Clean Up Paint Up Fix Up Week Declared In Oshkosh
Oshkosh leaders launch Project No 1 Operation Community Pride with a May 5 11 proclamation by City Council President Erbin Harenburg. The week features billboard notices painting and cleaning campaigns by Scouts painters unions Pi Sigma Fraternity and fire department with church cooperation and a final chamber inspection to pick the outstanding block.
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Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce
Oshkosh Fire Department
Mendant Hac
Oshkosh Common Council
Erbin Harenburg
City Hall
M. Edward Kelly
Chamber
Oshkosh
Kelly
Harenburg
Raulf
Oshkosh Boy Scouts
Pi Sigma Fraternity
Oshkosh State College
Public Works Department
Youth Council
Menominee Park
Sigma Tau Fraternity
Delta Kappa Fraternity
Edgerton sees mass resignations from school system
Two principals and 25 teachers quit Edgerton public schools. Superintendent-elect Kenneth Williams says most resignations reflect staff turnover, not the earlier book ban dispute. Longtime high school principal John Hamburg leaves for Delaware-Darien after 22 years. He had opposed submitting reading lists to outsiders amid community controversy.
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Edgerton
Kenneth Williams
Williams
John Hamburg
Delavan-Darien
Hamburg
Kennedy rejects war talk over Cuba policy
President Kennedy challenged critics of his Cuba policy to say if they would go to war to topple Fidel Castro. He dismissed Nixon and Keating proposals and briefed that 4,000 to 5,000 Cuban troops have left since January with far fewer entering, inviting Keating to share sources for verification.
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Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Caribbean
Richard M. Nixon
Kenneth B. Keating
New York
Laos
Nixon
Castro
Keating
Supervisor laments no furniture for new Ventura office
County Supervisor Fred Ireland wrote to the board that his new office is fine but he has no furniture, leaving his secretary to sit on his lap. The board understood and ordered new furniture for the office.
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Ventura
Calif
Upli
Fred Ireland
Troop claims spark Cuban exile uproar in Milwaukee
Enrique Abascal of New York told the Milwaukee Advertising Club that a witness in Cuba reported more than 5,000 Soviet trained troops landed at a major Cuban port recently. He said the force included Cubans Venezuelans and central Europeans and warned U.S. policy fuels Cuban raids while Cuba waits for action. Sources: Abascal said the eyewitness learned troops were trained behind the Iron Curtain and that Cuban exiles remain united amid administration crackdowns.
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Milwaukee
UPI
Alpha 66
Enrique Abascal
New York
Abascal
Cuba
Castro
Laos
United Stain
Russia
U.S
Aerialist Falls in Duluth During Shrine Circus
Aerialist Ely Albaracen, 22, from Bagola Colombia fell more than 30 feet during a Shrine Circus in Duluth. He landed on his knees after waving to the crowd, then collapsed. Initial reports said he was not seriously hurt. officials noted the Duluth show differs from the Omaha incident where a female aerialist died last week.
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Duluth
Minn
UPI
Shrine Circus
Ely Albaracen
Bagola
Colombia
Omaha
Farmer Killed As Tractor Tips In Mudhole Ordeal
John Hintz, 76, of West De Pere, was killed when his tractor overturned on his farm while attempting to pull from a mudhole. Coroner Bernard Kemps said improvised traction by four by four wood caused the wheel jump and rollover. Grandson Michael Hintz and neighbor Edward Pasowiecz helped lift the tractor to free the body.
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West DE Pere
John Hintz
Rt. 2
Outagamie
Bernard H. Kemps
Hintz
Kemps
Michael Hintz
Rt. 1
Edward Pasowiecz
Birth Control Bill Offered in Legislature
Wisconsin lawmakers see a bill to provide a birth control program for married welfare recipients. Sen. Davis Donnelly D Eau Claire introduced the measure, modeled after Illinois but excluding unmarried mothers on relief.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Davis Donnelly
D-Eau Claire
Illinois
Harriman Visits Moscow on Laos Peace Mission
U.S. Under secretary of State W Averell Harriman arrived in Moscow with a personal appeal from President Kennedy to Premier Nikita Khrushchev to help settle Laos crisis. He expressed hope for an agreement ending Southeast Asia fighting and said Khrushchev indicated intent to uphold Laos independence and neutrality.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Kennedy
Nikita $. Khrushchev
Laos
Harriman
Khrushchev
Vienna
Pentagon
Thailand
Laos Crisis Tests East West Peace Efforts
President Kennedy warns that the future of peaceful coexistence and Southeast Asia’s security may hinge on Laos. He notes a crucial test for East and West and mentions 3,000 troops and jets bound for Thailand, with Harriman carrying a message to Khrushchev. Kennedy cites Soviet influence in Laos and the chance to shape prospects of wider accords.
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Washington
Kennedy
Southeast Asia
Laos
Geneva
Blind Woman Regains Sight After Six Decades
MIAMI Fla AP Miss Bessie Sikes who has lived with one percent vision in her right eye since infancy suddenly regained sight at age 60. She saw floor colors a blue sky palm trees and a white refrigerator for the first time and described the moment as a freak. An ophthalmologist said long blindness came from chorioretinitis with a dislocated cataract but vision remained through the lens.
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Miami
Fla
Bessie Dikes
Miss Dikes
Bessie Sikes
Sunday closing plan draws religious freedom concerns
Two groups testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee argued that a proposed Sunday closing law for large retailers would create two classes of citizens in Wisconsin. Rabbi Louis J. Swichkow and Saul Sorrin of Milwaukee warned the measure violates religious freedom, while R. E. Finney said it clashes with the principle of a free society. Also discussed was a bill to repeal the state’s one year residence requirement for relief eligibility, with George Rice estimating a potential $2 million annual rise in general property taxes if repealed.
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Madison
Senate Judiciary Committee
Louis J. Swichkow
Wisconsin Council of Rabbis
Wisconsin
Swichkow
Milwaukee
Saul Sorrin
Milwaukee Jewish Council
R. E. Finney
Seventh-Day Adventists Wisconsin Council
George Rice
Milwaukee County Board
Gordon Singkin
Hospital Deaths Probe Is Ordered
In New Rochelle Hospital two patients died and a third was infected after operations for broken thigh bones. A common organism, usually not dangerous, is blamed as virulent. Each patient was treated by a different surgeon in another operating room. An investigation was ordered and the ORs closed. Victims include William J. Isbuster aged 68 of New Rochelle and Jean Goobie aged 56 of Eastchester.
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New Rochelle Hospital
William J. Isbuster
Jean ,Goobie
Eastchester
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