Bus crash injures nineteen en route to Chicago
A Chicago bound bus carrying thirty four women left Hy 41 near the Racine Kenosha line after a right front tire blew out. Nineteen injured passengers and the driver were treated at Kenosha and Burlington hospitals. The bus belonged to Central West Motor Stages. a second bus later collected remaining passengers.
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Racine-Kenosha County
Eugene C. Daverman
Forest Park
Harry Schmalfeldt
Harry Mason
Sheriff Marshall
Central West Motor Stages
Chicago
Marshall
Illinois
Plane knocks down television antenna in Fairfield
James B. McKinney says a low flying twin engine plane swept over his two story house and knocked down his television antenna as it caused his picture to jump. Police had no idea where the plane came from or went.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Conn
James B. McKinney
McKinney
Catlin Case Findings Are Unchanged by Affidavits
Wisconsin referee’s recommendation against Mark Catlin Jr. remains unchanged after Catlin’s affidavits alleging false testimony. Bucklin of West Bend says even if affidavits proved false statements the report and discipline would stay the same. Catlin, former Assembly speaker and GOP figure, was charged by the Board of State Bar Commissioners with using political influence to aid paroled prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mark Catlin, Jr
Appleton
Catlin
Supreme Court
Frank Bucklin
Bucklin
West Bend
Wisconsin Board of State Bar Commissioners
Waupun
Assembly
Walter J. Kohler
Kohler
Joyce Roberts
Carol J. Anderson
Americo de Pietto
de Pietto
Kenosha
Oscar A. Zerk
High Court
Counsel for McCarthy Army Hearings Wed Married in Private Ceremony
Brookline Massachusetts announces Joseph N. Welch 66 chief counsel for the Army in the 1954 Army McCarthy hearings wed his bride Agnes Rodgers Brown of Chestnut Hill in a private Friday ceremony at the bride's home.
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Brookline
Mass
Joseph N. Welch
Army
Agnes Rodgers Brown
Chestnut Hill
Diablo Blast Marks a Purple Blossom Over Nevada Desert
The Diablo underground nuclear test at the Nevada site produced a striking purple blossom and a 25 000 foot mushroom cloud. The device was half the size of WWII bombs and released no appreciable fallout beyond the firing range. Observers in San Francisco saw an orange yellow sky glow.
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Nev
Nevada Desert
Japan
Ground Zero
San Francisco
Death Probe In County Investigates Mrs Marian Gerdes
County authorities investigate the death of 40 year old Marian Gerdes of Pleasant Prairie who died from a basal skull fracture after an incident near her home on Highway 192. Leon Dodge, a key witness, reported she fought and struck a window causing a fall, with an autopsy confirming the fatal fracture.
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Marian Gerdes
Pleasant Prairie
Kenosha Hospital
J. B. Molinaro
Dodge
Schmitt
Gerdes
Stephen Holt
William Raven
Clinton High School Closed Over Integration Tension
Tennessee jurors heard a Clinton High School integration tale with threats and boycotts as John Kasper urged removal of Negro students. Principal David Brittain testified the school closed December 4 citing dangerous pressure after court ordered enrollment.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Highland
Clinton
David J. Brittain
U. S. Dist. Atty
John C. Crawford Jr
Brittain
U. S. Dist
Robert L. Taylor
Zella Lou Nelson
Kasper
Crawford
Clinton High School
Taylor
Stay of execution granted for policeman killer
Chicago reports 27 year old Richard D Carpenter received a stay of execution 14 hours before scheduled electic chair time The stay until August 29 was ordered by Chief Justice Wilbert J Crowley to allow a hearing on the gunmans mental condition
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Chicago
Richard D. Carpenter
Wilbert J. Crowley
Casualty Toll Reported After Russian Vessel Sinks
Press reports state 270 people drowned when a Russian fishing vessel wrecked in the Caspian Sea during a Sunday storm near Tehran.
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Tehran
Caspian Sea
Senator Namara urges firm stand against civil rights bill
In a Senate speech Sen. Namara of Michigan urged backers to reject compromise proposals he said would gut the civil rights bill. Separately the Atomic Energy Commission told Congress it would must cut nuclear power production if forced to meet President Eisenhower’s economy order.
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Washington
P— Sen
Namara
D-Mich
Senate
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Eisenhower
Kenosha Weather Bounces Between Sun, Warmth Returns
The Weather Bureau reports sunny conditions in Kenosha with a high of 80 briefly. Today temperatures ranged from 68 at the sewage plant to 72 downtown with a 60 degree overnight low. Forecast calls for fair cool tonight and partly cloudy Tuesday with highs 75 to 80. Sunrise 5 29 a.m. Sunset 8 24 p.m.
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Weather Bureau
Kenoshans
Kenosha
American Motors
House Debates Foreign Aid Authorization Over $3.2 Billion
House leaders push a $3,242,333,000 foreign aid bill amid opposition and amendments. Chairman Gordon warns the Kremlin shows new faces but Communist aims persist, citing Hungary. Rep. Smith calls the measure dangerous and unnecessary, while Gordon seeks one change to remove a Poland clause.
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Washington
House
Russia
Gordon
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kremlin
Hungary
Lawrence H. Smith
Rwis
Foreign Affairs Committee
Poland
Grounded British Ship Resumes Return Trip
The Reina del Pacifico, a 17,287 ton British liner, left Hamilton Bermuda for Liverpool after a three day grounding on a coral reef. She carried 432 of 556 passengers aboard when she ran aground off Batavia last Monday.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Reina del Pacifico
Liverpool
Batavia
Fatal traffic crashes claim two in Racine and one in Kenosha
Two Racine county men died when Jacobsen’s car struck two telephone poles and a tree on Racine County Trunk FF near Rochester at 3 33 p m Saturday. In Kenosha County, Martin Fassbinder 31 of Salem died after his car skidded and hit a ditch at Hy 75 and 43 early Sunday morning.
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Kenosha
Frank Rumbuce
Rte
Fond du Lac
Otto Mortzfeld
56Th St
Earl Hart
Rt. 3
Phillip Allie
26Th Ave
Wayne Ness
Mortzfeld
Rumbuc
St. Catherine’s Hospital
St. Catherine's Hospital
Allie
Ness
Robert Way
24Th St
Chicago
Nedvar
Way
Burlington Hospital
Richard Schenning
Robert Johns
Kenneth Leiting
John Laurie
Rt. 1
Center Lake Woods
Camp Lake
James P. Tatpoles
S. Cumberland Ave
Park Ridge
Ill
Laurie
Tatooles
Alfred Oetting
Ernest Oberhofer
John H. Baron
E. Edgewood Ave
Milwaukee
Elizabeth Ettenheim
N. Lake Drive
Hillary Gregory
Racine County
Salem
Kenosha County
Waalk
Lut Woum Uim
Frank J. Oliak
Kenneth L. Jacobsen
Martin A. Fassbinder
Hy’s
Olink
Jacobsen
Racine
Bernard J. Evenson
Rochester
Andrew Borucki
Rte. 2
Burlington
Fassbinder
Oliak
Kenosha Navy
Walter Oliak
Mary Lazar
U. S. Army
American Motors Corp
Uaw-Cio
Kenneth
James
Nancy
Carol
Lucy Szikil
Stanley
Douglas
Russell
Dorothy
Ruth
Linda
Marion
Martin, Jr
Eva Fassbinder
Ann
Ronald Ellinger
Waterford
Frank
John
Ronald
Flood threats linger in downstate Illinois and Chicago suburbs
Torrential weekend rains pushed rivers toward flood stages across central and downstate Illinois. Ottawa faced flood conditions on the Illinois River backed by a dam, Starved Rock State Park closed, and 200 families fled Calumet City and Highland due to the Calumet River. Nine deaths were reported in Chicago as debris and outages disrupted services before receding conditions.
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Chicago
Illinois
Chicagoland
Ottawa
Starved Rock State Park
Illinois River
Little Calumet
Highland
Ind
Calumet
City
Ill
Springfield
St. Louis
Vandalia
Kaskaskia River
Boat Mishap Injures Woman in Fox River
A Chicago woman, 50, Sylvia Byers, sustained head and arm cuts when her husband’s boat struck a submerged log on the Fox River and she was thrown overboard and struck by the propeller. Deputies report she was improvised to Kenosha Hospital in fair to good condition.
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St. Joseph Spiritual Mission
Chicago
Holy Hill Shrine
Milwaukee
Kenosha Hospital
Mary Belle Cottingham
Martha Holiness
Wilma Williams
Lula Warren
Gladys Jenkins
Dooie McMurray
Willie Flowers
Minnie Richardson
Kathryne Davis
Lilie Denton
Marie English
Daisy Williams
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Cecia Taylor
Callie Nance
Rosa Lee Griffin
Olivia Burton
Estelle Withers
Celia Barnett
Carolyn Murray
Fox River
Sylvia Byers
Sheriff's Deputies
Albert
Silver Lake
Unlucky Farm Accident Kills La Crosse Boy
Trempealeau County coroner reports 5 year old Darrel Trocinski of La Crosse died from a accidental gunshot on a farm near Strum. His 9 year old uncle Gerald Hertzfeldt found a .22 rifle and the weapon discharged striking Darrel in the left side while playing in a milk house with Sharon Hertzfeldt.
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Hertzfeldt Farm
Gerald
Darrell
Green Returns to Work After Heat Exhaustion
Senator Green of Rhode Island, admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital with what aides termed a heat exhaustion spell, is expected to resume duties in his offices by late today or early Tuesday.
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Washington
Sen. Green
D-Ri
Bethesda Naval Hospital
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Sturtevant Rescue Squad
Sturtevant Fire Department
McCarthy
Evening News
Tennessee Jury
AEC
AMC
Jacobsen Was
Stanton Township
Wis
Jacob Jacobsen
Downing
Boyceville
Wisconsin
Allan O’brien
Shawano
Cecil
George R. Wagg
Stoughton
Dunn
Orington A. Crockett
Neillsville
Crockett
Robert O. Knutson
Washington Island
Neal Hilborn
Wisconsin Rapids
Linda Dalton
Inlaw
Douglas O. Dalton
Downstate
Joliet
Kankakee
Sen. Green Better
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