House set to approve trade defense funds and peacetime defense bill
The House planned quick approval of a four year trade program extension and a peacetime defense money bill. Conferees agreed on a four year trade extension with tariff cut authority, while defense funding for the current year totaled about 39.5 billion dollars, with major reductions from Senate plans. The debt limit was raised to 288 billion, and pension and welfare reporting requirements cleared a voice vote.
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Fred
Eisenhower
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Congress
Senate
Tariff Commission
Air Force
Navy
Army
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Spur of the moment bank robbery shocks Wisconsin village
Orrin Sandberg, 50, admitted to robbing the State Bank at Bancroft with a mechanical pencil, claiming a spur of the moment impulse. He fled with $2,450, was captured in a roadblock near Marshfield, and is jailed awaiting transfer after arraignment on federal charges.
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Sandberg
Wausau
Bancroft
Orrin Sandberg
Walter Wohlfahrt
Bancroft State Bank
Eleva
Marshfield
Wood County
Harold Wilkins
Tanker Collision Off Newport Kills Fifteen In Dense Fog
Two tankers collided at the mouth of Newport Harbor in thick fog. Fifteen crewmen died, 29 rescued out of 53 aboard the ships Gulfoil and S E Graham. Capt Montreville Eden of the Gulfoil among the dead. Navy and Coast Guard fought the blaze as flames and smoke spread over the water.
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Newport
R.I
Newport Harbor
Navy
Coast Guard
Montreville Eden
Gulfoil
Providence
R. L
Port Arthur
Tex
S. E. Graham
Newark
N. J
Frank Powell
Karl Anderson
Laurel
Graham
Rose Island
Boston
Gulf Oil Refining Co
S.E. Graham
Graham Co
Philadelphia
Naval Hospital
Newport Hospital
Fourteenth Birthday Brings Fourth Girl to Bristol Family
Morton T. Doolittle, 14, fled his Bristol home after learning his mother had given birth to a fourth daughter. Patrolman Charles Lawler found him hitchhiking in Glens Falls, N.Y. about 80 miles away. He was returned to his father, who drove him home. The boy said he could not face a future with four younger sisters.
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Wausau City
Madison
U.S
Robert J. Schmidt
Sandberg
Eleva
Sth
Eau Claire County
Charles Hertzfeldt
Sandbergs
Racine
Bristol
Morton T. Doolittle
Charles Lawler
Glens Falls
N.Y
Morton
Lawler
Skies Bright Over 68th Inter-State Fair Opening
The 68th annual Inter-State Fair enters its second day with heavy judging in open class dairy cattle beef cattle sheep and poultry. Children from St Michael’s Home and La Crosse Home visit as tours are led by W T Collins.
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Joseph W. Frisch
la Crosse County
Guernsey Breeders’ Assn
St. Michael’s
la Crosse
The
Fair Association
W. T. Collins
Largest Balloon Bursts At 60 000 Feet With Monkey Fate Unknown
A 233 foot polyethylene balloon, aboard a 200 pound payload, reached about 60 000 feet before bursting near the Minnesota Wisconsin border. A 13 pound female monkey along with frogs goldfish and other organisms were onboard for a Air Force cosmic ray experiment. Ground crews search the wilderness for the animals as part of the Manhigh III program to study radiation effects and potential hazards to space operations.
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Crosby, Minn
Winzen Research, Inc
Minneapolis
Wilderness
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Here
Earth
Washington
Air Force
ARDC
Grover J. Schock
Air Force Space Biology Branch
Schok
Dulles to Return for Middle East Policy Drive
Secretary of State Dulles, returning from Brazil, will push U S policy work to neutralize the Middle East in the Cold War. Officials seek practical plans to insulate the area from Soviet Western power struggles and aim for disengagement among great powers.
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Washington
Dulles
Brazil
U. S
Middle East
State Department
Juscelino Kubitschek
Eisenhower
Rio de Janeiro
Kubitschek
Treat Industry as Partner Urged by Wisconsin Governor
Gov Vernon Thomson told a Tomah industrial meeting that sugar attracts industry more than vinegar. He urged Wisconsin communities to treat industry as a partner, noting a community attitude influences firms locating plants and that industries shape community life beyond taxes and jobs.
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Associated Press
Vernon Thomson
Wisconsin
Tomah
Trane Executives Urge Cost Cuts for La Crosse Plant
At a La Crosse County Industrial Development Council meeting, Donald C. Minard of The Trane Co. urged cost reductions to offset high La Crosse costs and distant markets. Thomas Hancock said Trane aims for 100 million dollars in annual U S sales and must cut production costs while maintaining competitive pricing.
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la Crosse County Industrial Development Council
Donald C. Minard
Trane Co
Trane
la Crosse
Minard
la Crosse Industrial Development Council
Thomas Hancock
United States
Twin Cities
Milwaukee
Chicago
Des Moines
Duluth
Moline
Rock Island
Davenport
No Resentment At Nasser Meeting Says Murphy
U S special envoy Robert Murphy reported a friendly four hour Cairo talks with President Nasser despite a snub. Murphy praised the session as very thorough and satisfactory and said he gained a better understanding of Middle East issues.
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U.S
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Robert D. Murphy
Nasser
Unifax
Richard Kasischke
Cairo
U. S
Robert Murphy
Murphy
Nv 2
Eisenhower
Middle East
Lebanon
Addis Ababa
Greece
Ali Sabry
Mahmoud Fawzi
Raymond Hare
Fawzi
Abdel Hakim Amer
U.A.R
Saud
Feisal
Amer
Cyprus
Jordan
Israel
Uncle in on deal Adams torch dies in Flint fire
Michigan Attorney General Paul L Adams said Frank Kierdorf 56 a Teamsters official died after being burned while trying to set fire to a cleaning shop in Flint. He collapsed in Pontiac hospital after hours of conflicting accounts of two strangers setting him alight. The witness who saw the event is in protective custody and Herman Kierdorf Frank's uncle is alleged to be involved.
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Pontiac
Mich
Frank Kierdorf
Michigan Atty
Paul L. Adams
Teamsters Union
Flint
Adams
Herman Kierdorf
Frank
Port Huron
Herman
Kierdorf
Teamsters
Michigan
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