The Winona Daily News from Winona, Minnesota • 14

Real Th ivm Iron Lung Isn't a Barrier to ,1 i i 4 a a defense plant," he said. "I enlisted In the U.S. Navy shortly after the war started. I served aboard two attack transports, the Crescent City and George Clymer, as a motor machinist mate. I also served in a boat pool on a small island in Ihe Solomons seven months.

I spent 38 months in the Pacific and vas in five major campaigns." BOTH OF HIS SHIPS rtctiv.d Ihe Presidential unit citation. After receiving his discharge in December 1943 he went to Milwaukee and there he became ill. i 'I I X- I 60. The most interesting time is around 11 he says, when he talks with missionaries, engineers and British overseas servants in Africa. NURSES AT THE hospital and I friends who visit him say he's a self-made man.

He's accomplished I everything himself; others only need to bring him books and olh- er materials. An avid reader, Fngler likes Hemingway and Steinbeck particj-! larly. I On of tht articles ha hat written it titlod "For Thit I Ml Engler was married at Milwau-ikee in 1947, Twin daughters were I born to the couple Dec. 30. 1949.

I Mr. and Mrs. Engler were divorced in Engler winning the cus lumlaller," a man with a habit of stretching the truth. However, Dale is hoping to break into print more often when he completes the 3-year course which accompanied his writer of the year honor. Presently he's studying advertising with the Famous Writers schools of Westport, Conn.

He needs the course, he says, because he had only an eighth grade education. Progress is slow, however, with his right arm supported in two leather slings. HE, LIKES TO tnUr contests. To sharpen his ability he enrolled in a contest course when he first began writing. In commercially sponsored contests, his last line jingles and "25 words or less" endorsements have won him an outboard motor, 'a hi-fi, washing machine and electronic organ.

Prizes of that kind he gives to his mother-in-law if she can uss them. Others he sells for cash. With income from sources like this he has paid for the $1,000 worth of equipment he uses in operating h's ham radio station. Dale was the first in his ward to get a ham license. In the six years since then he has helped two oilier patients get their license.

He also encourages other veterans to write. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., when he's Am Gratafol." Now he'i gathering material for an article about the Armistice Day By RUTH ROGERS Sunday Newt Arta Editor ALMA, Wis. "It's not the things you can't do, it's the tremendous value you place on things you can do." That's the motto of Dale Engler, 39, who spends 18 hours a day in an iron lung at Veterans Hospital, Wood, Wis. The former Alma man was stricken with polio Sept.

9, 1951, while employed in Milwaukee. He was utterly' discouraged by his disability until he found many things to live for. Now he's an inspiration to Ward 9 South at the VA center. HIS INTERESTS vary from writing to operating a ham radio and collecting Mercury dimes and Lincoln pennies. Dale can't run a typewriter his bed and iron lung keep him from that but he prints a beautiful hand.

Writing the past seven years has netted him an average of $400 a year, which financed his radio equipment, and also won him the title of "writer of the year" in the 1961-62 hospitalized veterans project. His file of manuscripts includes stories, poems and contest jingles. So far the Wood Tattler and Buffalo County Journal, his hometown weekly, are the only two publica side down and left on the island. For some strange reason I left my hunting cap on. "By the time I got to pny car all my clothing was frozen solid.

I remember how it crackled when I sat down. The car had no heater, and by the time I got home I think I was the bluest boy you I have ever seen. My socks had frozen to the clutch. "I got home about 8 p.m., wrapped up in a hot wet blanket, rub-, bed my.oelf down, and went to bed. I never was so cold in my life.

My teeth wece still chattering I an hour later. Odd as it seems, I didn't catch cold, "I didn't realize all those hunters had died until the next morning. I knew most of the fellows who were trapied by the storm." DALE WAS BORN In Town of Cilmantnn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Engler.

His father was em- ployed at Griffin Cheese factory. When the factory burned down i they moved to a farm in Iron Creek, five miles north of Alma. There he completed rural school I as a student of Mrs. Harvey Schweitzer, Alma. He worked for farmers until he was 17.

when he went into the Nelson CC'C camp. His mother, Ihe former ErJa Lehman, died when i he was 3 years old. His father lal-jer remarried and lived in Winona from 1946 to 1939, when he died. "Every summer I spent two weeks vacation in Winona, fishing in the Mississippi off the banks of Levee Park," Dale wrote. "I wpnt Rorkfnrd.

111., at the tody of his daughters. They are living with his mother-in-law. They and their grandmother visit Eng- ler every week at the hospital. ft Engler took an inheritance from -'0 If his father and put it aside in his daughters' names for their educa i v. i tion.

Engler has a sister, Mrs. i it Aima Higneu ai uurann, several IT storm of Nov. 11, 1940. loo, was caught out in the islands and had to swim in that snow storm," he says. He was among the duck I hunters on the Mississippi Rivr that day when the sudden freems 'storm trapped many, resulting in numerous deaths.

"I had to swim across Crooked Creek Slough, across from where the ice house used to be," he said. "When I got to the mainl.uvl I had to walk one mile up I he railroad tracks to get to my car, which was parked near Ihe Spring Creek Road. It was frozen I couldn't get it started for 1" minutes. "ALL I HAD on was a woolen shirt and the duck hunting pants you wear with hip boots. I had left I my coat, boots and shutgun un cousins in this area, and an aunt, Mrs.

Lillian Eide, Nelson. THIS IS THE STORY of ona quadruple paralytic patient at I Wood Hospital. He says he has had very little pain with polio, but he has to spend three-quarters of his I life in an iron lung just to live and breathe. That's the story of Dale Engler up In this, time, hut with his de-! termination, there'll be more, most I likely in print with Engler as the out of the iron lung and in a less I hampering chest respirator, he Wis. He's a writer, ham operator and is the life of his ward.

Nurses like the one in the picture say there's no one like him. Everything he's accomplished he's done on his own. IT'S NOT WHAT YOU CAN'T DO It's the value you place on things you can do, says Dale Engler, formerly of Alma. lie is confined to an iron lung 18 hours a day at the VA Center, Wood, talks to hams around the world. He has communicated with 90 countries and received postal tions in which his material has appeared.

The Journal published his fanciful yarn about "Timothy Tel- author, cards confirming the contacts end of 1940 and was employed in der my boat, which I turned up Sunday, March 31, 1963 WINONA SUNDAY NEWS 14 Midwesterner Likes Life in Nicaragua President Asked to Visit Greenwood about six months without refriger-1 pines. ation. Latest project ALMA, Wis. A native of Alma who has lived for 16 years in Nic Is an irrigation will be broken I merce for the previous 80-70 years, the organization started a packing other sterilizes milk. This was a Imported from Indo China, it was company, where 3.10 head are Pure Food and Drug Administra-I used primarily for perfuming slaughtered a day, and other in- boon to a country where there was I soaps.

dustries. little refrigeration in the homes. Citral. one of the main deriva-j One plant pasteurizes milk. An-1 Sterilized milk can be kept for a large reioresiauon project nas nrnram r.ronnrf been started; about 750,000 acres have been planted to long-leaf Manager at Newburgh Faces Bribery Count NEW YORK (AP) Joseph MitcheU, who blew up a storm aragua, largest of Central American countries, occasionally comes back to visit the scenes of his childhood, and this spring is one tives of lemongrass oil, was used in the synthesis of vitamin A.

This vitamin became particularly important, Ulrich said, when the tion required 15,000 units of it in every pound of oleo. of those times. George Ulrich, his Nicarag uan the former Marcia Kain, and their three children, Fred Otto, Catherine Ann and Donald Walter, are guests of his father, Henry two years ago with a program to pare Newburgh, N.Y., relief rolls, is caught up today in what may be the most important storm of By JOHN HALL GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) -President Kennedy has been urged to come to this Mississippi Delia city and walk with Negroes going to the county courthouse in their bid to become registered voters. "It's the greatest thing tht President of the United States can do to let the world know we believe in democracy," Wiley Bran-ton, a Negro attorney from Atlanta, told a voter registration rally Friday night.

The tension eased slightly Friday. Police kept pedestrians both white and Negro scattered soon for the pumping station, Ulrich said. Water from Lake Nicaragua will be used for irrigating 15,000 acres. GEORGE AND HIS family livt in Managua, the capital, which has a year-around equable climate. Ulrich claims that July and August generally the hot.

humid months here are more uncomfortable in Abna than in Managua in spite of Nicaragua's closer proximity to the equator. There the hot summer days are followed by cool nights. Their home is built of reinforced concrete, designed to resist earthquakes. They are common there, but not severe now like the 1932 quake which almost destroyed the city. Agricultural products are principally cotton, coffee, rice, sesa vN klip his life.

The self-suspended city manager of the upstate Hudson River city is on trial in State Supreme Court, accused of demanding $20,000 from two brothers who wanted a zoning change on property they own in Newburgh. On trial with Mitchell is Lawrence J. DiMasi a Hillsdale, N.Jl, real estate man, accused of being a go-between. At that time the primary source was shark liver oil, but this contained vitamins and E. Because it was difficult to separate them, companies included them all, raising the cost.

THE COST stimulated tha production of synthetic vitamin A in the laboratory in larger quantities, and the production of lemongrass became unprofitable. Ulrich and his Nicaraguan partners had started the raising of lemongrass as an agricultural export of the country. It was grown at 2,000 feet above sea level and required 65-85 inches of rain a year. It was cropped almost like alfalfa. After distilling, the essential oil yielded about six pounds of oil to a ton of grass.

When the raising of lemongrass was discontinued. Ulrich joined Nicaraguan Development Bank, or in the Spanish language of the country, the Instituo De Fo-mento Nacional. Its object was to promote diversification of industry. BORROWING money from th a World Bank and other sources, George Ulrich, and Mrs. Ulrich.

AFTER COMPLETING Alma High School, George attended the University of Wisconsin, where he received a B.S. degree in chemistry. His first position was with Armour Chicago, where he was engaged, in his words, "in a pilot plant which bridges the gap between the test tube of the laboratory and tank car quantities required by industry." Of the six men running this pilot plant, five were bachelors, including Ulrich. They worked together and lived together. One was a Nicaraguan.

After about two years here, the war took them. WHEN ULRICH returned from service on Okinawa, he found all his buddies married. They jokingly decided he should go to Nicaragua, so he did. Before he left he had an idea: He would organize a group for the production of lemongrass. Oil extracted from lemongrass had They are charged with bribery me, sugar and bananas, except on and conspiracy.

Mitchell' tffort to reduct rail ef rolls in Newburgh were embodied in a stringent, 13-point set of welfare rules, most of which have been knocked down in the courts. The points included a provision to cut off relief payments to unmarried mothers who continued to bear children out of wedlock. The trial was recessed Friday until Monday because of a judge's illness. Before testimony began last Tuesday, defense lawyers sought to characterize the case as a politically motivated frameup, inspired because of Mitchell's controversial relief efforts. children, seeing snow for the first time, wanted to eat it.

Left to right, Mrs. Ulrich, native Nicaraguan; Donald Walter; Mr. Ulrich; Fred Otto and Catherine Ann. (Sunday News photo) CENTRAL AMERICAN VISITORS The children in this George W. Ulrich famik from Nicaragua enjoyed the stimulation of cool weather when they arrived in Alma recently.

The smaller and moving. The Leflore County courthouit was blocked off by wooden barricades and police squad cars. However, Police Chief Curtis Lary said Negroes were free to enter the courthouse, provided they walked in small groups instead of a mass march. Meanwhile, Mayor C. E.

Sampson charged the Justice Department with helping "professional agitators" foment racial troublt in Leflore County where Negroes outnumber white persons nearly 2-1 in an attempt to win Negro votes. In Washington, the Justict Department said it was awaiting word from investigators in Greenwood before deciding what action, if any, to take in the situation. "It is tragic when professonal agitators operating under the false face of non-violence, attempt to create violence" Sampson said in a news conference. "It is mora been an article of trade and com the eastern coast, which is tropical rain forest. The country is about the size of Wisconsin and has a population of about 1.6 million.

There are members in the American Society of Nicaragua. THE RUSSIANS havon't tried to get into the technical assistance program of this republic, Ulrich says, but there has been some infiltration from Cuba. Ulrich is spending a month of his first vacation in four years here. His wife and family will spend three months at Alma. Fred is attending Alma school and may stay with his grandparents here to continue his education.

The elder Ulrich now retired, is a former electrician. Before Prohibition he was brewmaster at Alma Brewery. KINDERGARTEN ROUNDUP Deputy to Begin Privately Owned Telephone Actor Chuck Connors To Wed Kamala Devi HOLLYWOOD AP Actor A witness for tha prosecution, Chuck Connors said Friday that Duties Monday ALMA, Wis. Myron A. Hoch will begin his duties as full time Stpnlipn Wahrhaftiff of Montippllo.

Firm Switching to Dials N.Y.. testified he and his twinjhe and Kamala Den- an aCtress brother Joseph met with Mitchell, of Incuan-Lnglish parentage, will be married April 10. tragic that the Justice Depart- ALMA, Wis A privately owned telephone company, started here in 1904 through the promotion of DiMasi and an attorney in a Newburgh hotel last Nov. 29. After Mitchell left the gathering.

Wahrhaltig said, the city manager told DiMasi, "You deliver the message to the boys." They met when they played in the film "Geronimo." Connors, a former professional baseball player, has starred in PLAI.WIEW, Minn. (Special) ment of the United States plays The annual kindergarten roundup nursemaid to these invaders an at Plainview Community School, actively assists them in their ef-will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at forts to disrupt this peaceful com-the school cafeteria. munity." F7X V'l modern this switching to a physician, will go year. The target for deputy for Buffalo County Monday.

He has moved his wife and four children here from Durand. where he was city policeman from July 15, 1950, until his i a The Rifleman television series "Everyone has a little larceny fiv VMP, Hp Mi npvj I 1 i JiJ in them and them and you know the city u.in "tn wh thp first dial is Dec. 1. Tenney Telephone Co. still bears the name of its founder, Dr.

J. S. Tenney, native of Wabasha who set up a practice here and died Alvin Volimer. Mrs. Volimer died two years ago.

The company installed a new switchboard in 1935 and currently has common battery phones in the city and magneto in the country. It. has more than 700 subscribers. CONTRACTS FOR tht outside plant new lines and for the automatic equipment have been let and phones have been purchased. The company has been assured a loan of $386,000 from REA for conversion.

Recently the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin authorized conversion. Warning! They're Back In Town Again conned meets in a week to rezone segments o( tne new series are they completed so he can meet her Wahrhaftig quoted Di-Unts who live in Bombav. Masi as saying. The testimony of Stephen Wah- rhaftig Wednesday also brought: of Newburgh. Sen.

Jacob Javits' name into the 11 was Ho8an offlce lhal trial record. Hp spirl that Mitchell the Wahrhaftig brothers reported onlv recently at an advanced age. 1 DR. TENNEY interested towns tion in February. Hoch is a former part time Hoch deputy sheriff here and farmed in the Alma area from 1943-60.

NEW TEACHER ETTR1CK. Wis. (Special i-Leona told him that the money was need- the bribe demand. Hogan's office people and farmers in organizing cooperated in the investigation. teiephone company, which ed partly to pay for a Republican and obtained anu uutatiicu Miss Lavina Hitt ators besides Lavina Mmes.

indue uic duxrata the indictments. started the building where the iprt switchboard still is located. Au- banquet given for Javits in Newburgh. The fenator declined comment on the testimony. However, Newburgh City Coun ment will provide all number dial-1 ThomPson.

who has taught the past ing. Conversation timing will be 'ear at Janesville, has been provided on all local calls. hired to teach the third grade in a statement Friday saying: "It Plans for the new dial equip-; Susta Carlson, Rodney Ristow, Al- must be noted that those on the niept building and beadquarters rt Siewert, William Bjork and defense are all Republicans and drawn bv Gavic i Walter Nogle. They switch hours. SidC a'e Gavic.

Sprint Valley." Wis. A lot Lavina works three nights and her Who Sell You ASBESTOS ine ion cenier win remain at the Galesville Elementary School tJl-L: the coming year. She is the daugh- cilman George F. McKneally accused Dist. Atty.

Frank Hogan of "attempting to launch a political career on the ashes of the city "This is not coincidence," he has been purchased on Main ZZJl' ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence turns at day shifts. For 41 years Lavina was operator with her sister, Leona, wife of said. iviiMdut dunianuee win oe ThornpSOn, French Creek I ClCtlllUU.

NOTICE SIDING and ROOFING AND ROOF PAINTING 0 You'll Pay Double You Get No Positive Guarantee Play Safe Buy From Your Local Dealer In Your Community Ht't Interested In Your Town Street. August Hjtt. one of the original stockholders, became manager in 1906. The Hitt family secured con-' troling interest in 1919. and it has largely remained a family com-: pany.

Largest shareholder is Miss Lavina Hitt, 67, who next September will have been a switchboard operator 44 years. Folks will miss her voice when she goes off the "air." It's deep, like a man's. Some persons who don't know her and call the Alma exchange think there's a man at the switchboard. Her father. August, was manager until 192fi.

when her brother, Oscar, took over. He was manager until 1940 PRESENT MANAGER is Ed- mund Hitt. Officers are: in i We Will Be OPEN i. )' rir-cr, I SV'C" 1 iirls v. rii' 'n'lii'iiYiiinAM TUESDAY We Are the Only Authorized Rubberoid Dealer In Winona Volimer.

president: Lavina. vice i president: Pat H. Motley, secretary i and legal adviser: Mrs LeRov Janett. treasurer, and Miss Kay i WITH A SPECIAL BONUS FOR CREDIT SHOPPINGI Volimer. Lutzie Ambuehl and Ed-1 mund Hitt, directors.

Winona Heating 6 Ventilating Co. Kay now is employed at Albert Lea. but retain her inter 112 Lafayette Wm. A. Golewski Don Gostomtkl est in the company.

66 EAST THIRD STREET IN DOWNTOWN WINONA David Hitt. son of Ldmund, and Member of Wmona Contracting Conjtmcfton Employer! Association, Inc. DISPLACED PERSONS These telephone girls, Mrs. Albert Siewert. left, and Mrs.

Augusta Carlson, will no long er be saying "Number please" when Tenney Cc, Alma switches to dial late this year. LaVere Wenger are linemen. The company employs six oper-.