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The Weather tonight and Thursday; continued cool, Mostly cloudy this afternoon with light showers likely; partly cloudy AUSTIN Vol. CXXXV No. 7 Killed When Car Overturns SCENE OF TRAGEDY This photo was taken after the Peck car had been pulled from the shallow pond, part of which can be seen (upper left). The body shown is that of Ralph Kaus. (Picture by Forest City Weekly Summit), Le Roy Youth Ralph Kaus, Pinned Under Car, Drowns Ralph E.

Kaus, 49, 2007 Collins, drowned in a freak car accident about 5 p.m. Tuesday seven miles north of Forest City, Iowa. With Kaus was George N. Peck, 38, 1005 Hope, who suffered only minor injuries and is in good condition today at Forest City Municipal Hospital. Iowa Highway officials said the Peck car rolled 345 feet down road into a ditch after hitting the back end of a Kaus semi-truck at the junction of Interstate Highway 69 and State Highway 9.

The car rolled from the ditch to Single Copy- Tc a pond coming to rest on its with Kaus pinned underneath. A physician said his injuries were not sufficient to cause death. The 1954 model car, heading south, hit the truck parked at a stop sign just beyond a rise in the road. A second truck had stopped at the other side of the intersection. The drivers hooked chain onto the car and pulled it out minutes later.

It has not yet been determined who was driving the car. Relatives said today that Kaus was on vacation from Geo. A. Hormel Co. He and Peck, his brother-in-law, also a Hormel employe, left Austin about 2 p.m., relatives said.

Earlier, Kaus had been working around the house. Survivors are his wife, Lucille, 5 Fatalities Push Road Toll to 330 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two Minneapolitans were killed in automobile accidents in that city early today. Two fiery crashes a few hours earlier at nearly opposite ends of U.S. Highway 65 took the lives of three Minnesotans, two of them women. The deaths raised Minnesota's 1958 traffic death count to 330, 20 more than at this time last year.

Car Hits Pole Mrs. Marjorie Saffell, 62, of Minneapolis, was killed when a car driven by her husband, Guy Safell, went off the street and struck a light pole. The accident happened near 38th and Longfellow, Alden Austad, 35, a taxicab driver, was killed in a collision with another car. The accident occurred at 45th and Blaisdell. Other Victims Victims of one of the earlier WASHINGTON (AP) -The Sen- crashes ate today confirmed the nomina-42, and tion of: John A.

McCone to be a both of member of the Atomic Energy The Commission. Action was by voice station vote. Bjork A 16-year-old LeRoy area youth was killed Tuesday afternoon near. New Haven, Iowa, when a car he was driving overturned. Laurence, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Greenleaf, Oakdale Town.ship, died of a broken neck. Oakdale is just across the state line south of LeRoy, Relatives said today that Laurence had gone to Charles City, with his uncle, Irvin Decker, Oakdale. Decker last week purchased truck at Charles City, Iowa, and they were going 1 to pick it up. Decker was driving the truck back and Laurence was following with the car.

New Haven is four miles east of Osage. Laurence is survived by his parents, a brother Leslie and two sisters, Lois and Lila. Funeral, services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church, LeRoy, with the Rev, George Barnitt officiating. Interment will be in LeRoy Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Martz Funeral Home from 10 a.m. Thursday to noon Friday and at the church until 2- p.m. -A Chester, How youth, Laurence Erwin, 17, was killed Tuesday afternoon when his car went out of control and. crashed on Highway 9, about four miles north of New Haven. De Gaulle Too Busy to Visit Ike Just Now PARIS (AP) Premier de Gaulle wrote President Eisenhow.

er today that he would be too busy to visit Washington in the next few months "but I am sure we will: find the means in the future to see one another." De Gaulle was replying to a letter of invitation delivered "to him last week" by Secretary of State Dulles during his trip to Paris. AEC NOMINATION OK'd headon with the car occupied by a Minneapolis couple. The bodies were burned so badly identification was delayed several hours. Others in Hospital, The crash occurred 16 miles south of MeGregor in Aitkin County. Mr.

and Mrs. Stuart Felix, occupants of the second machine, were hospitalized at Aitkin. Officers said only the one car caught fire. The Pengilly women were starting on a buying trip to Iowa for Qja's Store in that community. The third victim was Orvin Ohn.

stad, 44, Moorhead, burned to death when his empty vehicle collided with another truck before smashing into the side of a freight train. That crash came on U.S. 65 at a Milwaukee Road crossing near Lakeville. SBA APPOINTMENT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Appointment of Glenn A. Swanson to the post of chief of the financial assistance division in the Minneapolis Regional office of the Small Business Administration was announced today.

New AF Fighter Will Intercept Enemy a Thousand Miles Away WASHINGTON (AP)- The F108 interceptor will be able to tote at least two atomic warhead guided missiles and blast enemy bombers before they get within a thousand miles of American soil. The F108 is being designed for speeds three times that of sound to carry it far from populated areas. before using its nuclear weapons. New details of the fantastically fast and far-reaching fighter, and of the B70 chemical fuel strategic bomber became available today in official and unofficial sources. Present plans are for the F108 DAILY AUSTIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY Duluth Rocket Group Claims Altitude Mark DULUTH, (AP) The Lakeh a Launchers, amateur rocket society, today claimed an unofficial altitude record for a 17- inch missile they reported soared up 4,624 feet Tuesday.

Jerome Ribarich, 16, the president, claimed that beat the previous mark he said was set in 1 October last year by the Austin Rocket Society. The boys, in the 16-18 age bracket, said their rocket' of inch and a quarter pipe traveled for 34 seconds at a speed of 409 miles per hour. It was the 15th successful launching in 25 attempts, all of them powered by zinc sulphur compounds. In a second Tuesday firing, the boys said a 15-inch model went up 3,136 feet at a speed of 289.7 m.p.h. State Receives Heavy Soaking; More Rain Due By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Minnesota received a soaking rain Tuesday night and early today, and the Weather Bureau said intermittent rain and scattered I thunderstorms will continue through tonight.

The rain was the heaviest some areas had received i in a month or longer. Heaviest fall was at Minneota, where 3.47 inches were measured in the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. today. Minnesota Falls had 2.75, Hastings 2.25, Redwood Falls 2.05, Coon Rapids 1.82, Montevideo 1.75, Rockford 1.68, Stillwater 1.37, and Young America 1.16. Other totals 1 up to 6 this morning included 1.21 inches, in the twin cities, 1.15 in St.

Cloud, ,95 at Duluth, .33 at Alexandria, .29 at Fargo-Moorhead, .27 at Rochester, .20 at International Falls, and .12 at Bemidji. The rain was the heaviest in longer than month in the Twin Cities. Less than one-fourth inch had been recorded in any 24-hour period since June 4. Partial clearing is predicted for tonight, with scattered showers in the east this evening. Skies will remain cloudy Thursday, however, and temperatures will still be cool.

The long-range forecast indicates temperatures averaging three to six degrees below normal through Monday. Kapenis Files for Treasurer Tasia (Stan) Kapenis shortly before noon today for county treasurer. Only other person to have filed for that office is Richard Peterson, incumbent. Kapenis, 1718 Lakeshore Drive, is lifelong resident of Austin and a graduate of Austin High School. He is car sales a nd charter member and first commander of the Austin Amvets Post: 1.

He served in Kapenis Navy Air Corps for four years during World War II and was in the dry busines with his father after discharge in 1945 until 1952. He is married and has two children. HERALD JULY 9, 1958 Member Associated Press Goldfine Questioned on $1,600 Hotel IKE RESPONDS TO CANADIAN CHEERS -President Eisenhower doffs his hat and smiles broadly as he responds to cheers from a large crowd after laying a wreath at the Canadian War Memorial in Ottawa today, Mrs. Eisenhower walks with him toward the car and in background are flag bearers standing rigidly at attention. (AP -Photofax), Our Differences Can Be Solved, Ike Tells Canada's Parliament By DOUGLAS B.

CORNELL OTTAWA (AP) President Elsenhower told Canada's Parliament today that differences between the -two neighbor nations can be solved and must not be allowed to overshadow the transcendent importance of free world cooperation in the winning of the global struggle against ism. "We stand together at a pivotal point in history," Eisenhower told a warmly applauding Parliament. He was interrupted 10 times during his speech by members' applause and the traditional desk thumping. "All that we Canadians and UNDER NEW ARMY PLAN State National Guard Units Face Shakeup ST. PAUL (AP) Minnesota's 87 National Guard units spread over some 65 communities, face a possible drastic shakeup as a result of the Army's reorganization program.

A chief target will be the state's 47th (Viking) Infantry Division, one of the 16 of 27 divisions that will be cut to about two-thirds of the units they now have with a corresponding manpower reduction. The new, pentomic divisions set up by the plan, for nuclear warfare, are built around five flexible groups instead of the current static regiments in triangular Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Nelson said the pinch would show when it comes time to compress the widespread units, now each a community fixture and most with their own armories.

Nelson said he anticipated little difficulty in the manpower as the Minnesota Guard currently is at about only 60 per cent of strength. The over all program envisions a cut in the guard over the nation from about 400,000 to 360,000 by July 1959. Nelson said he was withholding further comment until the actual details of the reorganization, as they will affect Minnesota, are received. In Washington, Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn), with Nelson a consistent foe of the program since it was suggested, said Tuesday night that the 103rd Army Reserve Infantry Division, based in Minnesota and Iowa, would not affected.

The 34th Infantry Division from Iowa and Nebraska is among those to be reorganized although Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Division is slated to remain as it is. (AP Photofax) Pack Train Removes Body of Garver From Canyon. 1958 City Traffic 1957 1958 Accidents 431 306 Injuries :50 54 Fatalities None None Damage $57,011 $55,575 16 Pages Bill Adams Just Party Guest, Probers Told sons, Sherman, 23, a soldier stationed at Camp Carson, and David, 10; two brothers, Lloyd, Flint, and Clifford, Austin Acres and three sisters, Mrs. Della Scott, Austin Rt. 3, Mrs.

H. S. Heslip, 603 Rochford, and Mrs. Francis Cook, 2115 Me Water. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Jordan Mortuary Chapel, the Rev. Clare W. Karsten officiating. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery with Olaf B. Damm Post 1216 VFW in charge of military rites at the grave.

Friends may call after -3 p.m. Thursday. Fire Damages Plant, Garage at Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (AP) Fire today did an estimated 000 damage to the large building occupied by Langenfeld's ice cream plant and the Northern States Power Co, garage. The blaze, apparently started in the office of the ice cream company.

Flames went up a wall and burned about one-fourth of the roof. All trucks were removed from the garage without damage. The fire broke out about 3 a.m. Firemen thought it started in a compressor. Senate Approves Cabinet Appointment WASHINGTON (AP) -The Senate today unanimously approved President Eisenhower's nomination of Arthur S.

Flemming to secretary of health, education and welfare. Flemming, 53-year-old president of Ohio Wesleyan University, would succeed Marian Folsom, The White House announced in May that Folsom was leaving between July 15 and Aug. 1. St. Louis Park Girl Crashed by Horse MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -Deborah, (11-year-old daughter St.

of Mr. Park, and Lees, Louis was fatally crushed by horse Tuesday while taking a riding lesson at -the Wayzata Country Club. The victim's mother was looking on as the horse stumbled while circling the riding ring and fell onto the girl. Attendants said the borse was- gentle and had been at the stables for two years. What caused the animal to stumble was not known.

SPACE PROBLEMS LOS ANGELES (AP) Dr. Wernher von Braun describes these as the major problems of the nation's space age, program "gravity and paperwork." The Army's top civilian missile expert told newsmen "We can, lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." WASHINGTON (AP) House investigators developed today that Bernard Goldfine was entertaining a group of business associates at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1954 when Sherman Adams was also his guest here. Goldfine, who was in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission at the time, swore that Adams did not come to New York by prearrangement to meet with him and his business associates. Just Dropped By He said Adams, his close friend and No. 1 aide to President Eisenhower, just happened to be in New York and accepted his pitality at the hotel.

The Boston textile man was under questioning by the special House subcommittee exploring the kind of treatment he has received from federal regulatory agencies and the question of whether the agencies have been influenced by his friendship with Adams, Both Goldfine and Adams have denied there was ever any attempt at influence or that Goldfine got preferred treatment. $1,600 Bill In explanation of a $1600 bill he got from the Waldorf Astoria, part of it for entertaining Adams, Goldfine told the House group: "I had invited about seven OF eight people that I do business with they were not in political life. were my guests, and Gov. Adams and his wife happened to be in New York, and I invited them to be my guests for dinner." Robert Lishman, subcommittee counsel, produced the Waldorf bill and had Goldfine identify it. The precise amount was $1,620.23.

"Don't infer the bill is for Gov, Adams, Mr. Lishman," Goldfine objected. 2-Day Stay Lishman said the part of the bill run up by Adams for a twoday stay, Jan. 23-24, 1954 was listed as $96.75 with credit of He gave no further explanation. Goldfine demanded to know what Lishman was "driving at." Lishman replied he WAS tempting to show that Goldfine's mislabeling troubles with the Federal Trade Commission were "settled as a result of your meeting with Adams in a manner not customary with the FTC." It was the third day of quizzing for Goldfine.

He was in the witness chair two days last week. Goldfine agreed when he took the stand to give the investigators some of the financial records they have been demanding from him. But the issue of the records was left hanging while Lishman went on to explore the FTC matter. Goldfine, Boston millionaire textile man, showed up on time for the 10 a.m. hearing.

He had had an extra day to rest up with postponement of Tuesday's hearings. The delay was granted on a plea that the 67-year-old: Goldfine was exhausted by such weekend excitement as the exposure of an attempt by a committee staff investigator to listen in on hotel room conversations of Goldfine aides and the reported theft of GOLDFINE (Continued on page 2) Kaus were Mrs, Louise Bjork, Mrs. Elwood Bobich, 35, Pengilly, Minn. highway patrol said the wagon driven by Mrs. caught fire after colliding to use conventional fuel but still attain a speed above 2,000 miles an hour.

The same engines will be used in the B70 bomber but in the bomber high energy, exotic fuel will be utilized to give bursts of speed equivalent to that of the fighter, That is to be achieved through extra push delivered by chemical fuel afterburner on each engine. In recent testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee, an Air Force general said the interceptor "will use the same engines as the new chemical bomber, the B70, resulting in ecopomy and logistics However, Air Force spokesmen Americans, and those who went before us, have built, all that we believe in, is challenged as it has never been challenged before. The new horizons of competition range from the polar areas and extend to the infinity of outer space." In conciliatory terms, the President got down to specific points of difference- U.S. wheat exports, American restrictions on oil imports, Canada's trade imbalance with the United States, and the heavy flow of American investment capital to Canada. "There is no cause to be surprised or disturbed," Eisenhower said, "to discover that differences occasionally arise between the two nations." But he said such differences can be talked out in friendship, The setting for the presidential address was the great oak and stone chamber of the House of Commons in towering Parliament Building a spot which has resounded more and more with criticism of the United States and its policies.

In awareness of such criticism. Eisenhower came to the Canadian capital Tuesday to attempt to strengthen ties of friendship which have been slipping. Eisenhower was introduced by Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, with whom he is. consulton problems affecting the two nations.

The President made no mention in his address of a possible new channel for cooperation, in the IKE (Continued on Page 2) a Rescue Teams Attempt to Save Men in Canyon and industry sources said today that while the engines would be the same, chemical fuel would be used in phases of the bomber operation but present -plans are for the fighter to use conventional jet fuel. The first flight of a chemically fueled. plane still may be more than two years away. North American Aviation, has the contracts for both the F108 and B70. An announcement is expected shortly formally assigning the engine contract to the General Electrie Co.

That company already has started design work on an engine to use- the new exotic fuel. ANTONITO, Colo. (AP) Rescue teams moved today along routes above and below a man trapped on a narrow shelf of rock where he has been stuck for five days. One group at the base of cavernous Conejos Canyon found the body of the trapped man's compansion Tuesday, even as the heights above them turned back new efforts to reach the stranded man. Winds which moan eerily through the dark gorge thwarted a helicopter rescue at dusk Tuesday, The body was identified by rescuers as that of William E.

Garver, 38, auditor for the University of New Mexico. Garver and John Sanders, 35, Albuquerque, were returning from a fishing trip when they apper ently fell from a perilous mounlain trail five days ago. The man on the ledge 600 feet from the bottom of the canyon has identified himself as Sanders to members of the rescue team. First Food in 4 Days Don Bewley, 22, scrambled down a lowered rope to Sanders' side yesterday. He gave the trapped man the first food and water he had had in four days.

Bewley volunteered to join the marooned man despite the danger of jagged rocks sawing into the rope which supported him. Rescue groups had written off an attempt to reach the man from above because of the danger of starting a cascade of loose rock. Copter Called In Stalled the precipitous, canyon walls, rescuers called -on an Army helicopter from Ft. Carson, Colo.RESCUE (Continted on Page 21.

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