Beaver Dam Daily Citizen from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (2024)

October 25, 1956

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Beaver Dam Daily Citizeni

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Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

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Thursday, October 25, 1956

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40 38 Av 48 47 Temperature temperature range Max Mln Oct 24 195(5 58 Oct 24 1955 56 At 2 today 66 above VOLUME 45 NUMBER 210 (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) BEAVER DAM WISCONSIN THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 1956 (OICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER) Cloudy and windy shower to night and riday Cooler tonight and riday PRICE IVE CENTS Dairyland Co Op General Manager Welcomes amily ASM I Vs xk 4 i 9B 1 II 1 kbR OwiWy Ernst Hesse Mayville general manager of Dairyland Co op Associ ation Juneau is shown above greet ing (left to right) Robert Messer Mrs Robert Messer Mrs Edgar Mes ser and Edgar Messer Route 1 Bea ver Dam at Wednesday Dairyland Co op meeting Over 500 persons attended the fall meeting for members in the Juneau Beaver Dam Horicon Mayville Hustisford Citizen Staff Photo ox Lake Columbus Cambria area The meeting was informational and Included financial reports and the other co op business including a review and change in by laws Situation Eight Children Killed As In Poland reight Train Hits Car Is Normal SIGOURNEY Eight chil dren all members of the same family were killed today and their mother was seriously injured when a irst Real Storm Of Autumn Season to Polish so added that any attempts a wedge between Poland let the and train slammed into a car at an blind" rural crossing near here The accident took the lives cf all of the children of the Richard Hammes family including two sets of twins Mrs Hammes 38 was taking the older children to school when the accident occurred She was reported in fair condition at Keokuk County Hospital The victims were identified as 9 year old twins Donald and Ronald Karen 8 Linda 7 Gary 6 Rose Work in actories Proceeding Normally Students Back in School Report Surges Eastward Revamped Polish Communist Unit Makes Move to Patch Up Soviet Relations Heavy To Killing rosts Expected In Several California Valleys By ANTHONY CAVENDISH United Press Staff Correspondent The revamped Polish Communist Party and government moved today to patch up strained relations with the Soviet Union A United Press dispatch from Moscow said Wladyslaw Gomulka the new leader of the Polish United Workeres (Commu nist) Party would head a delega tion to Moscow today or riday The Central Committee passed a resolution today calling on Poles But it to drive and the Soviet Union were doomed to failure The Central Committee also con demned anti Semitism and other racial discrimination It said the working classshould be on good terms with the intelligentsia Situation Back to Normal The Central Committee meeting was the first since Gomulka took over from Edward Ochab as first secretary of the party last week The official news agency PAP reported the situation throughout the country was "back to following nearly a week of demon strations against Stalinist influ By United Press Widespread rain and snow slam med parts of the North and Cen tral Plains as the first real storm of the fall season surged eastward to the upper Mississippi Valley early today Killing rost Meanwhile "heavy to killing were expected in several California valleys Particularly in danger were tuce and strawberry crops in Salinas Valley artichokes strawberries and wine grapes in ences The agency said Russian troops which had moved from their bar racks when the disturbances start ed were returning now to their specifically defined Warsaw Pact bases Work in factories was proceeding normally PAP said and students have returned to their studies It said the people were express ing their of Commu nist Party workers who broke up the last of the demonstrations out side the Hungarian embassy Wed nesday night Street ighting Erupts Street fighting erupted in War saw Wednesday night when thou sands of Poles attempted to march on the Soviet embassy The Poles had massed in front of the Hun garian embassy to shout their sup port for rebels fighting Soviet and Hungarian troops in Budapest Communist Party workers tried to disperse the demonstrators with clubs and brawls erupted The In flated mob then began a march on the Soviet embassy Tension ran high while the dem onstrators surged through the streets and security forces stood guard with machineguns automatic weapons and rifles (Continued on Page 8) I See By the Want Ads in Today's Citizen THAT There are eating apples for sale THAT Experienced book keeper is wanted THAT There are 3 deer rifles for sale the Santa Clara Valley and wine grapes and tomatoes in the San Joaquin Valley The intense storm center pushed Into northwest Kansas and south west Nebraska out of the Rockies Wednesday night spreading from Mexico to Canada Snow however was limited to the west central por tion of the plains Wisconsin Weather Wisconsin had clouds at mid morning today with showers ex pected throughout the state later to day or tonight A light drizzle was reported early this morning at Milwaukee but else where in the state no precipitation was reported during the 24 hour per iood ending early this morning ex cept for a few sprinkles in the south western part of the state early Wed nesday A strong northerly flow of air brought warmer temperatures to Wisconsin Wednesday night with the minimums ranging mostly in the 40s and 50s or eight to 17 degrees above the seasonal normal Wausau and Park alls had an overnight reading of 43 the lowest in the state Some of the other mini mums were 44 at Green Bay 46 at Madison 47 at Sau Claire Beloit and Superior 51 at Milwaukee and 53 at La Crosse The maximum readings Wednes day were in the 50s or low 60s which is near the seasonal normal Beloit had the highest a 63 MANY LOCAL ELECTORS REGISTERED PAST WEEK Registration of voters prior to the general election of Nov 6th closed at 5 on Wednesday of this week City Clerk A Tomashek stated this morning that there had been approximately 250 registra tions during the past week The exact number of registered electors in Beaver Dam was not known but was believed to be over the 7000 mark mary 3 and 18 month old twins Ricky and Vicky A Rock Island train slammed into the four door sedan as it crossed the tracks about 2 miles east of here scattering the bodies of the victims down the track for 684 feet "I'ye never seen anything to com pare with it" Deputy Sheriff Keith Bryant said Two of the bodies were thrown beside the tracks about 70 feet from the point of impact "There were three huddled in another group and two with the Bryant said "The car was caught beneath the front of the diesel engine and com pletely he said Cost Of Living Rose To Record High Last Month Consumer Price Index Rose Three tenths of One Percent is Report By MAUREEN GOTHLIN United Press Staff Correspondent The cost of liv ing rose to a new record high last month the government reported to day Price Index Rise The Bureau of Labor Statistics said its consumer price the government's official yardstick of living rose three tenths of 1 per cent between August and Sep tember The index stood in September at 1171 per cent of average 1947 49 prices This was one tenth of 1 per cent above the previous record high set in July At the same time the bureau reported that average factory work ers' pay also reached a record high in September Despite higher prices it said the purchasing power of the average factory take home pay was the highest on record for the month of September Prices increased in September in all major categories of consum er goods and services except food which remained at the August level the bureau said The increase brought the living cost index to a level 28 per cent higher than in January 1953 when the Eisenhower administration took office The rise will bring automatic cost Index to a level 28 per cent higher than in January 1953 when the Elsenhower administration took office The rise will bring automatic cost of living wage increases of 2 to 4 cents an hour for about300 000 workers mostly in the electrical industry whose wage contracts con tain escalator clauses The average take home pay earn ings after taxes of a factory work er with three dependents was $7404 a week in September That was $110 higher than in August and $260 higher than in September 1955 Both Republicans and Democrats have been making an issue of the cost of living this year particu larly in the presidential campaign Today's index is the last one to be issued prior to the elections BADGERS WIN KANSAS CITY A Universi ty of Wisconsin group won team championship here in an intercol legiate meat judging contest at the American Royal Livestock Show The Badger squad made 2632 points out of a possible 3000 for the victory Hungary Civil War Rages Into Third Day Many Die Rural Traffic Safety Becomes Real Problem CHICAGO Rural traffic safety has become a critical problem for farmers and the nation a law en forcement authority told a farm safety session of the National Safety Congress today Ray Ashworth acting director of the Traffic Institute of Northwest ern University said two factors are responsible for the urgency of the rural traffic problem "The first factor Is that three out of four traffic deaths are now rural Ashworth said "The second is that the motor vehicle accounts for nearly half of all acci dental deaths to farm Ashworth said the death rate in most cities has been going down tn recent years despite sharply rising traffic volume "But rural traffic has been grow ing he said it now constitutes half the total yearly vehicle mileage accounts for three quarters of the fatalities and occurs on nine tenths of our total road Public support is needed for the success of official programs neces sary to reduce the rural accident toll Ashworth said Clieesemalters End Annual Convention Adopt Resolutions Re elect Officers Name New Direc tor at Wednesday Business Meeting The Southeastern Wisconsin Cheese Association went on record at its 27th annual convention held in Beaver Dam the past two days as opposing the misbranding of cheese in its original container and selling packaged sliced cheese so as to mislead the consumer as to type and quality Ask Investigation The cheesemakers adopted a reso lution requesting the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association to invest igate these transactions and take immediate steps to prevent such selling practice of cheese in the future The association also re elected Ted Indermuehle Woodland presi dent' John Schmid Beaver Dam vice president Ewald Jung Juneau secretary treasurer arTd Clarence Muetzenberg Atwater a director replacing red Balmer Juneau term on the board of direc tors had expired Other board mem bers are Elmer Tesch riesland and red Bleuer Cambria Convention activities will conclude tonight with a six thirty banquet at St Peter's school Afternoon ses sions were conducted Wednesday and Thursday at Armory where all business meetings were held and where cheeses were displayed The cheesemakers also had a bowling party Wednesday evening at Les's Bowl In other resolutions the associa tion asked that the law be changed so that whey cream and grade milk can be sold retail providing they are properly labeled informing the public what they are buying This concerns a law which goes into effect on July 1 1957 prohibiting the sale of grade milk and whey cream at the factory In their reso lution the cheesemakers pointed out that butter made from whey cream and grade milk are now sold on a grade basis The association also extended Its sympathy to the families of John Bremser George DIttberner Mrs Jake Muetzenberg and Mrs Anna Horn and other members who have had deaths in their families the past year By resolution the group ex pressed its and to all cheese buyers equipment and dairy supply manufacturers Cham ber of Commerce Mayor Alvin Beers and to all who donated gifts for the convention program It was also announced that the Southeastern Wisconsin Cheese As 1 sociation picnic would be held again next year at Juneau on the second I Sunday after the ourth of July Wayland Academy Homecoming Week Starts On riday Programs Planned or riday Sat urday Sunday As Alumni Par ents riends Arrive Homecoming on the Wayland Academy campus this weekend with activities and programs scheduled for riday Saturday and Sunday Homecoming Queen Announcement was made Wed nesday of the election of Sue Hicks daughter of Dr and Mrs Weimer Hicks former headmaster at Way land and now president of Kala rnaoo College Kalamaoo Mich as Homecoming queen Assisting in her court of honor are Ann Hoyer daughter of Dr and Mrs Charles Hoyer Beaver Dam Polly Thor sen daughter of Mr and Mrs Ro bert Thorsen Batavia Ill Judith Jensen daughter of Dr and Mrs rederick Jensen Menasha and Letitia Herbst daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbst Wilmette BI Miss Hicks and her court of ho nor will be introduced during the halftime of the Wayland Wisconsin Lutheran football game Saturday afternoon and Miss Hicks will be crowned Saturday night at the Homecoming dance The busy three day weekend starts riday evening 7:45 with the pre sentation of the annual Variety Show in Beebe Auditorium Each class and the faculty will present original skits The classes are also con structing effigies to be placed on campus Saturday morning Cash pri zes will be awarded by the Way land Alumni Association for the best skit and effigy ollowing the Variety Show stu dents will hold a pep rally in Lind say gymnasium directed by the Club and Varsity Club Mem bers of the Big Red football team and coaches Marty Meyer and Bart Chase will be introduced during the pep rally After the evening pro gram alumni parents and friends are invited to a Snack Hour in the Recreation Room of Warren Hall ootball Game The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees will convene Saturday at 10:00 a with Pickard Neenah presiding Girls hockey will be played at 9 and 10 Sat urday morning between Wayland and Waupun high school At 12:30 there will be the faculty trustee luncheon in Pickard Dining Hall One of the main highlights of the Homecoming celebration will be the Wayland Wisconsin Lutheran foot ball game Saturday afternoon two o'clock at Brown Memorial ield The Redmen will be seeking their seventh win of the season and sixth against Midwest Prep Conference (Continued on Page 8) Political Tension Is Increased Both Presidential Candidates Up in Arms for Home Stretch of Drive By UNITED PRESS Adlai Stevenson flew out of New York Cllty today as President Eisenhower trained in to fight back for the normally Democratic vote Home Stretch Both were up in arms for the home stretch The Democratic candidate who had made a nationally televised speech from a Madison Square Garden rally Tuesday night made seven appearances in and about the city between noon and midnight Wednesday Rally crowds in the usually Republican suburbs were described by his associates as some of the most enthusiastic of his campaign Stevenson told them he was and at the Republican cam paign of "misrepresentations slush slogans epithets and silly Mr Eisenhower left Washington by train at 8:30 am for a major address at Madison Square Garden tonight Mr Eisenhower was described by close associates as indignant over Southeastern Cheese Assn Officers Inspect Prize Cheese nyaM i wjk IK V' if 1 1 1 rEf Tas? If EBitaa9 VHflilHBM MERf feyrfw eHB sL fez Ted Indermuehle Woodland shewn holding a prize winning Brick Cheese was re elected president of the Southeastern Wisconsin Cheese Association at the 27th annual con vention held here yesterday and 11 1 1 Railroad Asking Schedule Change or Local Train today Jjhown with Indermuehle are left to right John Schmid Beaver Dam vice president Elmer Tesch riesland director red Bleuer Cambria director red Balmer Citizen Staff Photo Juneau director and Ewald Jung secretary treasurer Juneau The only change for 1957 is that Clar ence Muetzenberg Atwater replaces Balmer as an association director North Western Petitions Public Service Body or Change On Westbound 400 Schedule Stevenson's attacks on his foreign policies particularly the recent Suez crisis His address was expected to re emphasize his claim that there Is "good from Suez and other points abroad Stevenson was to leave New York at about the time of Mr Eisen arrival flying to Spring field Ill where he will meet with nis running maie sen i stes ne fauver and make a farm speech tonightl Vice President Richard Nixon was also in Illinois touring the Chicago area in a series of whirl wind appearances Clear Roadblocks In a speech prepared for delivery in the heart of the city's Negro community Nixon urged election of a Republican House and Senate to oust southern Democratic com mittee chairmen and thus clear roadblocks to civil rights legislation Stevenson reiterated in New York speeches his insistence that some thing must be done to bring ijuclear weapons testing to a halt matter which partv wins The filing of a petition with the Wisconsin Public Service Commis sion by the North Western railway system might result in the changing the time of the arrival of the west bound train at South Beaver Dam to around 2:42 pm Under the present schedule this fast train is now due there at 5:27 pm Revamped Service Immediate revamping of its Wis consin passenger train service which It said is sapping the financial health of the railroad and impeding an urgently needed program of modern ization and improvement was re quested in a petition today to the Wisconsin Public Service Commis sion by the Chicago and North Western Railway System The railroad revealed that its passenger train service in Wiscon sin was not only failing to pay its own way but that the losses in 1954 and 1955 exceeded the net operating income from freight serv ice in the state While losses from passenger operations over its entire system were $21955000 in 1955 it November another supreme effort must be undertaken and another and another too" he said Democrats have tried to tell the American people the truth and the Republicans have replied with Stevenson said In effect he said they are telling people stop worrying to stop thinking to shut and just trust Kefauver hitting at Republicans in a Springfield Ohio speech for shaky peace unsteady prosperity and no progress at said he would tell Stevenson when they meet today that support is up fast" for their ticket ELT AT HOME VIRGINIA BEACH Va Pfc Burton Boyer returned from three months' duty with the Army near the Arctic Circle and found his family said the loss In Wisconsin alone was $7832186 resulting in a net loss of $1867458 from all operations in the state last year In the most comprehensive analy sis of the passenger train problem ever presented to the commissioii the North Western said entirely too many unneeded passenger trains are siphoning away funds required for Immediate and future improve ments in passenger and freight equipment track roadway yards and other facilities Streamline Plan The railroad Wisconsin's largest' with an operation of more than 60 passenger trains In the state pro posed a streamlining of its passen ger service more In keeping with actual public need by schedule and train adjustments Its proposal in cludes the elimination of the equiva in a new on Arctic Ave (Continued on Page 8) Ten Persons Killed In our Plane Accidents MIDLAND Tex Ten persons were killed Wednesday in four air plane crashes one an aerial col lision and an automobile crash involving a speeding car en route to help ive members of a Texas family and two Air orce officers from Illinois were killed when their planes collided over a thickly populated Midland residential section and the Jet crashed into a home An Air orce officer said today it was a that no one on the ground was hurt or killed when the debris and bodies fell on the residential section One home was destroyed by fire when the jet crashed into the front of it at eave top level The family was gone at the time Nearby homes were damaged by debris from the falling planes Another of the crashes involved a joy riding flight mechanic His jet plane plummeted into the ground near a big oil refinery after he re ported by radio that he was having trouble "trimming (leveling) this thing" An elderly woman was killed and her companion Injured when their automobile collided with a sheriff's car speeding to clear traffic in hopes that the Air orce mechanic would try to land The aerial collision and flight mechanic crashes occurred in the Midland Big Spring section of west Texas The other plane crash was near Tolar Tex about 40 miles southwest of ort Worth The pilot 2nd Lt Melville Gange of Tacoma Wash was killed The aerial collision involved a T33 jet from Webb Air orce Base at Big Spring and a Cessna 170 car rying five members of a Texas fam ily Air orce and civilian auth orities said they could find no ac tual witnesses to the collision ah though a number of persons repor ted seeing the wrecked planes fall ing Capt Allen Robertson public in formation officer at Webb AB said the flight mechanic climbed Into a T33 jet about 8:30 and unexpectedly took off despite fran tic efforts of the tower to stop him Removal of Red orces Is Pledged New Government Makes Prom ises of orgiveness in Order to End Bloodshed Janos Kardar Named as irst Secretary to Replace Ousted Geroe By RANZ CYRUS United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA civil war its dead already numbering in the hundreds and its wounded In the thousands raged through its third day today despite new government proml'es of forgiveness and a pledge to negotiate withdrawal of all So viet troops in Hungary NEW YORK President Eisen hower today deplored the use of Soviet troops to quell the re volt In Hungary' He said they should have been withdrawn years ago under the World War II peace treaty Mr Eisenhower in a statement issued here also said the use of the Russian troops against the rebelling Hungarians demon strates that Soviet forces have been kept in the satellite coun try not to protect Hungary from outside aggression as Russia claims but for The President hinted that the United States might favor action before the United Nations ight In Streets The of Buda pest fought Soviet troops and gov ernment forces through the broad streets and cobbled squares of that fabled city as the Hungarian Com munists purged their top Stalinist leaders and made continued des perate pleas for an end to blood shed The Communist leadership meet ing in emergency session booted out Stalinist party boss Ernoe Geroe and named Janos Kardar as new first secretary They had confirmed Geroe to that post only Wednesday Will Urge Russ Withdrawal Shortly afterwards newly restored Premier Imre Nagy pro mised in a radio broadcast to the nation that he would ask for the withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Hungarian soil as soon as order is restored Hungarian government will soon initiate negotiations with the Soviet Union on the withdrawal of all Soviet troops stationed in Hun gary Nagy said Then he conceded that the fight ing still raged on despite earlier government claims that the rebel lion had been crushed the tragic fighting and the useless bloodshed and let us re turn to peaceful work again" Nagy said in his appeal to the people over the facilities of Budapest Radio Polish newsmen reported to War saw that the Hungarian rebels still were fighting in Budapest at 2 p' a and had occupied one of the main railroad stations Historic Buildings In lame The Polish newsmen said the re bels also had occupied the Hotel Pa ris Immediately after prom ise to rid Hungary of Russian troops Kardar followed with a plea for an end to the revolt which he said still causing serious bloodshed and heavy As he spoke many of the fine historic buildings of Budapest were' destroyed or in flames Addressing his audience as "Com rades working people of Kardar said he had much time to revolt has caused and is still causing serious bloodshed find heavy damage and will continue to (Continued on Page 8) Imagine That ederal agents took possession of more than 247000 pills at the Amber Laboratories Inc here Wednesday The pills known as were seized be cause they did not work Marshal Lyle Milligan said The government complaint stated the pills were not ade quate and effective treatment for and said state ments about the pills were and Pharmacal Co of Chicago shipped the pills here Owners have 20 days to answer ths com pliant the government said.

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