Boy Friend opens at ski area Friday during arts festival
The Boy Friend opens Friday night at Mt La Crosse Tenthouse Theater Under The Stars as part of the 1965 Coulee Region Festival of Arts. The six night run features an all local cast of 16 with Colleen Kavanaugh and George McClendon in lead roles.
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Tenthouse
Under the Stars
Mt. la Crosse
Coulee Region
Colleen Kavanaugh
George McClendon
Sandy Wilson
Laurie Wetzsteen
Heidi Wecker
Tina
Perseid Meteor Showers Visible Thursday Night
The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible Thursday night if skies remain clear. Meteoroids burn up in Earth's atmosphere creating bright streaks sometimes with tails. rare larger meteors can leave craters and front-page headlines. The event was first noted in 36 A.D.
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Earth
Wisconsin Crop Forecasts Include Record Corn Yield
The Agriculture Department projects Wisconsin corn for grain at 72 bushels per acre, totaling 114.6 million bushels. Other forecasts list oats at 127.4 million bushels, 62 bu/ac. late summer potatoes 4.5 million cwt, 190 cwt/acre. fall potatoes 7.5 million cwt, 205 cwt/acre. tobacco 21.4 million pounds, 1,842 lb/acre with Type 54 cigar binder at 9.3 million and Type 55 at 12.1 million pounds, both up 7 percent from 1964.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Agriculture Department
Southern Wisconsin
Oktoberfest Parade Entries Open for Colorful Float Show
Applications for float band and drum corps entries are being received by Max Kottmer chair of the Oktoberfest parade committee for the Saturday afternoon parade on Oct 2. The 1965 theme This Land is Your Land broadens float subjects with a Sept 4 5 p.m. entry deadline.
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Max Kottmer
Kottmer
Parade Committee
Oktoberfest Corporation, Ltd
la Crosse
Greater la Crosse
Cycle Trip To Waukon Ils Planned
La Crosse unit of the American Youth Hostel Club plans a 49 mile bicycle trip to the Waukon Iowa area on August 21. Other clubs from Northeast Iowa Minneapolis Eau Claire and Hales Corners are invited. Participants age 13 or older with at least a three speed bike may join. The ride starts 8 30 a m at Burns Park and includes stops in Brownsville Minnesota Lansing Iowa and a lunch at Twin Coves before reaching Andy's Mountain Hostel. Return trip August 22. Leaders Lahue Reid Hauser and Roberts set reservations after 7 p m.
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la Crosse
Waukon
Iowa
American Youth Hostel Club
Minneapolis
Eau Claire
Hales Corners
Burns Park
7Th
Main Streets
Brownsville
Minn
Twin Coves
Lansing
Andy’s Mountain
George Lahue
David Reid
George Hauser
Hall Roberts
Lahue
Old Milwaukee Road depot gutted by downtown fire
The old Milwaukee Road station in downtown Milwaukee was gutted by fire early today. About 80 firefighters fought the three hour blaze before it was controlled. The cause is not yet known. The railroad abandoned the station on August 4 to operate from a new depot.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Road
Carnival at Erickson Playground and Indian Days at Camp
Erickson Playground held a Wednesday carnival with games like bowling ring toss golf and a fish pond. For three weeks at the Recreation Department day camp children participate in Indian Days dividing into braves and princesses with costume making and face painting.
State Eyes Two New UW Branch Campuses
Wisconsin officials move to plan two four year branches in Northeastern Wisconsin and Racine-Kenosha. Governor Knowles will name the site selection committee with coordinating committee nominations within days. Regents will receive initial program ideas August 20 and a preliminary report is expected from Chancellor Adolfson. Enrollment at existing extension centers is forecast to rise at least 30 percent this September to about 4,500, aided by a tuition cut under a new state budget. Construction contracts have been let for buildings in Janesville and Waukesha with openings planned for 1966 and 1968 in Baraboo and West Bend.
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la Crosse Tribune
Madison Bureau
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Racine-Kenosha
Warren P. Knowles
Coordinating Committee For Higher Education
University of Wisconsin Regents
L. H. Adolfson
Knowles
Building Commission
Adolfson
Waukesha
Janesville
Baraboo
West Bend
Bloodmobile Nears Its 3 Day Quota
A strong turnout at the Trane Co location boosted Red Cross Bloodmobile operations. On Wednesday 213 pints were collected, five pints short of the combined Monday and Tuesday totals, bringing the three day total to 431 pints. The daily quota is 156 pints and the unit will stay at Trane Co through Friday for employees only.
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Trane Co
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Murphy Heads LCU President Committee
Eugene Murphy of La Crosse will chair a regent committee to review applications for new La Crosse State University president to succeed Rexford Mitchell by February 1966. The committee will screen 100 to 150 applications and report its recommendations to the board, with final selection by the regents. The university expects about 4,000 students this fall and a starting salary of 23,000 dollars.
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la Crosse Tribune
Madison Bureau
Madison
la Crosse State University
Rexford Mitchell
Eugene Murphy
la Crosse
Transportation Company
State College Board of Regents
Mitchell
State University System
Lawrence College
Appleton
State University
Murphy
Board of Regents
Plane rides planned for light handicapped kids Saturday
Light handicapped children will ride in a plane at 2 30 p m in the Coulee Region on Saturday afternoon. John L Johnson will pilot the Black Hawk Flying Club plane while C B Wiemann operates the Cardinal Club craft. Chaperones will accompany each group and a picnic is planned in Copeland Park for the right handicapped group.
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Coulee
John L. Johnson
Black Hawk Flying Club
C. B. Wiemann
Cardinal Club
Copeland Park
Lorrie Glaze and Coulee Region Symphony Festival Concert
The Coulee Region Symphony's Music Lovers Night featured pianist Lorrie Pierce Glaze performing Liszt with an 85 member orchestra under conductor Frank Italiano before about 600 at Coleman Vocational School Auditorium. Beethoven Eroica and Vaughan Williams Fantasia On Greensleeves led a varied program, with Glaze's Liszt encore and a Grieg folk style closer.
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la Crosse Tribune
The
Coulee Region
Coleman Vocational School
Eroica
Hero
Napoleon Bonaparte
Beethoven
Orches
PSC Reverses Ruling On Signal Payment
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission reversed a March decision requiring the city to pay all railroad signal costs at the Burlington track over George Street. The reversal reduces city cost by about 4600. The state to pay 4601 while city owes 6573.07 following a 1959 agreement with Burlington Railroad.
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Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Burlington
George Street
William J. Sauer
Burlington Railroad
PSC
Sauer
Five Onalaska youths admit school burglary
Five Onalaska juveniles admitted taking 99.85 dollars from Onalaska High School during the weekend of July 24 25. They split the loot four ways while the fifth joined but did not share. The case was reported to Juvenile Court Worker Willard Sill for action.
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Onalaska
Onalaska High School
la Crosse County
Charles Rick
Harry Schafer
Rick
Willard Sill
Missing 12-year-old Roberta Wilhelm Reported by Father
Police search ongoing for Roberta Wilhelm a 12 year old girl from 1506 Rose Street listed as missing since 2 05 a m Thursday. Father Robert Wilhelm says she left Wednesday afternoon possibly headed to a Caledonia Street home. mother notes she did not arrive there. She is 5 feet 3 inches tall 110 pounds blue eyes shoulder length hair wearing a black and white sleeveless blouse sand colored knee length slacks and white sandals.
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Roberta Wilhelm
Robert
Wilhelm
Rose St
Caledonia Street
Roberta
Jersey Breeders Meet Outlines Dairy Industry Challenge
Neilus Larson of the Tri-State Breeders Cooperative urges dairymen to strive for quality and self-help, stressing closer consumer contact and new milk products. Oscar Henderson elected director. financials show assets of 12,334.36 with 178,026.37 income for 1964-65 and 174,992.54 available. Allen Meyer cites potential new large market for All-Jersey milk in Wisconsin.
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la Crosse Tribune
Neilus Larson
Tri-State Breeders Cooperative
Westby
Larson
Coulee All-Jersey Milk Association
Roadhouse
la Crosse
Julius Manske
Bernard Timm
Holmen
Elton Heinze
West Salem
Allen Meyer
Fargo
N.D
Wisconsin
Missing battery and adding machine thefts reported in La Crosse
A Guttenberg fisherman told police that between 4 and 5 p.m. Wednesday his 12 volt car battery was stolen from his vehicle parked behind the Milwaukee Road roundhouse. Clyde Vanderbilt reported the theft. Mgr. B. T. Hall of the J C Penney Co in La Crosse said a Smith Corona adding machine model 890 valued at $110 was stolen from a store display area in the past several days.
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Guttenburg
Iowa
la Crosse
Clyde Vanderbilt
Milwaukee Road Roundhouse
Mgr. B. T. Hall
J. C. Penney Co
Luther High car wash fundraiser set for Onalaska area
The Luther High School senior class will sponsor a car wash from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Citgo service station located at La Crosse Street and Lang Drive.
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Luther High School
Onalaska
Citgo
la Crosse St
Lang Drive
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