GOP Marks 100th Birthday at Ripon Rally
The Ripon celebration marked the Republican centennial with a parade and speeches by Gov. Walter Kohler and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy attacked Sen. Stuart Symington and Army officials, claiming Democrats guided Republican actions. Kohler praised GOP progress since 1854.
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Ripon
U.P
Milwaukee
Gov
Walter Kohler
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Hell
Joe
Symington
Clark Clifford
Truman
Stevens
Kohler
Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
America
Eisenhower
Washington
White
Sewage Service Promises Prompt Qualified Crew
Our first machine, ten years old and still operating by its original operator, shows reliability. The second machine is built to handle sink lavatory and bath waste lines, and a new Caye has been purchased to ensure prompt, efficient sewer service by competent, experienced men.
Figure Extension of Radar Network
Washington civil defense planners expect radar networks to be extended next year to provide about an hour of advance warning of aerial attack. FCDA said dispersal could move people in target areas two miles toward suburbs, reducing casualties though not preventing them. The assumptions, based on Russian capabilities, do not predict an attack.
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Washington
Federal Civil Defense Administration
FCDA
Toll Roads Turnpikes Spark A New Road Boom
U S policy and finance circles buzz over a toll road expansion boom as states issue hundreds of millions in bonds to fund multi lane highways. Kentucky plans 38.5 million for a Louisville to Elizabethtown toll road while New York state Thruway Authority aligns 300 million for a NYC to Buffalo corridor. The West Virginia turnpike opens August 1 at 123 million in bonds. Experts note rising miles under construction and proposed, with 5 000 additional miles authorized or proposed.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Elizabethtown
New York State Thruway Authority
New York City
Buffalo
Wall Street
America
United States
U. S
East
West Virginia Turnpike
Rural Leader Seeks Democratic Nomination in 3rd District
Richland Center Wisconsin Joseph Seep a Richland county dairy farmer civic leader and rural electrification official announces his bid for the Democratic nomination for congress in the 3rd district Seep chairs Westport town board serves on the county board runs a 200 acre dairy farm and leads the county rural electrification administration while directing the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative He criticizes the Republican administration on farm issues rural electrification and labor.
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Richland Center
Wis
U.P
Joseph Seep
Richland County
Seep
Westport
Richland
Richland County Rural Electrification Administration
Wisconsin Electric Cooperative
Republican National Administration
Guatemalans Rally in Support of Arbenz Government
Workers in four Communist-led meetings backed President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán as CGTG and CNCG pressed for a farmer militia to defend sovereignty. Army figures denied ties, amid reports of a 10 million dollar Soviet arms shipment and the flight of Col Mendoza Azurdia with asylum in El Salvador.
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Guatemala
CGTG
Puerto Barrios
CNCG
Guatemala City
el Progresso
Zacapa
Carlos H. Sarti
Stettin
Poland
Rodolfo Mendoza Azurdia
el Salvador
Democrats Bid For Labor Vote In Wisconsin Rapids
William Proxmire, Democratic candidate for governor, told AFL Machinists in Wisconsin Rapids that Republicans failed to raise unemployment compensation and criticized the current five year limit on permanently injured worker benefits. James Doyle spoke earlier, urging a liberal breakthrough in the 1954 fall elections.
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Wisconsin Rapids
William Proxmire
Blooming Grove
State Council of
AFL
Proxmire
James Doyle
Giraffe and Mouse Share Same Neck Bone Count
The tallest animal the giraffe owes much of its height to a long neck, yet the mouse and the giraffe both have seven neck bones. This fact highlights surprising similarities across very different creatures.
GOP Should Set Asia Course Says Gore and Allies
Senator Gore said the administration must decide on a Southeast Asia policy before Congress acts, agreeing with Senator Knowland that the free world faces a decisive moment at Geneva. Other senators weighed options from brinkmanship to limited force and even the atomic bomb to deter Communist advances in Indo China and Vietnam.
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Washington
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Indo-China
Southeast Asia
Sen. Knowland
California
Senate
Free World
Geneva
Indo- China
Congress
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Secretary of States
Dulles
Joint Chiefs
Secretary of State
Knowland
Asia
Hanoi
Red River
Free Nations
Sen. Bridges
R-N.h
U. S
NBC Radiotelevision
Bridges
U S Senators Debate Indo China Action At UN
Sen Wiley urged that free nations take the Indo Chinese issue to the United Nations for action. He spoke in Louisville as Knowland suggested bypassing Britain and France to seek Pacific allies, while Wiley stressed keeping existing allies.
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Knowland
United States
Britain
France
Pacific
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Louisville
Wiley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations
Checks Ruin Careers at Naval Academy Graduations
Sen. Estes Kefauver charges that withholding commissions from three Naval Academy graduates after security checks has harmed their reputations. He calls for full checks before graduation and notes futures may be affected even if cleared. Rep. Melvin Price supports cadet checks during four years prior to graduation. The cadets are Paul Shimek Jr., Harold Irving Pollack, and Peter Yadlowsky.
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Washington
U.P
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Naval Academy
Kefauver
Senate Armed Services Committee
Melvin Price
D-Ill
Price
House Armed Services Committee
Paul Shimek, Jr
Hazen, Ark
Harold Irving Pollack
Hartford
Forgotten Woman Freed After Ten Day Jail Time
A Mexico City woman jailed for ten days as a beggar was released today two years, three months and nine days after her term should have ended. Gen Florencio Anitua, director of the penitentiary, said court clerks apparently forgot to order her release on time.
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Mexico City
U.P
Florencio Anitua
Hometown honors dead chaplain in Kansas church
In Pilsen Kansas the Rev. Emil J. Kapaun, a Catholic chaplain who died in a North Korean prison camp, was honored in St. John Church by fellow prisoners of war. Capt. Ralph Nardella of Paterson New Jersey presented an $8300 fund and a crucifix carved from oak and prison-made knife scraps.
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Pilsen
Kan
Emil J. Kapaun
St. John
Father Kapaun
Ralph Nardella
Paterson
N. J
Nardella
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Skipper
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6Th Ave
56Th St
Helen Doss
University of Redlands
Calif
Carl M. Doss
Rita
Diane
Gregory
Alex
Teddy
Launa
Dorothy
Donald
Timmy
Suir
New York
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Mendoza
Miguel
Arbenz
Fire Department
Kenosha
Magnuson
D-Wash
Scholls
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Duncan Hines
Franks’ Diner
58Th Street
Wisconsin Restaurant Association
Fifty-sixth Street
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