32nd Families Pour into Area
Ft. Lewis Washington hosts wives and children of Wisconsin servicemen as they travel by plane train bus and car to be near loved ones at the 32nd Division training camp. Families seek housing, with several already settled in trailer homes while others find temporary quarters as they adjust to life away from Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Lewis
Wash
Wisconsin
Pacific Northwest
Probem
Melvin Doris
Co. B
127Th Infantry
Green Bay
Wayne Jahnke
Seattle
Clayton Ploegman
132Nd Signal Battalion
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Lester Biller
Billers
Biller
132Nd Signal
Plymouth
Canada
New Mexico
West Coast
O Konski seeks army budget increase for new equipment
Wisconsin Representative Alvin E. O Konski says the Army budget should rise by one billion dollars to equip soldiers called into service amid the Berlin crisis. He cites shortages in rifles, food, bedding, clothing, and boots observed at Yakima and the big camp housing the 32nd Division. He withdrew a probe bid, noting improvements but continuing shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Uxwip
Wasn. Um
Alvin E. O’konski
O’konski
Yakima
Wisconsin
Crash Blamed On Wheel Fire In Yukon Crash
FAIRBANKS Alaska A cargo plane exploded in flight carrying possibly seven Texans to their deaths. survivor S Sgt Leroy Cotton 37 Gale na Park Tex recounts wheel fire at takeoff. Plane from Elmendorf Alaska bound to Whitehorse Yukon crashed Thursday with two confirmed dead and five others dead or missing. Four of 14 passengers exited after landing. Plane brakes froze at takeoff forcing engine afterburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
Alaska
Air Force
Leroy Cotton
Galena Park
Tex
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Anchorage
Cotton
Monoxide Fumes Kill Friend of Baby Sitter
A 22 year old man Orland Schlaff of Mattoon was found dead and his girlfriend Delores Resch 21 of Birnamwood unconscious in a car outside a farm home eight miles southeast of Antigo. The engine was running when Vernon Mattmiller discovered them. Resch was in critical condition at Langlade County Hospital.
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Antigo
Orland Schlaff
Mattoon
Delores Resch
Birnam
Wood
Langlade County Hospital
Schlaff
Miss Resch
Vernon Mattmiller
Monroe High School Salute Concert Groups Chosen
Monroe High School selects committees and announcers for the Christmas Salute concert to National Guard Co. B announced by band director Allan F. Barnard. The 8 p.m. Tuesday, December 5 event at the junior high auditorium will feature a taped concert excerpt sent to Ft. Lewis Washington and a poster with photos from The Monroe Evening Times. Melody Willenkotter appears as a lead vocalist as Mayor Orville R. Evans speaks. A dedicated "Company B March" by Barnard will be recorded. Box office duties fall to Edmund R. Anderson with Walter Babula overseeing auditorium operations. Committees include Ticket Sales, Publicity, and Stage Decorations with multiple co-chairmen and assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe High School
National Guard Co. B
Allan F. Barnard
Stanley Neuberger
WEKZ
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Ruth ‘Schuetz
Sally Dickson
Beatrice Flanagan
LuAnn Stauffacher
Carolynn Jones
Edmund R. Anderson
Walter Babula
Melody Wellenkotter
LouAnn Gerber
Karen Herbert
Marcia Manley
Mary Storck
Ruth Sc
Dutch Vessel Finds Tank in Rockefeller Search
A Dutch navy ship located a gasoline tank off New Guinea as the ten day search for missing Michael Rockefeller intensified. Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller remained in the area as rescuers widened a 150 mile shoreline sweep from the Jenden River to Frederik Hendrik Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
New Guinea
Michael Rockefeller
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Snellius
Young Rockefeller
Great Sea
Frederik Hendrik Island
Atsi
F.R.J. Eibrink Jansen
Rockefeller
Jansen
Piet Plateel
Jenden River
Frederik
Chilton Officer Battles Burglars in Highspeed Chase
Chilton police officer Dan Alleydell 26 exchanged shots with two burglars at 90 to 100 mph after surprising them at Hin giss Implement Co. early today. A rifle slug shattered the windshield. the chase moved onto waterlogged back roads before the suspects escaped into Manitowoc County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilton
Dan Alleydell
Hingiss Implement Co
Albydell
Col
Manitowoc County
Monroes Visitor Reports Content Co B at Ft Lewi
Fred W. Huber and Capt Dwight Coplien describe Co B at Ft Lewi as content with food blankets and housing. Visitors note warm barracks and sociable times with Swiss Club of Tacoma event and a reassuring, friendly unit climate since mobilization.
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Co. B
Dwight C. Coplien
Joyce
Ft. Lewi
Monroe
Fred W. Huber
West Coast
Jos. Huber Brewing Co
Huber
Tacoma
Switzerland
Minnesota
Seattle
Five More Die In Wisconsin Holiday Auto Crashes
Five more deaths added to Wisconsin toll during the Thanksgiving counting period. Among the dead were Jack Aldrich and William Thiele in a two car crash near Wisconsin Rapids, David Hines and Keith Nelson in a head on collision near Ellsworth, Jack Brent in West Allis, James Pelzek and Michael Haase in Milwaukee County, and Clyde Arbogast in Juneau County.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Jack Howard Aldrich
Amherst
William Thiele
Wisconsin Rapids
Tod
David Hines
Ellsworth
Keith Nelson
Jack Brent
West al
Lincoln Avenue
West
Allis
James Pelzek
Greendale
Milwauke
St. Francis
Michael Haase
Camp Douglas
Juneau County
Arbogast
Trujillos Fled With Millions
SANTO DOMINGO reports multi million-dollar withdrawals by exiled Trujillos sparked controversy. Voz del Tropico alleged Gen Jose Arizmendi Trujillo withdrew 2 million from the Bank of Reserves before flying to the United States. Balaguer urged freezing all Trujillo family accounts as demonstrations subsided and the armed forces took protective custody of vast private and commercial possessions once worth over 400 million.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Voz del Tropico
Jose Arizmendi Trujillo
Bank of Reserves
United States
Joaquin Balaguer
Trujillo
Balaguer
West Berlin Criticizes Release of Refugee to Soviet Union
West Berliners split on the U S decision to hand over refugee Siegfried Pump who slipped onto an American military train. General Lucius D Clay explained there were no extraterritorial rights on the trains and the Soviets halted the train from Berlin to Frankfurt with 80 Americans aboard. A Soviet checkpoint officer demanded Pump be turned over, and hours later a U S colonel transferred him to a Soviet officer after an investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newsy Wrest
U.S
East Germany
Frankfurt
Siegfried Pump
West
Pump
West Germany
Berlin
U N Delays Plan to Disarm Congo Mutineers
U N Congo mission chief Dr Sture Linner says disarming the Kindu troops would not proceed. He proposes the Leopoldville government round up the killers who dismembered Italian airmen and bring them for interrogation and punishment. The U N shifts focus from a 2000 man garrison to pursuing justice through local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leupulvville
Congo
U.N
Sture Linner
U.N. Congo
Cyrille Adoula
Leopoldville
Linner
United Nations
Kindu
Girls Escape Twice From State Training School for Negro Girls
In a mass escape Friday night from the State Training School for Negro Girls inmates fled again today while being returned to the lab campus. Mrs. Ruby Stanback the superintendent reported six of the 23 escapees surrendered Friday night due to cold weather. The six were unarmed but others may have knives and ice picks from the kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lab
Unis
Swedish Tycoon Wenner-Gren Dies at 80 of Cancer
Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, Swedish industrialist who built a global empire from a Swedish home appliance company, died of cancer at 80 in Stockholm. His wealth was once estimated at about 1 billion dollars. his will supported scientific and health philanthropy through a Stockholm foundation. He faced wartime blacklist in the United States for Nazi dealings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren
U.S
Wenner-Gren
Red Cross
Marguerite Gauntier
Wenner- Gren
Stockholm Foundation
Sweden
United States
Panama C
Mexico
Texas
California
Terry Jo To Return To Green Bay Soon
Terry Jo Duperrault is expected to return to Green Bay Wisconsin with her aunt Mrs. Ralph Scheer and uncle Fred Duperrault in the middle of next week. Dr Franklyn Verdon says the 11 year old survivor of the Bluebelle sinking on November 12 may go home after recovery as Coast Guard investigators continue to study the disaster that claimed her family and the skipper’s wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duperrault
Green Bay
Wis
Franklyn Verdon
Envescall
Terry Jo
Soviet Postpones Military Talks With Finland
Moscow reports that the Soviet Union agreed to delay planned military consultations with Finland amid Baltic tension. Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, returning from Novosibirsk, told Khrushchev such talks would raise tensions. both leaders agreed to monitor Baltic developments and reconvene if needed. O Honka, a right‑wing Finnish candidate, said he would not run in February elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Urho Kekkonen
Kremlin
Baltic
Finland
Tass
Kekkonen
Khrushchev
Siberian
Novosibirsk
Xekkonen
Khrushy
West Germany
Helsinki Aday
O. Honka
Iowa Student's Hereford Champ at International Livestock Exposition
Van Horne Iowa 15 year old John Cherveny won the junior grand championship at the International Livestock Exposition with his 1050 pound Hereford Wee-Willie. last year’s winner Kaye Pollock was eliminated in the first round. Pollock had accrued 17690 dollars in winnings previously, while Wee-Willie had earlier captured top honors at Cedar Rapids All-Town Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Cherveny
van Horne
Iowa
Cherveny
Kaye Pollock
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
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Thomas Stocker
Ellen Schwartz
Robert Kuster
Barbara Gibbons
Steven Maurer
Trujillos
West Berlin
Finn
Telli Khrushchev
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