Wisconsin 1963 Alice in Dairyland Marilyn Draeger Crowned
Marilyn Draeger of Fort Atkinson won Wisconsin’s 1963 Alice in Dairyland after competing with 21 regional finalists. The 19 year old will serve a year promoting Wisconsin dairy products and touring the United States.
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UPI
Alice IN Dairyland
Marilyn Draeger
Manitowoc
Wisconsin
Fort Atkinson
Marilyn
Harold Draeger
Miss Draeger
Trav
United States
Ter‘ribly
Platteville State College
12 Killed In Wisconsin Car Crashes
Wisconsin weekends deadly crashes claim 12 lives raising the toll to 333 for 1963. Victims include Rev Adam C Markunas 56 Manitowoc County and his housekeeper Helen Markmnas 41, plus Dennis E Weissenborn 23 of Milwaukee and others from Green Bay Prairie Farm Two Rivers and surrounding areas.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Manitowoc County
Dennis E. Weissenborn
Milwaukee
Dodge County
Beaver Dam
Adam C. Markunas
St. Casimir Roman Catholic
Northheim
Helen Markmnas
Two Rivers
Highway 42
Eugene Conti
Jenny Tiegs
Prairie Farm
Thomas Huntley Jr
Mondovi
Fifteen officers escape from Buenos Aires prison
Fifteen high ranking officers arrested after an April 2 coup attempt to oust President Jose Maria Guido have escaped from prison barracks in Buenos Aires, according to military sources. Officials would not confirm the escape as forces struggle to keep unity ahead of elections on July 7.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jose Maria Guido
Soviet Space Twins See Three Mile Separation In Orbit
The first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky orbited Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 for 26 hours with 18 orbits by Tereshkova and 49 by Bykovsky. Officials offered no word on a rendezvous and noted a three mile separation during their first circuit.
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Isky
Moscow
Jon
Valen
United States
Tina Tereshkova
Sion
Valery Bykov
Tass
Soviet Union
Miss Tereshkova
Bykovsky
Tereshkova
Pavel Popovich
Andrian Nikolayev
Nikolayev
Popovich
Tokyo
Valentina Tereshkova
Evers Brother Takes Over Civil Rights Task
Charles Evers brother of slain Medgar Evers assumes leadership of Mississippi civil rights efforts promising equality for all. The scene includes ongoing demonstrations and church actions as tension remains high in Jackson.
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Evers Brother
Raymond J. Crowley Jackson
Miss
Medgar W. Evers
Mississippi
Jackson
Compromise Hikes Income and Sales Taxes in Wisconsin
Wisconsin budget talks yield a compromise extending the three percent selective sales tax to most items except food clothing and medicines. The plan reportedly includes a two fifths of one percent income tax increase, higher beer liquor and cigarette levies, a bank franchise tax, and corporate withholding for large refunds. Republican and Democratic lawmakers describe it as a return to last session compromises as they negotiate a 1963 65 budget.
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Milwaukee
John W. Reynolds
Reynolds
Madison
Joint Finance Committee
Wisconsin
Walter Hollander
R-Rosendale
Glen Pommerening
Wauwatosa
Flash Flood Hits Utah 50 Miles Of Destruction
A savage flash flood roared down the North Fork of the Duchesne River in northeastern Utah on Sunday tearing a 50 mile path of destruction. The Brown family camp was swept as Bradley Gale Brown four drowned while two other Brown boys eight and Steven Ferris five and their friend Robert Timmons sixteen were affected with injuries. Officials said the flood likely started when the Little Deer Creek dam upstream broke.
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Alice
Sylvia Lee
Colfax
Sylvia
Eau Claire State College
Peggy Merth
Turtle Lake
Manitowoc
David Kokstis
Green Bay
Marion Jallits
Itasca
Lake Delton
Frank
Edward
Baraboo
Duchesne River
Utah
Richard L. Brown
Bradley Gale Brown
Lander
Wyoming
Popo Agie
Brown Boys
Rickie Lee
Steven Ferris
Robert Timmons
Timmons
Rickie
Steven
Little Deer Creek
Camp McCoy Guardsmen Move To Field
About 00 members of Wisconsin's 32nd National Guard Division moved into the field Sunday and 10 times as many were to join in bivouac today. Tank units lead with 3,500 men to follow. the division's 5,250 men arrived Saturday for a two week summer training program.
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Camp Mccoy
Wisconsin
32Nd National Guard
Hoover Improves Slightly in Serious Condition
New York AP reports former President Herbert Hoover, 88, showing slight improvement but remains in very serious condition. A morning bulletin notes a more regular heartbeat and subsided fever after a comfortable night and no further GI bleeding. Hoover had cancer surgery last August.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Khrushchev warned by Chinese leaders before Moscow talks
Moscow set to host talks between Soviet and Chinese leaders on July 5 as Beijing demands 25 debate topics. Chinese leaders warn Khrushchev that pro Chinese forces could oust him if he pushes peaceful coexistence with the West over revolutionary methods.
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Tokyo
Red China
Khrushchev
Moscow
Eleven Die Nine More Feared Dead In Grootvlei Mine Disaster
An underground rockfall at the Grootvlei mine near Springs, 30 miles east of Johannesburg, trapped workers 4,000 feet underground. Eleven miners were killed and 10 more are feared dead, with two white men among the casualties and the rest Africans.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Grootvlei
Springs
Here
Mary Nelson dies. Longtime La Crosse teacher 81
Mary L. Nelson 81 of 1403 Kane St a retired La Crosse schoolteacher died suddenly at home Sunday June 16 born January 25 1882 in La Crosse she began teaching at Logan High School in 1921 taught history mathematics science and speech retired January 1947 educated at La Crosse High UW Madison and University of Michigan taught in Stanley Montello Peshtigo Kennewick and La Crosse and was active in local clubs and alumni she is survived by sisters and a brother private services will be at Dickinson Funeral Home Tuesday with Rev Floyd Harbold officiating burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Mary L. Nelson
Kane St
Miss Nelson
la Crosse
Logan High School
la Crosse High
University of Wisconsin
University of Michigan
Stanley
Montello
Peshtigo
Kennewick
Wash
Oran M. Nelson
Corvallis
Ore
Dickinson Funeral Home
Floyd Harbold
Oak Grove Cemetery
Supreme Court rules school Bible readings unconstitutional
The Supreme Court an 8 1 decision holds state mandated Bible reading and Lord's Prayer in public schools violate the Establishment Clause. Justice Clark writes the main opinion, stating neutrality toward religion is required even if exemptions exist. The ruling allows secular study of religion when part of a neutral program.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Clark
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Clark
Goldberg
Harlan
Brennan
Douglas
Justice Stewart
Religious Congressional Leaders Hear JFK Civil Rights Appeal
Congressional and religious leaders meet at the White House as President Kennedy urges action to improve rights for Negro Americans. The session previews his civil rights legislative package, while Senate obstacles and cloture votes loom over the House and Senate actions.
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White House
Kennedy
Congress
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Associated Press
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