Senate Ballot Rejects Withholding Tax Measure
MADISON Republicans failed to move a major tax revision bill to Governor Nelson as a key Senate vote 16-15 rejected the income tax withholding feature. Several maverick senators shifted positions on amendments to boost personal property tax relief, with Leverich and Krueger altering earlier stands, and a conference committee potential if changes are not approved.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Senate
Assembly
Robert Dean
D-Wausau
Epu Krueger
House
J. Earl Leverich
Sparta
Leverich
Sen
Clifford Krueger
R-Merrill
Krueger
Main Street
U.N. to Convene Special Session on Tunisia Dispute
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold called a special U.N. General Assembly session for August 21 to address the French Tunisian dispute after a majority of the 99 members supported an Asian African request. Uruguay became the 50th member to approve the session.
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United Nations, N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N. General Assembly
Hammarskjold
U.N
Uruguay
Wisconsin Assembly approves $1 an hour minimum pay bill
The Assembly passed a bill setting a state minimum wage of $1 per hour with the Industrial Commission to adjust rates by area. Opponents warned it expands authority and raises wages. Senate action pending. The same session also sent a campaign finance bill to the Assembly and approved a welfare department prison facility plan at Williams Bay with a 175000 cap expenditure for a 40 acre site and equipment.
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Madison Cap
Industrial Commission
Assembly
Allen Flannigan
Milwaukee
Flannigan
Spik
Nile Soik
Whitefish Bay
Senate
Wisconsin
Robert Dean
D- Wausau
Secretary of State
Welfare Department
Williams Bay
Walworth County
Earl Morton
Kenosha
Judge mocks lovers quarrel weapon choice in RI case
Superior Court Judge Fred B. Perkins sentenced Oliver L. Ransom, 56, to a year in jail for slashing Essie Cuthbert with a straight razor. He warned that in a lovers quarrel it is better to use an electric razor, making a pointed moral from the incident.
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Providence, RI
UPI
Superior Court
Fred B. Perkins
Oliver L. Ransom
Essie Cuthbert
General Walter Bedell Smith Dies at 65 in Washington
Walter Bedell Smith, a long-time military officer and diplomat, died of a heart attack at 65 after collapsing at his home and being rushed to Walter Reed Army Hospital. A 43-year government veteran, he earned four Distinguished Service Medals and rose from private in the Indiana National Guard to planning chief for North Africa and Normandy. He served as Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff through much of World War II, earning nicknames for his tenacity and leadership. He signed the Italian surrender for Eisenhower and later led Allied groups in key postwar duties.
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Washington
Walter Bedell Smith
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Smith
Indiana National Guard
North Africa
Normandy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Britain
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
Crash Kills 34 English Schoolboys
A Viking charter flight carrying 34 English schoolboys aged 12 to 14 bound for a Norwegian holiday sponsored by Lafrane School Croydon was found in the coastal mountains southeast of Stavanger with io survivors reported. The wreck occurred during a storm at dusk on Wednesday. Two teachers and three crew were aboard along with the boys. Another student flight from Harlow, England, landed safely in Stavanger.
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Stavanger
Norway
UPD
Lafrane
Croydon
London
Cunard
Eagle Airways
Harlow
England
Outlook Gloomy For Kennedy's Two Pet Projects
Three die in hijacking bid over Cuban airliner on Wednesday. Fighters opened fire aboard Aerovias Q flight from Havana to Isle of Pines, killing the captain and injuring others before hijackers fled into a cane field. Co pilot Alberto Bayo crash landed the craft. four passengers were wounded as militiamen searched the area. Prime Minister Fidel Castro urged U.S. action to curb cross border hijackings.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Aerovias Q
Rancho Boyeros
Isle of Pines
Cuba
United States
Alberto Bayo
Bayo
Ramon Ferrandis
Pan American World Airways
U.S
U. S
Caden
Algeria
FBI
Cadon
New York
Bellevue Hospital
Charlotte
New York City
Mexico
Castro
Mexico City
Colom
Boy 6 Drowns While Swimming in Railroad Lake
In Spread Eagle Wisconsin Kenney Backlund six son of Mr and Mrs Elwood Backlund Kingsford Michigan drowned Wednesday evening while swimming with friends in Railroad Lake near Florence County community in northeast Wisconsin and his body was recovered.
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Spread Eagle
Wis
Kenney Backlund
Elwood Backlund
Kingsford
Mich
Railroad Lake
Florence County
Wisconsin
Briton Poses as Repairman Steals Phone at Parlor
In Hitchin England a young man pretending to be a telephony repairman entered a beauty parlor and claimed a red telephone was out of order. He removed the set and left behind a black model before departing.
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Hitchin
England
UPID
French hijacker Cadon faces U S charges after Havana hold
Albert Cadon 27 a French national hijacked a Pan Am DC8 forcing it to Havana none of the 82 aboard harmed. FBI Director Hoover says Cadon will be charged on the high seas assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to commit a felony if he is returned.
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Miami
Fla
Albert Charles Cadon
Havana
Cadon
Pan American World Airways
Cuba
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
High Seas
United States
Kennedy Exercises to Curb Hijackings at Jets
President Kennedy announced plans to assign border patrols to several airplanes and lock cockpit doors to deter hijackings. He urged other governments to use all means to curb these efforts while cautioning lawmakers about premature conclusions on who hijacks flights. He noted ongoing talks on a nuclear test ban and commented on recent hijackings by a Frenchman and a father and son, calling them the work of a fanatic fringe. Kennedy also said Ankur H. Dean would return to Geneva on Aug 24 for potential final talks with Russia on arms control.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Ankur H. Dean Beck
Geneva
Russia
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Berlin
Texas
Omro Woman Dies After Hwy 16 Crash
Omro Mrs Arthur P Kitchen 48 died on arrival at Mercy Hospital after a collision on Highway 116 south of County Trunk K in Rushford. Her husband 48 and other driver Bernard Sullivan 23 of Waukau were injured. Kitchen suffered severe injuries and a skull fracture. Sullivan freed from his car and both vehicles wrecked. Sheriff's deputies charged both drivers with striking a fatality.
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Arthur P. Kitchen
Omro
Mercy Hospital
Rushford
Bernard Sullivan
Waukau
Kitchen
Sullivan
G. A. Steele
Douglas W. Bohn, Jr
Waupkau
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Joao Goulart
Ways and Means
China
Tass
I. S. Kosthe
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Carl Ballard
Samuel Enfield
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