Milwaukee World Festival gains $50,000 in state bill
The Senate committee approved a $50,000 appropriation for a Milwaukee World Festival to be run by a nonprofit. Mayor Maier cast the plan as a self supporting umbrella event to boost tourism and generate regional jobs and tax revenue. Planning officials expect a 1969 start with annual thereafter and a statewide economic impact cited at about ten million dollars.
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Madison
Senate Governmental and Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Milwaukee
Maier
Neighbors Help Wesley Wolfe Harvest Hay Crop
Neighbors gathered at the Wesley Wolfe farm with mowers rakes and wagons to harvest the hay crop. Wolfe recently injured in a tractor baler accident and was aided by many locals including Delbert Boeck Eugene Boeck and George Winters plus several Burkhalters Ingersts Tollacksons and Wolfs.
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Wolfe
Delbert
Eugene
Robert Boeck
Lloyd
Larry
Gary Burkhalter
Ralph
Eugene Ingerst
George
Wesley Winters
Merle
Gary Wayne
Keith Kemprood
Ted
Gene Tollackson
Bill Hexom
Gerald
Gerome Vogel
Dick McKnight
Glen Krupke
Ernest Thommen
Randy Wipsbrod
John Burke
Mike Bainbridge
Fred
Charlie Wolfe
Bank Robber Strikes Coral Gables Savings After Chief Leaves
A bandit robbed the Coral Gables Savings and Loan Association in Miami Florida, taking 3200 dollars after Police Chief Jack Knight of Sweetwater had just walked out. The assailant handed two tellers a briefcase and ordered them to fill it. No weapon was shown.
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Miami
Fla
Coral Gables Savings and Loan Association
Jack Knight
Sweetwater
Mullin's Flower Shop Sold to Olson in Horeb
The Mullin's Flower Shop in Madison owned by Mr and Mrs Gayhardt Theusen has been sold to Bill Olson of Horeb. Olson took possession today and will operate the shop as Olson's Flowers.
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MT. Horeb
Mullin
Madison
Gayhardt Theusen
Bill Olson
Horeb
Olson
Olson’s
Judicial notice as shortcut to justice in court
The article explains that courts may take judicial notice of obvious facts to avoid proving every detail. It cites gravity, Pearl Harbor, Missouri east of the Rockies, and common habits, while noting shifts over time and debates over when new theories become certain enough for notice. The piece frames judicial notice as common sense in law.
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Pearl Harbor
Missouri
Rockies
New England
Zip the Salisbury Post Office Dog
Zip, a collie mix, has lived near the Salisbury post office for a year. Postmen feed and walk him on routes, and he sleeps in an old mail bag. He once rode a misrouted truck to Spencer before returning to Salisbury. His name comes from Zip code. The article mentions the famous George Washington silver dollars crossing the Rappahannock.
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Salisbury
N.C
Zip
Spencer
Farmers Testify Against Owen Co. Milk Pay Scandal Trial
Four farmers testified they delivered milk to Owen Dairy Co believing operator Herbert Gripentrog Jr. would pay assignment checks from milk payments. Gripentrog’s fraud and theft trial opened in circuit court as an Agriculture Department accountant said the dairy owed farmers $288,744 when it closed in April 1964.
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Wausau
Owen Dairy Co
Herbert Gripentrog Jr
Gripentrog
State Department of Agriculture
George Gilbertson
Department
Service Record confirms Marion Berndt change of address
A38C Marion F. Berndt informs his parents of a new address after leaving Virginia. He is now at 463 T. C. W. (ROTE) Ladr. A. P. O. San Francisco California 96574. Berndt, a 1964 Monroe High School graduate, previously served in Virginia.
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California
Marion F. Berndt
Hilton Berndt
8Th Ave
Monroe
Virginia
Ladr. A. P. O
San Francisco
Calif
Berndt
Monroe High School
Eric Norland Joins A Firm in Madison
Luther College graduate Eric Norland of Belleville is employed in Madison by the General Adjustment Bureau Inc. He earned a BA in Business Administration with a psychology minor and is the son of Mr and Mrs Sidney Norland.
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Belleville
Eric Norland
Luther College
Decorah
Madison
General Adjustment Bureau, Inc
Norland
Sidney Norland
Route 2
Sandstone Fragment Sent to Smithsonian for Temple of Augustus Tests
A sandstone fragment from an ancient Egyptian temple has been turned over to the Smithsonian Institution for testing. The results aim to locate a suitable U.S. site to display the 2,000-year-old Temple of Augustus.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
United States
Augustus
Four Women Compete In Bake Off Tomorrow
Four women will compete in a dairy bread recipe bake off at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Wisconsin Power and Light Co kitchen in Mineral Point. Finalists include Joyce Ferrell Soderstrom Rowe and Adolph Abplanalp. The winner advances to a WKOW TV bake off in Madison in October.
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Mineral Point
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Wkow-Tv
Madison
Joyce Ferrell
Hilda Soderstrom
William Rowe
Dodgeville
Adolph Abplanalp
Arena
Circus Wagons Return From Milwaukee Parade
Circus World Museum director C P Fox called the festival the shortest season in history after 40 historic wagons were hauled from Baraboo to Milwaukee for the Fourth of July parade and returned with a $1 million cargo. He noted the railroad handled the wagons carefully and a record crowd of about 600000 watched the parade. Fox added the wagons likely entertained about a million people over the five days.
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C. P
Chappie) Fox
Circus World Museum
Milwaukee
Baraboo
Fox
Four FFA Members Earn Dairy Honors at State Convention
Warren Illinois Four Warren FFA members Rodger Hay Steven Harms Terry Sigalus and Danny Fran sen received Dairy Production Winners honors at the Illinois State FFA Convention The Northern Illinois Breeders Co op issued jackets to all 52 state recipients The award requires a cow yielding 400 lbs butterfat on a 305 day lactation ownership before first calving and monthly weighed milk tests by a testing body
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Warren
Ill
Rodger Hay
Steven Harms
Terry Sigalus
Danny Fransen
FFA
Northern Illinois Breeder’s Co-op
Agriculture Testing Laboratory
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