Wisconsin Ranks Cold as Subzero Wave Persists
Wisconsin endures a deep cold spell with eight straight days of very cold temperatures. Milwaukee reports an overheated boiler fire displacing 22 people as thermometers plunge. readings across Rhinelander Grantsburg Park Falls Superior Eau Claire and Madison reach 24 below to 10 below. Weekend highs forecast five below to five above as Arctic air hammers the region.
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Eagle Bier
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Grantsburg
Park Falls
Superior
Eau Claire
Ametropolis
la Crosse
Weather Bureau
United Press
Fire Sweeps Milwaukee Clifton House Hotel
Twenty two residents fled into subzero air as a boiler fire ripped through the front of the three story Clifton House hotel in Milwaukee. Fireman Richard Cwiklinski was treated for smoke. The three alarm blaze ended in about two hours with an estimated loss of 15060 dollars to the building and adjoining tavern.
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Richard Cwiklinski
Clifton House
Cen
Wotel
Czie Ang Tavern
Arson Suspected In Syracuse Church Fire
Officials probe arson after a Tuesday night blaze destroyed the First Methodist Church in Syracuse and damaged nearby buildings. Firefighters suffered frostbite and injuries as flames raged four hours, with losses near 560000 and damages likely to rise. The Wesleyan Publishing Building and adjacent offices also burned.
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Syracuse
New York
Francis R. Ferren
First Methodist Church
Mutual Federation of New York Underiers
Onondaga County Public Works Commission
Wesleyan Publishing ‘Association
Methodist Church
Earl W. Ledden
Ihe Wesleyan Methodist Church
Canada
Traffic probation officer quits after 13 days
Pontiac Michigan reports Leo N F Cosie 27 resigned as Oakland County traffic probation officer after 13 days on the job. His resignation followed news that his driver license had been suspended for 60 days due to five traffic violations.
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Pontiac
Mich
Leon F. Cosie
Oakland County
Covie
World Famed Maestro Toscanini Dies at 80
World renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini died at his Riverdale home in the Bronx after a stroke. He retired in 1954 ending a 68 year career that began with Aida in Rio at 19. He is survived by a son Walter and two daughters including Mrs Vladimir Horowitz.
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New York
Arturo Toscan
Riverdale
Bronx
Toscanini
Guido Cantelli
Europe
la Scala
Milan
Rio de Janeiro
NBC Symphony Orchestra
U.S
United States
Walter
Eso
Vladimir’ ‘Horowitz
Wally Castelbarco
Four Diel Crash of Jet at Homestead Air Force Base
Air Force investigators examined a Stratojet wreckage strewn across a potato field near Homestead Florida to determine the cause of a Tuesday crash that killed four crew members. Officials said the jet, capable of carrying nuclear or hydrogen bombs, diverted from its training flight over Florida Georgia and Alabama and crashed about two miles from the base after attempting to land.
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Homestead. Fla
Air Force
Homestead Air Force
Hichtigver
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Rand
Gas Main Break Leaves 30,000 Without Heat in Upstate NY
Oswego area faced the region s worst cold wave as a gas main break cut furnaces hot water heaters and stoves affecting about 30 000 people in north central New York Officials reported service would be restored today in Oswego Fulton and eight of ten affected communities Evacuations and emergency shelters were set up as temperatures plunged and Frostbite injuries and six deaths were linked to the outage.
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N.Y
New York
Fulton
Lake Ontario
Ulation
Anna Ae Ee Een Shine
Mavericks Fight Over Wisconsin Senate Committee Appointments
In Madison a group of Republican mavericks allied with Democrats to delay action on Senate committee appointments. Sens. Busby Leverich Dempsey Draheim and Trinke opposed the plan, while floor leader Maier said some chairs were unfair. The layover failed, adjournment failed, and the passage motion carried.
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Wisconsin Senate
Committee On Committees
Sen. Maier
Sens
Busby
Milwaukee
Leverich
Sparta
Dempsey
Hartland
Draheim
Neenah and
Trinke
Lake Geneva
Judiciary Committee
Miller R
Bandit Steals 46000 In Lincolnway Branch Robbery
A bandit brandished a revolver at the Reidup Cay Lincolnway Branch of the National Bank and Trust Co. She forced two employees to the wall while loading the vault. Mary Graham, one worker, escaped to a nearby barbershop as the robber fled with cash before police arrived. Authorities suspect a getaway car was waiting nearby.
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Reidup Cay
Empire Lincolnway
Netonal Bank and Trust Co
Mary Graham
Sensen Brenner welcomed to Columbus by 169 legislators
Maynard Jack Sensen brenner formally welcomed to the city Tuesday night by 169 members of the Ohio Legislature with a quip about keeping out of trouble as his workhouse is full.
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Columbus
Ohio
Maynard Jack Sensenbrenner
Ohio Legislature
Eisenhower seeks 76 million drought aid and long term plan
President Eisenhower urged Congress to approve emergency drought relief totaling 76 million dollars and outlined long range steps including direct loans to farmers, conservation funding, and wind erosion prevention as he toured drought-stricken plains and pressed state local cooperation. The drought conference of 15 western midwestern and southwestern states slated to close with further recommendations.
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Congress
Wichita
Kan
Eisenhower
Gan
Great Plains
Mks
Ezra T. Benson Han
Agriculture Department
Western Railway Association
Office Head Woman Foil Racine Holdup
A gunman attempted to rob the Friendly Finance Corp in Racine Tuesday. He shot at the manager and injured a woman, then was restrained by a manager and two employees before police arrested Penal E Shortt, 31, of Milwaukee. Shortt had been released on parole from Waupun last October for a West Bend holdup.
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Racine
Ing
Lenoy Jenkins
Malwaukee
Wen
Yak Waupun
West Bend
Chi
Fred
Hansen
Meichert
Claire Ackley
Eugene Nelson
Helen Hughes
Joanne Tepley
Churchill arrives on Riviera for winter vacation
Sir Winston Churchill lands by plane on the French Riviera for his annual winter retreat in Nice. He brings painting gear and a pet parakeet named Toby along for the trip.
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Nice
France
Winston Churchill
French Riviera
Toby
Eisenhower Proposes Record $718 Billion Peacetime Budget
President Eisenhower unveils a peacetime budget of 718 billion dollars the largest ever in U S history. He seeks strong defense and allied support while ruling out broad tax cuts this year and proposing higher postal rates. The plan shows peacetime spending records for defense farms and atomic programs with a projected 1 8 billion dollar surplus for 1958.
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Eisenhower
America
M. Humphrey
Humphrey
Congress
Roosevelt
Truman
U.S
Atomics
Emenhouser
Rare Books and Antiques Burned in Green Bay Home Fire
A rural school teacher, Arnold Van Hout, saw his 1 1/2 story fire ruin a home built in 1931 stocked with early American antiques and a 1713 Bible. Loss estimated at 23 00 with 13 000 to the house and 10 010 to contents. insurer covers 10 040. Fire likely from overheated stove. Neighbor John Caters aided elderly father Leonard 88 and two children escaped unharmed.
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A. Om
Arnold van Hout
van Tent
van Hour
Mill Creek
van Hout
McGuffey
van Houts
Leonard
John Caters
Family of Six Perishes in Fire in Loris South Carolina
A fatal blaze in Loris South Carolina claimed the lives of six family members trapped in a multi room dwelling. Two other occupants escaped the flames and were treated for injuries. Fire officials began investigations into the cause and fire safety conditions of the building.
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Loris. SC
Lasmidairg
Contai
Loris
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