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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1965
Page
5
William Hollie Griffith, 73, who entered prison with $2, has accumulated $26,000 behind bars through a penitentiary tailor shop. He plans to use his funds and experience to start a garment factory at Grantsville, while awaiting parole on Sept. 14.
In Seoul daily upheaval continues as Education Minister Yoon Chun Joo and a Seoul National University president are dismissed for failing to curb campus protests. Troops with fixed bayonets patrol main streets while 5000 students rally and vow to persist until Aug 30. Seventeen deans resign in protest.
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen backs a constitutional amendment on legislative reapportionment as Sen. Thomas J. Dodd votes for the measure in a judiciary subcommittee, sending it to the full committee by a 7-2 tally. The panel faces an 8-8 deadlock risks a shift if Dodd changes stance. The amendment would let states use nonpopulation factors to apportion one legislative chamber.
Friday schedules include WCOW at 7 15 p m Braves versus Cubs and WKTY at 7 25 p m Braves Cubs. Saturday lists WCOW 1 15 p m baseball and 8 55 p m football Packers Cowboys with WKTY 1 25 p m baseball and 9 p m football Packers Cowboys.
Uncle Ray explains ivory-nut palms of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru with giant leaf fans and 15 to 20 foot fronds. Fruits weigh about 15 pounds, start clear then milky and sweet with age. Nuts yield vegetable ivory used for buttons and umbrella handles. Readers can request a Rome leaflet by mailing a stamped self addressed envelope.
Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear an original action by Racine attorney Richard G. Harvey challenging the 1963 law granting property tax relief and rent assistance to residents over 65. The suit targets State Tax Commissioner James R. Morgan and State Treasurer Dena Smith, arguing the law violates uniformity of taxation.
Pathologist Dr. A. B. Conrad has joined the laboratory medicine department at Misericordia Hospital Milwaukee after two years at Gundersen Clinic La Crosse. A Marquette University School of Medicine graduate, he brings clinical experience to the hospital.
Friday night spraying will cover from Causeway Boulevard to the north city limits between the east and west city bounds. Sunday night work targets parks and surrounding outlying areas.
Government taxes paid by the average American family across federal state and local levels in the 1964 fiscal year approached 2600 dollars according to official statistics.
John Allen of Osseo was elected president of the Last Man's Club of Company M at its 34th annual banquet Saturday. He succeeds Irvin H. Sheldon and is joined by vice president Charles Wilhelm, secretary Robert Brinstad, treasurer Earl Nelson, chaplain Herschel Bold, and historian Howard Marshall. Attendees included Nelson Brinstad Marshall Eckdahl Hyland Dietz Woll Lambert Hanson Brabant Bold John Allen Hommer Smith Raith Novak Wilhelm and Ed Hoffman.
In Marinette County Wisconsin a 5 year old girl Mary Mandujano daughter of migrant workers was killed when she fell from the tailgate of a station wagon and was run over by its wheels. The vehicle was driven by her 15 year old sister Rosemarie on a Town of Grover farm after field work. The Mandujano family is from Crystal Falls Texas.
Police exposed a Communist Indian Indonesian plot to seize power in Singapore and arrest 21 members of the People's Revolutionary party led by Sim Siew Lin. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew received close protection after evidence of an assassination plan emerged. Sim, linked to a failed U.S. Consulate bombing, planned a secret route into Singapore for weapons and propaganda.
Civil rights demonstrators clashed with Ku Klux Klan members in Plymouth North Carolina amid a biracial meeting about a Good Neighbor Council. No serious injuries. 27 demonstrators reported cuts and bruises. A white-robed Klan rally preceded the confrontation near Main Street.
Senator Reu ben La Fave of Oconto proposes legislation to require elected and appointed state officials to follow a code of ethics. He notes part time board and commission members may be more prone to oath violations than full time civil servants, as the state already has a code for civil service workers.
Judge Clair Voss of Waukesha Wisconsin was elected national commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart at its Denver convention.
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