Murdered Wife Tragedy Ends Czech Diplomat Flight
New York reports a Czech United Nations attache, Karel Zizka, 40, killed his wife Vera, 40, in Manhattan then fled in a Cadillac, led police across states at high speed, crashed near Easton, Pa. Zizka died in St. Luke’s Hospital after a confrontation with a trooper. authorities cited a sudden mental breakdown and a note declaring murder and self death.
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New York
Manhattan
Pennsylvania
Karel Zizka
United Nations
St. Luke’s Hospital
Foundation Hill
Bethlehem
Zizka
Vera
Upper
Madison Avenue
Mission
New Jersey
Jersey
State Line
Ranger 5 Moon Probe Fails On Power Shortage
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports Ranger 5 lost electrical power eight hours after launch from Cape Canaveral. The solar panels failed to supply power, leaving only a short life battery and causing the craft to miss the moon by about 300 miles. Unofficial speculation blames radiation from high altitude nuclear blasts for damaged solar cells.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Moon
Ranger 5
Pasadena
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pacific
Ranger 4
Ranger 3
Rangers 1
Pioneer
Able
Stock Prices Sink Amid Heavy Trading In New York
Stock market prices slid late in the afternoon as the day’s trading surged to 4.2 million shares, above the 3.28 million seen Thursday. High priced issues led the decline with volatile names like IBM, Polaroid, and Du Pont each dropping several points.
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New York
IBM
Polaroid
Aplecs du Pont
Inaugural UW Banquet Highlights All Wisconsin Menu
Area made cheddar from Green County featured as the appetizer at the Madison banquet for Dr. Fred Harvey Harrington's inauguration as the 14th president of the University of Wisconsin. The 6:45 p.m. event at UW Fieldhouse links with statewide inaugurals via radio. Gov. Gaylord Nelson delivers the state address at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $4 and advance sale through the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office.
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Green County
Madison
Fred Harvey Harrington
University of Wisconsin
Pres. Harrington
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin Alumni Association
Crawford County
Wisconsin Union Theater
Legion Schedules Memorial Service in Green County
Green County American Legion and auxiliary units finalize plans for a Memorial service on Sunday Nov 4 at Monroe Junior High School auditorium. Veterans from Green County who died since Sept 1 will be honored with Rev Gerritt Mouw as speaker and music by United Church of Christ adult choir New Glarus William Rollins Rainbow Girls and Zuercher Sisters. The event precedes Veterans Day Nov 11 and invites public attendance. The next auxiliary meeting is Jan 13 1963 in Monroe.
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Green County Council American Legion
Monroe
Green County
Gerritt Mouw
Air Force
United Church of Christ
New Glarus
William Rollins
Rainbow Girls
Zuercher Sisters
Swann Gehr Post
Brodhead
Gen Hugh Fanning Suffers Heart Attack in Hawaii
Brig. Gen. Hugh Fanning aged 66, former assistant commander of Wisconsin's 32nd Division, was hospitalized in Honolulu after a heart attack earlier this week. He and his wife were vacationing in Hawaii. Fanning retired August 31, 1956, and during World War II he led the 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion in South Pacific battles.
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Viroqua
Hugh Fanning
Wisconsin
Honolulu
Hawaii
Fanning
632Nd
South Pacific
Pheasant season opens as Green County group reports improving situation
Nearly 200 sportsmen attended the Green County Conservation League meeting at Turner hall where optimism rose about pheasants. The season runs noon tomorrow to November 13, with officials noting more birds due to good hatching and league stocking efforts.
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Green County Conservation League
Turner Hall
Ringneck
Clarence R. Benkert
Ella Stalled Off East Coast Near Cape Hatteras
Hurricane Ella, the season’s fifth tropical storm, sat 290 miles south of Cape Hatteras, projecting little movement until about 5 p.m. A Weather Bureau planed flight collected data while top winds held at 90 mph near the eye and gale winds affected a 600 mile diameter.
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Cape Hatteras
N.C
Atlantic
Ella
Weather Bureau
Utility Firm Expands Conversion To Natural Gas
Robert M. Bussen, manager, said conversion work will accelerate next week while awaiting a definite word on the North Central Public Service Corp bid. Crews are converting appliances to natural gas and Somerville Construction Co. of Ada, Michigan, will begin laying gas mains. Some irregular gas flames may occur for about a week during final adjustments, but no alarm is needed.
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North Central Public Service Corp
Robert M. Bussen
Bussen
Somerville Construction Co
Ada
Mich
Next Week's Menus Public School Cafeteria Notes
Editor's note explains a weekly menu feature to help mothers plan evening meals for high school students. The article outlines that upcoming school meals will be published regularly as a public service.
Weekly School Lunch Menu Highlights
The menu lists meals for Monday through Thursday featuring Bar-B-Q sandwiches with vegetable salad apricot sauce and milk on Monday, creamed ham buttered vegetables mashed potatoes and cake on Tuesday, meat loaf with creamed potatoes buttered corn ice cream and bread butter milk, Thursday pork with gravy mashed potatoes cranberry relish brownie and bread butter milk, and macaroni and cheese or Spanish rice with buttered peas fruit jello bread butter and peanut butter.
Kennedy Open to Informal Berlin Talks With Khrushchev
President Kennedy signals willingness to informal discussions with Soviet Premier Khrushchev on Berlin and world issues if Khrushchev visits the United States in coming weeks. Gromyko's White House meeting lasted over two hours with Rusk and aides, followed by a four hour State Department dinner exchange. The talks offered no progress toward a Khrushchev-Kennedy meeting and emphasized defense of West Berlin while stressing a Soviet peace treaty with East Germany.
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Washington
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Berlin
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
White House
Khrushcev
Gromyko
Gerhard Schroeder
U.S
Soviet Union demands moratorium on underground tests
The Soviet Union maintained a firm stance for an immediate uncontrolled moratorium on underground nuclear testing and accused the United States and Britain of trying to sidetrack the issue by inviting scientific meetings.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Veterans Gift Shop Donations Sought for 15th Year
The American Legion Auxiliary seeks Christmas Gift Shop donations in three Monroe stores Benketts' Clothing Becker's Leader and Ett er's dry goods. Co chairs Mmes Glen Swiggum Josef J Benkert W Herbert Davidson and Frederick F Lanz urge gifts by Nov 10 for VA Wood national stockroom distribution.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Monroe
Benketts’ Clothing
Becker’s
Leader Store
Etter’s Dry Goods
Mmes
Glen Swiggum
Josef J. Benkert
W. Herbert Davidson
Frederick F. Lanz
Wood
Swiss Colony Transfers Cheese Operations and Opens New Store
Swiss Colony moves its wholesale cheese operation and shipping to the former Borden Co. building near Monroe, with mail order still at current quarters through Christmas. The building on Cheese Row sold to J. S. Hoffman Co. for Green County Pre Pak, while top-floor offices stay. Remodeling of the Borden plant for cheese slicing is finished. a Swiss-type colony store opens next Thursday in Hilldale Mall Madison managed by Mr and Mrs Richard Moritz offering cheeses pastries sausages and gift trays with chalet frontage and canton shields.
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Swiss Colony
Borden Co
Monroe
Cheese Row
J. S. Hoffman Co
Chicago
Green County
Pre-Pak Food Packaging
Colony Building
Pre-Pak
Public Service Commission to reconvene phone hearing
The adjourned PSC hearing on Unit ed Telephone Co. service adequacy will resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday November 13 in the Circuit Courtroom. The session began September 17 and paused at petitioners request with transcriptions mailed October 9 to interested parties. A separate hearing on United Telephone Co. rate increases across eight exchanges closed in Madison after October 9 testimony.
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Public Service Commission
United Telephone Co
Madison
De Molay To Honor Stewart F Kingston With Special Degree
The late Stewart F Kingston will be honored tomorrow night at 8 during a Stewart Chapter De Molay meeting at the Masonic Temple. Kingston died Aug 21 at 55 from a stroke and was active in organizing the De Molay here.
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Stewart F Kingston
Stewart Chapter
Order of de Molay
Masonic Temple
Kingston
The
de Molay
Hisehalf
Monroe de Molay
Smith Masonic Lodge
Palestine
Madison
Zor Shrine
Shrine Crown Group
Eastern Star
Masonic Temple Association
Free and Accepted Masons of
Wisconsin
Swiss Cheddar Markets Steady on Wisconsin Exchange
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange reports very light activity with State brand pasteurized daisies 60 days old at 37½ cents at close. Cheddar prices steady on large Styles and up a quarter cent on single daisies. Swiss prices unchanged. Assemblers show good movement. factory receipts decline seasonally. top grade offerings adequate to short, lower grades limited.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Agricultural Marketing Service
Oaktron Pays All Employees with Two Dollar Bills
Oaktron Industries, Inc. completes a two week payroll of 43000 dollars paid entirely in two dollar bills. William L. Rollins, president, calls the act an industrial impact experiment to show merchants the firm’s effect on Monroe's economy.
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Monroe
Oaktron Industries, Inc
William L. Rollins
Oaktron
Fire Blamed on Grease In Monroe Home Tragedy
A Monroe woman Virgil Bowman 33 died from suffocation and heat in a midday blaze started by cooking grease in a frying pan at 903 20th Street The fire destroyed the one story home and most contents Bowmans husband a Crandall Oil Co bookkeeper arrived after firefighters and a nearby fireman Hurt by a fire truck is reported in good condition A clothing drive is organized for the Bowmans two children Virginia Ann and William LeRoy services set at Immanuel EUB Church with Rev Koch officiating
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Monroe
Frank Roberts
Madison
Josef J. Benkert
Virgil Bowman
Benkert
Roberts
Bowman
20Th Street
Benkett
Virginia
Karl F. Koch
Immanuel Eub
Virginia Ann
William LeRoy
Coral Johnson
Crandall Oil Co
Harold
Hap) Beach
St. Clare Hospital
Viola Jean Brunkow
Immanuel Eub Church
Koch
Greenwood Cemetery
Stuessy Funeral Home
China rebuffs at UN as seat bid faces tough vote
Red China fronts its general assembly bid for a United Nations seat while the United States forecasts Peiping will endure a harsher defeat than in the previous year.
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China
United Nations
N.Y
Red Ch'na
U.N
General Assembly
United States
Peiping
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