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EdinaSchooi Nod or Glance Ends IThe Minneapolis TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1959 career ror uatryman Red Owl's Tents Stay as Suburb Talks Oh By GWENYTH JONES Gusts of oratory by Bloom-ington councilmen Monday night failed to flatten the Buildings Bill Again Debated by Senate in a lagging auction, when to hang on and shift to smaller bid increases to bring out the last, reluctant bids. "That young Byrne Is really coming along," said one farmer who has seen both Byrnes In action. Harvy Kruse, founder of the Kruse agency and now credit agent for many of its sales, adds: "Credit isn't much of a problem at these auctions. We have very few bad debt losses, even though we only ask for a quarter of the price as a down-payment. A little hoarse from over two hours chanting, auctioneer Byrne stepped into the orange Kruse agency bus to join Kruse in checking the day's totals as the other cars and trucks began to head south over the dusty road.

The auction was over. Frank Wroblewskl of Northfield paid $55 for the pair of Surge steel milking machine units, loaded them into the back of his car, and settled down in the sun to talk with neighbors while the cattle sale went on. The hay chopper brought a disappointingly-low $735 and Tuma decided to place a high er bid and keep the machine the only time during the afternoon he exercised this privilege. The cows brought fair prices and the young rioi-stein heifers sold well. Byrne, following in the footsteps of his veteran auctioneer brother Francis L.

Byrne, is still getting farm sale experience after more than six years practice. It takes years to acquire the feel of when to sell quickly and revive interest SU 0 1 -Mil, I James Maps New Destiny for TCRT I Y' a- i i 1 i rrograms to Be Aired long-range program for the Edina Morningside school district together with a current program for proposed construction of an mentary school and an addition to the high school will be explained at a series of meetings this week and next. The meetings will be spon sored by the district's Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Education. Residents of the school district will vote May 19, on a proposed 4 million dollar bond issue for the elementary and high school construction. The balloting will be held at the same time as the annual school board election.

Tonight, BowerHawthorne, chairman of the advisory committee, will address the Wooddale Elementary school PTA. A similar meeting will be held Wednesday at the Morningside 1 m'e a school PTA. Thursday a special open meeting for alfresidents of the school district will be held by the Citizens advisory committee at the senior high school. School officials and board members will address the meeting. Next Monday, a speaker from the committee will talk to the Edina junior chamber of commerce.

May 12, Hawthorne will speak at a meeting of the League of Women voters at Highland elementary school where school candidates will be introduced. John Windhorst, member of the committee's econom ics subcommittee, will ad dress the Cahill PTA May 13 Blaze Levels Suburb Garage An early morning fire of undetermined origin today destroyed a large garage in St. Louis Park, causing an estimated $10,000 loss. C. M.

(Pete) Williams, St Louis Park fire chief, said the one-story frame struc ture, at 3724 Quentin formerly housed an automobile body repair service, but in recent months has been vacant The fire was discovered about 2:30 a.m. by police cruising in the area. Williams said firemen had little chance to control the flames, which were leaping through the roof of the 50 by 30 foot building when they arrived. Glenn Grasston, was listed as the owner. Minneapolis Star photo by Bonham Cross A VIBRATING 17-year-old flapper in the play, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," Evans Evans, or vice versa, offstage is a vibrating bundle of 34-24-37 who at this moment is feeding her pet rabbit.

Where Evans goes, the rabbit goes. "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," playing at the Sta.te theater, was written by William Inge. He came across Miss Evans when she was playing summer stock at the Williamstown, summer theater. She joined the cast of the production in October and has been touring since January. BOWS TO PROTESTS BLOOMINGTON tents of Red Owl, but the council decided to give up.

At its April 20 meeting the council a ity ex pressed disapproval of the grocery firm's use of tents to shelter temporary garden stores on the parking lots of its supermarkets. The council voted 3-to-2 to adopt an ordinance forbidding the use of tents by commercial enterprises. It told City Attorney James Kempf to write to Red Owl requesting it to remove the tents. Last night Kingsley Hol-man, attorney for several year-around nursery stores in the village, told the council the tents were still up. In a lengthy discussion the council majority argued that the tents are violating several existing ordinances.

It voted 3-to-2 to instruct Kempf to inform Red Owl of these violations, and order it to take down the tents by Friday's council meeting. At that meeting, the new ordinance will be ready for its first reading. Councilman Roger Hamre, who opposed the action, called it another step in Bloomington's quest for the joke trophy in dealing with commercial and industrial development." Councilman Herbert Knud- sen, also an opponent, pointed out that Montgomery Ward, which has plans to open a store in Bloomington, "has used tents for 20 Councilman Robert Hoff man, supporter ot the motion, commented "perhaps we should notify them that that's our policy and they can decide if they don't want to come." The council also instructed Kempf to ask the attorney general for an opinion on whether funds from a park bond issue can be used to develop land owned by the school district for play grounds. The council already has the power to use money from the general revenues for such purposes. Two Injured in Separate Accidents One Minneapolis man is in critical condition today at General hospital and another in fair condition as result of separate accidents.

Ray Phillips, 46, 916 NE. Lowry was injured in the right arm when a shotgun he was taking from a rack in his home accidentally fired. He is in fair condition. Melvin Holmberg, 3816 S. 1st is in fair condition at Glenwood Hills hospital after slipping at Feinberg Kosher Sausage 809 N.

Lyndale where he works. A sharp tool pierced his right arm. UOOMINOjTON Ralph E. James, elected president and general manager of the Twin City Rapid Transit began shaping a new destiny for the firm today, backed by a majority of its new directors. Elected Monday with James, a veteran of 35 years in the transportation field, were Harry Duncan, longtime TCRT comptroller, as comptroller and acting secretary-treasurer; Mrs.

Virginia Moe, assistant secretary, and John L. Dahill, assistant treasurer. Although a shift in operating control of the company was hammered out last Thursday, members of the new Twin Cities group of businessmen who took control were still putting the corporate pieces together today. It may take several weeks before all details involved in the nearly half-million dollar transaction are completed, Dan Feidt, new TCRT board chairman, said. One problem of major concern to the six directors is the duration of their terms of office.

The directors involved are Feidt, H. P. E. Skoglund, George D. Dayton II, Elmer L.

Carl R. Pohlad and Edward L. Murphy, Jr. Feidt succeeded Frank Warner, Skoglund succeeded Elmer N. Olson, Pohlad succeeded Dr.

David E. Ellison, Andersen succeeded Isadore Handmaker, Murphy succeed ed John W. Mitchell, and Dayton succeeded John Guzy. Philip H. Handmaker, Al toona, who with his brother owned or controlled nearly 100,000 shares of TCRT common stock, and Louis Maltz, New York in vestment man, stayed on the new board by agreement.

James H. Towey, who refused to quit as a director, was not re-elected to his former post as secretary-treasurer. The directorships of Towey, Ellison and Warner expire -automatically next March. Those of Olson, Isadore Handmaker and Mitchell run to March 1961, and those of Guzy, Philip Handmaker and Maltz expire in March 1962. Feidt today ordered a comprehensive legal study of TCRT's by-laws to determine whether the terms of Andersen, Murphy, Dayton and Skoglund run for the same period as their predecessors, or whether they will be required to run for the directorships at the next annual stockholders meeting In March 1960.

The new directors and their associates put up approximately $300,000 cash in order to accomplish the transfer in operating control of the company. Additional commitments, involved in the exercise of options, may require posting an additional $100,000 cash in the next few weeks, it was learned. In the shift of officers, James succeeded Ellison as president. Ellison's salary was $20,000 annually, James will be paid $30,000 under a three-year contract. The new board reportedly agreed informally to retain Ellison, temporarily, as a consultant at an undisclosed salary figure.

Most of the former directors, including Ellison, retained a major part of their company stockholdings. The new board reportedly is considering the creation of an "advisory committee," to include Olson, Mitchell and Guzy. The committee would be advisory only and without authority. 100th BIRTHDAY WINONA, Minn. (Special) A symposium on evolution will be held at St.

Mary's college Saturday to mark the centenary of Charles Darwin's book, "The Origin of Species." By HUMPHREY DOERMANN Minneapolis Star Staft Writer AUCTION THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Stoning ot I B.m. II milti witt of Northdald and milt north of lifl Chicago lion Dairy Equipment, 2 Surg 5tl Unitii McD pomp ond'motori 10-can Wilion milk cooler, A I condition, 26 10 gallon milk cani, Machintryi lundll hoy ehoPDur, ntw leut 15 ocrei), Com "J2" lilogt blown. 48 GOOD HOLSTEIN DAIRY CATTU, If you need cattle for potturt these oie ideal. Thee. I.

Tuma. Owner LONSDALF, Minn. Some came to buy. Some came because at tending farm auctions is in their blood. Some came to enjoy the first warm sun of the year, wait for rain, and talk with their neighbors.

Thomas Tuma was quit ting the dairy business Thursday after trying it for a year on his own. Before buying these 200 acres in Lonsdale he had rented a place south of Northfield, Minn. His future plans are uncertain. Tuma is not the first me dium-scale dairy producer to make the hard decision. Ris ing costs and declining prices account for a continuing squeeze on the smaller oper ators.

Mrs. Helen Simon, auction clerk for the Kruse Agency, reckoned that she had recorded at least 20 such sales in the surrounding three-county area during the past year. A few arrived an hour early. The poster hadn't specificed central standard or daylight time. They waited in small groups, talking about anything from the low price of eggs to the Missouri farmer who finally found a kind of wood for fence posts that was so good it could outlast two postholes.

Bidding started on the stanchions. They went for $1.25 apiece. Next the 26 milk cans, "Plenty or good use in these cans, men," called auc tioneer John Byrne. "Let's start at two dollars apiece No? Well, one I have one do I have a half one now a half? Yes sir now two, one a half two, one a half two Bids are hard to spot. A slightly tightened jaw muscle on an expressionless face may mean the decision to bid.

A slight nod or glance as Byrne eye scans past indi cates agreement to the figure called. Harold Rohlesen of Fari bault, who started farming two years ago after operating a bowling alley, quietly enterd the bidding and eventually took his pick of the cans at $4.25. A young neighbor of Tuma's took the remaining ones at $1.75. intersection a boy hit by a truck. He knew just what had happened even before he arrived at the scene of the accident With fast developing, the pictures were printed in time for late editions of the Star, and the prize-winner also ap peared in the Morning Tribune.

Seaman, 34, was born In Grand Island, Neb. During his first year in high school there he set up a hobby dark-room in a back hall where his interest in photography developed In earnest. After graduating from high school he worked for two years as a commercial photographer before joining the Star in 1945. Since then his assignments have ranged from sports to society to police news photography. His pictures have won awards in National Press association competitions, won the 1956 National Headlineri prize for sports photography, the 1958 Inland Daily Press association first prize for a spot news picture, and third prize in the Minnesota Associated Press newsphoto contest.

The Pulitzer prize for photography carries a $1,000 cash award. Seaman lives with his family at 8206 S. Virginia Circle, St. Louis Park. Other Star and Tribune staff members who have won Pulitzers are Richard L.

Wil- son (1954) and Clark R. Mol- ler.hoff (195S). both of the Washington bu- reau. Nat S. Finney won a 1943 award when he also was a member of the Washington bureau.

By WILLIAM R. MacKAYE Minneapolis Star Staft Writer The Minnesota senate, after four hours of talk Monday on the omnibus state construction finance bill, renewed the debate today. Up for consideration was an effort to send the measure back to the senate finance committee for review. Monday's debate length- ened into the most floor con sideration the senate has given any bill this year. Yet, at the end of the day, the bill was unchanged.

Issues not settled included last-ditch attempts by rural legislators to get construction funds for colleges and junior colleges. Also causing trouble was an additional 8-million-dollar proposal to complete construction of the School for Retardded Children at Brai-nerd. The proposal, which does not appear in the house bill, was inserted by Sen. Gordon Rosenmeier, Little Falls, who represents the Brainerd area. Yesterday's hassle was entirely the educational.

area the construction of University of Minnesota buildings on the west bank of the Mississippi river and construction aids to junior colleges. The day began quietly with no one objecting to an amendment, offered by Sen. Michael McGuire, Montgomery, banning west-bank construction for two years. The proposal was adopted on a standing vote, with 37 senators rising in support. Then the trouble began.

Surprised by McGuire's unexpected success, supporters of the west bank expansion program which had senate approval during the regular session immediately began maneuvering to reconsider the vote. More than two hours later the McGuire amendment was defeated, 41 to 22. This opposition to expansion comes from two sources, yesterday's debate revealed. There are those, like Sen. Paul Thuet, South St.

Paul, who feel the university is big enough. "The university is getting to be like a prehistoric monster. The more you feed it, the bigger it gets," Thuet says. And there are those, like Senators Louis Murray, East Grand Forks, and Roy Wis-eth, Goodridge, who are bit ter about the failureof the 1959 legislature to appropri ate higher education facilities in rural areas. Sen.

Chas. W. Root, Min neapolis, chairman of the fi nance subcommittee that pre pared the bill, was infuriated by yesterday's developments. He told the senate he had not been informed of any opposition except McGuire's. "If you felt this way, why didn't you come to committee hearings and say so?" he asked Sen.

Harry Wahl-strand, Willmar. Root was also irked at the failure of Sen. Val Imm, fi nance committee chairman who presented the bill, to speak against the McGuire amendment when it was offered. It is usual procedure for a bill's "manager" to say whether a proposed amendment is acceptable. Root and Sen.

Herman Hording, Minneapolis, both members of the interim buildings commission, argued that opponents of the west bank plan had presented no alternatives for absorbing en rollment increases "and evi dently were not familiar with the facts about university needs." Here's the senate vote that defeated the McGusre amendment Monday: For (22) Anderson. Franz, George, N. W. Hanson. R.

Hanson. Harren. Heuer, E. Johnson. Keller, Kroehler.

L. Larson. Norman Larson, Lauerman. McGuire. Olson, Popp.

Sundet. Thuet, Lkkei-berg, Wahistrand and WalA Against f41 AUen. Be-isor. Bergerud. Butier, Ca.T.

Child. Davies. Doslund, it-son. Ferrario. Frastr.

Gcod.n. Gntrner. Holand. Holmtjjist. lrn.

R. W. Johnson, Jisetson. Keith, Kord.rz, Lofveere.n. NeNon.

Noak. iiH. Peterson. R.charcUr.-. Root.

Sal-ni-e. 1 1 z. ch -kj, W'-ch Wr.zht ar-1 Z.i h. voting (1 "lurrav. Absent Mctcalf and i Holland Plan for By TIMOTHY BLODGETT Minneapolis Star Staff Writer St.

Paul Councilman Bernard T. Holland today abandoned, at least temporarily, plans to charge admission to Como zoo. He bowed to protests, mainly from Como area residents, that a charge would be a use tax on an educational institution. Holland announced that his department would proceed with plans to put up a fence around the 5t A -V 'A Holland zoo's 19 acres, another point of contention. An admission charge would bring in from $37,000 to a year and put the public facility on a nearly self-sustaining basis, Holland claims.

In place of the admission charge, Holland proposed a series of fund-raising events, the first of which will be a benefit professional baseball game at St. Paul municipal stadium, probably in July. He urged that the city architect be directed to make a broad study of the three major St. Paul parks, Como, Phalen and Highland. This survey, Holland said in a prepared statement, would be "preparatory to employment of nationally known consultants to help map a comprehensive park What's Star Photographer Wins Pulitzer Prize Abandons Zoo Fee improvement program to include a major zoo in either the present or a new location." A citizens' zoo planning group, said the commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public buildings, is working toward inauguration of a zoological society.

The society would solicit funds from the public and civic and business organizations to support and improve the zoo. There are no plans, Holland said, to put the zoo on a metropolitan basis, though he estimated that 40 per cent of zoo attendance is from Minneapolis. "We don't want the zoo to lose its identity as part of St. Paul," Holland explained. Ramsey Repeats on Safety Award Ramsey county and St.

Paul have done it again. For the ninth consecutive year Ramsey has won the Minnesota Safety council's award for its traffic safety engineering, A. V. Rohweder, president, announced today. For the third straight year, St.

Paul has been cited for the bronze plaque award for the top over-all traffic safety program among the three big cities. Awards will be presented by Gov. Freeman at the council's annual awards dinner at the St. Paul hotel May 19. going on behind the screen? 4 if "I MARIE T0KRE Mcmicj Tribune.

A Pulitzer prize in journalism for outstanding news photography was awarded Monday to William C. Seaman, Minneapolis Star staff photographer. The prize-winning picture, "Wheels of Death," was taken shortly after noon on May 16, 1958 Minnesota's deadliest traffic day of 1958. Seaman was on roving assignment in a radio-equipped Star photo cruise car that day. At 12:20 p.m., while waiting for the traffic light to change at Riverside Dr.

and S. 27th he saw a young boy pulling a wagon across the street. Seaman almost shouted a warning to the boy and even considered getting out of the car to warn him of the danger but the boy made it back to the curb with his wagon and Seaman drove on. Minutes later he was notified by radio that an ambulance had been called to that -5 if if is ...3 WILLIAM C. SEALW FuUtzer dinner i i Through her "TV-Radio TODAY" column, Marie Torre, nationally known television reporter, will transport you behind the screen, tell you what makes your favorite stars click, reveal what's going on and what's going to happen on your living-room sets.

For up-to-the-minute news about the shows, personalities and events of television and radio, he sure you read Miss Torres column. Monday through Friday, in the TV-Radio TODAY' tfli'nncapolfe horning ribunc "WHEELS OF DEATH" THE DOCTOR WAS TOO LATE TO HELP Photographer saw toy ploying minutes earlier.