Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - August 19, 1960, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Forty-Seventh Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin Friday August 19 1960 Single Copy Tea Cents Kennedy Wage Adopted by Senate WASHINGTON AP r The Senate passed the minimum wage j Man Thursday night with its major intact but the legislation faces uncertain House Sen John F Kennedy told a reporter he was quite hopeful the House will his apartment agree to most of the Senate Own Electric Chair Wash AP Police are investigating the Thursday of an elderly man who was electrocuted in a homemade electric chair The body of Clarence Hudson 65 a department store janitor was found propped in a chair in was a provisions But experience j ground wire from a homemade on differences between the i electrical apparatus Hudson's two branches involving bare feel m a bor legislation in 1958 and 1959 cast doubt on this The Democratic nominee was named to head the seven Senate conferees on the He was chief sor the Senate version Coverage Increases The Senate would increase the present SI wage floor to an hour and bring under the fair labor standards act about four million workers not now ered The much less comprehensive House would fix a mini- mum and cover about ad- employes Kennedy headed Senate con- who dealt with House gations on a pension and welfare control measure in 1958 and the i broad labor regulation last Another towel around his head Pasted to each temple was a piece and from each coin extended a wire to a trans- I former Police the er was used to increase the from a wall outlet Security Council Takes Up Congo Situation Sunday UNITED NATIONS CAP Security Council meet Sunday at oa the explosive Congo crisis The call was made today as General Dag Hammarskjold warned the Congo government the Council might be asked to draw all forces if attacks continue on personnel in the Congo French Ambassador Armand Berard this month's Council ident formally notified all 11 tions on the Council of the Sunday meeting A Congolese delegation is on its way to attend warning was contained in a note sent to the Congo government in advance of the Council meeting Wisconsin Weather Considerable cloudiness witb tered showers tonight Diminishing cloudiness and showers Saturday No important temperature changes Low tonight in Hte High Saturday Local weather facts for the period ending at i C4 Min U Precipitation 25 Air Force Ready for Flying Capsule Catch year In both cases it proved for the senators to get the House to do any compromising Since then he has been chosen as the Democratic presidential nominee a status which may or may not affect House members attitude toward bis requests Committee Roadblock The House Rules Committee so may be a hurdle to any con- ference on the wage this year It has blocked for weeks efforts to get a conference on a school aid in this case too the ate passed a more far-reaching measure j Evangelical Lutheran Two of the Republican iion will worship for conferees on the wage will op- jjj AIR FORCE BASE Calif AP Air Force Flying Boxcars left from runways today to try to make a flying catch of the falling space capsule of Discoverer The latest Discoverer satellite globe every minutes ing toward what the Air Force hopes will be a new first Last week the capsule of Dis- Hold Final Services in Old Church On Sunday Aug 21 St Paul's pose the version passed by their branch j On of these Sen Barry water said he doubted that any legislation on the subject would get through Senate lican Leader Everett M Dirksen of Illinois who also represent the Senate said that if he were president he would veto the Kennedy and his supporters able to beat back all ments he opposed except one con- a relatively minor sion MaKes Concession But the Massachusetts senator did have to make an important concession to defeat the ment he considered the most threat to his In order to get the votes needed to reject this amendment sored by Sen A S Mike roney Kennedy agreed to elimination from die of for about workers Originally his measure would have brought almost five million new employes under the act Those eliminated from the were employes of hotels rants motel auto dealers farm implement dealers The most important coverage provisions of the Kennedy bring retail stores and ice establishments the lawj for the Srst time Under the measure these would last time h building at St and 9th Ave N The new church and school on Ave S are to be dedicated Sunday Aug 23 There will be the usual two divine services at 9 and am with special music by the choir and a children's choir The Rev William Lange pastor will deliver a sermon fitting the sion Separation in 1899 The congregation was at one time a part of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Grand ids However hi a separation occurred due largely to a desire for the convenience of a West Side church The Rev G Baum was the first pastor of St Paul's followed in turn by the Revs William mensen G Thurow A Sitz and the Rev EmU Walther who coverer XIII was plucked from the sea near Hawaii by the Navy for the first recovery of an item from orbit Ealier Radio Difficulty Today the Air Force hopes to make the Orst aerial recovery of- such an object The trailing rigs tried and failed to snag the capsule of Discoverer They lost it like baseball out- fielders with the sun in their eyes because they couldn't get a radio oa the capsule's beeping trans- As before the capsule will pop loose from the orbiting rocket on its 17th pass across the North Pole rockets will slow the falling capsule and then once in the atmosphere a para- chute is to lower it toward the target area in Hawaiian waters There are only instruments in the capsule nothing alive Air Force officials have mentioned possibility of putting a monkey in an early Discoverer shot don't know if ft win go in the nest one or the next one er it or the next one after said an Air Force Spokesman lot depends on how this shot goes Space Traffic Jam Some of the instruments aboard the new satellite are so secret the Air Force won't talk about them Some it said are to provide in- formation to help two upcoming series of surveillance satellites Others are to gather data for the Navy's transit navigation satelite program It was fired here at pan- Thursday 15 minutes behind schedule because of a space fic jam The rocket from erer was overhead at about same time and the Air Force waited for it to hustle oast so it served the congregation for j wouldn't interfere with tracking years until his death in of the newest Discoverer of 1956 Since July of that year the Rev Mr Lange has been the pastor coming here from born Minn School 50 Years Old St Paul's has maintained life own Christian Day School since 3909 The church was dedicated m 1900 and the school in 1910 Charter members of that Powers Gets 10 Sentence Soviet Sends Dogs Aloft In Capsule MOSCOW viet Union announced the launching of a new space ship into orbit carrying two dogs and other animals whose Me above the clouds will be reported back by television Moscow radio said the space ship is in bit at an altitude of 320 miles The dogs aboard are named Strelka and Belka meaning pointer or arrow and squirrel The other animals were not im- mediately identified but Moscow radio said these two dogs have flown before accompanied by a big gray rabbit Recovery The broadcast said the purpose of the ship is to test how living creatures could exist in and also how they might be LOST THEIR surviving children of Mrs Ted Voss killed in highway that claimed 9 lives were at their farm home near Wilmont Minn prior to funeral services when this picture was made Their dad was in the house laid up with a broken leg injured while grain two weeks ago are Donald 26 Davenport Iowa Diane 14 Judy 16 Mrs Shirley Reisdorfer U Magnolia Minn Wanda 10 in back Jeanie 7 and Arnold 12 38 Orphaned by Auto Crash Given Assist by Community brought back to earth The broadcast did not st whether it was planned to bring these animals back to earth The space ship they are in was described as large enough for a man Radio equipment will report EDITOR'S days ago the community of Wilmont Minn was I stunned by a highway crash that left 38 children without mothers Press writer John A Lundquist visited Wilmont this week to find out how the town had reacted In the following article he describes the courage and generosity he found at townspeople and families rallied to meet the crisis By JOHN A LUNDQUIST WILMONT Minn wound is beginning to back the of Wilmont the scarcer a longtime and the functioning of the Six davs after a highway crash that killed five paratus aboard and said Moscow I en and one mac from this area this town of 437 persons in radio television reports of their activities also Correspondents trial of U2 pilot of Minnesota is coming out of its daze be seal back seven persons who were married total of 38 covering children 23 of whom are un- Bowers the dogs Francis der the age of 20 Now the Wilmont orphans fund orbited at this particular tune iaunched by the demonstrate that tse ion could not only Gown hign j flying American but could i launch high flying dogs in the in- i mont Tribune a nations are coming in steadily Aid is coming too from the Catholic where all Wilmont Eight Scientists Perish in Fire WASHINGTON fire at the major Soviet base in tica Aug 3 took the of eight Russians a Czech and a German Word of the disaster reached the Two offices at 265 W Grand j Science Foundation today Ave were entered us mght or this morning and i a total of about was taken j base at Souna Thieves entered the Rapid tica lection Service Inc and Soviet base at Mirny is on from a cash box which i or science The first artificial lite with a living thing the cog fired into bit by the in November 1957 Thieves Enter Two Offices Take Cash was opened with a key taken I from a nearby desk drawer 1 At the Kenneth H a desk the side of the comment from the U.S base They s apart are was forced open and about in -1 petty cash stolen into both offices was made without force a police in- revealed has been no report from of the fire Advices from the U.S base said the fire was reported to have de- stined the meteorology building j at Mirny but gave no details County Demos Stage Annual Picnic Sunday Mayor Ivan son will be principal speaker at the annual Wood County Democratic picnic at Robinson Park here Sunday afternoon and evening victims were members Our Lady of Good Counsel Church The Rev A T pastor is serving with the president of the loca bank E L Meyer to decide the orphans fund be admin Planned Several organizations are talk ing about benefits to raise money and a Worthington will hold an all-day luncheon to that purpose Worthington a city of persons 14 miles away feels a close kinship to its soi rowing neighbor The six Wilmont dead at a soup canning factory Worthington the driver of car was employed there and his two passengers were Worthington residents The impact of heav iest blow has fallen mainly o close members of the The deaths of John Voss 43 an his wife Loloa 38 orphaned sL children ranging from Dennis 16 to a winsome old Several relatives have the children to run the farm these first few uncertain days They've arranged for a lawyer fe Thomas Hayden Marshfield handle the estate and guardian be covered if they work for prises doing a million dollars worth of business in a year The amendment have covered such prises only if they had outlets in two or more states Kennedy in- this would have destroyed the basis of his The ment turned back only by a marein Stores to Stay Open Saturday Afternoons Wisconsin Rapids stores will re- main open this Saturday after- noon marking the end of the summer schedule of closings on Saturdays In making the announcement day Don Abel president of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Chamber cf Commerce noted that the re- sumption of afternoon store ings is one week earlier than usual due to the Aug 31 starting date for public schools in the structures -were Albert Ernst Kristofke August Kristofke Albert Harm Adolph Karl August Maske Fredrick Schieler Krofl Max Whitrock Karl Bieler man Stibbe August Jahn Henry Leverence August KrolL Gustave Schultz John Splies A Miller Herman Binnebose Herman Wodtke ert Carl Theo Carl Bonow Emil Staege Carl Wittenberg and rick Krager Four From County Inducted Into Army Four Wood County men have been inducted into the Army it was announced today by the local Selective Service Board Clement formerly of David Lingford Arpin and Peter Multer- er Chili formerly of were sent to Ft Leonard Wood Mo on Wednesday All are 22 Roger Olson 22 510 10th St S was inducted as a volunteer June 27 chairman of the county unk said the picnic promises to be the largest outdoor event ever sored by Wood crats It type games for adults and stands and a dance in the park pavilion ia the evening To Discuss Campaign Hayden said who led Senator John F Kennedy's successful primary campaign in Wisconsin is expected to discuss the presidential campaign as it applies to the state He speak at p.m Other guests invited to attend are Atty Gen John Reynolds State Treasurer Eugene Lamb Lt Gov Nash An area and county Democratic are also expected to be present was elected mayor of Madison in 1936 he was 35 years old He bad previously served as a Madison alderman and as assemblyman from the 2nd District of Dane County i Always a supporter of Kennedy set up the Wisconsin Kennedy for President Club and the effort Kennedy in the state The senator has j ed head of his sin general election campaign snip matters Boys Take Charge But Dennis and brother Davic 15 are determined to hold the kids in spite of adoption offers We've just got to keep tilings going and stay saic Dennis firmly Probate Judge Vincent who appoint a guardian feels the same way It is always the 11 Permitted Brief Reunion With Wife MOSCOW Soviet Union tonight ed Francis Gary Powers to prison and then permitted him to see his tearful wife behind the scenes at the room where he was tried for his U2 spy flight A military court gave the pilot a sentence for espionage but modified that by specifying only three years are to be spent in prison The rest of the sentence is covered by deprivation of liberty That may mean assignment to a special col- ony with other prisoners or possibly expulsion It is entirely conceivable that Powers may be seat out of the Soviet Union when his prison term is finished There was nothing of- on this but the feeling among some diplomats and cor- respondents in Moscow is that the Soviet Union at this stage has no special desire to keep Powers er the excitement about him sub- sides The Soviet Union's top penalty espionage is death by ng Prosecutor Roman A co asked for a sentence Soviet attorney goateed Mikhail L asked for less without specifying the years No Appeal Allowed There is no appeal provided for in the Soviet law bat Powers wife has indicated her intention to cany a personal plea to Pre- Ike Expresses Regret Over Severe Sentence WASHINGTON AP dent Eisenhower today ed regrets over the severity of the sentence against U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers The White House said the President will not drop his interest in the case Auto Driver Fined David C Brazeau 21 1125 3rd St S pleaded no contest in tice Raymond H Flynn's court this morning to a charge of ing too fast for conditions ming from an auto accident in the town of Rudolph Thursday night Brazeau was the driver of a car which skidded off County Trunk O a mile northeast of the city at p.m rolling over in a ditch and coming to rest on the bank of Mosquito Creek partly in the water The driver paid a fine of and 84 costs Damage to the car was set at Crash Injures 3 Three persons suffered minor injuries when two autos ed at the intersection of toga and 18th Sts at p.m Elizabeth F Brown 4041 8th St S driver of one of the cars and two passengers Mrs Gilbert ISO Lincoln St and her daughter Debra received bruises The other er involved in the accident was Aubrey V 43 Eau Claire Damage was set at Other Accidents A car driven by Karen Lee Hoey 444 Meadow Lane struck one parked by James Kleisner 54 2021 1st St S in the 1500 block of 3rd St S at p.m j Thursday with damage of resulting Police set damage at when a car operated by Susan Arlene Vollert Rt 1 Vesper and a truck driven by Franklin Jacoby 27 Rt 4 collided at the tion of 17th and Bonow Aves at p.m Thursday mier S Khrushchev if she can see him The handsome Virginian showed no emotion when he heard the sentence He stood with arms Folded as he heard an English translation of this outcome of his three-day trial a trial in which the Russians tried to condemn the whole foreign policy of the United Stales in the cold war Powers was downed on a May 1 flight which carried him into the Soviet Union at feet The incident led to wrecking the summit conference and of the Soviet Union's in- to President Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union Deliberations The presiding judge of the three-man court Lt Gen Victor read the verdict reached in a conference of 4 hours 35 minutes following summations The sentence he said runs from 11 To Hold UCT Roundup Here Top national and state officers of the United Commercial ers will attend the Wisconsin fall roundup here Morning and afternoon business sessions are to be held at the Hotel Mead Approximately 100 members of the organization and its women's auxiliary are expected for the one-day according to Woman Space Volunteer Successfully Passes Tests OKLAHOMA CITY Okla AP She weighs less con- Cobb once said Td less oxygen needs standing in line for a chance to dnu 3 better probe outer space She may get her wish The trim pilot was named Thursday as the first of 12 women volunteers to pass the rugged tests that America's seven male astronauts passed more than 3 year ago The announcement came in Stockholm Sweden from Dr FINAL SERVICE church building will vacated after this day as the congregation of St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church prepares o move into its new facilities The school building at the left will also be unused this year as the new includes classrooms for the Christian SchooL stiff Photo Picnic Committee Randolph Lovelace the top Chairman of the picnic com- is D N consin Rapids He will be ed by Mrs Irma 1 Robert J Magirl D C Baumel Ferdinand Link Patrick Knight and Don Nystrom all of sin Rapids Thomas J Ruesch I Vesper Herman Ar- pin Harold Fitzgerald Rudolph and C W Mitten ST James Gleisner Donald Hasenohrl ty Picus Robert and John Hayward all of Advance sale tickets provide a saving at the sion stands are available from all members of the committee Hayden saidi hi Project Mercury designed to send a pilot into outer get him back again He said in a lecture to the Space and Naval Medicine Congress that the first female into space is still far away But he We are convinced that also women in due time will take part in space vels and we have already started to compare the test results of prospective feminine pilots with those of the men We are already in a position to that certain qualities of the female space pilot are preferable to at bar mate standing psycho- j local strains in certain stress ations Miss Cobb 29 executive pilot and sales manager for an homa plane manufacturer could not be located for comment But recently she told a friend here This isn't negative ing but Fd want to do it even if I didn't come back God has ways been my pilot and I'm noc at aH afraid just eager Dr Lovelace said 20 women 12 were examined and Miss Cobb was first to pass the 37 physiological and tests The attractive Oklahoma native stands weighs 121 and has flown everything from crop ers to jets She has authored distance and speed records in recent years is only the fourth American ever to receive a gold medal from the Federation Aero- Internationale and is one of only eight American men pilots with a JAMES MC GREGOS UCT Supreme Counselor A C Miller secretary of the local unit who is in charge of arrangements Among speakers at the luncheon will be James Gregor Ironwood Mich supreme counselor and Lee Harris pewa FaHs grand counselor McGregor's visit marks tee first time that a chief national officer of the UCT has corns to sin Rapids Other grand officers and past grand officers as weH as pal officials of local councils throughout the state be in attendance Committee appointments and budget matters on the state level are to be taken up at the business sessions All local UCT members and their wives are invited to attend the luncheon for which reservations may be made at the hotel
