Kenosha Reports Record Traffic Toll and Fatalities
Kenosha closes the books on a year of heavy traffic with a record 2,484 accidents and 27 fatalities. City and county totals hit new highs, with 64 rural deaths noted and 1,015 injuries statewide. Across jurisdictions, cost and tragedy mount, as hours and locations reveal patterns in the deadly toll.
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Kenosha
Racine
Walworth County
Lake County
Milwaukee
Illinois
Missouri
Kenosha City
Patch Up Difficulties Of Dionnes
The Dionne quintuplets from Callander Ontario meet for a New Year reunion as three sisters arrive with their parents. They say the family has patched up a misunderstanding and are forgiven, though Marie remains away recovering from anemia.
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Dionnes
Callander
Dionne
Quints
Annette
Cecile
Yvonne
Marie
Dionne Quints
Ontario
Oliva
Montreal
Man’s safety belt saves wife in street confrontation
A Louisville man recounts a would be carjacking near a red light. A young man tried to drag his wife from the vehicle but the belt kept her fastened as the attacker fled in exhaust fumes when the light changed.
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Louisville
Reuther Proposes Arbitration In Kohler UAW Strike
Walter P. Reuther urges binding arbitration for Kohler Co. strike with UAW CIO and suggests Christmas talks. Kohler officials, including attorney Lyman Conger, say no comment yet while a separate claim for 60516.10 damages against the City of Sheboygan over summer dock violence is noted, with two union members named in warrants.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Kohler Co
Kohler, Wis
Eisenhower
Walter P. Reuther
Herbert V. Kohler
Plumbine Mana Fines
Reuther
Kohler
UAW
Sheboygan
Uaw-Cio
Sheboygan Union
Big Montana Blow Earns Liar's Prize at Burlington
Claude T. Yerkes of Kalispell Montana won the Burlington Liars Club 1955 top award for a tall tale about a Big Montana wind and a sack of flour hung on nails outside a trailer. An honorable mention went to Vernon Charnetski of Prelate Saskatchewan for a whopper about a grain elevator height and a carpenter’s rotted hammer handle. Conrad A. Johnson of Portland Oregon received another honorable mention with a Kentucky tale about gravesites and a reveneer mishap.
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Burlington
Wis
Liars’ Club
Montana
Phony Tale Club
Claude T. Yerkes
Kalispell
Mont
Yerkes
Vernon Charnetski
Prelate
Saskatchewan
Conrad A. Johnson
Couch St
Portland
Ore
Kentucky
Johnson
Communists accuse Nationalists of intensified raids near offshore islands
Tokyo Communist China accuses Nationalists of stepping up air and naval raids along the South China Coast. Taipei reports say bombardment targets Matzu and Quemoy as a prelude to invasion.
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Tokyo
China
South China
Taipei
Matsu
Quemoy
Kenosha's Gamble in 1950s Progress Push
Fate dealt Kenosha a winning hand in 1955 and the next two years will determine the size of the payoff. Once a queen of the Better City image, the town nearly slipped into lethargy but a Washington delegation this year rekindled hope and unified effort, fueling a year of notable progress.
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Fate
Kenosha
Southport
Local boom forecast reshapes Kenosha economy in 1957 plans
The piece outlines a $60 million wave of planned construction and multi million payrolls from industrial expansion and a new air base. It suggests substantial local and county economic boost if workers and families settle in, with traffic via Hy 43 toward Bullamore Forks and surrounding areas.
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Bong Air Base
Little Lady
Southport
Kenosha
Bullamore Forks
Holiday Notice From The Kenosha Evening News
The Kenosha Evening News will not publish on Monday January 2. This holiday notice informs readers of the newsroom pause and return plans.
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Kenosha
French Vote Heats Up Amid Algeria Atrocity Claims
Paris political clash nears a close as voters prepare for the National Assembly election. Premier Edgar Faure condemns a gendarme shooting an unarmed Algerian prisoner last August and distances the government from bribery allegations tied to an American cameraman.
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Paris
Algeria
National Assembly
Edgar Faure
Faure
Slump In Holiday Road Deaths
Early New Year weekend traffic toll was about 50 percent below the Christmas holiday peak with 26 deaths reported since Friday 6 p.m. local time. The National Safety Council predicts up to 420 road deaths by Monday midnight, prompting police action and mobilization of national guardsmen in Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and Arizona.
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Ohio
New York
California
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
Wisconsin
Washington
Ilinois
Kentucky
Maryland
New Jersey
New Hampshire
South Dakota
National Safety Council
Illinois
Arizona
Kenosha
Gateway Theater
Oscar Zerk
Dunmavin
Bulganin Warns Hydrogen War Not Excluded
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin told Telenews that thermonuclear war remains possible despite both blocs possessing atomic and hydrogen bombs. He urged unconditional ban and international control to curb mass destruction weapons and warned arms racing increases threat while hoping for peace in 1956.
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Moscow
Nikolai Bulganin
Telenews
West
Bulganin
Fire Sees Five-Mive Long Blaze In Dane County
Madison area reported a marsh fire near Truax Field lasting from about 2 p.m. Friday into the night. Five miles of the marsh burned while only car fenders on nearby properties were damaged.
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Madison
Dane County
Truax Field
Weather summary for Keno sha area year end day
The last day of the year was cold and sunny in Keno sha with 24 at the sewage treatment plant 26 downtown and 27 at American Motors. Tonight and New Year’s Day will be mostly fair with little temperature change and a low of 15 to 20. The sun rose at 7 18 a m and will set at 4 30 p m.
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Kenosha
American Motors
Year 1955 in Kenosha Brims with Progress and Turbulence
The Kenosha Evening News reviews 1955 as a year of rapid progress across industry commerce schools and civic projects amid notable tragedies and violence. Highlights include the new City Council chambers the Hudson car rollout first assembly line repairs and state leaders visiting for milestones, plus community acts like Charlotte Sorensen preventing a suicide and firefighters battling blazes. The year also saw flood of public works planning school openings and federal money talks, with cold snaps and local crimes marking the era.
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American Motors
Alan Ameche
Guv. Kohler
Hudson
Charlotte Sorensen
6Th Ave
Kenosha County
Abe Toigo
Roosevelt Rd
Rocco
Rocky” Gerone
Chicago
AMC
Milwaukee
Kenosha
George Molinaro
Joseph Lourigan
William F. Trinke
Madison
Hillcrest
St. Lawrence Seaway
Washington, D. C
Richard Custer
Eugene Hammond
George Epstein
State Line Road
John Kozak
50Th St
American Brass
Emmet Perrin
Simmons
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N. J
Veterans Administration
Kutcher
Socialist Workers Party
Ali Wolt
Lyman Conger
Big Montana
Sheepherder’s Tale
O. C. Hulett
Russia
Reta
United Community
Holiday
Associated Press
Progress
Williams Slough
Paris Township
The
Labor Department
Lake Michigan
Lily Lake
Custer
PTA
Kenosha Air Force
James Parmelee
Willian Sheldon
IGGC
Kenneth W. Huxhold
Chicago and North Western Railway
Taft Rd
Toigo
Hammond
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