Disaster Probe Turns to Beam in La Guardia Crash
New York investigators focus on two surviving crew members to explain why American Airlines Flight 320 crashed near La Guardia killing 65 of 73 aboard. Questions center on radio altitude beams, altimeter instruments, and whether the co pilot or flight engineer can report what happened before their injuries.
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New York
la Guardia
American Airlines
Chicago
Frank S. Hlavacek
Wilmette
Warren E. Cook
Aurora
American
Albert H. de Witt
Decatur
Mich
de Witt
Joseph O. Fluet
Civil Aeronautics Board
Navy says no verified Soviet submarine sightings near U S coasts
Washington The Navy released a carefully worded statement saying no verified sightings of Soviet submarines within about 400 miles of American shores and no indications of extensive Soviet submarine activity.
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Washington
American
Wage Increases Approved for Green County Hospital Staff
County hospital employees at Green County Hospital receive wage raises ranging from 15 to 30 dollars a month based on service length. The boosts were approved by hospital trustees with the County Board salary committee, after the board declined to review salaries last month. Trustees have annually adjusted wages for rising living costs, noting no board action in ten years.
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Green County Hospital
Francis
Victor N. Schiller
Madison Police Chief Weatherly Charged With Drunken State
Three witnesses testified before a city council committee that Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly appeared intoxicated the night his squad car collided with a gasoline transport truck. Weatherly, healing from a brain concussion and a fractured shoulder, did not attend the hearing.
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Madison
Bruce Weatherly
Weatherly
Donald Millard
Donna Leverentz
Charles Hoffman
Millard
Leverentz
Jack Flanagan
Eisenhower urges seven point civil rights package
President Eisenhower asked Congress to criminalize violence or threats aimed at obstructing court orders in school desegregation cases. The plan includes FBI investigative power, records inspection authority, temporary aid to state and local agencies, military family schooling support, and a two year Civil Rights Commission extension, with no new federal intervention authority.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
FBI
Civil Rights Commission
Secretary backs tax stance on balanced budget
Secretary of the Treasury Anderson stated the American people can bear higher taxes if needed but need not face them if President Eisenhower keeps the 77 billion dollar budget balanced.
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Backsire
Washington
the Treasury
Anderson
Eisenhower
Heart Fund Campaign Opens in Monroe 1959 Goal Set
Monroe marks the start of the 1959 Heart Fund drive with a local goal of 2540. Miss Eileen Pagel heads the effort and door to door solicitation begins February 22. The business division under Miss Grace School will contact local firms February 9 to 16.
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Heart Fund
Monroe
Heart
Eileen Pagel
Grace School
Tion
Green County
Wisconsin Heart Association
U.S. cites Soviet air attack on unarmed transport
The United States presented a graphic tape of radio exchanges as proof that Soviet jets shot down a U S transport last September, killing six to seventeen Americans aboard. The C130 disappeared on a Turkey Armenia border flight and reentered U S notes with names and roles of the released East German prisoners amid ongoing Cold War tensions.
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Associated Press
United States Today
Russia
U.S
Washington
State Department
Soviet Union
U. S
Turkey-Armenia
Armenia
Richard M. Nixon
Dulles
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Department
Robert Murphy
Mikhail Menshikov
Menshikov
Murphy
Mackin
East Germany
Madison
Wis
Elwyn Bell
Hill City
Kan
Kenneth &. Carlson
San _ Leandro
Calif
James W. Hayes
Balimore
Melvin Hampton
Texas
Berlin
American Red Cross
East German Red Cross
U.S. State Department
Mariengern
Macmillan Plans Moscow Visit As West Reconsiders Berlin
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan accepts a Moscow visit beginning February 21 accompanied by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. The trip follows Dulles talks in London with Macmillan and other leaders on West Berlin, German reunification, and a potential Big Four meeting with the Soviets before May 27. Informants say the aim is to gauge Soviet attitudes on East West questions and Germany’s future.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Soviet Union
Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
Dulles
Paris
West Berlin
Lloyd
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Moscow
East
West
Berlin
Khrushchev Repeats Pledge On West Berlin Settlement Plan
Soviet Premier Khrushchev urged an end to the cold war offering Western access guarantees to West Berlin if his plan to place the city under United Nations responsibility is accepted. He spoke at the 21st Congress, inviting Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union and stressing his readiness to guarantee Berlin corridors and supply.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
United Nations
Dulles
Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
United States
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Krushchhev
East Germany
Cold Wave Keeps Wisconsin In Snow and Cold
The weatherman warned of continued cold and possible snow as Monroe saw clouds and subzero temperatures. Overnight and into tomorrow the state faces cold or snowing conditions with reports of over two inches of new snow statewide and some areas exceeding four inches on the ground.
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Wisconsin
Monroe
Recording Reveals Joyful Chant Of Attacking Russians
Washington transcribes a tape describing Soviet fliers attacking an unarmed U S transport shot down with possible loss of 17 airmen. The dialogue includes orders to attack, targets described as four engined transports and segments show the plane burning and going down.
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Washington
U. S
Electronics Firm Organized in City
FES reports Articles of Incorporation filed for White Electronics Inc with Grace M. Thorpe as register of deeds. Incorporators include Stan White and Joseph D. Viney with Merlin J Meythaler as initial agent. Board notes patents issued in December on high fidelity gear. production steps include cabinets in Chicago and speakers at Oaktron. 1250 no par value shares.
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White Electronics, Inc
Grace M. Thorpe
Stan White
River Grove
Chicago
Oaktron
Joseph D. Viney
Merlin J Meythaler
Meythaler
Corportion
Broge Escapes Injury In Snowy Highway Crash
Gerald L. Broge of Route 1 Albany escaped injury when his car rolled over on Highway 59 two miles east of Monroe at about 11 p m yesterday. He said he went off the road while trying to avoid an oncoming car. Moderate roof damage but the car was driven away after a wrecker pulled it from deep snow.
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Gerald L. Broge
Albany
Highway 59
Monroe
Broge
Sheriff's
Cuba says Nye confesses plot against Fidel Castro
Havana police say Alan Robert Nye 31 confessed he came to Cuba in December to kill Rebel Leader Fidel Castro. Nye reportedly claimed he was offered 100000 dollars by Brig Gen Carlos Tabernilla chief of the Batista Air Force. He was arrested in Oriente province on December 26.
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Havana
U. S. Navy
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Alan Robert Nye
Batista Air Force
Carlos Tabernilla
Nye
Whiting
Ind
Coral Gables
Fla
Oriente Province
Castro
Batista
Dominican Republic
Tabernilla
United States
Ike Has Rough Trip Fog Landing Trouble On Flight to Georgia
President Eisenhower endured bad weather and dense fog on a flight from Washington to Georgia. An instrument landing at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta followed a aborted landing at Spence AFB in Moultrie, as fog lifted after about 30 minutes.
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Ike
Georgia
Thomasville
Eisenhower
Washington
George M. Humphrey
Spence Air Force Base
Moultrie
Humphrey Place
Moody
Weather Plane Missing With 12 Crew Near Bermuda
A United States Superfortress weather plane with a crew of 12 is missing and presumed down after fuel ran out before 3 a.m. The search focuses 300 miles northwest of Bermuda following a Japanese freighter sighting a burning craft earlier that morning. The four engine B50 would have been in the area at the time, though the freighter reported a single engine plane.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
U. S
Atlantic
Nixon Breaks Ribs In Sidewalk Tumble
Vice President Richard M. Nixon is nursing two broken ribs after slipping on a sleet covered sidewalk in front of his home. He said the injury hurts but he joked about it at a reception noting his daughters Patricia and Julie offered him thoughtful care.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Patricia
Julie
Monroe County March of Dimes Reaches Toward Five Thousand
W A Bender chairing the county campaign reports Monroe contributions nearing 5000 dollars with 4883.90 already received and pledges to push past 4900. Teen aid and the Airlift first time efforts by the Green County Pilots raise totals including a 556.34 gross from Airlift rides for a Wisconsin band event and other activities adding funds to the overall drive surpassing 1958 levels.
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Monroe High School
Karen Anderson
Bonnie Kubly
Joan Swiggum
University of Wisconsin
Kubly
Swiggum
Monroe
Teenage Times
W. A. Bender
Times
County March of Dimes
Bender
Green County Pilots Association
Ruth Benkert
Guineth Gonstead
Linda Goecks
Sally Ruf
Susie Simpson
Tom S. Howe
LeRoy Bidlingmaier
Madisonan Lloyd Johnson Ties for 16th in Skeleton at St Moritz
Lloyd Johnson of Madison Wisconsin stands tied for 16th place at the halfway point in the world one-man skeleton bobsled championships in St Moritz Switzerland.
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Madison
ST. Moritz
Switzerland
Lloyd Johnson
Wis
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Cheesemen
Platteville
la Crosse
Richard Mackin
West Germany
Herleshausen
Kremlin
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