Pink Slips Loom As Fuel Crunch Deepens Jobs Cut Across Airlines And Auto Industry
The energy shortage triggers major layoff announcements across airlines including Eastern Pan Am United and Allegheny with hundreds of pilots attendants and staff furloughed or cut. Auto plants Ford GM and Chrysler announce job losses as fuel constraints hurt demand. November unemployment rises to 4.3 million with potential to exceed 5.3 million in early 1974.
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Nice Tatro Associated Press
Eastern Airlines
Pan American Airways
Allegheny Airlines
Herbert Stein
Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
Pan Am
United Airlines
Frontier Airlines
Washington
Air Transport Association
Ford
Michigan
Chrysler
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Concerns Raised Over Blind Teacher in Alma Center Schools
Board members cited safety and instructional quality worries about a blind teacher handling driver education physical education and emergency scenarios. They warned of discipline issues record keeping liability and potential decline in education quality. A separate report noted meat valued at 250 to 300 dollars stolen from John Roth’s freezer in his garage.
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Laverty
Fischer
John Roth
S. 8Th St
Roth
Trucker Protests Intensify Across States
Sporadic violence and work stoppages by independent truckers stretched into a second day with protests in Pennsylvania Ohio and Delaware. Police arrested John Sassi 29 Newark Del for carrying a loaded .32 pistol as chaos spread at some stops while others saw normal traffic.
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Mike Duffy
Associated Press
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Teamsters Union
John Sassi
Sassi
Newark
Del
Congressional Committee
Thomas Little
Wilmington
Indiana
Dog Owners Honored For Championships
Five members of the Coulee Kennel Club were honored at a Cerise Club banquet for 1973 championship titles. Recipients include William Wagner for a long haired Dachshund, John Nabney for a Scottish terrier, and Lorraine Tanke with two Canadian championship dogs.
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Coulee Kennel Club
Cerise Club
William Wagner
John Nabney
McLyn
Bonnie Muldoon
Lorraine Tanke
Tasha
Wish-N-Well
Nixon Popularity Rises Slightly Amid Candor Drive
Gallup poll taken Nov 30 to Dec 3 shows 31 percent approve of Nixon's performance, up from 27 percent. Despite the uptick, a majority disapproves as Watergate revelations linger in public view.
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Princeton
N.J
Nixon
Gallup
Vietnam
Wisconsin Education Chief Named as Federal Candidate
Barbara Thompson, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction, confirms she is among seven prospects for the federal post of assistant secretary of education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She says she has no rush to move and would consider details before deciding, with nomination expected after the new year.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Thompson
Department of Public Instruction
Navigation Season Closed At Genoa Dam
Lock and Dam 8 at Genoa closed on Wednesday marking the end of the 1973 navigation season. Major winter repairs are planned with maintenance to start immediately. Lock and Dam 9 Eastman and Lock and Dam 10 Guttenberg may freeze closed unless the Corps of Engineers is informed of additional traffic.
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Genoa
LaVern Horstman
Eastman
Guttenberg
Iowa
Corps of Engineers
Woman Named Director of UW Arboretum in Madison
Katharine T. Bradley of Madison was named director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, succeeding Prof. Roger Anderson who resigned. Her husband Joseph Bradley is an arts specialist with the UW Extension. She will receive $14,000 per year.
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Madison, Wis
Katharine T. Bradley
Madison
University of Wisconsin Arboretum
Roger Anderson
Wisconsin and Minnesota Weekend Weather Summary
Wisconsin shows fair to partly cloudy skies with snow chances in the extreme south while Minnesota reports fair to partly cloudy northern areas with light snow flurries in the south. Extreme south conditions include snow and freezing rain potential with diminishing clouds toward Saturday.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Owa
Three Die In Wisconsin Traffic Crash Near Green Bay
A Brown County crash killed three people, all thrown from a car that left the highway west of Green Bay near the Outagamie County line. Victims include Gerald Danforth 18 of Oneida and Richard Grignon 28 of Kaukauna. a third name was withheld. Coroners also reported Claudia Wells 45 of Racine as a traffic fatality from injuries in an earlier accident, and Edward Henkelman 59 of Merrill died from injuries suffered in a Nov. 25 Marathon County crash.
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Wisconsin
Associated Press
Brown County
Green Bay
Outagamie
Gerald Danforth
Oneida
Richard Grignon
Kaukauna
Kenosha County
Thomas Dorf
Claudia Wells
Racine
Edward Henkelman
Merrill
Marathon County
New Social Security Payments Scheduled
The Treasury announced new supplemental Social Security payments will start January 1 for aged blind and disabled individuals. Checks will be gold colored, unlike the standard green Social Security payments. Dec. 13 incidents include hospital transfers for illness and a squad car transport. La Crosse fire notes report a car fire on Mormon Coulee Road and gas flash at a local address with alarm status.
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Washington
The
Treasury
la Crosse
Mormon Coulee Road
Richard Barbour
Winner Street
Bethel Lutheran Home
Busing Ban Proposed to Save Fuel Faces Opposition
The House voted 221 to 192 to add a busing prohibition to the emergency energy bill, banning allocation of fuel for transporting children beyond the nearest public school. Rep. Dingell says the measure could save over 78 million gallons of gasoline annually while critics call it racist.
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Washington
House
Senate
Federal Energy Office
William E. Simon
Simon
Great Britain
Edward Heath
Heath
American Airlines
Riyadh
Faisal
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Kissinger
Saudi Arabia
Israel
John D. Dingell
D-Mich
Dingell
Bella S. Abzug
D-N.y
La Crosse Tribune Subscription Rates Notice
The La Crosse Tribune lists mail subscription rates and contact for missed papers. It notes a city carrier price of 1.60 every two weeks and a one year rate of 30.00 within 75 miles of La Crosse.
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the Tribune
No. 3Rd St
la Crosse
Sunday Tribune
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Earl Kreisa
la Crosse Ou Police
Anna Cronon
Susan Nelson
Floral Lane
Cass
29Th St
Terry L. Raines
Holmen
St. Francis Hospital
Genoa Dam
UW Arboretum
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Shenae
Klinkner & Jensen
Caledonia St
Ernest Purdy
S. 7Th St
Lutheran Hospital
Nora Miller
S. 15Th Place
John Peloski
N. 10Th St
Ron Cots
Saueh
Adeline Affeldt
Leonard Affeldt
Newburg
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