Spurgeon's Remodel Opens With Grand Ceremonies
Spurgeon's department store unveils a complete interior and exterior overhaul in La Crosse with a self selection plan, new entrances, relocated basement stairs, enlarged departments, and modern displays. Grand opening Wednesday will feature firm officials and area managers. the La Crosse store, opened in 1916, is part of a 53-store chain.
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Spurgeon’s Department Store
Horace R. Crews
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
G. Brewer
Lowell Johnson
Crews
P. W. Hayes
Spurgeon
Seven Inches Of Rain Hits Fort Worth In Cloudburst
AP reporting a near cloudburst dumped about seven inches on Fort Worth Monday. Westside Acres evacuees were aided by firemen as water reached waist depth in parts. Downtown Fort Worth recorded 6.92 inches with 5.60 inches between 9 20 and 11 20 a m. The Weather Bureau warned of a Trinity River rise toward Dallas with a crest near 26 feet expected Tuesday.
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Fort Worth, Tex
Fort Worth
Westside Acres
Weather Bureau
Trinity River
Dallas
Crowds Grow as Queen Elizabeth Tour Reaches Canada
AP reports crowds increase along Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's route up the St. Lawrence aboard Britannia. Quebec City glows with flags as excitement grows for a possible state dinner featuring the diamond tiara and regal gown.
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Queen
Prince Philip
St. Lawrence
Canada
Quebec
North America
Weather Outlook for La Crosse and Nearby States
Scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. La Crosse area low 58 rising to 82 Wednesday. Wisconsin expects showers tonight to Wednesday with warmer south portion. Minnesota shows scattered showers tonight with a warm trend and light east showers Wednesday. Iowa warmer with widespread showers in the west tonight and east Wednesday morning.
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la Crouse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Housing bill moves forward amid splits in Congress
In Washington AP report on Senate action shows Sen Proxmire backing a 1.375 billion housing bill and a separate wheat measure, while Sen Wiley opposes both. The housing vote totals 56 in favor to 31 against. the wheat vote 44 to 40. The bill faces House scrutiny with key variations and cost concerns over urban renewal funding and annual authorization controls.
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Washington
Willam Proxmire
Alexander Wiley
Senate
Proxmire
Wiley
Ramblers Produced Rise at AMC Last Week
Detroit AP reports American Motors Corp boosted production by 1700 units to 9702 Ramblers in the week ending June 2. The seven day output lifts January 1 to June 20 total to 205751 units, up from 87536 in the prior year period.
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Detroit
American Motors Corp
AMC
Grant awarded for Wisconsin small business research
Madison Wisconsin Division of Industrial and Port Development received a 40000 federal grant to study financing growth of small businesses in the state. David Carley said the extension builds on a 1951 University of Wisconsin project tracking about 700 nonaffiliated Wisconsin manufacturers from 1945 to the Korean War start. The goal is to supply data to improve state and university capability in small business financing and management.
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Madison
Wisconsin
David Carley
Wendell B. Barnes
Small Business Administration
Carley
University of Wisconsin
Two year budget debate and actions by the Wisconsin Legislature
Democratic leaders argued the budget could have been avoided with a true two year plan. Draheim highlighted a 15 million dollar surplus from the prior Republican budget and noted the first year as solid. The conference committee pressed to approve the plan, as actions included funding dormitories and student unions, water diversion for mining, highway sign rights, and revised Huber Law to allow education or self employment for prisoners.
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Gaylord Nelson
Draheim
Maier
Legislative Committee On
Senate
University of Wisconsin
State Highway Commission
Honorary Fire Chiefs Losing Their Emblems
New York City's 126 honorary fire chiefs are losing their office emblems. The white Maltese cross insignia bearing F D N Y were recalled Monday by Fire Commissioner Edward Cavanagh Jr. under orders from Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
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New York
New York City
F.D.N
Long refuses to recognize anyone as governor
Long, who said he would recognize no one but himself as governor, relented and accepted Frazar as acting governor. He filed for habeas corpus in Galveston claiming forcible removal to a psychiatric clinic, then went to New Orleans for voluntary treatment before speeding toward Baton Rouge and being confined at Mandeville Hospital after court involvement. He resisted hospitalization, declaring that everyone else is nuts.
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Martin
Frazar
Twtr
Long
Mandeville
Fred LeBlanc
Galveston
Estate To Provide UW Scholarships For Boscobel Students
Milwaukee AP reports Mrs Maud Bar nette Kronshage Kronshage left 376000 estate. Income to fund Theodore Kronshage Scholarship Fund for Boscobel High School students based on character scholarship and need. Kronshage widow of Theodore Kronshage Jr former UW Board of Regents president and Public Service Commission member, both Boscobel natives.
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Milwaukee
Maud Barnette Kronshage
University of Wisconsin
Boscobel High School
Boscobel
Ex Grid Star Helps Save Lives In Fire
Former football star John Sims Kelly robed in green and led American and European guests from a Rome hotel blaze on Via Veneto. He warning guests as screams echoed from the top floors. Three hotel employees died and two were injured in the Sunday morning fire at the Ambassador Hotel.
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Rome
John Sims
Charles M. Gilman
Gilman, Conn
University of Kentucky
Ambasciatori
Via Veneto
Jetliner Clips Tower In Landing
A British Comet IV jet airliner with 45 aboard clipped the top of a 10 foot barrier at Idlewild Airport during a routine landing. The barrier was designed to block debris from prop wash on a highway and the nose wheel and landing flaps were badly damaged. No one was injured. Captain John A. Kelly attributed the dip to turbulence during descent.
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New York
Idlewild
John A. Kelly
Kenosha Youth Killed In One-Car Crash
A Kenosha youth died from injuries after a car left Highway 50 west of Kenosha and overturned in a ditch. Jerome Kinds, 17, died at Burlington hospital. Two companions were seriously injured. The 1959 Wisconsin highway toll rose to 313, compared with 322 a year ago this day.
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Kenosha
Wisconsin
Jerome Kinds
Burlington
Highway 50
Cache Found On Farm Of Recluse In Wis
$35,000 in cash and gold coins were found on the farm of Raymond Krause a 52 year old recluse who died after being held in Mendota State Hospital. He attempted to hang himself in a Lafayette County jail cell and was then committed. A bank book showed $10,000 more in a Boscobel bank. About $75 in gold coins were found. He lived alone and survived by two aunts in Boscobel. The money appeared to be Krause's savings over 25 years.
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State Mental Hospital
Raymond Krause
Mendota State Hospital
Lafayette County
Lancaster
Krause
Grant County
Robert Seemeyer
Boscobel Bank
Mendoza
Boscobel
Winona Livestock Prices and Chicago Grain Report
Swift & Company markets show Hogs steady on lightweight butchers while Sows and Fat hogs face discounts. Cattle and Calves mixed to steady with varied price ranges for Dry Fed Steers, Bulls, and Vealers. Chicago Grain and Livestock sections report No. 2 yellow corn prices, oats and soybeans, and South St. Paul livestock quotations with cattle and hog movements and price shifts.
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Swift & Company
Bologna
Chicago
USDA
South ST. Paul
South ST. Paul, Minn
Cattie
Testimonial Dinner for Rogan Planned
MADISON AP A testimonial dinner for Paul Rogan the retiring insurance commissioner is planned for next Monday in Milwaukee. Robert Buttenhoff of Eau Claire who leads a group of insurance agents and firm representatives said about 600 people are expected. The program will include remarks by Charles L Manson Rogans successor and former governors Walter Kohler and Vernon Thomson. Rogan has been state insurance commissioner since 1955.
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Madison
Paul Rogan
Milwaukee
Robert Buttenhoff
Eau Claire
Buttenhoff
Charles L.manson
Rogan
Walter Kohler
Vernon Thomson
Supreme Court Denies Starkweather Hearing
The Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch petition for a hearing on Charles R. Starkweather 20 who killed 11 in Nebraska. The stay on his execution by electric chair remained in effect until the court acted, with Whittaker having granted the stay on June 10.
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Supreme Court
Starkweather
Washington
Charles R. Starkweather
Nebraska
Justice Whitttaker
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Risers
Roth's
Flor-Mart
South Ave
Lutheran Hospital
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