Opinion rules out county airport delay at Winnebago
Winnebago County airport projects including the control tower and runway extension received backing as safe from delay after an attorney general opinion that the Aeronautics Commission cannot delay the work without mutual federal county approval. Gov Nelson sought postponement, but bids for the tower were approved by the FAA and the commission plans to award contracts at its Feb 10 meeting in Madison.
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Winnebago County
State Aeronautics Commission
Gaylord Nelson
Josepn 4
Drexler
Federal Aviation Agency
Madison
Nelson
Atty
John W. Reynolds
Aeronautics Commission
Reynolds
Dist. Atty
Jack D. Steinhilber
Five Killed In Weekend Car Mishaps
Five people died in weekend traffic crashes reported by the Associated Press. Three Stratford men—Mark A. Folz 24 Russell J. Poncroch 2 and Arnold G. Derfus—were killed when their car overturned after leaving Highway 13 near Medford four miles north in Taylor County. A fourth occupant, David Stedder of Rozeville, was critically injured. The wreck left Medford hospital. Additionally John T. Kendrigan of Ashland died from injuries after a crash on Highway 7 near Spooner Saturday. Ronald Bryske of Kenosha died in Milwaukee hospital from injuries from a January Kenosha County crash.
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Associated Press
Medford
Highway 13
Taylor County
Mark A. Folz
Russell J. Poncroch
Arnold G. Derfus
Stratford
David Stedder
Rozeville
Marathon County
John T. Kendrigan
Ashland
Highway 7
Spooner
Ronald Bryske
Kenosha
Milwaukee
Missifersd
Broad Stream Of Warm Air Eases Severe Cold
A broad stream of warm air from Mexico lifted a 10 day siege of cold across the central nation and pushed bitter temperatures back toward Canada. Below zero readings were limited to the eastern Dakotas and northern Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan New York and Maine with rain and mixed precipitation on the West Coast and lighter flurries near the Great Lakes. Temperatures rose in New York to 28 as others remained below freezing across the country with a spread from 67 in Miami to 11 below at International Falls Minnesota.
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United Press International
Mexico
Canadian
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Maine
Pacific
California
Rockies
Plains
Great Lakes
Appalachians
Lakes
Florida
Brookings
Ore
Mullan
Idaho
Pacific Coast
Southwest
Deep South
Miami
International Falls
Minn
Nuclear arms rise. AEC flags moratorium risk
The Atomic Energy Commission says the U S arsenal is growing in strength and variety, serving as a deterrent, while warning that further testing could spur dramatic advances and threaten free world supremacy. It notes possible underground or space testing during the 1958 moratorium and calls for international controls to end nuclear tests.
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Washington
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Congress
Free World
Soviet Union
Jaqueline Hawry's Window Attracts Bus Passengers
In Barrow England residents on a bus route peered into the 15 year old Jaqueline Hawry's bedroom window as buses halted outside her home every three minutes. Her father placed two statues of women in the window to give onlookers something else to look at.
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Barrow
England
UPD
Jaqueline Hawry
Jaqueline
Nash Named To US Post For 30 Days
Washington AP Phillip Nash former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin was appointed a 30 day consultant in the Interior Department. He will assist assistant secretary John A Carver Jr in planning a reorganization of the Indian Bureau. Nash will be paid 60 dollars a day and works with WW Keller of Bartlesville Oklahoma.
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Washington
Phillio Nash
Wisconsin
Interior Department
Nash
Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
John A. Carver Jr
Indian Bureau
Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
WW. Keller
Bar ‘Tlesville
Okla
Wisconsin Highways Remain Clear in Winter Conditions
MADISON AP reports Wisconsin highways are in good winter driving condition as of this morning, with the State Traffic Patrol noting clear road conditions statewide.
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Madison
Wisconsin
State Traffic Patrol
Meetings Set On Captive Ship Off Recife
U S Admiral Allen E Smith Jr agreed to a dawn Tuesday rendezvous with rebel Santa Maria captain Henrique Galvao to arrange release of 583 passengers. Gearing heads toward Recife to back talks as three other destroyers close in. Galvao aims to keep ship in international waters until Janio Quadros inauguration with asylum discussed by Brazil.
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Recife
Brazil
U. S
Santa Maria
Adm
Allen E. Smith Jr
U. S. Navy
Caribbean
Henrique Galvao
Smith
U.S
Arack
Belem
Washington
Galvao
U.S. Navy
Humberto Delgado
National Liberation Movement
Janio Quadros
Quadros
Rio de Janeiro
Salvador
Jusceelina Kubitschek
The
Colonial Navigation Co
United States
Kubitschek
Wisconsin Governor Sees Local Aids Cost as Core Issue
MADISON AP Gov Gaylord Nelson outlined an automatic 83 million increase in state aids to localities as the main fiscal problem for 1961-63. He warned that without changes, local government costs will drive tax and revenue needs, with 70 percent of general funds tied to shared taxes and local aid. Nelson expects a 650 million general revenue biennium, 445 million to local governments, and 203 million kept for state operations, pledging careful budgeting and no tax cuts that shift the burden to locals. He noted plans to deliver the 1961-63 budget message and stressed the need to address local cost financing.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Nelson
Ments
Kennedy Calls National Emergency Plans Military Boost
President Kennedy declared a national emergency and ordered a rapid buildup of U.S. defenses. He urged faster Polaris submarine work, missile development, and increased air lift, while seeking cooperation with the Soviet Union on science and space. He warned 1961 would be tough, with recession and weak farm income, but pledged arms control as a central goal and a program to revive the economy.
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Congress
Kennedy
Soviet Union
United States
House
Senate
Ife
Six Americans face fate in Havana tribunal
In Havana a military tribunal will decide the fate of six Americans accused of conspiring against Fidel Castro. The men claimed to have come to Cuba in January aboard a stolen boat to defend the revolution. the prosecutor seeks death by firing squad while defense cites easing tensions and Khrushchev’s actions. Names given include George Beck, Tommy Baker, Donald Green, James Bean, Alfred Gibson, and Leonard Schmidt from various U.S. cities.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Khrushchev
Kennedy
United States
Cuba
Castro
Luis Raul Fleitas
Fleitas
Army
Alan Robert Nye
Navy
Nye
Hife
Georges R. Beck
Norton
Mass
Tommy L. Baker
Dothan
Ala
Donald Joe Green
Gastonia
N.C
James E. Bean
Cedar Falls
Eugene Gibson
Mount Giledg, MC
Leonard Louis Schmidt
Chicago
First Key Vote On Rules Body Is Due Tuesday
The Kennedy administration seeks its first House vote on enlarging the Rules Committee. Speaker Rayburn threatens a three-member expansion to break conservative bloc power, aiming to advance New Frontier measures such as education aid and minimum wage hikes.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Rules ‘Committee
Sam Rayburn
Congress
Rayburn
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
Long Maul Smith
House Senate
Kennedy to hold news conference Wednesday at 9 a.m
Washington reports that President Kennedy will hold a news conference Wednesday at 9 a.m. CST, to be televised live by at least two networks. Press Secretary Salinger said it was unclear if additional radio or television networks would carry the event.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Pierre Salinger
American
National Broadcasting Companies
Salinger
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