Mayors veto upheld as budget overrides fail in council
The Common Council sustained Mayor Milo G. Knutson's veto of the 1961 municipal budget with an 11-10 vote. The school budget override failed 11-54 to 11. a 16-5 tally was required. Changes in support from Aldermen Lemke Maney and Helstad shifted votes amid debates over teacher pay and turnover claims.
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Common Council
Milo G. Knutson
Tribune
Conan Edwards
Nerby
Kenneth Niedbalski
Knutson
Finance and Purchase
Discoverer XVIII Advances Spy Tech In Polar Orbit
A 300 pound Discoverer XVIII satellite blasted from Vandenberg into a polar orbit aboard a souped up Thor Agena B launcher. The craft carries sky spy gear, long range cameras and infrared detectors to study Earth from about 150 to 450 miles up. It includes samples of human tissue to study radiation effects, algae and other biologicals. The mission aims to test higher orbits and propulsion for future data collection.
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Vandenberg
Air Force Base
Calif
Pacific
Pearwall
Arctic
Sky
Midas
Samos
Thor
Globe
Air Force
Aldermen Approve 49 Mill Levy After Long Budget Fight
The La Crosse Common Council narrowly approved a 7.78 million dollar 1961 budget with a 49 mill rate after heavy debate over teachers salaries and a veto threat by Mayor Milo G. Knutson. A $500 raise for teachers starts Sept 1 1961, under a Nerby compromise, with no raises planned for 1962, and ongoing study of staff reassignments to save costs.
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la Crosse Tribune
Milo G. Knutson
Board of Education
Sheldon Nerby
20Th Ward
Suter
Supt. of
Conan S. Edwards
Supt. Edwards
Nerby
Edwards
British Interest Cut May Slow Flow of Hot Money
London AP reports the Bank of England cut its lending rate from 6 to 5 percent, aiming to curb hot money leaving the United States for higher returns. The move signals easing of the Conservative government's credit squeeze linked to auto industry layoffs and falling exports. The lower rate, in effect since Oct 27, follows a prior 6 percent rate.
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London
British Treasury
Bank of England
United States
America
Laos capital alternates as military moves spark tense standoff
In Vientiane government forces seized control to avert a right wing attack while Pathet Lao fled. Generals Phoumi Nosavan and Kong Le moved on the capital as neutralist Souvanna Phouma urged a three way meeting to ease the crisis.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet Lao
Phoumi Nosavana
United States
Phoumi
Souvanna Phouma
Phoumi Nosavan
Namkadinh
Souvanna
U S Highway Blocked After Tanker Collision Near Fort Atkinson
Jefferson County sheriff says U S Highway 12 closed and at least 10 homes evacuated after a propane gas tanker collided with a car and began leaking. Wisconsin Gas & Electric shut natural gas service as a precaution. Injured were taken to Fort Memorial Hospital. identities unavailable.
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Fort Atkinson
Jefferson County
U.S. Highway 12
Chicago Twin Cities
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co
IRS Considering Tables for State Sales Tax Deductions
Federal taxpayers who deduct state sales tax payments may receive IRS tables next year. The plan would publish state by state deduction amounts by income and family size, not reflecting local tax variations.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue Service
District of Columbia
IRS
Congo Blockade Threat Tests U.N. Congo Feud
In Leopoldville the Congo ordered a blockade of all U.N. military surface transport. Brig. Indarjit Rikhye warned the move could paralyze U.N. operations as Victor Nendaka demanded that Otraco carry supplies only with permission. The dispute follows Mobutu's coup and the Lumumba fallout.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
United Nations
U.N
Indarjit Rikhye
India
Congo River
Victor Nendaka
National Security Police
Otraco
Rikhye
Nendaka
Joseph Mobutu
Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Belgium to keep Congo personnel, denies withdrawal
Belgium stated at the United Nations it will not withdraw its Congo personnel despite Soviet pressure. Dag Hammarskjold defended the U N Congo mission amid criticism as Yugoslavia, Ceylon, and the United Arab Republic signaled troop withdrawals. The Security Council debated Lu mumba’s arrest, with Hammarskjold denying Western domination claims and warning against declaring UN efforts a failure.
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United Nations
N.Y
Congo
Belgium
Soviet Union
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Rajeshwar Dayal
India
Yugoslavia
U.N. Congo
Ceylon
United Arab Republic
Valerian Zorin
Security Council
Fast and West
Patrice Lumumba
General Assembly
Eleanor Roosevelt Adopted by Six Native Tribes
Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was adopted by the Seminole, Navajo, Crow, Creek, Apache and Mohawk tribes in Beverly Hills California. Creek Chief Wah-Nee-Ota presented a buckskin scroll and beaded necklace as part of the ceremony. She then traveled to Palm Springs to speak for the Jewish Community Center there.
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Beverly Hills, Calif
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wah-Nee-Ota
Muskogee
Okla
Palm Springs
Calif
Truck Train Collision Kills Whitehall Businessman
Sidney Gilbertson, 52, a Whitehall hardware store partner since 1942, died when his southbound truck on Abraham street was struck broadside by an eastbound Green Bay and Western freight train at 11 20 a m. The truck was carried 108 feet along the track, smashed into a concrete abutment and rested against a railroad flatcar near Larson Lumber Co yards. Gilbertson, born April 13, 1908 in Arcadia, is survived by his wife and son Gerald, a La Crosse State College athlete. Funeral plans are incomplete.
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Whitehall
Wis
Sidney Gilbertson
Green Bay and Western Railroad
Gilbertson
Abraham Street
Larson Lumber Co
Maurice Scow
Town
Arcadia
Gerald
la Crosse State College
Kennedy offers post to Whizzer White in 1961
President elect John F Kennedy offered a post in his administration to Byron Leslie Whizzer White Denver attorney and former All America quarterback. White, 43, declined to name the post but said he would reply in a few days. The meeting followed Kennedy’s talks with Kefauver and Stevenson as preparations for a possible attorney general or antitrust division role continued.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Byron Leslie
Whizzer
White
Justice Department
Kennedy
Denver
England
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
Citizens For Kennedy-Johnson
Sen Estes Keauver
D-Tenn
Georgetown
Georgetown University Hospital
Kefauver
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
Department
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Bernard Maney
Dorance Helstad
Wednes
la Crosse
UPI
Milton Paulsen
Committee On Better Schools For
Paulsen
Sheldon H. Nerby
Warren Loveland
Curtis Storck
County of la Crosse
By Donald W. Affolter
William H. Spears
Mies
Robert Suter
Emil C. Schults
Fie
Nance and Purchase Committee
Aldermen
By Roy Elsoyan
U.S
Eleanor
John
Byron
Whizzer’ White
Ment
Adlai B. Stevenson
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
UPS
Whizzer” White
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