Oshkosh Board Urges Council to Finance Auditorium Plan
The Oshkosh board of education, by unanimous vote, asks the Common Council to take steps to finance an auditorium and possibly a swimming pool for the new high school with completion aimed by September 1961. The action follows a December council action that denied a $299,576 auditorium appropriation but expressed hope for adding facilities by 1961.
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Board of Education
Common Council
Oshkosh High School
Couneil
George F Oaks
Oshkosh
James T. Cain
T. C. Widder Jr
OHS
Cain
Bond Issue Is Authorized For State Buildings
The Wisconsin Building Commission authorized a 10.685 million bond issue to fund nine state college and university buildings. Blyth and Co of Chicago will purchase the 30 year bonds at about 3.91 percent. Projects include UW Madison chemistry and law additions and Milwaukee science facilities, plus state college library and lab buildings at several campuses.
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Okay
Hoffman Company
Appleton
August Winter & Sons
Fallen Electric Company
J. F. Ahern Company
Fond du Lac
Perkins & Will
Chicago
Read and
Emmeline Cook
Madison Sap
Wisconsin Building Commission
State College
State Agencies Buildings Corp
Blyth Andj. Co
Blyth
University of Wisconsin
Madison
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Eaul Claire
Stout
Whitewater
Platteville
Ike May Visit Tokyo Seoul Next Summer
President Eisenhower may visit Tokyo and Seoul next summer to push for an end to the Japan Korea feud. Officials expect talks with Prime Minister Kishi at the White House in January and a senior appeal to President Rhee to follow.
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UPI
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Tokyo
Seoul
Japan
Republic of Korea
Far East
Latin Americas
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Brazil
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Africa
Europe
South America
Korea
White House
Nobusuke Kishi
U.s.japan
Syngman Rhee
Two Cubans Face Firing Squad in Cuba Executions
In Havana two men Luis Lara Crespo and Jose A. Morifs Reyes await death by firing squad after being sentenced for seeking to organize an anti-government movement in the Rosario Mountains. Defense appeals are pending and a lengthy holiday hiatus is planned with executions resuming in Pinar del Rio.
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UPI
Cuba
Luis Lara Crespo
Jose A. Morifs Reyes
Rosario
Lara
Morffi
Pinar del Rio
Tribute to S N Pickard by Wisconsin Republicans
Neenah reports tribute paid at a Wiscon sin Republican gathering for S N Pickard longtime finance committee chair who served June 1957 to November 12 1959. Claude Jaspar presented a resolution praising Pickards dedication funds handling and personal sacrifice to the party. The dinner in Wisconsin Rapids drew leaders and a large crowd thanking him for his work.
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Repub Jbeen
Republican Party of Wisconsiian Party of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Rapids
Pickard
S N Pickard
Publican Party of
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National Manufacturers Bank
Packard
Neevah
Paan
Vallow Tan
Claude Jasper
Madison
S. N. Pickard
Republican Party of
Archie
Republican Party
Valley Inn
Winnebago County
Republican State Financial
Threat Made To Bomb OSC
A telephoned threat to blow up the teachers college prompted a wide search of Oshkosh State College buildings by staff and officers. No device was found and classes and the Campus School resumed as usual. The threat appeared to be a prank amid Christmas vacation heads.
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Oshkosh State College
Oshkosh
Chicago
Rand
Oshkosh High School
Sheriff's Department
Winnchago County
Wisconsin lawmakers clash over holiday recess amid tax bill debate
Madison AP reports Republican state senators failed to push for a recess until January to consider Gov Nelson's withholding plan and the revenue bill. Assembly Democrats blocked the move, keeping both chambers active as a wave of security concerns and bomb threats affected schools, prompting evacuations and police investigations with no injuries.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
President Eisenhower Lands in France for Western Summit
President Eisenhower arrives in Toulon aboard the U S heavy cruiser Des Moines after a three day Mediterranean cruise. French sailors and the fleet salute as he steps ashore with a 21 gun salute and welcomes from Louis Jacquinot on behalf of Charles de Gaulle. Temperature around 55 degrees.
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Daugh
France
U. S
Des Moines
Mediterranean
Span
Louis Jacquinot
Charles de Gaulle
Mississippi State entomologist probes crow study
Mississippi State University entomologist D. E. Ferguson offered a single explanation after Mississippi crows did not respond to recorded calls of New York crows. The study on intercity crow behavior drew no broader reaction.
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Mississippi State University
D. E. Ferguson
Mississippi
New York
Castro says Cuba to try U.S. newsman
Fidel Castro announced on nationwide TV that American reporter James Buchanan will be tried before a Cuban court for alleged involvement with Frank Austin Young, an American sentenced to 30 years for anti Castro activity. Castro criticized the Inter American Press Association for calling for release and said the courts will decide.
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Havana
iFidel Castro
James Buchanan
Castro
Buchanan
Miami
Young
Inter-American Press Assa
Measure seeks repeal of spring created State Department of Administration
The repeal bill, sponsored by Senator Reuben LaFave, would undo the new Department of Administration created this spring. It was sent to the Joint Finance Committee, a Democrat controlled panel likely to delay action. Joe Nusbaum heads the department, facing Republican scrutiny as his Senate appointment lingers.
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Robert Knowles
New Richmond
Senate
O’brien
O'Brien
David Carley
Department of Ressources Development
Krueger
State Department of Administration
Reuben LaFave
Oconto
Clifford Krueger
Merrill
Leg O'Brien
Green Bay
Phillip Nash
Joint Finance Committee
Joe Nusbaum
Parasites sales brochures prompt unusual mail use
Columbia University Press reports a rising share of customers who receive sales brochures with stamped return envelopes are using those envelopes to send advertising material back. The UPI story notes this trend as an unexpected but growing practice among readers and buyers.
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New York
UPI
Columbia University Press
Many Theories Rise In Touhy Death Case
Chicago police face slim clues and multiple motives after the shotgun slaying of Roger Touhy at his West Side home. Retired policeman Walter Miller was wounded. investigators weigh Capone era vengeance and Mafia patterns as possible causes in this 61 year old ex convict’s death.
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Roger Touhy
Touhy
Stateville
Arbush
Walter Miller
al Capone
Capone
Virgil Peterson
FBI
Chicago Crime Commission
Robert Tieken
U.S
Torney
Mafia
Tieken
Richard B. Ogilive
L. S. Attorney
Chou En-lai proposes border talks with Nehru
Peiping radio reports Chou En-lai suggests that he and Indian Prime Minister Nehru begin discussions on December 26 to settle their Himalayan border dispute. Chou urges India to withdraw troops from ten border locations and notes a prior Indian rejection of unilateral troop withdrawals.
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India
Nehru
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Himalayan
Tibet
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