Multiple Weekend Crashes Injure Seven in Illinois and Wisconsin
Mrs. Corson of Monroe suffered a mild concussion and facial cuts when a collision four miles north of Warren Illinois sent her and her daughter to St. Clare hospital. In Darlington three more people, including a 53 year old woman, were seriously injured, while an eight year old Decatur boy and two other Monroe cases drew minor injuries. deputies note the Darlington crash occurred about 5 p.m. Saturday on Highway 23 Lafayette County. Additional Monroe police reports cite minor damage in separate incidents on 17th Avenue and at the city square.
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Victor I. Corson
Monroe
Corson
Warren
Ill
Darlington
Decatur
St. Clare Hospital
Carson
Gerald Rogers
Arlene Hollinger
Raymond Hollinger
Rogers
Miss Hollinger
Highway 23
Lafayette County
Robert Green Walter
Louis Walter
Deccatur
17Th Avenue
Robert
Alvin W. Blum
Route 3
Lawrence Martin
Orangeville
North City
Martin
Robert E. Hardell
10Th Street
Hardell
Jacob B. Babler
Route 4
Lake Geneva
Wisconsin
James C. Sheehy
Springfield
State Park Beach
Lake Tomahawk
Richard A. Haugsby
Fred C. Piehl Jr
Haugsby
Piehl
Haugsbey
Pieh
Muscoda
Frank Crone
Dick Azem
Apostles Lake
Walworth County
Sheehy
Jack Bale
Drone
Azem
James Clay
Chicago
Ind
Rock River
Fort Atkinson
Clay
Convent Cash Stolen in Prairie du Chien
Thieves broke into St. Gabriel's Convent Sunday while sisters attended mass and carried off more than $500 in cash. Police investigation underway.
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Prairie DU Chien
St. Gabriel's Convent
Baccalaureate Launches Monroe Graduation Week With Service
Monroe high school kicked off a week of graduation activities with baccalaureate services in the school auditorium. Rev. Bernard Bartel gave the invocation and scripture, Rev. Clarence Warfel offered the prayer, and the Mixed Chorus performed. Rev. Olm delivered the sermon “Five Smooth Stones” guiding 113 graduates. The service closed with “We Would Be Building” as devotion, and the orchestra provided processional and recessional music. A class picnic is set for Vilas Park tomorrow, with commencement Wednesday at 8 p.m. Awards Day follows Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Elmer S. Hjortland will deliver the commencement address. No classes Thursday for Memorial Day. Report cards go home Friday.
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Monroe High School
Bernard Bartel
Immanuel Church
Bartel
Clarence C. Warfel
Grace Lutheran Church
Mabel Viel
Paul H. Olm
St. John’s Church
David
Goliath
Olm
Warfel
Vilas Park
Madison
Elmer S. Hjortland
Oak Park
Ill
Graduation Exercises for Green County Seniors
Oshkosh State College registrar L O Tetzlaff will give the commencement address at Green County Teachers College graduating seniors in the high school auditorium at 8 tomorrow night. Rev. Glen H Ridnour will deliver the invocation and benediction, Otto W Lund will present diplomas, J R Schesser will award them, and the program includes chorus and student songs.
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L. O. Tetzlaff
Oshkosh State College
Green County Teachers College
Glen H. Ridnour
First Methodist Church
Otto W. Lund
J. R. Schesser
Green County College Board
Three States Hit By Deluge Floods
Flash floods swept southwest Texas and Oklahoma as up to 8 inches of rain and rising rivers forced about 6 100 people to flee Fort Worth and Dallas suburbs. Moffett Oklahoma residents were evacuated to Ft. Smith Arkansas as the Arkansas River overflowed its banks. Lake Texoma near Denison Dam neared spillway level with downstream evacuations expected as water flowed over the spillway for the first time in 13 years.
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Dallas
Texas
Moffett
Okla
Ft. Smith
Ark
Trinity River
Fort Worth-Dallas
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Texoma
Denison Dam
Kuehn Opposes Leaving McCarthy Seat Vacant
MILWAUKEE Wisconsin GOP chairman Philip G Kuehn said he would vigorously oppose leaving the late Senator McCarthy's seat vacant until 1959 He supports a law change allowing gubernatorial appointment but would back a special election if the Legislature blocks the change He dismissed Gov Thomson seeking the seat in 1958 as a motive for vacancy.
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Milwaukee
Republican Party
Sen. McCarthy
Philip G. Kuehn
Wisconsin
GOP
Thomson
Senate
Kuehn
John Blaska Dies at 72 Co-op Leader and Politician
John M. Blaska longtime Dane County Board member for 22 years and former Democratic assemblyman elected in 1948 1950 died today at age 72 He also served as president of the Dairyland Co operative of Juneau reflecting his leadership in agricultural circles.
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John Blaska
Sun Prairie
John M. Blaska
Dane County Board
Blaska
Dairyland Co-operative of
Juneau
Memorial Day Parade Planned Here Thursday
Monroe plans a Memorial Day parade to honor war dead with a ceremony at Greenwood cemetery and grave decorations by veterans groups. Parade marshal T. J. Burgy Jr. says assembly at 8:30 a.m. at the National Guard Armory with the parade heading to Greenwood for wreaths and Gettysburg Address.
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Monroe
Greenwood Cemetery
T. J. Burgy Jr
National Guard
18Th Avenue
9Th Street
12Th Street
20Th Avenue
16Th Street
23Rd Avenue
Circle
Veterans Monument
Recreation Park
American Legion
VFW
Co. K
DAR
Woman's Relief Corps
Howard Counselman
Howard L. Bailey
Assembly of God Church
Robert Alder
Dennis Goecks
Logan
David Cox
Bernard Gibbons
Forrest Riese
Rockford Girl 14 Killed In Hit and Run Crash
Sharon Jean Dearth 14 of Rockford was struck while walking with a classmate near the southeast city limits. Police say her body was dragged 183 feet. Clarence T. Vermeis 50 formerly of Rockford was arrested on reckless homicide hours after the crash.
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Sharon Jean Dearth
Rockford
Lloyd Hanson
Argyle
Clarence T. Vermeis
Marengo
Sharon
Leroy Dearth
Collins Y. Sunberg
Stock Prices Dip After Early Advance Slips
New York traders saw the market open higher but fail to sustain gains with uneven moves across major divisions. Corning Glass rose sharply last week on pyroceram news and advanced about seven points today while several issues posted sizable but fractional gains.
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New York
Corning Glass
Tornado Strikes Two Grant Areas
A bouncing tornado hit Bloomington and Fennimore in Grant County Saturday causing shattered barns a roofless house and downed trees with $12000 in damage. No injuries were reported as Sheriff Seemeyer said two funnels may have been one and witnesses described a stationary funnel before it moved northeast.
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Bloomington
Fennimore
Grant County
Robert Seemeyer
Ralph McNamara
Here
Seemeyer
Donald Mumm
William Mergen Jr
Martin Schmidt
Dalton Vogel
Beck Declines Re election Bid
Washington cleanup forces in the Teamsters Union gain a win as Dave Beck announces he will not seek another term as president. He cites his wife’s health while facing Senate rackets investigators charges over misusing more than 320000 in union funds.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Beck
Senate
Teamster
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Rackets Investigating Committee
Afl-Cio
Labor Federation
Labor
Quint In Hospital Montreal
Marie Dion ne is reported undergoing rad ium treatments in Hotel Dieu hospital for a blood vessel tumor on one leg.
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Quint
Montreal
Marie Dionne
Hotel Dieu Hospital
Two FFA Youths Drown as Rowboat Sinks in Wisconsin Lake
Two Rosendale high school students James Fredericks and Myron Tates died when their FFA outing rowboat with four students swamped on Silver Lake near Wautoma Wisconsin. Three others escaped, authorities said. The day also saw a skin diver drown at Lake Geneva and several other missing persons in Wisconsin waters.
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FFA
Lake Geneva
Associated Press
Rosendale
Future Farmers of America
Silver Lake
Wautoma
Robert Fredericks
van Dyne
Myron Tates
Waushara County
Fredericks
Tates
Assassin Slays Algerian Leader in Paris Shooting
In Paris a jobless Algerian plumber shot Emir Ali Chekkal 60, deputy head of the Algerian Assembly. Coty’s limousine passed moments earlier prompting crowd panic. Chekkal had recently urged France at the U N General Assembly amid FLN condemnation rumors.
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Paris
France
Rene Coty
European Community of
Emir Ali Chekkal
Algerian Assembly
Chekkal
Coty
U. N. General Assembly
Algerian National Liberation Front
FLN
Johnson Named Lions Governor
Monroe Lions Club salutes Les ter M. Johnson of Monroe for being named district governor of 27D at the Wisconsin state Lions convention in Delavan He succeeds Arthur Farwell and will assume duties July 1 after attending the San Francisco International Lions convention Local sponsors and refreshments were donated for the convention along with the parade rain delay and the main speaker Edward G Barry Lions International first vice president
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Monroe
Johnson
Archie Myers Jr
Monroe Club
Monroe Lions Club
Lake Lawn
Delavan
Myers
P. J. Connors
Nathan
Robert Goetz
Dan Ault
Charles Figi
Frank Pickett
John Bruni
Bruni
J. T
Duke) Etter Jr
Etter
Franz W. Brand
Swiss Cheese Shop
Swiss Colony
Trumpy Cheese Co
Armour Creameries
Pauly Cheese Co
Reger Cheese Co
Capital Cheese Co
Lakeshire-Marty Co
Swiss Cheese Corp. of America
Dorman Cheese Co
Kantro Cheese Co
Fritos Wisconsin, Inc
Jos. Huber Brewing Co
E. J. Mueller
Milwaukee
William D. Farnum
Menasha
William W. Quinlan Jr
Phelps
Vern Droog
Eau Claire
David Cox
Foundry Leader Fred W. Busche Dies From Workplace Injury
Fred W. Busche 64 founder and president of General Foundries Co. Milwaukee died at County General Hospital from injuries suffered while assisting an employee at a Menomonie Falls plant. An industrialist and suburban Wauwatosa resident, he was struck when heavy machinery slipped and fell on him.
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Milwaukee
Fred W. Busche
Wauwatosa
County General Hospital
Menomonie Falls
Busche
General Foundries Co
Budapest orders 12 U.S. legation staff to leave
Hungary's Communist regime states that 12 members of the U S legation in Budapest must depart within six weeks. The move follows concerns about the mission being the largest from any country except Russia in the city.
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Budapest
Hungary
U.S
Russia
Fignole Seizes Power In Haiti Amid Labors Unrest
Provisional President Fignole, backed by workers and peasants, is sworn in as Haiti’s crisis-ridden capital calms. Crowds celebrate at the palace while police and militia patrol, and about 200 Americans remain stranded as all flights are halted. Dejoie, a planter-industrialist, trails in polls.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Daniel Fignole
Louis Dejoie
Fignole
Leon Cantave
Antonio Rebreau
Cantave
Pierre Armand
Republic
Dejoie
Tragedy In Illinois Car Crash Claims Two Families
A two-vehicle collision on Illinois Highway 116 near Benson killed 11 people, including four children from Streator and Bloomington couples. Investigators probed speed and potential third-vehicle involvement as they examined the fiery wreckage and included a tree and a pole collision.
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Benson, Ill
James Black
Streator
Vernie Mae
Peggy
Gloria
Deborah
Jimmie
George C. von Steenberg
Bloomington
Felon Nancy
George Pmo
Janice
Julie
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Illinois Central
County College
Marie K. Bolley
Eleanor Wolf
Marjory Deppeler
Jean Sacker
Jean Bidlingmaier
Bernice Eidahl
Nancy Foley
Inez Goecks
Helen Meyers
Patricia Moore
Daniel Neuenschwander
Willard Nevels
Assembly of God
Sharon Dearth
Grant Areas
Lions
Lester M. Johnson
Foundry Head
Idol of
Ilinois Road
Benson
Illinois
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