Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 1

JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 110. NO. 232. 110th YEAR JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, MAY 1 9, 1955, 32 PAGES.

2 SECTIONS SIX CENTS. Ike Vetoes 8.6 Pet. Postal Raise SOVIET SHIP IN PANAMA S. Army sentries stand on forecastle, waist and flying bridge of Russian freighter Taganrog as she moves through Panama Canal bound for her homeland with a load of Cuban sugar. It was the first Soviet ship to pass through the waterway since 1949.

Canal administration officials confirmed that spec ial precautions were taken for the Taganrog's transit, although tiiey did not specif what they were. The vessel had been anchored off Cristobal, Canal Zone, since May 10 while her captain waited for the Soviets to wire him the canal toU. (AP wirephoto) Heavy Rains HitSif Held Likely in State Duststorm Area Reg'lar Jehu BRENTWOOD, England Paul West, 23, was fined a pound ($2.80) yesterday for "riding furiously" on. his bicycle. A witness said West Into a parked car with such force that his headand went through the canvas top.

Kennedy, Road Builder, Dead Foptville Contractor Succumbs Today in Monroe Hospital "Too Is Howl in Three States as Torrents Descend By THE ASSOCIATED PBES3 Flood threats around three Texas citiei waned today almost as quickly as the cloudbursts that caused them hit the drought areas. At Brady, Ballinger and land, police minimized danger to their citizenry and said they believed conditiohs were improving. The waters of flooded creeks and rivers subsided or held near-flood levels after cries of "too much went up in a wide Southwest region where black duststorms re- (cently have devastated the land. Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas received downpours yesterday and night in some of their most heavily drought-ravished areas. It jwas still raining at 4:15 a.m.

at! Eastland, after more than 11 inches of rain in a little less' than 12 hours. Traffic Is Halted A tributary of Leon River, of its banks east of Eastland, Governor to Outline Ideas on Means for Balancing Budget Stevenson Says Democrats Will Be United Party Would Welcome Back Rebels Who Return in Good Faith WnXIAM J. KENNEDY William J. Kennedy, Footville, widely known in the road building business, died shortly, after noon Thursday in St. Clare Hospital, Monroe.

He had been iU for some time. He headed the William J. Kennedy Construction and was engaged in grading and gravel road construction for many years. In addition to work in Rock County, he handled a large volume of work in recent years in Dane and Green Counties. He had been active in road building for more tlian 30 years.

The Kennedy home farm is at the edge of Footville village. In 1947, following retirement of Charles E. Moore as county highway commissioner, Kennedy was among candidates for the office, and failed of election by a narrow margin in the county board. Mr. and Mrs.

Kennedy were the parents of five children. The body was brought to the Ryan Funeral home in Janesville Thursday afternoon, with arrangements for services to be announced later. Council Supports State Radio Net cut transcontinental U.S. Highway 80 with floodwaters and halted traffic. Trains on the Texas Pa-j cifio Railroad were also halted east of the west Texas city.

Eastland police evacuated between 60 and 75 families from a Negro residential said were no injuries and only slight damage. Water crept within blocks of Eastland's downtown business district. Police said they, felt the worst Wcis over. Brady Creek stopped its rise at 4 a.m. and stood at about 20 after dropping to 19.9 feet from a crest of 21 feet.

A 27-foot crest feared earlier at Brady did not develop. Rainfall measured 8 to 15 inches in the area. It was the same story at Ballinger. Tornadoes Overhead The rains came on a day that saw 12 tornadoes rip through: northwest Texas skies. The twisters rarely touched the ground.

There were no injuries and damage was small. Forecasts indicated more rain and turbulence over the three-state area. Water ran over curbs in southern Oklahoma, and rain, snow and high waters combined to give Colorado its wettest jwriod in months of drought. Steady rains soaked Colorado's eastern plains, where croplands and ranges suffered for months in land-eroding sandstorms. 5 Inches in Oklahoma Temple, near the Texas line, reported 5 inches of rain.

Frederick, had 4.37 inches. Creeks in the area flooded and farmers moved to higher ground. In the Pueblo, area, the Arkansas River and other streams in the area washed over their banks and halted highway traffic. The main belt of precipitation extended from eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska southeastward through western Kansas, west and central Oklahoma and northern Texas. MADISON ro-Gov.

Kohler plans to give Wisconsin's Legislature ideas on how to meet an estimated 35 million dollar revenue shortage 1955-57 "as soon as the full spending picture is clear." The governor said his revenue message may come within two weeks. It depends he said, on how fast the lawmakers act on other spending and revenue bills. The estimate of a $35,169,504 gap between income and outgo came Wednesday from C. Giessel, (State budget director and the Joint Finance Committee of the Legisla. ture.

The figure was based on appropriations already approved "by the Legislature, compared with current tax levela Plan New Taxation The constitution says the state may not go into debt, so some new form of taxation must be found to make the budget balance. An executive budget measure passed this session calls for spending 253 million dollars. The committee predicted revenues at 226 miUion. The shortage is even higher, however, because there is a deficit of for 1953-55 which must be made up, too. 20 Pet.

Surtax? Sen. Porter (R-Bloomington), finance committee co-chairman, said he was "quite happy" with the report, and predicted that a 20 per cent surtax on incomes finance the budget. He said: "I am almost positive that a 20 cent surtax vrilT give us all the money we need, and allow for considerable other As a long-range program, I would prefer, however, adjusting the normal income tax rates, but doubt whether that can be done this year." Gov. Kohler said he feels, "a moral if not a legal obligation to give the legislators his recommendations on how the money should be raised." CHICAGO IB The Democrats, says Adlai Stevenson, will be a united party in 1956 and he believes "those who have strayed and returned in good faith should be welcomed back to the Democratic fold." The 1952 Democratic presidential nominee told newsmen yesterday that for the last two years he had done "all could to assure united Democratic party in 11956." "I am sure," he said, "that is the wish and intention of all good Democrats and I firmly believe this is what we're going to have." The former Illinois governor, returning from a monthlong business trip to Africa, was interviewed by reporters at Midway Airport. Welcome to Rebels 1 believe that those who have strayed and returned in good faith should be welcomed back to the Democratic fold.

I am against loyalty oaths but am' very much in favor of loyalty and good faith in politics, and I believe a delegate who takes part in any Democratic decision-making process bears a serious obligation to abide by the majority decision unless his conscience forbids him to." Stephen A. MitcheU, the party's former national chairman, recently said a floor fight would be made In the 1956 convention, if necessary, to prevent seating of any or aM three Southern cratic leaders who, after serving as delegates to the 1952 convention which nominated Stevenson, supported Dwight Eisenhower for president. AUtctaell Differs Mitchell, advised of Stevenson's statement yesterday, said he still would predict the convention credentials committee wiU reject Gov. Allen Shivers of Texas, Gov. ert F.

Kennon of Louisiana, James F. Byrnes, former governor South Carolina, and other 1952 apostates." "They are symbols of disloyalty," Mitchell said. "They are Judas goats who betrayed their own party after being elected to positions of leadership by that party. I'm not going to let them participate if I can help.it.'' Asked if he plans to become a preKideniial candidate in 1956, Stevenson told newsmen all he knows about that "is what you fellows have been writing." He also said there are "several" pable men for the nomination. Among those, he named Gov.

Averell Harriman of New York and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Portuguese Police Fire on Indians BOMBAY, India police reportedly fired on 54 Indian citizens who marched into Goa colony yesterday for a civil disobedience campaign against Portugal's rule there. Goan nationalists said four demonstrators were wounded and seven others beaten by the police. The report was circulated here as a military court in Nova Goa sentenced five men to prison terms ranging from 1 to 15 years for advocating the union of Portu- 'gal's colonies in India with the Indian republic.

Portugal has refused to discuss India's demand that it withdraw from its settlements on the Indian subcontinent. Thirteen of the Indians participating in yesterday's march were released, but the rest were reported held by Portuguese authorities. Reports said the marchers either gave Indian border police the slip or ignored them in entering Goa. Former County Official Dies Wm. Nevins, 73.

Served lefferson County as Treasurer 14 Years 58 Die in Polish Theater Tragedy WARSAW, Poland Warsaw paper reported yesterday that 58 persons were burned to death, and more than 200 others injured in a fire which broke out in a movie auditorium designed to hold 90 persons. The newspaper Trybuna Ludu said the disaster occurred last week at Wielopolo, a village in southern Poland, in a schoolroom converted for film showings. WOULD COT INTEREST WASHINGTON (B The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a bill to cut interest on disaster loans to farmers from 5 to 3 per cent. FOND DU LAC State Better Films Council gave a vote iiir of confidence Wednesday to theilVlOre 311(1 MOre state educational radio network. In other action, the council reelected Mrs.

J. A. Nemick, Fond du Lac. president, and Mrs. George Massey, Fond du Lac, secretary.

Also elected were Mrs. Martha Fellens, vice president, and Mrs. Bryant Hewitt, Fond du Lac, treasurer. Monroe Youth KiUeirHurt Sixth Highway Death of Year Recorded in Green County K. Thompson, 19, Monroe, was killed at 12:10 a.m.

Thursday and two other youths were injured when their convertible left County Trunk on a curve 10 miles east of Monticello and rolled end over end, pinning them under the car when it stopped. Kenneth D. Troxell, 20, Rockford, believed by Sheriff Sam Humbel to have been the driver is in critical condition at St. Clare Hospital, Monroe, with internal injuries. Dean 0.

Elliott, 18, Monroe, suffered compound fractures of both legs, a broken hip and abrasions and is in critical condition. He was taken to St. Clare Hospital. Sheriff Humbel said the car was apparently traveling west at a high rate of speed when it missed a curve and rolled end over end several times. The death brought the 1955 Green County traffic toll to 6.

JEFFERSON Nevins 1015 Center former county treasurer, died in Fort Atkinson Hospital at 10 a. m. Thursday. He had been admitted Tuesday. Bom Nov.

20, 1882, in Jefferson, he married Helen Wolff, Lake MiUs, June 24, 190T. He was in the insurance business for many years in Jefferson, served as treasurer for a time and later was for 14 years county treasurer, 1933 to 1947. Surviving are his wife and three sons, WiUiam and Donald, Jefferson, and Robert, Milwaukee; four daughters, Mrs. Roy Banker, Teaneck, N. Mrs.

Robert Knutson, Memphis, Mrs. Edward Leahman and Mrs. Louis Schweiger, Jefferson; one sister, Mrs. Edward Quest, Milwaukee, a brother, Leo, Milwaukee, and 16 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Matters Funeral Home.

THE WEATHER WISCONSIN: Frost northeast portion. Mostly lalr and cooler tonlsht with frost muKtly In northeast portion. Friday fatr, somewhat cooler south and west. Um tonight 34-40 northeast, 40-45 southwest. HlKh Friday low 60s northeast and extreme east, 7()s southivest.

Winds 15-20 m.p.h. northeast wind this afternoon except 20-25 ni.p.h. close to Lakes Michigan and Superior, dimlnlshlnf? tonight and becomlnK 15 ml.p.h. east tosoutheast wind on Friday. Yugoslavs Object to Being Buffer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (ff) Two of Yugoslavia's major newspapers declared last night that theij; nation does not intend to become part of a neutral buffer chain of states behind which some big power could shelter itself in order to conduct its policy without being distiirbed." L065 Get Polio Shots in County Initial polio inoculations have been given 1,065 Rock County children so far in the county immunization program, it was disclosed today by Miss Gladys Salter, county supervising nurse.

The county program tor first- round shots will be completed Friday, the same date that the city of Janesville will begin giving the protective treatments at St. Mary's; St. William's, St. Paul's and River Valley Schools. Other city centers are scheduled Monday and Tuesday.

Another 625 children will be given inoculations at the last of seven county centers this afternoon and Friday morning, Miss Salter estimated. She expects 250 at the Crist school, just north of Beloit for pupils in the southwest part of the county, and 375 at Evansville Friday morning, when city children there and rural pupils of the northwest comer of the county will be given shots. The estimated total number in the county is 1,690. Two hundred forty were given shots at Milton Thursday morning. Willing to O.K.

7.6 Boost, Word to Congressmen New Discriminations, Load on Taxpayers Seen by President WASHINGTON Eisenhower today vetoed a bill to boost the pay of 500,000 postal workers by an average'of 8.6 per cent. The President told the Senate In veto message he regretted his action and earnestly hoped and recommended that "the Congress wiU quickly consider and enactl postal pay legislation that will be' in the public interest and fair to aU the half million employes who man the postal service." He said the vetoed measure Iwould impose "a heavier burden upon the taxpayer than is neces-l saiy." Reasons (or Veto Eisenhower listed these three reasons for his veto: "First, the hill creates new Ois- criminalions or inequalities which would affect many thousands of postal employes. "Second, the bill creates grave administrative problems such as the establishment of thousands ofj individual pay rates. It forces awk-, ward and unfair administrative practices in a government depart- inent whose operations affect every person, every enterprise, every community in the country. "Third, the bill imposes a heavier burden upon the taxpayer than lis necessary to establish salary rates throughout the department which will compare favorably with rates for similar work elsewhere in government and in private industry." The President has indicated an average 7.G raise is about as far as he is willing to go.

7.6 BiU Drafted A Democratic, effort to over- the veto is expected promptly in the Senate. But Sen. Carlson (R-Kan), carrying the ball for the administration, predicted that Eisenhower's action will be sustained. The Senate, where the bill originated, must act first. Both houses had passed the meas- by overwhelming votes.

Carlson has said he would be ready at once with a 7.6 per cent raise bill. An effort to override would be first such move in the twoj and one halt years Eisenhower has been in office. Eisenhow originally recommend-' ed legislation to raise pay of postal workers and adjust their job clas-! isifications in a manner which' would have brought about a per cent average pay boost at an annual cost of 129 million dollars. Senate Votes 10 Pet. He said the House post office committee brought out a biU would have cost some 30 million dollars a year more although it embodied essential elements of a reclassification 'system.

In the; of reclassification, he said, that bill could have been, and with certain corrections still be, the basis for the kind of legislation he wants. That bill carried the 7.6 cent average raise. The Senate passed a 10 per cent pay boost bill with no reclassification provisions. The vetoed measure i-epresented a compromise between the two' houses and did not go as far as the White House wanted on re-l classification of jobs. Its cost has been figured at $179,800,000 an-i nually.

The President said the vetoed IContlnaed UD Page 2. Got. 6) by Western speculation the coming visit of Soviet leaders to Belgrade was part of a Russian plan WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. (B- Exectrom FuUenwider Springs, 26, is no longer satisfied with his name.

He will appear May 24 before Superior Court Clerk William E. Church to ask it be changed to Exectrom wider Springs Caldwell. Barometric pressure: 6 p.m. 29.67; 6 a.m. 29.G5; 12 noon 29.63.

Sunrise. sunset, 7:16. Xoon to mmnlKht, May 18. Hour 1 11 2 3 41 SI 9110111112 Temp. 77 Midnlsht to noon.

May 19. Hour 1 31 21 3 41 81 9110111112 Temp. 161160159158157160164167169172176179 Temperature a year ago today, highest, lowest, 43. The editorials in Borba and'with Dr. Thome M.

Politika apparently were sparked Davis and Dr. John in Furthei Vaccine Clearance Held Up for Few Days Frustrated DENVER years of water restriction apparently were too much for one Denver housewife who called the water board ait the height of yesterday's rainstorm to complain: "It's raining so hard out here this morning that I can't water my lawn." Vaccine Planned for State Wards Counties Should Help, Committee Tells Legislature MADISON (ffl State agencies and counties should cooperate to provide polio immunization for 41,700 children 8 to 21 who are state wards, a special Legislative committee recommended today. The committee was formed under provisions of a joint resolution adopted last month. A program was formulated, following a meeting vrith National Foundation for Infantile Psiralysis and health and welfare officials. Committee members are Sens.

Franke (R-M i 1 a e) and Knowles (R-New Richmond) and Assemblymen Cane (R-Menasha) and Quinn (R-Green Bay). They recommended the State Board of Health use $60,000 in federal funds for purposes related to children's care, and the public welfare office $75,000, to buy polio vaccine. Suggestions Include buying the vaccine and sending it to vari- counties, after programs are set up by the counties for immunizing the boys and girls. Unless some procedure siich as this is arranged, the committee said jthere is no provision for inocula-l ting the children in foster homes, iwelfwe institutions and the like, all wards of Wisconsin. The present program calls for inoculating all six and seven year old youiigsters.

It is likely legislation will be offered soon to make the committee plan a reality. Kenosha Publisher Honored al Dinner KENOSHA tR-Ralph S. Kingsley, publishfer of The Kenosha Evening was paid high tribute at an Appreciation Banquet Wednesday night for lifetime of leadership in a wide range of humanitarian activity. The spacious Eagles auditorium was filled to capacity by 1,000, dinner guests, representing Kingsley's friends, neighbors and associates who came to honor him including Governor Walter J. ler and Senator Alexander and scores of publishers and editors of newspapers in Wiscon-i sin and other states.

YOUTH FATALLY HURT MILWAUKEE Grol-! lo, 19, died Wednesday of injuries suffered Tuesday night when the car in which he was a went into a ditch and hit a tree. Polio Cases Jump, But Not Among Children Given Serum WASHINGTON A sharp Jump Ijn new cases of polio was reported today by the U.S. Public Health Service. For the week ended May jl4, new cases totaled 30 cent over the previous week. The number compares with 151 in the second week of May last year, sjid an average of 116 for the last five years.

However, for the first since the antipolia vaccination program ran into difficulty, the number of polio cases among inoculated persons remained changed at 77 confirmed cases. In another' development, tte Health Service aniiounced that 23 cases of polio have now been amopg individuals, not inoculated themselves, who came in close contact with children vaccine made by Cutter Laboratories of California. In these instances, the inoculated children themselves have not contracted tlie Further Clearance Held Tip These reports were all in the of the Health Service Wednesday night when it suddenly announced that for several days at least there would be no further iplecurance, of antipolio vaccine. The result was to add uncertainty to the whole vaccination program. The only explanation was a statement by a public relations for tlie' Health Service that the delay wos ordered for' another look-see at this whole very confusing picture." Surgeon General Leonard il.

Scheele said, however: "This (delay) should not be inferred as reflecting in any way on the vaccine pt the companies whose manutao- turing and testing processes aiie under study." Smaller Doses, Hint Because the shortage of vac'ctae is greater than expected, the national conference of state epidemiologists, meeting in Atlemta, asked an opinion from the Health Service on possible'use of smalletr doses. There was no immediate reaction here. Although the Health Service said there was no change in its figure of 77 for the number of polio Cctses among inoculated cliildren, it said it does have a. new suspect case under investigation In Neb- iraska. That makes seven or more suspect cases under study.

The others are in California, Idaho, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Illinois. There have been five deaths among vaccinated persons. A Health Service spokesman estunated that inoculations with the Salk vaccine "are now pushing the six million mark." unconfumed cases Since use of the vaccine started about April 4 compare with a provisional total of 682' cases of all kinds of polio, including confirmed and cases, reported by state health authorities since April llO. The total covers all age groups. The upward jump for the week of May 14, with 206 new eases reported, for the first time pushed jthe total for this "disease which started about April of the number in the comparable span of last year.

However, the year total for this year is still behind the 1954 figure. to create a chain of neutral charge. Earlier, 198 were inoculated at Orfordville, 135 at Indian Ford, 202 at Clinton, 290 at Janes- including Yugoslavia, across central Europe. HEADS ASSOCIATION Miss Salter said that announcement will be made as soon as possible, as to the time when second shots will be given. It is expected NEVV ORLEANS Ameri- that the time interval will "be at can Assn.

for Conservation Infor- least for weeks, but no informa- mation Wednesday elected W. is actually available as to Calhoun, dent. Madison, presi- when a new supply of vaccine will be given Wisconsin. PERFECT Francis Schivell, 12, who scored a perfect 190 in an Intelligence test, browses through some books at his home at Cleveland, 0. He aspires to become a research scientist.

(AP wirephoto) Boy Injured by Car on Co. Trunfc A Gene Hass, 11, suffered a head injury when he was struck by an automobile while riding, his bicycle to school at 8:20 a.m. today on County A just east of Highway 14 bypass. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Hass, was taken to cy Hospital. The seriousness of his injuries was not known immediately, but officers reported he was conscious. The dnver of the car, Edward G. Cooper, Rte. 1, Milton, told deputies the boy came out of a driveway and began going west on County A.

As Cooper came up from behind and prepared to pass him, Hass made a sudden U-tum. Cooper said he swerved tut was unable to avoid the bicycle. The Hass boy was struck by the right front fender and was thrown up against the windshield of the car. Dorothy FarreU, 18, ainton, suffered bump on the head when a car in which she was a passenger rah into a ditch at 11:55 p.m. Wednesday on a rural road two miles south of Fairfield.

The driver, Norman W. Nelson, 20, Qinton, told deputies he came upon a dead end in the road. When he applied his brakes, his foot slipped off the pedal and he ran into the ditch, said. 1.