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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1963
Page
7
Bulldozers and dredges transform swamp land in Cape Canaveral into a massive spaceport. The AP report notes heavy equipment clearing swamps as the United States advances plans for lunar and planetary flights.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans 87 000 acres on Merritt Island and a Cape Canaveral strip for Saturn 5 pads and launch complexes to propel Apollo in 1968. About 9 000 workers by year end, 45 000 by 1966, with $1.7 billion in 3 years and a Cape payroll around $225 million in 1966.
Roland Day of Madison filed with the State Supreme Court a plan to realign Wisconsin Senate and Assembly districts. The council plan would expand Milwaukee and Waukesha representation and place about one million more citizens into Assembly districts with less than a ten percent deviation from the population ideal. The court plans to hear Gov Reynolds’ reapportionment suit on September 1 and Day called the resolution a nullity in violation of the state constitution.
In Chicago Attendant Service Corp executive Cyrus Garfield aged 55 was shot in the face during a scuffle with three well dressed men posing as South Side representatives. Garfield died later in hospital. The trio fled with a rope and tape left behind. Police consider robbery a possible motive.
Los Angeles AP report states actress Mercedes McCambridge seeks 50 000 dollars in damages after a January 13 fall at the Masquers Club during rehearsal. The suit filed in Superior Court says she could not work for many months.
The Agriculture Department reports mid-July farm prices rose 1.67 percent from mid-June, keeping overall prices at 79 percent of parity, while input costs climbed 0.3 percent. Beef cattle hogs and milk led gains. wheat slipped. Prices paid by farmers reached a record 312 percent of the 1910-14 base, 2 percent above a year earlier.
The Associated Press report notes rising Negro militancy in Northern and Southern communities with moderate voices silenced by radical groups. It covers confrontations with NAACP leaders, Cambridge protests, Harlem unrest, and leadership tensions among King, Malcolm X, and the big four civil rights groups.
Mexico City AP reports Alfonzo de Rosenzweig Diaz age 77 a veteran Mexican diplomat and former ambassador to Great Britain died on Monday.
Police say 16 year old Alan Norcutt confessed to starting 33 fires in the Chicago area including a basement blaze that killed Carlos Chaparro 23 and Prodoljub Mirkovich 52. He faces 13 counts of arson and was taken into custody after an attempted arson on the Near North Side.
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