Police Chief Hefty Returns After Illness Meets Aldermen
Police Chief Henry S. Hefty, recently ill, met with two members of the police and safety committee to discuss alleged irregularities in the Monroe Police Department. Alderman Goetz confirmed Hefty remains chief and said no decision would be made until early next week amid a mayoral investigation into department turnover and the resignations of two patrolmen.
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Henry S. Hefty
Police and Safety Committee
James B. Goetz
Orville R. Evans
Hefty
Goetz
Rex N. Eyler
Council Police and Safety Committee
Evans
Wisconsin
Monroe
Schmitz
Eyler
Skattum
Kittelsen
Commission
William J. Schmitz
Mayer
Dwight C. Coplien
Coplien
Radio Studio Fire Alarm Prompted by Overheat
An overheated fluorescent ceiling fixture in Studio B at WEKZ triggered a general alarm. George W. McKeown, the station sports director and a volunteer firefighter, removed the trouble-causing fixture portion and prevented any fire damage.
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WEKZ
George W. McKeown
Postmaster Urges Early Mail For Christmas Rush
Alfred H. Henning announces annual Mail Early for Christmas drive as 1960 holiday mailing may hit peak. Tips include complete addresses, sturdy packaging, proper postage, and using First Class for cards. Free labels and pamphlet offered. advance staffing planned. deadlines set for distant points before Dec 10 and nearby by Dec 15.
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Alfred H. Henning
Postoffice
Henning
Publisher Held As Bank Robber
A 42 year old publisher and former banker Lawrence C. Pope was jailed in San Antonio on $50,000 bond for robbing the First State Bank of Thornton on November 5 and the Farmers State Bank of Shulenburg last Saturday. FBI agents nabbed him after a motel raid following a tip from an unidentified woman. Pope said he had no way to post the bond and admitted discarding the pistol used in the robberies.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Lawrence C. Pope
First State Bank of Thornton
Farmers State Bank of Shulenburg
Pope
FBI
Federal
Giddings
Lexington
Accardo Sentenced to Six Years and 15000 Fine
Tony Accardo longtime syndicate leader tied to Al Capone was sentenced in U S District Court by Judge Julius Hoffman to six years in prison and a 15000 dollar fine for income tax evasion. He had been convicted of falsely deducting 3993 dollars as business expenses for a foreign sports car in 1956 57 and 58.
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Chicago
Tony Accardo
al Capone
Julius Hoffman
U. S. District Court
Accardo
Capone
River Forest
Cheddar Trade Steady Longhorn Price Higher
GREEN BAY Longhorns advance a quarter cent to 41 cents on the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange. Trading zone firm on pasteurized longhorns, otherwise steady. sales include four cars 60 blocks 38 cents and single dairy 39½. Unfilled bids include cheddars 37½ and various 60 and 40 lb blocks.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Wisconsin Instalment Bankers Elect Edward Adam President
Edward M. Adam, president of the First National Bank of Monroe, is elected as the first president of the Wisconsin Instalment Bankers Association. The group aims to help banks improve consumer credit operations and will invite all state banks to join, working with the Wisconsin Bankers Association. Adam moved to Monroe in 1959 to succeed Roy F. Burmeister as time loan and consumer credit services expanded.
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Wisconsin Intalment Bankers Association
Edward M. Adam
First National Bank of
Monroe
Adam
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Bankers Association
Sheboygan
Bankers Association
Appleton
Roy F. Burmeister
First National
Starved Rock Killer Indicted for Triple Slaying
Chester Otto Weger, 21, faces three murder indictments in the Starved Rock State Park killings of Riverside Illinois wives Frances Murphy Mildred Lindquist and Lillian Jetting. The La Salle County grand jury also charged robberies rapes and related crimes tied to Weger. The indictments followed his confession and a re-enactment of the crimes.
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Ottawa
Ill
Chester Otto Weger
Chicago Area
Starved Rock State Park
la Salle County Grand Jury
Weger
Leonard Hoffman
Wayland
Riverside
Lonely Park Canyon
Mathiessen State Park
Virginia Funfsin
la Moille
James Lupan
Lostant
Jean Kapp
Miss Kapp
Park Lodge
Chicago
Frances Murphy
Mildred Lindquist
Lillian Jetting
the Park
One Dies as Car Plunges in River
Illinois man dies at hospital after auto carrying him and two others plunges down a hill into the Galena River near General Ulysses S. Grant's home in Galena. Driver Joseph Honerbaum 18 of Hanover survived while the father Bernard 532 died. mother Helen recovered.
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Hazel Green
Wis
Illinois
Galena
Joseph Honerbaum
Hanover
Ill
Ulysses S. Grant
Honerbaum
Bernard
Helen
McCormick Place Opens As Chicago Modern Living Exhibit
Chicago debuts McCormick Place, a massive 302 acre exhibition hall costing 35 million dollars along Lake Michigan. The new complex, named for Robert R. McCormick, features a vast single floor exhibit area and five model 3 bedroom houses for the Modern Living and Flower Show running through December 4.
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Chicago
Exposition Hall
Rome
Egypt
Colosseum
Temple of Karnak
McCormick Place
Lake Michigan
The
Chicago Tribune
Robert R. McCormick
America
John T. Kimball Dies at Buffalo After Illness
John T. Kimball aged 70 died in Buffalo New York after a long illness following a heart attack Monday. A native of Janesville he was a retired utility executive and spent time visiting Monroe in recent years. Survived by his widow Florence Karlen and son John C. Kimball funeral plans pending Mrs Young left Monroe to attend the rites in Buffalo.
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John T. Kimball
Ray A. Young
Buffalo
N.Y
Mr. Kimball
Janesville
Monroe
Florence Karlen
John C. Kimball
Kohler Death Cause Await Lab Report at Wisconsin Lake Lodge
Phelps Vilas County authorities awaited the State Crime Laboratory report to confirm the cause of Carl J. Kohler Sr. s death after his body was found at the family island lodge on North Twin Lake. Police believe heart attack or carbon monoxide poisoning from a possibly faulty space heater. He was the son of former Wisconsin governor Walter Kohler Sr. and brother of former governor Walter Kohler Jr.
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Phelps
Vilas County
State Crime Laboratory
Carl J. Kohler Sr
Kohler
Madison Laboratory
North Twin Lake
Walter Kohler Sr
Wisconsin
Walter Kohler i Jr
Eisenhower orders Caribbean naval task to shield Guatemala
The White House defended the move as a deterrent against Communist attempts to subvert Guatemala and Nicaragua. Four destroyers and an aircraft carrier were moved into the Caribbean to prevent and deter any Castro linked invasion or supply efforts. Top officials cited fear of renewed pro Castro revolts and smuggling of Soviet weapons as key factors guiding the action.
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Augusta
White House
Soviet Union
Cuba
Eisenhower
U.S
Guatemala
Nicaragua
James C. Hagerty
Moscow
Hagerty
Caribbean
United States
Fidel Castro
U.S. Navy
U. S
Castro
Nicarauguan
Kennedy and Dulles briefed on Caribbean anti communism plan
President elect John F Kennedy met with CIA chief Allen W Dulles at the Atlanticshore home of Kennedy parents Palm Beach Florida for a top secret two hour briefing on the U S anti Communist mission in Caribbean area Eisenhower ordered naval units to defend Guatemala and Nicaragua Dulles will provide a detailed background briefing ahead of NATO Paris conference with Lyndon B Johnson and plans for the new administration were discussed at Johnson City Texas deer hunt
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S
Caribbean
Eisenhower
Kennedy
CIA
Allen W. Dulles
Atlantic
Dulles
U. S
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Lyndon B. Tiohnson
Johnson
LBJ
Johnson City
Tex
Sen
NATO
Paris
Lbj Ranch
Transient Admits Loan Office Raids
Herman Kuebler, a 56 year old transient arrested after a $2,448 Citizens State Bank holdup at Big Lake, Minnesota, admitted to being the lunch time bandit who raided Wisconsin loan offices during noon hours last spring and summer. He previously hid in Hudson, Wisconsin area and faces bank robbery charges.
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Elk River
Minn
Wisconsin
Herman Kuebler
Hudson, Wis
Big Lake
Citizens State Bank
Kuebler
Marshfield
Household Finance Corp
Wisconsin Finance Corp
Wausau
Thorp Finance Co
Waupaca
Household Finance Co
Stevens Point
Private Rites Planned After Clark Gable Death
Hollywood mourns as Clark Gable dies from a second blood clot following a heart attack. Private funeral services set for Saturday at 9 a.m. at Forest Lawn Glendale. Kay Gable, five months pregnant, to entomb him beside Carole Lombard in the crypt.
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Hollywood
Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Miss Lombard
Gable
Forest Lawn
Kay
No Challenges Seen on Votes No Challenges Seen on Votes
GOP leaders in 11 states said no recounts of the November election are planned while checks on reported voting irregularities continue. Kennedy leads Nixon by about 185 thousand votes with absentee ballots growing in California. Official canvasses will determine final results and splinter party tallies await next month.
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Washington
GOP
Thruston B. Morton
Morton
Michigan
South Carolina
Illinois
New Mexico
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Nevada
Missouri
Minnesota
Texas
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
California
Stock Market Lists Modest Gains In Slow Trading
NEW YORK The stock market eked out small gains in a listless session. It was a mixed day with retail merchandisers metals tobaccos and utilities among the few groups trading higher. About 2.7 million shares changed hands versus 2.45 million Thursday with gains mostly under one point and occasional larger moves in isolated stocks.
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New York
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Radke
Starved Rock
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Nant
George C. Griffith
Griffith
Fred V. Cerini
Cerini
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