Radio Guide Evening Programs for Saturday June 6 1959
Listings published as a reader service show evening radio programs for Saturday June 6 1959. Broadcasters are responsible for accuracy of the lineup and scheduling details.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1959
Page
5
Listings published as a reader service show evening radio programs for Saturday June 6 1959. Broadcasters are responsible for accuracy of the lineup and scheduling details.
Edwards Air Force Base in California reports a burned out cockpit ventilation motor forced another delay to the X15 rocket ship maiden flight. Test pilot Scott Crossfield detected the motor burn and the launch was canceled minutes before the B52 Stratofortress was to drop the X15 from 38,000 feet for a glide to earth. The project aims for a 100 mile altitude and speeds up to 4,000 mph. the flight had been rescheduled to Monday.
WKBT previews a six to seven pm hour on television featuring the Wartime Songs segment of the Dodge Dancing Party hosted by Lawrence Welk. The 15 voice glee club under Peter Lance will perform Roses of Picardy in a special arrangement. The program follows with Loretta Young Show at seven pm, a romantic comedy about an ocean cruise that tests a bachelor’s resolve.
In Hazard Kentucky a 25 year old miner Bobby Jenkins Jr was killed by a state trooper during an arrest attempt over a shootout with nonunion truckers amid a weeks long strike over United Mine Workers demands for a 1959 contract. Chester Blair 20 was wounded in a separate sniper attack as UGW leader Stamper Collins backed a nonunion operation near Kodak Coal Co in Perry County.
TV schedules show most new offerings are refinements of old hits. Perry Como closes his NBC season with Tony Bennett Teresa Brewer and the Four Lads, while CBS debuts Brewner a police drama with Edward Binns and James Broderick. Regular interview panels and variety shows fill the week with Kennedy Fulbright Sullivan Allen Rogers and more.
At Fort Bragg North Carolina during a mass parachute jump exercise two service members were involved in a Dark Cloud Pine Cone II operation. Sgt Franklin N Defazio 26 died when both chutes failed to open. Pfc Willie Gray 18 survived after a door entanglement. Gray landed in swamp water. Defazio was a native of Louisville Kentucky leaving a wife and infant daughter.
Chicago AP report states Leroy Tucker a 44 year old photoengraving supervisor at Racine Journal Times collapsed and died from a heart ailment while golfing at Glenview Country Club with two friends. Tucker had 15 years with the Journal Times. He lived at 716 North Street Racine and is survived by his widow and two children.
James Joyce age 58 of Green Bay was sentenced in County Court on Friday to 30 days in County Jail for being drunk. Judge Eugene A. Toepel ordered five days to be served with the remaining time suspended on the condition that Joyce not return to La Crosse County for one year.
Ronald Matiak eighteen of 720 Avon Street pleaded guilty in County Court to stealing ten dollars from his sister Mrs Orville Wang. Judge Eugene A Toepel placed Matiak on probation to the State Department of Public Welfare for one year.
New York AP reports Vito Genovese a reputed underworld leader is free on 150000 bail while appealing a narcotics conspiracy conviction. Genovese of Atlantic Highlands New Jersey posted the bond in federal court and left smiling. He had been held without bail in the federal House of Detention since April 17. He was convicted with 14 others on narcotics conspiracy charges and sentenced to 15 years and a 20000 fine.
A Morrisonville man Richard G. Larson, once charged 60 years ago with writing six no account checks against La Crosse banks, is held in Madison on unannounced charges. Dist Atty George Thompson Jr said his office awaits Dane County input on charges before action. Larson was arrested recently in Madison. La Crosse police were notified of the arrest. The La Crosse warrant dated December 29, 1952, was on file when Larson was arrested.
Lester Koblitz reports homemade miniature cars causing loud noise on Farnam and 27th streets after 5 p m on weekends. He says the vehicles are unlicensed and create a terrific din described as annoying.
Maj. Gen. John Morris Hargreaves 58 former Air Force deputy surgeon general died in Portland Oregon. His body, found by his widow Hattie, had been dead since Tuesday and death was attributed to natural causes. He retired five years ago after thirty years of service and had served as command surgeon for the Air Force in the Far East.
Madison official Don ald R. McNeil told the State Historical Society at its annual convention he will resign his acting director post in the fall to return as associate director on August 1 when Leslie Fisher becomes director. Awards of merit for 1958 were given by the Board of Curators, honoring Waukesha Freeman, Sister Mary Justa, Vivien Dube, Russell L. Williams, Clifford L. Lord, and John Hunter for various public history contributions.
Donald Mahr, 30, of Milwaukee, died Friday from injuries suffered May 30 when his motorcycle passenger ride collided with a car. The motorcycle driver also died in the crash. The memorial day accident raised Wisconsin’s 1959 highway toll to 269, down from 287 a year earlier on the same day.
Locals report Naso's House of Pizza now open at a new location at 6th and State offering carry outs. The shop also provides music instrument repair services and is listed as Modah Horn Shop at 205 South 4th with contact number 4-8841.
At Beverly Speedway near St. Joseph Missouri a race car left the track, crashed through the bleachers and injured 22 spectators during the first race of the night. One child, Ronnie Lee Neidel eight, was among the injured and the driver Albert M Bud Neidel thirty, suffered a bruised shoulder. Eleven more hospitalized. Ambulances ferried victims as police cleared the area and extra medical staff assisted at Sisters Hospital and Missouri Methodist Hospital. Track owner Ardale Chambers was away. insurance reportedly covered only drivers.
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