Washington School Drawings Approved and Bid Plans Set
Final drawings and specs for Washington Elementary School approved by the board. Oshkosh architects Sandstedt Irion & Reinke authorized to advertise bids for May 29 and June 5 evenings. Bids due June 20 at 8 p.m. with wage scale and subcontractor details required.
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Lementary
Oshkosh
Sandstedt & Knoop
Trien & Reinke
Washington
Board of Education
MRA nathAat Aces
AUC Slaluul Cululilissiuliels
Irion & Reinke
Northwestern
Julius Sandstedt
Theodore H. Irion
Frentz
Winnebago Street
School Street
Winnebago
Washington Elementary
Franklin
Auler, Dreger, Wiley & Werisch
Boy saves baby life earns belated hero recognition
A 12 year old, Jimmy Thomas, was later hailed as a hero after saving a baby from a second story fall in Garfield Park. Doctors said the infant, Billy Wayne Taylor, survived a skull fracture and would live. Jimmy revealed the act after his father questioned him, saying he caught the baby but could not hold on.
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Chicago
Jimmy Thomas
Garfield Park
Jimmy
Nis
Tommy
Billy Wayne Taylor
Billy
Adenauer Backs U S Arms Plan In Talks With Dulles
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met with John Foster Dulles to discuss U S first step disarmament proposals. A White House communique was expected after a split day of talks and Adenauer planned address to House and Senate. Stassen to present new proposals in London with tied German unification on the line.
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Washington
Konrad Adenauer
U.S
Adenauer
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
White House
House
Senate
Harold E. Stassen
London
West Germany
Russia
United States
River Road flooded in Fort Worth boatmen navigate sign
Flooded Fort Worth street Monday drew boatmen to River Road where a sign indicated their waterway. The scene highlighted sudden inundation as residents coped with high water.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Thomson Puts Four Point Plan To Alter Building Commission
Governor Vernon W. Thomson proposed changes to the State Building Commission to ease legislative objections to restoring 12.8 million dollars to the building fund. He would add the state architect engineer and budget director as members, use the Engineering Department as staff, route agency proposals to the commission, and require detailed plans before legislative submission.
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Madison
Vernon W. Thomson
State Building Commission
Thomson
Joint Finance Committee
Building Commission
Commission
Two Milwaukee Teens Die in Fond du Lac County Crash
Two high school girls from Milwaukee Mess mer high school died Monday evening when an auto crashed near Mauithe Lake in the Kettle Moraine Forest during a senior outing. The victims were Carol Zielinski 18 of Whitefish Bay and Jeannine Sauve 14 of Milwaukee. Wisconsin’s 1957 traffic deaths rose to 281 with the tragedy as the car left a sloping curve and overturned several times, according to Fond du Lac County officer Irving Gauthier.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Messmer High School
Mauithe Lake
Fond du Lac
Kettle Moraine Forest
Ars
Carol Zielinski
Whitefish Bay
Jeannine Sauve
Wisconsin
Irving Gauthier
Cloudbursts Plague Flood Areas Across Southwest
United Press reports continued flooding across Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Missouri with about 7000 displaced and at least four deaths. Dallas Fort Worth shelters filled as Trinity River flood surged while Sabinas and Wellman saw heavy rain. Levee breaks near Dallas flooded farmland. police rescued 12 trapped residents. several drownings attributed to floodwaters.
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United Press
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Dallas
Fort Worth
Trinity River
Sabinas
Tex
San Antonio
Jerry McNeill
McNeill
John Syring
Nathan E. Harris
Cook's Ramp
Ark
Arkansas River
Jeff Bowden
Garry Taff
Mississippi
West Memphis
Fort Smith
Lake Texoma
Durant
U.S. 70
Washita River
St. Francis
Ike Won’t Hold News Conference This Week
The White House says President Eisenhower will not hold a news conference this week due to his preoccupation with the visit of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Konrad Adenauer
China Reds Urge Formosa To Oust Yanks
Communist China urged Formosa to rise against its government and drive American forces from the island after anti-American protests in Taipei. The broadcast claimed U.S. soldiers committed slaughter and rape and called Formosa residents to unite with the mainland for peaceful unification, while noting riots tied to internal politics and the Reynolds acquittal.
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Tokyo
China
Formosa
Taipei
Hong Kong
Manila
Arsenio Lacson
U. S
Peiping
Robert Reynolds
Colora
Asia
U.S
Lon Formosa
United Press
Robert Brown
Reynolds
Chiang Kaishek
Peiping Radio 1
Peiping Peoples Daily
United States
Taiwan
Safe Driving Plea Near Memorial Day Weekend
Gov Vernon Thomson announced 2 645 auto drivers signed and returned safe driving pledges sent with auto registration notices since last Wednesday. He urged continued participation to improve highway safety during Memorial Day weekend and beyond.
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Madison
Vernon Thomson
State” Motor Vehicle Department
Motor Vehicle Department
Governor’s Office
Two to Drift Across Atlantic on Log Raft
Two men from Bordeaux plan a four to five month voyage across the Atlantic on a 15 foot log raft. Rene Lescombe aged 35 and Guy Gouttepifre aged 28 will sleep in a cabin on the raft and eat fish and greens they collect from the sea during the journey to the United States.
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Bordeaux
France
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Rene Lescombe
Guy Gouttepifre
Eisenhower faulted GOP on defense budget cuts
President Eisenhower told congressional Republican leaders he was disappointed by their decision to restore only about 390 million of the 1.274 billion cut in the defense budget. House and Senate leaders promised renewed effort to defend more from further cuts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Senate
GOP
White House
Joseph W. Martin
Mass
Appropriations Committee
William F. Knowland
Calif
Knowland
Martin
Sailor Kills One Wounds Two Aboard Uvalde At Treasure Island
A Navy sailor opened fire on the cargo ship Uvalde at Treasure Island San Francisco Bay killing a officer and wounding two others before taking four hostages on the flying bridge. Marines sealed the vessel while Father Schnur and Col. Williams mediated a surrender.
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San Francisco
CDT
Uvalde
Treasure Island Naval Station
San Francisco Bay
Father Schnur
Chhaplain
Treasure Island
Col. E. M. Williams
Marine
First U S Atomic Test Blasts From Nevada Site Seen By Foreign Journalists
Foreign newsmen witnessed the first U S nuclear test in a long series at Yucca Flat Nevada. The 100 kiloton device atop a 500 foot tower yielded a sun-bright flash and a six mile high cloud. Weather delayed the schedule by 13 days and pilots were advised to avoid the cloud as observers described the blast as powerful though less fearsome than expected.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flat
AEC
United States
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Caliente
Nev
Las Vegas
CAA
Sacramento
San Diego
Calif
Chugo Kaito
Ikeyodo News Service
Kaito
United Press
Mailman Dumped Letters in Cemetery Crews Probing
Nineteen seventies era report states Albert Mueller a 17? man postal carrier in New Jersey faced trouble with postal officials after authorities found mail dumped in Hollywood Cemetery. Inspectors say Mueller confessed to discarding mail but claimed he did so only on days when loads were too heavy.
Two Dead and Six Injured in Labor War
In Gunterville Alabama a barricade clash at a $750 000 feed mill site left two men dead and six wounded. Sheriff L P Dickson said murder charges would be filed against several suspects as two state investigators join the probe.
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Guntersville
Ala
L. P. Dickson
Marshall County
Robert A. Richardson
al Thomas
William Maddox
Mack Seeley
State of
Alabama
Department of Public Safety
Gulf State Construction Co
Atlanta
District 50
United Mine Workers
Johnny Leroy Ward
Parsons
Kan
William Harrison
Albertville
J. T. Cunningham
Reba Cunningham
Dickson
Main Street Rebuilding Starts June 17 Merchants Told
Contractors told city officials and about 64 Main Street merchants at City Hall that work to rebuild Main Street from the bridge to Washington Boulevard begins June 17. J L Sullivan of Wisconsin Raids outlined a 10 week timeline with underground work ahead of surface paving in a sand and gravel foundation.
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Main Street
Washington Boulevard
J. L. Sullivan
Wisconsin
Sullivan
Stoughton
Viroqua
Marshfield
Tepsworth
Necedah
Marinette
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