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Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 3

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Page Janesvillo Daily Gazette Thursday, June 3, 1965 Storms Belt Much of U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stormy weather, with tornadoes, rain and hail, hit wide are- Mi of the nation Wednesday night, killing at least two persons, injuring about 100 others causing property damage. The storm belt ranged from Texas to Minnesota and from the Ohio Valley into the Middle Atlantic states and southern New England. The storms diminished during the early morning. A tornado struck three small communities In West Texas Hale Center, Cotton Center and Spade.

A farm woman was killed and her husband seriously injured when their home was demolished near Cotton Center. About 100 persons suffered injuries at Hale Center, a town of about 2,500. Six persons were reported in serious condition. The twister hit the business district hardest. Several homes also were destroyed or damaged.

National Guardsmen and Army reservists were sent to the town from Plalnview. A farm worker was killed near Bowling Green, when struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. Several funnel clouds were sighted west of Topeka, southwest of St. Louis and south of Omaha. Hail pelted areas in Oklahoma, Kansas.

Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and West Virginia. Heavy rain fell in much of the storm belt. BeJoif CAP Breaklast Is Set for June 13 Beloit Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, will have its fly-in, drive-in breakfast at Rock County Airport Sunday, June 13. Serving will be from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

FLOYD J. ALDERSON Alderson New Fisher Trim Superintendent Floyd J. Alderson has been named superintendent of the trim department at Fisher Body plant here, replacing M. J. Schh-mer who was transferred to the St.

Louis plant June 1 as shift superintendent. Named to succeed Alderson as general foreman in the trim department is George E. Kuehne. Announcement of the promotions was made by W. C.

D4vey; local plant manager. Alderson began at Fisher Body here in 1929 and was In the trim and cushion departments until August 1942 when the local plant facilities were converted to shell production for Oldsmobile Division during World War H. He worked for Oldsmobile as a shell inspector: Upon resumption of commer cial production in May 1946 he again worked for the local Fisher Body plant in various trim and cushion repair classiflca- tions. In 1949 he was promoted to foreman in the trim department and subsequently acted as a supervisor of the various sections of the trim operation until his promotion to general foreman of trim operations on the first shift in July 1964. A native of New Diggings Alderson graduated from high school there in 1928.

He is married to the former Ramona Stevenson of New Diggings. The Aldersons have two children, a son, Jack, an electrical foreman in the maintenance department at the local Fisher Body plant, and a daughter, Mrs. Gary Polglaze. Alderson and his wife reside 759 Logan St. Kuehne started as an assem bier in the trim department in 1946 and worked in trim assembly and repair until his promotion to supervisor of hardware- before -trim operaticHis in 1955.

Since that time he has acted as a utility foreman in all the major areas of the trim operation. Kuehne graduated from Janes- Virgin Islands Welcome Lady Bird Warmly CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St. Thomas, V.I. tropic Island gave Mrs. Lyndon B.

Johnson a warm welcome on her first visit here and the governor added "the keys to our hearts." In Emancipation Gardens where slaves were freed more than a century ago, a crowd of about 7,000 turned out to cheer the First Lady as she noted "the impressive way equality was translated into reality in these islands." Mrs. Johnson Is here to make a commencement address tonight at the first graduation of the College of the Virgin Islands. She aimed to get a few days vacation. Banners in tbeitreets of Chariotte Amalie, the capital of this Island of some 40,000 persons, proclaimed "Welcome Mrs. Johnson" as she drove from the airport in a white convertible.

Youngsters ran alongside. In the five-acre palm-fringed gardens, a steel band greeted her with calypso strains. Hatless in the tropic sun. wearing a peach linen suit with a gay print scarf at the neck, she smilingly told the crowd what a bargain Uie United States got when it purchased the islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million. "We have only to look at last year's cash register," Mrs.

Johnson said, "for in one year alone the Virgin Islands bought $70 million worth of goods from the states." She relayed greetings from the President and said this was her first trip here, "but I already know it won't be my last." A 4-year-old girl gave her a bouquet of native flowers. Impressed, Mrs. Johnson later tried to identify them and Mrs. Ralph Paiewonsky, wife of the governor, came to the rescue by pulling out of her purse and presenting a book on the land's flowers. Gov.

Paiewonsky tokl Mrs. Johnson a bandstand to be erected where she spoke will bear a plaque commemorating her appearance. 19 W. MUwaukce St. GEORGE E.

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