Senate Poised to OK Wisconsin Budget Amid Opposition
Madison Wisconsin legislators move toward final Senate approval of the 493.5 million state budget for 1961 63 with debates over sales tax and income tax held. Democrats seek restore 9.4 million in cuts while Republicans expect to keep the package intact.
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Madison
Isconsin Assembly
Senate
Gaylord Nelson
Assembly
University of Wisconsin
Finance Committee
Wisconsin
Citizens’ Committee
Miller Upton
Beloit College
James Doyle
Fond du Lac
Conservation Department
Dairymen Return Milk Output Up in Early Year
Production data show U S dairy herds produced 41.3 billion pounds of milk in the first four months, higher than 41.1 billion pounds in the same period last year, signaling modest growth in output.
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Washington
Record attendance at Wisconsin fish and game hearings tops in 13 years
Attendance across 71 county meetings totaled 8 851 the second highest on record. Voters backed a nine day open season for backwater, a 16 day pheasant season with one rooster bag limit first three days, and a 50 day duck season with three birds per day. Public backed M40 permit for high powered rifles in 53 counties and continued deer season restrictions.
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Madison
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Deer
Green County
Calumet
Door
Kewanee
Outagamie
State patrol issues 131 five day warnings for defective equipment
State highway patrol checked 486 cars on the south square and at the high school. Officers and inspectors found 131 five day warnings for defective safety equipment after three hours in the morning and two and a half hours in the afternoon. Major defects included 55 stop lights and 42 directional lights.
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Monroe
Needed Rain To Fall Here Tonight Sunday
Rain showers and thunderstorms are forecast for tonight and tomorrow as farmers need precipitation. The area reports clear skies and warm temps with 82 degrees at 3 p.m. yesterday and forecasts for higher. Statewide up to 86 degrees. oat fields green and corn land being planted amid soil dryness and hampered pasture growth.
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la Crosse
Lone Rock
Officials Confirm Cuban Invasion Survivors Confined
A U S official confirms survivors of the Cuba invasion were kept on a Caribbean island before being moved to the U S mainland. The last evacuees left Vieques Island on May 2 as part of a military fiasco at Cochinas Bay where 1,200 invaders faced 30,000 Cuban troops. Some survivors were reportedly in Miami days later.
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Washington
U.S
Caribbean
Vieques Island
Miami
Cuba
Cochinas Bay
Viecnes
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Associated Press
Flooded Heartland Faces Rising Rivers and Evacuations
Flood weary residents in southern Illinois and Indiana monitor swollen levees as crests approach. Rivers and streams surge toward predicted peaks over the next days, with 15 counties declared disaster areas and hundreds of thousands of acres underwater. In Carmi, Litthke Wabash nears 22 feet. Murphysboro's Big Muddy tops 22.5 feet. Tell City’s Ohio River crest looms near 14 feet at Cairo, with evacuations underway and widespread disruption across Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Indiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Litthke Wabash
Carmi
White County
Murphysboro
Big Muddy
Ohio River
Tell City
Cairo
Ohio
Mississippi
Kaskaskia
New Athens
Main
Student Nurse Killed In Door County Crash
A student nurse, Audrey Ostram, 19, of Sturgeon Bay, was killed when the car she rode in left the road at a curve near Brussels at the intersection of highways 57 and H. Driver Darlene Hembel, 20, and Judith E. Martins on, 19, both of Sturgeon Bay, were injured. Ostram and Martins on were trainees at a Milwaukee hospital. Hembel is in nurse training in Two Rivers. Wisconsin highway fatalities for 1961 reached 257.
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Associated Press
Door County
Wisconsin
Audrey Ostram
Sturgeon Bay
Brussles
Darlene Hembel
Judith E. Martinson
Swiss Diver Keller Aims for 3000 Feet With Secret Gas Formula
Hannes Keller, 26, a Swiss mathematician diver, announced at the U S Navy Experimental Diving Unit that he can descend to 1000 feet using a secret gas breathing formula. He envisions 3000 feet as a future goal and notes risks to amateurs if the method spreads. Keller has exceeded prior depth records and performed a 48 minute bounce dive near Toulon.
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Washington
U.S. Navy
Navy
Hannes Keller
Winterthur
Switzerland
Keller
Toulon
France
Campers Ready To Invade Wisconsin Parks
About 1,000 campers are expected to visit Wisconsin state forests and parks this weekend. The invasion peaks July 4 with 24 state parks and nine forests offering 3,029 campsites. New sites total 322 gain over last year, with projections of possible overcrowding at Devils Lake and Peninsula Parks.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Conservation Department
Edgar Treckler
Treckler
Devils Lake State Park
Sauk County
Peninsula Park
Door County
Terry Andrae
Sheboygan
Maultice Lake
Milwaukee
Whitewater Lake Recreation Area
Walworth County
Big Foot Beach
Lake Geneva
Wyalusing Park
Grant County
Wildcat Mountain Park
Vernon County
American Legion Forest
Oneida County
Gov. Dodge State Park
Iowa County
Interstate Park
Polk County
Flambeau River State Forest
Price County
Long Lake
Fond du Lac
Three Seek Identification of Dead Man Resembling Brother
Three people said Kemp the 72 year old man who died with over $18 000 in savings resembled their brother Albert Klemp who they last saw in 1933 but they could not sign a positive identification. Kemp lived frugally in a Milwaukee room for 25 years and may have been fingerprinted as an alien with prints on file in Washington.
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Dobbins
Albany
Queen
LeRoy Kamps
Prince
Billy
Major
Kamps
John Davis
Atlen’s Creek
Davis
Queen's Place
Davis-Kamps
Times
Helen E. Zimmerli
Milwaukee
Albert W. Kemp
Otto
Eric Kiemp
Janesville
John G. Willie
Edgerton
Kemp
Albert Klemp
Germany
Washington, D.C
Mrs Blum 78 Dies in Monroe After Illness
Mrs Edwin Blum aged 78 died at 3 am in White Haven nursing home after a two year illness from cancer. Born January 27 1883 in Monroe she was married Aug 28 1898 to Edwin Blum. Survivors include five sons a daughter a brother two sisters 15 grandchildren 34 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Services at 1 30 pm Tuesday Shriner Neu shwander funeral home. Burial Greenwood cemetery.
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Edwin
Minnie) Blum
12Th Street
White Haven
Monroe
Frank
Sybilla Luchsinger Riese
Jordan School
Thomas
Albert
Chicago
Leon
Beloit
Walter
Freeport
Lloyd
Downers Grove
Ill
Herbert Walters
Martin
Herman Pfund
Sophia Bonjour
Rockford
Peter Kubly
Robert Kellenberger
Edward
Shriner - Neushwander Funeral Home
Greenwood Cemetery
Industrial climb signals economy moving out of recession
A 2.5 percent rise in industrial output in March marks the first gain in nine months and the strongest show since 195? as economists forecast GNP to hit a record 525 to 530 billion by year’s end. Labor data show longer factory weeks and unemployment benefits dipping for the 10th straight week, while steel output edges up to 68 percent capacity and retail sales slip overall.
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Washington
U. S
Federal Reserve Board
Business Advisory Council
Department of Commerce
BAC
Labor Department
Bureau of Employment Security
Department
Kennedy
Pittsburgh
Parliament Convenes as Kasavu Reopens Congo Session
The Congolese President Joseph Kasavu calls Parliament back into session in Leopoldville to address ongoing political chaos since independence. A meeting is expected to occur within weeks.
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Leopoldville
Conger
Joseph Kasavubu
Officials Seek Unified Geneva Delegation in Laos Talks
In Ban Namone Laos a cease-fire was signed by government and Pathet Lao delegations. They will hold full scale talks starting Sunday to form a coalition and a unified Laotian delegation for the Geneva conference. Neutralists and pro communists push for Souvanna Phouma as a central figure amid a fragile stalemate. The IC C noted a de facto cease-fire exists and urged adherence despite disputes over legitimacy.
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Bannamone
Laos
Vientiane
Pathet Lao
Geneva
Ban Namone
Suvanna Phouma
Souvanouvong
Phoumi Nosavan
International Control Commission
Souvanna Phouma
Pheng Phongsavan
National Assembly
Souvanna
Cambodia
Britain
Soviet Union
Cochairman
Commission
Samar Sen
India
Gary Cooper in Critical Fight With Cancer
Hollywood star Gary Cooper, gravely ill with cancer, has been given the last rites of the Catholic Church. A family spokesman said Cooper received extreme unction Friday afternoon from Rev. Daniel Sullivan of Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills. His condition remained critical but unchanged through the night.
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Hollywood
Gary Cooper
Daniel Sullivan
Good Shepherd Church
Beverly Hills
Kidnaping Suspect Bas il Banghart Awaits Two Legal Hurdles
Springfield Ill Basil The Owl Banghart, last of the men charged in a 1933 kidnapping, awaits final clearance of two legal hurdles ending his 27 years in prison.
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Springfield
Ill
Basil (the Owl) Banghart
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Richard Tompkins
Alice Tompkins
Rensselaer
N.Y
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