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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1958
Page
1
Washington AP government lawyers study how to handle hate mail that spurs crimes or disorders sparked by bombings of Jewish centers. Post Office general counsel Warburton seeks Justice Department conference to define when mailed words become incitement or crime.
France warns it will not be bound by any U S British Soviet agreement on nuclear tests. Jules Moch says a Geneva pact would exclude France unless it covers test cessation control stockpile cuts and end of production. Zorin suggests Paris aims to avoid disarmament steps, complicating Geneva opening for October 31.
A smoldering woodland blaze near Lakes Coulee west of Leon and north of Sparta grew into a 160 acre forest fire as high winds driven flames spread Monday. Irvin Edwards Sparta firefighters, a ranger unit from Tomah, and about 75 to 100 volunteers battled the blaze through Monday night into Tuesday morning, with a light rain aiding containment efforts.
An early morning Calumet County crash kills Joseph Longe 28 of Sheboygan and Leste Hoffmann 31 of New Holstein after their car left Highway 57 near New Holstein. The toll for Wisconsin reaches 648 for the year. Other fatalities include Louis W. Dartt 29 of Columbus in a two car crash at Highway 151 and Dane County Trunk WV, and Olvin I. Kemplin 38 of Barneveld who died after a collision near Dodgeville.
In Baltimore a 17-year-old, William H. Miles, crawled through a blazing living room wrapped in a wet blanket to rescue a trapped 3-year-old neighbor, Solomon Jones Jr. Miles collapsed from smoke but the child was unharmed and Miles was treated at Mercy Hospital.
A construction worker Henry Zimmermann directing steel pipe unloading was electrocuted when a crane boom touched an overhead high voltage wire. The crane operator was uninjured.
In Toledo, Ohio a speeding passenger train tore off Mrs. Betty Rossman 29, of Perrysburg, coat as she fled a stalled auto on New York Central tracks. She escaped with minor bruises while her husband William watched. the car was demolished.
William Becker and Ralph Cokely pilot for Boeing as they study Chance-Vought's capsule and escape system for a rocket powered craft. The seven company team competes with Martin for final Air Force approval to fly a craft that would launch, circle Earth once, and land at the base of takeoff before 1965. Both pilots would train nearly full time. both express family support for the venture.
President Eisenhower attacked Democrats as hopelessly split and radical in Los Angeles urging end to Republican infighting. He praised GOP record in foreign policy and economy and urged unity to back Knowland Knight tickets in California amid right to work controversy.
A 7 month old boy, James Andrew Wilkinson, died in La Crosse after a two pound toy tractor slipped from his mother's hands and struck his chest. Autopsy showed rupture of a blood vessel leading to the heart and fatal internal bleeding. Survived by parents and two sisters, with funeral planned at Hellwig Morris Chapel.
In Formosa Congress, Dulles and Chiang Kai-shek opened talks amid renewed shelling of Quemoy by mainland forces. Dulles said the meeting was a stock taking and not about applying pressure. Chen Cheng warned any withdrawal could trigger a larger war as MIGs clash with Sabrejets over the Strait.
The Ford Foundation pledges 2.95 million dollars to boost business education in the United States, plus 675 thousand to MIT to establish a joint urban studies center with Harvard. Funds support visiting professorships, a math institute for business educators, seminars, reviews, fellowships, and aging studies led by UM and Notre Dame and Penn law school enhancements.
Forty one cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church drew lots for three room cells they will occupy from Oct. 25 while they elect a new Pope. The elderly and sick received favored locations near the Sistine Chapel and Borgia Guardroom. Cardinal Jose Maria Caro Rodriguez, 92, archbishop of Santiago, Chile, drew one of the favored sites.
An 11 month old boy, son of Mr and Mrs Myron Wheeler from St Francis County, was transported by county traffic patrol and hospital staff in 59 minutes from St Francis to St Marys in Rochester for oxygen and treatment after a head injury. He remained alive at noon Tuesday per his La Crosse doctor.
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