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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1960
Page
1
The La Crosse Tribune will not publish on Christmas Day. Instead editions will run Saturday December 24 and Monday December 26 with the Monday issue delivered as a morning paper and published Sunday night. Family Weekly and comics appear in the Monday paper.
La Crosse County will ask for another six month extension of the state order to repair or replace the condemned County Jail. The county board and La Crosse Common Council endorsed the move after a joint meeting. Architect plans for a downtown safety building were reviewed, with potential city police and fire HQ in the project.
Seven hundred fifty children from about 224 La Crosse County families received gifts at the Toys for Tots distribution held Wednesday at the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center. More than 3,000 toys were handed out to bring festive cheer.
In Madison a 40s or 50s man, tall and heavy, stabbed a woman in a vacant East Side house and beat an elderly mother, both likely tied to a robbery. The assailant fled with about 150 dollars after posing as a prospective tenant. Police say Mrs. Hazel Williams was killed Tuesday night. Mrs. Frances Gallagher, 78, was found with a skull fracture and head injuries.
Navy helicopters from the carrier Valley Forge hoisted 13 of 28 survivors from the broken tanker Pine Ridge. Seven of the ship's company of 35 aboard were feared lost when the tanker ripped in two 100 miles off Cape Hatteras. Recovery continued as weather eased and air and sea searches used multiple ships and aircraft.
In Galesville Wisconsin a 17 year old youth, Edward W Gardner Jr, died from skull fracture and neck injuries after a car crashed on Highway 53. A 16 year old, Mario Alvarez, was injured and treated at St Francis Hospital in La Crosse. The car, owned by the Alvarez family, was destroyed and the crash occurred around 11 20 p m. Police and a coroner investigated and the incident pushed Trempealeau Countys 1960 traffic fatalities to seven. Burial plans for Gardner Jr are in Pine Cliff Cemetery with services at the Presbyterian Church.
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover warned that Communists are finalizing plans for a Chicago conference starting December 31 to form a new national youth organization. He cited Moscow links and outlined a Soviet influenced push while noting a new youth publication New Horizons for Youth. He recounted 1960 FBI focus on espionage and major crime arrests amid rising tensions.
Federal tapes reveal United Airlines Flight 826 veered off course just before colliding with Trans World Flight 266 over Brooklyn and Staten Island. La Guardia air traffic control warned of trouble with a fast moving aircraft heading toward Flatbush and lost contact with the TWA plane. Idlewild and Preston radar centers were coordinating approach while the cause remained unknown.
Marshall Kriesel a 20 year old University of Minnesota aeronautical engineering sophomore built a complex 11 foot liquid fueled missile that rose about 2000 feet during a successful test at China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station. Navy analysts praised the propulsion and Kriesel plans further data review over Christmas vacation.
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