Parade of 36 Bands Shines in La Crosse District Music Festival
Mild weather drew crowds to La Crosse for the District Music Festival Parade featuring 36 bands. Judges evaluated appearance music and marching as bands passed Burns Park and Main Street, with West Salem Cashton Westby and Sparta earning top Class A ratings. Class C and D entries highlighted women directors and growing participation.
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Mildweather
la Crosse
la Crosse State College
Burns Park
William Baker
Richard Church
William Johnston
Joseph Simmons
Independence
Alma
Soldiers Grove
West Salem
Curtis Beers
Cashton
Vivan Weber
Westby
Milton Spors
Sparta
Arnold Jindrick
Beers
Cashton Jr
la Crosse First Lutheran
Frank Italiano
Ontario
James Blackwood
Trempealeau
Eugene Steffes
West Salem Jr
Wilton
John McCarthy
Joyce Corpian
la Farge
Anita Gilles
de Soto
License Memorizer Aids NYC Hold Up Case
A memory expert who recalled a license plate helped police halt a $20,000 hold up near a Manhattan film laboratory. The car, found registered to a man whose son used it, was reported stolen hours after the robbery. James Sciandra, the son, was arrested for acting in concert, and three others on armed robbery charges. A fourth man remained at large.
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New York
mid-Manhattan
Manhattan
James Sciandra
Men dominate phys ed training while women’s tracks grow
The Coordinating Committee for Higher Education reports no current shortage of men physical education teachers, focusing male training at La Crosse State College and UW. It urges major courses for women at Oshkosh, Milwaukee, and UW, likely starting 1959 60, to address persistent shortage of women teachers.
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Boards of Regents
University of Wisconsin
la Crosse State College
State College
Oshkosh
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Car Makers and Union At Odds Over Pact Terms
The United Auto Workers and the big three automakers face a multimillion dollar gap in wage talks as May contract expirations loom. Mutual concerns over retirement security and layoff pay span a potential path to two year labor peace with concessions possible to reduce wage costs.
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Dwight Pitkin
Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Distribution Of Surplus Food To Start On Monday
The first surplus food distribution for needy county families begins Monday at 8:30 a.m. at the Robin son Warehouse food center on Front and Main. It runs 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. 1,771 people have been certified for the program. Identification card holders may receive food at the center. low income families may apply for aid at the La Crosse County Relief Department, 403 Main St., during May.
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Robinson Warehouse
Mae W. Bellevue
la Crosse County
Ford II Letters to Ford Workers Over Union Demands
Henry Ford II said he would protect Ford workers from union demands that could weaken the company or hurt the economy. The message was sent during a weekend recess in ongoing talks with the United Auto Workers over a new contract including profit sharing. He urged workers to view contract gains as the result of mutual bargain and rejected claims that labor wins came from a reluctant management.
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Detroit
Henry Ford II
Ford
Company
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Rhee Liberals Win Clear South Korea Assembly Victory
President Syngman Rhee’s liberals regain power in the National Assembly with a clear but smaller majority. The opposition labels Friday’s election unfair and reports irregularities.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
National Assembly
Suspect Soviet Planes Sighted in North Pole Airspace
U S weather planes detect vapor trails suggesting Soviet aircraft operating in the North Pole region. Air Force crews report occasional contrails from unknown planes, while denying close identification. After the UN veto of Arctic inspection, the U S will improve radar and bomber patrols with no change to SAC policy of keeping armed aircraft south of the 80th parallel. The Distant Early Warning Line offers two to three hours of warning for U S and Canadian cities.
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Washington i
United States
North Pole
U.S. Air Force
Air Force
United Nations
Arctic
Dulles
Strategic Air Command
Continent
Greenland
U.S
Missing Girl Found Alive After Abduction in St. Louis
A 15 year old youth admitted abducting 6 year old Kathy Hampton and taking her to a ramshackle North St. Louis house. Kathy was found alive outside the dwelling dirty and hungry after a 70 hour disappearance. She had bruises and said she had been hurt but showed no signs of rape.
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ST. Louis
James Chapman
Kathy Hampton
Chapman
City Hospital
Kathy
Rollin Picou
North St. Louis
Constable and Student Die In Wisconsin Accidents
The 1958 Wisconsin traffic toll rose to 217 after a Ripon College student died in a Green Lake town crash. Arlington Heights resident Donald D. Drews was killed when the sports car crashed. Driver David Fellingham of Ballentine was injured, and Michael Wiegel the Patch Grove constable died in a head on collision near Patch Grove on Highway 35.
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Ripon College
Wisconsin
Donald D. Drews
Arlington Heights
Ill
Green Lake
Ripon
David Fellingham
Ballentine
Michael Wiegel
Patch Grove
Grant County
UW selects Willard as graduate school dean
Dr. John E. Willard, 50, chemistry professor, named dean of the University of Wisconsin graduate school to succeed Conrad A. Elvehjem. Effective July 1, Willard joins the post after serving in the university department since 1937, noted for peaceful uses of atomic byproducts.
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Madison
John E. Willard
University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Conrad A. Elvehjem
Willard
University Board of Regents
Elvehjem
E. B. Fred
Girl Dies After Escaped Lion Attacks In Nanaimo
An escaped African lioness killed 8 year old Maureen Vanstone near Departure Bay on Vancouver Island. Police and volunteers tracked the beast for seven hours before it was cornered and shot. The child died on the way to hospital.
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Nanaimo
B.C
Here
Mounted
Maureen Vanstone
W. E. Vanstone
Pacific Biological Station
Departure Bay
Vancouver Island
Nanaimo Fish and Game Assny
Mounted Police
Zoo
Eleven Nations Invited To Antarctic Peace Pact
President Eisenhower proposed a 12 nation conference inviting the Soviet Union and 10 other countries Argentina Australia Belgium Chile France Japan New Zealand Norway South Africa Britain to sign a treaty dedicating Antarctica to peaceful scientific research and to prevent territorial claims and conflicts Open to scientific investigation by all nations and continuing IGY cooperation through year end The proposal aims to shield Antarctica from global political strife and promote international collaboration with a future conference anticipated.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Antarctica
White House
United States
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Chile
France
Japan
New Zealand
Norway
South Africa
Britain
U.S
Moscow
Mikhail Menshikov
Robert Murphy
Tyo
Anniversary program marks 50th year of city park board
The La Crosse Park Commission observes its 50th anniversary with a multi month program opening May 15 marking the board’s 51st year. Historic notes trace Pettibone Park Burns Park and Cameron Park, plus early city park efforts, court land battles, and the move to a formal park system in 1908.
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la Crosse Tribune
Board of Park Commissioners
Park Commission
Pettibone
A. W. Pettibone
Minnesota
Bluffs
la Crosse
Grandfather's Bluff
Granddad’s Bluff
Pettibone Park
Burns Park
7Th
Main Streets
Timothy Burns
G. Farnam
Peter Burns
King Street
4Th Street
5Th Avenue
Daniel Cameron
Eron
Cameron
Helen Janet McArthur
Routh Street
Cameron Park
Angus Cameron
Peter Cameron
Board of Public Works
Wendell A. Anderson
U.S
Montreal
Old Opera House
4Th
Mass Assembly
John Nolen
Common Council
Midcontinent Storms and Floods Sweep Large Area
Violent spring weather lashed the midcontinent with swisters floods and thunder storms. A tornado smashed a barn near Baldwin Illinois and another twister was sighted near St. Louis Airport. Cooler air triggered storms from Texas to Kansas and the Mississippi Valley. Texas saw eight inches of rain. two hundred families evacuated Fort Worth as flood threats rose. many returned as waters receded in San Marcos and near Gladewater.
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Associated Press
Texas
Baldwin
Illinois
St. Louis
Kansas
Mississippi
Fort Worth
San Marcos
Texas (Oil) Co
Gladewater
Tom Leads the Way Blind Cocker Spaniel and Cat Guide
In Columbia South Carolina a blind 12 year old cocker spaniel named Topsy uses a seeing eye cat to navigate. Mr and Mrs W E Titlow report the cat guides Topsy by leading when she is outdoors and even assists indoors stalking from nearby shrubs. The cat remains part of the household as Topsy follows close behind.
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Columbia, S.C
Topsy
W. E. Titlow
Mrs. Titlow
Sixteen Hurt When Bus Carries DeMolay Members Overturns
A bus carrying eighteen Joplin DeMolay members overturned four miles south of Stanley Kansas on U S Highway 69 injuring sixteen. Fourteen were hospitalized as the group headed to a western district conclave at Independence Missouri.
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Stanley
Kan
Joplin
Here
U.S. Highway 69
Independence
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Tribune
Weatherman
Eenee Daily Records
LA Crosse No. 1
Rhee
Antarctic
Ike
N. Pole
The
Dr. Willard
UW Graduate School
Girl
State Department
City Park Commission
By Donald W. Affolter
D. Cam
Tom
Mississippi River
Dresbach Dam
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