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Dial DI 4-6100 Stevens Boint Daily Journal Dial DI 4-6100 SIXTY-THIRD YEAR OF FULL THE LEASED ASSOCIATED WIRE SERVICE PRESS STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957 COPY 6c TWENTY PAGES Gein Also Admits He Killed Mary Hogan Reopen Division St. Widening Proposal Board of Public Works, Commission official to come the matter. The revived plan ties in with the new physical education building for Central State College, expected to be started in 1958. A new sanitary sewer will have to be laid under Division street to serve the building meaning that the street will be torn up. State and federal money would have paid for 85 per cent of the widening project in 1956.

If the offer is still open, the torn-up street can probably be repaired and improved at less cost to Stevens Point than if the city did it alone. The state and federal money come into the picture because Division street is the route of Highway 51. The widening project was orig inally rejected by the council after residents in the area contended that the would become a "speedway." residents also street, protested against the loss of which invited a State Highway to Stevens Point to discuss A proposal to widen Division street, killed by the Common Council in 1956, was reopened Tuesday night by the council can't act until it has all the necessary information which is expected to come from Piltz. Hiram Krebs, director of publie works, was instructed by the board to bring in a preliminary estimate of the cost of installing the Division street sewer. Before the board got into the Division street question, it heard CSC President William C.

Hansen explain the college's building plans. Storm Sewer Hansen said plans are now being prepared for the school's new physical education building, which will be located at the northwest corner of 4th avenue and N. Reserve street. The project, which will cost about $1,000.000, will probably get under way next summer. said Hansen, with completion likely by the fall of 1959.

In addition to the sanitary sewer, the city is also faced with a storm sewer problem there. Moses Creek runs through the low lying college property, and Krebs said enclosing it in a storm sewer would cost $100,000. However, Hansen said that he wouldn't object to leaving the stream exposed, providing its bed could be lowered to prevent flooding. The state engineer's approval would be needed for this plan, he added. During a discussion of the stream's flow.

Alderman Joseph Alfuth (9th Ward), said that in the 10 years he has lived in the area, he has seldom seen the stream dry and has never seen it leave its banks. Board To Study Sewer Request By Town Of Hull sewer service along old Highway 51 was taken under advisement by the Board of Public Works Tuesday night after a lengthy discussion failed to bring any immediate decision. The town is asking for city sewer service along a half-mile strip, extending 500 feet on either side of the road. The petition for sewers was presented to the Common Council at its October meeting, and was immediately referred to the Board of Public Works. Meeting at the City Hall last night, the board discussed the legal and technical aspects of the proposal, and finally decided to get more information.

One factor is the inadequacy of the present N. 2nd street sewer, which would serve the township area. "Should we go to the expense of a new sewer for people outside the city?" asked Alderman Carlton Rustad, (2nd Ward) and Verne Somers, superintendent of the water and sewage departments, questioned the advisability of serving outside areas without requiring annexation. Kurtzweil, not normally a member of board, I was filling in for Mayor P. M.

Vincent, who was out of the city. At one point, Rustad offered to entertain a motion to turn down the petition, but no one appeared willing to kill the matter immediately. The upshot of the affair is expected to be a meeting attended by members of the Board of Public Works and the Water and Sewage Commission, plus City Attorney L. Wanta. Whether Town of Hull officials will be invited to the meeting is open to question.

Controller Norman Meshak said they should be, "as a matter of courtesy." Rustad and Somers contended that the city should first look into other aspects before discussing the matter with the town. The city almost permitted one of the property owners on old 51 to hook up to a municipal sewer last summer. The council voted to let a tavern owner just north of the city connect to the sewer, then reversed its decision at a later meeting. Precedent? At that time, it was argued that trees in the parkway. Seek Information A.

W. Piltz, Wisconsin ids, division engineer for the State Highway Commission, will be invited to discuss the widen ing plan soon with the board. In addition to learning whether the proposal is still open, the board wants to whether the state and federal governments' share of the cost includes such items as tree removal and the repairing of driveway approaches. The board, which met at the City Hall, wrangled for a time last night over whether Piltz should be invited before the council goes on record in favor of the plan. Finally, it was decided that the extending the sewer to an undefined area might set a precedent, with the state Public Service Commission possibly ordering further extensions someday.

City sewers now serve the Village of Penney Co. Store Opens Thursday ond Section) The newest addition to Stevens Point's downtown business district will be formally opened with a ribbon ceremony Thursday morning at Participating in the short program at the J. C. Penney Co. store, 514 Main will be representatives of the company, city and civic groups.

At 9 o'clock the store will be opened to the public. In recent days, Penney employes have been at work arranging merchandise and displays and getting the store ready for the opening. Although the store is new, the Penney Co. has been in Stevens Point for many years since March 1924. At that time the company had stores in only about 500 communities.

It now has 700 stores. The new building here, erected by the Delzell Real Estate caintains 14,813 square feet of selling space. In its present building at 311 Main which it has occupied since coming to Stev. ens Point, Penney's has about 200 square feet of selling area. The store has a light brick front.

It has entrances onto Main street and to a paved parking lot in the rear, leading to College avenue. Modern fluorescent fixtures provide the lighting, and the floors are tiled. The firm has selling space on its main floor, balcony and downstairs. The main floor departments include women's furnishings and accessories, girls' men's, boys' and infants' wear, and family shoes. The women's outerwear de.

partment is located in the balcony. In the downstairs store are piecegoods, housewares, bedding, a curtain and drapery department and gifts. The store's layaway department is also downstairs. Both the gift department and a complete maternity department are new, said Earl Sentman, store manager. All other departments, especially shoes and women's sportswear, have been expanded, said Sentman, with a number of new lines added.

On the second floor, in the front of the store, is the office area. Here is located the manager's office, the accounting office and the merchandising office, where new goods are ordered. Although Penney's is a chain, each store does its own ordering from among the company's 000 manufacturing sources. The second floor area also contains a lunchroom for employes. The store has storage area in its basement, behind the downstairs departments.

A unique feature of the storage area is a "steam room." New clothes are moved into the room, two racks at a time, and steam large, out the wrinkles, saving the time of individual pressing. Although most customers will be getting their first look at the interior of the store Thursday, a number of clubs and other groups have toured the building in recent days, as work neared completion. (Pictures On Back Page Of See- Heart Attack Kills Wausau Hunter By The Associated Press A Wausau man today became the second hunter to die of a heart attack during the Wisconsin deer season. There also were six deaths by gunshot. Earl Roberts, 58, Wausau, died of a heart attack in a cabin near Tomahawk in Lincoln County.

He had been hunting with two companions since last Friday. A 22-year-old Oneida County hunter was shot through the right thigh late Tuesday while driving deer with a group of companions east of Pelican Lake. Fred Hageny of Monico was hospitalized Rhinelander. Kenneth Hoffman, 50, Shawano, was shot in the abdomen while hunting in Forest County, northeast of Seven Mile Lake, this morning. He was in critical condition in St.

Mary's Hospital Rhinelander, Results Of Lie Tests A Announced Ed Gein, Plainfield area head collector, admitted today that he killed Mrs. Mary Hogan, Town of Pine Grove tavernkeeper, Dec. 8, 1954. Gein admitted the murder under questioning in a lie detector test at the state Crime Laboratory at Madison. Announcement of the confession was made in a statement issued jointly by the crime lab and the various district attorneys and law enforcement officers involved in the investigation of the grisly findings at Gein's farm home six miles west of Plainfield.

Gein's confession came as funeral services for another victim, Mrs. Bernice Worden of Plainfield, were being held at the Plainfield Church. Park Ridge, but not unincorporated areas. An annexation petition from Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph F. Strong, who live in the Town of Hull at the cormer of Indiana avenue and Jordan lane, was held over for further study. That led to a discussion of the status of an annexation petition signed by eight property owners on the west side of Lindbergh avenue, between the north city limits and Stanley street. It was brought out that the petition is being held up in hopes of getting more signers in the area. "That's all pretty nice property," argued Meshak.

"Why should we hold them (the signers) up because of people who don't want to come in." Annexation of small parcels "costs us plenty," said Krebs, because the description of the city has to be rewritten each time. It is to the city's advantage, he said, to do as much annexing as possible in one stroke. Krebs said the city's policy is not to "push" annexation, and Meshak agreed. However, the controller added that a letter could be sent to property owners in the area saying that annexation is contemplated in the vicinity, "and if we don't hear from them, we can assume they're not interested. Certainly that's not soliciting annexation." The petitions were finally referred to Krebs and Alderman Joseph Alfuth (8th Ward) in whose ward the annexed property would lie.

They are to report to the board at its next meeting. Okay Petitions The eight signers of the petition on Lindbergh avenue are ter Jajewski, Martin Jajewski, Ed Sommers, 'Anton Stanislawski, Robert Kujawa, George Isackson, J. Ward Leary and Rufus F. Tetzloff. Petitions for curb and gutter on Georgia street, from Bukolt avenue to the north city limits, and for curb and gutter and blacktop on Prentice street, from 110 feet north of Korbal avenue to Maria drive, were approved by the board placed in the 1958 budget.

Held over for study was a petition for curb and gutter and blacktop on N. Frontenac avenue, from Main street to College avenue. Krebs was instructed to look into the possibility of acquiring land from the St. Joseph Cemetery Assn. to widen the 31-foot street, or come up with some other solution.

said that a committee (See Board, page 13), MARY HOGAN This is Mary Hogan, Town of Pine Grove tavernkeeper who disappeared on Dec. 8, 1954. Portage County Sheriff Herbert Wanserski said at Madison Tuesday that he is convinced that her head and face were among the grisly items found in the farm home of Ed Gein near Plainfield. ALMOST WED Woman Tells Of Dates She Had With Gein PLAINFIELD (AP) has admitted butchering a and kind and sweet" to the married him, the Minneapolis 28,675 Deer lagged In First Three Days MADISON (P The Conservation Department reported today that 28,675 deer were tagged at checking points throughout the state during the first three days of the hunting season. This compares with 35,561 reported killed last year.

The total, according to a report issued by blogolist Ruth L. Hine, includes 10,649 taken on party permits. It also includes registrations from the Nov. 16-18 any deer season in Mississippi River counties. The department did not issue a report on hunting conditions today.

Hunting continues through Sunday in all but seven Wisconsin counties for spiked horn bucks and for deer of any sex in the Bayfield special area. The majority of the kill has already taken place. Hunting has been almost at a standstill since late Monday due to heavy snow. The second weekend of the season generally has a slight upsurge in hunting pressure and kill but never approaches that of the opening weekend, Miss Hine said. Preliminary registration totals by areas reported: Northwest: 5,636, including 1,998 of these party permit deer and 959 from the special Bayfield any deer area.

Northeast: 10,218 including 4,900 permit deer. West Central: 10,547 including 3,751 permit deer. East Central: 1,359 spikedhorn bucks. Southern: 487 spiked horn bucks and 428 any sex deer from Grant and Crawford counties. The department will not issue a hunting report Thursday, Miss Hine said.

ACCUSED BUTCHER Ed Gein, (above), 51, rural Plainfield recluse, is pictured as he arrived at the state crime laboratory at Madison to undergo questioning in connection with the butcher-slaying of a Plainfield widow and the finding of bones and parts of bodies of many humans scattered about his rundown farm. Youth Tells Of Seeing Gein's Heads Sixteen-year-old Bob Hill, a junior at Tri-County High School at Plainfield, said Tuesday that he had seen two of the heads found in the Ed Gein home some time ago. The youth said Gein told him they had been sent to him from the Philippines by a cousin, explaining they were shrunken heads. He said he had not noticed any of the other grisly items found by investigators in Gein's home. The youth had been friendly with Gein, going to the movies and attending baseball games with him.

Gein was arrested Saturday night at Hill's home at West Plainfield, where the youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hill, run a grocery gasoline station. The killer had been friendly with the Hill family and had eaten his evening meal with the Hills Saturday. The body of Mrs.

Bernice Worden, Plainfield widow who operated a hardware store in the village, was found hanging in a lean-to off Gein's home Saturday by Arthur Schley of Waushara County while Gein was at the Hill home. Gien, bachelor recluse who Plainfield woman, was "good woman who said she almost Tribune said in a copyrighted interview. Adeline Watkins, 50, who lives with her mother in a small apartment here, said that during a 20- year romance with Gein he "was SO nice about doing things I wanted to do, that sometimes I felt I was taking advantage of A Tribune reporter quoted her as saying she had her last date with Gein Feb. 6, 1955. night he proposed to me.

Not in SO many words, but I knew what he meant." Miss Watkins, described by the Tribune as a plain woman with graying bangs and horn-rimmed glasses, said "I turned him down, but not because there was anything wrong with him. It was something wrong with me. I guess I was afraid I wouldn't be able to live up to what he expected of me." The Tribune quoted Miss Watkins' widowed mother as saying Gein was a "sweet, polite man, and that she told him to have her daughter in from dates by 10 p.m. and never failed me Miss Watkins, the story related, said she and Gein used to discuss books. "We never read the same ones, but we liked to talk about them anyway.

Eddie liked books about lions and tigers and Africa and India. I never read that kind of books. "I guess we discussed every murder we ever heard about. Eddie told how the murderer did wrong, what mistakes he had made. I thought it was interesting." When they went out, the story said, they usually went to a movie at nearby Wautoma.

Sometimes they visited taverns Plainfield and Wisconsin Rapids. "I liked to drink beer sometimes, but I would almost have to drag Eddie into a tavern," Miss Watkins was quoted as saying. "He would much rather have gone to a drugstore for a milk shake." 10th Anniversary LONDON Telegrams showered on Buckingham Palace today as well-wishers of many lands congratulated Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their 10th wedding anniversary. The text of the statement, leased about 2 o'clock this afternoon: "The lie detector tests of Edward Gein have now been completed, and after consultation with the several interested district attorneys, we are able at this time to state that the results of the tests referred to eliminate the subject, Edward Gein, 51 years of age, as the person responsible for involved in the disappearance of Evelyn Hartley in La Crosse County on Oct. 24, 1953; the disappearance of Georgia Jean Weckler in Jefferson County May 1, 1947, Victor Tavis in Adams County Nov.

1, 1952. "Mr. Gein has now admitted that he is responsible for the death of Mary Hogan in Portage County on Dec. 8, 1954 and Bernice Worden in Waushara County Nov. 16, 1957.

"The release, jointly concurred in by the interested local officials is being made to eliminate Mr. Gein from unnecessary suspicion and conjecture. "An avalanche of physical evidence has been recovered which will take weeks and possibly months to completely evaluate and process. When this is done, the results will be made known to the proper local officials. A photograph has been prepared and is attached.

We believe this photograph to be in as good taste as possible under the circumstances. This photograph indicates the amount of physical evidence which must now be meticulously evaluated and examined. "Releases concerning dence in the cases enumerated must be made by the proper local officials. "No amplifications can be made concerning this release. "The success of the investigative efforts in the five cases referred to is due principally to the cooperation of all interested law enforcement agencies and particularly the following:" The statement then goes on to enumerate various law enforcement officers and district attorneys who worked on the case, including men from Waushara, Wood, Portage, Adams, Green Lake and Marquette Counties and personnel of the Crime Laboratory.

It is signed by Crime Lab Supt. Charles M. Wilson. Portage County Dist. Atty.

John J. Haka telephoned the statement to the Daily Journal this afternoon. At Wautoma, Dist. Atty. Earl Kileen said this afternoon he will issue a first degree murder warrant against Gein "tomorrow, if the ballistics report is completed" and will ask the court to order a sanity hearing for the killer immediately upon arraignment.

Portage County Sheriff Herbert J. Wanserski told reporters at Madison Tuesday one of the heads found in Gein's collection was that of Mrs. Hogan. "We've got a head and face that is her's (Mrs. Hogan's) without question," Wanserski told newsmen gathered at the Crime Laboratory while Gein waited to undergo a lie test.

Wanserski said the head in question actually is facial skin and hair peeled only, from the skull, but said he could identify it. (Miss Hogan disappeared in the late afternoon. A pale green pick up truck was the object of a wide search at the time, but had never been completely explained. Harold S. Thompson was sheriff at the time here.

A blue, 1942-model pick-up truck was found on Gein's Also found on the floor of Mrs. Hogan's tavern were a pool of blood, an open magazine and a spent .32 caliber automatic pistol cartridge. hair Wanserski said the face and identified as Miss Hogan's smelled of embalming fluid, then added, "but remember, she disappeared and never was seen again she wasn't buried." Wanserski indicated he felt that all the 10 or more heads found at Gein's farm were the result of murder when he re(See Gein, page 13), SHERIFF WANSERSKI Some Schools Still Closed; Five Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wisconsin today still felt the etfects of a big November storm that resulted in the loss of five lives Monday and Tuesday, Rural schools in many northern areas remained closed today because buses could not travel on secondary roads. Town roads still were blocked on Oneida, Vilas and Iron counties this morning. Rhinelander had 16 inches of snow on the ground.

Main highways north and west of a line from Dubuque, Iowa, through Madison, to Iron Mountain, had long slippery stretches of compact snow today. South and east of that line highways were in good condition, except for slippery stretches in urban areas. The snow storm claimed its fifth life, when Art Saugen, 50, Eau Claire, died of a heart attack Tuesday after shoveling a path through snow before the furniture store he operated, Temperatures last night were in the 20s or near normal for the season. Park Falls and Beloit recorded the lowest mark 23 degrees. The highs Tuesday ranged from 42 at Green Bay to 27 at Park Falls and Superior.

Most of the state today had cloudy weather with snow flurries. Alamosa, was the nation's coldest spot early today with 8 below zero. Vero Beach and Palm Beach, topped the country Tuesday with 87, Insanity Plea To Be Entered: Gein's Attorney William Belter, Wautoma attorney and former assemblyman, was retained Tuesday as counsel by Ed Gein, Plainfield area farmer who admits murder and grave robbery. Belter said a plea of innocent by reason of insanity will be entered when Gein is arraigned in Waushara County Court Monday on an armed robbery charge. He is being held under $10,000 bond on that charge in connection with the theft of a cash register at the Worden Hardware and Implement Store in Plainfield Satur day.

Meanwhile. Dist. Atty. Earl Kileen of Waushara County said he had been "spanked" by the attorney general's office for revealing so much detail about the findings at Gein's farm. Kileen said the state said they feared that Gein would be unable to get a fair trial in Waushara County as a result of the disclosures.

He pointed out that a defendant must be considered innocent until proven guilty. At Madison, Atty. Gen. Stewart Honeck said he did not personally issue the warning to Kileen, but admitted it had come from his office. The Weather WISCONSIN Mostly cloudy and continued cold with occasional snow flurries tonight and Thursday.

Snow flurries occasionally heavy near Lake Superior. Low tonight 20-25. High Thurs: day 26-33. Winds--west to southwesterly 12-24 m.p.h. today, gradually becoming northwesterly late this atfernoon and tonight, continuing northwesterly 12-25 m.p.h.

Thursday. Stevens Point Temperatures Yesterday's maximum, 33. Last night's minimum, 25. Noon today, 30. Extended forecasts: WISCONSIN, UPPER -Temperatures will average 2-5 degrees below normal.

Normal high 20-36 northwest, 36-42 southeast, Normal low 16-25 northwest, 25-31 southeast. Continued cold through Friday, becoming a little warmer Saturday or Sunday. Precipitation will average one-quarter to one half inch with snow flurries tonight and Thursday and showers or snow flurries again Sunday or Monday,.