Desperate stowaways fill Pendennis Castle voyage
Aboard the RMS Pendennis Castle near Southampton a surge of stowaways causes a near record crew and passenger scramble. Families from Scotland and the United States sought escape from hardship while others, including a young Albany sociology student, joined for adventure. A tattooed manipulator named Skipper allegedly rode out nine days unnoticed.
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Pendennis Castle
Southampton
James White
Glasgow
Cape Town
Week end toll reaches six on Wisconsin highways
The Associated Press reports six deaths in weekend traffic push Wisconsin's 1972 toll to 1,118, with victims across multiple counties. Names include Pearl Thorson 51 White Bear Lake Minn Thomas Doubner 20 Cornucopia Wayne Zastrow 26 Wausau Lester Volkman 22 Black Creek Robert C. Svitak 45 Milwaukee Edward Voss 72 Cleveland William McGuire 77 Monticello Harold Flandrick 26 New Richmond Helen Podkomorski 65 Milwaukee Raymond LaPlante 65 Superior.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Pearl Thorson
White Bear Lake
Minn
Somerset
Thomas Doubner
Cornucopia
Ashland County
Wayne Zastrow
Wausau
Portage
Lester Volkman
Black Creek
Appleton
Robert C. Svitak
Milwaukee
Edward Voss
Cleveland
Howards Grove
Shebovean County
William McGuire
Monticello
Monroe
Harold Flandrick
New Richmond
St. Paul
St. Croix
Helen Podkomorski
Raymond LaPlante
Superior
Duluth, Minn
Police Ambulance Calls and Weather Forecast Bits
Police and ambulance records report Dec 16 trips from 213 Pearl St 1500 St James St and Holiday Inn including Evelyn Drum Anita Henke and Justine J Larson to hospitals for breathing trouble injuries and illness. Weather shows Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa forecasts with cloudiness minor snow mixing and mild changes along with a Shippers forecast urging protection of perishables within La Crosse radius.
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Pearl St
Evelyn Drum
St. Francis Hospital
St. James St
Anita Henke
Wood St
Lutheran
la Crosse
Cartwright Labor Civic Leader Dies In La Crosse
Theron I. Cartwright 70 of 1916 Green Bay St. founder of the Council on Alcoholism in La Crosse died Sunday in a local nursing home. He held numerous civic and union posts, taught in state schools, and is survived by two daughters a brother and five grandchildren. Services Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church with Masonic rites the night before. Memorials to United Temple Association or Wisconsin Cancer Society.
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Theron I. Cartwright
Green Bay St
Council On
la Crosse
New Auburn
Frontier Lodge
Order of Eastern Star
Santa Claus Club
la Crosse Afl-Cio Council
Community Chest
Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council
CIO
la Crosse County Industrial Union Council Cio
UAW
Allis-Chalmers
Allis- Chalmers
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
University of Minnesota
Gail Cole
Jack
Bette) Bold
Hartland
Arvid
Niles
Ill
Mildred
First Presbyterian Church
Earl Kreisa
Mormon Coulee Memorial Park
Sletten-McKee-Hanson
United Temple Association
Wisconsin
American Cancer Society
Alcoholism Center’s Unit Meets Tuesday in Viroqua
The Coulee Alcoholism Center advisory committee will meet in the East Room of Vernon Memorial Hospital in Viroqua on Tuesday at 7 30 p m. The group includes lay members from La Crosse Monroe and Vernon Counties as the center serves the region with ten affiliated agencies led by the La Crosse County Guidance Clinic. Paul Koeshall says the meeting will cover a pending federal grant the treatment program progress and CAP involvement with the center. Neal Snyder Thomas Skemp and Gordon Robson will attend representing CAP with time for questions on current programs and future plans.
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Coulee Alcoholism Center
Vernon Memorial Hospital
Viroqua
la Crosse
Monroe
Vernon
la Crosse County
Wisconsin Coulee Region Community Action Program
CAP
Neal Snyder
Alcoholism Services
Thomas Skemp
Gordon Robson
Robert McCarthy
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Wausau
Eau Claire
Peter Peshek
Thomas K. Mackesey
Madison
Mackesey
Rock County
Janesville
Beloit
Nixon Names Anne Armstrong for Counselor Role
Anne Armstrong, 44, longtime Republican activist and Texas GOP figure, selected by President Nixon as a Cabinet rank presidential counselor. Sen. Robert Dole said she would be the highest ranking woman in Nixon's second term, with broad duties to be defined. Armstrong and husband Tobin own a ranch near Corpus Christi.
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Armstrong
Tobin
Corpus Christi
Vassar
GOP
Texas
Kennedy County
Miami
Dole
Nixon
Cochairman
New Orleans
Anne Armstrong
Foxcroft
Virginia
Three Vehicle Crash In Minnesota Kills Four People
A Sunday night three car collision on U.S. 10 about 17 miles north of Little Falls Minnesota killed four people and left four others injured. Victims include Donnie Spurlin James Jee Rudolph Olson and an unnamed Spurlin passenger. Additional injuries and related deaths are noted in Duluth and Superior Wisconsin as the 1972 traffic toll rises to 960 statewide.
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Associated Press
U.S. 10
Little Falls
Minn
Brainerd
State Highway Patrol
Donnie Dale Spurlin
Hopkins
James Jee
Mound
Spurlin
Rudolph Olson
Larimore
N.D
Gladys Olson
Olson
Connie Olson
Staples
Donna
St. Paul
Raymond A. la Platen
Superior
Wis
la Plante
Duluth
Northfield
Farmington
Carl S. Sydness
Christiane Uhl
St. Paul Ramsey Hospital
Johanne Nordgren
Uluth
Astronauts Seek Lost Scissors On Return Trip
Apollo 17 crew must locate a half pound surgical scissors aboard the America before splashdown in the Pacific. In weightlessness the tool poses little hazard, but during entry its three pound weight could be dangerous. A search plan will be given to astronauts during the return flight from the moon.
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Earth
Moon
Staley Re-Elected President of NFC
Oren Lee Staley was re-elected president of the National Farmers Organization for an 18th year after defeating Bill Struckmeyer at the NFC convention. The Missouri farmer plans four-state visits to discuss member issues in North Dakota California Texas and Kansas. Staley won 2624 votes to 1872.
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Christina Lee Shea
Albany
N.Y
Las Palmas
Miss Shea
Kansas City
Oren Lee Staley
National Farmers Organization
Rea
Missouri
Bill Struckmeyer
Arbuckle
Calif
NFC
Staley
North Dakota
California
Texas
Kansas
NFO
Struckmeyer
MU Dean Named To State Communications Board
Gov. Lucey named George Reedy of Milwaukee to the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. Reedy, former presidential press secretary to Lyndon Johnson, is dean of the College of Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
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Madison
Wis
George Reedy
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Patrick J. Lucey
Reedy
Lyndon Johnson
College of Journalism
Marquette
Search Ends For Missing Plane Regent Rose
The Illinois Civil Air Patrol suspended indefinitely its six day search for Chicago businessman James A. Rose 47 who disappeared December 7 after renting a Cessna 182 in Northbrook. Poor weather and lack of progress prompted the review. Rose last radioed near Janesville Wisconsin about thirty degrees off course.
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Chicago
Illinois
Civil Air Patrol
Raymond Johnson
James A. Rose
Rose
Northbrook
Moline
Milwaukee
Janesville
Wis
Rhodes Scholar Peppler Among 32 U.S. Recipients
Mark S. Peppler of Whitefish Bay and University of Montana student is named one of 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars for two years of study at Oxford. The 32 were selected from 733 candidates representing 256 colleges.
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Milwaukee
Mark S. Peppler
Whitefish Bay
University of Montana
U.S
Rhodes
Oxford University
England
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Paul Koeshall
Coulee
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U.S. District Court
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