Ripon Man Killed in One Car Crash
Ronald Benkoski 22 of Ripon died when a single vehicle struck two trees after being driven by David Thiel 23 of 181 Spaulding Street. Alan Schrader and John Norton were treated for shock and bruises. Funeral set at St Patrick Church with burial in parish cemetery. Lions?
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RIPON
Ronald Benkoski
Stanley Benkoski
Union St
Northwestern Ripon Bureau
Union Street
David Thiel
Spaulding St
Jackson Street
Spaulding Street
Alan Schrader
Wa Wa Street
John Norton
Milwaukee
Ripon Municipal Hospital
Benkoski
Stanley
Florence Fleichman Benkoski
Marquette University
Joanne
Robert
Michael
Joseph Fletchman
Marshfield
St. Patrick Church
Louis Zick
Record Toll Set During Labor Day Holiday Weekend
Traffic deaths over the Labor Day holiday weekend reached a record high of 545, including belated reports, for the period from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight. The prior peak was 501 last year. The toll included several multiple-fatality crashes, with six in Michigan and the worst accident near Dayton in southeast Texas, where 10 people died. This marked the third record toll among spring and summer holidays, following Memorial Day’s 159 and a 557-fatal Fourth of July weekend.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Dayton
Texas
Banker's hours for jailed mother in Burlington
Minnie Johnes, 34, begins a four day jail term in Burlington with daily 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. confinement so she can return home each night to care for her six children. Judge Jesse Thomas ordered the schedule to keep the mother with her family while serving sentence.
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Burlington
Iowa
UPI
Minnie Johnes
Jesse Thomas
Johnes
Alabama Public School Kept Closed by Force
Wallace ordered the Tuskegee Public School closed to comply with a desegregation order as 215 armed state troopers and mounted deputies barred entry. The Macon County School Board, under federal mandate, kept the 12 grade school open, while federal intervention remained uncertain. Funeral services will be Tuesday in Menominee, Mich. for Karl Lundgren, twin brother of Michigan State Sen. Kent Z. Lundgren.
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Tuskegee
Ala
George Wallace
Consolidated
Macon County Board of Education
Col
al Lingo
E.W. Wadsworth
Lingo
Wallace
Macon County
Mounted Sheriff's Deputies
Dallas County
Jim Clark
Justice Department
Alabama
Mississippi
Oconomowoc
UPI
Menominee, Mich
Karl
Lundgren
Michigan State
Kent Z. Lundgren
Kennedy Returns From Cape Cod Amid Civil Rights Clash
President Kennedy flew back from Hyannis Port to Andrews Air Force Base after speeding up travel due to the Alabama school desegregation crisis. In a Monday CBS interview he acknowledged losses in 1960 and potential losses in 1964, tied to civil rights stance, while urging support for an $11 billion tax cut and a strong nuclear test ban treaty with Senate backing.
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Washington
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Alabama
Andrews Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base
Mass
White House
Hyannis Port
South
Walter Cronkite
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS Evening News
UN National Broadcasting Co
Senate
Two Drown In State Over Holiday Weekend
A small boy from Wausau and an Illinois man died in Wisconsin water incidents during the Labor Day weekend. George Constad, 43, of Freeport drowned at Lake Halcombe while boarding a boat at Chippewa County Lake. Two year old Mark Peterson drowned at Pike Lake near Wausau after wandering from his cottage. The Navy reported the Trieste bathyscaph photographed debris potentially linked to the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher.
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Speier Funeral Home
Wisconsin
Associated Press
Eau Claire
George Constad
Freeport
Ill
Lake Halcombe
Chippewa
Mark Peterson
Wausau
Pike Lake
Wisconsin tornadoes injure, damage farms across four counties
Three tornadoes struck southern Wisconsin counties injuring several and damaging at least 18 farms including Green and Lafayette. Trees were uprooted and power lines pulled down as the storm extended into Iowa and Dane counties. The Weather Bureau warned of continued risk with heavy rain and high winds, and a Madison area witness described a shed roof being lifted as the twister passed.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Green
Lafayette
Iowa
Dane
US Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Illinois
Oshkosh
Lake Michigan
Nora Capaul
Edward Terrill
Madison
Orcutt
Hubert Drachenberg
Fcxmel
Steel Plant Shut Down By Walkout
The Gary works of United States Steel Corp. shut down after a walkout by about 15,000 workers over the suspension of a grievance committee member. The stoppage began on Monday night with 100 pickets at the gates. Union officials disputed the company claim, arguing McLaughlin was not technically an employee while serving on the committee.
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Gary, Ind
Gary
United States Steel Corp
Jack McLaughlin
United Steelworkers Union
U.S. Steel
McLaughlin
Kennedy targets Diem brothers in Saigon crackdown
U S officials say Washington seeks removal of Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother, as part of pressure on the Viet Nam government. Kennedy warns changes in policy or personnel may follow if Saigon does not act, while reaffirming continued military aid of about 500 million dollars annually.
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John M. Hightower
South Washington
Viet Nam
Kennedy
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
U.S
CBS
Hyannis Port
Mass
United States
Saigon
Jawa Ted Saigon
Nhu
East German Intellectual Defects to West
Hamburg Germany AP Prof Hans Mayer East German prize winner and liberal intellectual defects to West Germany on a lecture tour He will not return to Leipzig University where he taught literature for 15 years Mayer won East German national prize in 1935 for works on classical and modern literature
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Hans Mayer
West Germany
Hamburg
Germany
Mayer
Leipzig University
Miners Hope Fades for Bova After Cave-In
Hazleton, Pa AP David Fellin and Henry Throne return home after a week in hospital following 13 days entombment in a mine cave. Fellow miner Louis Bova remains missing as state officials, after drilling 15 shafts, explore three routes to reach him.
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Hazleton
David Fellin
Henry Throne Returno
Mnass
Lin
Lows Bove
Fellm
Throne
Aaman
Bova
Jin
Fellins
Luisate H Beecher Charmbury
State Secretary of Mines
Charmbury
Gordon Smith
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