Fair to Open Wednesday at Winnebago County Fair
Opening day activities include Gene Holler Wild Animal Show and ostrich racing at the 1958 Winnebago County Fair. Wednesday is Children Day with free admission for those under 12 until 5 PM.
26 Aug 1958
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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1958
Page
1
Opening day activities include Gene Holler Wild Animal Show and ostrich racing at the 1958 Winnebago County Fair. Wednesday is Children Day with free admission for those under 12 until 5 PM.
President Eisenhower signed a law granting ex presidents an annual pension of 25 000 dollars plus 10 000 dollars for widows. The measure applies to present and future ex presidents with four individuals immediately eligible.
A resident found a note inviting trespassers at Redondo Beach California home. Someone entered and stole two rifles an adding machine a typewriter a sewing machine and a piggy bank, leaving no note of thanks.
Chinese forces unleashed a fourth day of shelling on Quemoy and the nearby Tan Islets as U.S. and Nationalist authorities watched closely. A 1600-man Marine landing force was ordered from Singapore, while Maj. Gen. Moor man met with Nationalist and American officers in Formosa. Tungting Island remains a possible target for a Red landing.
Cedar Grove story reports 12 year old Linda Klug of Route 1 Cedar Grove was killed when a corn shock shredder blade struck her as her father Harold Klug pulled the shredder with a tractor through an apple orchard. He did not see her in the tall grass.
A read on rapid air reinforcements in the Formosa Straits amid tension with Red China. The 7th Fleet and Western Pacific forces are weighing moves to deter aggression while avoiding war, with debate over whether swift air support is feasible or prudent.
Security officials vow stern measures as Algerian rebels attack depots and installations in France. French forces guard refineries and key sites while Algeria unrest fuels a broader debate over independence and De Gaulle’s Algeria tour amid a rising insurgency.
United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold arrived in Paris from New York for a brief stop on his peace mission to the Middle East. He remained aboard the aircraft and gave no statement to newsmen at Orly Airport before continuing to Rome on a commercial flight.
Arkansas lawmakers and U S Supreme Court justices faced the Little Rock crisis as the school board extended opening to Sept 8. Despite protests, the district kept all schools closed after a Supreme Court emergency session considered delaying forced desegregation.
A teachers' meeting in Oklahoma City was interrupted when an observer announced an illegally parked car outside. The school’s driver education instructor stood and moved the vehicle.
Dr Wernher von Braun, the US Army missile specialist behind the Titan and Explorer projects, was injured at the International Astronautical Congress in Amsterdam when he bent to pick up an object, suspected slipped disc.
The United States urges Iraq to restore normal embassy phone service to Baghdad and allow full access for American diplomats and advisers. It seeks permission for coded messages, full access for military advisers, and the return of a Jeep seized after Iraqi officials detained two Marines.
Eight people died in a two car crash on a curve off U S Highway 71 bypass north of Harrisonville Missouri. Four other victims were injured in the collision involving the Jones and Galloway families and their relatives. The cause of the wreck was not known.
Opposition leaders pressed President-elect Fuad Chehab to demand immediate withdrawal of American forces and to include rebel figures in the future cabinet. They also called for UN observers to leave, vowing continued general strike as Chamoun remains in office. Rebels named Sacb Salem Rashid Karami Sabri Hamadi Kamel Jumblatt Marouf Saad as participant leaders.
State Department warns Americans in Austria to avoid the immediate vicinity of the Hungarian and Czechoslovakian borders. Spokesman Joseph Reap cites Austrian Interior Ministry warnings of shots from beyond the border, mine explosions, electric fences, and possible abductions threatening anyone near the border.
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