Wisconsin bills seek nine dollar auto registration rise
A nine dollar increase in Wisconsin's auto registration fee from sixteen to twenty five dollars was proposed to fund local street improvements. The measure, sponsored by Assemblyman Charles Schmidt, aims to raise about eighteen point five million dollars over two years. The article also covers reapportionment hearings, retirement system coverage for counties, and a senate vote on divorce notice timing and beer sale age proposals.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Charles Schmidt
Milwaukee
Schmidt
Glenn Pommerening
Rwauwatosa
Assembly Elections Committee
Legislative Council
Pommerening
Assembly
Senate
William Moser
Family Code Revision Committee
Moser
Jerris Leonard
House
Davis Donnelly
D-Eau Claire
Weather improves with Friday sun and cooler air
The Weather Sunshine returns Friday after a recess with fair skies forecast tomorrow and cooler temperatures. Highs Friday near 72 to 76, tonight's low 50 to 56 with possible afternoon showers and a cooler, less humid Kenosha.
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Kenosha
Weather Bureau
Southport Park
West Side
American Motors
Southport
Death march exposed in Eichmann tribunal for Budapest Jews
The court heard that Adolf Eichmann ordered a 125 mile death march of 50 000 Budapest Jews in November 1944. Between 6 000 and 10 000 perished from hunger disease cold or shooting as gendarmes followed German orders. Die ter Wisliceny received thousands more after the march and was later demoted. The case links the march to Eichmanns broader plan to exterminate Hungarys remaining Jews.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Budapest
Heinrich Himmler
Eichmann
Dieter Wisliceny
Wisliceny
Berlin
Auschwitz
Proxmire Pushes Merit System for Postmasters
Sen William Proxmire introduced a bill to remove postmaster appointments from politics and place them under civil service. He noted the merit principle works for most federal workers but presidential appointments and Senate confirmation still allow political influence in local postmaster selections.
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Washington
UPD
William Proxmire
D-Wis
United States
Proxmire
Senate
GOP Tax Plan to Be Ready by July 1 Amid Closed Meetings
Wisconsin Republicans moved to finalize a tax package by July 1 under Sen. Frank Panzer after a closed GOP caucus drew fire from the Milwaukee Journal and Madison Capital Times. Senate Democratic Leader William Moser urged public hearings, while Assemblyman Robert Haase defended secrecy as speeding the process.
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Madison
Republican Tax Drafting Committee
Frank Panzer
Brownsville
Panzer
Milwaukee Journal
The
Madison Capital Times
Gerald Lorge
Bear Creek
Senate
Lorge
Gaylord) Nelson
William Moser
D-Milwaukee
Moser
Robert Haase
R-Marinette
Haase
Assassination of Dominican leader Trujillo shocks Caribbean region
Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo died after his limousine was attacked by ambushers on a highway outside Santo Domingo. The government said he fired back before being killed. his body was hidden in a car trunk and later found. Funeral services were set for Friday in San Cristobal Cathedral.
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Ciudad Trujillo
D. R
Rafael Trujillo
George Washington Highway
Trujillo
San Cristobal
San Cristobal Cathedral
Christopher Columbus
Dominican Consulate Guarded After Rockefeller Center Riot
In New York the Dominican Republic consulate at Rockefeller Center was placed under a 24 hour guard after a riot by Trujillo opponents. Police arrested 31 anti Trujillo protesters who invaded the consulate offices yesterday and about 25 intruders breached the outer office amid reports of the dictator’s assassination.
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Dominican Republic
New York
Trujillo
United States
George A. Smathers
D Fla
U.S
Dominical
UP2
Rockefeller Center
Rafael Trujillo
Campbells awards two scholarships to local high school students
Two students from St. Joseph High School and Mary D. Bradford receive the Thomas B. and Teresa S. Campbell scholarships. Nicolina Evans of Bradford and Thomas Walkush win $500 awards for 2024. Recipients must be children of American Motors employees and show scholastic achievement and financial need.
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St. Joseph High School
Mary D. Bradford
Thomas B
Teresa S. Campbbell
Nicolina Evans
Bradford
Otto Huettner
Virginia Tenuta
Bradford Guidance
American Motors
Berteau
Kennedy and De Gaulle Hold Second Day Talks in Paris
President Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle continued discussions on world issues with a firm stance on Berlin while seeking a common approach to Allied policy. Kennedy spoke to 500 cheering emb workers at the U.S. Embassy and met officials at the Elysee, as Paris welcomed him with a ceremonial reception.
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Kennedy
Charles de Gaulle
Berlin
France
Britain
United States
The
Elysee Palace
de Gaulle
Khrushchev
Vienna
Austria
Hotel de Villa
Roger Frey
Five Teens Die In Port Huron Area Crash
Five high school students returning from a pregraduation party were killed when their car slammed into a concrete bridge 12 miles northwest of Port Huron Michigan. The victims are James R. McLean 16 Alvin H. Meddaugh 18 Barbara A. Waoer wolf 15 Nancy E. Blake 16 and Launce Hill 18, identified by Deputy Sheriff Robert Baker.
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Port Huron
Mich
Here
Robert Baker
James R. McLean
Alvin H. Meddaugh
Barbara A. Waoerwolf
Nancy E. Blake
Launce Hill
Milwaukee settles with former comptroller in accounting case
The Milwaukee Common Council authorized an out of court settlement with former Comptroller Virgil Harless who faced charges of improperly accounting for about $12,000 in expenses. The agreement ends the dispute without trial.
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Milwaukee
UPI
Virgil Harless
Common Council
Slayer Committed After Killing Superior Fisherman
William Wilson, 41, accused of killing a Superior fisherman and two Springfield, Illinois murders, was committed today for an indefinite term in the Central State Hospital for the criminally insane at Waupun. The House Ways and Means Committee approved a one year extension of $3.6 billion in existing taxes on passenger tickets, telephone service, alcohol, and tobacco, sending the bill to the House.
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Superior
Wis
Ipis
William Wilson
Springfield
Ill
Central State Hospital
Waupun
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate kills annexation bill for unincorporated areas
The Wisconsin Senate rejected a bill 19 to 13 that would allow municipalities to annex unincorporated areas by resolution, removing the need for a local public referendum. The same item highlights a U.S. call for democracy in the Dominican Republic.
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Madison —I?pi
Senate
Montgomery Police Chief Denies Neglect In Freedom Rider Beating
Montgomery police commissioner L B Sullivan denies deliberately failing to protect a biracial group the freedom riders beaten by a white mob on May 20 when they arrived on a Greyhound bus. He says there was no policy to refrain from protecting outside agitators and claims he knew three hours in advance of the bus arrival but did not assign extra officers.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
L. B. Sullivan
Freedom Riders
Sullivan
Police Department
Tulsa 12-Year-Old Wins National Spelling Bee Title
John Capehart of Tulsa Oklahoma, a sixth grader at Lee School, won the 34th National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling distichous and smaragdine in a run-off against Mary Lukes of Oxnard California. The champion collects 1000 dollars and a New York trip, after a three year study and a confident performance on difficult words.
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Washington
Jpi
John Capehart
Tulsa
Okla
Smaragdine
Mary Lukes
Oxnard
Calif
Mary
John
New York
Mark
Lee School
Maurice P. Capehart
Friend of JFK Named British Envoy to U.S.
London reports David Oringby Gore 43, a longtime Kennedy ally, named to succeed Sir Harold Caccia as British ambassador to Washington. The appointment formalizes close Anglo American ties and places a trusted associate of the late president in a key diplomatic post.
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JFK
U.S
London
Upb
David Oringby- Gore
Kennedy
Harold Caccia
Washington
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