Assembly Takes Up College Merger Bill
The Wisconsin Assembly debates a plan to unify higher education under one board and merge the UW Milwaukee division with Wisconsin State College. The Senate backs a separate integration approach while approving a Milwaukee lake shore college. A boys' state school bill advances, with site decisions left to the state building commission and protests mounted over location options.
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Madison
State Assembly
State Senate
Kettle Moraine State Forest
Senate
Nelson
Dempsey
Hartland
Waukesha
State Building Commission
Rogan
Darien man sentenced for wife's strangulation murder
Elkhorn Virgil Lins 29 received 14 to 29 years in Waupun prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the strangulation of his wife Julena 33 a rural school teacher. He admitted choking her at their home on June 2 after a finances dispute and their wake found her dead the next morning. Their sons aged 2 and 8 were in relatives’ care in Spring Green.
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Virgil Lins
Darien
Walworth
Roscoe Luce
Waupun
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Julena
Spring Green
British Railway Strike Settled
London ends 17 day stoppage as truce plan reaches final draft after morning talks among 67 000 ASLEF members and NUR leaders. Jim Campbell says unions will meet to ratify once documents are considered. London papers hail likely quick return to work.
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National Union of Railway Men
Ministry of Labor
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National Union of Railwaymen
Labor Ministry
NUR
Jim Campbell
Flash Floods Hit Nevada Deluge Halts Train Near Winnemucca
Torrential desert cloudbursts flood Las Vegas causing $100000 to $500000 in damage and leaving 80 percent of telephones out. Mayor C. D. Baker considers a state of emergency as Western Pacific California Zephyr derails 58 miles west of Winnemucca with 300 passengers. The storm lasts about an hour delivering 2 to 3 inches of rain and hail.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada
C. D. Baker
Western Pacific Railroad
Winnemucca
Eddie Lambert
West Germany to Send Delegate to Geneva Conference
West Germany plans to send a delegation to the Big Four summit in Geneva in July. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano announced the move today.
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West Germany
Bonn
Germany
Geneva
Heinrich von Brentano
Work Stoppage Ends Merrill Sweatshop AFL Union
Members of the AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union returned to work at the Merrill Sportswear Co. after a one week stoppage. No settlement details were announced.
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Merrill
AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Merrill Sportwear Co
Release of former baron General Sadao Araki approved
The Tokyo government authorized the release of Gen. Sadao Araki, a former baron and Class A war criminal, on grounds of ill health. He was convicted by an international tribunal for conspiracy to wage aggressive wars and violations of international law.
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Tokyo
Sadao Araki
Senate panel approves vast defense funding boost for Air Force
Washington Senate appropriations committee added more than 700 million dollars to Air Force funds and approved a 32 billion dollar bill for all defense agencies. The Army and Marines faced cuts or added funds. Marine and Army motions were defeated 13-7 and 14-6 respectively. Secretary Talbott urged expansion of B52 bomber production under Democratic pressure to reveal more about Soviet air power.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Wilson
Eisenhower
Sen
Chavez
D-N. M
Army
United States Air Force
Defense Department
Air Force
Talbott
Wealthy Milwaukee Woman Hangs Self
Mrs. Bea trice Trostel Rathborne widow of a Louisiana businessman and member of a wealthy Milwaukee family committed suicide today in the basement of a brother's fashionable suburb residence. Family says she had received medical care for about a year.
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Milwaukee
Beatrice Trostel Rathborne
Trostel
Peron Backed by Nine Hour Argentina Strike
Buenos Aires reports a nine hour nationwide strike led by CGT to show support for Juan and Eva Peron amid clashes with Catholic clergy. fresh fighting erupted at Plaza de Mayo near the Metropolitan Cathedral as crowds clashed with Peronist supporters. Twenty nine injured, about four hundred seventy arrested as protests spread across the country.
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Argentina
Juan Peron
Peron
Plaza de Mayo
Peronistas
Episcopal Palace
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Peronista Movement
Eva
Policeman Kills Bandit in Downtown Gun Battle
A police officer shot and killed a payroll bandit in a wild gun battle on a crowded New York street. A $4,000 payroll was recovered. At least two others were wounded as pedestrians and motorists sought cover. an elevator operator was shot while aiding a 19 year old woman messenger.
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New York
Pav
Wisconsin Assembly nixes Kohler university merger plan
The Wisconsin Assembly votes 60 to 32 to defeat Gov. Kohler’s plan to merge the University of Wisconsin and State College Boards of Regents. Two alternative merger proposals remain alive, with one already approved by the Senate.
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Madison
Wisconsin Assembly
Walter Kohler
University of Wisconsin and
State College Boards of Regents
Senate
Eisenhower Adenauer say neutrality cannot apply to Germany
Washington and Bonn leaders declare today that the concept of neutrality cannot be applied to Germany. President Eisenhower and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer emphasize a united postwar stance and ongoing Allied integration.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Vaccination Plan Criticized by Health Secretary Hobby
Washington health secretary Oveta Culp Hobby dismissed a Democratic proposal to provide free polio vaccine to all children as unnecessary and undesirable. The comment underscores partisan debate over public health funding and immunization during the polio era.
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Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
House panel votes to lower draft age for doctors
The House Armed Services Committee voted to reduce the maximum draft age for physicians and dentists from 50 to 45, aligning medical conscription with earlier standards. The move could affect selective service requirements for medical professionals.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Kenosha Enjoys Sunshine After 11 Wet Days
The city brightens as rain ends and sun returns. Families cope with confinement and habits shift as outdoor life resumes and tensions ease. County records show a boom in marriage licenses while farmers plan to catch up on work after steady rainfall.
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Kenosha
E. V. Ryall
City Signs $450 Contract for Holiday Flag Displays
Kenosha will raise flags on Memorial Day July 4 Labor Day and Armistice Day via Ajax Decorating Co on light poles in downtown uptown and north side districts. The American Legion distributed classroom flags while urging owners to burn worn flags and offering ceremonial disposal at Simmons Island each July 4 at sunset.
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North Side
Joseph Duffy
Richard Custer
Park Department
Sheridan Rd
75Th St
American Legion
Legion
Simmons Island
Return of Sun Lifts Spirits With Bright Skies
After two weeks of absence the sun returned and clear skies spread across the state. Unseasonable coolness lingered with a 48 degree low and 56 high yesterday while noon readings ranged from 60 at the sewage plant to 63 downtown. Tonight and Wednesday forecast fair and pleasant with nights 46 to 52 and highs of 75 to 80, cooler near Lake Michigan.
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American Motors
Lake Michigan
UAW Opens Talks With AMC On Pooling Small Firm Wages
CIO United Auto Workers begins preliminary contract talks with American Motors Corp to extend guaranteed wages from Ford and GM to smaller makers. Reuther envisions a central pool funded by small firms with scaled payments based on plant unemployment, excluding Chrysler from this plan.
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CIO
United Auto Workers
American Motors Corp
Ford
General Motors
American Motors
Nash-Hudson
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Girl 11 Fatally Burned In Tractor Collision
Royalton Wisconsin reports Sandra Roloff 11 of rural New London killed when a tractor pulling a lumber trailer collided with a cattle truck near here. The truck driven by Nevin Cauley 33 of Custer tipped and pinned the girl under it. Her father Clarence Roloff rode on the tractor at the time.
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Wis
Sandra Roloff
New London
Here
Clarence Roloff
Nevin Cauley
Custer
Public Service Advertisement Collaboration Notice
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