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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1967
Page
3
About 180 Black protesters marched through Milwaukee after dark seeking a city open housing ordinance. They want a stiffer local law than state exemptions, as council debates a new ordinance after multiple defeats. A referendum is planned and federal court challenge, with a boycott pressure tied to the NAACP driven effort.
Court revenues in La Crosse County Court Branch 2 for November totaled 5594.30, down from 6084.80 in November 1966, but the year to date total of 65730.22 remains about 25 percent higher than the previous year. The November breakdown includes court taxes 313, court costs 759.80, state traffic fines 1479, criminal fines 757, county traffic fines 1780, and small claims fees 505.50. Astronomers detect about 1400 asteroids with estimates surpassing 30,000 in the solar system.
Louisville AP Hubert H. Humphrey urged farmers to seek bargaining power while opposing attacks on federal farm programs. Oren Lee Staley, elected to a 13th NFO presidency, pledged broader withholding actions across farm commodities to secure fair prices. The 12 year convention urged a food reserve, delay of USDA crop estimates, export leadership, cooperative grain programs, and protecting closed shop laws.
Tomah Wisconsin police officer Robert Brown resigned after a day of interviews by Chief George Katsekes. The session followed a WTMB radio report that officers had retained attorney Daniel McNamara to represent them before the police and fire commission. Brown admitted contacting McNamara but said other officers offered him no support. The commission, led by Peter Ninneman, will meet Monday night to hear grievances and whether McNamara will appear for officers. Minor differences were reported as resolved in Wednesday's interviews.
Madison AP The Senate Welfare Committee voted 3-2 Wednesday against a bill to outlaw the sale of cigarettes to persons under 16. The measure would also ban a youth from misrepresenting his age to obtain cigarettes.
Washington AP reports a bill likely to pass Congress next week hikes postal rates for the public and boosts federal workers pay. It also bars officials from hiring relatives, creates a pay commission for top officials, and gives Judge Paul Kilday a pension based on his congressman salary.
New York AP report notes Dr. Bela Schick a 90 year old native of Hungary died Wednesday. He developed the Schick diphtheria test in 1913 and his work laid groundwork for modern inoculations.
Gov Knowles signed a law raising penalties for intentional desecration of U.S. or Wisconsin flags to a fine up to 500 dollars and one year in jail. The move followed a violent Oct 18 antiwar demonstration at the University of Wisconsin, where a U.S. flag was cut down amid a clash between students and police. The governor also signed measures banning sex-based discrimination by employers or unions, expanding child abuse report immunity to hospital admins and dentists, and making parents liable for up to 500 dollars for acts by their children.
Senator William Proxmire declares a bill to halt private leasing of shale oil lands on public domain in Green River formation. He argues four-fifths of the resource is owned by the American people and calls for a federal office of oil shale and multiple minerals development to study terms and report to Congress.
The first torpedo was developed by American inventor Robert Fulton during the Napoleonic wars. He based the name on a fish called the electric ray or torpedo.
The Institute for Urban Development will be a nonprofit think tank funded by a $10 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Renewal. Led by Irwin Miller, its board includes Arjay Miller, Kermit Gordon, McGeorge Bundy, and Cyrus R. Vance. It aims to study urban problems and propose solutions with a staff of social scientists, architects, and planners.
Republican governors meeting in Palm Beach discuss a flexible path to a 1968 nomination. They consider Nelson Rockefeller as a possible candidate while others push Nixon or Romney. Several governors warn against rushing a selection and favor hearings to gauge grass roots opinion for the party platform.
About 200 guerrillas attacked the district town of Mc Cay in the flooded Mekong Delta fifty miles southwest of Saigon. Local militia held the town after South Vietnamese 105mm guns blasted a path with direct fire, leaving 17 dead guerrillas inside and one civilian-press ganged combatant wounded. Near Con Thien, communist shellfire hit the Marines’ outpost for the second day, with seven Marines killed and 60 wounded after heavy artillery and mortar barrages. Air activity over North Vietnam remained limited to 75 missions due to weather, as Marine intruders used radar to strike a railroad sidings and a barracks near Hanoi.
The Navy plans to discharge more than 30,000 enlisted men early to free key personnel for Vietnam duty, tying up 49 ships as crews shift to Southeast Asia. The move, expected to save about 18 million, aims to reduce spending while maintaining operation capabilities in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Far East.
A union spokesman praised police restraint on the first two days but cited abuses on Thursday during antidraft protests in Battery Park and at the United Nations. Arrests at the Seventh Precinct followed counterpicketing by longshoremen. Cathleen Fitt, 22, daughter of a Defense Department official, was among those detained. Justice Department is reviewing possible federal-law violations.
President Johnson stated the attack was decisively repelled with relatively small U.S. reserve cost. U.S. reserves near 15 billion by late October including gold and IMF position. The policy remains to buy and sell gold at 35 dollars an ounce. higher prices would devalue the dollar. The U.S. covers 59 percent of London sales within a seven nation pool to defend 35 dollars. Volume of sales in the gold rush not disclosed. Fowler warned losses would be substantially high.
Vernon County health committee backs Bill 1006A to fund 70 percent of county nursing services. If approved by the Legislature, the measure would save Vernon County thousands of dollars annually. Also a note on Singapore watchmen sleeping across doorway guards.
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