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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1963
Page
3
The Chicago Board of Education voted to appoint a panel of five outside experts to study the district and present plans to eradicate segregation. It also approved moving 19 mobile units from a South Side area to three nearby schools and to speed permanent construction, following protests by Negro leaders.
The Rev. Leo J. Courtney, 65, longtime pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Marinette since 1945, died Thursday at St Joseph Lloyd Hospital Menominee Michigan after illness. A Appleton native, he was ordained June 7 1929 after studies at St Francis Seminary. He served in Oshkosh Green Bay Maple Grove St Patricks and St Johns Oshkosh before Marinette posting. Funeral arrangements not listed.
St. John’s Lutheran Church in Waukon observes its 75th anniversary August 31 to September 1 with special services led by Rev. David Waaler and a confirmation reunion with Rev. Gordon Smedsrud as speaker. Diamond jubilee program Sunday features Rev. T. H. Megorden. past pastors and a history reading by Arthur H. Jacobson. The church was organized in 1888. current structure, built of lannon stone, dedicated 1953 at a cost of 230000.
Concrete paving of 3.1 miles of U.S. Highway 14 from Westby to Coon Valley started Friday. The $336,872 project will be completed this fall, per district highway engineer Glenn N. Grant. R. T. Madden Co. and Thomas M. Madden Co. of Janesville execute the relocation on the east Coon Valley hill with expected crossover access interruptions for motorists.
Ground will be broken for the first building of the Schmitt Methodist Home on W Seminary Street in Richland Center on Labor Day September 2 at 1130 am Rev Donald Carpenter administrator announces Mrs William Schmitt of Richland Center will shovel the first soil Rev Ralph Alton bishop of the Wisconsin Area of the Methodist Church will preside The home for older persons is sponsored by the West Wisconsin Conference of the Methodist Church and funded by a gift from the late William Schmitt of Richland Center
In Galesville Wisconsin Rev. Robert M C Ward is away on a weeklong vacation. Rev Ray Bayley will conduct Sunday services at the Presbyterian Church at 9 30 a m. Bayley serves as executive director of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin and stated clerk of the Madison Presbytery.
In Charleston South Carolina Roman Catholic schools formally integrated on Thursday with only 15 of 202 eligible Negro students volunteering for mixed classes. None of the 15 appeared at church operated elementary schools and white children registered on site while the 15 Negro students were registered out of school.
A compiled list of Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Brethren and United Church services sorted by parish. It details pastors, times for worship, Sunday school, confirmations, choir activities and special meetings across rural communities including Cedar Valley, Coons Valley, De Soto Freeman, Holmen, Trempealeau Valley, and Sparta with dates and broadcast notes where present.
The UW regents and administration regret the new fee schedule that raises undergraduate resident fees from 236 to 300 and non resident fees from 760 to 1000 annually. They say the increase aims to cover instruction costs and support scholarships. Registrar Wayne L. Kuckkahn signed the letter noting efforts to minimize hardship.
Morley S. post of Lansing Michigan won first place in the senior band competition at the Pageant of Drums during the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Seattle. William F. Ehrlich post of Racine Wisconsin took the junior band prize and Milwaukee County Council captured the senior ladies color guard honor.
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