Coed Drowns in Wisconsin Lake Storm
An 18 year old University of Wisconsin freshman coed from Rockville Centre New York is presumed drowned after a sailboat capsized on Lake Mendota during a violent wind and rainstorm. Her friend Constance Ronald 20 of South Bend Indiana was rescued. two others were reported missing but found at a party.
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Madison
Dell Abramson
University of Wisconsin
Rockville Centre
N.Y
Lake Mendota
Constance Ronald
South Bend
Ind
Wisconsin
Miss Ronald
UW Hoofer’s
Abramson
Weather Outlook With Evening Thunder Showers
Variable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers tonight and Sunday. Continued warm through Monday. Low tonight mid 60s high Sunday 99.
Weather swings as La Crosse heats cools rapidly
The La Crosse area saw a 24 degree drop in two hours as north winds at 46 mph with gusts to 57 mph pushed the city from 90 degrees at 11 58 a.m. to 66 by 1 59 p.m. Rain totaled 0 36 inch in 24 hours with most between 1 08 and 3 05 p.m. Thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday night and Sunday. highs near 90 and lows in the mid 60s.
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la Crosse
Seven Persons Injured In Four Auto Accidents
Seven people were injured in four city and county crashes Friday and Saturday. The most serious involved a single car on Highway 16 east of La Crosse where 16 year old Arthur Carter sustained a brain concussion and other injuries after the car left the road and hit a tree.
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Mississippi River Bridge
Arthur Carter
R. 1
Onalaska
Highway 16
Grandview Hospital
Cyril M. Larson
Kankakee
Ill
Lutheran Hospital
McKinley C. Munson
Madison
Hazel S. Finson
Washington, Il
Ken Casler
la Crescent
Minn
Larson
Munson
Finson Auto
Casler
Wesley R. Leisher
Watertown
Edward N. Moen
Houston
Leishher
Wisconsin Deficit Forecast Raised to 29 Million
Wisconsin Tax Commissioner John Gronouski estimated the state deficit on July 1 at 29 million dollars, up from 23 million. He told lawmakers the higher figure comes from remaining income tax refunds in the withholding system and noted it is an outside estimate.
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Madison
Wisconsin
John Gronouski
Gronouski
Joint Finance Committee
Traffic toll rises to 305 statewide
Wisconsin’s highway death toll climbs to 305, down from 328 a year ago. Robert H. Atkinson, about 50, Hot Springs National Park superintendent, died in a two vehicle collision on Highway 14 near Richland Center. His wife was reported in good condition. Jerry Wever, 18, of Waukesha, died in a crash near the Highway 59 intersection with the Waukesha County Trunk GN near Eagle.
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Robert H. Atkinson
National Park
Hot Springs
Ark
Highway 14
Richland Center
Atkinson
Jerry Wever
Waukesha
Waukesha County
Eagle
Reynolds Sees Hopeful Tax Budget Progress
Milwaukee Gov John W Reynolds expressed optimism about bipartisan strides to resolve Wisconsin fiscal crisis. He opposed a general sales tax and urged a July 1 budget passage while noting Joint Finance Committee focus on a substitute for his 669 million proposal.
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Milwaukee
John W. Reynolds
Reynolds
Joint Finance Committee
Epidemic Of Birth Defects In Atlanta Baffles Doctors
A team of doctors in Washington investigated a 1961 62 Atlanta birth defect surge. Sixteen infants were affected by a spinal condition meningomyelocele with two survivors. They checked viruses drugs diets and environments but found no clear cause. Investigations followed mothers, hospital births, and diverse lives across Atlanta.
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Washington
Thomson seeks 100000 planning funds for Kickapoo flood control
Rep. Vernon Thomson announces he will ask the House Appropriations Public Works subcommittee for 100000 to start engineering planning of the Kickapoo flood control project in Wisconsin. He notes the president’s budget omits this line item and cites Army Corps backing and 5000 petition signatures from 1961.
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Vernon Thomson
R. Wis
House
Appropriations Public Works Subcommittee
Army Corps of Engineers
Vernon, Crawford
Richland
Congress
Thomson
Gaylord Nelson
D. Wis
Senate
Kickapoo
Nelson
Zasu Pitts Dies at 63 After Cancer Battle
Los Angeles AP reports actress Zasu Pitts, known for comic dismay and fluttery hands, died at 63 after a cancer illness. She was wife of John E. Woodall and survived by a daughter Ann Reynolds and an adopted son Donald Gallery. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Los Angeles
Zasu Pitts
John E. Woodall
Good Samaritan Hospital
Susanna
Ann Reynolds
Donald Gallery
Eliza
Susan
Urge Dollars Ballots No Violence at University of Alabama
Segregationist leaders urge boycotts and economic pressure to block integration as crowded campus security and a statewide broadcast plan unfold. Governor Wallace campaigns against admitting two Negro students while Connor and Citizens Councils advocate private schooling and political penalties.
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Ala
University of Alabama
Eugene
Bull) Connor
Birmingham
Montgomery
George C. Wallace
Wallace
University Extension Center
Huntsville
Connor
Citizens Council
Holt
Democratic Party
Kennedys
C. E. Hornsby Jr
Centreville
Hornsby
Citizens Councils
Alabama
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