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Power Sunday, April 13, 1975 Fort Collins Coloradoan 3 EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Correspondent Richard Blystone was aboard the last charter flight into and out of Phnom Penh today. There had to be somebody aboard who could locate and identify news service employes to be evacuated by the chartered aircraft. As it turned out, there was no problem. By RICHARD BLYSTONE SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) Questions that come up flying over out By CHHAY BORN LAY SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) I knew I was in trouble when an American friend who is remaining in Phnom Penh rushed into The AP office and screamed, "What are you doing here? Everyone's left." I had been two hours at the immigration department picking up a passport for my wife. In that time everyone had left.

I rushed out ot Le Phnom hotel where the office is to see if there were any choppers. landing. There was no sign of Sheridan Lindenmeier Sheridan W. Lindenmeier, 85, of 2025 North County Road 11, son of a pioneer Fort Collins family, died Friday at his home after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at the Russell Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Lloyd Hindman officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery. Graveside services will be conducted by Elks Lodge No. 804.

He was born in Fort Collins on Dec. 16, 1889, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lindenmeier. His father ran a resort at Lindenmeier Lake, northeast of the city, from about 1907 until 1917, when automobiles came into general use and City Park began to draw crowds.

The resort had been on the route of Denver Interurban, a streetcar line. Attractions at the resort included a dance hall, refershment stands, swimming, band concerts, a Sunday vaudeville show and a penny arcade with a fortune teller. Lindenmeier married Ellen King in Cheyenne, on Feb. 4, 1917. She survives.

During the days of vaudeville and silent movies, he played at the Empress and Lyric theaters in Fort Collins and for about 15 years was violinist at dances of the Pioneer Association. A member of the Pioneers 101ST YEAR, NO. 293 FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN A SPEIDEL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVENINGS (EXCEPT SATURDAY) AND SUNDAY MORNINGS Fort Collins Newspapers Inc. 1212 Riverside Avenue P.O. Box 1577 Fort Collins, CO.

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Second Class Postage paid at Fort Collins, Colorado. the dry, brown Mekong Delta: Will we make it into Phnom Penh? Will our man be there? Will we make it out alive? Will we have to deny life to somebody else? An Associated Press newsman is in there somewhere: left behind when the Marines evacuated the Americans. Chhay-born Lay. Born Cambodian. Only nationality that counts right now: AP.

What would the Khmer Rouge do to him? The Continental Air of Phnom I dashed back into the office, rounded up my wife and two children, hopped in the office car and 1 drove like crazy for the American Embassy: It was handful deserted of except Cambodian for a guards. I asked a guard: "'Where are the other newsmen?" "They've all left," he replied. "'You better get to the heli-pad quickly." I drove around the back of the embassy, but there was a barricade blocking the street. There were two marine helicopters on the pad. I asked a policeman to let me through.

He said Services charter crew, signs of battle anywhere. will wait until they get No way to tell what i is there to see whether they down there. will land. If there is too much shelling, we turn Will people mob the back to Saigon. plane as they did at Da Nang, Tuy Hoa? Will we "Hello Sunday, this Alpha Papa, over.

Hello have to kick off people who just want to live? Sunday, this is Alpha Papa. Hello Pilot Al Rich of The folding antenna of Orleans, makes up the green field radio his mind. Copilot Gene whips in the slipstream. Rainville of Pembroke, The hand holding it out N.H., says, "'The hell with the plane's window gets it. We're going in." ice cold.

The airport bakes int the Has he got his radio? Is midday sun. A T28 light it working? bomber lands. Ground "Hello crewmen recline in the Sunday. The only answer is shade of wings. They static.

hardly look around. Over Phnom Penh. No No mob. No Lay either. Try the radio again.

Penh Am We Nothing. I can't working stay it right? much longer. The Khmer The policeman looked Rouge are within very tense, and was medium mortar range. carrying M16. I Just try the terminal, a argued with him, he quarter mile away across pointed the gun at me and the tarmac.

Run. pushed me back. Workers resting behind I went back to the office their sandbags. Nobody to try and phone Saigon. has seen Lay.

I'd only been there a few Lay! minutes when the phone Talking to a man in: a rang. It was George flak jacket. Esper, AP's bureau chief Get wife, drag children. in Saigon: "'The charter Run. The engines are is on its way.

Dick running. No time to Blystone is aboard. Get worry about the suitcase. out to the airport im- "We just got here five mediately." minutes ago," says Lay. As soon as we "They got through to us scrambled aboard the by phone from plane it started rolling.

The runway slips by, and then the red tile roofs I looked out the window of the city. at the city and thought: How peaceful. How no. "Goodbye, Obituaries Club, White Shrine of Jerusalem, and life member of the Masonic Lodge and Elks Lodge in Fort Collins, he attended the Presbyterian Church. He was a farmer and fruit grower in the area.

Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Beverly E. Bradford of Westminster; a brother, Warren of San Diego, and two granddaughters. From Page 1 women said they continued selling by making change out of their own pockets. They said they would try to keep operating as long as they had the right change.

AT THE Denver and some other stores, candles were used to light the counters. They gave off a soft glow that seemed out of place in a shopping center on a busy Saturday. At Casa Godinez, a Mexican Restaurant, candles are at some of the tables all the time. but a cashier said extra ones were lighted to get through the power outage. Ted Rose, manager of Rollnick's Shoes, was able to get some dim light in his store using an auxiliary power supply.

But it was still so dark that a clerk had to use a flashlight while helping a customer try on some boots. "We just got out the hand crank for the cash register and kept on doing business," Rose said. IN A country that's had time to get used to shortages of all types, the people at the mall seemed to take the temporary loss of power in stride and police said they had no reports of outbreaks in shoplifting. "Everyone just went right on shopping," said a saleswoman the Nina Boutique. Across the parking lot, the loss of electricity brought things to a standstill at the Cinema Twin theater where people had lined up to see John Wayne and Art Carney.

Theater manager Art Medlin said he had to tell his patrons to come back for the next scheduled shows in the afternoon. The shutdown in power stopped the ticket machine, kept the popcorn from popping and turned the hot dogs cold. Emergency job program showing results here By LLOYD LEVY Of the Coloradoan A work crew from the county's Department of Human Development is fixing the fence at the United Day Care Center, 1005 Stover Street in the First United Methodist Church. Besides the fencing work, the crew is providing labor to winterize the homes of a number of senior citizen and low-income families here. Foreman Dennis Turner, hired with federal money granted Larimer County for emergency jobs, said repairs to the day care center's fence "will make it more stable, a lot safer and more attractive." Crew members Jerry Munkacsy, 25, and Eloy Lopez, 21, of Fort Collins and John Landreth, 22, of Loveland also were hired with the federal funds.

Once work on the fence is complete, the crew plans to "beautify" the center's playground equipment, Turner said. The winterizing project will try to make homes "weather tight to cut the residents' fuel bills" by patching roofs, installing storm windows and caulking windows and doors, he continued. On the homes of those who can't afford it, materials are being provided by several area businesses, some Human Development and Volunteers Clearing House funds and other donations. The crew also is teaching some of the homeowners and renters to do such weather proofing jobs for themselves, Turner said. APPLICATIONS FOR the winterizing service are Power outage Saturday blamed on short circuit An electrical failure Saturday triggered by a shortcircuit in an underground vault caused an hour-long power outage in a section of south Fort Collins.

Ronald D. King, assistant district supervisor for Light and Power, said the power outage was primarily in an area from Swallow to Horsetooth roads and from Stover Street to South College Avenue. He said the power went out shortly before noon and was restored about 1 p.m. The center of the problem occurred under a manhole located along South College in front of the Foothills Fashion Mall. BOOTS HATS TACK Fort Collins' Most Complete Shopping Center CHAMPION WESTERN STORE THE BIG STORE CORNER COLLEGE LAPORTE From Page 1 preliminary description was unveiled on April 2, Webber made it clear he would ask the board to "stay where we're at" for this year.

Webber said he is "less capable of predicting" what the school board will do on Monday night than he has been on other issues. On his position, he said, "I'd be violating 1975 budget funds if I recommended anything The Parents' Concilio will attend the meeting, according to member Don Lucero, who said he is not convinced that Webber is really concerned about making education more meaningful for bilingual children. IN OTHER action, the board will hear a report on the 1974 audit, submitted by the firm of Kruchten and Magnuson. Administrative Services Director G. C.

Mabry will review the audit from an "administrative point of view," according to NOW OPEN PUTT-PUTT GOLF Mon. thru Fri. 4:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m.-Midnight Sunday Noon to 10:00 p.m. 1513 E.

Mulberry 484-0415 Coloradoan photo by Winston Marugg WORK PROGRESSING Fort Collins salvages ground fence of the Stover Street. A work jobs money through Development is working winterizing low-income homes. available at the Human Development Department, 120 First Street, and the Volunteers' Clearing House, 401 Linden Street. Turner is a licensed contractor in Fort Collins who had been out of work about 40 days when he took the Human Development job. "I can't get away from carpentry because I love the work," said Turner, who worked for Faith Realty and Development before they phased out his homebuilding job.

"Also, all my life I have wanted to get into something like this because I like to help people." In his spare time, Turner Jerry Munkacsy, 25, of lumber as he works on the playUnited Day Care Center, 1005 crew paid by federal emergency the county Department of Human on the playground and also is and senior citizen families' said, he is trying to interest senior citizens and Youth Manpower program participants in learning to do crafts. on Aug. 11, 1926, in Julesburg. She survives. He was a mechanic.

He also is survived by two sons, Robert of Englewood and Donald of Colorado Springs; two daughters, Mrs. Darlene Denison of Salida and Mrs: Lois Tucker of Ava, a brother, William of Denver; 19 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Ethel Majors George Wyatt Ethel May Majors, 59, of 2731 Worthington Avenue, died Thursday in the Wide Horizons Sanitarium in Wheat Ridge after a lengthy illness. The body was cremated. Private funeral services have been held.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First Church of Christ Scientist of which she was a member, in care of the Russell Funeral Chapel. She was born on June 2, 1915, in Keokuk, Iowa. She was married to S. R. Majors, who survives.

They moved to Fort Collins from Moline, six months Also surviving are two sons, Robert R. and R. both of Fort Collins; two sisters and a brother, all of Iowa, and three grandchildren. Robert Crites Robert L. Crites, 67, of Glendale, father of Gary Crites of Fort Collins, died Friday in Swedish Hospital in Denver after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Russell Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery. He was born on June 3, 1907, in Nevada, and married Laura Bretthauer George R. Wyatt, 88, of Fort Collins, died Saturday in a local nursing home after a prolonged illness.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Warren Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Robert Geller officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery in Longmont. A retired plumber, he was born in Jewell County, on Oct.

13, 1885. He married Charlotte Storm in Lodgepole, on June 3, 1908. She died on Feb. 21, 1968. He moved to Fort Collins from Cheyenne in 1957.

He was a member of the Laporte United Presbyterian Church. Bauer rites Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Goodrich Chapel for George Bauer 55, of 128 First Street, who died Thursday. The Rev. Allen Vik will officiate.

Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery. PUBLIC NOTICES in Your Newspaper Today Bring the family We're that kind of place. 746 N. Pizza College? Roma 482-3145 MAHALO! (Thank you) TO ALL WHO WORKED SO HARD AND WHO VOTED FOR ME. Dick Suinn Today's Prayer Lord Jesus, let us be completely constant in You, as You are also constant in us, throughout the whole day.

Only then are we able to be genuine and useful. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY To have constant fellowship with Jesus is vital to daily living. GOODRICH MORTUARY King said the underground vault houses a 600-amp switch and that the failure occurred when a 200- amp load break connector burned and short circuited. That caused the explosion that popped off the manhole cover and tripped the main breaker at the Drake Substation.

There were no injuries. Five units from the Fort Collins fire department were dispatched to the scene when the power failure caused a number of alarms to go off. Police were called to help direct traffic. King headed up crews from Light and Power that worked to restore power. BATH LANDSCAPE HAS IT! coupon INDOOR PLANTS WEEKEND SPECIAL POTTERY HONEYSUCKLE BUSHES OR HEDGING GARDEN SEEDS ONION SETS 18-24" PEAT POTS Bare Root each Good thru Sun.

April 13, 1975 OPEN SUNDAY 2000 EAST PROSPECT SOMETHING'S ALWAYS HAPPENING IN FORT COLLINS Knights of Columbus Tootsie Roll Drive April 13th to 19th Benefit for the Retarded Citizens of Colorado and Larimer County for a brighter future A free tootsie roll for your donation Watch for it at many churches Sunday April 13th and business sections April 19th PLANT A TREE TODAY FOR TOMORROW Arbor Week April 13-18 Arbor Day Celebration Friday, April 13 (Entrance at College Avenue and Cherry Street) An arboretum is a place where many kinds of trees and shrubs are grown for exhibition and study. The species are planted according to a plan, are properly identified and maintained for the enjoyment of the citizens of the community. Our arboretum is a joint effort of the City of Fort Collins and the Horizons Committee of the Centennial-Bicentennial Commission. For further information about the arboretum, call 493-2850. FIRST NATIONAL BANK.