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r- Wtntidy, July JO, l5t WINONA DAILY NEWS 1 5 it A ,1 i A 7i! 3 1 1 i I 1 r'ZZ i fcw iJR- i i i JJC I --i r- 1 11 1 iifr BIG LIFT To save time and money, the roof and floors of a dormitory addition Winona State College are being lifted into place after having been cast on the ground. The project is an addi- li Ait. tion to Shepard Hall, the women's dormitory. The roof, first of four concrete slabs to be lifted, is shown on the way up. This is the first time the lift slab method is being used in Minnesota.

Like Bread Slices 230-Ton Floor Slabs Benc) Lifted at WSC 1 i- POSTAL INCREASE COMING When postal postal bill. Shown here in the firm's new mail rates go up Friday, the J. R. Wat kins Co. will be room are, left to right: Donald Werner, Nellye Fay ready.

Executives have been instructing employes Pohlfing. Michael Pierce and Charles Kustelski. to use care in mailing to keep down costs which Not shown is Harold Mogren, mailing department may still add about $40,000 $50,000 to the Watkins supervisor. (Daily News photo) Big Mailers Gear for Postal Rate Increase Winona Bids For 1959 Stale Legion Conclave At least 3 Other Cities Expected To Seek Convention Winona's bid this week for the 1959 convention of the American Legion probably will be opposed by at least three other cities, all of them in southern Minnesota. Albert Lea.

New Ulm and Man-kato also are expected to be in the race for certain when the three day convention formally opens at Rochester Thursday. Winona hasn't had the Legion convention since 1929, so if the city does get the 1959 conclave, it will occur on the 30th anniversary. Heading the Leon J. Wetzel Post 9 committee to make the bid is Lucian Grupa. The committee has been at work since mid-June when the post authorized the bid.

LEGION deltgattt are Gorgt M. Robertson retiring commander; Dr. E. G. Callahan, new commander; Grupa, Frank Kinzie Harold Thiewes.

Adolph Bremer, Philip Kaczorowski, David Morse, Frank Nottleman, Arthur Steffes, Howard W. Clark. John T. Curtis and Leo C. La France.

Selection of the convention city, although subject to convention approval, is made on recommendation of the Legion's convention corporation, which serves as the convention time and place committee. Not since 1950 has the convention upset the recommendation of that committee. That year, the committee recommended Albert Lea, but the convention favored Man-kato. Although attendance varies at conventions, the annual assemblies usually attract around 1,000 to delegates and other participants, plus perhaps another number like that for such special events as the drum and bugle corps contest and parade. ALSO AT th Rochttr convention, a Winonan will be making a bid, unopposed to the present, for state chef de gare or president of the 40 8, subsidiary organization of the Legion.

He is John T. Curtis. The state 40 8 holds its first business session tonight. Delegates from the Winona County voiture are E. J.

Courtier, Del Ruhberg of St. Charles, Clark, Hiiewes, Curtis, Callahan, John Waldow of La Crescent. Paul Mrachek, E. W. Toye and Dean Varner.

170 Winona Area Scouts Attending Camp Hok-Si-La About 170 Boy Scouts and leaders from 11 Gamehaven Area Council troops are attending the sixth week-long camping period at Camp Hok-Si-La, according to Carl Bustell, Winona, the camp director. The scouts will break camp Saturday noon. Bustell took charge of the last two weeks of camping, when Al Van Cort, director during the first five weeks, left on vacation. Lloyd S. Knutson, Gamehaven Council assistant scout executive, is the camp's program director.

A medical recheck for the campers was handled by Dr. Louis J. Wilson and Dr. William Finkeln-burg, Winona, and Dr. Harold O'Keefe.

Spring Valley. After the check, the boys met on the camp waterfront for a swimming classification, then set up troop camps. Three recently organized troops from Rollingstone, Hammond and b4 '1 1 1 j. i Mir ning Friday although the regular four-cent stamp is on sale now. There is a new four-cent Simon Bolivar stamp in ochre for first class mail.

(Stamp collectors note this is the first four-cent American commemorative stamp.) The new seven-cent airmail stamp shows the white silhouette of a jet plane against a blue background. The three-cent post card shows the Statue of Liberty in purple. For those who like to buy envelopes at the post office with the stamps already embossed, there is a first class envelope costing four cents. The lavendar stamp features Benjamin Franklin's head. The cm- 'fy The boost in postal rates, which starts Friday, will mean only a few more cents a week for residential patrons but a sizeable increase for some businesses here.

As far as the average person is concerned, the boost is a penny, making first class mail four cents, postcards three cents and airmail seven cents. Parcel post rales remain the same. Although businessmen who mail In volume are concerned about this penny change, the thing that bathers them even more is a boos' in third class rates Jan. 1, 1959. A firm like the J.

R. Watkins which does much mailing, has made detailed plans for keeping postal costs down despite the increase. Yet even with these measures, the company and its branches will have to pay an additional a year under the new rales. And Hal Leonard Music. By HAROLD KNOLL Daily Ntwi Staff Writer A 230-ton concrete slab about 36 by 118 leet was gingerly lifted today by 10 hydraulic jacks at Winona State College where a novel method is being used in construction of the addition to Shepard Hall, the women's dormitory.

The lift slab method is being nsed here for the first time in Minnesota, Edward D. Gray, executive vice president. Great Lakes Lift Slab Chicago, reported. This method is a way to save time and money by casting the rof and floors of a building on the ground where it is easy to do instead of in place, among the steel columns, up in the air. FIVE CONCRETE SLABS hvt been cast around the 10 steel columns of the $378,000 addition.

The slabs are on the ground, stacked one on top of the other like slices of bread. The bottom slab is permanently in place, resting on the ground. (There is no basement.) This slab is five Inches thick. But the other slabs are rod is a cap. The cap engages a hook that's been mounted in the concrete slab and the rods start to lift.

The hook is part of a steel collar in the slab. The first inch of lifting is the most critical, Gary said. It's thn hardest part of the job because the slabs cling together because of air pressure. As each slab had been cast, coating of silicone and lacquer was sprayed on top to form a smooth membrane to keep the next slab from sticking to the lower one. Today the jacks resumed their lifting.

At the console. Brown looks at gauges a kind of mechanical spirit level that tell him whether the slab is level at all points. There's a half-inch tolerance, which means that the slab can bend that much without breaking. A slab is lifted a few inches at a time. At each stop.

Brown will check his gauges and then lift some more. When a slab is lifted into place it is secured there by welding tht steel collar to the column. GENERAL CONTRACTOR for the job is Keller Construction Winona. The addition will provide 108 beds and is being constructed adjacent to Shepard Hall on the southwest corner of Winona and Sanborn streets. Construction su bossed airmail envelope costs i eight cents.

The embossed stamp 1 hi' bTv 1 1 iff 'wit GIANT PINBALL GAME Donald L. Brown, construction superintendent for the Great Lakes Lift Slab Chicago, operates console with electronic brain that controls lifting operations for Shephard Hall addition. Gauges show whether the slab is level at all points. It's like playing a giant pinball game and the object is preventing a tilt. 1 Daily News photos! penalty for overdue postage to give the public time to learn the new rates.

But Nov. 1 this penalty will be resumed. This means that if you send that three-cent letter to Aunt Fanny in November, the old girl will have to pay not only the extra cent you forgot but also a five-cent penalty for your forget-fulness. CHRISTMAS IS still a loofl way off. But Walz reminded patrons that beginning Friday, the new rate for an unsealed greeting card at Christmas or any other time will be three cents instead of two cents.

And foreign mail rates go up Friday too. The first class rate to Canada and Mexico will be four cents an ounce up a penny. The rate to all other countries will be eight cents for the first ounce (the same rate but five cents for each additional ounce up a penny. We will not attempt to give a detailed explanation of all the postal rate changes. There are too many of them and the post office will be glad to answer your questions.

However, let's get back to the third class rate change Jan. 1 that businessmen are worrying about. Jan. 1, the third class piece rate for unsealed printed material, will be three cents for the first two ounces as compared with two cents now. The rate for each additional ounce will go up to one and a halt cents an ounce for pieces weighing up to 16 ounces as compared with one cent an ounce for pieces weighing up to eight ounces.

However, the new higher weight limit will give business a break in postage costs because they, will be able to mail heavier packages under third class rates which are cheaper than parcel post. which sends direct mail advertis-j ing once or twice a week to some I S0.OOO persons in the United States and Canada, plans to whittle down I this list to cut costs. Roger H. Busdicker, president, reported. IF YOU'RE STUCK with a lot of three-cent stamps for first class is deep blue and uses the same propeller plane design.

The non-profit stamp machine in the lobby of the post office will be converted to issue four-cent stamps as well os other denominations. Privately owned stamp machines at retail stores will offer two four-cent stamps for a dime or three seven-cent airmails for a quarter. If you dash off a letter to Aunt Fanny Friday and forget to stick the penny stamp next to the old three-cent one, Aunt Fanny will have to give the postman the penny when she gets your letter. James A. Walz.

superintendent of mails at the Winona post office, reported that the post office has temporarily dropped a new Band Concert Winona's Municipal Band, directed by Harold Eds torn, will be heard in another summer concert at 8:15 p.m. today at Lake perintendent is Chris Keller. Architects are Flad-Smith Associates, Winona. man, si-ceni stamps lor air man and two-cent postcards, stock up on one-cent stamps which will have to be pasted on the letter or card to conform with the new rates. The post office will sell the new stamps and post cards begin 28-Ounce Baby Born at La Crosse TREMPEALEAU, Wis.

1 Special! Mrs. Earl 1 lacked gave birth to a one pound, 12 ounce baby girl Sunday at St. Francis Hospital. La Crosse. The baby, three months has been in an incubator since its birth and has begun taking food through a tube.

The baby is quite active, and seems to be holding its own. the Hackett's physician said. This is the Hackett's second child. thicker since they have to bear weight. They are eight and inches thick.

The top slab that a local crew lifted first, will be the roof of the addition. By Friday three slabs should be lilted into place one at a time. These slabs will be respectively the fourth floor, third floor and second floor. The columns along which the slabs will climb are about 36 feet high. Here's how the lifting is being done: Donald L.

Brown, the lift slab firm's superintendent in charge of the job, is at a console a steel table equipped with an electronic brain. This console is right on the top slab. Also on the slab is a IS horsepower electric pump. Leading from the console are 30 hoses carrying hydraulic fluid, three hoses for each jack. The electric pump works, fluid runs through the lines and Brown at the console equalizes the pressure of this fluid among the hoses.

A jack is mounted at the top of each Statements Taken In Attempted Rape Investigations One Winona County teenage THE JOB IS EXPECTED to finished early in 1959. Did the men have to get off the slab while the lifting was going on? Gray said they stayed on. Each jack can lift 75 tons more than enough capacity for this job. "In fact you hardly know the slab is lifting," Gray said. "We've even served dinner on the slab while it was rising.

1 remember once that someone asked a mechanic to get a crowbar. He wasn't aware that the slab had been rising and he stepped off. But it was a 10-foot drop and he broke a leg." Park Bandshell. The program follows: "Old omrade March" Tnke "CJypsy Uayet.v" Bronelt "Toft and Peasant Ovrrtur" Von Supp "Sabre and Spurs March" Soufca "Khumba iiincparia" Plovhar "Student Prince" R.imuerR "Myatir Gardens" Huchtel 'American Kolfc Suite" Wallers "The Southerner March" Alexander "Star Spangled Banner" Sign Proposed For Highway 61 Erection of an 18-by 12-foot sign at Highway 61 and Orrin street has been proposed. Now being checked by the city building inspector is the application of Robert Massie for a sign ot his new restaurant at the southwest corner of that intersection.

It will be 18 feet high. The request was referred to the building inspector by the City Council Monday night. Douglas are among the eleven troops at the camp. Joseph Ries is leader of the Rollingstone Troop, Sugar Loaf District; the 2 Rochester Douglas Troop, Zumbro Valley girl charged that she was choked and another teenager charged that she was threatened by two District, is led by Kenneth Hall while the new Hammond troop. to Face Boys THE BULK RATE for advertising matter issued by companies will also rise Jan.

1. Louis W. Goldberg, Watkins advertising manager and director of public relations, provided copies of memos being circulated at the company by Elmer J. Siev ers, vice president; Clarence C. Currier, general city sales man Cannon River District, is led by Eugene Storing.

Rochester brothers being held in the county jail for arraignment I on possible charges of attempted i rape Friday night. Sheriff Ceorge L. Fort reported today. Other troops at the camp this week and their leaders are: St. Thp lareest traveling crane In Arson Charge MANTORVILLE, Minn.

(APt Two Rochester youths charged with third degree arson were bound over to Dodge County District Court' alter waiving prelimi Mary's Parish, Winona, Bill iek the world is in the Chastang hy- Stockton Votes $4,000 Bonds For School Brick STOCKTON, Minn. (Special) -An additional $4,000 bond issue for brick facing of the grade school now under construction here was approved by Stockton School district voters here Tuesday evening. A total of 72 voIps were cast with 53 voting in favor and 19 opposed. Last April district voters approved a $45,000 bond issue for construction of a new school to replace the present wooden structure which is more than 75 years old. Plans called for the new building to be a one-story concrete block structure to be finished this fall.

Brick facing for the new building was urged by Guy 0. Tollerud, State Department of Education director of building planning and development at a meeting here last week. He said concrete blocks Arlnnk' Trnim B3 Srhnnl CONNECTED WITH th and running parallel down side of a column, are two rods. At the bottom end of each i dro-power station south of Paris, steel It is 06 feet wide and weighs 446 each 1 tons. Rochester, Richard Troop 93, Kiwanis Club, Spring Valley, Hubert Jertson; Comnier-! nary Hearing in justice cuuu ai Kasson Tuesday.

cial Club, Dodge Center, Flynn Roscum; First Methodist Church, Owatonna, James Carey; First Lutheran Church, Lake City. Harvey Jenson; and American Legion Post. Cannon Falls, Arnold Hjerm-stad. The Rev. John Garvey, Minneapolis, Catholic chaplain, is at the camp during the early part of the week.

Howard Patton, the Protestant chaplain, is a permanent staff member who conducts evening chapel and other church activities DEPARTURES EVERY DAY 4i for the scouts. Reservations for the weekly Parent and Service Club camp visita- would need repainting every few years but brick facing would not. The building now under construe- The girls' accusations against Alvin F. Hatdorf, 22, and his brother Dareld, 17, were contained in statements given to the sheriff Tuesday. The brothers were arrested Saturday The statements have been typed and the sheriff was to visit the girls at their farm homes this afternoon to have the statements signed.

Then the statements will be given to County Attorney S. A. Sawyer for preparation of complaints. Sheriff Fort also reported that both suspects have records. He said Alvin Batdorf, married one month, is on parole after having been convicted of attempted kidnaping in California.

Fort said the California case was similar to the present one. California parole authorities have instructed the sheriff to hold Alvin Batdorf for parole violation. Dareld Batdorf was recently released from the Youth Conservation Commission at Red Wing after having been convicted of criminal negligence in the accidental death of a Rochester girl in June, 1957. The girl was killed when a car Dareld Latdorf was driving ran off a roao near Chat-field. Sheriff Accepts Deputy's Resignation Henry Papenfus.

6204 W. 4th street, has resigned effective Friday as Winona County deputy sheriff after two years' service, Sheriff George L. Fort announced today. Anolieants for the ioh should he FOR A PLEASANT TRIP CO BY AIR TO CHICAGO MILWAUKEE MADISON MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL ager; Darrell Hoffman, personnel department manager, and Harold Mogren, mailing department supervisor.

These memos tell how to keep mailing costs from going up too much despite the rate boost. A few of these pointers which may be helpful to other businessmen: AIRMAIL Think twice before using it. Don't use it Friday and maybe not even Thursday because both first class and airmail will probably reach their destination Monday after the weekend. MAIL SCALES Check for accuracy. A slight error costs money.

THIRD CLASS Keep packages containing such items as printed matter and price lists below 16 ounces if possible. Heavier packages go under the more expensive parcel post rate. FIRST CLASS Before mailing a letter in the morning, ask yourself whether you'll probably be sending another letter to the same address later in the day. If so, and if both letters combined are under one ounce, they should go in the same envelope for four cents instead of eight cents for two letters. A study of the third class rate boost that begins Jan.

1 discloses one fact that may be of comfort to those residential patrons who have long complained about "junk" mail advertising material that occasionally fills their mail boxes to the bursting point. The bulk rate for advertising matter issued by companies will go up Jan. 1. And if it costs more to send this mail, the chances are you'll be getting less of it after Jan. 1.

Lawrence W. Giackin, 19. and Loren R. L'ngcr, lit, were arrested last month and accused ot setting fire to two Dodge County houses. Arresting officers said the younj; men told them they had been drinking beer before setting lires July 1 and July 2.

Both fires were in vacant farm houses, said Sherilf Willis Fryer of Dodge County. Governor's Report Set for Tonight Governor Orville L. Freeman will make his lourth annual "Report to the People" at ir banquet at the Oaks this evening. The governor will attend a reception at the Oaks from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will be welcomed by Mayor Loyde E.

1'teiller. The banquet, at which C. P. Crawford will president as toast-master, will begin at 7 30 p.m. a U.

S. May Change Ryukyuan Base System NAHA. Okinawa AP The United States ottered today to abandon its controversial system of land-holding in the Ryukyu Islands for the strongest U. S. military base in the Far East if a better system can be found.

Lt. Gen. Donald P. Booth, new U.S. high commissioner for the islands, told Ryukyuan leaders he would meet with them in a few days to seek a new system.

tion will contain two classrooms, combination auditorium and playroom, furnace room and supply closet. It was designed by Flad-Smith Associates, Winona, and general contractor is P. Earl Schwab, Winona. Two Injured in Broadway Collision Mrs. Daniel W.

Pelowski. 33, 316 Carimona suffered a leg iniurv and her son. Daniel Pcl- Excellent connections with all trunk airlines at these key cities AMERICA'S LEADING LOCAL AIRLINE tioij and chicken barbecue should be made with the camp director by this afternoon. Mental Retardation Topic for Meeting The Winona Chapter of the Minnesota Association for Retarded Children will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. at the YMCA.

Speaker will be Richard Weatherman whose subject will be "Psychological and Educational Aspects of Mental Retardation." Weatherman is with the Minnesota Division of Special Education and is on the board of the Minne-nesota Association for Retarded Children. He is a member of the American Association on Mental Deficiency and is editor of its magazine. He has also taught a brain damage class at Roseville. Minn. Weatherman has a master's degree in psychology from the of Minnesota.

if 1 I owski Miiiereu a uwni arm in a two-car collision at 8:54 p.m. Tuesday at East Broadway and'Chatfield street. The injured were in a car driven by Mrs. Pelowski's husband, 34. The other car was driven Mrs.

Bud Todd 45, 1023 E. Wabasha St. Damage to the right rear side of the Pelowski car was estimated at There was $100 damage to the front end of the Todd car. A For information and reservations call 1 8-2144 or a your travel agency Serving 51 Ky CifltJ in MINNESOTA WISCONSIN MICHIGAN ILLINOIS INDIANA NORTH DAKOTA DAKOTA IOWA NEBRASKA able to type and take shorthand since part of the work involves effice duties. 1.