Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - January 6, 1954, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE For tonight and Turning colder Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 Max. 26; 26. With Cart Don't Takt Fortieth Wisconsin January Single Copy Seven Cento Council Okays Sidewalk Snow No Cost to Owners The City Council voted Tuesday night to have the street department plow all city sidewalks after snowfalls at no cost 10 10 plan the aldermen also voted the Purchase of two tractors with cabs and three plows at a total cost of A third resolution directed the treasurer to pay for the emphasized that the plowing ily would be rough work and the task of finishing the cleaning of the as well as maintaining them in an ice-free would still fall to the property owner as at who originally proposed the said the plowing would be good thing for the people and for us be- cause we have more or less in clearing sidewalks trouble As recommended in the report of the public property the plowing plan drew generally favorable response from the Matthews a very for- It will be a big help to many people along in Mackaben declared he had received a number of calls from his constituents favoring the The only serious opposition was voiced by He said it would be impossible to do a good job of plowing anywhere where there were parking In residential he there are many places where walks are missing on one or more sides of a He con- tended the Council should ate with the maintenance of way committee in getting more walks and wait with the plowing plan until the sidewalk program is closer to Unfair to Wait Ristow countered this by say ing that it would hardly be fail Revise Request Over Compensation Setup A revised request for inclusion of all city but the Wa- ter Light Department workers under the state unemployment compensation program was made by the City Council to the State it would not accept such a limit ed Lawrence A. Madison a representative of the ment compensation Industrial Commission Tuesday explained why the original plan He said the com- The in voting to usually approves either to property owners who have sidewalks now to wait 20 for others to catch He added that the tractors for would also be used for other purposes at other times of the Ristow moved adoption of the program and was seconded by The vote was 16-3, with Maeder and Brahm steadt in opposition and art Maeder and Sternot were the only dissenters in the vote to buy the The Council sided with City Engineer Carl A. Cajanus and against the mayor in a ment over the purchase of a snow wing for one motor grader Side With Engineer request for a wing was passed on to the Coun cil without recommendation by the public property committee which had disagreed on the ques Cajanus declared that plow ing major streets could be done 60 per cent faster with the same labor and gasoline costs by using the Wisconsin Rapids is only city around with out he Knudsen claimed that the gra der is too small to use a wing without frequent breakdowns that it could be used only after a light and tha not too much for the Purchase of the wing was or dered by a 16-3 Beh rend and Brahmsteadt voted against it. In other the Counci voted unanimously to offer Hem mersbach Motor Inc. the sum of for the Charge 4 in Walter Reuther 2 Are Under Arrest A I Atmosphere Charged With Congress New Solons Sworn In WASHINGTON convened today for a momentous session which will write the record the hower administration must lay before the people next fall in the mid-term Fresh from five months among the home the legislators assembled in an atmosphere charged with There was a general sense that the accomplishments of the next six months will go far toward determining whether President Eisenhower will have his own Republican party or the Democrats in control in the last two years of this has command by only a in this would go along with reason break campaign year In the the count is 219 215 1 A year ago it was 221 licans 213 Democrats and 1 The Democrats picked up their two seats in special elections in New Jersey and In the the division is 47 48 Democrats and conference at which Democratic nave left no doubt they still feel 1 nominal GOP control hinges on the ana Republican leaders were the increase is The avowed willingness of the Sen. Morse of to briefed on some aspects of the debt now is within less vote with the Republicans on Senate organization and on the Republican Vice President Nixon can break a tie in favor of the A year ago the division was 48 47 Democrats and 1 The death of Republican leader Taft of Ohio and appointment of a Thomas A. as his successor effected the Attack on His Brother Is Still Mystery DETROIT four persons with assault with intent to kill and police today cracked open the 5- year-old attempted assassination of CIO President Walter Wayne County Prosecutor ald K. O'Brien and Detroit lice Commissioner Donald ard announced the charges and the arrest of two of the four at a. m. am convinced the shooting of Walter Reuther in 1948 has been O'Brien Still Mystery He said a similar attempt on the life of Victor Eisenhower 500 dollars of of Walter in 1949, is still a George Will Go Along With Debt Limit Boost WASHINGTON George said today he had against the increase last let the administration know m ftf Chairman Millikin 01 the Finance who sup ported the declined to say whether he had been asked to able in the national debt limit is The veteran who at- try to it early in the ses tended Tuesday's White House sion But Treasury officials that any boost m the present 275-billion dollar debt limit still was distasteful to Some Views In a separate Sen. Flanders said too Speaker Martin dropped his gavel promptly at to vote for a hike stroke of noon to get the house off on its 1954 Across the ceiling of up to 10 billion Vice President Nixon was gavelling the Senate into 111 Lilt n to place all hourly employes two types of of its damage claim against the who succeeds the late Sen. the city under the but coverage of all city employes j unemployment compensation de- or coverage of one or more n. ol 4th Suspect In Bureau Theft Held WASHINGTON Secret ervice today picked up a man of the Industrial of the mission informed the city that Agree With Mayor The Council in voting to ex- clude the Water Light De- from agreed with Mayor Carl C. Knudsen's contention that the Water Light Commission should make its own decision on compensation without dictation from the Burley said the city would not Result of Repaying The claim resulted from a re- paving project last fall on Oak 11 be required to build up a fund in advance to cover they described as a fourth in the New I state for just the actual benefits Eve theft of new bills during the He said the Bureau of The service earlier had report any compensation payment in ex- cess of 2 per cent of the total ed recovery of all but of payroll of covered workers could not be charged against the city but would come out of a state Nine categories of city Burley are excluded by law from The most important of these categories are the Charles Howard 27, a was brought under tody to the field office of the Secret Service in the treasury early the service whose address Doubt Release Of PWs Will Start Trouble WASHINGTON Two top ranking American re- turning from the Far ex- pressed confidence today that the release of Korean War prisoners on Jan. 23 will be ed without trouble and that peace negotiations will be Asst. Secretary of State ter S. Robertson and Adm. Ar- thur chairman of the Joint Chiefs of told re- porters of their observations on an trip to Japan and was given as nearby or appointed Robertson was asked if he ex- was placed under paid on a per diem basis any trouble when the for work of a professional or con- Other details were not suiting persons employed on work relief The case broke open Tuesday other school employes employed with the arrest of a bureau em- his and a soft-spoken little flagpole painter on a tip all-night soul the father of the The three are They were arrested one after the other in a day that began with a 5 a.m. phone call to Virginia state police by Irving father of Mrs. Mamie and ended recovery of of the loot apparently smuggled from the money printing plant in the tail of a suit Youth Is Turned Over Juvenile Authorities A 14-year-old town of Grand Rapids who has admitted his part in two- recent will be turned over to juvenile for Sheriff Arthur E. Berg said The youth admitted entering a garage on a town of Grand ids farm where small quantities of gas and oil were taken and breaking into a home in the town and taking about in Two other boys have been in the the sheriff on a and time recreational and educational Rules Suspended The vote was made under pension of the allowing the ordinance to be effective retroactive to Jan. 1. At Also held are 335 captured the same time the Council members of United Nations its November action Among them 21 Americans coverage to one who so far have time comes for releasing to ian life all prisoners still held by the Reds and He re- plied he did not expect any The Neutral Nations tion Commission has custody of Chinese and North taken by the Allied who have chosen not to go A proposal which would have changed the method by which Class A malt beverage licenses are transferred ran into tion and never got beyond the recommendation It came up when the Council voted to transfer the Class A malt beverage license being re- by Harold 960 1st St. to 321 Market St. Alderman man of the general business 11 refused The Com- want the men held until a peace conference decides their The U. N. insists they be ON FBI LIST WASHINGTON Chester Lee 31, a cattle ler who has repeatedly escaped from police in the was added today to the list of most wanted State School for Boys Is Gang Ludvigsen Says WAUKESHA man Alfred R. charged today that the Wisconsin School for Boys here has effect become a center and a headquarters for a tough gang of criminals and hoodlums who roam almost at In a letter to the Waukesha Ludvigsen in the history of correctional institutions has there been such a justment as we have had at this in recent Ludvigsen attacked the school's disciplinary system and said it was the cause of much of the He said welfare had been a new reformatory lor boys at Oregon and were attributing at Waukesha to the con- dition of the physical do need a medium type of school where the worst type of boys can be Ludvigsen have it from good authority that under proper management that would not be over 30 per cent of the boys The state school a good sized farm not too far outside Waukesha where such a school could be We could use some newer buildings at the present They would re- place the old ones one at a Assembly chairman of the state Legislature's Joint tee on Finance I am sure that they asked for these things they would have got them Marvin R. tendent of the school for denied He said the number of runaways in the year ending 1953, was 56. This than any of the 12 he Bruised When Car Overturns A Wisconsin Rapids man leg and shoulder bruises early today when the car in which he was riding James 21, 341 12th St. is reported in good condition at Riverview He was a passenger in a car driven by Ro- bert D. 20, 631 8th St. which rolled over after going out of control on a town road just west of the city limits about a.m. County police reported the car went out of control into the knocked over two fence posts as it and came to rest a utility with age estimated at O'Keefe told police that he was forced onto the shoulder when he met a car on a then lost control when his car hit an icy A car caused age tc a car operated by Peter 350 7th St. Tuesday The auto was parked in the 200 block of 8th St. S. Colliding at 10th and Avon at a.m. a truck operated by Lloyd M. 47, 410 12th St. and a car driven by Leonia M. 540 9th St. sustained damage mated at Tobey Sen. Bridges nied Upton and Sen. Bricker went with Burke as the two newcomers walked up the center aisle of the Senate ber to take the The other senators gave Upton and Burke a round of On the Senate joining in were several former among them Connally and O'Conor The House too was a scene of the usual exchange of greetings but there was little of the horse sometimes marking such In Serious Mood For the most the seemed in a serious Speaker Martin swore in four new and bers rose to applaud when the oath was administered in the well of the The new members are Williams Natcher and John on They fill vacancies eft by death or After 25 the Senate adjourned until noon A eulogy to the late Chief tice of the United Fred occupied most of the brief session and the adjourn ment was in respect to his mem Adjourned in Aug. The first session of this 83rd Congress adjourned the night of Aug. 3. Thursday President er goes before a joint session with the State of the Union mes sage outlining his program for the Republican al leaders predicted he will em that his administration is taking the initiative in far-flung activities for national The President will be speaking to a closely divided in which Democrats have one more senator than the Republicans and only four fewer House 11 Laos French Troops In First Clash Indochina French reported today the first I Finance which serious clash with the up the administration's re- invaders of Laos and claimed the j quest for a 15-billion-dollar in Blowout Fails to Daunt Motorist Ariz. little thing like a tire blowout didn't stop Al Martin as he drove home Didn't even slow him in The tire was his Galleries of both chambers were filled with On a roll 392 House bers responded to their As the Senate's first Nixon swore in two new and Sen. Upton dollars with the hope it would not have to be Flanders said he felt the ad- ministration had proved in re- cent months it was striving hard to cut government These developments improved chances that the Senate will pass some sort of debt ceiling boost although some ing Sen. Byrd remain adamant against it. The issue is before the Senate Millikin also said in an inter- 11 Communist rebels lost 100 wounded or French losses were not The French said their para- troops clashed with an ed battalion of Vietminh 30 miles north of the village ed into a French Christmas Day after a Vietminh division cut Indochina in two by a thrust to the Mekong River border of The adopting minh ambushed the re- bels in the jungles The Vietminh also was under attack from French fighter and er Farther north French fighters and bombers hammered for the at Vietminh troops threatening to attack the fortified plain of Dien Bien dropped napalm bombs on Vietminh troop concentrations and rear supply bases in the area just north of the Laotian French army sources reported only patrol activity around Dien Bien the last remaining French f o r t i i i e d position in northwestern Ind o c h i n a. It is threatened by the Vietminh Division No. 316 of reinforced by thousands ot troops from two other divisions which have been opposing the French Union forces in the Red River delta area around crease at the close of the 1953 session after the House had ed it. Has Influence former chairman of the finance group and now its senior Democratic wields considerable influence among his Both he and Flanders voted in the com- Temptation Spurned by Jail Inmate Wis. A Dunn County jail inmate ing trial for homicide resisted the combined temptation of the wide open road and a fast auto to be- come Sheriff Harold most trusted Rogers said today he had fired Undersheriff Oscar Hagen for placing the temptation in the prisoner's The sheriff said John D. 25, ing trial on a manslaughter charge in the slaying of a St. was taken The Nest May Be Cozy But the Chow Ain't Rosy DENVER Today's Rocky Mountain News has this ad in the and section on the classified Single Terrible PORT GIRL IS POLIO John Michael age ot patient at the Angeles Orthopedic demonstrates his balloon Mowing ability for the physical ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Port Edw wefl received her training the National for Infantile which Is t of now to hen and Some Slick Spots After Snow Falls By THE ASSOCIATED Light scattered snow ed parts of Wisconsin Tuesday night and early causing icy spots on some The State Department said the slick spots were reported in an area between Portage and Eau in several extreme ern counties and in parts of and Oconto State trunk roads generally were clear and in good winter driving con- Maximum temperatures day were in the 20-degree et in the northern area and in the 30's to the topped by 40 at La Nighttime lows dipped to 14 at The nation's min imum was at Grand Forks and Devils N. and Minn. Northerly winds blew another batch of Arctic air from Canada into the upper Mississippi Valley and temperatures dropped below zero in North Dakota and The cold air headed eastward into northern sections of Illinois and readings in most other parts of the country continued above seasonal Laniel Asking Support Vote PARIS Joseph Laniel faced the National bly today in an effort to pull his crumbling majority together for a vote of support in advance of the Big Four foreign ministers meeting in He was expected to win ing for love of Laniel but to assure France of having a foreign minister present when the talks open on Jan. 25. Even some of bitter en emies want France to speak up with some show of authority in The test comes on a statement of general policy by Laniel ing domestic followed by a demand that debate be cut off. The vote is expected late With the Berlin conference on ly three weeks most of the deputies realized it would be an extremely risky business to plunge France into a new It took 37 days to end the last BEGINS 48TH YEAR MADISON 80, began his 48th year M state librarian Arrested Carl 35, a key witness at the Kefauver committee ng in Clarence 48, of who once jumped bond accused of illegal entry into he United Also named in the warrant was Peter 50, already erving sentence at the Terra federal Name Fourth The fourth person named in the warrants issued Tuesday Judge John P. was Santo 56, father-in-law of Renda and a questioned suspect from the jail for an auto ride who visited several taverns during the jaunt Happy Ending Rogers said the incident reached a happy conclusion when Mulqueen telephoned him that Hagen was in no condition to drive and that the sheriff had better come and get Hagen said he had not been fire but had resigned to take a new job of a trusted prisoner even before Monday's has pleaded innocent to a ter charge in the fatal beating of Lloyd 33. Release Data The circumstances behind gen's release as related by Ro gers and assigned to serve some papers Monday at some 30 miles to the took Mulqueen with him in the patrol Hagen began drinking from a liquor bottle he had with him and then started stopping at ta He and visited at least four Shortly ter noon radioed in from Colfax that he was time 11 Kefauver by the tee of being strike breaker and enemy of Perrone is being sought by O'Brien said he was con- Perrone was within the last 24 O'Brien said he would ask eral authorities to transfer bardo to the federal penitentiary at nearby to ba available for More Arrests The warrant naming the had four Hotel and Restaurant Union Elects Officers June Kronstedt was elected president of Local 315, Hotel Restaurant Employes Union succeeding Lawrence at the annual election conducted Tuesday at the Labor Other officers chosen are Hilda vice Florence raine financial Marie and Martha Sylvia Kauffman was named to the board of trustees for a 3-year The new officers will be in- stalled at the union's next lar Feb. 2. eating further arrests in the attempt against is a O'Brien it may go owner of a television shop in adjacent was held in Thirty Detroit policemen ed by Senior Inspector Paul who has directed the five year hunt for Reuther's were sent out to round up the Renda was arrested at home in suburban GrossePointe Renda was due for arraignment in Detroit Jacobs was scheduled to appear before sor Judge Albert J. Gordon this on an extradition ing requested by Crown ey B. J. S. Jacobs was convicted of alien smuggling in court in Detroit in 1928 and was sent to Leavenworth He deported to Canada at the end of his one year term and il- legally the United States at Detroit in 1940. He was 11 Raymond Clark Files For Treasurer Race Raymond incumbent city filed nomination pers for re-election with City Clerk Nels M. Justeson Clark was appointed to the office Nov. 7, 1945 to fill an un- expired and was re-elected in 1946, 1948, 1950 and 1952. He is 47 years of lives at 620 9th St. is married and has one He has lived in sin Rapids since early Less Beer Consumed State Hard Liquor Drinkers Pay in More Taxes MADISON year Wis consin residents smoked more cigarets and drank more hard liquor but drank less beer than they did in 1952, the state sion of Beverage and Cigaret Taxes noted Cigaret tax ed as surprising by Division Chief David H. were 504 in 1953, compared with levies of in 1952. Liquor tax collections totaled last compared with levies of a year Showing a 15 per cent beer levies were in 1953, compared with 095 in 1963. Prichard per cent boost In aret collections is surprising when one considers a trend to slow up on smoking be- cause of fear of lung Wisconsin smokers are waiting to hear reports of and research before swearing off or smoking fewer ol The percentage last when the trend across the was Just Ml heavy or heavier in than in other Beer Prichard declined because strike of Milwaukee in 1953 and a in ing the from use ot reporting revenue collected In below arable
