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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1961
Page
7
AP TV writer Cynthia Lowry notes Santa Claus exits the screen mid afternoon as replacements take over with New Year themes and the familiar Auld Lang Syne. NBC and ABC schedules feature autobiographical specials and new shows while Khrushchev Berlin crisis documentary airs on NBC.
In Cholet France treasury bonds valued at 50 000 francs 10000 dollars were found by chimney sweeps in a metal box inside a house once used by a Jewish horse dealer Felix Levy during World War II. Authorities will seek Levy relatives.
Emil Kopp a Chicago music teacher and cornetist who retired at 70 died Saturday in a nursing home at 103 Funeral services were set for Wheeling Illinois He claimed to have seen Abraham Lincoln funeral cortege seven years old and also witnessed the great Chicago fire He spent 28 years near Rhinelander with his son Richard who died in 1956 He was a New York City native and often recalled those historic events.
Washington AP reports Social Security tax rates increase on January 1 to 3 percent for employees and employers and 4.7 percent for self employed. The payroll tax applies to the first 4800 of earnings with a new maximum of 300 for employers and employees and 225.60 for self employed. Changes also raise benefits in several categories including options to collect early at 62 and higher widows benefits, plus higher minimums and earnings work incentives.
In New Orleans Louisiana two young children Nancy aged four and Billy aged two woke to a white Christmas after William Nungesser a seafood cannery owner laid six tons of chipped ice on his lawn Sunday night and four more on Christmas morning. The kids built a four foot snowman before the sun melted it.
An Eastern Air Lines plane from Syracuse New York to Nashville Tennessee was grounded at Baltimore's Friendship Airport for about two hours while airport police searched after a bomb threat tip from the airline's Washington office. The 66 passengers disembarked during the search.
Former Maine senator and foe of FDR’s New Deal, Owen Brewster, died at a Christian Science retreat house in Dexter. He was 73, survived by wife Dorothy and son Charles. Funeral services set for Thursday in Dexter. Brewster clashed with Howard Hughes and chaired a wartime Senate committee.
An airlift by the International Control Commission brings 220 neutralist and pro Communist troops to Vientiane for a three day talks among three princes Boun Oum Souvanna Phouma Souphanouvong Souvanna Phouma heads a coalition plan. The first flights included guards for Souvanna Phouma and Pathet Lao troops for Souphanouvong.
A local notice urges property owners to rent apartments using classified ads. Call 2-8040 to place an ad and reach potential renters quickly.
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