Lightning Strikes McCoy Camp Wounding 13 Guard Members
Lightning struck near the bivouac area at CAMP MCCOY wounding 13 members of Wisconsin's 32nd National Guard Division. Cpl. Lawrence Nelson helped revive a fellow soldier. The group treated at a clearing station and evacuated to the division hospital. Senator Alexander Wiley visited as rain-lashed training continued.
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Camp Mccoy
Wisconsin
32Nd National Guard Division
Ronald Pace
Black River Falls
Robert Bruegger
Riv‘ Falls
Cpl
Lawrence Nelson
Sp. 3
Leroy Kusilek
Nelson
Kusilek
173Rd Field Artillery Battalion
135Th
W. F. Breidster
32Nd
Alexander Wiley
Red Arrow Division
Wiley
End Rueping Plant Strike Ends in Wisconsin
The four week walkout at Fred Rueping Leather Co in West De Lake ends after Local 360 Fur and Leather Workers Division votes 171 to 5 to return workers. Union officials say Rueping will call back nonmaliciously as vacancies arise while the firm resumes production and offers a $50 bonus and a one cent wage raise for 1954.
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Yond DU Lac
Fred Rueping Leather Co
Wisconsin
Local 360
Fur and Leather Workers Division
Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers Workmen of North America
Roeping
Clayton F. van Pelt
Four Die In Wisconsin Auto Crashes This Week
The 1956 Wisconsin highway death toll reached 433 as two accidents Tuesday claimed four lives. Edgar S. Clark 84 of Gowanda New York and Robert 83 of Cattaraugus were fatally injured in a Dane County crash. Joseph Pallock 54 of Wauwatosa and his wife Agnes 58 died in a separate collision on Bluemound Road near Goerke's Corners in eastern Waukesha County.
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Wisconsin
New York State
Edgar S. Clark
Gowanda
Robert
Cattaraugus
Edgar
Dane County
Madison
Joseph Pallock
Wauwatosa
Agnes
Big Three Of Steel Industry Propose New Contract Terms
In New York the major steel firms present a written three year contract offer to the United Steelworkers Union as a strike deadline looms at midnight Saturday. The likely terms include a 10 cent hourly raise in year one, with further concessions under a broader deal. The unions push for higher wages, extra Sunday pay, Saturday overtime, and extended layoff benefits.
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Big
Steel Industry
New York
United Steelworkers
Gary
Ind
Pittsburgh
International Executive Board
Flaming Crash of Air Tanker Kills 11 Men
A Boeing KC97 four engine refueling tanker based at Walker Air Force Base crashed near Roswell New Mexico after takeoff at 650 p m exploding in a fiery blast killing 11 airmen. Witnesses said it appeared to burst into flames seconds after lifting off.
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Roswell
N.M
Air Force
New Mexico
Walker Air Force Base
Walker Tower
Max Conrad Aims Nonstop New York To Moscow Flight
Minnesota pilot Max Conrad seeks an August nonstop New York to Moscow flight using a twin engine five passenger plane with 475 gallons of fuel. He met senator Hubert Humphrey to clear Soviet transit and landing rights and hopes for U S support and a favorable weather window for the 4700 mile, 30 hour journey.
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William P. Lear
Moya
Moscow
Vnukova
Lear
Berlin
Vilna
NATO
Soviet Bloc
London
Max Conrad
Washington
Minnesota
Transatantic
New York
Sen
Humphrey
Minn
Conrad
California
Canada
Greenland
North Atlantic
Scandinavia
State Department
Zarubin
Russia
Paris
Wisconsin Sets New Unified Criminal Code Effective July First
Wisconsin moves to a major recodification as nine rewritten chapters 939 to 947 take effect on July 1. The overhaul aims to simplify language modernize procedures and balance swift enforcement with protection of rights. Key figures include Sen Gustave Buchen circuit Judge Gerald Boileau and Assemblyman Robert Marotz.
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Madison
Wisconsin
William Platt
Platz
University of Wisconsin Law Review
Gustave Buchen
Sheboygan
State Senate Judiciary Committee
Gerald Boileau
Wausau
Robert Marotz
Shawano
Legislative Council
Senate boosts Air Force funds amid defense budget clash
Senate approved an extra 912.6 million for the Air Force as part of a 35 billion defense bill. Mahon, chairing House conferees, wants Defense input before backing the additional funds. Russell defended a strong U S strategic air power. Byrd opposed the boost, citing no near-term aircraft output.
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Washington
Rep. Mahon
D-Tex
House
Air Force
Pentagon
Punctuation Debate at National Conference Meeting
Tacoma delegates to a national conference on teacher education debated punctuating a famous sentence about that that is. They admitted most teachers struggled yet agreed on a complex correct version emphasizing that that is, is, that, that is not, is not, but that, that is not, is not that that is, nor is that, that that is not.
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Tacoma
Wash
National Conference of Teacher Education and Professional Standards
New Highways Could Open by Summer 1958
Congress passed a 33 billion dollar highway bill sending it to President Eisenhower. Senate supporters say construction may begin quickly with planning and rights of way this year and substantial work within two years. The plan allocates 250 billion in federal funds over 13 years with a 90 to 10 state share, plus a 14.8 billion tax increase for highway users.
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la Crosse
House
Mahon
Senate
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Congress
Washington
Francis Case
R-Sd
Hisenhower
Senate Aid Bill Fight Led by Sen George
Senator George D Ga chaired the Foreign Relations Committee urging approval of a 4.502 billion foreign aid measure. He warned against cutting military aid abroad, saying it could endanger the free world while noting potential future reductions may occur. He will retire to become NATO ambassador.
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Washington
George D-Ga
Senate
Free World
George
Foreign Relations Committee
House
Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Yugoslavia
Tito
Moscow
Inter
Weather forecast for La Crosse area tonight and Thursday
Mostly fair and pleasant conditions prevail with no significant temperature change. Tonight's low near 58 degrees and Thursday's high around 78.
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la Crosse
Pravda Publishes Critical Questioning Of Soviet Leaders
Pravda reprints Eugene Dennis article from the New York Daily Worker asking what Soviet leaders did to stop Stalin era excesses. The piece marks rare open criticism in Moscow and notes Khrushchev’s secret report to the 20th Congress. Dennis argues for evaluation of leadership since 1953.
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Moscow
Pravda Today
Stalin
Communist Party
Eugene Dennis
New York Daily Worker
Pravda
Nikita Khrushchev
Italin
Dennis
State Department of the United States
Khrushchev
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
U.S
Superstitious Driver Seeks Friday Sentencing
Terrence F. Daly, who pled guilty to stealing a Kansas City car and driving it to Los Angeles, asked Federal Judge William M. Byrne to sentence him on Friday. Daly cited Tuesday as his unlucky day. The judge agreed, joking that 13 months in prison might curb his urge to steal cars.
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Los Angeles
Terrence F. Daly
Kansas City
William M. Byrne
Daly
Crash toll rises to 32 in Nigerian airliner disaster
Two more people died from injuries after a British Overseas Airways liner crash in northern Nigeria last Sunday raising the total fatalities to 32.
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London
British Overseas Airways
Nigeria
Five Stillborn Girls Reported in Formosa Delivery
Mrs. Lo Chin-mei, 42, delivered five stillborn girls on Tuesday at Chaochun in southern Formosa. Mrs. Lo was reported doing well.
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Taipei
Formosa
China News
Lo Chin-mei
Chaochun
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Holland
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McCarthy
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Welker
Idaho
Margaret Chase Smith
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