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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1963
Page
5
TV symbols, credit health, and odd stats blend into a Hal Boyle column. It weighs how credit danger links to accidents, cites bathtubs versus pools fatalities, notes Japan aerials as status symbols, and teases science and daily life quirks with pithy observations.
Bell features a home tips column with cooking and laundry hacks. It promotes Coin-Op Dry Cleaners and offers practical garment care and budget shopping advice. The piece blends product pitches with simple recipes and household reminders.
Tokyo report says preliminary findings indicate the freighter Yueh Chin sank after striking a rock while bound for Japan. Rescued crewmen had alleged torpedoing, but New China News Agency cited the Ministry of Communications as saying rock impact is very likely, with underwater attack not ruled out.
Ronald Simons 19 of International Falls Minnesota was seriously injured in a 1000 foot fall on Torres Peak near Loveland Pass Colorado while climbing with Jim Morris 20 an airman from Lowry Air Force Base. Simons slipped on ice and was exposed to sleet and wind for about seven hours before rescue.
A 59 year old Waukesha man is under guard at a hospital as police investigate the fatal shooting of his wife Mrs Harold J Washburn 43 a rural Waukesha resident. Mrs Washburn was found dead at her home Sunday morning hit in the head by a single 22 caliber pistol shot. The husband collapsed and was hospitalized for a heart ailment after authorities responded to a call from a child.
The United Presbyterian General Assembly outlines a strict separation of church and state. It opposes school prayers and Bible readings, public religious displays, and favors broad welfare services over parochial school aid. It also urges fair evaluation of candidates, resists Sunday laws, criticizes church tax exemptions, and warns against censorship of religiously offensive material.
Angels Camp Calif AP Repo the frog is crowned 1963 international jumping champion after leaping 13 feet 4 inches in the annual Calaveras County event begun by Mark Twain. Leonard Hall trained Repo in a makeshift stable while Ola Oshi of Nigeria won the overall world title with 8 feet 7 inches. Governors’ class prizes, including Nevada’s Paiute Pete at 6 feet 5 inches, are noted among other entries.
AP recap of notable dates: Columbus dies in poverty in 1506. Dorchester Mass opens first tax funded public school in 1639. Hughes patents first printing telegraph ticker in 1855. 1953 China extraterritorial rights abolished treaty. 1950 Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens. ten years ago Polish pilot crash lands after fleeing. five years ago Van Cliburn parade in NYC after Soviet triumph. one year ago Argentina under decree dissolves Congress and parties.
An exile spokesman says a commando unit from inside Cuba struck a militia barracks near Havana to mark Cuba independence day. The underground resistance raised an anti Castro banner before fleeing. A still undetermined number of Castro troops were reported killed in the predawn raid.
Minnesota lawmakers face a familiar hurdle as education funding remains unsettled with two positions on per pupil aid. The Senate wants 93 dollars, the House 95, with a provision tying aid to local tax mills. A pending state departments bill and a water pollution program are near completion as leaders brief adjournment hopes.
Ottawa hosts NATO ministers with U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk British Foreign Secretary Lord Home and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville arriving. Threat letters warn of hotel bombs tied to the FLQ as Germany backs a unified nuclear command plan.
FASTEETH is an improved powder to sprinkle on upper or lower plates. It holds false teeth more firmly in place and prevents sliding slipping or rocking. It has no gummy taste and is alkaline to avoid souring plate odor. Available at drug counters everywhere.
Charles Miller reported a burglary type incident in Sarasota Florida where someone entered his pasture and cut the tail hair from one of his horses. No suspects or motive were disclosed and no injuries were noted.
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