Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 5

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1969 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH PAGE A-5 For Farmer Who Lost Legs Benefit Auction Raises $2,000 AUCTION CROWD Part of more than 1,000 peo- Sunday at the Bethalto Village Community Build- pie who attended the Don Kruse Benefit auction ing. More than 1,000 people turned out at a public auction in Bethalto Sunday and raised over $2,000 to help a Moro farmer who lost both legs in a corn picking accident on his farm. The people who bid on the auction items were all helping 31-year-old Moro farmer Don Kruse, who Nov. 5 lost his legs and part of his left hand when he was pulled into a corn picker at his farm. But Sunday was a clay to help, and as Thanksgiving draws closer, the people showed a genuine spirit of giving.

One woman told an auctioneer that she didn't really need anything, but she thought "Mr. Kruse could sure use some help right now so I'm going to buy something." All items, auctioned free by Homer llcnke and Gerald Scherff of the Auction Service, were donated' by AUCTIONEERS Homer Henlje, left and Gerald Scherff, right, owners of the S. H. Auction Service were busy all Sunday afternoon at Bethalto Village Hall where they auctioned ot'i $2,258 worth of items to benefit the Don Kruse Benefit Fund, a fund set up to aid the Moro farmer who lost both legs and part of his left hand in the early part of November. The auctioneers like everyone involved donated their services.

SUCCESSFUL BIDDER Mrs. Ida Fcldman of Edwardsville admires the antique sewing machine she successfully bid for at the auction. The sewing machine, which brought $8, was one of numerous antique household items donated by area residents for the Don Kruse benefit sale. residents of the area. The items and the crowd at the auction were greater than the organizers anticipated and many of the objects were put the Village Hall parking lot where one auctioneer worked while another auction team held way inside the Community lenter of the building.

Goats, calves, homemade bread and a used farm tractor were among the items people bid. The farm tractor brought just over $200 and the homemade bread went like the proverbial hotcakes as bidders rushed orward to get two or three oaves. Meanwhile, Kruse is reported "satisfactory" condition where he is convalescing from lis horrible experience. The farmer, was injured while he was picking corn on his farm northeast of Moro when he reportedly tried to free a jammed cornstalk and the auger grabbed his hand and suzsequently toppled him into the revolving machine. TRACTOR AT REST No auction block was big enough to accommodate this donated tractor at the Don Kruse benefit auction so the auctioneer out So that our employees can spend the Holiday with their famililes, our stores are CLOSED Thanksgiving Day! ALL ARE STEREO! Thousands Of Albums To Choose From In Our Stores CHRISTMAS VOCALS COUNTRY AND BIG BANDS ROCK and OLD FAVORITES! eventually moved into (the parking lot of the Bethalto Village Hall to do his job with the farm vehicle.

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