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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 7

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The Lincoln Stari
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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Friday. August IS. 1952 THE MSCOUY STAR 7 Nebraska News Tornado Areas Involved In Cleanup Operations Brutio Residents Dr. Jelinek For Mystery Auto Is Sought In BRUNO, Neb. (TV-A community celebration will be held fcere, Aug.

24 in honor of Dr. John A. Jelinek, who has practiced medicine in the community for 60 years. I'M)! Walla Murder LA CROSSE. Wis -(Lincoln SUr Rperlal) Police here were hoping Thursday night that a mystery automobile if and when they find itmight out them closer to solving the murder of i Seward, nntinnal guards man.

Authorities are now "pretty sure' that pi. I rank R. Walla, 42. was murdered for the money on his person. His body was found in a LaCross alley early Wednesday, Although, officers reported "no new developments' they appeared to pin some hope on finding a car which a woman said she-saw near the alley about i a.m.

The woman told police she saw man leap from a moving car about 1 a.m. Several other men then dashed from the car and chased the first man up the street, she said. She furnished authorities with a description of the car. Check (amp Autos Working In co-operation with civilian authorities. Criminal In vestigation Department officers at Camy McCoy, where Walla was at summer camp, were checking cars on the ramp against the description given by the woman.

The Seward mans body was found about a block from where the woman said she saw the car It 5' fl 4 DAVID CHT HOME DMOUSHD Wedaoido nigil's tornado cam fiom Ih noithwttl In a path end la rorigoralor in lh conlor of tht picluio. Th walls of Iho bom woro ilackod lis cards of rrooi to Ino loft, gorn iamago (Slar Ffcolo.) His empty billfold was lying inlwaiia-g bMiy WM found new lhe la Mall tiikol Tie aacovorod pot on lao n'jbl Itermined. Outbuildings on the Palik Brothers and the Pokorney farms were demolished. Knott reported that the crop damage was extensive on the six aoaistl oroap is is It iorearoand, yiu nuuui ii.iii-uh.lii to Camo McCoy. The farms.

"All of the six farmersisom, hall was reported but not Dr. Jelinek was born in a sodl house near Dodge In Cuming County May (I, 1878. a year after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jelinek, moved her from Czechoslovakia, After attending rural school.

Dodge High School, normal schools at Lincoln, Shenandoah, and remont, he taught school for two years and then entered Creighton University Medical School in Omuha. All of his B0 years of nractlce nave peen in uruno. Rainfail Reports Latest rainfall renorti throiiBh- nut Nebraska as lifted by the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Lincoln Telephone end Telegraph Com pany included: so rnwe Cm Jli rm .15 rfenC lilkim JOm Sltfltng umhiltM l.M KilkiM lmp.rl.1 Tnunurk 1 Ula V.ii'ii nlnxxt .2 W.hno Ml Norfolk Vtrmon ji! Ilm.h. 11 AT ANDERSON HARDWARI Offer HIGH QUALITY SECURITY WATEK HEATERS NEW LOW PRICES IS aat taaraawa $119.50 IMMEDIATE DEUYERY AND INSTALLATION WE HAVE TIIE PLUMBERS Praaam laatalUdaw CenTcBlent Tenna We Give 2t" Green SUmae ANDERSON Hardware Plumblnc Ca.

Opea Saturday and Thursday Eventafs VIMai aaSorwa, fim 14 rt.ro,.M.m. ft. SS Maralar tiaM At Anderson tmbm mm i I ra aMMatalaa 'j SS nttaa raw jrM lMfMll 1 'I Will Honor His Service Helps Heal and Clear ATHLETE'S FOOT ltm doctor's highly audleaud nUMptie promptly relieves Itchy Hnnni cracked peeling toee and kelikl sad clear the 91 condition, ii i -i fc, lYI 13 At Anderson Hardware Ifs a separate Pood Freeier and Refrigerator combined, each with IEVEICOID temperatures that keep all foods safe and good reaaraV let of season or weather I Tak 7 mlnutts! Find out about the mw Cyda-matk Frlgldalre and what It will mean you I Alto teethe new Deluxe, Matter end Standard modtli, priced from $399.75 Convenient Terms Free Delivery Any pUca ta Ltatsitw Cesuatf We Give Green Stamps ANDERSON Hardware Plumbing Ce. 6132 lUvelock Ave. Om Saiarasjr bus Tkanaar lsM SEE ED Ha almri sm ra SS SaL Hardware Wtd shes dishes 3 II, mes cleaner than by hand! Here i tlte dudtwaaher that will nave you mora SMS Wit.

JL Four Yutan Farmsteacls Wiped Out Br BILL DOBJLES Star Staff Writer firmer and townspeople in the; Ashland and Yutan areai were in volved Thursday in the disheart enlnf talk of cleaning nway the debris left by Wednesday de- itructive tornado which left six persona injured and completely obliterating four farms in that vi No estimates of damage were yet available but the figure will surely go into tne higher tnoua-ands. More than a dozen farms in the area suffered loss of crops, cattle and buildings. Injured in the Yutan area were Mr. and Mrs. George Kuhr, who were both hospitalized at Wahoo with head and face injuries; 5' year-old Frank Velinsky, who suf.

fered two broken arms; and Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Witte, both of whom received minor face and head cuts and bruises. Owen Beeevering Resting well at Brysn Memorial Hospital in Lincoln is Virgil Owen of Ashland who was trapped in his falling barn at the height of; me norm, no euncreu ui allo cated shoulder and head and face cuts. Not even one single board was left to mark the farms of four Yutan fanner.

Leveled to the ground were the farms belonging to the Wlttes, Kuhrs, Delmar Prins and Charles Velinsky. The Harry Farmenter farm in the same area, just south of Yutan, alse suffered major damages. Witte lost 15 head of cattle, some 20 hogs, all his barns and his bouse. Thirteen cows and a bull were lost by Prim besides his bouse and barns. Ar-enrdiriif to renorts.

Witte told his neighbors later, "I saw it get- ting black so I took my family to the basement. Suddenly, there was such a roar it deafened us. I remember seeing a cow thrown into the basement with us while it was still kicking." Cows la Basement In the cleanup afterwards, three cows were found buried in the debris in Witte's basement Our cooki at tho fomoui MORTON HOUS kitchens pre-pan the MORTON HOUSE OVEN-8AKED BEANS just oi you would at home. Slow oven-baked, with giont slice of tweet smoked pork, plus generous amounts of rich tomato souce. Morton Howie PORK BEANS SCHRIER BROS.

Open Saturday Till 9 r.L 1024 So 10th Free Delivery Compere Oar rrtoM. Sugar $1 10 Lb. Bag. Miracle Whip Salad Dressing. QL Jar.

W0 Pink 43c SMITH'S Spread betwe en slice, to i at about 200 fool wido to dmoil farm five snilos aorlfc of Darid Cily. foaarfalioa lios fcl Jigal Nearer Ashland, the twisting wind tore off the roofs of barns, completely destroyed some barns and killed several head of cattle on the Virgil Owen farm. Also hard hit in that area were the Ed Ballou and Otis Ballou farms. Te the east of Ashland. 21 box ears, weighing aa average 22 tons each, were lifted from a track, throws) some 20 feet to one side and back across the tracks agaia.

D. G. Hansen, road foreman of! engines for the Burlington, said damage to the cars would amount about $50 each plus the cost of labor in clearing the wreck away. In Ashland itself, power and telephone workmen worked throughout the day in restoring normal utility service to the com-m i y. Many streets were blocked with huge, trees upended by the twister.

The roof was blown completely off three apartments above an implement store in Ashland, Six Farmsteads Hit DAVID CITY Three farms were completely demolished and three others badly damaged In an area six miles northeast of here, Neighbors and relatives arrived the scene Thursday to aid in cleanup work. The Matt Birkel, Jesse Hookstra and Gay lord Burkholder farmsteads were leveled except for the house on the Hookstra farm which was badly damaged. Outbuildings and the house on the Jim 6voboda farm were damaged. According to John Knott, David City Red Cross chairman. Svoboda also lost some pigs, but the number had not been de- SUPERMARKET Week Days te- 7:30 TM.

15 or More Thone 8-2272 Itmm RlcM to LtanH OutntltM Pork Roast Shoulder. Lb 45c Coffee i1 Butternut 85c Lb. Can Tender ri JBI Grown, 59c Ready for Pan. Lb, ru tTtt72 CTMIRlHIIPilillilffi POTATO CHIPS Hie bodv. roller) said some or Wallas buddies told them he had about ea his person about p.m.

Officers have questioned many oersona, most of them fellow guardsmen, but haven't identified any of them as suspects. A t-mortem examination Wednesday showed that death was caused by a cerebral hemorr hage. Walla had been struck on the temple. i Specimens were sent to the state crime laboratory at Madison for At Anderson with tie Picture, Get Crosby Points Need Of Watershed Plan SYRACUSE. Nebl (Uncola Htar "We dare not lose our soil," Hubert Crosby of North Watte, Republican candidate for governor, said Thursday night at a meeting of the Little Nemaha Watershed Association.

"In the long run." ha said, "if we are to conquer the terror of floods we must retain the water in the uppertributarles where it falls. "A sound approach is through a watershed district, its creation to depend upon the consent of the people in the watershed and its control to be firmly fixed in the hands of those local people." "Wi have learned from the ex- periences of second rate countries. whose impoverishment can usually be traced to neglect of their oil and natural resources." Crosby said. toxicologlcal examination. Walla'a clothing, which showed no signs of a struggle, were also sent toi in me crune iD.

Revise Finding Police revised one conclusion they hud drawn. They had first uiougni vvaiias Body had been dumped In the alley after a 1 a.m. light rain because his cloth ing was dry, They now said the rain was no more than a heavy dew and the body could have been lying outside without the clothing being wet Some investigators wondered if it was mere coincidence that billfold was found a half-block farther down the highway, and the episode seen by a woman a short distance beyond that, on the same highway. The alley where the body was found is near LaCrosse's business district. Since Wednesday night, guards.

men on pass from Camp McCoy have been restricted to a 15 mile radius the camp. McCoy is about 15 miles from LaCrosse. Hardware the Eiclotjv fw Magic Monitor drcuit iyttm octi lik on ngmr in-td yovr (.,. conitanH edjutti pictur quality, outomottcaliy amptifiai waok ii nali. TV'i fint doub'-thildf torir ond tKitfd-d cHoMtf.

0vt iftttr-4rnc tfOti p'onti, tart, Itctncol Amt'icoti cibiit it gifjrf jl, nth full Itogih ponlf doofi. Finned id wol-rut, or woril. 399 00 Saal.VI Oal'afl avaNvWa aaty SCA Any Place in Lanraater County -Green Stomps w1 Plumbing Co. I II II inch I lost livestock. The only injury reported in the David City area was suffered by Jess Hookstra who was hit by a flying board while milking cows.

He cracked two ribs and was badly bruised. i Corn Fields Damaged BRUNO No one was Injured during the wind and rain storm which struck Wednesday night, but corn east of town was badly damaged by hail, according to Mayor A. J. CuAeL Power was off for two and one-half hours during the night and telephone service was disrupted for a time. No injuries were reported.

Only Rain Reported MORSE BLUFF Mayor Harley Berahek said the town escaped Frank T. B. Martin, Insurance Man, Dies OMAHA Frank T. B. Martin, 75, Omaha Insurance man for 54 years, died Thursday.

He suffered a heart ailment. Martin was a past president of the University of Omaha Board of Regents and, national past president of the Insurance Federation ot America. Ogallala Hospital Dedication Aug. 23 OGALLALA, Neb. (X) Ogal-lala's new Community Hospital will be dedicated here Aug.

23 with Sen. Hugh Butler (R-Neb.) delivering the principal address. NIFTY IDEA for TRY Chtf Boy-Ar-Dce Sauces on: HkmimI dlMM oitdwichM, paghtrti, macaroni, ntatttt, and Mtcvars, MAT AND rout ON 2 kinds: meat or mushroom Rf Try CHIf lOY-AH-DH O.SPACHITTI and MIAT BALLS. Thrifty. Torty.

Jurt heat. 1 15" OSt tn ine bot ttad dL- chee- toaB on coaJ, turninf sauceJ I nrmtM I all damages from the nearby storm. The area received a "nice rain." Morse Bluff is 20 miles north of Yutan. NORTH BEND The srea had good rain Wednesday night. enough to cause crop damage.

ABIE Corn was considerably damaged by hail which struck in the vicinity, but no other damage was reported, Tot Killed By Father's Car OMAHA (INS) A 13-month- old Sarpy County boy was killed Thursday afternoon when he was crushed under the wheels of his fathers car. The victim was Ronald Law rence Dauner, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dauner, South Omaha. The accident reportedly oc curred as the child was playing on the driveway.

Dauner, a farmer, said he did not know his son was nearby. The parents rushed the boy to an Omaha hospital but he was dead on arrival. Nebraska Safety Patrol head quarters in Lincoln said the death probably would not be counted in the state traffic fatality toll since the accident hapjiened on private properly, AT ANDERSON HARDWARE mi 1 DaaMa Maa Taa al A Blnirla Hail frtw. Utaara a Imm fH tilth LIBERAL TRADE-IN your eld washer. Let appraise roar eld easber wttbeol ebliratlea te bar.

We Give Green Stamps CONVENIENT TERMS FREE DELIVERY Any place In Lanesster County ANDERSON HARDWARE I PLUMBING CO. Open Saturday and Thursday Evening (lit Bavetock Areas OTO-W DISHWASHER iD0REte29c aqic mom jv4 work every day than any i LJA Roto-Tray revolves, carrying every wHace of ery dish through lhe powerful Knrb biog iproyi of hot water. II, a. II, aS -SaV mm KOo-iray revoivet, carry 9 i I ,3 I Lis VIENNA omer appliance Jvm Could own. See the American Kitchens Koto-Tray Ditthwaxher in action today, how it aasures that eiery surface of every duth ia waatied 3 timea cleaner than by hand, how it makes loading easier than any other dmhwaHlicr.

See the practical fea-tunti thnt make this the moot work-free dish-waither ever developed. See it today. FREE-STAKSIK3 MODEL 339 95 Aim myikM ia OiratraaUr Sat MaaW LOAF TOASTED it thick Kiir. -mtmg aim, un top R'lfh ill' CM cup moyonnose od 1 8Pread' Of 'Pread between 8lice, American che 8 uuer and mustard "ot rh often, uuuuiea or outdoor, I. SCA Victor SranrfM MM until CONVENIENT TERMS CONVENIENT TERMS FREE DELIVERY iZSZtU We Give Green Stamps FREE DELIVERY We Give H.K mu mm 1 KrOI-till Mm, Wtd, Frt Kftt-iiU Msa, Wtd, Frt.

Hardware Cr Hardware Plumbing Co. 0rn SHlurilay and Thtirnday ftiirhtji SrC Kl He You a Oral 6132 Ilavrlock Avenue flprn Saturday and Thunday nirhU Srf f.d, he alwai rive )ou a (nod deal 6132 Havelock Avenue Jii.

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