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Stolen Safe from Holmes Tire and Supply Company

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Safe robbers escaped with $1,000 in cash, $2,000 in checks, and several wrist watches when they stole a large safe from the Holmes Tire and Supply Company ...
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Mrs. Marie Richter

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: Mrs. Marie Richter stands trial for extorting $500 from a former Blue River farmer.
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Police Judo Class

Date: 03 01 1961
Description: An instructor demonstrating a Judo technique for disarming a person with a gun.
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Specialty Helmet Created by Police Chief

Date: 04 20 1961
Description: Monona police chief Clifford Pfister displaying a police crash helmet with blinking red lights that he designed with the assistance of the Ray-O-Vac Compan...
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Police Crash Helmet with Blinking Red Lights

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: Monona Police Chief Clifford Pfister demonstrating a police crash helmet with blinking red lights that he designed with assistance from the the Ray-O-Vac C...
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Fidel Castro Rally and Protest on U.W. Campus

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ...
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Bank Robbery at Dane

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Undersheriff Jack Leslie (left) receiving information from Herbert Wagner, manager of the Dane branch of the State Bank of Lodi, about the recent robbery o...
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"Floating" Truck Inspection Stations

Date: 07 27 1961
Description: A 11-man "floating" truck inspection crew checks trucks for equipment and weight violations. Too much weight was suspected on this semi-trailer but a final...
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"Floating" Truck Inspection Stations

Date: 07 27 1961
Description: A 11-man crew and their "floating" truck inspection station check trucks for equipment and weight violations. An inspector spotted several equipment defect...
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"Floating" Truck Inspection Stations

Date: 07 27 1961
Description: A 11-man crew and their "floating" inspection station check trucks for equipment and weight violations. This inspector checks a truck for proper lights.
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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Judging flower shows requires a lot of training. Seated in a garden for the purpose of judging, are (left) Lurie Brewster Wear, a judge-in-training and (ri...
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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Catherine Barber of the West Side Garden Club, a certified flower show judge, is shown kneeling in the midst of a garden of flowers.
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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Marian Wisniewski (Wisneski?), a certified flower show judge, inspects one of her flower arrangements.
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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Irene Straus and Ellen Antoine, certified flower show judges, crouch while inspecting flowers in a garden.
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Flower Show Judges

Date: 07 11 1961
Description: Mrs. O.B. Orth of Middleton, a nationally accredited flower show judge and a rose judge, is shown in the midst of a rose garden while inspecting flowers.
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Madison Police Ambulance

Date: 08 18 1961
Description: Officer Howard (Pete) Stormer displaying the interior of the new station-wagon sized Madison police ambulance. For the past 5 years the department relied o...
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Traffic Patrolman James Jantz' Funeral

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Mrs. James C. Jantz, wife of the slain policeman, holding the arm of her mother, Mrs. Roger Keith, and leaning on the shoulder of her brother, Jerome Boyer...
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Traffic Patrolman, James Jantz' Funeral

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: A relative, left, tries to comfort Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jantz, parents of slain policeman James C. Jantz, at their son's graveside after the funeral servi...
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Sauk County Manhunt Searchers

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Three Jefferson County Sheriff Department officers and a search volunteer posing with two bloodhounds that took part in a manhunt for a suspect from an inc...
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Murder Suspect Jailed

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Captain Harry Wyatt, left, and Deputy Sheriff Mike Spencer bring prisoner Lawrence Nutley, of Chicago, to the Dane County jail in Madison. The prisoner was...

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