 68 Dalton No injuries resulted though the fronts of both cars were damaged At 11:30 am' JoanL Bur-gette 22 Portage escaped injury when the 4960 Falcon station wagon she was driving skidded on a curve on CTH X- four miles north of Portage and overturned after sliding into the ditch At 2:55 pm two miles southwest of Rio on Highway 16 Raymond Borchardt 62 Watertown was unable to avoid a deer that leaped into the path of his 1962 Dodge A deer also was responsible for damage of more than $100 to a 1966 Chevrolet pickup driven by Oscar Layton 57 Nekoosa on Highway 78 three miles north of Portage The accident occurred at 5:30 pm At 8 pm the entire left side of a 1958 Chevrolet driven! by Mark Huseby 19 Lodi7 was crumpled when he lost control on a curve and plowed into the ditch snapping a road marker At 3:20 pm Sunday two miles south of Portage on the Lear-mouth Road the right side of a parked 1962 Chevrolet owned by Chris Murphy was damaged when it was struck by a flapping chain COOK ST 3 I 8 nt a s- )f e- n- sn tife a in nd ir e- e- be it- i i hugs Mixon drive to Key Biscayne favorite vacation retreat the locale of what eventually will become the winter White House The only staff members accompanying Nixon to Florida were Air Force Col James Hughes his military aide and two young press Alan Woods and Bruce Whele-han The rest of the staff has been told to enjoy Christmas with his and their familes relax until Janj 3 and then be ready mightily before and Jan 20 inauguration Earlier this week Ziegler said Nixon had no plans to see any official visitors at Key Biscayne But he said three members of his administration would be vacationing in Florida at the same time and might drop in on the Nixons socially They are Defense Secretary-designate Melvin Laird Secretary of State-designate William Rogers and FBI Director Edgar Hoover into the ditch on three miles west At 9:15 pm three miles north of Lodi at the intersection of CTH and no apparent damage was done to a 1968 Pontiac driven by Richard Lairrabee 26 Lodi when the vehicle ditched on the turn striking a guard post I At 6:40 am today no damage was reported when a Plymouth driven by Robert A Baker 65 Portage slid' off the roadway ion Highway 33 near the Larson Road iii- the Season's Spirit Brotherhood and Sharing on the wheel of a ColumbiaCoun- ty Highway Department5 truck driven by Harlan Wendlick Pardeeville Damage was described as minor At 6 pm three miles east of Lodi at the intersection of Highway 60 and the Kohn Road a 1967 Dodge driven by Lee A Hillestad 18 Lodi was damaged more than $100 when the car slid past a curve and struck a post At 7:30 pm Wayne Retz-laff 26 Madison lost control of a 1965 Ford truck and slid AjpeS 9 toiNii The snow and ice took their toll of this semi-trailer truck on Interstate 90-94 about 12 miles north of the Portage turnoff No one was hurt when the semi turned over Friday afternoon Here workers are trying to get the semi upright again Daily Register Staff Photo As the story of the first Christmas unfolds in churches and across the land may you and yours its hope for on Earth Good Slippery roads caused a number of accidents in the county this weekend Oneof them involved Joan Burgette who escaped uninjured when she slid on a curve hit the ditch and rolled over on CTH five miles north of Portage Register photo by Paul Burgette G0UtU4f StCUrutf With of WE WiLL BE CLOSED For The Holidays DEC 24th Thru JAN 5th We wish to thank all who gave to the Society all year enabling us to help others I 0 THE FIRST -NATIONAL BANK millMM HMMlnTT WM 1 PORTAGE WISCONSIN MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION BRUNT'S CAFE i A 4 4 I ST VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY BARABOO 240 hk A j- 1 7 -'A 1 4 A.

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