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Monday, February 18, 1963 WINONA DAILY NEWS 1 21,200 Visit Polio Clinics If X' -j way. Surrounding him are. left to right, Sandra Haedtke, Mrs. Frey and Mrs. John Cady.

Daily News photo) THIS IS MEDICINE? Jeffrey Frey, 19, months, thoughtfully chews his sugar cube at Central Elementary School clinic, lie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frey, 921 K. Broad- fc" i a i LV, fc 'VIiiih i i i'' -rf 4 iinil Robert Mrs. Romberg holds Ralph and Hornberg Rubin At table; Mrs.

C.erald Schultz. left, and Mrs. Al voliinicer clinic workers. Dally News photo' VACCINATION FAMILY STYLE Traffic gels a boost at Washington-Kosciusko School as Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Hornberg, Wilson, and their nine children arrive for the polio clinic. Child- ren are. left to right: Ronald, Rebecca, Richard. Ruth. Raymond, Roger carries Dublin, Mild Weather Won't Last; 10-15 Tonight The temperature shot into the 40s Sunday to bring Winona some of the mildest weather of the winter.

Rut the weatherman says it won't last. He predicts variable cloudiness and colder tonight and Tuesday with a low of 10-15 tonight and a high of 25 Tuesday. THE EXTENDED forecast predictions through Saturday indicates temperatures will average near normal figures of 26-31 during the afternoon and lows of 5 to 11 above at night. It is expected to be colder during the early part of the period, warming through midweek, then turning cold again late in the week. Intermittent light snow or snow flurries throughout the period will occur but total precipitation is expected to be less than .10 of an inch.

The Winona temperature got up to 29 Saturday afternoon and 41 Sunday. Low Sunday morning was 15 and this morning 34. At noon today it was 34. The Minnesota and Wisconsin highway departments reported some slippery roads due to frost and snow. Early morning fog was reported in some places.

Only below zero readings in Minnesota came from the far north where International Falls reported 5 and Bemidii -1. It was snowing at Duluth where the temperature was 13. Rochester had a morning reading of 26 after a high of 34 Sunday. It was cold at Winnipeg, too, where the sky was clear and the temperature -16. Colder weather, carrying a throat of light snow, pushed slowly through WISCONSIN from north to south today.

Temperatures ahead of the cold front were about normal for the season. At midmorning today. La Crosse and Stevens Point reported 33 degrees, but Superior held to the 11-dcgree reading it had in the early morning hours. Some scattered light snow fell in Wisconsin during the night, mostly in the north. Park Falls reported 2 inches of snow and Superior had 1.

Eau Claire recorded about one-half inch. MINIMUM temperatures during the night, in addition to Superior's 11, were Park Falls 19, Green Bay 22, Lone Rock, Beloit and' Milwaukee 24, Racine 25, Madison 27 and La Crosse 32. La Crosse set the Wisconsin high of 40 degrees Sunday, withj other maximums ranging down to 23 at Park Falls. Old Town. Maine, was the cold-1 ct rnmmiinitv in th nation earlv I pi nnnrm- nb 1 fin r( Mi ft other daughter, Ava, 2' 2, are sisters, Miss Griessdorf studied nursing in Germany and works at Community Memorial Hospital as a nurse's aide.

She said Sabin oral polio clinics were held last year in West Germany. 'Daily News photo) SAME AS IN GERMANY Miss Dorothea Griessdorf, Herrenalb. Germany, holds Joann Grunz, 1, as Dr. W. O.

Finkelnburg administers Sabin Type I polio vaccine. At rear is Mrs. N'eil Sawyer, public health nurse. Miss Griessdorf and Mrs. Gerald Grunz, left, holding her polio clinic.

The Jefferson clinic processed nearly half of the 21,200 persons passing through three city immunization centers. Daily News photo) SABIN SUNDAY DRAWS CROWDS With Boy Scouts serving as doormen, lines of people moe into Jefferson School for Sunday's Pedestrian Pleads Innocent to Charge Of Disobeying Order A pedestrian pleaded innocent in municipal court this morning to a charge that he disobeyed a direct No Charge Filed In Mans Death Max Conrad Aims For New Records 1 pie in its immunization ines. ad-on the curb to avoid being hit by llinistei.ing 9 noo doses of va(cjne 1 C' iPpnlial Si'hnnl was npvt with 7- ith 5 Mnw 7Prn And Ther-(TOO1 Next Clinic On March 31; 3rd May 19 Mild weather with 40-degree afternoon temperatures encouraged a turnout of 21.200 area residents for Sunday's oral polio vaccination clinic here The figure was somewhat lower than the anticipated 30.000. but Dr. James Testor, chairman of the Winona County Medical Society's polin committee, said the turnout was highly satisfactory.

PEOPLE BEGAN trooping Into the three centers at the opening hour of 11 am. temporarily swamping personnel. Fresh waves of adults and children swelled the lines periodically as worship services were concluded in various churches. The numbers dwindled considerably through mid-afternoon and up to the 7 p.m. closing time, ollicials said.

Exact tallies were not available today but the Hospital Women's Auxiliary estimated the number of Wisconsin residents taking part at 1,400. Tha luffrtrcmi ChvJ ont or ro. pp()e and the remaining 5,000 fi lh' ciusko School center. Auto traffic was temporarily congested in the Jefferson School area shortly after II am. Police Sgt.

George McGuire. whose Civil Defense volunteers directed traflic to the clinics, said some cars were diverted to other centers to even up the distribution. MCGUIRE SAID the communications network set up by the Hiawatha Citizens Band Radio Asso ciation functioned efficiently in controlling traffic and maintaining .7. cuiiimi cimuii ruiiiiui iiiiiii. Clinici or administering Types II and III of the Sabin oral vacc ine will be held March 31 end May 19, Dr.

Testor said. He emphasized that complete immunity to all three types of polio cannot be secured by an in dividual unless he takes all three types of vaccine. Dr. Testor said about 2,400 doses of vaccine were left over from Sunday's clinic. Some of it will be used at a clinic to set up Tuesday evening at St.

Mary's College for students there, he said. The serum is kept frozen and once it is thawed it must be used or discarded. traffic. The pickup and the Boynlon car collided headon. Police said the pickup had been heading west on Gilmore and the Boynton car east.

Miss Salisbury was examined and released at I he hospital. There was $200 damage to the tronl end of the Boynton car and $1H0 lo the trout end of the pickup owned by Winona Delivery Transfer Co. Miss Sal-isbiuy's car was not involved in the collision. The federal tax on new cars, trucks and buses is ten percent of manufacturers' price. I of the pickup and landed in the center of the street.

Thilmany, who was southbound on Mankato, told police Lilla appeared in front of the truck. After the accident Thilmany ran to a nearby tavern and phoned for an ambulance. Police were on the scene within minutes. The truck was impounded for examination. No equipment defects were found.

Thilmany had been driving home at the time of the accident. Hie driver was the only witness to the accident. It was Winona's first traffic death in 1963. Assuml mal nes pnysicauy in mr me us-oi of endurance flight, Max Conrad was to conler in Washington, today with executives of the National Aeronautic Association regarding projected assaults on a scries of world's records tor flight in light aircraft. The veteran Winona pilot spent a greater part of last week in Rochester undergoing special physical examinations tor pilots and Sunday reported tha doc had a veil him a uood bill of health, given mm a a really fine report HOLDER OF numerous flying records and now on the prowl lor some new ones.

Conrad said Sunday before taking olf for a Might East that he'd made arrangements for the physical "because, after all, I guess I'm getting past the age when a person is supposed to be doing this soil of thing." First, he wants to take a look at the lis! of officially recognied records for sustained flighl in the type of aircraft he ordinarily Hies Then he wants lo launch what he describes as "a new campaign" to break as manv of these as possible. "Rilit now I'm working out some way to buy the Tiper Comanche in which I set some of the records I have now." Conrad explained "A lot of pro pie have thought I owned the airplane but 1 don't and now I'm Irving to arrange some financing to buy it, "THE PIPER people who own it made il available lo ne lui some records they were mleresied in." he continued. "There aie only certain ones they had in mind, though, and if I'm going alter these others I'd like to buv Ihe airplane inv-self" Some of the records Conrad has The defendant is Edmund R. Pel- low ski, 60, 209 W. 5lh St.

He posted $10 bail pending trial at 9 a.m. Wednesday before Municipal Judge S. D. J. Bruski.

Fellow ski as arrested al 5:15 p.m. Saturday al East 4th and Johnson streets. Police said today an officer directing traffic ordered Pellowski and a group of children to remain on the curb because of traffic. The children obeyed the order. The arrest was made under a state law requiring compliance ith orders of a traffic officer.

Gilmore Crash Driver Fined; Man in Hospital Miss Marlene L. Salisury. 23. (Imore Ave pleaded guilty mnicipa court to driving over ie wt "lecol isior, that sent the vunri uiivci iu uic IHI.ult(ll. Municipal Judge S.

D. J. Bruski fined her $15 or five days in city jail. She paid the fine. She was arrested by police following the collision of a pickup truck she was driving with a car driven by Yer-nold A.

Boynlon, 50, Lewiston, at 7 04 p.m. Sunday on Gilmore Avenue near Sunset Boulevard. Boyn-ton was taken by ambulance to Community Memorial Hospital, lie suffered head cuts. X-rays are to be taken. His condition is satisfactory.

Miss Salisbury said she was driv- nig a borrowed pickup and was pushing her car which blew a lire, sending the pickup across the center line and into the wrong lane of WILLIAM BELL, manager of the '1 1 -j wrestling maiiiieM, ncn scuu. 1 didn't sav anything to him. But when he was leaving he met Mr. and Mrs. Felix Janikowski.

927 E. Broadway, who were coming in. Mrs. Janikowski told me later that Mr. Lilla said this to the Jani-kowskis: "For me, it's time to go to bed Those were Lilla's last words before he died.

MR. LILLA born ner, March 30. 1884, son of Mr. and Mr Joseph Lil a. A 'lifelong res- ident.

he had retired from tern- ployment with the Burlington Railroad. He never married and was a member of the Athletic 'Club. Survivors are: One sisier, Mrs. Helen Bambenek, Winona, and several nieces and nephews, Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at Eontys-i kowski Mortuary and at 9 at Stanislaus Church, the Rt.

Rev. Msgr. N. F. Grulkowski officiating.

Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Friends may call at the mor tuary after 2 p.m. today. ivill be said at 7:30.

Members of the Athletic Club will meet there at 7. Charges hae not been filed against Robert G. Thilmany, 42. E. Sanborn driver of the pickup truck that killed 78-year-old jaywalking pedestrian Frank L.

Lilla, 318 Chatficld Saturday night, police reported this morning. Dr. R. B. Tweedy, Winona County coroner, said Lilla died of a fractured skull.

The victim, who was rushed to Community Memorial Hospital by ambulance after being struck at 7:36 p.m., was dead on arrival at 7:50 p.m. LILLA WAS ON hit way home trtm W'iriArto Atl'jlotir flnt. II VUI tllC II 11 Vita i li lilt 11 vijiu rnctnmariiv uirhpd I 'wrestling on television" from 6 30-, 1 ":30 p.m. Po ice said the acciden ieei mum 01 me ihmui; of the intersection with East Broadway. Lilla was crossing from west to east when he was hit apparently by the center of the front of the pickup.

He was apparently thrown over the hood and left front fender 2 Cars Damaged At New Hartford Cars driven by Gerald W. Schroeder, Chippewa Falls, and Donald R. Heyer, Lamoille, collided at 3 p.m. Saturday in New Hartford Village, causing damage to the left front of the Schroeder car and $100 to the left rear of the Heyer car. Sheriff George L.

Fort said Schroeder, who was going north -on County Slate Aid Highway 5, was rounding a curve at the in-; terseetion with CSAH 8. Schroed-i er saw a car driven by Heyer coming toward Schroeder in Schroeder's lane. Schroeder told sheriff's deputies. Schroeder braked, slid across the intersection and hit the left rear i of the Heyer car wrhich had pulled over to the right shoulder before; the collision. No injuries were reported.

Charges were not filed. Trempealeau Fishing TREMPEALEAU, Wis. Special) Prizes to be given at the fishing contest at Third Lake here next Sunday will total $1,000 instead of the figure given Sunday. The event is sponsored by Trempealeau County Associated Conservation Clubs. The Hearing Aid Industry Conference says the association of hearing loss and old age is a mis conception.

Almost three out of, every five persons with a hearing I loss are under age 65. And more than two million schoolage children have hearing impairment. i i Fallout Shelter Course Thursday Two representatives from each of Winona's 57 licensed and marked fallout shelters have been urged to attend a one-session manager's course at 7 m. Thursday at Winona Slate College. George K.

McGuire, city civil defense director, said the 3' i -hour I session ill be held in Pasteur Hall. Instructors will he Joseph P. Emanuel, Winona Stale, and Er-i hard Saettler, College of Saint. Teresa. Stockton Hill Accident Driver Facing Charge Michael F.

Kisrhen, 23. 1725 Gilmore Ave, was to appear he-fore Goodview Justice of Ihe Peace Lewis E. Albert this afternoon on a charge of careless driving after Eisi ben's car crashed on Stockton Hill early Sunday. Eisrhen was arrested by sheriff's deputies after he reported he had fallen asleep the wheel of his car on Trunk Highway 14 about mile from St. Mary's College.

The defendant, who was heading up the hill at 1.10 a ent into the left lane, spun around, went backwards into the guard rail, knocked down Ihree posts, bounced off the guard cibl" and stopped in the left lane. There was $70 damage to the car's right rear fender. Ejschen was not hurl. Youngsters make news Those wonderful things your kids do at play are too boot to keep to yourself. Share them tomght with a Long Distance call to the folks.

A telephone chat is so inexpensive and so enjoyable. Northwestern Bell. pi mal, set the high of 78 Sunday. 3 Spring Grove Youths Hurt in Fatal Accident LA CROSSE, Wis. Three nrinf Trm vnuth! were injured bankment near Grandad Bluff here Saturday night.

A Decorah, low youth John H. Knutson, 16 was killed when the car plunged off County Trunk F. which leads from the bluff to Highway 33. It's two miles outside La Crosse. The accident happened about 9:30 p.m.

POLICE SAID the car traveled nearly 200 yards after leaving the road. Doors flew off and three of the passengers, including Knutson, were thrown. Knutson, whose parents are reportedly connected with the faculty at Luther College, Decorah, was said to be driving. Among the three Spring Grove youths, one of the most seriously injured was Charles Doley, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Maurice Doley. He received a fracture of the leg below the knee and possible internal injuries. He had a bad night Sunday night, Doley said this morning, and is in serious condition. Roger Faa, 15, son of Mrs. Irene Faa, Spring Grove, was treated for bruises and Thomas Trehus, 16, for exits and bruises.

Both were released from Lutheran Hospital Saturday night. Thomas is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Trehus, Spring Grove. ALSO SERIOUSLY injured was Charles C.

Ristey 17, La Crosse, formerly of Spring Grove, who suffered a severe compound leg fracture and torn arteries. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital as was another passenger, Daniel G. Lemke, 16, La Crosse, who was being held for observation. Today Risty was reported paralyzed from the waist down and transferred to a Madison hospital.

Ristey is the son of Mrs. Ronald Johnson. Spring Grove, formerly of Mabel, and Charles Ristey, La Crosse. Automobile replacement parts and accessories sold in 1962 had a taxable value of $2 6 billion. y1 in mind are for point-to-point distance llight such as from Los Angeles to New York, New York to Anchorage, Alaska, and others.

Then there are others for sustained flight on a closed circuit course Several years ago he established one of these records in a lighter aircraft now he has his sights sel on another for heavier airplanes. "ONE OF thete it held by Communist pilot." Conrad said, "who flew 2.793 miles in one day. I'd like lo double that distance on a course that might run from New York lo Washington lo Philadelphia." He said that he was thinking about making Ihe flight in the East where it would attract the greatest al trillion "because I'm going into this campaign wilh the idea I bat v'hntever 1 can do will help open the door for Ihe Winona Av ia lion Foundation The foundation was established some time ago to implement Conrad's original Winona Experiment, a program lo interest the youth of Ihe nation in avialion. He said he's contacted a number of individuals and firms for sponsorship ef his record flights and found Ihe reception "much belter than I'd expected CONRAD HAS operated an aircraft ferrying service out of Lock-haven. Pa He said hi W'fe.

Betty, has been working wilh him and "is in a position now where she can lake care pretty much of Ihe running of Hie business We have a few pilots available for flying the airplanes and with Betty taking care ol I he business il frees me lo do Ibese tilings I'm planning on He said that he and Mrs Conrad plan to lake off within the next six weeks or so on a flight to Emopo, Conrad's 1 (VI! trans Ml.mlic crossing 150 in Winona Fishing Contest The Winona Activity Group Sunday cleared the board of the; lasl of in weather postponed i Winter Carnival events with! an i(e fishing contest on Straight Slough The contest, originally hed-1 uled for the carnival weekend Jan 20 but postponed because of1 severe cold, drew about 150 fishermen Prizes were won by Tracv Searles Red Top Cabins: Reuben Mueller. Hotel Winona, and Y. F. Oeivok. 4f0 "th Ray Schamnif Jr 252 Mark won a SI0 prize for having the most fish CHRISTY OBRECHT ILL Christy Obrcchl well known Rochester and Vnona showman, is in Raptist Memorial Hospital.

San Antonio, Tev for lung ran-1 cer surgery. u.4w.,iw...iiw..ii...,iiiiimiiiii i inwt.mmmmm.mi. mi-iwiw im.iii.ii in! uKtfA WINONA LODGE NO. .3, A.F.&A.M. Work in the First Degree Tuesday, Feb.

19, 7:30 o'clock Refreshments ARNOLD STENEHJEM, W.M. IIS8I Gilmore, and had $100 damage to the front end Car was driven by Yernold A. Bojnton. 50, Iwision, and had $200 damage to the front end. He was admitted to Ihe hospital, i Daily News photo) $300 DAMAGE IN COLLISION A blown tire on a car that was being pushed by a pickup truck sent the pickup into the wrong lane of traffic on Gilmore Avenue Sunday night, causing a collision with another car.

Pickup was driven by Miss Marlene L. Salisbury,.

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