Winnebago County Fair Opens Tuesday With Diverse Events
The 1954 Winnebago County Fair prepares for a four day run starting Tuesday morning. Children’s Day events at 7 a.m. gates open and 9 a.m. livestock judging. 9:30 a.m. free grandstand for children. 1:36 p.m. horse races and platform acts. 8 p.m. State Fair revue Show of Shows. Track prep includes sprinkling and dragging and arrivals from Wisconsin State Fair and others.
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State Fair Revue
Winnebago County
Oshkosh
Taylor G. Brown
Brown
Wisconsin State Fairgrounds
Manitowoc
Sturgeon Bay
Engaged Pair Among Three Mishap Deaths
Two Milwaukeeans engaged to wed in six weeks died in a weekend Wisconsin mishap. Thomas L. Austin 25 and fiancée Mary Ellen Hennings 23 drowned at Pewaukee Lake after a fishing outing. Another Milwaukee youth Robert Brannan 15 drowned at Friess Lake. Three youths from Winegar Wisconsin were killed in Michigan when their auto hit a bridge abutment on Highway 62.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Thomas L. Austin
Mary Ellen Hennings
Pewaukee Lake
Austin
Msss Hennings
Robert Brannan
Milwaukee
Friess Lake
Washington County
Michigan
Marenisco
Mich
Winegar
Wis
Highway 62
Here
Vinegar
Gerald Lee Palmer
Keith Rutherford
Henry Winters
Rutherford
England
Weather summary from Wisconsin Minnesota and observations
Fair and cool weather to tonight with pleasant Tuesday. Wisconsin north lows 40 50 south 48 54 highs 70 78 northeasterly winds today light variable Tuesday. Minnesota fair cool highs 70s northeast 80s southwest lows 40 50 north 50 55 south. Randall gauge 98 inches above crest down 7 inches since Friday. Maximum 79 minimum 41 the prior day. No precipitation today. month and year deficits noted.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Northwestern
Fox River
Menasha Dam
Buckstaff Observatory
Fairgrounds Prepared to Welcome Descriptive Fair
The article notes fogging to keep the fair free of flies and insects and mentions disinfected fair buildings. Exhibits and attractions arrive hourly with farm displays and educational exhibits being set up in their assigned places as part of ongoing preparations.
Gales Pound Dixie City As Storm Nears
Wilmington North Carolina reports near hurricane gales with 104 mph gusts and 60 mph winds at Wrightsville Beach. Power lines damaged, beachfront crowds flee as Cherry Point Marine Air Station braces for impact and hurricane shelters are opened. Carol slows east of Charleston as Missouri thunder storms drop heavy rain.
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Wilmington
N.C
Atlantic
Myrtle Beach
S.C
Wrightsville
Beach
Atlantic Playground
Power Company
Cherry Point Marine Air Station
Missouri
Columbia
Great Lakes
New England
Indictments In Battle on Vice In Phenix City
An emergency grand jury returned 545 indictments after three weeks of probing vice and corruption in Phenix City. Names are withheld until arrest or bond. Many gamblers and racketeers had already been arrested by National Guardsmen. multiple indictments were expected against several individuals.
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Phenix City
Ala
Alabama
Col Batchelor Faces Army Trial Over Alleged Aiding Enemy
Cpl Claude Batchelor, a former Korean War prisoner who joined and later denounced Communist captors, goes on trial at a San Antonio court martial on charges he aided the enemy. His mother in Kermit Texas attended, expressing disappointment at the prosecution. Enable continuance requested due to lack of time to prepare defense.
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Batchelor
Joel Westbrook
San Antonio
Eisenhower Signs Major Atomic Energy Law
President Eisenhower signed a sweeping atomic energy law ending the government monopoly on development and authorizing private reactors and sharing of nuclear information. He said the law strengthens free world security and accelerates peaceful uses of atomic power, with goals for a world pool to exploit peaceful energy. The White House ceremony included Atomic Energy Commission members and the House Senate committee managers.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Free World
Senate
U.S
Russia
White House
Denver
American Legion Convention
Atomic Energy Commission
House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Dickenson
Batchelor
Cution
Holland's Mystery Man Identified as Ernest S. Williams
U.S. Army Provost Marshal Col. Arthur Selby stated Ernest S. Williams is Holland's mystery man, not an American Air Force officer. Williams, once arrested in Frankfurt in 1953 for impersonating an AWOL soldier, matches a Holland newspaper photo. authorities continue positive identification efforts.
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Frankfurt
Germany
P.cal
Arthur L. Selby
U.S. Army
Holland
Ernest S. Williams
Col. Selby
Enschede
David Samuel Rollins
Washington
D. C
U. S
Stalag 17
Trenton
N. J
Williams
Rollins
Ireland
U.S. Air Force
Weisbaden
the Hague
Russian naval force vanishes off Norway coast
A Russian naval group including three cruisers and 12 destroyers went missing during a surprise North Atlantic cruise. Danish patrol planes and Norwegian radar tracked them as they steamed southward off Norway's coast, but officials offered no confirmation of their current location.
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Oslo
Norway
North Atlantic
Europe
Eisenhower backs stronger military reserve urged by Legion
In a speech to the American Legion convention, President Eisenhower said he would ask Congress in January for a substantially stronger reserve to keep the United States powerful against Russia. He warned against wishful thinking and timidity and pledged an adequate reserve as a top item for next year.
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Washington
Eisenhower
American Legion
Congress
America
Russia
United States
the Legion
Denver
Administration
John A. Hannah
Defense
White House
Hannah
Legion
Lewis B. Hershey
SelectiveService
Joe
Enemies of EDC Bent on Killing It
Paris reporters describe fierce opposition to the European Defense Community plan as French politics blocks debate. Premier Mendes France may face defeat over the proposal to unite six West European nations into a single defense force against communism.
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Paris
European Defense Community
United States
Britain
Western Europe
Pierre Mendes-France
Chamber of Deputies
EDC
Mendes-France
Fleming Advised POWs To Sign Leaflet in Court
Army court martial heard Maj. David F. MacGhee testify that Lt. Col. Harry Fleming and Maj. Lyles urged Korean War prisoners to sign a leaflet urging United Nations forces to surrender. MacGhee, from Falls Church, VA, recalled a North Korean officer offering food in exchange for signing the leaflet during January 1951.
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FT. Sheridan
Harry Fleming
United Nations
David F. MacGhee
Falls Church
Fleming
Srial
MacGhee
Air Force Headquarters
Washington
Kim
Clay Heads Committee on Highway Work
Gen Lucius D Clay is named chairman of a new White House advisory committee on highway improvements. The panel plans to study the 350 billion dollar ten year road-building program and will report to the President before January for Congress next session. Members will be unpaid and drawn from labor, construction, banking, and related interests.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Lucius D. Clay
White House
James C. Hageriv
Clay
Wisconsin
Walter Kohler
Sherman Adams
Gabriel Hauge
Hagerty
Congress
Britain Lifts Arms Ban to Egypt Amid Foreign Office Announcement
The Foreign Office announced that Britain has lifted its embargo on arms shipments to Egypt. The move ends the prior prohibition and follows prompts from diplomatic channels to adjust military trade restrictions.
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London
Britain
Egypt
Foreign Office
Court Action Targeting Windfall Profits in Housing Loans
The government plans a court action to recover millions in windfall profits from oversize federally guaranteed loan deals for apartment projects. HUD head Albert M. Cole announced decisive action and outlined moves at Fort Lee New Jersey where Sidney Larner and 13 rental housing firms face removal of directors and replacement by FHA appointees. The effort follows Senate probes into the rental housing program ended in 1950. Larner asserts legal rights and vows to defend against the charges, challenging Cole’s authority.
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Washington
Albert M. Cole
Cole
Fort Lee
Sidney Larner
Federal Housing Administration
Senate
Larner
Banking Committee
Cardinal Schuster Dies at 74 in Milan
Cardinal Schuster, 74, died suddenly at his Milan home after treatment for high blood pressure. His death reduces the College of Cardinals to 68. Massimo Cardinal Massimi died last March. A heart specialist had visited him weeks earlier and a diocese spokesman denied the cause. He was archbishop of Milan at his death.
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Milan
Mary
Cardinal Schuster
Massimo Cardinal Massimi
Mulan
Casa
Girl 12 Robber Pleads for Family Aid
In South San Gabriel a 12 year old girl robbed a grocery with a toy pistol to help her impoverished family. Grocer Perry Morrison declined charges, saying the girl was the daughter of a regular customer. She was placed in her father’s custody as officials investigated. The mother had already spent the recovered money. The girl said her father is dead and she receives only 150 dollars a month from the state.
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South San Gabriel
Perry Morrison
Morrison
Morrison's
Boat Sinks Resulting in 54 Missing in Philippine Waters
The Philippine News Service reports four persons missing after a motor launch capsized and sank on Sunday in Wana Bay off Zamboanga del Sur province.
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Manila
Philippine _News Service
Wana Bay
Zamboanga del Sur
Wreckage of Two Crashes Searched by Air Force Experts
Air Force flight safety teams comb the wreckage of two B36 bombers, one in El Paso and one in Rapid City, after crashes 26 hours apart. Twenty five men killed, three injured in Rapid City, 15 of 16 injured in El Paso survived. The El Paso craft departed from Biggs Field then hit a power line and burned. One airman killed, Ronald L. Strassheim, while others were rescued. Witnesses report engines on fire in the crash.
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EL Paso
Tex
U.P
Air Force
Rapid City
Biges Field
el Paso Municipal
Airman 2.C
Ronald L. Strassheim
Buffalo
NSY
Cap
Ted O. Crais
Taruc Given Term And $10,009 Fine
Taruc, leader of the Huk rebel movement, received a 12 year prison sentence and a 20.00 peso fine for rebellion. Other Huk leaders including William Pomeroy and his Filipino wife were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Manila
Chinese Farmers Kill 24 Red Army Officers
Kung Sheung Daily News reports Chinese farmers beat to death 24 Communist army officers in Kwangtung near Hong Kong while they were buying rice at state-fixed prices. The killings follow two prior outbreaks of violence in the province.
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Hong Kong
Kung Sheung Daily News
Kwangtung
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Trigger) Burke
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Maj. Fleming
Maj. Lyles
Taruc
Red Army
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