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March of Events In News and Pictures MONROE EVENING TIMES Green County's Home Newspaper FIFTY-SIXTH 1898 MONROE, GREEN COUNTY. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS EDIT SCHOOL, on a manuscript for the 1954-1955 edition of the Monroe high school yearbook are (left to right) Janet Beckman, business manager; Barbara Haworth and Shirley co-editors of the annual, and Miss Eileen McCullough, a teacher at the school and yearbook adviser. Dozens of staff members have begun work on the book, including five different departments, hoping to make it bigger and better than in all previous years.

(Times staff photo) 3 Others Hurt In Fatal Crash Services Friday For Mrs. Ames A 33-year-old Janesville woman killed and her son and two others injured yesterday when the car in which they were riding was wrecked on County Trunk a mile north of Highway 59 yesterday afternoon. The victim was Mrs. Otto Ames, who died on the way to St. Clare hospital.

She is believed to. have succumbed to a lacerated left temple, a cerebral hemorrage and shock. Injured were her son, James, 2, who suffered minor bruises; Robert Munson, 33, Harvard, 111., cuts and bruises, and Mrs. Clarence Shaw, 31, Harvard, 111., scalp lacerations and slight concussion. Mrs.

Shaw was hospitalized and the others treated and released. Sheriff's department officers who investigated said Mrs. Ames was driving the 1941 automobile at the time of thei mishap. She apparently lost control while driving north and went across the blacktop roadway, hitting some small trees. Mrs.

Ames was thrown from the vehicle, the report said. Funeral services for Mrs. Ames will be held Friday at 3 p. m. in the Overton funeral home, Janesville.

Rev. Marlin Smith will officiate. In another county accident, a car driven by Gordon R. West, 21, Route 2, and owned by 'John West, Route 2, was damaged when it left the road at 3:17 a. m.

today. Officers said West apparently fell asleep and lost control of the vehicle one-half mile east of the Prien school on County Trunk SS. The right front axle and fender of the West car was damaged. The sheriff's department said the car left the road, struck the north bank, climbed it and nearly rolled over, crossed the road and struck the south bank before stopping. Cars driven by Miss Yvonne Olson, 20, of 1817 9th street, and Royletta Dickson, 16, of 903 30th avenue, were involved in an intersection accident yesterday at 10th street and 19th avenue.

The report by city police said damage to the cars totaled $140. President Goes To Abilene Rites WASHINGTON UH President Eisenhower traveled today to his boyhood home at Abilene, for dedication tomorrow of the Eisenhower memorial museum. The $325000 museum, built and financed through voluntary contributions, will toe dedicated by the President at morning Veterans Day ceremonies. He will speak briefly. Arranging to accompany him on the flight to Kansas were Mrs.

Eisenhower and the President's yoSSger brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower. president of Pennsylvania State University. En route the Columbine will land briefly to pick up tee President's grandchildren David, 6, Barbara Anne, 5, Susan.

2- and their parents, Maj. and Mrs. John Eisenhower. John, toe chief executive's son, is stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Another of tee' President's brothers, Earl, a newspaper publisher living in La Grange.

DL. tee family in Abilene with his wife Fall from Combine Kills Farm Child, 3 GENOA CITY. Wto. (Oes his matber bis seat. County Board Sidelights Chairman Loveland said it may have been a typographical error in yesterday's minutes but pointed out to the board today that Wilma I.

Lengacher, county clerk, had mistakenly said "unsanitary hearings" instead of "insanity hearings" when referring back to Judge Marshall L. Peterson's report on fees yesterday while reading the minutes. In reference to a remark by J. C. Jones, state engineer, teat a great deal of unfavorable publicity arose out of tee Browntown road dispute, Chairman Loveland told tee board "We have had so much publicity in Green County dnrint the pact few months teat everyone has foreotten about Sen.

McCarthy. A letter from Donald N. McDowell, director of the State Department of Agriculture, was read to the board yesterday urging the formation of a rural civil defense committee responsible for organizing a defense unit in the county in case of an emergency. Action will be taken on the letter before tee session ends. Chairman Loveland said.

The accountant firm of Merlin J. Meythaler and John Caton petitioned tee board to audit tee 1954 books as Meythaler did in 1953. Loveland said election of an audior and all other elections will be held next Tuesday morning. The board voted to meet next Monday to speed the annual session but will not meet tomorrow, a legal holiday formerly called Armistice Day and now termed Veterans Day by act of Congress. Loveland said he realized some board members were to complete the session before the deer season begins the morriing of Nov.

20. Zerk Burglars Sent to Prison CHICAGO to Three men pleaded guilty today for possessing some $200,000 in loot taken in the Feb. 8 robbery of tee home of Oscar U. Zerk, wealthy Kenosha, inventor. Nick George Montos, 37, whose name once appeared on tee FBI's list of tee 10 most wanted criminals, was sentenced to seven years by Federal Judge Walter J.

La- Buy. This term will run concurrently with a sentence he is facing at Hattiesburg, for a burglary there. Americo de Pietto, 40, was sentenced to years. This will run concurrently with a 1 to 10 year sentence he currently is serving in the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun for tee Zerk robbery. Sentencing of James Mirro, 46, operator of a night club in suburban Cicero, was postponed until Dec.

7 for a pre-sentence Harris Wittenwyler Hurt in Tractor Fire MONTICELLO (Times Special) Wittenwyler, 39, suffered serious burns' this -morning when a tractor caught fire while he was filling it with gas. Wittenwyler, who farms two miles southeast of Mqnticello with his father, Walter, said the motor was not running and he not smoking tee fire started. He said it is possible some gas spilled on hot wires. arms and legs were but tee degree of burns has not been determined. Monticello fire truck was called to tee farm and extinguished tee blaze on tee tractor and a nearby light pole which caught fire.

Project Studied For High School Board Reviews New Wing Plan DiscussMp on facilities needed in the proposed new wing for the high school building took up a large share of the four-hour session of the Board of Education last night. The meeting was attended by Allen Strang and Joseph Weiler of the Madison architectural firm which has been authorized to proceed with preliminary plans. The Weiler and Strang firm also prepared plans for the new heating plant being now completed at the high school. The question of the number of classrooms desired in the new high school wing was reviewed by the architects and Supt. E.

O. Evans. Plans are being based on a projected survey of the anticipated four-year high school enrollment, expected to pass the 900-mark within ten years. Previous to the general discussion, Supt. 'Evan's had presented new figures showing the school census within the city itself had shown this expected increase to be even higher.

The first survey had included the 31 rural schools which send graduates to Monroe high school. In the light of this higher enrollment prospect, Supt. Evans suggested it might be well to consider an entirely four-year high school on a different site. He said the present high school and Lincoln buildings then could be devoted to grade school and junior high pupils. Board members, however, expressed the feeling that the plan for a new eing at the high school, with the possiblity of building a new grade school some years from now, probably would meet the problem adequately.

The architects were instructed to prepare preliminary plans to provide a virtually doubled capacity at the high school building. The wing would adjoin the older section and run east and west along the north side of 14th street. Some discussion was held on advisability of extending the east wing to the present Lincoln building, closing off the street. In other actions, the board: Authorized bids on two auxiliary floor level coal conveyors to serve the new heating plant coal bin. G.

J. Pfister of Milwaukee and A. N. Haskell of Rockford appeared to explain equipment they could furnish. Cost of conveyors was estimated at approximately $3,200.

Bids are to be opened Nov. 24 at 4:30 p. m. Approved the borrowing of $50,000 on the bid of the First National Bank of 2 per cent in anticipation of tax revenue payments by Feb. 1.

State Swiss Market Steady, Supply Ample MADISON i S- consin American cheese market Wednesday: barely steady to about steady; demand fair; offerings adequate to more than ample, supplies freely offered. Selling prices, state assembly points, car lots: Cheddars, moisture basis: 33V 4 single daisies 34y 4 -36V4; single daisies 3W4-36V4; longhorns 36V 4 midgets Domestic Swiss cheese market steady; offerings ample for fair demand. Selling prices, state assembly points: State brand Grade 39-40; Grade Collision jn Texas Takes Lives of Six BEAUMONT, Tex. Wl Two cars smashed together head on Tuesday night on a fog-shrouded highway, killing four youths and two high school girls. Four others were injured.

One was near death today. Engineer Doubts Highway Bypass Will Be Approved Jones Outlines Road Projects For Next Year A state highway engineer, speaking to the Green County board during its second day of the annual November budget session this morning, expressed personal doubt as to the highway commission's approval of a bypass for the City of Monroe at -nis ime J. Jones said he believed an expenditure of $1 million would not be justified for the number of vehicles it will serve and continued by saying he felt the commission would not go along with the plan "at this time." He told board members figures prepared by the Bureau of Public Roads show 39 per cent of the motorists would bypass a city the size of Monroe while the remaining 61 per cent would enter the city regardless of a bypass. Not Financially Sound "The commission would look quite a while at the expenditure of $1 million for something like that," he said. Jones said the present plan, all within the city limits, would require two subways, at least one of which would require the raising Illinois Central tracks.

The practicability of this is doubtful, Jones said. "Before the commission could okay such a bypass it must have an indication Monroe officials are behind it," he said. The state has requested a statement from the City Council by Jan. 1 and Mayor Brooks J. Dunwiddie informed the council at the last session a decision must be made in December.

Jones said if the bypass is built, state and federal funds would finance 85 per cent of the cost while the city would pay 15 per cent. Outlines Highway Projects Jones appeared before the board to outline highway projects in the Bounty for 1955. Jones told the board a relocation at the Legler bridge on Highway 39 between Monticello and Albany, costing an estimated $125,000. and a relocation near New Glarus are being planned for next year. He said the Legler bridge, always a problem during high water on the Sugar River, would be rebuilt to the south of the present bridge to allow traffic on the road until the structure is completed.

He said the highway will be relocated on both sides of the bridge to increase the motorist's view. At New Glarus, he said, the state plans a $500,000 project which will begin at the New Glarus woods, go up the valley east: of the village, connect with Highway 69 a mile north of the village and run parallel along the highway to the Dane County line. The relocation will eliminate curves northwest of the village. A survey in the area will begin next week he said. May Be Relocated Later Jones indicated that Highway 69 may be relocated between New Glarus and Belleville at some future date but said area residents will at least have a modern highway north of the village until that to protests made by land owners in giving up right of ways on the Highway 11 project between Monroe and Browntown, Jones said it was the worst dispute the department has ever faced.

"Our engineers are scarce and if this gets to be a habit, we could not subject them to that kind of treatment," he said. "I don't expect anyone to welcome us with open arms when we come to cut a farmer's land in two, however," Jones explained. Designed for Safety He said the Highway 11 project was originally designed to remove Schuetz's corner, the scene of several accidents a mile west of Monroe. Additional funds made it possible to relocate as far east as Bechtolt Bros, farm near Brown town, he said, and funds are now making it possible to continue work on the highway in Lafayette time. In reference County.

Merlin J. Meythaler presented his audit report to the board this Torn to No. 1. Baek Fage Watkins, McCarthy Duel Over Claim of Prejudice INSPECTS GUARD local National Guard unit, Co. faced a stiff federal inspection last night but results will not be known for weeks.

Cp'. Palmer Knobel (left) is one of the members being inspected by Lt. Col. James O'Hara of the 5th Army inspector general's office accompanied by (left to right) Lt. Rudolph Maurer, Capt.

Glenn L. Kubly, commander of the local unit; Major T. J. Burgy Jr. and Lt.

Col. Edward Paar, 5th Army adviser for Co. K. (Times staff photo) New Jail Figure Expected Tuesday Remodeling Plan Data Not Ready In action yesterday afternoon. Louis R.

Wolleson, chairman of the jail and courthouse committee. tojd the board the committee had authorized the Alvin F. Rote to send plans for remodeling the present jail to the state Department of Public Welfare. Wolleson said the Rote plans must be approved by the state before, being brought. before the for it is doubtful whether they will meet state specifications.

explained that the procedure involved probably, will delay bringing the plans before the board until the February session. No estimate of cost on the remodeling job has been made, he said. Architects for. the proposed new county jail are expected to confer with the board here next Tuesday afternoon at which time members must approve or reject their plans which have been approved by the welfare department. Wolleson said today the architects will quote an estimate on the jail to the board Tuesday based on similar structures viewed and on the cost of materials and labor.

He said the architects hoped the estimate will be midway between the low bids which will come from contractors. No board action on the estimate is anticipated but it is expected some money will be appropriated to begin work on the new jail or remodeling the present jail this session. Convening at 2:30 p. m. following a noon luncheon at the Swiss Wheel restaurant, tee board began the session with the reading of several highway aid petitions and petitions to place roads on tee highway aid program.

Olin E. Flis- ranv bookkeeper for the county highway shops, said all but lour townships now have all roads on tee aid system, and three of those remaining have only short roads Tarn to No. Page McCORMICK SUCCUMBS MADISON T. C. McCormick, 62, chairman of tee University of Wisconsin sociology department, died Tuesday.

He taught at the university for 19 years and headed tee sociology department 'for tee past 10. For Education Week Back-to-school Nights Scheduled in Monroe Parents of Monroe school children will have an opportunity to become acquainted with teachers and toe schools during a "Back to School Night" in connection with the 34 annual American Education week. Parents of students in tee elementary buildings will be able to visit tee classes of their children at any time this week. They may attend a "Back to School Night" Friday at 7:30 p. m.

There no program planned but tee parents may tour the school as they wish, visiting the rooms and speaking with tee teachers. The senior and junior high school night will be Monday at 7:30 p. m. with tee evening running on a schedule. The parents will follow tee student schedule on a 10-minute class period with a five-minute break in between basis.

The teachers of each class will discuss toe work and course. A coffee hour will follow at 9 with coffee being served in toe library of tee high school and to toe hall The will assist. Miss Marian Freitag. teacher of tee kindergarten and Miss Beverly Stuart, art teacher in the Moo- roe schools, are general cagutr- men for tee "Back to School Night" project. hall of the junior high school.

junior-senior high school FTA Sees No Better Methods President Hails Power Contract WASHINGTON President Eisenhower said today Russia seems to be showing a somewhat more conciliatory attitude in the latest plane shooting incident than has been the case in earlier similar episodes. The President told a news conference the American photo-making plane shot down by Soviet fliers off the Japanese coast on Sunday had a right to be where it was in this country's view. But these things are not always as clear 'cut as they seem and this one is clouded to some extent, Eisenhower said. The President said he thinks that in this case the Russians have shown a considerable difference of attitude toward American protests than they have in the past although he doesn't know what may come of it. Eisenhower also told his conference he still is for the Dixon-Yates power contract here at home because no better way has been offered to get the needed electric energy.

He said there's nothing in the contract that can raise by a single cent the costs of power to Tennessee Valley Authority customers. If there is any politics in this thing it isn't by his choosing, he said. On other matters: Chinese attacks There is no atom of truth, Eisenhower said, in reports that Generalissimo Polio Leaden Map'55 Appeal Directors of the Green County chapter of toe National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis discussed plans for tee 1955 March of Dimes at their meeting last night in tee Eugene hotel. Leland Lamboley, chairman, said today that reports showed no new cases of polio in the county or any reported cases of after-effects since the countywide gamma globulin project. The GG shots were given free of charge to more than 2,000 children under 16 and pregnant women.

Attending tee meeting, in addition to Lamboley, were Dr. Nathan E. Bear, medical adviser to tee chapter; Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hodgson, Miss Eileen Pagel, Edward N.

Furhmann of New Glarus, Dr. W. B. Stovall of Brodhead, Mrs. Frank Kantro and Mrs.

E. C. Hamilton. W.R. Gibbons Buys Monticello Casino W.

R. (BUI) Gibbons of Monroe today announced purchase of the Casino at Monticello from Mrs. Christine Elliott, widow of the operator. He will take possession The Casino, or Monticello hotel property, bad been operated Gott for several years. He died last Oct.

at St. dare hospital where he had undergone surgery Sept. 26. Gibbons, a native of Monroe, has been employed for the last five years at Maple Grove inn at tee northwest edge of the city. Chiang and his Chinese Nationalist forces have been ordered by this country not to attack the Communist-held Chinese mainland.

Bipartisan farcin policy Eisenhower said he has many good friends within tee Democratic party and contemplates no difficulty on this question. As to how efforts will be made to achieve bipartisanship, he said he didn't know. That was in response to a question as to whether he might do something along the lines followed by former President Truman in appointing John Foster Dulles, now secretary of state, and John Sherman Cooper, now a U. S. senator, both Republicans, to contact members of Congress with respect to a bipartisan policy.

Veterans Day Activities Set Veterans Day activities tomorrow will start at 9:45 a. m. when an airplane will take off from tee Monroe airfield for LaCrosse carrying the 1955 membership lists of the Green County American Legion posts. Howard P. Olsen will pilot tee plane, accompanied by Forrest (Timber) Riese.

Frank W. Heinzelman, county commander, will hand the county list to the airmen just before tee takeoff. The Monroe plane is one of 30 in the state to be used in the 1954 Wisconsin American Legion Aerial Roundup. The Roundup is a traditional Legion function teat started in 1929. It is expected that 40,000 advance memberships for 1955 will flown into LaCrosse during tee morning.

Events here tomorrow noon will include dinner meetings for the Last Man's Club of World War I tee Last Man's Club of World War II, both at tee Legion home. A potluck supper tomorrow night at Turner hall will be for both American Legion and Auxiliary members and their guests. Rex Karney, a Madison newspaperman, will be tee guest speaker. He recently returned from a South American stay. Karney is a native of Brodhead.

A dance at the Legion home will end the social events of tee two organizations. At the high school assembly at 11 a. m. tomorrow, Franz W. Brand, assistant district attorney and district attorney-elect of Green County, will speak on tee significance of Veterans Day, explaining tee change from Armistice as in years previous.

Day Louis A. Koenig. Monroe attorney, is to address a meeting of veterans organizations hi 'Municipal auditorium tomorrow. His topic will be "Dawn of A New Day." QXEtN BAY Everett Bens, 44. of Cecil (Shawano County) was injured fatauy today when his ear collided on the Highway 41 beltltae here with an auto driven by Around Alsteen, of Milwaukee.

Alsteen was not seriously injured. Utah Senator Says 'Neutral' Stand Difficult Verbal Exchange Grows Lively at Debate Opening WASHINGTON Watkins told Sen. McCarthy today the only way to get a neutral person on the censure issue would be to pick "a deaf, dumb and blind' person and a moron." Watkins. head of the special committee which recommended censure of McCarthy, loosed that thrust when McCarthy suggested there was prejudice on the committee. The two senators quickly slipped into a dueling exchange of words after the Senate got down to formal debate on rebuking McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican.

Challenged by McCarthy Watkins. Utah Republican, laid his committee's conclusions on the case for censure before the Senate and McCarthy promptly challenged that "You are not giving the facts as they are." From there, they swung into a long exchange which revolved chiefly about McCarthy's conduct in relation to a Senate elections subcommittee which looked into his financial affairs in 1951 and 1952. One ground on which the Watkins committee recommended censure was that McCarthy took a contemptuous attitude toward the elections subcommittee. McCarthy contended the subcommittee's activities were improper and "dishonest." Watkins said his committee had not gone into the charges before the elections the only question for the Watkins group was McCarthy's attitude toward a regularly constituted Senate body. Says Oath Not Observed "We thought that you should have cooperated with that committee, and that you could not fulfill your oath to defend the Constitution by damning the committee from the very first day," Watkins told McCarthy.

"I have a strong feeling that, under the Constitution, the duty of a senator of the United States is to respect committees and to cooperate to the limit, particularly when his own honor, the honor of his state, and the honor of the Senate are at stake." As McCarthy continued to hammer at the point that he had a right to criticize the elections subcommittee because of various items he picked out of its record, Watkins turned to him and said: "If you're going to take the position now that you're going to'be bound by all the evidence in that record, you're in for serious trouble." This brought laughter and some applause from the galleries. Claims Democrat Origin McCarthy demanded to know if Watkins were aware the charges against McCarthy investigated by the subcommittee "were prepared in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee." Watkins replied, "That's what you said." McCarthy insisted it was a fact shown by the evidence. Watkins, Utah Republican, said the evidence before the elections subcommittee was admitted into the hearings of the Watkins committee only to show that there were serious charges against McCarthy which should have been answered properly. They were serious, no matter where they came from, he said. McCarthy spent an hour or so challenging the impartiality of Watkins and Sen.

Ervin (D-NO, a member of the Watkins committee. He read from two newspaper stories in North Carolina papers to support his contention that Ervin had a broad bias against McCarthy. Beaands Full Readmi Ervin jumped up and demanded that the entire newspaper accounts be read, not just excerpts which he said would "pervert" the full meaning. McCarthy said he was doing just that. Watkins, who technically bad the floor, read into the record the entire newspaper stories.

Watkins delivered an emphatic defense of the special committee and called its task "very distasteful." He said it was "doubly distasteful" to himself. He recalled that both he and McCarthy were first elected to the Senate at same time, in IMS, aad that they had been sitting next to each other in the Senate for years. Of Ms committee, Wathina said: "I've never sat with men before whom I considered mere fair than this group," He said that "never at any time" had politics "entered into this.".