The Winona Daily News from Winona, Minnesota • 3

MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956 Pgt 3 THE WINONA DAILY NEWS, WINONA, MINNESOTA Jury Picked To Hear McMillen Case Second Trial At Which Hatfield Is Presiding Two Injured in Head-on Crash On Highway 61 Cars Involved Driven by Dakotan, Minneapolis Woman "''-'ii. -v 1 -5 tip -i i in i r-v: 8 J. I rJ. -1 Two persons were injured in the head-on collision of two cars on Highway 61 near the east city limits Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred at 5:20 p.m.

near the junction of Highway 61 and the Sugar Loaf road and involved cars driven by Gerald Woodward, 17, Dakota lit. 2. and Janice Nelson, 19, Minneapolis. Witnesses reported that Woodward, driving south on Highway 61. had turned out to pass another Public Interest Award Goes to The Daily News 'Exceptional Service to Safety' Cited The Winona Daily News has been awarded the 1955 Public Interest Award by the National Safety Council, it was announced today by Ned.

H. Dearborn, Chicago, council president-Thirty two daily newfpapera throughout the United States received the award. The only other Minnesota newspaper among the group is the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. The noncompetitive award is made annually to public information media for "exceptional service to safety The Daily News was cited especially for its efforts to promote safety by giving more than normal news and editorial coverace to efforts to secure a new Highway 61 from Winona to La Crescent and a swimming pool for the city.

"Influencing human behavior is the most difficult and most important part of accident prevention and the only way to reach people is through public information media." said Mr. Dearborn. "We ar proud to honor the outstanding safety leadership represented by this award." Judges of the award were Gecrge A. Brandenburg, Chicago, editor of Editor Publisher; Robert R. Burton, vice president.

1 I The selection of a jury to hear testimony in a $25,000 personal injury action brought by a Winona woman was completed in District Court here shortly before noon today. The case is a suit brought bv Mrs. Harry L. McMillen, 1104 Gil-more for the recovery of damages for injuries she allegedly suffered in an automobile accident near Lamoille April 6. 1954.

Mrs. McMillen says that she was injured when the car in which she was riding, driven by her husband, was involved in the collision with a car driven by James Fern-ette and owned by Carlos Meyer, both of Prairie du Chien, Wis. Fernette and Meyer are named car and collided headn with the An Arm Bouquet of red roses from the Minnesota Florists A.xMiciation was presented to Mrs. W. F.

C. Heise. Minnesota's Mother of the Year, during ceremonies at St. Martin's Lutheran Church Saturday afternoon. The presentation of the bouquet was made to Mrs.

Heise by Mayor Loyde E. Pfeiffer. Some 150 persons attended the ceremonies at the church which were followed by a tea and reception at the Oaks. (Daily News photo) nona station, left to right, are: L. V.

Gallup, division trainmaster; LeRoy Richm, division roadmaster, and E. F. Krupka, general foreman of the Winona shops. Division Freight and Passenger Agent R. E.

Miles, who was also among the local officials participating in the inspection tour, said the special train would make its next stop at Waseca. (Daily News photo) New Officials of the Chicago North Western Railway were met by Dakota division representatives when they arrived by special train for an inspection tour here early this afternoon. Ben F. Heineman, second from right, is the new chairman of the board of the CNW while Clyde J. Fitzpatrick, far right, is new president of the road.

Both assumed their duties April 1. Among the officials who met them at the Wi northbound Nelson car. Miss Nelson and a passenger in i her car. Donald Erickson, 25, Farmington, were takn in an am-' bulance to the Winona Central Hosnital for treatment of cuts and bruises. Woodward, meanwhile, was ax-rested by police on a charge of! careless driving.

Damage Estimated He appeared in municipal court i this morning but because of his age the case was referred to the juvenile court. I as defendants in the cose. This is the second jury trial during the spring term of District Court at which Judge Arnold Hatfield is presiding. Mrs. McMillen is represented by F.

J. O'Brien. Rochester, and C. Stanley McMahon, Winona, and the defendants by Thomas Skemp, La Crosse, and William M. Hull, Winona.

After the jury had been selected this morning O'Brien called Meyer for cross-examination. Meyer had just begun to testify when" a noon recess was called. The trial was to be resumed at 2 p.m. Members of the jury hearing the case are Harold Bartsh, Utica; Celia Cholewinski, 865 E. Sanbcrn John Duane, Lewiston; Mrs.

Edwin Janikowski. 553 E. Howard Fred Knauf, St. Charles; Alois Koutsky. 470 W.

Sanborn Mrs. Damage to the Nelson car was estimated at $300 and Woodward reported $150 damage to his car. of Service Recognized Lifetime To City Soldier Cleared By Confession From Florida PRESTON, Minn. (Special) Service Businesses Show Rapid Growth The 180 service establishments in Winona County had receipts of S3.329.0O0 during 1S54, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of the Census said today in a preliminacy census report.

The 4otal for five Southeastern Minnesota counties (Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha and Winona) amounted to a whopping Rpm-'nition for a lifptim nf rvif-. In ih ir.ftn rnmmiinifv i -eeanam, UJUIS Bna Droror, wc, was accorded Mrs. W. F. C.

259 E. Broadway, Saturday after- Gardens: Norman Damon, vice CITY OF WINONA TRAFFIC BOX SCORE To Dt 1956 195S Accidents 175 150 Killed 5 3 Injured 17 33 Damage $39,190 $26,450 noon in ceremonies observing her selection as Minnesota Mother of president. Automotive Safety Foun the Year for 1S56Y The presentation of a scroll and pin symbolic of the Mother of the Year award was made during a 40-minuie program attended by about 150 persons at St. Mar- $16,185,000 for 773 establishments tin Lutheran Church. dation; Fred Garngus.

manager of organizational services. National Association Radio and Television Broadcasters; Wesley Nunn. advertising manager. Standard Oil Co. Tnd.i.

and Dr Albert A. Sutton, professor of journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Mrs. Heise, whose five doctor Damage estimated at $850 was Young Duluih George Muras. 553 E.

Wabasha Mrs. Frank Nottleman. Lamoille; Mrs. James Papenfuss. Dakota: Mrs.

John Schell, Edward Yarilomek, Minnesota City, and Mrs. H. A. Oksnee, 1165 W. Howard St.

The FBI has confirmed the integrity cf a soldier now serving in Germany, who was suspected of pulling a hoax here more than two years ago. Federal agents told Fillmore County Sheriff Donald Cook last week they have confessions from reported after a car struck a park-! operate the Heise Clinic on ed pickup truck on Washington East Sarnia street, received the Winona County's combined annual payroll for service establishments totaled 842,000. They reported 431 employes, of whom 360 worked full time in the pay period ending nearest Nov. 15, 1954. Their totals, which may be compared with county-wide totals to obtain the service business activity in the remainder of Wabasha and Olmsted counties, are: In Lake City, there were 24 es- street Saturday afternoon.

from Mrs. E. II. Kopplin The accident occurred at 2 p.m. Litchfield, state chairwoman of Man Jailed in the American Mothers Committee while Dalvin Boardman.

204 mere were i3 proprietors ac who was state Mother of th tablishments with receipts of of Tampa. and Kansas City tively employed in men admitting slugging and rob unincorporated businesses. $500,000 Damage In Church Fire Year in 1949. Mayor Loyde E. Pfoiffcr paid tribute to the award winner and there was a laudatory letter from His Excellency.

Edward A. Fitz bing the soldier near Preston Feb. 2. 1954. Sgt.

Robert Whitcare, 15. Spar Slugging Death gerald, bishop of Winona. HIBBING. Minn. A young Methodists Seek More Ministers, Step Up Training By GEORGE W.

CORNELL MINNEAPOLIS U-Hard Following the ceremonies, at carpenter who slugged a bystand-, Wabasha was driving south on Washington street near the West Mark street intersection. Boardman lost control of his car momentarily and it struck a parked pickup truck owned by Frank O'Laughlin. 527 Washington st. Attempting Turn Damage to the car was estimated at $500 and to the truck. $350.

A car driven by Bernard Pla-checki. 572 E. 5th was damaged when it struck the curb on West 5th street near Olmstead street at 3:10 a.m. Sunday. Norwich, Conn.

the church some 125 persons at- er in what otlicers described as tended a tea in Mrs. Heise's hon-! "missruided effort to avence ta. told authorities then that he was beaten and robbed of $100 and his car during the night of Feb. 2, 1954, after stopping to assist a pair of men at the junction of Highways 52 and 16 just north of Preston. No evidence of the car was pvrr found and it was Kiirwrtfri The survey totals were broken down into three major categories, personal, automotive and "other" services.

The first group includes barber and beauty shops, cleaning and dyeing plants, laundries, garment alteration and repair services, undertakers, photo studios, shoe repair shops and shine parlors and other personal sen-ices. The automotive group includes general automobile repair shops, battery service shops, tire repairers, body repair and paint shops. roll of $49,000 as compared to for the rest of the county, while outlying areas outnumbered totals of Lake City for both number of employes and full time employes. There were a total of 66 employes in the county, with 43 from places other than Lake City, while only 16 of the county's 39 fulltime employes were employed at Lake City. Rochester, on the other hand, dominated service business activity in Olmsted County.

It had 262 of the total 320 establishments and $9,234,000 of the $10,254,000 total receipts. Of the county toal or at the Oaks. friend" was held today following I Family Prasent death of the man who was -JTti Vi All members of Mrs. Heise's 1 struck. through the Sacred Heart immediate family were present! The carrxrter and of Du- Catholic Church yeer- for the award nroeram carpenter.

ana oi uu- j. causing damage estimated at ior me awara program. luth. was lailed without charce jn. pressed to keep its pulpits filled.

Thi'v inrliirimf Tr TIorhArt m. uu.wn uumib. Plachecki was attempting to aiier aumuunz ne fciussea ra- the Methodist Church today. that SgL whitcare ha buUt up readied plans for a sweeping ex- a hoax. Last week the FBI ar-pansion in facilities for turning rested Francis Beringer in ministers.

na. and Darhl TIallev in Kansas tm th intWcin William. Philir. Paul and Carl i "71, "17 nuumm urn- C. lvR.

lU uhn are associated in vl. roclwUe estimated it would cost vR. Heise who are associated in when his into the curb. car ran inn u. rwirf inty rlanr at al rental, storage earaees.

narkin? rri 1 i i -rf the Winona clinic; a daughter. "miw amoum scheduled Dnm.n'p u-a stimateH nt Sinn i lie proposals, City and they have confessed to lots, auto "laundries" and miscel- cnurcn. teaclier in Thrpv rars fiffiired in a collision Miss Adele Heise payroll of $3,030,000. about $2,829. come before the church's law laneous automotive services.

the robbery and slugging. They 1 The fire broke out shortly after 000 was in Rochester. Services em-i on est Broadway near Ewing Minneapolis public schools; another daughter Mrs Jr.hn v.uiaiin aiea rtunaay morning tne 8 a.m. Jlass Mana. I nere ployed 1,318 persons in uocnester, street at 10 a.m.

Sundav (Dorcthv) Curtis a nure and re- Cook Hospital of neck were 3O0 people in the church, ceptioni'st at the clinic, and a and spine The man vho Sexton Michael LaMothe. aw third daughter, Mrs. Llov'd (Ruth) admitted the attack was in jail smoke coming from the sacristy. Involved were cars driven by Lyle Turner. 105 W.

Wabasha Hauson Tietz. St. Paul, and Mary as compared to 135 in the remainder of the county, while 1,146 of those in the city were on a full time basis as compared to 51 in Campbell, whose husband is busi- ikuii8 an mqm-M a room on ine aner. ne noto up Joyce Czaplewski. 1814 W.

5th St. which the county coroner's office and pointed to the rear exits. The ness manager at the clinic. making General Conference today, call for enlarging the seminary program to graduate 2,800 new pastors a year up from a past peak of 927. A church study commission recommends stepping up the capacity of the present 10 Methodist seminaries and establishing two -v ones.

-'iop Donald H. Tippett of San Fr commission chairman, said a large, steady stream of told federal authorities that they put Missouri license p'ates on the Whitcare car immediately and after wrecking it in a collision near Baton Rocue, two weeks later, sold it to a junkyard. At the time Whitcare told the story: He was en route home in his car from an Army camp in Colorado when he stopped on Highway 16 for the Highway 52 crossing. He noticed a fellow standing over another on the nrn( uom Or nH Mr piannea ior sometime uus wee. Turner and Tietz each estimated damage to his car at $150 but the Czaplewski car was not Carl Heise.

Storv Citv, Iowa, LRa; McDermott. chief deputy brother of Mrs. Heisc's husband snonff aJ Hibhing. said the car-who died in Mav 1953. 1 Pinter admitted sinking Gustafson Th nropram at th chnrrh h-! arly Sunday.

According to Mc- Dlcarmamonf TallC hen Mrs. Kopplin escort- Dermott. the Duluth man said be 'Jul IllalliClll I airo jIrs t0 (ne chancel at Mw a friend of his. Eino Warmaa new ministers is needed "if we shoulder of the road and- got out to assist them In U.N. Hit Snag parishioners started filing out.

One said later be didn't know what was wrong, and assumed someone as taken ill and the sexton wanted the church cleared. Then the sexton told the Rer. Rene Messier, who had jut started to read the weekly an-nouncenents from the pulpit. Father Messier quietly advised the people to leave the church-There was no confusion. Father Messier removed the chalice and other sacred vessels and followed the congregation out.

Firemen battled the blaze for three hours. Tiie fire burned out the interior of the church, leaving onlv the smoke-blackened brick shell. expect as a church to continue to grow in size and spiritual power." The two new seminaries, to accommodate 250 students each, would be established in the Ohio area, with no particular site indicated, and in the Kanns-Nebras- The men attacked him, bound him with neckties and threw him onto a county road north of town after taking his wallet and beating him. Since the car was taken across state lines, the matter is now in the hands of federal auth- "All other selected services" includes business services, miscellaneous repair services, amusement and recreation services, motion pictures, hotels, tourist courts, motels and camps. A five county breakdown of the various services, listing the number of establishments and the total receipts, is as follows.

Prrioml AatomotiTe Otbrr Fillmore 39- $277,000 tMO.OOO 29- 1191.000 13 $231,000 29- $231,000 Olm- srteel 113 $2,716,000 53 $766,000 Waba- f-h-. 26- $164,000 7- $83,000 32- $700,000 77- $941,000 28 $517,000 County toals for total number of establishments and receipts are: Fillmore. 117 and $1,010,000: Houston. 71 and $643,000: Olmsted. 320 and $10,254,000: Wabasha.

85 and $949,000 and WINONA, 180 and Within-county listings showed that the city of Winona had 140 of the county's 180 service establishments with all but eight of the 86 in the payroll class. Receipts for businesses within the city limits totaled as compared to the rest of the county's total of $126,000. The city had $820,000 of the total $842,000 payroll. Of the Winona County total of 431 employes, the city listed 415, while on a full time employe ba the front of the church whereof Buyck. lying bleeding in a the ceremonies took place.

dltch outride the dance halL Gus- Activa in Church Work I tafson was standing nearby. The Mrs. Kopplin reviewed Mrs. Duluth rnan assumed Gustafson Heise 's activities in Winona iniw responsible for Warmaa's be-visiting thousands cf ill and in- ng in the ditch, walked up and jured persons and providing flow- struck him on the jaw. ers.

clothing, food and money to Gustafson never regained con-those in need. sciousness. She also cited Mrs. Heisc's i McDernwtt said questioning of longtime interest in church ac- witnesses indicated that Warmaa tivitirs and her membership on had been drinking heavily and ap-the board of directors of the parently stumbled into the ditch. LONDON tf Side talks between members of the U.N.

Disarmament subcommittee were scheduled today amid growing indications the six-week-old negotiations are about to suspend on a note ot indecision. Harold E. Stassen. U.S. representative at the negotiations meets privately with the chief Soviet ka-Missouri region, with Kansas orities.

City the suggested site. the rest of the county. Chicago Woman Dies as Hiawatha Hits Trapped Car CHICAGO tfl A young mother of four was killed Sunday when the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha struck her car trapped in a tight line of churchbound traffic. Mrs. Rosmary Pohlmeier, alone in the car, was bound for church herself.

Her four sons range in age from 10 months to 4 years. Her husband. Herbert. 35. is a welder.

The family lived in suburban Northbroolc, where the accident occurred. Edward Kinsella. Hiawatha engineer, said Mrs. Pohlmeier's car was struck as she was pushing the car ahead of it in an attempt to get clear of the tracks. Kinsella estimated the train's speed at 85 m.p.h.

The victim's body was thrown 100 feet by the collision. Her car stopped on the tracks some two blocks from her home. of Margaret delegate, Depulv Foreign Minister Family Service Ani1.i fftiMt'lrA DaIiaW ti11-e miuiti uiviiijivu. Simpson iiome. "I'IJ A were also scheduled between the Mayor Pfeiffer then presented V-nlldren ArrCSted Theft of Two united Mates.

Britain, ranee ana Mrs. Heise ith an arm bouquet Canada, the four Western mem- cf red roses from the Minnesota It a 4TkA nt iam vim i a For Breaking RepQfted 6 Professors Guggenheim Winners NEW YORK University of Minnesota faculty members were among 275 scholars and artists who received Guggenheim fellowship awards Sunday. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation granted a total of $1,100,000 to the 275 recipients. The Minnesotans who received fellowshios were: ucuui lorisis Associaiinn. corsages Several children rancins in ace i Together with the expansion of the existing seminaries, the new schools would increase capacity tc 4.800 students up 60 per cent from the present 3,000 maximum.

Bishop Tippett said the church at present needs 1.200 new clergymen a year, to fill vacancies that occur through retirement or death, and will need 1.600 others a year to keep up with church growth. Bishop Tippett there will be 1,400,000 more Methodists by 1965, worshipping in about 3.500 new churches. This would give the denomination, already the country's biggest Protestant body, about 11 mill'on members in about 43.500 churches. -alM mi- and AOppiin. hv notice for breaking windows in passe.

They believe the group has The scroll citing Mrs. Heise's Stnl dcSren? caVa'e little alternative but to report its designation as Mother of the Year TS klce A. U.N. Disarmament Commission Heise made the presentation of Te children re arretted afier and awnit new instmrl th. THm, th.

cnuarcn re arrestee auer sis, the city had 3ol and the re- I UE lilt a I 1 1 1 1 ru.V -4 Htr.n Dr. Allan Harvey Brown. Dr. mainder of the county, nine The commission will probably Tbefi of two boats and a pir of oars have been reported to inona police. Dr.

P. A. Mattison. KC8 W. Mark reported that his aluminum boat was taken from Bathhouse Slough sometime since Iztt Thursday.

Dr. Mattison said that the boat was chained to a boathouse. James Goodreid. 64 E. Broadway, said that his boat was taken from its mooring on Bathhouse Slouch sonx'time since Thursday.

The theft of a pair of oars from Other individual cities listed in reassign the five-power subcommittee to its task. cluded Lake City and Rochester. Huai Chang Chiang, Dr. Lorenz Edwin Alfred Eitner, Dr. Murray Krieger, Dr.

Arthur John Madden and Dr. Richard Burroughs Mather. her mother. ported lat week that a number of Mrs. Heie responded briefly wjndows in the garage had been and expressed her appreciation broken.

for the honors accorded her. The children admitted that Uy Also speaking at the presenta-: threw rocks and thot air rifle rl-tion ceremonies as a Mmne-' itts at the window, apolis attorney, Walter E. Quie-I ley, who had nominated Mrs. 1 cles involved in fatal accidents his boat in Bathhouse Slouch was in 1955 were traveling straight I reported by Gorman Hall, 528 W. ahead.

I Sanborn St. STATED COMMUNICATION 1 Camp Offered Eagle Scouts John A. Buxton. Owatonna, has again offered his lodge on Lake Lac Croix for Eagle Scouts iil the area. Any Scout in the Gamehaven area who was awarded eagle rank from June 1, 1955, to June 1, 1S56.

and is 16 years of age or over will be considered for this year's encampment June 3 to 9. Activities will be under the supervision of Henry Knutson Wasioja District Advancement Chairman and a Scoutmaster who will be chosen later. Heise for the award. Mrs. W.

G. Hoffman sang "The Lord's Prayer." The National Mother of the Year will be selected in New York from the 48 state winners and will be announced on Mothers Day, May 13. 2-Faced Clock Has You Coming, Going NASHVILLE, Tenn. its It a fi Adenauer Asks Red Aid in Unification STUTTGART, Germany LTt Chancellor a Adenauer called on the free world nations last night to enlist Russia's support in reuniting divided Germany. He assailed as "false and dangerous" opposition charges that his regime has been slow in seeking reunification.

"Such speeches." he said in an address closing the annual convention of his Christian Democratic party, "make the free nations afraid of a rebirth of national 4 WINONA LODGE NO. II, A. F. A A. M.

WORK IN FIRST DEGREE Tuesday, May 1 7:30 o'clock Refreshments William H. Mann, W.M. JQ Six Scouts will be chosen this year. Consideration will be given i socialism' nazism. to serv ice in scouting and com-1 The convention re-elected Ade-munity, and general leadership i nauer party chief Saturday night ability.

for the eighth straight year. i I BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY National Concern has limited number of openings for this and outlying areas for ambitious persons to manage local wholesale distributing business. May be bandied in spare hours, to start, if desired. Honesty and dependability more important than past experience. This is a year-round wholesale distributing business dealing in products nationally known and consumed the world over.

Radio TV. magazine and newspaper advertising budget of over Sl5.000.ooo yearly. Thu opportunity for association with 86-year-old firm with offices in 97 principal cities. Local references. This opportunity for persons of high trpe character only.

FUTURE POTENTIAL UNLIMITED Applicants must have car, good reference ad $2590. which is secured. This opening will pay exceptionally high weekly earnings to start and rapidly increase as business expands. No high pressure applicants wanted, as no selling is required. If you qualify and have a sincere desire to own your own business, write today giving phone number and resume concerning voursell.

For confidential interview wTite Merchandising Division real o-faced clock that tells you one s'ory hen you're going east and another when you're going west But it's probably the only clock in town that tells everybody the right time. The clock is the one at the front of the building jointly owned by twr separately owned daily news-paper the morning Tennessean and the afternoon Banner. The Tennessean, hich supported the move to shift Nashville clocks voluntarily to Daylight Sav- i ing Time, had the face of the clock on its side of the building on 1 "fast" time. The Banner kept its face of the clock on Centra) Standard Time. Excessive speed was the principal cause of traffic accidents in 1955.

THE MARGARET SIMPS0I1 HOME The annual meeting of the Margaret Simpson Home will be held at the Winona YMCA, at 207 Winona Street, Winona, Minnesota, on Tuesday evening. May 8. 1956, at 8:00 o'clock, for the purpose of hearing the reports of the officers, election of directors, and such other business as may properly come before the meeting. All persons contributing to or interested in the work of The Margaret Simpson Home are cordially invited to attend the meeting. HAROLD J.

LIBERA, Secretary on the highway and passing another car when it collided head-on with the automobile at the right (Daily News photo) Two Persons Riding in the car at the right were injured Sunday afternoon in this accident on Highway 61 near the east city limits. The car at the left reportedly was traveling south Eox A-88 Doily News, Winona, Minn. Interviews Te Be Held in St. Paul 1.