Two Milwaukee Detectives Robbed While Investigating
Milwaukee police detectives LeRoy Jones and Bobby Brown were robbed in a tavern during a holdup while searching for three suspects. The bandits stole $350 to $400 from the till, Jones lost his badge and watch, Brown lost revolver, cuffs, and wallet, and the officers were held in a washroom with patrons.
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Milwaukee
LeRoy Jones
Bobby Brown
Jones
Brown
James Woods
Woods
Minnesota State Fair Chief Defends Funds
Minnesota State Fair secretary-general manager John E Libby says the attorney general has no ground for restitution from certain fair employees. Atty Gen Robert Mattson threatened legal action over an allegedly mis spent 2290 dollars. Public Examiner Robert Whitaker reported the loss stemmed from unbusinesslike practices by certain fair employees. Libby would not comment before reviewing the AG report.
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Robert Mattson
State Agricultural Society
Robert Whitaker
Libby
Harvesting Volunteers Needed Knowles Says
Governor Knowles warns Wisconsin must recruit volunteers to harvest vegetables after Labor Day or face serious implications for the state and nation. He notes student return and migrant workers reduce harvest labor, risking crop rot and higher grocery prices. He proposes a food job corps using housewives and students to offset the seasonal loss.
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Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Wisconsin
Knowles
Juneau County's First Vietnam War Casualty Returns Home
Army Sgt. Raymond J. Churchill, 19, of Juneau County, died August 4 in South Vietnam as a communications specialist with the 25th Infantry Division. He was buried near his father in Wood Cemetery after a farewell service at Crandall Funeral Chapel. Churchill, born in 1946, lived in Juneau County, attended Manston High School, and volunteered for duty in Vietnam arriving January 1966. His mother Verna Edgerton received the news August 4 after a July 26 letter. The funeral featured a flag presentation, rifle salutes, and Taps.
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la Crosse Tribune
Maulton
Wis
Army
Raymond J. Churchill
South Viet Nam
25Th Infantry Division
Churchill
Juneau County
Viet Nam
Wood Cemetery
Tomah and
Wyeville
Kenneth Churchill Sr
Manston
Crandall
Milton Wilson
The
Church of the Nazarene
Sgt. Churchill
Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard
Sgt
Sparta
New Lisbon
Lyndon Station
Manston High School
Verna P. Edgerton
Mauston
Carlin Seward
Oakland
Calif
Maynard Churchill
Higher prices fail to lure dairymen back to business
Washington AP Farmers show little sign of resuming milk production despite higher price supports. A Department of Agriculture report notes July output down 3 percent from 1965, a drop seen virtually every month this year. Price supports for manufacturing milk rose to $4 per hundredweight. consumer milk prices rose about one cent per quart. A slowdown may come from many dairy cows being sold for slaughter, since raising a cow to production takes time.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
NAACP halts Milwaukee youth group button sales
The NAACP orders a Milwaukee youth council to stop selling pins reading Burn, Baby, Burn citing inflamamatory risk after Watts riots. Father Groppi says Roy Wilkins warned the council charter could be revoked if sales continue amid an NAACP office bombing.
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Milwaukee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Los Angeles
Watts
James E. Groppi
NAACP
Groppi
Wilkins
Syd Finley
Chicago
Henry Maier
Maier
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Phone exchanges approved for Crescent Lake and Pelican Lake
The State Public Service Commission authorized new telephone exchanges for Crescent Lake and Pelican Lake in Oneida County. Headwaters Telephone Co. of Rhinelander will install the Pelican Lake exchange and extend service to surrounding communities at a cost about $796 750.
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Madison
Crescent Lake
Pelican Lake
Oneida County
State Public Service Commission
Headwaters Telephone Co
Rhinelander
Hope Is On Hand 117th State Fair Opens In Milwaukee
Sunny skies and a record crowd were expected at the 117th Wisconsin State Fair with Daily events and named days. Comedian Bob Hope planned five shows during the run and Perry Como to follow. attendance could reach one million as the fair opens its 10 day run. A 139 member police force guards order beside a livestock show featuring 1200 4H entrants and state fair activities across designated days.
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Milwaukee
Bob Hope
Vernond G. Wendland
Wey
Fred Suter
Ga Crosse Tribune Friday August 12 1966
A brief newspaper card from the Ga Crosse Tribune dated Friday August 12 1966 delivers local notes and notices. The item highlights community events and public notices typical of an small regional newspaper edition.
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Ga Crosse Tribune
Orbiter Mission On Course For Moon
Pasadena AP reports the 850 pound Lunar Orbiter after rolls twists and a burst of power is on course for its Moon mission. NASA said the egg shaped craft completed a series of maneuvers and is proceeding toward lunar photography.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Aeronautics and Space
Lunar Orbiter
Moon
Orbiter
Apollo
Franciscans Holder Habit and First Baptism of Sisterhood
Twenty two women received the habit and 26 sisters professed vows in a Franciscan ceremony at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral with Bishop Freking as celebrant. The order adopted baptismal names for the first time, expanding their religious commitment.
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Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral
Frederick W. Freking
Reinold Theisen
OSB
Collegeville
Minn
la Crosse Order
Ann Marie
Family of Five Found Safe After Night on Ledge
An eight month old and four other family members were found safe Thursday after an overnight stay on a rock ledge in northern Minnesota. Harold Pierce and wife from Maplewood with children Mae Beth 13 Sue 7 and baby Iney were located in the Ash River area after a pilot spotted them and delivered food. A ground party guided the Pierces out, all in good condition despite hunger and mosquito bites. Four teenage campers who alerted authorities aided the search.
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ORR, Minn
Harold Pierce
Maplewood
St. Paul
Mae Beth
Sue
Iney
Minnesota
Ash River
Pierces
Pierce
Today in History August 12 highlights through the years
A compact list of events on August 12 across history including King Philip's death in 1676 at Turners Falls, Lowell's death in 1891, Manila entry in 1898, Britain declaring war in 1914, the Atlantic Charter draft in 1941, Florence liberated in 1944, Eisenhower and Dulles on Suez in 1956, Berlin crisis warnings in 1961, and Watts riots in 1965.
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Associated Press
King Philip
Turners Falls
Mass
James Russell Lowell
U.S
Philippines
Manila
Great Britain
Austria-Hungary
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Florence
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Washington
Berlin
Los Angeles
Watts
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