The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • Page 40

THE KANSAS CITY TIMES. t'KlDAY. FEBRUARY 24 1961. WORKER SAVES BOSS IN CAVE-IN Hole Dug With Hands Allows Eugene C. Lattner, 38, to Breathe.

COHPAHIOtl IS INJUBED Berne Wahiborg Is Given Help by Passers-By in Freeing Victims. An Olathe man saved his employer from suffocation in a cave-in yesterday by digging with his hands to the trapped head. Another man was injured in the 17-foot-deep sewer excavation at South Fifty-fifth street and Kansas avenue in Wyandotte County. The rescuer, Berne borg, 26, was outside the pit when the walls began to give way. The dirt buried Eugene C.

Lattner, 38, of Olathe, owner of the Road Boring Co. Suffers a Fracture. The cave-in covered Virgil Stepp, 25, of West Santa Fe street, Turner, to his chest. He suffered a collar bone fracture and a back injury. Wahiborg was near a ladder leading out of the pit when the dirt gave way.

turned and saw Virgil caught in the dirt, and Eugene was out of Wahiborg said. had to dig with my hands to get a hole to face so he could thought I had Lattner said after the rescue. must have been a few minutes before Berne broke through to me. He had to be digging like crazy to reach me that Two Others Help. Wahiborg said he shouted to attract attention as he dug.

Two unidentified persons nearby jumped into the excavation and helped free Lattner and Stepp. A few minutes later, 14 men from the Turner fire department arrived. Ambulances carried the two victims to Providence hospital, where Lattner was treated and released. Stepp was admitted. He was in fair condition last night.

The excavation was for tunneling beneath Kansas avenue for a 42-inch pipe to hold township sewer lines. Lattner said heavy trucks passing on Kansas avenue caused the earth to weaken. Part of the earth was sand, and that contributed to the collapse, he said. Had Seen Danger. The employer and the two other men were preparing to erect supports to prevent a cave-in, Lattner said, but the dirt gave way before they could start the work.

had thrown our tools from the hole and were preparing to leave because the dirt had started to trickle Lattner said. TO HIGH I OST, William A. Calvin of Boilermakers a Vice-President. Notice has been received at the headquarters, in Kansas City, Kansas, of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers that William A. Calvin, international president of the boilermakers, had been elected a vice-president of the AFL-CIO.

Notice of the election of Calvin to the position that had been occupied by the late Charles J. MacGowan, longtime head of the big boilermakers union, came from meeting in Miami, of the AFL-CIO executive council. AL A THE RESCUED AND THE RESCUER Joke about a close call that almost cost Eugene Lattner (right) his life yesterday when he was buried by a cave-in in a sewer excavation at Fifty-fifth street and Kansas avenue in Wyandotte County. Berne Wahiborg (left), employed by Lattner as a laborer, dug a hole to face and then summoned others to help free the buried man. UmN SAYS G.

OF C. IS USING HYPOCRISY Legislation Aimed at Crippling Labor Movement, States AFL-CIO. SEES CONFLICT IN IDEAS AFL-CIO Says Chamber Tries to Lure Industry, but Claims' Labor Is Irresponsible. SAYS HE BOUGHT TV SET On tlie Fire Run. DEFENDANT TAKES STAND IN THEFT CASE.

Le Roy Currie, 43, Testifies He Can't Recall Price or Who Sold It. A 43-year-old man, whose explanation as to why he was carrying a large television set at 5 in the morning failed to satisfy police, had an opportunity to tell his side of the story yesterday in the Wyandotte County District court. In the court of Judge 0. Q. Claflin III, LeRoy Currie, Negro, who gave his address as 3547 Park avenue, again denied theft.

He is charged with burglary and grand larceny in the theft of the set from a store at 600 Quindaro boulevard. Currie testified he had bought the set from a man he did not know at a price he could not remember. Sgt. Alex Barger said at the time of the arrest early November 2 that he stopped Currie near the store. Currie told him he was retrieving the set from a w'oman friend with whom he had had a spat, Barger said.

While Barger was calling other officers to check the story, Currie boarded a bus, Barger said. Currie, still carrying the set, was removed at Seventh street and Oakland avenue, Barger said. When asked to produce a bill of sale for the set, Currie showed a bus transfer, police said. CLERGY DAY AT PLANT. Ministers and Wives to Tour Procter Gamble.

About 65 members of the Kansas City, Kansas, Ministerial alliance and their wives will tour the Procter Gamble Manufacturing Co. Monday during the third annual Clergy day at the plant. They will be greeted by R. W. Seitz, manager.

It will be the first time for wives to accompany the ministers. CHURCH AND A. NDTES. The Rpv. and Mrs.

Anthonv suimowitz win hosts to the trustees of the State Line Baptist church and their wives at 6:30 tonight at the parsonage. G. W. Corporon. principal of Northwest junior high school, will speak to the Abbott A.

at 7:30 tonight. Past pre.sidents will be honored. The Friendship of the Hills Church of Nazarene will have a covered-dish supper at 6:30 tonight at the home of Mrs. Marie Crouss. The and 1 class of the Stonv Point Christian church will have a covcred-dish supper at 6:30 tomorrow night at the hurch.

The Kansas City, Kansas, fire department reports. A. M. Strong, grocery, trash bin near rear wall, out on arrival, no loss, P. M.

12:08 Twelfth and Terminal tracks, burning a junked caboose, no loss. 8:40 2020 South Twentieth, vacant house, $500 to building and $10 to contents, cause undetermined. ID SPDNSOR GIRL TEAMS. Athletic Association Will Back Two Softball Groups. The Kansas City, Kansas, Athletic association will spon sor the Kansas City Dons softball team again next year, it was decided last night by the board of directors.

The association also will sponsor another team, probably the Kansas City Crewcuts. The Dons were Western Regional champions last year. The board decided to change the time of the annual Hall of Fame dinner from the spring to fall. GRAND JURY BID ILLEGAL on Attorney General Rules Pottawatomie County Topeka, Grand jury petitions circulated recently in Pottawatomie County are invalid in the opinion, Atty. Gen.

William Ferguson said today. Giving the opinion at the request of James Sullivan, county Ferguson said the petitions are invalid be- Employees Extinguish Blaze, cause they do not specify in By Ray Morgan. (A Member of The Staff.) Topeka, Feb. Kansas State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, tonight blasted the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce for and psychology for its stand on labor legislation now before the Kansas Legislature. The state labor organiza tion through Floyd Black, Topeka, executive secretary, and H.

J. Yount, Kansas City, executive vice-president, issued the statement in answer to an announcement by the chamber that it was calling off a debate on the legislation because labor refused to take part. the face of these facts (as to labor responsibility), organization proposes legi.slation to prohibit picketing, force the licensing of thousands of union stewards and endanger skilled crafls- the statement said of the state chamber. fact, as you know and desire, the proposals are de- sigr ed to cripple the union movement. It is so vicious that if it should pass, it could put in the penitentiary mothers who demonstrated in street to secure a stop sign or light at a school crossing.

is the labor legislation proposal that your organization has labeled as the Kansas industrial peace act. Your representatives propose that they are doing this for the working people of Kansas and want to see a strong labor movement in Kansas. This is The labor organization said the statement concluses any discussion, as far as it is concerned on legislation now pen ling. chamber says unem- compensation rates are too high, compensation rates are too high and the chamber implies that labcr is the statement reads. the chamber says locate your business; or industry in Kansas.

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Workmen on the nearby Turkey Creek expressway sighted the bicycles. together YY kars Mr. and Mrs. Homer Crowley of Excelsior Springs will observe their 57th wedding anniversary tomorrow. Mr.

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which term of court the grand jury is to be called. A ruling on the sufficiency of the petitions was delayed last week by Judge Robert Kaul pending the attorney opinion. The petitions were circulated after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation dropped its probe of alleged Republican primary election irregularities in the west Wamego ward. ILLINOIS CUTS PAYROLL. Governor Has Fired About 200 State Employees.

Feb. 23. Otto Kerner said today he has fired about 200 state employees as part of a program. About 35 to 40 of them had been hired for seasonal work but kept on, Kerner said. The other dismissals involved jobs which are being abolished.

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