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iii.jIs., Oec. 4, v. ft 'ivVU oB' Obituaries $750,000 suit in fall Des Moines Tribune TONIGHT Viking ruins discovered at 2 sites in Paraguay MAXWELL MAN HAS TOP YIELD ISU dean named to Co-op board From th Register's Washinston Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. Lee R. Kolmer, dean of the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University in Ames, has been appointed director-at-large on the board of directors of the Central Bank for Co-operatives.

Kolmer was named to a three-year term by' the governor of the Farm Credit Ad No to the Back of the Bus! Twenty. years ago tomorrow, an Alabama bus driver told a little black woman to give her seat to a white man. He was talking to the wrong lady. She refused, was arrested and a year-long black boycott of the Montgomery bus system began. Many think the Black Revolt got its start that day.

Do you remember her name? Read her story on The Back Page tonight! It's a good one! the ruins of a small fort or sauna. The archaeologists were led by Prof. Jacques de Mahieu, director of the Institute of Human Sciences. They will return next year to dig around the ruins with the aid of Paraguayan soldiers. Suspended term in Bluffs killing COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA.

(AP) A Council Bluffs man convicted of manslaughter Nov. 6, has been given a sus-p eight-year prison term and has been placed on parole. The sentence was handed down by Pottawattamie County District Court Judge Paul Sulhoff in the case of Robert L. Allen, 52, who was convicted in the Aug. 10 shooting death of Gracie Hill, 38 also of Council Bluffs.

Sulhoff paroled Allen to Iowa adult probation author ities for as long as they deem necessary. The judge also ordered Allen not to purchase any firearms or to otherwise have a firearm in his posses sion. Trying to colled PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)- A top Justice Department official said Tuesday that federal authorities are trying to col lect more than $40 million owed the government in criminal fines. WATCH IT EYES CLOSED WOI-FM 90.1 Ames 6:00 News 2:00 Masterwks 7:15 Musicale 5:30 News 8:00 News 6:00 All Things 9.00 Musicale 7:30 Book Club 10:30 Boole Club 8:00 N.Y.

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Scott KRNQ-FM 102 Des Moines Rock In stereo 24 hours a day. Aience France-Press BUENOS AIRES, ARGEN TINA Archaeologists have discovered Viking ruins at two sites in Paraguay, the In stitute of Human Sciences of Buenos Aires announced here Wednesday. Near Tacuati in Paraguay's Amambay Province, archae ologists found- a picture of the Viking god Wotan brandishing a spear on his six-legged horse, Sleipnir. The picture was engraved on the stone foundations of a pre-Columbian village. Runic inscriptions by a waterfall a few hundred yards away indicated a colony was established there at theend of the Thirteenth Century by the Viking empire of Tiahuanucu, members of the expedition That was two centuries before Columbus' voyage to the Americas.

1 The site is in east central Paraguay about 400 miles inland. On a mountain top 100 miles northeast of there, the ruins of a fortified enclosure were found. The enclosure consists of a double wall of hewn stone 33 feet high bearing a runic monogram similar to those engraved on Viking buildings as a sign of prosperity. On a cliff by a nearby waterfall, an area 10 yards square was carved with runic letters. These have been badly weathered but the carved outline of a Viking boat js clearly visible.

The cliff carvings were by YOU CAN WITH YOUR 1 1 AM-NOON I i WW Merle Hay Plaza, at Douglas Avenue and Merle Hay Road, was named defendant Tuesday in a $750,000 law- suit filed in Polk County Dis trict Court. Mick J. Polito of 3309 Second contends he is totally and permanently blind as the result pf head injuries he suffered when he allegedly slipped and fell on some ice while walking in the shopping center parking lot two years ago. Polito contends the Merle Hay Plaza was negligent in failing to maintain its parking lot in a safe condition and in allegedly failing to warn people of the icy condition. Attorneys for Polito asked for a jury trial.

Phone books being delivered A new telephone directory is being delivered in Des Moines and 30 nearby communities, according to Les Watts, Northwestern Bell district manager. The directory has a special bicentennial cover depicting faces from American history with each one using a different phone developed by the Bell System in the last 100 years. An identification of each of the characters is printed on Call-Guide page 16. There will be no directory drop-boxes or special pickups of old 1 directories because there is no outlet for old directories this year, Watts said. More than 240,000 directories will be delivered by Dec.

19. Omahan gets 4-year term Sherwin Michael Oldham, 22, of Omaha, was sentenced' to four years in prison Wednesday after he was found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury here on charges of making false statements to obtain loans totaling $13,000 from the Bankers Trust Co. U.S. District Judge W.

C. Stuart sentenced Oldham to two years in prison on each of three counts but permitted one of the terms to run concurrently with the others. Oldham, who was indicted by a federal grand jury last March, faced up to six years in prison and a $15,000 fine after being convicted Tuesday by the federal court jury. JOHN A. WILLIAMS Services will be at 1 p.m.

Friday at the Estes and Son Funeral Home for John A. Williams, 58, of 1509 Hutton who died of cancer Tuesday at Mercy Hospital. Burial will be at Glen-d a 1 Cemetery. Born in Portland, Mr. Williams lived in Des Moines for 29 years.

He was a retired postal carrier, was a life member of the Roy Leonard Rollen VFW Post, and was a member of the Valley Golf Club, Conservation Club and Road Runners Central States Bowling Guild. He was past president of the National 829th Buddies. Survivors include a son, James of Des Moines; a sister, Mrs. Margaret A. Harper of Des Moines; and two stepsisters, Mrs.

Gertrude Johnson of Des Moines and Mrs. Mary Oliver of St. Paul, Minn. Visitation will be at 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

MRS. ETHEL DAVIS Services will be at 11 a.hi. today at Dunn's S.W. Ninth Street Funeral Home for Mrs. Ethel L.

Davis, 71, of 2000 Grand West Des Moines, who died Tuesday at Medicen-ters of America, of a heart ailment. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Born in Reinbeck, Mrs. Davis lived in Des Moines for two and one-half years, having moved from Clear Creek, Calif. Survivors include her husband, Ellis; a brother, Toby Larsen of Gladbrook, and four sisters, Mrs.

Alma Larson of Des Moines, Mrs. Norma As- wegan of Des Moines, Mrs. Leona Plaehn, of Reinbeck, and Mrs. Viola Altenburger, of Verona, Pa. WALTER L.

ANDERSON Services for Walter L. Anderson, 66, of 5058 N.E. Fifth will be at 3 p.m. today at the First Church of the Naza-rene, with burial at Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery Mr. Anderson died of a rup tured aorta Monday at Mercy Hospital.

Survivors include his wife. Amv: three daughters, two sons, two brothers, two sisters and nine grandchildren. MRS. CORA P. WARD Th Resistor's Iowa Newt Service KNOXVILLE, IA.

Services for Mrs. Cora Pauline Ward. 91. of Knoxville, who died Tuesday at a Knoxville nursing home, will be at 1:30 p.m. today at the Eden United Methodist Church west of Knoxville.

Survivors include three sons, four daughters in cluding Mrs. Lena Hale of Des Moines, 15 grandchildren, 35 ereat-grandchildren and three sisters. ROBERT WHITE The Register's Iowa Newt Service MACKSBURG, IA. Serv ices for Robert White, 88, of Macksburg, a retired farmer who died Wednesday at Creston hospital, will be at p.m. Saturday at the Method ist Church here.

Survivors in. elude two sons including Jesse of Des Moines, three daugh ters, a brother, 12 grandchildren and 16 JOHN A. WILLIAMS Des Moines 13-WH0 (NBC) 6:30 Women 3:30 Floppy 7:00 Today 4:00 Dinah 9:00 Celebrity 5:30 NBC News 9:30 Fortune 6:00 News 10:30 Hwd. Squares 6:30 Price, Right 11:00 High Rollers 7:00 Grady 11:30 Mag. Marble 7:30 Cop and Kid 12:00 News 8:00 Med.

Story 12:15 Cartoons 10:00 News, Spts. 12:30 Movie 10:30 Tonight 2:00 Another Wld. 12:00 Tomorrow 3:00 Somerset Ames 5-WOI (ABC) 7:00 Gateway 5 7:30 Dennis 8:00 Term. Tux. 8:30 Mag.

Window 9:00 M. Douglas 10:30 Happy Days 11:00 Showoffs 11:30 My Children 12:00 Noon Rpt. 12:30 Here, Now 1:00 Rhyme 2:00 Gen. Hosp. 2:30 One Life 3:00 Edge, Night 3:30 Ok.

Shadows 4:00 Gilligan 4:30 Flintstones 5:00 Hillbillies 5:30 ABC News 6:00 Truth, Cons. 6:30 Treasure 7:00 B. Miller 7:30 On the Rocks 8:00 San Fran. 9:00 Harry 0 10:00 News 10:30 Untouchables 11:30 Wide World Des Moines 8-KCCI (CBS) 6:30 Semester 7:00 CBS News 8:00 Kangaroo 9:00 Price, Right 10:00 M. Brubaker 10:30 Love of Life 11:00 Restless 11:30 Search, Tmw, 12:00 News, Mkts.

12:15 Cartoons 3:00 Tattletales 3:30 M. Mouse 4:00 Partridge 4:30 Ironside 5:30 CBS News 6:00 News, Spts. 6:30 Bewitched 8:00 Hawaii 5-0 9:00 Barn. Jones 12:30 World Turns 10:00 News, Spts. 1:30 Guiding Light 10:30 CBS Reports 2:00 All, Family 11:00 CBS Movie 2:30 Match Game 1:00 News; Pastor Des Moines 11-KDIN (IEBN) 9:00 Sesame St.

10:00 Educ. TV 3:00 GED 3:30 Sewing 4:00 Mr. Rogers 4:30 Sesame St. 5:30 Elec. Co.

6:00 Blk, Perspec. 6:30 GED 7:00 Romantic 7:30 Classic Prev. 8:00 Classic Thea. 10:30 Lucky Jim 11:00 Classics Omaha board votes gas raise OMAHA, NEB. (AP) The Metropolitan Utilities District Board of Directors voted unanimously Wednesday to in crease natural gas rates by 3.6 per cent, effective Jan.

12. The latest boost will mean residential users will see their bills go up about $6.40 per year. a. Vm1Sf RADIO asa 1420 RADIO PLAYHOUSE By DON MUHM Roister Farm Editor Tom Rooney, 19, of Maxwell, has won the Polk County7 corn growing contest with a yield of nearly 170 bushels per acre. He won the top honor over Roger VanGorp of Des Moines, who placed second with a yield of 154 Finishing third was Rooney's-father, James, who had a 14 bushel yield.

The elder Rooney has won' the Polk County contest sev' eral times, and holds the' county's record corn yieldjbf 182 bushels per acre, set fast year. Soybean Winners Don Faidley, of Colfax, won-the Polk County soybean con; test with a yield of 54.3 els per acre. Second place went to Richard Alleman of Slater, and third place went to Herman Clark of Altoona. Polk County Extension Di; rector Ober Anderson said the contest yields were surprising considering weather conditions and plant stress experienced during the growing' season. Respectable Yields While the yields were not records, Anderson said tny are "good, respectable yields" because one-third of the farmers who enrolled in the con-, test didn't complete it because of hot, dry conditions during mid-summer.

In the contest, which is sponsored by the Downtown Des Moines Kiwanis Club, corn yields averaged 137 bushels per acre, two bushels high-, er than a year ago. Soybean' yields averaged 47 bushels per. acre, 10 bushels more than. last year, Anderson said. Thousands clash over body ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AP) An estimated 6,000 leftist students and workers clashed with police Wednesday in -a dispute over the body of one of their slain comrades and more than 18 persons were wounded, the Istanbul gover nor said.

Police said the demonstrators marched to, the mosque where the body lay and asked for the casket, Jjut the boy's family, aided police, would not let them take it. B'TTfim A CARD OF THANKS published in The Register and Tribune is a. fitting way to express your appreciation of floral tributes, gltts- and other kindnesses. Call 284-81 41 for suggested messages. ANDERSON Services for Walter Anderson, of 5058 Northeast Fifth, will be 3 PM.

Thursday at the First Church of Interment Highland Memory. ARNOLD'S HIGHLAND PARK FUNERAL HOME BROWN Services for Anna E. Brown, of St. Oregon, will be 1 PM Thursday -at the Westover Funeral Home. Interment Glendale Cemetery.

-DAVIS Services for Davis, of 2000 Grand, West Des Moines, will be Thursday, 1. A.M. at Dunn's on Southwest Ninth. Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens DAY Services for Orval M. Day, of Elkhart, Indiana, formerly of Des Moines, will be 1 PM.

Thursday at the Funeral. Home. Interment Glendale. DAHLSTROM SERVICE HORNADAY Services for Dr. William R.

Hornaday sr. of 3520 Grand will be Thursday 11 AM at Dunn's on Grand interment Masonic. OLNEY Services for Maude Olney, of 1147 Twenty-fourth Street, will be 3 P.M. Friday at the Funeral Home. Interment Resthaven.

DAHI STPQM SERVICE PETERSON Services for Mrs. Mildred I. Peterson, of Valley View Village, formerly of 1903 Sixty-first Street, will be 10 A.M. Friday at Westover Funeral Home. Entombment 11 A.M.

Sat-u a Springdale Memorial Mausoleum, Peoria, Illinois. SANDERLIN For Information regarding services for Mrs. Maude Sanderlin of 2225 Grand, call Dunn's on Grand, 244-2121. SMITH Services for Mrs Edna Mae Smith of 1341 Sixth Avenue will be Friday 1 PM at Grace Baptist Church. Interment Dexter Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home. GRANDVIEW FUNERAL HOME 2650652 3211 Hubbell SMITH Services for Mrs. Mary Lou Smith, of 1428 Nineteenth Street, West Des Moines, will be 11 A.M. Thursday at the Westover Funeral Home. Inter- ment Waukee, Iowa Cemetery.

SPEAR Services for Mrs. Fern Spear, of Calvin Manor, will be 10 A.M. Friday at the Funeral Home. Interment Ma- sonic. ARNOLD'S HIGHLAND PARK FUNERAL HOME VAN NORMAN For information regarding services for Mrs.

Elva Van Norman, of 4027 University, call Dunn's on Grand, Services scheduled Hamilton's Funeral Horn THURSDAY CARL F. WILSON 1800 Watrous 1 :30 P.M. at the Funeral Home Pine Hill Cemetery FRIDAY LESTER W. SNELL Evans Street 1:30 PM at the Funeral Home Laurel Hill Cemetery SATURDAY MRS. WINIFRED WAGGONER McLouth, Kansas 1:30 PM at Funeral Home Glendale Cemetery HAMILTON'S 243-5221 MADRID FRIDL Services for Mrs.

Fritz (Anna) Fridl, will be Thursday 2 PM at the Madrid" Lutheran Home. Interment Glen- dale Cemetery, Des Moines. SUNBERG-KIRKPATRICK SERVICE ST. CHARLES STR ABLE Services for Ver- non E. Strable, formerly of St.

Charles, will be Saturday, 1:30 PM at Overton Funeral Homer. Indianola. Interment St. Charles- Cemetery. WINTERSET STEPHENSON Services for John E.

Stephenson will 1:30 PM Friday at the Perth Methodist Church. Interment. Peru cemetery. DON TOM FAIDLEY ROONEY WOI 640 Ames 7:00 News 1:00 Pacem In 7:15 Music Shop 4:00 All Things 8:30 Pacem In 5:30 Bus. Final 12:00 Noon Rep't.

6:00 Concert 12:15 Farm Facts KDPS-FM 88.1 Des Moines 7:00 Blind 1:30 Public Serv. 9:00 Music 2:05 Music 10:30 Public Serv. 3:30 Blind 10:45 Music 6:00 Music 12:00 Public Serv. 6:30 Public Serv. 12:15 Radio Thea.

KWKY 1150 Des Moines 5:30 D. Odegaard 5:00 R. Emery 6:30 Religion 6:00 Buy, Sell 11:00 Gospel Music 8:30 J. Conrad 12:00 Grand View 9:15 Grace 12:30 Wld. Tmw.

Assembly B. Dick 9:30 Wld. Tmw. 2:00 T. Tommy 10:00 J.

Conrad 3:00 B. Dick KBAB 1490 Indianola 6:00 Steve Brown 1:00 Shar. Milner 10:00 SHar. Milner 2:00 Jim Beam 11:00 P. Nelson 6:00 Joe Cooper 12:00 Info.

Hour KENT 1350 CBS Des Moines 6:00 Ray Dennis 5:00 News 7:00 News 5:30 Ray McCarty 7:45 Sports 10:00 Del Hull 12:00 News 12:15 Van Harden 7:00 R. Pewson 10:30 Mystery Theater 1:00 J. Lombardo 3i00 Ray McCart) KIOA-FM 98.3 Des Moines Great stereo rock" all the time. KDMI-FM 97.3 Des Moines Gospel talks, -music 24 hours a day. Psychologist to speak tonight Child psychologist Gertrude Williams of St.

Louis, will address the anniversary meeting of the Des Moines Child Guidance Center at 8 p.m. today at the Ramada Inn on N.E. Fourteenth Street. Williams is the president of the American Psychological Association's second on clini cal child psychology and is editor of the Journal of Clini cal Child Psychology. ministration.

The bank, lo cated at Denver, participates in loans to co-oper atives which are made by the system 12 district banks. Kolmer also is director of the agriculture and home economics experiment station at Iowa State. The Agriculture Department announced Wednesday that Jerome Kuhl, formerly of Council Bluffs, has been appointed agricultural attache at the U.S. embassy in Rabat, Morocco. Kuhl is a graduate of Sam Houston College at Huntsville, and of the University of Texas at Austin.

Grants request to move trial The Register's Iowa News Service CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. U.S. District Judge Edward J. McManus Wednesday granted a request to move the trial of a former union official accused of misusing union funds to Des Moines. David W.

Hart of Des Moines, former president of District Council 11 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, was indicted in Sioux City in October. He, is accused of using approximate ly $25,000 in union money to pay legal expenses in con nection with trials at Sioux City involving workers charged with strike violence. McManus granted the request to move the case because the alleged crime took place in Des Moines and most of the witnesses are from Des Moines. Lost, survives on raw rabbits ALPENA, MICH. (AP) A 49-year-old man was discovered safe after spending three days in the woods surviving on raw rabbits he killed with his hands.

Theodoros Kladis of Detroit was spotted by a Department of Natural Resources helicop ter Tuesday. The aircraft was searching for Kladis in the area where he had been hunting over the weekend. His fam ily had notified authorities that Kladis was missing when he did not return home. He was hospitalized and re ported in good condition with frostbitten toes. Kladis said he became disoriented when it began rain ing.

The rain later changed to snow and ne spent bunday frozen soaked from the wa ter and covered with Escapes from Broadlawns A Polk County prisoner, who was aamittea to uroaaiawns Polk County Hospital for psy chiatric evaluation under a court order last month, escaped from that facility Wed nesday, authorities said. Polk County Sheriff Dick Clemens said Ricky Waller, 22, of Ankeny, who was await ing trial connection witn a breaking and entering charge, was -admitted to Broadlawns Nov. 28 on an order from Judge James Denato. "We didn't have security guards on him (Waller)" Clemens said, "because I guess that's the way the judge wanted it." Authorities said they discov ered Waller missing when his room was checked about 2 p.m. He was still at large late Wednesday, police said.

'Right to die' campaigner dies EL CAJON, CALIF. (AP) Marjorie Berg, the cancer-stricken housewife who lead a campaign fbr what she called 'the right to die," is dead at 45. Mrs. Berg, who died Tues day, lived months longer than doctors expected. "It was just blessing when she went," said her husband, Alan.

Removal of a cancerous breast did not stop the spread of the disease in Mrs. Berg, and as her days and nights became 24-hour cycles of pain she found herself wishing for death. At one point, she locked her self in a motel room and swallowed 22 Seconal capsules in a desperate try at suicide. It failed when a maid found her in the room, barely con scious, but still alive. in 3 itfilLirnlum ritta ii ri 1 i i -MUTTf I 'mil i i- imr' Tn' Ami taiVUl CJAT GRADY.

Grady decides to move in with his daughter and son-in-law. (Premiere) NBC at 7. THE COP AND THE KID. Court puts a street-wise orphan in the care of a middle-aged bachelor on the Los Angeles police force. (Premiere) NBC at 7:30.

CLASSIC THEATER. Janet Suzman, Anthony Hopkins and Eileen Atkins star in Chekhov's "Three Sisters." IEBN at 8. MEDICAL CENTER. Three young interns struggle to make a place for themselves in the world of medicine. CBS REPORTS.

CBS News presents a special report on President Ford's trip to China. CBS at 10:30. $0. rtl Paul i iter N. a if- Jones is PJ.

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