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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1975
Page
2
Plumber William M Davenport recounts a Christmas Eve charity act helping Mrs Lawson, an elderly widow with no water or heat. He brings a donated space heater and oil, restoring warmth and sparking mutual respect during a bitter December weekend.
Premier Joop den Uyl says the government will wait out the Moluccan nationalists holding 25 hostages in the Indonesian consulate and will not yield to their demands. He notes the train hijackers surrendered after 12 days and reports hostage conditions as of today.
Clinicare Corp of Milwaukee operates two licensed centers in Eau Claire and Prairie du Chien valued at $3 million after receiving over $12 million in public funds in eight years. The firm mortgaged the facilities to the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund for loans of $1.47 million. The Milwaukee Sentinel reports Clinicare seeks additional reimbursements for $310,000 in costs deemed unrelated to child care. The state spends about $12 million annually on 40 centers, with Clinicare receiving roughly 20 percent. The pieces tie to campaign contributions linked to Sen. James Devitt and rate changes in a state budget amendment.
Bernard Swindell III fourteen of Humbird Wis was killed Saturday when his motorcycle entered Highway 12 from a side road and collided with a car. Clark County Coroner ruled multiple injuries. The driver of the car Georgia A Fredrickson thirty two of Black River Falls was not charged. The boy born November 24 1961 in Long Beach California moved with his parents to the area a year ago. He was in eighth grade at Alma Center junior high. Survived by his parents maternal grandmother Agnes Sackett paternal grandparents Bernard Windell Sr and wife of Hinesville Georgia and two sisters Victoria and Susan both at home. Funeral 8 pm today Jensen Funeral Home Hixton Rev Calvin Carey. Burial Fleming Cemetery Fleming Georgia. Funeral home call from noon to 5 pm today. There will be no wake.
Cloyd W. Pickett 62 of 1010 S 28th St. La Crosse died Sunday December 14 in a La Crosse hospital. A Monroe native and retired lieutenant colonel of the 32nd Red Arrow Division he was a member of English Lutheran Church La Crosse Elks Legion Cecil Jones VFW and a past post commander. Survived by widow Elsie two daughters a son a stepdaughter two stepsons eight grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral services Wednesday at Grace Lutheran Church Monroe with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
The Executive Committee in Rochester votes to add conservative to the party name. The action mirrors the Republican party's recent change to Independ ent Republicans of Minnesota.
Ford Motor Co will raise base car prices by an average 2.2 percent or 97 dollars next month with optional equipment up 1.6 percent. Light trucks rise 2.8 percent or 123 dollars. Increases cover higher labor and material costs including mandated safety gear.
Leon R. Murray, 38, of 415 Jay St, former operator of Sadie’s Massage and Sauna Salon, was sentenced to 15 days in county jail with two years probation and restitution totaling 1,234.32 for driving his car into a vehicle owned by Linda Duresky. Murray’s sentence includes work-release hours and Huber Law privileges. he was found guilty of driving into Duresky’s car on August 26 in the 600 block of King Street and had previously faced a more serious charge.
Police report the body of a 30 year old man, a former Madison resident, was found along the Black River downtown. A 12 year old boy, Patick Skemp of Rice Lake, located the body and summoned help from John’s IGA. Coroner Dr D L Strandberg ordered an autopsy.
Donald Glanzer and Tina Van Wyk, Onalaska High School students, were misidentified in a Take 5 cutline. They will join a combined band and choir concert Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the school gym, directed by Edward Davis for the band and Fred Brensel for the choir.
Washington reports early 1976 polls show Ford backed by GOP leaders but lacking favor with rank and file. A Gallup poll shows non candidate Hubert Humphrey as the choice of about 30 percent of registered Democrats and independents. Ford plans midweek talks with campaign manager Calaway.
Congress prepares to vote on an energy bill and continuing individual income tax cuts into 1976. President Ford opposes both but may accept them if spending is cut to offset the tax reduction. Economists warn expiring tax cuts could drain $13 billion and raise unemployment by about 500,000.
An explosion at the Hooker Chemicals plant in Niagara Falls New York blasted a railroad tank car releasing chlorine gas over a wide area. Four people were killed and about eighty others were overcome including workers and motorists and shoppers in a nearby store. The blast blew car sections 150 feet, damaged an empty locker room and breached another car, raising fears the second tank car could explode.
In court Mulroy discussed a possible dismissal motion for lack of information and raised questions about an agreement between the DA and the defendant regarding continued prosecution in exchange for the defendant testifying in a related case. Pappas sought clarification without charging the DA’s office.
A Rockland Wisconsin woman, Beverly Rasmussen 30, is in serious condition at La Crosse Lutheran Hospital after a one car crash at 1:58 a.m. Sunday on County Trunk Q between Whitehall and Independence. She was a passenger in a car driven by Michael Bautsch 58 of Independence and was moved from Tri County Memorial Hospital to La Crosse. The car struck a bridge abutment, sheriff reports.
Cold temperatures persist across the Midwest and West with snow flurries from the northern Rockies to the western Plains and Southwest. The East remains mild while coastal areas face rain showers and inland from the Carolinas north to snow flurries.
Wisconsin forecast shows clear to partly cloudy and colder conditions with light snow possible in the north overnight. Minnesota expects cloudy skies with snow likely tonight and Tuesday, with 1 to 3 inches possible. Dresbach Lock reports flow at 26,200 cfs and one towboat down river with six barges.
The fragment notes a 1923 high of $2 and a 1903 low of 23 with sunrise at 2 33 a.m and sunset at 4 28 p.m. Precipitation listed as 44 inch and a low of 9 this morning.
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