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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1965
Page
3
Barbara Battles, 26, a Pittsburgh mother of three, works 40 hours weekly at her husband’s service station. After a random start pumping gas she pursued training in tune ups and now studies to complete her course by October. She is the only woman in a two week gas pump course and in a 13 student mechanic class.
Services set for Mrs Helen Newman 68 of 1501 Badger Street at Fossum West Avenue Chapel with Rev. Fritz Miller. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery. Survived by husband two sisters and one brother. Also services for Mrs Clara Harrison 79 of 613 North 6th Avenue Onalaska at Schumacher Funeral Home with burial Onalaska Cemetery. Survived by three daughters and nine grandchildren.
Winnecombe RP Democratic Committeeman David Carley told local Democrats that neither party is recruiting enough young people for leadership. He argued the political future of the party depends on training youth for future roles, while he plans a 1966 gubernatorial bid.
The Sheboygan County board of supervisors voted 50 to 10 Tuesday to re apportion itself. The redistricting plan follows court and legislative rules to base apportionment solely on population.
Partly cloudy with little temperature change tonight and Thursday. Winds vary. Lows 60 to 65, near 80 Thursday. Wisconsin trend shows variable cloudiness and showers in extreme southeast tonight. Minnesota and Iowa expect showers or thunderstorms, heavy rains in the south tonight. Sunrise 6 13 a m. sunset 8 03 p m Thursday. Five day forecast: western Wisconsin near normal with highs 73 to 82 and lows 52 to 61. La Crosse 81/60. similar precipitation with 0.2 to 1 inch in showers.
Water gauge readings indicate flood stage levels at Winona, La Crosse, Lansing and Prairie du Chien with 24 hour changes and forecasted river levels for the upcoming days. tributaries Trempealeau Dodge Black and Root show minor shifts as flows adjust.
A Milaca boy and an elderly Frazee man died in separate Minnesota crashes on Tuesday while a Fairmont truck driver and his 14 year old passenger perished in northwestern Iowa. Gerald Droogsma aged 4 and George Murray aged 75 were killed. Murray stepped in front of a car driven by Don Lee Sands near Detroit Lakes. The Milaca boy was hit while running across a street near his home. The Iowa crash on U S 71 near Fostoria killed Donald W. Spiegler 46 and Harlan Smith 14 with Smith’s brother Stephen 12 in satisfactory condition. The truck carried 19 steers. none were killed.
Patrick Delaney a 33 year old Chicago man was hospitalized in Milwaukee after suffering decompression sickness while skin diving around the Cedarville wreck in the Straits of Mackinac. He was flown 275 miles to the hospital and treated in a decompression chamber.
Obituary notices from Wisconsin report the deaths of Whilmina Charlotte Zimmerman 77 of Sparta Joseph Dowlasch Sr 89 of Coon Valley and William Clements 61 of Viroqua. Details include service times locations burial and survivors. Zimmerman widow of Raymond H. Zimmerman mourned with a son a brother two sisters and four grandchildren. Dowlasch born 1875 farmed La Crosse County survived by son William two grandchildren eight great grandchildren. Clements husband of the deceased, survived by son Harlan and three sisters and a brother.
The Adams Elm at the White House and a Capitol elm, planted before 1878 by Senator Simon Cameron, weather the drought with careful watering. White House gardener Irvin Williams and Capitol landscape architect Paul Pincus note ongoing care, with about 40 trees on the White House lawn linked to 13 presidents and 45 memorial trees on the Capitol grounds among ~2,000 trees and 120 species.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 1.7 billion emergency fund to cover Viet Nam war costs, adding to a defense money bill that could total about 46.8 billion. Senator John Stennis called it a down payment and warned 7 to 10 billion annually may be needed. The plan also rejects merging Army National Guard and reserves.
The House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill to raise the federal minimum wage from 1.25 to 1.40 next July with three annual steps to 1.75 by July 1968. It would extend wage coverage to 1.3 million farm workers and include migratory workers and hired hands on farms with four or more workers.
An explosion at a bituminous paving plant near St. Cloud Minnesota killed plant foreman Neil Wahl 40 of Oak Park Illinois and injured co worker Dennis Brynman of Glendorado. The blast ruptured a 1500 gallon oil tank spraying oil over the area. Cause unknown. The Donovan Construction Co plant lies five miles west of St. Cloud.
The House Republican Policy Committee pushes for a cap on Western Hemisphere immigration at 115000 annually while backing a bill to revamp the U S immigration program. The move signals a shift from the longstanding unlimited entry policy.
Hail damaged tobacco fields west of Viroqua including Springville and Irish Ridge areas. More than twenty insurance claims were filed by mid morning Wednesday at the county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation office.
Mayor Victor Schiro announced a half million dollar celebration for New Orleans 250th anniversary in 1968 calling it one of the greatest celebrations held anywhere.
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