davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-24
Father and Son
Killed By Train

Harry Clifford, IS, and Calvin
Clifford, IT, father and son of Sank
Rapids, were instantly killed at the
railroad grade crossing on the tar
/ road to New Munich, 2R miles east
of Melrose at about 11:3O a. m.
Wednesday of last week.
The father was driving a bread
truck for the Campbell Baking Co.,
of st. Cloud, and had left New
Munich for his next stop in Mel
rose. Marks of the tires at the
crossing indicate that the front
wheels of the International truck
were half way on the track when
it was hit by Great Northern pas
senger train No. II due in Melrose
at 11:31.
The truck was lifted forward and
then pushed off to the south of the
track, angling down a 25-foot grade
and landing completely torn apart
ard demolished in water soaked
bottom land, 100 feet from the
crossing. Baked goods and parts
of the chassis and truck body were
strewn over the scene of the acct
dent.
The body of the boy lay in the
oren To- feet behind the wreckage.
The fathers body was in the cab
part of the truck. The truck body
was torn from the chassis and the
eng inc became detached and land
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-24
PAGE NINE

Harold, and Mr.. and Mrs. AL Thies-
en- and children enjoyed a picnic
dinner on the shore of Sank Lake
week ago Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Diesen and
son, Dallas, and Mrs. Ella Christ
lie were dinner guests at the Henry
Poppe home Sunday evening.
John Kortan. popular Kandota
thresher man, is busy getting his
machinery in tip-top shape for the
fall run. Mr.. Kortan has given it
thorough over-hauling and also
treated the separator to a coat of
paint.
Mrs. Albert Diesen and son, Dali
las, called on Mrs. Orvylle John
son Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Hansen and
daughter, Wilma, visited at Mrs.
Louis Huber's Sunday.
Willie Edmonds. John Burns and
Roy Engbraaten motored up from
Granite Falls on a fishing trip
Sunday. They called at the Mar
tin John. Carl Ecklund and Otto
Allison homes.
Hans Fossen is assisting with
haying at the John Foss home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-24

ed several feet ahead of the front
wheels.
A doctor from here was taken
to the place shortly after the acct
dent. He found both dead and the
hodies were left for the arrival OF
DR.. Koop, of Cold Spring, county
coroner. Examination later showed
numerous serious fractures to both
the father and son and indicated
that their deaths had been instant
The train had one of the new
diesel engines. The pilot steps on
the left side were crushed in and
both air line pipes at the front
were broken. The breaking of the
air line set the automatic brakes,
but seeing no need for a sudden
stop the engineer released the
pressure to a gradual stop. After
repair of the airline the train went
on to the depot here where it re-
manned for a time awaiting orders
Deputy Coroner Johnson interview
ed the train crew at Sank Centre.
Coroner Koop had the bodies re-
moved to an undertaking parlor
for examination and Sheriff Art
McIntee was here to investigate
the accident. Mr.. Campbell of the
st. Cloud baking firm took charge
of the bodies when released by
the coroner and had them removed
to Sank Rapids.
Harry Clifford is survived by a
wife and seven or eight children.
He had been married twice. He
had driven the same bread route
for the Campbell company for the
past 20 years and was well known
to dealers in this section. To them
he was known as Harry. On his
trip yesterday and on other &C.
casions he was accompanied by his
son, who helped with his work.
Ben Sunder, of Freeport, was as
sisting with cutting grain in a field
southeast of the crossing and saw
the train hit the truck. 1t is be-
lieved that Clifford did not hear
the whistle of the train or see it
until he was on the crossing. The
view of the track to the east of
the crossing from the side Clifford
approached is in the clear for over
400 feet.
Harold Worms driving a truck,
and accompanied by Leander FIRE.
vel, both of New Munich, drove up
to the crossing from the other side
right after the Observation-Disclosures
Beacon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-24
: when we are sitting on a powder

when we are sitting on a powder
keg.
President Rebuked
On Monday week before last the
President sustained another poll
teal defeat when the people of
Texas in a special election elected
Governor w. Lee O'Daniel to the
United States Senate. The Presi-
dent had on several occasions in
Dictated his preference for Repre-
sentative Lyndon Johnson who was
the runner up. O'Daniel ran as
an out-and-out anti-New Dealer.
Representative Martin Dies and
Attorney General Mann were also
considered anti-New Dealers. Their
total vote Is three times the num-
Der received by Mr.. Johnson.
It is my information that more
than half a million dollars was
spent in the campaign, much of
which came from government con-
tractors. Texas members also tell
me that nearly every government
agency was swung into line for the
Administration candidate.
1t Is not improbable that Mr..
Johnson would have won the cleo
ton had he not been sponsored
by the Administration because he
is fine young man with plenty
of ability. This was another case
where the people of the state re-
sented the President trying to tell
them how to vote, and rebuked
him with their votes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-24
Pleasant Valley-Kandota

Peder Foss was a caller at the
Albin Eckberg home in Sank Cen
tire Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Diesen and
son, Dallas, of Pennington, visited
from Saturday night until Monday
noon at the Christie and Brandt
homes. Mr.. Diesen is now assist
ant herdsman at the Brandtjen
dairy farms at Pennington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kortan and
children and Mrs. John Kortan, ST.,
and daughter, Rosie, were Little
Falls business callers Monday.
Herman Lying had several stitch
es taken in a cut above his knee
one day last week. Herman was
removing sickle from a binder
and it slipped giving him a nasty
cut.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Diesen AMI
son, Dallas, were dinner guests at
the Bert Neal home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Hansen and
daughters, Wilma and Winnifred,
Mrs. Louis Huber and Elsie and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
South Britain Briefs

wonder how many public-spirited citizens would be glad to sell at twice what they swear their prop erty is worth for tax purposes?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
TESTING LANES
 MAY BE CLOSED
Chairman COunselI IntrO- duces Bill AbOIishing All
 Lanes in Conn.

Hartford, Jan. 31-In accordance
 with a recent vote of the Republican
 state central committee, in which
 such a course was urged upon the
 General Assembly, 8 bill was intro
 duced yesterday by Samuel Counsell
 of Stongington, chairman of the
 house motor vehicles committee,
 which, if enacted, will abolish the automobile inspection lanes through out the state. The bill contained no substitute for the inspections. Auto testing lanes have been a controversial subject for more than two years past and they are favored by the state highway safety com-
 mission, appointed by former Gov ernor Baldwin. Governor Hurley recently isued a statement indi- eating that he will oppose their elimination.
 Another measure of interest to motorists introduced by MT. Coun- sell today calls for reduction in the price of automobile driving n- cense from three dollars to 50 cents, in accordance with a pledge in the Republican platform last fall. Three measures were introduced
 today by Representative William L. Hadden, House majority leader, amending the unemployment con- pensation act. One extends the
 limit of payments from 13 weeks
 to 16 weeks; another reduces the
 waiting period from two weeks to
 one week; the third broadens the act to include bank employees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
BUCKLE co. UNIT
 NAMES OFFICERS

The Waterbury Buckle company credit union declared dividend of 45 per cent at their recent meet ing. Last year the unions divi- dend voted was 3 per cent. Since the unit was organized in 1895, loans aggregating 557 and amounting to $42,752 were made to members.
 Herman Valentine was elected president of the union, and succeeds c. L. Coughlin, woh resigned as he had accepted employment with an- other plant.
 Others elected are as follows: Vice president, Charles Earth; treasurer, Kathleen Maher; assist ant treasurer, Mary Arnauskas and clerk, Agnes c. Cuddy.
 Directors chosen were Mary Fitz- patrick, Anna Yuskis and Robert includes Joyce Merkle, Emil Savard and Arthur Morin and on the credit committe are Charles Sasso, Frank Tynan and Thomas Unwin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
New Haven R. R. Plans
 Many Improvements
Outlines Program for Coming Year; Five New Electric
 Locomotives 1000 Box Cars Recommended

of estimated income, expenses and capital expenditures just submitted to the United States District Court by Howard s. Palmer, James l.. Loomis, and Henry B. Sawyer.
 Other improvements planned in- clude installation of 23,400 tons of rail, the ballasting of 13.8 miles of track between Berlin and Meriden, rebuilding a number of bridges, construction of a new passenger sta- tion at Meriden, and new freight facilities at Boston.
 Completion of the projected bridge rebuilding, it was stated will remove the last of the wooden deck trestles between New York and Boston on the shore line, thereby eliminating the hazard of traffic interruption from fire.
 Increased industrial activity be- cause of the national defense pro- gram," is cited by the trustees as the principal reason for the antici- pated $90, ,OOO, 900 gross income, which would be an increase of 5.1 per cent over 194O,s $85, 5,604, ,1O9. Freight rev- enue is expected to increase from $50,512,702 in 1940 to $53, ,,500, 900, which would represent 5.9 per cent increase, while passenger revenue is expected to rise from $26,342, ,49O to $27, 100000, an increase of 4 per cent.
 Net railway operating income is estimated at $10,890, ,000, an increase of TIA per cent over 1940. Total operating expenses for the coming year are estimated at $64 4,41O, 900, representing an income of $2,21O, ,764, or 3.6 per cent over 1940. This would mean an operating ratio of 7157, or 1.09 points lower than in 1940.
 Maintenance of way expenses for 1941 are estimated at $11, 1,5OO,O0O, an increase of 1902, APO or 8.5 per cent, due principally to the rail and tie installations, track ballasting, bridge reconstruction and some track and signal changes. Capital expenditures are estimated at $3,055,873.
 Maintenance of equipment ex- penses are estimated at $14,100, ,0OO, an increase of $582,231 or 4.3 per cent, due principally to increased locomotive and passenger car re- pairs. Capital expenditures are esti- mated at $708,575.
 The report anticipates that the lowest for any year since 1892, esti- mating transportation expenses at $32, 2,710,000, an increase of only $522,- 737 or Is per cent over 194O, not withstanding the estimated increase of 4,395 ,891, or 5.1 per cent in gross.
 Railway tax accruals are estima- ted at $6800,0O0, an increase of $192,346 or 29 per cent; equipment rents at $2,900,000, an increase of $175,249, or GA per cent; and joint facility. rents at $5,OOOO0O, an in- crease of $2O1, ,886, or Az per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

The wood war has been settled without gunfire. PerriOt Brothers, Bantam sawmillers, have paid lib- orally for timber cut on the lands of MT. Titterington on French Mountain. The Judge tramped over a few hundred acres before rendering his decision. Cutting over is not as safe as it used to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
fRY BILL GARRIGUs)
Per Cent

We've found out what's wrong, at last. The State Board of Fish cries and Game, concerned with conservation and such, asks all mixers, hunters and nature-lovers to be on the alert for rabbits that when running, bump into objects continuously" We're asked to catch such rabbits alive, and to call the Department quickly, be- cause they want to send an escort for the critters. Rabbits that be- have that way are supposed to have tularemia.
 Now if the Department of Fish and Game is really serious about making 8 haul of creatures that when running, tor walking), bump into objects continuously"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

Many congratulations have been voiced concerning the purchase Of She lands for the new consolidated school by our town officials. The report ls that g2,boO was spent for eight acres. A few months age. Che state paid yl.eo0 for about five acres. jusl up the read. We won. der what theae respective parcels were on the tnx books for? We
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

The wood war has been settled without gunfire. PerriOt Brothers, Bantam sawmilIerS, have paid lib- orally for timber cut on the lands of MT. Titterington on French Mountain. The Judge tramped over few hundred acres before rendering his decision. Cutting over is not as safe as it used to be.
 A bus petition at McCarthy's Store had but two signatures the last time we looked ats it. Prob ably the rusticS remember the WPA bus races on Main street.
 Now that free spending has been started in this township, we may soon see a movement to pro- vide a Town Hall suitable for a community of this type. A South Britain citizen claims that Bullet Hill school, properly revamped and slicked up would make good Town Hall. It does have one out standing advantage; it's near the office of Doctor Green. If 8 tax payer was suddenly stricken with ap0plexy, heart failure, or hard ening of the arteries after vote on a bond issue, medical care would be immediately available.
 The battle about sumach ebbs and flows. Most of the afflicated youngsters have stopped scratch ing and now interested persons are endeavoring to get expert advice about sumach. Samples have been saved and at least one taxpayer is planning to send a sample to Charley DeBisschop, the East Mountain Wonder Man.
 Years ago, during the Lindbergh Kidnapping trial, Charley loaded up a suitcase with N. c. roofers, knOtty pine, hemlOck and butter nut and went down there to Jer- sey and made a monkey out of one of those college trained ex- perts. Charley didn't even need a magnifying glass to tell which side of a board grew on the north side of tree. He could tell heart wood from sap, lOng-leaf pine from short, swamp cypress from sid h ill heml0ck, and almost everything there was to tell about wood. Gabe Heater got heated up over the line of chatter Charley turned on in the court room, and the tablOids took several pictures. DeBisschOp admitted that he never took a lesson in his life, but he knew lumber.
 Nowd if we have to, we can bring Charley down here to in spect the sumach thickets and the firewood furnished the schools. We can scrape off little soot and have chemical analysis made of it. We can examine the ashes and the chips in the woodboX. If there's any niggers in the sumach pile, Charley will find them, or else.
 Wouldn't a good venisOn steak so good about now? Slice the meat fairly thin, fry it with pork, and you've got something, if you can get a deer and get away with it. Sidehill salmon has been mighty scarce this year. The deer have all gone to Florida since we had those earthquakes. Deer are so few on HulPs Hill that a lead- ing agriculturist down there bought a consignment of fresh hams. Ham is good, too, if you have a few eggs to go with it. Eggs are easier, hereabOuts, but grain prices are climbing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

thought they were intoxicated. But probably that comes from a lack of proper education. Things will be different when we get that bigger and better SchOOlhOuse. We'n then have an opportunity to do some research and to get the IowdOwn on ailments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

New Haven, Jan. 30-Trustees of The New Haven Railroad estimating better than a five per cent increase in gross income and a 17A per cent
 increase in net railway operating income for 1941, are planning pur- chase of five new electric locomo- tives, ten additional diesel switching
 locomotives, and are giving con- sideration also to the purchase of 1000 box cars, 25 cabooses, and 5 grill cars, 1t is revealed in report
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

all they've got to do is estab- fish an Observ- ation post right in this village a l m O S t any Saturday night. We have sev- eraI things like t h a t, a n d they're not rab- bits, cit h c r. We've n c V c r figured that our folks had any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

thought they were intoxicated. But probably that comes from a lack of proper education. Things will be different when we get that bigger and better schOOlhOuse. We'n then have an opportunity to do some research and to get the IOwdown on ailments.
 Silver-jawed Bill claims that tularemia isn't any laughing mat ter but he says he's seen COWS bump into things continuously, too, after they'd spent too many hours in an orchard. Bill figures that maybe the rabbits that are staggering around the landscape and giving the Fish and Game boys the jitters have just found a mash-pile from one of the dis tilleries back in the brush. Com- ment here seems to favor less rab- bit chasing and a lot more atten- tion paid to stream pollution. Lots of our folks are getting little weary of paying for a fishing lic- ense to catch old auto tires, steel scrap, tin cans, and rubber boots. Staggering rabbits! How about it, folks?
 Somebody up Falls Village way reported a flock of wild geese fly ing north. They must have had tularemia because no normal goose would head into the Arctic at this time of year.
 Red Dog went away the other day. Red Dog was & spaniel, a fioppy- cared, wide-awake, friend ly pocket edition dog that could lick her weight in panzer divi- sions. Red Dog would tackle bull elephant, give away tons in weight and come out growing and ready for more. That little lady set an example for lots of two-legged animals who go around whining about their hard luck and the way the world doesn't give 'em a break. Red Dog made her own breaks,
 Years ago, Red Dog had two playmates; a giant yellOw-and- white TOmcat, (Remus, out of Boomerang; sire, unknOwn), and a hulking, great rabbit named George. Remus and Red Dog hunted together, the spaniel pointing and the tOmcat making the kill. George never did any hunting, so Red Dog used to make believe she was hunting him. if you've ever driven along the Che- shire Road and seen rabbit and a spaniel in a wrestling match, that was George and his dog. Re- mus used to go off and hunt pheasants when Red Dog worked out with George. but George got tularemia, or something, and died. Remus lost a race with a pleasure car driven by thought less whelp who should have had tularemia, and Red Dog was lone- ly.
 The spaniel stayed around awhile but her eyes grew dim and the zest went out of her as she grew older. The other day. Red Dog. like an old soldier. wagged her stubby tail. smiled broadly at the folks who think they know 1t all, and went away" Guess a mans q fool to give his heart to Q dog. Dogs get under your skin, you know. and you're such c long time forgetting them)
 Many congratulations have been voiced concerning the purchase of She lands for the new consolidated sch00l by oiF town 0iiicials The report ls that s2,So0 was spent for eight acres. 4 few months age, Che state paid Sl.Bo0 for about i've acres. just up the road. We woms der what these respective parcels were on the tnx books for7 We
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

Mike Coer, RFD-man and scout master, collided with Mrs. Avis Harrison over on Conn. 67 the other day. Both motorists filed re- ports. No serious damage was done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-31
Work Now - Argue Later!

The significant thing about labor tie- ups Is not the amount of damage they have done, but their rate of increase. A short time ago when the President cited figures to show the negligible effect of labor tie-ups, he was probably right. But the rate has increased constantly since the first of the year. They are now be- ginning to be serious enough to affect the speed of the defense drive - drive in which speed is everything. Managers and owners cry out that they do not want the government to take over, or even more directly control, their businesses. or owner who refuses to negotiate promptly and in good faith with the rep resentatives of his employees clearly and freely chosen, no matter who they may be.
 Organized labor cries out that 1t does not want government dictation of hours and working conditions. Who is it's worst enemy? The labor leader who ad- vocates work stoppage except after every possible effort has been exhausted to protect immediately vital interests of employees. Each Of these is the greatest enemy of his own group. The manager who seizes on the defense emergency and the unpopularity of strikes to break unions, hamper their legitimate activi- ties, or to prevent employees from proper efforts to keep their pay and working conditions in proper relation to current living conditions, is simply breeding fed eral control of which he will complain bitterly later on. The labor leader who seizes the same emergency to organize the indifferent, to fight some competing organization, or to serve political ends, is breeding the same kind of restrictive legislation, and he will squawk just as loudly when it comes.
 What the country wants is that men shall continue working, continue turning out the arms which the people have decided they must have, while the argu- ment goes on. It is true that in fore going immediate action, labor gives up the most. But employers have also in many cases undertaken important gov ernment contracts under vague condi- tions, trusting that eventually the gov ernment will deal fairly with them. It is that faith in an eventual fair deal that is promised by the setting up of the Na- tional Defense Mediation Board. There is every reason for confidence that it will handle cases with justice to both labor and employers. That confidence justifies keeping the wheels turning while points at issue are settled.
 Labor and management-own ownership are a team pulling the defense load. Uncle Sam is in the drivers seat. He is reluc- tant to crack the whip. But he is rapidly getting in the mood to crack 1t over either horse that fails to pull with will.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-31
All-Out Defense

Governor Robert A. Hurleys plans for Connecticut defense are not, fragmen- tary or illusionary. They seem to be based on something more than theory. And that's about as all of us would have our chief executive think and figure. Con- necticut is a small state compared to some, but within our borders are housed countless machines whirring "A hours a day in the best interests of national de- fenSe. It takes countless individuals to keep those machines running. In short the state is a beehive concerned with making defense of this nation something more than pretty phrase to be turned into all sorts of things by catch-penny speakers.
 We should be pretty much in sympathy with the governors plans on state de- fense, for after all he is not suggesting or recommending something that is going to be bitter medicine to swallow. Above all there must be an agency to guide us through any extraordinary period into which we may be plunged. It does no good to say that this is something that can wait until real emergency arises. That's too late to throw up physical or moral breastworks. The planning has already been done for just such condi- tions as we may be called upon to face. We must go through with the execution of the plan.
 A definite agency to assume full charge of defense efforts, as well as complete responsibility, is demanded. It must per- form many duties, one of most import ant certainly being to guard against du- plication of effort among various state agencies or over-zealousness on the part of individuals, concerns or communities which instead of securing united front merely upsets an orderly procedure in which we all have a definite course of action prescribed. It may irk some of us to fall in line, but such acquiescense, If that is all to be demanded, is as essen- tial as the more vigorous parts of the program.