Tomah Poised as Interstate Hub in 1960s Growth Plan
Wisconsin highway official Vere Fiedler outlined Tomah’s access advantages as I 90 and I 94 converge, urging upgraded entrances and expanded services to capture through traffic. He discussed planned interchanges, anticipated contract awards totaling about 4.6 million dollars, and schedule milestones toward completing Wisconsin’s 452 mile interstate system by 1964 65 and beyond.
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Tomah
Wis
Vere Fiedler
Wisconsin State Highway Commission
Fiedler
John Drew
Association
Highway Committee
Sun Prairie
Madison
Faribault
Minn
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Camel's Hump
Harry Rasmussen
Tomah North
Wisconsin Dells
Beloit
State Highway Commission
Black River
la Crosse
Fauver Hill School
Minnesota Line
Fauver School
Sparta
Eau Claire
Hixton
Wisconsin January Comparisons Show Deep Cold in 1936 and 1912
State climatologist notes January was cold in Wisconsin but not as severe as in 1936 or 1912. Last month averaged slightly above normal for the first 12 days, then a mid month polar blast drove 19 days 20 to 25 degrees below normal. Hatfield Dam hit 47 degrees below zero on the 15th.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Marvin W. Burley
Burley
Hatfield Dam
Black River Falls
Weather Bureau
Humphrey Calls for Public Hearings on Cuba Buildup
Senator Hubert Humphrey urged open congressional hearings on Soviet missiles and bases in Cuba. He pressed for candor and said testimonies from officials like CIA chief McCone could clarify what is known about the situation.
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Humphrey
Cuba
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N
CIA
Ships In Peril From Vicious Atlantic Gale
A slow moving winter storm lashed the Atlantic with twenty foot waves and fifty mile winds endangering several ships from Florida to the Carolinas. Coast Guard craft searched for ships and rescued six while one trawler sank taking three men. Rescue efforts faced huge seas and high tides over two to four feet above normal.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Florida
Carolinas
Georgia
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Mingo
Texico Illinois
Sultana II
Tiger Shark
Diefenbaker Regime on Verge of Collapse
Ottawa AP reports Cabinet ministers pressured Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker to resign to avert a no confidence vote over the nuclear warhead crisis. Motions from the Social Credit and Liberal parties threaten to topple the government, with key figures like Harkness and Nowlan central to the crisis.
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Ottawa
John G. Diefenbaker
Canada
Wees Sane
Weetan
Wem
Wiurnicu
Diefenbaker
Social Credit
Robert Thompson
Hees
House of Commons
Finance
George Nowlan
House
Liberal
U.S. State Department
Douglas Harkness
Harkness
U.S
Liberals
Social Credit Party
New Democrats
David Lewis
Lester B. Brown
Liberal Party
Postponement Saved Her Life in Wisconsin
GALESVILLE Wis The postponement of an operation at Madison General Hospital probably saved the life of a Galesville woman Mrs Donald Finch mother of five who returned home Sunday after a successful heart operation three weeks ago She was not scheduled to have the surgery until June after school was dismissed but the postponement of another operation led hospital officials to call in Mrs Finch Her physicians said she likely would not have lived to June.
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Galesville
Wis
Madison General Hospital
Donald Finch
Finch
Bold New JFK Mental Health Plan Urged
President Kennedy urged bold new programs to free hundreds of thousands of mental patients from hospitals and reduce mental retardation toll. A special Congress message outlines four bills including community mental health centers, prenatal and child health care, trained staff, facilities, and research, with first-year costs around 31.35 million dollars and major expansion possible in 1964.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Capitol Hill
Rosemary
Mrs. Peter Widener Dies in Plane Crash
Patricia Widener, 35, wife of Philadelphia magnate Peter A. B. Widener, died in a private plane crash near Ocala Florida after the craft passed over the airport and vanished during a return in darkness. Pilot Robert Staab also died. Widener's son Joseph aged 2 and other children survive.
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Ocala, Fla
Peter A. B. Widener
Widener
Patricia Widener
Robert G. Staab
Ocala
Florida
Peter Widener
Dick Lockman
Civil Air Patrol
Orlando
Staab
Lockman
Patricia Massey
Joseph
Genevieve
Viv) Trevander
Palm Beach
Wideners
Philadelphia
Joseph E. Widener
Hialeah Park Racetrack
Miami
Snow avalanches and cold across Europe and Japan cause casualties
The storm toll rises as 17 Japanese die, 110 total in Japan and 553 in Western Europe. Snow and floods close railways in Japan and Greece bears mudslides. wolves invade France, and wildlife reacts to the cold.
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Europe
Associated Press
Japan
De Gaulle Action Protested by Dutch and Bonn Students
Dutch high school pupils urged a week long suspension of French lessons to protest Charles de Gaulle’s veto of Britain’s Common Market membership. In Bonn University protests, about 100 students gathered before the French Embassy in Bad Godesberg with signs denouncing de Gaulle and urging Europe openness.
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Amsterdam
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
P. Vant-Hof
Bonn
Germany
Bonn University
Bad Godesberg
Urope
Europe
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R-Vt
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Army Corps of Engineers
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