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1 Oshkosh Northwestern 4 Nov. 12, 1957 i A Fruit Garden Growers Hear Editor Speak What was probably his last visit to Oshkosh in an official capacity was made Monday evening by II. J. Rahmlow, Madison, editor of Wisconsin Horticulture Magazine and secretary of the Wisconsin Horticulture Society. He spoke at the annual dinner meeting of the Winnebago County Fruit and Garden Growers Association held at Peace Lutheran Church.

A pre-Thanksgiving family 1 11 LEGIONNAIRES HAVE DOUBLE CELEBRATION Frazier, president of the Past Commanders Club; Mrs. Norman Kcehler, president of the Legion Auxiliary; Albert Osmus, commander of the post, and Carlton H. Foster, master of ceremonies for the dinner. Cook-Fuller Post 70 of American Legion observed Veterans' Day and the 25th anniversary of the purchase of their clubhouse with a dinner Monday evening. Legion officials admiring a replica of the clubhouse are, from left, R.

W. BUILDING ON LAKE STREET BURNS TMCunoccupied building at 150 Lake was 710 Algoma where considerable dam-the scene of one of two serious fires Monday. age was done to the interior. One fireman was The other was at the home of Mrs. Viola Laude, formerly was a clubhouse but now Legon Posf Observes Two Occasions in One Veterans' Day Dinner Is Celebration Also Of Clubhouse's 25th Anniversary Event Ekiensive Damage Done in Two Fires Rooming House Operated by Woman Who Lost leg Scene of Blaze; Fireman Injured walls into the attic of the 214-story Will Admit Students To Driver Course The adult driver training pro gram at Oshkosh Vocational School will be opened to compulsory age students without cost, it was de cided Monday evening at a meeting of the board of vocational and adult education.

This was done at the request of the school director, Arthur C. Lar-sen, who said he has received re quests from some compulsory age students at the school. However, it was left to the de termination of the director as to who will be eligible after explanation by Mr. Larsen that he does not desire to hamper the present adult driver training program, which has a constant waiting list of applicants. In accordance with minimum standards set up by the state board of vocational and adult education, the board voted to seek certification from the state on the two-year electrical technology rro-gram offered here.

Available Two Years Such a program has been avail able at the local school for about the last two years, but it has been only recently that the state committee has set up minimum standards for certification in this field. Acceped by the board was the resignation of Mrs. Suzanne L. Ratzburg, secretary to the school coordinators, and the director was advised to seek a replacement for her. Approval was given for adjust ment of the contract for Richard Hall, instructor in general subjects and driver training, with salary schedule provision for married men.

He will be married Nov. 23, and the upgrading in salary will amount to an additional $300 a year. Considerable interest has been shown for offering of a metallurgy course at Vocational School. Such a course will be started the second semester, the director said, if course material is available. Looking for Quarters Mr.

Larsen indicated he Is still looking for suitable quarters outside of the school that can be used for a course in paperhanging the second semester, as requested by the trade. Several more possibilities suggested will be explored by the director. The director was authorized by the board to trade in three old style models and purchase five new sewing machines, including one portable, for a price of $559.26. An amount of $550 is provided in the budget for this purpose. There has been good response by enrollment in the six-week brtish-up course in typewriting that started this week at the school, Mr.

Larsn said, and more registrations are expected during the week, It is being offered at no cost to the individual, Mondays through Fridays of each week, from a.m., for those who have a background in typewriting and desire employment at present day standards. Monthly bills amounting to $3,321.70 were allowed by the board. Past Commanders Of Legion Speak At Merrill School Russell Hoxtell, J. W. Timmer-man and George Fuhs, all past commanders of Cook-Fuller Post No.

70, American Legion, were the speakers at a Veterans' Day observance held Monday afternoon at Merrill Junior High School. The program also included armed services songs by the ninth grade chorus under the direction of Miss Gertrude Schlerf, the "Star Spangled Banner," played by the Merrill band under the direction of Robert Smith, and the pledge of allegiance to the American flag. Preceding the talks was a presentation of the colors by Boy Scouts. Chairman of the Veterans Day program was George Haszel, Mer rill Junior High faculty member and a veteran of World War II. All Merrill students and faculty paused at 11 o'clock Monday morning to face the East in commemoration of Veterans' Day.

Skwks-k the post three years later was told by Charles F. Nolan. Oshkosh was host for a second time to the state American Legion convention in 1953, E. Gillum added to the oral history. Russell Hoxtell, past commander, brought the account up to date with a sum mary of current American Legion and post programs.

Hoxtell as he concluded his presentation awarded the past com mander's lapel button to George Fuhs, immediate past commander. Community singing, led by Dale Allen and accompanied by Mrs. Ade Andrews, concluded the pro gram. Members sang "God Bless America" in closing, and the bene diction was said by the post chap-lain. Volunteers Of 17 Counties To Meet Here Red Cross volunteers from 17 east-central Wisconsin chapters will meet at Winnebago Court house lounge at 1:30 Thursday to begin plans for the 1958 Red Cross fund campaign.

All Oshkosh Chapter personnel concerned with fnnd raising have been asked to attend the 1:30 to 3:30 session. Similar invitations have been is sued in the other chapters of the region as preparations begin for the campaign. Principal speaker at the meeting will be Jerome E. Host, Milwaukee, the 1958 fund vice chairman for Wisconsin. He will speak on "Outlook for 1958." An Oshkosh RC volunteer, W.

Walton, is the regional fund vice chairman. He will speak to the group on advance gift division ofj each chapter driye. Theodore C. Widder Oshkosh Chapter fi nance chairman, will discuss the use of a time table in campaign preparation and execution. Also scheduled to speak is Mrs.

John Proctor, Kewaunee, who is volunteer field consultant. Her top ic will be volunteers in fund raising. Presiding at the meeting will be Irving G. Reamer, chairman of the Oshkosh Chapter and host for the regional planning meeting. Mrs.

Hotchkiss Dies in California Mrs. George Hotchkiss, 74, of Glendale, and formerly of Oshkosh, died Monday at her home in Glendale, according to information received today by her brother-in-law, Robert Waters of Oshkosh. She was the daughter of the late Josephine and William McCourt and was born in Oshkosh, June 15, 1883. She moved to Glendale in 1918. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.

W. Earl Sams, Sacramento, and Mrs. Edward Albright, Reseda, one son, Rolland Hotchkiss, Los Angeles, and several grandchildren. Funeral services and the burial will take place at Glendale Wednesday. on Fire -officials reported extensive daroa in two fires -Monday, one of them at the residence of a women who lost a leg in the explosion of an air compressor less than six weeks go.

The fire department was called at 2:5 p.m. to the residence of! Mrs. Viola Laude, 710 Algoma nd at 10:16 p.m. to a vacant building on Lake St. Pvt.

Richard Sagmeister had six stitches- taken in the little finger of his Heft hand which was cut while Be was helping fight the. blaze at the Laude home. Fireihief Otto Stoegbauer said the LaQde fire started in the base ment and extended up through the Nonobjection Will Be Filed Agpinst Gates City 3Uty. Fintan M. Flanagan said today the city will not ob ject to 4he Public Service Commis sion ovpr a petition by the Chica co Northwestern Railroad for fully automatic gates at inter-city crossings.

The PSC has scheduled a public hearina on the petition for 10 o'clockJThursday at City Hall. The city attorney said the city has been assured by railroad officials that fully automatic control of the 'jates will keep the crossings open except when trains are approaching or on the crossings. Gates are presently part-manually controlled during 16 hours of every! 24 from a tower just north of Washington Boulevard. The gate-man's duty is to assure crossing gates are lifted when no train is. approaching.

The decision to offer no protest came as a result of a conference between the city manager and the city attorney, following a request by the Council that the need for manual controls be investigated. Atty. Flanagan said the city will ask the PSC to insure statements by tha railroad that automatic gate operation will not block cross ings unnecessarily. Criminal Sentenced VIENNA flJ.R) A Czech mur-a to of on style dinner was served by members of the JOY society. Edgar Abraham, club secretary, gave the prayer and Vernon W.

Peroutky, county agricultural agent, served as toastmaster. Accordion selections were played by Miss Nancy Miller, Sunset Point. Mr. Rahmlow will retire on Jan. I after more than 30 years in his present position.

During the past three decades he had worked close ly with a number of Oshkosh peo ple and organizations. Before 1927 he had taught agriculture in high schools and had been a county agent. History of Society He spoke of the history of the Wisconsin Horticulture Society, telling of its organization in 1865 at Janesville at what was then the state fair. Wisconsin pioneers then experimenting with fruit raising exhibited 200 varieties of apples, none of which would be recognized today. Efforts were made to learn what would grow here and of seeds planted perhaps one seeding would result.

Horticultural-ists then were not specialists as they are today, Mr. Rahmlow said. Their efforts were recorded and discussed at annual conventions and in 1871 the work of the society was recognized by the Legislature which granted it an appropriation to assist the program In 1905 society had its first secretary with a salary, Frederick Cranefield, and offices in the capi-tol which were later shifted to the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin. He continued for 22 years and was succeeded by Rahmlow in 1927. The history of the association and its growth through the years was outlined.

Motion pictures were shown of spray programs and of grafting fruit trees. Wife Granted Divorce From Station Manager Mary Jean. Embury, 31, of Osh kosh, was granted a divorce by Circuit Judge Helmuth F. Arps today from Howard Allan Embury, 41, on her charge of desertion. Embury, former manager of Ra dio Station WOSH in Oshkosh, now manages stations in Green Bay and Waupaca.

Mrs. Embury said her husband had refused to live with her and their children for over a year and had refused to move them to Green Bay. They were married in Milwaukee-irrOctober, 1947, and have four children. Care and custody of the children was awarded to Mrs. Embury, who also received $85 a week support, household furniture and attorney's fees.

The husband is to pay $275 in current debts, is to carry medical and hospital insurance on the children and is to turn over to the wife $20,000 worth of insurance on his life with the children as beneficiaries. The $35 a week support is contingent on a salary of $7,800 a year, with support payments to be increased i the salary is increased. Call Meeting Of Captains Of A meeting of the 10 captains in the Oshkosh YMCA membership drive, Dec. 2-9, has been called for Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the activity center, 107 Church St Captains selected for the campaign are Richard Lowell, Eugene Deaton, William Walton, Dean Lichtenberg, Ralph Hensch, John Vette, E.

C. Garthwaite, A. Lundquist, Melvin Kleinschmidt and James Bruins. They will be captains of 100 workers who will be seeking at least 600 renewals and new mem berships and $1,000 for main tenance. Students Topic of Following is the second in a se ries of American Education Week essays, written by top ranking Oshkosh High School English students and appearing each evening this week in the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.

Today's essay, based on the theme "What Our Schools Should Achieve," was written by Barbara Ziebell, a member of the junior class at OHS. "Schools should achieve a great many things throughout the years that a student attends. "For one thing, schools should be concerned not only with teaching contained used furniture which was to have been used in a deer hunting cottage. The building was gut ted and the-furniture badly dam-, aged. Firemen said the fire began in a leanto at the rear of the building and spread to the main part of the structure, which was cov ered with flames when they arrived, There was one other fire call -damage was re ported to the wiring of a 1947 two-door sedan owned by Arietta Prickett, 10814 High St.

Radiator alcohol boiled over onto the hot motor and ignited at 16th and South Main Streets at 11:57 p.m. College Club To Hear About Russian Visit A Kaukauna industrialist will provide members Oshkosh State College International Relations Club with a first-hand account of his visit to Russia when the campus organization meets at 7 o'clock Thursday evenine in the Demonstration Room of the Campus School. The speaker is Vincent Rohlf, president of Badger Northland, manufacturer of general farm machinery. Mr. Rohlf was a member of a group of Americans which toured the Soviet Union recently under the auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture.

He will illustrate his talk with photographic slides which he took during bis tour of Russia. Officers of the International Re lations Club, which has about 25 members, include Mary Ann Nitkowski. Oshkosh, president; John Grey, vice Jacqueline Peters, Oshkosh, secre tary-treasurer; and Charles Bod mer, Appleton, corresponding sec retary. Dr. Edward Noyes is fac ulty adviser to the club.

Births (The following births were re ported at Mercy Hospital from noon Monday to noon today.) Fredrick Reinke, Winneconne, a boy. Francis Sierkierke, 88 School a boy. Raymond Pucci, Rt. 4, Box 523, Oshkosh, a boy. Richard Reichenbergef, 13491 Durfee a girl.

Donald Winter, 311 10th a girl. Obituary MINDL, Fred 461 Bowen St. Sprvices were held today at 2 p.m. at St. John's Evangelical Lu theran Church, with the Rev.

Er- ling V. Rabe officiating. The choir sang, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Roy Miller. Pallbearers were John M.

Bangert, Roland C. Bunke, Gilbert W. Gomoll, R. Leo Kirchhoff, Arthur G. Roycraft and Ernst G.

Otto. Color guard and firing squad of Cook-Fuller Post 70 of American Legion con ducted military rites at the grave in Riverside Cemetery. RUNKE, Mrs. Adolf, 330 23rd St. Services were held today at 2 p.m.

at Marquardt Funeral Home, with Roger Marquardt, of Jeho vah's Witnesses, officiating. Joan Zock sang, accompanied at the or gan by Mrs. Ruby Seelmacher. Pallbearers were Adam Roland, Edward Dornbach. William Suda, Stephen Suda, Rudolph Mittel-staedt and Richard Stang.

Burial was in Lakeview Memorial Park. PETERS, Lester 93 First Ave. Services were held today at 3:30 p.m. at Marquardt Funeral Home, with the Rev. H.

O. Kleinhans, pastor of Martin Luther Church, officiating. Mrs. Ruby Seelmacher played the organ. Pallbearers were Bruce Peters, Clarence Fischer, Bruce Staerkel, Virgil Helms, Darrell Allen and Norbert Allen.

Burial was in Lakeview Memorial Park. Cook-Fuller Post, American Legion, and its auxiliary dined on turkey at American Legion Clubhouse Monday evening to mark Veterans' Day and the 23th anniversary of the clubhouse purchase. Some 100 members were in at- endance at the country-style din ner and the program which fol lowed. Post Chaplain Loren Sheets pronounced the invocation as mem bers stood for a silent memorial to those members who have died. Chess Club Gains Tie In Appleton Meet Oshkosh Chess Club players partially atoned for a previous defeat with a 4-4 tie with the Apple- ton Chess Club in a match at Ap pleton Monday night.

The Oshkosh players almost, but not quite, avenged an 8-1 humilia tion handed out by the Appleton club in a match here last year. In that match, Oshkosh failed to win a game, scoring its only point on two draws. Last night, Peter Webster, Du ane Brasch, and Paul Murphy scored points for Oshkosh while Joseph Heinen and Donald Botz each got a half-point by drawing Webster, playing board No. 2, defeated Waldo Haisley. On board No.

1, with top players on each club clashing, Oshkosh's Joseph Virovatz lost to Andrew Berry. Heinen drew with Duane Bates on board No. 3 and on No. 4, Botz got a half-point by tying Paul Ko- losso. Brasch won over Hans Huse on board No.

5, but on boards 6 and 7, John Hastings and Glenn Ko plitz of Oshkosh lost to George Sattler and Richard Foelker, respectively. Murphy, playing board No. 8, defeated George Lauter bach. Tentative plans are for the Osh kosh club to host the Appleton players at a return match sometime in January. The Oshkosh club will have its usual weekly meeting Wednesday night at City Hall Annex, club sec retary Brasch announced.

Reports Boathouse Entered, Radio Taken LuVern Kienast, 624 Jefferson reported to police Monday night that his boathouse at the foot of Mill Street had been broken into some time after 9:45 p.m. that night. Police said entry had apparently been gained by breaking a pane of glass in the door. Missing were items and cash amounting to $79.20 value. They in cluded a portable radio, two cases of beer, three bottles of brandy and $14 in cash from a cigar box in the refrigerator.

Write On Education subjects but also with helping pupils get along with people. If students learn to get along with teenagers and teachers, then they will be able to make and keep friends all through life. "Schools should help students prepare to support themselves and those dependent on them, and to use leisure time properly. Some how, the latter aids students to do better work in classes. "In order really to achieve, schools should also teach high ideals and inspire pupils to make the most of themselves in every way." The program which followed recounted the history of the American Legion and of the post, including the roll call of past commanders and auxiliary presidents.

Members were welcomed by Post Comdr. Albert Osmus who in troduced post officers. Mrs. Nor man Koehler, auxiliary president, called the roll of the dozen past presidents in attendance and intro duced officers of the organization. Arnold Van Ravenstein, post adju tant, read the roll of past post commanders.

Cook-Fuller Post, first known as Atley Cook Post, began at the organization of the American Legion at St. Louis, in 1919, Carlton H. Foster reminded the dinner party. Acting as master of ceremonies for the program, he re called his attendance at the first national organizational meeting and his return to Oshkosh with the local charter. He was present, too, at the first national American Legion convention held at Minneapolis, Minn.

Tells of Clubhouse Effort Continuing, Foster spoke of the effort entailed by all members in purchase of the clubhouse in 1932. He called the roll of clubhouse committee History of the clubhouse, once the Oshkosh Yacht Club, continued as Edwin Marheine recounted the 1939 state convention episode when the post was host to the state American Legion. Funds resulting from the convention helped pay the mortgage and improve the building. Earl Fuller retold the gala burning of the mortgage in 1942, and the instance of renaming Engineer To Address SAM Valley Group Irving M. Footlik, president of Irving Footlik Associates, consulting engineers, Skokie, 111., will be guest speaker when members of the Fox Valley Chapter, Society for Advancement of Management, meets Thursday in Oshkosh.

The 7 o'clock dinner meeting will be held at Hotel Athearn with Robert Pollack of Hardware Mutual, as chairman. "New Ideas in Material Hand ling" will be the subject of Footik's talk. His firm specializes in materials handling and plant layout. In addition to his consultant work, Footlik is an author, college instructor and a practical engineer. His consulting activities find him with clients rated among the top 500 of the country.

Officials of the societj said that non-members are welcome to at-tend. Purposes of the society include developing efficiency through use of scientific methods and promotion of common interests of management, stockholders, labor, government, and the public. Chest Gifts Pass $90,000 Community Chest collections totaled $90,001.99 today, 73 per cent of the $122,515.85 goal of the 1957 drive as officials called for completion of the annual campaign to support Red Feather agencies. In. an appeal to residents today, Carl Biederman, campaign chairman, asked individual families' to "move those envelopes along." The residential drive is being conducted on a neighbor-to-neighbor basis with envelopes to collect the "sugar bowl" gifts.

Biederman said the Chest office has had many requests for the envelopes. "Your neighbors are waiting for those envelopes with their Community Chest gifts," he reminded residents today. "Please take them over right away." frame able fire and smoke damage. The Laude residence is a room ing house for Oshkosh State Col lege students, several of whom were in the building when the blaze was discovered. Those in the house at the time the alarm was turned in told firemen they had smelled smoke 30 to 45 minutes earlier.

Five of the department's seven companies of firemen responded to the alarm. One company was returning to its quarters at 4:28 p.m. when an alarm was sounded from a box on Broad and School: Streets. That company and the two companies not called to the; Laude fire went to the scene but found it to be a false alarm Mrs. Laude was returned to her home recently after being hospi talized Oct.

4 by the explosion of an air compressor being used to fill balloons for an Oshkosh High School Homecoming celebration One leg was so badly injured that amputation below the knee was necessary. Unoccupied Building The other severe fire Monday occurred in an unoccupied build ing at 150 Lake owned by Gus- tave H. Wesenberg, 142 Lake and may have been started by children playing with matches, fire officials said, Wesenberg told firemen he had difficulty keeping children from playing around the building, which Change Bid Date for OSC Student Union The date for opening bids on a new student union building at Osh kosh State College has been changed from Thursday, Dec. 5, Wednesday, Dec. 11, it was announced today by Julius Sandstedt, the Oshkosh firm of Sandstedt Knoop, architect and designer of the union.

Bids will be opened at 2 p.m. the latter date at Madison, the Oshkosh architect said. The two-story building, part of long-range ouiwing program at. with vastly greater union facilities than they now have available to to them at the Reeve Memorial Union, 388 Algoma Blvd. The new structure will be erect ed on college-owned property at 400 and 406 Algoma with construction expected to begin im mediately after the awarding contracts.

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