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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1965
Page
3
Head Start will be continued through the winter pending congressional approval. Directors nationwide may plan winter projects with enrollment expected to be smaller than summer. The program, begun last June 30 by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, sought to aid socially and nutritionally deprived preschoolers.
Reader's Digest touts a feature on intelligent conversation noting the value of listening and balanced dialogue. The pitch argues competitive talk hurts both sides and promises tips to enrich life by following conversational rules.
A 66 year old widow Mildred S Mathews completes a 48 year college career by earning her bachelor degree from Kent State University. She entered Kent State in 1917 while in high school and taught four years before marrying James Mathews and farming on a 237 acre dairy farm. After her husband died she resumed night classes to finish her degree.
An anxious mother asks how to loosen a son from overprotective parenting while sharing concerns about his upcoming college life and potential drinking. The column cites training up a child and notes the mother’s devotion, contrasting a neighbor’s disordered home with a disciplined, spotless household and a husband's affectionate treatment. The piece features letters from readers like The Moose and closes with guidance to send problems to Ann Landers.
Berlin reports two more Americans are being held by East German authorities. William Wyot Lovett of San Francisco is held on a traffic injury charge with no trial details released. Benjamin Franklin Whitehill of Tulsa is identified as the Oklahoma detainee. John Van Altena of Milton Junction, Wisconsin, was sentenced in January to eight years for assisting refugees to escape to the West.
MENASHA AP Eleven youths referred to juvenile authorities for involvement in a bicycle theft ring. Police and Winnebago County sheriff investigated for two months naming 16 questioned youths with five dismissed. The ring appears run by four or five youths who stole bicycles and dismantled them for parts. About 60 thefts since January with about 20 bikes recovered.
A listing of worship times, pastors, and church activities across rural churches including Eldred Peterson Burr Oak Cedar Valley Coon Valley Faith First Blair North Beaver Creek Fagernes Fish Creek Creek Holmen Lewis Valley Living Hope Looney Valley Melrose Mindoro North Coon Valley Our Savior's Skogdalen Portland St Luke's St John's St Matthew's St Peter's South Pine Trempealeau Trinity Viroqua Westby Coon Prairie Zion and nearby Catholic and Methodist services with weekly meetings and special sessions scheduled through midweek.
On August 27 events span 1776 Long Island British victory and Washington retreat, 1793 first hydrogen balloon flight, 1915 Pershing family tragedy, 1916 war declarations, 1942 Japanese retreat, 1945 US occupation of Japan, and later political and conflict milestones including Truman Eisenhower remarks and Stanleyville airmen incident. A hurricane impact is noted from a recent year.
Rep. Julia Butler Hansen of Washington urged Secretary Freeman to secure funds for remodeling the Wood Chemistry buildings at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison Wisconsin. She said last year’s 3.8 million expansion appropriation did not cover original plans and asked for 1.9 million in the 1966 budget to support forest industry needs in the Pacific Northwest.
Governor Knowles signed a bill allowing Wisconsin to join an interstate compact setting uniform motor vehicle equipment standards with about 40 states. Other laws set a 25 dollar penalty for late withholding tax deposits, cap farm tractor width on interstates at nine feet, hold dog owners liable for mink damage, and empower town and village boards to replace city school board representatives who cannot serve.
President Kwame Nkrumah named Fred Arkhurst Ghana's chief envoy to the United Nations in Accra. Arkhurst succeeds Alex Quaison-Legate, the foreign minister and current General Assembly president, after serving as Ghana's chief secretary of foreign affairs.
Houston center official recounts flood of call in Gemini 5 mission as public offers unhelpful tips. A MIT professor suggested spinning the craft as a centrifuge while a woman in Los Angeles claimed a loose screw in the fuel cell would solve the issue.
Wausau AP reports the Marathon County Board of Supervisors will be reduced from 72 to 37 members to align with the one man one vote principle. Formal approval is set for September 28.
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