Black Hawk Bridge Opened By Lieutenant Governors
Iowa and Wisconsin honored the rebuilt Black Hawk bridge with ribbon cuttings by Lt. Governors Warren Knowles and William H. Nicholas. A noon luncheon, parades, a Venetian Night boat show, and a two town celebration followed as about 8,000 spectators witnessed the ceremony amid bright weather and lakefront entertainment.
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Warren Knowles
Wisconsin
William Nicholas
Iowa
Black Hawk Bridge
Lansing
New
William H. Nicholas
Mary Myhre
Clarice Oliver
de Soto
Joan Kelleher
Pat Beck
M. G. Bennar
H. C. Scharphoff
Iowa Highway Departments
Decorah
Ferryville
Lansing Kiwanis Club
Rains Flood Portions Of Texas Again
Texas faced severe weather with up to 11 inches of rain across the state. Two Arlington youths, Don Jacobs and Lawrence Thompson, died from lightning. Flooding disrupted harvests and damaged homes and farm buildings across multiple counties.
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Texas
Dallas
Midland
Tex
Big Spring
Uvalde
Lapryor
Kingsville
Lubbock
Amarillo
Plainview
Sherman
South Plains
Hale
Floyd
Swisher
Panhandle
Brackettville
San Antonio
Arlington
Don Jacobs
Lawrence Thompson
Fort Worth
Miller May Wait 3 Weeks For Sentence
Arthur Miller, convicted of contempt of Congress, may wait three weeks or longer for sentencing as the court defers to a probation report. Miller and Marilyn Monroe left New York, declining to comment, after Miller admitted past support for Red causes but refused to name others.
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Washington
Arthur Miller
Miller
Marilyn Monroe
New York
Charles F. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Nervous Minks Delay Jet Plane Show in Manitowoc
Manitowoc County mink ranchers and the National Board of Fur Farm Organizations asked Air Force officials to postpone a scheduled jet plane display. They said the aircraft would frighten mother minks and endanger their kits. The event was moved to July 27-28 after Gen Nathan Twining granted the request.
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Manitowoc
Manitowoc County
National Board of Fur Farm Organizations
Air Force
Nathan Twining
Gen. Twining
PSC to Probe Shawano County Phone Service Complaints
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission said it will investigate complaints from Town of Lesser residents in Shawano County who seek telephone service from Boa dual Telephone Co rather than General Telephone of Wisconsin Co. A hearing is scheduled for June 14 in Shawano. The PSC also authorized Union Telephone Co to raise annual rates about eight thousand dollars and approved a twenty two thousand four hundred dollar yearly rate hike for Sturgeon Bay sewage disposal utilities after a recent plant-water utility merger. A June 18 hearing in Fond du Lac was postponed on a Northwestern Railway request for automatic crossing signals and closing of three crossings.
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Madison
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Shawano County
Boadual Telephone Co
General Telephone of Wisconsin Co
Shawano
PSC
Union Telephone Co
Plainfield
Hancock
Sturgeon Bay
Fond du Lac
North Western Railway
England's oldest lawyer reaches 100 years old
Colwall England John Stallard the country's oldest practising lawyer marked his 100th birthday today saying he has no plans to retire as he dislikes the idea of doing nothing.
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Colwall
England
John Stallard
Johnson Urges New Look At U S Trade Policy
Senate leader Lyndon Johnson called for a new look at U S trade policy after Britain relaxed its embargo with Red China. He said the move requires re evaluation of Chinese trade policy, with Humphrey backing a broader policy review amid cautious Republican reactions.
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Johnson
U.S
Washington
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
U. S
China
Humphrey
Minn
Knowland
California
London
Decison
Russia
United States
Red China
Britain
Congress
Peiping
Formosa
Hong Kong
State Department
Selwyn Lloyd
Quote on breaking up political argument near two men
An unidentified speaker asks someone to walk past two men to interrupt or disrupt a political argument. The brief implies intervention to end a dispute in a public or semi public setting. No names, places, or dates are provided.
Rescue Of Duluth Woman From Wyoming Mountain Plane Crash
Undersheriff Berie Foote recounts the 19 day survival of Mrs. Dalton La Masurier on Ferris Mountain after a plane crash. A ranch hand spotted wreckage at 12 12 pm Thursday and guided rescuers to the survivor who was found alive in a snow bank and rushed to hospital by 7 15 pm after rapid medical checks and improvised stretcher work.
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Dalton la Masurier
Ferris Mountain
Wyoming
Associated Press
Bernie Foote
Carbon County
Rawlins
Wye
Tye Moore
Buzzard Ranch
Jack Putnam
Putnam
Tye
Dutch Werner
Casper
George Nelson
LeMasurier
Twin boys vanish from home near Orting Washington
Kevin and Kerry Yanasak two 21 month old brothers disappeared from their wooded foothills home south of Orting Friday afternoon. Hundreds searched the area near a sheer bluff dropping several hundred feet as investigators seek clues in the hilly riverine terrain.
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Oating
Wash
Here
Orting
Seattle
Hearing After Flood Tour Focuses on Losses and Plans
A House Public Works Subcommittee after a two day aerial tour of flood ravaged lands in Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas holds a hearing to detail losses and river basin development plans. Rep Edmondson leads with calls for prompt river project funding and faster authorization times.
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Tulsa
Okla
House
Public Works
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Edmondson
D- Okla
Wright
D-Tex
Byrne
R-Id
Fort Worth
Congress
Southwest
Arkansas River
Mrs LeMasurier Flown To Minnesota By ANG
Mrs Dorothy LeMasurier survived 19 days after a May crash on Ferris Mountain in Wyoming. She arrived in Duluth in very good condition on a Minnesota Air National Guard C-47. Her husband, president of KDAL and KDAL TV, died from a brain injury days after the crash.
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Duluth
Minn
Wyoming
Dorothy LeMasurier
Caton
KDAL
Kdal-Tv
LeMasuriers
Ferris Mountain
Rawlins
Wyo
Pasadena
Calif
National Guard
Casper
LeMasurier
Donald van Ryzin
Riots at Illinois Campus Bring 32 Charges
A water fight at the University of Illinois sparked a campus melee involving about 5,000 students. Police charged 32 participants with various offenses, while 27 more youths faced disorderly conduct charges. Several fines were imposed and two coeds were hurt as authorities used tear gas to end the disturbance.
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Champaign, Ii. W
University of Illinois
Justices of the Peace
Champagn
Champaign
Gas Bill All But Dead For This Session
The Natural Gas Bill, aimed at easing federal controls over independent producers, appears nearly dead for this session. If it passes the House it faces a doubtful Senate fate with Magnuson and the Commerce Committee unlikely to act this year.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Senate Commerce Committee
Sen
Magnuson
D-Wash
Harris
Dark
O'Hara
R-Minn
Britain detonates second and more powerful hydrogen blast
A four ton British hydrogen bomb, part of Operation Grapple, exploded near Malden atoll 400 miles south of Christmas Island. Observers aboard H M S Alert watched as a one mile wide fireball formed and expanded before fading to a white mushroom cloud. Scientists predicted minimal local fallout but worldwide dispersion of fission products will occur over months to years. Protests against the tests erupted in Toledo with 70 students marching on the British embassy.
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H.M.S
Central Pacific
Britain
Malden Atoll
Christmas Island
Task Force
William Cook
Cook
U. S
Toledo
Dairymen to Organize National Dairymen’s Assn in Wisconsin
Dairy men from at least 20 states will meet Monday in Cumberland to adopt bylaws for the National Dairymen's Assn. The new body unites several small groups and claims about 250,000 dairymen. Arthur Gude of Alstead, New Hampshire, is named president.
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Selkirk
N. Y
Cumberland
Wis
National Dairymen’s Assn
Arthur Gude
Alstead
N. H
United States Aims New Nuclear Disarm Plan With Inspections
The United States plans to offer Russia a new disarmament proposal next week that links halting weapon production and inspections to a ban on nuclear tests. The plan seeks to curb the arms race, halt spread to other nations, and reduce stockpiles, contingent on an effective international inspection program.
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United States
Russia
U. S
White House
London
United Nations Disarmament Subcommittee
Britain
State Dulles
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Lincoln Neprud
Viroqua
Tribune
Knowles
Nicholas
Gerald Bogan
Iowa Good Roads Assn
Henry Graven
Graven
State Highway Patrol
Clear Creek
Red Cross
State Civil Defense Office
Karl R. Bauman
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Walter
D-Pa
Monroe
Minks
By Jack Bell
Paris
Moscow
United Nations
Pacific
Werner
Robert Paul
Kevin
Kerry Yanasak
Edward Yanasak
P.m
Mrs. LeMasurier
Minnesota
Ang
U. of Illinois
David Dodds Henry
Unifax
Charles Haslet
Ronald Thomson
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