Highway 35 closures spark planned $1.18 million in work
State highway crews close No. 35 from Stoddard to Genoa for 4.75 miles of new route construction. The Le Crosse district plans $1,180,484 in 1959 contracts on Highway 35, including work by H. Turner and Son. Traffic rerouted via U.S. 14 and State 56. Additional 11.35 miles south of De Soto to Genoa slated for 1959 with total near $1.88 million.
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Wisconsin Highway Commission
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State Highway Commission
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Crawford
Vernon Counties
de Soto
Fiedler
Fielder
Cochrane
Alma
Hoffman Construction Co
Black River Falls
Cochrane-Alma
Lynxville
Losey _ boulevard
State Road
Ward Avenue
L. G. Arnold, Inc
Eau Claire
Losey Boulevard
Fiery East River Collision Leaves Ships Sinking and Many Injured
A Swedish freighter rammed an oil tanker in the East River in post midnight darkness. The Empress Bay sank after a flaming grip with the freighter Nebraska. Three missing, 37 hospitalized, 11 escaped with minor injuries. Fireboats saved some, Coast Guard closed the river amid gasoline slicks. A journalist died of a heart attack while covering the disaster.
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Manhattan Bridge
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York Journal-American
William Finn
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Brooklyn
James Watson
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New York Journal American
Unifax
Goldfine Probe Erupts Into Angry Row
Washington AP report details a clashes over the Goldfine affair as SEC chairman J Sinclair Armstrong clashes with House subcommittee chair Oren Harris. Armstrong is pressed on SEC handling of Bernard Goldfine matters and potential influence by Sherman Adams.
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Goldfine-Adams
Securities and Exchange Commission
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SEC
Goldfine
Armstrong
Harris
Demonstration at U S Embassy in Moscow Draws Police
A crowd of over 1,000 Russians demonstrated outside the U S Embassy in Moscow for 2 hours 15 minutes. About 150 Soviet police controlled the scene as a stone was thrown into a window. Ambassador Thompson made no appearance, and evacuation steps were taken for safety.
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Moscow
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
U.N
New York
Ambassador Thompson
Imre Nagy
Wisconsin physician named AMA president in 1960s world peace push
Dr. Gunnar Gundersen of La Crosse became president of the American Medical Association at its annual meeting in San Francisco with 15,000 physicians present. He urged leaders to guide medicine toward world brotherhood, stressing humanity and the interface of compassion with technology while noting challenges like space medicine and socialized medicine.
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la Crosse
David B. Allman
Atlantic City
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Allman
Gundersen
San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce
Unifax
Wisconsin
AMA
Gundersen Clinic
America
World Brotherhood
Dr. Gundersen
Court Receives Stay Motion on Little Rock School Decison
The U S Court of Appeals in St Louis has received a motion to stay a district court order delaying racial integration at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas for 2 years. The motion came by mail with an appeal notice from U S District Judge Harry J Lemley. If Lemley’s order stands, Negro students who attended Central last year will not return next fall.
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U. S. Court of Appeals
Central High School
Little Rock
Ark
U. S. Dist
Harry J. Lemley
Lemley
Central
Eau Claire Man Dies in Highway Crash
An Eau Claire man identified as 26 year old Jack Heiman died when his car left Highway 53 south of Chippewa Falls and struck a utility pole. The death brings Wisconsin's highway toll for the year to 318, compared with 349 on the same day last year.
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Associated Press
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
Jack Heiman
Chippewa Falls
Progress Edition on sale for 15c a copy
The La Crosse Tribune announces a special Progress edition available for 15 cents per copy. Orders can be placed with the Circulation Department by person or by phone at 2-8040.
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la Crosse Tribune
Heavy firing erupts in Beirut as U.N. force sought
Widespread shooting and explosions rock Beirut as rebels and security forces clash near Ghandak Ghamik and Ashrafiah. Premier Chamoun says U.N. observers cannot solve border infiltrations from the U.A.R. and that 5,000 troops could be needed to seal the 150 mile frontier with Syria. Kamal Jumblatt rejects U.N. involvement as internal rebellion.
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Lebanon
U.N
Camille Chamoun
Ghandak Ghamik
Basta
Saeb Salam
Ashrafiah
Sami Solh
U. N
Syriar
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Dag Hammarskjold
New York
Soth
U.A.R
U.N. Security Council
Chamoun
Syria
United Nations
Kamal Jumblatt
Planning Step Ahead as Board Considers Consultants
The City Plan Commission will contact consulting agencies to arrange a briefing before the Common Council. The firms would outline municipal planning services offered and associated costs. Mayor Milo Knutson and Franklin J. Pamperin, two of six plan commission members, are involved.
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City Plan Commission
Milo Knutson
Franklin J. Pamperin
Plan Commission
Planning experts urged for city master plan and long range zoning
Tuesday night a planning commission outlined a near term process to hire consulting firms to draft a city master plan and provide ongoing follow up. State official Robert Roden and Henry Ford emphasized two facets of municipal planning, with City Engineer Zenno Gorder praised for improvements and urged to stay.
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Robert Roden
State Planning Commission
Henry Ford
Ford
Zenno A. Gorder
Gorder
Roden
Rescue Driver's Courage Saves Others Ends in Tragic Death
Donations to the family of Russel C. Moore near $13,000 highlight a community tribute. Moore, 31, steered a runaway truck through eight crossings to shield bystanders before the vehicle plunged into a creek. He died at the scene, leaving a wife and four children with another on the way.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Russel C. Moore
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