May Charge Driver In Train-Truck Crash
Authorities weigh charges against Gordon Hinkley of Wales Wis after his truck smashed into a special train carrying about 900 to 1 000 schoolchildren en route to a Milwaukee Braves game. Over 100 injured, 37 hospitalized, no fatalities reported. Braves players planned hospital visits as witnesses describe crossing signals ignored and the train derailed near Caplainville.
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Milwaukee Road
Waukesha, Wis
Ma Eyne Old
Gordon Hinkley
Wales
Wis
Het
Portage
Milwaukee Braves
Brooklyn Dodgers
Caplainville
Pete Roelandts
Hinkley
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Will
Roelandts
Milwaukee
Braves
Waukesha
New Traffic Lights Placed in Operation
The city began operation of a new traffic regulation system at Main and Marion Streets at 11 30 Monday with eight interval lights and 11 lanes in four directions. Two traffic officers were stationed to aid motorists while the department plans to maintain officers at the intersection for weeks.
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Main
Marion Streets
Cyril Boushele
Wail Street
Ceape Street
Marion Street
Main Street
Family Affair at Chicago 47 A Divorce Hearing
In a Monday Chicago session, Herman Collins supported his mother Mrs. Dorsula Collins who charged her husband with desertion in 1954. Mrs. Collins corroborated her son’s testimony that his wife left him, making the case a family affair.
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Chicago
Collinses
Herman Collins
Dorsula Collins
Resentment Over New Marine Training Setup at Parris Island
At Parris Island new Marine Corps training command structure under Brig. Gen. Wallace M. Greene Jr. shifts control of recruit training away from Maj. Gen. J. C. Burger. Drill instructors and junior officers resent Burger's transfer to Camp Lejeune as he bears blame for the April 8 death march during the Ko rea era.
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5.C. UW
Marine Corps
Wallace M. Greene Jr
Greene
Randolph Pate
J. C. Burger
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Pate
Burger
1St Marine Division
Korea
Matthew C. McKeon
Worcester
Ben-Gurion Says Arab States Need Peace Talks Now
Premier David Ben-Gurion told a United Press correspondent that peace requires direct Arab Jewish talks and a balance of forces between Israel and its neighbors. He urged Egyptian Premier Nasser and other leaders to meet and warned that Arab arms and instability in the Gaza Strip threaten renewed war. The exiled UN mission of Dag Hammarskjold he hoped helped, but Ben-Gurion doubted Egypt's ability to maintain order and called for broader peace moves.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Israeli United Nations
David Ben-Gurion
Mideast
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ben-Gurion
Gaza Strip
Jordan
Egypt
Syria
Saudi Arabia
United Nations
Twing Sentenced 13 Years in Wisconsin Reformatory
Dennis Twing 18 received one to three years in Green Bay State Reformatory for assault with intent to cause great bodily harm in the shooting of his former girlfriend Kay Broderick. Circuit Judge Lincoln Neprad ordered psychiatric treatment and a reformatory vocational program, urging cooperation for rehabilitation. defense urged probation, noting six months already served. Twing was found guilty of shooting and wounding Broderick. a jury acquitted him in a separate charge involving Lynn Lawton.
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Viroqua
Wis
Dennis Twing
Green Bay State Reformatory
Lincoln Neprad
Twing
Donald Kaalzler Madison
Ting J
Wayne Schlintz
Lourt
Twine
Kay Broderick
Lynn Lawton
Broderick
GOP Leaders Favor New Farm Bill Outlook for Admin Approval
Washington reports from White House talks say the House passed a second farm bill aligned with Eisenhower’s soil bank plan, avoiding rigid high price supports. Senate Leader Knowland backs action in a form satisfactory to the administration, while Democrats split on higher price supports for feed grains.
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U.P
Eisenhower
White House
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
GOP
William F. Knowland
Knowland
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Rmass
Congress
Senate Democrats
Clinton P. Anderson
D-Nm
Sen. Roberts
S. Kerr
D-Okla
Council Seizes Chance to Act on City High School Plan
No action was taken by the council Monday on the city’s high school building issue as the health and welfare committee, with four pre council sessions, failed to draft procedural recommendations. The committee will reconvene Friday to draft proposals for the school board, aiming to program alternate high school plans using the present site and South Park School in a dual system.
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Chm
Edmund J. Plier
Plier
South Park
Ald
George F. Oaks
Ald. Oaks
South Side
Robert Luedtke
Clarence Luedtke
Secretary Defends U S Air Power Against Soviet Overstatement
Defense Secretary Charles B. Wilson told a Senate subcommittee that Russia is not far ahead in airpower and outlined U S plans. He said B52 production would peak at 20 planes monthly early in 1958 and that three billion dollars would be spent next year on guided missiles research and production. The testimony accompanied hearings on the administration 35.9 billion military budget, aimed at countering Democratic charges of underfunding air power and missile development.
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Mulsu
Wlisail
Senate Appropriations
Wilson
U.S
Armed Forces
United States
Russia
U.S.S.R
Matty
Last Laugh: Car Hit by Horse Causes Damages
Superior Judge Joseph W. Vickers recounts a collision where his car struck a horse on a roadway. The horse escaped unharmed while the vehicle incurred 415 dollars in damage in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Joseph W. Vickers
Vickers
Floods Trap Alaskans On School Roof
Floods covering 1000 square miles in southwest Alaska strand 100 villagers atop a two story schoolhouse roof. Rivers Kuskokwim and Nushagak drive floodwaters. 150 native families endangered as Sleit mut village, 208 miles northwest of Anchorage, seeks safety on the roof.
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United Press
Alaska
Texas
Andrews
Big Springs
Kuskokwim
Nushagak
Northwestern Carrier Boys Headed to Chicago Contest Reward
Twenty Oshkosh Daily Northwestern carrier boys won a subscription sales contest and travel to Chicago for a two day all expenses paid trip. They travel by chartered bus with circulation manager Jack Guiney, check in at the Conrad Hilton, tour the Museum of Science and Industry, visit Wrigley Field for Cubs Dodgers game, see Cinerama Holiday, tour Ford Motor Company and Glenview Naval Air Station, then return to Oshkosh Wednesday evening. Participants include Marvin Stille, Eugene Mason, Richard Berry, Jack Ejichman, James Hemmer, Robert Knopf, Dennis Brown, Darrell Brown, Paul Zobel, Guy Wiley, Michael Wuest, David Ratajczak and others from Oshkosh Omro Winneconne Berlin Green Lake.
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Oshkosh Daily
Northwestern Carrier
Northwestern
Chicago
Windy City
Jack Guiney
Conrad Hilton
Daily Northwestern Carrier Boys
Museum of Science and Industry
Ger
Man
Wednes
Brooklyn Dodgers
Forum
West Madison Street
Northwestern Carrier Boys
Palace Theater
Ford Motor Company
United States Naval Air Station
Glenview
Naval Air Station
Oshkosh
Carrier Bay
Marvin Stille
Eugene Mason
Richard Berry
Jack Ejichman
James Hemmer
Robert Knopf
Dennis Brown
Darrell Brown
Paul Zobel
Guy Wiley
Michael Wuest
David Ratajczak
Michael Wilson
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Curtis E. LeMay
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