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The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 20

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The Post-Crescenti
Location:
Appleton, Wisconsin
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20
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Appleton Post-Crescent 20 Farmers Dont Seven Escape Tornado in Small Basement Room Tornado Kills family Storms Claim Sept. I yd I Label Own Beef WaaUngtoa (F) The govern Two Minor Accidents ment decided today that farmers 5 in Waupaca County Lives of Three who slaughter livestock for their; Reported tO PollCO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and his hogs which were Injured. Fifty or sixty chickens also were Others in State own use don't have to nave tne neex graded and labelled after alL Previously the meat regulations required every person slaughtering livestock io have the meat graded and marked. The office of price stabilization said today this placed killed. The Johnson family was in Clintonville when the storm hit Two minor accidents were re- ported to Appleton police Wednes day afternoon, both involving stopped cars being struck from the res by moving vehicles.

Mrs. Carol McCausland, 22, St" Louis. Mo, had stopped her car in the 100 block on E. College avenue to turn into a parking space when: it was struck from behind by a car. and returned to find the farm in rains.

an unnecessary burden on farmers. Two Men Drown in Green Bay; Columbia County Woman Dies Near the Johnson farm, the and othe down again in the Sugar Bush area, where about 15 farms were damaged. The Malliet home was demolished. Mrs. Malliet was blown into a field and two of her children, Mary Ann, 5, and James, 2, were found In a ditch, across the road fromMhe farm by Er-vey Thomas.

He took the children to the Community hospital at New London. James still is unconscious today, suffering from op the Edward Miller farm, on The new effective Oct Cqunty Trunk collapsed. The driven bv Miss Norma wacnei, ir. xarm is unoccupiea. adoui irees Three other people in Wisconsin and a Michigan woman were killed in storms which raged through the states Wednesday afternoon and: claimed the lives of six people in! Waupaca county, the Associated: concussion, bruises and lacerations.

Mary Ann also was bruised and cut Sheriff Kruse said the children were literally blown out of their shoes. in the area were uprooted and split jwjth a rumbling sound much like Little Chute. Both cars were going' and blocked the highway. Windows i diesel freight train, they said. One west The right front of the car in the Miller farm home were woman reported that when she driven by Miss Wachel was dam-broken, the chimney was blown heard the storm, she grabbed her aged and the left rear Of the car, down and the windmill collapsed, dog and crawled under a bed.

i driven by Mrs. McClausland was A quarter of a mile away, two Hundreds of people jammed into damaged, silos were blown down on the Har- the stricken areas today to inspect! The rear end of a car driven by old Saulks farm. the damage. Highways and side I Jack Burroughs, 37, 2118 Many witnesses said they did not 'roads were blocked by their auto-! Drew street was damaged when see the funnel characteristic of a mobiles. icar driven by Melvin I Maynard, tornado because "the clouds came Telephone communications be--26, N.

Superior collided with right down to the ground." Someitween Clintonville and Waupaca the Burroughs car on N. Richmond Dorothy Malliet, 17, another: daughter of the dead woman, is con fined at the hospital suffering from1 severe shock. She collapsed when Press reported today. Eight persons were injured. Two sportsmen drowned In Green Bay after waves raised by turbulent weather capsized their boat A third man In the craft was rescued.

The victim were identified as Ellis Osterburt, 51, of Sister Bay, and Michael J. Hardy, about 33, of Chicago. Rescued from the overturned motor boat by three men people said the clouds appeared to i were out most of the night but ser- street. Burroughs said he was stop- vice was restored this morning. jping for other cars that had naitea No accurate estimate of the dam- i in front of him when the impact be in layers and were rolling.

The wind hit first driving sticks and she returned from high school and found the wreckage of her home on Waupaca County Trunk N. Gloria Baxter, age unknown, was taken to the Clintonville hospital bv Leonard RuckdaiheL Suear debris in front of it then heavy age is available. Nor is there a count occurred. The front of the May- rain followed. The storm moved! of the numerous livestock lost.

jnard car was damaged. Bush, after he found her in a The storm struck as the girl was! from Sister Bay In a power launch was Anton Martlnsen, about 62, also of Sister Bay. Hardy was reported to have been an employee of the army inspection office at Chicago. He was on walking home from a rural school near- Sugar Bush. She suffered a back injury.

Other Farms Damaged In addition to the Malliet farm. Due eastward across Lake Mich- r. I Ml 11 A Asii flar ika Han i unnr ic itt nr rn ua Don kdwsm iuiiii. jyz iniic iiwnn wi imuuum igan, a tornado struck the village severe damage was caused on the of Blteley, at night and left farms of Frank ZiUke and Kermit one woman dead. Buelow in the Sugar Bush area.

aWs worst tornado struck ot 3:45 Wednesday afternoon Bonikowskl ond his family and hired hand, Vernon Larson, escaped the twister in a small, stone walled room in the basement. Bonikowski said he heard the roar of the storm, herded his wife, Dennis, 8, Richard, 7. Billy. 5, and Nancy, 2. into the basement.

The house and farm buildings were carried Michigan's tornado killed Mrs. Other less severe damage was re- Edith Bracknev. 67. of Flint and in parted on the farms of Donald Da jured three men as it buckled (he oway. riva persons in Tne nowara nasmusscn iamiiy, oru uic iwu ttip mmcu, vis, Reuben Behnke, Carl Hoffman, Kenneth Greshemer, Clyde Buelow, Ed Young, Tony Knapp concrete wall of a Biteley tavern.

The men suffered only minor injuries. High winds swept across the entire lower Michigan peninsula and Donald Baxter. Mayor Proclaims with gusts up to 67 miles an hour Equal Rights Day r0 only 9.95 nl reported in Grand Rapids. Mayor Robert Boemer has pro Farm Home Smashed About 4:30 Wednesday afternoon claimed today as Equal Rights day and the week as National Business and about 50 miles to the south of Waupaca county, funnel-shaped The west side of the Kermit Buelow home was ripped off snd the barn was flattened. Observers said it took, about 10 minutes for the storm to pis.

At the Richard Johnson farm on Waupaca County Trunk XX about eight miles northeast of Waupaca, the kitchen was torn from back of the house as cleanly as if it had been cut off with a knife. The kitchen was dumped about 20 feet away, where it collapsed. Womens Week, it was announced to cloud hopped across a IS mile path in Columbia county, killing a wom day. The proclamation ask for a an and injuring her three children better understanding of the women holding responsible position in the by picking up their farm home and smashing it down 290 yards away. Seven others were reported in business and professional world.

jured. A deputy sheriff said build Only part of the barn remained! The proclamation reads a fol ings were crushed "like match standing, held up by the hay. The lows: boxes." chicken coop and hog house, silo "Whereas, business and profes Mrs. Alice McGuire. 32, was killed sional women are engaged in busi when the twister swooped down on nesses and professions in the city her Columbia county farm home of Appleton; and and machine shed were demolished and shingles were ripped off the roof of the home.

Animals Shot Johnson stood in tears neighbors shot a' horse whose head had been split open by flying debris "Whereas, the Appleton Business and Professional Women, being service club, having capable worn' four miles west of Randolph. Her three children, ages two, three and four, were not seriously hurt One viewer of the wrecked McGuire house said it wu reduced to "kindling wood." The Columbia county en in jobs, thus rendering a greater service to th commercial functions ot this community; and tornado waa preceded by rain. "Where, these women partld Marvin Paul, was reported in about by the wind on Highway 33 near Randolph. His father, Merwin Paul, Cambria, suffered minor injuries. Another child, Gloria, got out of the ear and walked safely through th storm for mile.

pate and sponsor charitable enterprise to help less fortunate critical condition at a Beaver Dam hospital. He waa lnjuredwhen the family car was picked up and tossed wherever possible; Your favorite low-cut dress pumps rich, soft suede Jacquelines in black, Brown Navy or Pbrple famed for their smart styling, quality and eroftsmanship. 101 EAST COLLEGE AVINUI "Now, therefore, Robert L. ti i Roemer, mayor ot the city of Ap It pleton. do proclaim Sept 23-29 as National Busmen Women' Week and hereby dedicate Sept ST as Equal Right' day and urge an SLIPPER SMOP iii citizen to Join rank with the business and professional worn' en la th nation in observance of thi week ao that everyone may have a better udentasdlng of th mm now holding responsible Date BbnlKowskl Inspects the small room which he and Ms family ejeoped death In the tornado.

Seven people huddled In the comer at Bonlkowski'i right while stones from the foundation of the house tumbled into the room, just missing position la th baste snd proses NO r.lATTDR IVHAT YOU SPECIAL ALLOWANCES TO CLOSE OUT Several Models to Choose From siaau world -of today." Bike Struck by Auto then, (Post-Crescent Photos) Joan Dobberstain, route 2, Apple- Bicycle Stolen Jof Rod Gadget Shooff fames, Not Unlawful Ralph Bailey, Ulfl W. Karris street complained to Appleton po ton told Appleton police she was not injured after her bicycle was struck bf a car driven by Xugene Stadler, 818 W. Harris street on W. College avenue about 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. Th bike we bad If JL tksM ilost Wasted Mmo Oa.

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