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4B THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH. Tuesday, February 1980 trusted Qbitoarios Darryl E. 'Mark' RoichU pounds of gold M.A. Potrykus, businessman PORT HURON Miltofi A. Potrykus, 56, of 907 Thomas died Monday, Feb.

4, 1980, In his home, apparently from a heart attack. He was former co-owner of Ben's Appliance Store. i Mr. Potrykus was born April 6, 1923, in Hamtramck. I He was a U.S.

Navy veteran of World War II. He was a member of Black Lempke VFW Post, New Baltimore. Mr. Potrykus is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Judith Ann Atlanta, two sons, Milton Port Huron, and John Mount Clemens; four brothers, Vern, St.

Clair; Joseph, Port Huron; James, Armada, and Delbert, Deford; two sisters, Mrs. Lucille Alder-ton, Sunny Mead, and Mrs. Marilyn Micherna, Kingston; and two grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in L.C.

Friederichs and Son Funeral Home, St. Clair. Burial will be in SL Mary's Catholic Cemetery, St. Clair, Funeral home visiting hours are 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday. "He was in and out a lot of the time," a resident at the apartment building said. "And he kept strange hours. When he rented the place, he put the money up front, so the landlord didn't check any references. The furniture they left behind is brand new." A private investigator for the firm told The Oakland Tribune that Schmidt has had a criminal record since age 12 and has been in and out of jail since, but for the most part has managed to stay "one step ahead of the law." Schmidt managed to conceal that from the Wildberg firm by answering "no" to a job application question about felony convictions.

Some law authorities believe Schmidt is in Mexico now, but others suspect he is still in the Bay Area, trying to "fence" the gold, valued at about $240,000 at the time of the theft. Gold prices have fluctuated dramatically since then. The whereabouts of Schmidt's wife, Susan, are unknown. But the investigator says they are a very close famiy. "He wouldn't leave without her, nor she without him.

"He's got to surface some day. If some of those bad guys out there find out he's got $500,000, his life's in danger. He's got more to fear from them than us." other refinery site, where the dust was processed into gold bars. There was no reason to question why he would be in the vault several times a day, nor why he had trays of precious metals in his hands. Police say that on Friday, Dec.

7, Schmidt departed from his usual routine, taking the gold and putting it into his office. That evening, he returned in his van, telling guards that he had left his wallet in his office. The dust was reported missing the following Monday. The interrogation process began, and all keyholders became suspects. Schmidt was questioned that day and the next.

That Thursday, he was to undergo a lie detector test, but his wife called to report he would be taking a leave of absence. Schmidt subsequently left his modest, fully furnished San Francisco apartment. Police say his wife and two sons (their daughter lives elsewhere), also disappeared later, leaving behind a color television set, two stereo systems and notebook paper detailing "his plans." Schmidt apparently had detailed the movement of the gold and indicated points where it was available in pure form" at the refinery. ST. CLAIR Darryl E.

"Mark" Reichle, 20, of 2037 Riverview Drive, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 1980, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. He was born Nov. 24, 1959, in St. Clair.

Mr. Reichle is survived by his father and stepmother, Gary and Karen Reichle, St. Clair; his mother, Mrs. Judy VanDenBranden, Minneapolis; two brothers, Dale and Douglas, both of St. Clair; three sisters, Wendy, Colleen and Emily Varty, all of Marine City; his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Willard Quarfoot, St. Clair, with whom he lived, and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Reichle, St.

Clair; and great-grandmother, Mrs. Esther Quarfoot, Marquette. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday In Immanuel Lutheran Church. The Rev.

Harry C. Henneman, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery. Bernard Shovan, Dan Mayhew, Ken Paine, Buzz Reichle, Gary Babel and Tony Zimmer will be pallbearers. Visiting hours in Colonial Funeral Home, Jay Street Chapel, end at 9 p.m.

today. Visiting hours in the church are 9:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday. Memorials may be made to Immanuel Church. Victor Hyatt ARGYLE TOWNSHIP Victor Hyatt, 84, Argyle Township, died Sunday, Feb.

3, 1980, in St. Joseph Hospital, Flint, after a lengthy illness. He was born Aug. 5, 1895, in Evergreen Township. He married Hazel McQueen in 1916.

She died in 1921. He married Hattie Shagena Nov. 11, 1924, in Deckerville. Mr. Hyatt is survived by his wife; a son.

Mack, Ortonville; three daughters; Mrs. Opal O'Camb, Pontiac; Mrs. Donald (Hazel) Haveland, Grandville, and Mrs. Bud (Jacqueline) Buetler, Grand Blanc; two brothers, Patrick and Walter, both of Davison; a sister, Mrs. Vema McMillan, Saginaw; 24 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Little's Funeral Home, Cass City. The Rev. Charles W. Thompson, pastor of Roosevelt Avenue Free Methodist Church, Flint, will officiate.

Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Sanilac County. Funeral home visiting hours end at 10 p.m. today. Leonard F. Schupbach PORT HURON Services for Leonard F.

Schupbach, 85, of 1026 Lapeer will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Pollock-Randall Funeral Home. The Rev. Paul Blomquist, of First United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Thomas L. Schmalzr J. Warren Shaw, Douglas V. Appleford, Hi Manning, Francis Pickerel and Collin W. Conquergood, all members of Fort Gratiot Lodge 374, will be pallbearers.

Mr. Schupbach died Monday, Feb. 4, 1980, in Faith Medical Center after a lengthy illness. Funeral home visiting hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today.

Fort Gratiot Lodge will conduct memorial services at 7:30 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Michigan Masonic Home, Alma, or First United Methodist Church. Ralph V. Maurer SEBEWAING Ralph V.

Maurer, 69, Sebewaing, formerly of Harbor Beach, died Monday, Feb. 4, 1980, in his home, apparently from a heart attack. He was born Jan. 29, 1911, in Harbor Beach. Mr.

Maurer is survived by his wife, the former Gladys Kaufman; a son, John, Sebewaing; a daughter, Mrs. Marlene Weglenback, Romulus; two stepdaughters, Gloria Krause, Detroit, and Marie Krause, Gladwin; two brothers, George, Harbor Beach, and Ernie, Port Huron; four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Kosal and Mrs. Agnes Capling, both of Harbor Beach; Mrs. Sally Fisher, Port Austin, and Mrs.

Celestine Osentoski, Warren; and four grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Ramsey Funeral Home, Harbor Beach. The Rev. Darold W.

Deterding will officiate. Burial will be in Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach. Funeral home visiting hours begin at 7 p.m. today. Missing: and 35 Gannett News Service SAN FRANCISCO He was a model employee: gung-ho, conscientious, innovative, with a combination of Intelligence, mechanical experience and charm.

He won the absolute trust of company officials. But now Theodore McCoy Schmidt, 38, is wanted by the law. i Authorities believe he made off with about 35 pounds of granulated gold 1 worth up to half a million dollars from the San Francisco metal refinery where he worked as a middle management executive for two months. He was one of four people at the Wild-berg Brothers firm entrusted with a key to an inner vault where the gold was kept. Others are upper echelon management people.

Schmidt's title of maintenance superintendent is deceiving. He was not a floor sweeper. Rather, he was in charge of machinery operations, repairs and some phases of plant production. He knew production schedules. People who know him say he was a "damned good manager," who was constantly suggesting improvements at the plant and getting things done that hadn't been done before.

Schmidt was entrusted with transporting the gold from the safe to an- Dad, child trapped in flipped boat ASTORIA. Ore. (AP) Trapped in the cabin of their capsized sailboat, Mike Davis and his 4-year-old daughter. Nikole, breathed from an air bubble for more than 30 minutes before rescue came. "I just wrapped my arms around her and held her up close to the air pocket." said Davis, a 31-year-old businessman from Seaside, Ore.

Davis. Nikole and a friend. Dennis Kirk, had taken Davis' new 21-foot sailboat, the San Juan, for a shakedown cruise on the Columbia River on Sunday. Davis, who said he has sailed for several years, bought the boat at Christmas. "This was our maiden voyage," he said Monday.

"I had cranked down the swing (adjustable) keel I thought it was full down but I know now it wasn't even halfway." After being hit by a gust of wind, the boat overturned. Kirk went over the stern and clung to the boat's hull. Davis said he "dove for the cabin and Nikole." Inside the boat, there was "only a small pocket of air" under the hull, Davis said. "The size of the air pocket would change as the boat moved around," he said. "At one time, the air went sour hard to breathe." Submerged up to their necks in 45-de-gree water and dressed in light clothes, Davis said their biggest danger was hypothermia, or subnormal body temperature.

Peggy Haskell, a nearby resident, saw the boat capsize and telephoned police and the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard launched a helicopter from the Astoria Air Station and a 41-foot utility boat from Cape Disappointment. Wash. The hnappton pilot launcn. the Arrow II, heard the call and also headed for the scene.

But none of the rescuers could right the sailboat. Senate OKs WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate, apparently concerned about reports that non-commissioned officers are leaving the military in droves, has approved a package of increased allowances and bonuses for the military. The measure, approved 87-1 Monday evening after several hours of wrangling, would cost taxpayers $486 million a year. It now goes to the House. The Senate opted for that proposal instead of a bill to raise the pay of the 2 -million members of the armed services 3y 3 4 percent.

The package approved, with only ien. Henry Bellmon, authorizes variable housing allowances pegged to local costs and increases moving allowances, subsistence allowances, sea pay and -flight pay. Afghan stance Robert D. Faulkner DAVISON Robert Donald Faulkner, 64, formerly of Port Huron, died Sunday, Feb. S.

1980, in Flint Osteopathic Hospital after a brief illness. He was born Aug. 15, 1915, in Port Huron. Mr. Faulkner is survived by his wife, Maxine; a son, Robert; and a daughter, Mrs.

David (Darlene) Beardsley, both of Burton; a brother, Ross, Port Huron; and six grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Raysin Funeral Home. Burial will be in Flint Memorial Park. Visiting hours are in the funeral home.

Mrs. Wesley Breed PORT HURON Edith W. Breed, 94, Port Huron, formerly of Marine City, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 1980, in Marwood Manor after a lengthy illness. She was born April 15, 1885, in Detroit.

She married Wesley Breed Aug. 29, 1914, in Detroit. He died May 20. 1938. Mrs.

Breed is survived by several cousins. Services were held Monday in Bower-Rose Funeral Home, Marine City. The Rev. J. Douglas Parker, pastor of Marine City United Methodist Church, officiated.

Burial was in Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit. High-mileage diesel auto plans shelved CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Mike Shetley says he has shelved plans to develop a high-mileage diesel automobile, claiming government red tape blocked certification of his prototype. Shetley, 37, a former Gastonia garage owner, and Ralph Moody of Charlotte, who had been active in auto racing specialities, drove a diesel-powered car to Washington last spring. They reported the car got 84 miles per gallon.

But within two months, Shetley, who now operates a garage in Oak Hill, and Moody had split up. The prototype, which used a Mercury Capri body and a four-cyclinder Perkins engine, has been destroyed. A second model built by Shetley failed two emissions tests administered by the Environmental Protection Agency. The model was rated by the EPA at 54 mpg on the highway and 32 mpg in city driving, considerably less than Shetley had predicted. Shetley claims the EPA delayed certification of his 1979 model until the 1980 model year when the standards were raised and his car no longer qualified.

"They worked against us to keep our car out of production. It's not the American car companies at all. They have the same problems we do," Shetley said Monday. Shetley said he was considering legal action against some government agencies because of the problems he encountered in trying to certify the car. Soviet flotilla passes Japan TOKYO (AP) A Soviet flotilla of 10 vessels, including a large missile cruiser, sailed southward past Japan today toward the South China Sea or Indian Ocean, the Japanese Defense Agency said.

It was the largest number of Soviet ships ever spotted in a single day in the area. About 30 Soviet vessels, 10 of them cruisers, destroyers or submarines, already are stationed in the Indian Ocean, the agency said. The United States has roughly the same number of ships in the region. In another development, the Kuwait newspaper Al Anbaa said it had learned from sources in France that the Soviets are building submarine pens in South Yemen, a Soviet-allied Marxist state at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The paper, which did not identify its sources, said a considerable number of Soviet naval personnel and supplies had arrived in South Yemen in the past few days.

The report could nqt be confirmed. Other unconfirmed reports in the Mideast last month, purportedly based on Saudi Arabian intelligence information, spoke of a Soviefcmilitary buildup In South Yemen. eign policy, its handling of the Cuban crisis, the delay of the SALT treaty and the demise of detente all may have led the Soviets to believe hardliners in the Kremlin who argue that communication and efforts at calm negotiation with the U.S. are fruitless. that the U.S.

has the right to protect the region militarily. "The first line of defense," McGovern said, "has to be the country they (Russia) have occupied. We don't have any unilateral obligation to police that part of the world." McGovern drew some parallels between U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the war talk going on today. He said the Congress is not being consulted as it should be and that administration figures such as Clark Clifford are escalating the war talk and producing hysteria in the country.

BUNDLE OF CHILD Astoria, Police Officer Albert Wood carries 4-year-old Nikole Davis to a hospital minutes after she was rescued Sundav from a sailboat's hull. Mrs. Ruth A. Abraham HARRISON TOWNSHIP Services for Ruth A. Abraham, 58, of 43590 Terrain, will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday in Christie Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, New Baltimore, and 10:30 a.m. in St. Mary's Queen of Creation Catholic Church, New Baltimore. Burial will be in Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit. Mrs.

Abraham died Saturday, Feb 2, 1980, in Bloomfield Hills Nursing Center, West Bloomfield, after a lengthy illness. Visiting hours are in the funeral home. A rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. today in the funeral home. Mrs.

Earl A. Ainsworth PORT HURON Johanna M. Ainsworth, 77, of 2801 Griswold died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1980, in Port Huron Hospital. She was born Feb.

5, 1903, in Poland and lived in Port Huron since 1922. Her husband, Earl A. Ainsworth, died in 1952. Mrs. Ainsworth attended schools in Detroit.

She was manager of Rocky River Exchange, Rocky River, Ohio. She was a member of First Baptist Church and its missionary guild. She is survived by a son, Ronald Flint; a sister, Mrs. Walter (Emma) Jewell. Port Huron; two brothers, Er- nest Bergler, St.

Clair Shores, and Oscar Bergler, Detroit; 10 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren A son, John died Nov. 29, 1955. A son, Kendall, died Oct. 9, 1970. A son, Douglas, died in 1940.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m.. Thursday in First Baptist Church. The Rev. Ronald Deegan, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery.

Visiting hours in Karrer-Simpson Funeral Home are 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Visiting hours in the church are 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Joseph B. Nofs PORT HURON Joseph B. Nofs, 81, of 715 Lapeer died unexpectedly Monday, Feb. 4, 1980. in his home from natural causes.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Visiting hours in Arthur Smith Fu-' neral Home, South Chapel, begin at 7 p.m.

today and end at 9 p.m. Wednes-' day. A rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Blu Water Area Deaths, Funerals 1 A SCHUPBACH leonord F.

oae 85, of 1026 Lapeer died Feb. 4, "loved husband of Lourene. dear father of Marilyn, sadly missed by two sisters and a brother. Services will be 11 a Wednesday In Pollock-Randall Funeral Home. Burial Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Memorla Is may be made to the Michigan Mason Home and the First United Methodist Church. AINSWORTH, Jofranno M. February 5 of 2801 Griswold St. Funeral oerv.lc?L:30 J-m; Thursday from First Baptist Church. Interment Lakeside at Karrer-Simpson Fu- neral Home.

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Davis and his daughter then were able to work their way forward and out a hatch. Davis and Nikole, who lives with her more military benefits mother in Astoria, were released Monday from Columbia Memorial Hospital after a night of treatment and observation for hypothermia. Kirk, 29, spent less time in the water and was released from the hospital Sunday night. amendments to be offered a non-controversial proposal by Sen. Harrison Schmitt, and the allowance and bonus plan drafted by Sens.

Sam Nunn, and John Warner, R-Va. Nunn and Warner planned to offer their measure as a substitute to Armstrong's amendment. That way, the Senate would vote on their proposal and would not have to vote directly on a pay raise that might be politically unpopular to oppose. But Armstrong temporarily blocked them by proposing his amendment as an amendment to the Schmitt amendment. Senate rules say you can amend an amendment, but you can't amend an amendment to an amendment.

In effect, Armstrong blocked Nunn and Warner from scuttling his In addition, it authorized re-enlistment bonuses for military personnel with 10 to 15 years of service. Bellmon apparently believed the bill could increase the budget deficit. The approval vote came after freshman Sen. William Armstrong, caught the legislators off guard with a parliamentary ploy that launched an eight -hour battle. "An element of surprise," was what Armstrong called it.

Armstrong had first proposed a pay raise last year. But he was rebuffed by a parlimen-tary ruling that his proposal was not in order. Armstrong was allowed to bring up his proposal again Monday as an amendment to a routine military manpower bill. An agreement approved by Senate leaders allowed only two other dangerous clear weapons." said McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee who ran as an anti-war candidate. "And there is no way we can challenge the Red Army in Afghanistan.

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Visiting brothers welcome. that the Soviets have designs on the Persian Gulf oil fields, "I don't any more expect to see a Russian army in the Persian Gulf than I (expect to see) them in the U.S," McGovern said. He argued that there is no evidence to indicate the Soviets are preparing to take over that region and that oil is not important enough to the Russians to risk world condemnation and possible world war. that the Soviets have a carefully thought-out plan to pounce on the Middle East. McGovern leans toward the view that the United States, not Russia, is still the dominant foreign power involved in the Middle East and that Russia invaded Afghanistan to protect itself against growing internal upheaval that it feared would spill into Russia.

He maintains that the Carter administration's conflicting signals on for Gannett News Service 'r WASHINGTON Conceding that 'most of America probably disagrees him, Sen. George McGovern Mon-day accused the Carter Administration 'of engaging in a dangerous and excessive overreaction to the Soviet invasion 'of Afghanistan. The South Dakota Democrat, whose doubts about administration foreign policy have been kept largely under went public Monday in an hour--lohg critique to which reporters had summoned. He wanted to meet with the press, he said, because he was afraid that the administration, in the of national unity, would muffle "any meaningful debate on the possibility of war with the Soviet Union over -the Persian Gulf oil fields. "We simply cannot have a major war with the Soviet Union That option disappeared the day we got nu.