Stevens Point Journal from Stevens Point, Wisconsin (2024)

STEVENS POINT (WISCONSIN) DAILY JOURNAL Monday, March 31, 1953 Poqe 8 UW Alumni Emergency FireWardens CLL OiLr let ew5 ocieu i I 1 I i i -t I VI I Vr i cMi i ft i -1 nr-- i SHOOTING VICTIM Raymond Sloan, 38, both legg shattered by a single deer rifle bullet, points an accusing finger toward his brother-in-law, Woodrow Driver, not shown, just after he was shot, "at Nashville, Tenn. Sheriff's Deputy Hugh J. Perry, left, was just arriving with other law officer to investigate when they saw shot "slapped Sloan completely around twice." Sloan died in hospital. Police said Driver would be charged with murder. WISCONSIN ALUMNI CLUB officers Dick Cable, Emmet J.

Duffy and Charles F. Jensen, above from left, check over new alumni directories, preparatory planning Founders Day meeting. The annual event will be Thursday, April 24. Wiemann-Van Vleet Winnie was born Dec. 22, 1886.

Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Truman Harris. On April 28, 1909, she was married at Waupaca to Mr. Harrington.

Surviving are her husband; four children, Mrs. Chris (Hope) Peterson, Route 2, Waupaca, and Le Roy, Wilfred and Gale Harrington, Milwaukee; two brothers, Alonzo Harris, Waupaca, and John Harris, Lake Tomahawk; a sister, Mrs. John Watkins, Truro, Iowa; 14 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Directors To Prepare List Preparation of a directory of Stevens Point alumni of the University of Wisconsin is among final duties of the Stevens Point Alumni Club's current Board of Directors, before full attention is given to the annual Founders Day dinner. Emmet J.

Duffy, secretary- treasurer of the club here, is in charge of listing and preparing the leaflet Some 250 names will appear in the directory. Efforts have been made by Mr. Duffy and the other officers and directors to make it as complete as possible. Copies were expected to go in to the mails later this week to all local UW alumni. They will be ac companied by letters announcing plans for this year Founders Day event.

Founders Day will be celebrat ed here at a dinner meeting Thursday, April 24, Dick Cable, club president announces. A buffet dinner will be served at Hotel Whiting at 7:30 p.m. preceded by a co*cktail hour. LeRoy E. Luberg, assistant to the president of the university, has accepted the board invita tion to speak at the event, Mr, Cable said.

Mr Luberg has had a long as sociation with the university, be sides serving recently as an as sistant to Governor Vernon Thomson. Reservations are being taken by Charles F. Je'nsen, club vice president. Recent graduates and other alumni, who do not receive mail announcements are asked to contact him. A special invitation is extended parents of students now attend ing the university, as well as all other interested persons.

Further information may be had by contacting the three offi cers, or directors, who are Wil liam Kraus, Earl Hoef fler and Mrs. Clinton Cragg. Here's Your Date SISTERHOOD BETH Israel will meet Thursday evening, April 1, at 8 o'clock, at the Tern pie Parlors. COURT JEREM NO. 1031 Catholic Daughters of America will hold a business meeting Tuesday evening, April 1, at 8:15 o'clock, at Pacelli High School.

THE WOMEN'S GUILD of Peace United Church of Christ 126 Dixon will have a regular monthly meeting at 2 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, April 1. Mrs Wilfred Hetzer will be in charge of the program, "We Believe That Man is Created in God's Image." Mrs. Ray Jacobson and Mrs. Elroy Herman will be the hostesses and will serve refreshments. EVERGREEN LODGE NO.

93, F. A. will hold a stated communication at 7:30 o'clock, Tuesday evening, April 1, at the Masonic Temple. Lunch will be served. STEVENS POINT SHRINE Club will meet at the home of Mrs.

Ted Stoner, 305 Viertel Park Ridge, Wednesday afternoon, April 2, for a 2 o'clock dessert and business meeting. CHAPTER PEO Sisterhood, will meet April 8, instead of the scheduled meeting date, April 1, because of election. ST. PAUL LUTHERAN Ladies Aid will hold its April meeting at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in the church.

Members are asked to bring mission mite boxes. Hostesses will be Mrs. Frank Som-mers, Mrs. Julius Sonnenberg and Mrs. Floyd Waterson.

A Norwegian grower now exporting orchids to Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. Two large sprays of mountain fern, accented by bronze Delaware and white Illini snowdrift mums were on the altar of St Paul's Methodist Church Satur-! day afternoon when Miss Gloria Van Vleet became the bride of Carl Barge Wiemann Jr. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i Roman J.

Eickendorf, Plover, and the son of Dr. and Mrs. C. Barge Wiemann, La Crosse, former Ste-j vens Point, residents, repeated their vows at 3 o'clock after the Rev. Perry H.

Saito. During the nuptials, Mrs. Saito sang Perfect Love" and Lord, Most Holy." by Franck, accompanied by Miss Susan Eastwood, who played the wedding marches. Miss Vicki Van Vleet, Plover, served as maid of honor for her sister with Miss Karen Wiemann, La Crosse, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Marlene Han-ke, Stevens Point, as the bridesmaids. The bridegroom chose Marshall Taylor, Wausau, as his best man, with Lowell W.

Johnson, also of Wausau, and Kenneth Hurlbut Wisconsin 1 Obituary Mrs. Frances Jazdzewski At the age of 94, Mrs. Frances Jazdzewski died at 3:45 a.m. Sunday at the home of a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

John Levandowski, in the Town of Dewey. Mrs. Jazdzewski had been in ill health for a rrumber of years. She had been bedridden the past two years. Mrs.

Jazdzewski made- her home with the Levandowskis in recent years. --The funeral will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Knowlton. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Dziko-ski Funeral Home after 6 p.m. today. Rosaries will be said there at 8 o'clock tonight by the Rosary Societies of St. Francis Xavier Church, and St. Casimir's Church in the Town of Hull.

She was a member of both groups. The general Tosary will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The former Frances Pokorzyn-ski in Poland Dec. 8, 1863, a daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Martin Pokorzynski. She was married to Frank in 1890. The couple mi grated to America in 1892. lived in Chicago five years and then settled on a farm 1 1 Dewey.

They lived there until retiring 21 years ago. Mrs. Jazdzewski died Feb. 13, 1955. Surviving are two sons, Andrew, Chicago, and John, Town of Carson; eight daughters, Mrs.

Mary Wengelski, Town of Knowlton, Mrs. Frank Pawelski, Mrs. George Czaplinski and Mrs. Levandowski, all of Dewey, Mrs. Theodore Lubinski, Town of Lin-wood, Miss Frances," Milwaukee, and Mrs.

Walter Berlowski and Mrs. Harry Berlowski, Berlin. There are also 40 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren. Two sons, a brother and three sisters preceded in death. Mrs.

Perry Harrington Mrs. Perry Harrington, 71, died at her home in Waupaca at a.m. Saturday. Her death followed a heart attack. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at the Holly Funeral Home, Waupaca, with the Rev. Charles Fox of SaxeVille officiating. Burial will take place in Maple Lane Cemetery, Town of Lind (Waupaca County). Mrs. Harrington, the former County Students Win Wav To State Contest Are Listed Emergency fire wardens in Portage County through whom burning permits may oe oDtain- ed were listed today Dy forest Ranger William Peterson.

Permits will be required lor all types' of outdoor fires starting Tuesday. The restrictions appiy outside the limits of incorporated cities and villages in Portage, Waupaca, Waushara, Marquette and Green Lake Counties. Continued dry weather is mak ing the serious fire hazard here even more critical, said Peterson. There were eight fires in the county Saturday, and one of them, in the Town of Pine urove, almost destroyed a house. Peterson said fire-fighting crews arrived just in time to save the home, owned by Duane Mc-Intee.

The ranger said the fire was apparently started by sparks from a Chicago and North West-em Railway train. It burned 55 acres of marsh, willow and heavy brush. Peterson said a fir! in the Town of Grant was also started by a Chicago and North Western train. It burned along the ground through four acres of heavy jackpine, he said. Other fires Saturday included: Two In the Town of Plover which covered seven acres.

One of them, southwest of Plover, started moving into a pine plantation owned by Robert L. Ber-ard before it was brought under control. The other was in a field east of Plover on County Trunk B. A nine-acre marsh fire In the Town of Stockton. An 11-acre fire In a field in the Town of Hull, south of Hay-meadow Creek on old Highway 5L A four-acre fire in slashings and pine in the Town of Linwood.

Emergency wardens in each of the county's 17 townships are the following: Alban Harold P. Anderson, Route 1, Rosholt. Almond Arlelgh HetzeL Route 1. Almond, and Ed Bergman, Almond. Amherst Henry Swenson.

Route 1, Scandinavia; Clair Packer, Route 1, Amherst Junction, and Joe Sroda, Amherst Junction. Belmont Henry Stinson, Route 2, Amherst. Buena Vista George Fletch er, Route 1, Plover, and Ronald Adams, Route 1, Bancroft Carson Robert Bobrowski. Route 2, Junction City, and Ed Reader, Route 3, Stevens Point Dewey Edward Losinski and Ira McBride, Route 3, Stevens Point. Eau Pleine Frank Beck.

Route 1, Dancy, and Howard Wolfe, Route 1, Junction City. urant Martin Kirchhoeffer. Route 1, Wisconsin Rapids; Roger Randrup. Route 2, Wisconsin Rapids, and Anton Palek, Route 1, Bancroft Hull -Joseph Wojcik and John Raschka, Route 2, Stevens Point Lanark Thomas Morgan. Route 2, Amherst.

Linwood John Kiefer and Henry Winiecke, Route 4, Stevens Point. New Hope Russell Krogwold, Route 2, Amherst Junction, Pine Grove Vilas Waterman and William Petrucky, Bancroft Plover George Sterling and Milvern Jacklin, Plover. Sharon Henry Schulist and Edward Rusin, Route 1, Custer. Stockton Stanley Kirschling, Route 1, Plover, and Ed Bronk, Route 2, Stevens Point Osen In State Group To Attend Regional Traffic Safety Parley M. C.

Olsen of Hardware Mutu-als js among 10 officials of the Wisconsin Council of Safety who will attend the President's Regional Traffic Safety Conference Tuesday and Wednesday at Chicago. The purpose of the meeting is to plan methods of mobilizing stronger public support for traffic safety measures. Farmer Loses $200 To Strange Women MONTELLO, Wis. -Farmer Ed Arndt told police Sunday night that two strange women with small talk and gestures stole $200 from him while he was doing his chores. The bachelor, complaining to Marquette County sheriff's officers, said one of the women stole the wallet he was carrying in his shirt while both talked to him, gestured and brushed against him.

Arndt said the women had dark complexions. He said they left in a 1957 model car driven by a man who did not leave the car. Surrounding counties were alerted to be on the watch for the trio. Glove Compartment Broken Into 1 Clarence Guzman, Route 2, Stevens Point, reported to police that the glove compartment of his car was broken into Saturday afternoon and that $27 and tools of unknown value were taken. The car was parked near the Point Transfer Co.

at 116 N. 1st St, at the time. Firemen Called To Seven Fires During Weekend Firemen answered calls to five grass fires and two garage fires over the past weekend and today. The first grass fire was short ly after noon Saturday in the 1200 block of S. Minnesota ave nue.

The second was at 8 p.m. near the entrance to Bukolt Park. Three of the grass fires occur red Sunday. The first, at 12:30 p.m, was on the west end of Portage street; the second at 7 p.m., was near Bukolt Park, and the third, an hour later, was in the 200 block of Franklin street One of the garage fires occur red Sunday at 1 p.m. when a mo torcycle backfired in the garage of John Ostrander, 630 Rice and started burning.

Damage was confined to the motorcycle, fire men said. A roof fire on a garage owned by Vern Starry, 219 5th Ave was extinguished by firemen this morning. Damage was minor, they said. Speeders Forfeit The following persons forfeit ed $10 over the past weekend on speeding charges: John W. MecNeil, Rice Lake; Basil Kenne dy, Mellon; Richard Blum, Marsh field; Jerry Schreider, Chicago, and Mrs.

Hallis Hayes, Elk Mound. The speeders were apprehend ed when police set up the electric speed timing device in the 100 block of W. Clark street. Thomas L. Yunger, Orlando, forfeited $10 Sunday on a charge of passing under unsafe conditions.

Rites Here full skirts had deep folds in the back and were ballerina-length. Butterfly bows and nose veils de tailed the bandeaus they wore in their hair. Cascade bouquets of bronze and white pompon chry santhemums, complimented by dark forest green ivy, were car ried by the three. The same floral theme used in the church was carried out for the buffet supper table aU a re ception at the Sky Club which ol lowed the ceremony. Fresh sweet' heart roses were on the wedding cake.

The newlyweds greeted 90 relatives and friends who attend ed from Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Wausau, Wisconsin Rapids and La Crosse, besides the local area. Mr. Wiemann a 1955 graduate of Central State College, is teacher and athletic coach at the Wausau Senior High School. His bride is a senior in occupational therapy at Milwaukee-Downer College After June 1, the couple will live in Milwaukee. Mr.

Wiemann will teach at the Granville High School next school year. Women's Civic Group To Make Inventory An Inventory of equipment available to the community on a "loan out" basis will be prepared by the Women's Civic Council, it was decided at a regular meeting of the group Thursday evening, at the American Legion Club-rooms. The inventory of pertinent information will include the avail ability hospital beds, wheel chairs, walkers and crutches. The report will be given to Miss Irma Pestien, city nurse, to help her fill the many requests she re ceives. Other subjects discussed by the council weref polio immunl zation for students; the making of cancer dressings; the spring election on Tuesday; blacktop- pmg the Lincoln School play ground; unnecessary and unde sir able radio news items; housing facilities of the high school man ual arts classes and the vocation al school; the Portage County Assn.

for Mental health, what it is and its six-point program. Miss Sophie Wroblewski, rep resentative on the council for the Business and Professional Worn en's Club, reported on the March Board of Education meeting wnicn she attended. Mrs. Leslie Courtney, representative for the American Legion Auxiliary, reported on the March city council meeting which she attended. The council will be represented at the April Board of Education meeting by Mrs.

G. W. Fothergill of the Faculty Wives Club of Central State College and at the April city council meeting by Mrs. J. H.

Jochum of the Lin coin School Parent-Teacher Assn. Timlin In Washington Pvt. Orin M. Timlin, Stevens Point, and fellow 4th Infantry Di vision soldiers are training for Exercise "Indian River," near Yakima, in May. "Indian River," will be a 16, 000-man "war" fought over the 270,000 acres of Cascade foothills at the Yakima Training Center from May 6 to 20.

Private Timlin, the son of El-do Timlin, 1025 S. Minnesota is with the division's Btry, C. 1st FA Battalion, 20th Artil- Jery. He is assigned as a can noneer on an eight-inch Howitzer. Sons Are Born Sons were born in St.

Mich Construction Cost Figures Listed By State MADISON UP) Wisconsin plans to begin $38,764,832 worth of construction this year, bring ing to 83 million dollars the total amount of work in progress, Gov. Vernon Thomson's office announced Saturday. The entire building program will provide jobs for 15,000 per sons if work gets started on all the new structures, the announcement said. The program is in addition to the 134 million dollar highway construction program for the year. (Of the construction scheduled or.

in progress, $2,260,000 is in Stevens Point. It includes Stein-er Hall, Central State College men's dormitory now under con struction, and CSC's new student union and physical education building, which are expected to be started soon.) Financing has not been found for all the projects listed on the 1958 schedule and funds for others will not be spent during the year, uther improvements suu are on the drawing board. Of the 1958 sums, 23 million is earmarked for Madison," 4.6 million for projects in Milwaukee and the remaining amount in other state cities. Spending for the University of Wisconsin, both in Madison and Milwaukee, amounts to almost 31 million dollars. That includes work in progress or planned for this year.

A total of 17 million is either being spent or planned for the state college system. Still to be approved Is a new borrowing plan that would per mit the state to raise about 20 million dollars of the total 38 million earmarked for education institutions. Money cannot be sought until the fund raising sys tem is cleared by state agencies, Also listed is 2.6 million dollars for National Guard armories eith er planned or in progress. Guard officials said they had been able to raise only about $200,000 for new work this year. The Department of Public Wei fare will spend 12 million dollars in completing or starting new projects mostly in Madison or at Wales.

i Building. Commission spending was listed at 13.7 million dollars, while the Aeronautics CommiS' sion is expected to spend 000. Smaller amounts will be al located by the Conservation Department, Bureau of Engineering, Department of Agriculture and the Department of Public Instruc tion. Waukesha Motors Buys Division MILWAUKEE iff)-The Wauke sha Motor Co. has purchased the commercial engine business of the Le Roi Division of Westing-house Air Brake it was Saturday.

Frank Zielsdorf, Le Roi Gener al manager, said the sale will re sult in layoffs of up to 100 per sons at the division, which now employs 350 persons. The sale price was not dis closed. Car Stolen And Recovered A car owned by Fred Herr, 1014 Church stolen from his locked garage Sunday morning, was recovered by Nekoosa police Sunday evening. Police here said the car was pushed out of the garage after entry had been made through a side door of the garage, evidently with a pass key. Beds of salt, 400 feet thick beneath Hutchinson, pro duce about four million dollars worth of salt a year.

Rapids, as his groomsmen. When Norman Olson, Milwaukee, gave his niece in marriage, she was wearing a white gown of rose pointe lace and satin. Its lace bodice featured a square, scoop neckline and long pointed sleeves, while the full skirt of satin, lined with pellon, fell into deep folds in the back to form a chapel-length train. The satin was repeated In a band outlining the dip of the empire line of her bodice, caught in the front with a matching satin bow. Her tiny bonnet-type headpiece of rose pointe lace over satin was edged with seed pearls and held a three-tier co*cktail-length veil of silk illusion, with a hand-rolled edge.

She carried a crescent arrangement of three white glame-lias, nestled in a spray of ferns. Her bridal aides were attired in matching frocks of deep avacado taffeta made with white faille jackets. The dresses featured scoop necklines and Short sleeves, while their, jackets had elbow- length sleeves and followed the empire line of the gowns. Their Peter Kroner, Richard Blakeslee and Robert Lewis, all of the local college, and Frank Lee, Wausau. Dr.

Gordon Haferbecker, dean of instruction at the host school, welcomed the student visitors at a general meeting at 8:30 a.m. There I was a morning coffee break and a noon luncheon at Nelson Hall. Parents Announce Brandt-lves Troth Mr. and Mrs. James W.

Ives, Rhinelander, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Sharon Louise, to Howard E. Brandt, son of Mrs. Albert Reeves, also Rhinelander, and Walter Brandt, Madison. A May wedding is being planned. Miss Ives, the granddaughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Ives, 709 Clark formerly lived in Stevens Point. Initiated Into Whitewater Group Pauline Kedrowiez, Route 1, Custer, has been formally inlti ated into Delta Zeta, social soror ity, at Whitewater State College. Miss Kedrowiez is the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs.

Emit Kednv wiez. Hampel In Excerise Marine Cpl. Jack C. Hampel, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harold E. Hampel, Route 1, Stevens Point, is taking part' in an Atlantic Fleet amphibious exercise off the coast of North Carolina with the 2nd Marine Division from Camp Lejuene. The exercise got under way March 13 at Norfolk, More- head City, N. and Vieques, Puerto Rico. Following preliminary landings by helicopter, the main am phibious assault landing was made March 22 on Onslow Beach, N.

C. The exercise will come to an end March 31 after a week of operations ashore. Guard Drill Delayed Due To Elections Battery A of the 120th Field Artillery Bn. will begin its drill at the Jefferson street armory Tuesdny at 8 p.m. instead of 7:30, according to the unit commander, Capt.

Raymond Glodowskl. The delay is necessary because the armory will be used Tuesday until 8 o'clock as the polling place for the 13th Ward, Glodowski explained. Three hundred forensic stu-i dents from more than 70 schools in the Stevens Point, District participated in the annual spring contest of the Wisconsin High School Forensic held Saturday at, Central State College. Those receiving ratings in the district event will be eligible for state competition at Madison on April 12. Portage County high schools will be represented at the state event by 15 students.

Winners at P. J. Jacobs High School were: serious declamation, Helen Vaughn, "And a Lit tle Child Shall Lead Them;" humorous declamation, Joan Spre-da, "Eloise," and Ann Schroe der, "Linda;" interpretive read ing, Diane Hansen, "The Littlest One;" original oratory, George Hager, "Our Protector, The Go eminent," non-original oratory, Christine Nord, "We, the Women." Maria: extemporaneous reading, June Zimmerman; four-minute speaking, Patricia Elliott, "Modern Youth Advancement;" serious declamation, Mary Man ske, "Victoria Regina;" non-orig inal oratory, Barbara Bradach, "We, the Women;" original ora tory, Patricia Mulady, "The ABC's Advertising Bills Conformity." Rosholt: humorous declama tion, Clare Cieslewicz, "Arsenic and Old Lace;" original oratory, Phyllis Berna, "Disadvantages of the American Educational System;" non-original oratory, Lloyd Stankowski, "A World Encircled." Almond: serious declamation, Leeandra Lutz, "Where Love Is, There God Is Also." J. C. Gillmann, Wausau, is district chairman.

The judges were Leland M. Burroughs, chairman of the CSC forensics committee, Guy Gibson," Frank W. Crow, Miss Pauline Isaacson, Norman E. Knutzen, Frederich Kremple, ife Preservers TV --I if i i ''Iff fi ir DEMOCRATS AT BANQUET Among the prominent Democrats at a banquet Saturday night at the YVhiting Hotel "during the annual convention here of the consin Democrats were those shown above. Left to right are Nelson Lancione, Columbus, national president of the Young Democrats; Dan Hoan, former Mayor of Milwaukee; Jerry Madison, New London, state Young Dem chairman; Rep.

John Blat-nik (Dem-F-L, Minn.) the banquet speaker; Paj; Lucey, Madison, state Democratic Party chairman, and John Hayward, Marshf ield, general chairman of the conven- tion. ael's Hospital Sunday to: Mr. and Mrs. Prosper Kluck 207 N. Fremont St.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Engebret- son, 1204 S. Michigan Ave. Hov trouble wotliing bthirvd rfi tov and rafrigtrator? Glut thick (trips of plattic pong along both id of no and of yardstick, Cevtr 1 with a rag, th gadget can bo mm! far dvcttno, tea.

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