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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1958
Page
1
The government reports May employment at 64,061,000, up 1,154,000 from April, with unemployment down 216,000 to 4,904,000. Gains come from agriculture and service sectors, plus construction, aided by outdoors work. Manufacturing falls 67,000 to 15 million. unemployment rate falls to 7.2 percent.
Premier De Gaulle urges dissolution of insurgent public safety committees in Algeria. He demands integration of Moslem and European communities and warns committees not to override legal authority. He tours Oran and Mostaganem before returning to Paris amid Algerian independence tensions.
La Crosse volunteers sorted and boxed more than 3000 clothing and bedding items for the northwestern Wisconsin disaster area. Red Cross appeals seek funds and supplies with pickup routes coordinated through Jackson County and towns including Tomah Colfax Sparta and Menomonie.
President Eisenhower signed his name and the date at breakfast with House Republicans. He exclaimed Oh it is D-Day and recalled directing the Normandy invasion 14 years ago while autographing a place card.
In Menomonie and Colfax the twisters killed at least 30, with 119 hospital cases and 350 plus injured. A mother, Mrs. Rolf Lunn, 21, died from injuries. her baby remains in hospital. Red Cross and volunteers mobilized aid with 30 truckloads sent to Colfax and more than $3,000 raised in Eau Claire collections.
Maj Carl Lindstrom Salvation Army used his ham radio to marshal aid for Wisconsin tornado victims. He relayed damage details to Station W97AD Milwaukee and Brigadier Marlon Cohn dispatched 30 officers and supplies to Colfax. Federal relief steps followed as counties were designated disaster areas.
Secretary of State Dulles testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the State Department did not take a position for or against attaching the aid amendment to the foreign aid bill. He noted the decision on how to proceed rests with Congress and discussed the Soviet choice between allowing more satellite nation independence or returning to oppression. He cited Kennedy’s defeated plan and urged separate legislation for any satellite aid, while expressing cautious optimism for future U.S.-Soviet cooperation.
Willard N. Mertz former Dairyland State Bank president was placed on two years probation on charges of embezzling 30200 dollars. The 39 year old was arrested in December 1957 and appeared in Federal Court before Judge Patrick T. Stone in Wausau.
Mrs. Downey, widow of Spanish American War veteran Bill Downey, donated his flag to Tyrell Junior High in Hayward. She told students the flag symbolized a good soldier. She collapsed at the presentation and died of a heart attack days later in a San Leandro hospital. Buried beside her husband at Presidio National Cemetery.
An aerial survey of Colfax shows widespread destruction with homes, barns, and silos toppled while nearby business districts suffer little damage. Meteorologist Joseph Rigney notes a family of three tornadoes moved from Osceola to Eau Claire area before weakening near Wausau.
Early AP figures list 30 killed and 350 injured with at least 20 in grave condition. About 100 homes destroyed and 165 severely damaged, 340 more lightly, along with 1000 cattle killed.
A 25 year old airman from Suffolk County Air Force Base is charged with first degree robbery for using his German shepherd as a lookout during a string of burglaries and a holdup. He said he trained the dog to keep watch while he worked.
Volunteers logged 369422 in donations toward the United Hospital Building Fund campaign. The drive aims at 1242000 with Lutheran and St Francis hospitals receiving pledges. medical divisions show strong progress and weekly reports are scheduled for June 11 at Heileman's Hospitality Room.
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