Winona Daily News, The (Newspaper) - July 5, 1955, Winona, Minnesota Continued Warm And Showers Wednesday LY Boost Your Steamboat Buy a Button Formerly Winona 100th Year of Publication VOLUMI 99. NO. 19O SIX CENTS PER COPY JULY 5, 1955 TWENTY A Five Trainmen Killed in Blazing Wreck in Mr. And Clifford Hart of and their three small children were Jn this tage on Dead Lake near when a Tornado picked it up Saturday turned it In the air and then set it down atop a nearby f The Harts were Also uninjured were the occupants of the other Mr. and Mrs. William Shaw and Mr. and Mrs. Frank all of 18 Dead in Minnesota Holiday 10 in Traffic Crashes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Holiday heartbreak and bloodshed left Minnesota with this Fourth of July accounting Eighteen dead from accidents over the including 10 in traffic than predicted by safety For the Minnesota's 1955 traffic toll stood at 270, compared with 299 at this time year Latest death reported that of Leone 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard The youngster drowned in Lake of the Woods near when she strayed from a family Her body found In the lake shortly after her alarmed parents physician to revive her These were the other Mrs. 32, killed Monday when a car left the road near St. Her 34, and son by a previous 8, were For 3-Day Holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic deaths climbed to a new high for the Fourth of July day period as at least 393 persons lost their The over-all accident death toll also was the heaviest ever for a three-day Independence Day holiday The traffic compiled from 6 p.m Friday midnight were higher than the 380 estimated by the tional Safety Council and com- pared with a previous nigh of 366 for the three-day Fourth of July 11 Drown in Cars Kill 7 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The toll of accidental deaths Wisconsin's Fourth of Jul holiday which began Friday ev ning has soared to 20. Last year's count for the sam period was 17. The latest record of Eleven persons Seven killed in traffic accidents Two dead in miscellaneous mis Kevin 2, of Pewaukee drowned in Pewaukee Lake Mon day night when he fell from pier at the home of his parents Dr. and Edward John 42, of Waukesha was killed Monday night th sheriff's department he wa struck by a motorboat while swirn ming in Pewaukee The boa operator was not Joe 52, of big Lake near when he tried to swim to a rub ber Son Drown William E. 60, of Chica go and his 30-year-old An drowned Monday when a sudden rain and windstorm over turned their boat on Lost Land Lake near Clark D. 19, of Duluth was killed Monday when his car collided with a truck near Harold 18, of Pine was killed early Monday when his car went out of control near lin and struck a concrete 56, of died at a Beloit hospital Monday than three hours after his car collided with a truck near Donald 21, of drowned Monday after he plunged off a pier into Lake in Racine Gerold 9, of drowned in Camp Lake near Lawrence 27, of 111., drowned in Old Mill Pond near on 18, Column 1) WISCONSIN period in 1952. In the 78-hour 239 sons drowned and 141 were killed in miscellaneous The over-all of 772 was a record for a three-day period and com- pared with a record of 793 for a four-day Fourth of July period in 1950. The traffic toll in 1950 was an all-time high of 491. Every state and the District of Columbia reported at least one This year's toll in all types of accidents was far ahead of last year's three-day day period when there were 348 Two Freights Collide Near Fort Sumner FORT N. M. crewmen reportedly were killed in the blazing wreckage of two freight trains that head-on early One body was The residents of were trapped in the cabs as flaming oil enveloped the pled diesel Would-be cuers were unable to approach the units The Santa Fe railway said about 25 cars were The wreck took place at 105 miles west of Clovis on the eastern New Mexico Ralph Santa Fe public re- lations said the westbound had headed into a siding to let the eastbound freight The westbound instead of went on through and collided with the train on the main The five according to state policeman Lloyd were presumed to have died in the flames which enveloped the over- turned He said one body had been taken out and rescuers at the twisted steel could see others Ater identified the as G. engine man on the J. W. head brakeman on the J. C. engineman on the I. W. fireman on the V. F. head brakeman on the W. B. Hester of fireman on the eastbound was taken to the Fort Sumner Hospital with shoulder and ankle tin Wisconsin Over Holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least two persons died as a result of Wisconsin's sizzling Fourth of July weekend heat wave that threatened today to carry in- to the second half of the Temperatures hit the 90s amid high humidity the fourth straight day although brought rary relief to most La Verne 41, of fell apparently of heat while working on a farm near Monticello He col- lapsed while filling a In Killed on ilC Snow in Santiago Chile brisk snowfall and a cold wave hit Santiago temperatures kept many sons at at New Mrs. Hans C. 65, and her Ruby 54, killed in a car collision Sunday at an intersection near Minn. The Seattle couple was ing relatives in William P. 25, Fire departments from Fort Sumner and Vaughn sent men and trucks to the Wildlife Sell Refuges WASHINGTON The Fish and Wildlife Service has assured Congress it has no plan to dispose of any wildlife refuge at this Rep. Reuss said Reuss said John director of the also wrote chairman Bonner of the House Merchant Marine Committee that no disposal of wildlife refugees would be taken a thorough review and public Reuss has sponsored a to 77, collapsed while mowing his He was dead on arrival at County Emergency Federal weatherman Howard Thompson said today the outlook calls for more heat and humidity Wednesday and except for some relief over the extreme Madison sweltered under 98 de- gree weather as the warmest spot in the state Other mum ford Milwaukee and Lone 94, La Green Bay and Eau Claire Wausau 88, Park Falls 85, Grantsburg 83, Superior 79. Supports Rates Set for Average WASHINGTON ture Department said today port rates for the 1955 wheat crop will average a bushel This is two cents more than a minimum average announced at planting time last rates are higher than the previously announced mini- mum because of a subsequent in- crease in the wheat parity The rates are designed to reflect 82V4 per cent of parity under the flexible support System com- pared with 90 per cent or a national average of for last year's Olson appraises the seven-foot tall sweet corn grown in the yard of a neighbor Walter Killmer in 111., about 25 miles south of According to the old corn is supposed to be knee-high by the Fourth of The corn in Diane's just 5') feet is only 12 inches about the size of corn in most fields in the Khrushchev Asks Equality in Talks he was driving went out of control near A Dick suffered cuts and Phillip 29, Des killed Sunday when the car in which he was riding jumped a curb at Fairmont and smashed into a David 21, who drowned in Ottertail Lake traffic 192 79 deaths in miscellaneous mishaps and 4 deaths by One when he fell from a surfboard person killed by fireworks this The safety preholiday estimate of traffic deaths was 380. Commenting on the record high President Ned H. Dearborn needless traffic toll is a tragic price tag on holiday An Associated Press survey of a weekend showed 342 JL J i f killed Sunday when the car I Secretary of the Interior the right to dispose of any of the national wildlife refuges without the approval of Bonner told Reuss hearings on his measure could not be held at this session and that he wrote Farley suggesting that notice be given to the committee before dis- posing of any Lightning Hits 4 Hurt ALBERTA Minn. A Silver couple and their two children suffered burns early today when lightning struck their grocery and destroyed More Patricia who drowned in Twin northwest of Mary 30, who drowned Saturday in Lake Minnetonka while swimming some ISO yards from Jack 48, E v e 1 e t who Friday night in Murphy Lake near Killed when their car left a road near Warren and crashed into an persons died in traffic mishaps j approach Saturday were David M. trom 6i p.m. Friday June 17 19, Shirley 18, and midnight June 20 Council figures j her Mrs. James 4- show ttat in the first five this year traffic deaths averaged about 90 a WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST Winona and Vicinity Partly warm and humid and Wednesday with local thun Low tonight 68, high Wednesday 92. LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. 94; 67; 87; Official observations for the 24 ending at 12 m. 93; 69; 89; Official observations for the 24 lours ending at 12 m. 93; 68; 81; sun ets tonight at sun rises morrow at AIRPORT WEATHER Max. temp. 93 at p.m. Low 72 at a.m. Noon readings are 81 Scattered layer of ouds at t an estimated y more than 15 Wind is Humidity 70 per cent Baro- eter 30.04, all of St. Roger Moeller and Donald both 14j Minnetonka killed Saturday by a passenger train which ran over them as they lay sleeping between Gerald H. about 30, killed when his car left Highway 371 near Mrs. Gilbert 18, killed a car rolled over near Bobby 2, killed when struck by a car in a driveway of an apartment development The death was not ed in the official traffic Minneapolis Bar Robbed of MINNEAPOLIS Wl Three dits masked with towels held up proprietor and several in John's 4900 watha early today and took 1334 in it. Brought to a hospital here were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harmon and their 3, and 10 The children were re- leased after treatment but the ents were kept in the Parity is a standard for uring farm prices designed to be fair to farmers in relation to prices they must Specific support prices for the most representative classes and grades produced in the different areas at major terminals com- pared with corresponding rates last year Hard red No. 1 16 per cent a bushel this year and last grade No 1 14, per cent and 52.60, and grade No. 1, ordinary and Soft red No. 3 and grade No 3, and grade No. S- light and and grade No. 3 Kansas and Hard red No. 2, and grade No. 2, Kansas and and grade No. 2, and Soft No. 1 and and By RICHARD KASISCHKE MOSCOW Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev said yesterday that Russia wants an agreement an honest at the Geneva summit talks but is strong enough to wait if the West is not prepared to negotiate Khrushchev's host at the U.S. Embassy's Fourth of July Charge d'Affaires Walter N. do not think Lost Montana Girl Found After 22 Hours Mont. un- harmed in a wooden 2-year-old Ida Mae Curtis bounded to her father's arms with a late yesterday after she was lost for 22 hours in a rugged mountain area south of Searchers found her only 300 yards from where she disappeared Sunday Fearful his daughter might have been carried from their tent by one of several bears seen in the Mortimer th child's broke down and rossing Two 9 Children In Crushed Auto Milwaukee Passenger Plows Into Car At Aliens Grove ALLENS Wis. Six persons were killed today when a Milwaukee Road passenger train struck a car loaded with II all but two of them at a country Alleni Grove is 15 miles northeast of Be- Four died at scene of the crash in this Walworth County community near the southern der of Two others died at Lakeland Hospital in The only identified dead Mrs. Harriet 38, of and two of her Larry and 5 All the others were reported in critical or serious All are believed to be Mrs. Smith's The 12-car senger train struck the car within 500 feet of the home where the parents of Mrs. Smith's B. Eddie Smith of forts to locate Smith were being Relatives said Mrs and Beatrice Smith of Route 1, and the nine children had started out from the home to drive to a grocery store at Aliens accident occ at a side road crossing near a highway Deputies estimated the train traveling 80 miles an They said the car was apparently en by Beatrice Highway Police In Planes Keep Traffic Moving MINNEAPOLIS Ufi Airborne highway police kept a flying over Minnesota highways Monday as thousands returned from holiday Three planes were assigned to watch for traffic bottlenecks and traffic and maintained constant radio contact with way patrol The operation was the first day aerial patrol conducted by units of the highway patrol in a plan borrowed from other The on loan from other state were flown by The planes were spotted over strategic traffic centers and con- the President of the United States would go to Geneva without serious The Communist party chief and other top Russian ing Premier Nikolai put in a surprise appearance at the No such high-ranking group of Soviet leaders have ever before attended an embassy In a speech he said he wanted to make to the Khrushchev said the Russians are not going to the July 18 conference en by harvest ures or other breakdowns in the Soviet I are going upright like j diers to meet with worthy partners and that is the only he we talk on an equal all and if the talks are honest and equal to something will come of The party was held in the shaded garden of Spasso Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen's In addition to chev and former Pre- mier Georgi First uty Premiers A. I. Mikoyan and Lazar Kaganovich and Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov were I near the metropolitan among the Soviet bigwigs on I area at the height of Ibe influx into With Bohlen in the United States the Twin Cities late 12 the grade No. 1, San j upon and Durum grade No. and and Mrs. mother of seven bad said she saw two bears near the camp where Curtis works as grade No. 1, hard j a logger shortly after Ida Mae and 18, Makes Lake Erie Swim The three each a forced John the proprietor to open a safe and hand iver of the raiders moved rom booth to booth demanding money from He Money in a cash register was aved when it jammed as one of the to open it CRYSTAL Greta Patterson of yesterday be- came the first person to swim the 15-mile stretch of Lake Erie between this amusement resort and Greta tapped a pier and ended her long swim just 13 hours and 3 minutes after she strode into the eurf on the American shore at a.m. thought I'd never make but I she told reporters ex- Sirens screamed and an estimated persons strained to catch a glimpse of the girl who was graduated from high only last baby pleaded voices in boat her Lawrence an Attica State Prison Slocum estimated the girl ly swam 17 miles across the lake while fighting a troublesome 8 to 10 westerly The youngster was reported in Sheriff Ray Frost of Lincoln County said she hadn't a may have been by a but I doubt if it touched he was awake when we found lying on her She was a little frightened but not as much as you would 2 Gunmen Rob Mankato Station Minn. men wearing stocking masks held up a filling attendant early this morning and fled with f 180 in Delmar 24, an employe of the Imperial Gas Station two miles southwest of was costed just as he was closing for the He said one of the men carried a and the other an Meyer said the intruders bound stole a caliber rifle be- to the and escaped in- a himself free after 10 minutes summoned He said both of the gunmen were slender and feet 8. helping Eisenhower prepare for the Geneva Walmsley and Mrs. Bohlen did the Asserting that people in the West little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea Khrushchev told ponder why the Soviet Un- ion has made so many proposals that please the West so Of course we made these proposals not for the purpose of pleasing We made these deci- sions they were the right decisions this is what Woman Rescued In Owatonna Fire Minn. aged woman found unconscious in a which swept a downtown apartment building was reported in fair tion today at a local Miss Minnie overcome by smoke Monday in a blaze apparently started by an overheated Damage to the apartment was at Disappearing Hose Cut off at Surface Calif. said truck driver George Di is so he ended the saga of his burrowing garden hose with i pair of heavy The green plastic hose began mysteriously worming its way down into the ground in his front yard last It kept on disappearing in the general direction of China at a rate of 2 or 3 inches an Approximately 20 feet was gone Hundreds of persons over the lawn to Peso received batches of advice telephone calls rom as far away as New Canada and he cut the iose and it wants to sink down farther and disappear my go with it. If it decides o stay the way it is and doesn't move any I'm going to bury He and his family had planned to go to the mountains for the July 4 weekend but called off couldn't stand it any he thing was getting out of My life has been made a big A consulting R. Bruct said saturated sand or like below the surface might draw the hose but he knew of no such nor any un- in this
