MacArthur Memoir Interviews Spark Cold War Fallout
Two 1954 interviews with Douglas MacArthur, published after his death, revived disputes over Korea and his career. Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney condemned the Lucas interview as fictional, while British and American officials dismissed treachery charges and premised strategies allegedly outlined by MacArthur. The material recounts plans including Nationalist Chinese forces, atomic strikes, and cobalt radiation belts, per Considine and others.
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Washington
Douglas ‘MacArthur
Bob Considine
Hearst Headline Service
James G. Lucas
Scripps-Howard
MacArthur
Courtney Whitney
Lucas
Whitney
Korea
Burgess
MacLean
MacArthur Burial Arrangements Move Through Capitol
General Douglas MacArthur lay in state in the Capitol rotunda as official tributes continued. President Johnson planned to attend ceremonies at Washington National Airport and the flag-draped casket prepared for its air journey to Norfolk for Saturday burial.
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Mungton
Capitol
Douglas MacArthur
Johnson
Washington National Airport
Norfolk
NFO Conducts New Picketing at Oscar Mayer Plant
The National Farmers Organization staged a Wednesday picket at the Oscar Mayer and Comeat processing plant with about 150 demonstrators outside the livestock gates. MAUIDUN and Junce towed three trucks and four escaped hogs were rounded up as police kept order with 30 officers. Owners declined to move trucks citing price discussions. last winter the NFO held similar protests and various talks followed earlier actions.
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Mauidun and Junce
Oscar Mayer and Comeat
National Farmers Organization
Charles Arno
Rural Whitewater
Rock County Nfc Unit
NFO
Mayer
Reinhard Mueller Dies at 64 in St. Clare Hospital
Reinhard Mueller 64 a longtime cheese maker and supplier in Monroe died at 6 35 this morning after a cerebral hemorrhage at St Clare hospital He was born in Switzerland Aug 12 1899 and came to America in 1919 He owned R Mueller Cheese Factory Equipment and held two US residences He is survived by wife two daughters a son six grandchildren and a twin brother Funeral services set for 2 30 p m Monday at St Johns Church with burial Greenwood Cemetery
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Reinhard Mueller
St. Clare Hospital
Mr. Mueller
Keummer - Tschausen
Canton Thurgau
Switzerland
Reinhard
Emilie Schoenholzer Mueller
America
Richard
Norma) Sandstedt
Santa Ana
Calif
Emilie
Madison
Paul R
Monroe
Max
Karl
Walter
St. John’s Church
Paul H. Olm
Greenwood Cemetery
Stues‘sy
State's Auto Toll Now 76 Above '63
By the Associated Press mother and son were killed in a two car collision in Adams County. The deaths raised Wisconsin highway toll to 241 for 1964 compared with 165 a year ago. Bessie J York 28 and her son Edward 5 of rural Monroe Center Adams County were killed on a county road in front of their home. William Fischer 17 of Milwaukee died when his car crashed while being chased by police in Hartland. The sheriff said the car was stolen and a roadblock failed to stop it.
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Associated Press
Adams County
Wisconsin
Bessie J. York
Edward
Monroe Center
William Fischer
Donald Deihmn
Milwaukee
Hartland
Fischer
Council Adopts Airport Weights Ordinances Here
The Monroe City Council approved two major ordinances on airport policy and updated weights and measures, suspended second readings, and granted a liquor license for Dale Alexander’s Sportsman Bar while transferring another license to the Recreation Club. A Goetz Theaters license request was referred to committee. The Hargrave Tree Service contract for elm spraying was set at 5100 with a health-area exclusion. one no vote from Evans Cham bers and Burgy Jr. Other actions include poppy day approval, parking stall permission for Montgomery Ward, and notices on pawnbroker licensing.
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Monroe
Dale Alexander
Sportsman’s Bar
William
Pat) Lunda
Cheese Capital
Monroe Eagles
West Side of the Square
Recreation Club
Goetz Theaters
Hargrave Tree Service
Barrington
Ill
Evan C. Chambers
T. J Burgy Jr
Board of Public Works
William J. Schmitz
Ben Kubly
Kubly
Orville R. Evans
Walter R. Ekum
Jerry Coplien
7Th Ward
Herman Stuessy
Kiwanis
American Legion Auxiliary
Montgomery Ward
Nat G. Preston
Monroe CD
Baraboo
Walter Laeser
24Th Street
0. N. Johnson
Treasury
Twining Park
Park Board
Kahne Lumber Co
Olson Electric Co
Market steadies as rails strike looms
New York stocks held an even keel this afternoon despite talk of a nationwide railway strike. Trading remained fairly active with leading steels and motors edging higher as airlines resumed their rally.
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New York
Richland Fefes Mrs Amstutz Receives Outstanding Teachers Award
Mrs. William Ruth Amstutz of 1753 Byers Court was named the second annual Outstanding Teachers Award recipient presented by the Richland Creek Watershed at a Ball School ceremony. She teaches first through sixth grades at Roosevelt and has four years in the district.
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Donald Deininger
Richland Creek
William Amstutz
Ball School
Rudolph T. Haskee
Times
Lee Fernstaedt
William
Ruth) Amstutz
Byers Court
Amstutz
Roosevelt School
Watershed
Thomas Raush
Green County
James Schwoegler
Soil Conservation Roice
Myron E. Jeglum
Willis Riemer
Monroe High School Folk Singers
Folk Arts
Christine Meiers
Rausch
Vital Forest
Cheese Supplies Ample in Madison Market
Madison cheese market shows ample supplies across styles with steady demand. Cheddars priced around 3 54 to 3 7 per 40 pound blocks while aged varieties and specialty cuts offer limited availability and varied quotes.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Canvass Restores Votes for Walter Ekum in City Election
The canvassing committee of the City Council found an error in the 7th Ward tally that omitted 100 votes from Walter Kk Ekum. After verification Ekum is recorded with 2,008 votes to Schiller 1,116, a margin of 892. The committee will meet today to finalize the official count.
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Walter Kk
Ekum
Freda Bray
7Th Ward
Lester M. Johnson
Olin E. Flisram
O. N. Johnson
Schiller
Bomb threat delays New York Times building evacuation
A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the New York Times building for an hour on Wednesday night and delayed the second edition by about 40 minutes, a Times spokesman said.
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New York
New York Times
Times
Unions and Railroads Resume Talks With Secretary
Secretary of Labor Wirtz pressed emergency talks to avert a nationwide rail strike at the 12 01 a m Friday deadline. Night sessions ran past 3 a m with unions and railroad negotiators returning at 10 a m as President Johnson voiced grave concern over economic damage. The dispute centers on wage structure job classifications train lengths and other working conditions affecting about 200 000 workers across nearly 200 railroads.
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Washington
Wirtz
H. E. Gilbert
Afl-Cio
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Johnson
J. E. Wolfe
Illinois Central
Rail Freight Embargo Across U.S. Railroads
The Association of American Railroads announced a nationwide embargo on all freight effective at 12:10 a.m. Friday in response to an impending national rail strike. Railroads will not load transport or interchange freight or reconsign it. Existing en route trains will be moved where possible and passenger trains may be canceled if they cannot reach destinations by 12:01 a.m. strike time.
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Washlygton
U.S
Association of American Railroads
Heidi Drama to Highlight New Glarus Folk Festival
New Glarus plans a Heidi stage drama with a 90 minute four act production and scenery from Lake Zurich to the Bernese Alps. Heidi Folk Festival Inc. is filed with Helen Bratzke, with Millard Tschudy as agent and directors including Ann Disch and Kenneth Hoesly. First indoor performance expected in 1955 as part of an early tourist season attraction.
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Duae
Heidi Folk Festival Group
Lucille Miller
Children’s Theatre Press
Anchorage
Tschudy
Miller
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Lake Zurich
Bernese Alps
New Glarus
Monroe Waffle Shop to Get Swiss Frontage
Monroe Construction Co. begins a new Swiss style exterior for the Waffle Shop led by Vernon Schillinger. A redwood balcony and picture window with green shutters and geraniums will frame the front, while a Waffle Shop coat of arms and Swiss flags decorate the sign and window above the living room residence designed for Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Reasa.
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Switzerland
Vernon Schillinger
Monroe Construction Co
Waffle Shop
Robert G. Rote
Clifford Reasa
Edith Stauffer 68 Dies in Freeport
Edith Stauffer 68 died at 12 45 a m today in the Benjamin Stephens nursing home Freeport after a stay since Jan 1. She was born November 17 1895 in Wiota Township Lafayette County and worked for Western Union in Milwaukee. Surviving are brother John South Wayne and sisters Mrs Walter Brugger Browntown and Mrs Leo Manske Milwaukee. Services 1 30 p m Saturday Stuessy funeral home with Rev James C Plymire and burial Greenwood cemetery. Friends may call after noon tomorrow.
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Suis Muir Staufer
Walter
Fred. Stauffer
Monroe
Benjamin Stephenson
Freeport
Miss Stauffer
Wiota Township
Lafayette County
John and
Anna Amelia Schwartz Stauffer
Wiota
Monroe Business Institute
Western Union
Milwaukee
Stuessy Funeral Home
James C. Plymire
Grace Lutheran Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Wheat and Stamp Plans Adopted by Embroiled House
In a marathon session the House approved the food stamp program 229 to 189 and the wheat cotton subsidy bill 211 to 203. The food stamp plan expands a pilot to a permanent program aiding needy families with redeemable stamps.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Senate
Food stamp bill passes House with mixed party vote
Members from Wisconsin join four Democrats in backing the food stamp bill while Republicans Byrnes Laird Schadeberg Thomson and Van Pelt oppose. Alvin O'Konski and others voted with the minority. Johnson Kastenmeier Reuss and Zablocki supported the plan.
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Waomlmlmn
Alvin O’konski
Wisconsin
House
Johnson
Kastenmeier
Reuss
Zablocki
Byrnes, Laird
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Earl Attlee
Britain
China
Russia
Considine
Manchuria
Atte
Ian Considine
No. 1
Gen. MacArthur
Council
Richland Fefes
Nation
Edith Stauffer
Schadeberg, Thomson
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