Storm Moves Into Wisconsin
A severe Midwest snowstorm swept into southern Wisconsin triggering road closures and show emergencies in Milwaukee Grant Lafayette and Iowa counties. Up to 10 inches of snow with 25 to 40 mph winds produced drifts up to eight feet. Delays and accidents surged as schools closed and travel halted across the storm area.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin Highway Commission
American Automobile Association
Grant
Lafayette
Iowa
Grant County
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Hudson
Stevens Point
Manitowoc
Kenosha
Lake Geneva
Park Falls
Superior
Racine
Review Of Schools Is Voted Down
MADISON AP Supporters of a proposed $50.00 review of Wisconsin's educational policies failed to advance in the Senate Education Committee. The committee delay followed a 3-20 vote on the measure as Sen. Moser criticized excessive study. Nelson and supporters urge the study amid concerns about high school quality. committee also delayed a tuberculosis and disease testing bill for public and private college employees.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Senate Education Committee
Gaylord Nelson
William Moser
Milwaukee
Raymond Rice
la Crosse
Peter Carr
Janesville
Nelson
Keith Hardie
Milwaukee County
Michael Kies
Neilson
Parson’s portrait: a miniature zoo in one line
London clergyman Rev. Henry Halsey defines a successful parson as needing the strength of a horse the hide of an elephant the eye of a hawk and the wisdom of a serpent yet harmlessness of a dove he calls it a miniature zoo in a striking description reported by UPI.
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London
UPI
Henry Halsey
Five More Executed By Cuba Squads
Havana reports Fidel Castro's firing squads executed five Cubans at dawn for counter revolutionary activities, raising this year’s total to 19. In Havana at La Cabana fortress two men died, plus another in Pinar del Rio. among the dead were Jose Rodriguez Linares and Apolinar Zayas Damas for setting a city bus ablaze. Radames A. Cazalas and Bienvendo I. Cruz were killed for planning to blow up a telephone installation. Cazala was a former member of Castro's secret police. Rey Espinosa died in Ma Thambre for bomb planting. Angelo Venereo, charged with Espinosa, was sentenced to 20 years after an appeals court ordered imprisonment rather than death.
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UPS
Fidel Castro
la Cabana Fortress
Pinar del Rio
Jose Rodriguez Linares
Apolinar Zayas Damas
Radames A. Cazalas
Bienvendo I. Cruz
Cazata
Castro
Diet
Cruz
Rey Espinosa
Mathambre
Angelo Venereo
Espinosa
X15 Reaches 2,650 MPH in Desert Flight Record
Edwards Air Force Base reports Air Force Maj. Bob White piloted the X15 to a 2,650 mph speed, possibly rising to 2,800 mph with instrument tweaks, during a 7 minute flight. The craft lifted from 45,000 feet, reached 75,000 feet, and set a new manned speed record while enduring 700 degree skin temperatures.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Bob White
Silver Lake
White
California
Two Frenchmen charged in kidnapping of Eric Peugeot
Paris AP report details charges against Raymond Rolland 25 and Pierre Marie Larcher 35 for kidnapping four year old Eric Peugeot last April. Complicity charges target Lise Bodin 20 Copenhagen Miss Denmark runner up, Rolland’s girlfriend Rolande Niemczyk 19, Rotman 25 medical student, and another unnamed accomplice. Father paid 100 000 dollar ransom. boy freed unharmed. Conviction could bring up to 20 years in prison.
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Paris
Eric Peugeot
Peugeot
Raymond Rolland
Pierre Marie Larcher
Lise Bodin
Copenhagen
Denmark
Miss den
Rolland
Rolande Niemczyk
Larcher
Jean- Simon Rotman
United Nations Debates Narrow Cold War Agenda
Delegates from the United States and the Soviet Union conduct private talks at the United Nations to gauge willingness to shelve cold war issues from the General Assembly docket. The inaugural concrete step will come as a 21 nation Steering Committee decides items to discard, with looming wrangles over Congo policy and disarmament debate.
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United Nations
N.Y
U. N
United States
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Assembly
Congo
Dag Hammerskjold
U. S
Adlair. Stevenson
Economic and Social Council
Trusteeship Council
Stevenson
Tibet
Hungary
Andron Curtain
Khrushchev
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
U.N. Congo Command Sees Moroccan Troop Shift
In Leopoldville 800 Moroccan troops scheduled for transfer were flown home instead. The UN Congo Command had announced their arrival from Katanga but later said they would be sent to Morocco. 600 Tunisian reinforcements arrived as 400 Sudanese troops withdrew. Congo demanded Dayal be recalled before any return to Matadi.
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Leopoldville
Congo
U.N. Congo
United Nations
Katanga
U.N
Matadi
Morocco
Cans
Banana
Rajeshwar Dayal
Thompson Leaves To Meet Khrushchev in Soviet Union
Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson flew from Moscow to Novosibirsk to deliver President Kennedy's goodwill message to Premier Khrushchev. Khrushchev, touring Siberia, halted his schedule to invite a meeting, signaling high importance. Thompson offered to go anywhere in the Soviet Union for the contact, keeping the departure secret. He was accompanied by Boris Kiesson.
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Moscow
Llewellyn Thompson
Novosibirsk
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Washington
Siberia
Thompson
Soviet Union
Boris Kiesson
Silence London Sign in Chelsea Coffee Bar Window
In a London coffee bar window a sign proclaims we are the only coffee bar in Chelsea without a juke box. The quip reflects a local business boast about screening music while serving customers.
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London
Chelsea
Four Chosen In Light Vote In Wisconsin Primary
Wisconsin turnout reached about 13 percent as four contenders advanced in the April 4 ballot races for superintendent and Supreme Court. Angus Rothwell will face William Fenelon for superintendent, while Stewart Honeck tops Myron Gordon and Chris Alexopoulos for the high court. Honeck led the Supreme Court field with 182,589 votes to Gordon 140,484, as precincts reported. Rothwell, 55, a veteran educator and former Wisconsin Education Association leader, held a solid lead in superintendent results, with Fenelon far behind. Ralph Gibson, Frederick Frick and Arlyn Wollenberg trailed in the five-man superintendent primary.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Angus Rothwell
Manitowoc
William Fenelon
Whitefish Bay
George Watson
Stewart Honeck
Myron Gordon
John E. Martin
Fenelon
Gordon
Honeck
Christ Alexopoulos
Associated Press
Rothwell
Gibson
Frick
Seees
Wollenburg
Alexopoulos
WEA
Superior
Superior State College
Thhe
Wisconsin Education Association
Council On Education
Fenelon Rothwell
Wausau
Ralph Gibson
Madison
Frederick Frick
Arlyn Wollenberg
Lake Mills
Myron
William Feadon
Christ. Alexopoulos
Ralph
Dems Press For General Withhold Tax
Madison AP Democrats push to convert a Republican tax collection bill into a general withholding tax proposal. Assemblyman Pommerening claims it would raise about 15 million dollars for the state and 1.4 million for localities in two years. Critics call it bad policy, arguing the employer bears undue risk and that previous legislatures repealed similar ideas.
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Madison
Glen Frommerening
R-Wauwatosa
Pommerening
Fred Risser
Adrian Manders
Milwaukee
Risser
Maxwell Manzer
J. I. Case Co
Racine
Pommerenmz
Tax Department
Udall Wins In Arizona Special Primary
Morris K. Udall captured the Democratic nomination for Congress in Arizona's Second District in a special primary, winning more than half the votes in a light turnout. He will face Republican Mac C. Matheson, Tucson businessman, in the May 2 general election.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Morris Sk. Udall
Ieollege
Congress
City County Agree With State's Voters in Primary
Oshkosh and Winnebago County voters joined the state in backing four candidates in a glamorless primary. Turnout was light as candidates split pluralities across two Supreme Court races and two state school superintendent contests, with Honeck and Gordon leading the court field and Rothwell and Feadon toping the superintendent race.
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Oshkosh
Winnebaro County
Apa
Supreme Cour
Oshkosh Voters Split In State Supreme Court Race
In Oshkosh a three way race for state school superintendent attracted uneven support with Gibson, Arisa F Wollenburg and Frederick Fack polling 393 249 and 213 votes unofficially pending canvas. Fenelon and Wollenburg are Oshkosh State College graduates while Gibson married an Oshkosh woman. We note Rothwell carried several towns as Winnebago Committee for Fenelon formed. overall municipal choices aligned, except Oshkosh and Menasha showing tighter splits.
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Gibson
Arisa F. Wollenburg
Gordon
Alexopoulos
Fenelon
Rothwell
Osh- Ansh
Im Menasha
Sif
Xeenah
Omre
Winneconne
Argas
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