Damaging Wind and Rain Then Snow Hit the Area
A storm dumped over three inches of rain with wind and hail, toppling trees and tearing doors. Snow mixed with rain followed, with Rhinelander bracing for up to seven inches and rivers rising. Flooding risk grows as fields saturate and farmers face delayed planting and potential crop damage.
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Clifford A. Neuenschwander
Neuven
Wisconsin
Rhinelander
Phelps
Vilas County
Monroe
Goring
Democrats Propose Medical Aid Bill For Aged
Senator Pat McNamara leads a new Democratic plan for aged health care under Social Security, aiming to cover 11.3 millionSocial Security recipients 1.7 million on public assistance and 1.8 million others. The plan, costing about 1.578 billion yearly, would raise Social Security taxes by a quarter point for employers and employees and levy 0.375 percent on self employed, with 370 million from general funds for non Social Security elderly. The administration favors a voluntary insurance scheme funded by federal state sources.
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Washington
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
Aime J. Forand
D-Ri
Forand
House
Eisenhower
McNamara
Senate
Sens
Humphrey, Kennedy
Wayne Morse
Ore
Stuart Symington
Arthur S. Flemming
Ways and Means Committee
Powers Flight Downed by Soviets Reveals Spy Ties
In Moscow Khrushchev announced U.S. pilot Francis Powers, 30, of Pound Virginia, admitted he was on a spying mission and may face trial. Powers parachuted to safety after his high altitude jet was shot down near Sverdlovsk during a reconnaissance flight from Adna Turkey via Pakistan.
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U. S
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Francis G. Powers
Pound
Supreme Soviet
Powers
Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan
Norway
Sverdovsk
Urals
Archangel
Murmansk
U. S.state Department
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Adna
Turkey
West Germany
Italy
Paris
William Shelton
Tishla
U.S.S.R
Eisenhower
United States
Two Soldiers Found Safe in Libya Desert
The U S Army reports two missing soldiers in the Libyan Desert have been found alive and well. Sgt Jarvis M Wheeler 32 of Livingston Texas and Pvt Ronald Bingham 19 of Albany California were part of a mortuary team sent from Germany to locate four crewmen from a 1943 bomber crash. They were lost during a sandstorm while searching the site.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U.S
North Africa
Army
Jarvis M. Wheeler
B. M. Wheeler
Livingston
Tex
Pfe
Ronald Bingham
Howard Bingham
Albany, Calif
Jones Honeymoon Aboard Britannia Sails To Unknown Caribbean
London reports Mr and Mrs Antony Armstrong Jones sailing the royal yacht Britannia toward the Caribbean for a sun filled honeymoon. Channel signals asked whither bound. reply Destination unknown high seas. no port of call named though Trinidad is favored by some. The Admiralty offered no comment.
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Mrs. Jones
High Seas
London
Antony Armstrong - Jones
English Channel
Caribbean
Princess Rgaret
West Indies
Trinidad
Margaret
Wisconsin Property Levy Change Offered Faces Tax Relief Debate
A Wisconsin subcommittee approved a plan to cut the annual property tax burden by about 100 million dollars or 21 percent based on need. It would use state payments to local governments while seeking replacement funds in the state treasury. Assemblyman Keith Hardie urged funding via income tax, proposing a 3 percent rate and a $10 minimum filing fee. Edwin Larkin asked members to propose alternative revenue sources to offset relief costs.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Governor’s Tax Study Commission
Keith Hardie
D - Taylor
Edwin Larkin
Eau Claire
Body Found in Mississippi River Near Genoa
The body of 49 year old Edward Kulas of Winona Minnesota was found Friday in the Mississippi River near Genoa. Vernon County Sheriff Otto Jefson said two brothers identified the victim.
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Genoa
Mississippi River
Vernon County
Otto Jefson
Edward Kulas
Winona
Minn
Officials Doubt Summit Boycott
Soviet Premier Khrushchev claimed an American pilot was captured in a spy mission over the Soviet Union, raising tensions as a summit approaches. U.S. officials discounted changes to Eisenhower’s summit plans, awaiting details from Moscow through Ambassador Thompson. Eisenhower and Herter withhold final moves pending Moscow’s read on the plane incident. Khrushchev questioned the president’s vow to use Nixon as a possible substitute. the Paris summit opens May 16.
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U.S
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Moscow
Eisenhower
State Department
Lincoln White
Llewellyn Thompson
Herter
Nixon
Paris
Trotsky Killer Hides in Havana After Release
Jacques Monard, the man who assassinated Leon Trotsky, reportedly fled from Mexico to Havana after being freed from prison three months early. Authorities fear Trotskyists may target him, while Trotsky's widow in Mexico City warns of possible retaliation. Trotsky was killed in exile in 1940.
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Havana
Jacques Monard
Leon Trotsky
Monard
Mexico
Trotsky
Mexico City
Open House Planned For County Hospital Patients
Green County hospital hosts an open house from 2 to 4 p m next Sunday May 15 as part of Operation Friendship. Superintendent and matron Amos Johnson and wife urge community members to visit patients and provide companionship highlighting the nationwide effort to ease loneliness of mental hospital residents.
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Green County Hospital
Amos Johnson
150 Homeless After Fire In New Hampshire Town
A large fire destroyed 14 tenement houses and the Chelmsford Shoe Co factory in Derry New Hampshire leaving about 150 people homeless and 325 jobless. Families fled with little belongings as flames consumed the plant and homes Friday night.
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Derry
N. H
Chelmsford Shoe Co
New Hampshire
Attendance Perfect Prom Despite Rain Storm
Junior prom themed Blues in the Deep drew 72 couples for a 100 percent turnout at the dance and post prom events despite heavy rain. Prom king Dick Albright crowned Jean Schneider as queen. Goetz Theatre hosted How To Murder A Rich Uncle with private breakfasts and multiple coke tail parties.
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Charles Colburn
Goetz Theatre
Dick Albright
Jean Schneider
Cramer Houser
Robert L. Wells
James Lovelace
Church Eases Divorce Stand In Methodist Church
The Methodist Church shelved the rule that only the innocent party in a divorce could remarry within the church. The 10 million member denomination adopted broader criteria, basing eligibility for remarriage on improved attitudes and intentions, with ministers no longer the sole judge of guilt.
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Denver
Colo
Methodist Church
Kennedy Refutes Humphrey War Service Deferment Claim
Senator Kennedy disavowed a campaign aide's charge that Senator Humphrey sought WWII draft deferments. The aide claimed Humphrey sought multiple deferments and was labeled essential to Minnesota industry. Kennedy called the issue irrelevant and stated he disapproved of raising Humphrey’s war record in the campaign.
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Kennedy
Charleston
W.va
John F. Kennedy
Sen
Humphrey
Roosevelt
Minnesota
Naval Reserve
Draft Board
Tornado Damages Mobile Buildings in Early Morning
A tornado plowed through a Mobile Alabama area destroying a Masonic Temple and a store two service stations and a skating rink. It damaged a Baptist church and two unoccupied Hollingers Island house trailers. No injuries were reported as the twister killed twenty nine and wounded hundreds in Oklahoma Arkansas and the Mississippi Valley.
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Associated Press
Mobile
Ala
Hollingers Island
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Mississippi Valley
South
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