Acreage Reserve Plan In State To Be Operating Within 2 Weeks
Madison Wisconsin will launch the acreage reserve portion of the federal soil bank within about two weeks said Kenneth H Hoover state ASC officer. Farmers may sign up later but yields must be set first after township committees meet next week to determine three to five year crop allocations. Final disposal dates and weather losses may qualify some for reduced payments. Fields under reserve cannot be grazed mowed or planted in 1956 and must be weed free.
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Madison
Federal Soil Bank
Wisconsin
Kenneth H. Hoover
Hoover
Soil Bank
ASC
Monegar Sentenced to Life for Family Knife Slayings
Russell Monegar, 38, a Winnebago Indian, was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Gerald Boileau to life in prison on four counts of first degree murder. The judge did not specify whether sentences run concurrently or consecutively, implying concurrent terms and potential parole in about 11 years. Monegar’s four motions seeking stay, insanity, reduced charges, or a new trial were denied after his conviction for the knife slayings of four family members. He addressed the court and was to be sent to Waupun State Prison.
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Wausau
Gerald Boileau
Russell Monegar
Boileau
Monegar
Walter
Augustana Lutherans Condemn Race Discrimination
Moorhead Minn The president of the Augustana Lutheran Church Oscar A Benson urged delegates at the 97th annual synod that there is no place for racial discrimination in the church He said a living church must be a growing church and reach out to unchurched people of every community The leader also spoke on Lutheran unity noting it will come from unity of the spirit rather than a fragile spirit of unity with delegates from 35 states and Canada listening in.
Chinese Reds Seek Dulles Chou En Lai Meeting
Peiping calls for an imminent meeting between Secretary of State Dulles and Premier Chou En-lai as talks resume after nine months. The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued the statement during the Geneva negotiations with U S Ambassador Johnson and Red China envoy Wang Ping-nan.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Dulles
Chou En-lai
U. S
U. Alexis Johnson
Red China
Wang Ping-nan
Peiping Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Weather Reading From U S Department of Commerce
Wisconsin watches partly cloudy skies with a chance of widely scattered thundershowers and cooler air in the north on Wednesday. Minnesota reports partly cloudy tonight with scattered thundershowers east and south and cooler in the north and west. Wednesday brings fair skies in the north and scattered thundershowers in the south. Iowa remains generally fair and warm with a chance of thunderstorms in the northwest.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
River Readings and Forecast for Mississippi River
Sunrise and sunset times listed for Wednesday. River forecast from Hastings to Guttenberg expects minimal changes over the next two days due to little gate operation and slight gate inflow throughout the district.
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Hastings
Guttenberg
Mississippi River
Parking Ramp Referendum Shift and Bond Plans
Aldermen debated funding a Market Square two level parking ramp with a $619000 bond issue. The Markle proposal floated raising the amount to 1153000 and a per car cost estimate of six to seven thousand. Debate stretched over whether to hold a referendum and if the mayor would veto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Hilbert
Schultz
Markle
Parking Utilities Board
de Leuw, Cather and Co
Chicago
Market Square
Labove
Atlee Third In ROAD E O
Martin Hanneman 18 of Wausau won the Wisconsin state ROAD E O title and a 500 scholarship after tests with 38 local champions. Gordon Manke 18 of Wisconsin Rapids was runnerup and Richard Atlee 17 of La Crosse placed third as Wisconsin selects its national representative for Washington next August.
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Martin Hanneman
Wausau
Detention Idea Questioned by La Crosse Officials
County officials debated a detention home proposal with calls to study the need. Frank Check dismissed outside study as improper, urging board members to decide. Committee members blamed delinquent parents for troubled youths and praised foster care and St. Michael's Home as effective under supervision.
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la Crosse
Frank Check
5Th Ave. S
St. Michael’s
Fox
Catlin Seeks Definite Charges In Wisconsin Ethics Case
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Mark Catlin Jr. asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to make ethics charges against him more definite and to strike irrelevant material. He also sought a witness list from the board of bar commissioners. The court will hear arguments on June 15. Catlin denies the accusations, calling the investigation a political smear prompted by Gov. Kohler.
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Madison
Assembly
Mark Catlin Jr
Appleton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Board of Bar Commissioners
Catlin
Bar Commissioners
High Court
Kohler
U.S. Senate
Government forecasts 922 million bushel wheat crop
The Agriculture Department projects this year’s government restricted wheat harvest at 922,672,000 bushels. The report compares with last year’s 938,159,000 and the 10 year average of 1,146,547,000. Winter wheat at 670,375,000. spring wheat at 252,297,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Ford Opposes Bill Regulating Auto Distribution
William T Gossett vice president and general counsel of Ford Motor Co told a Senate subcommittee the Monroney Gossett bill would raise prices and cause unemployment by federalizing auto distribution. He argued requiring manufacturers to repurchase unsold cars would push higher price tags due to lower production volume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ford Motor Co
Senate
Sen. Monroney
D-Okla
William T. Gossett
Gossett
Monroney
Readstown Tractor Tragedy Claims Life on Hill
Readstown Wisconsin special report says 67 year old Norman Johnson died when a tractor tipped while he tried to turn on a hill. Mrs Johnson found him beneath the machine about 10:30 a.m. Monday. He leaves wife two daughters in Illinois and a son in Illinois and a sister in Readstown. Funeral for the Franklin Lutheran Church with Rev Peder Nordsletten to officiate and burial in the church cemetery.
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Readstown
Wis
Carl
Bennie) Johnson
Johnson
Johnson Farm
Soldiers Grove
Crawford County
Lawrence
Myra) Tilley
Elgin
Ill
Kenneth
Hilda) Peterson
Madison
Norman Johnson
Tom Fortney
Franklin Lutheran Church
Peder Nordsletten
Gunman abducts bank president takes $65,000 in Southport
A masked gunman forced bank president John A. Whalen and his wife from their Indianapolis home to the Southport State Bank early today. They were held for almost six hours with six female employees present before the robber fled in Whalen’s 1956 Oldsmobile after the vault time lock released. The 30 to 35 year old, 5 11, 155 pound assailant wore a brown coat and black white shirt and spoke calmly during the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southport
Ind
John A. Whalen
Whalen
Whalens
Indianapolis
Crowd Mobs Tito On Visit To Stalingrad
Tito arrives in Stalingrad to a 200000 strong crowd around the railroad station. An American reporter, Mrs Betty Mase of Bronxville New York, is swept into Deputy Premier Mikoyan’s car as the crowd surges and she cannot free herself. The mob is described as wildly enthusiastic.
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Stalingrad
Tito
Yugoslavia
Nikita Khrushchevy
A. I. Mikoyan
Betty Mase
Bronxville
N. Y
Mikoyan
Girl Injured by Hit and Run Scooter Near La Crosse
A nine year old girl from rural La Crosse was slightly injured at 2 p m Monday when struck by a red motor scooter on highways 14 and 61 near the La Crosse Motel. Margie Surom suffered leg cuts as she rode a bicycle along the highway edge. The rider, a boy about 18 or 19 with red hair, fled the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Margie Surom
Margie
Politician Castelo Sentenced to Death in Philippines Slaying
Manila Judge Emilio Rilloraza sentenced former Justice and Defense Secretary Oscar Castelo to death for a second time for a political slaying linked to the murder of Manuel P. Monroy. Castelo, cabinet member of the late President Elpidio Quirino, was previously found guilty of ordering Monroy’s murder, a key witness in a bribery and extortion case.
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Manila
Emilio Rilloraza
Oscar Castelo
Castelo
Elpidio Quirino
Manuel P. Monroy
Monroy
Film Director Dies Breezy Eason Known as Action Pioneer
Hollywood reports funeral services for B Reeves Breezy Eason 70 director of chariot sequences in Ben Hur and pioneer action director later working on Cimarron Duel in the Sun Gone With the Wind and other films He died Sunday of a heart attack.
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Hollywood
B. Reeves
Breezy
Fishermen Rescued After Japanese Boat Capsizes Off Tokyo Bay
The U S destroyer Jarvis rescued eight crewmen from a Japanese fishing boat that capsized south of Tokyo Bay.
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Yokosuka
Japan
U. S
Jarvis
Tokyo Bay
Death notices for Laura Lee and Ole Olson
Funeral services are announced for Mrs. Laura Lee 74 Onalaska who died Sunday night with burial at Onalaska Cemetery. Also Ole S Olson 78 Onalaska died Tuesday morning with services Friday at 2 p.m. Sletten McKee Chapel and Oak Grove Cemetery burial. Friends may call Fossum Home Tuesday evening and Sletten McKee Thursday evening.
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Peter
Laura) Lee
Onalaska
Fossum Funeral Home
1St Lutheran Church
Leon Holm
Fossum Home
Ole S. Olson
Oakland St
Norway
Christine
Eugene
Arlene R.) Lancour
la Crosse
Hilma E. Olson
Spokane, Wash
Ray
Mamie) Prechel
Jefferson, Wis
Melvin J
Rochester, Mich
Harold S
Herbert T
George Alvilden
Oak Grove Cemetery
Eisenhower Hospital Stay Alters White House Duties
President Eisenhower remains in hospital with doctors estimating until about June 24. Four to six weeks from last Saturday is needed before resuming full duties. In a brief conference with Adams he rejected a Soviet proposal for all four top U S military leaders to visit Russia together later this month.
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Eisenhower
White House
Adams
Soviet Union
America
Russia
Minnesota Girl Dies In State Crash
Joyce Rausch 18 of St. Cloud Minnesota died at St Joseph Hospital Marshfield after a collision between a station wagon and a truck at Highway 10 intersection 15 miles southwest of Marshfield. Three magazine solicitors in the wagon Pauline Busby 26 of Brooklyn Indiana and Terry Kuhl 18 of Waterstown South Carolina were hospitalized. truck driver James Boushon Route 2 Spencer escaped injury.
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Clark County
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Joyce Rausch
Charles Rausch
St. Cloud
Minn
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Marshfield
Miss Rausch
Pauline Busby
Brooklyn
In.y
Terry Kuhl
Waterstown
S.C
James Boushon
Spencer
Plead Guilty To Stealing Documents
An Army sergeant and two East Orange businessmen pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the theft of a secret government document from the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Sydney Stern Seymour Hindman and Sgt Harold Brill faced up to five years and $10,000 fines, with Stern and Hindman released on $5,000 bail and Brill on $500 bail pending sentence.
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Newark
N.J
East Orange
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Alfred E. Modarelli
Sydney M. Stern
Seymour S. Hindman
Harold E. Brill
Stern
Hindman
Distinctive Emblem & Uniform Corp
Brill
Russia To Return Romanian Relics
Moscow says the Soviet government will return to Romania historic relics and works of art that took refuge in Moscow during two world wars. Some objects date back to the 6th century B C.
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Moscow
Romania
Winona Livestock Prices and Market Hours Snapshot
Swift & Co reports Winona livestock quotations with hogs steady and cattle firm. Buying hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. after hours care and weighing for next morning. Chicago market details list varied hogs and cattle prices by weight and grade.
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Swift & Co
oGs
Boulevard funding plan shifts to local meetings
On May 24 it was disclosed that the boulevard is not part of the state highway system and thus ineligible for 35 percent state aid. Local units previously expected 50 percent federal, 35 percent state, and 15 percent local funding, and will now meet with the Highway Commission to resolve financing.
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Highway ‘Commission
Too Early To Tell If Russia Is Changing Ways
Secretary of State Dulles cited encouraging Soviet signals but cautioned it is unclear if Khrushchev will move away from dictatorship. He noted possible shifts toward worker freedoms and said Meany of AFL-CIO saw favorable signs, yet warned reforms may be superficial.
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Russia
Dulles
Washington
Stalin
Khrushchev
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Meany
Robeson Cited For Contempt Of Congress
The House Committee on Un-American Activities voted to cite Paul Robeson for contempt of Congress after a heated hearing. Chairman Walter recessed the session and the panel unanimously recommended the citation to Congress as part of an inquiry into possible passport use by Communist or fellow travelers.
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Washington
House Committee On Un-American Activities Today
Paul Robeson
Congress
Walter
D-Pa
Robeson
Robeson Jin
Lansing Man Dies After Caledonia County Crash
Fred Sickles 68 of Lansing Iowa died at 1 30 p m Monday in a Caledonia hospital from injuries after a Sunday head on collision on a town road near Caledonia His son Merle 25 of Cedar Rapids was slightly improved with multiple injuries Also injured was Owen Beneke 17 of Caledonia who drove the other vehicle Funeral services for Sickles are being arranged Survivors include five sons and three daughters with several in Cedar Rapids and one in an Army camp in Oklahoma
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Caledonia, Minn
Fred Sickles
Lansing
Iowa
Caledonia
Merle Sickles
Cedar Rapids
Owen Beneke
Louis Beneke
Burl Kerrigan
Byron Whitehouse
Walter Bechtel
Beneke
Sickles
Bechtel
Burke Chapel
Philip Mulholland
Shirley
Florence Sickles
Merle
Cletus
Donald
Dammon
Raymond
Oklahoma
Foreign Aid Debate Favors Further House Cuts to Aid
Senate leaders weigh further reductions as John B Hollister warns that halving military aid would impair essential defense programs. Senators Long Mansfield Byrd and Russell press for more cuts citing unspent funds and possible reallocation to the Air Force. General LeMay testifies proposing a $3.8 billion annual increase for jet bomber production.
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John B. Hollister
International Cooperation Administration
United States
House
Senate
Sen
Long
D-La
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mansfield
D-Mont
White House
Byrd
D-Va
Russell
D-Ga
Curtis LeMay
Senate Appropriations Committee
LeMay
Strategic Air Command
Methodist clergy return and territorial changes noted
The report lists numerous Methodist ministers who returned to service in towns across the region and details several assignments. It also notes several changes in territory with pastors shifted to Arkansaw Gays Mills Chippewa Falls Sparta and Melrose among others. La Farge and Viola charges remain to be supplied.
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Tomah
A. E. Frederick
Sparta
Valley Junction
Keith Davison
Manston
Carl Berry
Wilton
Kendall
Rodney L. Depp
Elroy
Stephen J. Lambright
Reedsburg
Howard White
Wisconsin Dells
Clarence D. James
Viroqua
Mansel B. Ferguson
Springville
Leo K. Madeer
Liberty Pole
Thomas Anderson
de Soto
Walter Thompson
Arkansaw
Alfred Attwood
Gays Mills
Charles Hanson
Chippewa Falls
Paul B. White
George B. Robson
Melrose
Hubert Groves
New Lisbon
Charles Shoults
Rockland
Big Creek
John M. Potter
Westby
John Clinton Murphy
Soldiers Grove
la Farge
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Pacific
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Swift
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