Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 1-8-1962 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1962). Winona Daily News. 218. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/218 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UPS City Traffic Box Store ^ -. .' -- '¦ -. r—To Windy, Colder; »K mr Accidents ......;., 10 10 5 Below Toni Deaths .......w..: 0 0 ght Injuries ...;....... 0 y t Damages ....... $2,855 $2/7% FOURTEEN PAGES ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ v • ¦ ¦' ¦ " ¦:¦ ; ' ' '' • ' " ' ¦ ' ;¦;¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦¦:¦' ' " • ¦ " ¦' ' " -¦ '^y' ' ' '.yy, ' K1 .' y ¦; ' ' ¦,- ¦ . ' ¦ ' •;. ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ' ' . ". ¦ ¦ ¦ ' , . !:¦ . ¦ ' ' ¦ ' Trains... - " . - . - - .- Collide' . ,. - . ' . - ' - ' .. :- . .- . ' ' in: . ' .'" . Holland• . - .. - ' - , 79y- - - Ki. .• lled. - . • . MOVES INTO CANADA I Many Others Among M Storm Leaves 15 Aboard Hurt WOERDEN . Netherlands (AP) —Two passenger trains collided in dense fog near here today and By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS exertion. New -England had six The State Traffic Patrol said Netherlands. Railways announced that 79 persons were killed. It w_» The .center , of the first major dead. • that primary roads were icy in . spots while drifts "piled by 25 mile the worst train disaster in this storm of the new year moved out The storm struck tha Milwau- an hour northwest winds contin- country 's history. ' of the United States and into Can- kee area at 12:05 a.m.;- Saturday ued to make some secondary The Dutch news agency report- and blew itself out at 3:05 p.m. ada today, leaving in its wake a roads hazardous. ed earlier that 50 persons had Sunday. The heavy snow was A farmer' great , mass of snow that caused been injured , s wife south of a line . from G reen Bay Twelve of the dead were victims living near the disaster scene said many deaths and. widespread de- to the southwest corner of the of overexertion. struction. ambulances had . streamed away state, with the deepest accumula- Three died in auto crashes on carrying at least 200 injured lo Temperatures moderated from tions in the southeast corner. icy roads. nearby hospitals. the sub-zero and zero readings Racine and Kenosha were hit : Among those who died after early in the weekend to the teens by between ..16', and 18 niches of shoveling were William Wright, Priests, nuns, firemen, police, and 20s. In Minnesota tempera- new snow. The fall in Milwaukee 41, of Beloit, and Bernard Brady, soldiers and uninjured passengers tures still hovered around zero in was fixed at 14.1 inches. Thirteen 55, of Chicago, who were visiting helped in rescue work. i a new snowfall. inches fell in 24 hours, the heavi- in Milwaukee.. Metal workers- used acetylene Of the dead attributed to the est fall iii .two years'.and the sec- 'Another of the victims was; torches to cut into the. tangkd weather, Wisconsin had 15 of ond heaviest for a 24-hour period Stephen J. Jelinek, 44, a copy masses of coaches, which were which 12 died because of over- in 25 years. editor for the Milwaukee Journal reported to have carried ahout who collapsed outside his home. 500 passengers. - ' ¦ Herbert . Miller , 69, a school Fifty doctors toiled over the principal, collapsed after entering casualties: his home. Watch dogs were used to guard The death, toll compares , with 16 piles of luggage. ; <"'. Sparta Jml counted in unofficial tabulations in storms in December, 1959 and One of the trains was an ex- March, 1961. There was no break- press en route from the northern down on causes. Dutch town of Leeuwarden to Rotterdam. The other was a com- Break Foiled The snow tapered off north of muter train headed in the oppo- (#) ¦— SPARTA, Wis, Three Monroe County Jail prisoners, one Milwaukee, with Mequbii, only a site direction from Rotterdam to of them a ishort-order cook accused of first degree murder in the few miles away, measuring 10 Amsterdam. death of his woman employer, failed in an attempt to saw their Way inches. Between 1 and 3 inches ' The express was due to reach out of the lockup, Sheriff Dewey Reinstra said Sunday. .. were recorded at Wausau and Park a switching point at 9:19 a.m. and '- ' , .. Beinstra said that during a routine check Saturday night he no Falls and three inches at Green the commuter train at 9:21. It tlced a fire escape door had been tampered with. A search dis- Bay. La Crosse and Eau Claire was in this three-minute interval closed three hacksaw blades arid registered only .flurries.,. that they hit. Visibility was about a chisel hidden in an air vent. Colder weather moved into the 20 yards, The sheriff said the tools appar- state in the wake of the storm ently had been handed in several which left southern sections with Most of the victims were re- weeks ago ' through a rear window REMOV E INJURED . Rescue workers remove one of in- lisiprt near Woerdeh, Netherlands/ today. The trains collided in Kennedy, Clay more snow cover than , the north- - ported in the crowded train from by two former inmates, one of ern areas. Wausau and Superior jured passengers from one of the trains involved in two-train col- . • - .dense fog. (AP Photofax) ; Leeuwarden. The express is whom was arrested Sunday night reported only 11 inches on the usually crowded on Monday morn- in South Milwaukee. The other is ground Sunday. ings by people returning to ;work confined in the State Reformatory. In Agreement An enviable contrast to the win- New Test in Berlii in the metropolitan area from Reinstra said there would be ter over most of the country was weekends in the northern residen- "no visitors" at the jail until the Southern California's heat wave. Mail Train tial provinces. case was completed , Thousands swarmed to resorts It was unlikely that many for- On Berlin Crisis and beaches as temperatures eigners were involved. Ther sheriff indentified the three The Dutch radio canceled all prisoners, involved as Thomas By BARRY SCHWEIB soared. In the South Bay area of Los Angeles, 15- swimmer^ -were Derailed ! Bus Load of Soviet Army light programs and it played seri- Greer, 23, of Tomah, held on the WASHINGTON (AP ) — Presi- ous music, interrupted at times . murder charge; Vernon Marx of rescued by lifeguards. dent Kennedy says he and Gen. 'V . ^ by news bulletins on the crash. Sparta, being held for return, to Lucius 1). Clay are in full agree- The unofficial reading Sunday at the State Reformatory hear Green Palm Springs and Oasis- was 93. Clerks Hurt Nine coaches were derailed—six Bay, and James Rosenstreetef , ment on how to handle effectively In the San Fernando Valley it ff icers from the express and three from was O Held at Border also of Tomah , a parole violator any possible future crisis in Ber- 96. CHICAGO W—Two mail clerks the commuter train. One mowed awaiting trial on charges of ob- ' ¦ By GEORGE BOULTWOOD The unusually large number of down a transformer station as it lin. Los Angeles , remained hospitalized today, : suf- taining beer for minors. had a record 86 officers aboard led to speculation rolled down an embankment. The President' BERLIN (AP)—American mili- Greer, a former cook in a To- s statement was d egrees—the warmest Jan. 7 in fering from injuries sustained Sat- the Russians might have been The fog was so heavy that per- 59 years. tary policemen held up a busload mah' restaurant, is charged with issued Sunday after he and Clay, urday- night when a mail train de- of Soviet army officers for 75 seeking- only to confuse or em- Molotov sons living near the scene wera. the murder of Mrs. pelores Park- who is Kennedy's personal repre- Warm weather and rain sent barrass the Americans at Check pnrvlpd when they heard the col- rivers over their banks in western railed on Chicago's Northwest Side. minutes Sunday at the West Ber- ison , 36, his former employer. She sentative in West Berlin, had point Charlie on Friedrichstrasse. iisiohv Washington state. Heavy, wet Thirteen other mail clerks were lin border in a tense test of was found shot to death in a wood- talked for an hour at the White screening. ' : Back at "We could see nothing in tho snow . fell over northeastern Wash- treated for shock or for -minor A U. S, combat company sta- ed area near Tomah last Oct. 30. House. Clearance for the bus was given dense fog," said the farmer's ington, causing some damage to injuries and released, tioned in Berlin returned across wife, Mrs. Van Qssterom, "We Reinstra said Greer was the Clay came to Washington for property and utility lines. only after the Russians gave as- the East German autobahn with- Old Post t alks with the President and-^Sec- ~ _ Authorities-said. Harry--Hammer- -thought at first a plane had "ringleader of the plot," and had- BietweT3r^^Tid"Trtirehes of~fl"ew surances that the! Soviet com- out hindrance alter several days" By PRESTON GROVER adrnitted participating in the plan. retary of State Dean Rusk amid ling, 40, of Milwaukee, and Joseph mandant and his top political ad- crashed, but later we heard iron snow fell over parts of Montana , of training in West Germany. grating and realized that - two The sheriff said the trio had saw- reports he believed the U.S. com- Bozich , 46 of Greendale, Wis., viser, who are taboo in the U.S. MOSCOW (AP) - Ex-Foreign Wyoming and Colorado, but tem- , West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt ' trains had crashed.