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Carroll Daily Times Herald Vol. 204 Carroll, Iowa, Wednesday, August 29, 1951 Pages Delivered by Carrier Boy Each Evening for 30 Increase Rates For Telephone Service Here Go Into Effect Next Month; Rising Costs Cited by Manager Increases In the monthly charges for local telephone service were announced today by C. L. Farrell, manager for the Northwestern Bell Telephone company. The Increases are effective with bills dated on and after Sept.

10, 1851. New rates for the principal classes of service include: Residence service one-party line, two-party line, four- party line, Business service One-party line, two-party line, 56.75; extensions, Rural service Residence, business, $4. change. The above rates do not include federal or state taxes. Also, rates for some items of miscellaneous epuipment and private branch ex change service are being changed.

Continued rising of providing service make the boosts necessary, the manager explained. He said the principal Items affecting costs are wages, taxes and materials. Mr. Farrell released the following statement: "Wages are our biggest item of Wake increases since 1841, including the most recent one, have raised our annual wage costs In Iowa more than $12,000,000. This is double the $6,070,000 added revenue from rate Increases during the same period.

Since payroll expense represents nearly two- thirds of the company's operating costs, a major general wage increase drastically affects the company's costs of furnishing service. "The recent wage increase Is in keeping with the, company's policy to keep wages in line with those paid for jobs requiring similar skill in other industries in the communities we serve. Good telephone service requires good people and wage levels must be high enough to attract and keep them. "Taxes also are an increasingly heavy item of expense. In 1941 federal and state taxes amounted to $7.81 per telephone in Iowa.

Now they are nearly $10.75 per telephone, and are expected to go higher this as much as 911-50 per phone. These taxes, added to the federal excise and state sales taxes which customers pay, now amount to nearly $24 per telephone. "Inflation has forced up the price of almost everything we buy. Principal materials, including wire, cables, poles and croasarms, have doubled in the past 10 years. They gone up 15 per cent during the past year.

"Higher wage and material costs result in higher priced investment since additions to plant must be made at higher unit costs than ever before. The company's plant investment in Iowa in- Telephone See Page Methodists at Lanesboro Will Dedicate Organ (Tlmtii Herald Senrlee) LANESBORO Tho- Lanesboro Methodist church will dedicate a new electronic organ in special services at 8 p. Sunday evening, Sept. 2. Warren Piper of Omaha will play the dedicatory numbers.

The ladies sextet, composed of Mrs. Dean Myers, Mrs. John Wegner, Mrs. Russell Street- cr, Mrs. Paul Zimbeck, Mrs.

J. E. Toyne, and Mrs. Delores Moulds will present a special selection. Roger Snyder will sing a solo with Mrs.

J. L. Hanks as accompanist. The invocation and benediction will be given by the Rev. Clyde King, former pastor.

Rev. E. S. Blomqulst, present pastor of the church, will preside. 2 More Manning Youths Reported In Hospital With Polio MANNING George Schurer, 14, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Schurer, Manning, and Phillip Zerwas, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Zerwas, are in Mercy hospital in Council Bluffs, as polio patients. Their condition is good.

Rollin Kuhl, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Kuhl, returned home from the hospital Friday, and Harold Schroeder of near Westside was released Sunday from the polio ward. The Weather CARROLL FORECAST Partly cloudy this afternoon, high today about 85. Partly cloudy with thundershowers tonight and Thursday.

Low tonight 68, high Thursday 83. Reds Build Up Strength On War Front U. S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, KOREA UP) Communist troops built up their strength along the Korean front today despite clearing weather which exposed them to Allied air and artillery attack. A sudden break in the rainy spell also brought on a Jet battle along the Korean-Man- cliurlan border.

Sixty Red and Allied jets swirled from 8 down to miles above the earth in a bloodless dogfight. Red ground reinforcements were spotted moving up to the lines In the Iron Triangle sector of the central front and east of the Kae song neutral area on the western front. They moved in groups of 100 to 200. Red assault troops lashed out in a series of pre-dawn attacks along the eastern front but pulled back to their own lines by daylight to escape the blasting fire of Ameri can artillery. On the extreme eastern flank south Koreans attacked a communist hill position west of Kaesong just before noon.

The battle raged into mid-afternoon as the Reds rushed up reinforcements. Only reported Red gain was north of Yanggu, 27 miles to the southwest. The communists overran a south Korean command post, forcing the United Nations unit to pull back after an intense pitched battle. Another battle broke out in the Iron Triangle, former Red troop assembly area. A strong XT.

N. patrol moved to within sight of Pyonggang, northern apex of the triangle. The patrol fought two hours with Reds holding a hill overlooking the town. The Reds finally gave up after taking a heavy pounding from Allied artillery. Denied Candy, Angry Boy Butts Head, Dies WILMINGTON, CALIF.

Two-year-old George Geiger asked his mother for candy before mealtime. She refused him. Angered, the little boy butted his head into the wall yesterday with such force that he was killed. The mother, Mrs. Marian Geiger, called firemen but resuscitation efforts failed.

Police listed the death as accidental. Poisoned Bread Drives People Mad in France Some Die With Hulluc- inotions; Others Attempt Suicide By Joseph Dynan PARIS, FRANCE (tf) Poisoned bread was blamed today for a bizarre illness in the south of France which has taken four lives, driven people mad and forced some to attempt suicide. Three other towns reported epidemics of ordinary food poisoning. Strange tales of "bread that makes men mad'' came from the tiny Rhone river port of Pont St. Esprit, where four persons have died since the weird malady struck Aug.

17. At least 200 persons have called for urgent medical care and some said their brains were racked by hallucinations of being surrounded by flames or monsters. Physicians found that all those stricken had eaten bread from the same bakeries. Some bread was thrown into the river and the fish died. Authorities are thinking of banning fishing in the river.

The use of flour from a number of mills supplying the town already has been banned. One theory Is that the flour was poisoned with ergot, a cereal parasite which flourishes In rainy years. Officials thought the illness might be a recurrence of "fervent fever" known during the Middle Ages to have been caused by ergot and to have driven men mad. They've given some of the bread to mice and the mice have become paralyzed. At another Galmier 100 persons were reported ill after eating ice cream.

One source said parathyroid germs were found in the milk from which the ice cream was made. Several score persens were reported ill in the region of Poitiers, where officials thought they had traced the cause to some meat sold in three villages of the department. In the region of Chateaudun another 100 persons were 111 after eating the flesh of a horse which a farmer had slaughtered after it was injured. At Pont St. Esprit, a man ran through the streets yesterday screaming "Help! Help! Arrest them.

They want to kill me:" Police took him to a psychiatric ward as he pointed to imaginary foes. Among the dead in the town were a man, 70, and his wife. The womac died after jumping from the third floor of a hospital. IOWA FORECAST Partly cloudy except mostly fair extreme south. Warm and humid this afternoon with high 85 to 90.

Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers north and extreme east tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 65 to 72. High Thursday 80 to 85 northeast, 90 to 95 southwest. Further Outlook: Partly cloudy with occasional showers Friday and Saturday.

The Weather In Carroll Yesterday's high 85 At 7 a. m. today 72 At 10:30 a. m. today 75 Weather A Year Ago Fog in the early morning was followed by mostly clear skies a year ago today.

Tempertaures rase from 86 to W. Mrs. Schleisman Succumbs In Carroll Mrs. Margaret Schleisman, 79, of Lidderdale died this noon at the Tryon Southside nursing home in Carroll. The body is at the Huffman Funeral home here where services have not been set.

Light Trend in Iowa Polio Cases Continues DES MOINES, IA. After showing a temporary one week's spurt during the third week of August, infantile paralysis cases in Iowa fell back again during the week of Aug. 25. The division of preventable diseases, State Department of Health, reported today that whereas 51 cases were reported in the third week of Aug. 1951, as against 49 for the same week in 1950 cases reported the fourth week of this year totaled only 38 as compared with 55 in the same week one year ago.

The trend of cases for the year continued light with only 225 reported for the year to Aug. 25 as compared with 486 at the corresponding date last year. BOY DIES OF INJURIES AMES, IA. (ff)-Tommy Feinberg, 5, son of an Iowa State college English instructor, died at a hospital today of traffic injuries. The lad, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Leonard Feinberg, was in jured last Saturday when he rode his bike into the side of a moving coal truck. He died with' out regaining consciousness. Farm Income This Year May Be Near Record WASHINGTON, D. C.

American net farm income this year may be almost as much as 1947's all-time high of $17,800,000,000, the agriculture department said today. Further, American farm land values increased a record five per cent during the four- month period ending July 1, and may remain at present levels the rest of the year in most areas, particularly where livestock Is raised. The department said land values, including improvements, were 17 per cent greater than on July 1, 1950. The four-month Increase was the largest since the department started making such estimates in 1942. "It appears that the level of farm income during the rest of 1951 will be sufficiently high in many states to maintain land values at their present levels," the department said.

On July the department's land value index stood at 202 per cent of the 1912-14 base period. Despite the record rise for the March-July period this year, gains in half the states were less than those in the preceding four months, November 1950 to March 1951. Twenty-one states, many in the midwest where the increase in the preceding period had been sharpest, had gains of less than five per cent. Despite a six per cent drop In prices, the department said, the rise In land values which started a year ago continued. Non-farm people bought nearly one-third of the farms covered In the survey.

was an increase In the number paid for with cash. Surveying influences on the land market, the department said the steady drop since February in prices received for farm products removed one factor which contributed to higher values last year. On the other hand, the department said: "With defense expenditures and consumer incomes likely to expand further, the demand for farm products is expected to continue at high levels. Consequently, in general it appears that the level of farm income during the rest of 1951 will be sufficiently high in many states to maintain land values at their present level. This is particularly apparent in areas where the bulk of farm income is derived from the sale of meat animals." Served in 2 Wars, Killed in :4 Truman Offers Hero's Burial To Indian War Vet Denied Grave 2 Cities May Lose Reception of TV if Police Radio Boosted DES MOINES, I A.

set owners in the "fringe" reception areas of Atlantic and Fairfield stand to lose what reception they now get if more powerful frequency modulation (FM) equipment for the highway patrol is installed in those two cities. Ths Iowa Public Safety department yesterday asked the legislative interim committee for $48,000 with which to build combination police radio and highway patrol buildings outside Atlantic and Fairfeld. Both cities now have state stations which operate out of the Cass and Jefferson county courthouses. Charles Nord, state police HMtta dkecfaw, fee new equipment about to be installed in both stations will seriously interfere with TV reception In both cities, but, he added, if the stations are located at least two miles oufc of town the interference problem will be ended. The committee voted to allow the Safety department to advertise for bids on the proposed building at Fairfield but took no action on the Atlantic request.

The committee also reaffirmed the allocation of $18,021 for operation of the "Great Lakes" sewage system in the Spirit Lake- Okoboji area and approved a $30,000 allocation to the State Board of Control for operating its -aseferteoi otftae in ttes tteoal jMar. Iowa Award to Hooyer at State Fair Tomorrow DES MOINES, IA. For mer President Herbert Hoover, a native Iowan, will receive an all- Iowa award Thursday during a ceremony at the State fairgrounds. The Centennial Memorial commission, which is making the Iowa award, said the plaque which the former chief executive will receive, has been phrased, designed, cut and cast by Iowans. Even the bronze used in'the plaque, although not produced In the state, came from scrapped machinery which served Iowa industry for years.

Iowa newspaper man phrased the wordage on the plaque and A. Raoul Delmare of the Fine Arts school of the University of Iowa, then cut the letters into a pine board from which was made the molten bronze casting. The plaque weighs 30 pounds and a framed parchment, two feet by three feet in size, will accompany it. After being presented to Hoover, a native of West Branch, the plaque and parchment will hang in the Hoover library at Stanford university, Palo Alto, Calif. 1,100 Served At Roselle Dinner (Times Herald Newi Service) ROSELLE A imately 1,100 dinners were served at the annual chicken dinner pf Holy Angels parish in the Roselle community hall last night, the Rev.

Fr. Bernard Eischeid, pastor of the parish, said today. Serving country style, began at 5 o'clock and continued until 9:30. Arrest Woo I stock Mon on Driving Count James Crosby of Woolstock, was arrested in Glidden Tuesday afternoon and charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The arrest was made by Highway Patrolman Don Walker.

Deuison. This is his second offense, records revealed. IOWA TRAFFIC DEATHS Aug. 29, 1951 375 Aug. 29, 1950 366 No Increase In Football Ticket Prices Planned Set Tentatively Same as Last Year; Ban Radio Broadcasts Admission prices for football games this fall were set tentatively by the board of education at a meeting last night.

Tho prices are subject to conforming with those of other Midwest conference schools but are likely to remain the same as last year, Supt. R. A. Naffziger said. The prices as of now are 75 cents for adults, 50 cents for high school students, 25 cents for grade school children.

Season ticket prices are S3 for adults, $2 for high school and $1 for elementary. Numbered seats will not be sold in the reserved section this year. The section will be open to all with season tickets. Plans are being made to have adequate seating to accommodate all fans. The board decided to ban radio broadcasts of its four home games this year in line with what Supt.

Naffziger said is general policy throughout the conference. The board took the stand that broadcasts tend to keep people away from games. Since receipts from football games finance most other athletics, except basketball, the board decided it would not be wise to jeopardize the financial position of football. The fund was depleted further this year oy baseball. That new sport was added and in addition to the coach's salary, new equipment hstd to be purchased.

Mr. Naffziger said that other conference schools, including Denison, Ida Grove, Harlan, Sac City and Jefferson, had indicated earlier this year they did not plan to allow broadcasts. The board reinstated the Breda "stub" bus route after three Protestant families entered complaints that their children had no place to go to school and that Carroll was within their educational district. The route had been cut off this year in assigning routes. A petition from high school teachers proposing to change a six-weeks to a nine- weeks grading system was rejected by the board.

The teachers felt that the proposed system would' be easier administratively. The board, however, expressed belief the six-weeks system keeps youngsters more alert on testing, gives a closer check on progress and allows parents six Instead of four checks a year on how their children are doing In school. Advisability of putting office training girls under the state distributive education program was studied by the board. The girls would be "fanned out" to local business people like the boy's who work in stores and offices. Stone-cutting and jewelry-making were added to the industrial arts program on recommendation of Instructor Kenneth Mueller, who took special work this year at Colorado State college, Greeley, Colo.

The cost of the new project is nominal, the board said. Ridgway Puts Fate of Talks up to Reds By Don Huth TOKYO, JAPAN Matthew B. Ridgway put it squarely up to the communists today to decide the fate of Korean war truce talks. The United Nations commander curtly refused to reinvestigate the alleged song bombing incident. But he said the Allies would resume armistice negotiations whenever the Reds are ready to end their "unjustifiable delay" of the conference.

The general view here was that Ridgway's 116-word message to the top communist commanders left him almost no alternatives but to back down or break off the disrupted conferences completely. Ridgway did not even mention the communist demand that he admit a U. N. plane bombed the truce site. He has called the whole incident a fraud.

His message to the north Korean premier, Kim II Sung, and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh-huai dealt only with their request that he send his liaison officers back to Kaesong to look at new evidence. "A reinvestigation after this lapse of Ridgway said, "could serve no purpose other than to continue this unjustifiable delay in the armistice negotiations." The U. N. commander observed that during the original investigation a few hours after the asserted bombing the night of Aug.

22, a Red liaison officer "specifically refused the requests of my liaison officer to continue the investigation during daylight and to leave all of the alleged evidence in place." The U. N. command has said this all along. It was a flat contradiction of a statement in the message from Kim and Peng to which Ridgway was replying. The Red generals said "we did not on the night of the 22nd reject your making of the reinvestigation in daylight." Ridgway's note told the Reds "when you are prepared" to resume talks "I will direct my representatives to meet with yours, with a view to seeking a reasonable armistice agreement." The Reds broke, off the deadlocked negotiations last Thursday because of the asserted bombing incident.

A public information office release from Ridgway's headquarters, issued nine hours after his note was delivered to the Reds, said: "It has been the basic and continuing concern" of the U. N. commander "that the military armistice conference at Kaesong should make rapid progress toward a cessation of bloodshed in Korea and an honorable armistice. "The United Nations command continues to give the most serious consideration to reports of violations of agreements by either side. It is convinced, however, that nothing can be gained through further investigation of the alleged incident other than prolongation of the suspension of the meeting." The public information office said "the United Nations command already has carried out a detailed investigation of the alleged incident." Free on Boil, Accused Red Leads Strike By Leif Erlckson HONOLULU, T.

H. An accused communist, free on $5,000 bail, today leads militant sugar workers in wage talks with the management of the territory's sugar industry. He is hulking Jack W. Hall, Wisconsin-born leader of Hawaii's Sugar and Pineapple Workers and longshoremen. Hall, five other men and one woman were arrested yesterday in a series of FBI raids that carried the national roundup of suspected communists into Hawaii.

All were charged with conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. government. Hall, 36, Is regional director of the International longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, the outfit headed by Harry Bridges, another accused communist. Hall heads 18,500 sugar workers on 26 plantations in the islands.

Twenty-eight members of Hall's union held a closed-door meeting with him in the office of U. S. Marshal Otto Heine after the arrests. "Since Jack couldn't come to us, we had to come to him," said a union spokesman. The meeting, I previously scheduled, was to hear a sub committee report on negotiations for a sugar contract effective Saturday.

The union has set a strike deadline for Friday midnight. With Hall's release on bail, however, negotiations will continue tomorrow at Hilo on Hawaii island with Hall present. At stake is another year of peace or strife for Hawaii's major industry, which lost millions of dollars in a 1946 strike that lasted 70 -odd days. Some observers say the recent quiet progress of negotiations indicates a settlement. Leo Thorup Given Promotion by Penney's Leo Thorup, who has been a department manager in the J.

C. Penney store at Omaha, has been promoted to assistant manager of the company's store in Atchison, Kan. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Thorup of Carroll.

Mrs. Thorup and children, Tommy and Danny, are staying here with her mother, Mrs. Mary Schumacher, until the family can obtain housing in Atchison. Mr. Thorup, who spent the week-end here with them, began his new duties in Atchison Monday.

Decries Action At Cemetery In Sioux City Officials Forbid Interment in Exclusively "White" Grounds WASHINGTON, D. C. UP) President Truman today offered a hero's burial to a Korean war soldier who was denied a grave in a Sioux City, cemetery because he was an Indian. The president directed the army to arrange for the burial In Arlington National place of the nation's war if the family agrees. The family would be brought here at government expense for the funeral.

Mr. Truman acted after reading: a news story that the burial of Sgt. First Class John R. Rice, 37, a Winnebago Indian, was halted in Sioux City just as the body was about to be lowered into a grave. At the same time Maj.

Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the president 's army aide, telegraphed the mayor of Sioux City: "Please advise the family of Sgt. John R. Rice that arrangements for burial in Arlington cemetery have been authorized.

"The president feels that the national appreciation of patriotic sacrifice should not be limited by race, color or creed." The story which aroused the" president quoted an army officer as saying the Winnebago Indian's burial was stopped by authorities of the Sioux City Memorial Park cemetery because "only members of the Caucasian race" could be buried in the cemetery. Rice was killed hi action Sept. 6, 1950, while serving with the First Cavalry division. The Indian, a veteran of 11 years in the army who also fought In World war had been given graveside rites Tuesday at Sioux City and the body riemalned five hours above an open grave In Memorial Park cemetery before burial was forbidden by cemetery officials. The new arrangements were made amid a growing storm of protest over the burial denial here.

Oficials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their national convention now in progress in New York City promised to read on the convention floor a telegram de- War Vet See Page UNFAIR PRACTICE HANAU, GERMANY UP) German prosecutor today charged two Hanau hotelmen with damaging property and causing bodily injury, declaring they: Bought 30 fat bedbugs at one mark apiece. ONE WAT TO KEEP OATS DRY to with the umbrellas shown over the oats at the Leo Feld farm three miles east and one-half mile south of Carroll. The umbrellas were a practical joke played on Mr. Feld by some of his friends who evidently had heard him complaining about the rainy weather of late. Mr.

was "shocked," to say least, wbea he discovered tbe umbrellas Ja Mr Sett. (Stag Bbofakl Robert Walker, Dies; 'Shy' Role Actor in Movies HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. Actor Robert Walker, 32, who zoomed to fame during World war II in "shy guy" movie roles, died last night at his home while undergoing treatment for an emotional disturbance. Dr. Frederick J.

Hacker, a psychiatrist who said he had been treating Walker for 18 months, was summoned by the actor last evening. The doctor said lie talked to Walker for two hours, then called Dr. Sidney Silver, another psychiatrist, to administer a sedative. Dr. Hacker said the sedative (an injection of sodium amytal, a barbiturate) had been given Walker many times for emotional disturbances and with good results.

However, this time the actor lapsed into a coma, the psychiatrist said, and developed respiratory failure. An inhalator squad wan called but failed to revive him. The physician added that er's former wife, Actress Jennifer Jones, and now the wife of Producer David O. Seiznick, vas notified and said she is flying here from New York. The two young sons of Walker and Miss Jones have been spending the summer with the actor.

Walker had been in films eight years. Recently he made a successful comeback in pictures after a lengthy illness. He was treated at the Menninger clinic, Topeka. for nervous disorder in 1048, Walker's films Included Here, Private Hargrove," You Went Away," "Thirty onds Over Tokyo," Clock," end "TH1 Boil.