Miami Awaits Sun After Record Rain in June
Miami awoke to sunshine ending a week of relentless downpours that left 19.67 inches of rain in June, the wettest on record for the month. Forecasters said showers may linger briefly but gradually decline as the pattern shifts to summer.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Tallahassee
Everglades
U. S. Weather Bureau
Bernie Moore
South Florida
Eastern Air Lines
Florida East Coast Railway
Car Plunges Down Bank Killing 16 Year Old
Gerald Ekker 16 of Mabel Minn died instantly when his car left Highway 44 and plunged down a 50 foot embankment near Mabel. Investigators say he likely fell asleep at the wheel while returning from Decorah. He would have been a Mabel High School senior and co captain elect for 1959 60 basketball. He is survived by his parents a brother and a sister. Funeral services expected at Mabel Lutheran Church.
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Mabel
Minn
Gerald Ekker
Mabe
Highway 44
Ekker
J. P. Nehring
Fillmore County
Decorah
Minnesota Highway
Calmar Ekker
Clara Ekker
Spring Grove
Ronald
Winona State College
Gene
Marian) Womble
Gardena
Calif
Mabel Lutheran Church
Mengis
Bombing Brothers Sought By Police
Police hunted two Webster Groves brothers, James F. Hecker and Joseph S. Hacker, both armed with homemade bombs, after a Sunday bombing at the St. Louis Arena. Gerald Hecker was arrested. the others escaped after a bomb was tossed as a lookout called police. No injuries reported.
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ST. Louis, Mo
St. Louis
James F. Hecker
Joseph S. Hacker
Webster Groves
St. Louis Arena
Gerald
Dorsey Hecker
WIL
Arena
Queen Elizabeth II Opens Seaway Tour in Quebec Transformation
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip tour Canada through Saguenay and Labrador industrial sites on the St. Lawrence Seaway opening journey. They meet miners and locals, observe open-cut iron mining, and view remote Arctic-like landscapes before sailing to Gaspe aboard the Britannia.
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Queen Elizabeth II of
England
Jacques Cartier
Gaspe Peninsula
Canada
Chicoutimi
She
Prince Philip
Saguenay
Quebec City
Eisenhower
St. Lawrence Seaway
Aluminum
Labrador
Congress rushes to pass money bills before new fiscal year
Congress moves to complete as many appropriations as possible before July 1. The House has acted on most bills while the Senate faces remaining measures and necessary compromises. Debates over foreign aid, anti racketeering labor rules, civil rights, and federal education aid loom, with veto threats shaping spending in housing and airports. National figures criticize Democrats for losing momentum as Republicans are too weak to press Eisenhower agenda. Lyndon B. Johnson is named by ADA leader Nathan as a key Democrat pushed to abandon housing and airport aid.
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Congress
House
Senate
Eisenhower
National Committee For
NCEC
Robert R. Nathan
The
Americans For Democratic Action
Sumner Welles
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Archibald Macleish
Oscar Hammerstein II
ADA
Nathan
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Two Senators Attack Fed Money Supply Policy
Washington AP Two Democratic senators criticize Federal Reserve money supply policy. Senator Pat McNamara plans a resolution urging the Fed to assist the Treasury in managing the public debt and potentially buy government securities to hold down interest rates. Senator William Proxmire accuses the Fed of abandoning neutral policy and keeping money supply too low to match current conditions.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
Senate
Reserve System
Treasury Department
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Reserve Board
McNamara
Reserve
Hold Rites For Ethel Barrymore
Hollywood AP The theatrical world attends final rites for Ethel Barrymore at a Beverly Hills church. The 79 year old actress died of a heart ailment and will be buried beside her brothers John and Lionel in Calvary Cemetery. Pallbearers include Cotten Kelly and Swope Jr. About 300 mourners attended the Rosary service as Diana Barrymore, scarred by a kitchen accident, could not attend.
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Hollywood
Ethel Barrymore
Church of the Good Shepherd
Beverly Hills
Miss Barrymore
Calvary Cemetery
John
Lionel
Joseph Cotten
Orrin Kelly
Neil S. McCarthy
Herbert Bayard Swope Jr
Charles Brackett
Phil Dunne
Clyde Barton
Spencer Tracy
Ina Claire
Blanche King
Kelly
Cotten
Samuel Barrymore Colt
John Drew Colt
Ethel Barrymore Colt Miglietta
John Barrymore
John Jr
Dolores Bedell
Diana Barrymore
New York
Condition Of Civil War Yet Unchanged
Walter Williams, last Civil War survivor, rests in an oxygen tent with pneumonia unchanged. Dr. Russell Wolfe reports little or no change, temperature slightly down, pulse steady. Williams, 116, has congestion in the right lung. his radio was removed by daughter Willie Mae Bowles to aid his rest. He is receiving liquid nourishment.
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Houston
Tex
Walter Williams
Russell Wolfe
Williams
Willie Mae Bowles
Weekend crashes raise Wisconsin toll to 312 deaths
An Associated Press report details a violent Wisconsin weekend with nine fatalities and three more deaths in early events, increasing the year’s toll to 312 from the prior year’s 321. Victims include John C. Sheffland aged 18 from Hudson and several others in Madison, Stockbridge, and Green Bay areas.
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Wisconsin
John C. Sheffland
Hudson
St. Croix County
Holton
Ronald Raymond Johnson
Dane
Paynette
Johnson
Clarence W. Wellsfandt
Boyd
Chester Dale Gould
Wrightstown
Nancy Anderson
Florida
Stockbridge
Calumet
TV and radio plan to update nation on Geneva talks
Secretary of State Christian Herter informed President Eisenhower of the Geneva ministerial talks now recessed until July 13. He will address the nation for 15 minutes at 8:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, with live radio across networks and NBC CBS TV, while ABC-TV offers a 9:30 p.m. EST delayed telecast. He noted no summit talks with Khrushchev were discussed and described the Western position on Berlin as at rock bottom in concessions. Washington hopes to bargain sincerely if the Reds likewise soften.
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Secrery
Christian A. Herter Aday
Eisenhower
Geneva
Herter
Soviet Union
Berlin
NBC
CBS
Abc-Tv
Nikita Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
West Berlin
Germany
Britain
France
United States
U.S.S.R
Eke
White House
Gettysburg
Worst Storm in 30 Years Hits Gulf of St Lawrence
At least 34 fishermen were dead or missing after a weekend storm battered the Gulf of St Lawrence from Escuminac to Richibucto. Royal Canadian Air Force planes spotted 22 derelict boats along a 30 mile coast. Two survivors were kept alive by an air bubble in an overturned boat. The Halifax Weather Bureau warned gale warnings went out Friday night, but the fleet remained at sea. The storm caused extensive damage to boats nets and lobster pots and battered the local fishing industry.
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New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Hilaire Gauvin
Germain Chaisson
Lameque
Gauvin
Steel Negotiators Resume Effort To Reach Accord
Steel industry negotiators resumed talks today to reach a new management union agreement as a three year contract nears expiration. Both sides denied knowledge of any federal settlement effort while Washington privately explored a compromise. If no deal is reached in eight days, 500000 union members could strike at plants producing 90 percent of the nation's steel. Negotiations began May 5 and remain deadlocked. The industry seeks a wage freeze, while the union demands a substantial raise and a shorter work week with other benefits.
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New York
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers of America
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
Cooper
Washington
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
Basic Steel Industry
Eisenhower
Des Moines Housewife Named Mrs America at Fort Lauderdale
Des Moines housewife Margaret Priebe, 36, was crowned Mrs America in Fort Lauderdale. The Air Force Reserve major will travel nationwide while her husband and parents care for their four children. Priebe described her plans and joked about cooking, while accepting prizes ranging from household goods to a new boat and air tour.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Des Moines
Towa
America
Margaret Priebe
L. Clarke Priebe
Priebes
Ohio
Giesse
Wisconsin
Vernell Jones
New York
Margaret
Gregory
Douglas
Karen Jane
Second Church Votes To Quit Wis. Synod
Arcadia Wisconsin Congregation of St. John’s Lutheran joins St. Paul’s Whitehall in leaving the Wisconsin Synod effective Oct. 3 1958 after a vote 11 to 1 by 12 of 36 members. Pastor Richard Buege faced censure over women voting and cross synod fellowship. he plans resignation within a week. Both churches will stay independent pending new Lutheran affiliation.
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Arcadia
Wis
St. John’s Lutheran Church
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Whitehall
Wisconsin Synod
Synod
St. Paul’s of Whitehall
Richard Buege
Buege
Nelson sets July 11 for closing of Legislature
Gov. Gaylord Nelson said July 11 will be an arbitrary closing date for the regular session and will prompt leaders from both parties to concur. He will meet with floor leaders to discuss a plan for the summer recess and outline priority bills for immediate action. The fall term may start around Oct. 1 and run about four weeks. Nelson named Arthur De Bardeleben to the UW Board of Regents and Roman J. Winkowski as Savings and Loan Commissioner, both for multi year terms.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
Winkowski
State Savings and Loan Department
C. P. Diggies
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