Transportation crisis debate between railroads and barges
Sylvia Porter presents a multipart exchange with David I. Mackie and Jacob W. Hershey on removing rate regulations, equalizing competition among railroads barges and trucks, and the risks of a rate war. Hershey argues against deregulation emphasizing waterway subsidies, reduced costs from barges, and the need for equal regulation to prevent service depletion.
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David I. Mackie
Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference
John Kennedy
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mackie
Jacob W. Hershey
Inland Waterways Common Carriers Association
Porter
Hershey
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Kennedy
Reme
The
Hall Syndicate, Inc
Final Faulkner Book Wins Pulitzer Prize
The Reivers, Faulkner's final novel, wins the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday. Other honors include the Chicago Daily News earning the public service prize and LoIs Wille, Trautman, and Hanson cited for their reporting.
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New York
South
William Faulkner
Fawkner
John Mason Brown
John Gassner
Yale University
Brown
Gassner
Edward Albee
Virginia Woolf
New England
Chicago Daily News
Daily News
Columbia University
Lois Wille
Horton Trautman
State Capitol
Henry M. Hanson
UW Regents Extend UW Milwaukee Independence Moves
UW faculty approves separate Madison and Milwaukee faculties and an all university faculty to govern system wide matters. UW-M receives independent division with Milwaukee curriculum control but not tenure. ROTC remains voluntary. a study committee on student life is proposed.
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Uw-M
University Center
Madison
Fred H. Harrington
David Fellman
Former serviceman sentenced for JFK threat in 1960s
Wirdell Willingham, 33, of Winnsboro, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to threatening President Kennedy and received a one year prison term. He had written three letters to the White House since September 1962 claiming reinstatement in the armed forces and warning of violence.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Kennedy
Wirdell Willingham
Winnsboro
White House
Willingham
Navy
Army
Air Force
Tractor Accident Injures Sparta Youth Robert Clemenson
Robert I Clemenson 14 son of Mr and Mrs David Clemenson of Cataract received serious chest and facial injuries when a tractor overturned at a relative's farm in rural Sparta Monday afternoon. He was taken to St Marys Hospital Sparta then transferred to St Francis La Crosse.
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Sparta
Wis
Robert I. Clemmenson
David Clemmenson
David Clemmerson
Robert
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Francis Hospital
la Crosse
Fear and Ignorance Grip Port au Prince Under Duvalier Rise
AP correspondent Morris W. Rosenberg reports Port au Prince as a city of fear under Duvalier. He describes brutal searches by the Tonton Macoute, widespread illiteracy, high infant mortality, and grinding poverty that isolates Haitians from the wider world.
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Haitian
Port Au Prince
Morris W. Rosenberg
Dominican Republic
Arretez
Dic
Duvalier
Tonton Macoute
Clement Barbot
Haiti
Three Injured In Blair Highway 95 Crash
Three people were hurt in a midnight crash on State Highway 95 a half mile northeast of Blair. Mil ton Swenson of Milwaukee Mrs Ruth Frederixon of Blair and Victor Melby area farmer were treated at a Whitehall hospital for bruises cuts and a possible fractured wrist. Sheriff Orris Klundby investigated.
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Blair
Wis
Whitehall
Milton Swenson
Milwaukee
Ruth Frederixon
Victor Melby
Swenson
Orris Klundby
Trempealeau County Legion to Elect Officers May 7
Trempealeau County American Legion Council meeting in Independence Wisconsin will elect officers. A program includes a showing of a movie on communism led by James R. Davis of Blair county adjutant.
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Independence
Wis
Trempealeau County American Legion Council
James R. Davis
Blair
Mrs Jennie White Observes 93rd Birthday in Black River Falls
Mrs. Jennie White celebrated her 93rd birthday in Black River Falls Wisconsin with many friends and relatives visiting Saturday. The brief item notes a separate global fact that more than 200 babies are born each minute worldwide.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Jennie White
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