Students Help Save Paintings From Fire at Gallery
Fire threatened the Burpee Art Galleries in Rockford as 15 art students under Thelma McNess rescued 35 paintings from Abbott Laboratories worth at least $100,000. The blaze started accidentally by a workman with a blowtorch. firefighters confined it to a porch roof and the exhibit reopened as planned.
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Rockford, Ill
Burpee
Thelma McNess
Abbott Laboratories
Chicago
Grant Wood
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Salvador Dali
Fernand Leger
Georges Rouault
Maurice Utrillo
Georges Braque
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Top Quality Gas Heating from Mueller Climatrol
Mueller Climatrol gear showcases Endural Heat Exchanger and Volumaire Blower for quiet comfort and convenience. The model offers added value with modest price difference versus basic units. Request estimates to compare performance and cost.
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Royal Pair Absent As Carlists Rally
Montejurra Spain AP reports Carlists gathered at the mountaintop shrine with 100000 attendees while their leader Prince Carlos and his bride Princess Irene stayed away on Franco's word. Irene said she would join next year.
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Montejurra
Spain
Francisco Franco
Carlos of
Bourbon-Parma
Irene
Netherlands
Madrid
Carlos
Day Nursery Director Attends Midwest Conference
Mrs. Rose M. Bellevue, director of the La Crosse Day Nursery at 119 South 10th Street, attended the Midwest Association for Nursery Education meeting in Minneapolis. The conference theme was Nursery School and Day Care Centers Their Community Image. childcare workers and educators from 10 states joined discussions and lectures, with a trip to Rochester Minnesota to observe local nursery schools.
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Rose M. Bellevue
la Crosse
Indians Win Wildlife OKs Squirrel Hunt Before Season
Oklahoma City AP report says the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission allowed a Shawnee tribe hunt of 100 squirrels during a tribal ceremony near Little Axe before the May 15 open season. Richard Gibson explained the custom. commission members agreed to permit it.
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Okla
Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission
Richard Gibson
Little Axe
Here
France Blocks 50 Percent Tariff Cut Goal in Kennedy Trade Talks
Geneva AP report says France blocks declaring a 50% tariff cut as the Kennedy Round seeks across the board reductions. Officials note France opposes pledge to this target though 75 nations may not achieve it. Meetings include Giscard dEstaing and Herter with Common Market leaders debating deadlines and exceptions.
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U.S
John F. Kennedy
Christian A. Herter
Johnson
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
de Gaulle
European Common Market
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Common Market
United States
Editors To Hear De Luce At Wausau AP Meeting May 15 16
Dan De Luce of New York City AP General Executive will keynote the Wisconsin Associated Press Association spring convention in Wausau May 15 16. The veteran AP foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss AP plans for future coverage and tech advances. Verne Hoffman of the Racine Journal Times heads the group with a gala screening of Fronters of News. The program includes De Luce time as AP chief in Germany after war and his 1956 return to New York as general executive.
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Dan de Luce
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Associated Press
Wisconsin Associated Press Association
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New York
Wisconsin
Verne Hoffman
Racine Journal-Times
Willard van Dyke
Yugoslavia
Germany
Motor Vehicle Death Rate Rises in January
Washington AP report shows motor vehicle deaths at 21.5 per 100000 in January, about 30 percent higher than January 1963. Public Health Service notes 1963 annual increase over 1962 about 4 percent in its vital statistics release.
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Public Health Service
Service
Pulitzer Prizes Awarded For War Assassination and Corruption
The 1964 Pulitzer Prizes honors newspapers for exposing fraud and corruption, crisis coverage, and the South Viet Nam war. The St. Petersburg Times won public service for Florida Turnpike Authority corruption. Local, international, and national reporting prizes went to The Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Bulletin, AP, and New York Times. Awards omitted in fiction drama and music.
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Viet Nam
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Florida Turnpike Authority
Florida
Norman C. Miller
The
Wall Street Journal
Allied Crude Vegetable Oil and Refining Corp
New Jersey
South Viet Nam
Tiger cub stolen from Grant Park Zoo in Atlanta
Police hunt a nine week old tiger cub taken from Grant Park Zoo over the weekend. Zoo Superintendent Johnny Dilbeck says the cub may die from pneumonia or malnutrition. A sister cub remains at the zoo.
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Atlanta, Ga
Grant Park
Atlanta
Johnny Dilbeck
Poetry by Louis Simpson Opens Open Road
Louis Simpson aged 41, a Jamaica native and former assistant professor of English, wins praise for At the End of the Open Road. The Berkeley author previously served in journalism roles at the New York Herald Tribune. La Crosse Tribune. May 5 1964.
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Jamaica
Berkeley
New York Hero
University of California and Tribune
Hoover to remain FBI chief past seventy
President Johnson plans to waive the 70 year retirement rule to keep J Edgar Hoover as FBI director beyond age 70 next Jan 1. Hoover would mark 40 years in office next Sunday after being appointed May 10 1924 under Calvin Coolidge, serving under 13 attorneys general.
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Johnson
J. Edgar Hoover
White House
FBI
Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
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