The Indiana Gazette
Page 4 — Monday, November 9, 2015
OBITUARIES Walter Laude Walter R. Laude went to be with the Lord peacefully on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, while surrounded by his wife and three children. Walter was born the youngest son of the late Victor and Marie Malzahn Laude in Chicago in 1944. His vast education includes high school in St. Nazianz, Wis. (1962); college at Mt. St. Paul College Salvatorian Seminary in Waukesha, Wis. (1962-64); Mt. St. Mary’s College in Norwood, Ohio (196566); and Maryknoll College in Glen Ellen, Ill. (1966-67). Further education included Saint Meinrad Seminary School of Theology in Saint Meinrad, Ind. (1967-68), and St. Louis University School of Divinity in St. Louis (196869). He also received a Master of Science degree in education from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., in 1971; a Master of Arts degree in Christian education at Scarritt College for Christian workers in Nashville, Tenn., in 1972; and a Masters of Library Science at George Peabody College in Nashville in 1979. Walter worked as a media specialist at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tenn., from 1973 to 1979 and at Indiana University of Pennsylvania as a media resources librarian from 1979 to 2005. Walter was a man of unbelievable integrity, character, kindness and generosity. He believed in serving others as witnessed in his work with the Glenmary Home Missionaries, consistent giving to The United Way, volunteer work as an adult literacy tutor and the food bank, through his involvement in his church, St. Thomas More University Parish, and The International Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons based in Chautauqua, N.Y., through which he earned the Founder’s Award. Walter loved his family and
friends, classic movies (e.g., Jimmy Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock), reading mysteries, traveling, woodworking, hat and badge collecting, the arts, trains and his Shih Tzu, Charlee. Walter also loved spending time with children and showing compassion to those in need, as evidenced in the many individuals who say, “He was like a father to me.” Walter has gone on, but he has left the world as a better place. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Janet Kimble Laude; his son, Rick and wife Angie Laude, of Nashville; daughter the Rev. Katrina Laude, of Homer City, and her children, Kurt, Eli and Kaeldra; and daughter Susie and husband Kenny Lawson, of Jacobus, and their children, Carter and a baby on the way. Walter is also survived by his brothers Vic Laude, of Oakhurst, Calif., and Fred Laude of Paducah, Ky. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the BowserMinich Funeral Home, Indiana. An ecumenical funeral service celebrating Walt’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Homer City United Methodist Church, Homer City, followed by a dinner. In lieu of flowers, friends may make a memorial donation to The International Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons, P.O. Box 1017, Chautauqua, NY 14722-1017.
James Shields James Arthur Shields, 93, of Blairsville, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, at St. Andrew’s Village, White Township. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Lewisville. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. at the church with the Rev. Elizabeth A. Arter officiating. Interment will be in Ebenezer Cemetery, Lewisville.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, c/o Dorinda Hutchison, 5684 Newport Road, Clarksburg, PA 15725, or to St. Andrew’s Village, 1155 Indian Springs Road, Indiana, PA 15701, in memory of Mr. Shields. To view the online obituary, sign the guest registry or send condolences, visit www.shoemakerfh-monu ments.com.
LATE DEATH DeLUCA, Luke Anthony, James F. Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville, (724) 459-7611
TOMORROW’S FUNERALS PRICE, Arthur “Butch” Ray Jr., 11 a.m., Burnside Christian Missionary Alliance Church, Burnside (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home) SHIELDS, James Arthur, 11 a.m., Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Lewisville (Shoemaker Funeral Home Inc.)
‘Massacre’ film killer Hansen dies at 68
Continued from Page 1 coaches locking arms. The tweet said: “The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players.” Practice and other team activities were canceled Sunday, Pinkel and Missouri athletic director Mack Rhoades said in a joint statement. The statement linked the return of the protesting football players to the end of a hunger strike by a black graduate student who began the effort Nov. 2 and has vowed to not eat until Wolfe is gone. “Our focus right now is on the health of Jonathan Butler, the concerns of our student-athletes and working with our community to address this serious issue,” the statement said. The protests began after the student government president, who is black, said in September that people in a passing pickup truck shouted racial slurs at him. In early October, members of a black student organization said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student. Also, a swastika drawn in feces was found recently in a dormitory bathroom. Many of the protests have been led by an organization called Concerned Student 1950, which gets its name from the year the university accepted its first black student. Its members besieged
GUNNAR HANSEN ... played Leatherface agent said. Hansen was a writer and producer of the film, which the Internet Movie Database says is about how a secret government facility becomes ground zero for the most horrific prison break in the history of mankind. The film is scheduled to come out next year, Eisenstadt said. Hansen was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. He came to the U.S. and studied at the University of Texas, where he majored in English and Scandinavian Studies, Eisenstadt said. Surviving Hansen is his partner of 13 years, Betty Tower.
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Wolfe’s car at the parade, and they have been conducting a sit-in on a campus plaza since last Monday. Two trucks flying Confederate flags drove past the site Sunday afternoon, a move many saw as an attempt at intimidation. At least 150 students gathered at the plaza Sunday night to pray, sing and read Bible verses, a larger crowd than on previous days. Many planned to camp there overnight, despite temperatures that had dropped into the upper 30s. Also joining in the protest effort are two graduate student groups that called for walkouts today and Tuesday. Concerned Student 1950 has demanded, among other things, that Wolfe “acknowledge his white male privilege,” that he is immediately removed, and that the school adopt a mandatory racial-awareness program and hire more black faculty and staff. One of the sit-in participants, Abigail Hollis, a black undergraduate, said the campus is “unhealthy and unsafe for us.” “The way white students are treated is in stark contrast to the way black students and other marginalized students are treated, and it’s time to stop that,” Hollis said. “It’s 2015.” Columbia is about 120 miles west of Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb where tensions erupted over the shooting death of unarmed
black 18-year-old Michael Brown last year by a white police officer. The school’s undergraduate population is 79 percent white and 8 percent black. The state is about 83 percent white and nearly 12 percent black. Wolfe, 56, is a former software executive and Missouri business school graduate whose father taught at the university. He was hired in 2011 as president, succeeding another former business executive who also lacked experience in academia. He said Sunday that most of the group’s demands have already been incorporated into the university’s draft plan for promoting tolerance. “It is clear to all of us that change is needed,” he said. Already, at Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin’s request, the university announced plans to require diversity training for all new students starting in January, along with faculty and staff. Lawmakers and elected officials began to weigh in Sunday. The chairman of a Missouri House higher education committee, Poplar Bluff Republican Rep. Steven Cookson, said in a statement that Wolfe “can no longer effectively lead” and should leave his post. Joining him in calling for Wolfe’s resignation was Assistant House Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty, the highest-
ranking black member of that chamber. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon said the university must address the concerns so that the school is “a place where all students can pursue their dreams in an environment of respect, tolerance and inclusion.” U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri graduate, said the governing board needs to “send a clear message” to the students at the Columbia campus that they’ll address racism. The Board of Curators, the system’s governing body, said in a statement that it planned to meet this morning. According to an agenda, part of the meeting will be closed to the public. Missouri law allows the group to meet in a private “executive session” to discuss topics including privileged communications with university counsel or personnel matters, the statement said. A system spokesman didn’t respond to questions about the meeting. The racial issues are just the latest controversy at the university in recent months, following the suspension of graduate students’ health care subsidies and an end to university contracts with a Planned Parenthood clinic that performs abortions. Associated Press writer Ralph D. Russo in New York contributed to this report.
DISTRICT COURT DOCKET The following defendants have been named in criminal charges filed before Magisterial District Judge Susanne Steffee, of Homer City. Criminal complaints and affidavits of probable cause are not evidence of guilt in a criminal case. Defendants are entitled to legal representation and have the right to question the witnesses and evidence presented against them during preliminary hearings in the district court and at trials in the county court of common pleas. Named were: • Kenneth J. Arthurs, 53, Philadelphia Street, Indiana, charged Sept. 29 by an Indiana County detective for a misdemeanor charge of writing bad checks. Records show that Arthurs, the owner of Wolfendale’s Pub & Club and Grubs Sports Bar, wrote a check in the amount of $2,000 to H&R Block at the Indiana Mall on June 30. A notice was sent through certified mail in August that the check had not been accepted, but the notice was returned unclaimed from the post office. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for today. • Amy E. Hagerman, 35, Hill Street, Aultman, charged Sept. 29 by state police with three misdemeanor charges for driving under the influence, fourth offense; habitual offense;
and driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked, second offense. She was also given 11 summary charges. According to police, an officer was called to the scene when someone reported an abandoned, overturned vehicle along Route 286 West. Hagerman was found onefourth a mile up the road, and she told the officer a deer had run out in front of her and she went off the embankment. Hagerman showed several signs of intoxication, according to the records, and she was taken to Indiana Regional Medical Center for blood testing that showed she was driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.18 percent. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 7. • Evan M. Boring, 23, Bellefonte Street, Northern Cambria, charged Oct. 10 by state police with a misdemeanor DUI and three summary charges. Police said Boring was observed crossing the double yellow line and the fog line along Route 954 in White Township. He was taken to IRMC for blood testing that showed he had a BAC of 0.15 percent. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for today. • Todd E. Quidetto, 41, Cornell Avenue, Blairsville, charged Oct. 1 by state police with a misdemeanor DUI and six
summary charges. Records show that an officer responded to a two-vehicle crash on Sept. 9 along Route 119 in Center Township where both operators were transported to IRMC before his arrival. He went to the hospital to interview them both and noticed that Quidetto had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. Blood testing was sent to be tested by Greensburg Regional Laboratory. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for today. • Waylon J. Strange, 34, Creekview Lane, Spring Church, charged Oct. 1 by state police with a misdemeanor charge of retail theft. According to police, an employee at Sears in the Indiana Mall witnessed a male walk out of the automotive department with two Dewalt kits he hadn’t paid for. The license on the vehicle he drove off in matched that of Strange’s girlfriend, police said. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 14. • Stephen C. Smithula, 39, Waterman Road, Homer City, charged Nov. 8 by state police with a misdemeanor charge of theft by unlawful taking or disposition. Police said that the victim, Diletta Poprich, came into the station to report that $305 worth of jewelry had been stolen from her house around the same dates that she allowed Smithula, her
godson, to stay with her. An officer checked with Cash For Gold and Treasure Hunt and found transactions for at least eight rings and other items of jewelry sold by Smithula. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16. • Adam P. Hoover, 35, Nixon Avenue, Indiana, charged Nov. 13 by state police with a misdemeanor charge of theft by unlawful taking. Records show that an officer was dispatched Sept. 24 to Hoover’s mother’s house on Whirlpool Road in Indiana after she reported a theft of her 13-inch Samsung tablet. She told officers Hoover had keys to her house and frequently stopped in. A neighbor said she saw Hoover leaving the residence around the time of the theft. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16. • Mitchell D. Fox, 20, Spring Street, Blairsville, charged Nov. 13 by state police with a misdemeanor DUI and five summary charges. Police said an officer conducted a traffic stop after witnessing Fox weaving within his lane of travel along Route 119 on Aug. 23. He admitted to having consumed a few drinks and was taken to IRMC for blood testing that showed he had a BAC of 0.20 percent. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16.
Drought drives bears into Calif. towns By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
By The Associated Press Gunnar Hansen, who played the iconic villain Leatherface in the original “Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Maine, his agent said. He was 68. Hansen starred in the 1974 film that has become a classic among horror-movie aficionados and spawned a series of sequels. In the movie, friends visiting their grandfather’s house are hunted by Leatherface, a chain-saw wielding maniac. Hansen’s character in the movie “is one of the most iconic evil figures in the history of cinema,” said his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, who confirmed the death. In 2013, Hansen published a book, “Chain Saw Confidential,” which gave readers a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made, Eisenstadt said. Hansen lived in Maine for about 40 years, where he worked as an actor and writer, Eisenstadt said. At the time of his death, Hansen was at work on a film called “Death House,” his
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THREE RIVERS, Calif. — Tourists and animal lovers hoping to see a bear in Sequoia National Park this fall probably stand a better chance of spotting one in this tiny town at the park’s entrance. Three Rivers is crawling with hungry bears driven down from the mountains by drought in search of food to fatten up for winter. Everyone seems to have photos of the creatures on their phones or anecdotes of encounters. Chas Haws’ eyes bugged out as he recalled his surprise coming face to face with a bear before dawn as he walked to Antoinette’s Coffee and Goodies shop along the main road one day. He carefully stepped back as the bear reared up and then walked away. “He didn’t care about me at all,” Haws said. “I didn’t smell like a muffin — yet.” There’s no doubt a bear invasion is afoot in this town of 2,200 that is home to an eclectic mix of park employees, cattle ranchers, hippies, yuppies and artists, as well as a retreat for Los Angeles types that include Anjelica Huston and William Shatner. Most seem delighted by the visiting black bears —
many brown and cinnamon in color — lumbering through grasslands, trotting across roads or wading through rivers. The four-year drought shriveled the berry crop in the Sierra Nevada and oaks on parched hillsides produced fewer acorns, forcing the bears into the valleys carved by the branches of the Kaweah River that give this town its name. Water is plentiful and acorns carpet the ground. Gregory Lockhart had seen one bear in 27 years until this season. Now they’re fixtures on the golf course out his back door and have been witnessed by the pool of a guest house. “The park is upon us now,” he said. One resident suggested on a town Facebook forum that people with guests seeking bears not bother winding up the road to the park. Others chimed in with suggestions of where to find them. A crowd formed recently outside the River View restaurant to gawk at a bear up a tree. Bears have climbed on roofs for acorns and one was found exploring a bathroom under renovation in a house. A bear tore apart the outer walls of a resident’s pump house and a music studio to get at acorns a woodpecker had stowed in the siding. Quiet nights are interrupt-
ed by air horns, banging on pots or a gunshot to scare off creatures known to forage 20 hours a day as they prepare for long winter naps. But some wonder if those shots are innocent. Jeff Beck heard dogs barking in the middle of the night followed by gunfire. “People are shooting the bears, there’s no doubt,” he said. The Kaweah Commonwealth reported that bears have been illegally slaughtered, but game wardens dismissed it as far-fetched because of a lack of evidence, such as names of suspects, vehicle descriptions or dead bears, said Lt. Doug Barnhart. The account, however, has sown conflict between nature lovers and those who think it’s a tall tale. “I’m upset and sad and I just question, ‘Why?’” said Kathleen McCleary, who noted a sense of outrage in some circles. “I don’t see any reason to be shooting them.” Darrell Fleeman was so disgusted with the story that he yanked his auto repair shop ad from the newspaper. “Where’s the proof?” he said. “If that were the case, there’d be dead bears everywhere.” State game wardens haven’t had as many complaints as last season in this
area of Central California when bears made it to the San Joaquin Valley cities of Visalia, Porterville and Bakersfield, Barnhart said. Residents have legally killed bears that broke into cabins and cars in Springville and Camp Nelson, about 25 miles south. In Three Rivers, they have knocked over plenty of garbage cans and raided fruit trees and grape vines. They did a number on the apple orchard at Shatner’s Belle Reve ranch, said caretaker Sal Natoli, who said he got a depredation permit to kill the culprits, but didn’t use it during the two-week period it was valid. The trees look “just like Venus de Milo,” the armless ancient Greek statue, Natoli said. Bear hunting season runs until Dec. 27 or when a statewide limit of 1,700 bears is killed. The state hasn’t come close to that figure since dogs were outlawed in the hunt in 2013. Gunfire may not be the biggest challenge for the bears at this point. If they don’t pack on enough pounds, they won’t return to the mountains to den for the winter, said David Graber, former chief scientist for the National Park Service for the West Coast, and a longtime Three Rivers resident.