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Read These 'Lack of U. Scientists Battle Stories In Your Monday In Press Is Cited On Conservation Aid Edition Today See These Exclusive Articles on Page 18 WEATHER HOME EDITION west wind. Low tonight 15; high Tueslikely Mostly late cloudy, tonight and colder Tuesday. tonight. North- Snow THE CAPITAL TIMES Saturday's Circulation 42,113 to 30.

Sun rose sets 4:39. paper Largest in net paid Wisconsin circulation outside or of any Milwaukee. evening VOL. 79, NO. 20 Entered as Wisconsin, second class under matter the act at the of March Postoffice 3, 1879 in Madison, MADISON, Monday, January 7, 1957 ALpine 5-1611 24 PAGES PRICE 5c 4,000 AT STATE INAUGURAL INAUGURATION SCENES IN Madison today are shown above.

One of the most dramatic is the picture at the left, in which retiring Chief Justice Edward T. Fairchild, 84, is shown swearing in his son, Thomas E. Fairchild, 44, as a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The next picture shows the new Green Light For Badfish Route Court Eliminates Last Block To Sewage Diversion The State Supreme Court today and made it possible for the Madison trict to begin diverting its effluent the week slate press By HELEN YOUNGER 1906, BERT GIPPLE, then editor of the Galesville Republican, wrote the following editorial on New Year's lutions: "You will make a few, you always do. You don't live up to them.

Nobody does. But for all that, you will be the better for the resolutions. Some of the resolutions you will for a day; some for a week, Keene for month. That's about the limit on a first-class However, resolve something, though you forget it before sundown, Jan. 1.

The very thought will do you good. Above things, don't friends you solved, If you have resolved any purpose they will notice the change. It. won't be necessary to tell. them.

Do it. all your lonely. Then if you don't stick there will be no I told you so's." "BEING HUMAN we all resist: change unless. we can see the gain right now. It is difficult for many of us to change our ways of doing things.

It is natural for us to wish to continue on as it has been." -Polk County Ledger. FRAGMENTS: The assembly of all the Parker pen desk sets has been added to the Parker Pen plant at Menomonie, thus offering employment to several additional people. Jim Dan Hill, president of Superior State. College, writing in the River. Falls: Journal: The youth of the satellite countries, and perhaps within.

Russia, are completely. disillusioned with communism as praeticed in Russia" The Wisconsin state senator is 29-year-old David Donnelly of Eau Claire. Twenty-five-yearold Jerris Leonard of Milwaukee is the youngest Wisconsin assemblyman: Skipper, the pet dog of the Frederick Stoehr family at Sheboygan Falls underwent surgery for cataracts on eyes. Skipper can now see a mouse- he wear's plastic lens in his eyes to replace the clouded lens: that were removed. "MAKE IT YOUR New Year's resolution! An annual physical examination for every member of your family." Mondovi Herald-News.

Joseph Guld of Fort Atkinson is host to: Josef Kasanowitsch; a German refugee from Yugoslavia who lived (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4) Supreme Court Chief Justice, the oath of office to Vernon governor, at a ceremony in more than 4,000. The state's sworn in at the same ceremony 13 Killed, 8 Injured In Blast Dynamite Plant Left Shattered EMPORIUM, Pa. (AP)explosion tore through a dynamite manufacturing plant in this northern Pennsylvania community early today, demolishing at least two buildings and setting fire to a dozen others. Three men were reported missing and believed dead.

None of the victims was immediately identified. Eight others were admitted to St. Mary's Hospital in St. Marys. Most seriously hurt was Alvin F.

Walker, 23, of Emporium. Others injured included: Minard Sprung, 50, Virgil H. Chambers, 43, William Strader, 53, Gerhard De Bauer, 34, and 23, John Gibbs, 21, all of Emporium, Nathaniel Kephart, 48, of 15 Port Allegany, and George McIssas of Driftwood. The blast rocked the vania Powder Co. plant on the outskirts of Emporium at 7:15 a.

m. Reports said the blast occurred in the mixing plant shortly after change of shifts. The mixing plant and the cotplant were demolished. Another large building housing the packing house was severely damaged. At least a dozen other build(Continued on Page 4, Col.

8) E. Grace's Baby Now Due Jan, 20 MONTE CARLO -Doctors attending Princess Grace of Monaco again today moved forward the date her baby is expected. This time the prediction is Jan. 20. The doctors at first predicted some time early in Last week they said Jan.

25 was more likely. First of 10-Day Series Fashion Preview On Women's Page The fashion news of the season is being released to representatives of the nation's press this week in New York City. The Capital Times shares with approximately 200 of the country's foremost newspapers this coveted bid to watch spring unfold. The first of a daily series reports from -New York by Mary Brandel Hopkins, The Capital Times women's editor, appears on the women's page today. Fashion trends described and pictured in this 10-day series are sent by wire from the Pierre Hotel and designer showrooms where the new clothes are being paraded by the country's highestpaid glamour models.

It is to the Couture Group of this fashion center, sponsors of this glimpse into fashion's future, that the world turns for the style news of the season of special. interest to women. For an accurate preview of fashion's direction for spring and summer, see the news Mrs. Hopkins of the spring and summer collections of the top echelon of American designers, beginning today. John E.

Martin, 65, administering Thomson (left), Wisconsin's 33rd the Capitol rotunda attended by other elective officers who were are shown next, Left to right, they are Lt. Gov. Warren P. Secretary of State Robert C. held the office 20 years; beginning his fifth term, and who succeeds Thomson in that was taken at the Dane County Quizzed On Ike's Plan Won't Topple Any Mid-East Regime By Force: Dulles WASHINGTON (P)-Secretary United States would not invade throw an installed ernment got there.

S. guarantee against overt aid, Dulles told Congress, is how East manifesto counts on meeting Airman Dies Of Accident Injuries terse ction with Highway 19. Mof at t' death was the third traffic fatality of 1957 in Dane County, outside Madison. Two other Truax Field airmen, John A Truax Field airman from Milwaukee, Thomas L. Moffatt, 23, died today at a Madison hospital from injuries suffered Dec.

15 in a traffic accident on Highway 113, a mile south of the in- Traffic deaths in Dane County outside Madison since Jan. 1, 1957: E. Eggers, 19, and Jerome J. Schwabe, 24, were injured in the accident. The highway was icy and wet at the time.

Only the airmen's car was involved. S. Sgt. Moffatt's body was taken to the Larson-Joyce Funeral Home here. Two persons were injured in traffic accidents in the county early today.

They are Gerald L. Jensen, 23, Elroy, who suffered a cut over the right eye, and Boyd T. Daley, 50, Route 1, DeForest, severe face lacerations. Both were taken to Methodist Hospital. Jensen was injured when his car left the road on Highway 14, south of the Irish Lane in the Town of Fitchburg.

He told po(Continued on Page 4, Col. 7) Seven Lobbyists Are Registered Seven lobbyists, all from Madison, have already registered for work in the 1957 session of the Legislature, which convenes Wednesday. First lobbyist registered was Gilbert E. McDonald, attorney, for the Kindy Optical Co. Others registered are: Fred M.

Elliott, Wisconsin Petroleum Industries Committee; K. C. King, Wisconsin Petroleum Association; C. A. Hummel, Railroad Association; Charles O.

Vaudell, Wisconsin Optometric Association; Byron Ostby, Wisconsin Warehousemen's Association, Wisconsin State Association of Life Underwriters, and Wisconsin Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs Association; and Ed Johnson, League of Wisconsin Municipalities. Knowles, starting his second term; Zimmerman whose late father State Warren R. Smith, Atty. Stewart G. Honeck, Treasures, post.

The picture at the right Courthouse during the swearing Eye U. N. Hungary Hearings U.S. Joins In Talks To Create Committee By MAX HARRELSON UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.

(P)-The United States disclosed today it was consulting with other nations on a plan to establish a fivemember U. N. committee to investigate the Hungarian situation. The committee would be empowered to take testimony from Hungarian refugees on the intervention of Soviet troops and other phases of the Hungarian A U. S.

spokesman announced the plan shortly after U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold had recommended that the 80-nation General Assembly create such a special committee to study Hungarian developments. Informed quarters said the Assembly probably would be called later this week to take up the problem. By that time, U.

S. on sources said, resolution will be in final shape and will be sponsored by 20 or more nations. Previously, the General Asgiven Hammarskjold the task of investigating, the Hungarian, situation. representatives apto do this, but they had reported their inability to get sufficient reliable information. Hammarskjold's recommendations were contained in a report to the assembly.

In view of the refusal of the Communist Hungarian government to permit the entry of U. N. investigators, Hammarskjold said, "the only course of new and direct information, under these circumstances, possibly available be hearings with refugees from Hungary conducted, in the first place, in neighboring countries." He said, however, that he had resitated himself to initiate such hearings. Was U. W.

Geology Professor of State Dulles said today the any Middle East country to overgovernment--no matter how that gov- Red aggression plus economic President Eisenhower's Middle the threat of Communist sub- version. Dulles ave this answer to the House Foreign Affairs Committee as members pressed for details on the meaning of the Middle East Policy resolution President i senh ower wants Congress to approve. In his openin before a standing -room -only Sec. Dulles Sec. Dulles crowd of spectators, Dulles also told the House group that: The United States, i in order work for peace in the Middle East, must quickly make it clear that armed Communist attack would be met if necessary by American armed forces.

2. The Middle East resolution heighten tensions with Russia, but would "stop World War IlI before it (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) Harry Hicks, Wife Hurt In Crash Harry Hicks, a barber at the Park Hotel shop, and Mrs. Hicks were injured Sunday in a traffic accident near Clintonville, while on their way to Miami, Fla. Mr.

and Mrs. Hicks were going to Miami to a plane for Panama visit their son, Harry an employe of the United Fruit Co. Friends here Hicks suffered a fracture and his wife a fractured pelvis. They were to be brought to Madison by ambulance Prof. Twenhofel Rites To Be At Orlando, Fla.

Funeral services for H. Twenhofel, 81, professoremeritus of geology at the University of Wisconsin who died Friday in an Atlanta, hospital, will be held Tuesday in Orlando, Fla. Prof. Twenhofel was serving as consulting geologist for the Mongolia Petroleum Corp. of Texas and various Florida firms at the time of his de death.

He retired as head of the Department of Geology here in 1945 and had made his home in Orlando since then. Prof. Twenhofel was born in in of Superior Court Judge Roy cuit Judge Richard W. Bardwell Kroncke Jr. Proctor began his Bardwell, who was appointed to C.

Reis, began his first elective and Clarence E. Olson) More H. Proctor (center) and Cir(right) by County Judge George fifth consecutive 6-year term. succeed the late Judge Alvin term. (Photos by Tom Barlet Pictures on Pages 3 and 5.

Fairchild Is Sworn In By His Father eliminated the last legal hurdle Metropolitan Sewerage Disfrom Lakes Waubesa and Kegonsa along Badfish Creek. The high court, in a unanimous decision; denied a rehearing of a previous decision which upheld action by the State Water Pollution committee approving diversion by the District by of Creek. Residents of the Badfish Creek area had sought block diversion toad along that route. The attorney. general's office, criticizing the District for stalling, has already announced that unless the District forthwith version to build project the it $4,000,000 diac- tion not only to make the District pay up $250 per for each day of delay but to subject its officers to jail terms for contempt of court.

High action today means the can now begin to purchase or condemn right-ofway, to let contracts and to p. proceed. with the diversion which been held up in the courts for vears. Lake Mendota Still Hazardous, Fishermen Told Despite the fact that hundreds of ice fishermen used the lake over the weekend, Police Chief Bruce Weatherly warned that Lake Mendota still is hazardous. Special Services Sgt.

Lester Shore, who made an inspection of the lake today, said that although the entire lake is frozen over, the majority of it only has between and 3 inches of solid ice. There are. other spots where (Continued on Page 4, Col. 6) Dane County Officials, Judges Also Take Oaths Top elective officials of its Supreme Court, and Dane cially today in a series of ceremonies. Most dramatic was the child, 44, to a seat on the which the oath of office was, read by his father, 84-yearold Edward T.

Fairchild, who retired today as chief justice after serving on the high court for 26 years. Best attended of the four separate ceremonies was the inauguration of Gov. Vernon Thomson four other constitutional officers which drew an overflow crowd of more than 4,000 to the Capitol Rotunda. A special section of 400 seats was reserved on the first balcony of the Rotunda for members of the families of the new state Among officers those and attending dignitaries, former Gov. and Mrs.

Oscar Rennebohm. The crowd jampacked the Rotunda to its highest floor in the efforts of people to witness the ceremony. Shortly after this father-andson episode, Justice John E. Martin, 65, was sworn in as chief justice by Court Clerk Gordon Samuelson under the seniority rules of the court. Gov.

Vernon Thomson headed a team of five top state officials who assumed office at an impressive public ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. Chief Justice Martin administered the oaths of office successively to Thomson, Lt. Gov. Warren Knowles, Secretary of State Robert Zimmerman, State Treasurer Smith, and Atty. Gen.

Stewart Honeck. While the ascension of Thomson, former Richland Center mayor, time Assembly leader, and state attorney general, to the role of Wisconsin's 33rd governor topped this ceremony in importance, most dramatic was the assumption by Zimmerman of the office of secretary of state which was held by his late father, Fred R. Zimmerman, for 20 years. Zimmerman won his right to run for the office in a Republican primary in which he was (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) Ike's Re-Election Is Made Official WASHINGTON The landslide re-election of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon became official today.

The Senate and House met in joint session witnessed the formal counting- of electoral votes. Nixon, as Senate president, announced the tally after la 35-minute session. Wisconsin's state government, County assumed office offifour impressive inauguration swearing in of Thomas E. FairWisconsin Supreme Court in Balance Of Freedom, Law Urged Vernon W. Thomson, a 52- year-old Richland Center attorney who has held elective office since 1935, took his oath as governor of Wisconsin at noon: today with a promise to keep a balance between promoting individual initiative and helping the troubled individual.

"We seek an elusive balance between a government that does not ignore the troubled individual in this complex, interdependent society, and a government that does not destroy personal initiative by indulging in excesses of paternalism." Thomson said in his short inaddress. "We seek to maintain a cherished Wisconsin tradition of freedom and public Thomson compared himself to Wisconsin's first governor, Nelson Dewey, who was also an attorney, school teacher, member of the Assembly, speaker of. the Assembly, native of southwestern Wisconsin, He pointed out that just as under Dewey's administration Wisconsin became a. haven for victims of political and economic tyranny in Europe, sO today Wisconsin is a haven for Hungarian and other. refugees.

Holding that Wisconsin is in reality a large family and that only informed citizens can maintain the cherished traditions, Thomson said: "If the cut and fit of government is to be from the patterns of common sense possessed in such abundance by our people, (Continued on Page 4, Col. 6) Covington, and was married to Virgie May Stephens in 1899. His wife died Oct. 17, 1956. He received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D.

degrees at Yale University between and 1912. He also holds an honorary doctorate of science degree from Louvain University of Belgium. He taught at Kansas University from 1910 to 1916, coming to Wisconsin as an associate professor that same year. He was named a full professor at Wisconsin in 1921 and headed the (Continued on Page 4, Col. 7) Where to Find It Comics Pages 20, 21 Daily Records Page .2 Markets Page 12 Radio, TV Programs Page 21 Show Times Page 22 Society Page 9 Sports Pages 10, 11 Weather Table Page 2 Women's Page Page 8.

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