Wisconsin 1965 Traffic Toll Reaches 603 With Eight Dead
Wisconsin’s 1965 traffic toll rose to 603 after seven weekend deaths and one today. Victims include Duane Neuman 20 of Wittenberg fatally injured Sunday night in Tigerton. George Sirovatka 59 of Wisconsin Rapids killed on Highway 13. Albert Beck 52 of Arkdale charged with backing a gravel truck. Additional fatalities arise from single car crashes near Racine County Burlington Augusta Westby Crandon and Vernon County.
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Wisconsin
Duane Neuman
Wittenberg
Shawano County
Trunk 1
Tigerton
George Sirovatka
Wisconsin Rapids
Wood County
Albert Beck
Arkdale
Sirovatka
John Carney
Chicago
Racine
Burlington
Paul Stensen
Augusta
Eau Claire County
Stensen
Milwaukee
Highway
Westby
Vernon County
Donald Ames
Viroqua
AMC Stalemate Deepens at Wisconsin Assembly Plants
Workers at two Kenosha assembly plants walk out for 24 hours amid disputes over production pace for headlight screws and other grievances. Gov Knowles urged mediation through WERB as unions and AM general managers withhold response. A halt would hit Rambler production and ripple across the system.
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Warren P. Knowles
Wiscon Employment Relations Board
WERB
Morris Slavney
Local 72
American Motors
Kenosh
Rambler
Milwaukee Girls Shot By Motorist
Two 18 year old girls were wounded by a motorist as they walked home from a party on Milwaukee near northwest side. Nancy Mercer in critical condition and Sheryl Studener in fair condition. Police say the car drew alongside and the driver fired four times with a .38 caliber pistol. motive unknown. The shooter remains at large.
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Milwaukee
Nancy Mercer
Sheryl Studener
Sherman, 80, Financial Advisor to Hoover Belgian Relief Dies
Roger Tecumseh Sherman, who advised Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Committee during World War I, died Sunday at age 80 in Los Altos California. He served as a financial advisor and helped coordinate relief efforts for Belgium during the war.
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Los Altos
Calif
Roger Tecumseh Sherman
Herbert Hoover
Fire Department Reports Two Incidents in La Crosse
On Aug. 21 La Crosse firefighters responded to an electrical fire at K mart on Losey Boulevard and State Road. Later a car with a short in the windshield wiper motor was brought to Station 1 from Florence Garden.
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K-mart
Losey Boulevard
State Road
Florence Garden
Station 1
Police Ambulance Calls Note City Patient Deaths
Police and ambulance records show on Aug 21 at 3 48 p m Mrs Otto Sheffield aged 68 taken to Lutheran Hospital with illness and at 8 33 p m Geneva Schwert aged 43 of 1029 South 4th Street listed in transport records from Stoffel Court and hospital care.
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Stoffel Court
Otto Sheffield
Lutheran Hospital
Geneva Schwert
S. 4Th St
Laird predicts North Vietnamese quarantine and expanded Viet Nam actions
Rep. Melvin Laird of Wisconsin says the Johnson administration will likely quarantine North Vietnamese ports like the Cuban blockade. He expects air strikes to hit major military targets such as missile facilities and more U S troops to be committed to South Vietnam.
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Wausau
Melvin Laird
R-Wis
Laird
Wisconsin Business and Professional Women’s Convention
U.S
South Viet Nam
Pope Paul VI Hosts Party for Foreign Seminarians
Pope Paul VI hosted a garden party at his Castel Gandolfo summer villa for about 200 foreign seminarians. The pope mingled with guests as they walked the grounds and were served ice cream and soft drinks.
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Castel Gondolfo
Italy
Paul VI
Market Prices: Allis Chalmers to Wisconsin Fund Quotations
A compiled list of stock quotations as of about 9 am from the National Association of Securities Dealers. Prices are inter-dealer, excluding retail markup, markdown, or commission, with bid and asked ranges and fund values for Boston, Fidelity, Mass, Puritan, and Wisconsin funds.
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National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Commission Central
Clark Oil & Ref
Epko Shoes, Inc
First Bank
la X Cooler Co
la X Telephone
Norplex Corp
Pyroil Co. Inc
Tausche Bonds
Mutual Funds Boston Fund
Chemical Fund
Eaton & Howard Bal. F
Eaton & Howard Std. Fund
Fidelity Fund
Incorporate
Mass
National
William St. F
Puritan Fund
Wisconsin Fund
Tsirimokos vows hard crackdown on Athens riots
Premier Elias Tsirimokos plans a tough policy to ban all downtown demonstrations and rush police response after a six hour riot left 150 injured as 15 000 protesters marched on Parliament. Since Papandreou’s dismissal hundreds have been hurt and a student died in unrest amid fighting over control of the armed forces.
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Athens
Greece
Elias Tsirimokos
George Papandreou
Tsirimokos
Papandreou
Constantine
Confectioner Displays Sign After Crime Wave
Benjamin Ross operates a Baltimore confectionery store and posts crime does not pay on the shop wall after two robberies in December 1963. A robber received 10 years after a $21 theft and another, who fired a shot grazing Ross, got 20 years after a quick arrest.
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Baltimore
Benjamin Ross
Ross
Oil Gland Quiz Brings Clever Reply in Clay
In Clay Kentucky a fourth grade class prompt on skin oil glands yields a witty answer. A pupil claims they keep you from cracking up. The line reflects classroom humor during a routine science lesson.
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Clay
George Todd
Drowned Milwaukee Man in Lake Idlewild
Baldwin Michigan report states Ronald E. Ackinson aged 29 from Milwaukee drowned after wading in Lake Idlewild on a Saturday.
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Baldwin
Mich
Ronald E. Ackinson
Milwaukee
Lake Idlewild
Milwaukee and South St. Paul Livestock Markets Report
The Milwaukee stockyards opened steady for cattle calves hogs and sheep with specific price ranges listed for Friday and ongoing market tones. At South St. Paul slaughter steers and cows moved steady to lower with hogs active and higher early barrow and gilt prices, while Chicago markets show mixed produce prices, wheat and poultry trading and steady to fluctuating dairy items.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Stockyards
South ST. Paul
South ST. Paul, Minn
USDA
U.S
Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Soviet space chief warns before manned moon landing
Dr. Mstislav Keldysh, head of the Soviet space program, says much must be learned before talking about landing a man on the moon or a planet. He cites insufficient data to choose a landing site and warns against rushing based on incomplete information. The U.S. has targeted 1969 for the moon.
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Moscow
Mstislav Keldysh
Keldysh
Soviet Academy of Sciences
United States
U.S
Joseph Shea
Moon
Taylor Old Fashion Days Parade Draws 6000 Crowd
About 6000 residents filled the streets of Taylor Wisconsin for the Old Fashion Days parade. Top prizes went to Curran 4H and Marion's Beauty Shop for the commercial float. Lynn Holton, Rity Lindbo, Dixie Everson, and Ann Lindboe won the kid die parade. Beverly Torkelson and others earned honors in riding, horse and buggy, and antiques. Other firsts included two bicycle race winners Michael Chrisinger and Maureen Casper.
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Taylor
Wis
Lynn Hole‘ton
Rity Lindbo
Dixie Everson
Ann Lindboe
Kathy Olson
Curran
Marion’s Beauty Shop
Taylor Boys
la Crosse Auto Club
Harold Hanson
Beverly Torkelson
Walter Kling
Steven Sobeck
Billy Hu‘lett
Michael Chrisinger
Maureen Casper
Laborite MP dies triggers possible late September by election
Norman Dodds 61 dies in Dartford hospital after heart and lung ailments reducing Labour's Commons majority. Prime Minister Harold Wilson aims to fill the seat before Parliament reconvenes on November 9, with a by election likely in late September.
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London
Labor
House of Commons
Harold Wilson
Norman Dodds
Dodds
Dartford
Novelist Cartland Opposes Fluoridation Campaign
London AP reports novelist Barbara Cartland launched an anti fluoridation effort by selling pure spring water at 10 pence per pint. The move responds to Health Minister Kenneth Robinson urging authorities to add fluoride to water to curb tooth decay.
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London
Barbara Cartland
Kenneth Robinson
Demo Conferences Planned by Hanson
Wisconsin Democratic Party state chairman J Louis Hanson said conferences on state and national issues will be held in each congressional district starting the first weekend of October. No dates or sites were announced.
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Baileys Harbor
J. Louis Hanson
Wisconsin Democratic Party
Air Force Requisitions Five Light Planes from Rhode Island Guard
Providence AP reports five light observation planes have been requisitioned from the Rhode Island National Guard. A guard spokesman cannot specify their future location of use. The six similar aircraft will replace the requisitioned planes.
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Providence
R.I
Air Force
Rhode Island National Guard
Tanzanian Trade Minister To Visit Tokyo for Talks
A. R. M. Babu Tanzania's minister of commerce and cooperatives will arrive in Tokyo Tuesday for discussions with Japanese government leaders, per the foreign office.
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Tokyo
A. R. M. Babu
Tanzania
Five Safe After Drifting 13 Hours On Lake Michigan
Five Chicago vacationers drifted 13 hours in a disabled 16 foot outboard near Chambers Island in a storm on Lake Michigan. Coast Guard found the drenched group at daybreak on a beach near Fish Creek.
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Fish Creek
Lake Michigan
Green Bay
Chicago
Coast Guard
Robert Gleaton
Paul Shane
Jeanne Rose
Joan Gordon
Karen
David
Gleaton
Shane
Ephraim
Chambers Island
Hospital chef once cooked for great figures in war era
In Morgantown West Virginia Carroll Chips heads the University Medical Center Hospital kitchen. A World War II veteran, he cooked for Grosvenor House officers and for the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. He served meals for King George VI Eisenhower Roosevelt Truman Churchill Attlee and Stalin without complaint.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Carroll Chips
University Medical Center Hospital
Chips
Grosvenor House
London
Yalta
Potsdam
King George VI of
Great Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Truman
Winston Churchill
Clement Atlee
Joseph Stalin
Memorial Services Held For Marines In Viet Nam
In Chu Lai Vietnam a Navy chaplain from Wisconsin joined Catholic and Protestant services for Marines killed last week. Eighteen rifles stood in a semicircle before a camouflaged helmet on each butt to honor the 3rd Battalion 3rd U.S. Marine Regiment casualties at Van Tuong in the battle noted as the largest thus far in the conflict.
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Chu Lai
Viet Nam
Wisconsin
Patrick A. Dowd
Oconomowoc
Wis
St. Robert’s Church
Milwaukee
Shorewood
3Rd U.S. Marine Regiment
van Tuong
Hoover Grandson Weds Granddaughter of Former President
Allan Hoover Jr., grandson of Herbert Hoover, married Marion Cutler in Carmichael at St. Michael's Episcopal Church. The groom's father Allan Hoover of Greenwich Conn served as best man.
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Carmichael
Calif
Allan Hoover Jr
Herbert Hoover
Marion Cutler
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Allan Hoover
Greenwich
Volpe Seeks State Takeover of Rutland VA Hospital
Gov John A Volpe says Massachusetts would take over the Rutland Heights VA hospital slated for closure The plan would allow immediate use of 250 beds for mentally retarded and other patients and would require federal approval from the Veterans Administration authorities
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Boston
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
Veterans Administration
Rutland Heights
Volpe
Thieves Seize Public Phone in Beirut
Be ir ut police report a theft of the second of two public telephone booths in Beirut. The city with 600000 residents has lost both booths, after the first was stolen in May and never replaced.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Car Thief Fined in London Incident
Peter Jepson, 21, London student, accused of stealing Lady Spencer Churchill's car, fined $72.80 and banned from driving for one year.
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London
Peter Jepson
Lady Spencer-Churchill
Adenauer Triggers German Campaign Split Over Nuclear Say
Former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 89, sparks CDU rift with critique of the U S plan to curb nuclear arms. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard defends the draft as an important contribution and defense ally interest after Adenauer campaigns for a parliamentary seat ahead of the Sept. 19 election.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Christian Democratic Party
U.S
Konrad Adenauer
Erhard
Adenauer
United States
Atlantic Alliance
Dominican rebels accept modified OAS peace plan
In Santo Domingo the rebels agreed to changes in the OAS proposal for a Dominican reconciliation plan. The plan envisions a provisional government and disarmament ahead of general elections in nine months, with rebels gaining control over early civilian disarmament in their zone and the disarmament of over twenty outposts downtown.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
OAS
Inter - American
Funeral for Klan attorney Murphy draws Ku Klux mourners
In Birmingham a quiet Sunday funeral paid final tribute to Matthew H. Murphy Jr. the Klan attorney killed in a traffic crash. Hundreds of segregationists attended alongside the three Klansmen charged in the murder of Detroit civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, with Wilkins Eaton and Thomas among the mourners.
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Birmingham
Ala
David Cady Wright
Murphy
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
Young Couple Takes Up Fire Watch Job
Farmington New Mexico AP young couple Jack and Jean Loeffler pitched a tent on a 7480 foot peak to live primitively for the summer They were hired to maintain a new fire lookout in Carson National Forest at the northern Jicarilla area about 80000 acres of timberland The arrangement marks a step toward permanent living quarters for lookout staff for the fire season
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Farmington, N.M
New Mexico
Jack
Jean Loeffler
Forest Service
Carson National Forest
Loefflers
California
Jicarilla Forest
Proxmire Defies Canal Funding as Pork Barrel
Sen William Proxmire labeled a Cross Barge Canal fund in a $4.3 billion public works bill as pork barrel and warned the cost would exceed $145 million. The measure has House and Senate approval, but his push to strike it out is unlikely to succeed.
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Washington
William Proxmire
Senate
Wisconsin Democrat
Florida Canal
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Proxmire
Five-Time Premier Of Egypt Dies At 86
Cairo AP reports Mustafa El Nahas former five time prime minister of Egypt died at 86 after 13 years in retirement. He helped negotiate the 1936 Anglo Egyptian treaty ending British occupation and faded from prominence after Gamal Abdel Nasser rose to power in 1952.
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Cairo
Mustafa el Nahas
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nahas
Letter by dying Garfield found in Johnson church basement
A letter James A. Garfield wrote to his mother after being shot in 1881 was discovered in the basement of the National City Christian Church where Garfield once served as a lay preacher. The Rev George R. Davis reported the find during a sermon as President Johnson and his wife attended services. Garfield wrote he would recover despite public reports, though he died Sept 20 at the New Jersey sea coast.
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Washington
James A. Garfield
Johnson
George R. Davis
National City
New Jersey
Davis
Garfield
Ten Youths Arrested After Picnic Brawl in Racine
At a union picnic in Johnson Park Racine police broke up a brawl involving about 100 people. Ten youths ages 16 to 20 were arrested for disorderly conduct after up to 10 carloads of youths tried to crash the event hosted by United Auto Workers Local 80 for J I Case Co employees. The park closed after the disturbance.
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Racine
Johnson Park
United Auto Workers Local 80
J. I. Case Co
Elliott Roosevelt Ill After Boat Engine Fire
Elliott Roosevelt, mayor of Miami Beach, suffered carbon monoxide and smoke effects from an engine fire on his 41 foot cruiser on Saturday. He was treated at home and told to rest until midweek.
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Miami Beach
Fila
Elliott Roosevelt
Fla
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Banker Edward Jacobs Dies at 73 in Rochester
Edward H. Jacobs, 73, president of the American National Bank of Beaver Dam Wisconsin and Wisconsin treasurer of the Catholic Knights Insurance Society of Milwaukee, died Saturday at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester Minnesota.
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Rochester, Minn
Edward H. Jacobs
American National Bank of
Beaver Dam
Wis
Wisconsin
Catholic Knights Insurance Society of
Milwaukee
St. Mary’s Hospital
Asthma Formula Becomes Over‑The‑Counter Leading Doctor Prescription
New York report states the asthma formula doctors prescribe most for private patients is now sold without prescription. Medical tests show it stops asthma attacks in minutes and provides hours of relief from recurrence when used as directed.
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New York, N.Y
Rolvaag Clears Air On 1966 Reelection Plans At DFL Meeting
Gov Karl Rolvaag told the Democratic Farmer Labor Party leaders he will let his record stand as the campaign issue. He praised the party and dismissed apologies while noting his long service and past races. DFL leaders suggested endorsement would be expected.
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Adolph Johnson
Minneapolis
Karl F. Rolvvaag
Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party
Rolvaag
DFL State Central Committee
DFL
Democratic-Farmer - Labor Party
Congress
Gemini 5 Mission Highlights Sleep Tests and Orbit Feats
Astronauts report limited sleep planning as both crew members conduct tests. Gemini 5 saves a long spaceflight record with 34 hours 20 minutes while mission control cancels a thruster test to avoid noise disruption. The craft tracks a duplicate satellite and reports rising oxygen.
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Ant
Mission Control Center
Cooper
Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Heiress Diana Knox to wed Australian MP Adrian Gibson
Melbourne AP reports Diana Knox 21 a heiress to a 10 million English meat fortune became engaged to Adrian Gibson 29 member of the Australian House of Representatives Miss Knox is main beneficiary of the estate of Sir William Angliss who died in 1957 at 92.
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Melbourne
Diana Knox
Adrian Gibson
House of Representatives
Sun Prairie Corn Festival Sees 70 000 Visitors Eat 100 000 Pounds
Sun Prairie officials report the 13th annual Corn Festival drew about 70 000 visitors who consumed a record 100 000 pounds of corn over a two day event ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SUN Prairie
Licensed Pickers Protest Unlicensed Dump Diggers
Licensed dump pickers complained to police about unlicensed rivals undercutting fees at Isle Ln Plume and Clinton Street dumps. Police said crowds gathered, with Chief George Long warning arrests and Municipal Court action. Fines range from 10 to 200 dollars.
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Isle Ln Plume
Clinton Street
George Long
Longtime President of Academy Is Dead
Brig. Gen. Roy F. Farrand, president of St. John's Military Academy for 38 years and connected to the school for 73 years, died at his Delafield home at age 90. He joined as a student in 1892, became commandant in 1894, and was named president in 1923 succeeding founder Rev. Sidney T. Smythe. Surviving are his widow Nita and daughter Dorothy. Services will be held in Delafield on Wednesday afternoon.
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Gen. Farrand
Nita
Dorothy Farrand
Delafield
Four Missing After Helicopter Crashes in Mekong River
Rescuers search the Mekong River for two American civilians, a Thai army officer, and a Laotian officer missing since a helicopter crash. Three Americans, including the pilot, swam ashore in satisfactory condition. none of the seven identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
Thailand
Mekong
Indonesia Plans First Atomic Bomb Blast Soon
President Sukarno said preparations are running smoothly for Indonesia to explode its first atomic bomb in the near future. He did not specify a date or exact timing.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
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