New Platting Rules Outlined by Oshkosh Council
The Oshkosh Common Council outlined new platting rules to ensure proper development and shield taxpayers from developer costs. Proposals direct developers to fund water, sewer, drainage, and street work, with inspections and laterals inside walk lines to curb future street excavations.
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Osh- Kosh
Fintan M. Flanagan
Councj
Mgr
H. S. Thorgrimsen
Madison
Flanagan
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
Thorgrimsen
Soo Line
Wau- Boo St
First State Marketing Act Aims at Wisconsin Potatoes
Gov Vernon Thomson signs an agricultural marketing act for fruits and vegetables, with orders by two thirds of affected producers and state graded inspections. Potato growers push for controls while Donald McDowell warns against heavy statewide regulation and administration challenges. The act, a first of its kind, could reshape potato competition with Idaho.
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Madison L.P
Vernon Thomson
McDowell
Inmates Propose Album for Convicts at Massachusetts Prison
Massachusetts State Prison inmates contribute to Mentor, the prison newspaper, with song title ideas for a fictional record. Suggestions include Up a Lomsy River, Throw Mamma from the Train a File, I Might as Well be Sprung, and The Lectric Chair's Got a Lie.
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Walpole
Mass
Massachusetts State Prison
Mentor
Lomsy
Cuba May Expel U.S. Envoy Amid Havana Crisis
Havana reports indicate Cuba may expel U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith after his outspoken remarks. Government circles say a decree could suspend rights for 45 days as authorities seek to discuss his comments in Santiago. Rebels in the east claim attacks and sabotage as general strikes halt activity in Santiago.
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Havana
U.S
Earl E. T. Smith
Sanhe
Ramon Vasconcelos
Cuba
Smith
Vasconcelos
Bueyecito
Minas
Cunela
Yeo
Mae' Gnacum
Santiago
U S to Pull 1st Cavalry Out of Japan
The Army will withdraw the 1st Cavalry Division from Japan and reassign its personnel elsewhere. The 2nd Division in Korea, first to enter the Korean War in 1950, will be redesignated the 1st Cavalry Division and stay on the peninsula with its personnel and equipment.
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Washington
1St Cavalry
Japan
2&H
Korea
U.S
1St Cavalry Division
Eisenhower
Nobusuke Kishi
Ralph W. Zwicker
Government Earmarks Nearly 3 Billion for National Highways
Washington announces a 2.975 billion dollar national highway appropriation for 1952 with Wisconsin receiving about 472 million. Allocations cover the interstate system, federal-aid primary, secondary, and urban extensions, plus feeder roads and state shares. Major totals for New York, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan listed.
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Washington
Sovernment Inday
Wisconsin
Sears
Bureau of Public Roads
Tofax
Secretary of Commerce
New York
Texas
California
Pennsylvania
Hinsis
Ohio
Michigan
Minnesota
United States and Canada outline merged air command
Washington reports a major step toward a single North American air command to defend against potential Russian attack. General Earl E. Partridge would lead with Air Marshal Solomon as deputy. headquarters at Colorado Springs under a joint U S Canada system, to be organized like the central command. Details on powers negotiated later.
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Washington
API
United States
Canada
Air’ Force
Earl E. Partridge
Partridge
C. 3
Slomon
Alaska
2Ir
Colorado Springs
Colo
Atcanus
Earth
Atlante Treaty Organization
Unaton
Pentagon
Repokésian
Open Skies Plan Would Let Inspectors in all Soviet Areas
Western plan proposed by Secretary Dulles would open Europe and North America to Soviet air and ground inspectors, with a flexible zone if Moscow balks. It seeks rapid blueprint work to secure safeguards against surprise attack and advance further arms reductions. The proposal covers Canada and most of Europe, with ports, rail hubs, roads, and airfields to be inspected. The plan marks a stronger Western stance in disarmament talks, expanding beyond Eisenhower’s Geneva proposal.
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London
Europe
North America
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
United States
Britain
Canada
France
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Ireland
Ural Mountains
Washington
Western Europe
York
Niles
Nikolai Bulganin
Rural Man Stabbed as Wife Held in Jail
Mrs. Vivian Bleedow, 45, Oshkosh Rt 5, is jailed in Winnebago County after a Thursday night family argument left her husband Arthur, 48, stabbed and hospitalized at Mercy. He required blood transfusions and surgery for a severed artery. she is in custody for questioning as investigators piece together events at their Shady Lang home near Bayview Park.
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Vivian Bleedow
Oshkesh
Winnebaso County
Arthur
Mercy Hospital
Miller
Winnebago County
Italian Child Dies and Six Hurt by World War I Grenade
In Palombara Sabina a World War I hand grenade exploded among children playing near a sun bathing center. One child was killed and six others injured. officials released the report today.
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Palombara Sabina
Haly
Celestial Tampa Moon trailer family tale
The Morningstar family resides in a Moon trailer at the Silver Star trailer court in Tampa Florida.
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Tampa
Fla
Joseph Morningstar
Silver Star Trailer Court
House Won’t Approve Civil Rights Bill Changes
Washington reports that House Republican leaders say Senate amendments to the civil rights bill likely end its chances this year. They reject the jury trial provision and warn the bill may be confined to voting rights, signaling it could be doomed for the session. Democrats hesitate to judge the Senate vote impact.
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Washington
House
Senate
Easuen
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Mass
Kenneth B. Keating
House Conference Committee
Fire sweeps Mercantile Building in Wautoma business district
A morning fire at the Mercantile Building on Main Street damaged a three story structure housing Woodwork Department Store Walt's Meat Market Luhm's Grocery and offices of Dr. Davies and attorneys Kearney and Jones Fire Chief Frank Schultz said most damage was on the upper storage level with smoke and water damage throughout the rest of the building Firefighters from Wild Rose and Redgranite aided the Wautoma department The owner is L J Walker of Berlin Discovered around 10 am by John Boudreau the department store manager.
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Wautoma
Wau- Senate
John ‘Boudreau
Wood‘work Department
Redgranite
Wautoma Department
Frank Schultz
L. J. Walker
Berlin
Walt’s Meat Market
Luhm
Robert Daies
Attys
Thomas Kearney
Gad Jones
Southern senators back voting rights bill amid filibuster fears
The southern cohort including Lyndon B. Johnson signaled support for a jury trial provision in a voting rights bill. The measure aims to allow jury trials in criminal contempt cases to punish judge actions. Eisenhower faced a setback last week when the Senate struck a broad injunctive powers clause. The only major dispute remains over subpena powers for a proposed bipartisan civil rights commission. A 39 Democrats and 12 Republicans coalition backed the jury trial amendment, with 33 Republicans and Democrats opposing.
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South
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Eisenhower
Bipartisan Commission On Civil Rights Administration
Ripon GOP Birthplace marker dedicated near schoolhouse
Ripon designated as the GOP birthplace with a monument beside the little white schoolhouse museum where founders met in 1853. Gov. Stratton and Gov. Thomson attended. Delano Granite Works donated the monument. Miss Wisconsin Joan Hentschel and others invited to ceremonies.
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Ripon
Stratton
Witnois
Thomson
Wisconsin
Iincis
Abraham Lincoln
Springheld
Delano, Minn
Don Gilmer
Frm
Joan Hentschel
Wauwatosa
Mary Schmidt
Fond du Lac
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Ko Takenaka
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