Three Wisconsin Firefighters Die In Brush-Call Collision
Three volunteer firemen from Holland department were killed when two trucks responding to a brush fire collided near Kaukauna Wisconsin on county trunk KK. The crash also claimed the life of Donald Fassbender 16 who was aboard the other vehicle. The weekend toll included Vivian Hoehn 18 of Milwaukee and other victims in separate incidents.
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Brown County
UPI
Wisconsin
Outagamie County
Kaukauna
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Jerome van Abel
van Abel
Donald
Norbert Fassbender
Outagamie
Here
Town of Holland Fire Department
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Monroe
Air Force
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John
Novitski
Highway 69
Robert O. Heller
Dennis Kosak
Beloit
Coon Valley
Minnesota Toll Climbs as 15 Die on Weekend Roads
Minnesota traffic toll rose to 662 in 1963 after a weekend with at least 15 fatalities. Victims included five Iowans in a three car crash near Austin and two Benson residents in a head on crash. A Minneapolis woman, 66, and a Cannon Falls boy, 7, died in separate incidents. Highway Patrol reported multiple crashes across the region including near Correll and Benson.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Minnesota Highway Patrol
Austin
Lloyd Olson
Laurine
Warren Pederson
Marcella
Osage
Iowa
Virgil Horgen
St. Ansgar
Horgen
Ray Hanse
Marshalltown
Hansen
Olson
Herbert Teien
Benson
Joe Jeen
Highway 9
Hurricanes Ginny Helena drift apart in open sea
Ginny and Helena moved from land to open sea with uncertain paths. Ginny, packing 95 mph winds, was about 500 miles west of Bermuda and drifting east. Helena weakened to a tropical storm, not expected to intensify, while damaging Guadeloupe with five deaths and 500 homeless.
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N.C
Ginny
Helena
United States Coast Line
Bermuda
North Carolina
San Juan
Plastics Maker Carl McLaughlin Dies in Kentucky
Carl B. McLaughlin 53 president of Tube Turns Plastics Inc died Sunday after a short illness in Louisville Kentucky. He was a metallurgist and sales engineer who joined the firm in 1943.
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Louisville, Ky
Carl B. McLaughlin
Tube Turns Plastics, Inc
McLaughlin
Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear appointive power suit
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a dispute over governor appointive power with opening arguments set for December 2. The case, brought by Atty. Gen. George Thompson, involves 17 appointed claimants and pits Gov. John W. Reynolds against the Republican Legislature, with Conservation Commissioner Charles F. Smith Sr. allowed to intervene as defendant.
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Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
High Court
Ihe
George Thompson
Thompson
John W. Reynolds
Charles F. Smith Sr
Wausau
Smith
Martin Hanson
Mellen
Leonard Schmitt
Merrill
Reynolds
Roy Tulane
Tulane
Moroccans Claim Troops 7 Miles From Ore Center
Morocco announces its troops are seven miles from Tindouf near the Algerian frontier as tensions rise in the Sahara. Information Minister Boutaleb says troops are there but not advancing. King Hassan II and President Ben Bella plan a Bamako meeting to seek a border settlement.
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Morocco
Tindouf
Sahara
Abdel Hadi Boutaleb
Algerian Sahara
Boutaleb
Hassan II
Ahmed Ben Bella
Bamako
Mali
Former Sen Tom Connally Dies at 86 in Washington
Former United States Senator Tom Connally of Texas died at his home in Washington from pneumonia at age 86. A longtime chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he served 24 years in the Senate and helped shape postwar diplomacy including support for the United Nations Charter. He was a World War I veteran and later promoted Roosevelts world peace vision. He is survived by his widow Louise, a son Ben, a sister, and other relatives. burial will be in Marlin, Texas.
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Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Texan
politi-Japan
Pearl Hardan
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France
Cuba
Franklin D. Roosevelt
San Francisco
Louise Clarkson
Marlin
Tex
Ben
Texas
Morris Sheppard
D-Tex
Sparks McKay
Tyler
Murder Trial Of Thompson Under Way
In Minneapolis a jury begins the murder trial of St Paul attorney T Eugene Thompson. The first juror, Sidney Becker, a retired heating supervisor, opposes capital punishment. A 129 witness list was read as proceedings opened in Judge Rolf Fosseen’s courtroom.
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Thompson
Fosseen
William Randall
Randall
Hennepin County
St. Paul
Becker
Hyam Segell
Minnesota
Alma Center Youth Dies Accidentally
Alma Center Wisconsin 18 year old Terry Ronkowski was found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning in the Vernon Duxbury yard. Foster father Duxbury found him at 8 55 a m with the ignition on and muffler exhaust pipe in need of repair. Ronkowski worked the night shift at Norplex Furnac tors in Black River Falls. The coroner ruled the death accidental saying he had likely driven home with windows up and was overcome by fumes after a cold night. The body was taken to Jensen Funeral Home in Hixon with arrangements pending.
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Wis
Terry Ronkowski
Vernon Duxbury
Duxbury
Terry
Ronkowski
Norplex Fabricators
Black River Falls
John Noble
Jackson County
Julian Larson
Erm
Robert Radcliffe
Jensen Funeral Home
Hixton
New England Sees Showers As Cold Front Advances
Light rain fell in parts of New England and northern New Jersey while Massachusetts reports 93 woodland fires. The coldest air of the season pushed south through the north, with few showers elsewhere and no easing of nationwide drought. Temperatures climbed into the 80s in eastern regions before the front brings cooler air inland.
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New England
New York State
Midwest
Massachusetts
Weather Bureau
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Ozarks
Appalachians
Ohio River
Indiana
Kentucky
Arkansas
Texas
Maryland
Plains
Oklahoma
Ohio Valley
Space officials push ahead as Khrushchev exits Moon race
Washington AP reports NASA advocates urge full speed ahead on the Moon program despite Khrushchev publicly signaling no current manned Moon flights. Critics warn the Soviet move could fuel calls to curb spending while Congress debates funding levels and goals for a 1970 target.
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U.S
Moscow
Khrushchev
James E. Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Linus Pauling
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinoisan
Plainfield Lake Dries Up Sharply Amid Wisconsin Drought
State climatologists warn rains have failed across the growing season while Plainfield Lake in Waushara County falls to four feet depth. Eight other area lakes also drop, crops underperform, woodlands lose plantings, and the Wisconsin River flow slumps by half, stressing industry dependent on hydro power.
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Milwaukee
Plainfield Lake
Waushara
Marvin W. Burley
O. J. Attee
Soil
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Michael Primissing
Conservation Department
Wautoma
Primissing
Wisconsin
Cages Fall In Mine Shaft Trapping 15
In South Africa near Carletonville a mine cage accident trapped 15 workers in one cage 5,000 feet down while 55 uninjured were 1,000 feet below. Rescuers sought contact with those in the deeper cage at Western Deep Levels Mine after a shaft overwind and four 6,000 foot wire ropes failed.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Carletonville
Western Deep Levels
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