Nelson Silent On Tax Fate
Madison Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson again refused to state whether he will veto or sign the Republican sponsored tax revision bill. The measure, after stormy debate and revisions, went to a conference committee Friday and passed both houses before adjournment. Nelson said he would comment only after the State Tax Department analyzes it and it reaches his desk in its normal course, about two weeks.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
State Tax Department
Wisconsin
Senate
Assembly
County Fair Attendance Tops 37 000 in Four Days
The 41st Kenosha County Fair drew an estimated 37,000 attendees over four days in Salem Township with 1960 official count at 34,230. Tractor pull winners were named in four classes, and Sunday saw a large crowd for children's horse show and herdsmanship awards.
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Wilmot
Salem Township
Kenosha County
M. M. Schnurr
Schnurr
Roy Bonner
Grayslake
Laren Karow
Slades Corners
Bernard Schlagel
Paris Township
Robert Fliess
Somers
Tom Fliess
Stanley Kerkman
Wheatland
Norbert Fliess
William McDonald
Pleasant Prairie
LeRoy Gwaltney
Lake Villa
Illinois Youth 25th Road Victim
Three Palatine youths were involved in a Sunday morning crash on Hy. 50 near the Fox River bridge. Driver William Dietrich Jr., 19, was killed. two survivors, Thomas Will 19 and John Nelson 18, were hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Dietrich attended the University of Tennessee. Will and Nelson were students at Drake and the University of Arizona. Coroner's report cites excessive speed and a downhill curve as factors. no witnesses. The accident raises Kenosha county highway fatality toll for 1961.
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William Dietrich Jr
Palatine
Ill
Fox River Bridge
Burlington Memorial Hospital
William Dietrich, Jr
Dietrich
Thomas Will
John Nelson
Kenosha County
Sheriff's
County W
Fox River
Edward J. Wavro
Will
Nelson
Wavro
Brown's Lake
Burlington
Sheriff's Office
University of Tennessee
Drake
University of Arizona
O. B. Powell
Glenview
Smitz
Robert Cantwell
Richard Schenning
John Tenuta
John Orth
Jerry Sonquist
Thomas Dorff
William Dietrich
Barbara
Nancy
Baltimore
East German blockade tightens at Brandenburg Gate
East German forces closed the Brandenburg Gate and severed West German phone lines as refugees flow dwindled to a trickle. Troops face West Berlin crowds while barbed wire, tanks, and riot gear seal off crossings. West Berliners protest with signs urging unity. U.S. observers monitor the tense scene.
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Brandenburg Gate
Berlin
East Germany
East
West Berlin
Earl Maron
West
West Germany
Pilot dies after takeoff crash near Phillips Wisconsin
Chicago pilot Arthur Janowski, 40, was killed when his four place plane lost power on takeoff from Phillips airport. He died three hours after crashing into lower Elkville Lake. Co-owner Dr Dolores Knoblock witnessed the crash and had just flown in with her daughter Lynne.
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Phillips, Wis
Chicago
Phillips Airport
Arthur Janowski
Elkville Lake
Janowski
Dolores Knoblock
Lynne
Phillips
Charles
Knoblock
Associated Press
Kennedy Discusses Berlin Crisis With Thompson
President Kennedy plans talks with Llewellyn E. Thompson the U S ambassador to Moscow on the Berlin crisis. Secretary of State Rusk denounces the East German crackdown on travel as a violation of agreements and vows protests through proper channels as Britain and France were urged into consultations with the Western military command in West Berlin.
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Washington
Kennedy
Llewellyn E. Thompson
U.S
Moscow
Berlin
Red
East Germany
West Berlin
Dean Rusk
East
Russia
Germany
State Department
Rusk
Soviet Union
White House
Thompson
Hyannis Port
Mass
Paris
Britain
France
Kenosha Weather With Mild Temperatures Through Tuesday
Mostly fair conditions in Kenosha tonight and Tuesday with warmer nights and cooler afternoons. Lows in the 60s, highs in the upper 80s. Wednesday outlook is mostly fair and cooler. Noon readings: 81 Downtown, 86 at American Motors, 80 at Southport. Sunday high 83, low 52, trace of rain observed. Sun rise 5 37 AM, set 7 53 PM.
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Kenosha
American Motors
Southport
Rain-Making Attempt Fails in Newfoundland
An attempt to induce rain over Newfoundland failed as hot sunny weather increased fire risk. No rain fell through a weekend in Bonavista Bay where several fires burned across about 400 square miles, endangering multiple communities after large amounts of silver iodide were released into the atmosphere.
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St. John’s
Nfld
Newfoundland
Bonavista Bay
Feels Fear in East Berlin
UPI reporter John A Calcott crossed into East Berlin and described a city under siege with soldiers water cannons tanks and armed police. He recounted empty streets tense checkpoints and a cab ride through zones of militias and barricades before returning to West Berlin.
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UPI
John A. Callcott
West Berlin
East Berlin
Berlin
Red Guard
Trade Ministry
Stalinsce
Friedrichstrasse Crossing
West
West Berlin protest talks and rising crises noted
Washington reports Assistant Secretary Kohler arranged a midafternoon meeting with British French and West German ambassadors to discuss options beyond a formal protest to the Soviet commander in East Berlin. Secretary Rusk warns of more dangerous political and military crises ahead. Senator Fulbright proposes a compromise on congressional oversight of Kennedy foreign aid borrowing. A Saturn booster barge faced a brief delay after getting stuck on a mud bank nine miles north of Cape Canaveral before being freed by tugs.
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Washington
Foy D. Kohler
Britain
France
West Germany
East Berlin
Dean Rusk
Ipi
William Fulbright
D-Ark
Kennedy
Ft. Pierce
Fla. —Pi
Alabama
Cape Canaveral
Here
Ministers View Sealing of Berlin Border
West German Foreign Minister Henrich von Brentano and the American British and French ambassadors held a one hour talk. They called the new border repression very serious and planned a Western coordinated response through the ambassadors committee in Washington. The ministers prepared to report to their governments as Western powers prepared a sharp protest to Russia over the border closure violating four power pacts.
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Bonn
UPI
Henrich von Brentano
Berlin
Washington
Russia
Mikoyan Denounces U S Japan Security Treaty
Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan met Japanese Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka in Tokyo and denounced the Japan United States security treaty calling the pact aggressive toward the Soviet Union.
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Tokyo
Anastas Mikoyan
Japan
Zentaro Kosaka
Mikoyan
Soviet Union
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Joseph W. Mueller
Randall Rustlers
Bristol Challenge Club
Salem Pioneers
Salem-Central High Future Farmers Association
Dave Merten
Murphy Products
Paris Happy Workers
Burr Oak
Chester Hubbard
Kenosha Chamber of Commerce Rural Relations Committee
Highland
Wheatland and
Trevor
Progressive Girls
Star Harmony
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Bristol Strivers
Bristol Challenge
Whittier Workers
Illinois
East German People’s Army
U.S. Army
Borough Hall
Communist People’s Police
Willy Brandt
Communist Party
Konrad Adenauer
Brandt
JFK
John A. Calcott
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Iron Curtain
den Linden
Leipzigerstrasse
Wilhelmstrasse
Hitler
East Berlin Railroad Station
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