18 Jul 1955
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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1955
Page
1
Resort to drastic shakeup as Casablanca riots kill dozens and wound hundreds. Resident General Gilbert Grandval sacks the police chief and orders reform while 260 gendarmes and Foreign Legion units reinforce martial law in a city of 700000.
Secretary of Defense Wilson endorses nuclear air power and reduced ground forces despite opposition from Gen. Ridgway and some congressmen. He noted Eisenhower approved impounding 46 million dollars added to the Marine Corps budget and ordered a temporary hold while revisiting the funds. He also commented on Ridgway's farewell letter and Geneva summit timing.
Lawmakers spent 41750 dollars on entertainment during the six months of the 1955 session, a total reported to the secretary of state.
Skies over Kenosha are generally clear with a slight haze. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy with little temperature change. yesterday's high reached 82 at the sewage treatment plant and the low was 61. Near noon temperatures were 75 at the plant, 77 at American Motors, and 78 downtown.
A 25th anniversary ceremony commemorated Potawatomi Hills camp near Kenosha with 27 000 girls over 25 years. Mrs W H Alford received a bronze statuette in absentia for donating the 120 acre site while Miss Leah Seybold led the camp and paid tribute to founding volunteers. Attendees recalled flag raising June 15 1930 and a skit reenacting camp history.
The Agricultural Department will study how effective milk vending machines are. It informed Sen. Wiley that results of its test will be released sometime next year.
Premier Bulganin to present a 10 year program to boost trade and development. Soviet leaders seek a world forum with the West to widen free trade and promote development in backward areas. Red China may attend the conference as part of the plan.
Senator Russell says Congress will not pass a plan strong enough to reach Eisenhower’s 2.9 million man goal for 1960. Conferees will meet this week to reconcile Senate and House versions, with Russell leading the Senate group. He notes the administration proposal would draft teens for six months training and seven and a half years in reserve if needed, though House leaders balked at drafting.
The Interior Department announced that the treasury will gain about 110 million dollars from last week’s outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sale off Louisiana and Texas. High bonus bids and first year rentals topped the totals.
The pontiff is reported in good health though he works too hard, according to his personal representative to the 36th International Eucharistic Congress.
Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey told Congress that tax cuts could come substantially if world powers agree on a major armaments reduction. The statement linked future fiscal relief to progress in global disarmament negotiations.
Investigators examine each instrument of a twin-engine Convair wrecked at Midway Airport killing 22 and injuring 21. The plane from Dallas to Chicago clipped a gasoline sign in fog, then crashed, with crash crews saving many of 43 aboard. Coroner McCarron heads inquest as Braniff defers safety comment.
Officials announced a ban on nose and throat surgery for children under 16 in Milwaukee County until polio cases decrease. Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, shown at the start of his 1949 treason trial in Hungary, has been granted temporary prison freedom after serving six and a half years. Announcement came on the eve of the Big Four conference in Geneva.
A Honeymoon tragedy near Plymouth Indiana claims the lives of A3C Donald Stein 19 and his bride Mary Fountain 19. Also killed were Theodore Bullman 21 and Kathryn Courtright 37 in the head on collision. Survivors include Otto Stein and one brother William Stein. The crash followed a last minute attempt to avoid impact.
About 500 delegates to the National Association of County Officials convention in Richmond discuss loosening defense information controls and boosting state and federal civil defense coordination. George O. Strehlow proposes two recommendations, including greater press access to security items and stronger legislative cooperation. A plan for a national civil defense agency with equal standing to the military is floated.
A Soviet delegation of twelve Russian farmers and three newsmen toured an Alleman family farm near Slater Iowa to study American agriculture. They toured amid warm welcome, attended ISU experts' luncheon, and planned a news conference and chamber dinner as part of a month long breadbasket tour.
Premier Bulganin announced in Geneva that the Soviet Union will contribute fissionable material to the international atomic materials pool as soon as the agency is set up. Eisenhower urged Moscow to join, with a 220 pound U S earmark already in place. The West pressed for German reunification and a European security system as part of a six point program to curb atomic danger.
Late bulletin reports a strike tying up 50 towboats operated by three Mississippi River shipping firms. Negotiations ended at 4 a.m. with a union spokesman arranging a new session for 2 p.m. Also from Washington Senator George says the Geneva Big Four talks started well after Eisenhower presented a balanced program.
Madison authorities say the farmer's wife, once thought to have died in a rural house fire last week, has been compelled to leave town by curiosity seekers, according to her father.
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