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•ELTA, B.C. — Funeral costs in British Columbia have been
slashed by a gimmick that a veteran funeral director expects to prove a
goldmine for him while saving hundreds of dollars for consumers,
lien Timlick decided to offer cardboard coffins when he became
icerned last year at the spiraling cost of a funeral.
He said the average cost of a funeral currently is around $1,500 if a
ptlar casket is used. He estimated his cardboard coffin system
luces that figure to about $850.
Everybody agreed that cardboard coffins helped cut funeral costs,
dick said in an interview, although only a few persons bought them
when the time came to bury a loved one. Of the 18,000 burials in
British Columbia last year, fewer than 1,000 used the Timlick model.
■“It was a while before I figured out what was wrong,” Timlick said,
f “Then I realized people didn’t want friends and neighbors to see loved
ones being taken to their rest in plain, simple caskets.”
[So he introduced the “Timlick Rent-a-Casket.”
“I had an expensive-looking, elaborate casket made that fits over my
rdboard coffins,” Timlick said. “The casket, called a catafalque, was
ited at a funeral service and procession.
When it was all over, the catafalque was brought back and the
[rdboard coffin stayed behind and was buried. Nobody knew the
iublisher says court
batters’ free press
United Press International
NEW YORK — The Supreme
:ourt has put itself “above the law”
iy ruling that journalists can be
forced to reveal their thoughts when
they prepared stories, the chairman
Of the American Newspaper Pub
lishers Association said Monday.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court
ibel and newsroom search rulings
have battered” the First Amend
ment, jeopardizing freedom of the
>ress as well as guarantees of free
~pch, worship and assembly said
dlen Neuharth, AN PA chairman
and president.
“If evidence was needed, this de
mon clearly demonstrated that the
udiciary is inclined to put itself
jpove the law, if not the Constitu
tion, Neuharth told the group’s
93rd annual convention.
Wednesday, the high court ruled
that journalists sued for libel by pub-
figures can be compelled to an
swer questions about their thoughts
and opinions when preparing articles
or television shows.
| The court said CBS-TV’s “60 Min
utes” producer, Barry Lando, must
answer questions about his “state of
mind when assembling a documen
tary about former Army Lt. Col. An
thony Herbert, who contends he was
libeled by a broadcast of the pro-
|rani.
Neuharth, who also is president of
En route to Washington
Ex-union official shot
United Press International
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio —
Bill Lamb, ousted from his seat
on the United Mine Workers
Executive Board, was shot twice
early Monday and is in satisfac
tory condition at Martins Ferry
Hospital. He has been in a bitter
battle with United Mine Workers
President Arnold Miller to regain
a seat on the board.
Lamb, who earlier this year
sought an injunction from U.S.
District Court in Washington,
D.C., prohibiting the UMW
from harming or killing him, was
driving to Washington to attempt
to regain his seat when he was
shot.
He told a fellow union official
that he was driving on U.S. 250
when another motorist flagged
him down with a flashlight. He
said when he stopped to get out, a
man shot twice, hitting him in the
arm and leg.
Lamb said he drove to Rayland
and to the home of Mel Martin,
an official of UMW District 6,
who said Lamb was “covered with
blood.” Martin took him to the
hospital.
Martin’s wife said Lamb, of
Cadiz, Ohio, told them he
blacked out momentarily and
when he came to, the man was
gone.
Miller suspended Lamb from
the executive board last year, ac
cusing him of filing faulty expense
accounts.
District 6, which has 16,000
members in eastern Ohio and the
Northern Panhandle of West
Virginia, held another election
for the seat and Lamb won.
Last week. Miller suspended
him once again and said Lamb
could not hold the seat while
under investigation for the ex
pense accounts.
Tony Bumbico, of St.
Clairsville and a member of the
District 6 Relief Committee that
questioned the UMW handling of
strike benefits from other unions
during last year’s strike, said
Lamb had been threatened twice
last week.
“He had a lot of enemies in the
union hierarchy,” Bumbico said.
“And when you buck the stream
like that, you get trouble.
“He had two telephone calls
threatening his life if he took a
seat on that board. His car was
broke into and some papers
taken. Nothing of consequence.
“It’s the sickest thing since
Yablonski,” said Bumbico, refer
ring to the killing of UMW rebel
leader Joseph Yablonski, his wife
and daughter, over eight years
ago.
the single company owning the most
U.S. newspapers, Gannett Co. Inc.,
said the nation needs an examination
of the “state of mind” of the Supreme
Court, headed by Chief Justice War
ren Burger.
Neuharth said the rulings would
have their greatest effect on small
newspapers, radio and television sta
tions and the only solution was to ask
state legislatures for press shield
laws.
Ancient beggar
defies demolition
United Press International
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay —
Miguel Servasky, 75, went to sleep
last weekend in a vacant building in
downtown Montevideo, just as he
always did at the end of a hard day of
begging.
Early next morning a demolition
crew tore down the building, not no
ticing he was inside. Three days
later, workers removing the rubble
found what they assumed was his
body.
They were in the process of dig
ging him out when Servasky stood up
and asked for food and water.
He wasn’t injured and wanted to
go back to begging, but doctors de
cided he needed a rest and put him
in the hospital.
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Rock-heaving vandal
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United Press International
DENVER — A teen-age girl ran
down and captured a man suspected
of breaking a window in a grocery
store, then held the suspect for
police, detectives said.
Linda Rodriguez, 15, of Denver,
told officers she saw a man throw a
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