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EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 27, 1966 United Press International 2 Sections Price Ten Conlt----- —----- - ■ - - —______________ , ■— - ■■■ ■ ■— immimn — O ■■■ ■ — ■ ■ ■— »— i —— *--— -- - - - — - _shortly before by Mrs. Erickson, who telephoned them that her husband had come homeHarold EricksonWifeSelfA town of Union couple, parents of eight children, was shotto death at 1:50 a. m. today in their home in what sheriff’s department officers termed murder and suicide.The officers were closing in on the home when they heardthe shots which took the life ofMrs. Arlene R. Erickson, 33, and her husband, Harold W. Erickson. 40. The officers hadharm her. The couple had been estranged for some time and Sheriff Department authorities had received papers Wednesday initiating divorce proceedings against Erickson.Donald D. Phillips, radio operator at the County JaH, informed Detective Donald R. Foss about Mrs. Erickson’s complaint and then called her , back to see if she would sign a the Jtome complaint against her h u s-band. She said she would. Then Phillips heard someone grib. . . _ . . . phone, apparently herdrunk and was threatening her. husbandBefore they could enter theAPPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE - The Erickson home at CTH CC and T. formerly the Swiss Chalet, was the scene of tragedy early this morning when the estranged parents of eight children were shot to death. Sheriff Lloyd H. Thompson said apparently Harold W. Erickson, 40. shot his wife as deputy sheriffs approached the house and then turned the gun on himself. Five of the younger children were at home at the time of the incident.(Sheriff Dept. Photo)At 1:42 a. m. Mrs. Ericksoncalled the department a g ai n, stating her (husband had just left the house after learning she had called the Sheriffs Department. While on the phone, shehouse, Erickson shot his wifeand then himself.Mrs. Erickson, dressed in slacks and a blouse, was found lying on a bed with two gunshot wounds in the lower portion of her left side and in herreported he had returned and. | that she would have to hang ud£? I r * woukin't ™Communications Network'sward through her body g in her chest. ___Har husband, an employe of Ge„e '££, tottSIttonal Presto Industries, was! home at Ihls time. As Poss start The Pacific is preferred, and ,oun1#.sea , ?n. . . Aoorwith ed toward the side doore Atlantic would be selectediiv if the initial orbital course ...... ,and a 30-36Pacific Link Shot into Orbitcommunications between North Am erica and Europe. abouMh^arth Wednesday night's launchingwas a textbook exercise.” said Dr. Joseph Charyk, president of the Communications Satellite]Corp. Comsat paid the NationalAeronautics and Spacetween North America and the i tration 33.57 million to hoist the If so, a ground signal will Far East. satellite. triece^^iclwnotoi^boaT^Nicknamed Lani Bird” by Preliminary tracking data some newsmen, the satellite indicated the payload, made by zipped into orbit Wednesday Hughes Aircraft Corp., was in night from Cape Kennedy, rid- an initial path ranging froming aboard a three-stage Delta about 200 to 23.000 miles above rocket. the earth.■Lani, the Hawaiian name for Charyk said refined tracking “bird of heaven.” is an im- information today would deter-whether Lani Bird’s finalnesting place would be over the Pacific or the Atlantic....... . .homeoff.linst the bedHis body was leaning He thlt; kltd__aRemington rifle, with the barrel pointing toward him, was lying across his laip.The home is located at the corner of County Trunk Highways CC and T.today and the Comsat Corp. hopes late this week to install it permanently over the Pacific Ocean as the first commercialwas greatly different from that planned. Officials said the early figures indicate the path is favorable to place the satellitedoor and found three of the children there. He told the other officers to radio for assistance from the city police and to call an ambulance. Then he heard the third shot.Tear Gaa UsedThe eight children orphaned ^ officers used a j .satellite Saturday night when it I. Y _ ™e lt;reaches the high point of its y * ?* y {£ , speaker on the squad car tolooping orbit the sixth time. Fir- ? to . e 0 call out to Erickson and told ing of the motor is intended to ^ a_l.the time and,him to come out. He didn’t position the satellite so that it inre« were_________ respond and Behrenswill remain stationary over one phoned t h eternational dateline. anerm s uePariment at 1:28 tricKson out or at ,east bUnlt;]Here it would serve as a,? and reported that her ^ him prevent hlm Ironspace switchboard for transmit- ^j!nd harming the other children Yting radio, television, telephone,1 drunk and had wreatened t0|the house.facsimile and teletype commu-f _ ^ ~ a #nications between North. Ameri- ^ Ik.N ^ca, Hawaii, Australia, the Phil-i villflfl vIOiVTIS ippines, Japan and Thailand. • •Comsat officials said nearly j AA ! 0 * I F‘ A Jall of Lani Bird’s 480 channels'IVvIaAIIv I llvU had been committed to com-imercial carriers and to govern-L A DAaMLment agencies such as the De-iffllll A”DOlllDfense DeDartment and NASAala. I tear gas cannister throughspot 22,300 mites above the in- ^ ^ l^ned v\£i window in hopes of forcingversion of Comsat satellite, Early Bird, which ers over the Atlantic, reliAnother child came out of the 1 house and three police sq u id cars and Chief Elwin L. Rum-phol of Altoona arrived at the scene. The officers went from window to window trying to locate the remaining children. The other children had told the officers the three older c h 11-dren were not at home at theCabinet Split MayForce Out ErhardBONN, Germany (AP)WithoutLudwig Erhard’s shaky West majority to pass ms Dins. satellite Tor ™^municatincGerman Cabinet today, refusing ! They have been opposing any iwith moon-bound Apollo to approve higher taxes sought increase of taxesTOKYO (AP) — Communist,i,me. wnen they reached the rtina announced in a broad-1 bedroom window, the officers.u * £ i. , 1JlL seated next to thethat it “successfully conducted!bed and went intn the house.nauts.Americanthe budget be balanced by cutt-opposition Socialists im-j ing expenditure and eliminating mediately predicted that Er-isome tax exemptions. The hard himself would be forced Christian Democrats have beenout. saying quietly that there is no! uX’via the satellite.The resignations were decided! alternative to raising taxes. -over its own territory a guided They found the baby, Robert months missile • nuclear weapon test’’ one year old in aone in a bed in hid|Viet Nam battlefield scenes Thursday. parent’s room. 1^^^^■bnjadcasMjv^rMhe NCNA said the test showed Robert was taken to Lutherthat China's “defense capabili- Hospital for observation beare advancing even cause of the tear oa« h»by the Bundestag members of The decision was taken at a DnrUftrJ Wnmnn 8reater speed” and called thethe Free Democratic party. All]closed-door meeting of the Free IVOCKTUrU vTUmun feal “another new inportant^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^lfour belong to this group. democrats’ Bundestag mem- C|nin hv Hu^hflnH achievement scored by the;dren, Ricky. 10, Rodney 7Herbert Wener, deputy chair- bership. The party has 49 voting'Jium uy i mauuiiu Chinese people in further,Tonia, 6. and Raymond’, 4.’man_of_the_SocialistsJ_issued_^{menibers in the 496-seat Bun-| rqckfORD. Ill (AP) ^ strengthening” China's national were taken to the home ofgood conditior tie four otherdestag.Resignation of the Free Democrats brought the possibility that Erhard might be forced to quit. He has been under heavy fire, not only because of the budget, but on account of trouble in the military establishment. Three top generals resigned in August.The United States was involved in that issue, since much of the disturbance was over the American-designed F104G Star-fighter plane and its long series of fatal accidents.Erhard is expected to ask the ministers to stay in office.statement saying a change in chancellors is long overdue. He added that his own party does not exist to fill up gaps — an indication that it will try to geta maximum price if asked toenter a coalition government for the first time since the early 1930s.their paternal grandmother, Mrs. Merle Ellis, 739 Hobart St. The three older children are Sharon, 15, Roger, 14, and Randy, 12.Sheriff Lloyd H. Thompson. Coroner Dr. James Martins and District Attorney Paul Lao Kelly were notified. Martins pronounced the couple dead and had their bodies taken to Sacred (Heart Hospital, i.Erickson was arrested on a battery charge Friday afternoon and taken to the County Jail. His wife had signed the complaint and the warrant was issued by the district attorney's Two office. Represented by John P. Thornton, he had posted a $50 bond and was released from jail over the weekend. He appeared in County Court Monday and pleaded innoqent to the charge. A trial was set forNov. 30.Erickson had been staying at the home of his brother, Robert. at 230 Sara St.“China’s purpose in developing nuclear weapons is precisely to oppose the nuclear monopoly and nuclear blackmail by the United States and the Soviet Union acting in collusion,” it said.The official New China-News Agency said the “guided missile flew normally and the nuclear warhead accurately hit at the appointed distance, effecting a nuclear explosion.”death with an ax early today and her husband surrendered himself to authorities, reportedly signing a confession of theslaying.Winnebago County sheriff’s deputies said Junior Savage, 48, entered the station and told deputies he had just axed his wife to death.Deputies Eugene (Bud) Ebens and Gene Graham said they accompanied Savage back to his home where they found the body of his wife, Luada. 34, lying in a pool of blood near a sofa in the living room.Many Christian Democrats favor such a grand coalition” of the Socialists and Erhard’s Christian Democrats, instead of the “little coalition” to which the resigned ministers belong.The Free Democrats Ore members of a comparatively small party, but hold the bal-Paint Throwers AskMELBOURNE (UPI) -Australian brothers who admitted throwing red and green paint on President Johnson’s car during his visit here last Friday have written him a letter of apology and asked his forgiveness, their lawyer said today.#Increase in Social SecurityPayments Would Hike TaxWASHINGTON (AP) - If Congress enacts President Johnson's proposed broadening of Social Security benefits next /ear, specialists say the required revenue probably would be raised by increasing the rate of the payroll tax and by extending the wage base on which it is levied.Officials say Social Security taxes could increase $68.40 a /ear for a worker earning as much as $7,800, and an equal smount for his employer.the base extension, from the present $6,600 to $7,800. would be permanent. The rate increase of two-tenths of 1 per cent each on employe and employer would, in a sense, be temporary.As the periodic increases already built into the law became effective, they would overtake the first boost and the ultimate rate would not be higher than the one now scheduled.How long tfie extra tax rate would apply would depend onthe extra tax would coincide !■* .. _with the beginning of the bene-jWCClinfi in earningsThe Social Security payroll Y^K^iAP^^Chnltax rate this year is 4.2 per cent , 7, .. Teach on employe and employer, , ,rp ’ natlon s th,rd*up to the first $6,600 an employe arSest au.to .nwker. reportedearns. This means the maxi-, fr(,earain?s ,[ ay . f the mum employe tax is $277.20 1 p three months and for theNext year, if Congress does year, d declared itsKennedy PraisesManila MeetingMILWAUKEE I AP l-Hie Ma-la conference was praised by ;n. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.. i a useful step for peace ef-rts as he arrived in Milwau-se today to begin a campaign ur of Wisconsin.“This was An itregular 50 cents a share quarterly dividend.nothing to change present law, the rate would increase to 4.4 per cent on the same base, for a maximum tax of $290.40.If the changes now beineWeather
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