Sgt Walsh Laid To Rest After Viet Nam Hero’s Funeral
Staff Sgt. Robert T. Walsh, a Marine Corps career man, was buried with full military honors in Catholic Cemetery. Seven Marines fired volleys, Taps played, and his widow received the flag as Rev. Thomas Mullen reflected on his service and sacrifice in Vietnam and his hope for a democracy driven by sorrow turned to a better world. Walsh, born in Gays Mills in 1936, served in Korea and Vietnam, leaving behind wife Diane and daughters Kim and Kelly.
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William Mullen
la Crosse Tribune
Sgt
Walsh
Marine Corps
Thomas Mullen
Thomas More
Corps
Viet Nam
Sgt. Walsh
Father Mullen
Gays Mills
la Crosse
Logan Senior
Roosevelt Military Academy
Peoria
Ill
Diane
Kim
Kelly
Robert
Robert Walsh
Quake Adds to Misery in Eastern Turkey With New Shocks
Two fresh tremors struck dazed towns in eastern Turkey bringing fear to survivors sleeping in the open. The disaster toll nears 2,300 dead with up to 3,000 feared. Health officials fear cholera from Iraq could spread. mass inoculations and water chlorination ordered as relief drops bread and supplies to isolated villages. U.S. Army adviser Lt. Col. Carl Kueffer recalled a six story Erzurum hotel quake and surviving without collapse.
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Erzurum
Turkey
Iraq
Edip Somunoglu
U.S. Army
Carl Kueffer
Ft. Wadsworth
N.Y
3Rd Army
La Crosse man slain by bandit in Missouri
A La Crosse man Cyril M. Robinson 66 was killed during a motel robbery on U S Highway 40 east of Kansas City Missouri His wife Edwina said the bandit looted a cash drawer and fled Police continued clues as funeral services for Robinson are tentatively set for Wednesday at 1 30 p m with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Memorials are requested to Shriners Children's Hospital He was a member of Frontier Lodge 45 F and A M
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Kansas City
la Crosse
U.S. Highway 40
Here
Cyril M. Robinson
West Ave
Mr. Robinson
Shriners Children’s Hospital
Frontier Lodge 45 F
12 Die On Wisconsin Roads In Weekend Toll
The Associated Press reports twelve people died on Wisconsin roads over the weekend, raising the 1966 highway death toll to 661. Among the victims were Albert Freigang of West Allis in a two car crash near Markesan, Denise Olson of Racine in a motorcycle car crash, and several others in Mequon, Waupaca, Medford, and Dane County.
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Wisconsin
Albert Freigang
West Allis
Markesan
Green Lake County
Freigang
Winnifred
Henry A. Miller
Waupaca
Symco
Waupaca County
Denise Olson
Racine
Miss Olson
6Th
Villa
Michael Stahnke
Franksville
Kenneth Mathes
Marshfield
James Rehbein
Medford
Mathews
West Salem
Roger G. Krueger
Sheboygan
Kenosha
Denis Holt
Dwayne Schumacher
Cottage Grove
Dane County
Robert Dresser
Dodgeville
Iowa
Minnesota Weekend Road Toll Near Record Lows
A Newfolden man, Robert D. Benson, 31, was killed when he stepped from a parked car to flag down a following vehicle and was struck by a car driven by Forrest English, a University of North Dakota student, three miles north of East Grand Forks. The toll for the weekend reached six, one of the lowest in months.
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Minnesota
Robert D. Benson
Forrest English
Toronto
Ont
University of North Dakota
English
Highway 220
East Grand Forks
Benson
Chester Westowski
Stephen
Minn
Rockford
Delores Schleif
Ardith
John Bostock
Bloomington
U.S. 8
Forest Lake
Washington County
Lorenz Lentsch
St. Paul
Levin Kennedy
Chisago
Lentsch
Highway Patrol
Kennedy
Alvin
Beverly
Yellowstone National Park
Wyo
Johnson Pearson Talk Peace In Canadian Meeting
President Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson discuss Viet Nam and other issues during a bilateral meeting in Campobello Island New Brunswick They dedicate a visitors pavilion at Roosevelt's Campobello home and urge negotiation over military force with a peace biased outlook.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen
Lester Pearson
Lyndon Johnson
Rossmont
Chancook
New Brunswick
UPI
Johnson
Pearson
Washington
United States
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Upper New York
New England
Campobello Island
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wisconsin lawmakers to get new pay scale plan
A Wisconsin blue ribbon committee chaired by William R. Kellett voted to study legislator salaries and will announce the recommended pay level and a move to full time service. The plan, likely in the $8,000 to $9,000 range, includes more staff and a stepwise process without a floor vote. Public hearings and revisions follow before final approval.
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Menasha
Wisconsin
William R. Kellett
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Madison
Kellett
Warren P. Knowles
Carl K. Wettengel
State Bureau of Personnel
Kellett Committee
Senate
Assembly
Bureau of Personnel
State Personnel Board
Joint Finance Committee
Alone in a sailboat Ancient Mariner stricken at sea
Coast Guard cutter Ingham speeds toward Argentia to hospitalize Capt. William Willis 72 after a solo voyage in an 11 foot boat. Doctors revise diagnosis from strangulated hernia to bilateral hernia, Willis remains at sea level as vessel nears Newfoundland. Willis, veteran ocean traveler, has a history of long solo crossings and arouse support from maritime community.
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New York
Coast Guard
Argentia
Mld
William Willis
England
Ingham
Willis
Party Of 5 Missing In Green Bay
A 17-foot cruiser with five aboard disappeared Saturday after noon while sailing from Marinette toward Chambers Island. A partially submerged boat was sighted about noon today five miles south of Marinette harbor. Missing are Gloria Kelley 19 Menominee Mich Walter Laundree 40 Marinette Germaine Peterson 16 Marinette Robert Wendt 19 Milwaukee and William Marvel 21 Milwaukee. Officers called for skin divers to search the area.
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Marinette
Marinette Harbor
Gloria Kelley
Menominee, Mich
Walter Laundree
Germaine Peterson
Robert Wendt
William R. Marvel
Milwaukee
Chambers Island
Michigan
Wisconsin
Door Peninsula
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Robert T. Walsh
Tribune
Harry Larsson
By Ahmet Balan
Missouri
The
Associated Press
Kenneth Kittman
Franklin Park
Delavan Lake
Walworth County
Myrtle M. Boehm
State Garden Club
la Crosse Hospital
Isla
Karl R. Bauman
Franklin Roosevelt
War Department
Fdr
Campobello
South Pacific
Tess
Plymouth
Norfolk
Newfoundland
Cape Race
Holland
Beekman
Robert Maury
Cleveland
Ohio
Pacific
Sydney
Australia
Age Unlimited
Hamburg
Germany
Cape Horn
Manhattan
Green Bay
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