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The Minneapolis Star MINNEAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955 25 SHOULD YOU DRINK? Suburban 'Use' Fee-at Library Explained Officials Outline Relationship of City and County By WALTER JOHNSON Minnrapolis bur SUift Writer "How come I have to Car Used in Bank Holdup Checked FBI Seeks Clues; Believe $10,000 Taken by Amateur FBI agents today were making a careful study of the stolen car used in the Alcoholics 'Self-made, Not Born, Says Doctor They scold, nag and upbraid! Almost daily in my work I him; they tell him that drink run across such popular miscon ceptions. They are cut to such a standardized pattern that it ing is "bad" for him, as though he did not know it himself in his sober moments. has been a fairly simple task This is the second of a series of articles from the book "Should You Drink?" The author, Charles II. Durfee, Ph.D is an expert in the rehabilitation of problem drinkers. CHAPTER 2 Some Misconceptions About Drinkers No, it is not difficult to appreciate the resentment that rel pay 52 a year to take books from the Minneapolis Public library? Sure I live in Rich atives and friends feel toward v-r" h)(.

Ua AvVv- til 5 i to catalogue them as the foremost hurdles to overcome. They ARE LISTED here for your benefit. MANY PEOPLE believe that a man can "fight off" liquor by field (or another of the sub Monday noon holdup at the Citizens State Bank of St. -Louis Park first bank holdup in the Twin Cities area since 1932. A single bandit, believed to be an amateur, made off with urbs), but I've got my busi the drinker, but I believe you would be surprised and disheartenedas I have been to observe how many professional workers still labor under misconceptions regarding drinking.

ness in Minneapolis and I HE BEHAVIOR of a trouble will power alone. They do not realize that in so doing he has some drinker is a maddening and often tragic problem to his more than $10,000 in cash and They cannot shake off what not banished his problem, and that by concentrating on not family, and to the community he is a pest and sometimes a checks, managing to duck four deer rifle shots fired by Allan R. Bun-ill, 56, bank president. drinking the poor devil becomes pay taxes there." That's a common complaint among the suburbanites who contribute in card fees about $6,000 a year to the Minneapolis library. It's "not without reason." says Chief Librarian Glenn M.

Lewis. more alcohol-minded than ever. menace. might be called the ancient folklore of alcoholism. They, too, grow exasperated at the drinker; or, if of a gentler nature, plead in vain with him.

THEY ASK HIM WHY HE The bandit car was dis They do not understand that CANNOT "DRINK LIKE A covered about 8:30 p.m. Mon only when the presence or ab GENTLEMAN." day in a dead-end alley behind 4415 Choween avenue S. The sence of alcohol is a matter of complete indifference in his daily life is he finally freed of his machine, a 1950 four -door Chevrolet of green metallic But Lewis said that In order to meet the complaint the li problem. color, belonged to George J. Kroll, Royalton, Minn.

THE IDEA that alcohol can brary would be required to ask such suburbanites for their tax be "fought off" is closely reiat Single-library Plan Offered by Alderman A proposal for a single library system in Minneapolis and Kroll said his car was stolen ed to another very prevalent last Thursday noon while he statements, and he thinks there would be strong resistance to misconception that the drink was in Minneapolis. er who has sworn off retains a physical "craving" for alcohol that even if the library kept its eyes off the amount of tax paid. A half-dozen FBI agents be This is a myth. Such physical gan a check of the car and Hennepin county, under an arrangement that would permit the surroundings at the scene. "craving" exists for only a short time after the drinker has fin The $2 fee is involved in the going ahead with land acquisition for a.

new main building in the city, was brought before the Public Library Friends organ- ished his last drinking bout, city library and county library relationship in Minneapolis and Given three days' abstinence ization aionaay atternoon by Alderman Frank Moulton. It GLAZED FRUIT COCKTAIL PIE FOR SUMMER MENU Warm weather dessert is chilled icell before serving Hennepin county, which is lit the physical "craving" practical met with cautious response. tie understood by the average ly disappears. public. An effort to clear up iuouuon urged study of a jia.m rturij; wno nave a some of the misunderstanding plan to merge the city and Glazed Fruit Pie Is hazy understanding of the fact was made Monday at a meeting sponsored by the Public Li that a compulsive drinker is a county systems, provide county representation on the board and set up equal tax levies on city sick man recklessly label him brary Friends organization, as a "hopeless alcoholic." They made a cast of a footprint believed left by the robber as he stepped out of it An FBI spokesman said they found several fingerprints "but we don't know yet whether or not they're any good." They had to determine first whether the prints were made by Kroll and his friends or the bandit.

The gunman entered the one-story bank building near St Louis Park's Miracle Mile about 11:45 a.m., wearing a blue polka dot handkerchief mask over the lower part of his face. He was carrying what appeared to be a laundry bag. Freeman Acts to Meet Fiscal Needs By WALLACE MITCHELL Mir.neapolii Stir Staff Writer Gov. Freeman today made Speakers were Lewis; Russell ana county residents. 5LNV PEOPLE entertain J.

Schunk. director of libraries for the Minnesota department He expressed belief that with the idea that an older person with a long drinking record is ferfect for bummer Over 3,000 authorities on all phases of homemaking are In Minneapolis this week. One of the food experts attending the American Home Economics association convention is from Libby, McNeill and Libby. Mary Hale Martin is the name chosen to represent all the company's home economists. The director of this depart- agreement of suburban com of education, and Helen Young, more difficult to rehabilitate director of the Hennepin county munities to (support legislation New Attempt to End Store Strike Slated A new attempt to settle the St.

Paul department store strike was being made today with an international vice president of the AFL Retail Clerks union participating. Fred Ammond, Chicago, was to sit in on the conferences with Jerome Rich gels, business library system. than a young person. Actually, and in my own experience, the in 1957, arrangements could be made to repay or balance out any money that aiinneapolis two moves to give his state administration a running start on outlook for a man in his forties or fifties is as favorable as for Schunk explained that the Minneapolis and Hennepin county library arrangement is no different in general from that in any other county of is JoAnn Shurpit. would advance.

younger man, often more so, the new government fiscal pe riod that begins Friday. Brandishing a .45 caliber au the state. "That way, we could go ahead JUT HE ANNOUNCED five ap ANY PEOPLE consider the Minnesota Forecasts tomatic, he told a teller, Mrs. Rayma Kohout, Wayzata: "This is a holdup." pointees to an interim commis Two legal bases are provided one the municipal library said. She says glazed fruit cocktail pie is one of their most popular recipes.

Perfect for summertime, canned fruit cocktail is mixed with syrup made from the fruit juice. Sweetened whipped cream forms a fluffy topping for the chilled dessert. sion to study the income-tax with its six elected officials man who drinks alone as more degraded and more beyond help than others. While it Is true that the man withholding plan that he sought agent of Retail Clerks local 2, tuivi ciiiu aisu onuuici and three ex-officio members, Moulton estimated a 5 -mill tax levy would not only run the system with more money unsuccessfully from the 1955 and the other the county li By U.S. Weather Bureau teller, Jerry Green, 5957 Rhode Island avenue.

Crystal, to put legislature. brary service coming under who drinks alone is apt to be a retiring sort of individual, he their money on the counter. but would retire the cost of a e-million-dollar main buildine the county commissioners, HE DISCLOSED plans for intensive "self -study" within the MINNESOTA WEATHER has as a rule, far greater inner The commissioners may dele resources than the hail-fellow and representatives of the Golden Rule, Schuneman's and the Emporium. Whether the meetings would be "direct" or through the federal conciliation service had not been determined in advance of Ammond's arrival. Federal conciliators had offered their services in the protracted gate their authority through drinker who must seek com in 30 years.

(The city tax levy now is four mills and the county two Glenn M. Lewis, chief librar- appointment of a county li pany. brary board or, as is the case The bandit walked around behind the tellers' cages past A. M. Macho, cashier, and hurried past Green's cage, ignoring about $1,500 already laid out for him by Green.

He scooped $4,797 from Mrs. Kohout's counter and grabbed six bags from a hand truck. Therefore it Is often easier state departments to find ways to economize sufficiently to absorb the costs of the civil service pay classification plan approved but unbudgeted by the 1955 legislature. Freeman told a news conference that he is "very, very here, make a contract with the GLAZED FRUIT COCKTAIL PIE So. 2'i tan fruit cocktail 2 tbsp.

cornstarch 2 tbsp. cold water 1 tsp. grated lemon peel 1 baked (9 in.) pastry shell Vi c. whipping cream, -whipped and sweetened. to help the solitary drinker be municipal library.

Ian, ciiea me urgency or a new main structure and said the plan has merit "if it isn't a cause the factors causing his The Minneapolis library is 1 I.KHilltil 1 I J1 m'Vi I Osama drinking lie predominantly within himself. long-range proposition." He said designated by the commission ers as the county library, and The bags contained week-end Members of the union voted hopeful" that the pay plant still however, that the proposal involves many problems and wouldn't be easy to promote. its services are purchased for can be put into effect bv Jan. 1. Monday night to reject an of Many people advise a drinker to take a "cure," as though alco deposits totaling 56,009.49, mostly cash.

Drain fruit cocktail. Heat 530,000 a year. Lewis wears iThe plan calls for reclassifica- fer of five cents an hour in the pay scale of clerks who have a syrup to boiling. Dissolve corn- hol were a habit-forming drug, which it definitely is not. As the bandit backed toward He tolsl the fublic library tion of civil service jobs that would bring pay scales more starch in cold water.

Add to hot the rear door, BurruTs son, syrup and cook, stirring con MANY PEOPLE believe that year or longer of seniority. One of the principal objec tions was the lack of an m- closely in line with those of private industry. Friends that if they support the suggestion: "All I'm asking is, 'Be sure you're going to fight for stantly, until smooth and thick- Dan, 26, a loan officer, slipped into his father's office and told him about the holdup. St. Jimtt i ened.

I I Mlit Wiboiii 1 crease for clerks who have less The legislaJure approved the than a year's experience. Other The elder Bun-ill, who kept a drinker is born witn an inherited "taste" for liquor, and that he is predestined to excessive drinking. Certainly, a drinker may inherit a nervous and constitutional instability or Russell J. Schunk, director of plan but provided no authority reasons were that the five cents two hats one as Minneapolis chief librarian and the other as county librarian (he gets no salary from the county). The county system benefits from the assets of the Minneapolis public library being made available to it, by such things as discounts on book purchases and professional library staff service that it might not be able to work out alone, Schunk said.

On the other hand, he pointed out, the county "conscien to meet the additional $375,000 a year necessary, believing the was not large enough for per a loaded 30-30 deer mie "for emergencies," came out of the office with the rifle poised for action. sons in some job classifications, libraries for the Minnesota department of education, also emphasized that getting a regional library is "not a simple thing." lie added that he believes a departments rould absorb the a nervous temperament and there was no guarantee of costs through normal employe Remove from heat and add lemon peel. Fold in drained fruit cocktail and chill. Just before serving, pour into baked and cooled pastry shell. Top with sweetened whipped cream.

Makes one 9-inch pie. Northwestern union security, union officials which may make him more vulnerable to strain and may turnover and vacancies. BurriU shouted to about 15 persons in the bank to take fWIN CITIES: Partly cloudy with occasional showers or thundershowers and continued warm tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 65, high Wednesday 85. KORTHWEST: Considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers and little flexible plan can be developed cause him to seek escape from said.

Richgels said only one per "The state civil service pay under which work can get go his troubles via liquor. BUT cover. As they did so he fired four shots as the gunman scale is atrociously behind those ing on a new mam buildinz son, of about 150 attending the meeting, voted to accept the NOBODY IS BORN AN ALCO HOLIC. without waiting until the next tiously" foots the general serv contract offer. session of the legislature.

This brings us into head-on ice bill and the result' is a pro in comparable employment areas, such as in other governments and private industry," Freeman said. He and Arthur Naftalin, com Declaring that "time is wast reached the door. The bandit, apparently surprised, did not return the fire. BurruTs shots apparently did not hit the robber. The last bank robbery in gram which "is in a balanced way within the framework of collision with perhaps the most injurious of all misconceptions, namely, that there Is a definite Schools Votes Change in Name ing," he urged the Public Library Friends not to "put the Several other unions either are on strike against the stores or are staying away because of the picket lines.

cart before the horse," and lose the states library laws." Besides the $30,000 flat serv alcoholic "type." missioner of administration, said a state employe suggestion system will be integrated with a half-dozen years." ice fee charged the county, it Northwestern schools, 50 Wil The organization elected Clif ERTAINLY NOTHING can the administrative self-survey. ford J. Rian nresident to sue change in temperature tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 60 to 65. SOUTHWEST: Considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers and little 1 change in temperature tonight and Wednesday.

Low tonight 60 to 65. PAST CENTRAL: Considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers and little change in temperature tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 60. iive state employes were Minneapolis was the sensational holdup at the Third Northwestern National bank, Fifth street and E. Hennepin avenue, Dec.

16, 1932. Two police officers were killed by a lookout armed with ceed Mrs. George B. Palmer. be more misleading in the attempted restoration of a problem drinker than to place him designated as a merit award Other officers are Helen R.

Fish, Philip Olson and Mrs. O. board to weigh employe sug low street, have been renamed Northwestern college, it was announced today by Dr. Richard A. Elvee, president.

He said the change was voted by the board of directors to describe more accurately the Youth Sent to Traffic Court on Four Charges A 17-year-old youth with a pays $1,500 a year In rental for space in the Minneapolis main library. And there is the $2 fee required if a suburbanite wants to go to the Minneapolis library and check out material. Lewis said the non-residency question was raised as early as in some arbitrary category. gestions for which there will be cash prizes. Appointed There are drinkers amone were: E.

Norum, vice presidents; Mrs. Richard C. Thompson, recording secretary; Guy W. Gardner, treasurer, and Mrs. Frank Archer, parliamentarian.

the psychotic, the neurotic, and a machinegun as they pulled up to investigate an alarm during the course of the holdup. The Barker-Karpis gang got $112,000 in the rnhherv. Clayton Johnson, chairman, among those who are fairly well adjusted to life. long record of traffic offenses from the civil service depart 1S90, when action was taken was sent to the city tratlic ment; Ingraham Morehouse, allowing the librarian to charge SOUTHEAST: 0 i erable There are gregarious drink highways; Lester Nelson, con an annual fee against those Two recent loan company court today by juvenile Judge Thomas Tallakson to face four Killed by Tractor ers with extroverted personal servation; Roberta Reindfleisch, nature and academic standing of the institution. The school was founded in 1902 as a Bible institute by the late Dr.

W. B. living outside the city. Formal holdups In Minneapolis come ities and solitary drinkers with new charges. welfare, and William E.

Steven action was taken in 1942, with under the reckoning of "bank son, assistant commissioner of introverted personalities, and many grades and shadings be holdups by the FBI because de The youth, Adrian M. Sianio, 3309 N. Sixth street, was given a $1 fee, later raised to $2. The Minneapolis Public li administration. posits were insured under the tween the two.

brary is operated on a four-mill federal deposit insurance plan, as is the St. Louis Park bank. NORTHFIELD, CP) Howard Armstrong, 27, disabled Korean "veteran, was injured fatally Monday night when a tractor he was driving toppled into a ditch at the farm home of his brother-in-law, Al- cloudiness 1 1 scaueieu thundershowers and little change in temperature tonight and Wednesday. Low i tonight 60 to 65. KORTHEAST: Partly cloudy and warm with thundershowers tonight and Wednesday.

Low tonight 58. Fall Kills Janitor a 30-day workhouse sentence for driving after suspension of Freeman appointed five members of the interim Riley. In 1935. a 1 ogical his license by Judge Tom There are no race or class distinctions recognized in this alcoholic fraternity; no restric tax base. The county library service, now 33 years old, runs on a two-mill rate and raises commission created by the leg islature to study the income tax Festival Set TWIN VALLEY, MINN- withholding plan.

about $164,000 a year. It pro tions as to membership or degree of intellect. Dert Kemme, near Dennison. seminary was added and in 1942, a college Several years Dr. Elvee of liberal arts, vides service throughout the county except Minneapolis and (Special) Lutheran Memorial Named were Walter Ringer, TroiiMo with ml plannint Vt Mair ago the Bible institute was dis Minneapolis manufacturer; Bergin.

Bergin also fined him $50 for careless driving, $25 for speeding and $25 for allowing an unlicensed person to drive Ids car. Bergin impounded his license plates and said he will not be eligible to apply for a license FERGUS FALLS. MINN. WEDXESDAY: Stages along the alcoholic highway. Hart, Minneapolii TrlbiiM homt tconomlit, hMp yna every momlnt Ad.

Hopkins, and administers to 25 John Curtis, Minneapolis Cen branch libraries. home here will sponsor its fifth annual midsummer festival July 17. Speakers will include the Rev. John Mason, Minneapolis, tral Labor union; E. Clifford' A bookmobile serves about Mork, Duluth, grocer; Gerald E.

continued and a Bible college begun. The full corporate name of the institution will be "Northwestern college Bible college, college of liberal arts, theological seminary." and Theodore H. Fenske, St. Paul. reinstatement for 180 days.

Negro Church Group Will Open Parley Tomorrow 1,300 families. It maintains a dozen deposit and collecting stations, and provides a supplemental service to public and parochial schools. Gilbertson, 75, a Lincoln jchool janitor for many years, (ias fatally injured late Mon- ay when he plunged 20 feet rom a scaffold onto a concrete reaway while painting win-flow frames. Like teafh RuniUr kmkfut? turner-u Stt Sc In the MSnnapolls rikune color comlcj. Ait.

Youths under 18 usually are sentenced for traffic offenses in juvenile court, but the judge Baby Sitters' Guide Brings Good Results vocational guidance and dis F.ach branch has a permanent TRAFFIC COURT can send them to traffic court Magnuson, Minneapolis attorney, and George Seltzer, University of Minnesota school of business administration. "I have given very, very careful attention to these appointees," Freeman said. "I feel this is a very important tax reform but have not asked the views of any of these men. "I only asked that they bring to the study an open mind, un collection and also gets books cussion of modern social problems. These activities will be as "adults" for repeated or flagrant violations.

weekly or bl weekly from the Judge Tom Btrtfn under the supervision of Dr. county service's headquarters rT'ndrr xttr law drlTrr'n mto- The largest Negro religious convention ever held In the Twin Cities will begin here Wednesday. More than 2,500 delegates and visitors are expected for the international youth con matfcallv rwkr4 for fur years lr drmnkm O. T. Jones, Philadelphia.

driving ronTirtkm. Thr lirem ran be rein In the Minneapolis main li brary. stated finl nv nf iel-UI nremi antomobile irurarance. t'nder carrent Minne- Civic night has been set for 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Several japnlia trafir mwrt pflliry the convicted nw- run sic 1 Livestock Group Will Hear Dean Theodore H. Fenske. assist The county system owns its prejudiced, so that we can get lnl lororonen 19 wrive for in oT. lor the tint offense, i months for the sernd offense, one year tor the third offense even religious and civic leaders, in own books 123,000 volumes gress of the Church of God in a careful review of the facts." if he ran aiqaire the premium iMuraAce.) cluding Mayor Hoyer and Gov. Christ.

The seven-day meeting Freeman, will give talks. DRrKF.N DRIVING ant dean of the University of Freeman tried desperately in i will be held at Graham temple Edrd ft. MlUer, 48. 30O5 Grand avenue Minnesota, institute of agricul the closing weeks of the 1955! church, 524 Lyndale avenue N. 30 daa In worknvuse, aiw liOU luie ture, will speak at the annual it-gisiaiure 10 win support ior Speakers for the remaining evening sessions will include leaders in the church's interna Presidinir.

over the congress, the pay-as-you-go plan for col meeting of the Minnesota In which will have the theme. "I found several good baby sitting jobs through my Want Ad in the Baby Sitters' Guide," says Mrs. Myrtle Smith of 7645 Bryant avenue S. You, too, will be pleased with the fast action of low bred Livestock Registry associ tional youth movement. ation on the C.

N. McMahan and has inter-library loan privileges with the Minneapolis library. Last year the system, borrowed 1.393 books from the Minneapolis library to fill definite requests by patrons. Each community provides and maintains its county library building. Ten are located in schools, seven in their own building, four in town halls, three in stores and one is a special branch at Glen Lake sana The company picnic emphasizes the democracy of American industry, if only by 1'ie way it demonstrates that ie chigger makes no distinction anion? the echelons of management.

Trouble is. of course, that the father who keeps hearing about kow uneducated today's children are is naturally ashamed to admit that his kids teem to know twice as much as he did at the same age. Delegates and visitors will farm near Excelsior July 18. come from all parts of the on A hit-run charge. Norman D.

Crr, 34. 4116 Forty-third avenue 111)0. Dcnald MrArdrt, 2, 12S Central avenue dl. CAIUU. DRIVING Earl E.

Srhoiu, 3. 5SS7 Thlrty-aerenth avenue FAILING TO STOP FOR TOP SHG1 CfcarieK PrerwMi. 6 naval air baae, lieid, 5100. DRIVING AfTHI SVsrENStON OP Arlrtso M. 17.

Sano jr. sitft street. 'W days; aiso IS Ir speeding, Sa fur careless drrtir.i and foe avowing an un-authurlzed person 1c diive hu cax. United States and Canada L. M.

Winters, association secretary, said members will lecting state income taxes, hut was balked by the conservative senate. "I still believe that the pay-a-vou-go plan is eminently fair, administratively more efficient and will produce substantially more revenue," Freeman said. "Christ Is Ixrd of Life," will be Bishop O. T. Jones Philadelphia, Fa dim-tor of religious education of the Church of God in Christ, There will be daily sessions devoted to Bible study, counseling seminars, educational and western Europe, Africa and the visit the Rosemount agricul West Indies.

cost Want Ads in the Baby Sitters' Guide. To place your ad just call ATlantic Sill, ask for a Want Ad-viser, rive her your ad and simply ety, "Charge it." tural experiment station and the southern school and experl- Bishop J. W. Graham Is pas tor of Graham temple church ment station at Waseca July 19. torium..

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