Legion Parade or Patriotism Highlighted District Conference
The 3rd District Spring Conference of the American Legion drew over 3,000 people for a Parade of Patriotism with more than 30 units. E. L. Niffenegger Jr. praised community support and noted the event as the finest conference yet. Delegates backed a hoover linkage crime subversion statement and observed National Guard unit reductions from 110 to 104 since active duty.
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American Legion
E. L. Niffenegger
Zilmer-Riley
Niffenegger
Donald P. Skelly
Milton
Legion
Green
Dane
Iowa
Richland
Crawford
Grant
Hazel Green
Black Earth
America
J. Edgar Hoover
Dwight C. Coplien
Co. B
32Nd Division
National Guard
Coplien
Ft. Lewis
Swiss Colony
and Armour and Co
Frito-Lay Co
Bagley
Address Legion
George Williams
Reedstown
Barbara Bjoraker
Madison
John Drayna
Grand Army Home For Veterans
King
Times
Tension at Birmingham as 1000s gather for integration demo
Hundreds of young Negroes began congregating at Birmingham integration headquarters with plans for another mass demonstration. Police stood by as more than 1,000 were planned to march, in contrast to light school attendance and large numbers arrested in days of racial activity.
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Birmingham
Ala
Eugene Connor
Reynolds backs Wisconsin junior college system plan
Gov. Reynolds urged study of a state two year junior college system in Wisconsin. He proposed a citizens committee to draft guidelines after Assembly support for community colleges, and noted funds would be limited. He opposed sales tax compromise and warned against broad tax hikes.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Reynolds
Assembly
State Coordinating Committee
Con Higher Education
Corn Contest Cropland Plowed for Mechanical Picking
Green County prepares for the National Mechanical Corn Picking contest to be held in October. Cropland at the Melchior Denny farm near Monroe will be plowed starting at 1 30 p m with implement dealers assisting. Arthur Carter coordinates the committees and invites the public to watch.
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Green County
Arthur Carter
Melchior Denny Farm
Monroe
Flying Housewife Finishes Second Hop to Canton Island
Betty Miller, Santa Monica instructor and veteran flying housewife, completed the second leg of her solo Pacific crossing toward Australia. She took off from Honolulu Sunday and landed at Canton Island after 13 hours and six minutes, delivering a plane to its Brisbane owner.
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Canton Island
Betty Miller
Santa Monica
Calif
Wide Pacific
Australia
Honolulu
Brisbane
Soviet Says Hitler Body Found In Berlin Bunker
Paris author Cornelius Ryan reports the Soviet government officially admitted years after World War II that Hitler killed himself and that his body was found in the Berlin bunker. He notes the Russians disposed of the body and declined to say how or where.
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Paris
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Berlin
Cornelius Ryan
Ryan
Hitler
Moscow
Eva Braun
Allied Control Council
Chancellery
Dutmeg
Survivor Found After Mid-air B47KC-135 Crash Near Yellowstone
One of four airmen from a B47 and KC 135 collision during a refueling exercise over Yellowstone National Park was found alive in good condition Sunday. Two bodies were recovered about 10 miles southwest of Old Faithful Geyser. The other crew member remained unaccounted for. The KC 135 sustained minor wing damage and landed safely. Mountain Home Air Force Base is referenced in the report.
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Yellowstone National Park
Wyo
Park
Mountain Home
Terrorists Burn Plant in Caracas Fallout Totals 500000
Ten pro Communist terrorists set fire Sunday to the Union Grafica food packaging plant in Caracas, a subsidiary of the Food Containing Corp of Chicago, causing an estimated five hundred thousand dollars in damage.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Union Grafica Food Packaging
The
Food Containing Corp
Chicago
Wisconsin Young Republicans urge Knowles Byrnes for races
Green Bay delegates at the Wisconsin Young Republican Clubs convention encouraged Warren Knowles to run for governor and urged a run for the Senate. They backed John Byrnes as a potential favorite son candidate for president and pressed Philip Kuehn to seek the Senate. Donald L. Taylor was elected state chairman and Ted Cormaney became first full time executive secretary.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin
John Byrnes
Warren Knowles
U.S. Senate
Philip Kuehn
GOB
Senate
Sen. Goldwater
Byrnes
Kennedy
Knowles
Proxmire
Ted Cormaney
Madison
YGOP
Meeting To Launch County Cancer Drive
The kickoff meeting of the Green County Cancer Crusade will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Swiss Wheel. Mrs. Marvin-Stauffacher Browntown county chairman will preside and announce community and township chairmen.
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Green County Cancer Crusade
M @rvin- Stauffacher
Browntown
Rockefeller Honeymoon at Venezuela Ranch As 1964 Debate Rages
The New York governor and Margaretta Murphy arrived at Monte Sacro ranch 110 miles from Caracas for a two week honeymoon amid questions on how the marriage would affect his political future. Rockefeller, a leading 1964 GOP candidate, was divorced in 1962 after 31 years of marriage and has five children. Murphy, once married, has four children.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Rockefeller
Margaretta Fitler Murphy
Monte Sacro
New York
Dominican Troops Ready For Haiti Invasion Move
Culmination Days in county schools run Thursday through Friday this week and Monday and Wednesday next week led by Rudolph T. Haskee the county school superintendent. Morning sessions cover skits songs demonstrations and speaking with a lunch at Fran Brook Farm seven miles west of Monticello. The four day event features lessons in conservation, with prizes and a state contest berth for the county winner next January.
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Rudolph T. Haskee
Fran Brook Farm
Monticello
W.O. Beers
Adams Township
Juda High School
Monticello High School
Soil and Water Conservation Supervisors
FranBrook Farm
Brodhead
Decatur
Davis
Juda
Oakley
Poplar Grove
Pleasant Grove
Twin Grove
Buckskin
College Demonstration Room
Dutch Hollow
Enterprise
Hillside View
Monroe City
Prien
Richland
Roosevelt
Round Grove
Argus
Ball
Blackford
Browntown
Cadiz Center
East Clarno
Fairfield
Hiawatha
Iliff
Pleasant Valley
Rush
Sam Ball
Sanders
Spring
Reex
Ullom
West Clarno
American Lieutenant Executed by Reds Near Saigon
A U S Army lieutenant was executed by Communist guerrillas 30 miles north of Saigon in broad daylight. Two Vietnamese military men in the same jeep were also killed. The three bodies were found. identity of the American was withheld. The incident marks the 73rd American killed in Vietnam since late 1961.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Cheese Trade Fair Signals Stable Cheddar Markets
Madison Wisconsin buyers and sellers report cheddar prices holding steady with a slight decline. Demand remains slow to fair while supplies are ample, with 40 pound blocks quoted around 35 to 36 percent and single daisies at 37 to 38 percent.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Normal dial cutover stresses Monroe exchanges
United Telephone Co reports a normal dial system cutover in Monroe with busy maintenance crews testing and clearing reports. The transition drew curiosity and a Legion Conference crowd, as crews begin updating dial cards and preparing direct distance dialing slated for July.
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Wade L. Cash
United Telephone Co
Vilas J. Rundhammer
United
Times
Monroe Exchange
Dutch Hollow
Margaret Burgi
3Rd District Legion
Monroe
Monticello
Albany
Juda
South Wayne
Blanchardville
John D. Hirsch
Browntown
Fred Roth
Twin Grove
Miss Burgi
Orville R. Evans
Job Aid Dies Scien, State Officials Chief
Scien, who led the state bureau of personnel as chief administrator since 1955 and earlier served as State Senate clerk, died Sunday after suffering a heart attack the previous Wednesday.
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Scien
State Bureau of Personnel
State Senate
John Wasserstrauss Wins $100 Science Scholarship
Monroe high school sophomore John Wasserstrauss, son of Mr and Mrs George Wasserstrauss of Route 4, won a $100 scholarship at the Wisconsin Junior Academy of Science meeting in Milwaukee. He competed with 200 upperclassmen, earned one of two first place honors, and previously won a Platteville science fair. His paper was Industry Inter Dimensional Measure.
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John Wasserstrauss
Monroe High School
George Wasserstrauss
Route 4
Milwaukee
Wasserstrauss
John
Albuquerque
N.M
Platteville
Marcella Krueger
John Reese
Six More Die In Wisconsin Traffic Toll Rises
The weekend's highway fatalities raise Wisconsin's 1963 toll to 221. Veronica Helminiak 43 of Wisconsin Rapids was killed in a head on crash. William Hardike 59 of Stanley died after being struck east of Chippewa Falls. Robert Moder 27 of Hortonville perished when his convertible left Highway 10 west of Appleton. Rafael Figueroa Jr 20 of Milwaukee died in a crash into a pole. Kent Funcke 4 of Beaver Dam was fatally struck while crossing. Wilbur Kiv 43 of Iron Belt was killed when his car hit a tree.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Veronica Helminiak
Wisconsin Rapids
Servens Point
William Hardike
Stanley
Chippewa Falls
Robert Moder
Hortonville
Appleton
Rafael Figueroa Jr
Milwaukee
Kent Funcke
William Funcke
Beaver Dam
Wilbur Kiv
Iron Belt
Iron County
Andre Perry Bank Leader Dies at 53 in Fond du Lac
Andre J. Perry, 53, prominent banker and Republican leader, served as president of the First National Bank of Fond du Lac and was county chairman of the Republican Party. He had been hospitalized for two months.
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Fond DU Lac
Andre J. Perry
Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
Perry
First National Bank of
Dominican Forces Mass on Haiti Border Amid Invasion Fears
The Domini can government sent thousands of troops to the Haitian border in a possible invasion amid border patrols by the Dominican Air Force and naval liaison with U.S. ships. Bosch warned of action if Haiti’s Duvalier fails to allow safe exit for 15 refugees and a peace mission reports on the crisis.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Negro Republic
U.S
Caribbean
Haiti
Bosch
Alberto Zuleta
Angel
Organization of American States
Washington
OAS Council
Duvalier
Port Au Prince
Frank Bobadilla
Raymond Thurston
Tonton Macoute
School Appeal Hearing Set For May 20
An informal conference is planned at the State Capitol on May 22 for the Porter school electors of Lafayette County seeking detachment from Joint School District No. 5 and 7 and attachment to South Wayne. The appeal to the state school superintendent follows denials by South Wayne village and the Towns of Wayne and Wiota in Lafayette and Cadiz and Jordan in Green. Appealing are Clarence J. Sniff Clarence N. Seffrood Chester E. Block M Frances Seffrood and Earl Seffrood. Written statements should be submitted before the conference.
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State Capitol
Porter
Lafayette County
South Wayne
South Wayne Village
Wayne
Wiota
Lafayette
Cadiz
Jordan
Green
Clarence J. Sniff
Clarence N. Seffrood
Chester E. Block
M. Frances Seffrood
Earl Seffrood
Mrs Iverson Heads to New York National Contest
Wisconsin Mother of the Year Anna Iverson leaves Daleyville for New York City to compete in the national contest. She received the state award April 20 in ville and will retire at the end of June after returning from Monroe during winter.
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Anna Iverson
Wisconsin
New York City
Iverson
Ville
Daleyville
Monroe
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Soviet
Bunker
Goldwater
Venezuela Ranch
Fran Brook
Science Academy
Andre Perry
Mrs. Iverson
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