Smoker Blamed For Norway Resort Fire
AP reports in Stalheim Norway that rescuers found three more bodies in the ruined resort hotel bringing fatalities to 10. Officials say total dead and missing may drop to 23 from 25 as lists are revised. Police question a Norwegian guide after suspected careless smoking at the scene. The search continues with sections still smoldering.
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Associated Press
Stalheim, Norway
Stalheim
Voss
Milwaukee
Wis
Madison
Peter Boick
Adm Rojas Calls For Frondizi Resignation in Argentina
Rear Adm Isaac Rojas, famed for the Peron topple, demanded President Arturo Frondizi resign as the government rejected the ultimatum. Vitalio defended the regime while Alsogaray edged into the cabinet as tensions rise between Frondizi and rebellious military factions.
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Adm
Rojas
Frondizi
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Isaac Rojas
Juan Peron
Arturo Frondizi
Alfredo Vitolo
Vitalo
Ross
Alvaro Alsogaray
Civic Independent Party
Alsogaray
Arturo Rial
Peron
Rial
Conservation Body To Rule On Dredging Plan
Joseph Strupp of Strupp Enterprises seeks Minnesota Conservation Commission approval to dredge a channel onto non water covered land for a multi million dollar area between La Crescent and La Crosse. If allowed, fees per yard of removed fill would apply. project includes boater motel shopping center department store oil service station and garage catering to tourism.
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LA Crescent
Minn
Minnesota Conservation Commission
St. Paul
Joseph Strupp
Strupp Enterprises, Inc
la Crosse
Lyle Duxbury Jr
Strupp Enterprises
The
Conservation Commission
Strupp
Commission
Five Killed In Crash Of B52 Jet
A B52 bomber on an experimental low level flight for the Strategic Air Command crashed near Burns Oregon. Five men aboard were killed as the eight jet plane caught fire and exploded, scattering wreckage over a wide area. Boeing Airplane Co conducted the tests. Civilian crew included pilot Lewis Moore Kirkland Washington copilot Joseph Keller Bellevue Washington navigator Gerald Green Kent Washington and flight engineers Charles McDaniel Seattle and Neil Johnson Seattle.
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Burns, Ore
Strategic Air Command
Oregon
Boeing Airplane Co
Seattle
Air Force
Boeing
Lewis Moore
Kirkland
Wash
Joseph Keller
Bellevue
Gerald Green
Kent
Charles McDaniel
Neil Johnson
All Nine State Colleges Report Summer Enrollment Rise
MADISON (RP) Nine state colleges report record high summer session enrollments per the Board of State College Regents. Preliminary full-time enrollment stands at 7,718 with late registrations likely to raise the total, excluding short courses and workshops. Last summer there were 7,318 full-time students.
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Madison
Board of State College Regents
Quiet Horsetrading Beginning in Steel Talks With Strike Looming
Steel negotiators press toward a July 1 strike deadline as seven weeks of talks yield no concessions. Union leaders and industry executives hint at quiet horse trading while warning of furnace curtailments and possible contract extensions. The Steelworkers wage panel meets to approve any settlement or strike plan. Industry profits suggest gains but inflation concerns persist amid high steel consumption and a record hourly wage for workers.
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New York
Steelworkers Union
R. Conrad Cooper
Cooper
McDonald
Eisenhower
Eae
Nelson Signs 380 Million Budget for Wisconsin Two Years
Madison AP Gov Gaylord Nelson signed a record 380 million dollar budget to operate Wisconsin for the next two years just before the new biennium. The plan, a bipartisan compromise, asks for pay as you go income tax collection and faces questions on revenues to fund state needs amid rising salaries and school aid bills.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
William Draheim
Neenah
Joint Finance Committee
Draheim
Conference Committee
State Extends Tavern Hours: No Change In La Crosse Closing Time
La Crosse taverns will still close at 1 a.m. though a Madison bill allows 2 a.m. during daylight saving time. Local ordinances may prevail when more restrictive. La Crosse city rules stay unless Common Council acts. Gov. Nelson signed the act, its effect starts after publication in the Wisconsin State Journal.
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la Crosse
Madison
George Long
E. W. Voss
la Crosse City
Common Council
William J. Sauer
Long
Sauer
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin State Journal
la Crosse Tribune
Madison Bureau
Gaylord A. Nelson
Teamsters Back On Jobs At 4 Firms In La Crosse
About 60 workers returned to duty at five La Crosse businesses after a June 3 stoppage. Ed Phillips and Son restarted work. Selrite Grocers Click Distributing and Schilling Paper faced a lockout. A wage-scale agreement is pending, with two weeks expected to finalize terms.
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la Crosse
Leonard Chojnacki
Teamsters Local 199
Chojnacki
Ed Phillips and Son
Mt. Vernon St
Selrite Grocers, Inc
S. Front St
Click Distributing Co
Sweet and Western Fruit Companies
Hale
Congress backs Herter as Berlin crisis deepens
Senate and House leaders from both parties voiced solid support for Secretary of State Christian A. Herter after his grim address on Geneva. He warned the Soviets to abandon plans to annex more West Berliners, linking Berlin freedom to American liberty and pressing for concrete proposals when talks resume.
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Washington
Senate
Christian A. Herter
Berlin
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Herter
West Berlin
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Johnson and Dirksen
Congress
George D. Aiken
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Geneva
House
U.S
Moscow
Germany
Europe
Britain
France
United States
America
Andre: Gromyko
Nikita Khrushchev
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Riot Ends Quietly as Guards Move in at Federal Prison
In Springfield Missouri six teen hours of rioting at the federal prison hospital left a path of torn offices and panicked guards. Prison leaders Taylor Roberts and Reed led 106 inmates in the 10 North unit who assaulted staff, seized hostages, and wielded knives and tranquilizers before tear gas and guards restored control.
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Springfield
Leonard Appleby
Appleby
U.S
Earl Taylor
Taylor
Carl Roberts
Bryan D. Reed
Springfield, Mo
Federal Prison System
Unifax
Construction To Close Highway 35 In Wisconsin
G N Grant of the La Crosse District announces that State Highway 35 from Genoa to De Soto will close for grading and structure work. Two contracts cover 5.8 miles Genoa to Victory and 5.6 miles Victory to De Soto, with detours via routes 56 and 82 through Viroqua. Road reopening planned for winter traffic needs.
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G. N. Grant
la Crosse
State Highway Commission
Genoa
de Soto
Vernon
Crawford
Victory
Duncan J. McDougall
Norbert Kalscheur
Viroqua
Starkweather Execution Scheduled After Midnight Tonight
Charles Starkweather, 20, labeled a confessed slayer of 11, is set for execution by electric chair at the Nebraska state penitentiary shortly after midnight Thursday. The fifth death date was ordered by the State Supreme Court after the U.S. Supreme Court declined review. His father, Guy Starkweather, planned to seek a writ of error coram nobis and a stay in Lincoln District Court.
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles Starkweather
State Penitentiary
State Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Guy Starkweather
Charles
Nattily Dressed Thief Robs Woman for 67
A young bandit in San Francisco admitted feeling sick after each theft and explained the need to dress well. He and a companion robbed Irene Solomon of 67 dollars in her home on Tuesday, wearing a brown pork pie hat, an Ivy League gray suit, olive shirt, yellow sweater, and argyle socks.
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San
Train, teens, and tragedy at the crossing
AP News Features Writer Saul Pett follows an Independence Day eve crash where eight high school seniors traveling in two cars are killed after a prom night. The piece traces five homes guiding the final evening to a single train wreck, highlighting lethal statistics.
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AP News
Saul Pett
la Crosse
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Norman Walker
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David J. McDonald
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