Ransom cargo flight postponed two days
A Pan American Airways DC6B carrying 15,000 pounds of medicines to Havana was delayed until Sunday. The Red Cross requested the postponement, with officials offering no reason. The article notes other planned Cuba airlifts and the presence of Americans awaiting evacuation or ransom shipments.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Pan American Airways
Havana
Pan American
Red Cross
Washington
State Department
DCGB
Koop Named To Head Administration Dept
Madison officials announce Howard Koop as commissioner of the State Department of Administration succeeding Joe Nusbaum who resigns to join Senator Gaylord Nelson’s Washington staff. Koop, 38, will earn 16000 dollars annually and requires Senate confirmation for the post created in 1959 to oversee budgeting engineering purchasing personnel and research. Reynolds calls Koop the most qualified man for the job.
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Madison
API
John W. Reynolds
Howard Koop
State Department of Administration
Joe Nusbaum
Nusbaum
Washington
Gaylord Nelson
Koop
Nelson
Eugene McPhee
Wisconsin State Colleges
Senate
Reynolds
Remembering Innocent Days of Yesteryear Past
The column recalls a bygone era through humorous memories of simpler times. It cites distrust of the iceman, opium den fears, fleas on dogs, and loud squeaky shoes to highlight nostalgic contrasts. The writer notes changes in shopping, dining, transport, and politics, ending with a call to remember those days.
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Iowa
California
County Executive Bill Introduced in Wisconsin
MADISON AP Assemblyman Jerome Quinn Green Bay introduced a bill to let counties outside Milwaukee appoint or elect a county executive akin to a city mayor. He says the post modernizes local government. He also proposed Kerr-Mills health aid for needy seniors, estimating $442 million state cost plus matching federal funds.
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Madison
Jerome Quinn
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Quinn
Assembly
Senate
Kerr-Mills
Wisconsin
Kerr Mills
Equal Opportunity Commission
GOP
Olson
Beloit woman placed on probation for forged money orders
Mary Lou Bostwick, 22, of Beloit, was placed on probation for five years after pleading guilty to 10 counts of forging American Express money orders. Judge John Boyle also ordered a three year term in Taycheedah for the woman. Two male companions, David Lester and Robert Regan of Rockford, Illinois, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting forgery and await sentencing.
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Janesville
Mary Lou Bostwick
Beloit
American Express
John Boyle
Taycheedah
David Lester
Robert Regan
Rockford
Ill
Stormy session on Wisconsin bills sparks early clashes
Madison AP: Early 1963 legislature turmoil surfaces as Senate and Assembly receive numerous bills. Assembly adds 44 Legislative Council measures plus 16 by individuals and six joint resolutions. Senate houses a dozen items. Finance cochairs Hollander and Pommerening hint at prudence, while tax plans and budget battles loom. Proposals include Kerr Mills aid, equal opportunity panel, reapportionment, county government streamline, and education funding shifts.
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Madison
Senate
Assembly
Legislative Council
Walter Hollander
Rosendale
Glen Pommerening
Wauw
Holger Rasmusen
R - Spooner
Wisconsin
Sets House Afire To Show Wife's Neglect
William Carrell planned a blaze to stage his wife’s supposed neglect of their five children. He locked the kids in their rooms, lit the house, then fled, later returning after remorse. Lois Carrell, 25, was away visiting friends. All five children survived unhurt. Carrell, 30, faces arson and attempted murder charges.
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West Covina
Calif
William Carrell
Lois
Carrell
Value Of 1 488 000 Set On Indian Lands
The Indian Claims Commission set a value of 1 488 000 on lands taken from the Oneida Indians in a 1931 treaty. Four million acres stretched from Escanaba Michigan to Milwaukee along Lake Michigan shore, involved in the claim.
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Oneida
Indian Claims Commission
Escanaba, Mich
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Cardinal Cushing Reveals Million Dollar POW Aid
Boston Archbishop Cardinal Cushing disclosed he raised 1 million dollars to aid the release of Cuban invasion prisoners. He stated he was solely responsible for the collection and asked anonymity, noting rumors about the donor. The report links the gift to the Bay of Pigs incident and Kennedy prompted help.
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Cardinal Cushing
Boston
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Cushing
United States
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Lucius D. Clay
Kennedy
Manual Lopez
Cuban Revolutionary Council
Miami
Parkway plan to parallel the Mississippi River promoted by Johnson
U S representative Lester R Johnson proposed a bill to authorize ten states along the Mississippi to use up to ten percent of federal highway funds in 1964 and 1965 to build a modern parkway. The measure would also provide two million dollars per year for rest rooms and parking facilities and upgrades to roads meeting parkway standards.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Lester R. Johnson
Congress
Johnson
Mississippi River
Houston Sportsmen To Hold Fox Hunt
Houston County Sportsmen's Club will hold its annual fox hunt starting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday from the Black Hammer Store. Donald Otis, president, announces refreshments will be served after the hunt.
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Houston
Minn
Houston County Sportsmen's Club
Black Hammer
Donald Otis
GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Planned by Wisconsin GOP Clubs
The Wisconsin GOP Clubs Inc will host a Lincoln Day dinner in Milwaukee on February 9. Lloyd G. Herbstreith of Oshkosh, chairman of the Wisconsin Economic Freedom Committee, will speak. The group is separate from the regular Republican Party and backs income tax repeal. last year’s speaker was Robert Welch of the John Birch Society.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Gop Clubs Inc
Lloyd G. Herbstreith
Oshkosh
Wisconsin Economic Freedom Committee
National Movement
Robert Welch
John Birch Society
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