Senate OKs 3.7 Billion Foreign Aid Package
The Senate approved a 3.7129 billion foreign aid program after defeating efforts to trim total or bar aid to Poland and Yugoslavia. The 51-17 vote ended a near midnight session, with 26 Republicans and 25 Democrats supporting the bill. The measure now heads to a House Senate conference to reconcile differences and set funding levels for the next fiscal year.
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Washington
Senate
Poland
Yugoslavia
Eisenhower
House
Senate House
Appropriations Committees
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Ellender
United States
De Gaulle pushes equal rights plan and Algeria referendum
Paris AP Charles de Gaulle's cabinet moves quickly to implement a pacifying program for Algeria. It endorses Moslem inclusion, sets Oct 5 as the referendum date, and plans rapid local elections in Algeria in about a month. The move aims to weaken the Algiers junta and show full equality for Arabs and Berbers with French in Algeria.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Algiers
de Gaulle
France
de Gaullle
Raoul Salan
Salan
Andre Malraux
Egypt
Tunisia
Malraux
Maraux
Labor Bill Approved By Senate Committee
Washington AP Kennedy says labor bill ready for Senate action fully meets union abuses, backed by McClellan and a 12 to 1 committee vote. Bill would create a union democracy code, require public accounting of union finances, and modify Taft Hartley. Also includes secret ballots, terms limits, and anti extortion provisions. Goldwater calls it too mild, vows floor amendments.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Senate
Kennedy
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Rackets Investigating Committee
Senate Labor Committee
McClellan Committee
William F. Knowland
California
Knowland
McClellan
Hon
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Government loan office to aid northwest Wisconsin farmers
The Small Business Administration plans a temporary Colfax office by Monday to process farmer loans in the tornado damaged northwest region. Gov. Vernon Thomson was informed. Sen. Alexander Wiley wired that the site in Peoples State Bank Colfax will offer loan applications through local banks.
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Madison
Small Business Administration
Colfax
Vernon Thomson
Alexander Wiley
Rwis
Thomson
Wisconsin
Peoples State Bank
Ten-Year-Olds Admit Tying Boy To Tracks
In Norwalk California two 10 year old boys confessed to tying 7 year old Michael Evans to railroad tracks to frighten him. His father Frank Evans rescued him just before a train arrived. The youths were released to their parents while juvenile court action is pending.
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Norwalk
Calif
Sheriff’s Deputies
Michael Evans
Frank
Michael
Evans
Barricades Keep Sightseers Out Of Tornado Counties
In Menomonie Wisconsin Governor Vernon Thomson ordered barricades to close off the four county tornado zone to deter curiosity seekers while recovery continued. Funeral services for three victims were set, including 65 year old George House and two youths from Colfax. Red Cross funds topped 16 thousand with additional gifts from WEAU TV and local chambers, while relief efforts supplied food clothing and shelter.
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Colfax
George House
Evangelical and Reformed
Colfax Methodist Church
Lanny Fijelstad
Spencer Fjelstad
Red Cross
Weau-Tv
Eau Claire
Chamber of Commerce
Minneapolis- St. Paul
Minnesota
Tornado devastates Colfax home and neighborhood
Tribune reporter recalls a night of destruction as a Colfax tornado levels homes and a portion of Main Street. He describes the collapse of his own residence and yard, the loss of trees and possessions, scattered belongings, and the search for keepsakes amid the ruin.
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Colfax
Main Street
County officers describe havoc in tornado ravaged La Crosse
La Crosse County highway patrolmen Milton Opland and James McHugh describe the devastation near Colfax Wis and compare it to the Colfax disaster. They recount barns ripped apart and timbers driven into soil, stock losses, toppled trees, and the chaos of stranded residents, with responders from the National Guard and mobile light plants aiding relief efforts.
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Milton Opland
James McHugh
Coulee
Opland
Upland
National Guard
Dad Held For Fatally Beating and Biting Son
Police in Roswell near Atlanta hold Jason Campbell 27 for murder after his 16 month old son John Robert suffered fatal beating and 50 to 60 bite wounds. The mother, 18, witnessed the assault. The child died within hours at an Atlanta hospital.
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Atlanta
George Christian
Jason Campbell
John Robert Campbell
Campbell
Roswell
John Robert
Melton Cagle
Harold C. Summers
East Point
Summers
Danny
Red Cross Workers Head to Colfax to Aid Tornado Area
Five La Crosse women of the Red Cross Canteen Corps departed early Saturday for Colfax to serve two days in the tornado hit region. They prepared hundreds of sandwiches Friday night for cleanup crews, with supplies to be augmented from Red Cross disaster headquarters in Menominee. Sheriff Morris Moon reported county workers aiding storm area relief along with officers Hubbard and Bolstad and Leon Marshall lending support.
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la Crosse
Red Cross
Colfax
Margaret Scott
Mmes
Carl Haase
Leslie Burch
Harold Wheelock
Alfred Arenz
Red Cross Disaster
Menomonie
Morris Moon
Vernon County
Lowell Hubbard
Arnold Bolstad
Bolstad
Leon Marshall
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Foreign Relations Committee
Stanley Johnson
British Broadcasting Corp
Free France
First National Bank
Brinks
R. E. Munk
George W. Milne
Tribune
Pres
Theodor Heuss
West Germany
Heuss
U. S
Heinrich von Brentano
Wilhelm Grewe
Pres. Eisenhower
Unifax
Leon Lunn
Rolf Lunn
Great Falls
Fgil Rasmuson
Adrean Schute
Rasmuson
By Jim Gunderson
la Crosse Tribune
Wis
Redwood Falls
Minn
Overland Park
Kan
Highway 40
Davenport
Norway Pines
Town
la Crosse County
Opland and
McHugh
Highway 12
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