Logan Junior High Addition Sought By La Crosse Board
La Crosse City District Board of Education moved to seek council approval to hire an architect for detailed plans for a Logan junior high addition. The board discussed site options at Copeland Park and near the present building, aiming to ease crowded seventh through twelfth grades.
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la Crosse City
Common Council
North Side
French Island
Jefferson
Franklin, Roosevelt
Summit
State Department of Public Instruction
Copeland Park
H. Newell Holley
Joseph Liskovec
Clarence Ringquist
Melvin Knutson
Morris Crouse
Roger Hafner
Richard Hawkins
A. E. Teachout
A. F. Jordan
Logan
Wisconsin joins surprise air alert test Cracker Jack
Milwaukee and Green Bay positions joined as civilian observers fed sightings to Air Force radar sites in the northland during Operation Cracker Jack. Guardsmen worked from Mitchell Field while Madison Truax Field supported all weather intercepts with SAC planes providing moving targets. The 30th Air Defense Division coordinates Wisconsin with seven other states for potential regional defense.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Air National Guard
Ground Observer Corps
Air Force
Green Bay
Upper Michigan
Northland
Chicago
Minneapolis
Air National Guardsmen
Mitchell Field
S. M. Levenson
128Th Wing
Truax Field
Madison
U. S. Strategic Air Command
30Th Air Defense Division
Willow Run
Detroit
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Planes and volunteers test U S Canadian air defenses
Coast to coast drill called Operation Crackerjack scrambles interceptor planes and ground observers to test radar tracking and defense readiness. Officers report secrecy and no public target lists while the exercise runs under winter conditions across the United States and Canada.
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Washington (P
U. S
Air Force
Air National Guard
Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
New York
Eastern Defense Command
Stewart Air Force Base
Atlantic
Seaboard
Washington State
25Th Air Division
McChord Air Force Base
Eisenhower and aides near final 1956-57 defense budget
President Eisenhower and top advisers indicate defense spending for 1956-57 will stay near the current 344% billion dollars per year. No final figure is set and officials expect no major tax cuts this session. Secretary Wilson, Budget Director Hughes, and Pentagon comptroller McNeil note the current level may hold with little change.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Rowland Hughes
Wilson
W J. McNeil
Pentagon Camptroller
McNeil
Defense
Hughes
Washington
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Supreme Court hears challenge to 1954 immunity law
The Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of a law forcing witnesses to testify with immunity from prosecution in national security cases. William Ullman, convicted for contempt after refusing to testify, argues the immunity device traps him in perjury. FBI chief Hoover links Ullman to secret Pentagon documents and Bentley names Ullman in a spy ring.
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William Ludwig Ullman
Air Force
Treasury
2zeRme
Ullman
New York
U. S. Dist
Edward Weinfeld
Washington
U. S. Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Pentagon
Elizabeth Bentley
Labor union duty to speak out in politics urged
Secretary of Labor Mitchell told the AFL CIO convention that organized labor must speak out with a loud and clear voice in politics while signaling support for Republican policies. President Eisenhower echoed rights of minority views within unions and labor leaders defended informing members without seeking to control votes.
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New York
Mitchell
Aflcio
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Sion
Fts
Harriman
Convenon Hall
Hell
Averell
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Labor
Smingly
Afl-Cio
Labor Federation
George Meany
Walter Reuther
CIO
Goldwater
City Council Raises Curfew Violation Fines
The La Crosse Common Council voted to raise penalties for under eighteen curfew violations. Written warnings will continue for first offenses, with fines rising to five dollars for second offenses, ten for third, and twenty five for fourth and subsequent offenses.
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Common Council
George Long
Long
la Crosse Area
Local Weather for La Crosse and Vicinity
Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 22 degrees. High Wednesday 48 degrees.
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la Crosse
Delinquency Study Report Awaits Preliminary Findings
A county citizen committee on juvenile services expects a preliminary report by Friday from Hugh Reed of the NPPA. The panel will decide if the four day survey suffices or if a full scale NPPA survey is needed. Reed plans an informal, free survey and will present an oral report Friday at 1 p.m. He will then await the committee’s evaluation before deciding on next steps.
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Special Citizen's Committee
Hugh Reed
National Probation and Parole Assn
NPPA
Reed
Quincy H. Hale
Chicago
Peter Pappas
Carl Bruhnke
Gordon Feinberg
Hale
Bruhnke
la Crosse
Harold L. Patton
Dulles Attacks Soviet Leaders Over Goa and East West Tensions
Secretary of State Dulles accused Soviet Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev of stirring up hatred toward the West during their Asia visit. He urged India and Portugal to resolve Goa peacefully and said the Russians aim to provoke force and widen East West rifts. He also noted plans to hold Russia responsible for Berlin rail and barge movements and considered Asia sites for an atomic energy pool.
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Washington
Dulles
Asia
Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
India
Goa
Burma
United States
Portugal
Nehru
Russia
West
West Germany
Berlin
Philippines
Ceylon
Japan
Tragic Crash Near Mabel Claims Mrs Reierson
Mrs Alf Reierson 47 of Caledonia dies after a freak ice curve crash on STH 44 one mile west of Mabel. Her husband, driver of the car, is unharmed. The door opened during the skid and she was thrown onto the highway. She dies en route to Caledonia hospital from chest injuries. Survived by husband three daughters parents two sisters four brothers and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Mabel
Minn
Alf Reierson
Caledonia
Reierson
Twin Cities
Gaylord Smith
Cyril ‘Palen
Patricia
Fred Smith
la Crosse
Floyd Kumps
Wauckon
Iowa
Obert Haugestad
Wilfred
Waukon
Thomas
Jack
Merle
Langer presses probe into Dixon-Yates contract role
Senator Langer demands a public Senate Antimonopoly inquiry to determine if Dixon-Yates backers funded President Eisenhower’s 1952 campaign. He subpoenas PosteMaster General Summerfield and other figures as Kefauver notes possible criminal links in the contract talks.
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Washington
Sen. Langer
R-Nd
Dixon-Yates
Eiesenhower
Langer
Senate
Summerfield
Sherman Adams
White House
Stephen A. Mitchell
Kefauver
D-Tenn
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Council
Jordan
State
National Guard Bureau
O'Hare Field
Eveeeneene
Wrenenee
Eee Neerreee
Hal Boyle
Stentene Neresewees
Women’s
Renee
the Supreme
AFL
Meany
Reuther
Free World
Unifax
Sec. Mitchell
Norman Walker
Averell Harriman
Hugh H. Gauper
Pine St
Committee
Curtis J. Storck
Gauper
Ministerial Association
Donald R. Terpstra
Ae¢Nre
Terpstra
Alf Hansen
William Gorder
Lynden K. Gjerde
Gjerde
G. Milton Kelly
the Merchants’ Bureau
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