Dynamite Theft Tied To Blasts In Birmingham
Police linked a large dynamite theft to May 11 Birmingham bombings that targeted a Negro house and motel. Sheriff Bailey said about 100 pounds were stolen, prompting heavy patrols as federal troops stood by and state officers assisted in keeping peace amid tensions. The incident occurred as political leaders discussed federal intervention and local authorities prepared for potential unrest.
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Birmingham
Ala
Melvin Bailey
Bailey
Kennedy
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Muscle Shoals
Tennessee Valley Authority
Huntsville
Pierre Salinger
White House
Wyatt Tee Walker
Washington
Baltimore
William L. Moore
Madeleine Sherwood
Dr Smith Named President-Elect of Wisconsin Health Education Group
Dr Glenn M Smith director of the division of health physical education and recreation at La Crosse State College was chosen president elect of the Wisconsin Association for Health Physical Education and Recreation at Green Lake Saturday. He has served as vice president for physical education and on the executive committee for three years. He will succeed Phyllis Roney. Other officers include C Emmett Ford Alfred Harrer Fred Longfeld Marilyn Hinson and Ida Hinz in various vice presidency and secretary roles.
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Glenn M. Smith
la Crosse State College
Wisconsin Association For Health, Physical Education
Green Lake
Smith
Association
Phyllis Roney
Oshkosh State College
C. Emmett Ford
la Crosse Public Schools
Alfred Harrer
Beloit College
Fred Longfeld
Marilyn Hinson
River Falls State College
Ida Hinz
Eau Claire State College
Cooper Keeps Space Notes In Little Box
CAPE CANAVERAL AP Gordon Cooper fielded questions at a news conference while turning a knob on a small box that displayed notes from his space flight. The device served as a compact resume of his sky voyage and kept the next steps in view during the briefing.
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Cape Canaveral
Gordon Cooper
Space
Area Price Method For Gas Upheld
The Supreme Court, in a 5 4 decision by Justice Harlan, upheld a Federal Power Commission plan to set a field wide area price for natural gas. The old unit by unit method backloged rate cases. Phillips Petroleum Co. supported the new plan, which appeals courts and state commissions supported.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Federal Power Commission
FPC
Harlan
Justice Clark
Warren
Black
Brennan
Phillips Petroleum Co
Bartlesville
Okla
U.S. Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals
High Tribunal
Wisconsin
California
New York
Public Utilities Commissions
National PTA leader calls for grim attack on disadvantaged children
Mrs. Clifford N. Jenkins told the Miami Beach convention that the nation cannot prosper with half privileged and half deprived. She cited 10 to 11 million children, including children of migrant workers and urban slum families, and warned of broad problems from school dropouts to unemployment.
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Miami Beach
Fla
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Clifford N. Jenkins
Puerto Rico
Ptas
Jenkins
Revolver Goes Off Injuring Boy in Minnesota
A Columbia Heights boy, 14 year old Arthur Bran danger, was critically wounded by a .22 caliber revolver Saturday night while he and two other youths handled the firearm. Police described the incident as an accidental shooting.
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Minneapolis
Columbia Heights
Arthur Brandanger
Arthur
Preparation H touted as new cure for hemorrhoids
An advertisement touts a healing substance Bio-Dyne as stopping itch and shrinking hemorrhoids without surgery. The claim cites doctor observations and months of improvement in long standing cases, and promotes Preparation H suppositories or ointment as obtainable at drug counters in New York.
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New York
N. Y
Milwaukee Livestock Prices Mixed Across Cattle Hog Markets
AP reports Friday livestock trade at Milwaukee and South St. Paul with steady to higher carcass prices. Cattle ranges include choice steers 20.00-22.50, dairy and utility cows 13.00-16.50, veal 23.00-28.00. hogs mainly 12.75-15.50, sows 11.75-13.75, bulls 14.00-16.50. receipts forecast next Monday around 1,400 cattle, 1,200 calves, 1,000 hogs.
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North
St. Power
Bell & Farrell, Inc
Olin Mathieson Aileen, Inc
Allis-Chalmers
Phillips Pete
RCA
Clark
Republic Steel
American Motors
Rexall
Amer. Tel
Gateway Trans
Reynolds Metals
Avco Zion Royal Dutch
Guar
Ins
Curtiss Wright
Stude
Packard
Nekoosa
DuPont
Eastman Kodak
Pyroil Co
Financial Fed
Rap Industries
Ford
Swift
Rockwell Mig
Texaco
Gamble Skogmo NS Trane
Royal Dutch N.Y
Warner Elec
E General Dynamics
United Airlines
Western Power
General Electric
Western Tool
General Motors
U.S. Rubber
Wis. Pow. & L
Interstate
Zenith
Eaton & Howard Jones & Laughlin
Dow Jones
Fidelity Fund
Lockheed
Incorp
Mack Trucks
Utilities
Magnavox
Commodities National
Montgomery Ward
Monsanto Chemical
Wisconsin
North _ Pacific
Milwaukee
Bologna
South ST. Paul
South ST. Paul, Minn
USDA
Chicago
API
Chicago Mercantile! Exchange
U.S
Idaho
California
Reds
Arizona
Alabama
Powell Attacks Stevenson as a Phony Liberal at Rally
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell accuses U N Ambassador Adlai Stevenson of racial bias and refusing to hire Negro staff. Powell cites a two year fight over school desegregation as context while Stevenson’s aides deny the charge. The U N mission says it employs 112 people with 12 Negro staff and three more in process.
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Englewood
N.J
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
U.N
Adlai E. Stevenson
United Nations
Powell
Stevenson
U.S
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Cooper Recalls Space Flight Details From Orbit
Cooper describes viewing Dallas and Houston from space and seeing the lakes near the new space craft center. He recalls taking photos of Red China and the Himalayas, explains space food, hydrogen peroxide jets causing fireflies, and his sleep in weightlessness with arms secured to avoid drifting.
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Dallas
Texas
Houston
New
Space Agency
Red
China
Himalayas
Space
Cooper
Two Escapees Nabbed Near Winona
Two brothers Robert C. Day and Verne Day, 31 and 32, escaped from Friendship Wisconsin jail last Monday. They were returned to the prison Saturday after being spotted on a freight train south west of Winona. They reportedly used a spoon to pick their cell door lock and were picked up by a deputy in Utica Minnesota.
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Winona
Minn
Friendship
Wis
Robert C. Day
Verne Day
George Fort
North Western Railroad
Utica
Couple Killed When Train Strikes Car
An elderly Royalton area couple died when a passenger train at about 75 miles per hour struck their car four miles south of Little Falls. Joseph Rothleutner and his wife perished after their vehicle stalled on the crossing as train engineer William J. Knutt reported the car moved into the locomotive path. The wreckage lay 300 feet along the track. both died instantly. The incident raised Minnesota's yearly traffic toll to 240. Other fatalities included Alfred Hebig and Larry Arnold from nearby towns due to separate accidents.
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Associated Press
Little Falls
Royalton
Joseph Rothleutner
Township Road
William J. Knutt
St. Paul
Northern Pacific
Seattle
Rothleuther
Knutt
Sunrise and sunset times with forecast notes
River readings show sunrise at 5 34 am and sunset at 8 30 pm. Degree days total 7 545, last year 7 670, normal 7 449. Five day forecast: Tuesday to Saturday 51 72 with 5 10 degrees below normal and likely showers later in week. North region may see higher snow, others above freezing.
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Shipper
Weather notes for lacrosse vicinity and surrounding states
A weather summary reports showers and cooler conditions across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. Northwest winds 8 to 25 mph persist with highs in the mid fifties in Wisconsin and cooler shows in Minnesota and Iowa with some snow possible in northern areas tonight and Tuesday.
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Lacrosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Boston Link Suspect Tied to Strangling Case
Richard C Lang a 24 year old ex convict and former mental patient allegedly confessed Saturday to the lover s lane murder of 21 year old Ann Mary Lund. Police in Boston are definitively interested in checking if Lang is connected with the stranglings of 10 women in the area over the past 11 months.
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Boston
Richard C. Lang
Ann Mary Lund
Lang
UPI
Radcliffe Girls Stage Reverse Panty Raid at Harvard
About 30 to 40 Radcliffe College women staged a reverse panty raid at Winthrop House Harvard. The crowd of 1 500 marched to Radcliffe and then to Harvard Square while police dispersed the mob. five men were arrested, four students, with no major property damage or injuries.
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Cambridge
Mass
Radcliffe College
Winthrop House
Harvard College
Harvard Square
Radcliffe
Women Fund Medical Students Support at Iowa State
More than half of the senior medical students at the State University of Iowa rely on the income of working wives for the major portion of their financial support.
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Iowa City
Iowa
The
State University of Iowa
Supreme Court Deliberates Desegregation Sit-Ins Ruling
Chief Justice Warren writes on 1960 desegregation sit-in campaigns in Birmingham Louisiana Greenville and the Carolinas. Cases from Alabama Louisiana South and North Carolina challenge 14th Amendment equal protection and state action in private discrimination at lunch counters.
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Harlan
Warren
Greenville
Birmingham
South
Supreme Court
Alabama
Louisiana
North
South Carolina
High Court
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Charles Billups
Shuttlesworth
Billups
Milwaukee vice squad chief tied to monthly payoff
A former keeper of a house of prostitution testified that she paid Police Capt. Harry R. Kuszewski 100 dollars monthly for years starting in 1954, with some months at 50 dollars. She said payments ceased in late 1961 and Kuszewski warned her during an arrest that led to charges being dropped.
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Milwaukee
Harry R. Kuszewski
Johnnie Mae Jackson
Kuszewski
John Doe
Coulee Symphony Seeks Musicians For July Concerts
The Coulee Region Symphony issues a call for symphony caliber musicians to join the 75 piece orchestra for July concerts as part of the Festival of Arts. Strings are in greatest need. inquiries go to Coulee Region Symphony Box 454 for schedules and rehearsal details.
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Coulee
Paratroopers Injured In Windy Open House Jump
About 15 American paratroopers sustained superficial injuries when wind carried them into spectators during an Armed Forces Day demonstration in Eureux France. A base spokesman said no bones were broken and none were hospitalized as several thousand spectators watched.
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Eureux
France
Fisherman Drowns Entangled in Anchor Line
The body of William J. Shock, 53, was found entangled in his boat’s anchor line on Lower Genesee Lake in Waukesha. Authorities say he toppled from the boat and drowned Sunday night.
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Waukesha
Genesee Lake
William J. Shock
Cholera Fatalities Mounting In Burma
In Rangoon suburbs quarantines were set as the first cholera death occurred at Rangoon General Hospital. Three more deaths raised the toll to 93 since the outbreak began, with additional child fatalities reported at Kawbein village near Moulmein.
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Rangoon
Burma
Rangoon General Hospital
Moulmein
Kawbein
Court rules Miller novel Tropic of Cancer not obscene
Wisconsin Supreme Court in a 4 3 decision halted a Milwaukee County ban on Tropic of Cancer author Henry Miller's 1934 work. The court held the book does not appeal to prurient interest and affirmed free expression, reversing a lower court ruling.
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Thomas E. Fairchild
Milwaukee County
Wisconsin
William H. Dieterich
Myron L. Gordon
Horace W. Wilkie
Mail box fire and hospital transfers in La Crosse area
On May 18 a fire damaged a mailbox on Rublee and Liberty Streets with the mail bag destroyed but one undamaged letter. May 19 incidents include marsh fire on Kane Street and multiple hospital transfers for illness and blood run to Sparta. County report notes residents Henry Casberg and others involved in transfers to Lutheran and St Mary’s.
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Rublee
Liberty Streets
Kane St
Marsh
Pearls St
Thomas Emery
St. Francis Hospital
Market St
Victor Buschman
Henry Casberg
Onalaska
Lutheran Hospital
Monroe County
St. Mary's Hospital
Sparta
Lake Crystal police chief Mer ton Kopischke dies in Mankato
Mer ton Kopischke 42 police chief of Lake Crystal Blue Earth County died Saturday in Mankato. He had previously served as a Mankato police officer.
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Mankato, Minn
Merton Kopiscchke
Lake Crystal
Blue Earth County
Mankato
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Coulee Symphony
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