U S Flies India Troops to Congo Amid Congo Opposition
United States Air Force planes depart India carrying 4700 Indian Gurkha troops to join UN forces in the Congo. Congolese leaders warn of bloodshed if UN action is applied, opposing further foreign troops and hinting at forceful resistance.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
India
United Nations Command
U. N
World Organization
United Nations
Ileo
Stanleyville
Ife
Victor Lundula
Senate Finance Panel Approves Unemployment Aid Plan
The Senate Finance Committee backed an emergency unemployment aid bill with a state based employer contribution, pending full Senate action. A Senate labor subcommittee approved Kennedy’s plan to raise the federal minimum to 1.25 dollars an hour over two years, extending coverage to about 4.3 million workers.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Trl
Kennedy
Milwaukee man dies after fall at Gen Billy Mitchell Field terminal
William Bentz 76 of Nekoosa died after a fall in the terminal building at Gen Billy Mitchell Field Tuesday night. He suffered a skull fracture and was pronounced dead.
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Milwaukee
William Bentz
Nekoosa
Gen. Billy Mitchell Field
Murrow Named U S Information Agency Director
The Senate rapid and unanimous confirmed Edward R. Murrow, noted radio and TV figure, as director of the U S Information Agency. In Madison the Assembly approved a bill to allow Wisconsin to join federal moves to extend unemployment benefit payment periods and another bill proposing a 3 percent sales tax on consumer purchases.
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Washington
Senate
Edward R. Murrow
U.S. Information Agency
Madison
Assembly
Wisconsin
Chinese irregulars to be flown to Formosa on Friday
Defense Ministry sources say about 1,200 armed Chinese Nationalist irregulars who crossed from Laos into north Thailand will be flown to Formosa. Unofficial reports indicate the movement will start Friday.
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Formosa
Bangkok
Thailand
Defense Ministry
Laos
Kennedy calls for civil debate on school aid plan
President Kennedy urged all sides to discuss federal aid to parochial and private schools without dividing the nation. He backed 2.3 billion dollars in public school grants and suggested possible nonpublic loans while maintaining that broad loans to private schools remain unconstitutional. He cited religious harmony as essential to national strength and outlined other policy aims including jobs, disarmament progress, and support for Laos and Israel.
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Washington
Kennedy
Cp . Ib
Congress
White House
United States
House
Senate
Laos
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Arthur Dean
Geneva
Adlai Stevenson
United Nations
State Department
Britain
Wisconsin Official Seeks One-Cent Cigarette Tax Rise
Madison Governor Gaylord Nelson urged a ten year conservation program and a one cent per pack cigarette tax increase to fund a 50 million plan. The package would expand state parks forests fisheries youth camps and scenic highway preservation with targeted land purchases and new tourist centers.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Nelson
Lake Superior
New York
Conservation Department
Attorney General's Office
Highway Commission
Department of Resource Development
Soil Conservation Committee
Welfare Department
Seven Children Die in Rural Fire
Seven children aged two to eleven died in a fire at a rural home near Excelsior Springs Missouri while their parents Raymond and Mrs Floyd were away doing laundry. The blaze destroyed the house near the village of Wibbard and the cause was not immediately determined.
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Excelsior Springs
Raymond Floyd
Glenn Douglas Floyd
Mona Lou
Roxy Ann
Wiley
Kathy
Sheila
Arnold Fugene
Wibbard
Weather Outlook for Kenosha Area Tonight and Thursday
The Kenosha area sees little change in temperatures over the next 24 hours with a low around 25 to 30 and a high in the 40s on Thursday. Partly cloudy conditions prevail tonight and tomorrow. Readings at noon show 36 at Southport Park, 39 downtown, and 40 at the American Motors west side plant. The Southport low today was 32. yesterday ranged from 82 to 49. Sunrise 6 04, sunset S5T.
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Kenosha
Mercury
Southport Park
American Motors
Electrical Firms Sued Overcharges in Major Antitrust Action
The Justice Department joined the Tennessee Valley Authority in filing a civil suit against five electrical equipment firms for nearly 12 million dollars alleging overcharges. General Electric, Westinghouse, Allis-Chalmers, Federal Electric, and I T E Circuit Breaker Co were named, with these firms previously pleading guilty or no defense in related antitrust cases. The action, first of its kind by the federal government, follows earlier prosecutions of 29 firms and 44 executives for bid rigging and price fixing.
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Philadelphia
Justice Department
Tennessee Valley Authority
Robert Kennedy
William Maher
Antitrust
Maher
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
America
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
West Allis
Wis
U. S
Federal Electric Co
Newark
N. J
I-T-E Circuit Breaker Co
Misrouted Train Hits Switch Engine in Washington Suburb
A Southern Railway passenger train bound for New Orleans collided with a yard switch engine in Alexandria causing minor injuries to 18 people. The Southerner was misrouted onto a yard siding in the Washington suburb, ramming the yard engine at Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac yard.
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Alexandria
Upl
Southern Railway
New Orleans
Southerner
Washington
Richmond, Fredericksburg
Potomac Yard
Goldberg Hears State's Job Troubles
Secretary Goldberg tours Wisconsin hearing unemployment concerns in Milwaukee and noting 30,000 locally unemployed plus a 7.2 percent jobless rate. He urges federal state local cooperation and signals Milwaukee might be declared a labor market area of substantial unemployment.
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Wisconsin
Arthur Goldberg
Washington
Goldberg
Milwaukee
Goldbergs
Duluth
Minn
Police and Robbers Tie After Multistate Heists
Police and robbers tied 2 2 after encounters in Illinois Michigan and West Virginia. Four robberies netted 12653 85 with five suspects. A Chicago bank lure yielded 8821 and a Detroit bank hold up 3156. Wheeling West Virginia police captured two suspects after a woman driver pinned one against a wall.
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West Virginia
Michigan
Illinois
Wheeling
W. Va
Elwood Nickerson
Handley Motor Co
Clarence Bachman
Bachman
Raymond Creech
Greenwood
Ind
Joseph McKinley
Indianapolis
Favors Regional Recreational Complex in Southeast Wisconsin
Gov. Nelson backs a large recreation complex to serve Milwaukee Waukesha Racine and Kenosha counties. The plan envisions a 10 year buildout extending from Walworth County north to the Kettle Moraine and east to Lake Michigan with multiple park additions.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Waukesha
Racine
Kenosha
Gov. Nelson
Walworth County
Washington County
Terry Andrae
Lake Michigan
Mystery Plane Cargo Is Sought Overboard Dump Near Williamsport
A crippled C-47 flying from Rochester to Bolling AFB dumped about 4800 pounds of cargo in wooded areas near Williamsport Pennsylvania to ensure a safe landing at Wilkes-Barre Scranton. Harrisburg based Air Force security and state police hunt for cargo believed classified with Olmstead AFB assistance.
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Harrisburg
Air Force
Olmstead Air Force Base
Rochester
N. Y
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington
Wilkes-Barre Scranton
Williamsport
Olmstead
Wilkes-Barre
Wisconsin Toll Rises to 154 After Nun Crash
Two Roman Catholic nuns from St. Joseph's Parish in Oneida were killed when struck by a car as they walked near their church. Sister Mary Hubert and Sister Mary Elizabeth died Tuesday night. Sister Mary Dismas was critically injured. The highway toll for the state reached 154 for 1961, up from 125 a year ago at this time.
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Wisconsin
Mary Hubert
Mary Elizabeth
St. Joseph's
Oneida
Sister Mary Dismas
Lease urged for Mt Whittlesly recreation area plan
Madison state senator today backed a joint resolution urging Oliver Mining Co of Duluth Minnesota to lease Mt Whittlesly to the Mellen Area Development Corp for use as a prime recreation area. The move aims to open the property for public enjoyment and regional development.
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Lester
Anthony Morrissey
Murrow
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Credit For Israel
Israel
Libby
Montana
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Columbia Basin
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Kettle Moraine
High Cliff
Governor Dodge
Mirror Lake
Sauk County
Whitefish Bay
Europe Lake
Door County
Lake Wissota
Chippewa County
Sugar Creek
Pike Lake
Allis-Chalmers
State
Henry Maier
United Press International
Chicago
National Security Bank
Jeri Marcinek
Ernest J. Kiemme
Kiemme
DuQuoin
Detroit
Leroy Fuller
National Bank of Detroit
Fuller
Mystery Plane
Associated Press
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