Mad Bomber Sought After Boston Transit Blast
Boston police hunted a mad bomber after an explosion at the elevated Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority station shook Canal and Causeway streets. Thirty eight injured, three seriously, as a 20 to 25 pound bomb in a locker caused a blast equal to a World War II 500 pound bomb. Investigators found batteries and sulphide residue near wreckage, with the blast stopping a train moments before it would have entered the station. A switchboard call eight hours later warned a bomb at North Station, home to the Boston Garden.
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Boston
Joseph B. Fallon
Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority
Canal
Causeway
Northtation Railroad
Boston Garden
North Station
McGinnis
Patrick B. McGinnis
Boston & Maine Railroad
Michael Mullen
Gromyko presses to sever ministers summit linkage
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko opened a drive at the Big Four talks in Geneva to break the link between the current foreign ministers meeting and a future summit. He argued the link was artificial and invalid and urged negotiations proceed toward a summit despite Berlin tensions.
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Gromyko
Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
West Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
Palace of Nations
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Nikita Khrushchev
Study Asked On Fairgrounds Ownership By City
City Attorney John K Flanagan was asked by the La Crosse Common Council to re examine leases and legal documents on fairgrounds ownership paid 90 000 by the state to the La Crosse Interstate Fair Assn and to make recommendations. The vote followed a long dispute over who is entitled to the sum and whether the city or the fair association owns the land and related deeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John K. Flanagan
Common Council
la Crosse
George Bonsack
Fairgrounds
City of
Flanagan
Fair Association
la Crosse State College
College
Milo Knutson
Knutson
Board of Regents
State Attorney General
Taxpayers
The
Madison
Arthur L. May
Taxpayers Suit Committee
the Fair Association
C. B. Wiémann
City To Seek PSC Backing For Milwaukee Overhead
The Common Council directs City Atty John K Flanagan to file for Public Service Commission approval of an overhead across Milwaukee Road tracks as part of the George Street Lang Drive extension. Burlington and Milwaukee Road agreements cut costs. three engineering firms will be interviewed in July with plans and funds in place. Construction could start in early 1960 if all proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
City Atty
John K Flanagan
Public Service Commission
Milwaukee Road
George Street
Lang Drive
PSC
Board of Public Works
Flanagan
Zenno Gorder
Burlington Railroad
The
Burlington
Gorder
Council
Flanegan
Madison
Three in Family Injured in Day-Long Accident Series
In Waukon Iowa a day of mishaps struck a family led by Henry Snitker 65. He suffered severe burns from a chair fire started by a cigarette and was hospitalized. Grandchildren Michael 6 and Greg 3 were treated and released earlier in the day for injuries from a cultivator and a car door.
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Waukon
Iowa
Henry Snitker
Snitker
Michael Snitker
Prn
Greg
Bosshard Appeals for unity at La Crosse Pig Club Picnic
La Crosse County small claims judge John Bosshard told about 400 at the 39th annual Pig Club Picnic that farm folks are no longer isolated from city residents. He stressed home life, shared responsibility, and the club's self perpetuating gift program with 26 pure bred pigs awarded to youths. Winners included Diane Miller and Janet Pertzsch. Rudy Pralle chairs ceremonies.
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John Bosshard
la Crosse County
Small Claims
la Crosse
Pig Club
Bosshard
George
Bodega
la Crosse City
Diane Miller
Janet Pertzsch
LeRoy Tauscher
Dennis Pfaff
James Schomberg
Rudy Pralle
Karen
Joyce Pralle
Jerry Hanson
Cullen Firm Submits Low Truax Field Bid
J P Cullen & Son of Janesville submitted the apparent low bid of 2 748 110 dollars for a Bomarc missile facility at Truax Field Madison Wisconsin. The Corps of Engineers said the contract would be awarded within a week and the project must be finished in 500 calendar days. The complex includes a composite building 28 launcher shelters an assembly and maintenance building a security control and fire station an ordinance storage building and several small buildings.
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Chicago
Truax Field
Madison
Wis
J. P. Cullen & Son
Janesville
Chicago District Corps of Engineers
Leaders clasp hands at Hudson celebration in Battery Park
Two outstanding leaders from both parties joined on the reviewing stand during the Hudson celebration in Battery Park New York Thursday. From the left are Robert Wagner mayor of New York City New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner Vice President Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Wagner and Meyner are seen as influential in choosing the Democratic presidential candidate next year while Nixon and Rockefeller are the front runners for the Republican nomination.
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Hudson
Battery Park
New York City
Robert Wagner
New Jersey
Robert Meyner
Nixon
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Wagner
Meyner
Rockefeller
Two Die In Head-On Crash Near Tomah Wisconsin
Two people were killed and seven injured in a head-on collision between a car and a pickup on Highway 16 near Tomah. Victims include Lyle Mose Goff, 45, of Tomah, and J. D. Hahlen of Monroe. Injured are seven Tomah and Monroe residents hospitalized at Tomah Memorial Hospital. Investigation listed deputies, traffic officials, and state patrol. Separate report notes Beaver Dam man Lawrence Jahnz, 40, died in a crash on Highway 33, with driver Robert Schultz seriously injured.
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Tomah
Wis
Highway 16
Here
Lyle (Mose) Goff
J. D. Hahlen
Monroe
Harry Hieser
Francis Dittmar
Oliver Cook
Lynwood Louis
Wallace Brown
Monroe County
Goff
Camp Douglas
National Guard
Hahlen
Wisconsin
Beaver Dam
Lawrence J. Jahnz
Jahnz
Robert H. Schultz
Senate Panel Urges Early Cut of Foreign Aid Gifts
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee calls for next year to begin cutting foreign economic aid gifts, favoring loans. It seeks a plan to progressively reduce and eliminate grants by 1963, with differing standards by country. The panel also moves to curb secrecy on aid spending and limit investment guarantees to underdeveloped nations.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Mansfield
Eisenhower
Brazil
Sen
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
Farmer Works Longer Hours Than Hired Man
A U S Agriculture Department report shows nationwide hired workers average 9.3 hours per day. Farm operators work about 10.6 hours, 1 hour 18 minutes longer. Operator hours range from 9.1 in Louisiana to 12.2 in Wisconsin. hired men range from 7.3 in West Virginia to a high in North Dakota.
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Washington P
Agriculture Department
Farm Labor
Louisiana
West Virginia
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Tri city airport plan eyed for central Wisconsin
Madison AP reports spokesmen from Wisconsin Rapids Stevens Point and Marshfield urged the state Aeronautics Commission to study a tri city airport to serve central Wisconsin A site near Junction City Portage County was commonly named A survey would test feasibility and whether separate city airports should be replaced by a central facility Marshfield faces federal aid deadlines and possible delays from potential relocation of plans A commission consultant warned the plan may not be economically justified given higher transport costs for a less convenient service
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John Janis
Stevens Point
H. C. Timberlake
Aeronautics Commission
Tri-City
Portage
Wood Counties
Two Twisters Strike Wisconsin Lands Near Eagle and Green Bay
A tornado touched down in southwestern Waukesha County near Eagle then moved past Green Bay, causing farm damage but no injuries. It damaged a grain elevator and shed roofs, toppled trees, cut telephones wires, and left a line of felled mailboxes along a two to three mile path before moving into Lake Michigan. Green Bay escaped the worst as planes were secured at Nicolet airport.
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Waukesha County
Green Bay
Eagle
Damon Miles
William Ernst
Jesse Spreague
Ernst Place
Spreague
Lake Michigan
Bev Butler
Nicolet
Geothermal Heat Seen as Cheap Energy Source
Earl F. English warned at the Southern Research Institute conference that geothermal steam could supply electric energy for nations if locations permit installation. He noted firmer prospects in Italy and cautioned against long distance steam transfer and uncertain long term supply.
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Earth
Birmingham
Ala
Earl F. English
Southern Research Institute
English
Thermal Power Co
Italy
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