Oshkosh Driver Dies After Stock Car Crash at Oshkosh
Robert A. Madden 26 of 929 Wisconsin St died after his demolition stock car rolled on its side during a Tuesday event at Leo's Speedway. Madden, a 1949 Chrysler driver, was partially thrown from the car and succumbed to a basal skull fracture. He leaves a wife Darlene, two children, his mother Marian Madden, two brothers, and a grandmother. Services Friday at Konrad Funeral Home.
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Robert A. Madden
Madden
Wisconsin St
Junker
Chrysler
Mercy Hospital
Moore
Art C. Miller
Winnebago County Fairgrounds
Allen
Marian Madden
Daily Northwestern
Lee Peart Dodge Co
Redgranite
Darlene Bubrow
Barbara
Richard
Thomas Madden
Emma Weston
Konrad Funeral Home
Walter H. Moll
Bethlehem Loutheran Church
Lakeview Memorial Park
Eleventh Cabinet Unit Faces Vote
The bill to create a cabinet department of housing and urban development faces a final Senate vote as hours remain. Senate leader Mike Mansfield won agreement to limit debate and expects passage by midafternoon. If approved, the department would oversee urban issues with Robert C. Weaver likely as secretary, possibly making him the first Black cabinet member.
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Washington
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Robert C. Weaver
Weaver
Senate
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Housing Subcommittee
Federal Housing Administration
Wisconsin 1965 Traffic Toll Rises to 565
The Wisconsin traffic toll for 1965 climbs to 565 after two new deaths from earlier crashes and a Manitowoc County crash victim. David R. Becker, 28, of Two Rivers, died in a Highway 141 collision near Francis Creek. James Kneibler, 17, of Libertyville Illinois, died from injuries in a July Lake Geneva crash. The Rev. B. W. Blackburn, 91, of rural La Farge, died in a Richland Center hospital after injuries from a Highway 14 crash.
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Associated Press
Manitowoc
Wisconsin
David R. Becker
Two Rivers
Francis Creek
Manitowoc County
James Kneibler
Libertyville
Elkhorn
Lake Geneva
B. W. Blackburn
la Farge
Richland Center
Highway 14
Siege at Duc Co Briefly Reels as Relief Push Advances
U S military sources report a large Vietnamese relief force reached the besieged Duc Co camp with little Viet Cong resistance, advancing a two mile convoy through ambushes and roadblocks. Route 19 was cut again as casualties mount on both sides and the Duc Co airstrip remains unusable. Continued on Page 13.
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South Viet Nam
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Pleiku
Duc Co
Due Co
Central Highlands
Qui Nhon
South China Sea
Associated Press
Peter Arnett
Cambodia
Viet Nam
Wisconsin Driver Killed in Michigan Road Crash
Evoy G Berg an 83 year old New Berlin Wisconsin driver died Tuesday when his car missed a turn and ran off the road in Shiawassee County Michigan authorities said He was killed in the rural intersection crash discovered after the vehicle left the roadway.
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Qwosso
Mich
Berlin
Wis
Evoy G. Berg
Shiawasse
Sea Murders Still Puzzling Jurisdiction Remains Undecided
In Miami AP reports the Seven Seas murder case leaves two questions unsolved who has jurisdiction and what happened to the cook The ship sailed toward Tampa for repairs after Miami and Ramirez a Cuban ex lobster fisherman says he killed the captain and four crew after a dispute over Fidel Castro He claims self defense and that he killed one by one including the captain who was tossed overboard with another crewman before he fled in a 14 foot skiff drifting miles south Ramirez was captured by a German freighter and brought to Miami with a pistol and spare bullets found aboard the Seven Seas Continued on Page 13 Col 1
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Seven Seas
Roberto Ramirez
Fidel Castro
Ramirez
Justice Department
Immigration Department
Miami
Fla
Gulf Stream
Rogelio Diaz
Tampa
Here
U.S
Mat
Hearse speeding on Turnpike halted by state police
A hearse traveling at 75 mph on the Connecticut Turnpike was stopped by state police in Westport. The driver complained of disrespect for the dead, while Sgt. Donald Waite of the radar patrol defended the stop, noting safety concerns. The hearse carried a body bound for New York City.
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Westport, Conn
UPI
Connecticut Turnpike
New York City
Donald Waite
Surveyor Spacecraft Model Aloft in Cape Kennedy Test
A metal model of the Project Surveyor spacecraft was rocketed toward a simulated moon in a 63 hour test from Cape Kennedy. The Atlas Centaur launcher sent the payload to a target 240,000 miles away to gather trajectory data for a planned late year lunar landing.
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The
Space Agency
Surveyor
Flight Control Center
Titan 2 missile site work halted after fatal Searcy blast
Air Force orders suspension of modification and overhaul work on Titan 2 sites until an investigation Of Monday's deadly explosion at the Searcy Arkansas complex is completed. One blast killed 53 civilian workers with only two survivors as rescue teams cleared bodies.
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Air Force
Searcy, Ark
Sia
Sitos
Searcy
Ark
Douglas Wood
Public Informa
Zuckert
Johnson
Eugene M. Zuckert
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Little Rock
Ninelevel Complex
Johnson Approves Desalting Bill for Water Breakthrough
President Johnson signed a 185 million dollar bill to expand desalting efforts and target a breakthrough by 1976. A White House meeting with New York Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware leaders discussed emergency drought responses and federal aid. The bill extends funding through 1972 with 35 million next year for research and development and carries over 90 million more subject to congressional authorization.
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Johnson
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Congress
White House
Delaware Basin
Delaware Basin Water Conference Was Called After Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall
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