Pentagon Rivalry Trims Defense Budget While Army Gains
House Appropriations Committee recommends 38.848 billion for Defense for year starting July 1, cutting 399.861 million from Ike’s request. Army gets 9.2069 billion, Navy 11.0251 billion, Air Force 17.2285 billion. Cuts offset by boosts to Strategic Air Command and antisubmarine programs.
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Pentagon
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Eisenhower
Air Force
Army
Strategic Air Command
Navy
National Guard
Office of Defense Secretary
Mental Patient Cleared After Lie Test In Slaying Probe
A 28 year old former mental patient from Chippewa Falls reportedly passed a lie detector test at the state crime laboratory in Madison. He was questioned in connection with the March Miller Lake woman's murder and the earlier fake abduction case involving a young couple. Sheriff Herman Pederson said the test yielded a clean result.
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Chippewa Falls
Herman Pederson
George P. Larson
State Crime Laboratory
Madison
Miller Lake
Gnagi Foundation Names Fenton Director and Treasurer
H. J. John Fenton of the Commercial and Savings Bank was named director and treasurer of the Dr Will B and Neva Gnagi Foundation at a Monroe Clinic library meeting. He will succeed R W Blaha who resigns July 1. Other officers include Mrs Gnagi president Arthur C Benkett vice president and Harold E Scherer secretary.
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H. J
John) Fenton
The
Commercial and Savings Bank
Will B
Neva Gnagi Foundation
Monroe Clinic
Fenton
R. W. Blaha
Mrs. Gnagi
Arthur C. Benkett
Harold E. Scherer
Dulles Laid to Rest After Grand Arlington Ceremony
The body of John Foster Dulles was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery after a 22 hour ritual. Hundreds of U S officials and foreign dignitaries attended a 19 gun salute and taps by a lone bugler. President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower offered condolences to Mrs. Dulles as world leaders prepared to depart for Geneva. The service at the National Cathedral was led by Rev Dr Russell P Barnes with no sermon or eulogy.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
U. S
Dulles
Arlington National Cemetery
Eisenhower
Christian
Washington High Point
Russell P. Barnes
The
World Council of Churches
Proposal Urges Lower Vote Age In Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill by voice vote to place a referendum on lowering the state’s voting age to 18 in the November 1960 general election. Author Hugh Harper notes past pushes for lower voting ages. A separate measure to lower to 20 was tabled while Georgia remains at 18. High school students at a hearing split on maturity versus eligibility for those old enough to be drafted or pay taxes.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
Hugh Harper
Lancaster
Georgia
Eleven Area Members Receive Red Cross First Aid Pins
Eleven individuals received pins and certificates for completing the advanced Red Cross First Aid Class at the Kiwanis Youth Cabin. Instructors Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Howe presented awards to ten named participants along with the group’s fiscal year total reaching 212 trained in first aid through June 30.
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Red Cross
Kiwanis
Jerome Howe
Jake Schuetz
Lenwood Martin
Virgil Wilkins
Keith Christen
Karl R. Kundert
Roger Voelkh
Dave Woods
Patricia Kundert
Darlene Wesenberg
Robert Richardson Jr
Severe Storms Expected Across Mn Iowa And Wisconsin
Weather forecast warns of scattered severe thunderstorms in extreme southeastern Minnesota extreme northeast Iowa and central and west central Wisconsin. Large hail damaging winds and one or two tornadoes are possible today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST within 60 miles north and south of a line from Mason City Iowa to Green Bay Wisconsin.
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Kansas City
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Mason City
Green Bay
Wis
Winters Plans To Return Home
San Francisco. Comedian Jonathan Winters plans to fly home with his wife to Mamaroneck New York after two weeks in a peninsula sanitarium. He was taken into custody May 12 at Fisherman’s Wharf for acting irrationally. He will rest until August London appearances.
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San Francisco
Jonathan Winters
San Francisco Peninsula
Mamaroneck
N.Y
NBC
George Gobel
Winters
London
Anxious to Restart Work Earl Zrust Returns Home
Zrust, who vanished with his wife and five children last December, is back in Silver Lake Minnesota and plans several masonry projects near town. He left the homebuilding business five months ago, saying construction pressure made him nervous, and now intends to restart work while sorting out financial tangles with his attorney.
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Trust
Reno
New
Zrust
Joe Geylen
Earl
Geylen
Stock Market Hits Record High Grounds On Quiet Trading
New York stocks opened higher with a hesitant climb into record territory. Trading was active with fractional gains across key issues and larger rises in select chemicals electronics and related sectors. Industrials metals and aircraft shares aided the advance as the market averages rose.
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New York
Northern guide dies on wreath
Dan Jefferson, 60, a renowned fishing guide, collapsed and died of a heart attack Wednesday while placing a wreath on the casket of his old friend and hunting partner James Congleton.
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Eagle River
Dan Jefferson
James Congleton
Senior Week Begins with Baccalaureate and Commencement Details
Senior Week will start with a baccalaureate service at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium and conclude with commencement at 8 p.m. Thursday in the new high school gym. Tickets for graduation are limited for seniors. public seating is available. Elementary and junior high classes run through Wednesday. report cards distributed Friday afternoon. No classes next Thursday to finalize records.
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Supt
D. J. Huenink
Huenink
Donald H. Lins
St. Victor’s Catholic Church
Glen H. Ridnour
First Methodist Church
C. C. Warfel
Grace Lutheran Church
Allan F. Barnard
St. Victor’s Catholic School
Rev. Lins
Iowa County Youth Drowns at Bass Lake Chetek
Lyle Smelzer a 17 year old from Highland drowned while swimming at Bass Lake near Chetek his body was recovered Sheriff Lawrence Stegeman said Smelzer and five companions from Highland high school were vacationing in the area.
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Chetek
Lyle Smelzer
Highland
Bass Lake
Lawrence Stegeman
Smelzer
Highland High School
Iowa County
Eisenhower urges progress at Geneva talks with Gromyko
President Eisenhower told Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that progress at the Geneva East West talks is needed for a summit. He met with Gromyko along with the American British and French foreign ministers in a 30 minute White House session. Hagerty noted the president emphasized peaceful solutions for Germany and Europe and thanked officials for honoring John Foster Dulles memory.
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A. Herter
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Andrei Gromyko
Eisenhower
Geneva
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
National
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
White House
Gromyko
James C. Hagerty
Europe
Hagerty
Nikita S. Khrushchev
John Foster Dulles
Safety experts warn Memorial Day could bring record 260 traffic deaths
National Safety Council projects up to 260 traffic deaths and 60 000 disabling injuries during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. With 40 million cars expected on the roads from 6 p m Friday May 29 to midnight May 31 a new two day record could be set. The council notes last year’s three day period produced 371 fatalities and urges drivers to slow down avoid alcohol and plan safe arrivals.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Wisconsin Congressman Recovering After Bladder Surgery
A Walter Reed spokesman said Rep. Gardner Withrow R Wis is doing very well after minor bladder surgery. He is likely to leave Walter Reed within a week or two.
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Washington
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Gardner Withrow
R-Wis
Withrow
Regulation Expensive Creamery Group Opposes Rules
Wisconsin Creameries Association spokesman told a legislative hearing that a proposed state milk control agency would cost farmers millions in regulation. Opponents argued it would create vast government machinery paid by farmers while a large co op supported the plan to curb price wars. A UW economist said the current system advantages large firms and unfair practices exist.
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Madison
Wisconsin Creameries Association
Oscar Christianson
Pennsylvania
Assembly Agriculture Committee
William Kasakaitas
Wisconsin Farm Bureau
Kasakaitas
Pure Milk Products Co-operative
George S. Peter
Co-Operative
Subsidy revolt blocks farm bills in House Rules
A revolt by House Democrats over farm subsidy costs threatens to delay two major farm bills approved by the Agriculture Committee. Rules Committee opposition could push back action as Secretary Benson must issue wheat quotas by Monday for a 1960 crop referendum. House action may slip to next week with no clear timetable.
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Washington
House
House Rules Committee
House Agriculture Committee
Rules Committee
Secretary of Agriulture
Ezra Taft Benson
Congress
Agriculture Department
Harold D. Cooley
D-Nc
Richard Belling
D-Mo
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
D-Mass
Rules
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
No Mail Delivery In Monroe On Memorial Day
Postmaster John J Burkhard announced Monroe post office lobby hours from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Memorial Day with no window service or city and rural mail delivery. Only special delivery will be handled from incoming mails on Saturday.
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John J Burkhard
Monroe
Burkhard
First Creatures To Live Through Outer Space Blast
Two monkeys Able and Baker returned alive from a Jupiter rocket nose cone launched from Cape Canaveral reaching 300 miles altitude and speeds up to 10 000 mph. The United States calls the feat a breakthrough toward orbital flight while noting minimal stress effects on the animals.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Army
Able
Baker
United States
U.S. Air Force
New Mexico
U.S
Antigua
Kiowa
Snowden
Brough
Antigua Island
Ani
Mother Indicted For Sons Deaths In San Diego Case
In San Diego California a mother Wanda Brogdon and her lover Kenneth A Merriam were indicted by the county grand jury on charges of murdering the couple’s two young sons Virgil Brogdon Jr five and David three The jury found them sane and the indictment sends the case directly to Superior Court for trial Merriam allegedly strangled the children claiming they were trouble and that Brogdon urged him to do it
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Calif
Wanda Brogdon
Rockford, Ill
Kenneth A. Merriam
Superior Court
Merriam
Brogdon
Rock
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