Oelwein Daily Register, The (Newspaper) - February 17, 1956, Oelwein, Iowa OELWEIN WEATHER Constable cloudiness thru Saturday wit h snow flurries Not much Change m temperature Low 015 lgh Your Favorite TV Programs For Next Week In Tomorrows Issue Sundays Page 6 This Issue A Home Of Your Own May Be In Todays Want Ads VOL 107 PUBLIC SERVICE PICTURE PAPER OUR DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY YEAR OELWEIN IOWA FRIDAY 17 1956 Eisenhower Vetoes Natura Wisconsin Truck Driver Mangled In Headon Crash With PER COPY 5c Two Youths Admit Vandalism At Club CARS DRIVEN BY David Gross Oelwein farmer and Merle Edward Dundee collided at an intersection two miles east and two miles north of Oelwein Thursday afternoon Mr and Mrs Gross and daughter Marilyn 17 and a passenger in car Doris Kelly 29 were hospitalized Register Photo frobe Fires For Evidence Of Arsonist DES State and local authorities Friday were the possibility that an r sot fires which took seven lives and caused damage of more than 31250000 here The bodies of two DCS Moines firemen were recovered late Thursday from the ruins of a fire that destroyed two warehouses south of the Des Monies business district While firemen were fighting that blaze another broke out in a Fort Des Moines housing claiming of five persons Stale Fire Marshal i Herron said Thursday his deputies found evidence that three other fires were deliberately set in Des Moines while were thp blaze n which the I five perished The first alarm on one of Mic warehouse fires was turned in al p m Wednesday about Iwo blocks west of he Fort Des Moines housing project Later a fire broke out in a John Deere Plow Co warehouse and two firemen W 35 Stanley Peterson trapped when a wall collapsed F Their bodies were recovered hu I Thursday About a m Thursday a fire took tho lives of Mrs Mar garet Tedrow 33 three of her children and a neighbor child Fire Marsha said that three other fires in lie Fort DCS Moines area all apparently were set by an arsonist but were quick ly extinguished League Sets Budget For 195657 Year The Oelwein League of Voters j has announced its proposed bud of for the year j Expenditures include general ad j ministration equipment and sup i plies 510 postage telephone I and telegraph delegates and finance membership and public relations j Activities meetings publi cations state and national monthly bulletin action in community state and national services miscellaneous Incomes include dues 45 mem bers contributions members and nonmembers publications Nominating committee sub mitted its slate for 1956 cers with Mrs John as vice president Mrs George King treasurer board mem bers Mrs Harry Wachtel and Mrs Don McMurray two years Mrs Bruce one year committee Mrs Wayne chairman Mrs Trim Theobald Mrs Charles Scheckel alternate convention delegates Mrs McMurray Mrs M Hamper Mrs S E Cotnam Mrs j John Kwasnicka alternate I Annual meeting of the j League will be held Thursday I March 22 at Mikes Chicken Shack with H S Hoover as speaker on The Needs of the Oelwein Schools The evening unit of the League will Tuesday with Mrs A j L at 8 pm Topic will he world trade Charles Meska Rites Saturday Funeral services for Charles Meska will be held Saturday at 2 pm at Xion Lutheran church ihe liev If K Dieler officiating rur ial will be in cemetery Air Meska died Wednesday aft at Mercy hospital The body lies in stale al funeral home 100 BUX DRAWING TONIGHT The Bux drawing at tonight Friday will he KW Hux Second prize will be worth 50 if the whose name is drawn first does not claim the 100 Kux Mrs Lon Baker I Dies At Washington 1 Oelwein relatives have learner of the death of Mrs Ton Baker 83 Washington In Mrs Uaker died al her home Thursday after noon She was the sister of D A Fox of Oelwein Several nephews and nieces also of are among survivors Funeral services will be at 2 I m Sunday at Washington and burial will also be in Washington 1 Mrs Uaker is the former Rosie Fox who was born and raised in the area Iowa Motor Vehicle Deaths Feb 17 1956 97 Feb 17 1955 70 Shipment Of U S Tanks Is Cancelled WASHINGTON W With the White House taking a hand the State Department today canceled a shipment of 18 American light tanks destined lor Saudi Arabia It was not immediately clear whether the decision would quiet all the clamor stirred up by an announcement just nine hours earlier that the tanks were to be shipped from New York later to day Nor was the reaction of Samli Arabia predictable At any rate the reversal had the effect of blocking the dis patch of the tanks to the Middle East where their arrival might have stirred new excitement and perhaps trouble in the Isra tinderbox Announcement late Thursday that the tanks were to be shipped had brought denunciations from a number of Democrats in the Sen ate and from the Israeli Embassy the beyond our Mrs Leona Cowles Dies In Arizona Funeral At Fayette FAYETTE Special Mrs Le ona Cowles 83 died Thursday af at a hospital in Phoenix Ariz She had been spending the winter with herson and became ill Wednesday with a virus infection j Funeral services have tentative ly been set for Monday a I 2 p m j at Belles funeral home Burial will I be in Long Grove cemetery at i Maynard include a daughter Mrs Chris Hazel Hasmussen Fayette two sons George and Park Ossian a sister Mrs Char hilfe Hanney Maynard and a broth er Charles Packard Seattle Wash iNine grandchildren am six greal grandchildren also survive She was preceded in deal by her hus band Louis and two sons Harry and Doyle Curb Spending LONDON Prime Minister Kii rns government clamped down Friday on Britons with an emergency stop infla tion program It cut food dies tightened installment buying curbed business investment and reduced defense outlays 38 million j 14YearOlds Sign Statement Post Bonds Two 14yearold youths were charged today with malicious injury to buildings fixtures chat els and belonging to the Fay cite County Conservation club Sheriff Fred House reported that the warrants were signed in Justice of the Peace Harvey Mey ers court this morning and the youths were transferred to juven ile court and West Union The boys were apprehended Thursday afternoon by Constable Sheriff Fred House and Leon Johnson deputy sheriff The law officials bad gone te school to talk to three boys when McGee went to ques tion a suspect Constable McGee reported thai ho had kept thinking that a cer tain boy was involved in the vandalism and so went to talk to him after school and the boy Ihen admitted he had participat ed in the Feb 4 wrecking and I his companion Later the two boys both signed j ten confessions McGee declared j Sheriff that th boys could Rive for thr destruction which resulted in ar estimated damage He stat d Hint tho boys had forced open n window on the south and wen in to play with a pin ball machine He indicated that they had used the blades to open a where money was kept and then tore open the pin ball machine for more money I guess they just went on from there with one trying to outdo the other in detraction he continued The names of the Iwo boys were among runny on lists which the sheriffs office the Oelwein police force and McGee were checking The officials were try ing lo eliminate all names hv when tbc two admit ted the vandalism One of the pair and another teenager also admitted this morn in to stealing a car from parking lot behind the Sunset Cafe two months ago The Iwo old authorities they took the car to and Inter left it in front of an Oelwein place of busi ness The car was slightly darn in the time it was missing was set at for ihe two youths anil wus posted tln af Although other news sources have released the names of tlie two youths both minors the REGISTER is withholding them in keeping with its policy TRUCK driver was recognition when a CGW train on highway three northwest of Oelwein Chester Jame 35 district 10s ninth of the year The trailer of the truck was tossed nto a field on the west side of the tracks Ihe wheels and parts of body along the east side TRACTOR of the was carried about three or four blocks by the engine of the train and then tossed asid a twisted crushed wreckage Register Photos 611 Dead In Europe LONDON Frozen counting at least fill dead from its worst winter of the 20th cen tury faced the speclor Friday of food shortages Crops worth hun dreds of millions of dollars al ready were rained Says Ike Will Sign Sen IMa said Friday he believes Pres ident would sin the farm approved hv the Senate Agricultural Committee No Plans Now For Livestock Support Iowa Legislators t Told Of Decision I p The While and Agriculture i indicated Friday trie ions has no present plans fur live price Rep Taile said the Inva ibi 1 ord at a it the rhc lowans have including price support 1 o bolster The lowans stressed al Ibe rip said the need lor the d to for hc soon of 1 new crop of ii which they said would add to Hie already critical situation in area Talic said the lowans received sympathetic of thoir problems from administration of ftps and Le they felt a litlle as a result of the confer ence Hep Cross Those who ivor and effective em at ion left the meet ing handed I ins tir second ho Iowa delegation has had with the r c p r e s c They met at the White House Jan Following An unis rejected the idea of govern ment buying of livestock Complete Plans For Washington Dinner Feb 22 Plans for the 4fitli annual Wa Birthday Dinner annually by men of Grace iM church next Wednesday Feb 22 have been completed according to M II Serving will star at 5 pm with ham and fish and cherry pic to be featured Committee chairman fnr the event include and Eugene Norland ticket Cook and Roderick Wheeler din ing room Clarence and M M Frame cooks Wilbur Mor salad Ben coffee Lee Coleman cream butler jell Max and Borland CM K vit and Md drew Ihe public i Late Bulletins Inmates Estape MADISON mm priru 10111 V h An Six Others Die On Iowas Highways In Snow Storm A truck driver th father of children was IM am cm jn Thurr when his semitrailer i smashed iradon info a bir real tram where highway three crosses the Iracks about four miles id Oelwein Chester James r Mineral I tens ninth fatality of when his truck on a snowy slippery highway shu across Ihr left sirle of tho a ditch and onto the rail road Iracks al o m to meet I lie engine of the five train No 5 hoadon Parts of tho body were found strewn along the ditches and railroad track The trailer of the truck was tossed into the west ditch along the track tho wheels on the east side and about four blocks toward Oelwein the cob of the ruck was dumped off train a mais of steel The arm on fho west side of the Iracks was torn away Ihe sland for he on the rih side was splattered wilh blood The truck owned hv and Son Behnout Wis was travelling east on the hih way when hit thr brakes on the slippery paving an lost control of the vehicle He was following his Ronald who had driven ahead and ordered dinner at Mu at Y i When his friend didnt showm j went back and found i j pieces SI ila was the of he train which was headed for Oelwein Patrolmen report i survived by his wife and two chil Iron He had worked for the coi pany about three mouths Six other persons died in accidents in Iowa during the were killed in a single c cident near when a truck into the path of a car The seven overnight brings to nine the number killed in the past 25 of he worst periods Ibis year The dead Gerald Comer Murray Fu Chase If Darlene loan ley 15 and hr sister Donna 18 all of Donald F Ballon 5 Oskaloosa William F Mai ph Sioux City The four youny people were Thursda in a car truck crash or Highway 275 about eiht of State highway patrolmen said Hie truck jaek knifed on pavement into Die palli rf lh car driven hv limner The sheared off he top of lie car a the auto paed underneath it Ballon do was killer Thursday in car truck colli I he occurred on Hi about 15 mile if m Halph wi killed when u u i i rr a bridge near Mr car ran nnt i fri up i toppled f I if i ID Kie Four After Car Collision Contribution As Reason UP Friday THOMAS VILLE Ga Eisenhower I he controversial hat hill Senate de bate on touched H an inquiry info a contribution spurned Iy Sen Case In a sharply worded obvious allusion to tfic of that on Eisenhower said Sme the passage of fhis a bidy of evidence has lated Indicating that private per son apparently representing only a very small segment of a great and vital industry been seeking to further their by highly question able activities include efforts that I ecm to be arrogant and so much in defiance of acceptable of property as to risk real doubt the Ameri an concerning the of governmental said ne regretted veto the because I mi in with ts basic pro would free from federal price reg at the well I fool that any new legislation addition to furthering the long erm interests of consumers in plentiful supplies of gas should in hide specific language protecting in their right to fair said in his veto message message was j House where the tion originated A two thirds ma of those voting in House and Senate is required override a presidential veto In the basis of the votes on pas sage of the in both houses there do not appear to be suffi cient proponents to come to overriding The sponsored by Rep Har is UArk and bun r o k out of a 1954 Supreme decision said the Fed Power Commission must fix er1 prices for gas to in The FPC itself iad a contrary interpreta in of If existing gas law In its journey through Congress he stirred some of the of recent years be ore the Senate passd on and fnl it on to Mi Hu parsed it last July 1 his story of til campaign contribution in rN he final day of a 3 rebite He viewed the i1 Mhc to influ v it and vot nl the blI Lament Vet Enters Deer Head Contest Iir and Mrs R C will 0ave Cedar Rapids plane Sunday March 11 for ik City where he will be f honor at a dinner meet t h and Crockett n March 14 Ir I 1 M 1 t t in ar 1 Mc car the tcy b pit jl veterinar deer in 1954 east ii nar park He of die deer mounted I ind the taxidermist lhf br enter it in m f I th il mit at the iNcr head will rd Identity r is kept se Hie s m I rid Offer HAMPTON A hav been men here trr an firm liti prisons 11he a new bu in tlie ir it lo month AllOut Campaign DFS turn will be siven the Iowa Na tional one lay all out re Saturday by jot and helicopter flights over yuard units Mi Kiv r who m van a cr ti serious tured rsl is g by their Mr ro in frac s and shock his wife contusions and ns daughter Mari concussion li rhr rid hunt it Com to Dr I i to at I iir head was io Dr Stewart liMd hu a 30inch will return lo La Bomber Explodes V An B ir high over California late Thursday 1 al least three of the eight crewmen aboard It was the first crash nf a Air Forces new million intercontinental nu carrier i
