Rain Forces Festival Concert Under Roof
Rain at Myrick Park pushed the Coulee Region Festival Orchestra to perform in the Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium. Frank Italiano led a vivid program including Rossini, Fischer, Franck, Meyerbeer and Grieg, with John Ciardi’s story narrated by Julia Steinke. The audience endured limited seating but praised the resilient ensemble and the festival’s growing cultural value.
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Myrick Park
Coulee
Gion Festival Orchestra
Mary E. Sawyer
Festival of Arts
Prokofiev
Frank Italiano
Rossini
John J. Plenty
Joseph Fischer
Festival Orchestra
John Ciardi
Julia Steinke
la Crosse
Meyerbeer
Constance Lambert
Norway
Grieg
Coulee Region
Tribune
The
Opera Night Features Menotti Offenbach and Weill
Arias and duets from Menotti and Offenbach share billing with Kurt Weill's one act opera Down in the Valley Tuesday at 8 30 p m in the Coleman Vocational School Auditorium Soloists in the first half are Shirley Staton Lor aine McIlraith and Wilma Scheffer Down in the Valley directed by Gary Glaze has an all La Crosse cast Leading roles are Dennis Root as Brack Weaver and Mary Bay as Jennie Parsons Harmer Root conducts the program.
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Menotti
Offenbach
Kurt Weill
Down In the Valley
Coleman Vocational School
Shirley Staton
Loraine Mcllraith
Wilma Scheffer
Coulee Region
Dennis Root
Brack Weaver
Mary Bay
Jennie Parsons
Harmer Root
Board orders 32 chairs after rejecting bids
La Crescent Minn at a special meeting rejected all bids for teacher chairs for the new high school and ordered 32 Cosco office chairs from Spettel Office Supply Co La Crosse for 26.50 for male teachers and 22.50 for women teachers. The board also awarded contracts for home economics equipment and sod for the football field with bids from Crescent Electronics Wettstein and Sons and others, all to be done by volunteer labor.
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LA Crescent
Minn
la Crescent Board of Education
Cosco
Spettel Office Supply Co
la Crosse
Crescent Electronics
Wettstein and Sons
la Crescent Furniture Mart
Northern States Power Co
la Crescent High School
N. Comstock and Son
Caledonia
Bilskemper Landscaping
Onalaska
Stahl Landscaping
Netzer
A. W. Plank
Winona
Hector Construction Co
Winona Milk Co
Dolly Madison Dailries
Business Education Department
William Stetzler
Clyde Pasvogel
Harlen Hanson
Stetzler
Car Ditches, Driver Survives Inch by Inch
A one car crash occurred Sunday 1.5 miles south of Dresbach. Gerald A. Hartwig 55 of Golden Valley Minn said he fell asleep causing the car to leave the road and end in a ditch. He was taken to Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse with head injuries. Two Minneapolis passengers escaped unharmed.
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Dresbach
Gerald A. Hartwig
Golden Valley
Minn
la ‘Crescent
Hartwig
Clyde Seekins
Lutheran Hospital
la Crosse
James J. Brewer
Leslie Holter
Minneapolis
Legal Aid Service For Poor Set Up By Lawyers
Free lawyers’ services are available to the poor in La Crosse County via a program approved by the county bar association. The Confidential Exchange will screen applicants and refer them to rotating county attorneys. criminal, divorce with rare cases of threat, bankruptcy, and personal injury/accident cases are excluded. No fee for services. applicants pay court costs.
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la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse County
County Bar Association
Legal Aid Service
Legal Aid Committee
William Skemp
Robert Jeanis
Skemp
Jeanis
United Fund
The
Bar Association
Exchange
Alice Overson
Overson
Joanis and Skemp
Joanis
Hollmenkolen Hill
Oslo
Norway
la Crosse
Icelandic Airways
Youth Hurt In Accident Fined Total Of 279 Dollars
A Sparta youth, 18 year old Frank J. Hieronymus, was fined 279 or six months in jail in La Crosse Municipal Court after a motorcycle crash at 7th and Cass Streets. He faced three traffic charges with a 70 mph police chase noted by Judge Leonard Chojnacki.
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Sparta
Cass Streets
la Crosse Municipal Court
Frank J. Hieronymus
Leonard Chojnacki
Hieronymus
Stolen Tools From Bentz Farm Shed On Jostad Ridge
A. J. Bentz reports to the La Crosse County Sheriff that a box of tools valued at 75 dollars was stolen from a shed on his property on Jostad Ridge in the Town of Onalaska.
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A. J. Bentz
N. 24Th St
la Crosse, County
Bentz
Jostad Ridge
Onalaska
Seven Milwaukee Road cars derail in yard accident
Seven cars of a 166 car Milwaukee Road freight train derailed in the Schuh Homes yards near Liberty Street. No injuries or damage estimates reported. Cars were cleared by Monday morning as freight and passenger routes were rerouted. The cause remains undetermined.
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Milwaukee Road
Schuh
Liberty Street
Krajewski
Two Cars Collide Injuring Girl in La Crosse
A La Crosse girl aged 4 suffered a bruised shoulder in a two car crash at 12 20 p m Sunday at 211st and Jackson Streets. Constance Johnson of 2437 Jackson St was treated at St Francis Hospital and released. She was riding on a back seat passenger’s lap in a car driven by her father Robert 40 when it collided with a car driven by Lawrence J Rust 17 of 412 Mississippi St.
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la Crosse
Jackson Streets
Constance Johnson
Jackson St
St. Francis Hospital
Robert
Lawrence J. Rust
Mississippi St
Gains in 13 business categories in La Crosse June 1965
The Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce reports overall business gains in 13 of 14 categories for June 1965 versus June 1964. Only airline passenger totals declined, while North Central traffic rose, and totals for bank activity permits meters and utilities showed gains across multiple sectors.
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Greater la Crosse
Central Airlines
la Crosse
North Central
Viterbo College
Crusade, Inc
Annexation Referendum Possible for Shelby Areas
Shelby Town Attorney George Snodgrass says petitions for a referendum on annexing Robinsdale Wayside Gardens Additions and Elm Grove Addition south of Hass Street to La Crosse will start after City Council action and official notice. If circulated, 30 days to gather 20 percent of potential voters. The council action is set for Thursday night with notice expected shortly after.
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Shelby
la Crosse
George Snodgrass
Snodgrass
Robinsdale
Wayside Gardens
Elm Grove
Hass Street
Rev Michael Kuisle Installed as Pastor in La Crescent
Rev Michael Kuisle was installed as pastor of the Church of the Crucifixion by Rt Rev Msgr Richard Speltz at the 8 am Mass in La Crescent Minnesota. He succeeds Monsignor Speltz who moves to St Peter Caledonia and becomes dean of Houston County. He will oversee the local Catholic schooling and catechetical programs.
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St. Mary’s College
Winona
St. Paul Seminary
St. Paul
Kelly
Winona Cathedral
St. Francis
Rochester
Rushford
Houston
Ridgeway
Claremont
West Concord
St. Peter’s Hokah
Hokah
St. Peter’s
la Crescent
Fr. Kuisle
William Curtis
St. Peter’s, Hokah
Virgil Duellman
University of Miami's Jay Pearson dies at 64
Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, 64, second president of the University of Miami and its first chancellor, died Sunday of a heart attack in Miami Florida.
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Miami
Miami, Fla
Jay F. W. Pearson
University of Miami
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Snowflake Ski Club
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