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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1963
Page
6
Washington officials say the United States canceled a mission to Cambodia led by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson due to conditions set by Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The move worsens strained U.S. Cambodian relations.
Margaret Foote Hawley 83 a noted miniature portrait painter died after a brief illness. Her works are in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and other museums. She maintained studios in New York and Boston.
LACROSSE AND VICINITY and neighboring states report continued very cold weather through Saturday. Subzero readings expected with highs near zero to five below in Wisconsin and light snow possible in parts of Minnesota and Iowa. Five day forecast in Western Wisconsin shows temperatures 10-15 below normal with La Crosse at a 27 high and 9 low.
AP reports Marlin Perkins, director of the St. Louis Zoo, demonstrates myths about animals on NBCs Wild Kingdom. Giraffes growl chameleons camouflage poorly and bulls react to movement not color. The feature previews future Monkey intelligence experiments and notes Perkins past TV work.
The Agriculture Department forecast the 1964 winter wheat crop at 959,056,000 bushels based on conditions as of December 1. This is 54,228,000 bushels more than the 1963 winter wheat output of 904,828,000. The 1964 crop is grown without federal marketing quotas. A tighter control plan proposed by the Kennedy administration was rejected by growers in May.
In Whitwell Tennessee Leo Sanders, 35, and his wife with seven children face a stark Christmas as the southeast Tennessee coal strike drags on since 1962. Sanders has drawn $15 weekly from the UMW, with layoffs and scarce work across a declining regional coal field supplying TVA. The family awaits an expected eighth child while navigating wage demands, operator resistance, and a related antitrust suit shaping the industry’s fight over wages and royalties.
Defense Secretary McNamara met with the Vietnamese junta led by Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh and Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho to discuss U.S. support plans for 1964. He reported optimism for progress while advisers warned the junta focuses too much on politics as fighting intensifies in Long An Kien Hoa and Binh Duong.
Mrs Sanders recounts the blaze that destroyed their home six years ago. Her eldest son Isaac Grady, 13, now lives across the road with his grandmother and is finishing sixth grade, seemingly his last schooling.
A burglar at the H. M. Wait residence in El Dorado Kansas appeared to sleep in a bed they left unslept. Police reported nothing was missing and the intruder took no valuables during the break in while the Waits were away.
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