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Delivered On RFD October 10, 1955 Tbe LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, la Crosse, Wisconsin Pcge 8 Saturday, October 8, 1955 PttVUI OF WIATHII lUtlAU POM CAST TO AM (IT 10 9 JS turn First, lowest last night; Fair, Warmer jCondemnation jFuller Will Is Forecast Decision Due Contested For Weekend By Oct. 21 16 Relatives By Trempealeau County Judge A. SPARTA, Wis. (Special) A de- Tri-State Deaths CHARLES SCHMIDT SPARTA. Wis.

(Siecia!) Funeral services for Charles Schmidt, So, were held Sept. 30 at Lanham's Mortuary in Sparta, the Rev. H. W. Winkel officiating.

Burial was in the Lutheran Cemetery. Mr. Schmidt, son of the late August and Caroline Scnmidt, was Urn in Germany Jan. 13. 1870.

He came to the United States at the age of 17. He married Minnie Koss a 23, 1S96, The family lived at Sparta for 11 years, and he was an employe of the Milwaukee Railroad. Later they resided on Sand cision was promised by Oct. 21 jL. Twesme was called in by Judge by Judge William Curran of Ju- Roy Ahlstrom of the La Crosse lowest Tomporetwros and Cloud FORECAST in miAMi ne-au County as testimony was dosed in six condemnation proceedings Friday afternoon.

Six property owners, Louis Schlaver, Ed O. Severson. H. Clay Hogue, Walter Steahl, Earl Aney and Charles Wood, protested awards made for their lands by-reason of the relocation of U.S. Highw ay 16 west of Sparta.

Judge Curran asked the attor- 9 ear at a La Crosse hospi- nevs, John Bosshard, Bangor, for13'- leavnS aU her the property owners and Dlst. amounting to arpmximately -Atty. W. J. Gleiss, on behalf ofj000 to her friend.

Miss Leota Arch- the highway committee, to file County probate court to preside a will contest matter on which testimony was received all day Wednesday and until 9 p.m. Thursday at La Crosse. Sixteen first cousins of the late Miss Vivian M. Fuller, age about 60. La Crosse, were protesting the will which she had drawn four five days before her death on July er of Aurora.

111. school WEATHER FOTOCAST I Storm I Are Sift Debris For Clues On Plane Crash LARAMIE, Wyo. (JR Investigators sifted through the shattered fragments of a four-engine plane on snow-crusted Medicine Bow Peak today seeking an explanation of the nations worst commercial airline crash which killed 66 Thursday. W. A.

Patterson, United Air Lines president, said the New York-to-San Francisco DC4 coach flight was 25 miles west of the established airway when it smashed into the 12,006 foot peak, 40 miles west of here in southern Wyoming. Why the aircraft was off-course is not known at this time, Patterson said. "The cause is being sought in a complete investigation now being conducted by the Civil Aeronautics Board and by our company. Expert mountaineers continued recovering bodies from the rocky ledges and snow-filled crevasses. The bodies of two women and two infants were brought from the scene yesterday.

Leaders of the 150 experienced mountain climbers said it would require several days to retrieve the bodies of the other 59 adult passengers, and three crew or-Creek until August of 1954, when they moved to the home of a son, William, in Jenkins Valley. After an eight-week illness he died Sept. Rain pTkundort 'storms 6ISTKII0TID lYUMTEDFRUS Brilliant weekend weather, the forecasters repealed Saturday, is In store for the La Crosse area. Fair and wanner was predicted for tonight by the local station. United States Weather Bureau.

A low of 44 degrees, four higher than the past night, was crystal-balled. A Sunday high of 68 degrees was In store for motorists, hunters, householders working on lawns and football fans. It should be fair Into Monday. Frost and nighttime "low temperatures of 25 degrees in the Black River Falls cranberry bogs and 26 at Mathers bogs were reported. It came close to frost at bluffs In eastern La Crosse with temperatures estimated between 34-35 degrees.

Grantsburg recorded the- lowest official state reading of the night with 31. Clouds, which brought light rain to scattered Badgerland areas Friday, began moving out during the night. A high pressure system in the lower Mississippi Valley combined with a low mass in Canada brought drier air northward. Rela tive humidity was 50 per cent at La Crosse Saturday morning with the wind from the south at six miles an hour. He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs.

Herman (Emma' Gilbertson and Mrs. Llojd (Irene) Dickenson; six sons, Harry, Fred. William, Arthur, Walter and George, all of Sparta; a sister. Mrs. Mildred Davidson of Florida; and three brothers, Otto and Fred of Sparta and Herbert of Neenah.

the Coast and partly cloudy inland. Cool air spreading into the rortheast from the Great Lakes region and central Canada will bring partly cloudy skies to most of the east and there will be considerable cloudiness with scattered showers in Georgia, South Carolina and northern Florida. The center of the nation will have mostly fair weather. (Unifax) It Will Be Cooler' in the northeast and in the northwest tonight, but warmer temperatures are expected to spread up through most of the Central States. Cool air moving In off the north Pacific will bring rain and showers to Washington, Oregon and northern California.

The cool air will be spread O'er most of the mountain states and into the northern plains, with cloudy skies on FRIDAY'S CLOSING QUOTATIONS The two ladies taught together at Aurora. The will was drawn up at the nospital by Judge George Ruediger, police judge at La Crtose, who has withdrawn as probate attorney. The cousins are protesting the will on the grounds that Miss Fuller was not mentally capable of executing the will at the time, and that she was undufy influenced by the beneficiary. The relatives are represented by the law firms of Hale, Skemp, Xietsch, Hanson and Schnurrer; Bosshard and Arneson. and Johns, Pappas, Roraff and Flaherty.

Relate es were present from California, Chicago, Aurora, Milwaukee. Colorado and other points for the hearing. Some 40 witnesses were subpoenaed for the hearing, among them priests, sisters and nurses from the hospital where Miss Fuller died. The testimony was taken by Judge Ahlstrom's reporter. Judge Twesme has taken the matter under advisement.

He has asked for briefs from the attorneys 15 days after the completion of the transcription of the testimony. The property of Miss Fuller consists principally of residences and apartment houses in La Crosse. summaries within one week. it it it Fridays testimony related to the lands of Charles Wood, chairman of the Town of Sparta, and Earl Aney. Wood testified that his farm was worth $12,000 before the relocation and $7,000 after, claiming damages of $3,000.

His witnesses. Mil-ton Jones, Bangor, Anson Jack-son, Sparta, L. A. Kenneda, Hol-men, placed Wood's loss at a range of $4,700 to $5,000. Losses evaluated by defense witnesses, Clyde of Leon and C.

H. Koeniger, Oakdale, members of the highway committee, William Rasmussen, Tomah, Leo Kowitz and John Gorham, Sparta, approximated $3,600, the original award of the committee it it it Aney claimed a $7, 000-loss to his and substantiating his testimony were Milt Jones. Ernest Gajewsky, Kenneda and H. T. Jenkins.

The defense witnesses, including Rasmussen and members of the highway committee, Richardson, Koeniger and Floyd Purdy, placed the loss in a range of $3,908 by Purdy to a high of $1,700 by Richardson and Beware Of Boom! Dynamite On Loose SPARTA, Wis. (Special) Sheriff Harry C. Johnson has issued a warning to parents and residents of southern Monroe County to be on the alert for stolen dynamite. Johnson reported that one full box of dynamite and caps were stolen from the Schendel quarry near Norwalk. One 10-year-old Wilton girl found a live cap along the highway.

Johnson believes the theft was by youngsters and fears that the dynamite might result in serious injury. MRS. CHARLES NEWELL HIXTON. Wis. (Special) Mrs.

Charles (Gertrude! Newell, 75, died at a hospital in Black River Falls Wednesday after a long Illness. Mrs. Newell was born in the Town of Hixton and had lived here all her life. Her husband preceded her in death. Survivors include two sons, Walter Newell, Hixton.

Lyle, Hum-bird; three daughters, Mrs. Eda Calkins, Eau Claire; Mrs. Carl (Relda) Pflanz and Mrs. Hillard (Ruth) Anderson, both of Black River Falls; two sisters, Mrs. Edna Olson, Monroe, and Mrs.

Julia Chenoweth, Minneapolis; and 11 grandchildren. Services were to be held at the Hixton Presbyterian Church Saturday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Wayne Adlai (Continued from Page 1) erats generally have been slandered in a manner unprecedented in our political history. "The Republican strategists who resorted to such measures must be made to realize, if they are etill inclined to these extremes, that what they are considering is the poisoning of democracy. Truman responded vigorously to shouts of Give em hell, Harry' by an enthusiastic crowd of some 2.000 at an Albany, N.

Y. rally of Daily Records Grover officiating. Burial will be tOLNTY COURT in Trinity Rest Cemetery, Hixton. La Crosse: Tomah School Board Airs Expansion Plan TOMAH, Wis. (Special) Supt.

of Schools E. J. McKean discussed Drag River For 8th Day Firemen early Saturday continued in their eighth day of dragging the Mississippi River here for the body of a young city man who Harold Leitz, R. 1, Harmony, fined $100 and costs and forbidden to operate a motor vehicle in Wisconsin for one year for drunk driving. Georgene J.

Henderson. R. 2, La Crosse, fined $15 for driving without a drivers license. John E. Ruhnke.

Winona, fined $15 for speeding at night. Fred W. Saakamp, 1722 State fined $10 for speeding. Reinald J. Liegal, Reedsburg, forfeited a $20 bond when he Vicious Dog A city woman late Friday wa charged with harboring a viciou dog after her dog reportedly twice bit a teen-age La Crosse Tribune newsboy at her home.

The charge was made against Mrs. Earl Rhodes. 1116 Gillette St. The dog bit carrier boy Lynn Larson, 17, of 1453 Loomis according to the police report. Mrs.

Rhodes is scheduled to appear in Police Court at 10 a.m. Thursday. The boy told police that about 7:25 p.m. Friday he went to the door of the Rhodes residence. He said he opened the door, the dog came out, and bit him twice.

He reported too that the same dog bit him about a year ago and also bit a substitute carrier boy about one month ago. Police on Friday also received a report that a dog of an unknown owner bit the 24-year-old daughter of Donald R. Petry, 231 Copeland Ave. Tbe girl, bitten in the face, required several stitches at a local hospital. Ex-Tremplo Head At 58 Tomahs school expansion program is believed to have committed sul-with the board of education at a clde by drowning, special meeting Wednesday.

I Efforts to date have failed to Architects will be engaged to recover the body of Allan W. Carr, confer with the school board rela-27, of 1415 North Salem Rd em-tive to the plans, which call for a ploye of La Crosse Rubber Mills, school in the north end of the city. The search began at 8:30 a.m. a health room in the high school Sept. 30 after Carr's abandoned and expanded physical education car was found on Isle la Plume.

failed to appear on a charge of facilities, speeding at night. The board has ordered tracks Brian E. Swancutt, 1703 S. 8th for the removable seats for the D.e.ath. lfloTJ.ri.ej3- WILLIAM OTTO William Otto, 71.

of 948 West Howard Winona, died in a La Crosse hospital Friday afternoon. He is survived by two sons, Walter Otto of La Crosse and Leslie Otto of Elmhurst, two grandchildren; two brothers, Frank and George Otto, both of La Crosse; and one sister, Mrs. Rose Welch of Winona, Minn. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Shuma-cher Funeral Home, Seventh and Winnebago the Rev.

H. N. Stoffel officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. The We-nonah Tribe No.

20, Red Men, of Winona, will conduct graveside services. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday afternoon and evening. George Brooks bloodhounds on three separate occasions followed an apparent scent to the water's edge at the boat landing on the south end of the islands west drive. Carrs billfold, glasses and a note reading "Please forgive me were found in the car. He reportedly had been despondent for several months.

HURLEY PARR VIROQUA, Wis. (Special' Hurley P. Parr, 72, died at his Viroqua home Thursday after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the Viroqua Lutheran Church Monday at 2 p.m. The Rev.

Alf Romstad will officiate and burial will be in the Viroqua Cemetery. Friends are asked to call at the Jacobson-Vance Funeral Home Sunday afternoon and evening. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Duane Knable, Viola, and Mrs. Duane Hoss, Viroqua: a son, Donald, at home; and a slpter, Mrs.

Charles Snyder, Portland, Ore. ROY ADAMS BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (Special) Roy Adams, 82, died at a local hospital Friday afternoon after a long illness. The Rev. Wayne Grover will officiate at services Monday at 2 p.m.

at the Langlois-Galston Funeral Home. Burial will be at Alma Center. Friends were asked to call at the funeral home Sunday afternoon and evening. Mr. Adams lived in the Alma Center area until moving to Black River Falls five years ago.

He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Fred Haller, La Crosse; two sons, La Verne, Black River Falls, and Van, La Crosse; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Davidson and Mrs. A. Hockmeyer, both of La Crosse; and six grandchildren.

combination gymnasium-auditorium and has also advertised for bids for the school lunch program. Perishable foods will be ordered for periods of less than three months due to the prices. The resignation of Virginia Zas-toupil, bookkeeper, was accepted, and out of 16 applicants for the variation of fined $15 for speeding at night. Frederick M. Peronl, Minneapolis, forfeited bond of $30 when he failed to appear on a charge of speeding at night.

James R. Mitchel, Onalaska, forfeited $10 bond when he failed to appear on a charge of passing on the right. Doug D. Stankey, 16, of R. 1, Onalaska, fined $25 and his driv- three have been chosen ers license suspended for 30 days for tatervlews Mrs; Maude K.

Wis. (Special)-Mrs. Proudfoot. 58, Chica- formerly Esther Galesville, superintendent for Trempealeau County 1923-27, died of a heart her home Thursday. Proudfoot is being returned Galesville for burial.

Funeral will be held at the Funeral Home Monday at burial will be in Pine The Rev. H. A. officiate. Friends may funeral home Sunday and evening.

Proudfoot was born in March 10, 1897, the Mr. and Mrs. Marcus After teaching in the became superintendent for Trempealeau County and served for four she went to Chicago, was married 12 years time of her death she of the Standard Educational Society, a position she many years. are her husband and Guy Bjoland of and Amund of for operating a motor vehicle at a speed "greater than is reasonable or prudent. Richard Muller, Mindoro, fined $15 for driving without a drivers license.

Wayne L. oGldbeck, 16, of 20024 Liberty fined $15 for Tonn, school clerk, presented the names of all applicants to board. The board discussed the proposal made by the City Council to charge a fee of 10 per cent of gross receipts at football games for the rental of the football field Admits Starting Fire Two city youngsters, aged 9 and 12 years, Friday admitted to detectives they had started a fire in a shed at the Lloyd McGuire residence at 1616 Palace St. The older boy admitted he started the fire "to see the fire department come, detectives said. The boy also turned in the alarm.

They are in custody of their parents. The fire earlyFriday burned a mattress and damaged a chair in the shed. Two books of matches were discovered in the shed. driving without a driver's license. Almon D.

Tester, Holmen, fined and facilities. The board will make $10 for driving with an expired a further study of the proposal, drivers license. Democratic candidates for local of- Rasmussen, fice in New York State. it it it Truman declared he was very anxious to see that government in Washington was "restored to the people. He said there was a class of people who believed government should make the rich richer and let sogje benefits "filter down to the people below.

"We don't believe the people who control the government should control it for a special interest purpose, he said. government should be controlled for the welfare and benefit of all the people and I want to say to you the government now in the capital city of Washington is a special privilege government and nothing else." On the Republican side. Sen. Bender of Ohio predicted President Eisenhower "can be and will be a candidate for a second term despite his heart attack, But if Eisenhower does stand aside, the senator said, the country would want him to indicate who he is for and the country would support any man he would designate. Bender spoke to newsmen in Washington just before calling on Vice President Nixon.

Neither he nor Nixon would comment on the California row between Nixon backers and other Californians viewed as possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination should Eisenhower not run again. California Gov, Goodwin J. Knight, under fire by the Nixon wing of the state GOP, cracked back at what he termed "some disgruntled Individuals who "are climbing Into the political arena. Knight told a Sacramento, news conference these "individuals he did not name are "anxious to misjudge and misinterpret while the real champion. President Ei senhower, is still in there fighting to regain his health.

Knight had been criticized for his announced plan to lead the state's big delegation to the Republican national convention next year as a nominal candidate for president, even if that pitted him against a Nixon- pledged slate. it it it Stevenson and Truman also figured in the talk over who will head their partys ticket next year. Stevenson said he will await the results of a nationwide poll now under way on public interest in his candidacy before announcing, possibly in November, whether he will run again. Truman, who has previously said he is for Stevenson again, did not renew this statement in New York where Gov. Av-erell Harriman is the state Democratic leaders choice for the presidential nomination next year.

School Dead GALESVILLE, Gordon go, who was believe theland of of schools from attack at Mrs. to services Farley 2 p.m. and Cliff Cemetery. Wisner will call at the afternoon Mrs. Galesville daughter of Bjoland.

area she of schools in 1923 years. In 1928 where she ago. At the was editor held for Surviving two brothers, Galesville clear weapons He said headed as Gen. hero: Inspection Lt. Gen.

and later Designing methods force units. Vice Adm. dean at aircraft Benjamin The Walker the Detroit and reporting and for Dr. Brookings budgets. Dr.

James An ostrich Vernon Holds School Cooks7 Conference VIROQUA, Wis. (Spec! all-Vernon County schools which have a hot lunch program are requested to send their cooks and school lunch administrators to a Conference at Viroqua Monday. The program is sponsored by N. H. Rudie, superintendent of Vernon County public schools, and the hot lunch program of the Department of Public Instruction.

The conference will be held at the new Viroqua Grade School, starting at 9:30 a.m. The program for the afternoon will feature a demonstration of various ways to cook different kinds of fish. Robert Q. Balkovic from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, who is a fishery marketing specialist, will be in charge of the fish demonstration. This is a school and cooking demonstration for cooks, but anyone who is interested is welcome to attend.

LEILA C. STENBERG Mrs. Leila Stenberg, 56, of 714 N. 9th died in a local hospital Friday afternoon. She is survived by her husband, James; five sisters.

Miss Agnes Hanson and Mrs. Melvin (Eva) Evenson of La Cros0e, Mrs. Einar (Ethel) Snuggerud, Mrs. Charles (Hattie) Arntson and Mrs. Millard (Ruth) Jostad, all of Hol-men; two brothers, Orville and Harry W.

Hanson of Holmen; and her mother, Mrs. Lena Hanson, Holmen. She was born in Holmen March 19, 1899. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3 p.m. at the Sletten-McKee Funeral Home, 7th and King Sts.

The Rev. George Civil-' den will officiate and burial will be in Halfway Creek Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel Sunday frofn 7 to 9 p.m. Taylor Lutherans Hold Rally Day TAYLOR, Wis, (Special) Sunday will be observed as rally day for the Taylor Lutheran Sunday school. A total of 114 are enrolled in the school, of which Mrs.

Gaylord Strande is the superintendent. Mrs. B. J. Hatlem teaches the Bible class.

Jury Checks Ready Clerk of Circuit Court Carl F. Schnick will be paying off jurors for the spring term of court Monday and Tuesday. Schnick has called on the jurors to pick up their vouchers in his office in the courthouse. Whitehall Opens Bids On New High School Building Addition PAUL SCHROEDER WHITEHALL, Wis. (Special) Paul Schroeder, 71, died Friday at a Rochester hospital, where he had been a patient for one month.

The Rev. Richard Buege will officiate at services Tuesday at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in German Valley at 2 p.m. and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Johnsons Funeral Home Monday afternoon and evening.

Mr. Schroeder, son of John and Amelia Schroeder, was born Nov. 12, 1883. in the Town of Hale. About 35 years ago he married the former Elvina Sielaff.

After farming in the Town of Hale the Schroeders movtM to Whitehall nine years ago. Mr. Schroeder retired in January from his employment at the Whitehall Packing Co. He is survived by his wife; two brothers, William and John, Town of Hale; and two sisters, Mrs. Heidi Palmer, St.

Paul, and Mrs. William Densmore, Whitehall. Lloyd Moore, Onalaska, fined $15 for driving without a drivers license. POLICE COURT Sparta, Casper M. Horter, 921 S.

2oth La Crosse, was fined $100 and costs by Justice Henry C. Fanning on a charge of drunken driving. Motorists posting $15 speeding fines were: Edward Schacht, Augusta; Grace Hark, Sparta; Arnold Henderson, Camp McCoy; and Gordon Gustafson, Sparta. COUNTY COURT Sparta, Bernard Kotten, 20, Norwalk farm youth, was fined $150 and costs on two counts before Judge Lambert Hansen Friday afternoon. Kotten was arrested by Traffic Officer Dewey Reinstra on a disorderly conduct charge after Reinstra had picked up Kotten in a car, which was parked on the wrong side of the highway.

The officer found Kotten with Jiis girl friend in the car. Kotten became abusive, and after arriving in the county jail Kotten assaulted Rain-stra, loosening a tooth and cutting his forehead. On the first count of using abusive and vulgar language, Kotten was fined $50 and on the second count of resisting Officer Reinstra, he was fined $100. The fine and costs, totaling $165 were paid. Disarmament (Continued from Page 1) if they are concealed.

other groups would be follows: James H. Doolittle, war Designing methods for aerial and reporting. Walter B. Smith, Eisenhowers chief aide in World War II ambassador to Moscow: inspection and reporting for Army and ground Oswald S. Colclough George Washington University: Control of navies and naval missiles.

Fairless, U. S. Steel steel industry. L. Cisler, president of Edison Inspection methods for power industry in general.

Harold Moulting of the Institute: Inspection of B. Fish, Bell Telephone Laboratories: Communications inspections. Changes Court Plea Frank Laugenbach, 56, of Kenosha, a familiar sight to city and county law enforcement officers, changed his plea from innocent to guilty of a charge of vagrancy in County Court Friday. Since his arrival in La Crosse on Aug. 25, Laugenbach has spent all but five days in either city or county jails.

When questioned about this rather unique record, Laugenbach replied, "Well, we can't all be perfect. Judge Ahlstrom sent Laugen-bach off to another 10 days in his "home away from home, the county jail. E. J. Colliton, Whitehall, was lowest bidder on plumbing, with deductions.

His bid was $23,887. The other bidders, listed without deductions for elimnations, were Frank Kube, Arcadia, L. A. Pettit, Eau Claire, R. Trisch and Son, Caledonia, Bartingale Eau Claire, and Sages Plumbing and Heating, Tomah, $26,000.

Sage, however, was low on heating and ventilating, $41,700, less deductions. The others were Colliton, Kube, Pettit, Trisch, R. H. Lovold La Crosse, and Bartingale, $52,780. The school board will meet in about a week to take action on the bids.

Prosperity Skipping The Farmer Wiley ALBANY (IP) Present prosperity is skipping the farmer while benefiting all other segments of the national economy, Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) said Friday. Speaking at a dinner for finalists in the state mechanical corn picking and Miss Maize contests, Wiley declared The dairy farmer has to pay more for what he has to buy and then gets less for what he produces. He said he is "seeking a rent' dy to see that the dairy farmer gets back his cost production plus a reasonable return, adding that a solution to tbe farm problem is essential to the general welfare. He called on bankers and businessmen to weigh these "inequities when comparing farming with the rest of the national economy.

Wiley is scheduled to speak today at the general corn picking contest, postponed from Friday because of rain. can run at 40 miles an hour. Motion, not color, prompts deer flee. Weather Record US. DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE WHITEHALL, Wis.

(Special) The total of the lowest bids received at the opening Thursday evening on the construction of a new gymnasium, band and chorus rooms and two classrooms as additions to the present Whitehall High School building was $256,616. This total would eliminate any work on the renovation of the present high school gymnasium into two classrooms and a hot lunch department, together with cabinets in band and classrooms. Carl W. Schubert and James Carlson of Schubert, Sorensen and Associates, La Crosse, opened the bids, of which there were seven for general construction; seven electrical; six plumbing; and seven on heating and ventilating. it it it Lowest general construction bid was made by P.

Earl Schwab, Winona, with $208,184. His bid enumerated approximately $18,000 In deductions for the work that could be eliminated from the contract, as stated above. Other base bids before deductions were Keller Construction, Winona, Clifford Woychik, Whitehall, Segutn Lumber and Hardware, Alma Center, L. J. Finger, Maus-ton; WMC, Winona, and Johnson Construction Winona, $261,424.

it it it Lowest bidder on electrical work was D. A. Bensend, Whitehall, $18,954.70, with deductions of approximately $5,000 If the gym renovation is eliminated, Tbe other base bids without deductions were Conrad F. Chambers, La Crosse, John P. Mader, La Crosse, Electric Service Eau Claire, and Electric Altoona, Electric WISCONSIN: Pair tonight and Sun day.

Warmer northwest tonight and in east and south portion Sunday. MINNESOTA: Pair and warmer tonight. Sunday partly cloudy. A little cooler in northwest. IOWA: Mostly fair today, tonight and Sunday except a tittle cooler extreme northwest Sunday.

River Readings STATIONS Democrats (Continued from Ptge I) from Kefauver whether he would run but he was convinced that If enough support could be promised from Wisconsin Kefauver would permit his name to be placed in the Wisconsin race. Wisconsin law stipulates that delegates can not run pledged to a presidential candidate unless the candidate gives his permission. it it it There were plans also for an organization of a club to support G. Mennen Williams, governor of Michigan, for presidential nomination. Williams will address the convention tonight.

Elliot W'alstad of Milwaukee, retiring party chairman, spoke before Stevenson and charged Wisconsin Republicans were doing an Indecent thing in trying to buy the Wisconsin election. He referred to a recent announcement by Republican leaders that they planned to raise one million dollars as a war chest for the 1956 state elections. "It is an indecent thing they are trying to do," he said. They would destroy the principle of self-government with their dollars. They are completely without shame.

Demos Challenge Gov. Lee To Quit Or Retract Tax Defiance SALT LAKE CITY (JR Gov. J.lbut his governors salary of $10, Bracken Lees statement he wont'oOO a year until "legality of the pay all his income tax drew fast reaction Friday. The executive committee of the Utah Democratic Party demanded that Lee, a Republican, cither resign or retract what the committee called Lees "avowed defiance of the nation's laws. And In Washington, a spokesman for the Internal Revenue service said the government has "adequate machinery for collecting the taxes.

Lee, often at odds with the Eisenhower administration, said in Salt Lake City Thursday he believes it unconstitutional for the federal government "to tax its citizens for the support of foreign nations. He said he would refuse to pay Income tax on the part of his income unaffected by withholding tax--in other words, everything case is tested in the United States Supreme Court. He will take the action, he told the Associated Press, to get people "thinking about this thing. The Democratic resolution asks Lee either to resign or retract his statement. The resolution said the governor is "holding the state of Utah and its citizens up to humiliation and ridicule before the entire population of the United States.

In Washington, the revenue service declined to discuss Lees tax status, a customary move in the case of a specific taxpayer. The spokesman said the service will decide what to do "when we cross that bridge if the tax isnt paid. He said there are penalties in the tax law for "willfully failing to pay taxes and for "intentional disregard of tax rules. MOTDCE In the interest of better relations with fellow food dealers and out of respect to the Sabbath, and in order that employes may have Sunday to themselves we will HEREAFTER be closed Sunday A.M. We trust that other food dealers will follow this pattern.

However should competition remain open, we shall necessarily be forced to re-open. QIIILLIN'S MARKET 325 West Aye. No. Winona (CP) 13 Dam No, 6, Pool Dam No. 6, T.W.

Dakota (CP.) Dam No. 7, Pool Dam No, 7. T.W. LA CROSSE 13 Dam No. 8.

Pool Dam No. 8, T.W. Lansing (C.P.) 18 Dam No. 9, Pool Dam No. 9, TW.

Prairie du Chien 18 Tribatary Streams Trempealeau. Dodge Black. Nelllsville 18 Black. Galesville 13 La Crosse. W.

8a)ern Root at Houston 16 Driver Forfeits Bond For Failure To Signal William P. Schnell, 39, of R. 1 La Crosse, forfeited $10 ball in County Court when he did not appear on a charge of failing to signal before making a left band turn. According to county traffic police reports, Schnells failure to signal resulted in an auto accident on Highway 16 in the Town of Medary Thursday. Schnell was driving east on Highway 16 at 9:35 a.m.

Thursday. A 1951 auto, driven by Spence Emil McKieth, 38, of 2314 Jack son pulled out to pass Schnells vehicle. Just at that moment Schnell started to make his left turn, and the two vehicles Time of sunrise Sunday: 813 a m. Time of sunset Sunday: 6.33 pm. RIVER FORECAST Prom Hastings to Outtenberg: There will be a gradual decrease in stream flow next two days in this district with only slight tailwater falls from Red eo won wng, Mmn dam southward to Dam 30, Waupaca, Menomonie, Northwest Electric and Upton Read Tribune WantAda i i-.

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