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45; low tonight, about 25, and Saturday. High today, about Partly Cool cloudy and cool today Wisconsin State Journal SECTION MORNING FINAL MADISON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1959 Vol. 201, No. 10 120th Year 44 PAGES, THREE SECTIONS 5c Wright: A Force of Nature By HELEN N. MATHESON (Assistant Managing Editor) Frank Lloyd Wright once said "the safety of the soul depends on its courage." He saw his organic architecture architecture of democracy" -treated both as America's greatest creative achievement and as a bad joke.

He heard his private life described sometimes as a "circus," sometimes as "the most outstanding 20th century revolt against Victorianism." 'Truth Against World' He chose as his crest a Druid symbol that means "truth against the world." And in late years, he wrote that he had experienced "the best and the worst of everything." At his death, Wright was probably the world's most celebrated architect. His work was known abroad as "the American expression in architecture." He was decorated by eight nations and awarded gold medals by the King of England and the American Institute of Architecture which pronounced him-at 80-a "titanic force." He left behind him more than 700 structures, including some of the most famous buildings on earth: the nearly-completed Guggenheim museum in New York City, the Imperial hotel in Tokyo, his home, Taliesin, near Spring Green--and plans for others: a civic center on Madison's Monona Terrace and a mile-high skyscraper for Chicago. Often Attacked Yet throughout his life, his buildings were attacked as "monstrosities of material and form." His ideas were called half-baked, visionary, egotistical. And his private life was marked by strife, by revolt against social mores, by debt so baffling he finally incorporated himself and sold shares, and by four great romances all shadowed with grief and one, with ghastly tragedy. Wright's defiance of convention attracted merciless publicity, but as he grew older public attitudes toward him became more kind.

And as an old man he explained to one of his sons: "The faith that is in me may be unable to go with laws, but it is never Recently he had lived most of the year at his celebrated Taliesin near Spring Green, an acre farm estate he valued at $2,500,000 and center of his architectural fellowship. A Striking Figure He was often seen in Madison, an erect, fragile figure wearing a jaunty pork pie hat on his white head, sports slacks, jacket, and flowing tie, gesturing with a cane, his conversation crisp and pungent. As an architect, Wright believed that buildings must be in spirit and making." Taliesin-Welch for "shining built out of native materials on his family homestead. "You don't spend your lives in insensitive, ugly buildings and still respect yourselves, for only beauty dignifies the soul of man," he told an audience in Madison's Unitarian Meeting House which he designed with a great glass prow to let in the outdoors. On another occasion, he explained that he and his followers build for people we like.

They get our houses as some get religion for houses affect living-spiritual living. Architecture (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) Chief's Tonight as FRANK NOTED Frank Lloyd Wright Model If Not Withholding Tax -What? Nelson Asks Gov. Gaylord Nelson Thursday challenged a split Legislature adopt his income, tax withholdi plane or come up with something else to replace it. Nelson spoke to a joint session, his fourth personal appearance before the 1 a wmakers since mid January. He pleaded for support for his withholding plan and ticked off his NELSON rebuttal against arguments which have been advanced in opposition to it.

Sees Surtax Rise Nelson said if the plan isn't Upstate Man Killed as Auto Overturns MARSHFIELD (P)-Alois Newman, 45, of Edgar, Marathon county, was killed Thursday when the car in which he was riding went out of control on Highway 97 about 2 miles north of Marshfield and overturned. On the Inside Japanese Crown Prince Marries Commoner Who Will Become the Next Empress of Japan. Story, Sec. 1, Page 4. Sparta Man Among Seven Picked as First U.S.

Space Travelers. Story, Sec. 2, Page 16. Defense Set to Hearing By JUNE DIECKMANN (State Journal Staff Writer) Weatherly's the police Circuit DeWitt, in his DEWITT when LLOYD ARCHITECT, of Proposed Monona Terrace 'Some Delay' Seen on Terrace Project The death of Frank Lloyd Wright will cause "some delay" in the Wright-designed Monona Terrace project, Mayor Ivan A. Nestingen said Thursday afternoon.

He added, however, that Mr. Wright's death "should by no U.W. Fee Hike Trimmed to $50 Fees for out of state students at the University of Wisconsin would be raised $50 a year instead of $100 under an action Thursday by the joint finance committee. The committee reconsidered its previous action and voted, 9 to 4, in favor of raising out of state fees to $600 a year instead of $650 a year as voted earlier. Assemblyman Fred Risser (D- Madison) said he favored only a $50 increase because the higher figure would give Wisconsin the top tuition in the Big Ten.

He agreed with Assemblyman Richard Cates (D-Madison) that the university needs out of state students. The committee defeated a motion that would have cut out the 4 per cent merit salary increase for faculty at the university and state colleges. Sen. Chester Dempsey (R- Waukesha) said the trend was away from tax increases and that the salaries of "one segment of the society should not be raised without raises for other segments." Also defeated was a motion to cut the merit increase to 2 per cent. Kennedy to Wait on Primary Bid MILWAUKEE (P) Sen.

John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) who reportedly may lay his presidential -aspirations on the line in the 1960 Wisconsin Presidential Primary, said Thursday that he regards the primary as of great significance but his current visit to Wisconsin doesn't commit him to enter "It will be a significant and important primary," Kennedy told a news conference. "In fact, your state may be as erowded as a college campus phone booth next year. But I will not decide until the end of this year or early in 1960 whether I am going to be a candidate." Kennedy held the news conference shortly his arrival to address the annual Gridiron Dinner of The Milwaukee Press club. After this appearance he travels to seven state cities to make six speeches in the next three days.

Kennedy is scheduled to make three talks in Madison Saturday. At 9 a.m., he will speak at a breakfast in Hotel Loraine; at 12:45 p.m., to a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting at the consin Center, and at 1:30 to University of Wisconsin students in Apress conference also is I planned in Madison. WRIGHT, DIES Death at Age 89 Ends His Lively Career (Compiled From Wire Services) PHOENIX, Ariz. Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, the rebellious titanic force of modern architecture, died early Thursday. Mr.

Wright died before dawn in St. Joseph's hospital, his fame finally secure after more than 50 years of artistic and personal controversy with caustic critics. Advancing age was largely responsible for the death of the colorful, white-haired founder of modern architecture. Mr. Wright had undergone an emergency operation Monday for removal of an obstruction in the intestinal tract.

Planning 90th Birthday He had come through the operation successfully. The last hospital report Wednesday night listed his condition as satisfactory. He himself had had no inkling of poor health and already had issued instructions just before his death that invitations for a party at Taliesin, near Spring Green, on his 90th birthday--June 8-be delivered. One of the first to receive that invitation was William T. Evjue, editor and publisher, of the Capital Times, Madison, who recently had visited the Wrights at Taliesin West near here.

'Just Sighed, Died' Mr. Wright died at 4:45 a.m. (5:45, a.m. CST). "He just sighed--and died," reported his night nurse, Mrs.

Jessie Boganno, Glendale, Ariz. She said he appeared to be resting comfortably but did not speak during the last few hours of life. With Mr. Wright at the hospital were his third wife, Olgivanna, and Wesley Peters, husband of Olgivanna's daughter whom Wright legally adopted. Mrs.

Peters died 12 years ago. Other survivors included two daughters, Mrs. Charles Gardner of Phoenix, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter of Menlo Park, mother of motion picture star Anne Baxter; four sons, Lloyd--who made his own career in architecture- -and John of Del Mar, David of Phoenix; and Robert of Washington, D. nine grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs.

Maginal Barney of New York City. 'He Was a Great Man' At Menlo Park, Miss Baxter said of her noted approved, the Legislature will, have to increase the surtax on income tax from 20 to 40 per cent to finance the governor's proposed building program, or produce another alternative. Passage of the withholding bill for speeded-up collec-. providing, income taxes would offer a "windfall" of $78 million. Nelson has recommended that all of the state's $24 million share of the windfall be allocated for projects in the first year of his state building program, suggested $52-million, three year He said $4 million would be left for application on the $16.5 lover million, second year phase of his building program.

He recommended that the other $54 million of the windfall be re- Dulles Enters Hospital for X-Ray Studies JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) Secretary of State John Foster went to the Palm Beach Air Force base hospital Thursday for X-ray studies for the first time since his arrival at this resort 11 days ago. The secretary, who is recovering from a hernia operation and treatment for cancer, was away from his vacation retreat the home of Undersecretary C. Douglas Dillon-for three hours. Today's Chuckle A henpecked weatherm an claims: "My wife speaks 150 words a minute with gusts up to 180." Start Resumes J.

McGinnis, 1940 Winnebago Cosmas (Coz) Hoffman, co-owner of the Hoffman House; and Kenneth Zerwick, 212 S. Mills president of the Wisconsin Brick Corp. The commission did not hold Weatherly's hearing Thurs day night because of the absence of the last prosecution witness. (Chuck) Hoffman, coowner of the Hoffman House, 514 E. Wilson st.

Instead, it held its belated monthly No mention of Chief Weatherly's misconductcharge hearing was made by the commissioners or the police chief. Chief Weatherly reported in person on the March police business; Fire Chief Edward J. Page gave a report on his department's work during March, and the commission approved year renewal of private (Continued on Page 2, Column turned to local units of government to minimize the effect needed construction projects in localities have on the property tax. to Criticize' "It is simple enough criticize any program," Nelson said. "But with your criticism goes the responsibility of proposing an alternative you are willing to support and stand by." He said his statement applied with equal force to the Democratic (Assembly GOP Bristles at Nelson Bid, but Senators Are More Reserved, Reaction Story, Sec.

1, Page 12.) majority in the Assembly and the Republican majority in the Senate. "It is a fundamental rule in any democratic society that those who have the power to successfully oppose have the responsibility to constructively propose," Nelson said. Republicans in control of the Senate have indicated strong opposition to the withholding plan. Not a New Tax The governor said the withholding system was not a new tax but was a better method of collecting the present income tax obligation. He said it would not change the present tax structure.

Nelson said Wisconsin's financial problem in buildings is due to delays in the past 22 years because of depression, World War II, and the Korean War. He said it was magnified by population growth. makes sense to use the windfall now to help the state and its municipalities catch up," Nelson said. He said the state has been borrowing from the future by failing (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Proxmire to Close Milwaukee Office WASHINGTON (P) Sen. William Proxmire (D Wis) said Thursday he was closing his office in Milwaukee because the increasing heavy load of legislative work and correspondence "has compelled us to concentrate all of our staff in order to get the job done in Washington." His home secretary, Jerry Bruno, will be assigned to the Washington staff, Proxmire said.

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2, Page 15 Weather Table Sec. 1, 2 Women's Page Sec. 1, Page The Wisconsin Legislative News (Turn to Pages 3 and 5) means prevent the city from completing" the project. Group Confident Reaction of city auditorium committee members was varied, but none of them seemed to think that the auditorium cannot be built. "The plans have been developed to a point where it is my feeling that we can complete the final plans and specifications with the talents and capabilities of the staff of the Frank a NESTINGEN Lloyd Wright foundation," Nestingen said.

The auditorium committee reMr. Wright weeks ago, ceived preliminary, plans from but delayed recommending their approval to the City Council until some basic questions of building materials and specific features to be included are settled. To Clear Up Points Nestingen said that the tee should confer with Wesley Peters, Mr. Wright's son-in-law, or some other representative of the foundation as soon as possible to clear up some technical points. One of them, he said, is to determine who can represent the foundation in signing a stipulation dismissing the foundation's suit against the city.

The suit was to compel the city to go ahead with the terrace project despite the Metzner law which banned it. The law has since. been repealed. City Atty. Harold E.

has advised the auditorium committee that th suit should be dismissed before the prelimi(Continued on Page 2, Column grandfather that the world would mourn the "passing of a great individual. His was a full lite in which he certainly contributed more to others than most individuals are gifted to do. He was a great man." All his life he fought for "natural housing," homes that would give a "sense of shelter and a sense of space," and functional, individualistic buildings that blended precision mach lines with nature's own living forms in stone and steel, wood, and glass. His streamline technique or "Wrightisms" stirred controversy at home and abroad, leading him to professional victories and defeats, disappointments, and sometirnes personal disaster. But there was nothing small about him, except his neat, impeccably dressed little figure.

Even his worst critics conceded his genius, and his followers considered him a giant in artistic building design. Acclaimed at Home Although he gained his first fame overseas, Wright at long last in 1950 won the reluctant acclaim of the American Institute of Architects which presented him with its gold medal--the profession's highest award(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Other Wright News More Stories, Pictures, Sidelights on Frank Lloyd Wright Will Be Found on Page 6. On Page 7 Is a Full Picture Page on Highlights of His Life. See Editorial, Page 10. Police Chief Bruce to start tonight when hearing at 7 p.m.

in against the chief. Atty. Jack R. the chief as a witness defense either tonight or Saturday, depending on how other testimony progresses. mission Pres.

Albert A. Taubert said the hearings will be held tonight and all day Saturday in an attempt to com plete testimony before Sunday. If not, he said the commission will decide late Saturday afternoon defense testimony is scheduled and fire commission resumes its Court on five misconduct charges filed Weatherly's counsel, said he may call own next session will be held. DeWitt said he has 15 defense witnesses subpenaed and there "may be a few more." DeWitt declined to name all of the witnesses he has subpenaed, but he said some will be medical men, to testify about crash injuries and resulting condition; character witnesses; and "others who saw Chief Weatherly at the Hoffman House where he is alleged to have been DeWitt said among the Hoffman House witnesses will be Jack Stevenson, 4230 Esch lane. deputy Dane county coroner and a forthe mer Madison policeman; Spring Green Rites Pending; Body to Arrive on Saturday (Specia! to The State Journal) PHOENIX The body of Frank Lloyd Wright, world-famed Madison area architect who died in a Phoenix, hospital Thursday, will arrive in Spring Green Saturday.

The body will lie in state in the living room of his winter home at Taliesin West outside of Scottsdale, until Friday, Only close friends of the renowned architect are being admitted. Spring Green funeral service arrangements are still pending for Sunday or Monday. Burial will be in the Hillside Unitarian chapel cemetery just east of Taliesin East, the Wrights' resident grounds south of Spring Green. Most of Mr. Wright's relatives on his mother's side are buried at the chapel cemetery.

The chapel was constructed more than 80 years ago as a wayside place for prayer and was formerly known' as the Wyoming Valley Unitarian Church. Mr. Wright, as a boy, attended services a at the chapel on those occasions when traveling Unitarian ministers stopped there. Mr. Wright was often quoted as saying that he heard some of the greatest voices of Unitarianism in the chapel in his boyhood.

His uncle, the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, regarded as the most important single figure in the growth of Unitarianism in the Midwest, often preached at the chapel. Funeral arrangements for the rites at Spring Green will be made by the Richardson funeral home, Spring Green..