Nelson Eyes GOP Adopting His Tax Setup
Gov Nelson floated the possibility that the Republican led Legislature might revisit his tax plan if their bill fails. He criticized Assembly GOP members for acting hastily as they killed his tax program and called for serious consideration of his proposals in the Senate.
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Madison
Nelson
Senate
State Assembly
GOP Assembly
Wisconsin
Building Commission
Robert Travis
Platteville
Green County
Department of Administration
Rothermel
Lam
Travis
Eisenhower Brothers Visit Peninsula Lodge in Michigan
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower began a few weeks of fishing and a reunion with his three brothers at a northern Upper Peninsula lodge. He flew into Land O Lakes Wisconsin with Milton Eisenhower and a crowd of about 109 cheering as he arrived.
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Watersmeet
Mich
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Upper Peninsula
Land O'Lakes
Wis
Gen. Eisenhower
Milton Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Milton
Edgar
Tacoma
Wash
Earl
la Grange
Ill
Franklin Pioneer Broadcaster Dies at 55
Franklin, a pioneer radio broadcaster, died of cancer at his home at age 55. He began with WFBR Baltimore and later worked for WLS Chicago KTOP Topeka WKOW Madison and for the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Muscoda
Allen Franklin
Franklin
WFBR
Baltimore
WLS
Chicago
KTOP
Topeka
Kan
Wkow-Tv
Madison
Columbia Broadcasting System
Ferris Wheel Collapse Kills Seven in Monterrey
A ferris wheel at a Monterrey amusement park collapsed Sunday night, killing seven people including six children and one adult and injuring 27 others among the crowd of hundreds.
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Monnterrey
Mexico
Berlin Crisis Notes Heighten Western Ambitions in 1961
The United States, France, and Britain confirm receipt of notes on Berlin while Khrushchev warns of a separate East German treaty. West Berlin influx rises as Mayor Brandt seeks bipartisan talks with Adenauer amid tense refugee flows and looming elections.
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Associated Press
United States
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Berlin
U.S
Moscow
Vienna
West Berlin
Ken
Nedy
Soviet Union
East Germany
Fort Wins Title By Slim Margin At Wisconsin Relays
Fort finished first with 116 points edging Monroe by six at the Seventh Southern Wisconsin Relays held at Recreation Park pool before 800 spectators. Janesville 101, Nic olet 94, Greenfield 81, Greendale 24. Greenfield quartet Bill Todd Gary Ringe Terry Ringe Rich Purvis swam 3 49.7 to highlight the meet.
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Monroe
Ft. Atkinson
Greenfield
Janesville
Bill Todd
Gary Ringe
Terry Ringe
Rich Purvis
Jim Myers
Greg Wagner
John Etter
Sue Kubly
Karen Jacobs
Karen Loveland
Karen Woolever
Kubly
Jacobs
Loveland
Donna Swiggum
Christina Peterson
Mary Ellen Lovelace
Susan Mathias
Mathias
Swiggum
Launa Springer
Janet Richardson
John Gerhart
Chuck Remus
Kurt Share
Mike Connors
Terry Stauffacher
Dan Pickett
Pete von Allman
Jim Mauerman
Dave Stauffacher
Donna Holcomb
Ann Wells
Sheryl Smith
Elizabeth Peterson
DAV Elects Hanna As Convention Ends
MADISON The Wisconsin chapter of Disabled American Veterans ended its convention with election of Al Hanna of Madison as commander. Carlson J. Knokke of Sheboygan was chosen senior vice commander and John Hansen of Milwaukee junior vice commander. Mrs. William Teletzke of Milwaukee was chosen auxiliary commander with Mrs. Bessie Barter of Racine as senior vice commander and Shirley Barter of Oshkosh as junior vice commander.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Disabled American Veterans
al Hanna
Carlson J. Knokke
Sheboygan
John Hansen
Milwaukee
William Teletzke
Bessie Barter
Racine
Shirley Barter
Oshkosh
County Green After Frequent Rains Boosts Crops and Gardens
Green County benefited from daily thundershowers over the weekend, with Monroe recording 2.20 inches in five days. A hail event occurred Saturday evening with a two inch stone, but crop damage was limited. Central and northern areas remain drier with only small rainfall.
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Green County
Monroe
Wisconsin
State Drownings Claim Four Lives
Four people drowned in Wisconsin over the weekend. Mathias Meyers, 38, of North St. Paul Minnesota, drowned on the Wisconsin side of the St Croix River six miles north of Stillwater Sunday after falling from a motor boat. Steven Schaller, 7, of the south shore of Lake Delavan, drowned Sunday. searchers including about 40 officers and volunteers looked for him after his parents reported him missing. Michael Rausch, 1, drowned Saturday in a basement pool at Greenville near Appleton. Michael Marini, 18, drowned Saturday when a horse bolted into the Black River near his North Bend Jackson County farm.
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Mathias Meyers
St. Paul
Minn
Wisconsin
St. Croix River
Stillwater
Steven Schaller
Lake Delavan
Michael Rausch
Greenville
Appleton
Michael Marini
Black River
North Bend
Jackson County
Benjamin R. Behm
Rat River
Winnebago County
Winchester
Behm
Don Sunderlage
West Dundee
Ill
Mary
Walworth County
Lake Geneva
Sunderlage
Illinois
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Elgin
Gary Grams
Reedsville
Highway 32
Wallace Zastrow
Algoma
Green Bay
James Swift
Edinburg
Ind
Sparta
Theodore Martin
Hatley
Highway 29
Marathon County
John M. (Pop) Rogers Dies at 87 in Milwaukee
John M. Rogers a.k.a. Pop Rogers 87 formerly of Monroe and a 60 year Mason, died in a Milwaukee nursing home after a stroke. He was a postal employee and Spanish American War veteran, lived with the Ransdells since 1956, born December 20 1873 in Lebaston Indiana, survived by daughter Mrs Ransdell two sons Jack and Morris five great grandchildren and three grandchildren, with services set at Ritter funeral home Milwaukee and Masonic burial in Lebanon Indiana.
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John M
Pop) Rogers
Thomas F. Ransdell
Milwaukee
Masonic
Eastern Star
Mr. Rogers
Monroe
Ransdells
Lebaston
Ind
Crawfordsville, Ltd
Masonic Order
Indiana
Smith Lodge
St. Omar
Rogers
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Ransdell
Jack M. Rogers
San Mateo
Calif
Morris E
Chicago
Ritter Funeral Home
West North Avenue
Hilwaukee
Paul Kehle
Freeman slams Cadillac farmer as political stunt
Secretary Freeman called William T. Smith of Big Flats New York a partisan stunt who rode a Cadillac to attack farm subsidies. Smith says government payments for not planting 104 acres funded the car and he plans to pay it off with fall grain money. Freeman notes most farmers lack Smith's wealth and questions why programs aid the few who need them least.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Cadillac
William T. Smith
Big Flats
N.Y
Smith
New York Times
Ers
Space Capsule Pilot Grissom Named For 2nd U.S. Mission
Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom, 29, selected as pilot of America's second manned space capsule. A crack test pilot with 3400 flying hours, he flew 100 missions in Korea earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Grissom, born April 3, 1926, in Mitchell Indiana, married with two sons, studied at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
George Gobel
America
Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom
Indiana
Korea
Grissom
Mitchell
Ind
Dennis D. Grissom
Air Force
Purdue University
Betty
Scott
Mark
The
United Church of Christ
Girl Bandit Nabbed After Cab Holdups in Madison
An 18-year-old girl described as the red hooded bandit tied to two cab holdups and a department store burglary in Madison. She was seized by a taxi driver, admitted stealing $12 from a rider, and implicated a 17-year-old boyfriend in the prior store burglary.
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Miami Beach
Marlene Schmidt
Stuttgart
Marlene
Bresslau
Iron Curtain
West Germany
Madison
Ray H. Jacobs
Rudy Eins
George Schiro
Variety to Highlight Monroe City Band Concert Tonight
Variety will keynote a Monroe City Band summer concert at Lincoln Park tonight at 8 PM. Guest vocalist Mrs Fay Doyle will sing, Karen Buholzer will play clarinet solos, Janet Barry will perform a twirling exhibition, and Richard Vordermann will play accordion solos.
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Monroe City Band
Lincoln Park
Fay
Nellie) Doyle
Karen Buholzer
Janet Barry
Richard Vordermann
Cheddar Market Steady at Madison Wisconsin Dairy
Cheddar cheese holds steady in Madison with demand fair to good. Supplies ample for large and small styles. Prices range from 36.10 to 38 dollars per hundredweight for various formats including 40-pound blocks and single daisies.
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Cheddar Mart
Madison
Wisconsin
Nine Die In State Traffic Toll Rises Again
A weekend of Wisconsin highway crashes claimed nine more lives including former University of Illinois basketball star Don Sunderlage and his wife Mary. The toll for 1961 reached 441 with additional fatalities reported today across multiple counties.
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Associated Press
University of Illinois
Wisconsin
Melvin G. Hopp
Stevens Point
Waupaca Memorial Hospital
Waupaca
Herbert Zittlow
Pulaski
Green Bay Hospital
Oneida
Outagamie
Six Holidayers Die In Blackpool Rail Crash
Six people were killed and 125 injured when a train carrying holidaymakers to the seashore struck a freight standing outside Blackpool. The wreck crushed the diesel engine cab and hurled two forward coaches into a adjoining field.
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Blackpool
England
Goldwater rejects 1964 ticket tie with Rockefeller
Senate leader Goldwater says he bears no personal ill will toward Nelson Rockefeller yet would not join a GOP ticket with him in 1964. He calls Rockefeller a nice fellow but questions a Chicago national ticket pairing over differing views on federal education aid. Rockefeller advisers weigh him taking a louder national stance if he seeks the presidency.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Chicago
Los Angeles
Cobb Dies Immortal Georgia Peach of Baseball
Ty Cobb, the legendary Georgia Peach and longtime Detroit Tiger, died at Emory University Hospital at age 74 after years of illness including diabetes bursitis and a back injury from a hunting accident. Born December 18 1886 near Royston Georgia Cobb began in Augusta before a 24 year major league career 22 with Detroit and six as Tigers manager ending in 1928 with Philadelphia.
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Atlanta
Ty Cobb
Georgia Peach
Detroit Tiger
Emory University Hospital
Idaho
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Royston
Georgia
Cobb
Augusta
Detroit
Tigers
Philadelphia Athletics
St Tropez Museum Loot: 57 Masterpieces Missing
Thieves stole 57 impressionist paintings valued near 2 million dollars from the Annondade Museum of Modern Art in Saint Tropez. The haul, including works by Utrillo Matisse Dufy Bonnard, came from Georges Grammont’s 1955 donation to the town.
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Saint Tropez
France
Maurice Utrillo
Henri Matisse
Raoul Dufy
Pierre Bonnard
Annondade Museum of Modern Art
Georges Grammont
Grissom Named Second U S Man in Space Mission
Air Force Captain Virgil I Grissom selected as pilot for the second manned spaceflight aboard Liberty Bell 7 with a suborbital hop planned from Cape Canaveral to reach 116 miles altitude. If unable to fly, John H Glenn Jr will replace him.
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Virzil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Korea
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Monroe
Mitchell
Ind
Grissom
Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
New Concord
Ohio
John A. Powers
Betty Moore
Scott
Mark
Glenn
Missile Center
Powers
Shepard
Scott Carpenter
Donald Slayton
Block House
Slayton
Walter Schirra
Gordon Cooper
Cape
Kurt Debus
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Debus
Redstone
Madison Youth Dies In Stolen Car Chase
Hans Blume 16 of Madison was killed and Dianna Farr 16 was seriously injured when a stolen car crashed about two miles south of Stronghurst. Police said Farr was driving the car and the vehicle fled after state troopers signaled it to stop. Sheriff Jim Smith said the driver ignored commands to pull over as the chase proceeded.
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Stronghurst
Hans Blume
Madison
Dianna Farr
Here
Farr
Burlington
Iowa
Henderson County
Jimmy Rogers
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