The Austin Daily Herald from Austin, Minnesota • 1

Austin daily herald VOL XCX Member Associated Press 12 Pages No 47 AUSTIN MINN TUESDAY EBRUARY 25 1958 Single 7c Propl to Home Near ire Destroys Give Plea Spring Valley Man Dies for Airline 'I Bachelor Victim of ri Tragedy 7 5 CENT LETTER STAMP IS MAJOR ISSUE Senate Opens Debate on Postal Hikes Department has been derelict in Pal need of airline Vanguard iring Is Delayed Again Will Leaving Dental Clinic und reeman said the Isbor iorylso make connections lib uny Heat Wave rocket An Army rocKcv which successfully launched theMinihj I slliu 1 Taconite Production Senate Term St Paul Man labor he said Car Crashes Through of and Air Ice ather of 3 Drowns Church (Earlier Story 3) i The Weather 1958 City Traffic expected in parts up to 70 race Officials at first agreed but later the National Sports Com when Mrs Lewis 87 died Jan 14 amounted to $7399649 in securities Accidents Injuries atalities Damoge revision valves The Army Jupiter besides launching the Explorer is a vet eran test rocket The Air orce has announced a broader policy concerning re porting and photographing new Kimball because of the filing the contesting actions million Included is a provision making the letter rate on non local mail cents for three years from July 1 1958 to June 30 1961 Letters within a city would go for 4 cents The permanent rate would be 4 as compared with the prevent 1 cents Majority Leader Lyndon LA CRESCENT Minn (JI man drowned and two others es caped late Monday when their car broke through the ice of Pond a swamp southeast of here The body of Ray Boms 29 La Crescent the father of three small children was recovered by a sldn adppted by a 7 4 vote in comma tee The Republican leadership plans to try to retain the temporary cent rate Both sides expect a close vote Proceeds from the 5 cent stamp would be narled for moderni sation of poetoffices over the na tion and $40000 in lots and buildings Dr Lewis died in 1946 The later will bequested $5000 to Mts Reck $11000 to Mrs sister in law Cornelia Wood $5 The hearing involving presen tations by cities in the Dakotas Minnesota Nebraska Iowa Wis consin and Illinois will last sev eral days Propf still point out that Aus down with the car Sheriff Clarence Vetsch of Hous ton County said the ice had been 12 14 inches thick in the area but that the car apparently broke through one of the holes cut by the men to anchor their nets Boma employed at LaCrosse Wis is survived by his widow and three children aged 3 and 2 years and 9 months WASHINGTON The govern meat reported today record high food "prices pushed the living cost to a new peak to Jan uary The Jump fn grocery prices was blamed on repeated freesea in lorida and excessive rains In Texas which boosted fruit and vegetable costs and also on short and consequently expensive meal supplies The Labor Department index of consumer prices rose six tenths of une per cat betwtea December SEOUL Korea IB1 South Ko rean national police today an nounced the arrest of a Commu nist agent they believe was a be hind the acene worker to the high jacking of a dyfl airliner to North Kara $957 140 12 None $20077 $22540 MANUEL ANGIO No bitterness Johnson (D Tex) said an effort would be made to tie pay increases for the 500000 postal workers to the rate bill The administration is offering about 160 million dollars of annual increases to the employes: Demo crats are pushing a bill which would total about 320 million Postal unions favor tying the two together with the idea that Elsenhower would not veto a big ger pay increase than ho wants if it meant killing higher rates The Senate bill also would boost the cost of air mail letters from 6 to 8 cento require a 3 cent stamp on printed post cards and raise rates on second and third class mail 60 to 66 2 3 per eent Several Democrats are seeking to knock the 5 cent stamp out of ihe' till leaving the flat 4 eent Licit in the Post Office Depart ment But the issue has nrt reached the Senate floor until today al though the House twice has passed rate increase measures Before the Senate Is a bill to raise postal rates by 700 to 750 million dollars The current postal deficit is estimated at 700 first satellite Jan 31 will make another satellite launching attempt probably next week It had been set to follow the Navy Vanguard attempt but Van guard now has to wait repairs and the supply of one of the fuels need ed by its three stage rocket Informants said the needed pro pellant is being shipped by truck from a Northern state light Test Stage The Vanguard is now in the flight stage Two earlier Van guard launching attempts failed Sole Heir Steps In Ann Jeanette Beck contested the will as the daughter of Dr and Mrs Lewis and sole heir to the estate Dr and Mrs Lewison April 23 1945 filed identical and separate last will and testaments leaving the following bequests: Red Agent Arrested in Plane Abduction administering the milk marketing barriers Raps Relief Program The governor said actions by the Agriculture Department In handling disaster relief for Minne sota farmers hit by floods last year showed an appalling lack of concern for the welfare of the farmer He said he had sought emergen cy loans at 3 per cent interest special program to restore dam aged crop land and direct grants for feed and seed but the depart ment did little to help and maxes trips six aays a wee to pick up mail at Rochester The brief emphasises Austin needs an east west route so that it will have airline connection with Chicago a route that would SPRING VALLEY Minn Tin body el Hugo Melchert 63 was found thia morning in the ashes at his farm home seven miles south of here where he had lived alone the past two years Dale ennstermacher a neigh bor living a quarter of a mile a way saw the flames st 5 am By the time he reached the place the house had burned to the ground Windows lying 20 feet a way indicated the cook stova which Melchert used for beating had exploded The Spring Valley ire Dept answered a call to the place sev en miles southeast of Spring Valley in the iron ore mine district but the fire bad burned Itself out by the time it arrived The chimney was standing and a scorched jeep stood five feet from the foundation The bouse wu 30 30 and of two stories There was no electricity tn the house and neighbors said Melch ert did not smoko There are 10 ewes on the farm but no cattle Before moving to this place Melchert had lived north of Spring Valley His sister Mr Arthur Rathbun lives near here Melchert shopped in Spring Val ley Monday He lived a rather obscure life keeping pretty much to himself 2 A 3 A kind of discrimination against which I want to protest he said the mis use of milk marketing order and reeman said the Agriculture ST PAUL (J! A St Paul man was killed today when his car and a train collided at a crossing here The victim was identified as Ed ward John Munson 33 He lived at 452 airview Munson was akne in his car when the accident happened po lice said The State Highway Department said today the death of Dr Don ald Reader 46 Twin Cities psychiatrist has been listed as a traffic death Dr Reader was killed late ri day when his car rolled over sev eral times after missing a curve on UJ 52 near Dalton 10 miles southeast of Little alls The Highway Department had withheld his name from traf sfic death list after first evidence indicated be might have suffered a heart attack before the accident The Otter Tail County coroner ruled today he died from a frac tured skuU suffered in the acci dent Tfie deaths raised Minnesota's 1958 traffic toil to 7j compared with 82 a year ago Austin and the remainder of the estate to the Austin Board of Ed ucation for the dental clinic Assets the national population was get ting only one per cent of defense contracts He added that industry in the state was eager and willing to take a bigger role in production of needed missies rockets other defense devices Dudley Charp 'assistant REEMAN (Continued' on Page 2) 1XU per cent ihs 197 aver Thia wu the largwt monthly rise since' July 1956 The living cost level hu risen steadily in 15 out of the past Wmonths The latest living ooet Jump means a pay raise for some 1350 000 workers whose wages art partly geared to the index PRESIDENTIAL DISCUSSION President Eisenhower in a smiling mood listens to Gen Miguel Ydigoras uentes the president elect of Guatemala as they pose to gether today on the North Portico of the White House The visiting dignitary on a goodwill mission was a breakfast guest Purpose of the meeting between the two presidents and other officials was a frank exchange of views on United States Guate malan relations (AP Photofax) tors made clear they had grabbed him in hope hi disappearance would force cancellation of the race and embarrass President ulgencio regime CUBA (Continued on Page 2 £jnnt Interior rnmmittA governor urged that funds be made available to construct this year a Bureau of Mines experi mental laboratory in Minnesota Mineral Pnientln! which in most areas would mean for the rest of her life some 20 to 25 degrees lower than today's predicted high WASHINGTON (J) The Senate opens a long delayed floor debate today on proposed higher postal rates With tire key issue whether the letter rate will be 4 or 5 cents President Eisenhower hu Been rging higher postal rates almost ATAL INJURIES MINNEAPOLIS (JI Swan Swanson 65 died in a hospital Monday of injuries suffered when 32 he wu struck by a falling piece 36 of timber last Wednesday Ute 41 1 mishap occurred at a northeast 47 Minneapolis grain elevator where 52 he had been employed City Transportation Needs to Be Cited at CAB Hearing Austin will seek east west airline service at a hearing before the Civil Aeronautic Board in Wash ington Wednesday The bearing which a seven state area opens today Aus tin will be represented by Robert Propf of the Geo A Hormel Co Transportation Dept Arguments of about 60 cities and six airline applications seeking new local service will be heard in the last procedural step before a de cision in the case involving 84 ap plications Present Original Request Some time ago the CAB exam iner recommended service for Aus tin on a north south route Austin is joining at midnightl Bigger Defense Roll be recalled reeman told the officials The Austin Board of Education and a San rancisco woman Mon day filed objections to the allow innce and probate of a more than 1958 148 None PATH DEATH CAR Bodies of dead and injured lie sprawled on the ground after a car of a Cuban driver went out of control info the crowd of Grand Prix spectators along Malecon Boulevard in Havana Monday (AP Photofax) the State of Minnesota swto ask that the i original request for east west ser vice across south em Minnesota to link the area with Chicago be grant ed They are asking for approval of a route from Mit chell to Propf Chicago with stops at Sioux alls Worthington May Not Last Much Longer By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Temperatures began their freak 1 11 8 Negligence ound in atal Road Mishap ROCHESTER Minn (JI A jury Monday recom mended a charge of criminal neg ligence be placed against Wayne Robert Schutz 18 Pine Island Minn in the traffic death of his sister Jacqueline Schulz 19 was killed eb 9 in a collision involving a car driven by Schutz near Orono co The Jury heard testimony that Schultz bad been drinking before Baltimore $5000 to iousin Clar ence Beatty landreau $5000 to wife $1000 to a St Paul friend Diane Marie Smith and $1000 to the Austin Public Library The remaining estate 'was left to a cousin residing in St Paul George Beatty Undue Influence Claimed The objection of the Board of Education alleges that the last will was executed by Mrs Lewis while under of undue influ ence by George Beatty and was not the voluntary act of Mrs Lew Miss Beck's objection in effect was entered on the same grounds The hearing on this will was scheduled for Monday but was Byrd Agrees to Seek 5th 371 8AM 35 9 A 34 10 A 34 11 A 33 12 Noon Considerable cloudiness with widely shower ond turning colder Wednesday tow tonight upper 30s normal temperature Thursday he said Artificial barriers against move ment of milk and dairy products now discriminate "against Minne He said he referred to Secre sola dairy interests reeman de tary Of Agriculture an 'dared LAMES LOVE ROCHESTER Minn tfl ire Killed in Car Train Crash to of in that in a week for a steady month's Minnesota with two per cent of By RICHARD POWERS Inouncement that dairy Drice sun 1 He said one kind of discrimina WASHINGTON Gov ree port will be lowered April 1 fromition is in state and local sanitary airmont Austin Rochester Du man of Minnesota today asked about 83 per cent to 75 per centiregulations which act against pro buque and Rockford Both Ozark Congresa to adopt an adequate) of parity and to the recommends ducts from other arias He pro And North Central have made ap dairy price support program audition by President Eisenhower to pose enactment of uniform sanl i plication to provide east west aer to eliminate barriers that now ex Congress that the minimum level tary regulations vice RICHMOND Va tfl Sen Harry lood Byrd (D Va) agreed today with full consent of his wife to eek a fifth six year term in the UJS Senate Byrd chairman of the Senate inance Committee had an nounced eb 12 be would not seek' re election His statement today' addressed postponed by Probate Judge Paul to the General Assembly of Vir ginia contained a statement from Mrs Byrd an invalid releasing him from his promise made six years ago to retire at the end of I I I re lams vm Tanttamv IfiCfi is it 1 men voaay were canea to put outline cuiuskaj hiki uau run a fire in a loveseat sign coming onto Highway 52 transportation facilities Nel Ticket Sale His oral briefing will note that travel agencies in Austin last year handled airline ticket sales totaling 8185000 and that such sales could have been increaxed materially if planes could tte boarded here His brie! will point out that the Hormel com nan with 5000 em retre ployes at Austin and doing a every year since he took office in $300 million yearly business is 1953 as means of reducing de handtcappeo as are ouier urmst by lack of airline facilities Be 1 cause of this lack the Hormel' By LARRY ALLEN lly Two men critically hurt in the HAVANA IP Rebel kidnapers died in Havana hospitals freed world champion automobile today racer Juan Manuel angio un drivers said the track had been harmed today after Cuba's $10000 slicked down with oil presumably Gran Premio race ended in trage in a rebel attempt to wreck dy and suspicions of foul play While angio unshaken by his 29 hour experience I puted claims by other drivers) uiai someone pourra 011 on inc course of the race in which the 46 year old five time world title holder was to have been the star attraction 4 KWed bi Crowd A racer drived by Armando Garcia Cifuentes of Cuba skit tered into tire crowd along Male con Boulevard killing four Cu bans and injuring 34 Cifuentes was among those critically hurt our Cubans were killed instant talked car ities dis P056 went ou con Th commission comenoea in lectmi cians had abs Aitely all suspicion of and claimed the oil on the street had seeped from the 27 racing cars Rebel Hopes angio told newsmen his abdue I I I I 1 I I 1 KnrsM rn ann ata hi 3 1 company mauiwuua ru I Vfl WB WB In itatement submitted to the 4 ka wav 1 rl mate Interior Committee the Cost of Living Climbs 6 Record Peak clud Minnesota milk from otherbe set in the future at 60 per cent areas of the nation must at the very least hold reeman a Democratic arm the line on dairy price supports er Laborite said in testimony pre until a new program to stabilize pared for the Senate Agriculture I the dairy industry is worked WIIIJIAILWCV UiL icvvin ucvcivy menu were causing widespread concern in the state Bensoa Proposal reeman Calls on Congress for Adequate Dairy Props ana tie in with the long range pro gram for development of low grade minerals There are 500 mil lion tons of low grade manganese bearing ore chi the gcuyana Range of Minnesota he added Earlier the governor said Mln ncnt ana moHntf a SILVER BAY Minn (Ji The iana more ue Reserve Mining Co is cutting itens contracts production scheduled at the tacon are a heartland not a hin ite processing plant here 20 perl11 governor said Mm cent because of the lower demand day 85 and dozen Minne for ore for steel i5013 industrialists accompanied Linney 'produttion vice'by and Humphrey president said the more than conferred with Defense De 1000 workers would be laid off Partment officials for a week starting Saturday They will diver Motxlay night after the ac cident Boma his fatherinlaw Nathan Randall about 50 and Jerome Jorstad 30 had been net fishing on the ice of the pond The rear of their car broke through the ice as they were leav aC a TLlEft I puuea wiw mm a me Vv A I riCrx fear began to sink Boma went Official 3 Readings from Herald Weather Site Rovf sf ire Statios: Readings at 8:30 today 31 Low previous 24 hours 20 High previous 24 hours SO General Weather Clear One hundred dollars a year to bi term in January 1959 the irst Congregational Newsmen will again be admit 1 nnn II Ik lsr ted to roof top Observation points MISSILES (Continued on Page 2) ALL THAT REMAINS lames flickered in the ruins of the Hugo Melchert farm home seven miles south east of Spring Valley this morning Melchert's charred body was found in the ruins by Spring Valley firemen The bachelor's jeep is at the right of the ruins and the coal pile fuel for the cook stove is seen in the fore ground 1 CAPE CANAVERAL la (JI Both the Army and satel lite rockets are being readied Jor firing in the next two week Complications are delaying the effort Vanguard an In formed source said last night It satellite launchings likely 4hat Vanguard will be Maj Gen Donald Yates com tirod until late Sesi week ftawvier of the Air orce missile twsbvfo renter tnade nointi fit WI UUSSMt nwvmUarf IjCWB ConirrMlCH electrical difficulties and of some of the pipes and fuel tanks Army Plaas Aft Armv TivrUfpp? I a 1 a A 4 I 4 I uuuuii rree runyiu wier Race Ends in Tragedy 6 Killed is widow of a long time Austin dentist If the Mower County Probate Court action is sustained the School Board would in time receive a major portion of the estate to es tablish a dental health clinic for re medial work with indigent Austin public and parochial school stu dents The School Board represented ish midwinter rise again today in 'by William Baudler contested the Minnesota and the Northwest but) will dated April 25 1949 as bene the weatherman began writing the ficiariesunder a pervious will of last chapter of his book on the Mrs Lewis dated April 23 1945 ebruary heat wave The mercury was climb as high as 65 Minnesota today and South Dakota Skies will be mostly fair today but will begin to cloud up in the northern and western sections as a JUW OJAkCMg 4WUJC iUUUW Ulg VUXjUUDbO move out of Canada I ive hundred dollars or her par Temperatures are expected to ents personal effects and a guar return to normal by Thursday anteed monthly income of $150 il lyse I i i Ai i i li 1 ti 1 I rf mM S' af 7 Va C1 jBK" 38 Ri vLJ3 fct 1 wH MONDAY 1 42 7 45t 2 45 8 42 3 PM 47 9 PM 40 4 48 10 38 1 5 49 IIP 38! 6 PM 47 12 38 TUESDAY 1 A 39 I 7 A 32 Si 3 3 1958 City Traffic i.