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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1969
Page
20
Santa Claus visited 13 children from Emerson Orthopedic School as guests of the Rotary Club at the Stoddard Hotel on Thursday noon. Gifts were distributed to students and teachers. The Discords and Triple Trio of Aquinas High School provided entertainment. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds.
AMC expects to be first U.S. maker with a subcompact car the Gremlin due mid April. Ford hints at a Phoenix minicar next fall. GM plans a mid 1970 XP 887 subcompact. The Gremlin aims at imports and is shorter than the Hornet, longer than the VW. The UAW strike delayed The Machine muscle car intro a few weeks.
The La Crosse Common Council authorized hiring male and female crossing guards for the police department. Since 1957 only women were hired due to lack of qualified applicants. The council also rejected a request for a guard at Losey Boulevard and Ward Avenue, noting the existing traffic signal should suffice.
Poet Allen Ginsberg testified as a defense witness in the Chicago riot trial tied to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He described a Sanskrit yoga prayer chant used to calm the mind while noting Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin did not intend to incite a riot. The judge questioned the chant’s language and the witness’s role as a poet. Other testimony covered Phil Ochs reciting a protest song and meetings with Hoffman and Rubin prior to the convention.
Banks slash service charges on personal checking across the country to win deposits and keep customers as lenders face thinner profit margins. The trend started in New England in 1964 and has spread coast to coast, affecting larger banks that must compete with new lenders offering low or no minimum balance accounts.
Sen Karl Mundt of South Dakota recover s from a stroke with daily therapy for speech impairment and partial loss of use of his right arm and leg He sits up more eats solid foods aides and his wife Mary visit daily and he has received hundreds of get well cards and flowers The stroke occurred on November 24 with hospital trip to Bethesda Naval Hospital previously noted.
The record identifies defendants including David T. Dellinger 54 Rennard C. Davis 29 Thomas E. Hayden 30 John R. Froines 31 and Lee Weiner 31 tied to alleged riot incitement charges. The list appears within a broader court case involving antiwar activism and protest actions dated to the era.
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