Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - August 11, 1955, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin KM A N EWS P P E R Forty-Second August 11, 1955 Single Copy Serea Waves and Wind Hit On Carolina Coast as Hurricane Moves In Resort Area Hit By Outer Storm N. C. waves and furi- ous winds slammed into the lina coast today as hurricane Con- nie edged ominously toward the Tree shingles and other debris flew through the air on winds of 60 an hour and higher whipping through exposed resort The dangerous storm which WASHINGTON Air Force Secretary Talbott today Defense Secretary Wilson of failing to defend The brief conversation took place in the defense secretary's office generally northwest movement at wlf C about 14 miles an The 8 a.m. Weather Bureau letin on Connie pushed hurricane warnings down the South Carolina coast as far as Cape about SO miles northeast of The red and black flags were up as far north as the Virginia Tides in the area were four or five feet above normal and were expected to be double that in some Paul forecaster in the Miami storm warning noted that Connie was spreading out thereby reducing peak winds velocity near the But she is far from a dying he and don't want anybody to let down their threatened a vast stretch of the seaboard from S C. was piling up sand and wa- ter in the streets of some North Carolina beach Most and many permanent dents had sought shelter Blowing Hard blowing so hard you can hardly stand Police M. E. Williamson reported Wrightsville east of The tide at north of here and near was reported higher than it was ing the same stage of hurricane Communication lines were going out in many areas feeling the force of Connie's extended outer A fishing pier on the north end of Wrightsville which was destroyed by Hazel and reportedly was swept away New England was it could The Boston Weather Bureau announced Connie no threat to New England pined what he regards as a possible for at least the next 36 Democratic campaign pictures of Talbott's Donald A. Talbott plucked Wilson by the sleeve and walked with him to a corner of the big saying don't like what you said at your news conference about being distressed about the whole ness of my Wilson in a tow to explain what he had in Talbott interrupted to haven't done one thing to defend At that point an aide summoned both defense officials to pose for photographers with the new Air Mead Reservoir Is Authorized by State Commission At Least 19 Killed In Ohio Explosion control in four hours as firemen Ohio roaring blast and swirling flames tore a path of death from 20 nearby ohio and last night through a row of towns rushed equipment ings on the village Many the stricken of the victims had taken Traffic was snarled through Adlai Makes It Plain He'll Seek Nomination BY JACK BELL CHICAGO E. son was all but an officially an- candidate today for the Democratic presidential tion next and dinner given by former Dem of the night by the effects of the explosion and hordes of there from a There were 19 bodies accounted most of them in a makeshift morgue inside a garage three Law enforcement blocks The injured threw bered at least 18. In the there were reports of at least 2 persons The center of the disaster was the Gateway Restaurant in this village in the resort area of tuning along the ious motorists who drove to see the officials a cordon around the com- munity and the state highway patrol said martial law had been declared there at the request of the Andover Sixty troops Reservoir Will Make A Dream Come True A 30-year dream is a long step nearer fulfillment today as a result approval given by the Public Service Commission for construction jof a reservoir on the Little Eau Pleine some 20 miles Ike Picks Quarles for Top Air Job WASHINGTON today named Donald man in the earth The ig G the new -n whose honor the reservoir wiu be Completion Is Scheduled for Spring of The green light has been given for construction of the George Mead wisconsin Rapids tary of the Air Quarles is now assistant Conversing with a Tribune reporter this morning at his home on Reservoir on the Little Eau Pleine River in Portage and Wood An order authorizing the consin Valley Improvement Co. to farv n f for He is 61, a of Van and more re- Mead the Little EaU i proceed with the huge project pleine basin as a reservoir site had first been brought to his 1 issued at Madison Wednesday tiou in the early 1920s. It was the late L. M. Alexander of Port then president t r f j me idle ui i N J He is a of Paper who pointed the area out to him one iday as they were returning from o. 10 Quarles will succeed Harold were returning from bott who resigned Aug. 1. of Wisconsin Valley live this after the Co. at Mead ate Investigations subcommittee were sent to the village to explored Talbott's outside Alexander told me that the it. business interests and raised a Frank a Ohio question of idea of a reservoir on the Little Eau Pleine had been passed on to giving his company title to acres of which in the next three years will be inundated by the Mead Consolidated has since acquired an additional acres needed t akp Tne a wmu I j v The restaurant and truck eating in the The appointment will be subject him some by hls for thf reservoir si and will l am. anu p r fin turn tin tn a dairy store were in a 2-story National Chairman Stephen frame building which A. was ed with a force that shook the 1. Eisenhower has re- whole It has a population the previous GOP about In an and fa favor of and action at the Geneva Big news conference last 1952 Democratic nominee made conference but those policies plain to all who came to question change for the worse again that he will announce in any ber he is running Without committing himself nally at this Stevenson out- Small craft were told they could resume normal 75 M. P. H. against President He said he doesn't believe Eisenhower is despite the out- By 8 a.m. winds were near come of a similar race three years ricane force of 75 miles an hour i near Cape some 30 The Steyenson campaign south of this port The eye revealed at a crept along at about 5 to 7 miles I conference after a cocktail party an hour toward the A long stretch of coastline from S. to Cape N. braced for the ing fury of the Connie still j threatened the whole Eastern board from Savannah to Block R. I. Even as Connie whirled her menacing winds off the Carolinas 2. While the Eisenhower now seems to agree with the Democrats in Con- gress that action is needed on housing and ways the Republicans only make promises the Democrats believe in 3. He has about the threat offered by the Republicans to federal ment of natural resources and what he said is the Eisenhower administration's opposition to Democratic concept of government Worked in Rain restaurant when it Blew the restaurant was he recalled later at to Senate confirmation when con- gress reconvenes in White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Quarles bula Hospital where he was taken i was recommended to Eisenhower for treatment of his the of what is now Edwards Paper Co. idea which Mr. Alexander 111 v-l to fi turn the entire holdings over the Wisconsin Valley ment Co. when financing has been arranged for the Some Through the sodden ashes and Just blew The next thing I debris the squads of silent I was lying m the men worked in a drizzle until 5 a.m. Then they stopped for by Secretary of Defense Charles E. When a reporter asked about There was no official estimate private business holdings of property but it what was being done about planted in my mind stayed with further land purchases will be Mead perhaps as much as i years later came an opportunity to complete the area to do something about Acquired Land It was in the early 1930s, rest and i expected to run into the hundreds At 2 a.m. they had pulled thousands of 17th body from under the sagging 1 The building in which the res a position to answer As assistant secretary of and was located also housed Quarles has concentrated on Hagerty said he was not the Dancy Drainage District fallen into the After an- Isaly part of a national they had been able to recover only portions of dairy store The other ings housed Ohio Edison Co. of- Debris showered Main Street in Hall Insurance Freddy's front of the ripping Grabert Market and went into receivership and ed on the bonds which it had sued to finance the drainage of ing guided missile bottom lands along the came to the Pentagon after tie Eau ing as president of the Sandia oratory in New Mexico which does acting as president of Consolidated Water Power required for the huge Big Thing for Valley Obviously elated by the action the Public Service Commission in authorizing Mead reservoir and our new bridge are two of the biggest tilings that have happened around here in a long The is going to be a boon for the entire It will stimulate by the Public Service Com- The in of George W. Wisconsin a pioneer in the ment of water resources in Wisconsin River ate a lake 18 miles with a maximum width of seven When filled to the will impound 15 billion cubic of covering It will be second only Lake Winnebago as the state's largest inland body of Tha reservoir's area will be acres greater than Lake A company spokesman told Tha tribune today that actual con- is unlikely to begin Before the first of next See Cranberry Crop Record A cranberry crop is in prospect for Wisconsin this according to Leo resort area devastated last October wisconsin Rapids secretary by hurricane f Wisconsin Cranberry have suggested at the 47th Annual cal storm was developing m their A Atlantic 4m sections of the street and ing several Then the flames whipped on to other Tells of Explosion A Cleveland Elmer for all of the people and not the was driving past the restaurant at the time of the ex- Having laid down this the tanned and healthy appearing potential candidate told reporters he will have something definite to say about his political intentions by Several Democratic governors Atlantic about 400 miles northeast of San The Miami I Reporting to the association at its summer meeting today at has winds 50 to 60 estimated the 1955 state stronger continuing its much in excess of that figure it he of the growing Wisconsin's largest previous cranberry crop came in 1953, 11 Enlist in Army in July Eleven men were inducted into the Army in July through the local recruiting nine of them from this Enlisted in the Regular were William C. 19 Rt. 1, 4-year en- d t t h Governors Conference here that Stevenson had better make up his mind quickly if he wants their party's Stevenson said he had been listening for a year to such to some con- trary do what I believe is best for the What was best for the was to quit thinking about when barrels were shipped I to Last year's crop ed only Sorensen said that reports from other cranberry producing areas in the nation indicated that Massachusetts will a good other potential nominees such as Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Sen. Estes Kefauver of plosion and gave this description of the Taylor's barber highly specialized research for the per purchased the bonds it will provide further i Atomic Energy a Milwaukee bank for 15 Flying Boxcars Collide Over Germany 66 American Soldiers and Airmen Killed Germany C-119 Flying Boxcar transports collided in the air and crashed into the Black Forest The U. S. The walls blew out anf the roof Air Force announced 66 men were fell in. There were arms and legs sticking out of the wreckage all over the No one was certain what caused the speculated that accumulated gas was set off either by a bolt of lightning or a spark from in the near The Air Force said the death toll included the crews of the two American aircraft as well as soldiers being The flying Boxcars have a normal seating capacity of 67, with a maximum capacity of 78. Police said the two planes were taking part with eight other craft in a transport exercise and had taken off from the U. S. field at at The crash occurred near a village in the Black Forest Depends on Ike Kohler Says He Will Run as Favorite Son CHICAGO The planes were two of a flight which had just taken j nor Waller Kohler says he Wisconsin's delegation be flooded by the heavy In a makeshift set up j off from near on a training mission with three blocks from the troops from the U. S. 7th Army tabula County Deputy Coroner H. K Lynne was attempting to The Air Force announcement reports said that one plane developed engine trouble just enter his state's presidential to primary next April as a the Many were burned after after reaching a cruising level of The crippled beyond and Dr. Lynne I plane lost altitude then pulled up abruptly across the said it may take days to identify all of Fought 4 Hours front of another aircraft in the candidate pledged to President Eisenhower if the President fails to reveal his re- i election plans by March 2. he Kohler said Sen. McCarthy has slipped politically in consin but probably could be re- elected if he were running crippled plane went down The second plane i He told a news conference at the i F f letion of the including an earthen dam 2.75 miles s expected in the spring of 1958. The Pioneer Engineering Con- struction has been engaged as consulting Overrule Objections In approving the application of he Wisconsin Valley Improvement which was filed June 7, 1954, Jhe PSC overruled objections by as expressed at public hearings held in sau last fall and this These groups had urged that the lands purchased by the state for a Commenting on the PSC said in its reservoir area is and has been used by the public for years for hunting without objection by Consolidated Water Power per which owns most of the land and has held it for this reservoir groups ing the application desire such habitat and use If die reservoir is the ed area will not be habitat for upland birds and but it will be habitat for waterfowl and aquatic Open To Public flowage created from damming the navigable Little flew level for almost one then went out of control and nosed New Jersey will be below 18, Port 3 Raymond S. 18, 3 and Gerald G. 21, Port 2 Three men asked special ment to the 3rd Armored j which will depart for Germany early next They were Frank pate average Thomson Is Backing Ike MADISON Wisconsin's at- Truce Officials Won't Leave Report The fire itself was brought under into the The announced death toll would make this the fourth worst SEOUL high Swedish cial said today the Swiss and use of weapons by the U. S. Rob Bank at Embarrass Wis. Wi gunman air disaster in A total of 129 j U. S. servicemen died in the ing wreckage of a master near Tokyo in 1953. In 1952 another crashed on taking off from Force the only bank in this tiny the President de- annual Conference Wednesday that dons not take me out of the race for the Wisconsin governorship since the presidential primary is early in the Kohler explained that his move would enable Wisconsin delegates to the Republican national tion in San Francisco next fall to r. Eisenhower for dish members of the Neutral tary tions S u p e r v i sory Commission said Dr. Hong Kee would not leave Korea under His was the first public comment M. 32, Rt. 1, general Vernon W. a member since a prior service Ronald long prominent in Republican 18, and said today there is 0. 19. All that a vast majority of state Republicans would like Francis J. 17, Rt. Eisenhower to be a enlisted in the Signal date Twenty two U. S. soldiers and 80 Koreans been injured in clashes at NNSC Karl made it plain he was re- plying to an appeal by U. S. of State Dulles for no Corps for 3 Recruiting James Asked at a news conference if he would be a candidate for son and Herman Hewitt announced gate to the Republican national the group received a one-week J from the Republic of desire to make it clear to rea to leave the country by continuation of the Korean government's campaign only strengthens our determination to the secretary of slate and all ers that Korea has never used force or indicated any such tion against the Karl that openings no longer exist for special assignment to the 3rd Armored but that enlistees may seek assignment to the Airborn Div. which will see at least 33 months of European ice. This is the third phase of which enables an Army enlistee to volunteer for a unit scheduled to replace an- other unit now stationed convention in support of the ident or planned a favorite son race Thomson said he had given it no He added that in visits he has made around the state he has ad- the renomination and re- of Thomson has been frequently mentioned as a possible candidate for governor in 1956. Gov. Kohler has given no indication he will Otl ib JOD th lne Fair and Pleasant Weather Reported Over Most of U.S. By The Associated Press Wisconsin joined most of the rest of the country except the hurricane threatened East in enjoying fair and ant Skies were clear throughout the state with tures running below normal during the Grantsburg had a mini- FAIR TOMORROW I mum of 46 early its lowest since June 27. Black River with 45, was the coolest Wisconsin Rapids 49, Lone Rock 50, Park Falls 52, Green Bay 33, Eau Claire and Superior 54, Madison and sau 54, Two Rivers 56, La Crosse 57, Beloit 62 and Milwaukee 64. Madison and Hales Corners ped off at 88 degrees Wednesday to lead the state while Phillips was the coolest spot with 75. The mercury climbed to 108 at and Blythe and and at night it hit a freezing 32 at Colo. Wisconsin Weather Mostly fair tonight and A few showers likely extreme northwest early Cool Little change in tempera ture Low tonight 46-54 54-60 High Friday 80-tt. Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding Max. 84; min. 4S. Nations tells us Swede He declined to be Halt Violence Meanwhile organized Korean demonstrations against the NNSC virtually halted as Western turned sharply against the lence of the past five Communist Poland and slovakia are the other two nations represented on the South Korean anger at the commission is directed primarily against the Communist South eans say the Communists are ing their position for South Korea's official spokesman blamed American troops for the was all due to the outrageous Annual Water Carnival Set in Washington killing 87. In 1950, a commercial plane carrying soccer fans crashed at with a death toll of 80 Today's was West Germany's biggest postwar air disaster and munity Wednesday just before cicle to seek another even closing time and escaped with though the President's name did The gunman entered the rass State Bank and ordered liam the 81-year-old to stuff the contents of the not appear on Wisconsin ballots Wisconsin Law Wisconsin law requires that the name of a person seeking his also the biggest military lray ancl stacks of small bills party's nomination for president toll in an in western Eu- The Air Force said today's crash into a cloth can appear on the preference occurred less than 15 minutes and tossed the bag Anton said the gunman ordered mary ballots only if he has filed him to all your money statement that he is a ter take-off in The announcement said there were 41 a crew of 5 plus one in one land 14 a crew of 4 land a in the sponsored by the Veterans of APPLETON Outagamie FATAL eign incidence rose to 138' No. 2534, will be held this weekend at Lake south Activities will begin Saturday Rocket Powered Test Flight Is Readied WASHINGTON The Air Force announced today it's ready The ninth annual water 138 Polio Cases in Outagamie County Before the bandit ordered Anton to lie on the As he So far the President has made no formal statement on whether did so he set off the burglar i he will be a candidate for a alarm as the bandit fled in a 1950jond Kohler said he hoped Buick automobile carrying a the President would make known cr's license Police said decision in time for the McCarthy's criticism of the dent's foreign policy action and thinks hurts McCarthy every time he attacks the Whether McCarthy will be re- nominated for the Senate pends on what happens in the next three Kohler He de- scribed Sen. Wiley as liked in but de- to say whether he might challenge Wiley for his Senate scat next McCarthy's term is not up until after the 1958 election with diagnosis of nine new Two of them are in three in the city of in consin primary in April so lie would not have to make the 2 is the deadline for to file nomination said that if the 24, of Route 4, died plans arc not indicated by plate was reported stolen from a garage at Embarrass is a hamlet of 335 people in Waupaca KENOSHA Paul day of injuries suffered Tuesday the March 2 deadline he will enter when his truck collided with an the April election only to turn over The driver of the his delegates to Mr. Eisenhower Mrs. Maynard 27, of at San afternoon and continue in rural Kaukauna two Sunday evening according to Kimberly and one in i Pleasant orthe importance eral chairman Ray Once again the carnival will be highlighted by thrilling outboard motorboat races on Sunday after- Motorboat racing enthusiasts from throughout the area have entered their craft in the contest j which is sanctioned by the consin Outboard Assn. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning As a featured attraction between racing members of the tral Boaters club will demonstrate their in an exciting Driver Gets Minor injuries in Crash Eugene 20, 1431 Wis consin sustained minor injur ies to the right shoulder and knee when his car went out of contro on a town of Seneca road aboul p.m. He was not County reported that the auto failed to negotiate a curve It went off the ripped 250 feet of and sideswiped a utility Damage was set a The accident about a quarter mile west of the city Panel trucks driven by Edwin L. 52, 420 16th St. and Arthur W. 63, Rt. 1, collided at the intersection of Nash Rd. and 5th Ave. day vehicle snapped off a post after the Police set damage at for the first rocket powered flight I water by the research ed to penetrate the heat barrier with speeds of roughly miles per hour or The is the fitst plane built to explore the point in speed where many metals weaken or break down due to tremendous air The Air Force did not estimate its but said it will fly faster than the earlier which ex- miles an hour in De- cember 195V There will be free dancing to the music of a three-piece combo in the shelter house on both Saturday and Sunday Rides available will include two amphibious ducks which will be brought here from Wisconsin Concession stands serving hot ice cream beverages will be in operation throughout the The festivities will be climaxed Sunday evening with an sive fireworks LINEUP PICNIC 330 youngsters who pated in the summer program al Witter and Edison playgrounds for a place in line as the call cf was sounded out over Robinson Park at the annual picnic day The picnic was a highlight of the program which is sponsored by the city to keep youngsters occupied during tion Playground activity will be concluded on une Staff Eau Pleine River will be open to public In its present the Little Eau Pleine is little used for and its use for navigation by boat or other craft is The reservoir is to a storage capacity of about half of which will derived from flow in the Little Eau Pleine and the other half from excess flow pumped from the Wisconsin This stored water will be released during periods to augment the flow in the benefitting 12 hydro-electric power plants located downstream from To Boost Power The Public Service Commission noted that this additional almost doubling the present city of the Wisconsin Valley Im- provement Co. reservoir will make possible the generation of additional kilowatt hours of electric power in stream plants of Consolidated Water Power Paper Paper consin River Power and consin Power Light Co. Affected by the reservoir will be parts of the towns of Day and Green Valley in thon Auburndale and Milladore in Wood and Eau Pleine in Portage The company has reached an agreement with the townships providing for raising or relocating roads in the area to be The Improvement Co. proposed initially to clear timber in the flowage area only along the roads which will cross the impoundment after its To Clear Shallows The said timber land brush killed by water in areas should be removed i from those places where they be and contrary to public It also dered that timber and debris float and lodge in deeper areas should be removed At the time of filing its tion with the PSC last 'the company pledged that it i would not lose sight of the advantages that would en- from the big It promised reserve outlying lands for lic use and to maintain access roads to thf edge to facilitate launching of fishermen's and It also to reforest areas which have been scarred by forest fires in
