The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 6

6-Missoulian, Saturday, January 23, 1982 Community briefs GOP national fundraiser to speak at local dinner in New York. Wilkie Gunn PepsiCo, with $6 billion in revenue last year, is the multinational parent company for Pepsi Cola Wilson Sporting Goods, Pizza Hut, North American Van Lines, Taco Bell, Lee May Motor Freight, and Frito-Lay. Gunn, a staunch advocate of free-enterprise capitalism, has gained national attention since the major election victories of conservative Republicans in 1980. Gunn has stirred debate with his criticism of federal assistance programs for minorities and the poor. He is a member of the Republican National Committee's advisory council on economic affairs and serves as a Republican spokesman for President Reagan's economic programs.

Montana Secretary of State Jim Waltermire will serve as master of ceremonies for the evening, which will start with a no-host cocktail hour at 6: 30 p.m. Dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets and reservations can be obtained from Darla Sadler, 721-1520, or Pete Ridgeway, 721-1000. Wendell Wilkie Gunn, a rising star on the GOP national fund-raising circuit, will be the featured speaker for the Missoula County Republican Party's Lincoln Day dinner on Feb. 12.

The dinner, a $25-a-plate affair to be held at the Village Motor Inn, is the annual fund-raiser for the local Republicans. Gunn is assistant treasurer and director of planning for PepsiCo Inc. Wendell Target Range registers pupils for kindergarten The Target Range Elementary School is registering children for kindergarten for the 1982-83 school year. Children who will be 5 years old on or before Sept. 10 are eligible for kindergarten.

Parents may register their child by calling the school at 549-9239 or by stopping at the school. Melcher to gather comments on state unemployment woes Sen. John Melcher, will conduct a public forum to gather information on western Montana's depressed job market Thursday in Missoula. The meeting will be the fourth in a series of similar forums that Melcher has held this winter in western Montana. To date, more than 5,000 workers have either been laid off or put on reduced hours because of the deepening slump in the wood-products and related industries in western Montana, according to figures released by Melcher's Washington, D.C., office.

In a prepared statement, Melcher said he will take testimony from workers and managers of timber industry-related businesses as well as from the general public. Other issues to be discussed include interest rates, CaObituaries Ted Nelson POLSON Ted Nelson, 89, died Thursday in a Polson nursing home. He was born March 4, 1892, in Wahpeton, N.D. He served 18 months overseas during World War II and was wounded in the battle of the Argonne Forest. Following the war, he lived for a time in Augusta.

He married Martha Fullberg in Great Falls, and the couple moved to Nine Mile where they ranched until retiring in 1956. They moved to Missoula at that time, and Mrs. Nelson died in 1970. Mr. Nelson moved to Polson and had resided there until his death.

He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors include two step-daughters, Roma Marion Bacon, Chaney, and Dorothea Smith, Polson; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Missoula Cemetery with the Rev. David Orendorff officiating.

The VFW will provide color and honor guard. Services are under the direction of the Mosley Funeral Home of Polson. Gary Ericksen Gary Ericksen, 34, who taught organ music part-time at the University of Montana in the mid-1970s has died as the result of injuries in a hit-and-run accident in Iowa. Mr. Ericksen, who had been working in the Denver area, had been staying with his mother, Joyce Ericksen, in Iowa when he died.

Funeral services were held in Iowa. Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Mr. Ericksen attended schools there and received his master's degree from the University of Michigan. He taught at the University of Montana during the 1973-74 school year. In addition to his mother, he is survived by a sister, Jan Ann Fishel, Minnetonka, Minn.

Virginia B. Burdett Virginia B. Burdett, 67, of Florence, died Friday in a Missoula nursing home of natural causes. Mrs. Burdett was born in Great Falls on Feb.

25, 1914, to Mr. and Mrs. Thumm. At an early age she moved with her family to Gifford and later to Lewiston, Idaho, where she was raised and attended schools. She married Clarence Burdett, who preceded her in death in 1954.

She moved to Missoula from the Lewiston area several years ago. Survivors include two sons, Jerry Burdett, Florence, and Bill A. Burdett, Spokane; her mother, Mabel Black, Lewiston; three sisters: Maythelle Howard, Lewiston; Maybelle Barlow, Lewiston, and Roberta Spedden, Lewiston; and seven grandchildren. Cremation will take place at Sunset Memorial Gardens Crematory. Squire Simmons Carr Rose Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Around Missoula New singles support group Sunday, 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church parlor, for singles who are newly separated, divorced, widowed. Call Jim Mardock, 549-6118 or Carla Heitz, 721-4354. Lunar new year celebration Sunday, 5 p.m., featuring Oriental potluck, slides and talk on Chinese prison system. At UM married students club house (UM Golf Club House) Call Susa, 243-6057, or Mark, 728-6416, or Dr.

Wang, 243-5101. Sashayers Suare Dance Club Chili Night will be Saturday at the Marsda Hall, county fairgrounds. Chili supper at 6:30 p.m. followed by dancing p.m. Chuck Wright calling.

All square dancers invited. Missoula Chidren's Theater auditions for "Paint Your Wagon," Saturday, noon-6; and Sunday, noon-5 at 118 W. Main St. Call 728-1911. (Public event and meeting notices will be published in the Around Missoula column if they are received by noon two days before the requested day of publication.

All items must be typed or legibly printed. None will be accepted over the telephone. Date, time and place must be included.) nadian lumber imports and the pending RARE II studies by the U.S. Forest Service. Melcher said he intends to use the information gathered to build support in the Senate for action on interest rates and unemployment.

The forum will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Carousel, 2200 Stephens Ave. Series on Hmong culture offered A cultural series on the Hmong people will be offered by the YWCA beginning Tuesday. The series will be conducted by Muacha K. Cherpao, director of the Lao Family Community, Inc.

The class will meet each Tuesday through Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Lecture topics will include: introduction to the Hmong people, Hmong social structure and organization, family structure and social problems, marriage systems and religion, Shaman, herbal and medicinal health care, funeral systems and problems encountered in the United States For further information, contact the YWCA at 543-6691. Pre-registration is encouraged. The series is free.

Speeches on terrorism sponsored by institute The Institute of the Rockies will hold a colloquim entitled "International Terrorism -The Diplomacy of Violence" on Jan. 31. Speaking on "'The Counterproductivity of Terrorism as a Political Force" will be Richard K. Moore, professor of political science and international relations at Lewis and Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho. Walter J.

Lonner will give an address entitled "Is There a Terrorist Personality?" Lonner is a psychology professor at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash. A speech entitled, "Terrorism and the Multinational Corporation" will be given by George R. Lonner, president of Fluid Power Associates in Spokane. The colloquim, from p.m., is co-sponsored by the World Affairs Forum of Deer Park, Wash. A panel discussion and questions from the audience will be part of the program.

The program will be held at the Montana Power Co. auditorium in Misoula. Admission is $15 per person for non-Institute members. Information on registration can be obtained from the Institute of the Rockies, 622 Evans or Aging council members named The county commissioners have appointed Carolyn Frojen, Vivian Miller and Jo Waldbillig to fill expired terms on the County Council on Aging. Their terms will run through 1984.

Clark Anderson and Walt Taylor, both of whom had applied, were not reappointed. Anderson was serving as the council chairman for a term to run through June 30. The council at its January meeting elected Sheila Schreurs, director of the Health Information Clearinghouse, to serve as chairwoman until the end of June. The commissioners have also appointed Alan Chaffin, Seeley Lake, to fill out the remainder of the term of George Eldridge, also of Seeley Lake, who resigned. Carrie Vermedahl POLSON Funeral services are pending for Carrie Vermedahl, age unavailable, who died Friday at her home.

She was a long-time resident of Irvine Flats near Polson. Jay W. Atkins Jay W. Atkins, 89, of 232 W. Sussex, Missoula died Thursday in a Missoula hospital.

Mr. Atkins was born Sept. 10, 1892, at Aberdeen, S.D. He graduated from high school and attended college at Aberdeen. In 1925 he came to Montana and worked for the U.S.

Forest Service. He later worked for the Northern Pacific Transport Co. in Missoula for 20 years, before his retirement in 1963. In June 1929 he married Genevieve Thorsrud in Missoula. She preceded him in death on Feb.

8, 1960. He was a 50-year "'Life Member" of Missoula Lodge No. 13, A.F. A.M., and was a member of the Missoula Senior Citizens. There are no known survivors.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Squire Simmons Carr Rose Chapel. The officers of Missoula Lodge No. 13, A.F. A.M.

will officiate. Burial will follow at Missoula Cemetery. Friends may call at Squire Simmons Carr on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m.

to 9 p.m. It is suggested that memorials be made to the Missoula Senior Citizens, or to a charity of donor's choice. Rita A. Allum SIDNEY Rita G. Allum, 27, died Thursday in the Sidney hospital.

She was born Oct. 22, 1954, in Glendive to James and Georgian Gallagher. She moved to Great Falls in 1959 where she graduated from high school. She married Franklin Allum on Sept. 1, 1979, in Missoula.

They moved to Culbertson in 1981, and she had resided in Culbertson until her death. Survivors include her husband in Culbertson; one son, Correy Allum, Culbertson; her parents, Missoula; three brothers: Brad Gallagher, Salt Lake City; Craig Gallagher, Gillette, and Kurt Gallagher, Douglas, one sister, Kelly Gallagher, Missoula; and numerous other relatives. Funeral services will be at the Silvernale Mortuary Chapel 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will follow in Dawson Memorial Park.

Record Fire Calls City Department 418 Edith chimney fire, 5:18 p.m. Friday. 130 W. Kent medical emergency, 10:38 a.m. Friday.

201 N. Pattee Mountain Bell Telephone alarm malfunction, 3:27 a.m. Friday, 1506 Ernest medical emergency, 11:21 p.m. Thursday. 100 Hickory city department of parks and recreation, smoke scare, 11:18 p.It.

436 S. Fifth medical emergency, 10:48 p.m. Thursday. 610 Cleveland chimney fire, 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

Longstaff and Knowles streets, tractor fire. 6:27 p.m. Thursday. 610 Cleveland chimney fire, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Births Community Hospital Frances and James Wilson, girl.

Katherine and Don Unsworth, boy. Rita and Peter Tucker, boy. STUDENT NURSES Representatives from Montana Deaconess Medical Center will be at the Village Red Lion, VIP room, on Tuesday, Jan. 26 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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