Fond du Lac Residents Reject $4.7 Million High School Bonds
In Fond du Lac a special election rejected a $4,700,000 municipal bond plan for a new high school on 65 acres by 805 votes. The binding decision blocks construction of a two thousand two hundred student three in one facility, a project spurred by the Common Council and board of education after studies of eastern schools.
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Fond DU Lac
Board of Education
Common Council
Wisnancin
Citizens’ Municipal Government Committee
Bomb Explodes At Steinmetz High School No Injuries Reported
A homemade bomb detonated in a locker at Steinmetz High School in Chicago at 8 22 a m. No one was hurt and police, alerted by a warning call, responded with 12 officers. The blast occurred on the top floor as officer Kenneth Murphy approached.
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Chicago
Kenneth Murphy
Charles Hopp
Goodrich
Sevelt Junior High
Roosevelt Junior High
West Side
Better Schools For
Fond du Lac
Bomb threat prompts swift response at predominantly white school
Hopp stated the bomber could strike within eight minutes of a telephoned warning. There was no panic. Clarente Co. Claxton, principal, said classes would proceed as normal. The integrated school has few colored families in an almost all white neighborhood.
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Hopp
Clarente Co. Claxton
City tests 1000 penny-in-a-slot scales in Birmingham
Birmingham officials ordered 1000 penny-in-a-slot weight machines tested for accuracy after a official cited that many women attach great significance to their weight and an inaccurate reading could cause unnecessary alarm and despondency.
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Birmingham
England
UPL
Cuba Sees 1960 Invasion as Castro Forecasts
Fidel Castro told 1200 sugar workers delegates that Cuba faces an invasion next year and that the revolution must be defended with weapons. He linked US labor actions to slow agrarian reform and condemned outside campaigns against the island.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Ane
Four Killed In Iowa Car and Truck Crash
A fiery collision near Marshalltown Iowa left four dead including John Meyers 34 and his wife Dorothy 31 and their daughter Ann 2. Harold Blessing 38 died of burns after being trapped in the truck cab. Two other Meyers children remain at home as five siblings are orphaned. James Hartwig in his early 20s also injured.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
UPI
Harold Blessing
State Center
University Hospital
Iowa City
John Meyers
Carroll
Dorothy
Ann
Jean
Patty
Evangelical Hospital
James Hartwig
Lalso
Meyers
Mommy
Paddy
NATO chiefs hear Soviet strength at 100 missile bases
Paris report cites Adm Walter Boone saying the Soviet Union has 100 missile bases and intercontinental rockets in service 17 months. The closed session matched earlier NATO estimates of long and short range missiles, while France challenges NATO integration and U.S. atomic stock policies.
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Paris
Soviet Union
Pierre Guillaumat
France
NATO
Adm
Walter F. Boone
U. S
Boone
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Charles de Gaulle
Nathan F. Twining
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Guillaumat
Twining
Nelson proposes special session to resolve tax stalemate
Gov. Gaylord Nelson proposes a summer special session of the Wisconsin Legislature to revise taxes in exchange for adopting his program and adjourning the 1959 session. He would backstop with continued stopgap tax plans and a citizens committee on tax revision by June 1 to balance the 1960 61 budget.
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Madison AP
Gaylord
Nelson
Citizens’ Committee
Citizens’ Committee On
Night Polaris sub missile test lights Cape sky
The Navy fired its Polaris solid fuel submarine missile on a night test at Cape Canaveral. The second stage ignited on schedule but officials reported only a partial success with limited details. The flight aimed at gathering data for Air Force requirements on optical tracking.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Washington
Atlantic Missile Range
Air Force
Minuteman
Polaris
Rockefeller Gets Mixed Reception in Wisconsin
Rockefeller visited Green Bay and Milwaukee for GOP events drawing cool initial reactions that warmed as he spoke. Attendees noted his businesslike tone and tax record as governor, with several saying he would make a strong ticket with Nixon. Officials reported about 196 in Green Bay and 250 seats set.
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Rockefeller
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard Nixon
Milwaukee
Colburn Cherney
GOP
New York
Fire Kills Four Children in Columbus Mississippi
Four African American children died in a Columbus home fire after their mother left them alone. The blaze raises Mississippi’s fire death toll to 17 among children in a 10 day period.
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Columbus
Miss
Eisenhower Sails Toward Tunisia on Mediterr an Peace Tour
President Eisenhower continues his goodwill voyage aboard the Des Moines in the Mediterranean en route to Tunisia. The trip marks the eighth stop in a six nation mission announced December 3, with rest planned between planning the State of the Union and observing a carrier Essex air show for reporters aboard.
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Eisenhower
Mediterranean
U. S
Des Moines
Tunisia
Peace In Freedom
Athens
Congress
Essex
Judge Refuses Estate Transfer to Son. Funds Put in State Fund
Sheboygan County Probate Judge J W Wilkus orders the 170 estate of farmer Joseph Anzna placed in the state school fund until claims are resolved. The court set September 1960 for Stanislaus Anzna, in Lithuania, to appear and press his claim. a New York firm’s power of attorney was not recognized.
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Sheboygan
Sheboygan County
Lithuania
J. W Wilkus
Joseph
Anzna
Cascade
Sheboygas
Stanislaus
New York
Republicans Gain Seat In Iowa Special Election
In Ottumwa Iowa John Kyl 46 Bloomfield clothing merchant won the lath District seat in a special election Tuesday over Democrat C Edwin Gilmour Grinnell College professor Official totals show Kyl 28336 to 25004 Gilmour The feat marks a GOP gain in a district that had only Democrat representation in 20 years The victory followed Carter’s passing and drew endorsement from President Eisenhower and Republican leader Thurston Morton amid mixed views on Secretary Benson’s agricultural program
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Ottumwa
Iowa
John Kyl
Bloomfield
C. Edwin Gilmour
Grinnell College
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
Thurston Morton
Eisenhower
Kyl
Steven Carter
Carter
Congress
Gilmour
Wapello
Decatur County
Goodwill Seen by Strauss in Far East Tour
Lewis Strauss, former Atomic Energy Commission chairman, said in New York that his Far East tour revealed a reservoir of goodwill toward the United States. He spoke at a fund raising dinner for the Jewish Congregation Emanu El.
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New York
UPI
Lewis
Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Far East
Emanu-El
Supreme Court Allows U.S. Troops in Japan
Japan's Supreme Court ruled the no war clause does not bar American troop presence and that self defense forces are constitutional. The decision supports Kish’s security treaty push as Socialist critics call it political. The ruling notes treaties approved by Parliament fall outside judiciary review.
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Tokyo
Supreme Court
Japan
U.S
Korea
Socialist Party
Nobusuke Kish
Washington
High Court
Proxmire Father Dies in His Sleep in Illinois
Dr Theodore S Proxmire father of Sen William Proxmire Wisconsin Democrat died in his sleep at Lake Forest suburb of Chicago. The 70 year old physician had treated patients Tuesday night and made house calls. He was long a leader at Lake Forest Hospital and served as colonel in World War I. He founded the Lake County Tubercular Sanitarium and is survived by a daughter Adeix Proxmire Baker of Lake Forest.
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Lake Fores
Theodore S Proamue
William
Adeix 'Proxmre Baker
Lake Forest
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