Back door confrontation on redevelopment budget in La Crosse
The City of La Crosse Finance and Purchase Committee asks for detailed La Crosse Redevelopment Authority budget data from City Finance Director Sherman Stellpflug. The move follows aldermanic unrest over Charles Parrott’s salary and debate on city taking over the authority’s functions, with a stalled study resolution by Alderman Ferdinand Sontag.
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Common Council
Sherman Stellpflug
la Crosse
City Hall
Zielke
Redevelopment Authority
Gilbertson
Charles Parrott
Parrott
Harborview
Ferdinand Sontag
Japanese public employee strike disrupts rail and postal services
Public employee unions in Japan went on strike for seven days protesting a no strike law and left 19 million commuters scrambling as passenger trains and postal services stalled. The action ended when public sympathy waned and officials saw limited support for repealing the no-strike rule.
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Japan
National Railways
Postal Service
Jerry Wurf
Oil profits and taxes spark congressional debate
Len Henry Jackson questions oil company profits as senators resist market-based oil and gas pricing. Latest figures show Exxon about two cents per gallon in profits, Mobil Phillips Texaco and Standard of California around one and a half cents, while state fuel taxes total seven to nine cents and federal tax four cents. The piece asks if Congress has the wrong villain.
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Len Henry Jackson
U.S
Senate
Exxon
Mobil
Phillips
Texaco
Standard of
California
Congress
University of Wisconsin cited for medical research history
TWENTY YEARS AGO 1955 reports UW cited for medical research during the past half century and Dulles urges stronger Western alliances to meet Soviet challenge. Common Council elects four La Crosse school board members Otto Schlabach Clarence Ringquist Richard Lubinsky Richard G Hawkins. Seven aldermen and four Industrial Council members tour sites with City Engineer Garder.
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University of Wisconsin
Dulles
West
Russia
Common Council
la Crosse
Otto Schlabach
Clarence Ringquist
Richard Lubinsky
Richard G. Hawkins
Industrial Council
Garder
7Th Street
Clifford Gates
Vocational and
Weston Street
Bangor
Bangor Lumber Co
Milwaukee Road
Public funds for state races spark debate in Madison magazine
In a Madison essay Sen. James Flynn argues for broad bipartisan support of tax financed campaign subsidies. Gov. Lucey backs the measure amid Assembly indifference, with critics noting limited reach and doubts about checkoff effectiveness.
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Madison
Democrats
New
James Flynn
West Allis
Patrick Lucey
Flynn
King Surveillance Story Urges Full FBI File Release
The piece urges Senate intelligence to disclose the FBI files on Martin Luther King. It argues for public hearings including private conversations and recordings, detailing why Hoover deemed King a national security threat and how the monitoring aimed to assess Communist influence over King.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Senate Committee On Intelligence
Martin Luther King
Senate
King
U.S
Communist Party
Sen
Frank Church
Hoover
Nixon and Kissinger era debate on China and King FBI files
The piece critiques a presidential trip to Asia and questions U S aims with China and Taiwan while recounting FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and communist links cited by Hoover. It argues for airing the full Hoover King file and questions the moral basis of engagement with Beijing.
La Crosse Benefit Auctions Nets Over 1050 Dollars
Readers thank La Crosse residents for support at a Corn Island La Crosse auction and events that raised more than 2500 dollars toward a medical clinic. The effort included a concert at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse and a Spanish American dinner dance sponsored by the Latin American Club.
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Corn Island-La Crosse
Corn Island-La Crosse, Inc
la Crosse
Corn Island
R. Jerome Boge
Ine
White House in Peking Budget Talk Funnies
In a humorous exchange President Ford and Henry Kissinger joke about spending four days in China with little to discuss. They imagine a light schedule including a student meeting, gin rummy, shopping, and a possible Canton reception while planning to catch up on the domestic budget.
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United States
Asia
Henry Kissinger
Pakistan
Peking
Nixon
Ford
Republic of China
Chairman Mao
Kissinger
Indochina
Neville Chamberlain
Moscow
Washington
China
Henry
White House
Mao Tse-tung High School
Betty
New York City
People’s Palace
Canton
Press Corps
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Kenneth C. Blanchard
Robert S. Gallagher
Sanford Goltz
Tribune
Adolph Toepel
E.A. Merlo. Corp
Daniell Creek
Bowlus, Minn
Camp McCoy
Iny
Billings
Mont
Walter Liggett
Minneapolis
Floys Olson
General Foods Corp
Walter E. Meanwell
Clarence Spears
Sen. Flynn
Volved
State Senate
Senator Church
Church
Saigon
Hanoi
Red Guards
Voluton
North Vietnam
Taiwan
Mao
Helmut Schmidt
Immanuel Kant
Schmidt
Mr. Ford
America
Christian Democratic Leadership Conference
Robert Kennedy
House
Memphis
John Rooney
D-N.y
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Capitol
People’s Congress
East Germany
CIA
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Pompon Girls
Flag Girls
Mary Cavanaugh
Birch St
Soviet Union
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