B 52 Declared Best in World by Air Force
The Defense Department report touts the B 52 as the best bomber in the world and notes an expanding Air Force with 137 wings planned. It cites the F 100 jet fighter and ongoing missile development while Sen. Jackson warns of Soviet progress and the risk of a continental range ballistic missile shifting global power balances.
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Washington
Air Force
Defense Department
Wilson
Harold Talbott
Talbott
Sen
Jackson
D-Wash
Joint Congressional Atomic Committee
Russia
Pentagon
Europe
Moscow
Racine Air Base Renamed Bong After War Ace
The House approved a 16 million dollar project to build a jet air base near Kansasville Wisconsin named for Major Richard Bong the WWII ace from Wisconsin He shot down 40 Japanese planes and died at age 24 while testing a jet in California Also approved was 1263000 for Truax AFB Madison funding.
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Washington
House
Kansasville
Wis
Richard Bong
Badger State
Lawrence Smith
Truax Afb
Madison
Spring Grove Visits and Guests Highlight Local Socials
Sunday night guests included Mr and Mrs Russell Schmitt Pecatonica with Mr and Mrs Leon Weidman and others. Janesville callers visited Robert Gadow while Eliz abeth residents stayed at Wallace Moellenbrendt home.
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Russell Schmitt
Pecatonica
Leon Weidman
Ed Renke
Janesville
Robert Gadow
Otto Berlog
Elizabeth
Ill
Wallace Moellenbrendt
Nellie Duchow
Alfred and Flossie Kryder
Miss Kryder
Richard Bailey
Gilbert Wendler
Bailey
Maywood
State Line Church
Orville Hawkins
Milwaukee’s Fred Miller theater pioneers arena stage
Mary John, 29, leads Drama Inc to run a resident stock company with a name star, in Milwaukee’s arena theater. The Fred Miller theater opened January 25 1955 after remodeling a former cinema with 340 seats. Financials show weekly gross about 6500 dollars and expenses near 4500 dollars. Profits fund Drama Incorporated School of Professional Arts planned for October.
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Harry P. Leadingham
Milwaukee
Fred Miller
Fred Miller Theater
Mary John
Drama, Inc
Miller Theater
Northwestern University
Dick John
New York
Mary
Bretaigne Windust
Michael Sloane
Paul Sloane
Johns
Padway
Enterprise
Joseph Uihlein Jr
Schlitz Beer
Frederick C. Miller
Miller Brewing Co
Miller
Milwaukee City Circle
Sabrina Fair
Jeffrey Lynn
Drama Incorporated School of Professional Arts
Wisconsin Airman Charged in Fatality
James Fontaine 24 of Brussels Wisconsin an airman at Sheppard Air Force Base was charged with second degree negligent homicide in a fatal crash near Oklainton Texas The complaint says he lost control skidded over 900 feet before the car hit a brick building killing Warren Elwin a Milwaukee resident and fellow airman
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Vernon
Tex
James Fontaine
Brussels
Wis
Warren Elwin
Fontaine
Sheppard Air Force Base
Milwaukee
Oklainton
England Tastes Its First Oranges in 1290 Ports mouth Arrival
A Spanish ship brought a cargo of oranges to Ports mouth in 1290 marking England’s first known exposure to the fruit. The event is noted as a historic early link between Iberian trade and English markets.
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England
Portsmouth
Berserk Rancher Kills Wife Daughter Parents-In-Law
A prosperous rancher in Sublette County Wyoming shot and killed his wife Patricia 40 daughter Grace 6 and the in laws Mr and Mrs F X O’Brien of Miami visiting there using a heavy 30 06 rifle. Coroner Francis Tanner said the slayings were murder death by own action. Lawrence Jack Alexander 45 was found on the back porch with a bullet wound under his chin. Sheriff Morris Horton offered no motive.
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Cora
Wyo
Here
Sublette County
Francis Tanner
Lawrence
Jack) Alexander
Patricia
Grace
Alexander
F. X. O’brien
Miami
Fla
Morris Horton
Alexanders
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Racine Air Base
Spring Grove
Mrs. Herbert Mohn
Weedone
Baumana
Ace Hardware
Wisconsin
Self
General Electric
Coronado
Jacobson
Monroe
SAVE
Dan River
Illinois Mutual Casualty
Illinois Mutual Casualty Agent
Ainsworth Insurance
Agency
Business Mart
TRO
Peoria
Illinois
S-M-L
Denier
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