Ed Moore resigns as city planner in Waukesha
City planner Edward C. Moore announces resignation effective May 1 to become assistant director of the South Side Planning board in Chicago. He cites new opportunities and better pay, noting his 3 years in Waukesha included a zoning update and off street parking programs. Mayor Honeyager supports advancement and a successor will be chosen later.
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Edward C. Moore
South Side Planning Board
Chicago
Edwin H. Honeyager
Moore
Wau
Tton
City Planning Commission
American Society of Planning Officials
Mlinos Tech
Navy
Honeyager
Heneyager
Waukesha
Haylift Planned as Dakotas Face Blizzard Snow
Winter back but fair conditions persist in the Dakotas as authorities consider an emergency haylift to save starving cattle amid a blizzard. federal and state officials monitor flooding as Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers crest and roads remain perilously high.
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Waukesha
Nann An Llym
Wisconsin
State Highway Department
Mississippi River
Alma
Prairie du Chien
Mississippi
la Crosse
Pat Federal
A. B. Fanial
Milwaukee
Howard Thompson
Black River
Chicago
North Dakota
General Service Administration
Bismarck
N. D
Fred Randahl
St. Paul
Minn
Dakotas
Minnesota
Canada
U. S
Illinois
Great Lakes
Quiet Mayoral Campaign Costs Revealed
The city records show Bruce F. Beaty and Mayor Edwin H. Honeyager reporting low campaign outlays. Honeyager lists 48 dollars spent, Beaty 29.24. Aldermanic candidates Meier 4.95, Conk 7.15, Haynes 6.49, with several officials filing blank statements.
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Bruce F. Beaty
Edwin H. Honeyager
Honeyager
Beaty
Ald
Edward Meier
Seklon Conk
Aldermaniec
Alec Haynes
Theodore Nigshor
Sam Schafer
Nonie Crowley
Lawrence Werner
Wilbur Swift
Curtis Callow
Joseph Merten
Vernex
Library discovers illegal parking meter theft inside washroom
City librarian Edward Lynch reports an expired parking meter found in the library washroom after a thief rifled its cash box. Police say a meter was knocked down near Clinton street and discarded in the library during morning hours. Suspects are believed to be local youths as 20 cents remained while 35 or 40 cents were taken.
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Edward Lynch
Lynch
Common Council
Clinton Street
Sears & Roebuck
Carroll Studies Group Race Ban Debate at College Senate
The Carroll senate appointed a committee to study banning campus groups with discriminatory by laws, rescinding a 1952 effective ban after editorials in the Carroll Echo criticized the vote. Senator Bill Cook had pushed the measure, later amended to a 1954 effective date, but the proposal was defeated.
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Carroll Senate
Bill Cook
Senate
Carroll Echo
Cook
Carrol Echo
Dick Soulen
Waukesha
Four Family Members Fatally Shot in Chicago Suburb
Police say Irvin Maskal a 40 year old lawyer killed his mother Amalie 68 his wife Stella 32 and son Johnnie 19 before taking his own life the bodies found in River Forest home and a cemetery note indicated plans to kill his mother then himself.
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Chicago
Maskal
River Forest
Stella
Johnnie
Fire damages Poplar Peacn factory in Wis
A blaze swept through part of the Poplar Peacn plant in Wisconsin early today destroying machinery and a stock of valuable goods with losses around 106000 dollars. Local firefighters fought the flames and an investigation is pending to determine the cause.
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Poplar
Wis
Eisenhower Warns on Arms Spending Amid Economy Concerns
General Dwight D. Eisenhower told a Senate appropriations hearing that the United States has gone as far as is wise in cutting arms spending while warning that excessive cuts could aid the enemy. He urged maintaining a strong economy and cautioned against unilateral disarmament.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Columbia University
New York
Eisenhower
U. S
Boy Lost Two Hours Is Found by Police
A two and a half year old boy wandered from home and was found by police two hours later. Jerry Congemi was located on Brookfield Avenue by a squad at 12 26 pm. His mother reported him missing at 11 43 am. The wagon was found on Niagara Court and White Rock Avenue, but the boy was not with it. He was found strolling on Brookfield Avenue.
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Jerry Congemi
Brookfield Ave
Joseph Congemi
Gene
Niagara Court
White Rock Avenue
Brookfield Avenue
Visiting Thief Gets Two Terms
A Milwaukee man pleaded guilty to larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses and received concurrent sentences of six months and one year at Waupun state prison. Judge Scott Lowry imposed the penalties after Eugene Wysocki, 30, admitted to offenses on March 10 in Waukesha. The tale describes how he used a fallen asleep man’s wallet and forged a check to cash it.
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Milwaukee
Waupun State
Scott Lowry
Eugene Wysocki
Waukesha
Dominick Rex
Ryan St
David Danecey
Wysocki
Rex
W. Main Street
Dancey
John Garcia
E. Mainst
Lowry
Wrukesha
Madison Street
Garcia
Kenneth Krause
Krause
Elephant Executed at Sarasota Circus
Dolly the circus elephant, 27, was executed today in Sarasota after killing a boy. The sunrise procedure drew circus roustabouts, trainers, and performers, and Dolly was buried in a shallow pit near the winter quarters where she had long been a dainty feeder of peanuts for local children.
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Sarasota
East Troy man killed in head on crash with Greyhound bus
An East Troy man, 29 year old Robert Helgemo, died instantly when his car collided head on with a Milwaukee bound Greyhound on Highway 151 near Waukesha. Seven bus passengers were slightly injured but none required hospital care.
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Waukesha
Robert Helgemo
East Troy
Greyhound
Highway 15
Helgemo
Highway 151
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Milwaukee
Susan de Bach
Ferol Miller
Alice Congdon
Elkhorn
John Hansen
Frank Hlaska
Camp Gordon
Evelyn Newton
Delavan
Clarence Gunderson
Thomas Gul
Shot Sam Pick 22 Years Ago Charged Now
Thomas P. McGoorty 63, paroled from Illinois prison Monday after a 1928 attempt on Sam Pick, Milwaukee club operator. Bound over to municipal court for trial on attempted murder. bond set at 5000. McGoorty identified by Pick. linked to Chicago arrest for policeman shooting. paroled 22 years ago. Additional warrants accuse assaults and armed robbery in 1928 Racine cab holdup.
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Sam Pick
Madrid
Bluemount Road
Milwaukee
Thomas P. McGoorty
Milnois
Municmal Court
Michwaukee
Pick
McGoorty
Waukesha County
West Wisconsin
North Plankington Avenues
Chicago
Fire Threatens Garage at Wadhams Oil Plant
A blaze caused burning paper to blow from a gate toward a garage at the Wadhams bulk oil plant on W St Paul avenue beside the Fox river. Reported at 12 12 pm crews were dispatched with no damage recorded. Earlier at 4 45 am a basement rubbish fire at 404 Hinman ave caused no damage per officials.
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Wadhams Bulk
W. St. Paul Avenue
Fox River
Eddie Kern
Hinman Ave
Great-great-grandmother Eva Wendel 92
Eva Wendel 92 died yesterday at Waukesha Memorial Hospital age 92. She leaves 71 direct descendants including five daughters, 21 grandchildren, 38 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. Funeral tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at Erling Larsen Funeral Home with Rev. L. Glenn Cloninger officiating. Burial in Prairie Home Cemetery. Friends may call after noon today at the funeral home.
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Eva Wendel
Barstow Sr
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Wendel
Germany
Milwaukee
Waukesha
Theo Radmer
Lena Redlinger
Rhainhart Thiele
Ivan Quinn
Margaret Finn
Erling Larsen
L. Glenn Cloninger
Prairie Home Cemetery
Chief Rainmaker Fail When Cloud Go Way
New York reports detail Dr. Wallace E. Howell a $100 a day rainmaker leading a two plane cloud chase over the Catskills to trigger rain for reservoirs. The expedition found clear skies but Howell calls the practice flight valuable for future efforts.
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New York
Mother Nature
Wallace E. Howell
Catskills
Howell
Symphony Is at Its Finest Strings Along With Mozart
The Waukesha Symphony Orchestra under conductor Milton Weber delivered a strong program at the high school auditorium. From Gluck’s overture to Mozart’s Jupiter, the ensemble showed skill with rich Iphigenia in Aulis echoes and polished strings Though Frescobaldi sounded dreary the Mozartean second half culminated in the Jupiter movement with notable string performance and a satisfying finale. Soprano solos in the first movement were briefly uneven before correction.
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Mozart
Tom Smith
Freeman
Waukesha Symphony Orchestra
Gluck
Milton Weber
Mosart
Frescobaldi
Shift to Hydrogen Bomb Focus Spreads Through AEC
Sumner Pike revealed the atomic program is being reshuffled to weigh in on hydrogen bomb development. He said a timetable advance aims to produce more and stronger weapons, with construction of the first atomic engine for submarines accelerated and possibly starting this year at the Arco Idaho reactor. The reorganization follows the presidents directive and affects projects and personnel across the program. Murray, the new AEC nominee, cleared a quick Senate hearing with no opposition.
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South Hadley
Mass
Sumner T. Pike
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Mount Holyoke College
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Pike
Arco
Ida
Murray
Washington -Lp
Thomas KE
Senate
New York
Mis
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Ray Wagner
Niciorisi
Helgema
Walworth County
Tow
Regulus
Procyon
Mars
Saturn
Venus
Jupiter
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