Atom Smashing Scientist Team Hunts Secrets
A Madison laboratory hosts the Midwestern Universities Research Association scientists from 15 Midwest universities backed by the Atomic Energy Commission. They test a 20 foot model of a doughnut shaped accelerator and plan colliding beams to unlock atomic mysteries, aiming for high energy breakthroughs beyond Russia and the United States.
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Josh
Earth
MURA
Midwestern Universities Research Association
Midwest
Atomic Energy Commission
University of Wisconsin
Ragnar Rollefson
Wisconsin
Russia
U. S
Brookhaven
N. Y
Stanford University
MARA
Rollefson
Madison
Flynn Seeks Action on Rail Service Cuts in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Rep. Gerald Flynn urges Sen. Smathers to back S.1331 to block immediate discontinuation of passenger rail service. He plans to testify at a Madison ICC hearing against the North Western Railroad petition to end four Chicago to Minneapolis trains via Beloit and Janesville.
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Washington
Gerald T. Flynn
Wisconsin
George Smathers
D-Fla
Surface Transportation Subcommittee
Senate
Flynn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Madison
North Western Railroad
Chicago
Minneapolis
Beloit
Janesville
Miss Barbara Marvin Wins National Foundation Scholarship
Miss Barbara L. Marvin daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles B Marvin 1460 23rd avenue has been awarded a National Foundation Health Scholarship in nursing provided through the March of Dimes She will enter the University of Wisconsin this fall for a four year course with three summer sessions The scholarship totals 500 per year for four years A 1959 Monroe High School graduate she ranked in the top ten percent and earned four years of high school scholarship A longtime band and orchestra member she also engaged in public discussions bowling club GAA and Orchesis She served as publicity chairman for Orchesis and choreographer for several dances She participated in forensic work extemporaneous speaking and chaired ticket sales for the senior class play and acted in the cast.
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Barbara L. Marvin
Charles B. Marvin
23Rd Avenue
National Foundation Health
March of Dimes
University of Wisconsin
Marvin
Monroe High School
GAA
Orchesis
Officials Seek Sidewalk Plan for Citywide Improvements
The Board of Public Works endorsed a four to five year citywide sidewalk improvement program and will ask the City Council at the Aug. 18 meeting to bid unit prices per square foot for repair and new installation. Mayor Schiller cites liability from disrepair and notes areas lacking sidewalk will be discussed next. A foreman plan for streets sewers and garbage removal was approved to streamline duties of City Street Superintendent Jack Erb. A demonstrated leaf loader was deemed impractical for local needs.
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Board of Public Works
Victor N. Schiller
Schiller
Supreme Court
Jack Erb
Erb
Margaret O'Brien Weds Harold R Allen Jr in Honolulu
Actress Margaret O'Brien and Harold Robert Allen Jr. married in a double ring ceremony at St. Martin of Tours Church. They announced their Honolulu honeymoon on Tuesday after marrying last Saturday.
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Hollywood
Margaret O’brien
Harold Robert Allen Jr
Honolulu
St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church
Uprising reports surge as Castro tightens media blackout
In Havana authorities deny casualty numbers while unconfirmed reports say 200 or more arrests target anti Castro plots. Across the Isle of Pines rebel incursions fail and clashes at Cienfuegos claim several counter revolutionaries. Raul Castro disputes invasion claims as shooting erupts near Castro’s Havana villa.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Castro
Managua
Libertad
Fulgencio Batista
Dominican Republic
Camaguey
Cienfuegos
Raul Castro
Fidel
Frank Sykes Dies at 94 Former Monroe Fire Dept Member
Frank Sykes 94 oldest living Monroe fire department member died at 7 30 p m Saturday at St Clare hospital after a brief surgery he had been a surgical patient since Monday He lived at 1009 14th Avenue born October 17 1864 in Monroe He worked 73 years as a millwright for the Dodges and Green County Lumber and Fuel Co He never married He is survived by a sister Mrs Louis Ehrhard and a niece Mrs Harold Hugunin Cremation will follow services at 1 30 p m tomorrow at Shriner Neushwander funeral home officiated by Rev Jesse Dom of the Universalist church.
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Frank Sykes
Monroe Fire Department
St. Clare Hospital
Sykes
Fire Department
White Haven
Old Argyle Road
Monroe
Menomonie
14Th Avenue
William and
Lucena Churchill Sykes
Dodges
Green County Lumber and Fuel Co
Universalist Church
George Q. Lancaster
Louis Ehrhard
Harold Hugunin
Cedarburg
Shriner - Neushwander
Jesse Dom
The
Stock Prices Slide In Sharpest Setback
New York traders faced a severe market retreat as heavy selling pushed the Dow and leading issues down. Losses ranged from a few cents to five dollars, with some stocks dipping as much as ten dollars amid broad declines in electronics, steels, chemicals, motors and rubber sectors.
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New York
Bomb threat delays Pan American flights at Shannon
Three Pan American World Airways planes were delayed for hours at Shannon Ireland after a caller warned of a bomb on board. Baggage was checked and no device found. two planes were bound for New York city.
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Shannon
Ireland
Pan American World Airways
New York
Faubus Silent On New Action
Gov. Orval Faubus shows no move to call a quick special session on school integration plans amid court actions. He hints at possible industrial financing focus within six months while desegregation plans in Little Rock proceed with limited details. A buyers strike against downtown merchants is set by the Capital Citizens Council, while NAACP attorneys seek to restrain the pupil placement law used to limit integration.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orvald. Faubus
Faubus
Horace Mann High
Capital Citizens Council
Amis Guthridge
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S. District Court
Ridulph Death Story Considered by Officials
Milwaukee authorities may test a vagrant who claims to know Maria Ridulph's killer. Robert Hardin of Elgin appeared in court on a disorderly conduct charge after saying he killed the girl and later altered his tale to implicate the real killer. Officials call him an unreliable witness. Ridulph disappeared December 3, 1957, and her body was found April 26, 1958, northwest of Sycamore.
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Milwaukee
Maria Ridulph
Sycamore
Ill
Robert Hardin
Elgin
Hardin
Vandalia
Ridulph
Laird Says Duplications Waste Defense Funds
Rep Melvin Laird charges the Defense Department duplicating programs wasting billions. He cites Bomarc and Nike Hercules costs and says interdepartmental rivalry yields conflicting advice from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The appropriations panel approved a 1.2 billion military construction bill for action.
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Washington
Defense Department
Melvin R. Laird
Wis
Laird
House Appropriations Committee
House
Secretary of Defense
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nelson To Stay Neutral in Race
Gov Nelson said he would not participate in any Wisconsin Democratic presidential contest in April. He urged no contest in the state, saying it would not settle anything. He returned from San Juan after governors met briefly on candidates and issues. He also condemned cutting off federal road funds and urged Congress to find money, via general funds or higher gasoline taxes, though he offered no recommendation.
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Madison
Nelson
Wisconsin
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Congress
Eisenhower shifts Europe trip to Bonn and London
President Eisenhower will begin a revised European tour with Bonn as his first stop on August 27 followed by London for a five day stay. He plans talks with Chancellor Adenauer and Prime Minister Macmillan, a potential Balmoral visit, and a Paris stop for meetings with de Gaulle Segni and NATO leaders. A Soviet visit remains unspecified with open scheduling through January.
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Eisenhower
Adenauer
London
Paris
White House
Hagerty
U.S
Harold Macmillan
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
Queen Elizabeth II
Charles de Gaulle
Antonio Segni
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Khrushchev
Washington
Soviet Union
Stalingrad
Kuibyshev
Two Firemen Die in California Blaze Near Lake Elsinore
In Riverside California two firemen died and 26 others were injured while battling a wall of flames above the Lake Elsinore resort area. Twenty eight firefighters were trapped Saturday as flames swept through tall brush on the slopes.
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Riverside
Calif
Lake Elsinore
Elsinore
95th victim dies in Our Lady of the Angels fire
The 95th victim of the December 1 Our Lady of the Angels school fire has died. William Eddington Jr., 14, died Sunday at St. Anne's hospital.
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Chicago
Our Lady of the Angles Parochial School
William Eddington Jr
St. Anne’s Hospital
First Aid CD Training Starts Thursday At Eugene Hotel
Walter Drews Monroe CD director announced the first Civil Defense training for volunteers begins Thursday night at 7 45 in the Blue room of the Eugene hotel. The 12 hour first aid course will be led by Richard Kundert with later police auxiliary training under Police Chief Henry S Hefty and Sheriff A Charles Howe.
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Walter Drews
Monroe CD
Civil Defense
Eugene
Richard Kundert
The
Red Cross
Henry S. Hefty
A. Charles Howe
Drews
Civil Defense Office
Kilbourn Station Marks Fifty Years Of Supplying Power
Wisconsin Power and Light celebrated the Kilbourn plant's 50th anniversary noting its 1909 start in supplying power to the interurban line between Water Town and Milwaukee. Attendees included Henry Hunt of Mead and Hunt and Kilbourn origins linked to Magnus Swenson. The Kilbourn plant helped central Wisconsin utilities before uniting into Wisconsin Power and Light in 1924.
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Kilbourn
Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Wisconsin River
Kilbourn Plant
Henry Hunt
Mead and Hunt, Inc
Madison
Hunt
Mead and Seastone
Kilbourn Station
Magnus Swenson
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co
Watertown
Milwaukee
Nate Wetzel
Kilbourn City
Wetzels
Sixth Sets of Twins Born at St. Clare Hospital
The sixth set of twins for the year arrived Saturday night to Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Busjah n of Orangeville. Twin sons Allen Frederick and Arlen Elmer were born at 8 37 and 8 42 p.m. The Busjahns also have a 14 month old daughter Sandra Rae. Grandparents are William Kienzle of Galena and Elmer Busjahn of Orangeville. Great grandmother Hannah Busjahn of Lena. Other twins born this year include Ula of Blanchardville, Winger of Argyle, Steiner of Argyle, Shaw of Beloit and Ruef of Route 4.
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St. Clare Hospital
Darrell Busjahn
Orangeville
Allen Frederick
Arlen Elmer
Busjahns
Sandra Rae
Busjahn
Lorraine Kienzle
William Kienzle
Galena
Elmer Busjahn
Hannah Busjahn
Lena
Hospital
Norris Ula
Blanchardville
Lawrence Winger
Argyle
Philip L. Steiner
Willard Shaw
Beloit
Arthur C. Ruef
Route 4
Plans for 92 unit motel and 55 million housing project
R G Bledsoe of Scope Associates Evanston announces a 92 unit motel at Union Grove and the start of a 55 million dollar housing development near Highway 11 west of here.
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Union Grove
Highway 11
Here
R. G. Bledsoe
Scope Associates of
Evanston
Hoover at 85 warns Khrushchev could gift peace but unlikely
Former president Herbert Hoover, aged 85, says Khrushchev could bring peace to the United States, but doubts a peaceful outcome. He warns against complacency, urges readiness, and cites the Soviet drive to dominate the world. Hoover stresses the need to train more scientists and engineers and to reform U S high schools for discipline and effective training.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Hoover
Khrushchev
John Adams
Adams
Russia
Traffic Mishaps Fatal to Three in Wisconsin Weekend
Three people died in Wisconsin auto accidents over the weekend. William Miller, 21, of Tomah, died in a Madison hospital after a crash on U.S. Highway 12. Randolph Doberstein, 58, of Medford, was killed when his truck left the road and struck a tree on Taylor County Highway A. Glenn Kirchner, 20, of Mindoro, died in a collision near Mazomanie involving a car and a truck.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
William Miller
Tomah
Madison Hospital
U.S. Highway 12
Randolph Doberstein
Route 3
Medford
Taylor County
Glenn Kirchner
Mindoro
Mazomanie
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