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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1961
Page
1
A 62 year old man killed his wife with a stick during a late fishing trip dispute and then shot himself. Kathryn Adams 57 died from a single .32 caliber bullet. Leo Adams died 7:25 a.m. at Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital. Police say Otto Hopkins witnessed the sequence and alerted authorities.
In Gays Mills Crawford County a 36 year old man broke into his ex wife’s bedroom and stabbed her new husband seven or eight times with a jack knife. James Johnson Jr. 35 was stabbed in the neck chest and legs and treated at a hospital before transfer to University Hospitals Madison where he was listed as satisfactory. Donald Lassie of Elgin Ill admitted stabbing and was jailed after being arraigned on attempted first degree murder charges with a preliminary hearing set for June 14. He had returned to visit his former wife since their divorce five years ago and did not know she remarried. Lassie lived in Genoa City and worked as a construction worker, formerly employed in Elgin.
The Associated Press reports four deaths Sunday lifting Wisconsin’s weekend toll to 12, with seven lives lost Saturday in crashes. Nine victims were in one car. only three were over 21. Year to date deaths reach 321, up from 302 last year.
At Southwest Miami High School twelve handicapped students including a blind junior a deaf sophomore and a spastic sophomore receive tailored instruction via a county educational television program. Volunteers from the Council of Jewish Women convert notes to Braille and texts while future expansion will bring more students from across the county to the campus.
Kennedy and Macmillan reach broad agreement on Western strategy and Berlin rights after a four power summit in Vienna andLondon. They plan a radio and TV address as they stress continued talks and unity despite Laos Cuba setbacks.
Khrushchev met with President Kennedy in Vienna and appeared grave and sober. Diplomatic sources say he aimed to gauge the new U S leadership and assess prospects for blocking further Communist expansion. He avoided pushing the Berlin issue, signaling a wait-and-see approach amid global tensions. He also affirmed support for a cease fire in Laos.
At Geneva the communist delegates urged focus on a political settlement in Laos and pressed to skip new cease-fire instructions. Soviet Pushkin called cease-fire a minor issue while Britain’s Malcolm MacDonald hoped Vienna would aid a united neutral Laos. The Kennedy Khrushchev meeting was called useful but not decisive.
President Kennedy will speak from the White House at 6 p.m. CDT about talks with Soviet Premier Khrushchev and French President de Gaulle. Pierre Salinger announced the address would be carried live by major networks and Mutual Radio, with WKBT airing the telecast starting at 6.
New York millionaire Shelby Cullom Davis cables from Aberdeen that his daughter Diana, 22, needs a spanking more than the 3.8 million trust fund he set up for her. He criticizes her refusal to donate the money to Princeton University and says too much money harms the young.
The Dominican Republic offered cooperation to an OAS seven nation committee probing conditions at home. Dominican Foreign Minister Porfirio Herrera Baez said a mission to Washington would be dispatched, while the U S increases naval presence in the Caribbean amid a push for free elections next May.
Ten people died in Minnesota traffic crashes over the weekend elevating the annual toll to 247, six more than the same period last year. Victims include Phillip Steichen 21 and Robert Enge 18 who burned to death when their car hit a tree near Newport. Others died in crashes near Grey Eagle Clear Water Sleepy Eye and Lucan.
In Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic soldiers and police killed retired Gen. Juan Tomas Diaz the accused chief assassin of dictator Rafael Trujillo and his alleged accomplice Antonio de la Maza during a house to house search. The pair died after a gun battle near Independence Park and Bolivar Avenue. Diaz led the plot after forced retirement, authorities said. Earlier reports noted other members of the assassination group with various statuses.
Athens reports confirm that former Greek communist guerrillas are being transported by train from Poland toward Bulgaria near the Greek border. Infiltration from Bulgaria into Greek Macedonia has been noted repeatedly in recent years.
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