Wisconsin GOP balks at appointive U.S. senator plan
State Senate Republicans voted down a bill to empower Governor Thomson to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the McCarthy term. Assembly voices also showed doubt with Speaker Marotz opposing introducing such a bill. Thomson weighs cost of a special election estimated at 500000 dollars and plans a meeting with the GOP Executive Committee. Democrats vow to fight any appointment authority. Ten Democratic county chairs urge an open field for McCarthy’s seat and oppose limiting candidates. ọh
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Thomson
Thorson
McCarthy
Senate
Assembly
House
Robert Marotz
R-Shawano
Eugene Toepel
R-La Crosse
Philip Kuehn
Madison
Joseph McCarthy
Phillip Nash
Green Bay
37 Killed In Spanish Air Disaster
Salvage crews cleared the wreckage after a Bristol freighter converted to passenger use crashed near Barajas Airport three miles from Madrid. Forty people aboard died, including 32 passengers and five crew. no Americans were on board. A girl near a farmhouse was treated for gasoline exposure from the fire.
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Madrid
Barajas
Accordion street performer fined and expelled from Newark
Frank Gonzales, 23, told a judge in Newark that a manager handles the $50 to $100 a day he makes playing the accordion on streets. The judge fined him the amount of one day's pay and ordered him to leave town.
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Newark
N. J
Frank Gonzales
Gonzales
Massachusetts Fires Rage Across Multiple States
Massachusetts faced at least five major forest fires continuing to rage with 300 plus evacuated residents. In Maine New Hampshire Connecticut and Vermont additional blazes occurred as winds fanned flames near Plymouth and Montague. About 1,000 University of Massachusetts students joined some 7,600 firefighters battling fires that destroyed homes and forced evacuations while arson was suspected in several cases and the Maine Turnpike was briefly closed.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Maine
New, Hampshire
Connecticut
Vermont
Plymouth
Montague
University of Massachusets
Lake Pleasant
Manchester
Amesbury
Milton
Dudley
Billerica
Boylston
Foster Furcolo
Massachusetts National Guard
Civil Defense
Bey
Turnpike
West Kennebunk
Lu Hec
United States
New Hampshire Forest
Pembroke
Dag Hammarskjold Meets Ben Gurion on Arab Israel Peace
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold met with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion in Jerusalem to discuss concrete paths toward achieving Arab Israeli peace.
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Jerusalem
Dag Hammarskjold
Premer David Ben- Gurion
Historians Convene Here For Wisconsin Junior Event
Historians from Winnebago County and 11 neighboring counties gather in Oshkosh for a regional Junior Historians of Wisconsin convention. Activities include campus tours, a Meeminee Park picnic if weather permits, and awards for regional essay and play writing contests presented by Earl Clemans of the Winnebago County Historical Society.
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Winnebagos Organization
Vernon Thomson
Oshkosh Satur
Meday
Comininee Park
Aillouez
Wisconsin
Oshkosh State College
Oshkosh
Meheminee Park
Menominee Park
Earle A. Clemans
Winnebago County
Attachment Plea Defeated By Town Board
The Oshkosh Common Council failed to attach Rockaway Beach to the city school system as the town board opposed the move. Atty Fintan M Flanagan called it “no change” after both bodies rejected the action, keeping Oaklawn District 6 under its existing status. Concerns over consolidation and petitions by Rockaway Beach property owners were debated, with town officials urging a court decision to clarify district status.
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Oshkosh
Rockaway Beach
Fintan M. Flanagan
City Hall
Oaklawn
Distret
Magnusens
Henry P. Hughes
Atty Hughes
Sunset School
Highway 41
Atty. Hughes
Atty
Magnusen
Catlin Case Taken Off June Calendar
Wisconsin Supreme Court removed the Appleton attorney Mark Catlin case from its June docket amid dispute over new evidence. Catlin faces ethics charges for allegedly using influence in parole and pardon matters. his lawyers contend a key witness committed perjury. If not resumed in June, proceedings may not return until September or October.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appleton
Mark Catlin
Wisconsin Assembly
Catlin
Board of State Bar Commissioners
High Court
Catia
Former Waupun convict saves sheriff amid flood near Madras
Norman Shepard, a parolee from Wisconsin’s Waupun institution, helped rescue Sheriff Jesse Wooldridge and a Delano family during a cloudburst on U S 97 north of Madras Oregon. Shepard freed a handcuff, saved a 4 year old, then pulled the sheriff from a swollen creek as water swept cars downstream. The incident occurred while en route to Prineville to face forgery charges and could affect his extradition and emergency consideration.
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Ore
Wisconsin
Waupun
Calfornia
Norman Shepard
Wisconsin Institution
Oregon
Sherif Jesse Wooldridge
Shepard
Prineville
U. S. 97
Wooldridge
Edgar Martin
Debra
Delano
Martin
Danny
New Lures: Clothespins Captivate Bass in Columbus
Tom Kinney, sports editor of the Columbus Ledger, describes a novel bass lure using wooden clothespins coated with effervescent tablets, pierced for hooks and attached to line. The gadget bubbles as it spins, enticing bass in the local fishing scene.
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Columbus
Snan
Tom Kinney
The
Columbus Ledger
Bares Profit On Mortgage Sale by Beck
Senate Labor Rackets Committee reports Beck and partner earned 11585 from selling mortgages to the widow of Beck’s close friend. Beck acted as trustee for union funds and for a memorial fund, using funds to buy about 30 mortgages with a discount. Mortgage values fell from 71607 face to 67137.
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Beck Fred P. Loomis
Dave Beck
Senate
Loomis
Beck
Washington
Llp
Teamsters Union
Senate Labor Rackets Committee
Dona Hedlund
Seattle
Hedlund
Raymond Leheney
President and Family Escape to Jamaica After Coup
In Bogota the government of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla collapsed as a military junta took power. Exiled to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Rojas Pinilla and his party arrived by Colombian air force plane amid violent clashes blamed on Communists. A civilian–military junta is discussed as Colombia faces an uncertain future with scattered reports of killings and excommunications from church leaders.
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Colombia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
UA Yn
New York
Rojas Pinilla
Montego Bay
Jamaica
British West Indies
Rojas Pilla
Committee Cuts Farm Program By 272 Million
The Appropriations Committee slashed 272,556,860 from President Eisenhower's farm budget, mainly by trimming soil bank funds used to reduce planting. It urged deeper cuts next year, while sparing few in the $3.69 billion Agriculture Department funding bill. Eisenhower planned two nationwide TV radio addresses to defend peacetime spending.
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Huisé ‘Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
White House
First Farm
House Committee
Jend
Agriculture Department
Angry Women Protest Truck Traffic On Milwaukee Street
Twenty five women blocked a Milwaukee street in lawn chairs to protest trucks serving the Wauwatosa Stone Co quarry. Signs voiced concerns about danger to children and dust on homes as 15 trucks halted before officers arrived and ordered the scene cleared.
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Milwaukee
Wauwatosa
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