13 Mar 1955
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Newspaper
La Crosse Sunday Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1955
Page
1
Secretary of State Dulles discusses precise nuclear weapons and delivery systems. He notes that smaller tactical fission bombs can target military sites with minimal civilian damage, contrasting 1955 precision goals with earlier World War II bombing errors.
Walter Reuther head of the CIO United Auto Workers urges Secretary Weeks to apologize for labeling automation fears as scare tactics. He accuses Weeks of distortion and asks President Eisenhower to address the secretary’s statements. Weeks declines to comment.
Rep. Lester R. Johnson of Black River Falls was among 16 Democrats and five new Republicans invited to a White House luncheon with President Eisenhower. The gathering occurred Friday as part of a broader outreach to newly elected members.
Ernest Knutson 35 pleaded guilty to third degree murder in the death of Fillmore County Deputy Walter Kruegel. Judge A C Richardson ordered a 30 year term with transfer to Stillwater Prison after court papers arrive. The case drew on prior grand jury action and a sequence of trial dates.
Raging forest fires near Okefenokee Park in south Georgia and northeast of Foley Florida scatter flames across a half mile fire line. The blaze has consumed about 7 500 acres of timberland and swamp, while not threatening inhabited areas, as state crews report a rampage through swampy terrain.
Swedish police say they dismantled a nationwide spy ring after a year of investigation. Nine suspects were detained in Stockholm Goteborg and other cities with several Swedes among them and foreigners connected to arms factories and Nobel institutions.
The Red Cross membership drive in La Crosse County will continue into next week as announced by general chairman W L Richeson. Over $9,000 has been collected to date with no total membership figure yet available, and Richeson denied any payroll deduction scheme or workplace solicitation. He urged public display of the Red Cross emblem and promoted the theme Make a Deposit on a Pint of Blood.
U S District Judge R E Thomason upholds union leader Clinton Jencks 1950 affidavit perjury conviction and cites Harvey Matusow for criminal contempt of court for obstructing justice in the associated case. Matusow to appear next Wednesday for a contempt hearing. potential five year term.
Senator Knowland predicts a Senate defeat by at least three votes for a Democratic compromise to cut income taxes. He says Republicans will not compromise and would back an administration plan to extend present corporate and excise taxes. White House actions remain uncertain and the vote remains very close according to Knowland’s surveys.
A warrant for Eugene Salzman 21 son of Emil and Clara Salzman charging two counts of first degree murder is issued. The Hayward Wis case follows a fatal ambush in their rural yard with the elder Salzmans killed by rifle fire. Authorities traced Eugene to St Paul Minn where his car was found abandoned near the Carlton Hotel after a late Thursday sign in at 10 55 p m. Gerald Salzman pleaded for his brother to surrender and help police.
Twenty five census workers begin counting school age children and city population in La Crosse March 15 under the League of Women Voters direction. Training Monday 7:30 p.m. at the Main Library.
Richard A. Phelps of New Ashford Mass a dairy management graduate student reports a thief took his boots left at the MSU barn He was experimenting with radioactive iodine and the boots had not been checked for contamination The incident raises concerns over radioactive exposure in the dairy research area.
Past cloudy and slightly warmer with a Sunday high around 44 degrees. Saturday’s afternoon high was 40.
Sen Knowland urges the Navy to stop a Finnish tanker carrying 13 000 tons of jet fuel to Red China if needed. Sen George of Georgia opposes fleet action noting no U S blockade of China. Sen McClellan bemoans government inaction as Aruba noses toward Red China.
About 500 educators and community leaders will tour 35 firms in La Crosse Tuesday as part of the fifth annual Business Education Day. John Burger of General Mills will speak at the Avalon Ballroom dinner, and William Hansen will MC the Minneapolis program.
Washington reports the U S military has drafted emergency plans to back Chiang Kai shek if President Eisenhower must intervene in a Red Chinese attack on Formosa and nearby islets. The strategy envisions rapid mobile operations and sustained supply to Nationalist forces, with multiple contingency options depending on Red moves and timing.
William Flobin Leigh, noted painter of American West scenes, died Saturday at his Manhattan home at age 88. Leigh began painting at six and worked until his death. His January exhibition at Grand Central Art Galleries drew attention. He was a native of Falling Waters Berkeley County West Virginia.
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