Leader-Telegram from Eau Claire, Wisconsin • 3

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN T- WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1951 EAlhCLAIREtEADER-3 Teachers Colleges May Change Name i -i i i i Bill for Liberal Arts Courses Introduced Trempealeau Schools Assn. Elects Officers Dunn Wa rden Seeking Sayer of Wild Swan ttra federal -war-den headquarters. The bird, ac-eordingto Champney, can be disposed of only by the federal authorities and may not be sold, but given, to some institution for consumption. Less than a year old, as shown by the brown feathers on its if 5 i i eadand nexky the bird-weighed about.18 pounds. Killing of the bird is a federal Champney pointed out, with a heavy penalty attached.

This is because the birds produce only one egg per pair each year, he explained. 1 frnntav Piflr rilfimnr Cl, Milton F. Zlebell, right, regimental conimumlt JlUIIICr IXllie Vnump from Oshkosh, presents the trophy earned as reK. mental rifle champions to Sgt. F.

C. Walter Meyer, captain of tlie wliming team of i of the Stanley National Guard. The presentation was made at the Stanley Annnry Wednesday evening. The rest of Ihe teaiiu right lo left, are kneeling, I'fc. lark Melloh, M.

Sijt. liar" old Isenberger, Sfft. F. C. IHuyt'iie I.ahr; standhig, Mgt.

C. Dale Itootli, I.t. Joseph Pawluk, Cpl. Gerald Witt and Cpl. Murray Brothen.

Stanley Company Rifle Team Receives Regimental Trophy STANLEY'. (Special-) Colonel Milton F. Zichcll. regimental commander from Oshkosh presented the 4L'0 Infantry .22 calibre rifle champion traveling trophy to Sgt. Walter.

Meyer, captain of the firing team of Company of the local National Guard at Stanley at the unit's drill Wednesday The coveted trophy was won r. an I I 1 -I shoot Jan. 2S. Previously the Stanley uiiit turned in the best per-formance of the five area battalion units. Boyceville Wild Swan ney and Mrs.

C. M. Russell, Menomonle, are shown above examining the body of the' wild swan that was wantonly killed north of Boyceville Sunday. Such swans are protected by federal law and killing one draws a heavy penalty. I 1 jChai rmort-Attacks Education 'Big Shots' WHITEHALL iSp.Mial.) Ten directors -of the Trempea.

County Rural Schools association were selected at the annual meeting at the Ettrick community hall They are Carroll Carhart, and Leonard Trempealeau: Mrs. Bernard h'tellpflug, Aimer Hammer. Orville Suttie and i Mrs. Siij Waislu, Calesville; C.ii.l Reinhoid, Independence; Sid- ney Stuflien. Blair; John Olson, Arcadia; and Joe Rcbhahn, Dod.qe.

i Reinhoid. was elected a 1 r-man and Mrs. Stellpflug, seqre- tary. Kciniiom commented accomplishments of. the association in the past fiscal year.

He said in part; Legislation Efforts "We have enjoyed a very eventfiil and, we feel. a "success- fful year. -Most of our eiforts have been spent in. the interest of legislation, to secure fan' and equitable, school laws; "TUt flswMMation- has-a to fulfill. In the field of education itself, we find that our educational 'big shots' have cm-barked on a system, of teaching theory and technicality without regard for.

subjects leaditi'g to. basic or fundamental knowledge." Arnold Fraedrieh of Nekoosa, officer the state rural schools' assoctat ion7 was the tea-' ture speaker of the meeting, discussing legislation, taxation and school laws. Ray Woestman of Caledonia township tallied brielfy on Farm Bureau sales tax bill. News of Area Servicemen BLOOMER Pvt. Merlin D.

Cronin, son of Mr. and Mrs, Con. nie C. Cronin, has been assigned to the food service squadron of the 23rd Fighter Inter- ceptor Wing at the Presque Isle Air Force base, Me. He recently completed a course at the Sixth Army jood service school a Camp Cooke, CaliL WHITEHALL Floyd M.

Hanson, son of Fred O. Hanson, was recently promoted to cor- nnriil nt Vt S. where he Is personnel management specialist with the 61st Infantry regiment. MENOMONIE Lt George F. Alt, 1214 Ninth arrived at San Diego, recently, with his ship, the aircraft car- rlor Vallnu FnrirA.

The Vnl. ley Forge had been in the Far East for nine months and was the first to launch planes against the North Korean forces. Donald D. Park, chief engine- man, husband of Mrs. Elizabeth M.

Park, 1201 Taintcr. re-cently visited ports in Algeria, Italv. Greece. -Turkey and the French Riviera. He Is serving aboard, the radar picket submarine USS Requln operating with the Sixth fleet in Mediter ranean waters.

AUGUSTA Henry H. Han. son. class, is serving aboard the radar pic ket submarine USS Kequin operating with the Sixth fleet In Medi-tcrranean waters. He recently visited ports in Algeria, Italy, Greece, Turkey and the French Riviera.

Mrs. Fred W. Gicbel Dies at Fatrchild AUGUSTA (Special) Mrs. Fred W. Giebel, 71, died sudden ly from a heart attack Monday evening at her home In Fair- child.

She had been recovering from a recent: siege of pneu monia. V.n Thursday at 2 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran church In Augusta, ths Rev. Henry Honcbein officiating.

Burial will be at the West Side xcmetcraFr ends may call at Wednesday, and -until noon Thursday. Mrs. Giebel was born a raised in Aucusta. She lived in ly Company (1 at' tieJimi''nTa'l The Stanley company also won the trophy. year.

Winning Team Other members of the 1 n-ning team besides Meyer were Lt. Joseph Pawlak of Thorp, Sgt. First ClasS Eugene Lahr, Sgt. First Class Dale Booth, Master Isenbergcr, Cpl. Murray Brothen, Cpl.

Ger- aid Witt and Pfc Jack Melioh of Stanley. Also here for the presentation were Maj. George Hcnebry, and Maj. Alford Shellum of Oshkosh, Capt. Eugene Vogel of Arcadia, Maj.

Gile Herrick of Arcadia and Lt. Col. Hovne Sheldon.com mander of the Second battalion at Baraboo. Sheldon told the Guardsmen how lucky they were to have such excellent training In their own home town; with their own friends, learning to depend one another so when a crisis comes are more apt to. remain calm and come out with fewer casualties.

He deplored the fact so many parents refuse their sons this training; Mondovi Musicians to Present Concert MONDOVI (Special) -The Mondovi High school music de-partment will present a Spring Musical Thursday at 8 p.m. at the High school. The band and the Girls Glee club will present several m-bers. Miss Annabelle Bauer will ploy the saxophone solo that won her the highest rating at the Eau Claire district festival. The Band Mothers will serve coffee and cake after the concert.

Frank Toggart; 76, of Thornapple, Dies LADYSMITH (Special) Frank taggart, 76-year-old resident of the town of Thornapple, died at St. Mary's hospital in Ladysmith Saturday of a heart attarlr Funeral services were conducted at the MeElravy Funeral home in Ladysmith Tuesday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Harris the Congregational church" In Ladysmith officiating. Mr. Taggart is survived by several brothers and sisters.

program as offered The 'finance committee offered a proposal to authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to handle contracts and arrange for storage facilities in connection with school lunch programs. The federal government now deals with schools and districts. Three appointments by Gov? Kohler-were approved unanimously by the senate. Named to the board of veterans' affairs were Adj. Gen.

Ralph' L. Olson, Madison, to succeed John F. former adjutant general, and' Paul B. Clemens, Milwaukee, to succeed himself, for terms ending March 1, 1957. William E.

Thurston, of Du-rand, was reappointed to the board of tax appeals for a term ending in May, 1957. Approved were proposals in-creasingtuition of non-resident county normal students from $5 to $9, per week, and requiring that police or traffic officers called to duty outside their own jurisdiction be paid regular sal aries and receive regular benefits. Defeated were measures compelling county boards to open up roads to land locked 7 lands, and requiring counties to adopt regulations not In conflict with state law In administration ot social security aids. A bill to repeal a law requiring humane societies and pounds to turn over their dogs to medical schools of Marquette university and the University of Wisconsin after a reasonable period of time was returned to committee. Brought out with a recommendation for passage by the education and public welfare committee, the senate sent it to the judiciary committee when a question of legality arose.

Menomonie Host to Women's Clubs MENOMONIE Dunn and Pep in county members of the WisconsinFederation of Women's clubs will convene at the Ohv gregational church In Menomo nie Thursday. Registrations, will begin at 9 a.m. and the meetings will open at 10 a.m. A luncheon will be served at noon. Mrs.

G. E. Wiseman, presi dent of the ninth district, will be the speaker. Arrangements for the convention have been made by Mrs. Leonard All-bough, president of the Menomonie club.

The Colfax Lutheran Women's chorus will appear on the program the afternoon. The Bi-county officers are Mrs F. J. Bremer of Colfax, presi dent: -Mrs. S.

S. Coddan, u- rand, vice-president; Mrs. Clarence Dehn, Colfax, secretary; and Mrs. Edward Lentz, Boyceville, treasurer. Barron Court Grants Chetek Man a Divorce BARRON (Special) Vernon A.

Roberts, a Chetek barber, was granted a divorce 1 Barron county court last week from Florence Robertson grounds of desertion. The'couple have no children. Roberts received all household goods with the exception of two articles of furniture, which were given to Mrs. Roberts in lieu of alimony. member county welfare committee were chosen to serve, three year term.

Hansen defeated the Incumbent member from Eau Claire, J. J. Cul-bert, oh the second elective ballot, to 7, with five scattering votes. George Zetsman, member at large on the welfare committee, was reelected for a "three-year term with no serious opposition, polling tl votea on the nominating ballot and 29 on the elective ballot-. Two former members of the board, absentthe past two years, were returned, Robert Rossman, town of Seymour, who defeated W.

B. Voegeli, and Charley Lund, "Drammen, who succeeded LaVerne Larson. They represented the only changes on the board as -result of the April elections, although several supervisors laced opposition. Chairman Hansen -turned the gavel over to Graff immediately following the Jatter's election. The board adjourned until 10 a.m.

tomorrow with the committee on committees' scheduled to meet this afternoon to name standing ommittees of the board. This committee Includes the chairman, vice chairman and three elected members. Five pupils from the Little Red Schoolhouse In the town of Brunswick were spectators of training now. MADISON (AP) The assembly- education committee in-iroduced. a.

bill Tuesday providing liberal arts courses lor Wisconsin's nine teacher's colleges. Sdth courses are offered now only by Superior and Milwaukee colleges. In addition, the measure would: Call the schools "state col-- leges, deleting the word Change the name of the board of normal school re. gents to board of regents of state colleges. Maintain a strong teachers' nr' X' Dunn Conservation Warden Al G.

Champ Whitehall Musicians Win 20 'A' Ratings WHITEHALL (Special) Forty solo and ensembles from Whitehall High entered the dis trict music contest at the La Crosse State Teachers college Saturday and brought home 20 A ratings. Among them were five starred ratings that will send the participants to the state contest at Madison. Receiving sucn recognition were Anne Holtan, piano; John Speerstra, vocal; Elaine Jacobson, Aliee Anderson and Kathleen' Roseland, clarinet trio; Betty Olson and Shar-on Wood, twirling duet, all in Class and in Class Luella Johnson, piano. Others who received ratings but not for the state contest were; Class Anderson and Louise Kaas, piano solos; Rolfe Johnstad, vocal; Ruby Engum and Sharon twirling; Anne Holtan and Louise Kaas, piano duet, Class Patty Hegge" and Lor-rayne Nelson, vocal; Mary Matt-son and Virginia "Mattson, piano duet; and Dick and Karl Lynn Rice, Rachel. Almlle, fatty Hegge, John Speerstra and Dick Mattson in brass quartet.

Class Patty Hegge, piano; Sharon Wood, Beverly and Rita Olson, vocal solos; Sheldon Ivers, cornet solo; Dorothy oboe solo. Candidate HENBT GBAFF Three members of the committee on committees we're elected as Dicklnsen. James C. Brown, 5th ward, Eau Claire, (reelected) and Ray Wachs, Tenth ward, Eau Claire, who was also one of those appointed when the number of wards In the city was Increased and who was since twice Two BMmban el tha flva. -1 LM0 Union Youth Is Top Boy Speller.

in Four States Robert O'Donahue a seventh grader In the Sherman school in the town of showed he is the best boy speller in four states at Minneapolis Saturday. The weaker sex took the top three honors in the Northwest-ern Spelling contest for grade school pupils, hut O'Donahue took fourth place-to lead the boys. He also received a prize o' S20. O'Donahue. whose teacher 1 Mrs.

Kathryn Robbins, won the right to go to Minneapolis by winning top spelling honors 1 the county contest here. The contest at Minneapolis had 129 entries from the states Wisconsin, Minnesota and North and South Dakota, Ladysmith Student High in State Meet LADYSMITH (Special) Four Ladysmith High school students journeyed to Madison Saturday to participate in the state forensic Pat Yankee received an for her original oration, Betty Koska a for her humorous declamation. Bill Brown for a non-original oration, and Donna Myhre for extemporaneous reading. Nancy Thut, who was also eligible to attend, the state meet, was unable to participate. Perry Polski, of the high school accompanied the speak ers to Madison.

Pigeon Falls Lutheran Club Elects Officers PIGEON FALLS --4 Special) The newly organized. Willing Workers club of the Synod Luth eran church here wras elected Newlahd Berge president. Mrs. Reuben Evenson is vice president; Mrs. Palmer secretary; Mrs.

Irvin Semb, treasurer; and Henry Tan-gen and Mrs. Edwin Nelson are the book committee. The club will meet every third Tuesday evening in. th church parlors ENOMONIE Wanton kill-Ing of a year old wild swan with a .22 caliber rifle Sunday is being investigated by Dunn Conservation Warden Al. G.

Champ-ney. Frank Riek, a farmer north of Boyceville discovered six of the swans feeding in his fields, vir- Sunday He drove to Boyceville to sum mon, his friends to view the sightVahd when he returned he found all the birds gone but the one which had been shot. It was apparent, according to Champhey, that the bird a been by someone passing a long the road -within a short distance of the birds. 'Can Not be Sold who had been summoned by Riek, reported the matter'to his superiors, and received instructions to freeze the Two Students at Blair High in State Meet BLAIR (Special) The highest speech awards went to two Blair youths In the state forensic tournament at Madison Saturday. Verdel tCoIve and Soren Urberg won ratings, indicative of superior performances in their contests.

Martha Tenneson and Barbara Osgood received awards. students are seniors at the Blair high Outstanding Record Kolve, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Kolve, won his award in extemporaneous speaking. Vic tory for Kolve in this last contest of his high school career was a climax to an outstanding record never before attained by any Blair high school student.

This was his third trip to the state finals, competing each year in a different type of speech In his sophomore year he won a rating with an oration and in his junior year, he won an award with an original oration. Kolve was a member of Blair's 1951 state finalist debate squad, capturing Individual honors 1 many tournaments of the sea ion. During this, past year he won a nine-state oratory contest held at Gustavus Adolphus 1-lege and also reached the state finals of the American Legion oratory contest. Two-Time Winner Urberg, son of Rev. and'Mrs.

Conrad. Urberg, won his award in original oratory. He is the only other two-time state winner' in the history of the school. Last year he won an award in the speaking" section of state com petition. Miss Osgood, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Wilbur Osgood, n-tered the oration section, and Miss Tenneson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tenneson, entered in extemporaneous read- Ing. The students were accompanied to Madison by their coach, Hal W.

Goetsch, speech and commercial teacher, at Blair High school. District VFW Conference Set at Trempealeau TREMPEALEAU (Special) Final plans for the Ninth district conference of the Veter- tf TTftl at (TTt WnN A TiV 11 9Q fit ana i' Trempealeau have been settled, according to Howard Koyle, commander of the Trempealeau DOSt. Koyle recently conferred, with Basil Lee, Elk Mound, com-mander of the district, on conference arrangements, 1 Ti.n.lni. Viat the Strum post is tne leaumg VFW post among the 250 in the state on a percentage member. ship basis.

This is one of the several citationsJwhich will be awarded at the conference posts in the district for their fine work in the past year, Lee said. Largest Parade The lareest parade in the hisiorv a Trempealeau i planned ln conjunction with the conference, Koyle said. seerve commander for the state, will be on hand to answer questions concerning the veterans program that is up before the state legislature now. He will appear a round table discussion that will open the conference at 11 a.m. Others who will attend the conference are NationalChaplain Roy B.

Schmeichel Of Eau Claire, Rev. Francis Wallace of a-Crosse, and Whitehall Girl Places ci.i. WHITEHALL (Special) Faye Thompson, Whitehall High school senior, who entered the state torensic contest ai juui-son Saturday with her serious declamation, received a f'B" rating die She. was accompanied to Madison instructor. Miss Elaine Severson.

Buton Raseoc, author and ci usually has two books under way at the same tlmt-: Area Club Calendar ELK MOUND The St Jo-will seph's church Ladles Aid meet "Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the church basement. SPRING BROOK The Luth-eran Ladies Aid will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Albert Brendsel. The Luther League will meet Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

at the Albert Brendsel home.N OAK KNOLL The Parent-Teachers association will "meet Friday evening at the school lor movies and a pie social. Assessors in Barron to Receive Instruction BARRON (Special) A meeting for Barron county assessors will be held at the court house at Barron April 23 under the supervision of Leonard E. Privet of Wausau, deputy supervisor of assessments. Nearly a third of the assessors in the county will be new this yea, as a result of spring election. Privet will outline the duties assessors and cite procedure for establishing values for Various types of property.

A similar meeting of assessors will be held at the court-house in Shell Lake April 27. Connor Hansen Not County Home Agent Resigns Position Here Mrs. Laurel Huibrcctse, Eau Claire county home demonstra tion agent here for the past hsr "-Tuesdayjanr her resignation from that position. Mrs. HuibroKtse, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin department of home econom ics, replaced Miss Helen Stetzer as the Eau Claire county home agent last September.

She worked with countv home- maker and 4-H hraVA. clubs and participated in the IIuibregt.se quality egg program that was carried on in Chippewa and -Eau Claire during the past year. A native of Merrill. Mrs. Huibregtse completed her training in institutional management by interning at the Richards-Treat cafeteria at Minneapolis before coming to Eau Claire last spring.

Mrs. Huibregtse and her husband are leaving Eau Claire in order to take over the management of a. private family resort in the-Northern Highland state forest in Yilas county. Peter Dorn, 57, Dies at Stanley STANLEY Peter Dorn, 57, died Monday morning following a stroke- at Stanley 'lctory Memorial Funeral services will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. at St.

Anne's Catholic church, the Rev. Ed win Knauf officiating. Burial will be at St. Mary's cemetery.j air. uorn was oorn in i town of Edson and married Elea nor Eslinger in 1920 in Edson.

He operated a farm in Edson until five years ago when he moved to Stanley. He served as school clerk for six years and town clerk and supervisor for 14 years In Edson. He- was on the. Wel fare committee. He is survived by his wife; one son, Earl on the home farm one daughter, Mrs.

Leon Ruff of Cadott two brothers, William of Stanley and Frank of Klamath talis, two sisters; Mrs. Cliff Craig of Long View, and Mrs. Wellerof Springfield, and five grandchildren. The rosary will be said Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Plombon funeral home.

Trempealeau Rural Youth Set Banquet WHITEHALL (Special) Trempealeau county's Rural Youth club, -sponsored by the Farm Bureau, will hold a banquet April 25 8 p.m. at the French Creek Lutheran church in Ettrick township. Merrill Anderson of Whitehall is general chairman. -Dinner will be served bf the Associated Women of the Farm Bureau, with Mrs. Raymond Westman of Caledonia' in' charge.

Ed Baker of "Eau Claire, district soil erosion educational agent, will be the banquet speaker, introduced by Master of ceremonies Ray Shanklin, Trempealeau county club agent. A membership drive is being conducted at the present time by the Youth Club. Youth between the ages of 18 and 30 are eligible for membership. Pur- pose of the elub to promote young people's interest and lead-ership In home communities and farm organizations. A meeting of the club Wilt be held at the Ettrick hall at 8 p.m.

CHIPPEWA GI L. Stanley, son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Stanley, 332 Dwlght st Chippewa Falls, was report ed wounded in action in Korea by the department- of defense County Board Elects Graff Chairman at Opening Meet Augusta until a few years ago.

when she "moved to Fairchlld. "She is survived by her husband: one daughter, Mrs. Gladys .4 Alt Atl fitA hrnth MM v. Henry Graff, supervisor from the town of Washington since 1941, was elected chairman of the Eau Claire county board of supervisors here Tuesday morning with only scattering opposition. He succeeds Connor Hansen, who was not a candidate for John I.

Kaiser, 15th ward, Eau Claire, was elected vice; chairman. Graif was vice chairman the past year, and is a native of the town of Washington, where he operates a 176 acre farm. He Is unmarried. Kaiser '--was-tine of five super visors appointed to the board when the number of wards in Eau Claire was increased from 10 to 15 in 1947, and was twice elected to the post-Graff received 15 of the 35 ers Wilf'Zank of Superior, Rob- crt of IvatK, Claire, Fritz of Fairchild, George of, Hebron, 111., and Conrad; four sisters, A iinHfkD nt Mrs. Ed Strauth of OSseo, Miss Elizabeth Zank of Madteon and Mrs.

Lester Morris of Es.ther-ville, la; 10 grandchildren' and one great grandchild. Whitehall Justice Court Fines Drunk Driver WHITEHALL (Special) William S. Nelson of Independence and Clifford Berscrson of Galesville appeared before Jus- I tice of the Peace P. M. Paul- son at Whitehall Monday on drunk driving Bergerson, who was arrested April 14 at Whitehall by Sheriff Charles N.

Keilholtz, pled guilty and paid a $50 fine and $7.40 fitctv In nrefpi-pnc tn a HVtav jail sentence. His driver's license was revoked. Nelson, arrested April 15 at Independence by Sheriff 1 1-hoiu, pled vnot guilty and preliminary hearing was set for 1 April 23 al li3Q sun. I votes cast on the nominating ballot, with Supervisor A. E.

Nolle, Altoona, the only absentee; JT on the first elective, ballot and 18 on the second elective ballot, a majority. On the second elective ballot for chairman. Kaiser got .10 votea with the remainder scattering. a I a Hansen announced he was not a candidate for reelection (or business and personal reasons. Supervisor Virgil Dicklnsen.

An-gusta, told the supervl- sor he was not a candidate for chairman, as had been rumor -V Altoona Engineer Retires ley, above, made his last trip as an engineer on the Omaha railroad last week and ended 41 years service with the company. He began railroading in 1910 as roundhouse employs and started work on the line as a fireman in 1U7. Crowley ended his railroading with record of no accidents and no demerits. He lives with his wife at Garfield ave. in Altoona.

Although the "old railroader" ha no definite plans for the future he expects to take Jong toAveling holiday and then estch up. on his hunUog sod fishlpg,.