Eisenhower Highway Plan Faces Congressional Backlash
The piece critiques Congress for derailing Eisenhower’s 40,000 mile interstate plan by rejecting the $21 billion federal bond method and funding through excise taxes. It argues lawmakers lacked nerve, cites political maneuvering for vote buying, and questions rushing road grants without clear funding. Eisenhower calls for reconsideration while taxpayers brace for delays.
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Congress
Democrat Party
Eisenhower
House
Bulgarian Airliner Killings and the Iron Curtain Lesson
The piece criticizes Bulgaria's response after its anti aircraft unit shot down a passenger airliner killing 58. It argues the event shows the intolerance of the free world for protective state actions and urges proper punishment and compensation while condemning Communist assurances at Geneva.
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Free World
Bulgaria
Sofia
Tel Aviv
AAA
Traffic Signs Added for Downtown Patrol in 1915
Chief W O Blunt gains two new traffic regulation signs to guide drivers on public square, with warnings at strategic spots. The Eastland disaster death toll set at 1331, while inquiries probe the Chicago wreck. Marines land in Haiti to protect the consulate amid rioting. A Janesville doctor is arrested for arson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Blunt
Chicago
Warsaw
Haiti
Janesville
Erosion control boosts dairy farm yields in Wisconsin
Bernard Kutchenriter’s Waupaca County dairy operation used erosion diversification and heavy fertilization to lift oat and corn yields to about 100 bushels per acre. Diversion terraces, drainage runs, and a leveled 20 acre field reduced runoff and mud, enabling full field utilization and larger herd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clintonville
Waupaca County
Bernard Kutchenriter
Kutchenriter
Soil Conservation Service
Kewaunee
President Hails Atoms for Peace stamp ceremony
President Eisenhower pledged U S efforts to aid peace loving nations in developing atomic science safely. He spoke during the three cent Atoms for Peace stamp sale on the White House South Lawn with delegates from 73 of 84 invited nations, urging use of invention for good and warning against greed. The event featured Postmaster General Summerfield and AEC chair Strauss with aims tied to the Geneva conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
United States
White House
U.S
United Nations
Atoms For Peace
Cabinet
Congress
Department
U. N
Summerfield
America
Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis L. Strauss
Court Orders Bridge Opening
A federal judge ruled Little Chute must operate the Fox River canal drawbridge for navigation pending a permanent order. The preliminary injunction, requested by the government, keeps the village opening and closing the bridge and notes Outagamie County cannot be exempt from the permanent injunction proceedings.
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Milwaukee
Little Chute
Kenneth P. Grubb
Grubb
Outagamie County
Spring Grove Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mrs. Herbert Mohn hosts a Saturday gathering with Mr and Mrs Paul Zerbe from Monrovia California and Mr and Mrs D M Zerbe of Freeport Also Paul Albright of Chicago visits Ms Wendell Wunschel Mr and Mrs Russell Rosheisen James and John Swanberg and Mr and Mrs Orla McClellan spend Sunday at Yellowstone Lake and Blanchardville
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Paul Zerbe
Monrovia
Calif
D. M. Zerbe
Freeport
Herbert Mohns
Paul Albright
Chicago
Wendell Wunschel
Russell Rosheisen
James
John Swanberg
Orla McClellan
Yellowstone Lake
Blanchardville
U.S. Buys British Jets for Royal Air Force
The United States will purchase 140 million dollars worth of Hawker Hunter fighters for the RAF to replace F-86 Sabres. About 465 Hunters will be built. each plane costs around 207000 dollars plus spare parts. The Sabres will return to the U.S. for NATO reallocation. RAF gains British serviceability and UK-based maintenance.
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Washington
United States
Royal Air Force
Britain
U. S. Air Force
Defense Department
Ministry of Defense
London
RAF
United Kingdom
Social Roster and Visits Around Orangeville and Area
Local residents hosted guests from Freeport Rockford and Browntown in late week gatherings. Family trips to Hampshire and Lake Wisconsin accompanied by relatives from Margaret Rusk and Folgate noted, with FHA leadership camp and Boy Scout activities mentioned for Rinehart children.
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Stanley Hulbert
Earl Barr
Freeport
Steve Likens
Rockford
Maggie Rubendall
Carrie Brunkow
Will Babler
R. M. Messinger
Lillian Haas
Carol and
Dean
Browntown
George Obert
Sandra Rinehart
East Bay
Bloomington
Richard
Eagles Session Hears 1.25 Plea At Milwaukee Convention
New York Mayor Robert Wagner urged a 1.25 minimum wage at the Eagles International convention saying 75 cents is no longer enough to cover rent and basics. Portraits were dedicated in the Eagles Hall of Fame honoring figures including Theodore Roosevelt and J Edgar Hoover. Maurice Splain Jr. was elected grand worthy president with other officers to be unanimously chosen.
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Milwaukee
New York City
Robert Wagner
U. S
Eagles Hall of Fame
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Warren G. Harding
Jack Dempsey
Jim Jeffries
Tommy Gibbons
Connie Mack
Jim Thorpe
Earl Warren
U. S. Supreme Court
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Edward Flanagan
Boys Town
Col
Francis Gabreski
America
Oil City
Maurice Splain Jr
Order of Eagles
Lawrence Leahy
Wenatchee
Wash
Martin J. Mol
Detroit
Mich
Ray Smith
Portland
Ore
Edward Spangler
Freeport
Guy Porter
Davenport
William G. Watson
Zanesville
Ohio
Charles Guenther
Pittsburgh
Fleming’s dismissal upheld by Army review board
An Army review board in Washington upheld Lt. Col. Harry Fleming’s four counts of collaboration with the enemy during captivity in Korea and affirmed two counts on propaganda recordings. It overturned two counts criticizing discussion groups under Communist captors and the claim he extolled communism. He may appeal to the Court of Military Appeals.
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Washington
Army
Harry Fleming
Racine
Korea
Fleming
Chicago
Court of Military Appeals
Cattle on Feed Rise Across Corn Belt States
The Federal State Crop Reporting Service for Wisconsin notes more cattle on feed for market this summer across Wisconsin and the Corn Belt. Increases from July to last year range from one to 18 percent, with nine Corn Belt states up 10 percent overall and thirteen major feeding states up 13 percent.
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Wisconsin
Federal
Ohio
Indiana
South Dakota
Corn Belt
Teachers Blamed In Mass Drowning Near Nagoya
TSU Japan report says Keeichi Ochiai of Kyohoku junior high detailed three errors by teachers that allowed 36 high school girls to be swept away by a Sea of Ise tide. Authorities extended swim area, directed students toward danger, and failed to check conditions before testing. Parents to receive 50,000 yen each per village assembly.
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Tsu
Japan
Keeichi Ochiai
Kyohoku Junior High School
Sea of
Ise
Tokyo
Kenzo Matsumura
Nagoya
Astronomic Observatories Remain Unheated to Preserve Images
The observatories cannot be heated as warmth distorts stellar images, risking degraded data and blurred celestial measurements.
Employment ad for route men near Monroe with benefits
Well known midwestern firm seeks men around Monroe to service routes including bakery milk and other routes. Car required permanent position with paid vacation life and hospital insurance sick benefits and pension plan. References required. Write Box 30 in care of The Times. Replies kept confidential.
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Monroe
the Times
Retail Rush Ignores Heat
New York consumers kept buying merchandise at a record pace despite heat and humidity, with total retail turnover six to ten percent above the 1954 week. Regional gains ranged from 1 to 15 percent, as summer apparel and sportswear sold briskly and major appliances rose in outlays.
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New York
Dun and
Bradstreet
Weekly Review of Trade
New England
South
Northwest
East
Middle West
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Scientist predicts century scale warming cycle
Dr Hideo Nishioka a 42 year old science instructor at Kei University in Tokyo says global temperatures will rise each year for the next 250 years. He urges consideration of a 700 year climatic cycle theory to explain ongoing changes.
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Ernest L. Sells
St. Andrew’s Methodist Church
Umtali
Southern Rhodesia
First Methodist Church
United States
Tokyo
Hideo Nishioka
Kei University
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Green’s Distributing Co
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Charles Rawson
Monroe Union Church
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Nebraska
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Basco
Belleville
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