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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1963
Page
9
A Belgian air force transport carrying 47 paratroopers to a training exercise crashed near Sennelager Germany. Eight paratroopers reportedly parachuted to safety seconds before impact, but no other survivors were known. Forty two paratroopers and five crew members were aboard as the plane plunged and exploded at the troop site.
Tom Teggatt an 18 year old from Watertown who was rejected as a Boys State delegate because of blindness won a summer post as a junior counselor at Camp Rosholt run by Lions Clubs. He started as camp canteen operator and will remain at the camp until August 10 with other tasks to follow.
In Madison three Michigan prison escapees Elmer Crady Robert Gipson and Richard Mauch were ordered to have 48 hours to seek habeas corpus challenges to their detention after Gov Reynolds authorized extradition. Bond remained $100000 each and judge denied extending the filing period.
Wisconsin State Fair will award property owners whose holdings have remained in the same family for 100 years or more. Applicants file at La Crosse County Register of Deeds Everette B. Runge, listing all owners since 1863 and their blood relationships. Deadline for submissions is July 20.
Downtown Pittsburgh cafe celebrates 30th anniversary by selling a turkey dinner with potatoes vegetable pie and coffee for 35 cents and a beer for a nickel. About 1 500 dinners were served, equaling roughly a half ton of turkey.
The vacation Bible school at First Baptist Church is in its final week with the theme The Church and the World adapted for all ages. The missionary project supports the Spanish speaking Baptist Church on Milwaukee’s South Side by supplying tables for younger classes. A short sharing program opens to the public Friday at 7 p.m.
Wellsville New York mayor Robert Gardner and the police chief cleared unpaid parking tickets from files. They found 176 unpaid tickets. one two years old belonged to the mayor who paid a two dollar fine.
Heavy rains drenched northeastern Nebraska within 48 hours raising new flood fears amid a warm moist air mass from the Gulf. The region around Lincoln and Beaver creeks and the Big Blue River saw rising waters as flood damage totals rose with three deaths and 295 affected families. A tornado was sighted near Waldorf Minnesota with no reported damage. Showers and thundershowers spread across the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountains as the nation enjoyed generally warm, fair weather elsewhere.
Gov. Rockefeller announced that Mrs Nel son A Rockefeller’s four children from her first marriage are visiting the Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown New York. He said custody discussions were going well and no new details beyond his earlier report would be released as Mrs Rockefeller and her former husband Dr James S Murphy work out arrangements.
CANISTEO New York police chief said he investigated a jewelry theft at a local store when someone let air from the front tires of his patrol car. He believed the thief caused the deflation.
AP Television writer notes The Keefe Brasselle Show on CBS as a pleasant if uneven hour with guest stars Zsa Zsa Gabor Fred Gwynne Barbara Streisand and Ann B Davis. Also reviews Picture This and NBC The Image Man and CBS Reckoning reruns plus Schoenbrun’s departure.
Barbers from Mexia Fairfield Teague Coolidge Wortham and Groesbeck voted unanimously to adopt a five day week raise haircut and shave prices and pledge to fight communism at the Mexia gathering.
Henry R. George, 22, who escaped from the sheriff while being returned to jail after a court appearance, was captured in Mankato at 2 am Tuesday. He slipped away after returning to his home, removing his handcuffs, and was seized in a public place on the northwest side without resistance.
The municipal court waived the preliminary hearing for the defendant charged with second degree assault. Meyer stated he would speak with the county attorney today about escape charges.
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