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FINAL EDITION vibxmt VOLUME 60, NUMBER 140 SIXTEEN PAGES LACROSSE, WISCONSIN, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1964 TWO SECTIONS WEATHER Variable cloudiness; scattered frosts. Light showers, possibly mixed with snow through Tuesday. Lower 30s tonight; near 50 Tuesday. PRICE TEN CENTS Reach Agreement On National GM Contract Cashton Couple, Black River Man Die In Car Crash BUGLES, WIND BLEW at the drum and bugle corps competition Sunday afternoon at Memorial Field had a chilly time of it. The wind blew and the rain fell.

Watching the St. Matthias Drum and Bugle Corps of Milwaukee from beneath their umbrella are, from left, Mrs. Glenn Sandve of Spring Valley, Anne Malmo, 130 S. 22nd and Jane Davis of Spring Photo. BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis.

ineral home Tuesday afternoon persons were killed and and evening, three others injured, two seri- In addition to his wife and ously, in a near head-on crash children, Brower is survived by of two cars on Highway 27, six his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. miles south of Black River'Brower of Preston, Idaho.

Falls, at 6:15 p.m. Sunday. Brower was a pilot in the U.S. Killed were: Air Force for years. James Brower, 41, R.

4, Black The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. River Falls. Albert Hemmersbach, 57, Torkelson Funeral Home Cashton. Cashton.

Mrs. Eleanor Hemmersbach, In other weekend highway his wife, also 57. fatalities: Mrs. Josephine Eberle, 72, of Concentrate Now On Resolving Local Issues By GENE SCHROEDER The agreement, announced DETROIT (AP) General after an all-night session at the Motors Corp. and the United bargaining table, removed a Auto Workers reached tentative "loud over the national economy, agreement today on a national which could be impaired serious- labor contract expected to bring ly by a long walkout, an early end to a nationwide strike against the No.

1 auto- assembly lines were shut down Sept. 25 when more Leonard Woodcock, UAW vice 250,000 workers were president in charge of the un- PuUe(l their jobs by the un- Hemmersbach were taken to the kqTES 0N THE NEWS GM Department, told lon- cuttin8 off Production of all the national settle- 1960 a campaign of peace, prosperity and progress, who can beat L.B.J.?” 64 Oktoberfest, Called Most Successful, Ends The injured, all passengers in the Hemmersbach car, were Helen Hammes, 16, Norwalk, head injuries; Jerome Fredericks, Cashton, 19, severe facial and possible internal injuries; and James Hemmersbach, 18, son of the dead couple, multiple lacerations and bruises. rural Omro was killed Sunday when a car went out of control on Winnebago County Trunk E. three miles south of Omro, knocked down a power pole and overturned in a ditch. William McCain, 18, of Exeland died Saturday night when his stalled auto was struck in the rear by another car on U.S.

By TERENCE BOSCHERT (La Crossr Tribunr Staff Writer) An artist carried a painting under her arm as she headed for her car from the closed art show in the auditorium; one of two beer tents shut down at 8 p.m. due to a lack of customers; bratwursts were sold for 15 cents each at 9 p.m. in order to sell the remaining 600. The 1964 Oktoberfest gradually eased itself out of existence Sunday evening. During the five-day fest, La Crosse was visited by thousands of persons with more than 200,000 in the city on Saturday alone.

Both D. J. Petruccelli, manager of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, and Donald Hansen, chamber president, said that a this was the most successful Oktoberfest. it it Hansen complimented the conduct of the crowds. He said very few incidents occurred despite the huge number of persons visiting the fest grounds.

Petruccelli and Hansen agreed that the downtown fest grounds reached its capacity this year, particularly Saturday night when the largest numbers were present. Petruccelli said the fest Committee will meet this week to discuss plans for the 1965 event as well as to iron out some problems such as getting all the people who come to the fest onto the grounds. There was tremendous amount of unsung Petruccelli said, adding that men and women worked in the beer and food tents without pay. He praised the police, county officials, auxiliary police, and numerous organizations who offered their services. The chamber manager said the Oktoberfest Committee is open to any good, sound suggestions for future fests.

He said the committee welcomes suggestions on what they like or on what could be improved. it Petruccelli said the parade this year was excellent, adding that the floats were much prettier than in previous years. The teen rock and roll concert was attended by more than 3,000 youths Saturday at Memorial Field, despite chilly weather. The committee hopes to improve on this event next year. Bratwurst patrons ate approximately seven tons of bratwurst at the two fest grounds this year.

In 1963, about tons were eaten on the auditorium grounds alone. Frank Bakalars, manager of Bakalars Brothers Sausage said 10,500 pounds of bratwurst were sold downtown with almost two-ton sold Saturday night. The brat tent ran out of the sausage late Saturday and polish sausage was substituted. Bakalars said more than 6,000 pounds of bratwurst were sold to other outlets during the fest. The wiener total was 650 pounds All were taken to Black River Falls Memorial Community 8 one mile east of Ladysmith.

Hospital. Miss Hammes and Harry Bruns, 55, of Marsh- Fredericks were later trans- field died Saturday night after ferred to St. Hospital, a car left Highway 51 about Rochester, Minn. Miss Hammes three miles south of Mosinee incomplete on beer consump- rgportcdly was in a coma. and rolled over in a field, tion during the fest.

The total Brower and Hemmersbach will be released later this week, icoro inctantiv anfimri. Maurice M. Olson, 53, of rural Hilbert was killed Saturday night when struck by a car and at the downtown fest. Sausage Co. pro vided 3,050 pounds of brat wurst at the Copeland fest The spokesman added that grounds.

Another Uk tons were I almost certain that the total was sold to other outlets in the city, somewhat higher than the 1,003 A spokesman at G. Heileman half barrels which were con- Brewing said figures! see FEST, Page 6 Brower and Hemmersbach were killed instantly, authorities said. Mrs. Hemmersbach died about 20 minutes after be- THEY KEPT 'EM COMING cooks spent a busy five days as they prepared and moved out some 13,550 pounds of brats during Oktoberfest. Here Jerry Anfenson (left), 531 N.

13th and Bill Seiter, 1406 S. 15th keep the brats coming off the Photo. WHERE TO FIND IT Births Page ..............6 Classified Adv. ..14 and 15 Comics, Movies Crossword Puzzle ............10 Daily Records 6 Death Notices ..............14 Editorials 4 Local 9 Markets 6 Sports 12 and 13 Tri-State Deaths ..............14 Weather Map ..............14 ARMED BANDIT TAKES $366 FROM STATION An armed bandit got $366 Sat- son said, and try to turn urday night from a La Crosse around to look, filling station, then fired two shots at the attendant through a restroom door. Lorin Searle, 28, of 2000 Onalaska an attendant at Service Station, 13th Street and South Avenue, fell to the floor just before the shots were fired.

Rabinovitz Awaits New Appointment MADISON (AP) David Rabinovitz waited in his Madison home today for word from Washington on a possible second interim appointment by President Johnson as federal judge of the western district of Wisconsin. Rabinovitz said he had de- Two overhead doors to the servicing room and the door from it to the office were open, he said. Police questioned neighbors, got a report that a big, blond man wearing dark trousers and 12 light jacket was seen in 41t Police Monday were contmu- area Tw0 slugs from the gun dded t0 heed the advice o( were found on the restroom Acting Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach to I until he is notified of the wishes. The word was promised today.

Three top Wisconsin Democratic leaders, Gov. John W. (AP) Madison Reynoids( gen. William police took 23 University of Wis- mire and Democratic national At the order, Searle consin students into custody committeeman David Carley opened the cash register. The early Sunday when they were were quoted by The Milwaukee gunman then shoved him into found staging a party in a va- the restroom at the rear of the cant house in the campus area, office, and then cleaned Court arraignments were out the register.

planned today. Police said men Searle, in the meantime, and women were involved, moved a tall waste can in the Police investigator Roth Wat- restroom to the window and was son, patrolling the area, report- trying to open a window so he ed he found the students drink- could escape when he fell. ing beer and vodka. Five other The gunman then fired two officers were called to round up'out acting on the shots into the door. Searle told the group.

Jan. 8 interim appointment of police he stayed on the floor un- The party was under way in the judge. The Senate, however, ing admitted to the Black River Falls hospital. The cause of the accident is as yet undetermined. Authorities believe the Hemmersbach car was going south and Brower was going north when one of the cars apparently crossed into the opposite lane of traffic.

Two of the injured could not be questioned immediately, and the other was asleep in the back seat at the time of the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Hemmersbach and the young passengers had attended the christening of a grandchild at Whitehall and were returning home, authorities reported. The fatalities were the sixth, seventh and eighth in Jackson County this year.

The accident was the third in which at least two persons have been killed. County Coroner Dr. John Noble said no decision had been made as yet on whether or not to hold an inquest. Other investigating officers included Sheriff Julian Larkin, State Traffic Patrolman Howard Kilday, District Attorney Robert Radcliffe; and Brockway Township Officer Clarence Williams. Brower was a chef at the Pines Supper Club, owned by his parents.

He formerly operated the Black River Falls Locker Plant for a number of years. His survivors include his wife, the former Delores Rozmenoski, and four children, John, 19, Debra, 13, Bruce, 10, and James, 8. Services for Brower will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Langlois-Galston Funeral Home with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in charge. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery.

Military rites also are planned. Friends may call at the fu- knocked to the roadway, then run over by a second auto on Highway 55 about three miles north of Stockbridge in Calumet County. Gregory J. Hahn, 41, of Onalaska was killed Saturday in a two-car, head-on crash in La Crosse. The city was crowded newsmen ment could result in an agree- weeJl ment within a week on local company had notified steel plant issues which block an end ducers to delay shipments for at the 11-day strike.

leaf -------------------------------------------UAW President Walter P. Reuther said the settlement embraces an economic package similar to those negotiated last month with the other two mem- jbers of automotive Big Three Ford and Chrysler. However, the tentative three- year agreement will not become effective until local issues in 117 of 130 GM plants across the country are resolved, said Louis By JOE HALL insisted this did not dim the Seaton, GM vice president WASHINGTON (AP) The luster of the record and f0r personnel. The at-the-plant 88th Congress Ends Session With Record Of Historic Actions 88th Congress finally has quit, its place in history secure because of its action on civil rights, tax reduction, poverty, education and the limited nuclear test-ban treaty. Some of its members were 6aying today, however, that President Johnson may call Congress back into session after the Nov.

3 election if he wins. Said Sen. Russell B. Long, DLa: is too good an opportunity for the President to miss. Sometime in a campaign speech by an estimated 210,000 persons going say, members of attending the parade that climaxed the berfest.

Charles Hall, 2, died Saturday when struck by a car while crossing a Manitowoc street about a half block from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hall. Victims listed earlier were: Shirden Wiatrowski, 31, of Neenah and Clarence Schuster, 61, of rural Jackson. ing their investigation.

The bandit shortly after 9 Roor p.m. Saturday entered the station, apparently from the back way, stuck a gun in 23 Students Held For ribs and ordered him to do as he was told so he get VoCOnt-rlOUSC Porty police said. MADISON Special Council Meeting Called On K-Mart Congress raised their own salaries $7,500 but they do anything for the old folks and the poor, so going to call them back to remedy Earlier in the session, the House and Senate passed a law to increase the pay of their members from $22,500 to $30,000. Last week, in their rush for adjournment, they brushed aside two key Johnson administration measures health care for the elderly under Social Security and a aid package for the impoverished Appalachia region. The health care proposal died when Senate and House conferees were unable to agree whether it should be attached to a bill to increase retirement payments under Social Security.

(The fight killed the payment Mayor Milo G. Knutson Mon- increases, too. day called a special meeting of Noting this, House Republican the La Crosse Common Council Leader Charles A. Halleck of education measure and a to consider the K-mart rezon-, Indiana said in a statement billion bill broadening the Na- ings. But he told aldermen he Sunday that Johnson killed the tional Defense Education Act Johnson hailed Congress as among the most fruitful in history.

Nearly all of the major bills passed were recommended by the late President John F. Kennedy but only a few were sent to the White House before his assassination. it it On taking over the presidency, Johnson immediately began a drive for every item on the program and succeeded in winning passage of most of them These probably are the top accomplishments of the 88th: sweeping civil rights bill, passed in the Senate only after a 14-week Southern filibuster was broken by imposition of debate-limiting cloture, the first time this was done on civil rights. The measure strikes at racial discrimination in jobs and in restaurants, hotels and other public places, in voting and in public schools. tax cut bill covering both individuals and corporations, designed as stimulus to the economy and as a spur to private enterprise of the limited nuclear test-ban treaty, holding out the promise of some cold war thaw and of ending pollution of the atmosphere.

big package of education bills, including a college construction measure, a vocational education bill, a $231-million medical was reluctant about it. chances of an increase in Social The petition from seven alder- Security payments person men who Friday requested the ally dictating that socialized torjoJnson Friday, eeting has the earmarks medicine be forced down a ramrod he said in congressional and extending the impacted- areas program. The latter was it it it agreements supplement the national contracts of all the automakers. agreement on a new three-year pact, which still must be ratified by the rank and file membership, calls for higher pensions as an early retirement incentive, longer vacations, additional holidays and other fringes. it it it The agreement also raises wages in the second and third years.

In a joint statement, the two parties said: Motors and the United Automobile Workers today announced tentative agreement on terms for a settlement of all national economic and national contract issues between the parties. parties will now concentrate their efforts in resolving local Louis G. Seaton, vice president of General Motors in charge of the GM negotiating team, said GM and the union had yet to resolve local issues in 117 of 130 plants across the nation. He said the new national agreement would not become effective these matters are resolved and the agreement is it it it Seaton said the two sides would continue to attempt to solve the local problems still numbering nearly 16,000 all of our employes can go back to The strike has shut down production of all GM 1965 model automobiles. chief competitors Ford and been the call, delivered to aldermen Monday morning by police.

The seven aldermen had requested the meeting after an agreement was reached between some, if not all, of the six aldermen who voted against the re- zonings Sept. 10 and the developers. The rezonings at State Road it it it The 1964 session dragged to a close Saturday when the Senate adjourned sine die at 1:41 p.m. and the House at 3:16 p.m. Congress had met for 21 consecutive months and this was the latest adjournment in a presidential election year since 1944.

In the weeks since the Demo- turning out their new models A measure to while GM has been shut down, provide jobs for youths, train The walkout was called Sept. and Losey Boulevard requested cratic and Republican conven- by Bonobest Development Congress accomplished See K-MART, Page 6 little. But Democratic leaders unskilled persons, and encourage local community programs. 25 when the company and the UAW failed to reach agreement This was the most important on noneconomic issues includ- item passed bearing i production quotas, working own stamp. conditions and union represen- Democratic leaders figure the tatjon jn plants.

President got all but 6 of 51 major proposals which he sent to the Capitol this year. There was however, in little difficulty, reaching agree- Besides health care and the: ment on an economic package See CONGRESS, Page 6 See GM, Page 6 Sentinel today as favoring an unprecedented second interim appointment. Rabinovitz, initially appointed by the late President John F. Kennedy Sept. 5, 1963, lost his judicial lifetime job paying $30,000 a Congress adjourned Saturday with til he heard the gunman leave, 10-room home once owned by then came out and called po- the late Prof.

Moses Slaughter, lice- for many years head of the UW department of classics. His wid- Station Operator Bernard.ow occupied the home until her Knudtson Monday said Searle death in 1963. The home was was bent over the desk in the i bequeathed to the university to office, filling out his time card be used as a home for students when the bandit came in. with special interest in French Searle see him, Knudt-J studies. never officially rejected the appointment because the Senate Judiciary Committee did not send it to the floor.

But the appointment has been controversial from the outset, even though President Kennedy himself at a news conference said he was Dave Rabino- See RABINOVITZ, Page 6 REDS SAY GUARD 'MURDERED' 57 East Germans Escape Through Tunnel By GEORGE BOULTWOOD BERLIN (AP) Fifty-seven East Germans escaped to West Berlin this weekend through a long tunnel dug under the Red wall, the West Berlin government reported today. East Germany said one of its border guards was shot dead during the escape and called it murder. It was believed to be one of the biggest mass escapes since the Red wall was erected in the summer of 1961. All the refugees, 23 men, 31 women and 3 children, came through unhurt. Red guards found the tunnel just after the escape and fired submachine guns into the passageway.

it The East German Defense Ministry said the border guard was killed aimed shots from armed who had penetrated into East German territory through the tunnel. It seemed possible that the guard was in the tunnel and fell under the fire of his comrades. Informed sources said this was believed to be the third successful tunnel exploit recently. Berlin authorities try to keep escape methods secret. The latest tunnel was under Bernauerstrasses on the French sector border.

When it was learned Red guards had found the tunnel the city government announced the escape. it it Since last Saturday the refugees had crept through the tunnel in small groups. The city government said just before the operation was to end four East German soldiers and three civilians drove up to the eastern end of the tunnel. A few seconds later west police heard several blasts from machine guns. That was 12:30 this morning.

Within 15 minutes the east end of the tunnel was surrounded by East German troops. Tunnel escapes have become less frequent in recent months after East Germans discovered several of them before they could be used and arrested West Germans who were digging them. it it The largest previous tunnel escape from East Berlin was in September 1962 when 29 persons got through. Prior to the mass escape, conservative estimates had set the number of tunnel escapees at between 300 and 400. Except for the entrance and a few yards in East Berlin, the tunnel was the same used last Jan.

6 by three East German girls. Other refugees were to have used that tunnel but it was discovered by a worker in an East Berlin coal yard where it ended. Communist guards blew up the eastern end of the tunnel to make it unusable but tunnelers dug another entrance. it it it To prevent tunneling, the Red regime proclaimed a prohibited zone 300 feet wide on the Communist side of the wall. Only persons with special passes can enter this zone.

The tunnel started in the cellar of a former baker, passed beneath the street still in West Berlin and then beneath the prohibited area. This means that the tunnel must have been from 450 to 600 feet long. The refugees presumably were taken to a West Berlin refugee camp. Authorities would not allow reporters to talk to them..