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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1973
Page
4
The La Crosse Tribune argues transit gains from lower fares extended routes and new equipment rely on subsidies and federal funding. It notes Madison and Milwaukee examples and cautions that another 600000 yearly rides is unlikely even with city ownership amid fuel costs and congestion.
After a public hearing on I 90 rest stop near La Crosse objections from locals and supporters followed the $800000 estimate. The plan was trimmed by $200000 and access roads simplified as the state reconsiders environmental and floodway concerns ahead of a late fall hearing.
Legislators set a new annual salary of 15600 dollars with 1975’s across the board increases likely pushing total compensation beyond 16000 dollars and with fringes such as tolls postage and aides. Gov Lucey vetoed a pension appropriation not on principle but to require public hearings and debate before enacting such a plan.
London observers say international monetary reform is needed as exchange rates drift with no action from central banks and the IMF. Britain faces high lending costs while traders blame lack of credible policy and a shaky floated pound.
Tributes from twenty years ago note postal authorities require home numbers on French Island to speed mail delivery. Reds release 400 prisoners including 75 Americans with a promise of the largest group released tomorrow. Eisenhower urges Western nations toward greater self help for collective security. New UW Madison students struggle finding rooms as housing is tight.
Readers criticize WKBT and Peter Good for canceling Sticks and Bones and urge free access to controversial programming. Letters from Charlotte Grant and others defend free thought, note gatekeeping and urge alternative viewings, while a third letter thanks local organizers for Pops Night and Jazz but calls for better stage sound.
Wilfred Beaver of Sparta Wisconsin reports a June 13 1973 U S District Court filing by a conservation coalition led by the National Wildlife Federation against Interior Secretary Rogers C Morton and eight federal agency heads. The suit demands public disclosure of plans to build a large coal based power system involving river diversions, 2.6 million acre feet of Yellowstone Basin water, mining 900 square miles, and more than 40 coal fired plants with gasification and liquefaction facilities.
Sydney J. Harris muses on intemperance as self-defeating pleasure, wealth versus law, global food inequities, the vanishing craftsman, the danger of state monopoly on violence, and contrasts medieval and modern city forces. He also praises books as curative, notes leisure versus work, cites Einstein, and comments on arguments and labor-saving devices.
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