Oshkosh Boy Drowns During Dells Patrol Outing
An Oshkosh ninth grader, Stephen Heling, 13, drowned during a Wisconsin Dells safety patrol outing on the Wisconsin River. Patrons and chaperones, including Sgt. John Kieckhaefer, searched the river as buses returned with the rest of the patrol group. Stephen, a St. John Catholic School student, fell from a four foot ledge into rapids near a motel and could not be saved despite a companion offering his patrol belt as a lifeline.
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Wisconsin Dells
Stephen Heling
Wisconsin
Harold Heling
14Th Ave
Oshkosh
Dells
John Kieckhaefer
Stephen
Kieckhaefer
St. John Catholic School
Girl Held In Slayings In Hartington Nebraska
In Hartington Nebraska a schoolgirl, Sharon Dahl, 16, is jailed after admitting she killed her parents Victor Dahl 45 and Rosa Dahl 34 as they objected to her dating. County Attorney Goetz planned charges. The family, tenant farmers near Coleridge, had seven children aged 2 to 12.
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Hartington
Neb
Max Geelz
Sharon Dahl
Strawbrende Tagh School
Victor Dahl
Rosa
Coleridge
Sharon
Chris Dahl
Laurel Foox
Goetz
Military chiefs face Cuban crisis with uncertain fate
Washington reports a debate over the fate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Sen. Albert Gore calls for new leadership while Gen. Lemnitzler testifies before Sen. Morse about the Cuban invasion. Morse defends the chiefs and affirms confidence in their ability to safeguard the nation amid the crisis.
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Washington
UPS
Albert Gore
O‘tenn
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wayne Morse
D.ore
Senate
Latin America
Gore
Morse
Lyman L. Lemonitzer
Joint Chiefs
Pew
Lemnitzler
Leminizer
Coir Chiefs of Staff
Adm
Arleigh A. S Burke
Navy
George 4 Decker
Army
Thomas D White
Air Force
David M. Shoup
Marines
Marine Corps
Castro Will Negotiate On Tractor Deal
Premier Fidel Castro said he will send a group of captured invaders to the United States to start negotiations on a prisoners-for-tractors exchange. He indicated releasing less important captives first and sending tractors in, with more valuable prisoners returned later, while insisting tractors be fully equipped and in good repair.
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Havana
UPL
Fidel Castro
United States
Castro
Cubay
CTC Union Federation
Manuel Artime
Francisco Molina
Kiler
New York
U.S
Arthur R. Kiser
Leffer
Superior Mutual
Lex
Fulgencio Batista
Jon
Wil Castro
Liie
Six five hundred lose legal right to drive auto
In Madison an estimated 6,500 Wisconsin residents automatically lost their driving rights after Circuit Judge Edwin Wilkie ordered Superior Mutual Insurance Co liquidated and its policies cancelled. The firm had 20,000 policyholders. about 11,000 in Wisconsin.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Edwin Wilkie
Superior Mutual Insurance Co
Wilkie
Cheesemakers Mutual Casualty Insurance Co
Superior Mutual
James L. Karns
Karns
Asst
Harold H. Persons
State Insurance Commission
Building Collapses in Brooklyn Trapping Four Residents
A three story Brooklyn tenement toppled with a thunderclap early today trapping four asleep occupants, a mother and three relatives, all rescue crews pulled them out in nightgowns. An adjacent building was evacuated as buckling and imminent collapse were noted. Fire officials added no immediate cause. A passerby, Joseph Grabowski, 18, cut his wrist during the rubble removal.
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New York
Brooklyn
Leona Siminson
Cathlene
Paincia
Mary Maz Nocchi
Joseph Grabowski
Greenpont
Russians Hope Vienna Talks Eases Tensions
Moscow citizens welcome the Khrushchev Kennedy summit and hope for no setbacks as Vienna slated for June 3 4. Propaganda tones down and officials seek to create a favorable atmosphere for the talks with Khrushchev and Kennedy. Officials point to prior tensions from the Uz incident and Paris summit collapse. Moscow Radio Tass and foreign press comment reflect approved tone.
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Moscow
UPI
Vienna
Nikita Khrushchev
Kennedy
Russia
Paris
Tass
Kennedy Forms Board to Halt Rail Yardmasters Strike
President Kennedy named an emergency board to probe a dispute involving the Railroad Yardmasters of America and several carriers. The three member panel blocks a 6 day strike as it reports, affecting about 5 000 yardmasters over wage rates and rules changes. Landed amid a Monday deadline.
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Washington
UPS
Kennedy
America
White House
Wood valet missing from rug store storefront
A rug store reports a man-sized wooden valet was taken in broad daylight Friday by unknown person. Local officials declined to identify suspects or location beyond the storefront incident.
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Pittsburgh
Groundwork For Meetings Being Readied
Secretary of State Dean Rusk left for Washington to prepare Kennedy's talks with Khrushchev, Macmillan, and de Gaulle. The Laos talks yielded little progress as Averell Harriman replaced Rusk in Laos. The 14-year-old Air Force Constellation carried Rusk and aides home from the conference.
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Geneva
UPI
Dean Rusk
Washington
Kennedy
Russia
Britain
France
Air Force Constellation
Rusk
Laos
Averell Harriman
Chhef U
Military Junta Restores President After Coup in South Korea
President Posun Yun reversed his Friday night resignation amid pressure from the ruling military junta that formed a 14 man cabinet of officers led by Chang Do Yung. U.S. General Magruder ordered troops returned to Allied control and demanded reinstatement of displaced officers as 50,000 American troops stayed confined to bases.
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Seoul
UPI
Posun Yun
South Korea
Yun
Fadar Hic Reolg
Chang Do Yung
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Carter B. Magruder
U.S
Korea
Chang
Magruder
Eat Now Pray Later Describes Cafeteria Style Dining
At the Congregational Christian Churches state meeting in Columbus meals were served cafeteria style causing a long wait between the first and last diners. Church leaders urged attendees to eat promptly and end with grace. One minister quipped Eat now pray later.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
Congregational Christian Churches
Freedom Riders Grow as Alabama Court Bans CORE
White and Black students prepare for waves of participants to defy segregation in Alabama. Alabama Attorney General Gallion issued a curcuit injunction banning CORE members from entering the state, amid past violence against freedom rides. Diane Nash says more students will join from Nashville as groups converge in Birmingham and at the Greyhound terminal.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Alabama
MacDonald Gallion
Gallion
Walter B. Jones
Montgomery
Congress On Racial Equality
CORE
James Farmer
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Greyhound
Nashville
Tenn
Diane Nash
Washington, D.C
New Orleans
Anniston
Eugene Connor
Tennessee State Line
Fate Still Unknown Of Man in Well
Herbert A. Tiegs, 63, a farmer from Nampa Idaho, remains trapped deep in an irrigation well after a section caved in while he shored up an unstable area twenty feet below the jammed drill stem. Rescue crews labored four days to remove sand using steel casing and later an air jet system as they worked with buckets in the shaft.
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Nampa
Idaho
Southwest
Seek Way To Conclude Algerian War
France and Algerian rebel representatives begin talks in Evian to seek a path to end six decades of war and form an independent North African state. The Arab delegation led by Kam Belkacem arrives by helicopter. the French side is headed by Algerian Affairs Minister Lows Jone.
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Evian Les-Bains
France
UPI
North Africa
Algeria
Kam Belkacem
Geneva
Lows Jone
Jone
Belkacem
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