Judge Awards $76,352 to Illinois Central in Death Claim Case
Circuit Judge Harry S. Fox granted a directed verdict for the Illinois Central Railroad, awarding $76,352.57 against the Cheese Producers Marketing Association over a death claim paid to a railroad widow. The decision cites a contract and a spur track agreement as key factors. CPMA plans likely to appeal.
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Harry S. Fox
Cheese Producers Marketing Association
Illinois Central Railroad
Cheese Association
Fox
Phillip Cunningham
Freeport
Cunningham
Interstate Commerce Commission
CPMA
Chicago
IC Railroad
Cheese Producers Association
Stock Market Edges Higher on Steels and Oils Rally
New York traders pushed stocks higher in early afternoon trading as steel and oil issues led gains. Tobacco shares recovered after a negative American Cancer Society report, while steel scrap prices in Pittsburgh supported steel stocks and Middle East price signals and higher U S gasoline stocks buoyed oil issues.
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New York
American Cancer Society
Pittsburgh
Middle East
United States
Navy Fliers Missing In Collision at Sea
Two single seat attack bombers collided while approaching an aircraft carrier about 400 miles west of Los Angeles. Both pilots Cmdr. Milton K. Dennis 40 Los Altos Calif and Lt (jg) John W. Thompson 26 Sunnyvale Calif are missing and believed dead per the Navy.
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Moffett Field
Calif
Navy
Los Angeles
Milton K. Dennis
Los Altos
John W. Thompson
Sunnyvale
Queens To Spark County Dairy Day
Dairy Day at New Glarus June 29 will feature multiple queens including Alice in Dairyland Beverly Thomas and regional winner Shirley Montgomery. Suzanne Saalsan of Argyle, a Name That Tune contestant, is invited to participate. Seven county queens will be crowned in a testimonial dinner the night before parade activities begin at 1 30 p m with judging of cattle show and recipe contest.
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New Glarus
Queens
Shirley Montgomery
Raymond Montgomery
Browntown
Boscobel
Suzanne Saalsan
Argyle
Gene Hennager
University of Wisconsin
Doris Olsen
Brooklyn
Alice
State Department of Agriculture
Glarus
Monroe Union Presbyterian Church
Edwin Klassy
William Hillestad
Nic Zentner
Waldo Freitag
Kenneth Boss
Harvey Ott
Dr. Hennager
Donald Siedschlag
Marshall Ingwell
Jacob Brown
Fred Meyer
Dennis Streiff
Ralph Elmer
G. Schmitz Jr
Warren Reusch
Kenneth C. Allen
Quinton Ott
Wisconsin Senator urges reading of Ike praise at GOP session
Sen. Al exander Wiley urged that a message backing the Eisenhower administration be read to the Republican state convention in La Crosse. He praised President Eisenhower’s domestic and international policies and urged Republicans to stay true to party traditions and leaders despite disagreements.
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Sen. Wiley
Ike
Washington
Alexander Wiley
Eisenhower
GOP
la Crosse
Wiley
Glenn R. Davis
Davis
Philip G. Kuehn
The
United States
Para
Republican Party of
Wisconsin
Troops Withdrawn From Formosa Capital
The last contingents of 33,000 Chinese Nationalist troops rushed to Taipei to quell anti American demonstrations on May 24 and were withdrawn from the city today.
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Taipei
Formosa
Monroe to Host 23rd National Turnfest June 28
Monroe prepares for the 23rd National Turnfest from June 28 to 30 with about 150 contestants and hundreds of spectators. San Francisco New York Paterson Cleveland Milwaukee Los Angeles have shown interest and reservations, while Turner Hall hosts events including a Friday 8 p.m. march and flag presentation.
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Monroe
United States
San Francisco
New York
Paterson
N.J
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Los Angeles
Fred Glauser
Turner Hall
John J. Burkhard
Fairgrounds
Stock Pavilion
Child Injured in City Bicycle Crash
Nine year old William Bacher son of Mr and Mrs Otto Bacher of 705 27th avenue was treated at Monroe Clinic and released after a bicycle car collision at 15th street and 22nd avenue. He had minor cuts and bruises on a bicycle he was riding. the car was driven by Mrs Harold Ott of Monticello. A truck driven by Louis E Creuzer of 1103 15th street also sustained moderate damage when its rear wheels slipped into a ditch on the 1500 block of Litch Street.
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William Bacher
Otto Bacher
27Th Avenue
Monroe Clinic
15Th Street
22Nd Avenue
William
Harold Ott
Monticello
Louis E. Creuzer
Litch Street
Fiery two truck crash kills 17 on Highway 301 north of Fayetteville
A flat bed truck carrying migrant laborers and a tractor trailer collided at the Highway 301 102 intersection nine miles north of Fayetteville at 7 15 am. The crash killed 17 and injured 21 with 14 in critical condition. Laborers from several states were aboard.
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Fayetteville
N. C
State Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
Highway 301
W. H. Covington
Mount Olive
Dunn
Gilbert Roberta Peters
Watwallopen
Chicago
National Safety Council
Texas
U S Judge Bars Girard Surrender Over Extortion Threat
Douglas F. Scott of Los Angeles, a former child actor, seeks police protection in Japan after extortionists demand 3 120 000 yen and threaten to harm his children. He has hidden his two sons with his wife's relatives and erected a barbed wire barrier around the home near Kamakura as Navy investigators and Japanese police search for suspects.
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Kamakura
Japan
Douglas F. Scott
Los Angeles
U.S. Navy
Yokosuka
Scott
Marie
Teri Lee
Rs. Scott
Graziano
Japan Times
Jail Suit Hearing Set for Saturday in Monroe
Circuit Judge Harry S. Fox scheduled a 9 a m Saturday hearing in Monroe on the county zoning jurisdiction suit against the city over re zoning residential property for a county jail at highway shops. Special counsel Howard H. Moss and city attorney Robert J. Cunningham will present arguments. other officials will attend but not actively participate. The case could yield a declaratory judgment and potential appeal to the state Supreme Court, with implications for intergovernmental relations.
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Harry S. Fox
Monroe
Green County
Fox
Brand
State Supreme Court
Cunningham
Supreme Court
Dr Gunnar Gundersen Named AMA President-elect
Dr Gunnar Gundersen 60 of LaCrosse was named today AMA president-elect by the AMA House of Delegates. He will become the 112th president in June at the San Francisco annual meeting, succeeding Dr David B Allman of Atlantic City. Gundersen began practice in 1922 with his father and now runs the Gundersen Clinic with brothers Sigurd Alf and Thorolf.
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New York
Gunnar Gundersen
LaCrosse
American Medical Association
AMA House of Delegates
San Francisco
Association
Gundersen
David B. Allman
Atlantic City
N. J
Wisconsin
Gundersen Clinic
Sigurd B
Alf H
Thorolf E. Gunsen
Skill Day Contest Winners at Monroe Chamber Event
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce held a Skill Day retail promotion from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with six booths around the square. Winners received prize items including a rotary power mower, aluminum patio lounge, electric frying pan, and more. shoppers earning $1+ in receipts earned a free game play and winners received win tickets co-signed by game operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Enoch Huston
Rotary
Dennis Goecks
Glenn Milestone
Kenneth Lovell
Lester Kemprood
Route
Stevens Point Regent Delzell Dies at 61
Wilson S. Delzell 61 longtime member of the Board of State College Regents died Wednesday night at his Chain O Lakes summer home after a heart ailment. He founded Delzell Oil Co. and headed real estate interests. Delzell Hall at Central State College honors him. Survivors include widow four children and nine grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at Episcopal Church of the Intercession.
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Stevens Point
Wilson S. Delzell
Board of State College Regents
Chain O'Lakes
Waupaca
Delzell
Regents Board
State Coordinating Committee On
Central State College
Peru
Ind
Delzell Oil Co
James
Wilson Jr
Robert O
San Francisco
Robert Cashin
Madison
Episcopal Church of the Intercession
Forest Cemetery
Sixty seven Dane County prisoners moved to new jail
Sixty seven inmates from the aging Dane County jail were relocated under guard to a newly built City County Building lockup two blocks away as the old facility faced demolition.
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Madison
Dane County
No Atomic Setup Agreement Seen
Washington reports show the United States and Soviet Union at a stalemate over ending atomic weapons tests. President Eisenhower supports a total ban with an effective inspection system, while Premier Bulganin signals willingness to an overall disarmament accord including a halt to tests.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Bulganin
International Labor Organization
Geneva
Soviet Union
Robber Holds Kiester Bank President in $4300 Heist
Police pursued a nervous gunman who held Donald Elwell and ten employees captive during a Kiester First National Bank robbery. The bandit escaped in a 1957 light gray Buick with $4300 in cash and traveler’s checks on hand. Roadblocks across Iowa and nearby states yielded no trace.
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Kiester
Minn
First National Bank of
Iowa
Donald Elwell
Elwell
Court Refuses Soldier's Return From Japan Base
Judge McGarraghy declines immediate habeas relief to bring Army specialist William S. Girard home from Japan. A hearing is set for Tuesday on whether he should be tried in Japanese civil courts for the death of Naka Sakai, with U.S. trial consent noted and defense to be led by Itsuro Hayashi, a former war crimes prosecutor.
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Washington
William S. Girard
Japan
Girard
Dist
Joseph C. McGarraghy
United States
McGarraghy
Earl J. Carroll
New York
Carroll
Army
Itsuro Hayashi
U.S
Hayashi
International Military Tribunal For the
Stanley F. Levin
Hollywood
Calif
Levin
Judge Advocate’s
1St Cavalry Division
Louis Girard
Ottawa
Ill
Naka Sakai
William G. Liemer, 71, longtime Manitowoc figure dies
William G. Liemer, 71, retired cashier and long active in church life, died Wednesday after a long illness. He served 24 years as assistant cashier of the American Exchange Bank and ran a clothing business for 31 years. Survived by his wife and three sons Charles Manitowoc Paul Green Bay and William Jr Madison. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. at Wesley Methodist Church where he sang in the choir for over 50 years.
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Manitowoc
William G. Liemer
American Exchange Bank
Charles
Paul
Green Bay
William Jr
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Suzanne Saalsan
Argyle
Wesley Methodist Church
Ziemer
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Stock Mart
Senate
Walter J. Kohler JR
Warren Knowles
Alvin O’konski
Spark County
Alice’ Princess
D. A. Crandall
Decorations Committee
Louis H. Kohli
Fairground
Lloyds of London
Wuthering Heights
Wee Willie Winkie
Dr. Gundersen
Ama
College Regent
Minnesota
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