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The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • Page 15

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Section Features VOLUME XLVIL NUMBER 105 Volunteer Workers from the village of Dresbach, have been busy during recent days, developing a tract of land into a riverside park and beach. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben N. Trane of La Crosse purchased the sizeable plot from Henry Carson to donate to the village.

Playground.equip-. ment will be added next The park consists basically of two sections, an upper table where picnic and play facilities will be made available and the beach and riverfront for swimming and boating. The park adjoins property formerly owned by Trane on the Mississippi river. PIGS Arc Supposed to Squeal BRAKES AREN'T Front Wheel Inspected and Re-PadKd Brakes Adjusted Brake Lining and Drains Inspected TOTAL. .1160 LABOR DAY SPECIAL GASOLINE ALLEY DIAL GARAGE Fourth St.

at Roofer DIAL Bids Sought On Road Jobs In Fillmore county bids have been asked for 6,600 cubic yards of crushed rock to be placed on state aid road No. 4 west from its junction with trunk highway 139 for a distance of 2.9 miles. In Winona county the call is for crushed rock surfacing of 6.2 miles from the south city limit of Winona to the junction with trunk highway 76 at Witoka, requiring 10,808 cubic yards of crushed rock in place. Bids will be received up to Sept. 17 by Richard Schoonover, county auditor, Winona.

Nurse Returns To Duty CALEDONIA, Bouquet, RN, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bouquet, has returned to resume her duties in Madison, Wis. ENTERTAINMENT and MEETING BLACK RIVER FALLS LOCAL Of PURE MILK PRODUCTS COOPERATIVE U. HaH, Black Wrer Falls FRIDAY-SEPTEMBER P.M.

For oN PMFC Members and Interested Dairy Formers BRING THE ENTIRE FAMILY Lunch will be sorred. LJC AD WILLIAM O. PERDUE, General Manager of Pure operative discuss vital problems row confronting the Milk Products Co- dairy farmer. Every dairy farmer's own welfare is or stake in these critical times and it is to his own interest to be present and hear this informative talk. Local talent wHI provide Business to be taken up will include election of a board of directors, election of delegates to the annual convention and adoption of resolutions to be presented to the annual convention in Fond du Lac- on October 30.

Black Rrw Local PURE MILK PRODUCTS COOPERATIVE Amerke' Damage Suits Load Calendar McCoy Soldiers' Murder Trial Set SPARTA, heaviest calendar in many years in Monroe county will face Judge Henry A. Detling of Sheboygan when he opens the September term of circuit court in Sparta Monday, Sept. 10, at 10 a. m. The calendar contains one criminal case, which charges Walter G.

Blantz and Joe Rodriguez with the murder of Michael F. Marx of Sparta June 10, 1951, at Sparta. The civil calendar contains 15 cases, including nine auto accident cases in which damages totaling $185,112 are asked. In other civil cases, judgments of $57,035 are sought. Three cases are listed on the fact for court calendar and one issue for the court.

Sgt. Blantz, 20, Lancaster, and Cpl. Rodriguez, 22, Rio Honde, Camp McCoy soldiers, have been in the custody of Sheriff Chris Hendricksen at Sparta since the death of Marx on June 10: The soldiers are accused of accompanying Marx to his room in the Nicolet hotel and beating him. Marx died at a Sparta hospital a few hours after the alleged attack. Atty.

James Rice of Sparta will represent Rodriguez and Merrill L. Hassel, Lancaster, and Lawrence Clark, Tomah, are the attorneys representing Blantz. Dist. Atty. W.

J. Gleiss will prosecute the being his fourth murder in his administration. Asks $50,000 The first case on the jury calendar is brought by Carlene Brown, executrix of the estate of her husband, the late Vernon Brown, who died July 16, 1949, receiving fatal burns. Mrs. Brown is asking $50,000 for disabilities suffered by her husband when he was lifted into the air and thrown over the shoulder of Russell Warden, a bartender hi the tavern operated by Frank Wolkow and Elroy Schickert, at Tomah April 18, 1949.

Brown allegedly became paralyzed from the injury and has been unable to perform any work since the accident. Vernel Dunum, Wilton, is bringing suit against Miles Smith of Chippewa Falls and the Northwestern National Casualty Insurance Co. asking for $350 for damages as the result of a collision between cars operated by Dunum and Smith on STH 71 March 31, 1949. Smith has filed a counter claim for the dismissal of the action. Emma Bruns, executrix of the estate of the late Rev.

Edwin H. Bruns of Appleton, is seeking a total of 547,130 from Raymond L. Larson and the Continental Casualty Co. for the death of her husband and other damages resulting from an auto accident on STH 21 east of Sparta Nov. 8, 1950.

Larson was driving a car owned by Harold K. Hendrickson, when the accident occurred. Both are Camp McCoy soldiers. Mrs. Bruns is asking $30,000 for her own injuries plus other damages.

Change Courts In a change of venue from Adams county, Alex Biro is seeking to collect $2,158 from Roland Burrows for damages to a house which Burrows moved from Hancock to the town of Colburn July 7, 1950. The house overturned in the process of moving and was badly damaged. A $600-claim is filed by John Marquardt, Sparta implement dealer, against the city of Sparta and Air Spray, of Milwaukee for alleged damages to'his strawberry crop. Marquardt claims that $600 worth of strawberries were ruined when the Air Spray firm sprayed the city with DDT as an insect control measure on June 15, 1945. Hallie Hall of the township of Strongs Prairie, Adams county, is bringing suit against Nathan F.

Shlimovitz, Sparta cattle buyer. Hall is charging that Shlimo- vitz failed to return 11 head of livestock valued at $1,880, which had been wrongfully delivered to him. Ralph Wilson, trucker of Barron county, is bringing suit against Roy and Elsie Felts of Spooner as the result of a collision near Kirby on U. S. highway 12.

Vehicles involved were Wilson's truck driven by Max De- crasium and a car driven by Mrs. Felts. Wilson seeks $12,500 for damages and the loss of his cargo, while the driver is asking $2,500 for injuries. Suit Is Separate In a separate suit, Mr. and Mrs.

Felts and the Service Fire Insurance Co. are seeking to collect $39,324 from Wilson and the Casualty Reciprocal exchange. The Emmco Insurance Co. of Milwaukee has entered a suit against the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. and Orlie Rhodes.

Rhodes, who resided at Farrington's camp east of Sparta, was pushing another vehicle when he collided with one driven by Sylvester Flel on U. S. highway 16 Nov. 24, 1950. Claims sought are $325 for car damages.

An accident Nov. 25, 1950, on U. S. highway 12 about 14 miles north of Tomah involving a truck driven by Frank Pascente and a county highway truck operated by John Drinkwine Is the basis for a suit brought by Harold James Schultz, 14, town, of Lampson, a minor, Stanley Z. Drejer, his guardian, and Swanhild Schultz, against Pascente.

Harold Schultz was riding in the truck driven by Pascente and is asking for $15,000 damages for Zton Lutherans of Galesville are reversing the usual procedure. The structure shown here being built is to be the congregation's educational building and. will comprise the first unit of an entire new unit, a new church-to be built in the future Built on a steep slope, the structure will show two floors at the front and three at the is hoped to have it ready before freezeup. Decorah Teacher Gets College Post DECORAH, la. (Special) Ruth Bartb, Decorah, has been named to the teaching staff of Waldorf college, Forest City, la.

She will' be an instructor in women's physical education. Miss Barth is an alumnus of Luther college and holds a master of arts degree from the University of Iowa. She has done further work as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway. 8. Armj Palmer F.

Danes, Southern Wisconsin representative for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, center, is presenting a check for $3,000 to Judge Lambert Hansen, Sparta, chairman of the Monroe county chapter. The fund is needed to continue the care of 22 polio victims stricken prior to Jan. 1, 1951, and four in the current season. The national foundation has advanced $11,515 to the local chapter. Mrs.

Carl Austin, secretary in the office of the county nurse, is at the left. Queen To Westby Fest WESTBY, Paul Mockrud, general chairman of the Westby harvest festival, has received word from Madison that Wisconsin's "Alice in Dairyland," Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, will appear in the festival parade Sept 9, at 1 p. m. Miss Czerwinski will share the honors with Wesley's "Tobacco Queen." The tobacco queen-will be announced a few days preceding the festival, the contest chairman, Erling Hovde, has announced. Monroe Sends 77 In Draft SPARTA, Wis.

(Special) Eleven men have been'ordered for induction into the armed forces as the September quota for Monroe county, announces Mrs. Sylvia Wildes, clerk of the selective service board. Rafael Robles, Uvalde, has been transferred for induction. The group will report at the courthouse Wednesday, Sept 5, at 7:15 a. m.

and will go by bus to Milwaukee for induction. The group includes Melvin Hanson, Camp Douglas; David Pier, Gene Fish, Louis Tenner, Edward Burkhaler, Gerald Goldbeck, Gerald Miller, Dean Pierce and James BerendeS, all of Toman; Duane Brown, Sparta; and Gordon Gebhardt, Warrens. Vernon Normal Begins Term 21 Freshmen Enroll; Seniors Number 25 VIROQUA, Wis. Twenty-one freshmen enrolled for the nine and a half-month term of the Vernon county normal at Viroqua Monday. V.

V. Goss is principal of the school. The number of new students is expected to increase. Those who enrolled Monday: Lee Etta Sund, Dorothy Erickson, Marjorie Cade, Evelyn Kingslien and Doris Anderson, Viroqua; Jane Young, Beverly Ulank, Donald Potter, Jaunita Donover and Anne Young, La Farge; Evelyn Johnson, Marie Lee and Janice Gronvold, Coon Valley; Armillo O'Connell and Camillo O'Connell, Eastman; Lorraine Berg and Marie Bohland, Cashton; Beth Felde and Marie Yanske, De Soto; Rachel Larson, Westby; Elanor Everson, Rockland; Norene Soldiers Grove; Bonnie Dustin, Viola; and Mildred Groschel, Stoddard. VFW Signs First Korean War Vet DECOHAH, Roland D.

Akre, R. 4, Decorah, is the first Korean war veteran ''to become a member of Helof Holm post of VFW. He served with the first cavalry in Japan and Korea. TOP CASH PRICES Moon we pay more than competition for your livestock FOR PROMPT, EFFICIENT: SERVICE CALL TOUR NEAREST "CALL STATION" OR The only Rendering Works within a 50-mile radius of Crosse BLY RENDERING WORKS ON ALASKA, WIS. Sen.

McCarthy To Give Talk Labor Day Speech Scheduled At Alma ALMA. -The Labor day arrival of Sen. Joseph MrCarthy Is being awaited by the people of the Alma vicinity. Sen. McCarthy headlines a program of events being sponsored by the American Legion post of Alma and Nelson.

Arrangements have been to- handle a crowd of several thousand people for McCarthy's address, which takes place at 1:30 p. m. Monday, Labor day, Sept. 3. The celebration is being held at Reidt park north of the city of Alma.

Also on the program is a baseball game between Alma, winners of the Hiawatha Valley league, and Whitehall. The game is scheduled at 2:30 p. m. The activities will open at 10 a. m.

with a ball game between arch-rivals Kellogg and Wabasha, Minn. Several bands will be on hand, including the Cochrane and Alma high school musical units. At 9 p. m. the Legion post is offering a free dance with a popular old and new time orchestra.

The American Legion and auxiliary will have several refreshment and lunch stands on the grounds. Sen. McCarthy has assured the committee that he will deliver a major address. The senator is one of the most controversial figures in the nation today to his attacks on the administration for having Communists in government. FU Sponsors Party KENDALL, Wis.

(Special) The Farmers Union sponsored a card party recently at the Farmers and Merchants bank hall. Pinochle and 500 were played with prizes for high scores. A lunch was served. Seri Tim Back Tt School 099 Mother, these children's shoes yea know yon can depend on. They cant be beat for fit.

looks, wear and value! Just two of the many smart styles cnooco OPEN TILL 9:00 P. M'. FRIDAY NITI MAIN AT STH AVL.

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