Voters May Decide on New City Hall November 8
Legislation for a 2.8 million bond to finance a new city hall was sent to committee by the La Crosse Common Council. If approved in September the bond will appear on the November 8 ballot per state law. Architect Harry Schroeder will present preliminary plans August 29 to a special city hall committee. The Redevelopment Authority plans a Civic Center site at 4th and Badger Streets north of the Courthouse and will pursue property acquisitions for the project.
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la Crosse
Harry Schroeder
U S Warplanes Hit Haiphong Power Plant Near Haiphong
U S Air Force and Navy fliers hit targets within 14 miles of Haiphong, focusing on the Uong Bi power plant. An F8 Crusader from the Oriskany was lost this week, with the pilot rescued after parachuting into the Gulf of Tonkin. Ground actions in the south reported continued clashes and Viet Cong casualties.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Haiphong
North Viet Nam
Central Highlands
Demilitarized Zone
7Th Fleet
Oriskany
Gulf of Tonkin
Uong Bi
Constellation
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S
North
Viet Nam
Doctor Joseph R. Schaeffer Dies at 73
Dr. Joseph R. Schaeffer 73 of San Antonio was director of medical education at Santa Rosa Medical Center and an American Cancer Society worker and disaster medicine authority. He died Thursday.
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San Antonio, Tex
Joseph R. Schaeffer
Santa Rosa Medical Center
American Cancer Society
Former City Marine Killed In Viet Nam
Staff Sgt. Robert T. Walsh 30 formerly of La Crosse dies of gunshot wounds in South Viet Nam. He served as a helicopter crew chief with Marine Air Group 36 in the 1st Marine Air Wing. Walsh completed Vietnamese language training and had prior combat in Korea. He is survived by his wife Diane and two children, plus parents Louis and Mrs. George and siblings. Burial plans pending.
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South Viet Nam
Robert T. Walsh
la Crosse
Walsh
Marine Corps
Louis George
Denton St
Marine Air Group 36
1St Marine Air Wing
Viet Nam
Logan High School
St. James Catholic
Robert
Gays Mills
Sgt. Walsh
Marines
Diane McGowan
California
Canyonville
Ore
Kim
Kelly
Ronald George
Sandra George
Edwin Helgerson
Thomas Walsh
Fatal crash on US 12 near Black River Falls kills 6 year old
Bradley Erickson, 6, died when a semi trailer struck the Erickson car about 10:45 a.m. three miles north of Black River Falls Wisconsin. Lyle Erickson, 32, and other family members were hospitalized with serious injuries. Everett Souza, driver of the truck, was unhurt. No inquest planned as state patrol investigates.
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Tribune
Black River Falls
Dan Gomez
Bradley Erickson
Erickson
Wis
Lyle Erickson
U.S. Highway 12
Kenmare
N.C
Milwaukee
Curtis
Diane
Everett Souza
Morrisville
Ind
Ernest R. Stuart
Rochelle
John Noble
Jackson County
Packers and Hope Set To Stress Milwaukee Traffic
Milwaukee police plan special traffic measures for a Packers Bears game at County Stadium and Bob Hope’s Wisconsin State Fair opening. Additional deputies will aid adjacent streets to prevent congestion on the east west freeway.
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Chicago Bears
Green Bay Packers
Bob Hope
State
Packers-Bears
County Stadium
Fairgrounds
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputies
Torrential rains hit southeast Texas up to ten inches
Up to 10 inches of rain drenched parts of southeast Texas on Thursday as civil defense and fire units evacuated about 150 homes in Port Arthur. Lightning struck Village Theater, destroyed by fire, while a small tornado hit Holyoke Massachusetts and nearby South Hadley with property damage but no injuries. Heavy showers continued in Knoxville, Anniston, Lemmon and across the southern states northward into the Central Rockies and Northern Plains.
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Associated Press
Texas
Plains
Civil Defense
Port Arthur
Holyoke
Mass
South Hadley
Knoxville
Tenn
Anniston
Ala
Lemmon, S.D
Rockies
Gemini 11 to Launch Sept 9 for Cartwheel Rendezvous Mission
Gemini 11 mission crews led by Navy Cmdr. Charles Conrad Jr. and Lt. Cmdr. Richard Gordon Jr. prepare a September 9 launch for a 44 orbit flight. The astronauts will link with an Agena target, perform a 55 minute space walk, and execute a 100 foot cartwheel spin around the world to test artificial gravity and close rendezvous techniques.
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Houston, Tex
Navy
Charles Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Gordon
Space Agency
United States
Conrad
Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Two Dairyland employees hurt in plane crash near Lancaster
Dairyland Power Cooperative pilots James Halvorson and Donald Sweeney sustained cuts and bruises after their two passenger plane crashed about 11:30 a.m. ten miles northwest of Lancaster Wisconsin. Halvorson was the pilot and Sweeney the observer during a line inspection flight.
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Dairyland Power Cooperative
Lancaster Memorial Hospital
Lancaster
Wis
James C. Halvorson
Church Drive
French Island
Donald Sweeney
Halvorson
Sweeney
Robert L. Stuckey
King Sr
Dairyland
Stuckey
North Korea declares independence from Beijing aligned with nationalist trend
Pyongyang announces an independent line within world communism. Rodong Shinmoon denounces Chinese and Soviet influence, purge of flunkeyism, and insists each communist party must shape policy independently. North Korea moves toward a neutral stance amid Sino Soviet tensions.
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Tokyo
North Korea
World Communist Movement
Rodong Shinmoon
Pyongyang
Peking
Romania
Three Men Nabbed After Minnesota Bank Robbery
In Santiago Minnesota two masked men robbed the Citizens State Bank and fled in a pink and white 1955 Plymouth. A bookkeeper hid, a customer was accosted, and within 15 minutes police arrested three young men and recovered the loot. FBI holds two in a related Big Lake case. a statewide teletype system aided arrests.
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Santiago, Minn
Age State Bank
Citizens State Bank
Big Lake
FBI
Minneapolis
Sherburne County
McDonald
Princeton
ST. Paul
Minnesotas
Santiago
Edward Mattson
State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Chester Goerner
Crime Bureau
Goerner
Mattson
Retired diplomat H Lawrence Groves dies at 78
H Lawrence Groves, a former U S Diplomatic Corps veteran who retired in 1949 after thirty years of service, died Thursday in Coudersport Pennsylvania at age 78.
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Coudersport, Pa
H. Lawrence Groves
U.S
Diplomatic Corps
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