Juniors’ Charisma Productions tops awards in JA program
In La Crosse, Katie Crogan and eight JA companies mark a mixed year. Charisma Productions paid back its $1 stock, boosted by a radio ad, and Crogan earned the Vice President of Sales award and Company of the Year honors. Other winners include Sunshine Unlimited and Dynamic Enterprises as JA teaches business skills.
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Katie Crogan
Miss Crogan
Bernard Crogan
Green Bay St
Crogan
G. Heileman Brewing Co
Futures Unlimited
Viterbo College Fine Arts Center
la Crosse
Mark Kerrigan
Wiliam Kerrigan
S. 23Rd St
Rotary
Barbara Hauke
CALCO
Trane Co
Amy Fluekiger
Dynamic Enterprises
Richard Goetz
Don Viner
Hammill pleads innocent to armed robbery in Menasha
Jerold Hammill, a convicted murderer, pleads innocent to a June 28 armed robbery at Doering's Super Valu in Menasha. Proceedings delayed as defense cites missing transcript. judge gives 20 days to file pretrial motions. Hammill, 23, from Patch Grove, is serving a life term for murder.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Jerold Hammill
Menasha
George Curtis
Hammill
Winnebago County
Edmund Arpin
Arpin
Curtis
Wisconsin State Reformatory
Green Bay
Patch
Hotchkiss
la Crosse
Miss Merfeld
Houston County Lets Persons Work Off Fines
Houston County launches a hardship based program allowing misdemeanants to work off fines at about 2.50 dollars per hour. Participants may select this option instead of paying or serving jail time. Jobs include roadside cleanup, fairground cleaning, and facility repairs, with the program patterned after Winona County.
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Houston County
Caledonia
Minn
Kathy Foley
Houston County Court Services Department
Miss Foley
Winona County
Hughes Will Leaves Millions To Medicine
Las Vegas AP report states three scrawled pages of Hughes instructions leave millions to the Mormon Church and a Utah gas station owner, executor Noah Dietrich calls it legal procedure. The will’s total value is unknown. speculation places it up to 2.5 billion. Each recipient would receive about 156 million if the figure holds.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Utah
Howard Hughes
Noah Dietrich
Hughes
Los Angeles
Dietrich
Mormon Church
Carter Favored to Secure Democratic Nomination
Syndicated columnist Kilpatrick predicts Carter has a clear path to the Democratic nomination after Humphrey declined to enter the race. He cites Carter’s hard work and Washington anonymity as reasons for momentum and notes Reagan’s strong stance against Ford. Kilpatrick also discusses Nixon, Kissinger, and the CIA debate, plus a separate note on Howard Hughes' will validity and potential bequests.
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Hubert Humphrey
Jimmy Carter
James J. Kilpatrick
Carter
Kilpatrick
CBS
la Crosse
Humphrey
Minnesota
Lyndon Johnson
Pennsylvania
Georgia
la Crosse Lutheran Hospital
Washingon
Washington
Ronald Reagan
California
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Lucey veto preserves school budget limits in Wisconsin
Gov. Lucey vetoed a provision to expand public school district heating and lighting budgets as part of the 1976 77 minibudget bill signed July 1. The veto leaves electricity and heat cost controls in place while other tax funded programs receive adjustments including a fieldhouse remodel for UW and veterans loan subsidies.
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Madison, Wis
Patrick J. Lucey
University of Wisconsin
Lucey
Congress
Wisconsin
Senate
State Hygiene Laboratory
Milwaukee County
Department of Veterans Affairs Governing Board
UW-L May Be Gifted Land and Stables
Robert Luxford, owner of Ridgeview Stables on Ridgeview Road, said he may gift land and stables to the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. UW L officials are in early talks and no specifics have been defined yet.
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Madison
Wis
U.S. District Court
Wisconsin
US Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
James Doyle
Robert Luxford
Ridgeview Road
Ridgeview Stables
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Uw-L
Larry Dittman
UWL
Dittman
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Grant County
Robert Fritz
Clark County
Loretta Bowman
Wilford W. Kirton Jr
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Kirton
Watergate
Nixon
Internal Revenue Service
People’s Republic of China
Henry Kissinger
Senate Intelligence Committee
Central Intelligence
Committee
CIA
Carl Bernstein
Robert Woodward
Ford
Salt Lake City
Summa Corp
Hughes’ Vast Holdings
Bil
Lionaire
Keith Hayes
8Th Judicial District Court
Hayes
Hughes Medical Institute
Miami
Hughes’ Associates
James L. Kilpatrick
Assembly
Legislative Audit Committee
Legislative Audit Bureau
Ment
Martin Schreiber
University
Elroy Hirsch
Tribune Proto
LTFE
Isse
Hintgen
Aquinas
Central
Dan Coughlin
Mississippi Museum
la Crosse Post Office
Ann Landers Entertainment
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