Beautiful Valley Floods Turn Humboldt County Into Wreckage
San Francisco dispatch reports ten days of heavy rain and floods devastate Humboldt County. Klamath and Klamath Glen washed away, 2000 homeless, dozens dead, 50 million dollars in damage. Eel River towns isolated, bridges gone, farms buried. Neighbors donate, civil defense and Red Cross aid stream in.
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San Francisco
Bill Chambers
Humboldt County
Redwood Country
California
Chambers
Associated Press
Eureka
Klamath
Klamath Glen
Klamath River
Pepperwood
Eel River
Ferndale
Civil Defense
The
National Guard
Red Cross
Civil Air Patrol
Salvation Army
Radio Announcer and Niece Rescued From Ice Fall
Milwaukee radio announcer Ray Szamanda and his 11 year old niece Marie Louise Cinquemani fell through thin ice on Big Muskego Lake while skating near home. Two strangers provided a rope and air cushion to pull them to safety after 10 minutes in 60 to 70 foot depths. They suffered only a soaking bath and planned to return to work.
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Milwaukee
Ray Szamanda
WTMJ
Marie Louise Cinquemani
Muskego Lake
Szamanda
U S Population to Top 200 Million Within Two Decades
New York census bureau official estimates the United States will surpass 200 million in about 20 years. Howard G Brunsman notes current 166 million, up 15 million in 50 years, with three year growth exceeding prior high. Projections rise to 186 193 million in 1965 and 207 228 million in 1975.
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New York
Census Bureau
United States
Howard G. Brunsman
Bureau
American Marketing Assn
Brunsman
Polio Shots Await Medical Society Approval in Racine
Racine officials report the State Board of Health requires the Racine County Medical Society’s endorsement before a free polio immunization clinic can proceed. Dr. Albert C. Edwards had planned to inoculate all first graders next spring, but the society previously rejected the mass clinic in favor of a doctor office based, fee supported plan without vaccine charges.
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Racine
State Board of Health
Racine County Medical Society
Albert C. Edwards
Board of Health
County Medical Society
Edwards
Medical Society
Mendes-France Faces Hecklers in Paris Campaign Speech
Former Prime Minister Pierre Mendes-France clashed with Communist hecklers in his first major campaign speech in Paris. He rejected calls for a popular front alliance after the January 2 election, inviting opponents to debate. Only Jacques Duclos appeared, backed by Reds, as thousands cheered and outside crowds tried to surge in and damaged a hall door.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Popular Front
Mendes-France
Republican Front
Communist Party
Jacques Duclos
Eisenhower 1956 run uncertain as politicians speculate
GOP leaders discuss Eisenhower's health and possible 1956 bid. L. Judson Morhouse and Mrs. Raymond W. Wheeler back re election hopes, while Gov. Langlie warns against early predictions. Some officials doubt a run, with Gov. Johnson and Gov. Lee weighing Knowland Nixon options. Rep Clarence Brown admits uncertainty, noting even the President may not know.
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L. Judson Morhouse
New York State
Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alf Landon
Raymond W. Wheeler
Massachusetts
Leonard Hall
GOP
Arthur B. Langlie
Washington
Joseph B. Johnson
Vermont
Johnson
Ske
Knowland
N. Bryant James
Louisiana State Central Committee
Nixon
Clarence Brown
Ohio
High School Houdini Plans Escape Feat for Polio Drive
Racine 17 year old magician Jerry Dzindzeleta a high school senior plans an escape from a strait jacket while hanging upside down from a power crane to aid a local polio fund drive. He will perform Friday at 8 30 p m CST and Saturday at 2 30 p m in Monument Square.
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Racine
Jerry Dzindzeleta
Houdini
Monument Square
Weather Summary for Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa
U S Department of Commerce reports cloudy and turning colder across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. North and west regions see light or snow flurries tonight and Thursday with colder air and mixed precipitation. Shippers forecast projects shipments to the north and west and then to the south and east with above zero temperatures.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
River Readings at Stations Across Minnesota and Iowa
River readings show minimal change on the Mississippi from Hastings to Guttenberg over the next two days. Slight tallwater at Dams 8 9 10 noted. Sunrise Thursday 7 39 a.m. Sunset Thursday 4 35 p.m.
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LA Crosse
Prairie du Chien
Hastings
Guttenberg
Mississippi
Cop Saves Woman From Window Hook Gone Wrong
Los Angeles patrolman Harold Floren pulled Maude Medina from a window hook after she slipped while peering down from a hotel room. Maude and her boyfriend Tony Salazar were cited for drunkenness after a scuffle with wine bottles.
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Los Angeles
Harold Floren
Maude Medina
Maude
Tony
Salazar
Floren
More Traffic Officers On Roads For New Year Weekend
State officials announce extra patrols for the New Year weekend to boost safety. Gov Kohler asks the motor vehicle department to deploy all available state traffic patrolmen and urges the adjutant general to call volunteers from National Guard military police units. Twenty two fatalities occurred on state roads during the Christmas holiday weekend.
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Madison
Kohler
State Motor Vehicle Department
Adjutant General's Office
National Guard
IRS Relents Will Help With Tax Forms
The IRS will help taxpayers prepare income tax returns next year after Russell C. Harrington, the new commissioner, countermanded orders that would have limited help to only the illiterate, the physically handicapped and non English readers. The previous directives issued Oct. 17 under T. Coleman Andrews faced congressional protests.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Russell C. Harrington
Internal Revenue
Harrington
T. Coleman Andrews
Congress
Herring Roe Scarce Hurts Japanese New Year Tables
Millions of Japanese housewives face a New Year without kazunoko as herring roe supplies run low. The cherished New Year eggs, a symbol of many children, are scarce this season due to an all time low herring catch.
Boy Found Slain Near Jacksonville Arkansas
A 14yearold boy named Joe King was found murdered near Jacksonville Arkansas four days after he left his trailer home to attend a movie. Sheriff Gulley said it may be a sex crime or anger incident. The autopsy found strangulation and a head wound with no sexual assault evidence. The victim had moved from Wichita Falls Texas to Jacksonville last October with his family. His stepfather Sgt. James R. King is stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base. home is Charleston West Virginia.
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Jacksonville
Ark
Tom Gulley
Joe King
Wichita Falls
Tex
James R. King
Little Rock Air Force Base
Charleston
W. Va
Young King
Here
Gulley
Howard Dishough
Chicago Produce and Poultry Prices and Receipts Summary
Chicago produce and poultry items show steady butter and eggs with unchanged wholesale prices. Poultry prices rise slightly for some categories while receipts for chickens, hens, fryers, and turkeys are recorded. Potatoes show firm market with flexible carlot prices for Idaho russets, utilities, bakers, and Pontiacs washed and waxed.
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Chicago
U.B
Chicago Poultry Chicago
USDA
F.o.b
U.S
Idaho
Aly Khan to pay $100000 per Yasmin visit
In Los Angeles a court disclosure shows Master Prince Aly Khan must pay $100,000 for each trip of Yasmin from the United States to visit him and provide written assurance of her return to Rita Hayworth. Funds to be held in a New York bank, and unused money stays in trust until Yasmin turns 25.
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Los Angeles
Prince Aly Khan
Yasmin
United States
Rita
Hayworth
Aga Khan
Aly
Columbia Pictures
New York
Marathon Corp Plans Three New Plants
Marathon Corp. announces a four year plan to build three new plants at undetermined locations. The projects include a pulp, paper and paperboard mill, a package plant, and a label and specialty plant. 1955 net sales reached 135,107,686 with earnings after tax of 9,197,053, up from 7,489,082 in 1954. Expansion proposed at Green Bay and Rothschild Wisconsin Oswego New York and Modesto California.
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Menasha
Marathon Corp
John Stevens Jr
Marathon
Stevens
Green, Bay
Rothschild
Wis
Oswego
N.Y
Modesto Calif
Four Seabees Rescued From Polar Ice Shelf
Four Seabees were rescued from a Antarctic ice shelf after 26 hours stranded in a tent fashioned from a parachute. A tractor-treaded Weasel fell into a hidden crevasse, trapping them until a helicopter from the icebreaker Glacier plucked them to safety.
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USS Glacier
Murdo Sound
Icebreaker Glacier
Winona Livestock Market Quotations and Prices Today
Swift and Company reports livestock quotations for Winona market as of noon, with buy hours 8 am to 4 pm weekdays and 8 am to noon Saturdays. Hog prices show steady to firm with various weight ranges, sows, and “Stays” notes. cattle and calves list steady to weak trends across multiple grades. lambs steady with ranges for choice, Cull, and ewes. Chicago and South St. Paul markets follow, noting hogs, cattle, calves, steers, heifers, cows, and bulls with price ranges and trade activity.
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Swift & Company
Bologna
Chicago Livestock Chicago
USDA
South ST. Paul
South ST. Paul, Minn
U.S
Tri State Deaths Reach Wisconsin and Iowa Regions
Readstown and nearby towns report multiple deaths. Melvin Spurrier, 74, of Readstown, invalid since a 1951 stroke, survived by wife and 26 family members. services set at Lime Brothers Funeral Home. Carl Buchholz, 53, Wilton, died after long illness with funeral at St Matthew’s Lutheran Church. Rose Ambrose, 85, Waukon Iowa, burial in Lycurgus. Harold Haag, 66, Melrose, died driving to Melrose. services at North Bend Presbyterian Church. Additional notices for Mrs. George Olson, Mrs. Ambrose, Mr. Esch and relatives listed.
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Readstown
Wis
Melvin Spurrier
Lime Brothers Funeral Home
Hubert Grove
Sugar Grove Cemetery
Leona Sommerfeldt
Ronald
Judy
Alfred
Norwalk
Arthur
Milwaukee
Ella Barry
Eau Claire
Irma Christianson
Dorothy Friedl
Madison
Esther Friske
Reedsburg
Betty Gimbo
Fond du Lac
Melrose
Harold V. Haag
North Bend
Henry
Frances Haag
August Stern
Frank
Algy
Warner
Presbyterian
Presbyterian Church In North Bend
Harold Wisner
Galesville
Smith Funeral
Mrs Ida Verwiebe of Kendall Dies After Illness
Mrs Ida Verwiebe 76 wife of the late Frank Verwiebe died Monday evening in a Manston hospital after a brief illness. She leaves three sons Herbert Arthur and Harry all of Kendall four grandchildren two step grandchildren and one brother Eric Zingler of Kendall. Services Thursday at 2 p m at St John s Evangelical Lutheran Church Rev Max Hermann officiating burial in South Ridge Cemetery.
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Kendall
Wis
Ida Verwiebe
Frank Verwiebe
Manston
Herbert
Arthur
Harry
Eric Zingler
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Max Hermann
South Ridge Cemetery
Rounding Multiple Obituary Notices From Wisconsin Short Warms
Funeral services were held for Maud Snyder 75 in La Farge at Salem Ridge Methodist Church with burial at Salem Ridge Cemetery. She was born December 1 1880 and married Sim Snyder in 1909. Surviving: daughter Lucille Polo Sr brother Blaine half-brother Harvey Allen sister Ona Sibbough and grandson. Edward Huckstadt 59 died by suicide in West McGregor and services set for Farmersburg area. Clinton Gartner 65 died in La Crosse hospital with tentative funeral plans by Smith Funeral Home. Leon J Esch 43 funeral held at Ferries Funeral Home with Rev Madden officiating.
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Lucille, Polo, Sr
Blaine
la Farge
Harvey Allen
Alvin
Ona) Sibbough
Kendall
Paul
Mcgregor
Ilona
Edward Huckstadt
Pilkington
Farmersburg
Iowa
Huckstadt
West McGregor
la Vera
Ames
Arno
Elmer
Fred Schroeder
Glenn Walters
Luana
Alice Readon
Des Moines
Year’s Top 10 World Events Highlight 1955 the Year in Review
The year saw the Salk vaccine milestone amid safety challenges, then floods from ten deadly hurricanes and the Geneva Conference shifts. Personal dramas included Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend, Peron's fall in Argentina, Malenkov’s resignation, the Graham bomb murder, desegregation upheaval in the South, and Americans released by China with lingering tensions of the cold war.
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United States
Mexico
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Asia
Africa
Margaret Peter Townsend
Britain
Juan Domingo Peron
Argentina
Peron
Malenkov
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Graham
John Gilbert Graham
South
China
U.S
Red China
Merrill High Wins State Discussion Contest
Merrill High School captured first place in the 1935 state discussion contest sponsored by the Wisconsin High School Forensic Association, announced today by the University of Wisconsin.
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Merrill High
Madison
WW — Merrill High School
Wisconsin High School Forensic Association
University of Wisconsin
Public Hearing on Zoning Change in La Crosse Wisconsin
The Common Council and committees will hold a public hearing at 7 30 P M on January 9 1956 in the City Hall Chambers La Crosse Wisconsin on a zoning amendment transferring South Half of block bounded by West Avenue Cass Street 13th Street and Madison Street from residential to multiple dwelling district. City Clerk Alice A Dickson states public input is invited and may be presented in person by attorney or petition.
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Common Council
la Crosse
la Crosse County
Wisconsin
City of
West Avenue
Cass Street
13Th Street
Madison Street
Alice A. Dickson
Aged Recluse Leaves Fortune in Duluth Estate
In Duluth Minnesota probate court assesses the estate of Ida Cushner 88 a boarding house operator found dead Sunday. Coroner Cyril Smith reports valuables scattered through her room including 34000 in cash over 40000 in securities and deeds totaling near 100000. Sister Alma Mithun named special administrator with other relatives in Minnesota California and nearby.
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Duluth
Minn
St. Louis
Cyril Smith
Ida Cushner
Smith
Alma Mithun
Annie Forsell
Carrie Johnson
Braham
California
British Comet III makes nonstop Montreal to London flight
The Comet III jetliner flew 3,350 miles from Montreal to London in 6 hours 8 minutes, averaging 548 mph with winds boosting moments past 640 mph. Builders claim a civil airliner record, though the Royal Aero Club said no official record existed for this route. The flight caps a 35,000-mile world proving journey begun December in Hatfield, England, led by Capt. John Cunningham and a crew of ten.
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London
Britain
Atlantic
Montreal
North Atlantic
Royal Aero Club
John Cunningham
Hatfield
England
Cairo
Bombay
Singapore
Darwin
Sydney
Melbourne
Perth
Auckland
Fiji
Honolulu
Vancouver
Toronto
Slaying of Negro at Sumner prompts hearing for Elmer Kimbell
In Sumner Mississippi Elmer Kimbell faces a three justice hearing on a murder charge for shooting Clinton Melton a Negro service station attendant on December 3 Kimbell claims self defense and seeks bond pending March grand jury action. Kellum defense attorney may call witnesses including a deputy sheriff who observed Melton’s body.
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Sumner
Miss
Elmer Kimbell
Justices of the Peace
J.W. Kellum
Kimbell
Tallahatchie County
Grand Jury
Clinton Melton
Melton
Kellum
Roy Bryant
J. W. Milam
Till
AF Revises Wartime Production Planning
The Air Force ordered revisions to wartime production planning to offset violent industrial disruption in a generalized atomic war. Secretary Quarles prioritized dispersed production, focusing on aircraft and weapons able to run under austere emergencies. Top category items must operate with minimal transport and limited high priority communications while maintaining output.
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Washington
Air Force
Quarles
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P. N. Olson
Sparta
Hjalmar
E. B. Olson
Lansing
Peter Kaase
Tacoma
Wash
Mrs. Rose Ambrose
Rose Ambrose
Martin’s Funeral Home
St. Patrick's Church
St. Mary's
Lycurgus
Ambrose
Bohemia
Frank Sudol. McGregor
Rockton
Esch
Viroqua
J. D. Esch
Harold Haag
Maud Snyder
Clinton Gartner
Smith Funeral Home
Leon Esch
North Third St
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