Fieldwork Opens Early in Tri-State Farm Season
Farmers across the Tri-State area begin soil prep and planting weeks ahead. Leonard Everson uses a 50 year old grain drill to sow oats and interseed alfalfa on 10 acres while Merle Bruemmer and Arland Holthaus prep fields for oats and disc corn as spring work proceeds despite dry spell concerns.
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Tri-State
Brice
Holmen Prairie
Leonard Everson
Rockland
West Salem
Merle Bruemmer
Highway 108
Arland Holthaus
Burns Valley
Raymond Schulz
Viroqua Board Approves Optional Early Retirement Plan
The Viroqua Area School Board unanimously adopted an optional early retirement policy for full time teachers with at least 15 years service. Eligible staff may retire after the current year with $2000 for year one and $1500 for years two through five, plus up to five years of health insurance and a maximum $8000. Additional actions include bids for employee health insurance and review of a $2.6 million budget for 1976-77.
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Viroqua
Wis
Viroqua Area
Roland Hill
Hill
Hearst May Not Serve Full 35-Year Jail Term
Patricia Hearst prepared for a 90 day psychiatric evaluation to aid her bid for freedom. She will be moved for a pretrial hearing on charges of kidnapping robbery and assault, then to San Diego for lengthy examination. The judge suggested a possible reduction after reports.
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Hearst
San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Miss Hearst
Los Angeles
Metropolitan Correctional Center
San Diego
Oliver J. Carter
F. Lee Bailey
Carter
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Bailey
U.S
53 Year Scribe Nora Magelee Resigns From Sparta Duties
Nora Magelee 67 resigns after 53 years as La Crosse Tribune correspondent. She moves from her apartment to St Marys Nursing Home in Sparta after hospital stays in March and April. Magelee began reporting in 1923 covering Whitehall to Ft McCoy, later serving Sparta and beyond.
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Sparta
Wis
Nora Magelee
la Crosse Tribune
Magelee
St. Mary's Nursing Home
St. Francis Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital
Nora
Metro
Donald W. Affolter
Trempealeau County
Earl F. Hensel
Whitehall
la Crosse
Sparta Area Chamber of Commerce
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Sparta Chamber of Commerce
Bicycle crash prompts drunk driving charge in Milwaukee
Milwaukee police said they will seek a drunken driving charge against a South Side man after his bicycle struck 62 year old Janet Polowski in a cross walk Sunday afternoon. Polowski received head cuts and a bruise to her left elbow and was treated at a city hospital.
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Milwaukee
South Side
Janet Polowski
Gilbertson Opens Senate Campaign Pledging Tax Dollars Return
Gilbertson, former La Crosse mayor, launches bid for the 32nd District State Senate seat, opposing Lucey policies and stressing tax sharing. He aims to draw labor support and remains employed as an accountant while campaigning.
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Coulee
la Crosse
W. Peter Gilbertson
Milo Knutson
Gilbertson
Patrick Lucey
Wisconsin
la Crosse County
Patrick Zielke
la Crosse Telephone Corp
Lucey
Senate
Gilbert
Civil Service Needs Merit Reinjected in Wisconsin
Gov. Warren P. Lucey urged a committee formed with Rep. Paul Offner to overhaul Wisconsin civil service and restore merit. The panel will study unionization, affirmative action, and long term austerity, with a tentative report date pushed past January.
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Civil Service
Lucey
Madison
Wis
Patrick Lucey
Paul Offner
D-La Crosse
Offner
Cochairman
Robert la Follette
Kissinger Almost Resigned Over Watergate Pressure
AP reports Henry Kissinger nearly quit as national security adviser in 1973 due to Watergate. State Department spokesman John Trattner said Kissinger chose to stay, later becoming secretary of state under former President Nixon. Kissinger had planned to resign after the Vietnam war ended.
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Washington
Henry Kissinger
John Trattner
State Department
Richard Nixon
Trattner
Kissinger
Paris
Ford vetoes repeal of Hatch Act restricting federal workers
President Ford vetoed legislation to revise the Hatch Act and allow 2.8 million federal employees to engage in partisan political activity including running for office or managing campaigns. The 36 year old ban would have been repealed by the measure.
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Washington
Ford
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Coulee Region
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Stoddard
Phil Dyer
Dyer
Republican Senate
Torrance Casting and Fabricating Inc
Commerce St
Montreal
Quebec
Evansville
St. Olaf College
Northfield
Minn
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Ken Wesely
Crosse
Sion
Russell Cleary
Sen
Henry Jackson
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