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Tile Wooflier - The Great Fair t.d.,; ,.rtty doudy fllnight wittl IUtMr" IiIowers or ttlunderstorrnl ill h norftl. Warmer ...., ... fllnltht; hl,lII • tv IS. 0UJIa0Ic fer Dorm Debate F,..y: P.rtty cloulfy .nd a little warmer wltll ail owon scatteRd sho_rs or ttlunclerstvnnl wnt ,...,. (See Page 2) Serving the State University of IOWtJ and the People of Iowa CUy tlenby~. Established in 1868 10 Cents Per Copy Associated Press Leesed Wires and Wirepboto Iowa City, Iowa-Thursday, August 15, 1963 t To the southwest 3 killed in 24 hours To the west, * * * * * * * * * Kalona youth, dies in crash; two sisters killed at Tiffin By TOM IRWIN Accident statistics for the S-curve stretcl! oC City Editor road immediately available include: Nineteen·year~ld Paul D. Gingerich Jr.. son ot • l~ne property damage accident involv­ Mr. and irS. Paul D. Gingerich of rural Kalonll, ing 2 cars. was kJlled in tantly Wednesday afternoon when the • L96I-one personal injury accident involving tractor he wa opel'ating was struck by a semi· two cars, three property damage accidents involv­ trailer truck 2"'- miles north of Kalona on HighwllY Ing motor vehicle , and two one-car property dam· 1. age accidents. Authorities soid the accident occurred at 1:50 • 1962-Two Catal accidents and two personal p.m. when the semi, operated by John FeU, SO, of Injury accidents. Tipton, attempted to pass the northbound trllctor. • I963-Two latal occidents, at least two per· FELL ATTEMPTED to swerve back Into his sonal injury accidents, Dnd a property damage ac· own lane when a car driven by Donald Jllnson, 42, cident involving a mi·trailer truck and four cars. of Overland Pork, Kiln ., signaled by hom that It, ONE OF THE personal injury accidents listed too, was attempting to pass, according to high. above occurred lit the exact location of TUesday's way patrolmen lit the scene. (alai crash which took the lives 01 22·year~ld Jo­ The truck jack·knlfed when brakes were ap­ anne Henneman and her sister Marilyn Henneman plied in an attempt to avoid collision with the of Clarinda. tractor and the truck's right rear dual tractor The two sisters were killed when their east­ wheels struck the larm tractor's left rear wheel, bound auto Cailed to negotiate the S·curve. skidded, causing it to flip. but land upright. rolled 21' times, and came to rest 540 feet from The truck swerved across the highway, plowed the point at which the car went out of control. into II deep ditch, and clime to rest in a creek bed Marilyn Henneman Willi thrown out oC the on the west side of t he highway. Th driver was not vehicle and was found some 50 fc t from where injured. the car came to rest on its top. Joanne Henneman, GINGERICH'S DEATH was the fourth Irarric driver of the car. was found in the vehicle. fatality in Johnson County in a weet, and the third THE SISTERS wer taken to SUI Hospitals In 24 hours. where Joanne died at 11:25 p.m. and Marilyn The accident occurred just 20 hours IlCter the died 10 minutes later. Tuesday evening crash oC a small lorelgn car which Joanne Henneman, a graduate of BrOlldlawns took the lives of a CoralvlUe nurse and her 17·year­ Hospital School of Nursing in Des Moines, joined old sister, - the latest in a tragiC string o[ accl· thte SU [ Hospitnl's nursing staff in 1962. Her sister dents involving personal Injury and death on th was graduated from Clarinda high school this two-mile stretch of two·lane asphalt highway, on spring and was accompanying Joanne to Iowa City the S-curve one mile west of Tiffin on HIghway 6. where Marilyn planned to enroll in the SUI Although exact Haufes are unavaUable as to College of Nursing. the preCise number of mishaps that have occurred The S-curve, on which the two sisters were on the curve, (known to local residents as "death killed, is banked in such a way that motorists who curve") at least lour Catalities "ave been Ii ted are unfamiliar with the roadway are tnlten by sur· among the numerous accidents on the curve slnco prise and often lose conlrol of thefr vehicles. J960. In severlll areas along the curve the shoulder NEWL Y·APPOINTED State Solety Comml&­ drops below the paving as much as four Inches. sioner William F. Sueppel, formerly of Iowa City, Although the Highway Deportment regularly fiUs told The Daily Iowan, Wednesday, that he was these depressions with gravel, weathering usually familiar with tbe curve and expressed concern at removes the fiU soon after it Is deposited. The the high number of motor vehicle accidents in that curve, considered by local residents to be a hawrd, area. is marked by small yellow dlamond·shaped signs Sueppel said It would hike at least two days to at each end o[ its mile lona stretch. The signs con· supply information on the Incidents involving motor tain no other warning than a black arrow indicating vehicles along the stretch of roadway since 1960. a normal curve. Death Curve · d· d A ttlr ...lnch box of film demonstrates ttl, depth of h drop off Rural youth dead Treaty as Its Isa vantages from ftIa main roadway to ttl, shoulder on ftIa south ,Ide of tha h :I~~:.u:;:.:~t a':o!~~in on Highway 6. A:;:!:~ ~;~: ~~::! A rural Kalona youth was killed Wednesday whil' stanlly when the tractor was struck by a nmi­ driving ttlis> tractor on Highway 1, 2'12 miles north trailer truck. of Kalona. Paul D. Gingerich Jr., 19, died in- -Photos by JDt Lippincott ~AS~!TO~~ ~:'! M~~~~:~~!~?!~; u.~~~~~ I The world today I well D. Ta~lor t~tified Wednesday nuclear tests except those under· mission, said the treat, will permit • WASHINGTON - The rail­ versity ollicials not to graduate Chicago police chief promises th~~ the J~lOt Chiefs oC ~taf[ fo~d ground: a wide range of nuclear weapons road work rules dispute remained mIlitary disadvantages 10 the 11m· • Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, chair- to L._ d I ped d" ill the 3O-year·old Negro until investi­ ited test ban treaty but decided "" eve 0 an we w con- In a total deadlock Wednesday gators decide it he violated a uni­ with no reported progress toward they are not so serious as to reno tinue vigorously" this "active un- versity directive against inflamma­ der it unacceptable. derground testing prOlgram." heading off a nationwide rail strike 'get-tough' policy on pickets T k 39 d' Aug. 29 either through legislation tOry statements. In carelully measured words, He assured a joint lIeS8Jon of the rue er, ,leS or negotiations. The college board had no com· , CHlCAGO IA'I - Chicago's police bricks and using knives to injure by construction workers, to protect Taylor. chairman of the joint h . I d Senate Foreign Relations, Armed ment on the request. chiefs, explained reservations put Services and Atomic commiUees • • chief warned racial demonstrators policemen are the first to cry 'po. their heads from fiying stones and at osplta oor • • • Wednesday his men will invoke a aside by the nation'S top military that the pact would not prevent • OXFORD, Mill. - Gov. Ross • lice brutality,'" he said. If they chunks of concrete. The men have leaders. He defined their main con· Eldon E. H,wklM, 39, Good- U.S. development of I;In antimissile Barnett Wednesday renewed his • SAIGON, Souttt Viet Nam - "get·tough " policy if it is needed Reliable sources said Wednesday kick and bite. the officers mllst been wearing only regulation uni­ cern in these words: land, Kan., died In ttl. Veteran, warhead _ a fear expressed by efCorts to prevent James H. Mere- to protect themselves from bricks that South Vietnamese troops and knives. use reasonable force to subdue form caps. "Fear of a euphoria (sense of Administration Hospital Wadn,s- several senalors. dith from graduating at the Uni· seized the charred remains of a "We will meet force with force," them, Wilson asserted. Wilson said the decision on well being) in the West which will day aft,,,- • few mlnutos at· • A statement to Senate leaders verslty of Mississippi. teen·age Buddhist novice monk In O. W. Wilson, superintendent of Newsmen asked why the task whether to don helmets is up to eventually reduce our vigilance ter ha collapsed In the hospital by 35 of the 56 liv:ing American The State Building Commission, Hue, thwarting plans for a big and the willingness oC our country ,.rlll", lot. Nobel Prize winners urged ratifi· headed by Barnell, ealled on Uni. police, announced at a special news Coree officers have not been is· Lynsky and the commander of the public funeral at the city's main conlerence a day aCter four police­ and o[ our allies to expeod con tin- Hospital official. Mid Hawkln. cation "as a concrete expression of versity Chancellor J. D. Williams, pagoda. sued helmets, similar to those worn Englewood District. ued effort oC our collective secur- and a companion _a driving a our country's desire for peace." the state CoUege Board and uni- men and a woman were injured in ity." seml-traller and stoppad In front _________________________ To get it, the sources said, the demonstrations. On the other side of the atgu. of the hospital when Hawkins troops used their steel helmets as On Monday and Tuesday, Negro ment, it was disclosed that Dr. had an aHack of MV.,.. chost weapons and broke up a funeral nnd white pickets assembled at a Edward Teller told senators two ,.In.

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