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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1965
Page
2
A 20 year old Wisconsin housewife, Suzanne Velasco, died after plunging from an 87 foot observation tower in Columbia Park Fond du Lac. A 14 year old boy was held after admitting presence with Velasco. police seek cause while lie detector tests are prepared.
Officers pursue clues after two University City women Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby were found slain. Investigators seek why friends who shared clothing and plans remain silent and search for nearly 150 stolen items from the victims’ car.
La Crosse Lutheran Hospital reports a July 31 birth, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Justin, R. J., La Crosse. In Milwaukee on July 24 a daughter named Kelley Doyle was born to Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Grimslid of 2914 W. Hayes St., Milwaukee, with Ruth Doyle noted as a relative.
Nine pickets were arrested outside a Sumter County grocery as the grand jury met to consider indictments against two young Negroes charged with murdering a white Marine en listee. The arrests followed a trespass complaint on private store sidewalks.
The Public Health Service reports a continuing drop in births through May with 302000 babies born and a birth rate of 18.4 per 1000. May 1964 saw 331000 births and a rate of 20.5, reinforcing expectations that 1964 totals may dip below 4 million for the first time since 1953. Arthur A. Campbell notes the decline began in 1958 and birth control pills became widely used only after 1961.
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An early Sunday blast ripped an eight foot hole in a house trailer at an Interstate 35 dredging project site in Duluth Minnesota. It follows multiple bombings tied to a union jurisdiction dispute between Local 25 and Local 49 of the International Union of Operating Engineers. No injuries were reported and negotiations continue without agreement.
Radio highlights list programs on WLCX WKTY and WCOW with baseball matchups and a Young People’s Concert, plus livestock market reports from Swift & Company Winona and South St. Paul with cattle hogs veal and prices, and Chicago market summaries for butter eggs potatoes grain and poultry.
National quotations sourced from the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc reflect inter dealer prices as of about 9 a.m. Markets fluctuate throughout the day and prices exclude retail markups or commissions. Central Telephone 444 45 Clark Oil Ref 28 2812 Epko Shoes Inc 12 4 13 4 First Bank St 38 38 2
The forecast calls for cool conditions early in the week with a warming trend by midweek. West Wisconsin temperatures will run 3 to 5 degrees below normal with normal highs 78 to 86 and normals lows 56 to 64. La Crosse records a high of 85 and a low of 63. Light showers are expected, totaling 0.1 to 0.2 inches, with scattered showers before midweek.
Authorities probe three fatal shootings and a strangling across Minnesota and nearby areas over the weekend. Victims include a Fargo nurse, a New Brighton youth, a 12 year old Minneapolis girl, and Mora mother Lucille Jacobs. William Newgard remains jailed in the Fargo shooting case. A Fridley homeowner fired on a youth. no charges yet. Police question a 24 year old boyfriend in the 12 year old case. Autopsy ordered for Melvina Nickaboine. Lucille Jacobs died when a pistol discharged during cleaning by her husband.
Record low temperatures spread from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico as cool air kept readings in the 40s in the north and 50s elsewhere. Madison hit 44 degrees breaking a 1907 date record. Birmingham logged a fourth recent low at 60. Rain drenched Cape Hatteras and northern PA.
Wisconsin counties move to comply with May 1966 reapportionment, trimming boards from 67 to 31 in Milwaukee area and reducing total supervisors by 728. Affected counties include Ashland Barron Crawford Dodge Green Lake Lafayette Outagamie Price Waushara and Dane Grant Clark Marinette Waukesha Marathon Juneau Rusk Trempealeau Wood Dodge. Urban membership rises in Marinette as rural seats fall.
The statewide highway death toll for 1965 rose to 404 after multiple weekend crashes. Victims include Mrs. Howard Musel of Hector Minnesota and several young drivers from Watertown Minnesota Onigum and Larchwood among others. In Florida Nancie Hague Swanson from Wayzata died in a head on motorcycle collision.
Longtime public servant and former divorce counsel and public administrator dies. He served as a Mason for 45 years and is survived by his widow a son James of Los Angeles two daughters Sonja Hanson of Chicago and Diane Larson of Milwaukee three brothers Sig Simon Oscar and two sisters Clara Meister and Inga Ridgeway six grandchildren. A private graveside service is set for 2 p m at Riverside Cemetery with Rev L Keith Hanley officiating. Memorials are requested to the National Foundation of Crippled Children.
Scattered showers or thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Lows in the mid 50s, highs near 80 Tuesday. Wisconsin expects thunderstorms in the northwest and statewide Tuesday. Minnesota shows variable clouds with little change and thunderstorms in the west and south tonight. Iowa shows variable clouds with showers and thunderstorms over the north tonight and east Tuesday.
Viet Nam casualties are reported heavy with the fall of Long An and Go Cong provincial capitals. An American wounded at Go Cong, a South Korean camp attacked near Bien Hoa with no reported deaths, and U S air raids against North Viet Nam targets continue. A mass tribunal in Saigon convicts 21 for undermining the war effort. James Killen to leave U S economic aid post as top commanders convene in Honolulu to plan a 50 000 man buildup. Senator Russell urges stable civil government while nonaligned nations seek conference talks in New Delhi.
Police say two gunmen entered the Holiday Inn in St Paul early Sunday and stole 2400 dollars from a cash register. They forced night accountant Robert Michalski to wake manager David Chase to open a safe.
Authorities across Texas New Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas tracked multiple unidentified flying objects Sunday night into today with radar sightings at 6000 9000 and about 22000 feet Tinker AFB and McConnell AB spokesmen cited unknowns and the Air Force noted many sightings resolve to balloons birds or other ordinary causes with thousands checked since 1947 and hundreds remain unidentified.
Rudolph Arvid Peterson former Minnesotan and managing director of Bank of America San Francisco was named Swedish American of the Year in Sweden on Sweden America Day. Ambassador Hubert de Besche praised him as a symbol of Swedish American achievement. Peterson cited Willmar Minn memories and noted the town’s waterworks as a sign of immigrant contributions to the United States. The observance is hosted by the Wasa Order of America Swedish Tourist Traffic Association and the Society for Preservation of Swedish in America.
William Boss 95 St. Paul industrialist and University of Minnesota professor emeritus of agricultural engineering died Friday after a long illness. He served on the university faculty from 1893 to 1938 and formed Specialty Manufacturing Co in 1901 to produce his inventions.
Monday night spraying will cover the Causeway Boulevard area to the north city limits between the east and west municipal boundaries. The operation targets the corridor between the city edges for pest control or vegetation management.
La Crosse Tribune lists W. T. Burgess as publisher and Sanford Goltz as editor. It notes publication daily except Sundays and its La Crosse Wisconsin address with AP News use rights and carrier rates.
James F. Johnson 21 of Kenosha, La Crosse State University summer student, had .013 percent alcohol in his blood after dying from a fall off Grandad Bluff on July 26. Dr. Michael J. Watunga, county coroner, said Wisconsin's legal limit is .015 percent and a ruling on drunkenness is pending after a meeting with District Attorney Burleigh Randolph and police. Mary Ann Halas 21 of Cedarburg was with Johnson, and fled after the fall. she declined to comment on Randolph’s belief the death was accidental or on police notes that she panicked after the accident.
Hiring to fill Minnesota State Fair jobs will start August 17 and run daily through September 6. Officials say applicants are judged on qualifications, not first come first served, and night lines gain nothing. Last year 1,034 people were placed. high demand for bus boys cooks counter girls kitchen help demonstrators laborers sales clerks and more.
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