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4 Th Sioux City Journal. Saturday. June 13, 1998 ETC cutis "Ming for Dnfennsi linbs Former IBM lawyer now sides with Justice against Microsoft will- sieR. Baker Elsie R. Baker, 83, of Sioux City, formerly of the Missouri Valley, sni Iowa area, died Thursday.

June 11. 1998. at the home of her niece in WASHINGTON (AP) Federal Washington office, said those reduc-Missouri Valley. regulators decided Friday to scale tions have already been factored into Memorial services will be at 11 back rather than eliminate money for phone companies' pricing. "Phone a.m.

Monday in Branson Cemetery cheaP Internet hookups for schools bills are going up by more than $1 will nn and libraries. billion as a result of this Ul-conceiv- more time to prepare its case, The hearing in U.S. District Court was Boies' courtroom debut in the case, which the New York trial lawyer joined as a consultant late last year. During trial preparation he is considered a "special government employee" making about $101,000 a year. Boies is also running his private law firm in Armonk, N.Y., where he bills a reported $550 an hour for such high-profile clients as the New York Yankees.

ta reguiaiory pian, ncsaiu. Consumer groups. Republican chairmen and ranking Democrats on Congress' telecommunications committees wanted the commission xne reaerai communications Commission, in a 3-2 vote, agreed to provide $650 million in subsidies for the connections in the second half of the program's first year. That would bring the total for 1998 to $1,275 billion, a 43 percent cut from the $2.25 billion the FCC originally sought. "Many children and communities will be left unconnected," said Michelle Richards of the National School Boards Association.

The Internet program is paid for by fees the FCC imposes on telecommunications companies, which pass them on to customers. As new fees pop up on telephone bills to pay for that program and other subsidies, pressure has mounted on the FCC to cut or halt funding. The FCC has already collected, but not disbursed, $625 million in subsidies for the first half of this year. The program the centerpiece of President Clinton's second-term goal of wiring the nation's schools to the Internet by 2000 is under attack by pivotal lawmakers in Congress and consumer groups who fear it will raise phone bills. FCC Chairman Bill Kennard said the action will not increase phone bills.

The charges, he said, would be more than offset by additional reductions starting July 1 in other fees that phone companies pay. But Gene Kimmelman, co-director of the Consumers Union's Quality Service and to stop financing the program. The White House, educators and librarians pushed for continued funding at a level higher than what the commission agreed to Friday. "The FCC blew it" said House Commerce Committee chairman Thomas Bliley, "Thanks to that agency and Vice President Al Gore, the American people including less-fortunate Americans, are stuck with higher phone rates." Answered Kennard: "You're never going to satisfy everyone. The FCC is clearly caught in the middle right now.

What I'm trying to find is a reasonable middle ground so that people can put the politics aside and make sure that the kids don't have to wait any longer." Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, who wanted funding suspended, said the FCC's action "will fail to keep consumers' bills from going up again." He'll offer legislation to alter the program. FCC commissioners Michael Powell and Harold Furchtgott-Roth, both Republicans, voted against the plan. All three members who voted for it are Democrats. The FCC also agreed to provide $650 million in subsidies for the first six months of 1999. Reasonable Costs Tfo 0 "Once A Year Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel 3220 Stone Park Boulevard Sioux City, Iowa 51104-2299 712255-0131 i He brings great expertise as a litigator," said Justice Department spokeswoman Gina Talamona.

"He's a truly gifted trial attorney, and he's the perfect complement to the team we have in place. In addition to the IBM case, Boies won victories for Texaco Inc. and Westinghouse and defended CBS against the $120 million libel lawsuit filed by former Vietnam Gen. William C. Westmoreland.

Westmoreland dropped the suit in 1985, after four months of trial. Boies has worked for the government before, when he won the insider trading case against Michael Milken for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus. Burial will be in Holy Name Cemetery.

Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Earnest and Roethler Funeral Chapel, and at 5 p.m. Sunday with a wake service at 7:30 p.m. at the church. Joseph J.

Murray STORM LAKE, Iowa Joseph John Murray, 71, of Storm Lake died Friday, June 12, 1998, at his home. Funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Storm Lake with the Boes, the Rev. Eugene Murray, and the Rev.

Edward Murray officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday with a Legion of Mary rosary at 3:30 p.m., a parish vigil service at 7:30 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m.

at Farber and Ot-teman Funeral Home in Storm Lake. Mr. Murray was born Dec. 2, 1926, in Storm Lake, the son of W. Clare and Mary (Kestel) Murray.

He grew up on the family farm in Providence Township and graduated from St. Mary's High School in Storm Lake in 1944. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the destroyer, U.S.S. Fletcher, during World War II.

While in the Navy he learned to fly and retained his private pilot license the rest of his life. He married Lila Cleveland Feb. 7, 1950, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Storm Lake. The couple farmed on his boyhood farm near Storm Lake.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, St. Mary's Cemetery Board, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6172, A.O.P.A., E.A.A. Chapter 212, and associate member of N.A.P.P. He was an avid pilot and enjoyed fishing and golfing.

The couple also enjoyed traveling to most of the western U.S. and to 29 countries. Survivors include his wife; a son and his wife, Terry and Karen Murray of Storm Lake; two daughters and their husbands, Linda and Dan Hopp of Davenport, Iowa, and Michele and Ron March of Milford, Iowa; seven grandchildren, Jill, Tony, David, and Rebecca Murray, Bob and Beth Hopp, and Laura March; five brothers, Dr. William Murray and his wife, Jane, of Sioux Falls, S.D., Ray Murray and his wife, Donna, of Charles City, Iowa, Paul Murray and his wife, Martha of Storm Lake, the Rev. Gene Murray of Emmetsburg, Iowa, and the Rev.

Ed Murray of Whittemore, Iowa; three sisters and their husbands, Mary and Ed Motz of Sioux City, Kathleen and Cody McKenna of San Jose, and Maurita and George Leahy of Davenport; a brother-in-law, Marvin Cleveland; a sister-in-law, Bonnie Zipf; an uncle; two aunts; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Mark Thomas; and two infant sisters. Henrietta A. Grooters ALTON, Iowa Henrietta A. Grooters, 70, of Alton, died Friday at the Orange City Municipal Hospital in urange Uty, Iowa, alter a long illness.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Alton Presbyterian Church. Burial will be prior to the service in West Lawn Cemetery in visitation. Hennessey-Aman Funeral Home of Missouri Valley is in charge of the arrangements. Mrs.

Baker was born Oct 8, 1917, in Woodbine, Iowa the daughter of Frank and Olive (Pace) Griffith. She lived in the Little Sioux area for many years. As a young woman Elsie worked as a nurse and helped on the farm with her husband. For the past 30 years she lived in Sioux City and was employed as a bartender. She was married to Olive Wolfe and after his death she married Chase Baker.

She was an avid fan of Elvis Presley and enjoyed collecting Elvis memorabilia. Survivors include a daughter Beth Dolton of Sioux City; a son, Dick Wolfe of Sioux City; a sister, Marie Sisley of Missouri Valley; three nieces, Kate Simpson and Mary Coddington, both of Missouri Valley, and Sheryl Proteau of Albian, a sister-in-law, Pauline Griffith of Missouri Valley; five grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. She was preceded in death by her husbands; three brothers, Dean, Tuf-fy, and Richard; a nephew, Bill Griffith; and a sister-in-law, Barbara JoAnn (Griffith) Finiff. Harvey J. Poling Harvey J.

Poling, 77, of Omaha, formerly of Sioux City, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Omaha. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Crescent Park United Methodist Church. Military graveside services provided by Veterans of Foreign Wars Sergeant Floyd Post 1973 will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be 3 to 6 p.m.

Sunday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Harold LWenberg Harold L. Wenberg, 74, of Sioux City died Wednesday, June 10, 1998, at a Sioux City hospital following a lengthy illness. Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev.

Richard Kretz-schmar, pastor of Whitfield United i Church, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with mili tary rites conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Sergeant Floyd Post 1973. Visitation was Friday. Mr. Wenberg was born Nov.

14, 1923, in Sioux City, the son of Paul and Ida (Langseth) Wenberg. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945 in the Pacific Theater. He married Berna Dene Hanner on Aug. 8, 1946, in Omaha, Neb.

He was employed for 38 years as a fireman and later as an engineer for the Great Northern Railroad and Burlington Northern. He was a member of Trimble United Methodist Church, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 580. Survivors include his wife; two sons and their wives, Steven and Barbara of Bloomington, Minn, and David and Marcia of Sioux City; and five grandchildren, Heidi, Trevor, Dustin, Mark and Jeff. He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Lorraine Holt; and a brother, Paul. Pallbearers will be Heidi, Trevor, Dustin, Mark and Jeff Wenberg, Carleton Grinberg, Arney Grinberg and Irvin Deichman.

Memorials in his name may be directed to Trimble United Methodist Church. Rose M. Heald Rose M. Heald of Sioux City died Thursday at Casa de Paz. The body was cremated.

There will be no services. Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Jason A. Bruggeman Jason A. Bruggeman, 21, of South Sioux City died Friday at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Dakota City Cemetery. Visitation will be 1 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m.

at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home. Dalia E. O'Connor, 88, of Sioux City died Friday; Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel. In-depth News and information Delivered to you EVERYDAY1 THE 7s I city alongside Boies on IBM and is now general counsel for America Online. "David Boies worked for IBM on one case and now he's working for the government on the other.

He's a brilliant strategist." The Justice Department and 20 states claim Microsoft has built an illegal monopoly in specific areas of the computer world. Two suits filed this month seek changes in the way Microsoft makes and sells some of its most popular products. In a key procedural victory for Boies and the government, a federal judge recently scheduled a trial date a scant three months hence. Microsoft had asked for seven months to prepare for a preliminary hearing, then several more months to gear up for the trial. Boies, 57, did not respond to requests for an interview.

Staff lawyers in the Justice Department's busy antitrust division have been peeking into Microsoft's corporate windows for months, and subpoenaed a raft of company documents. But it was Boies, not career government lawyers, who argued to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft does not need or deserve Harry N.Crouse PAULLINA, Iowa Harry N. Crouse, 98, of Eau Clarie, formerly of Paullina, died Thursday, June 1 1, 1998, at Clairemont Nursing Home in Eau Claire. Memorial services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 22, 1998, at First Presbyterian Church in Paullina with the Rev.

Donald Freeman officiating. Graveside services will be prior to the memorial service, at 1 p.m. Monday in Prairie View Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Lenmark-Gomsrud Funeral Home of Eau Claire is in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Crouse was born Sept. 15, 1899, in Ireton, Iowa, the son of George and Katherine (Smith) Crouse. He married Maidie Davis Feb. 23, 1924, in Royal, Iowa.

The couple farmed northwest of Paullina until 1964, when they retired to McAllen, Texas. She died in 1992. He had moved to Eau Claire this year. Survivors include two daughters, Shirley Crouse of Eau Clair, and Katherine and her husband, Stan Johnson, of Basin, three sons and their wives, Harlan and Janett of Kerrville, Texas, Gale and Ida of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James and Loraine of Harlingen, Texas; 16 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; a great-great-granddaughter; and many nieces and nephews. He was also preceded in death by; a brother, Lester; two sisters, Alma Brown and Ara Bonnema; and an infant grandson, Steven.

Luella L. Hubert WESTFIELD, Iowa Luella Hubert, 83, rural Westfield died unexpectedly Thursday at her home. Funeral Mass will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sioux City with the Rev. James Bruch officiating.

Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation wil be 2 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday with the family present from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7:30 p.m. at Berkemier Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hubert was born Feb. 19, 1915, in Elk Point, S.D. She graduated from Elk Point High School. She married Ernest L.

Hubert in 1930, at Elk Point. They lived in Sioux City before moving to Seattle during World War II. The couple later returned to Sioux City. She was employed at Wincharger Corporation for several years. They moved to ruralWestfieldinl964.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and was treasurer of Merrill Saddle Club. Survivors include her husband; a son Clayton of Sioux City; two daughters and their husbands, Ernestine and Jack Stowers of Westfield, and Claudette and Gregory Choma of Stafford Springs, three sisters, Myrtle Hanson of Elk Point, Mary Agnes Massey of Seattle, and Vera Smith of Sioux City; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by a brother, Russell Lethcoe; and a grandson, Eric Hubert. Harold A. Meehan ONAWA, Iowa -Harold A.

Meehan, 79, of Onawa died Friday, June 12, 1998, at Elmwood Care Centre in Onawa. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Onawa with the Rev. Earle R. Potts officiating.

Burial will be at a later date in Chicago. Pearson Funeral Home of Onawa is in charge of the arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Eleanor of Onawa. Geraldine Boever MARCUS, Iowa Geraldine Boever, 84, of Marcus died Friday at her home. WASHINGTON (AP) Fresh out of Yale Law School, David Boies began what became a 13-year endurance match with the Justice Department over whether a giant computer company illegally strongaimed competitors.

Boies was a young lawyer representing IBM Corp. in 1969, when the government broadly declared IBM an illegal monopoly and tried unsuccessfully to break up the company. IBM fought and delayed at every turn, helping drag the case out into what former federal judge and antitrust expert Robert Boric later called "the antitrust division's Vietnam." Now Boies is on the other side, taking the government's side as the hired gun leading the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft Some say he may make the difference in the high-profile battle. Part of Boies' job is to hurry the case into court and avoid the morass of delay and bad decisions that defined the IBM case before the government finally dropped the suit in 1982, lawyers said. "What's the difference between the two cases?" asked George Vradenburg III, who worked Judge says children' testimony was tainted CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

(AP) The judge in one of the most lurid mass child-molestation cases of the 1980s ordered a new trial for one of the defendants Friday, and ruled that the youngsters cannot testify because they have been hopelessly tainted by investigators' leading questions. The ruling gutted the case against Cheryl Amirault LeFave, who was convicted along with her mother and brother of molesting children at the Fells Acres day care center that the family ran. Citing new research on children's courtroom behavior, Superior Court Judge Isaac A. Borenstein said that because of prosecutors' suggestive and leading interview techniques, it is impossible to tell if the accusers, now teen-agers, were telling the truth. "Their testimony has been forever rendered unreliable," Borenstein said.

Prosecutors immediately appealed the ruling. "Without the children, there is no case, and that is what is outrageous about this ruling," prosecutor Lynn Rooney said. Ms. LeFave, 39, her late mother Violet Amirault, and her brother Gerald "Tooky" Amirault were all convicted of molesting about 40 children, ages 3 to 6, at the day care center in Maiden. None of the youngsters has publicly recanted any of the allegations.

On Friday, Borenstein dismissed all the charges against Mrs. Amirault, who died at age 74 last September. Gerald Amirault, who was tried and convicted separately in 1986, remains in prison. Their convictions came during a wave of mass child-molestation cases in the 1980s. Several other convictions from that period have been overturned.

Borenstein said the Fells Acres case has two tragedies: "the inability to ever know accurately and reliably whether these children were ever abused and secondly sacrificing the rights" of the accused. As the judge read his decision, Ms. LeFave raised one trembling hand to her mouth, grasped her attorney's hand with the other, and began to cry. Several family members also wept "I felt humanized by a judge for the first time," Ms. LeFave said.

"Everything that I've tried to prove is there on paper, and it has set me free." In his ruling, Borenstein read aloud testimony in which a child denied at least 10 times that Ms. LeFave had ever photographed her nude. Only after several interviews by police, her parents and social workers did the girl say that Ms. LeFave had abused her, the judge said. In an April hearing, Ms.

Rooney conceded that prosecution expert Susan Kelley used flawed techniques to question children. But she argued it didn't discredit the children's testimony against Ms. LeFave. Among other lurid mass child-abuse cases of the 1980s to fall apart in the courts under similar circumstances are the McMartin preschool case in California, the Little Rascals case in North Carolina and the Margaret Kelly Michaels case in New Jersey. In 1996, New" Jersey's Supreme Court concluded in the Michaels case that investigators had conducted "coercive and highly suggestive" interviews.

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Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Sunday with the family present from 2 to 4 p.m., and a family prayer service at 12:45 p.m. Monday at Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. Donald W.Jackson CROFTON, Neb. Donald W.

Jackson, 83, of Crofton died June 12, 1998, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, S.D. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Congregational United Church of Christ in Crofton. Burial will be in the Crofton Cemetery. Visitation will be 3 to 9 p.m.

Sunday with a prayer service at 7 p.m. at Wintz Funeral Home in Crofton. Ijmtwai 1610 Pirn St. 252-4503.