PAGING THROUGH H
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1970
Fires due to dry conditions
Good drying conditions the past few days in the season before the grass turns green and starts to grow have created explosive conditions and serious fire hazards.
Fire departments in the communities in this area were called to several grass fires that were out of control. The most serious was near Curtiss, where a home was damaged.
At least one t ow n s h i p, the town of Mayville, has taken action to make persons burning without permits liable for any fire calls. Separate stories appear on most of the incidents.
Two fires at Curtiss
The Curtiss fire department was called twice over the weekend.
The most serious was Saturday at about 3 p.m. when a grass fire at the Harlan Sundermeyer home about one and one-half miles west of Curtiss threatened the home.
The fire was spread rapidly toward the home when the wind shifted. Straw caught fire and the siding was scorched up to the eaves.
Mr. Sundermeyer, a member of the county patrol, was unable to use his telephone to call the department because the wires had been burned.
He called the patrol at Neillsville.
The Curtiss department was called at 3:40 a.m., this time to a fire in a junker car parked at Rod’s Texaco Station.
The cause of the fire was not known, but the interior of the car was destroyed.
The department was called by a passing trucker, Vic Borgemoen, who noticed the fire when he was passing by.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1990
Colby campaign violations
Two fines have been levied in connection with campaign violations in the Colby School Board spring election. One candidate has paid her $25 fine but the Citizens for Better Education have made no decision this week on whether they will pay their $25 penalty. Connie Mullins, was elected to the board in the April 3 balloting, was fined $25 by Clark County District Attny. Darwin Zwieg for some campaign literature sent out without the disclaimer “Authorized and paid for by Connie Mullins.”
“She did admit to distributing flyers without the disclaimer, and she did not correct it. I don’t believe there was any intent, but the statute speaks to the violation, not the intent, so the fine was $25 plus costs,” said Zwieg.
The district attorney added, “It was her first time out of the chute, and I guess it was a learning process for her.”
Mullins said she paid her fine, and commented, “The District Attorney said it was such a minor violation that very few people take it to the D.A. The printer who did my literature said he has seen it printed both ways, and it happens so often. People are not aware of just what the law is.”
Earl Boss, Colby School Board president who was eliminated in the April 3 election, subsequently sent formal complaints to Zweig concerning the Mulllins situation and also concerning an ad placed in the Tribune-Phonograph of March 28. The ad, sponsored by Citizens for a Better Education, did not include the name of the group’s treasurer, which is required by State Statute 11.30(2)(b).
