Kenosha Clears 52nd Street Bid Big City Road Move
The Wisconsin Senate approved bill 230-A to place 6.7 miles of 52nd Street on the state trunk system, paving way for county trunk HH expansion to the harbor. Governor expected to sign after highway funding approval and related court actions.
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Kenosha
State Senate
52Nd St
Lawrence Smith
Racine
Richard Custer
30Th Ave
William Trinke
Madison
American Motors
60Th St
Bureau
State Highway Commission
GM Closes 20 Plants as Parts Shortages Hit Production
GM shuts 20 assembly and body plants idling about 60 000 workers amid parts shortages blamed on wildcat strikes and ongoing national bargaining with the United Auto Workers. Plants in Detroit Flint Bay City Saginaw Buffalo Tonawanda Muncie Indianapolis Toledo Baltimore and other locations affected.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
GM Chevrolet
Flint
Bay City
Saginaw
Mich
Buffalo
Tonawanda
N. Y
Indianapolis
Muncie
Ind
Toledo
Ohio
Baltimore
GM Builds Lightweight Train Aimed at Reviving Passenger Service
General Motors announced a new light weight train capable of 400 passengers at over 100 mph for long runs. The design by Electro Motive Division at La Grange Illinois will be unveiled later this summer. The project, requested by a railroad presidents committee, aims to cut the 700 million dollar annual rail passenger deficit. The train costs under 1000 dollars per seat or under 400000 for a full 10 car unit. It will run on a single 1200 horsepower diesel and can achieve 1.3 gallons per mile on straight track.
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Detroit
General Motors
Harlow H. Curtice
Electro-Motive
la Grange
Ill
Curtice
Dulles Urges Austria Treaty Approval Before Geneva Talks
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urging approval of the Austrian treaty. He said Russia’s approval offers hope the Soviet Union will honor other wartime pledges ahead of the Big Four conference in Geneva scheduled for July 18 to 21.
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Washington —i
John Foster Dulles
Russia
Soviet Union
Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Geneva
Switzerland
Rivers and Harbors Funds Cut by 9.6 Per Cent
The House Appropriations Committee voted a 9.6 percent cut in rivers and harbors funds for the Army Engineers. The bill totals 457,967,800 for the fiscal year starting July 1, 1955, higher than last year but well below Eisenhower's request. Construction funds saw the largest reductions, with 312,762,800 allocated, down 42,612,200 from the request.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Army Engineers
House
Republican Congress
Schooner Passenger Service Starts From Honolulu to Tahiti
Newport Beach Calif The Te Vega a 134 foot schooner launches passenger service from Honolulu to Tahiti with bi monthly trips to Marquesas and other South Pacific islands. Maiden voyage to Tahiti Aug 15 and six week cruises cost about 65 per day. Captain Omer Darr a former sailor and Navy man leads a crew of 19 with author William S Stone aboard for the inaugural voyage.
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Newport Beach
Calif
Tahiti
Marquesas
South Pacific
Honolulu
Galapagos
Hawaii
Darr
Harriet
William S. Stone
South Seas
Kenosha Game Farm Open House Sunday
Kenoshans are invited to a first hand look at the Kenosha County Conservation Club at its game farm near Woodworth. About five acres on Hy 50 host 2 000 pheasants being raised for release in six to seven weeks with tours by Leo Peterson and members. The club has stocked pheasants for over 20 years since 1934 and also develops public hunting grounds at New Munster and Kerkman farm extending to 567 acres and Palmer Creek trout stream cooperation with Wisconsin Conservation.
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Kenoshans
Kenosha County Conservation Club
Woodworth
Leo Peterson
Kenosha
Conservation Club
New Munster
Kerkman
Lessons From Salk Vaccine Promise New Virus Remedies
Public Health Service reports the Salk polio vaccine advances may yield new biologics to fight virus infections. It notes limited impact of antibiotics and sulfa drugs and cites lessons from vaccine use guiding future disease control. The study reviews licensing on April 12 and the pause in mass immunizations amid breakthrough cases.
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Washington
Public Health Service
White House
Oveta Culp Hobby
Draft and Reserve Proposals Backed
Washington leaders urged Senate Armed Services Committee to extend the draft four years and extend the doctor draft two years. They pressed approval of President Eisenhower's reserve bill with Adm. Radford and Gen. Hershey leading the push.
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Washington
U. S
Eisenhower
Senate Armed Services Committee
Adm. Arthur
W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Carter L. Burgess
Frank L. Berry
Lewis B. Hershey
Loader plunges into pit. worker killed at plant
Milwaukee reports Joseph Ostrowski, 50, was killed Thursday when a front end loader he operated at International Harvester Co. fell into a debris pit. Workers say Ostrowski appeared to think the machine was in reverse gear.
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Milwaukee
Joseph Ostrowski
International Harvester Co
Ostrowski
Wisconsin Weather Turns Cool With Drizzle Forecast
The latest forecast shows mostly cloudy cool conditions across Wisconsin. Temperatures fell to 45 degrees after a Thursday high near 65 with .45 inches of rain. highs today around 56 to 62 and a low near 45 to 52 tonight, then 60 to 68 Saturday as drizzles linger into early Saturday.
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Wisconsin
American Motors
Assembly Votes Two Cent Hike In Gasoline Tax
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill to raise the gasoline tax from four to six cents a gallon by a 57 to 40 vote and sent it back to the Senate for further action. The measure allocates 60 percent of the extra revenue to towns cities and villages in a split with the state, with one cent of each gallon remaining for state use.
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Madison
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
Assembly
Walter Kohler
Department
House
Dixon Yates Power Line Link Blocked by House Panel
The house appropriations committee rejected funding for a Dixon Yates power line and redirected funds to a new TVA steam plant in Fulton Tennessee. The decision sets up a partisan floor fight over the Dixon Yates plan and its contract with the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Dixon-Yates
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley Authority Power System
TVA
Fulton, Tenn
Congress
Dixon-Yates Group
Middle South Utilities Co
Forest Fire Advances Toward Fargo Georgia
A large forest fire in South Georgia slowed overnight and crept toward Fargo as firefighting units battled the blaze. District Forester G W Lavendar said the three mile front posed a definite threat to Fargo, a town of about 1100 near the Florida line by the Okefenokee Swamp. The fire began Tuesday near Thelma and has burned over 30,000 acres over 18 miles south.
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Waycross
Fargo
G. W. Lavendar
Florida Line
Okefenokee
Thelma
Beloit man elected president of plumbing contractors
Robert T. Morrill of Beloit Wisconsin was chosen as president of the National Association of Plumbing Contractors on Thursday reflecting leadership within the trade group.
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Chicago
Beloit
Wis
Robert T. Morrill
National Assn. of Plumbing Contractors
House trims Reclamation funds for construction program
Washington The house appropriations committee cut 32.22 million dollars from reclamation project requests but says a realistic program can continue with 113.821 million. The president’s budget had slated 146.041 million for reclamation construction for the year starting July 1.
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Washington —P
House Appropriations Committee
Ferry collision injures child aboard excursion boat near Manhattan
A ferry boat side swiped an excursion boat carrying about 400 children near a Manhattan pier. Harbor police reported one person injured and said authorities investigated the incident.
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New York
Manhattan
Harbor
Childless U S Army couples seek Austrian adoptions
Salzburg welfare officials report a surge of adoption requests from American army couples for illegitimate Austrian babies as troops prepare to leave Austria within 90 days of the Austrian state treaty. Applications exceed 20 on one desk. adoptions require Austrian court consent and US approvals.
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Salzburg
Austria
U. S
Army
U. S. State Department
Eisenhower signs postal pay rise and job reshuffle bill
President Eisenhower signs a law boosting postal workers salaries by about 8 percent on average, totaling roughly 164 million dollars annually. The bill advances a broad authority to reshuffle job classifications to address inequities and improve efficiency, with a six percent raise retroactive to March 1 and a further two percent via reclassification taking effect in six months.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Summerfield
Across-water air race for women leaves Washington
Thirty three light airplanes with sixty one women departed Washington for Havana marking the first cross-water air race for women. Khrushchev promised visas to three American and two British correspondents during his visit to Belgrade. The U S agreed to sell Switzerland the first nuclear reactor offered for foreign government use. In Madison the Assembly taxation committee voted 7-2 to recommend a property tax exemption for Frank Lloyd Wrights school near Spring Green.
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Havana
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Madison
Assembly Taxation Committee
Frank Lloyd Wright
School of Architecture
Spring Green
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Barbara Mierzejewski
Bruce Harmon
Bob Ryan
Harry Schwartz
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Schooner
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Carr
Puget Sound
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China
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Kerkman Farm
Palmer Creek
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Scheele
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