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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1963
Page
2
President Kennedy’s push for a far reaching civil rights program may win him Negro votes in the North to offset Southern Democratic losses in 1964. If Congress acts, Republicans could gain credit for passage. if not, they may be blamed or praised for blocking the bill.
Republicans see possible gains in the South if a presidential nominee is viewed as softer on civil rights than Kennedy. Some GOP conservatives target Barry Goldwater as a path to sweeping the Deep South, while eastern Republicans doubt that strategy and argue victory requires winning big states and cities with strong black votes. The RNC notes 1960 Nixon Nixon-Lodge trailed Eisenhower-Nixon in black support, highlighting regional splits and ongoing civil rights debates within the party.
Wisconsin Supreme Court denies Eugene H. Fish a discharge from a 1962 theft conviction. Fish, Polk County justice of the peace 1948 to 1960, argued double jeopardy after a second prosecution following an earlier discharge. Court rules discharge does not bar new prosecution or constitute a felony acquittal.
House GOP leaders and Foreign Affairs Committee members criticized Kennedy's Europe tour remarks especially about France and De Gaulle. Frances Bolton and Peter Frelinghuysen warned such talks risk alienating allies, while Clement Zablocki saw potential allied understanding. Gerald Ford urged caution and time for appraisal. Barry Goldwater criticized Kennedy from San Francisco, urging focus at home.
Khrushchev's first trip to visit a satellite leader marks a major Western watch point as Gomulka and Novotny join the visit. Berlin observers see potential aims beyond a birthday party with talks likely to influence German peace treaty pressures and Soviet bloc unity.
In Magherafelt Hospital County Londonderry seriously ill patients of both sexes receive treatment in the same ward under a new system. The 170 bed hospital splits into units by illness severity and mixes sexes in the seriously ill ward before separating as patients improve.
The Senate confirmed Adm. David Lamar McDonald unanimously to succeed Adm. George Anderson as chief of naval operations. Also approved were Eugene G. Fubini as assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering and Alexander Henry Flax as assistant secretary of the Air Force for research and engineering, all by unanimous consent.
In New London Connecticut a 26 year old man Nicholas Ukraine killed the next door family Robert C Reidy 45 his wife Mary 43 and their 10 year old son Mark then waited for police to arrive He described the shootings in a re enactment and showed no remorse He was booked for murder Ukraine claimed harassment by the Reidys but offered no clear reason He lived with his parents who said the families shared a warm bond.
Senator Gerald Lorge defends eliminating the newspaper tax as a free speech issue while the Senate adds 795000 for state aid to county superintendents and supervising teachers in the next biennium. An amendment raises recreational advertising funds to 35000 for the World's Fair cheese display.
A Chicago man fatally shot himself after wounding a woman in Kenosha County. Wasil Masaruk, 40, died at a Kenosha hospital after the attack on Mary Prywada, 44, who was in fair condition following surgery for gunshot wounds to the shoulder, side and arm at a Camp Lake home.
AP dispatch details steady cattle and hog markets across Milwaukee and South St. Paul with price ranges for steers heifers cows and calves. Also notes Friday receipts and wholesale Chicago produce prices including Butter Eggs and Potatoes.
In Kenosha Judge M Eugene Barker sent Mrs Helen Haukedahl to a circuit court jury of nine women and three men at 12 30 pm with instructions that she may be found guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of her husband’s girlfriend manslaughter or innocent by reason of insanity or innocent.
Madison AP The University of Wisconsin School of Education faculty is expected to reject the full reaccreditation granted by NCATE. Dean Lindley J. Stiles says the action will be considered at the October faculty meeting after a nine month dispute over NCATE standards and policy.
Richard Nixon held a private 15 minute audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican Library. He toured with Archbishop Martin J. O Connell and later welcomed Mrs Nixon and daughters Patricia and Julie, as they plan to visit Florence and Venice after leaving Athens on a private trip.
Bombs exploded at the U S Military Advisory Assistance Group Compound in Saigon. Ten Vietnamese civilians were killed and 38 hurt, including three American soldiers with leg, thigh, and facial injuries. A grenade at a theater killed one guard and injured 53.
Former President Herbert Hoover, age 88, is improving after a serious bleeding gastrintestinal ailment. Doctors say he sits up in bed at the Waldorf Astoria Tower suite, reads papers, and takes a lively interest in events.
Wisconsin health officials note a single paralytic polio case in 1962 and 12 total for 1962, down from 26 in 1961 and far below 1955. The piece urges boosters or oral vaccine, warns against complacency, cites Houston’s surge, and contrasts vaccine forms with Denmark’s shift to industrial exports.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to take original jurisdiction in Gov. John W. Reynolds suit to reapportion state legislative districts. It will hear the case in September, with Reynolds due to submit a proposed redistricting plan by August 5 and the secretary of state to respond by September 9.
Clues span breakfast terms from Virginia to pancakes and eggs with many cross references. Answers include sunken roads engines started and various names and plants, forming a themed crossword style grid with common breakfast related terms.
In Rio de Janeiro a 21 story commercial building fire kills at least seven with more feared dead. About 20 firefighters injured and two helicopters rescue survivors from the roof. The blaze harms three movie companies and stock. Herbert Richer reports a bright flash and smoke before the fire spread.
Havana AP report cites Hoy saying Cuba may plant only 158400 acres by June 30, about 39 percent of normal, due to slow adoption of new systems delaying plans by the party and revolutionary government.
An 18 month old boy, Dale Biederman, son of Mr and Mrs Ivan Biederman of rural Sheldon in Rusk County, was struck and killed by a milk truck in the family farm driveway on Thursday.
Sir Guy Powles, the first ombudsman in the British Commonwealth, has overseen 334 complaints in six months. Of these 143 were outside his jurisdiction and dropped, 74 remained under review, 91 were unfounded, 26 had some substance with 13 rectified, and he cannot file legal action but advises on worthwhile citizen complaints.
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