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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1959
Page
8
A humorous portrait of Pentagonese as a new national dialect, tracing its rise from military jargon to White House briefings. The mocked biography of Angus Inbasket traces marriages, promotions, and unit activations with formal military jargon, ending with an anecdotal death upon a civilian vehicle encounter.
In St. Petersburg, Florida, Margaret Plump aged 54 was killed by her husband Herman aged 74 after a nine day marriage. He allegedly beat her with a 20 inch iron bar following a dispute about supporting her and a deposited $2,000 check. He was held for investigation.
A Combat Operation Center of the Advance Echelon Headquarters of the U S Air Force in Europe sits deep in a mountain near Kaiserslautern Germany. Col Edward S F Newbury says the underground facility is nearly immune to atomic attack and will be handed to U S command in about three weeks. The center with 125 staff monitors European air movements by radar and can dispatch weapons at a moment's notice. It has three 450 foot tunnels and 67 air conditioned rooms designed to filter radioactivity. It has operated since 1954 after earlier German and French uses in the same tunnels.
Youths may enroll in Camp Frontenac in July or Camp Decorah in August in Dakota Minnesota. Interested callers should contact Rev. William Bublitz at his home to register.
Tokyo AP reports floods in south and central China stretch resources as three million mobilized to combat inundation. Kwangtung alone measures 900 square miles flooded, while Wuhan area faced 40 years heaviest rains. Hong Kong treks through 45 deaths and 5,000 homeless as weather shifts toward Yangtze region and coast.
Record rainfall began in June in Kwang tung province flooding the Tunkiang and Liuhsiho river basins. Waters rose rapidly with 12 to 20 inches in days, inundating outskirts near Wuhan and sweeping toward Canton.
Dr. Thomas R. A. Davis is a fast worker in both medicine and racing. He leads the Environment Medicine division at the Army Research Medical Laboratory near Fort Knox and prepared a monkey for a Jupiter space flight. In a Louisville street race he finished sixth, joking that he uses hypodermic syringes to oil hard to reach auto parts.
Thomas T. Chamales, writer of Never So Few, was fined $500 and placed on two years probation after a battery charge stemming from March arguments with his wife, Helen O Connell the singer.
Doerre Hardware at 302 Pearl Street promotes a new low sheen moisture‑permitting acrylic house paint. It claims blister resistance, damp surface usability, two coats in one day, and clean up in water with no odor. Also suitable for wood, masonry, and asbestos shingles. Phone 26407.
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