The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • Page 2

Make next Christmas the greatest. and easiest you've ever had by joining the First National Christ mas Club now. You'll like it! Stop in soon. FIRST NATIOimL BANK or LA Member 0 I Ca Snnbag (Tribune 2 TRI-STATE DEATHS MRS. LYDIA BAMBER SPARTA, William P.

(Lydia) Bamber, 90, died Friday, Dec. 31, in a local rest will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Robert Page Funeral Home. Rev. H.

Raymond Voss will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the funeral home.

Surviving are two brothers, Austin Fuller, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and David Fuller, Danube, Minn. WELCOME TO 1966 The Skyrockers produced one of their most spectacular welcomes for a new year when they staged their annual display of fireworks from Grandad Bluff to welcome 1966. The photographers did a time exposure for this effect. Note that the Christmas tree atop the bluff shows in three Photo. Chud now's Zone Plan To Be Heard Jobs lion.

In 1960. sales totaled $12 million. Employment varied Onttmwd from P.ge I from 050 in 1965' ing on the season. plant shutdown, La Crosse Cool- are cautiously optimistic er completed a re-arrangement about the said Roy E. of its plant production layout to neiieman president.

improve work flow and efficien- realize we are in yery Chudnow Construction Co cy' The en 8 inefrilJg department competitive business and are was for advanced faced with constantly risinc request for a planned develop- niannine and market research 5 ment zone for a $4 million apart- research and drastic price cutting ment complex southwest of Hill- though the 1965 increase in view Home will be considered net sales was attributable to the at'iir 0 sales of vending equipment, ad- The City Plan Commission at dUional sales and engineering emphasis is being placed on the The Council Judiciary Com- commercjai product line to stim- mittee at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. ujate growfb and expansion in the field in years to come, Den- The Milwaukee construction zer.said. firm has a contract to buy the 1965 was greatly affected by site from La Crosse County. The price competition in vending county, however, has received i products, said Denzer.

Projec- no payment as yet. tkrns indicate that sales and The site was rezoned from profits will too 1964 when a com- residential to multiple dwelling pany record was set, he said, use this fall. Chudnow now La Crosse Cooler will produce seeks rezoning from multiple a vender to accommodate either dwelling to planned develop- bottles or cans. Increased sales ment. and profits are projected for 1966 due to organizational im- Reaming requests from gene W.

Murphy and Donald by national brewers. 1966, we will continue our active prog am of acquiring breweries Miat fit within our over-all marketing Heileman acquired five parcels of real estate in 1965 for expansion of plant facilities. The firm purchased the Coca-Cola plant, now being used as warehouse, as well as all of the houses in the block south of Market, between 2 nd and 3rd Streets. All alleys have been vacated in the block. In 1966, Heileman will construct new warehouse and distribution facilities on this site, enabling the firm to expand its capacity by the addition of new canning and bottling lines and MRS.

OLE THOMPSON ELROY, Wis. Mrs. Ole Thompson, 75, died Friday, Dec. 31, in the Hillsboro hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m Monday at Grace Lutheran Church, Rev.

Emil Pedersen will officiate. Burial will be in Elroy Cemetery. She was born July 29, 1890, in Juneau County. Surviving are her husband; six sons, Anton, Herbert and Clarence, Elroy, Avery, Milwaukee, Gordon, Racine, and Arthur, Kenosha; four daughters, Mrs. James Nauratil, Racine, Mrs.

William Nelson, Kenosha, Mrs. Percy Jossart, Ida, and Mrs. Maurice Olson, Racine; 29 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. MRS. SYLVIA WOGGON CAMP DOUGLAS, Sylvia Woggon, 58, R.

1, died Friday, Dec. 31, at the Tomah hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Stephen Catholic Church.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 1 p.m. Sunday at Hare Funeral Home in New Lisbon. She was born Nov. 3, 1907, in Chicago and married Henry Woggon.

The couple lived at Culter. Surviving are her husband; one son, Charles, Camp Douglas; one daughter, Mrs. James Jessen, Camp Douglas; three sisters, Mrs. Irene Jensen, New Lisbon, Mrs. Eleanor Tolinske and Mrs.

Tillie Roebke, Waupon; and seven grandchildren. Burial will be in National Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Surviving are his widow; one son, Albert, Eastman; three sisters, Mrs.

Clara Geise, Mrs. Elizabeth Bozanna and Mrs. Ann Meichaelsen, Milwaukee; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. MRS. ALBERT SCHUPP PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Mrs.

Albert Schupp, 78, Attica, former Wauzeka area school teacher, died Wednesday, Dec. 29, at the nursing home here. Services wfere Friday here at St. Catholic Church Burial was at Attica. aging tanks in areas previous- Bc.rc Crosse office was iy used for warehousing.

Pokarth also will be considered. company and is The generai manager of Allis- Murphy seeks to have proper- Johnson Refrigera- Chalmers plant here painted a ty at 1618 S. 8 th St. rezoned Uon 3Z3 301 bright picture of his busi- from residential to parking lot use. Pokarth seeks to have prop- Gateway Grocery Co.

began erty at 930 La Crosse St. re- operations from its new food zoned from multiple dwelling to distribution center on IGA local business to permit a bar- Court last year. Gateway com- bershop by the alley. African Nation Overthrown By Colonel ness prospects for 1966. Roy W.

Uelner said retail sales of the farm equipment line should be up six to eight per cent over 1965. He recalled that retail sales LBJ Says Steel Price Hike Unjust WASHINGTON (AP) President chief economic adviser, after meeting with Bethlehem Steel Corp. officials, said Saturday he still regards their price increase as and hopes it will be rescinded. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, gave no indication, however, that he was promised any such rollback. Ackley and his colleagues met Saturday afternoon with Bethlehem chairman Edmund F.

Martin and other company offi cials to discuss the $5-a-ton boost on structural steel shapes and piling. Bethlehem nounced the price boost Friday. Shortly after the increase was announced, Ackley had termed the action as and not in the public The President followed up with a statement is certainly no time for unwarranted price increases which can lead to And he urged Bethlehem officials to meet at once with Ackley. Buildings Continued from Page 1 property other than government or school owned semi-public volume $295,163. Commercial construction in 1965 jumped well ahead of 1964 with some $1.93 million in building work started.

The 1964 volume was $1.31 million. Montgomery Ward and Co. in 1965 gave downtown La Crosse a shot in its commercial arm with construction of a $215,180 automotive center, opened this fall, and a $646,754 retail operation. It plans to open the retail store this spring. WKBH-WKBT, which is re placing its burned out studio with a $240,000 restoration project, and Holiday Inn Motel, which reported $260,000 in additions or accessory buildings, provided the other big commercial projects in 1965.

ir However, there were other substantial investments in commercial construction: Sletten- McKee Funeral Home at Ferry Street and West Avenue, $60, 000 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. addition, new Pla-Mor Lanes, W. A. Roosevelt Co. flood restoration project, James Pancake House at 4th and Jay Streets, and Modern Beauty Salon, 720 Cass St.

For 1966, plans a branch store near La Crosse State University, a produce house plans to relocate here and the La Crosse Clean Towel Service possibly will start a new plant. Except for the Continental Can plant on St. James industrial construction was light in 1965, with just over $536,000 in construction work started. Continental Can accounted for $414,800 of the 1965 volume. Con crate Services, an outgrowth of the La Crosse Concrete built a $46,143 garage and main tenance operation.

Trane Co. completed a $290,000 addition to Plant 3, a $696,557 addition to its laboratory and a new $400,000 acoustical laboratory. For 1966, Trane plans the $5 million administration building. WHERE THE SEASONS MET Winter had a hard time edging was it spring out of the picture at Shady Mable as patches of open water competed with the ice. Ice fishing houses went through the ice in some places, but numerous fishermen seemed determined to make use of what ice Photo.

DEATHS MRS. ALVIN BLACKDEER Mrs. Alvin (Marjorie) Blackdeer, 44, R. 2, Onalaska, died suddenly at her home Saturday, Jan. 1.

She was born at Bruce. She is survived by her husband; two sons, Donald Brush of Columbus, and William Brush, La Crosse; one daughter, Caroline Blackdeer, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Kreuger, Rexford, and Mrs. Esther Gebhardt, Warrens. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, and one sister.

Prayer services will be held Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Onalaska Fossum Funeral Home. and a sister, Leone. Services will be Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at the Schumacher Funeral Home and at 9 a.m.

at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Rt. Rev. Msgr. V. J.

Plecity officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home (Winnebago Street chapel) Monday after 3 p.m. and in the evening, the Rosary to be at 7:30 p.m. 8 USANN LATTIMER Susann Lattimer, 93, formerly of 1512 S.

7th died in a local hospital Saturday, Jan. 1. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Schumacher Funeral Home. RECORDS FILE HEPARTMENT La Crosse: im 29, 11 a.m., to parking ramp for reported car fire; found none. Dec.

30, 8:19 a.m., to Bernard Gunderson residence, 2532 S. 17th faulty furnace motor. Dec. 30, 3:28 p.m., false box alarm at Copeland Avenue and Car Street. Dec.

31, 9:54 a.m., to Pioneer Labor Hall, 5th Ave. and Market ceiling in basement ignited and caused minor damage; caused by overheated boil- MRS. PEARL DAVIS er. Mrs. Pearl Davis, 75, of 1133 Dec.

10:06 p.m., Whiter.hhlt Of Bennett st- diad in her home Cologero residence, 1731 MIs- Black Mflci! 30. furnace ate. Friends may call at the fu- pleted its fiscal year Sept. 30 with a 13-per cent increase in for the division in 1965 were sales, almost double the indus- about 15 to 20 per cent higher try average for the last five than the previous year. It was years.

the fourth straight year of sub- David E. Nudd, vice president stantially increased sales, and general manager, said Gate- Uelner said that equipment Armv Colonpl way budgeting for a 15-per- made here contributed to the cent sgles increase in 1966. healthy gain. BANGUI, Central African Re- Plans are being made for six were a greater number of plant- public (AP) Col. Jean Bedel new IGA stores in the Tri-State erSt disc harrows and farm and Bokassa, the army chief of area, including one in La industrial loaders made at the staff, overthrew the government Crosse.

plant than in 1964. We are sched- of President David Dacko early By late 1966, Gateway also ex- uling another increase in the Saturday and proclaimed him- pects to begin development of a production of this equipment for he said. Changes in the type of equip- self head of state. new franchised territory which Bokassa announced over the it recently was granted by IGA state radio: 3:20 a.m. national headquarters.

The new ment made at La Crosse reflect your army has taken over the territory includes Madison, Be- the changes in farming itself, power of the state. The Dacko loit and Janesville. Uelner said. He cited as an ex- goveraraent has resigned. The A fourth tenant will locate in ample new planter and cultiva- hour of justice has the 48-acre Gateway Industrial tor models slated for production Park in 1966 joining Gateway at La Crosse this year.

One I Grocery, Robinson Transfer Co. planter model, he said, will be Monawk VQllGy and Continental Can. abfo to plant 12 rows of corn or a-rn nactrnvofJ D- Reinhart, Gateway pres- soybeans at a time Darn IS UGSTroyea ident, said the firm, now located Over-all, the company now STODDARD, Wis. A fire in Minnesota, will represent ania backlog of orders about 5 p.m. Saturday destroyed addition to the local economy.

for farm equipment, he said, the barn on the former Otto Architectural plans are com- 7 mjght lead to a Huebner farm in Mohawk Val- pleted for the building, land has grate increase in employment ley north of here. been cleared and utility poles for the La Crosse plant in the The Stoddard Fire Depart- relocated. Construction is ex- coming year. There was an av ment kept the fire from burn- pected to in spring. erage of about 900 persons working nearby buildings.

ing here during 1965 compared The barn contained some hay. G. Heileman Brewing ex- wjm 790 in 1964. The property is owned now by a pects 1965 sales to exceed $.10 company as a whole had La Cros 6 realty company. million.

1964 sales were $27 mil- a g00d sales year in 1965, Uelner said. Final figures been tabulated, but the total will be well above the record $632 million in sales for 1964. CONSUMER PRODUCTS ENGINEERS $100 million dollar, hi-volume, low-cost consumer goods growth company seeks the following engineers to RAD unique new line of products marketed throughout the world. SR. PROJECT To have total responsibility for the engineering of a variety of new products as part of our multi-million dollar RAD budget.

Requires at least 5 years experience in consumer products RAD. BS (or better) in Engineering. SR. PRODUCIBILITY ENGINEERS Must be able to devise and apply sound practical solutions to problems of raw product producibility. Background for this position may include successful management of a small mfg.

concern or experience as a chief Knowledge of die casting, stamping or blow Tnoldmg plus BSME. SR. INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS Requires current manufacturing and assembly operations experience and the capacity to assume project responsibility in a fast moving high-volume atmosphere. New process installation experience involving mechanical design very desirable. BS plus recent consumer product experience essential.

send your resume in confidence fo: Write lox L-569, The Lo Crosse Tribune. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GEORGE LANKFORD DE SOTO, Wis. George Lankford, 68 died Friday, Dec. 31, at a Madison hospital after a long illness. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at the Methodist Church here. Rev. Alvin Crandall will officiate. Burial with military cites will be in De Soto Cemetery. Friends may call here at Olson Mortuary Sunday afternoon and from 7 to 9 p.m.

in the evening. He was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lankford Feb. 26, 1897, in Brownsville, and mar ried Evelyn Cushing May 27, 1928.

Surviving are his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Orvin (Naomi) Knutson, Ferryville; two sons, S. Sgt. Ivan Jerry, Ft. Sam Houston, and Wallace, at home; and four grandchildren.

MICHAEL NICKOLATTI GENOA Nick elatti, 75, died at a La Crosse hospital Saturday morning, Jan. 1 after a long illness. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Regina Hughes and Mrs. Margaret Quinn, both of Superior, and Mrs.

Ursula Curti of La Crosse. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Charles Catholic Church and a member of the Knights of Columbus Council 839 La Crosse. Services will be Tuesday at 9:15 a.m., at the South Side Blaschke Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St.

Charles Catholic Church at Genoa, Rev. Dominic Eichman officiating, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 with Rosary at 8:30 p.m. The Knights of Columbus will assemble for the 8:30 Rosary. MRS.

DANIEL MARTIN EASTMAN, Daniel Martin, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 30, at her home here. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church here.

Rev. Bernard Quint will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at Otteson-Garrity Funeral Home in Prairie du Chien Rosary will be at 8:30 p.m.

Surviving are her husband; two sons, Leonard, Wauzeka, and Arthur, Eastman; five daughters, Mrs. Henry Prew, PARIS (AP) Vincent Au- Prairie du Chien, Mrs. Thomas riol, 81, president of France Fisher, Eastman, Sister Madon- from 1947 to 1954, died Satur- nt, Racine, Mrs. Robert Han- dav 1 ratty, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Jer- A Jackson, Prairie du Chien; a two sisters.

Mrs. Nettie Deg-j in faU last November at his man and Mra. NorV home on the Riviera. He was Oswald, South Dakota; 49 transferred to a Paris hospital grandchildren and 31 great- where he died. grandchildren.

ANDREW MEILLER EASTMAN, Wis. Andrew Meiller, 80, died Saturday, 1 in the hospital in Prairie Chien after a long illness. Beauty Salon of On- Services will be at 2 p.m. alaska is now listed as Carol Mond Lajte.xhornberg Fu- Beauty Salon in the new direc- torv. Under mansSemeni.

Home Prairie du Chien. Strikes Continued from Page 1 quiring the AFL- CIO Transport Workers Union keeping alive the alternative of and its president, Michael J. a middle-of-the-road govern- LBJ Continued from Page ment there. The greatest disappointment of 1965 stemmed from the frustrations he faced in Viet Nam. He drew greatest satisfaction from civil rights progress.

Johnson also was disappointed by the absence of progress toward improved American-Soviet relations, and wants to get on with that job. 1965 was a pretty good year for moderates and a bad year neral home from 4 to 9 p.m. She is survived by one son, no damage. Earl. She was preceded in death Dec.

31, 10:26 p.m., to Joaaph services wiii William' and Mifis; be held Monday. brothersin St- locked out of Services will be Monday at house. FRANK J. SAGEAR 1:30 m- from the Schumacher oec 3 it 10:45 p.m., to Robert Frank J. Sagear, 57 of 2552 Rev- Knight residence, Main S.

17th died in a local hos- wd Bfal fire in living room; moder- pital Saturday, Jan. 1 Ho; ate damage to room and con- He was born in La Crosse Fnends may cal1 at tents. Oct. 4 1908. funeral home Sunday from Jan.

1, 4:37 p.m., to West and He is survived by his Pine, false box alarm. Gladys; one son, Frank of Jan- 6:33 10 and Quill, to demonstrate at 2 p.m. Monday why they should not be punished for ignoring an injunction against the strike. Quill earlier tore up the injunction, defying its threat of jail and a fine. He predicted a long strike and blamed it on Lindsay.

The walkout, called at 5 a.m., for extremists, at home and was 100 per cent effective. abroad. Yet on this quiet, balmy New The issue is Day it was hardly no- dead politically because, he be- ticeable to some persons. The lieves, the great majority HELEN MILLER temperature hit a record 62 ear- Americans now believe the fed- ly in the afternoon. Holiday era! government has a Helen) Mler crowds roamed midtown Man- bility to help create opportunity Aof ,2532 2,, hattan streets, and taxi cabs for its citizens.

seemed readily available. Some Johnson considers himself unc restaurants, usually open on back in good shape physically 5 holidays, remained closed and tackle the load brothers, Jacob H. to tackle tne Krismer of Lake city, rolls because employes failed to view, the major report for work. task faced bv the world's na -tw0 JT.pb HZ, ZfSJt Wasilsky and Mrs. Ag- tions in 1966 is to learn to kl.il 01,11 Getting from other bor- son one of his 8 0 PhlladJ' oughs was almost impossible, vorite phrases from a realis- except by auto.

One bus line tjc understanding of the th crhumacher was operating in Queens, ferries 2 10.30 a.m. at the ocnumacner Barre Mills; his mother, Mrs. Rose Sagear of La Crosse; five sisters, Mrs. Clarence (Unice) Simonson, Mrs. Agnes Smith, Mrs.

James (Norma) Stoeckly and Mrs. Lyle (Irene) Wegener, all of La Crosse, and Mrs. Frank (Verna) Klaschus of Duluth, three brother, Raymond and Shirl, both of La Crosse and Howard of Plymouth, and one grandchild. Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Sletten-McKee Funeral Home.

Rev. Deane Irish will officiate and burial will be in the Mormon Coulee Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. EDWARD C. TOMSICEK Edward C.

Tomsicek, 59, Burbank, formerly of La Crosse, died suddenly Friday, Dec. 31. Johnson, false box alarm. POLICE AMBULANCE City: Dec. 31, 9:59 a.m., Marie He is survived by his widow, Johnson, 68 of 2555 S.

14th the former Vivian McDonald, to St. Francis Hospital; illness, three daughters, Barbara, Di- COUNTY COURT anne and Patricia, and La Crosse: grandchildren. Robert E. Anderson, 3119 S. Services will be Monday in st issum? worthless Burbank.

checks, charge dropped on pay----------------------- ment of court costs. First escalator in the United Fred C. Muller, 20, of 1311 States was installed in a de- Kane disorderly conduct, partment store at Philadelphia sentence ithheld, placed on in 1901. probation 'or one year. Injured In Mishap SPARTA, West, 21 Cataract, is reportedly in serious condition at the local hospital after the car in which he was riding hit a tree here at 10:40 p.m.

Friday. The driver, Richard Geier 22 R. 2, was treated at the hospital and released. Auriol Dies At 81 Services will be Tuesday at ran between Manhattan and as it is. He hopes the United Nations Staten Island, and commuter and otjjer organs 0f internation trains and buses operated to conclUation WU 1 try to im- SUUndsSay and Traffic Commis-EL a bringing disputes to the confer- 9 the Roaary to be at 8 Funeral Home, Rev.

Donald Wilger officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home sioner Henry Barnes began planning for Monday morning, when commuters from the metropolitan area of 15 million peo- ence table at an early stage, before shooting breaks out. MARIE HINYTZKE Mrs. Marie (Mayme) Hinytz- ivpvuiaii aica ui zu iiumvii pie pour in.

Lindsay pleaded for Hurt 111 Mishap elimination of unncessary ETTRICK, Wild- ke, 65, of 1502 S. 6 th died ing, and car pooling. er, Trempealeau, suffered cuts in a local hospital Friday, Dec. and if we get city and bruises about 6:30 p.m. Fri-31.

streets locked up where nothing day when his car went off a Survivors are one son, Rich- can move, and if we have a se- county road about one mile ard F. Hinytzke of La Crescent; rious fire or something, we from here. and four grandchildren. She was could have a major warned Barnes. He was taken to the White- preceded in death by her hus hall hospital.

(band, Louis, on Oct. 24, 1962, PREVIEW OF U.S.WEATHER IUREAU FORECAST TO 7:00 P.M. EST 1 -2 -Si HIGHEST First, yesterday's high; second, low last night. Atlanta Bismarck Chicago Denver Fairbanks Fort Worth Helena Honolulu Juneau LA CROSSE: Los Angeles Memphis Miami Milwaukee New Orleans New York Phoanix Rapid City Saattle Winnipeg LOCALS Phone 783-2275. Rev.

Jim Barnes will otficiate. WEATHER FQTQCAST SHOWERS fHTI SHOW WTHUMPER vrrrn fig: STORMS FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET WEATHER OUTLOOK On Sunday rain is forecast from the mid-Atlantic states extending westward through the Ohio-Tennessee Valleys to the Great Lakes and southward to the lower Mississippi Valley. Maximum temperatures forecast: Seattle 37, Los Angeles 64, Denver 48, Phoenix 60, Duluth 22, Chicago 40, New York 52, and Miami 78. UPI Telephoto..