Kennedy Khrushchev meet possible amid cold war strains
Palm Beach AP reports a Kennedy Khrushchev conference on corrosive cold war issues is a definite possibility with odds 3 to 2. Laos and a nuclear test ban may block progress but quick gains could push the meeting forward. Kennedy may extend his Europe trip May 31 and seek a face to face with Khrushchev in Stockholm or Vienna. No firm decision yet, likely within a week.
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Stockholm
Vienna
United States
Washington
Palm Beach
Pierre Salinger
White House
Kennedy
Geneva
Four Deaths Raise State Toll to 263
The Associated Press reports Wisconsin posted 263 highway deaths for the weekend era up from 251 last year. Teen driver Dennis Kopp 18 Milwaukee held without charge after a car veered off Highway 36 near Wind Lake struck a fence and then crushed a lawn where Frank Berg Jr. 5 and Deborah Berg 4 played. Deborah was critically injured along with other children. Frank died from head injuries. Additional weekend fatalities included Gary Groibak 18 Manitowoc and Thomas Woodkey 18 Manitowoc in a crash into a pole. John L. Leaven 41 Ravell Gays Mills died after a pickup crash near De Soto. Audrey Osiram 19 rural Sturgeon Bay died in a Brussels area crash.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Frank G. Berg Jr
Wind Lake
Deborah
Highway
Berg Bor
Burlington Hospital
Dennis Kopp
Milwaukee
Manitowoc
John L. Leaven
Raval Gays Mills
DeSoto
Vernon County
Audrey Osiram
Sturgeon Bay
Brussels
Negro Appointed to Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Stanley P. Hebert, Milwaukee assistant city attorney, was named to a six year term on the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, the highest post ever awarded to a Black man in the state. Hebert will assume the $14 000 annual post after Senate confirmation and succeeds Martin Glaeser. Governor Nelson also reappointed Leonard Bessman as chairman. Hebert, 38, is a UW graduate and Marquette Law School alumnus who taught at Southern University and North Carolina College before joining Milwaukee city government. He is married with four children and active in the NAACP Milwaukee branch and the Catholic Interracial Council board.
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Madison
Stanley P. Hebert
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Gaylord Nelson
Hebert
Martin Glaeser
Senate
Nelson
Leonard Bessman
University of Wisconsin
Marquette University
U.S. Office of Price Stabilization
Southern University Law School
Scotslandville
North Carolina College
Durham
N.C
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Catholic Inter-racial Council
Dorset Young Farmers Plan Mr Dorset Contest this Saturday
In Dorchester England the Dorset Young Farmers Club will select a Mr Dorset this Saturday to replace the traditional Miss Dorset pageant. The move aims to shift focus from beauty contests to broader achievements among members.
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Dorchester
England
UPI
Dorset Young Farmers Club
U S Agrees to Laos Talks After Compromise
The United States agrees to join an international conference on Laos after President Kennedy approves a concession that leaves Laos political status vague. Three rival Laotian delegations will attend as observers under a British-French compromise, avoiding explicit recognition of any government.
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Geneva
United States
Laos
Kennedy
U.S
Boun Oum
Pathet Lao
Souvana Phouma
Reds
Lord Home
Maurice Couve de Murville
Dean Rusk
Ameri
Happy Day Ends In Destruction At Sorenson Farm
A Mother's Day celebration turned grim as a storm wrecked farms near Bear Creek. The Sorenson barn suffered major damage while the Emory Knapp barn was demolished trapping Knapp and a neighbor boy until Bear Creek firefighters freed them. Traffic snarls and wreckage filled the area as neighbors offered help and milking resumed.
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Bear Creek
Ralph Sorenson
Here
Sorensons
Sorenson
Emory Knapp
Knapp
Tom Bessette
Plane crash injures two Wisconsinites near Sault Ste. Marie
Two Wisconsin men Dr Gordon F Vanderbergen and Wilfred Weiss escaped with cuts and bruises when their light plane sank in a lake about 60 miles northwest of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. The craft went down in feet of water near Idle Lake while they were flying over the lake.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Wisconsin
Gordon F. Vanderbergen
Wilfred Weiss
de Pere. Wis
Violence Flares In Test of Color Barriers in Alabama
In Birmingham and Anniston Alabama a firebomb destroyed an overturned bus and white mobs beat both white and Negro riders as the Congress of Racial Equality tested bus station segregation. Thirteen people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation or injuries. no arrests were reported.
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Birmingham
Ala
Freedom Riders
Alabama
Washington
Anniston
Congress of Racial Equality
South
Atlanta
Trailways
Georgia Line
Greyhound
Hollywood Fire Area May Get Aid
The Hollywood Hills area where 24 luxury homes burned in a million-dollar brush fire was expected to be declared a disaster area. The move would allow homeowners to borrow funds at three percent to rebuild. spectators blocked narrow roads fueling delays.
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Hollywood
UPI
Hollywood Hills
Aldous Huxley
Leva
Donald McLannnan
Bear Creek Storm Weathers Wisconsin Tornado Screens
Strong winds gusting to 60 mph swept Oshkosh and Winnebago County Sunday afternoon with a rare tornado report. No major damage except a shed and several poles. three twisters near La Crosse. A farmer and helper’s barn collapsed trapping a boy who was rescued with minor injuries. Damaging winds also toppled trees and poles near Pickett and Berlin neighborhoods. Milwaukee barber charged with arson after a city fire.
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Winnebago County
Richard Toweldis
Winchester
Elmer Fenner
mid-Wisconsin
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la Crosse
Celar
Bessette
Knapp
Ifhermen
Pickett
Robert Johnson
Ripon
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Milwaukee
UPI
Sam Olive
Joe Milwaukee
North-West Telephone Co
Liberty Street
Berlin
Cumberland
Wisconsin
Wayne Malnory
Wisconsin St
Firebox arson claim tied to Maxwell romance
John Stever told police he broke into Nelda Maxwell's apartment through an unlocked back door and started a fire with a cigarette lighter. He reported losses of about 350 dollars for wardrobe and 900 dollars for the apartment, citing Maxwell’s spending and a plans to marry after a divorce. Maxwell said Stever suspected the blaze and helped her financially while ill.
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John Stever
Nelda Maxwell
Stever
Miss Maxwell
Lother
Sever
Muss Maxwell
Pupils Mask Hearing Aids as Radios at Eliot’s Green School
In Northholt England teachers notice a pupil arrives with a hearing aid then others follow with the same device. Suspicion rises as the devices turn out to be earphones connected to transistor radios.
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Northholt
England
Eliots Green School
Castro vows no return to Cuba's exploited past
Premier Fidel Castro declared in two nationwide radio speeches that nothing can halt the revolution's progress and pledged no return to Cuba's past. As he spoke, about 398 Catholic religious refugees boarded the Covadonga in Havana for New York before heading to Europe.
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Miami
CPI
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Covadonga
Havana
Ha‘vana
Uni
Storms rip six states with tornadoes and heavy winds
Thunderstorms swept the central U S with more than a dozen tornadoes along a 150 mile path from Missouri to Illinois. Nine injured in Illinois, one in Wisconsin, widespread property damage and flood barriers kept hundreds from their homes as National Guardsmen remained on duty. Snow struck Colorado and Wyoming with Cheyenne 9 inches and Denver 5 inches.
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TRE
Associated Press
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Colorado
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
Laramie
Denver
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Hannibal
Peoria
Illinois
Waseca
Minneston
Castor
Pocahontas
Stuttgart
Holly Grove Ark
Indiana
West Point Honors Ike With Dinner and Award
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower flies to West Point New York for a Founder's Day dinner and to receive the Silvanus Thayer Award. The event honors a standout citizen who embodies duty honor and country. A cadet parade completes the program.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
West Point
N. Y
Miliary Academy
Eisenhower
Thomasville
Gelivsburz
Silvanus Thayer
Corps of Cadets
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