Redevelopment Authority budget sparks no confidence vote
La Crosse Redevelopment Authority faces scrutiny as budget for salaries and expenses prompts a tie vote. Executive director Charles Parrott keeps a $29,663 salary plus a 1483 inflation allowance and retirement benefit beyond Social Security. parking allowance adds 15 dollars monthly.
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la Crosse Redevelopment Authority
Charles Parrott
Boston cluster zoning backs off amid ‘combat zone’ doubts
Boston's effort to curb adult entertainment with two-block clustering failed to curb crime. Police and prosecutors say the approach signals licensing of illegal activity while assaults and racketeering rise in the area. Public safety remains a concern with no clear solution.
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Boston
Timothy O'Neill
Olson Named Bahamas Ambassador Reflects Patronage Tone
Gerald Ford appoints Jack Olson of Wisconsin Dells as U S ambassador to the Bahamas. Olson, a former lieutenant governor and failed 1970 governor candidate, is a tourism promoter with political savvy. The short posting signals waning patronage as Carter prepares a long transition.
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Jack Olson
Wisconsin Dells
U.S
Bahamas
Olson
Patrick Lucey
Wisconsin
Carter
Paris
Court of St. James
Jimmy Carter
Freezing rain halts county highway traffic in twenty years ago note
Tribune files recount freezing rain in the county with patrolmen discouraging highway travel. References to Eisenhower drought relief in Texas and a Trane plant expansion contract in La Crosse appear among a year 1956 roundup.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Texas
E.G. Gettinger
St. John's Catholic Church
John P. Treacy
la Crosse
Joseph R. McCarthy
Minneapolis
Clara Olson
Dwight
Ill
Albert Olson
Frances Stevens Hall
Eleanor Mills
la Crosse Bar Association
John Brindley
la Crosse County
Hard Life for Soviet Women Strains Population Plans
Russian women juggle jobs and family duties amid scarce nurseries and long workweeks. The Literary Gazette warns of a falling birthrate, predicts labor shortages by 1995, and calls for more child care, shorter weeks, and shared parenting to ease the burden.
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Moscow
Maria
Soviet Union
Writers
Literary Gazette
Viktor Perevedentsev
U.S
Babushka
the Gazette
Milllion
The
Gazette
Communist Party
Tass
Readers respond to editorial and traffic worries
Letters discuss funding for the League of Women Voters presidential debates and argue against raising Losey Boulevard speed limits due to pedestrian hazards. A third letter critiques Indira Gandhi era trials of P R Sarkar and calls for humanitarian attention to human rights in India.
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League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters Education Fund
League of Women Voters of the
U.S
M Street N.W
Washington, D.C
Sarah N. Keimowitz
Coon Valley
Wis
Losey Boulevard
la Crosse
Indira Gandhi
P. R. Sarkar
Ananda Marga
Sarkar
India
Paul Woods
Hillcrest Dr
Ford says embargo risk virtually nil amid energy policy debate
The Dallas Morning News editorial argues Ford cites a virtually nil embargo risk based on foreign policy gains while Interior Secretary Kleppe and Energy Admin Zarb warn vulnerability grows. It notes U.S. imports over 40 percent of oil and urges stronger energy independence despite congressional inaction.
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Thomas Kleppe
Frank Zarb
U.S
Congress
House probes drift as FBI CIA files dominate agenda
Congressional investigators focusing on FBI and CIA handling of King and Kennedy inquiries shift away from other leads. Subpoenas seek surveillance records on Martin Luther King in 1968 Memphis and agents’ overseas activities, plus Oswald Mexico City files and the transfer of material to the Warren Commission.
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Martin Luther King
Kennedy
House
FBI
CIA
Special
House Committee
Thomas Downing
D.-Va
King
Memphis
James Earl Ray
Walter Fauntroy
D-D.c
Fauntroy
U.S
Communist Party
Richardson Preyer
D.-N.c
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mexico City
Dallas
Warren Commission
Oswald
Commission
Mexico
Senora Duran
House Brobers
State Department
Georgetown loses grip on Washington power, Carter team notes
Art Buchwald recaps that Georgetown no longer controls the capital as power brokers move to higher income areas. Carter transition aides rely on cocktail circuits while press acronyms hunt for fresh tips, visiting Dalinsky’s Drugstore for local news among old Camelot leftovers.
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Jimmy Carter
Georgetown
United States
Wesley Heights
Cleveland Park
Carter
Doc Dalinsky
O Street
Dalinsky
Lynda Bird Johnson
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